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WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 19, 1936. * PAGE B—I
District Bill Report to Senate Likely Before End of Week
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WIRE SEIZURES
IN LOBBY PROBE;
Unanimous Vote Marks
Close of American So
ciety Session.
LOUISVILLE MEMBER
CRITICIZES ACTION
Tom Wallace Says Freedom of
Press Was Not at Stake—Co-op
eration on Enforcement.
The American Society of Newspaper
Editors yesterday formally voted its
condemnation of the telegram seizures
of the Senate Lobby Committee
through a resolution which, however,
failed to mention the committee by
name.
Almost immediately Tom Wallace,
editor of the Louisville Times and a
director of the society, which yester
day closed its three-day convention
here, said;
"Had I heard the resolution read I
should have argued against it. Freedom
of the press means freedom of utter
ance by the newspapers. Seizure of
telegrams or other communications
might involve violation of privacy, but
not freedom of utterance.”
The resolution unanimously ap
proved by the 150 executives of the
country’s leading newspapers outside
New York City read:
"We condemn the blanket seizure
of private telegrams, under whatever
authority, as a violation of the rights
of privacy as guaranteed by the Con
stitution, and we are of the convic
tion that if such practice is not
checked the threat to the liberty of
individual action and enterprise, and
particularly to the freedom of the
press, is immediate and menacing.”
Meaning of Freedom.
In his disagreeing statement, Wal
lace, whose publisher is Robert W.
Bingham, Ambassador to Great Brit
ain, declared:
"Freedom of corporations publish
ing newspapers and freedom of cor
porations otherwise engaged, should
be the same, insofar as liberty of indi
vidual action is concerned. As one of
our program speakers said, one con
ception of freedom of the press is the
right to run a circulation truck
through a red light.'*’-’*’”'
In accordance with an earlier plea
made to the society by J. Edgar
Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the editors agreed also
to seek “co-operation with all law-en
forcement agencies by guarding
against the premature publication of
Information harmful to the successful
completion of criminal investigation.”
In the same election which put Wal
lace on the board of directors, Marvin
H. Creager, managing editor of the
Milwaukee Journal, was named presi
dent of the society to succeed Grove
Patterson, editor of the Toledo Blade,
who became a director.
Other officers included A. H. Kir
chofer of the Buffalo Evening News,
first vice president; D. J. Sterling of |
the Portland, Oreg., Journal, second
vice president; Dwight Marvin of the
Troy Record, treasurer, and M. V. At- |
wood of the Gannett newspapers,
secretary.
Otner Directors.
Besides Wallace and Patterson, the
directors include Paul Bellamy of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, Edson K.
Bixby of the Springfield, Mo., News
Leader; J. Charles Poe of the Chat
tanooga News, David Lawrence of the
United States News, William Allen
White of the Emporia Gazette, Casper
S. Yost of the St. Louis Globe-Dem
ocrat and Sevellon Brown of the
Providence Journal.
An urgent recommendation for co- j
operation of the press with the bar to
prevent sensational murder cases from j
becoming public scandals was made
to the society at the luncheon closing
the convention by Walter Lippman,
noted New York commentator.
With the Hauptmann arrest, trial
and execution particularly in mind,
Lippman placed most of the onus
for the sensations arising from the
case on the courts, the officials, the
police and the lawyers.
"Let them choose between the yel
low press and the reputable press
and let them find out whose favor
counts most,” Lippman declared of the
authorities, attorneys and jurists who,
In his estimation, made it possible for
the newspapers to give the case such
a play that much indignation was
aroused against the press.
"We are not to campaign against
the yellow press, for we are not our
brother's keeper, but against the offi
cials who play its game.
"We have every right as American
Citizens to call on the police, the bench
and the bar to administer the law in
a lawful way.”
$54 NUMBERS WINNING
BELIEVED DEATH CAUSE
Woman Is Found in Alley, Fatally
Beaten by Unknown Attacker.
Dies in Hospital.
A 10-cent bet that won her ap
proximately $54 on a numbers game
Is believed by police to have been
responsible for the death last night
of Lucille Daniels, 37, colored, who
was beaten by an unknown assailant
in an alley near her home at 821 R
street.
Shortly before she died in Freed
men's Hospital, the woman told police
she had trouble in collecting her win
nings.
The woman was internally Injured.
Che could not describe her assailant.
Veterans’ Group to Meet.
A committee of the District Chap
ter, Rainbow Division Veterans, will
meet Tuesday night at 5220 Kansas
avenue, to draw up plans for the
eighteenth annual Spring reception
and dance, Elmer F. Neagle, president,
announced yesterday.
New Capitol Correspondent
This pigeon, whose legband number indicates it comes
from Vancouver, B. C., 3,000 miles away, yesterday flew into
the Senate press gallery. It seemed to like the clack of type
ivriters, and although it occasionally flew for diversion out of
the window and among the Capitol pillars, it always returned.
After five hours, closing time came and the bird, numbered
IF35-S53077, teas left outside to give it a chance to fly away
home. But the betting was even it would be watching the
press gallery proceedings again tomorrow. —A. P. Photo.
Heads Editors
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M. H. CREAGER.
—Underwood Photo.
LORTON FACTORY
BAN iJJEADY
Dirksen to Offer Measure irr
House Tomorrow—“Dump
ing” Fought.
A bill that virtually would kill all
Industrial activities at the Lorton Re
formatory and force the District to
buy instead of manufacturing its own
automobile identification tags, traffic
markers and other prison-made mate
rials, will be introduced tomorrow by
Representative Dirksen, Republican, of
Illinois.
Dirksen, a member of the District
Committee, said the measure is aimed
principally at prison-made clothing,
which he has been informed is "glut
ting” certain Washington wholesale
and retail stores. These materials, he
declared, are being sold in competition
with articles made by free labor.
Far Reaching in Scope.
The measure, however, is more far
reaching in its scope. It reads, in part:
"That it shall be unlawful to sell,
or offer for sale, within the District
of Columbia, any goods, wares, or
merchandise, manufactured, produced,
or mined, wholly or in part, by con
victs or prisoners (except by con
victs or prisoners on parole or pro
bation), or in any penal or reforma
tory Institution.”
Another section reads: ‘‘It shall be
unlawful for any officer, employe, or
agent of the municipal government of
the District of Columbia to buy, take
in, exchange, or otherwise acquire, for
the use of the municipal government
of the District of Columbia, or any
governmental office, agency, or estab
lishment thereof, any goods, wares, or
merchandise described in section I of
this act.”
Automobile identification tags, traf
fic signs and many other articles
manufactured in the Lorton industrial
shops would come under Dirksen’s
proposed ban. The tags have been
manufactured there for a number of
years. Previously they were pur
:hased from Maryland penal institu
;ions.
Might O. K. Amendment,
Dirksen indicated that if District
officials offer serious objection to his 1
bill he might agree to an amendment
permitting continued manufacture of
tags and traffic markers, since his
primary motive to stop the “dump
ing” in Washington of convict-made
clothing which has found its way into
a number of retail stores.
Some States, Dirksen pointed out,
have banned the sale and distribution
of convict-made materials, although
the prison-made articles are being
shipped from those States into others
^vhere the sale is not forbidden by lawjt
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MERGER FIGURE
Commission Asked to Re
consider $478,537 for
W. R. T. Stock.
Insisting that the price to be paid
by the Capital Transit Co. for the
Washington Rapid Transit Co. should
be much lower than the $478,537
which the Public Utilities Commission
has said it would approve. People's
Counsel William A. Roberts yesterday
advised the commission to reconsider
its judgment.
Roberts did not state what he be
lieves a fair price would be. He rec
ommended that any indication of a
price which the commission would
accept be based "on the market value
of the present equipment” of the W.
R. T. as "supported by the evidence
of the commission’s own witnesses.”
He agreed with the commission that
it should reject the present proposal
of the companies for payment of
$539,000 for the W. R. T.. including
payment of its stock and assumption
of a debt of $327,000 owed to the
North American Co., w’hich has finan
cial control over both concerns.
Fare Increase Question.
Roberts raised fears the Capital
Transit Co. would be in a position
to increase its fares because the
cost of additional equipment, he said,
would be necessary for Interchange
able service. He said large addi
tional sums would have to be charged
the public for retirement of the addi
tional busses.
Commission members declined to re
ply to Roberts’ letter until they had
time to study his arguments, but it
was indicated they would not change
their decision, reached after weeks of
study.
Chairman Riley E. Eigen and Viet
Chairman Richmond B. Keech, it
was recalled, have explained several
times that the price paid for the W.
R. T. cannot be charged to operating
expenses and thus passed on to the
public, but must be charged to Cap
ital Transit Co. surplus funds.
Several Positions Hit.
Roberts attacked several positions
taken by the commission in its notice
Friday to the street, car company in
which it announced the price of the
stock of the W. R. T. must be sliced
from $10 to $7 a share and other
changes made to shave a total of $63,
000 off the $539,000 price agreed upon
by the companies for the stock and
the $327,000 debt.'
‘‘Aquisition of the necessary new
equipment to permit interchangeable
operation with the service of the Cap
ital Transit Co.,” Roberts wrote,
“would immediately increase the ac
cruals for retirement by $50,000 to
$70,000 per annum.
“If rate adjustments were sought by
the Capital Transit Co. on the con
solidated operation at the commis
sion’s estimate of market value, it
would be necessary for the general
public using the service of the Cap
ital Transit Co. to pay more than $75,
000 additional per annum.”
Roberts said the commission's deci
sion calling for reduction of the in
terest rate on the debt from 6 to 5 per
cent was “unquestionably a step in
the right direction,” but added “there
is no evidence in the record which
would warrant a lower interest rate on
this note, while at the same time sup
porting the reasonableness of the face
of the note.”
STORE ROBBED OF $35
Lone Bandit Holds Up Grocery
Manager and Customers.
A colored bandit obtained $35 last
night in the hold-up of a chain
grocery store at 1401 Fifth street. The
robber strolled into the store while
several customers were present and
suddenly produced a gun. He ordered
the manager to put his hands up and
emptied the cash register. Witnesses
said the man fled through the front
door and disappeared into an ffley.
TRAFFIC REPORT
WILL BE STARTED
BY HOUSE GROUP
Subcommittee Expects to
Draft Goals on Receipt
of Testimony Proofs.
SAFETY MAIN CONCERN
OF ALL SUGGESTIONS
Parking and Related Issues to
Be Touched Upon as Inci
dental Matters.
BY JAMES E. CHINN.
A comprehensive report embodying
recommendations and suggestions de
signed to lessen the traffic hazards
in Washington streets, will be under
taken this week by a special sub
committee of the House District Com
mittee which recently completed a
far reaching study of traffic condi
tions.
Chairman Carpenter announced
last night he would call his sub
committee together to begin prepara
tion of the report just as soon as
galley proofs of the testimony taken
during the series of public hearings
are turned over to him by the
Government Printing Office. The
stenographic transcript of the testi
mony was sent to the printing office
last week after a delay due to neces
sary changes in some of the exhibits
placed in the record by witnesses.
Fundamentally, all the recommen
dations will be in the Interest of
safety. Parking and other related
traffic problems may be touched on
incidentally.
Police Increase Urged.
Carpenter indicated one of the prin
cipal recommendations would be a
substantial increase in the police
force, especially in the traffic divi
sion. He and Representative Schulte.
Democrat, of Indiana, who also took
an active part in the traffic study, be
lieve more officers mounted on motor
cycles are needed to curtail speeding
and reckless driving.
Improvement of traffic conditions
around some of Washington's numer
ous circles, particularly Scott, Dupont
and Thomas, are expected to be
urged. In addition the report may
contain a recommendation for con
struction of pedestrian underpasses at
strategic points beneath Pennsylvania
avenue between Seventh and Fifteenth
streets.
The subcommittee gave serious at
tention to the pedestrian underpass
proposal during the hearings. Opinion
was expressed by a number of wit
nesses that such underpasses would
protect the thousands of Government
workers who are forced to cross
Pennsylvania avenue at least twice a
day. and at the same time aid in ex
pediting the movement of traffic.
Circle Tunnels Urged.
What to do at the circles, however,
is a problem that is puzzling the sub
committee. Some experts suggested
tunnels under the circles for either
pedestrians or vehicles. Others pro
posed widening of the area around
the circles by elimination of sidewalks.
This plan, it was said, would prevent
congestion!
The subcommittee also is expected
to make reference in its report to
so-called “ticket fixing.” Some of the
witnesses condemned the practice,
but others took the view it had not
become an “evil” in Washington, and
should be continued in minor cases
in which the cancellation of a ticket
would serve as a warning to a traffic
violation.
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BOY SHOT IN ATTEMPT
TO FLEE STOLEN CAR
Four Companions Escape as Offi
cer Opens Fire After Forcing
Machine to Halt.
Shot by a policeman while attempt
ing to escape from a stolen automobile
in which he was riding with four com
panions, Rudolph Johnson, 16, colored,
1324 Fourth street, was reported in a
serious condition at Casualty Hospital
last night.
Police were hunting the other four
boys for questioning. Johnson, accord
ing to police reports, stole an auto
mobile belonging to Franklin R. Fisher,
1145 Oates street northeast, about
10:30 p.m. Half an hour later Officer
L. A. Hartnett of the traffic division
spotted the car and forced it to halt
on New York avenue northeast near
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad yards.
As the five occupants of the car ran
away when the officer approached,
Hartnett said, he shot at the group,
the bullet striking Johnson in the ab
domen, passing into the boys’ hip. The
other youths escaped.
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Pets Groomed for Kennel Club Show
No. 1—Champion Cids Stein
Song and Jonedith Far Away
Fee, dachshunds owned by
Mrs. John Graves of Herndon,
Va„ and entered in the Na
tional Capital Kennel Club
Show to be held, at Meadow
brook Saddle Club, on the
East-West Highway, next
Saturday•
No. 2—Mrs. Joseph Kris of
Silver Spring, Md„ with Mu
Lang of Manchoover, a chow.
No. 3—Mrs. Lorraine Good
with Flash of Clarandall, a
German shepherd that won a
blue ribbon in Baltimore.
—Star Staff Photos.
TRIAL OF REAGUER
OPENSTDMORROW
Undertaker Accused of Kill
ing Girl, Bride of Virginia
Highway Worker.
William H. Reaguer. 57-year-old
Culpeper, Va., undertaker, will go on
trial in District Supreme Court to
morrow for the murder of Mrs. Willie
Mae Wood, 21, who was almost be
headed with a pocket knife in a
Houston Hotel room last October 12.
The trial is expected to last a week.
It will be the first before Justice Oscar
R. Luhring in the new Criminal Divi
sion No. 3, established to clear the
docket by the Summer recess.
Police found Reaguer, a married
man with grown children, lying with
his head on the body of the slain
girl, who had been married just 17
days before to Herbert R. Wood,
young Virginia Highway Commission
worker.
Psychiatrists to Testify.
Assistant United States Attorneys
Irvin Goldstein and Cecil R. Heflin,
who will prosecute the case, said they
have more than 30 witnesses, among
them psychiatrists who may be called
on to rebut an expected insanity de
fense. Attorney James A. O'Shea,
well-known criminal lawyer, will rep
resent Reaguer.
Under the pretext of driving Mrs.
Wood from the Culpeper home of her
parents to Fairfax Station, Va., where
she lived with her husband, Reaguer
allegedly brought her and her 17-year
old cousin, Annie T. O’Bannon, to
Washington. Miss O'Bannon lived
here.
The trio registered at the hotel as
‘‘H. L. Thomas and party, Richmond,
Va.,” and were assigned two rooms
on the ninth floor.
Both Found in Room.
The prosecution contends Mrs.
Wood never entered the room she was
to occupy with her cousin, but stayed
with Reaguer. About 4:30 a.m. a loud
scream was heard by hotel employes.
They found Reaguer with blood flow
ing from wounds, apparently self-in
flicted, on his left wrist and left upper
arms.
Subsequent investigation developed,
police sirr, that Reaguer had been
friendly with Mrs. Wood since she
was 17 years old and opposed her
marriage to Wood.
Banning Zioncheck’s Driving
Problem if He Is Convicted
If Representative Marion r. zion
check of Washington is found guilty
in Traffic Court Tuesday of driving
an automobile 70 miles an hour on
outer Connecticut avenue early yes
terday, the District traffic director will
have tossed into his lap the decision
whether to invoke the regulations
under which he has the power to "sus
pend the privilege of operating an
automobile in the District of Columbia
and forbid Zioncheck to drive.”
Two officers who said they followed
a speeding automobile 2 miles booked
the driver as Marion A. Zioncheck, a
member of Congress. Zioncheck later
professed to be mystified about the
charge, but eighth precinct police said
they remembered him from a previous
visit when he was booked on a drunk
and disorderly charge growing out of
a complaint that he had plugged in
many of the telephones cm an apart
ment house switchboard.
In its recent drive against speeders
the Traffic Department ha\ followed
a formula following convictions as
follows:
Thirty-five to orty miles an hour—
Permit suspended 15 days.
Forty to forty-five miles an hour—
30 days’ suspension.
Over 50 miles an hour—Permit re
voked.
Representative Zioncheck, accord
ing to police, said he was operating
on a permit issued in his State of
Washington. While the District police
have no power to revoke this license,
it was pointed out last night, the law
authorizes the traffic director to sus
pend the privileges of driving an auto
mobile in the District.
Zioncheck appeared in Police Court
to defend Louis Holmes Lloyd, 21-year
old student, arraigned on a drunken
ness charge. Questioned by reporters
about the speeding charge, he dodged
with a series of noncommittal remarks
about the improbability of a Repre
sentative being up and out driving 70
miles an hour at 6:30 a.m.; his friend
(See ZIONCHECK, Page B-2.)
President's Wife
and Girls’ Party
See Crime Museum
/. Edgar Hoover Escort
on Justice Department
Sight-seeing.
By the Associated Press.
J. Edgar Hoover escorted Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt yesterday on a
visit to the Justice Department Crime
Museum.
Wearing her Caster blue suit, with
a fox fur scarf, Mrs. Roosevelt went
to the new Justice Department Build
ing at the head of a dozen Todhunter
School girl graduates, sightseeing from
New York.
Mrs. Roosevelt had said earlier that
the ‘‘G-men” topped the list of what
the girls wanted to see in Washing
ton.
But so well guarded was Mrs. Roose
velt and her girls that only the Bu
reau of Investigation knows whether
the President’s wife was fingerprinted,
as casual visitors often are as part
of the trip through vast rooms filled
with fingerprint files.
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BALLOU 10 OFFER
BUILDINGPROGRAM
Final Draft of Five-Year
Project to Be Given to
Board Wednesday.
A final draft of the bill to authorize
the proposed five-year school building
program will be presented to the Board
of Education by Frank W. Ballou,
superintendent, Wednesday, and the
Legislative Committee is expected to
act at once on the measure in order to
speed it to Congress at the earliest
possible date.
Two more preliminary reports on
the program also will be presented by
Dr. Ballou. The first of these will Out
line the construction and enlargement
needs of Wilson and Miner Teachers’
Colleges, and the second will provide
for the administrative offices.
Details of the final draft of the bill
will be made public with its presenta
tion to the board and will be the
nineteenth report prepared by Dr. Bal
lou and his stall covering the physical
needs of the present overcrowded
schools.
At the meeting Wednesday, the
District of Columbia Society of the
1st Division, A. E F„ will present
rules and requirements for the award
of three four-year scholarships, cov
ering all expenses, to the Citadel, mili
tary college of Charleston, S. C„ to
be awarded graduates of the Wash
ington high schools.
.Several routine reports also are on
the docket of business for the session.
LEE TABLET PRESENTED
75th Anniversary of Army Com
mand Offer Is Commemorated.
A tablet commemorating the 75th
anniversary of the occasion when Gen.
Lee was offered the command of tne
United States Army was presented to
Gist Blair yesterday at the Blair House.
1651 Pennsylvania avenue, by the
Washington Committee of the Robert
E. Lee Foundation.
The presentation was made by Mrs.
Casenove Lee. chairman of the com
mittee. Senator Clark of Missouri
made a brief ad dry.
P. W. A. FRAUD CASE
OPENSJOMORROW
Seven Go to Trial in Letts’
Court on Charges in
Texas Project.
Trial of seven men accused of con
spiring to defraud the Government
i of almost half a million dollars in
connection with a $4,853,000 P. W. A.
irrigation project in Willacy County,
Tex., is scheduled to begin tomorrow
morning in District Supreme Court
before Justice F. Dickinson Letts.
The defendants are Wiliam A.
Harding, director of the Willacy
County Irrigation Board; James P.
I Barry, San Francisco engineer with
! the Hammond & Little River Redwood
j Co., Ltd.; Leonard C. Hammond, vice
president of the Hammond Lumber
j Co., San Francisco; Harry W. Cole,
| president of the California Redwood
! Association and vice president of the
Hammond & Little River Redwood
Co.; Perry A. Welty. former engineer
examiner at the P. W. A. State office
in Fort Worth, Tex.; Charles R. Ol
berg, engineer examiner in charge of
irrigation work at P W. A. headquar
ters in Washington, and Frank P. Mc
Elwrath, Corsicana, Tex., contractor
and banker. They will be represented
| by George Hoover and George Horn
| ing, Washington attorneys.
Indictment Last Spring.
United States Attorney Leslie C.
Garnett and his assistant, John W.
Fihelly. will prosecute the case, on
which they have been working for
months. The indictment was returned
by a special grand jury last Spring.
Alleged efforts by the defendants to
change specifications for a huge irri
gation canal project from an open
gravity system to a high and low pres
sure pipe system, constructed of red
wood, provided the basis for the
charge against them.
Originally the Willacy County
project was for a canal system, cover
ing 125,000 acres, and as finally ap
proved by P. W. A. covered 75,000
acres. A huge wooden conduit, 215
miles long, was to be constructed.
Specification Rewriting Charged.
The Government contends that the
redwood people persuaded the other
defendants to make certain changes
in the specifications so as to eliminate
piping other than of redwood. Welty,
who was in direct charge of the en
gineering work in Texas, allegedly re
wrote the specifications which then
were forwarded to Olberg in Wash
ington for his final approval.
Efforts wdll be made to prove that
both Olberg and Welty were offered
jobs by the redwood interests.
Twenty-eight overt acts were set
out in the indictment, which was
written in 18 page? and required six
weeks- work by Fihelly and the grand
jury.
POLICE WILL RETURN
THREE BOYS TO SCHOOL
Three boys said to be from the Har
grave Military Academy at Chatham,
Va., were picked up by Washington
police yesterday and slept last night
at the Receiving Home, pending their
return to the school today.
The boys are Richard Roberts. 14,
of Madison, N. C.; James Wilkins, 13,
of Norfolk, Va., and William Callahan,
14, of Richmond, Va.
Seeking to see the sights of the
Capital, the trio left the academy
early yesterday. The headmaster no
tified the boys’ parents of their disap
pearance and the search was insti
tuted here at the request of one of
the fathers.
$5,700,000 LUMP
Exact Changes in 1937 Fis
cal Measure Awaits Sub
committee Tuesday.
DECISION EXPECTED
ON TRAFFIC MATTERS
Amendments Would Provide Au
thority to Limit Number of
Taxis and Other Features.
BY J A. O’LEARY.
The 1937 District appropriation bill
probably will be reported to the Sen
ate before the end of this week, re
vised considerably from the form in
which it passed the House in March.
The exact changes will not be decid
ed on until the subcommittee in charge
of the measure meets Tuesday morn
ing Since the Senate hearings ended
early last week, however, there has
been indications the subcommittee will
restore the Federal share to the Budget
Bureau figure of *5,700,000 and put
back also most of the cuts the House
made in budget recommendations for
maintenance of many municipal agen
cies, especially those relating to public
health.
A decision also is looked for early
this week on whether to attach to the
appropriation bill the several traffic
amendments received Friday by Chair
man Thomas of the Appropriations
Subcommittee from the local officials.
Senator Thomas sent them to Chair
man King of the Senate District Com
mittee for an opinion and the Utah
Senator was studying them yesterday.
Authority Over Taxis.
The amendments would provide au
thority to limit the number of taxi
cabs. call for a study of further stag
gering of Government office hours to
reduce traffic congestion, provide au
thority for regulation of parking'lots,
and give the Commissioners optional
authority to install parking machine
devices.
In addition to these proposed ap
propriation amendments, there also
has been renewed discussion of two
separate legislative bills pending in
Congress, to require semi-annual in
spection of motor vehicles, and to
establish magistrate courts to handle
minor traffic offenses. At this stage
of the session, however, it does not ap
•pear likely these two bills will go
through. Two other separate traffic
bills have passed the Senate and are
awaiting House action, one to In
crease the penalties for first-offense
reckless driving, and the other re
lating to suspension of driving rights
of non-resident motorists. These
four bills are all separate from the
traffic amendments being considered
in connection with the supply bill.
Little Time to Be Lost.
If the Thomas Subcommittee com
pletes its revision of the appropria
tion bill Tuesday, the entire Appro
priation Committee probably will oe
ready to report it to the Senate by
Thursday or Friday.
As it came from the House, the bill
carried a total of $42,573,283, tow'ard
which the Federal share was slashed
to $2,700,000—a cut of $3,000,000 from
Federal payment for the current year.
Although the House cut $697,000 from
specific items recommended by the
Budget Bureau, it added several new
construction projects which resulted
in a net increase of $908,000 above
j the total recommended by the budget.
These new items, coupled with the
l $3,000,000 cut in the Federal lump
sum payment, would leave the District
facing a large deficit next year, under
the House bill. Indications are the
Senate subcommittee will seek to re
vise the bill so as to produce a bal
anced budget, on the basis of restora
' tion- of the Federal payment to the
, $5,700,000 figure.
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GRADUATES TO GET
EMPLOYMENT TIPS
Art Occupations in Industry Con
ference to Be Held in New
York City.
Recent college graduates and those
who will graduate in June may obtain
valuable suggestions to aid them in
obtaining employment from the dis
cussions scheduled by the Arts Oc
cupations in Industry conference,
which meets Saturday at the club
house of the American Woman's As
sociation, 353 West Fifty-seventh
street, New York City.
Announcement of the conference
was made yesterday by Mrs. Jouett
Shouse. chairman of the board of the
Institute of Women’s Professional Re
lations. the organization arranging the
conference. Discussing the subject
of employment opportunities, Mrs.
Shouse said:
“There are more opportunities for
jobs in this field than is generally
known and recognized. Leaders en
gaged in business and Industry will
tell of the range of work to those
seeking a career.’’
Simultaneously it was announced
that an exhibit of modern industrial
design will be open Thursday, April
23, as a preliminary to the con
ference and continue until May 1.
Like the conference, this exhibit will
be held at the American Woman's Asso
ciation. Conference sessions will be
gin Saturday at 10 a.m. and will
continue throughout the day.
$2,000 Watch Reported Lost.
The loss of a platinum wrist watch
valued at $2,000 was reported to
police yesteday by Mrs. Ethel R. Cov
ington, wife of J. Harry Covington,
prominent Washington attorney, of
2200 Wyoming avenue. Mrs. Coving
ton told police she lost the watch
Wednesday while shopping in the
1000 block of Connecticut avenue.