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GOMEZIAKESOATH AS CUBAN LEADER 47-Year-Old Lawyer Inau gurated as First Constitu tional President. *y the Associated Press. HAVANA. May 20 — Miguel Mariano Oomez, 47-year-old lawyer, was In augurated constitutional President of Cuba at noon today in the presence of the Supreme Court and special missions from 27 nations. In taking the oath of office, the new chief executive became “President Oomez n,” for he had succeeded in the footsteps of his father, Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez, President of the re public from 1909 to 1913. With today’s ceremony, Cuba's line of provisional Presidents—seven of them in the last two and one-half years—was broken and the govern ment returned to constitutionality. Gomez succeeded Provisional Presi dent Jose A. Barnet. Father’s Friends Present. Surrounded by faithful friends of his late father, the new President pledged himself to lead the people out of the political wilderness that is Cuba. The careers that brought father end son to the presidency were alike in several respects. Both were lawyers who practiced politics; both were belligerent revo lutionaries who took arms for a cause; both served prison sentences for anti Government activities; both were po litically exiled in the United States; both were known and called by their first names by people in all walks of life; both reached the presidency near the half century mark in their lives, and both took office after a period of •‘provisionallty.” The republic of Cuba wiped its gov ernmental slate clean today of traces of the dictatorial rule of Gerardo Machado and the provisional regimes which followed his overthrow when Gomez formed a new cabinet and met With his ministers into the early morning hours before his own inaug uration. Gomez said he had two pur poses in mind in selecting his cabinet; 1. He wanted no ministers who had been connected with any of the- pro visional governments of the last two and one-half years. 2. He wanted no ministers who were associated in any way with the Ma chado administration. His cabinet includes these minis ters: Defense, Gen. Rafael Montalvo; communications, Rafael Santos Jim inez; interior, Carlos Pelaez; health and sanitation, Manuel Mencia; pub lic works, Raul Simeon; education, Luciano Martinez; state, Jose M. Cor tina; presidency, Domingo Macias; treasury, German Wolter del Rio; la bor, Augustin Cruz; agriculture, Jose Gomez Mena; commerce, Eudaldo Bonet, and, justice, Estanislao Car tana. CHRYSLER ADVANCES WAGES OF SHOPMEN $5,000,000 to $6,000,000 More Annually to Be Paid, Ef fective June 1. DETROIT, May 20 — The Chrysler Corp. announced yesterday that a wage Increase for shop em Jjldyes. aggregating between $5,000,000' ►ltd $6,000,000 annually, would become effective June 1. « President K. T Keller said the in crease, the third general Increase In hourly wages since August, 1933, would average approximately 5 per cent after adjustments are made The company also distributed $2,300,000 among all employes last February 14. , Keller said the Chrysler Corp. paid Cut $92,000,000 in wages and salaries last year and that the pay roll to date this year is running ahead of 1935. COMMITTEE APPROVES FOOD AND DRUG BILL ®ueetion of Jurisdiction Over Ad vertising Compromised—-Cos r metics Put Under Law. %y the Associated Press. * Legislation designed to strengthen the food and drug act was approved today by the House Interstate Com merce Committee, which rewrote the measure passed last session by the Senate. . On the controversial question of whether the Federal Trade Commis sion or the Agriculture Department should administer advertising regula tions, the committee decided to limit the department's authority to adver tising on the package. This gives the Trade Commission authority over other advertising. The commission’s power was broadened to cover advertising considered false in Itself as contrasted with its present limitation to false advertising attest ing competition. The bill also brings cosmetics under the law for the first time. OUTING IS PLANNED The Young Democrats of the Dis trict will hold their pre-convention picnic and jamboree at Marshall Hall Park on Saturday. i Dancing and an excursion cruise down the Potomac River on the Cltv or Washington are includ'd on the program. Representative Wearln or Iowa and Miss Veita Morrow of Seat tle, Wash., will speak. | Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: Debates flood control bill. Finance Committee weights tax bill. Boose: Acts on conference report on Inte rior Department appropriation bill. Bell Investigating Committee meets at 10 a.m. to continue questioning Dr. F. E. Townsend. TOMORROW. Senate: rTooaoiy wrn transact miscellaneous business If flood-control bill Is passed. Commerce Committee holds hearing on stream pollution, 10 s.m. Finance Committee considers tax bill (executive). Howe: Plans to consider special rules. Bell Committee resumes investiga tion of old-age pension plana, 10 an. Judiciary Committee meets at 10 am. Ways and Means Committee re admes consideration of Disney crude petroleum blll^ 10 am. _ —~ ft- * • i Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. GUFFEY STORY. HE coal act bearing his name may have been declared un constitutional. but Senator Guffey has not always been jn the losing side of things. In his present hour of darkness, if that is vhat it is, the Senator might look jack to that happier day when he von a bet from Col. Paul J. McGahan. Philadelphia newspaper correspondent lere. Here’s the story that’s going the ounds in National Press Club circles: Old friends. Col. McGahan bet Mr. 3ufley that he'd never be elected to he Senate from traditional G. O. P. Pennsylvania. Col. McGahan lost, rrue to his word, the correspondent jsked the Senator to name his tailor ind send the size of his hat. ‘ The fruits of victory are so sweet j that we'll call the bet off,” wrote the Senator. But with a McGahan. a bet is a bet And so, he went to a local seam stress and had her make the Senator an old-fashioned night shirt, with a tasseled flight cap of red flannel. “Here’s hoping for your early re tirement^’ wrc e McGahan. as he sent the night *irt and cap to the Sen ator. * * * * GALLANT. "There's no safer place in the world than a circus tent in a storm. They Know their business and take no chances." With these words a friend sought to reassure an excited mother whose children were at the circus during Monday afternoon's storm. A few hours later they met again over the evening paper headlines describing the effects of the big blow. "Th$t sort of makes you out a liar" the said. "Bui a gallant one," he defended himself. * * * * PINAL TOUCH. TT HAPPENED in the show window of a local department store re cently. |The window displayed a num ber of figures of the bride and her bridesmaids, dressed in the latest In matrimonial attire, t^hile the crowd watche^, a window dresser was put ting on the finishing touches. He sud denly took out his handkerchief, wet it with his lips and proceeded to wash the bribe's face. * * * * GLITTERING. 'THERE to no limit to the ingenuity of college students. Out at the University of Maryland they are still talking about the re sourcefulness of a freshman who wanted to go to the president's re ception, but had no studs for his tuxedo. Did he stay home? Not at all. He used paper clips— those brass things you push through and then spread apart—and. accord ing to his story, nobody noticed the difference. * * * a SHARE THE WORK. IN THE Department of Justice they cheer on beginning clerks and stenographers with a bracer some thing like this: “Stay in there and pitch—you may get to be window shade measurer some day.” The quip started when some one in the department decided new Vene tian blinds would improve things. It took five crews of men to install them. The first gang came in one day, silently measured the window open ings, and left. Ten days later a sec* ond crew appeared with the blinds, stacked them neatly in a corner, left. The third gang Installed them—three weeks after the first measurement. Days later a fourth man, alone came in and laboriously measured the strings operating the shades. The final stage consisted of a tester, who capped the climax by coming around and putting the shades through their paces. Employes in the department anxiously await the appearance of a "Venetian blind-safety Inspector.” * * * * LIGHTNING. Our lightning operative—the one who watches lightning flashes and tells where they go and uihat they do—submitted a report on a elfin bolt which tried to knock the aluminum cap off the Washington monument exactly at 4 p.m. Mon day afternoon. It came down, he says, with an ear-splitting crash, hit the cap and bounced right back without doing a bit of damage. That, of course, is what always happens to errant lightning flashes which pick out the Monument to test their strength. They get nowhere, but they keep on tryink. ♦ * * * norm tastf In the kit is filled with toothpicks. "We use them for broken line feed ers,” the repair man said, when asked why he carried such a big supply. Realizing by the puzzled look of the Inquiring wayside operative that he had not made himself clear, be added more simply: “They come in handy to insulate cult." ' I 1 "• " 11— Army Planes Collide. CHALONS-SUR-MARNE, France, May 26 (A*).—Two army planed, each occupied by a single pilot, collided last night, one cutting the other In two. j The j pilot of the most seriously Iamaged plans was killed. The other ms Sniured._ . j r i • k Airy Nothings Fill Book on Sale Today in Publicity Ceremonies. BY CARLISLE BARGERON. The street vendor of a sealing wax that makes it impossible for the “strongest man’* to rebreak china ware which the wax has mended is still seen In the smaller towns. But when he Issues the challenge for any one in the crowd to step up and see if he can undo the work of the wax, he usually has a confederate in the crowd to do this stepping up. But the New Dealers in the pro motion of their Convention Book to day trusted to luck. Ceremonies were arranged whereby at noon 75 Gov ernors and mayors throughout the country were to “publicly purchase" the book. It was planned to have photographers in each instance re cording the event and other officials looking on. In Washington, Commls sioner crecrge r,. Alien was me cer emonious purchaser. If any one had stepped up from the crowd, however, and asked to have a look at it, he would have found it contained hardly anything at all, that it wa: simply a dummy. Indeed, the thing that was sold to the Governors and mayors today was something which the advertising solicitors have been using in an effort to get advertising for it. As a result, about the only genuine stuff it con tained was the excellent binding and a good photograph of Jim Farley. Dr. Beard Contributes. It did have this rare contribution to literature under the name of the eminent historian Charles A. Beard, and entitled "The Constitution." "History repeats—and I am becom ing him. Hollow, outworn tradition alism shook a trembling finger at him." In a way, it sounds like some of Beard's New Deal writings of recent, it was pointed out, but then it really had nothing to do with his article. A lot of words had to be put in under his name in the dummy to show the j/iuupvttl • V WU » V. * blOVI 0 MilUW bliV 1 i i tils 1 azine. about the size of Fortune, and gotten up like It. would look like. Similarly, there was another article by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, which started off: "I am aware that some wise-cracking columnist will probably say that good old Jackson no doubt realized that every red-blooded American citizen considers himself a committee of one anyway." It is doubtful, of course, if Van Loon would ever say anything like that, though he might. Other Catch Names. Other names used in the dummy over this sort of stuff are Roswell Miller. J. Hancock Reeves and •'Earn est” K. Lindley. Ernest K. Lindley is with the New York Herald Tribune and was Mr. Roosevelt's campaign biographer. But he really hasn't any article coming up at all. it is said. J. Fred Essary of the Baltimore Sun, is to WTlte one, however—a sketch of Jim Farley and 60 is Walter Ltppman. Strangely enough. Mr. Essary’s colleague, Fred R. Kent, Is not to contribute. A handout by the Democratic Na tional Committee said: "This simultaneous sale was ar ranged to give the public an idea of tne oeauty ana v&iue oi tne volume which contains articles by responsible officials explaining the work per formed by most of the Important agencies of the Federal Government as well as biographies and other con tributions by well-known writers." Manifestly, however, the committee hoped the public didn’t ask to take a look at the "volume" in its present state. It is a new wrinkle in campaigns, just as was the $50 dinner which the New Dealers gave a few months ago. Each party has heretofore turned over to a commute in the convention city the concession of putting out a convention book. The Republicans are doing that this time. But the Dem ocratic National Committee is han dling this Innovation personally and with a view to raising campaign funds. Pares up to $7,500. Although it can’t possibly have a comparable circulation, its rates are as high as those in some of the national magazines. For the Inside cover page $7,500 is being charged and each ordinary page costs $2,000. The inside back cover costs $6,000. Already some 100 pages of a 300 page magazine are said to have been sold. An effort was made to get a list of advertisers with a view to checking reports that the advertisers are firms who have business with the Government. The list was flatly denied. The list, was desired also to check reports that some advertisers while paying for the space have not supplied the copy. The list, it was explained after the reporter had finally traced it to its lair, is not available for publi cation. Naturally, thoee advertisers who appear will become public when the magazine is issued, but that will be another time. OIL TRUCK OVERTURNS; DRIVER BURNS TO DEATH Tire Blowout Blamed for fatal 1 Accident on Eastern Shore. By tht Associated Press. CRISFIELD. Md„ May 20.—Harold Luttsinger of Cape Charles was burned to death near Eaatvllle, Md., yester day when his oil truck overturned and burst into flames. Caught in the cab. be was unable to free himself. Luttsinger, originally from New York, was returning to Eastville when a front tire burst His truck swerved from the road, overturned and gaso line spilled on the hot motor and ig niM Mia viHnv aw<4 tarn onunfl* rhl). dren survive. OLD MURDER UNSOLVED MADI80NVILLE, Tenn., May 20 UP).—The State of Tennessee dropped a 28-year-old murder charge against 63-year-old H. B. Kirkland yesterday because all the witnesses are dead Sheriff Hugh Webster, after a con ference with " Attorney General R. Beacher Witt, said he telegraphed Sheriff W. B. Mobley at Waco, Tex., to release Kirkland. The man was ar rested there Monday. The sheriff said Kirkland was ac cused, of killing Jim Williams in the Kirkland home. At Waco Kirkland denied the killing. Another man in dletedjointly with him was acquitted A To Be Honored ADMIRAL HILARY P. JONES. TRIBUTE PLANNED TO ADMIRAL JONES Committee Named to Pre sent Portrait of Officer ♦ A Li A A All AM PaI lnl\( iv iiuitvvvi vvuuija Admiral Hilary P. Jones, U. S. N., retired, 2029 Connecticut avenue, is to be honored by a group of friends and admirers who have formed a commit tee to obtain funds for a portrait to be presented to his native county of Han over, at Hanover, Va. The Navy Department announced j today that the committee consists of Capt. Chester Wells, U. S. N., retired, chairman; Rear Admiral Joseph K. Taussig, assistant chief of naval opera tions; Rear Admiral Adolphus An drews, chief of the Bureau of Naviga tion, and Capt. William W. Galbraith, U. S. N., retired. Comdr. Jules James, also a member of the group, will be secretary and treasurer. The commit tee will contract for the portrait and obtain funds to defray Its cost. At present, a photograph of Admiral Jones hangs in the historic colonial court house at Hanover, as do por traits of Patrick Henry, Henry Clay, and other distinguished citizens of that county. Hanover citizens advised the naval officials they are anxious to ob tain Admiral Jones’ portrait. The admiral was bom in Hanover County November 14. 1863. During the World War he commanded a squadron of the Patrol Force of the Atlantic Fleet, and later was director of the Newport News Division of the Cruiser and Transport Force, which sent many troops and supplies over seas. in January. 1919. he Became director of the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, with the rank of vice ad miral. Subsequently, he became com mander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet; commander in chief of the Battle Fleet, and. prior to his retirement, chairman of the General Board. He was a delegate to the three power conference on limitation of armament at Geneva in 1927, and re tired from the service in that year, on reaching the age of 64. He was a dele gate with former Secretary of the Navy Adams to the London Arms Conference in 1930. THANKS ITALIANS FOR REFUGEE AID Mrs. Anna Lansburgh. Aroused by Charges, Writes Letter to Ambassador Rosso. Aroused by charges against Italy growing out of the subjugation of Ethiopia. Mrs. Anna Lansburgh of Washington, a native of Vienna. Au stria. has written Italian Ambassador Rosso thanking the Italian Govern ment for the aid given her efforts to save refugees during the confusion which followed the World War. “The chaos in which each country found Itself at that time is still in my memory,” Mrs. Lansburgh WTOte. “But it did not stop your government from listening to a young school girl's plea to help the citizens of other coun tries to be united with their families. "The outbreak of the war had left aiuutvt uuo utaiuuo i i UU1 U1C UUllfCU States. Canada. South America and other countries stranded in the former Austro-Hungarian empire. "The Italian mission was the first to reach famine-stricken Vienna and aided me in my pica for transports under Italian protection to take theie refugees across the Mediterranean. The hospital in Triest gave me the lodging for them and provided the proper nourishment to build up their undernourished bodies for the long see voyage." “HILL BILLY” ORCHESTRA WINS Y. M. C. A. CONTEST “Amateur Night” Victor* Get Chance to Broadcast on Godfrey Program. A “hill-billy” orchestra of Y. M. C. A. boys won the amateur night contest of the Central Y. M. C. A. last night and will appear as guest stars on Arthur Godfrey’s radio pro gram next Saturday night over WJSV. Lock Wallace, member of the men’s department of the Y. M. C. A., won second place and also will appear on the program. Wallace gave an imitations of barnyard noises. The winners were chosen by a Jury consisting of Andrew Kelly, H. M. Brundage, Jr., and Rev. Dr. Allen A. ___a_ ceremonies. Twelve acts were Judged by the committee before an audience of nearly 50Q men and women. Quest artists, not competing in the contest, included Leolin Nevtlle Thompson, vocal soloist, and Mary Pontius and Martha Freeman In a novelty act. SMITH SEES BORAH Just a Call, Senator Hastens to Say of Former Long Aide. Gerald Smith, former Huey Long lieutenant, conferred yesterday with Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, at the Capitol, but the Senator said there was no significance in the meet ing. "It was purely a friendly call,” Borah told tumismgu men. » . TEAM SENT HERE Visitors to Help U. S. Find God’s Way of Doing What It Wants to Do. BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. “God is changing the world. He :hangea individuals, and through them :hanges families/, classes, nations and :aces.” Such is the message of an inter national team of the Oxford Group movement, which, under the leader thip of Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman, Lord Addington of the British House >f Peers, Dr. J. E. W. Duys of the Socialist party of the Netherlands, Valdemar Hvidt of the Supreme Court bar of Denmark and others arrived in Washington today for a two-day visit. “These friends,” Dr. Buchman an nounced, “have not come to America to tell America what to do. but in st^ari hftv* rnm* t.n America t,r> flnrl out what America wants to do and then to help America to And God's way of doing it." Public Meeting Tomorrow. Met at Union Station by r recep tion committee of local adher 'W of the group cause, the party went at once to the Mayflower Hotel, where tomorrow evening a public meeting for the explanation of the work is to be held. Those on the team include Sir Philip Dundas. Edinburgh; Admiral Horace Summerford and Mrs. Summerford, Brig. Gen. C. R. P. Winser, Brig. Gen. C. J. Caulfield, Capt. Prank Evans and Mrs. Evans. George Light, British La bor party; A S. Loudon Hamilton, Ox ford; James Watt, Fifeshire. Scotland; A. Lawson Wood, Aberdeen; Miss Marie Clarkson, St. Hughes’ College, Oxford; E. A. Bell, former assistant master, Eton College: Baroness de Watteville-Berchhelni. Paris: Herman Hintren, Rotterdam; Hon. Mrs. A. M. Holman, Sussex, England: C. K. Pres cott, Oxford: Eric Parflt, Cambridge; Col. A. W. Angus, Miss Vera Lynden Bell and George Fraser, Edinburgh. Also, from Canada, Pelham Reid of Winnipeg and Eric Bentley of Toronto, with H. K. Twitchell of New York. Human Uvea Changed. Dr. Buchman, summarizing me purpose of the movement, told re porters: "The Archbishop of Can* terbury has said that the Oxford group fellowships throughout the world is doing what the Church of Christ exists everywhere to do. It is changing human lives, giving them a i new joy and freedom, liberating them 1 from the inhibitions and strains which have hindered them. God control is its doctrine. It teaches that ' God can change His children and the society In which they live. "Hitherto, however, most of us have ! been waiting for the other fellow to: change The farmer in Denmark ; wants Mussolini changed; the mer chant in England wants Hitler i changed. But the Oxford Group is convinced that if you want an answer : for the world today, the best place j to start is with yourself. That Is the first and fundamental need.” Mr. Hvidt outlined his views of the effect of the movement in Denmark. “A npu* fcnnp ” hp rfprlarprt *'ha* mmp into our relations with other coun tries recently. The Oxford group has brought Danes and Germans in 8outh Jutland together in co-operation. People who for years have been in despair at this national quarrel sud denly see instead of destructive strife a new hope for valuable teamwork. Danes Ga to Norway. “A few months ago a party of Danes went to Norway to discuss plans. Nearly all of us felt that it was some thing new and significant that two bodies of Danes and Norwegians should meet without national prejudice. •'Some nation must give a lead. Perhaps my country; perhaps yours will do that." The primate of Denmark and the dean of Copenhagen. Mr. Hvidt said, are in the forefront of the Oxford Group movement in Scandinavia. Au diences from 10.000 to 25.000 people have attended meetings at which they spoke about the work. In Washington Dr. Buchman and his colleagues will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wallace Blair at a reception this afternoon and of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Austin Britten at a dinner tomorrow evening. The public is invited to attend the open meeting at the Mayflower. No tickets are required. -- -# — .. Lyddane (Continued From First Page) Boland about the first of April, 1635. The "Googy" note follows: “Googy—I most certainly do not Intend to let you or that other party get away with this last transaction. "That other so-called friend of yours did me dirty and you know it. "Now, If you and this new friend of yours are trying to do the same thing, you're going to be badly mis taken as I am not going to let either of you get away with It. I mean this, and unless I hear from him by tomorrow night (Friday) I am going to start checking up on him, and be fore I can do this naturally, of course. I will have to get you to give us the head-way. “I am as much implicated, if not more so, than either of you, but I don't care what happens to me if you do not go through with the deal. I mean every word of this and will give him until tomorrow night (Friday, March 39) to get in touch with me. I have plenty of friends that will help me and will be glad to help me as I have done plenty of favors for some of them. It will be to your friend's advantage to get in touch with me, either go through with the deal or re turn my money. I can make it plenty tough few all of us and I don’t give a damn what happens to me if the deal doesn’t go through. I mean this—either get in touch with that friend and give me back my money or get him to get in touch with me.” Contention Not Denied. The State late yesterday ottered sev eral witnesses to show Intimacy be tween Mrs. Lyddane and Beall. This contention is not denied by the de fense. * These witnesses included James Mc Donald. a neighbor of Beall’s in Damestown. McDonald said In June of four years ago he saw Mrs. Lyd dane with Beall, and again during March of 1935. Townsend Howes, Rockville news editor, explained that in the Fall of 1934 Mrs. Lyddane asked him to tala phone se&u. u Beau answerea, Howes said, be was to tell him to call a cer tain number. "But If Mrs. Beall answers,” the news editor said he was instructed, "just tell bar to tell Beall the Qalthers taxz *♦*■ **+**» AaMdatkn la mMtlB&S “Buoy” Is Believed Mine Master of Potomac Makes Discovery in Salvage Operations After Flood. Capt. Philip Barbour, finder of what is believed to be a mine planted, in the Potomac at the time of the Spanish American War, discusses his find with C. J. Cain, dock engineer (center), and Lieut. William H. Carlin, harbor precinct (right), —Star Staff Photo. BT ROBERT A. ERWIN. It looked like a mooring buoy as It rode the waters of the Potomac at the height of the recent flood. Today it was definitely established as an instrument of destruction—a mine or depth bomb, aged and rusty, as it lay on a dock on Water street. The mine was believed to have been planted off Port Washington during the Spanlsh-American War 40 years ago. The flood brought It to life. The tug Captain Toby brought It safely to shore. Capt. Philip Barbour, master of the excursion steamer Potomac, who dur ing the flood piloted the Captain Toby in salvage operations, found the mine floating 2 miles below Port Washing ton. He first thought It was a moor ing buoy. Assisted by Chief Engineer Charles Cogwell and Joe Lee, colored cook, Barbour threw a rope around the huge sphere and dragged it aboard the Toby. For more than a month it has lain on the dock unnoticed. *'At first I thought it was a moor ing buoy.” said Capt. Barbrur. vet eran of 43 years on the Potomac. Traffic (Continued From First Page 1 the principal causes of Washington's •erious traffic dtuation. It cited, for Instance, the fact that the per capita registration of automobiles, its per capita number of taxicabs and its concentration of motor vehicles In the congested area is the highest of any city in the United States. Urge Increase in Police Force. Acting on tne plea of Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown, the subcommittee recommended a 10 per cent Increase in his force, and then turned to the Commissioners with a suggestion that they prepare and submit to Congress at the next session plans and estimates for: A five-year program of street widening; a redesign of Scott and Thomas Circles to meet modern traffic needs; a five-year program of bridge construction and replacement; con struction of underpasses for street cars under Dupont and Thomas Circles; widening the underpass in Rock Creek Valley underneath the Massachusetts Avenue Viaduct: a five-year program of traffic light installation and traffic light imnrnvginant raflnampnti • construction of pedestrian tunnels at Fifteenth street and New York avenue, Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue. Twelfth street and Pennsyl vania avenue, and at other appropri ate points: construction of safety islands at appropriate locations, con struction of overpasses at Thirteenth street and Florida avenue and at New York and Florida avenues northeast: construction of a low level highway from K street to Foxhall road on the bed of the old Chesapeake Sc Ohio Canal with suitable ramp connections to Key Bridge in order to establish a by-pass for Virginia traffic through Georgetown, and consideration of plans for construction of a highway on the towpath of the canal from Georgetown to the Maryland line to connect with the proposed highway to Gettysburg. "Skip Step” Recommended. The subcommittee also urged re establishment of the so-called "skip stop'’ system on motor bus and rail Usee, and further extension erf the "staggered” opening and closing in Government departments, and its adoption by the public schools to re duce the accident haaard to school children. Among the other recommendations were: That the Board of Revocation and Suspension continue its present policy of suspending permits in speeding esses, and extend that policy to in clude other serious violations. That judges of the Traffic Court jxtend the hours of the court to care for increased congestion and re establish the “night court”, if that becomes necessary. An increase in the engineering staff of the Department of Vehicles and Traffic and an increase in the appro priation for traffic planning and traf fic surveys. Re-examination of all drivers ol motor vehicles at the end of the re newal period (every third year), as well as re-examination of all drivers involved in serious accidents. That stopping and standing of all vehicles, commercial included, for the purpose of loading or unloading be banned on the flow side of arterial streets during rush hours. Weald Abolish Left Turns. That left turns be prohibited at all intersections in the congested area and on arterial streets where such action will not result in serious congestion at other points. Semi-annual inspection of all motoi KWbfetoa m pewddad to a Ml widdb % “However, wet got It aboard and then we knew it was a mine—it was too big tor a mooring buoy. It’s an old one, as you can tel! by the heavy coating of rust upon It." Its origin and exact type Is being determined by Navy Department ex perts. Presumably the mine is of the type that could have been exploded by electric current sent from shore through a cable In case a Spanish ship had attempted to attack the fort. Capt. Barbour makes it a point to keep his relic away from electric wires. "The mine must be good," declared Capt. Barbour. “If it had developed a leak it would have remained for eve" sunken in the bottom of the 1 river.. Apparently shortly after the Spanuh War it was carried below by a log; and did not break free until : the flood, probably when the shackles rusted away and it floated to the top. "It sort of makes me wonder,” he added as an afterthought, “what would have happened if it had struck . with force against a big steamer or ; a bridge pier.” has pissed the House and is now pend ing in the Senate. That careful study be given to the advisability of estrolisiung additional one-ryay streets, and that the one-way I time be extended on rush-hour one way streets to make them one way i from 7 a m. to 12 noon, and one way in the opposite direction from 1 p.m. j to 7 p.m. That legislation is needed to permit the Public Utilities Commission to regulate the number of taxicabs. That the Commissioners study the advisability of changing the color of I lights on top of fire-alarm boxes, as well as to the advisability of prohibit ing the use of red and green adver tising signs at all locations w here they are lively to cause confusion with traf fic lights. That for the purpose of identifica , tion all drivers be required to have a small photograph attached to their driving permits. Thit the Park and Planning Com , mission consider establishment of ad 1 dltioftal playgrounds for children in various parts of the city and for a more complete use of existing play ground facilities, including school yard?.. That the Park and Planning Com mission also consider plans for the parking of motor vehicles in or near finvii’ nm«wf hnilHimrc in all fiifnra construction, or to provide garage fa culties for officials and employes at nominal cost. That street lighting appropriations in the future be increased rather than reduced. Tljat funds be appropriated for re lighting the Mount Vernon Boulevard “for the safety of the public." In recommending an increase of 10 per cent in the police force, the com mittee stipulated that the motor-cycle patrol be increased to 100. There are now 50 officers assigned to the motor cycle patrol. The present personnel of the department is 1,341. Pointing out there had been a 100 per cent increase in motor vehicle registrations since 1925. and the con sequent increase in traffic, the sub committee declared there had been virtually no Increase in the traffic force during the same period. The subcommittee also pointed out that about 20 per cent of Washington's traffic c ends ted of "out-of-town" cars and that they were responsible for 25 per cent of the accidents in 1935. YOUTH WHO STABBED GIRL IS IN HOSPITAL _ Psychiatrists Observe Actions of John Trazzare—Victim Recovers. Psychiatrists today watched the ac tions of John T. Trazzare, 17. who waa taken to the mental ward of Galllnger Hospital after he admitted stabbing a girl In a theater In his excitement over the thrills of a movie showing men fighting alligators. Ann Blunt, 16, meanwhile recovered at her home, at 1520 First street south west, from the effects of the jab with the penknife, which narrowly missed her jugular. Trazzare. who lives at 220 Fifth street southeast, was arrested Monday by headquarters detectives a few hours after the girl was treated at Emergency Hospital. He was sent to Galllnger yesterday. Heads Health Committee. Chairmanship of the Council of Special Agencies Health Committee has been accepted by Dr. Prentiss Willson, Dr. Bussell J. Clinchy, coun cil president, announced today. Dr. Calvert Buck has been selected vloe chairman at iha aommlttes. — i * BOVS' CLUB DRIVE Funds Pass $34,000—Sec ond Police Precinct Lead ing in Home Canvass. The Metropolitan Police Boys’ Club campaign for $135,000 to further the j fight against juvenile delinquency to* day had passed the <34.000 mark. I While the Special Gifts Committee, fieaded by Commisisoner Melvin C. Hazen, and other campaign units are continuing the work Inaugurated ab the opening of the drive, May 5. tha second police precinct is showing the way In the house-to-house canvass for * <1 associate memberships. j Under the leadership of Capt. J. E. j Bobo. No. 2 has secured <1.005. Next highest is the sixth precinct, which yesterday reported a total of $468 in associate memberships. The Women's Bureau, led by Capt. Rhoda J. Milli ken. has joined forces with the 12 precincts in the campaign. The $34,530 total today includes the receipts from the recent world cham pionship boxing contest. Officials esti mate they will clear approximately « $18,000 from the fight. Following are the latest reports of the precincts: Capt. sH. G. Callahan, No. 1, $380; Capt. A. E. Miller, No. 3, *162; Capt. J. A Sullivan. No. 4, *200; Capt J. C. Morgan, No. 5. *277; Capt. J. W. Pier son, No. 6, $466; Capt. Maurice Col lins, No; 7. *274, Capt. J. E. Bowers, No. 8, $148; Capt. R. H. Mansfield, No. 9, *52; Capt. Ira Sheetz. No. 10, $325; Capt. Hugh H. Groves. No. 11, $115; Capt. Sidney J. Marks, No. 12, $147; Capt. Milliken. Women’s Bureau, $34: Lieut. W. H. Carlen, harbor pre cinct. $*,, and Capt. Milton D. Smith, traffic division. *100. i-• VOTELESS WOMEN HIT BLANTON PLAN District League Voices Opposi tion to Change in School Set-Up. Striking at the Blanton resolution which would radically alter the present admin Lst.-ative set-up of the local public school system, the District Vote less League of Women Voters unani mously went on record last night as being strongly opposed to any reorgani zation in which poUtically chosen offi cials wciu id be given authority over the personnel of the Board of Education or its ehnployes. Such a reorganization, the league voted, would reverse the long-estab lished American tradition of Inde pendent non-political status for the public school system. In another resolution the league , urged upon Congress the imperative need of immediate passage of the Si» son bill repealing the "red rider." Five recommendations were em bodied in a report of the Housing Committee. The recommendations, all of which were adopted, were: Sup port of the Washinfiton Committee on nuuiuis, coamcauon ana moaerniza tion oi District housing legislation, Federal aid to private housing en terprise to stimulate low-cost housing, establishment of a District housing authority, establishment of a perma nent Federal housing authority with broad powers to assist private enter prise. With Mrs. William Kittle, the presi dent, presiding at the annual dinner, which a is held at the American As sociation for University Women Club, the following partial list of officers was eU-cted: Capt.' Rhoda Milliken. first vice president; Mrs. Harold Cortening, cor responding secretary; Mrs. Harold Krogh. recording secretary; Mrs. Edna ; Johnston and Representative Caroline O'Dav, directors. Mrs. Eugene Duffield. Mrs. Wendell Lund and Mrs. Ralph Smith were an I nounced as appointive officers to head I the Finance. Arrangements and Hos i pitality Committees, and Mrs. Pearl B. Klein as chairman of the depart ment on Government and legislative status for women. 1 _ I -- Guffey (Continued From First Page.) the Guffey decision?” reporters ask ed Mr. Roosevelt. Smiling and speaking with delib eration, the President described the invalidatd act as one designed to cor rect a critical situation in a huge in* dustry. The general method of at tempting to improve this situation had been agreed on by miners and employers, he said. He added that although the par ticular legislation passed in an effort to attain these objectives apparently was got successful, the striving to reach the goal would continue. Pointing out that three opinions were handed down by the Supreme Court; in the case, he said, with a trace irony, that these would prove educational and show that there re mained a difference of current inter pretation in the Federal judiciary. president Kooseveit Mia tie had not read the decision of the District Court of Appeals against Resettlement Ad ministration phases of the 1935 relief act. Ho backed the contention of other officials that only one model housing project in New Jersey was declared In valid. He took the position that the decision need not lead to alterations in the pending $1,435,000,000 appropriation for relief for next year. This measure, containing some funds expected to go to Rexford O. Tugwell’s Resettlement Administration, was named by Mr. Roosevelt as one of the only two must measures on his program for thia ses sion. ‘ The other is the pending tax bill.) Tugwell Mid in a statement that the Court of Appeals decision applied only to the Bound Brook, N. J„ project and that R. A. would proceed as usual with other activities on its program. i --- SPAIN LEFTISTS STRIKE Object to Alleged Judicial Len iency to Fascists. uwuv/, upoui, «v vt/.-wcauaowe, irked because of what they considered judicial leniency toward a score of Fascists, declared a general strike today. Om. Jose Fernandez, in turn, de clared the strike illegal because no ad vance notice was given. He threat ened to Imprison the strike leaders if work waa not resumed this afternoon. Sixteen Fascists were sentenced to * «