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DEMANDING ROAD
Mass Meeting Called to
Campaign for Widening of
Georgetown Road.
By a Staff Correspondent o» Tna Star.
ALTA VISTA. Md., December 9.—
Aroused citizens from the communi
ties along Old Georgetown road will
meet en masse within the nest few
days to lay plans for a vigorous cam
paign in behalf of widening and re
surfacing the narrow, hazardous
highway.
Hundreds of residents from Alta
Vista, Bethesda, Battery Park, Wood
mont. Northwest Park, Huntington
Terrace, Sonoma and Oak Place are
to attend and voice their demands
for immediate improvement of the
highly dangerous thoroughfare.
Meanwhile scores of petitions de
ploring the condition of the road
and appealing to State officials to
act at once to correct them made
their appearance in those areas and
are being signed by citizens who have
become incensed over the deaths of
two motorists on Sunday.
Branded “Paved Cow Trail.”
Arrangements for the mass meeting
were begun today following a special
session of the Old Georgetown Road
Citizens’ Association last night, at
which the road was branded a “paved
cow trail” and held to be too narrow
to accommodate the traffic it bears.
The association, which has been
Inactive for more than a year, but
which flamed anew and clamored for
official action following the tragic
auto-bus crash last week end, di
rected President Lendall A. Conner
to appoint a committee to handle
plans for the meeting.
Conner named Ford Young, sr.;
Robert O. Beckham. John Dickinson,
Walter Young, Kenneth Petrie, G.
Wady Imirie, E. Gordon Pearce and
himself to serve, and a conference was
called at 8 o’clock tonight at Ford
Young's home to begin work.
Called Too Narrow.
John A. Dickinson, one of the found
ers of the Alta Vista Community
League, out of which the Old George
town Road Citizens’ Association grew
two years ago, declared the thorough
fare is too narrow to accommodate
busses and other vehicular traffic at
the same time and asserted ‘'some
thing must be done about it at once.”
He moved a mass meeting be called,
and his motion passed unanimously
without discussion after being amend
ed to intrust the arrangements for
the session to a committee named
by the president.
Samuel E. Stonebraker of the
Bethesda Chamber of Commerce, au
thor of the original resolution appeal
ing for improvement of the road, ap
peared at the session and pledged the
co-operation of his organization in
any steps taken by the local asso
ciation in behalf of the road widen
ing and resurfacing.
Ever-Present Danger.
He said the need for such improve
ments and the ever-present danger
of fatalities such a* those which oc
curred on Sunday was impressed upon
State and county officials when the
Chamber of Commerce adopted his
resolution last January.
“They replied merely that no funds
were available and there the matter
has rested,” he stated.
Stonebraker explained the chamber
also adopted another resolution call
ing for the construction of a new
road over the right of way of the
old Capital Transit Co. electric rail
way from Alta Vista to Halpine, which
would further relieve Old Georgetown
road of congestion.
“That, too, will be taken up in
time and well push that through to
A successful conclusion,” he predicted.
Stirred by Tragedy.
The meeting last night was held at
the home of Ford Young, sr., where
preliminary discussions for organi
sation of the Bethesda fire department
and many other successful civic move
ments began.
President Conner opened the meet
ing by explaining interest in the
Association has been allowed to lapse
during the past year, but added that
citizens of the community, stirred by
Sunday's ueaths, had called him and
demanded it be revitalized imme
diately to press for Improvements to
the highway.
Filled With "Bumps.”
He said the road Is approximately
14 feet in width and filled with
"mubps” and dangerous curves, and
residents of Alta Vista and the other
communities have long deplored such
hazardous conditions.
The association adopted a resolution
requesting the 8tate Roads Commis
sion to remove a dangerous culvert
at Maple avenue and Old Georgetown
3d, and another directing a com
tee be named to investigate the
possibility of constructing a macadam
or cinder walkway along the thor
oughfare from Battery Park to Alta
Vftta as a protection for pedestrians.
it was also decided to confer with
tfcp Montgomery County Commission
er! *n^ aslc that action be taken to
require that lights be displayed on
bicycles at night. It was pointed out
lack of such a law, or the lack of en
forcement, if such a law exists, has
requited in many near-accidents.
Walter Young was elected vice
president of the association to fill a
vacancy on the official staff caused
b>. resignation.
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RARING EVICTION,
[WOMAN KILLS SELF
Usable to Meet Debt to District
X landlord, She Inhales Illu
minating Gas. •
‘bearing eviction from her two-room
flit for non-payment of rent, Mrs.
Nellie Marie White, 42, ended her life
yesterday by Inhaling illuminating gas
higher kitchen at 616 A street southeast.
have stood a lot,” Mrs. White,
Sue of Arthur White, an automobile
salesman, wrote in a farewell note,
"■lit when it comes to being evicted—
•id not well, besides—it Is the last
■•raw.”
Mrs. White was found when police,
riflpondlng to • call from Mrs. Caro
line Thompson, another occupant ol
the house, broke In the locked door
ogthe kitchen. Mrs. Thompson sum
moned the officers, she said, when shs
ndUced rags stuffed under the bottom
offjthe door.
the nolo, according to Oerensr A.
Iftgruder MacDonald, directed that
Indy be cremated and tits ashes
m*er Dr.
a secitfiiets ef eta
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Traffic Hazards Abound on Old Georgetown Road
1,500 Expected at Session
to Discuss Capital and
Labor Problems.
Planning to tackle virtually every
problem pertaining to capital, labor
and industry, some 1,500 leaders in
those three fields are scheduled to
meet here tomorrow for the two-day
session of the Council for Industrial
Progress.
From their deliberations are ex
pected to emerge the outlines of a
legislative program dealing with such
vital industrial issues as unemploy
ment. taxation, fair trade practices
and working conditions of labor. To
weld these diversified problems into
some concrete legislative form a spe
cial committee will be named as one
of the last orders of business of the
council sessions.
“We will arrive at a constructive
program in these meetings," Maj.
George L. Berry, Federal co-ordinator
for industrial co-operation, said today,
"and we will offer that program In
good faith to those who must take the
next step toward making it effective.”
Initial reports made by seven com
mittees last March will be a basis for
discussions of the council, with two
new groups to offer proposals dealing
with unemployment and taxation.
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon
tana, and Representative Rayburn,
Democrat, of Texas, chairmen of
House and Senate Committees on In
terstate Commerce, are scheduled to
speak at the morning session tomor
row. Representatives of the Labor and
Justice Departments and the Federal
Trade Commission also have been in
vited.
In the afternoon. John G. Paine,
chairman of the management group
of the council, and William Green,
chairman of the labor group, will speak,
and delegates also will be allowed the
privilege of speaking from the floor.
On Friday, members of the council
will go into executive session to consid
er the committee reports and perform
the real work of the meeting.
Although no session originally was
planned for Saturday, the council is
prepared to hold <n extra morning
meeting if enough members desire it.
A conflict of dates which will prevent
some representatives of industry arriv
ing for the Thursday session may
cause this extension.
Spain
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the Insurgent supply base at Campa
mento de Retamares.
Scarcely had the 15 Socialist bomb
ers settled down at Barajas Airport
when 23 insurgent planes appeared
out of the clouds and loosed tons
of explosives, in retaliation, on the
airport and the government positions
along the Manzanares River.
Socialist batteries blazed away at
the Fascist lines throughout the early
morning.
Puzzled by Strategy.
Government commanders, an au
thoritative source said, frankly were
puzzled at Gen. Francisco Franco’s
insurgent strategy In falling to launch
the long-expected attack on Madrid.
Worried lest a trap were being
baited for them, the Socialist officers
ordered the continual bombardment
to forestall any Insurgent maneuver.
All militia leaves were canceled,
and soldiers were ordered to report Im
mediately to their commands.
The government concentrated all
available forces around the capital
and ordered the troops to stand un
der arms in readiness for the threat
ened “big push."
For days Insurgent batteries and
planes have concentrated their full
firing power on the government Unas
in what the Socialists believed was a
large-scale preparatory bombardment
for the attack.
The activity along the Madrid
front In the northwestern university
city spread over the entire battlefield
as the aerial and artillery engage
ments developed.
Government militiamen claimed de
cisive advances in the Carabanchel
neighborhood, capturing the former
civil guard barracks.
Insurgent aircraft rained thete ««.t.
cans'' on the Puente de Toledo Bridge,
and government bombers attacked In
surgent concentrations at Brunete and
along the Brunete-Poeuelo high road.
Sevan person* were killed and gg
wounded when Fascist plasm ‘mrmksd
Alania de Matures to the northeast,
while north west el the aaptui ineurg
Mb trained their heavy batter tee an
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A “blind” curve in Old Georgetown road, which Montgomery County citizens are seeking to
have widened and resurfaced, 'is seen in the photograph at the left above, while the narrow toidth
of the dangerous thoroughfare can be clearly seen in the picture at the right. Below is shown
congestion of traffic at the point where Old Georgetown road, Edgemoor lane, Wisconsin avenue
and the East-West Highway intersect. —Star Staff Photos.
'SHIFTS ARE MADE
Mai. Gen. Breckinridge to
Command Barracks at
Quantico.
Maj. Gen. James C. Breckinridge,
now commanding the headquarters of
the Department of the Pacific, at San
Francisco, will be the new command
ing general of Marine Barracks, Quan
tico, Va„ effective next June. Secre
tary Swanson announced today.
A shift in high-ranking Marine
Corps officers will be made with the
approval of Maj. Gen. Thomas Hol
comb, new commandant. Maj. Gen.
Louis McCarthy Little, who has been
assistant commandant at the Marine
Corps base at San Diego, Calif., will
become commanding general there of
the Fleet Marine Force. No succes
sor to Little in Washington has yet
been announced.
Maj. Gen. Charles H. Lyman, com
manding at Quantico, will become the
new commanding general in the De
partment of the Pacific. He served
with the District of Columbia National
Guard during the Spanlsh-American
War.
Brig. Gen. Frederic L. Bradman will
become commanding general of th«
Marine Barracks, Parris Island, S. C.
Brig. Gen. Richard P. Williams, now
in charge of Marine Corps Reserves
at headquarters, will command the
1st Brigade of the Fleet Marine Force
at Quantlco.
Brig. Oen. James T. Buttrick will
become commandant of Marine Corps
schools at Quantlco. He has been
commanding at Parris Island and will
take the post vacated by Holcomb
when he was appointed commandant
on December 1.
Brig. Gen. John C. Beaumont, who
has been on duty at Marine Corps
headquarters here, will command the
2d Brigade of the Fleet Marine Force
at San Diego. He now commands the
4th Regiment of Marines at Shanghai,
China
Brig. Oen. James J. Meade, who
now commands the 1st Brigade of the
Fleet Marine Force at Quantlco. will
go to the Navy War College at New
port, R. I.
Secretary Swanson said that these
changes of the Marine Corps will take
place next June.
Building Collapse Kills 40.
LISBON, Portugal, December 9 UP).
—Forty persons were killed and more
than 100 vers Injured—mostly women
and children—when the second floor
of a school building collapsed on a
crowded Catholic society meeting at
Lelria last night.
stringent orders of Oen. Franco that
it was to be spared, other sources re
ported the historic building un
scathed.
Official government circlet expressed
Indignation over reports a French mall
plane had been shot down over In
surgent territory.
Doctor Henny, e Canadian, was
brought to Madrid and given treatment
at the Palace Hotel. The Scotch A*>
bulanee Unit, under Commandant
jara ta bring hark Andre Ohateeu and
Unite Ds-Le-Pre newsgspsr eerrw*
spendents. wha were injured Tfca
(aster, it was tig I.. was ssnsuefr
Bladders of Fish
To Adorn Easter
Bonnet of Milady
French Designer Intro
duces Newest Fad
Before Departure.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. December 9.—Hats oft
today to the enterprising little woman
who decided to use fish to trim
milady's 1937 Easter bonnet.
Scores of little bright globules
adorned the black silk straw hat which
Mme. Simone George, Paris milliner,
showed Manhattan before departing
for her native France.
Asked what they were, she replied,
with the staggering practicality which
the French often show, "fish bladders,
bought in the fish market!"
Dyed black, she said, the fish blad
ders look "brilliant" as hat decoration.
The tiny fish globules are full of
air, and can be deflated at will, like
a balloon.
"Hats will be extravagant next
Spring,” announced Mme. George.
Thereby falling in line with other
Paris designers who have said on re
cent visits to New York that “the
seven years of hard times are over."
"The decorations on hats will be
higher than ever. I have designed
one hat with a 14-inch coq feather,”
■he said.
(The coq feather, be it known to
all who are not familiar with this
term, is often the tail of the farm
yard rooster.)
GILLIS SHOWS ANGER
NEWBURYPORT, Mass., December
9,(yP).—Mayor Andrew J. (Bossy) Gil
lis stormed into City Hall here yester
day and ripped two telephones out
of the wall when he learned J. M.
Toomey, janitor in the New- England
Telephone Co. Building, had been
elected to the City Council.
Gillis had actively opposed Too
mey's campaign for councilor. The
mayor went so far as to declare he
would rip out all the telephones un
less the telephone company removed
Toomey from the council at once.
The elections of councilors yester
day handed the mayor a set-back, as
only one candidate of the five he had
backed, Herbert W. Simmons, won a
seat in the council.
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get back, although we are getting
to the point where we are scraping
the bucket and will run out of money
soon after the first of the year.”
A deficiency apprcoriation bill is be
lieved scheduled for presentation to
Congress early in the coming session,
with funds for the W. P. A. being a
major consideration.
Meanwhile, the administrator did
confirm the transfer of 250,000 drought
relief workers from the W. P. A. to the
Resettlement Administration and ad
mitted that close check is being made
of the general W. P. A. rolls, with a
view to cutting off some non-relief
and administrative workers and others
who have developed other sources of
income.
Rolls Are Reduced.
On November 28, Hopkins said, there
were 2,478,042 persons on W. P. A.
projects, a decrease of 104.510 from
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the high point of November 7. Even
with the decrease, however, this latest
figure is above that of last July.
Senator McCarran also expressed
the view today that the Government
should center its relief program on
unemployables, by cutting down the
volume of work projects as private
Industry becomes better able to take
on the employables.
In urging a change in relief pro
cedure, McCarran said he believed
there has been some extravagance
in the past, but added:
“I do not say this In a critical
sense, because it was almost inevitable
in view of the speedy action required
to extend relief to the needy during
the emergency period of the depres
sion.”
The Nevadan suggested that if Fed
eral relief were administered by
county authorities the Federal Gov
ernment could require reports to be
submitted to relief headquarters
through appropriate departments of
the State governments.
The question of what form new re
lief legislation should take is one of
the main topics in the minds of mem
bers of Congress returning to the
Capital for the approaching session.
Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Okla
homa. for instance, made known his
belief recently that some permanent
plan should be devised under which
public works could be planned in ad
vance and carried on as unemploy
ment conditions from time to time re
au: re
Senator Adams, Democrat, of Colo
rado, who has Just returned from the
West, said that he still favors basing
the amount of relief work on the needs
of the individuals in each case. An
unskilled laborer with a large family,
he said, should be given the oppor
tunity to earn more than a skilled
worker with only one or two de
pendents. He said he is willing to
have prevailing wage scales adhered
to, but pointed out more days of work
could be given to the man with the
larger number of dependents.
The effects of the new corporation
tax on undistributed surpluses is an
other subject to which Senator Adams
is giving serious consideration. He
said that, while this new feature of
the revenue act of last June is do
ing some good by causing companies
to distribute these funds to stock
holders, he believes it will have a'
tendency to retard expansion of in
dustries by adding to plant equipment.
The Colorado Senator tried to have
amendments adopted when the bill
was being drafted to exempt these
funds from the tax if used to pay
debts or purchase machinery.
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IN NEWCONGRESS
Farm Refinancing and 30
Hour Work Bills Among
Those Opposed.
» the Associated Press.
An abundance of opportunities for
conflict and turmoil In the forthcom
ing session of Congress was foreseen ’
today by some members who have been
surveying legislative prospects.
They pointed to such far-reaching
measures as the Frazier-Lemke bill
to refinance farm indebtedness with
$3*000.000,000 new money, the Black
Connery 30-hour work week bill, and
a bill to divorce manufacturing and
retailing contemplated by Repre
sentative Patman, Democrat, of Texas.
There also Is much talk of amending
the Constitution to give Congress spe
cific power to enact legislation of a
social character.
The question of a new appropriation
for relief appeared likely to be an early
trouble maker. Some House and Sen
ate members believe it should be held
to a minimum: others want a sizeable
sum. Representative Dunn, Democrat,
of Pennsylvania, may put In another
$10,000,000,000 work-relief bill.
On the outside, divergent views have
been brought forward by such organi
zations as the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States and the American
Federation of Labor.
Would End Work Aid Gradually.
The Chamber of Commerce has fore
tast that widespread absorption of Job
less In private industry would result
from continued recovery and has de
manded that Federal work-relief be
terminated by "gradual steps.”
The labor federation’s executive
council has suggested another work
relief appropriation immediately after
Congress meets. The federation also
indorsed the 30-hour week bill with
out qualification.
Among the measures listed by the
chamber as likely to receive attention
in the approaching session—any of
which might be loaded with dynamite
to shatter a tranquil Congreas—were
crop insurance, farm tenancy, low
cost housing, mid for consumer co-op
eratives, food and drug regulation, and
extension of the holding company act.
Congress also appears certain to
tackle neutrality, modification of the
Tennessee Valley Authority act, and
legislation to continue the Treasury’s
stabilization fund and the President's
authority to revalue the dollar.
Revision of the tax designed to en
courage distribution of corporation
profits is being considered in some
quarters on Capitol Hill, with a view
to providing special treatment for
firms desiring to build up reserves for
plant expansion or to pay indebted
ness.
Attacked on Principle.
The chamber s Finance Committee,
however, has attacked the entire tax
as wrong in principle.
The labor federation is backing the
O'Mahoney bill to compel all corpo
rations doing interstate business to
obtain Federal licenses and conform
to Government fixed wage and hour
standards. It is seeking drastic
changes in the social security act to
provide greater benefits for more
workers.
Senator Frazier and Representative
Lemke, North Dakota Republicans,
have said their farm debt refinancing
bill would be reintroduced. It would
authorize the printing of $3,000,000.
000 in currency, and fanners would be
allowed to pay off their obligations at
a rate of 1 or Vl2 per cent principal
and Interest annually.
Patman, co-author of the Robin
son-Patman act, which seeks to pre
; vent big buyers obtaining advantage
over small ones, through certain price
concessions, is sounding out sentiment
for a supplementary measure which
he said is sure to be called ‘‘revolu
tion»ry.”
MARINE STRIKERS
TO VOTEON PUN
Settlement Nearer Than at
Any Time Since Tie-Up,
With Meeting Today.
By th« Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, December 9 —
Partial settlement of the 41-day Pa
cific Coast maritime strike was closer
today than at any time since the
tie-up began as both sides watched
for possible public reaction to an un
precedented discussion of the dispute
last night. i
The Masters, Mates and Pilots of
America called a meeting to vote on
settlement proposals offered by the
coastwise shippers who operate more
than 70 of the 226 strike-bound coast
vessels and carry 10 per cent of cargo
tonnage.
The coastal operators have reached
tentative agreements with all unions
but the Licensed Deck Officers and
the Radio Telegraphists. Federal Con
ciliator E. P. Marsh said agreement
with radiomen had been reached on
all points except wages.
There still was no sign of agree
ment between the unions and offshore
operators
Hiring control Deadlock.
Unions and offshore shippers, car
riers of about 65 per cent of the
coast’s marine commerce, are dead
locked over control of hiring. Unions
demand control and employers Insist
it be placed in neutral hands, at least.
A crowd officials estimated at 15.000
overflowed the Civic Auditorium last *
night as spokesmen for both union
and employers expressed desire for
early settlement.
The throng greeted with applause
and some cheering addresses by Roger
D. Lapham, president of American
Hawaiian Lines, representing em
ployers; Harry Bridges, coast presi
dent of the International Longshore
men’s Association, speaking for the
strikers, and Mayor John F. Dore of
Seattle, vigorous backer of labor
unions.
Lapham said employers could not
give up the right to select their own
personnel.
The executive, one of the “big
three" offshore operators charged by
unions with prolonging the walkout,
reiterated employer offers to arbitrate
disputed issues.
Hiring Right Sought.
“All that they (employers) seek is
the right to control hiring,” Lapham
said, 'the right to select the men
best fitted for the job without dis
crimination— just as men are selected
in every other branch of American
industry.”
The arm-waving Dore brought thun
derous applause when he declared
strikers would win the walkout.
He said he was for organized labor
“because it is opposed to Fascism and
Communism.”
Bridges, leader in organizing the
powerful Maritime Federation of the
Pacific, said employers could end the
strike by acceding to the union
"fundamental issues."
He declared unions could not arbi
trate the fundamental Issues, as em
ployers requested, because it would be
tantamount to arbitrating the unions*
right to exist.
Eight seamen off the tanker W. L.
Steed were attacked at Galveston,
Tex., by. about 15 seamen as they
were leaving a beer parlor early today.
Eight men were taken to the hoapltal
with cuts and bruises.
Police attributed the outbreak to
the strike.
Converted Thieves Pay Victim.
SPARTANBURG, S. C. OP).—Nine
years ago some one stole two tires and
tubes from Bramlett Reid’s parked
automobile. This week two men came
to his home, apologized for the “bor
rowing,” said they had "gotten re
ligion "—and paid him $18.
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