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MUNICIPAL CENTER
SITEPROPI FOR
CITY’S AUDITORIUM
Pennsylvania Avenue Area
Discussed at Session
of Planners.
ANACOSTIA RIVER BANK
LOCATION ALSO TALKED
Mellon Art Gallery Plans Looked
at in Joint Meeting With
Pine Arts Group.
The land owned by the IJjstrict
Government on Pennsylvania avenue
between Fourth and Sixth streets was
suggested at yesterday's meeting of
the National Capital Park and Plan
ning Commission as a possibility for
an auditorium for Washington, imme
diately available. This was planned
originally as part of the municipal
center development, but this program
has not developed.
T. C. Jeffers, landscape architect of
the commission, who has made a
study of the potential sites, pointed
out that this would provide a smaller
auditorium for public gatherings. If
a larger auditorium, patterned after
that at Atlantic City, N. J., where
foot ball games and other events
might also be held, be desired, the
only site now in public ownership is
at the end of East Calptol street, on
the banks of the Anaeostia River.
The commission was informed by
Its secretary, Thomas S. Settle, of the
status of the Robinson, King and
other measures for an auditorium. It
Instructed its Legislative Committee,
comprising Chairman Frederic A.
Delano and Its executive bfflcer, Arno
B. Cammerer, and the staff to co-op
erate with any auditorium commission
that Congress might set up, furnish
ing with data and maps, as well as
with information from other cities.
The commission deferred definite ac
tion on an auditorium site until it
can determne just what Congress has I
In mind.
Art Gallery Plans Scanned.
Meeting Jointly yesterday afternoon
With the Fine Arts Commission, the
planners looked at plans for the Mel
lon Art Gallery-, presented by Otto
R Eggers, partner of John Russell
Pope, famous New York architect,
and while the general impression was
favorable, no detailed information
was given out. Officials explained that
their joint report will be made to
President Roosevelt.
The sense of the commissions was
that the closing of Sixth street, across
the Mall, is one of the requirements
of the gift of the art gallery by An
drew W. Mellon, former Secretary of
the Treasury, to the Government, and
he so stated in his letter to President
Roosevelt. The possibility of widening
Fourth and Seventh streets, across the
Mall, and maybe Third street, was
discussed, but no decision was an
nounced.
Extension of the Ship6tead-Luce
Act area, giving the Federal Govern
ment supervision over types of archi
tecture of buildings to be erected
adjacent to public buildings and parks,
was another topic of discussion at the
Joint session. The Planning Com
mission staff was instructed to draw up
maps showing the proposed extension
of the statute to embrace public build
ing areas In the Northwest and near
legations and embassies. This will be
preeented to the February meeting. Dr.
Charles Moore, chairman of the Fine
Arts Commission, declared that the
fihipstead-Luce act had afforded fine
co-operation between private business
and the Government.
The two commissions shied away
from action on the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial, declaring that inasmuch as
nothing was officially before them and
the congressional commission, headed
by Representatives Boylan, Democrat,
of New York has not yet finally re
ported, nothing should be done at this
time. It Is considered significant by
observers, however, that Pope Is also
the architect for designs for the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial at the site
of the Tidal Basin, and the two bodies
may have secretly discussed these
plans when Eggers appeared.
Bridge Plans Submitted.
OoL Daniel I. Sultan, Engineer Com
missioner of the District, and an ex
officio member of the planning body,
submitted plans for the Pennsylvania
Avenue Bridge across the Anacostia
River to the two commissions. H. C.
Whitehurst, District director of high
ways, also explained points of Interest
and the commissions said they were
satisfied. Steel and stone bridge plans
were Indorsed, although the latter is
too costly for the money in hand.
The two commissions went over the
ground plan, submitted by the Pro
curement Division of the Treasury De
partment, for the projected $26,000,000
War Department building, to be lo
cated at C and E, Twenty-first and
Twenty-third streets. This was deemed
satisfactory and detailed studies now
Will be made.
Flood control for Washington came
before the Planning Commission, when
First Lieut. William J. Matteson, dis
trict engineer for the War Depart
ment for the Washington area; E. A.
Schmitt, senior engineer, and Charles
A. Chaney, senior structural engineer,
proposed that the levee in the rear
of the Navy and Munitions Buildings
be raised S feet and that east of
Seventeenth street, on the Washington
Monument Grounds, the elevation be
raised about 6 feet. This the commis
sion favored and the engineers
promised to work the .plan so that
It would merge into the landscape
and not present an unsightly view.
As soon as money becomes available,
either from Congress, the Works Prog
ress Administration, or elsewhere,
the work will go forward, in conjunc
tion with the National Capital Parks.
Lieut. Matteson will make a study
and report back to the planners on a
projected levee along the bank of the
Potomac River, from the Lincoln Me
morial to the Highway Bridge. The
existing levee, at the rear of the Navy
and Munitions Buildings, cost $27,000
and was completed in permanent form,
after a temporary dike had been
thown up when Washington was
threatened by flood last March. The
Army engineers are now building a
levee In Anacostia Park, near the Na
val Air Station, costing $162,000, and
this will be finished In the Spring.
Because of Midwestern floods, the en
gineers want the Navy-Munitions levee
built higher as a safety measure.
Program Given Planners.
Lieut. Matteson and Schmitt laid
before the planners the program for
Improvement of the Washington Chan
nel water front, as the result of the
Old 50-Cent Bill
Sent by Invalid to
Aid Flood Victims
Visitor Also Sends Large
Type Paper Dollar
to Help.
A 50-cent bill printed by the Gov
ernment back In those days when
fractional currency was in use was re
ceived by The Star yesterday as a
contribution for relief of the flood
sufferers.
The bill, dated 1861, and a 81 note
of the old, large type were sent In
by Bert B. Bowen, 60, who has been
an invalid for four years, with the
following note:
“For relief. The largest and small
est I have.
The donor, a former store proprie
tor of Sheffield, Pa., is spending the
Winter with his sister. Mrs. T. L. An
derson, 3020 R street.
Bowen, who has been unable to
work for years because of illness, said
the 50-cent bill was given to him by
his father 25 years ago.
“I don't know how much it is worth,
but I hope it will do some good,”
Bowen told a reporter. “I only wish
I could do more to help those poor
sufferers.”
GIVEN CAB BANDITS
0. C. Pair Sentenced at
Fairfax for Robbery
Last Sunday.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va„ January 30.—WU
11am Everett Bradford, 30, and Fran
cis X. Shipman, 20, both of Washing
ton, were sentenced to eight years in
the State Penitentiary yesterday by
Circuit Judge Walter T. McCarthy on
a plea of guilty to the robbery of a
Washington taxicab driver last Sun
day. The two youths were indicted
by a special grand jury earlier in the
day.
They were accused of robbing
Thelmer J. Bakin, the cab driver, of
his cab and $6 in cash after they had
engaged him in Washington to drive
them into the county. Near the
town of Vienna, it was alleged, they
drew a knife on Eakin and robbed
him, driving the cab to a point near
Chantilly, where, it was said, Eakin
was thrown out.
Eakin summoned police and the
two youths were captured shortly by
County Officer George McCann. Prior
to the hold-up of Eakin, Bradford
and Shipman were alleged to have
held up and robbed another cab driver
in Washington.
The special grand jury also returned
true bills to two other indictments.
One of the indictments charged
Joseph Reen. 18, of Boston. Mass.,
with the theft of an automobile from
Mrs. Blanche M. Melvin of McLean.
Mrs. Melvin, who is welfare superin
tendent of Loudoun County, was keep
ing the youth at her home temporarily
when the alleged theft occurred.
Action in Reen’s case was deferred by
the court.
Oscar Clark, 23, of Hunter’s Station,
was indicted on a housebreaking
charge. He was alleged to have broken
into the home of Evelyn Horseman of
Hunter’s Station, January 21, and to
have taken property valued at 50 cents.
Clark entered a plea of guilty and
was sentenced by the court to a year
and a day in the penitentiary.
APPLIES FOR STATION
IN WASHINGTON AREA
Arlington Radio Service, Inc.,
Asks Permit to Broadcast on
850 Kilocycles.
A new applicant among the many
seeking additional radio facilities in
the Washington area appeared before
the Federal Communications Com
mission yesterday when the Arling
ton Radio Service, Inc., Arlington, Va.,
applied for authority to erect a new
250-watt broadcasting station in that
community to operate on 850 kilo
cycles. The application asks for day
time hours of operation only.
The corporation gWes its address as
the Post Office, Court House, Arling
ton, and discloses that Charles R.
Fenwick, an attorney of Washington
and Arlington, is 98 per cent stock
holder. Holding one share each also
are William D. Medley, attorney and
member of the Virginia House of Del
egates of Lyon Village, and C. P.
Dickson, attorney of Washington. On
the board would also be James E.
Waddell and Edmund D. Campbell, at
torneys.
CERTIFICATES AWARDED
Seven Women Finish Hospital and
Recreation Servioe Course.
Seven women who have completed
a six-week course in hospital and rec
reation service at the Episcopal Eye,
Ear and Throat Hospital were awarded
certificate* of graduation this morning
at exercises in the chapel at the hos
pital.
The graduates will do volunteer work
in the dispensary and the various
clinics and help the superintendent
nurses with secretarial work.
mission, said that inasmuch as Water
street will be an Integral part of the
George Washington Memorial Park
way and an Important thoroughfare,
the buildings at the piers should be
given attractive treatment from the
War College to Fourteenth street.
The Planning Commission passed a
resolution providing that henceforth
sketches for new gasoline stations must
be submitted so that the type of archi
tecture will be dear. The commission
favors any attractive design in keep
ing with the character of the city—
Colonial and otherwise.
Amendment of the soiling and sub
division laws at an early date, to keep
abreast of modem requirements, was
forecast when Chairman King of the
Senate District Committee advised his
Planning Commission colleagues that
be will sponsor this legislation. A spe
cial report, made by the consultants,
Alfred Bettman of Cincinnati, Ohio,
and Harland Bartholomew of 8t Louis,
Mo., will be submitted by the com
mission to the Zoning Commission and
the District Commissioners' Special
Committee on Real Estate Subdivi
sions. The consultants advocated re
vision of the laws to bar erection of
abattoirs, glue factories and other so
oaUad heavy Industrie her*
TO GUARD AGAINST
INFLUENZA SPREAD
Health Department Cites
Sharp Increase Over
1936 Period.
395 CASES REPORTED
AND 189 PNEUMONIA
Population Susceptible as Time
Approaches for Pandemio Like
That of 80 Years Ago.
A sharp Increase here in the number
of influenza and pneumonia cases so
far this year In comparison with a
similar period In 1936 today brought
a statement of caution from the Dis
trict Health Department.
While the situation is not alarming,
the fact that 395 cases of influenza
and 189 cases of pneumonia have been
reported during the past 30 days Indi
cates a mUd epidemic exists.
During last January only 15 cases
of Influenza were reported officially,
while there were 138 cases of pneu
monia.
In January, 1936, the two diseases
claimed 102 lives, 91 from pneumonia
and 11 from influenza. This year 23
persons already have succumbed to
the "flu" and 117 to pneumonia, mak
ing a total of 140 deaths.
No Serious Outbreak.
Although there has been no serious
outbreak, there has been a decided In
crease in the prevalence of Influenza
and pneumonia, according to Dr.
James G. Cumming, chief of the Dis
trict Health Department's Bureau of
Preventable Diseases.
“It Is now about 20 years since the
last pandemic of Influenza,’’ Dr. Gum
ming said In a statement. "While the
exact time of the next visitation of
this scourge cannot be predicted, It
is probably true that we now have a
population which Is again susceptible
to the Infection. The severe pandemics
of influenza, usually explained on the
basis of this increased susceptibility,
plus the unrestricted distribution of
the influenza virus, usually occur every
20 to 30 years.
"At the present time there are cer
tain factors which point toward an
approaching influenza-pneumonia epi
demic. During the present season
there has been an Increasing preva
lence of so-called ‘flu,’ grippe and in
fluenza. While this prevalence has In
no way reached serious epidemic pro
portions, it is significant that such an
Increase usually portends a future out
break.
Increasing Mortality.
‘‘But the most striking evidence of
an approaching major outbreak Is the
increasing influenza-pneumonia mor
tality during the last three years. Dur
ing 1934 these deaths numbered 691,
in 1935. 834, and in 1936, 909. Here
we have a 24 per cent increase In the
combined influenza-pneumonia deaths.
"This la a sizable Increase and may
be considered as a forerunner of an
approaching epidemio, which may ar
rive during the next several years and
may occur during the late Fall sea
son.
"Influenza alone Is not fatal. It Is
the pneumonia complication which
: makes the epidemic a veritable scourge.
The influenza attack lowers resistance,
as we say, so that pneumonia invasion
readily takes place, and the latter Is
one of our most fatal Infections.
"To protect against influenza and
pneumonia, the following health habits
are Important:
"1. Keep the hands away from the
nose and mouth. Hand-to-mouth in
fection is a prolific source of Influenza.
"2. Wash the hands before each
meal. Use soap and running water.
“3. Wash the hands before preparing
your own food or that for others.
“4. Eat from disinfected dishes, not
only in the home, but as well in public
eating places.
"5. When sneezing or coughing, cover
the nose and mouth with a clean
handkerchief.
"If all the people would take these
precautions and practice them as dally
health habits, the saliva-borne infec
tions would be brought under control
as successfully as has been the experi
ence with typhoid and malaria.’’
Auditorium
(Continued from first Page.)
of assembly adequate to bouse Im
portant events. Secretary of Interior
Ickes began to urge an auditorium,
and simultaneously Senate Majority
Leader Robinson drafted bis bill.
Suggestions that the proposed Jef
ferson Memorial in Washington take
the form of an auditorium, such as
provided in the Robinson resolution,
was vigorously denounced by Repre
sentative Boylan, Democrat, of New
York.
Boylan, chairman of the Congres
sional Jefferson Memorial Commis
sion, said certain definite plans have
been made to perpetuate the memory
of the father of the Declaration of In
dependence and that it would not be
a place where peanuts and hot dogs
are sold or wrestling matches are held.
“An auditorium will be obsolete in
30 years,” Boylan predicted. “We want
to erect a dignified memorial to Jef
ferson that will last through the ages.”
Boylan pointed out he is not opposed
to an auditorium in Washington such
as Is contemplated by the Robinson
resolution, but he did not believe it
should be linked In any way with the
name of Thomas Jefferson.
“Why hook up an auditorium with
the name of Jefferson?” he asked. “A
memorial to him should stand on Its
own feet. It is an Independent propo
sition."
Garnett Admits Cummings
Bests Him as Latin Scholar
At a Latin scholar, United States
Attorney Leslie a Oarnett is convinced
be wOl have to play second fiddle to
the Attorney General.
Quite recently Mr. Cummings sent
the local prosecutor an autographed
and Inscribed copy of his newly pub
lished book, "Federal Justice.”
Oarnett replied by letter:
"I greatly appreciate your distin
guished consideration in sending me a
copy of ‘Federal Justice’ with your
very nice Inscription and autograph.
I shall read it and treasure it and In
future years might say with Horace,
*Fonan et hsec ollm memlnlsse Juva
Wt.‘” Oarnett explained today that
after it win give us pleasure to re
member these things."
Not to be outdone, the Attorney
General came right tack with a letter
written entirely in lotin and therein
lies the difficulty.
“It’s been 43 years since X studied
Latin,” Garnett remarked, ruefully.
"I can’t read this. He should have
sent me a translation.” But the Dis
trict attorney is not alone in his be
wilderment. Not a single member of
his staff could translate it either.
Garnett has an unpleasant sus
picion, however, that the Attorney
General is telling him the quotation
is not from Horace at all, but from
V**i, N
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Film Stars Mark Time for Birthday Party
Mitzie Green, diminutive blond beauty, arrives at union
Station, squired by C. C. Pettijohn, )r„ of Rye, N. Y., a friend.
—Star Staff Photo,
■ '■ « ■■ ■ ■ — ' ■■■ ■ — .. i
Grants Right to Suspend
Permits for All Judgment
Defaults.
The Commissioners would be em
powered to suspend the driving permit
of any motorist who fails to meet an
accident damage judgment returned
against him in court, no matter how
small the amount of the judgment,
under a bill introduced late yesterday
by Senator King, Democrat, of Utah.
Under the present safety responsi
bility law, enacted in 1935. the Com
missioners can suspend the permits
only if the unpaid accident judgment
amounts to more than $100. Senator
King's bill amends that law by strik
ing out the phrase “in excess of
$100.”
The proposed change is an impor
tant one. because in so many automo
bile collision cases the property dam
age is less than $100. The safety re
sponsibility law provides that when
permits and registration certificates
are suspended for non-payment of
court judgments, they must remain
suspended until the judgment is sat
isfied and the motorist has given proof
of ability to meet accident damage
claims in future.
This was one of four measures Sena
tor King introduced yesterday.
Since he took the initiative in offer
ing it the Senator will send the safety
bill to the Commissioners for a re
port. The three other bills have al
ready been recommended by the Com
missioners. They are:
To improve the procedure for hand
ling lunacy proceedings in the Dis
trict; to require importers of gasoline
to put up a bond to expedite collec
tion by the District of the automo
bile gasoline tax. and a bill making a
minor change in the optometry li
censing law.
$42 TAKEN IN FIVE
LOCAL ROBBERIES
Pone Snatched From Woman on
Third Street, Thief Escap
ing in Cab.
Five Washingtonians reported rob
beries last night totaling $42 in cash
and including clothing of unknown
value.
Mary Born of 1518 Seventh street
reported the largest cash loss when
her purse containing $20 was snatched
from her in the 1600 block of Third
street by a man who fled In a cab.
An armed colored man about 45
years old, wearing a brown scarf
around his face, robbed Ichl Sato,
proprietress of a grocery store at 1237
First street of $2 from the cash regis
ter.
Later a colored man answering the
same description entered the grocery
store of Louis Epstein, 318 M street,
and robbed him of $10.
Ephraim H. Simpson, 701 N street,
reported to police that his store at
1218 Seventh street was entered last
night through a bole sawed In the
vestibule partition. A suit, an over
coat and an unknown quantity of
men's working pants were taken.
Another cash theft was reputed by
Daniel Wong, proprietor of a Chinese
laundry at 705 Eleventh street south
east, who told police he had been held
up at the point of a revolver by a col
ored nun who took $10 from the cash
drawer.
DIPHTHERIA CASES
District Cases, 888 in 1936,
Compared to 388 in
1933.
Diphtheria cases In the District of
Columbia Increased from 388 in 1933
to 888 in 1936, while a SO per cent
reduction was brought about in the
Nation as a whole during the same
period.
Moreover, the death rat* here from
diphtheria on a population basis is
almost double the Nation's average. It
was reported yesterday at the Child
Welfare Conference of Area B, Ameri
can Legion, and its allied groups,
holding a two-day meeting at Ward
man Park Hotel.
John D. Crowley, national child
welfare chairman of the Forty and
Eight, which is engaged In an anti
diphtheria program, reported that In
the Capital, which has the second
highest diphtheria rate of any city in
the mid-Atlantic States, there were
148 cases per 100,0"0 population in
1936, while the national case rate last
year was only 24 cases per 100,000
population.
410.M0 Children Benefit.
Some 410.000 children benefited In
1936 from the child welfare program
carried on by the Legion and its
affiliated groups at a cost of $2,500,
000, it was also reported.
Turning today to a study of child
welfare provisions of the social secur
ity program, the conference at its
final meeting was to hear an address
by Dr. Frank Bane, executive director
of the Social Security Board, at noon
today.
Plans to work with other welfare
agencies on a Juvenile delinquency
program as an akl to crime preven
tion were discussed today also, follow
ing a series of addresses on the sub
ject late yesterday. Officials of the
United States Office of Education, the
C. C. C. camps and the Children's
Bureau already have promised co-op
eration in this activity of the Le
gion's child welfare division, it was
announced by Judge Richard Harts
horn* of East Orange, N. J., na
tional chairman of the Legion Law
and Order Committee.
Judge Hartshorne, pointing out that
the average age of the juvenile de
linquent is 9Vj years, declared that
the schools probably offer the "most
mobile opportunity to create a Nation
wide character builder which could not
but prevent crime.”
Marital Clinics Proposed,
Miss Alice Scott Nutt of the Chil
dren’s Bureau suggested also that,
since maladjustments in the home
frequently are responsible for juvenile
delinquency, marital clinics would as
sist parents in meeting their re
sponsibility.
Miss Katharine Lenroot, chief of
the Children's Bureau, told the con
ference last night that prospects for
passage of the child labor amendment
are encouraging, since 25 States al
ready have ratified the amendment.
After the demise of the N. R. A., she
pointed out, the number of children
between the ages of 14 and 15 with
employment certificates Increased two
and a half times during the first five
months of 1936 in an area representing
11 States, 67 cities and the District of
Columbia.
Frank E. Samuel, national adjutant
of the Legion, also addressed the con
ference at a dinner last night. Dr.
Sam A. Loveman and Miss Edna 8.
Musser, area chairman, presided.
More than 250 delegates from area B
of the Legion are attending the con
ference.
COAST GUARD SHOOTERS
DEFEAT 4 OTHER TEAMS
Five-Man Team Chalks Up Score
of 1,863—Metropolitan Police
Second With 1,358.
A five-man team of crack ahots
from the United States Coast Guard
won the annual metropolitan pistol
shoot last night at the Coast Guard
range, Third and Canal streets south
west, defeating four other teams.
The winners chalked up a total
score of 1,382, as compared to the
Metropolitan Police, 1,358, In second
plaoe; Washington Pistol Club, 1,290;
White House police, 1,251, and Lor
ton Reformatory police, 1,238.
Members of the winning team were:
Melvon Wilson, radioman, with a
score of 279; Wilfred Mitchell, war
rant gunner, 274; Paul Goulden, chief
boatswain’s mate, 272; Bari W. Jones,
boatswain's mate, flret class, 271, and
^_I
Jean Harlow meets Chief G-Man J. Edgar Hoover at a
£arty given for her at the Mayflower last night by Robert Tay
ir (right), new Screen Lover No. 1.
John Trent, former commercial airline pilot and now Holly
wood’s latest "find" gives Marsha Hunt pointers on flying at
Washington Airport.
Film Stars, Here ior Ball,
Explode Temperament Theory
Gracious, Vivacious and Interested,
They Take to Capital Like
Capital Takes to Them.
BY JAY CARMODY.
So far as temperament is con
cerned, Hollywood might just as well
have sent a herd of placid cattle to
town for the President's birthday ball.
Apparently there is not an ounce of
ingrowing ego in Jean Harlow, Robert
Taylor, Marsha Hunt and John Trent,
who already are here for tonight's
social high light. Unless Joe E.
Brown, due to arrive some time today,
unloads a cargo of rage somewhere
about the premises, the film celeo
rities will go away with an A grade in
gracious deportment.
They have been mobbed, wined,
dined, kept awake, asked to sign auto
graph books, been photographed doing
everything from nibbling bacon to
kissing Senators. Through It all they
have retained an urbanity that makes
liars out of every script writer who
even so much as hinted that stars
sometimes explode. Apparently they
get as much fun out of the tempestu
ous routine of personal appearances
as do the persons before whom they
appear.
To the spectator given more or less
of a close-up of that routine it would
not seem to be nearly so pleasant as
the disposition of the players would
indicate.
Withstand Flu Knockout.
In the case of Miss Harlow and
Robert Taylor, for Instance, both are
the temporary nesting places of a
number of cold and Influenza germs.
Not enough germs to overcome the
vitality with which both are endowed,
but enough normally to take some of
the fine edge off the sest of a busy
day. At no time did either evade
an opportunity to smile for the public
or Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
So far as the health angle of being
gracious In concerned, it is easier for
Paramount’s contributions to the cur
rent celebration. Washington's own
(almost own) Marsha Hunt remained
vibrantly healthy through a plague
which felled many of the company’s
higher-paid, but less beautiful stars.
In effect, she is going around apologiz
ing for the exuberant well-being which
sent her here instead of some one like,
say. Carole Lombard, Claudette Col
bert or Bing Crosby.
John Trent, square-jawed airplane
pilot who is being built into the box
offlee likeness of Clark Gable, also has
been Ignored by the bacteria which
has been leveling the film colony for
weeks.
Of the four visiting oelebrities (two
Republicans, one Democrat and one
too young to vote. In case that has
any bearing on the subject), Taylor
is the only one to whom Washington
Is a new experience. Miss Harlow
has been here before and her ability
to call local citizens by their first
names quickly removed all doubt.
Knows Her Washington,
Miss Hunt has visited her grand
mother here on numerous occasions
and can call all the public buildings
by their first names.
Mr. Trent has seen the town from
every level up to 10,000 feet, maybe
higher, as a transport pilot who used
to fly into It and over it rather regu
larly before B. P. Shulberg thought
he ought to be in pictures.
As for Mr. Taylor, he was so busy
sightseeing he appeared entirely ob
livious of the fact that he was being
a sight (In the finest sense of the
word) himself.
Using the technique of editors of
college year books, it would be com
paratively simple to do a series of
‘‘mosts” on the celebrated quartet.
Speech and Applause.
Ignoring even box office figures, one
would have to set Miss Harlow down
as the most glamorous. She is so full of
vivacity that at one point In yester
day's proceedings she could not resist
getting to her feet to make a speech,
in one sentence of which she told how
much she liked Washington; the other,
how much she disliked people who
get up and make speeches. There has
not been so much applause since the
Democratic convention.
One could aay that Mr. Taylor was
the most uh affected of the four except
that it would not be fair to the other
three. But he certainly is the most
likely to leave a trail of broken hearts
in Washington. It won’t be Taylor's
fault, either.
Miss Hunt is a lot of ‘‘moets,’’ espe
cially the most articulate. An inter
view with her is at least half filled
with intelligent conversation; most of
the time it is Miss Hunt's half. A
couple of benefit soirees from now she
should be crowding the others for the
‘‘mosts” which they now control.
As for Mr. Trent, he is the most like
a daring ex-aviator who appears des
tined to go far in the movies. Also
he is the most like an old friend after
you have talked to him for a few min
utes.
And while these celebrities were
being all these things, and doing all
the others mentioned, Joe E. Brown
was grounded in Albuquerque waiting
.for a break in the weather.
FUNERAL MONDAY
FOR MRS. WIGHT
Strident of Capital Since 1892
Was Aotive in Bed Cross,
0. E. S. and Church.
Mrs. Charlotte Louise Wight, SS, a
resident of Washington for many
years, died early yesterday at the home
of her son, Ralph Bartlett Wight,
2715 Fourteenth street.
Funeral services will be held at
10:30 am. Monday at Hines’ funeral
parlors, with Rev. Clifford H. Jope,
pastor of the Ninth Street Christian
Church, officiating. Burial will be
In Glenwood Cemetery.
A native of New Braintree, Mass.,
Mrs. Wight came to Washington in
1892. During the World War she was
connected with the American Red
Cross. She had been a member of the
Ninth 8treet Christian Church for
many years and was interested in the
development of the Order of the
Eastern Star.
In addition to 13 grandchildren and
her son Ralph, Mrs. Wight is sur
vived by live other sons, Frederick
Leslie, Harold and James, all of Wash
ington; Ovlton Ware of Los Angeles
CREDIT UNION BILL
ACTION PROMISED
House Measure Would Provide
Quarters for Operation in
TJ. S. Buildings.
Government workers have been as
sured of early action on a House bill
to provide quarters for their credit
unions In United States buildings, it
was announced yesterday by Luther
0. Steward, president of the National
Federation of Federal Employes.
Representative Steagall, Democrat,
of Alabama, chairman of the House
Committee on Currency and Bank
ing, to which the bill was referred,
bee assured Steward be is entirely In
sympathy with It.
These credit unions make loans
available at low Interest to Govern
ment workers, and fears for their
continued operation generally had
been expressed after a recent decision
by Acting Controller General Elliott
barring the use of space in post office*
over the country to them.
The bill In their behalf was spon
sored by the National Legislative
Council of Federal employe organlsa
ret which Steward la chairman,
IN WO SUIT
Proxy Reports Refusal to
Answer on Abstaining *
From Stock Deals.
INVASION OF RIGHTS
CLAIMED BY BISHOP.
Tinkham’i Coansel Be-enacts Bole
of Closely Questioning Church- %
' man on Promise.
With the record showing Bishop
James Cannon, jr., as adamant in his
refusal to state whether he kept his
‘•promise" to church officials in 1930
not to dabble In the stock market, the
$500,000 libel suit filed by Cannon
against Representative George Holden
Tinkham, Republican, of Massa
chusetts, marked time today in Fed- s
eral District Court.
The trial of the unusual case will be
resumed Monday, when Bishop Can
non, through a legal proxy, will con
tinue under cross-examination by
Roger J. Whiteford, counsel for Tink
ham. Justice Jennings Bailey con
tinued the case over the week end.
after Cannon’s refusal to answer ques
tions about his stock market dealings
since 1930, if any.
Actually, Cannon's refusal occurred
last June, while he was being quizzed
by Whiteford at Sibley Hospital, where
the bishop was confined by arthritis.
Whlteford’s questions and Cannon's
replies were read to the jury from a
lengthy deposition taken in the hoe- 4
pitaL
Pressed on Question.
At that time Cannon had been ques
tioned closely by Whiteford about an
inquiry made by the General Con
ference of the Methodist Church
South, at Dallas in 1930, in connec
tion with allegations in the press and
elsewhere that Cannon had dealt with
a New York "bucket shop.”
Cannon told Whiteford such an In
vestigation had been made by his
church and that he had written a
letter admitting he had bought stock
and expressing sorrow and regret, in
view of the criticism that had resulted.
The letter, he said, denied any knowl
edge of wrong-doing.
In response to a question. Cannon
said the letter contained a promise not
to deal in the stock market there
after.
When Whiteford asked Cannon if h«
had kept this promise, the bishop de
clined to answer, on the ground that
this query was "an invasion of my
private rights.” Whiteford insisted
on a reply, and Cannon persisted in ‘
refusing to answer. In this refusal
he had the support of his attorney,
Robert H. McNeill, who pointed out
that his opinion that Cannon had a
right to refuse an answer was sub
ject to a ruling by the court.
Cannon III In Durham.
Justice Bailey adjourned court at
this point.
The Interchange between Whiteford
and Cannon was re-enacted in court
in Camion's absence by the latter’s
attorney, playing the role of the bishop ~
on the witness stand, and Whiteford, >
acting for himself as interrogator.
Cannon is ill in a hospital at Durham,
N. C., the court was informed.
Earlier yesterday the deposition had
revealed that Cannon denied vigor
ously he had profited personally In
any way from a $65,300 contribution
by E. C. Jameson, New York financier,
to Cannon’s "Anti-Smith Democrats”
of the 1928 presidential campaign.
This donation is the basis of the
present suit. Cannon claims Tink
ham libeled him when he signed a
statement in 1930 charging that the
bishop concealed this contribution and
thereby became a "shameless violator”
of the corrupt practices act.
JELLEFF RE-ELECTED
TO BOYS’ CLUB POST
Trustees Organise Following An
nual Meeting—Director Re
ports Member Gain.
Frank R Jelleff was re-elected presi
dent of the Board of Trustees of the
Boys’ Club of Washington at a meet
ing yesterday at the Willard Hotel fol
lowing the sixteenth annual meeting
of the Boys’ Club Association of the
District.
Henry N. Brawner, Jr., was elected
first vice president: Albert F. E. Horn,
second vice president; Col. Henry P. 1
Erwin, treasurer, and Dr. Chester D.
Swope, secretary and assistant treas
urer.
Trustees re-elected were Clarence L.
Harding. Charles H. Pardoe, Foster M.
Reeder, William E. Russell, Dr. Chester
D. 8wope, S. Percy Thompson and
Lloyd B. Wilson. New trustees named
were Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, Albert
E. Conradis, Edgar Morris, Dr. William
W. Chase. Dr. George Dewey and
James A. Dent.
A membership Increase and a bal
anced budget in 1936 were reported
by Charles M. Fyfe, managing director A
Progress of the Georgetown Boys’”
Club was described by C. C. Richard
son, director.
gratitude’voted king
Appreciation to Senator King and
the District Committee for indorsing
provision for play space in the crowded
area of the Morse School was ex— j
pressed last night at a meeting of the
Morse P.-T. A. headed by Mrs. Daniel
Murray. The group also drafted a
resolution to the Board of Education
with a request for repairs of leaking
and flaking walls. A contribution of
$3.62 was taken for flood victims.
BAND CONCENT.
By the Soldiers' Home Band in Stan
ley Hall at 5:30 pm. today. John 8.
if. Zlmmermann, bandmaster; Anton
Folntner, assistant. i
Procram. v
March, "Saber and Spurs"_Sousa
Overture, “Tancredl"__Rossini
A rustic suite, "RubenUe”.Lake
(a) "Twilight on the Farm."
(b) "Dance at the Huskin’ Bee."
(c) “Reminiscences.”
Melange, “Victor Herbert’s
Favorites” .Lake
(Requested.)
Popular fox trots, “Adieu, My 8eno- <
rlta” (Zamecnlk); “Auf Wleder- 1
sehn, My Dear”.-.Ager
Waltz suite, “Tender Klssee”.Zamecnlk
Finale, “On the Air”.Goldman
"The Btar-Bpangled Banner.”
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