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■ - WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1937. **»« ~ ' PAOlT^Zr'
RELIEF BIEL HIT,
NICE MAY RECALL
STATEASSEMBLY;
Measure Containing Bookie
Clause Attacked in Many
Quarters.
TYDINGS AND RADCLIFFE
PROPOSE CONFERENCE
to*
Bruce and Weller Discuss Defi
ciencies of New Welfare
Legislation.
S» R Staff Correspondent ot The nar.
ANNAPOLIS, April 12.—Gov. Harry
yj. Nice today was pondering the ad
visability of reconvening the State
Assembly to draft a new welfare pro
gram following sharp criticism from
many quarters of the relief bill passed
last week at the regular legislative
session.
, Nice already has indicated he will
veto the bookmaking clause of the
relief measure if the right to elimi
nate that section lies within his
powers, while many critics have urged
the entire bill be scrapped and a
special session be called to enact a
different program.
Among the latter were Joseph D.
Baker of Frederick and Dr. J. M. T.
Finney of Baltimore. Howard Bruce,
Democratic national committeeman
from Maryland, and O. E. Weller,
Republican national committeeman,
have discussed what they regard as
deficiencies in the bill without com
mitting themselves as to a special
session.
- Senators Seek Parley.
United States Senators Millard E. j
Tydings and George L. Radcliffe
jointly declared the leaders of the
Legislature worked under great handi
caps and expressed a desire to confer
with them and exchange views.
In Annapolis today David S. Jenk- \
Ins, chairman of the Anno Arundel j
* County Welfare Board, demanded the
Governor call a special session of
the Legislature immediately to enact
an “adequate relief program.”
Gov. Nice has asked Attorney Gen
eral Herbert R. O'Coror to prepare
a ruling on his veto powers with re
gard to the "bookie” clause. He is
said to have been advised informally j
he could not veto the section without |
knocking out the whole $5,360,000 !
bill.
It is felt the decision as to whether
Nice will recaU the Legislature hinges
* upon the question of restricting the
matters that would be considerd.
He has no power to limit legislators
to consideration of any partcular
subject.
Senators’ Statement.
In a statement issued last night
Senators Tydings and Radcliffe de
clared:
“We think it may be taken for
granted that the leaders of the Leg
islature are not entirely satisfied with
the relief bill as it was finally passed.
Senator Coad, Mr. Mullikin and their j
associates in the important com
mittees worked industriously for
three months and showed great re
sourcefulness, but they worked under
very heavy handicaps.
“When the relief question was
reached, the leaders of the Legisla
ture had very little time in which to
make a thorough survey of all the pos
sibilities in revenue and to formulate
a comprehensive plan.
“To make their difficulties greater,
(-there was no clear shaping of public
opinion in favor of any broad ap
proach to the revenue problems cre
ated by the new program of social
services.”
HOUGHTON GIVES $400
TO FELLOWSHIP FUND
Former Ambassador's Gift to A. U.
to Be Used for English
* Student.
A gift of $400 from Alanson B.
Houghton, former United States Am
bassador to Great Britain, to be used
toward a fellowship for some Eng
lish student, was announced today
by American University.
The check was presented Satur
day. just before Houghton sailed for
Europe, to Dr. Ellery C. Stowell,
director of the Advisory Committee
for the Hal! of Nations, a unit of
the university’s Graduate School. Dr.
Stowell said the gift assures a British
fellowship next Fall.
He added that the university ex
pects to secure sufficient funds soon
to bring fellows from several other
nations.
BAND CONCERTS.
By the Marine Band in the audi
torium at 3 p.m. tomorrow. Capt.
Taylor Branson, leader; William P.
Eantelmann, assistant.
PROGRAM.
•■Marines’ Hymn.”
March, “Pan-American Union,”
Oalimany (Panama)
Overture, “Salvatore Rosa,”
Gomes (Brazil)
Prelude, “Elegia”_Calvo (Colombia)
Dedicated to the Marine Band.
Xylophone solo, “Alma Llanera,”
Gueteriez (Venezuela)
Charles Owen.
Brazilian march, “Cantos de los
Solados"-De Campo (Brazil)
Duet for vibraphone and xylophone,
"La Golondrina”__Sarradell (Mexico)
Charles Cwen and Oliver Zinmeister.
“Largo”-Handel
Trombone duet, “Souvenir de
Valencia"_Bleger
D. S. Harpham and Dale Harpham.
Patriotic song, "We Are Members
of the C. C. C.”. Conard
Comet solo, “The Rosary”_Nevin
Winfred Kemp.
March, “Thomas Jefferson,”
William H. Santelmann
Hymn, “Eternal Father Strong to
- Save.”
“The Star Spangled Banner.”
.
Because of the band participating in
tlfc concert by the United Service
Orchestra at the Pan-American Union
Wednesday, the weekly concert at the
barracks will be given Thursday at
GIRL DIES, SECOND
IS CRITICALLY HURT
IN SUNDAY TRAFFIC
Barbara Waugh, 16, Victim
of Taxi-Auto Crash on
Naylor Road.
AUTO HITS CHILD, 7,
CROSSING STREET
Accidents Comparatively Few in
Midst of Throngs Attracted
by Blossoms.
One death and at least one critical
injury were reported here yesterday,
although there were comparatively
few accidents in the heavy traffic
caused by cherry blossoms visitors.
Sixteen-year-old Barbara Waugh,
705 Otis place, died yesterday of in
juries received when the taxicab in
which she was a passenger was in a
head-on collision on Naylor road, just
over the District line, early yesterday.
The girl was riding with her mother,
Mrs. Marion Waugh, 35, and the taxi
was operated by George Heflin, 23, of
531 Fifth street southeast. The other
car was driven by Frank Shorter, 28,
of Silver Hill, Md., police reported.
Cab Is Overturned.
The impact overturned Heflin’s cab
and it came to rest against an em
bankment. The doors were jammed by
the force of the collision and the in
jured were removed with difficulty.
Mrs. Waugh escaped with slight
cuts, while Heflin suffered scalp cuts
and shock. Another passenger in the
fax'—Edith Hall, 26, of 615 Fifteenth
street northeast—was cut about the
head and face.
Shorter was given first aid at Cas
ualty Hospital for cuts to the head
and hands. The other injured were
taken to Providence Hospital.
Prince Georges County authorities
said an inquest probably will be held
when Heflin is able to appear. Shorter
was released under $1,000 bond for
appearance at the inquiry.
The Washington party was return
ing from a dance in T. B„ Md., when
the mishap occurred.
Seven-year-old Patricia Frank, 4503
Thirteenth street, suffered a fractured
skull and severe cuts and bruises yes
terday afternoon when hit by an auto
mobile driven, police reported, by Paul
Himmelfarb, 58, of 4715 Sixteenth
street, former owner of a chain of
filling stations.
Accident Near Home.
Himmelfarb said the girl ran into
the path of his machine from be
twein two parked cars. The acci
dent occurred near her home. Pa
tricia was taken to Walter Reed Hos
pital, where her condition was said
to be serious.
Police today were searching for a
hit-and-run driver who ran down
Elijah Starts, 31, colored, 1727 Sev
enth street, and left him lying in
the 700 block of Seventh street with
a broken leg. Starts was removed
to Gallinger Hospital.
Arthur Johnson, 37, of Forestville,
Md., was treated at Casualty for a
possible skull fracture received yes
terday when he was hit by an auto
mobile as he was walking on Marl
boro Pike.
MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ART
TO BE SESSION TOPIC
Southern Woman's Educational
Alliance Sponsors 3 Meetings on
Rural Youth Development.
A discussion of the beginning of
irt in the mountain schools of
Breathitt County, Ky., will occupy
the first of three meetings on the
theme “Art for Rural Young People”
it the Arts Club April 20, under
sponsorship of the Southern Woman’s
Educational Alliance.
Possible ways of developing regional
irt centers at strategic points in
-ural areas will be discussed the fol
owing day at a luncheon at the May
lower Hotel. In the afternoon, eco
nomic and avocational values in craft
vork will be debated informally at a
tea in the lounge of the American As
tociation of University Women, 1634
[ street.
Among the sponsors are Mrs. Blair
3anister, Dr. Kathryn McHale, Miss
.eila Mechlin, Mrs. Caroline O’Day,
dr. and Mrs. O. Max Gardner, Mr.
md Mrs. Frank Goodspeed, Mr. and
drs. Alphonse C. Avery, Dr. Louise
3. Stanley, Mrs. Katherine M. Cook,
Senator and Mrs. Harry F. Byrd,
diss Margaret Woolley, Mrs. Edward
3. Meigs, Mr. and Mrs. Fred R. Vin
ton, Senator Alvin Logan, Mr. and
drs. Emmett O’Neill and Senator and
drs. Josiah C. Bailey.
Capital Student Initiated.
Herbert Mittleman, 2825 Bellevue
terrace, a freshman in the Engineer
ng School at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, Troy, N. Y., has been initi
ated in the Phi Sigma Delta Frater
nity, it was learned from the school
today.
W ild Plane Smashes Others9
Provides Airport Mystery
Bureau of Air Commerce and Wash
ington Airport officials today were
investigating the mystery of a run
away, pilotless airplane which taxied
into an airport hangar at Washington
Airport Saturday night, sheared off
a wing and then chopped through the
wings of two other planes before its .
engine stalled. Damage was estimated
at more than $5,000.
Investigators said they would ask
the Justice Department to search for
fingerprints in the cabin of the par
tially demolished plane in an effort to
trace the person who climbed inside
and started the motor after the craft
was left parked in front of the hangar.
No employes of the hangar were
present at the time, and the accident
was not discovered until some time
Jater. Officials expressed belief aa
*hief had tried to fly away with theS
plane and failed bemuse he did not
know the throttle was stuck at a high
The plane was a Stinson belong
ing to the Washington Plying Service.
When the pilot brought the ship in
Saturday night, shortly before 10
o’clock, he found the throttle stuck,
and taxied up in front of the hangar
by cutting his switch to keep the revo
lutions down. He left the plane out
side the hangar for repairs.
When the would-be thief started
the motor, it roared into high speed
at once. The run-away craft sheared
off a wing as it crashed into a post
in the center of the open hangar
door.
It then careened inside the hangar,
its propeller cutting through the
wings of a Bureau of Air Commerce
biplane and a Stinson monoplane
parked for the night by Elmer Myers,
manager of the airport at Raleigh,
N. C. The engine then stallft.
The incident occurred in the hangar
just south of the Eastern Airlines
KaisaaC
The Merry-Go-Round of the Cherry Blossoms
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TOMLINSON TRIAL
SET FOR APRIL 28
__
Government Obtains Con
tinuance, Claiming New
Evidence Found.
Justice F. Dickinson Letts of Dis
trict Court granted an unexpected
Government request today for a con
! tinuance of the scheduled robbery
trial of J. William Tomlinson and two
colored men accused as his accom
plices. Assistant United States Attorney
Samuel F. Beach explained that new
evidence developed over the week
end.
Trial of the case was set for April 28.
Beach said investigators had located
additional witnesses, whose testimony
will materially alter the Government's
case.
Pictured by police as the "brains”
behind a gang of colored robbers,
Tomlinson, 42-year-old Washington
attorney, and his alleged accomplices
are accused of robbing Sam Siratonis,
proprietor of a tailor shop at 3003
Fourteenth street, last August 18.
Siratonis was badly beaton with
blackjacks by two colored men, who
took $785.
Tomlinson’s ,'o-defendants are
Philip John Pratt and Charles Henry
Bass, both colored. Police said state
ments by Pratt anc. Bass implicated
the attorney, who several years ago
acted as associate counsel for Gaston
B. Means during the latter’s trial in
connection with the Lindbergh baby
kidnaping hoax.
Another indictment charges Tom
linson. Pratt and Walter Smallwood,
colored, with participation in the
Fairfax Farms Dairy pay roll robbery
March 14 of last year. Pratt and
Smallwood have pleaded guilty to that
accusation. Two employes were held
up near the dairy and robbed of more
than $3,000.
The Government does not contend
that Tomlinson actually was present
during either of the hold-ups, but
that he planned both crimes. Assist
ant United States Attorneys Samuel
F. Beach and Charles B. Murray, are
to conduct the prosecution.
Tomlinson was arrested late last
Summer at his home, 4108 Military
road, and was held incommunicado
for several days. Three detective ser
geants, Paul E. Ambrose, Frank O.
Brass and Elmer Lewis, conducted the
investigation which led to his arrest.
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CARETAKER SLAIN
By t Stall Correspondent ol The Star.
ARLINGTON, Va„ April 12.—Ar
lington County police today asked
Washington officers to look out for
and arrest a suspect in the killing last
night of Augustus Johnson, colored
caretaker for the W. P. Roberts estate
near Chain Bridge.
Attempt by Clayton to Again
Postpone Sessions Is
Overruled.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
by William McK. Clayton today to
block again the long-postponed hear
ing before the Public Utilities Commis
sion on a valuation of the properties
of the Capital Transit Co., which is
applying for a higher rate of fare.
At the opening of the hearing, de
layed repeatedly since last Fall, Clay
ton entered a sweeping objection to the
statistics presented by the company,
contending among other alleged omis
sions, that they did not include a value
for the Washington Rapid Transit Co.,
acquired as the result of the street car
merger about a year ago. He con
tended it would be necessary to hold
another hearing to bring the valuation
figures up to date.
Objection Is Overruled.
Clayton was overruled by Chairman
Riley Elgin, and the commission soon
settled down quietly to the tedious
business of examining valuation figures
presented by the company as of De
cember 31, 1935.
The Capital Transit Co. filed a pe
tition on higher rates last October. Be
fore consenting to consider the peti
tion, however, the commission decided
to conduct investigation into the com
pany’s properties, there having been
no comprehensive valuation set since
the street car companies merged.
The commission went about today’s
hearing in a new way by first hearing
the company’s witnesses. William B.
Bennett, assistant to the president of
the Capital Transit Co., was the first
to take the stand.
He came to Washington in 1930, he
testified, to value the properties of the
old Washington Railway & Electric
Co. when it was about to be merged
with the Capital Traction Co. Since
the merger, Bennett testified, he has
been engaged in a “continuous” study
of the company’s properties.
Insists on “Starting Point.”
Clayton objected at once to a valu
ation in which the reproduction esti
mates were based on December 31,
1935, costs, but Chairman Elgin inter
ceded that it was necessary for the
commission to have “a starting point”
and permitted Bennett to continue
presentation of figures.
A total valuation of $54,206,262, in
cluding all methods of estimation, was
given for the company as of the date
in 1935, more than a year ago.
He placed a valuation of $38,011,758
on the company’s properties in the
District of Columbia, $943,788 on its
properties in Maryland and $689,222
on its holdings in Glen Echo Park, Md.
PRESIDES AT SESSION
Mme. Cantacuzene Attending
Meeting in Chicago.
Mme. Cantacuzene, recently elected
piesident of the National Society of
Dames of the Loyal Legion, was in
Chicago today presiding over the
meeting of the organization’s National
Board. Its sessions will close tomor
row night with a joint banquet of the
board and the oommandery of the
Loyal Legion.
Mme. Cantacuzene, granddaughter
of President Grant, left for Chicago
Saturday to join Mrs. Mary Logan
Tucker of Washington, former presi
dent and now honorary president of
the society, who had gone there earlier
in the week.
Campaign Manager to Speak.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., April 12
WP).—State Senator William A Wright
of Tappahannock, State manager of
the campaign of Senator Saxon W.
Holt of this city for the Democratic
nomination for Lieutenant Governor,
will speak at a meeting of Holt sup
This tells the story of yesterday’s traffic. An air view of the Arlington Memorial Bridge with
all the cars moving in one direction, toward the cherry blossoms.
(Story on Page A-i.j star Staff Photos, Ehvood Baker
SAFE DRIVING SCHOOLS
TO BE OPEN TONIGHT
Judge Curran and Neilson Will
Speak at McKinley
High.
The fight against the District’s high
traffic toll will continue tonight with
the meeting of the two safe-driving
schools inaugurated last week.
Meeting at the McKinley High
School at 8 p.m., the school of safe
driving, sponsored by the Division of
Vehicles and Traffic, will hear Judge
Edward M. Curran on the “Relations
of Law Enforcement to Accident Pre
vention” and Assistant Corporation
Counsel George D. Neilson on “Court
Procedure on Traffic Cases.” There
will also be a “question-box” and a
motion picture.
At the same hour the school, spon
sored jointly by the American Auto
mobile Association and the Com
munity Center Department, will con
vene at the Roosevelt High School,
with Mrs. George C. Thorpe, safety
counselor for the Community Center
Department and chairman of the
Women’s Safety Committee of the
A. A. A., presiding. Tim District
drivers’ regulations will be Andied and
a special Instrument will be on hand
to determine the susceptibility of the
Slayer Scheduled
To Die in Chair
Today Hangs Self
Tennessee Prisoner Is
Suicide in Cell by
Strangulation.
By the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 12.—Sui
cide by strangulation canceled 27
year-old J. B. Whitten’s State-ar
ranged date with death at dawn to
day.
The Chattanooga man was sched
uled to die in the electric chair,this
morning, but his body was found yes
terday, hanging from the crossbar of
a bunk which had been stood on its
end.
Around his neck was a noose made
from a strip of the bed sheet. Prison
Physician Dr. G. D. Hubbard said it
probably required more than 10 min
utes for him to strangle to death.
Whitten was convoked for shooting
his Chattanooga sweetheart, Lillie Mae
Cook, in the East Tennessee city De
MUSICIANS TO PLAY
FOR CHILDREN’S CIRCUS
Three Youngster Units to Lead
Sections in Parade of
2,000.
Three groups of young Washington
musicians will participate in the Chil
dren’s Festival Circus, to be held at
Central High School May 8 under the
auspices of the Community Center
Department.
These units—the Metropolitan Po
lice Boys’ Band, Washington Elks
Boys’ Band and American Legion
Boys’ Drum and Bugle Corps—will
lead sections of the parade of 2,000
youngsters and will also accompany
various events during the day. The
international finale will be “Hands
Across the Sea.”
According to present plans, the
drum and bugle corps will stage a
drill the Elks’ group will accompany
the Gypsy wedding festival and the
Police Boys’ Band will play the finale
music.
Miss Marjorie Mitchell, a dance in
structor at the Columbia Heights Cen
ter, is to take the part of the bride
in the wedding ffbtival, and James
Carroll of the Player’s Club of the
Central Community Center, will play
HUGE LONG-RANGE
WATER RESOURCES
! PROGRAM URGED
National Committee’s Plan,
Involving $4,000,000,000,
Before Roosevelt.
POTOMAC RIVER BASIN
OBJECTIONS ARE LISTED
Restoration of C. & 0. Canal, Ex
tension of George Washington
Memorial Parkway Advocated.
A long-range water resources pro
gram, affecting 118 drainage basins
and calling for an ultimate expendi
ture of more than $4,000,000,000 today
was before President Roosevelt as a
result of a study by the National Re
sources Committee.
The report advocated immediate
undertaking of one group of projects,
j estimated to cost $1,720,000,000; asked
a later start on another group whose
cost was fixed at $.1034,000,000 and
proposed a later list involving $1,
400,000,000 that would be gotten under
way at some indeterminate time.
The recommendations for a co
ordinated development that also
would combat floods and stream pol
lution supplemented the general
public works planning report the
President sent to Congress February
3. The outline included many proj
ects for which appropriation already
has been made, as well as others that
are in early stages.
Potomac Basin Objectives,
Restoration of the Chesapeake &
Ohio Canal as a recreational water
way and extension of the George
Washington Memorial Parkway, at
an estimated cost of $9,100,000,’and
already authorized in part by Con
gress were incorporated in the pro
gram for immediate undertaking.
Chanel and waterfront work, also au
thorized, are likewise a part of the
national scheme.
In the Potomac River Basin, the
report said, the principal immediate
objectives of a water plan are abate
ment of pollution, control of floods,
| soil conservation, enlargement of sup
plies of water for various communi
ties and promotion of the recreational
value of streams and their border
lands.
“The outstanding current need of
the district (Middle Atlantic) is for
sewage-treatment- plants at small and
medium sized communities,” the re
j port said. "In most basins, there
are towns which lack public water
supplies, sewers or sewage-disposal
facilities. A few of the larger urban
areas—notably Cumberland and the
suburban areas of Washington and
Baltimore—require extensions of pres
ent water supply systems.”
It was said, too, that “all possible
power developments in the Middle
j Atlantic district and contiguous areas
! should be examined in relation one
) to another, and in relation also to
j competing steam plant generation and
to prospective markets for power.”
The report proposed a co-operative
investigation by State and Federal
agencies of drainage problems in the
upper Chesapeake Basin at an esti
mated cost of $5,000 and a $50,000
pollution study to be undertaken at
once. Water front work here already
authorized by Congress was incorpo
rated as part of the national program.
Among the projects most needed in
the lower Chesapeake Bay area, em
bracing the Rappahannock and York
River basins, the report said, are
drainage for mosquito control, instal
lation of sewers and sewage treatment
plants and navigational improvements.
Pollution Not Yet Serious.
Pollution of streams in that area is
not yet serious, the report said, but a
number of towns are without suitable
sewer and sewage treatment facilities.
Drainage problems involve both ma
laria control and cleaning stream beds
clogged with windfalls and sunken
logs. Water supply is Inadequate in
some of the smaller communities, and
navigation can be improved in some
places.
Abel Wolman chairman of the Wa
| ter Resources Committee which pre
pared the study for the parent or
ganization, said a waiting list of proj
ects such as his committee proposes
“should tend to replace the haphazard
approach of the past with a program
of orderly development.”
Wolman said listing of projects
which are primarily of local interest
j did not indicate a feeling Federal
j funds should be used for their con
struction. He pointed out the com
mittee emphasized the importance of
keeping an "equitable balance" be
; tween Federal and local payments in
line with how benefits accrue.
The committee's recommendation,
Wolman said, “appear modest and
consistent” in view of past spending
on water use and control.
He said the committee “did not
venture to suggest what the exact
yardstick should be for measuring
such benefits and payments.”
“The broad bases for a definite na
tional policy on all phases of the prob
lem of financing water projects have
not been established. The committee
has set in motion activities which it
hopes will contribute to the develop
ment of such bases. At the moment,
however, this important and contro
versial field remains open as an arena
for the battle between expanding na
tional interest and declining local
responsibility.”
BIRD BATH INSTALLED
ON LAWN OF CHURCH
Opening of National “Be Kind to
Animals Week" Observed
by Association.
In observance of the opening of na
tional "Be Kind to Animals Week.”
the District Animal Protective Associ
ation yesterday installed a bird bath
on the lawn of Fourth Presbyterian
Church and distributed leaflets con
cerning man’s duty to his animal
friends in Sunday schools over the city.
Miss Virginia W. Sargent, president
of the association, addressed the church
school classes ayjthe installation and
will speak before various junior ani
mal protective clubs throughout the
week- _