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MEASURE TO HALT
JEFFERSON SHRINE
TO BE REPORTED
Library Committee Agrees
to Act Favorably on
Treadway Bill.
WOULD BAN ERECTION
ON TIDAL BASIN SITE
Chairman Keller Regrets He Had
Not Studied Precedents and
Safeguarded Congress.
BACKGROUND—
Congress created the Thomas Jef
ferson Memorial Commission by
joint resolution of June 26, 1934,
amending the legislation June 3,
1936. empowering the group to se
lect a design and site. The proposal
of the New York architect, John
Russell Pope, chosen by the com
mission, to construct the memorial
at the Tidal Basin site stirred a
storm of protest, when opponents
contended this would destroy the
world-famed Japanese cherry tree
display.
In the executive session today, the
House Library Committee agreed to
report favorably the bill introduced
by Representative Allen T. Treadway
of Massachusetts, the ranking Republi
can member, which prohibits the
erection of the $3,000,000 Thomas
Jefferson Memorial authorized by
Congress, on the Tidal Basin site.
The subject matter of the report was
discussed in detail—the main argu
ment to be that the building of the
Memorial at the Basin, while it might
be done within the limit of cost, would
entail further expenditures up to two
or three times that amount to provide
an adequate setting, and that the con
tour of the Tidal Basin would be
changed and many cherry trees de
stroyed.
Comment of Keller.
That both "dollars and sentiments”
contributed toward making an unani
mous decision in the committee was
stated by Chairman Keller, who dis
closed what had transpired in the
executive session.
"Public sentiment is definitely
against the proposal of a memorial
commission,” he emphasized.
"We realize that the Commission
of Fine Arts approved the plan, but
the public, because of sentiment re
garding the cherry trees and the
beautiful contour of the Tidal Basin
reflecting those blossoms, is vigor
ously opposed to the use of that site.
The question of expense in making
this area a fitting setting for the
proposed memorial is important, but
we found during our healings that
sentiment was more powerful than
cost considerations.
“The large additional expenditure
estimated, which we consider exces
sive. compelled us to take action. We
were influenced also by the fact that
Frederick Law Olmstead, only sur
viving member of the McMillan Capi
tal Planning Commission of 1901,
wrote us a powerful denunciation of
the plans for the Tidal Basin site. We
expect that our report will definitely i
put an end to any future development ;
of the basin area for a memorial. We
are assuming full responsibility for ,
thus going contrary to the McMillan
plans.”
Plans to Write Report.
At today's session Chairman Keller, '
who said he plans to write an un
usually careful and thoughtful report,
expressed regret that in making the
original report on the Jefferson Memo
rial he had not more carefully studied
precedents and safeguarded Congress,
as was done in the case of the Lincoln
Memorial. He read from the act of
Congress, approved February 9, 1911,
creating the commission, as follows:
“To procure and determine upon a
location, plan and design for a monu
ment or memorial in the city of Wash
ington. District of Columbia, to the
memory of Abraham Lincoln, subject
to the approval of Congress." He em
phasized that Congress reserved the
right of confirmation of the commis
sion's decisions and deplored that it
was now too late to revise the Jeffer
son Memorial act along this line. He
pointed out that repeatedly through
out the Lincoln Memorial act "ap
proval by Congress" was stressed. The
architect’s designs were on public ex
hibition in the National Museum.
The Library Committee in its re
port—yet to be written—does not in
tend to recommend any other site
for the memorial.
In the meantime, Representative
Scott, Democrat, of California, who
has vigorously fought the erection of
the Jefferson Memorial at the Tidal
Basin and who has two bills pending
before the Library Committee, late
yesterday introduced a resolution simi
lar to the one introduced in the Sen
ate last week by Senator Schwellen
bach, Democrat, of Washington, pro
viding for a trust fund for establish
ment and maintenance of a school of
American Government in honor of
Thomas Jefferson at the University of
Virginia. Before coming to Congress
Representative Scott was a school
teacher in Arizona and Southern Cali
fornia.
His resolution provides that not
withstanding existing law giving the
Jefferson Memorial Commission au
thority to make plans for the con
struction of the memorial in Wash
ington, the commission shall expend
funds appropriated for its use to
create and maintain the proposed
school.
MANY ALCOHOLIC DRINKS
U. S. Public Now Has Choice of
217,025 Beverages.
W S. Alexander, Federal alconul
administrator, estimated today that
the American public, which couldn't
buy a drink legally four years ago
without a prescription, now has its
choice of 217,025 alcoholic beverages.
At least, that is the number of
liquor, wine and beer labels acted upon
by the Alcohol Administration since
repeal of the eighteenth amendment
December 5, 1933.
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HEARINGSPUSHED
ON CANCER CENTER
OILL IN CONGRESS
Country Doctor Who Began
Drive and Specialists
Will Be Present.
$2,400,000 REQUESTED
TO INITIATE PROGRAM
Research Base and 100-Bed Hos
pital Expected to Be Estab
lished in D. C.
BY WILL P. KENNEDY.
The leading cancer specialists of the
United States and a country doctor
from Texas are to appear as witnesses
here within two weeks to persuade
Congress to establish a national cancer
center, at a cost of $1,000,000 a year,
to wipe out the menace of this disease,
which ranks second as cause of death
in the United States. It was the
country doctor, Dr. Dudley Jackson
of Bexar County Hospital, who really
started the drive for Nation-wide co
operation and intensive study for the
cure of cancer. It was he who per
suaded Representative Maverick,
Democrat, of Texas, to introduce a bill
for the cancer research center and
a 100-bed hospital w'hich is expected
to be established in Washington with
an initial appropriation of $2,400,000.
Senator Homer T. Bone, Democrat,
of Washington, is sponsoring the bill
in the Senate, where it is supported
by 95 Senators. Chairman Copeland
of the Senate Committee on Inter
state and Foreign Commerce has an
nounced that he is arranging for
hearings and has invited Representa
tive Maverick to assist. Maverick says
he finds no opposition to this meas
ure and has enlisted the support of
the greatest cancer authorities, whom
he wrill introduce as witnesses at the
hearing. The only Senator who did
not sign in support of the Bone bill is
Senator Gerry, Democrat, of Rhode
Island, who feels there is sufficient
private research on this problem.
Partial List of Witnesses.
Those who will appear as wit
nesses include Dr. W. H. Lewis. Johns
Hopkins University; Dr. John W. Gob
ling, Columbia University; Dr. Louis
W. Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insur
ance Co.; Dr. S. P. Reimann, Lan
kenau Hospital. Philadelphia: Dr. C.
C. Little, Jackson Memorial Hospi
tal. Bar Harbor, Me.; K^rl Compton,
president of the Massachusets Insti
tute of Technology; Merle A Tuve,
Carnegie Institution, Washington; Dr.
James Ewing, Memorial Hospital,
New York; Dr. John J. Morton,
Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester,
N. Y.; Prof. Carl Voeglin. National
Institute of Health; Dr. Olin West,
and other specialists of the American
Medical Association, Chicago, and Dr.
Jackson.
Surg. Gen. Thomas Parran of the
Public Health Service, to whom Repre
sentative Maverick took Dr. Jackson
some time ago to discuss the proposal
for a cancer study center here, while ;
not initiating the legislative drive has |
been giving Maverick earnest and sym
pathetic co-operation.
Both Senator Bone and Maverick
have insisted that the question must
be divorced from politics and put on a
distinctly humanitarian basis.
Maverick explained that he hoped to
have radium made available for free
use in every hospital, clinic and re
search bureau in this country. He
pointed out that from the gold reserve
sufficient could be taken to buy what
ever radium is necessary, that radium
now has a very stable value with very
slight depreciation, so that it might
really become a basis for currency,
with all danger of inflation removed.
The Government could set up a radium
insurance corporation, which would
insure against loss. All the hospitals
and clinics and research bureaus would
take out an insurance policy and check
their radium supply once a year, then
making payment for any loss. The
cast to the Government would be prac
tically nothing and the Government
would collect the insurance.
Would Spread Facts.
Representative Maverick emphasizes
that through the proposed Govern
ment cancer center it would be possible
to concentrate and co-ordinate the
best study of the entire country at a
minimum cost and make the results of
this intensive study most promptly and
generally available. He argues that
for the establishment of a private
foundation at least $50,000,000 would
be required on a basis of income, while
the Government can do it for a million
dollars a year, and two to three mil
lions to start it. Thus, he argues, the
cost would be small compared to what
is now being spent. Reports and
analyses would be coming in from all
over the country; there would be a
certain amount of standardization on
X-ray work and pathological studies.
For the dissemination of the result
ing information he suggests a monthly
journal to be printed by the Govern
ment and sold at cost.
Representative Maverick is also de
sirous that the Government give
medals and prizes every year for scien
tific achievements in peace time
something like the Nobel Peace Prize.
He believes there should be three
awards, with a congressional award
after a proper commission or board has
made the nominations. His thought is
to have a congressional medal for sav
ing lives instead of for destroying lives.
He hopes to see all this gradually ac
complished as a result of the cancer
center bill now under consideration.
3 CONGRESS VACANCIES
California Election Brings Roster
to Record Low.
Election in California today of a
successor to the late Representative
Stubbs, Democrat, will leave two va
cancies in the House and one in the
Senate.
That is a low number, said clerks,
who estimated the average in one
session is about 20. Seldom, they
said, can Congress muster its full
strength of 435 Representatives and
96 Senators because of deaths and
resignations.
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Blooming Dogwood Enhances Beauty of Rock Creek Park
, ^ltJ} the blossoms of the cherry trees a thing of the past the dogwood trees
of the Capital are now holding sway as one of Mother Nature’s prize offerings for
the Spring season. The trees are blooming in profusion in and about Washington.
The picture on the left shows Marjorie Smith among the blossoms in Rock Creek
Park. At right Miss Smith and Miss Mildred Peck look over the beautiful scene.
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BEARD AIDES GEE
PAROLE BEARINGS
Twelve Appear Before Board
Today to Seek Release
From Lorton.
iwcive men wno were convicted
with Sam Beard on a charge of con
spiracy to violate the gambling laws
of the District were to appear before
the Parole Board today on petitions
for release from the Lorton Reforma
tory.
Beard himself is not yet eligible
for a parole hearing under the terms
of the District's indeterminate sen
tence law. He is confined in a Fed
eral penitentiary.
The 12 men. who began their terms
last April, were sentenced from one
to three years, and having served
more than one year are eligible for
a parole hearing.
They are William Carroll. James T.
Gallagher, Fred H. Heck, George E.
Hutchins, Melville G. Jacobs. Sidney
Caplan, Lewis L. Levy, Fred J. Meese,
Timothy H. Noel, Joseph A. O’Callag
han, John J. Sortori and William G
Smith.
The men were sentenced in May.
1935, but were cut on bond pending an
appeal until they began their terms
last April. Defense counsel had sought
a new' trial, claiming that wire tapping
had been improperly admitted as evi
dence, but a new trial was denied.
Beard, who had long been regarded
as one of the "king pins” of Wash
ington s gambling world, was sentenced
to serve from two to six years.
The Parole Board scheduled hearings
for 26 prisoners in all. The first is the
case of Mary Sherman, who was sen
tenced to a term of from 4 to 10
months upon conviction on a charge
of conspiracy to violate the white
slavery laws.
HEARINGS ON TRAILER
REGULATIONS PLANNED
Thomas Indicates Committee
Likely Will Recommend
Strict Control Here.
A hearing on proposed regulations
governing use of automobile trailers
in the District will be called within
10 days, probabl next week, Assist
ant Corporation Counsel Edward W.
Thomas announced today. He is
chairman of a special committee
named by the Commissioners to con
sider control of trailers.
Thomas indicated the committee
likely will recommend strict regula
tion of the trailers when a series of
conferences are concluded. Thomas
has been gathering data on methods
of control adopted in other jurisdic
tions.
The hearing is planned because of
an application for permission to es
tablish a trailer camp in the *000
block of Wisconsin avenue.
In addition to Thomas, members of
the committee are Police Supt. E. W.
Brown, Welfare Director Elwood
Street, Health Officer George C. Ruh
land, Traffic Director William A. Van
Duzer and C. Marshall Finnan, super
intendent of National Capital Parks.
Mule’s Kick Sends
Weight Guesser’s
Son to Hospital
Chad Injured Whde
Playing Around
Carnival Lot.
Kicked in the head by a former
"clown act” mule while playing about
the Johnny J. Jones Exposition lot
last night, Edgar Sullivan, 8, son
of Prank Sullivan, the carnival weight
guesser, was reported in critical con
dition today in Casualty Hospital. He
was being treated for a compound
skull fracture.
Edgar has a sister, Carolyn, 6, and
a brother, Donald, 3. This is the
first serious accident that has hap
pened to any of the family.
Edgar’s father has been in the show
business all his life. His mother,
Mrs. Verna Sullivan, formerly was
an "iron Jaw” entertainer for P. T.
Barman
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Circus Coming Three Days
Capital Is Placed on Big-City List by
Showmen.
THERE is no doubt now that
Washington is a big city! The
circus says so!
Ringling Bros, and Bamum
& Bailey combined super show-—star
studded, galaxy-gilded, thrill-throb
bing and more stupendous than any
thing ever dreamed of—has decided
to spend three days here this year.
That is 24 hours more than ever
before, a gesture of recognition by
men interested solely In business that
the Capital’s population has become
impressive.
Last year so many people tramped
out to the circus lot, at Fifth street
and Florida avenue northeast, that
the Ringlings had to put seats on top
of the elephants.
“The elephants did not like it,”
Edward A. Johnson, who came to
town today to announce the arrival
of the circus May 17, said. “Too
many little boys spilled ice cream
cones on their backbones.”
Only two other cities in the country
can boast the circus stays with them
three days—Detroit, population (1930)
1,568,662, and St. Louis, population
(1930) 821.960. Washington's 1930
population was 486,869.
New York City's Madison Square
Garden has the longest run, 24 days.
Philadelphia and Chicago rate nine
days. The Boston Garden houses the
circus six days.
Brooklyn entertains the camels and
the clowns for a week, but not because
Flatbush is the most circus-loving
city in the world.
Brooklyn is the place where the
tents go up for the first time. It is
more an assembly point than a show
town. There the big top is made
ready for the road. Before the Ring
ling troupe reaches Brooklyn, it travels
in 40 train cars. Afterward it moves
in 94.
Los Angeles is a five-day stand. Ex
cept for the eight cities above, no spot
gets the circus more than two days,
not even San Francisco, although the
Ringlings move across the Bay to Oak
land for one day after 48 hours at the
edge of the Golden Gate.
In the spectacle which this year
will launch Washington as a three-day
city are some almost incredible acts.
One of them, by some oversight on the
part of the Ringling scouts, has a
name easily pronounced by the habit
ual speaker of English—Torrence
Dolores. But try to say these into the
telephone and get what you asked for:
Naittos, Yacopis, Uyenos, Yom Kams,
Cannestrellis, Walkmirs. Antaleks,
Rieffenachs, Maysy-Brach or the Mas
chinos.
Altogether the circus brings with it
1,600 persons, 50 elephants, 1,009
menagerie animals and 700 horses.
4,000 WILL ATTEND
W. C. T. U. CONVENTION
World Conference Opens Here
June 3—Frances Willard
Will Be Honored.
Four thousand delegates from all
parts of the world will attend the
world conference of the W. C. T. U„
opening June 3 in Constitution Hall,
national headquarters yesterday ad
vised Curtis Hodges, executive direc
tor of the Greater National Capital
Committee of the Board of Trade.
The convention will continue through
June 8.
Preceding the convention there
will bs a three-day alcohol educa
tion conference in the Hotel Wash
ington conducted by Miss Bertha Ra
chel Palmer, national W. C. T. U.
director of alcohol education.
Mrs. Ella A. Boole of Brooklyn,
president, will give her annual mes
sage at the opening session. Tribute
will be paid to Prances Willard in
services June 3 in Statuary Hall of the
Capitol.
A convention dinner in the Willard
Hotel and reception in Constitution
Hall are scheduled June 5. A world
peace meeting in Sylvan Theater has
been arranged for June 6.
‘‘Souls Courageous,” a pageant de
picting the temperance movement,
will be held June 8 under the direc
tion of Marie Moore Forrest.
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Hoover to Aid Exposition,
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4 OP).—
Golden Gate International Exposition
officials announced today former
President Hoover will aid in plan
ning a mining Industry exhibit for
the 1939 exposition.
WILL BL SOUGH!
Organizers of New Associa
tion, Named Directors, Set
to Make Offer.
Taking further steps toward organ
izing the First Federal Savings &
Loan Association of Washington, the
seven organizers have been elected
directors and have begun preparation
of an offer to purchase the assets of
the closed Fidelity Building & Loan
Association.
Thus was learned today from the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board,
which is supervising the establish
ment of the new First Federal as part
of the Federal Home Loan Bank sys
tem.
The ofTer to purchase will go to the
controller of the currency, J. F. T.
O'Connor The controller, under
agreement already reached, will have
his receiver in charge of Fidelity pre
pare an offer to sell the assets of
Fidelity. This offer must be approved
by the court before it can be carried
out.
When the new institution takes over
the old one, it will make available to
the shareholders of Fidelity 85 cents
on the dollar. This they may have in
cash or reinvest in the new institu
tion, which in each account will be
insured up to $5,000 by the Federal
Savings and Loan Insurance Corp.
The seven men who are the first di
rectors of the new First Federal are
1 Harry P Somerville, manager of the
Willard Hotel; William D. Jamieson,
attorney; Edwin Jacobson, real estate;
Maj. George L. Berry, Federal co
ordinator for industrial relations;
Dr. Carl Henning, physician; Thomas
Somerville, jr.. treasurer of the
Thomas Somerville Co., plumbing sup
plies, and P. J. Schardt, Southern
Railway executive.
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BYRNES TOLD WORKERS
FEAR REDUCTION IN PAY
E. Claude Babcock, president of the
United Civil Service Employes, yes
terday urged Senator Byrnes of
South Carolina to assure Govern
ment employes that salary slashes
and furloughs would not result from
his proposal to reduce all appropria
tion bills 10 per cent.
“In the past, furloughs and unpaid
overtime have been used to meet just
the situation which would result from
your proposal,” Babcock wrote Sen
ator Byrnes. "They will again result
unless a salary exemption provision is
included in your proposal, or such
furloughs are made illegal, or the
overtime is compensated.”
Government employes are “highly
perturbed,” Babcock said, by the
probabilities of a new pay slash.
Honduras Shark
Fin Shipment Is
Cause of Alarm
Information Bureau
Head Fears Gas Mask
May Be Necessary.
By the Associated Press.
Miss Harriet Root, director of the
Federal Information Bureau, is await
ing with apprehension the arrival of
some sample shark flns from Hon
duras.
"I have a suspicion,” she said to
day, “shark flns shipped that far
would have to be approached with a
gas mask."
Her offioe, which takes charge of
the flood of letters directed to “Uncle
Sam,” “The Government” and the
like, received one saying the writer
had discovered a process guaranteed
to revolutionize the shark-fln in
dustry. She said he was sending some
flns under separate cover.
It will be Miss Root’s duty to turn
them over to the proper department—
if any.
Since the bureau was established
in 1934, Miss Root said, it has handled
a half million letters asking informa
tion.
Sample requests on her desk today
included:
What to do about “rats that avoid
traps,” how to prove you are 65 and
eligible for an old-age pension if you
have no birth certificate, how to
budget household expenses, how to re
deem the ashes of $40 in currency.
JUVENILE COURT
DECISION IS NEAR
Senate D. C. Committee
Also May Act on Claims
Unit in Municipal Court.
The Senate District Commitee may
reach a decision this afternoon on
the new Juvenile Court bill and the
measure for establishment of a small
claims and conciliation branch in
Municipal Court.
Hearings have been concluded on
both. The Juvenile Court measure
has passed the House, but the small
claims plan originated in the Sen
ate committee. The meeting today
was scheduled for 3 o'clock.
Chairman King said the committee
also would consider any other pend
ing bills on which the District Com
missioners have submitted reports.
The chairman introduced in the
Senate yesterday, * by request, a bill
to reorganize the Board of Public
Welfare along lines similar to a meas
ure proposed in the House recently,
but on this bill he will wait for a
report from the Commissioners. The
Senator said his own position on the
bill would be determined largely
by the views of the Commissioners.
The bill would substitute a paid
board of three members for the pres
ent larger non-salaried board. One
member would be chosen from labor,
one from business and the third from
civic groups. The positions of direc
tor and assistant director of wel
fare would be abolished, and the new
board empowered to appoint a secre
j tary. The new board members would
receive $7,000 a year, and the secre
tary not to exceed $5,000 a year.
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FIGHT OVER CRASH
ENDS IN FATALITY
One of Pair Involved in Traffic
Accident Dispute Dies
in Hospital.
A fight between two colored men
after their cars had collided Friday
on Fourteenth street ended fatallv yes
terday with the death of Albert Smith.
51. colored. 1532 Kingman place.
Smith died in Gallinger Hospital
of a fracture at the base of his skull.
Second precinct police arrested James
Robert Griffin, jr„ 25. colored. 811 T
street, and held him for action of
the coroner.
As police reconstructed the inci
dent, Smith was driving on Fourteenth
between R and Corcoran streets when
his car collided with that of Griffin,
who was backing into the curb. Smith
continued on, police said, and Griffin
followed him a short distance, swing
ing in front to block Smith’s car.
Griffin is alleged to have struck
Smith with his fist while the latter
was still in his car. Smith then ran to
the sidewalk in the 1500 block of Four
teenth, where Griffin struck him again,
knocking him unconscious, police said.
Smith was removed to his home
and Saturday was taken to Emergency
Hospital for treatment. Later he was
transferred to Gallinger.
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AUTHOR TO SPEAK
Fred Taylor Wilson, author, will be
presented by the T. Arthur Smith
Bureau in a talk at the Wardman
Park Hotel Theater at 8:30 p.m.
Thursday.
The subject of his speech, "Our
Constitution and Its Makers," is the
title of his newest book, published last
year.
Canoe Discovered
By Policeman on
Twelfth Street Call
A flood in the 1300 block of
Twelfth street?
At any rate. Policeman J. W.
Hanrahan. who usually gets his
man, got a canoe instead last
night when he answered a call
there. For a brief moment Han
rahan and the patrol wagon driver
probably thought of searching
for flood refugees instead of crimi
nals.
The canoe was carted off to the
second precinct.
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D.C. AIRPORT BODY
MEETS THURSDAY
TO DISCUSS SITE
Recent Flood and Growing
Fill at Gravelly Point
Discussion Factors.
MAJ. LUPLOW’S LETTER
ON ELEVATIONS CITED
Army Engineers' Study Shows
Proposed Base Would Have
Been Well Above Water.
Confronted by rapidly-growing fill
at the proposed Gravelly Point airport
site and by criticism of the Washing
ton Airport area as a result of recent
flooding, the District Airport Commis
sion will meet at 2 p.m. Thursday in
an effort to settle the 10-year-old local
airport problem.
Army engineers have made a studv
that shows the Gravelly Point fill
would have been well above water dur
ing the flood of last week.
In this connection, the Aero Club
of Washington today made public a
letter from Maj. W. D. Luplow, Dis
trict Engineer.
He said: “Reference is made to your
letter of April 30. 1937, concerning
newspaper statement that an airport
located at'Gravelly Point would have
been inundated during the flood of
April 27-28, 1937.
' The most recent plan for an air
port at Gravelly Point was prepared
by this office in December. 1932, to
gether with estimates of cost, and
these were published in the report of
hearing for an airport for the District
of Columbia. Seventy-second Congress,
second session, S. 5365 and S. 5401,
June 16 and 17. 1933. The plan in
this report was based upon construct
ing an airport at Gravelly Point to
the same elevation as that of the
present Washington Hoover Airport.
“Due to the descending slope of the
flood waters between the two airport
locations, the flood crest at Gravelly
Point during the flood of April 27,
1937, was 1.8 feet lower than the crest
at the Washington Hoover site. Even
with the water at this elevation, the
Gravelly Point airport, except for a
narrow strip at the outer edges,
would have been free from water
during the crest of the flood. Run
ways not less than 3.500 feet long
in all directions would have been
available for continuous use. The
apron at the hangers and the hangar
floors would have been 5 feet above
the highest flood water. Some of the
previous plans for the Gravelly
Point airport provided for an eleva
j tion several feet higher, which would
place the airport above the reach
of any flood so far of record.”
The District Airport Commission is
understood to be considering a num
ber of proposed airport sites in near
by Maryand for development of a
secondary or “bad weather” airport,
upon which air transport planes
might land in case of closing by bad
weather of a smaller terminal closer
to the city. The smaller field would
be the regular terminal for air trans
port operations.
tnursaays session will be conduct
ed behind closed doors, it was said by
commission members, who declined
to discuss probable results of the
meeting.
It is understood that at least one
influential member of the commission
is in favor of a consolidation of mili
tary and air transport flying at the
new Bolling Field, but that so much
opposition has been encountered that
the Gravelly Point site again has been
brought to the fore as a possible so
t lution.
A previous Senate and House com
mission recommended the temporary
use of Washington Airport pending
the development of Gravelly Point as
the District’s permanent air terminal.
SEVEN ARE HURT
1 IN AUTO MISHAPS
Woman. Learning to Drive. Loses
Control of Car. Hits
Three Youths.
Three youths, knocked down when a
young woman learning to drive lost
I control of her car, and four children
were listed today among the victims
of yesterday's traffic accidents in the
District. Three adults also were hurt.
Anthony Burdine, 10. of 1406 North
Capitol street, was pushing his coaster
wagon near his home when he was hit
by a truck operated by John G. Phil
lips, 21, of 294 Ninth street southeast.
The lad was treated at Sibley Hos
pital for brush bums to the leg and
later was sent home. Police said Phil
lips had been stalled in a line of traf
fic and was moving up only a short
distance when his truck hit the boy.
The other child victims were Viv
ian Hill, 3, of 1707 Bay street south
east. treated at Casualty Hospital for
cuts to the head and possible conces
sion; Vernon S. Phieer, 9. colored. 1320
First street southwest, under observa
tion at Gallinger Hospital, although
doctors found no injuries, and Lillian
! Craig, 10, colored, 2574 Sherman ave
nue, treated at Freedmen’s Hospital
for head bruises.
Three colored youths were knocked
down and bruised when Rose Fried
man, 25, of 624 Princeton place, who
was learning to drive under a learner's
permit, lost control of a car on the
north side of McMillan Park. Police
said the car bowled over a drinking
fountain before hitting Clifford
Busey, 16. of 1806 Sixth street; John
Holmes, 14. of 507 S street, and Booker
T. Hardy, 15, of 605 T street, all col
ored. They were treated at Freed
men’s for bruises. The driver was
being instructed by Thomas Wash
ington, 18, colored, 314 V street.
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TO OPEN POLO SEASON
The polo season will be officially
launched at 3 p.m. tomorrow on the
field in West Potomac Park. A so
called "round robin" will be played,
with all players of the Army Polo
Association represented.
The public is invited, and the park
police will make special arrangements
for parking automobiles.
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