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Cr-operation of Public Is
Essential, Southeast
Council Told.
Educating the motorist and pedes
trian to traffic regulations and the
enforcement of the law Is paramount,
if traffic accidents and fatalities are
to be curbed in the District, Inspector
William H. Holmes told representa
tives of the Southeast Council at a
special meeting last night.
"The law must be enforced and the
regulations respected by motorists and
pedestrians." he declared. "No law
is worthwhile unless it is enforced. In
order that this may be done the public
must be educated to the seriousness
of traffic accidents and lend co-opera
tion to the fullest In curbing this
atrocity.”
The meeting was called by the Traf
fic Committee of the council in an
effort to iron out traffic problems with
the Police and Traffic Departments
of the District.
Problems taken up concerned taxi
cabs and operators, speeding and reck
less driving, improper lighting of au
tomobiles, traffic lights at intersec
tions and issuance and revocation of
permits.
Eldridge Speaks.
M. O. Eldridge, assistant traffic di
rector, gave a detailed report on taxi
cabs, in which he disclosed there were
4,000 operating in the District. The
consensus among those present at the
meeting was that this number should
be curtailed to 2,500. Capt. Richard
Mansfield of the ninth police precinct
was of the opinion that only through
an act of Congress limiting the num
ber of taxicabs to be used in the city
epuld there be any curtailment. El
dridge then remarked that 60 per cent
of the traffic in the downtown area
was the cruising taxicab.
Joseph P. Gammell, representing
the Lincoln Park Citizens’ Association,
suggested an intelligence test for tax
icab operators.
The question of speed and the reck
less driver was then brought to the
attention of the group by Eldridge.
“No one can safely drive a car in
this city at more than 40 miles an
hour,” he said.
Proper Lights Essential.
In reference to one-light driving or
the use of defective rear lights, In
apector Holmes said that the police
men should see to it that the condi
tion is remedied immediately when
brought to their attention. If neces
sary, Holmes declared, the officer
should accompany the motorist to the
nearest filling station and see that the
light is repaired.
As to permit issuance and revoca
tion, the group decided an applicant
should be questioned thoroughly as to
his or her ability and in the cases of
revocations that it be left to the dis
cretion of the court If Involving cases
of manslaughter or negligent homi
cide.
Remarks on the subjects discussed
were also heard from George E.
Xeneipp. manager of the Keystone
Automobile Club; Dean J. Locke,
staff engineer of the Capital Transit
Oo., and Howard L. Dove, division
superintendent of the company.
Besides those named, representatives
from the 10 associations affiliated with
the council also entered the discus
sions.
The meeting was presided over by
William A. Maio, chairman of the
council.
BANK STOCKHOLDERS
NAME DAWES IN SUIT
New Institution Took Over Prop
erty Without Remuneration,
Plaintiffs Charge.
Bt the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. May 15.—Suit for
(8,000.000 was filed yesterday in
Superior Court against former Vice
President Charles G. Dawes and
others on behalf of stockholders of
the defunct Central Republic Trust
Co., long known as the Dawes Bank.
Wynnett W. Mcllvaine filed the
suit, which alleged the City National
Bank & Trust Co.—the new Dawes
Bank—took over the Central Republic,
"a tremendous banking organization
of great value * * * without payment
of one dollar of remuneration.”
The suit placed the value of the
banking business and organization at
(5,000,000 and the value of the real
estate, loan and trust business at
(3,000,000.
Named in addition to Dawes were
the City National Bank As Trust Co.
of Chicago, the Central Republic
Trust Co. and Charles M. Albers, re
ceiver of the Central Republic.
The suit was filed, counsel for Mc
llvaine said, because of the United
States District Court decision May 1
holding Central Republic stockholders
liable for more than $10,000,000 under
stockholders’ liability laws. ,
The complaint described the Central
Republic as ”an old established and
solvent institution at the time it was
taken over” by the City National.
The court was asked to appoint a
receiver to handle any recovery it
might decree.
DRIVE ON DOGS OPENS
Chicago, Aroused by Rabies
Threat, Starts Campaign.
CHICAGO, May 15 WP).—Aroused
by a rabies scare, officials directed a
drive to rid the city of stray dogs yes
terday.
As the first step in the campaign,
a squad of highway patrolmen scoured
abandoned quarries near suburban
McCook, shot 4 vicious mongrels, cap
tured 15 others and took them to the
Illinois Humane Society’s quarters for
observation and, ultimately, death in
a lethal gas chamber.
The call for action came from Dr.
Herman N. Bundesen, prasident of
the Board of Health, after his office
reported dog-bite cases had reached
a 100-a-day rate.
Sentences Youth He Seized.
MARION, Ohio (fP).—Buster Cray,
16, stood before Juvenile Judge Oscar
Oast and was sentenced to the Boys’
Industrial School at Lancaster. The
judge did not have to listen to any
details of arrest or of Cray’s confes
sion to having committed the bur
glaries. At 5 o’clock that morning the
■Judge had been awakened by a tele
phone tip, and, attired in pajamas,
robe and slippers, had gone to a near
by park and himself had arrested
Cray, who had escaped from Deten
tion Home, and obtained the confes
sion.
W ashington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
TELEPHONY.
CHIEFLY for its own amaze
ment, the Bell Telephone Sys
tem has compiled a stack of
statistics proving that nobody
is as busy as a telephone lineman, no
organization so complicated as Bell's
when comes the time to take stock of
material possessions.
The company finds that it owns
about 80,458,000 miles of wire, enough
to reach from the earth to the moon
and back again more than 168 times,
and in case it did we still would tele
graph all our messages to the Man in
the Moon.
The umpteen million miles of wire
are strung on more than 15,000,000
poles, enough to build a solid fence 30
feet high from New York nearly to
San Francisco, which wouldn't do very
much good, because all the cattle that
were fenced in would roam out almost
to San Francisco and sneak around
the corners where the fence stopped.
Last item we read, before tiring in
the stretch and slowing down to a
walk, informed us that there are 633,
000,000 duct feet of underground con
duit, enough to go through the earth
15 times from pole to pole, which we
think would be a good idea because
we've wanted for some time to talk to
a friend in China. Be that as it may,
what is a duct foot? Or is it a duct's
foot?
WARNING.
Sign on a truck from a honey
farm:
“THIS BOX CONTAINS
LIVE BEES.
BEEWAREH”
B-z-z-z-z-ooks, man, you're tell
ing us a
* * * *
SIGNAL.
^SIDE to Ugo Carusi, executive as
sistant to the Attorney General of
the United States: If you assigned a
G-man to the task of discovering why
your anteroom expert, Paris Houston,
often appears in your door before you
ring the buzzer for him, it wouldn't
take long to solve the mystery.
Alert Mr. Houston knows that your
chair squeaks when you wheel about
to reach for the buzzer. Hearing the
squeak, he beats the buzz.
Never mind the thanks. It's noth
ing, really. Just a bit of sleuthing
technique we picked up while hunting
for galoshes on rainy mornings.
* * * *
SERVICE.
J-JAVING noted that the check room
girl tn his favorite night club
! whiled away dull hours by sewing,
a bachelor in this office carefully se
lected a topcoat with a torn lining
when he dressed for an evening out
this week.
Arrived at the club, greeted the
checkeress, said, "How's business this
evening?”
"Fairly slow.” said she.
"How's sewing?”
“Fine.”
"Good," he said, "mind sewing this
rip while I'm dining?”
"Not at all,” said she.
She did, too, neatly, beautifully.
* * * *
ART CRITIC.
rJ'HLS seems to be our day for think
ing up new jobs for the G-men.
If the W. P. A. will ask Mr. J. Edgar
Hoover to lend it a couple -f first
class detectives for a few hours, they
will have little trouble in tracing
the whereabouts of a couple of W.
P. A. water colors that once hung
in the new press room of the De
partment of Justice.
Solving the question will only lead
to wheels within wheels complica
tions, however, because it was J. Ed
gar Hoover who was responsible for
the disappearance of W. P. A.'s arty
fixtures. Seems Mr. Hoover came
in to inspect the press room after
its opening, saw the water colors on
the wall, said, "Ain’t they awful?”
or words to that effect.
He said he thought something ought
to be done about it. It was. About
a week later he sent over two en
larged, tinted photographs of na
tional park scenes.
VIGNETTE.
our favorite street scene of the
week: A bedraggled, middle-aged
refuse collector, standing on one of
the District’s trash wagons, blithely
flipping over the pages of that so
phisticated publication designed for
males, read largely by females.
* * * *
FOILED.
DECAUSE of an indestructible be
lief that atmosphere is everything
In writing fiction, we were overjoyed
the other day to see that one of the
airlines had put in a schedule of 20
round trips a day between Washing
ton and New York. Long impatient
to get to work on a story about rid
ing the airliners, we decided it would
be a great stunt to make all 20 of
the trips some day, keep shuttling
back and forth on one plane after
another, observing the passengers in
various loads, eventually binding them
all together in some fantastic tale.
Felt sure this would produce quite
a work of art (the last novel, written
while we crouched in a large trunk
in the attic is now reposing in the
trunk Itself, showing how powerful
the bond between background and
works of genius), until we began fig
uring out a schedule. It takes 80
minutes to get from New York to
Washington, or vice versa, or 161 min
utes for a round trip. This would
allow only nine round trips (and a
final stop at Dunk’s Green, Pa.) in
a day, and nine plane loads of pas
sengers are not enough for an epic
novel. Besides, we were determined
to cover the whole actadule, 20 trips.
Since that is impoesy in a day.
Nev, West Coast Coinage
Center, Cost $1,000,000,
Has Rites Today.
By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 15.—A SI,-1
000,000 fireproof, earthquake-proof
and robbery-proof mint on a solid
rock foundation, was dedicated here
today.
The streamlined, five-story build
ing overlooks the central business dis
trict from a rocky knoll, and soon
will replace the historic downtown
mint as the Government's West Coast
coinage center.
Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, director of
all the Nation’s mints, was asked to
make the dedicatory address this aft
ernoon in the presence of State and
city officials and hundreds of San
Franciscans, who then may inspect
the structure for first and probably
last time.
The building, under construction
for 20 months, commands the corner
of Market and Buchanan streets like
a fortress.
Every possible means, both scientific
and massive, has been taken to pro
tect the mint’s precious metals from
robbers. The building, however, was
not constructed to withstand a war
time attack. Its roof is not bomb
proof and there are no grills across
tall windows.
Huge 22-ton doors protect vaults
with 2-foot reinforced concrete walls,
so strengthened with steel bars that
difficulty was experienced in pouring
the cement.
The vault doors are equipped with
one time lock and two combination
locks. No employe knows both combi
nations.
Should a robber get into one of
the vaults, his troubles would begin.
Microphones in the ceiling would
transmit any noise he made to the
central guard room. It has a two-way
radio connection with police head
quarters and, in case of serious trouble,
with the presidio, where some 800
Army Regulars are stationed.
Giant air suction apparatus has been
installed in the refining and coinage
rooms to conduct dust-laden air to a
separator which cost $65,000. It is
expected to pay for itself in two
years through recovert;d gold dust.
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MISSING NEWARK BOY
SOUGHT BY POLICE HERE
Student, 17, Had Not Been Seen
Since Leaving Home Sunday
for Fraternity Meeting.
Henry Schneider, 17, missing New
ark (N. J.) high school honor student,
was being sought
here by police to
day on request of
his parents. Mr.
and Mrs. John
Schneider.
Schneider told
police nis wife
had been “wor
ried sick" since
the boy's disap
pearance last
Sunday night. He
left home for a
fraternity meet
ing, but never
reached there.
Henry Schneider.
, , xesteraay the
boy wired his parents that he had a
good job in this city, but gave no ex
planation as to why he left home. He
was to have graduated from high
school in June.
Henry tvas described as being 5 feet
11 inches tall, weighing 150 pounds
and having brown hair and eyes and
a fair complexion.
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AARON A. MEREDITH, 60,
PLATE PRINTER, DIES
Rites for Bureau Employe to Be
Held Monday Afternoon
at 2 O'Clock.
Aaron A. Meredith. 60, plate printer
at the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing, died late yesterday of a heart
attack at his home, 61 Rhode Island
avenue northeast.
For many years a Washington resi
dent, Mr. Meredith was the son of the
late Capt. William M. Meredith, at one
time director of the Bureau of En
graving and Printing.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Elsie
C. Meredith; a daughter, Margaret R.
Meredith, and three sisters.
Funeral services will be held at 2
p.m. Monday at the home of his
sister-in-law, Mrs. Clara E. Manches
ter, 1926 Summit place northeast.
Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
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FRED W. MIXER, 92,
CLAIMED BY DEATH
Union Veteran Was One of Few
Surviving Members of
Kit Carson Post.
Fred W. Mixer, 92, Junior vice com
mander of Kit Carson Post, No. 2,
Department of the Potomac, Grand
Army of the Republic, died Thursday
in Soldiers’ Home Hospital.
One of the few remaining members
of his post, Mr. Mixer served as a
sergeant in the Union Army with the
Boston Light Artillery and took part
in many of the major battles of the
Civil War. After the war he re
mained in the Army and took part in
the Indian campaigns.
Last Memorial day he rode in an
automobile in the parade. In so far as
was known at Soldiers’ Home, Mr.
Mixer leaves no relatives.
Funeral services will be held at
10:30 a.m. Monday in Soldiers’ Home
Chapel. Burial will be in the home’s
cemetery.
Pioneer Orchardist, 94, Dies.
HAGERSTOWN, Md.. May 15
(Special).—George F. Miner, 94 re
tired pioneer orchardist of Washing
County and formerly proprietor of
the Leitersburg Hotel, near here, died
yesterday at the home of his daugh
ter, Mrs. Luther Yingling, Waynes
boro. Nine children, 38 grandchildren,
34 great grandchildren and one great
great grandchild survive.
we are stymied, as every one and
everything in the book has to hap
pen along within 24 hours.
Finally decided to give it up, stay
home and write a short pamphlet on
canoeing. -
Favorite and “Dark Horse” Prep for Preakness
Miss R. G Rand's Merrymaker as he stepped three-eighths
of a mile in 36 3-5 seconds in a late workout. He looms as a
possibility because of the heavy track. —A. P. Photos.
4 SCHOOL CHILDREN
KILLED DU TRAIN
Driver of Auto Also Dies
at Crossing En Route
to Saturday Classes.
By the Associated Press.
MILTON, Vt„ $1ay 15.—Five per
sons, four of whom were school chil
dren. were killed today when an auto
mobile used for transporting the chil
dren to school collided with a train
two miles south of Milton Village.
The dead were John C. Vasseur, 37,
driver of the car; Rene Larochelle,
11, and her brother Howard, 13. Earl
Murray, 10, and Earl Fuller, 14, all
of Milton.
The children were en route to school
on Saturday to make up for time
previously lost.
Investigators said the driver appar
ently expected a clear track at the
little second-grade crossing, unaware
that the train, an express from Wash
ington and New York to Montreal, was
running 45 minutes late.
The light sedan, crushed against the
front of the locomotive, was carried
about a train length.
Every person in the vehicle was
killed.
A light rain was falling at the time
of the accident, investigators said, and
possibly helped obscure the view of the
unguarded crossing.
Engineer John W. Newton of the
Central Vermont Railway said he
sounded the customary signal as his
train sped toward the crossing.
Halting the train after the crash,
1 members of the train crew leaped out
and picked up the bodies of the vic
tims. Ten-year-old Earl Murray was
still alive, but died soon aftevard
without regaining consciousness.
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ALBINO BISON CALF
IS BORN ON REFUGE
Newcomer and Its Father Only
Such Rarities in Mon
tana Herd.
By the Associated Press.
Federal mild game officials have an
nounced proudly that an albino bison
calf has been born on the national
bison refuge near Missoula, Mont.
Stanley P. Young of the Bureau of
Biological Survey said a pure white
bison was a rarity in the animal
kingdom.
Young said an albino bison calf was
bom four years ago, and when ma
tured it was segregated from the herd
with several cows. The white bull
mated with his mother and the sec
ond albino calf, a female, was born
several days ago.
Young said that white bison were
rare even in the days when countless
thousands of the native buffalo roamed
the plains. He said the Indians re
garded the albino bison as "big medi
cine,” and that the lucky hunter who
killed one was assured success.
Young said the new albino calf and
its father were the only white bison
in the herd of the Biological Survey,
which now numbers about 1,000 head.
Just to Make Sure.
Complying with her final wish that
she not be buried alive the aretry of a
woman was cut by a medical student
just before she was buried at Pre
toria, South Africa.
Books Discovered
On Founders of 2
Maryland Counties
*
Anne Arundel and How
ard Settlers Treated
in 60 Volumes.
Discovery of about 60 rare books
dealing with the genealogical history
of the founders of Anne Arundel and
Howard Counties, Md.. was made
known today by Mrs Clare Warfield
Kenner, daughter of the author, Prof.
J. D Warfield, a descendant of the
Stale's first settlers.
The books, published in 1905, were
found in the attic of the old family
homstead, Brickhouse Farm, near
Lisbon, Howard County. They are
titled "The Founders of Anne Arun
del and Howard Counties of Mary
land.”
"The books.” Mrs. Kenner said,
"tell of the established families of
these counties up to 1906 and trace
them back to their forefathers."
Prof. Warfield, who died in 1914,
was a direct descendant of Richard
Warfield, one of the first settlers of
Maryland, who in turn traced his
ancestry to William the Conqueror.
Richard Warfield was a brother of
Benjamin Warfield, from whose fam
ily Wallis Warfield Simpson's father
descended. Mrs. Kenner said. Rich
ard and William and another brother
all settled in Maryland.
Brickhouse Farm stands on an
original grant of land by the King
of England to Richard Warfield.
DUCE SAYS POLICY
PEACE GUARANTEE
Refer* to IT. S. at Country Where
Collective Labor Contract*
Are Obligatory.
Et ti.e Associ»tta Press.
ROME, May 15—Premier Mussolini
declared today Italy'* aelf-sufflciency
program was a guarantee of peace
and could not be abandoned as. he
said, “the democracies'' would like.
Speaking before the annual meet
ing of the Corporative Guild, H Duce
drew an extensive picture of Italy's
economic development In the last
year and aaid:
“Economic autocracy is a guaran
tee of peace which we firmly desire.
It is an impediment to war and on
this point there is no hesitation in
assuring the life and power of a great
people like the Italian nation.
"The democracies would like to
have the so-called authoritarian
states rehounce their autarchies in
exchange for we do not know what
counterpart.
“For us it Is impossible in a world
armed to the teeth to abandon such
a policy. It would mean putting our
selves tomorrow, in case of war, at
the mercy of those who have all and
who can make war without limitation
of time or consumption.”
II Duce s speech apparently referred
to the United States at one point,
when he said democracy is a term
which could bear much discussion,
particularly in a country which only
a few months ago made collective
labor contracts “obligatory.”
Guards to Hold Meeting.
A mass meeting will be held by
guards of all Government buildings
In the Woodmen of the World Hall,
935 G place, at 8 o’clock tonight. The
purpose of the meeting, it was an
nounced. Is to organise a beneficial
association similar to that of District
police and firemen.
Ocean Flyers Greeted by War Ace
Throwing his arms about their necks, Eddie Rickenbacker, wartime flyer and airplane exec
utive, welcomed Dick Merrill (left) and his co-pilot, Jack Lambie (right), when they completed
the first round-trip conquest of the Atlantic ever made without an accident.
j ^ —Copynpht, A. P. Wirephoto.
After an easy workout at Pimlico, War Admiral, winner of
the Kentucky Derby and favorite for the 150,000 added Preak
ness today, is cooled out by an exercise boy.
(Story on Page A-l.)
PLANjSOPPDSED
Transamerica Corp. Ready
to Act If and When Legis
lation Passes.
Br the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. May 15.—An
implied proposal to extend activities
of the huge Bank of America National
Trust <fc Savings Association brought
vigorous opposition today from groups
opposed to interstate branch banking.
Directors of Transamerica Corp ,
which owns 99 65 per cent of Bank of
America's outstanding stock, yester
day approved plans to distribute 60
per cent of the 4,000,000 bank shares
to Transamerica stockholders.
The distribution will be made as a
dividend, along with the regular cash
dividend July 31.
Prom A. P. Giannini, founder of
the bank which has nearly 11,500.000.
000 in resources, came the hint of
extension of the bank's activities.
"In the event of passage of a bill
recently introduced in Congress to
legalize branch banking throughout
each Federal Reserve district, Trans
america will be in a position to estab
lish one of the first largest district
wide banking systems.” he said
"The corporation now is interested
in national banks in all of the seven
States comprising the twelfth Federal
Resene district except Utah and
Idaho.”
Taking Giannini's declaration as a
threat to preservation of State unit
banking systems, Dr. Luther A. Harr,
chairman of the Executive Commit
tee of the National Association of
Supervisors of State banks, said his
organization was determined "Mr.
Giannini's program shall not prevail.”
"His ruthless attempt to drive
through Congress this legislation
which carries ruin in its train for
unit banks must be blocked,” said Dr.
Harr in Philadelphia, where he is
Pennsylvania State secretary of bank
ing.
"Our committee will meet in Wash
ington during the last week of May
to lay our plans to crush the McAdoo
bill.”
Oiannini, chairman of Trans
america's board, told newspaper men
he believed "the day of bank holding
companies is gone.”
He indicated a purpose to recon
struct his financial firms to align them
with modern tendencies and recent
and potential Federal legislation.
His program will be submitted to
approval of stockholders at a spe
cial meeting, July 10, in Wilming
ton, Del.
NEUTRALITY ACT
EXTENSION URGED
‘Positive Duty’ to Place Pro
hibitions on Germany and
Italy, Allinson Says.
Br the Associated Press.
FREDERICKSBURG. Va . May 15.
—Extension ol commercial embargoes
and penalties of the United states
neutrality act to the commerce of
Italy and Germany was given today
as a solution to what one speaker be
fore the Sixth Annual Virginia In
stitute of International Relations
termed "indirect intervention" by the
United States in the Spanish war.
Brent Dow Allinson, secretary of the
Council on International Relations,
Washington, told the institute yester
day it was President Roosevelt’s "posi
tive duty" to extend the neutrality
act to include prohibition of passenger
travel by Americans on Italian and
German merchant vessels, if it is es
tablished their governments have pro
vided military assistance to the Span
ish rebellion.
Allinson declared to the 200 mem
bers attending the opening session of
the institute that the Spanish loyalist
government looked to the United
States “for military weapons and
supplies with which to combat a wide
spread military conspiracy and armed
uprising, supported by the Italian and
perhaps also the German dictators."
However, he said, the non-interven
tion agreement of 25 European states
to isolate the Spanish war constituted
“a gesture in the right direction."
Speakers on today's program in
cluded Dr. Frederick A. Finch, editor
of the Journal of International Law
and assistant director of the Carnegie
endowment division of International
law; Dr. LawTence Duggan, chief of
Latin-American affairs, the State De
partment, Washington, and Dr. Wil
liam M. Manger, counselor of the
Pan-American Union, Washington.
The Institute, being conducted at
Fredericksburg State Teachers College,
will conclude today.
FRANKING PRIVILEGE
VIOLATION CHARGED
Senator Holt Makes Public Letter
From Texan Accusing Postal
Solicitor.
By the Associated Press.
Senator Holt, Democrat of West
Virginia, made public last night a
letter from Stanley Boykin of Fort
Worth, Tex., charging Po6t Office De
partment Solicitor Karl A. Crowley
with violating, franking privileges.
Boykin said he had received a
franked letter from Crowley criticiz
ing him for statements he made about
Postmaster General Farley. The
statements, which Boykin sent to two
New York newspapers, asserted Far
ley made a trip to Texas to criticise
Senator Connally, Democrat, of Texas.
Crowley's letter to Boykin denied
the trip was made for any political
purposes.
Holt commented “the administra
tion has the greatest espionage sys
tem in the country, even following up
what people write in letters to news
papers.”
He added, however, that he was not
himself making any charges against
Crowley.
YOUTH AND GIRL FACE
MURDER TRIAL MONDAY
By the Associated Press.
JERSEY CITY, N. J., May 15.—
Gladys Mac Knight, 17. and Donald
Wightman, 18, faced today the un
expected consequences of a tennis date
they made last Summer—their trial
for the hatchet murder of the girl's
mother.
Apparently estranged during their
long stay In prison and fight for sep
arate trials, they go to trial together
Monday before a jury to be choeen
from a panel made up entirely of men.
The death penalty will be asked,
Prosecutor Daniel T. O'Regan an
nounced, for the crime which the
State charges resulted from a quarrel
between Gladys and her mother, Mrs.
Helen MacKnight, 47-year-old club
womgn, over a tardy supper which de
layed the girl and Donald from their
plawed twilight game of tennis.
2 HOW AWAY
Hopes to Visit Hyde Park
Memorial Day and
July Fourth.
President Roosevelt Is planning to
be away from Washington on Memo
rial day and the Fourth of July. On
both of these holidays he hopes to
visit his old home at Hyde Park, N. Y.
Mr. Roosevelt has not seen his 82
year-old mother for some time and he
is arranging his plans now so as to
leave here on the night of May 29 to
spend two or three days with her at
the old home.
The wedding of his son, Franklin,
Jr., to Miss Ethel du Pont is sched
uled for June 30 at the Du Pont
mansion In Wilmington, Del The
President and Mrs. Roosevelt and
other members of the family will go
to Wilmington from Washington
aboard a special train and it is the
President's intention at this time to
continue on to Hyde Park after the
ceremony and not to return to Wash
ington until after July 4.
These are the only plans Mr Roose
velt has to take him out of the city in
the immediate future.
The President did not go to his
desk in the executive office today, pre
ferring to remain in his study on the
second floor of the White House and
transact his business there. The only
engagement he had was to receive
Dick Merrill and Jack Lambie, who
just completed a successful round trip
airplane crossing of the North Atlantic.
Mr. Roosevelt spent most of the
early part of the day disposing of ac
cumulated mail and has arranged to
start the writing of a message he will
send to Congress early next week out
lining a national power policy and
recommending co-ordination of exist
ing Federal hydro-electric projects
along with the proposal for new
regional developments that would com
bine power generation with flood con
trol and soil conservation.
‘GENTLEMEN OF VERONA’
GIVEN AT AMERICAN U.
Dramatic Club'* Production I*
Worthy Addition to Long List
of Good Performances.
pRESENTED as the twelfth in Its
series of annual Spring produc
tions, "Two Gentlemen of Verona"
proved a completely worthy addition
to the list of Shakespearean efforts
being compiled by American Univer
sity's Dramatic Club when the final
curtain had been drawn last evening.
These treatments of the Bard's works,
achieved as a phase of regular class
activity by the pupils of Prof. Will
Hutchins, represent the most con
sistency of merit to be found among
local amateur groups and "The Two
Oentlemen of Verona" did not pal#
beside their average in histrionic ade
quacy or entertainment value.
While the more serious efforts were
entirely acceptable, it was two hilarious
zanies who became firmly ensconced
In the affections of the audience *t
an early stage of proceedings. They
were Speed and Launce, or, rather,
Odell Rosen and Homer Patton, play
ing Speed and Launce. Both wer#
forced to wait for the applause to
subside on their first entrances, and
they continued to "sell” their bits on
each try. Author Shakespeare prob
ably intended the servants to th#
title characters to be as funny a#
Messrs. Ro6en and Patton made them,
but few have achieved his purpose
so fully.
Catherine Knockey, playing Julia,
and Jean Miller, in the role of Silvia,
were intelligent of reading and fluent
of motion. Their performances wer#
perhaps, a bit, but only a bit, mor#
impressive than those of Sherman
L*e and William Thompson, playing
the respective original suitors, Proteus
and Valentine. Their ladies In waiting
offered opportunities taken advantage
of to the full by Virginia Omo and
Marguerite Woodberry, while James
Waldo, Samuel Keker, William Fox.
Kimber Shoop. Douglas Parmentier
and Robert Thompson were among
the other acceptable performers.
C. A. M.
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3a BOYS ON BUS TOUR
OF HISTORICAL PLACES
Woodward School Group of Y. M.
C. A. Visit Winchester, Antie
tam and Other Points.
Thirty boys of the Woodward School
of the Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation will return tonight from a
375-mile bus tour to historical points
made in connection with the school s
educational program.
Leaving here yesterday moraine,
their intinerary included Winchester.
Va.; Cumberland, Md., a visit to coal
mines and a paper mill, the Antietam
battlefield, Harpers Ferry, Shepherds
town and Charles Town, W. Va., and
Hagerstown, Md. At the latter place
they were to visit what is said to be
the world's largest pipe organ factory.
A visit also was to be made to the
Washington County (Md.) Library,
said to have been the first free public
library in the United States.
Dr. A. L. Maiden, head of the his
tory department of the school, la la
charge of the trip.
LEWIS HITS HIGH COURT
AS VARIABLE AND FICKLE
Says Organised Labor Expects
Congress to Adopt Presi
dent’s Proposal.
Br the Associated Press.
John L. Lewis, in a radio address
last night, charged that the Supreme
Court is "unstable, variable, fickle.”
Organized labor, Lewi* said, expects
Congress to adopt President Roose
velt’s court reorganization plan.
Working people, he added, do not
desire that right* vital to their "very
life” should be at the “whim” of one
or two Justices of the court.
BANQUET-DANCETONIGHT
The Washington International Club
will hold its annual banquet and
dance at 7:30 o’clock tonight in the
Mayflower Hotel.
The guests will Include Representa
tive Caroline O'Day of New York,
Conrado Benetiz, dean of the Univer
sity of the Philippines at Manila; Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Picket of Philadel
phia, and Mr. and Mrs. Vincent D.
Nicholson, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Morley
and Dr. and Mrs. Ernst CorrelL
t