Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1926, Page 6

8 * CHAPMAN COUNSEL| 10 ASK TWO WRITS Habeas Coipus Sought, Then New Trial—Lack of Fair Hearing Is Charged. By the Associated Pross HARTFORD, Conn Definite announcement %0 before Judge Edwin S 11 Court in New Haven Mon ternoon with a petition for writ of habeas corpus In Gerald h. thrice murdere tonfght Fred w York, senior »ehl and Ray Wiley of connsel today mferred with Ch the State prison wo othe March made associute pman at which thout ts to seek a State court to present dure, to be Wednesday. ton for a nex My proc than i or cou action is that Cha trial o be pman This cour [ eek he stgned u pet MENACE OF B.ELT LINE AND ITS LACK OF NEED ARE CITED BY ITS FOES| First Page.) nd for that one inter net bear all who reason he ha ested 10 senc mittee could given Br the = Coun male 1 filed with the Montgome by R. E. Ply citizens of Ar. by Wrisley t Potomac { this city; by £ of the Wash. ind by Fred the Pennsyl expressing strong ennctment of the ww, and giv to why the allowed by the Board of att ington cKinn nia to the nto I shiou te Legis Delivers I mery (‘ou around { the opposi nted only additlonal five ington ('h4 Charles J a real jssue i1 cning for X in th Public united ci He told lttle adv county ne the law roiled sions proponents Now ti Natlonal L the power: 1 Gov ernment ¢ like 8 | wedge into a commur roject that these people ind is not needed. He cha belt line had not held ar meeting it slipp thro t m of Virginia, had the records do e with protest commis- wnd the | ompl wave of ¥ nee wave into i it ome efora the to use not show it is not terminals, no war of any d in- ter the ould be pro sds affected i provide fled sith the the presidents ering the Capital iy statements ow 8 proponents ow con ample to witie. and he told wae being used | handlers of 75 per fvod products in be alded If t are and | . nis ol a resolu chullenged the evidence ren comm| of the rui City T the 1 allege B v prot e Washin anythlu solidly e Nai on Mer.h road to “or the br in their committes r Aside from a na any standpoint gued in its fz tee that ¢ incon project had taken o fu e he joir of Congre s fon viewp d leen 1d the commit Id he entirely wproved such a of action pust of providing utification and pital Clty, wi a of nes 1 capital in build a1 tior of beauty, round the Capi- would be to per- A great ind permitie a te Clty is ex growth flelds Federa s, and Capital e fes as vernment yinour A vel against Seymo . ton Cha e delivered Arthur E. Washing and ¢ the cham action had ex he neasure s interests. the .. aid the approvel of t said, he pic nue, runnin beautiful resi ital City, as tirely out of beautific 4 The business 1 nd the citizens of Washington, he said, represented in his organization are endeavoring to make the National Capital the most beautiful and the most attractive from \ & residential standpoint of any city 1al areas of the Cap- reat trucking lane en- ep with the plans for that_he would Thomas in [ behalt of | reprieved | by his are h.] on toward this | T | posed -road. t | capacity which it | UNDERWOOL 'WHY ALL ARE ARRAYED | AGAINST BELT LINE BILL | ! PENDING IN CONGRESS | (Continued from Fourth Page) | | tublished out along any such line in i Maryland. About the only passenger | affic that might reasonably be ex pected to develop over such a road | wouid be the possible carrying of em: | ployees of industrial enterprises on the compuny’s tract of land just out-| side the District Line. to be exploited | for that purpose through this pro- | “Further, it may weil be questioned | whether a bridge across the Potomac | | at the proposed location might not { vitally interfere with the contem plated development of the water | power of the river between Chain Bridge and the Great Falls, if this| should ultimately be desired | Would Mar National Capital. | The proposed belt line is a land | promotion scheme and is not needed as a part of the Improvement of the | | fretent handling facilities ~in and about Washington, the brief of Wris ley Brown, president of the Potomac Freight Terminals Company informed (he committee. He cha helt line would place in jeoparc plan of the Nat Hm- Asts for eriinking belt line and extensive| rds on the b nl\s o the | o | |k B | ¢ i w Na‘tonal « n of the National ne Arts for a com systern of interlinking | Furthermore, mated th { plan would virtual ved over 100,000,000 worth of cho! idential | properts in the established suburbs of Washington. Such a drastic measure could orly be jusiified | kround that the exist tion facilifes and freight ! are inadequate. What Investigation Show: will projected V transport terminals conclusively sity “Investigation | demonstrate that no such nece: | exists. Potomac yard, located about four miles south of \Washington and | ope v the Richmond, Fredericks burg and Potomac Raflroad, is the| onverging point for freight moving from the South over the Southern | Railway, the Atlantic Coast Line and | the - Line, and from the Chesapeake Ohio efther Iroad or to| Ohlo Railroad, to be Washington or to be! through Washington for the Penn nia R the Baltimore delivered at | sported to A} ‘\ has | “The Potomac yard presently for the accommodation approximately 8500 cars, with every | modern facility for the efficient hand- | ling of carload freight in transit on a | | nuge are stock yards for feed! air shops for repair- ing crippled icing facilities for | supplying ice needed, and a competent | traflic bureau for checking rates. The holding company continually main- | tains a Jarge sinking fupd for repairs, | replacements and developments to meet the changing needs of changing | times. i “The fact Rall- {way has recer its Cameron vard, located about 1l miles south of Alexandria, Va., | indicates that the Potomac yvard is | adequate to meet ali present require ments, the Cameron yard being available in case an overflow should {ever develop | Location Held Strategic. { “Shippers of perishable and products regard the Potomuc the Southern Iy abandoned that {1n the world While he conceded that |1t was true that the proposed Dbelt {1ine would not touch the District of Columbla, nevertheless he, too, pointed {out that it could only grow by ex-| | panding in the very territory where ‘n is propused to establish this great | | industrial center | Question as to Tunnel. Taking up the statement of the pro. ponents thit tunnels now in Washing |ton would not handie present da | trefght cars. he said there were only {oe or two In a long time which came {through, and that the rafiroads wer s standardizing the sizes of their car could be none of these. ,500 freight cars o day hrough here, and none of ause of the lack itfes of handling them. Thomas Everett, representing the Bethesda, Md., Chamber of Commerce, | spoke in opposition to the measure, aving that the proposed belt line would leave in its wake a path of | devastation of the present fine resi. | dential area that is being built up. lle called the project a real estate promotion scheme. Charles J. Columbus, secreiary the Mer ts and Manufacture Association this eity on behalf his org: He said his anization esented manufactur wholesalers and large | shippers anc of Koods In the Capital City, and all were at a loas to understan why such a project was proposed. There is no need of id, and pointed out that hi )n as such and its individual had given considerable study and attention to. the freight traffle situation here. | Facllities for Million. There are railroad facilities here !} | now for w million people, he pointed | { out to the committee, and o belt line | would be most harmful to the busi-| | ness interests of the Capital City. He { said it would hamper the handling of | freight, because it would spiit up shipments, make a longer and obvi- ously & more costly haul in most in- stances and would be uneconomical in the extreme. C. E. Smith, consulting engineer of St. Louis, Mo., and engineer of the proposed project, testifled in rebuttal, and he was followed on behalf of the opponents by Edward F. Colladay, representing the Washington Board of Trade, and by Fred McKinney, for the Pennsylvania Railroad. of of CONDUCT HEARING ON of th 4 | THE BELT L UNDERWOOD Upper, left to right: Senators Hiram Bingham and Morris Sheppard. Lower: Senator James Couzens. great st of thetr ability and later dive points’ m the aceording to tons of the ective mar. while such shipments or upon arr at the t central point of cles Afic moving over nes is of mestimyble ad hippers. of perishable frelg ell balances the dlstribution of food lucts to saristy o uirements nsuruing public. Thus this em egic Importance be o ship goods them to vari use u uetu ets s If Saving Money Counts—With You— €all on us for ELECTRICAL WORK AND Electrical Appliances We'll Save You Half the Usual Cost. PENN ELECTRIC CO. 911 7th St. N.W. Main 512 Main 1855 ELECTRIFY Your House Today We Give You 20 Months to Pa; - ou need our instant duplicating service Duplicate Key, 25¢ Bring your locks to the shop TURNER & CLARK Basement 1233 New York Ave. Calvert St Bet 18th & 19th N W. (Just Half Block West New Ambassador Theater) TODAY Roast Turkey and Roast Capon DINNER $1.00 1 P.M, 1o 7 PM. Service wnd Fo Parking on Colliflower Art & Gift Co.’s 2908 14th Street Is a Star Branch Look for sign—there’s also a Branch Office in vour neighborhcod— and make use of its con- venience when you have Classified ads for The Star. They’ll get prompt insertion — and without fees of any kind—only regular rates. The . Star prints MORE Classified ads every day than all the other papers here combined, You can count on results from Star Classified ads. “Around the Corner” Is a Star Branch Office. SRS S TR T 0. SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, ‘d\mmuuo" functions here with a {high degree of precision and flexi- bility that would be impossibie n the event of a duplex transfer operation, and it should not be dfsturbed with out good and sufficlent cause. Ample Trackage.. “The experience of shippers has shown that there is ample trackage from the Potomac yard to Washing- ton and thence io the North a West, fully to accommodate the move- ment of freight at all times. 'This trackage could be readily increased if the growth in volume of freight traffic should & require. If the In- terstate Commerce Commission should ac any time in the future Getormine that the Long Bridge currying double tracks over the Potomac River has become inadequate, this bridge could | be eniarged and its trackage capacity { could be Goubled or trebled as the ex igencles of the situation might ve. quire. 1f there are any tunnels in the existing frelght transportation syse tem of this region wilch are not large enough fully to accemnmodute the cur rent traffic, th « larged to satisfy such requirements. shington exceptionally for- “Charleston,” Sauterne heel. $5. ment Kid, pike” | | | WHEN YOU NEED A KEY| “Belvedere,” Parchment, ming. Patent, “Spike” heel. . . O terminals close to the consuming pub- lic. In the commercial zone of South Washington the Pennaylvania raflroad maintains and operates a large freight yard at the intersection of Foui teenth street and Maryland ave- nue, with trackage capacity for 160 cars; another at Twelfth street near Maryland avenue with capaeity for 70 cars; ancther at Ninth stree: and Maryland avenue with a capacity of 30 cars; another at Sixth and ¢ streets with present capucity for 40 cars and space for expansion to 160 cars necessary anothe; South Capilol street and New Jer: avenue with capacity for nue southeast with cap: cars. These combined frelght yards have an exlsting capacity of ap proximately 450 cars, exclusive of private sidings, with considerable room for expansion. This is augment ed by at Eckington place and Fic nue northeast, with capacity proximately 300 cars. “By the act of February 1901 (31 statutes at large, page 767, section ida tunate in the location of its freight | section of the « a number of streets i the southwest ty were vacated and | Parch trim, 95 Gray or shark trim Patent Satin $8. 50 “Deblitante,” Sauterne, Black Satin. High “Women's Shop” 1207 F St. - MARCH 28, the Baltimore and Ohio yards| for ap-| 1926—PART abandoned to public use and for ter- minus purposes, In order to enable the then Baltimore and Potomac Rail- road Company to relocate jts tracks in | accordunce with a‘comprehensive p approved by Congress. The vacation of these streets created a designated | district intended to be & warehouse listrict of Washington, bounded on | the south by Water street, on the north by Maryland avenue, on the | ast by Twelfth street, and on the | | west by Fourteenth street. | Park Program Hurt m of the Natlonal Avts and legisla 2 bills now pending before Congress | have for their purpose the elimiy esent wholesale district around the Natlonal Museum Bullding and ground and the conversion of this property into a boulevard from the Caplitol to the New Arlington Bridge, with spaclous parks and appropriate | settings for new public bulldings. In | its ninth annual report to Congress for the perlod from July 1, 1919 to | June , 1821, the Fine Arts Commis n made the following recommenda \ an The park progr Commission of Fine | Gro | 80 authorize “Wholesale terminal District of “Chevy Chase,” F Leather, tan snake low block heel atent trim, “Rolls Royce,” Sauterne, Bois de Rose trim. Patent, Parchment trim $5.95 “Clarette,” Patent, Parchment inlay. - Parch- ment, Sauterne inlay. $7 Columbfa—the commission was asked for advice with regard to the estub- lishment in the District of Columbf of a wholesale terminal for merchants who deal In fruits and general mar- ket supplies, so as to simplify the | fr process of bringing products from the | producer to the consumer. Of several sites considered, the Natfonal Fruit ers’ / fation considered a site | opposite the Bureau of Engraving and Printing preferable, in view of con venent railrond and steamboat facilf. | ties. The commission considered the | site suitable, provided Congress shall | in bl Operations to Be Extended. During the past year this outlined | area, consisting of about 8 acres, in cluding the wo-called Water street rds, has been taken over from the Southern Raiiroad Co. by the Poto- mac Frelght Terminals Co. and 1s now in process of development as an addl tional terminal for perishable freight, patterned after the great wholesale districts of Chlcago and New Yor As a primary step in this terminal de velopment a modern dlstributing rehouse, with direct railroad switching connection, {s now in course of construction for the Cudahy Pack m pr “Miami,” Parchment, Leather, or G Pate Black Satin g Co. are contemplated in the this 1d other sim “Opposite and in k ordinated eight is t rd ard . and ice plant, and opposite th warehc “Thus the ¢ 1blic “rom the ofl ra $5.95 Gilda Gray Sauterne with ing color trim “Campus,” “ireckled” liz Patent, snake $5.9 “Lady Luxury” and “Hahn Special” Milady’s Easter Silk Hosiery! 7th & K 3212 14th St. 414 9th St. N.W. 233 Pa. Ave. S.E. 1914-16 Pa. Ave Gray contrast- acros and for the storage and perishable freight, | fuctrit 3 situation it se no actual neces: the constru bridge near furthe i Water street ing with the plan of co tern for ul cold stor an_entire cf SIXth strect nals ermi ering the new! se of Wa cov and 500,000 food products s ample provisic distribution of and the ex gmented as require. the the Cit of the eking intere: Capital of the d warehouses among its y n dential suburbs and outlylng y Parchment, trim. ard rim 5