Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1926, Page 19

FINE ARTS BODY VISITS OLD FORTS Complies With Maj. Grant’s Request for Study of Outer Parks System. Turning from consideration of war chapels in American cemeteries in jurope and from location of several ;‘!IINIO buildings in “uhlnnon lhe rts Commission today . of inspection of two of lha (’1\'11 ‘ar forts in the District of Colum- NA. vldlln‘ Fort Stanton, in Anacos- d Fort Slocnm in the North- ..It nnlon of the city The visit of the commlfislon to the forts was made the request of lus T 5 Grant BE et e of the National Capital Planning Com- mission. The forts constitute part of the proposed outer park system of ‘Washington, and under plans yet to be developed will be connected by the so-called “fort drive,” to encircie the . a ring of hmuny-, to include all the old Civil fort: the day the comml!lion nspect the Meade memorial, at tho fool of the Capitol. Decision is Deferred. Although the commission con- ferred for more than an hour late yesterday with Chief Justice \{cCOy of the District Supreme Court an Judge Schuldt of the Police Lourt on a site for a new Police Court Build- ing, no decision was reached, and fur- ther consideration to the location of million-dollar court will be given at the Novem- ber meeting. Sites in Judiclary Square between a prolongation of E and F streets, on Indiana avenue op- posite the Municipal Court Building, and on the east side of the District Supreme Court Building near Fourth street, balancing the Court of Appealu Bullding, were considered. If a site in Judiclary Square is not used, it ‘will be necessary to purchase land for the structure, commission officials Lcat Spring, after a conference with Judge Schuldt, who is chairman of the judiclary committee in charge of the location, the commission an- nounced its approval of the Judiciary uare site. The building will be of the simplest possible design to har- GROSNE RS monise with the court structures al- ‘The commission also considered n its present quar- ter- and the peulMuty of erection of a new Patent Ofllte building in con- nection with the proposed Commerce Department development south of Pennsylvania avenue between Four- teenth and Fifteenth streets, and de- cided to discuss the Patent Office mat. ter with the Public Buildings Com- mission at its next meeting. If a new Patent Office f5 bullt, the Labor De- gflrtmant may take over the present atent Office ltructure officials said. NAMED FOR NEW POSTS, Two Washington Men in Consular Service Are Transferred. H. Armistead Smith ot the District of Columbia, United States vice consul at Brussels, has been transferred to Birmingham, England, and Robert C. Coudray, also of the District, consular clerk at Hankow, has been promoted to vice consul at lhn! pol Recent changes In the Unllefl States foreign service include the transfer of Raymond Cox of New York, second secretary, from the State Department to London; Franklin B. Frost of Rhode Island, vice consul at Tangler, | ioq 0 Santo Domingo as third secretary; H F. Matthews of Maryland, lhll‘d secretary, from Budapest to Bogota: H. D. Newson of New York, second secretary, from Mexico City to War- saw; Gustave Pabst of Wisconsin, third secretary, from Santiago to Ber- lin; Harold M. Deane of Connecticut, ncond secretary, from Santiago to Val- Jefferson_Patterson of Ohio,, cond secretary from Bogota to Con- stantinople, and Warden McK. Wil son of Indiana, second secretary, from, Santo Domingo to the Sute Demu‘t ment. —— BISMARCK BANK CLOSED North Dakota Institution Ordered to Await Examiner. BISMARCK, N. Dak., October 15 (#)~—The City National Bank of Bis- marck, with deposits of more than '!00 000, has been closed. No reason was announced. It was reported that bank officials recelved notice yesterday from the national banking department not to open for business until the arrival of a bank examiner. o A new telephone line will connect Naples with Rome and Milan. 148152 55 INPOISON DEATH Druggist Says He Sold Them to Youth Accused of Kill- ing Sweetheart. By the Assaciated. CLEVELAND, Ohjs, October 15.— Testifying in the trial of’ Ermil “Frenchy” Balanescu, youthful drug clerk and medical student, on trial for manslaughter in the death of his 22-year-old sweetheart, Dorothy Eliza- beth Kirk, W. H. Timmons, a drug- gist, said he had sold Balanescu pol- sonous pills a week before Miss Kirk's de Timmon! sald Balanescu had at first asked for a m;my poisonous drug, but when told by the druggist of m: potency, bought the pills in- Mother in Tears. Other witnesses testifled that Bala- nescu had visited the Kirk girl often and on many occasions had given her various kinds of pills nnd medlclnu Weeping and on the verge of col- e, Mrs. May Kirk, mother of the dead girl, testified that Ermil had been a guest at the Kirk home many times, and that on one occasion he stayed for two weeks. She sald Bala- nescu posed as a physiclan and gave rothy many pills Whlch he sald would * mske her better. Mrs. Kirk ™ said lhut under Bala- nesg¢u’s care, her daughter’s skin and e)en turned -yellow. begged Doro(hy to get a doctor » ha mother sobbed, “but Ermil said, ! am doing all.that can be done for Lost Health Steadily. Ruby Larkin, with whom Domthy Hved in Cleveland for two years, told of the steady decline in ealth B.fler she started ny with “Frenchy.” “Dorothy lost color,” she dec! “She. had always had a lovely com- plexion, but thls faded lnd she lost much of her pep and didn’t act like herself. Flnllly her skin turned n' deep yellow.”. 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