Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1926, Page 11

§433,197 NEEDED INSCHOOL GROUNDS Cost of Beautifying and Im- proving Sites Estimated by D. C. Officials. | their trade and the members of Landscaping and improvement of grounds surrounding public &chool 1 will cost approximately according to a report made lay by a committee of Dis- and school officials, which just thorough study of this subject. The estimate includes all schools in the District with the ex- ception of those under construction and those on which additions are be- ing erected. The committee intends to distribute | copies of the 1 various civie | with the hope that they oncerted effort to urge | ess 1o appropriate at the current the amount needed to put schoolgrounds in an attractive and useful condition. i Grading and Sedding Included. proposed esthetic treatment in- s grading, sodding or seeding, construction taining walls, the planting of hardy shrubs and ever- s, Jaying of concrete walks where and the resurfacing of play- grounds. Special attention would be given to the frontages. The report is an outgrowth of a meeting held se 1 weeks ago at the | Feanklin School at which the need of | maprovement to the school grounds wax disenssed. The committee which wade the study of the present condi- | tions at the schools and preps report was composed of Dr. W. Ballou, superintendent of Engineer Commissioner J. Bell, Dr. Henry B. Learned, vice president of the Board of Education; Layson E. Atkins, assistant Dis- Engineer Commissioner, and Yaden, president of the o of Citizens' Associations and chairman of the Citizens’ Advisory Couneil. Present Funds Inadequate. District officials pointed out that the landscaping and improvement of the school grounds cannot be financed out of the appropriation for the re-| pair of buildings and grounds, as this fund is now totally inadequate for the | necessary repairs. Only $260,000 of the repair fund is now available, it was said, while requests for urgent repairs ing more than $1,000,000 e on file. The current appropriation for re- pairs to buildings and grounds amounted to $350,000. The same amount is called for in the approved budgetary estimates for the next fis- cal year. trict completed a COASTING ALLOWED ON 11 MORE STREETS Total of 24 Places Designated for Youngsters in Event of Suf- ficient Snowfall. Eleven additional streets which will be roped off for coasting when it snows were designated today by Traffic Director M. O. Eldridge, This THE EVENING STAR, 'Police Photographer Clicks Shutter And “Snaps” Suspected Shoplifters They're making photographs down at the District Building these day and the portraits, in all prebability, | will find their way to the varied col- lection prized by the Police Depart- ment. It happens that the anmu { store plundering is under w | perfenced and amateur shonlifie: tective Edward J. Kel squad ralling the ngdoers rrested are brough: the police ittle shutter | efficiently co As persons thus g into police headquarters photographer clicks his their company of murderers, bandits and who-ots in the police galle Included in the dozen or more al- »- | laid upon coun 1 made are deftly covered | and néw faces beam miserably from | 1leged shoplifters already arrested are | several mothers. Tn most cases thesd women weepingly declare that “this is the first time T ever did anything wrong.” and invariably ask, wailing- Iy, “Oh. why did T do i But the little camera shutter on right gh the t h merch a vietims th> shoplifters, ers while other pi are dropped handker ire swept into waiting hand iropper” recovers his es from the s and counters are quickly brushed into umbrellas hang ing conveniently from shoplifting arms and o the ‘attack goes on. BISHOP URGES SPEED ON NEW POLICE COURT Conditions in Present Building Tisgrace to City. He Tells Capper. Erection of the proposed now Police Court Building at the earliest possible time was urged today by Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Episcopal Bishop of Washington, in a letter to Senator Capper, chairman of the District com- mittee. I found on a visit to it hop Freeman, referring to the ex isting building at Sixth and D streets, that the pens in which the prisoners are held are so congested that they present a situation that is a disgra to the city and utterly unworthy our enlightened judgment.” Bishop Freeman pointed the Fine Arts Commission ly recommended building in Judiciary ‘1 am venturnig, as a citizen of the to write you for the purpose of enlisting your interest and co-opera- tion.” Congress has passed fegislation au- thorizing the Police Court structure, wrote Bis of out that recent- the new ve and said: $70,000 DAMAGES ASKED. Suits Grow Out of Alleged Injury by Washing The Maytag ¢ ashington May Ay in the District damages totaling Roberta Buchiy and her husband, illiam 8. Buchly, for injuries al- ve been sustained by the wife. Mrs. Buchly declares she lost a part of her scalp when her hair caught in the wringer of an electric washing machine, left for trial at her home by an agent of the defend ants, June last. She places her damage at §50,000 while the husband a 000 for the loss of her sery for the expense incident to injur Through + claim Machine. . of Towa and the were sued supreme Court | for 70,000 Hy Mrs, prney made that th | was equipped with a defec failed to hair had become gency lever, which wringer when her entangled in it. Huge Waterspout in Azores. LISBON, Portugal, Decembel 14 (®).—Extensive damage has been caused by an enormous waterspout which burst over St. Michaels Island, in the Azores. Roads and houses were but the appropriation has not yet been made. makes a total of 24 streets on which coasters will have'protection against traffic, Simultaneous with Mr. Eldridge’s action, Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, super- intendent of police, issued a general order to precinct commanders to take steps to adequately provide for the safety of all persons using the 24 streets whenever conditions are such as to permit coasting or sledding. Maj. Hesse also directed the officers to erect detour or stop signs necessary to carry out the order and to place uniformed officers_at important inter- sections along the roped-off streets. Under provisions of the traffic direc- tor’s order, coasting will be permitted from 4 to 11 p.m. every day except Saturday, and on Saturday from 10 am. to 10 pm. No coasting will be permitted on Sunday. The streets to be roped off follow: First street between L and M streets; Fifth street between L and M streets; N street, South Capitol to First street southwest; Ninth street between C and D streets southwest; Ninth street between D and E streets southwest: McLean avenue between Third and Four-and-one-half streets southwest: North Carolina avenue be- tween First and Second streets south- cast; Garfield street from the north side of Massachusetts avenue, east to k< y-fourth street: Thirty-seventh street from Wisconsin avenue south to about 100 feet morth of T street; Twentieth street between Kalorama road and Belmont road; Tenth street between ¥ and H streets northeast; Eighth street from Shepherd to Tay- Jor street; Irving street from Mount Pleasant street to Zoo Park; Columbia road between Georgla avenue and Warder street; High street from Maple avenue to Iourteenth strect southeast; Stanton road from Doug- lass street to Sheridan road southeast; Newton street between Fourteenth and Eighteenth streets northeast; Emerson street from Fourteenth street east to Arkansas avenue; Aspen street between rth and Sixth streets: Buchanan street from Four- teenth strect. west to Illinois avenue: River road from Wisconsin avenue to Fessenden street: Macomb street from Thirty-fifth street to a point 100 feet wést of Connecticut avenue; Fessen- den street between Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth streets, and Morrison street from Broad Branch road to Chevy Chase parkway. C. L. STEWART ELECTED. Pyllman Co. Official Heads Trans- portation Club. | {* 1. Stewart of the Pullman Co. has been elected president of the ‘Washington Transportation Club. Other newly elected officers are: J. 4 | Rector, the Chesapeake Beach Railway, vice president; R. P. Rich- ardson, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, | sefretar: lowing Ainslie Ohin; T. D. Tuft and E. loygh, Pennsylvania Railroad; W. Clark, Washington Railway and tric Co; W, MceCarty, Pragtion Co.; of ‘Gommerc Week the ‘elub at the Occidental c¢ach Mo dayy beginning January 17. The an- nupl banguet will be held February 16 ME. Stewart succeeds Col. Walter V Shipley. now general passenger agent of ithe Baltimore and Ohio, with offices in{ New York. Col. Shipley's local busfess successor, E. D. Afnslie, as. sistant general y nger agent of the B. and O., has been élected to mem- nd treasurer, and the fol- cutive committee: E. D. McCul- and C. L. Howser. ind J. H. Peak, Baltimore and | heons will be held 1»_‘; | bership. Rites for A. J. Smith. Yuneral services for Andrew son Smith, Civil War veteran father of Homer Smith, who died at his residence, 636 Longfellow street s fwere held at Smithfield tist Church, Smithfield Pa., yesterday afternoon. He had lived in Washington two and a half years, after retiring from business at Smith deld. urday he destroyed. Reports received from the and today mentioned no casualties, holiday- | WASHINGTON, TEXAS WIFE FREED ONBAIL IN HOLD-UP Young Woman’s Secret Hus- band Comes to Defense .in Bank Robbery Case. ciated Press STIN, Tex., December Rebecca Bradley Rogers, with robbing with firearm. ers’ National Bank at Buda, Tex., Saturday, was granted bail in the sum of $3,000 today in the Travis Dis- trict Court. The order was made after the State had introduced testimony of bank em- ployes who identified the girl as the robber, and of Sheriff George Allen of Hays County, who arrested her, and who said she made a statement to him which led to the recovery of a large part of the money taken Otis Rogers, young Amarillo attor- ney, who maintained secrecy regard- ing’ his marriage last * to Mrs. Bradley while they were the University of Texas, his first appearance in Distr} here in defense of his wife. Married at Georgetown, Tex., continued their university course: husband graduating from the law col- lege, while his bride was awarded a bachelor of degree. They decided that Rogers’ income as an attorney might prove inadequate to support a home and agreed to separate while he developed his practice Hebe i 14.—~Mrs. charged the Farm- yosition of Dan and gov- ernor-elect, and continued her univer- work with the view of securing a higher degree. Rogers opened a law office at Amarillo and so well did they guard their secret that Rebecca’s mother, with whom she lived here, denied 'the marriage when Otls an. nounced he was coming to the de- fense of his wife, S The first authentic allusion to lead pencils occurs in a work by Conrad Gesner of Zurich, written in 1565. IT seems that all of Washington and half the world could choose their Christmas Neckwear from the vast and varied showings which Saks has assembled from the great makers of America and of other lands! The most gorgeous selections of our histor: 1 /7//////[’//////// "””"‘W aiy A Fher Notable Selections | sentence D 0z Indiana Man Asks Repeal of 18th “Commandment” By the Associated Press. Congressmen usually take their constituents serfously, but it re- mains to be seen whether Repre- sentative Illiott of Connersville, Ind., will attempt to carry out a request shouted in his ear while waiting for a train to Washington. As related by Mr. Ellfott, Abe Owens of Connersville touched him on the shoulder he was about to board a train and bellowed: “I wish you would please repeal that damn eighteenth command- ment.” NINE ArfriEi INDICTED. All of Arlington County Bills Are for Dry Law Violations. Special Diepatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va., December 14. Nine indictments, all for violation of the prohibition laws, covered in full the report of the Arlington County Grand Jury to the opening of the December term of the Circuit Court vesterday. Those indicted are: Phillip Black- well, I. L. Green, John Johnson, Nor- man Jordon, George Muntean, Edwin Nelson, Charlie Robinson, Willlam Taylor and Jessie Wright. Pleading guilty to the charge, Blackwell, Jordon and Nelson were each sentenced to 30 days and fined ), jail sentence being suspended case. Johnson, n ¢ lor were each given and fined with jail suspended. d FIRE IN F STREET STORE. Water and Smoke Do Prinecipal “ Damage in Night Blaze. Fire was discovered on the first floor of 919 F street, place of business of the Hudson Cloak and Suit Co., last night. Twelve companies of fire- men responded to the algrm and soon had the flames under control. ‘Water and smoke damage estimated at $3,000 resuited. Origin of the fire ‘was not determined. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, Imported and Domestic Ties—Gorgeous Designs Special Tables Show Very Unusual Selections Of Newest Degigns by the Hundred . . at 65¢ 1926. E. J. Stebbing, legislation: Charles A Benner, water and sewers: - ¥ . membershi, J. Louis € Hultgren, : Walter Finnegan, lights; Ibman, public utilities; C. ntertainment, and L 00 : Xmas Flowers & Plants ¥ € A Choice Selection of fi Table Novelties, Can- g Y CLAYTON INDORSED FOR UTILITIES POST Congress Heights Citizens Also Vote Support for Roosevelt Memorial Stadium. "o William MecK. 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