Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1928, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR. W‘\STTI.\'G’T‘().\'. N. C. THURSDAY. MARCH 15. 1928, 7 STORAGE PROVIDED FOR SEIZED AUTOS Cars Captured by Police Are’ to Be Removed From City Streets. Unsightly appearances created in front of the various police precinet sta- | tions by the parking of seized automo- biles will be eliminated &s a re: f plans made by the District Commis- sloners today to store all abandoned machines under police the mun! and Water streets so t. missloners authorized the Police De- partment to spend $300 of its contin- gent fund for the purchase of wire for a fence 1o inclose two sides of the yard. The parking of se rd at Ninth was bitterly Burcau of port to the he report was pro- ated with photographs of vieinity in most ment fMc 0 and aban- n ef lhx‘ Po The storage of all se doned r\'< in the posses: of these cars are unable to 10 Oco which the police be transported s and reduced District W. R. & E. T0 PROTEST MARYLAND BUS PROJECT Firm Operating to District Line ‘Would Hurt Its Rockville Busi- ness, Say Officers. Officials of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. wlil appear before the Maryland Public Service Commission in Baitimore tomorrow to protest the granting of a permit to the Montgomery County Motor Bus Co. to operate busses intrastate between Gaithersburg, Md., and the District line. The company is now engaged in intra- state business, but it has asked the Maryland commission to authorize it to carry passengers from Rockvilie to Som- erset and Rockville to the District line. Intrastate operation of the company’s busses, according to the Washington 'way officials. would cut deep venue of the Rockville line of the ‘Washington Railway & Electric Co., which last year suffered a rail loss of $38.000. hrough the sale of electric current to Rockville, however, the com- pany was able to reduce iis losses to $17.000. EX-OFFICERS OPPOSE BILL Reed and Bingham See Injustice in Retirement Pay Plan. Two former emergency Army officers led an attack in the Senate yesterday afternoon against the bill to allow re- tirement pay for disabled emergency Army officers of the World War. Benators Reed of Pennsylvania and Bmgham of Connecticut, both World ‘War officers and both Republicans, o the bill would discriminate inst enlisted men, allowing disabled cers more than twice as much pay as is allowed disabled enlisted men. Benator Tyson, Democrat, Tennessee, aiso & World War officer, pressed the measure for action, insisting classes of officers had been for except those in the emergency class. The bill, which is supported by the American Legion, has passed the Senate twice in previous sessions, With- out receiving consideration in the House. of diction on | The Com- | tomobiles in | | acres of land for floodways in Lo KAUFMANN S—l415 Attempt to Blast i Slope of Santos | Mmml.un Fails SANTOS, Brazil, March 15.-- | Mount Serrat, whose sliding sides suddenly crushed out & number of lives here, vesterday resisted the efforts of man to provoke an ava- lanche to lessen the danger of fur- ther disaster. Explosives brought down a com- paratively small amount of earth from one slope of the mountain, On the other side a stream of water was turned into a crevasse, but it disappeared and no slides resulted. Sanitary precautions were strength- encd with the renewal of rescue work, because of the putrefacation of bodies. NEIGHBORH(iOD PARTY i SCHEDULED FOR TODAY' and CI\!ldrm\ vania Avenue Are Mothers of Lower Pennsy Invited. Under-privilered children and their mothers of the lower Pennsylvania ave- | nue section will be guests of honor ! this afternoon of women of the Cleve- land Park Congregational Church at a neighborhood party in the Gospel Mis- ston, 214 John Marshall place. The children are members of the mis- sion’s “International Sunday School embracing many races and ex- tractions found in the blocks in the old section of the city between Seventh street and Capitol Hill. The l'lnld n e collected each Sunday in a “gos- pel truck.” which tours the downtown Streets and alleys. Miss Hester Beall, elocutionist, will entertain the group with readings. Mrs C. E. Hawthorne will lead in a devotion- al program. The church women will | provide refreshments for all. Arrange ments are in charge of Mrs. Harvev Prentice, assistant superintendent of the Gospel Mission. | g | | Gen. Coxey to Speak. Gen. Jacob S. Coxey will present his views on unemployment and discuss methods of relief at a meeting to be | held under the auspices of the Amer- | ican White Cross Socicty at the Phyliis Wheatley Y. W. C. A, 901 Rhode iand avenue, at 8 o'clock tonient. SENATE FLOOD BILL ASSAILED AS COSTLY Tributaries Suffer in Plan, Garber of Oklahoma, in Statement. . Says Br the Assaciated Press The Jones flood control bill, which calls for & $325.000,000 Federal appro- priation, will ultimately cost the Gov- ernment $1.000.000,000 in the opinion of Representative Garber, Republican, Oklahoma. In a statement yesterday afternoon the Oklahoman criticized the measure, now before the Senate, and which pro- poses the adoption of the Army engi- neers' plan for controlling lower Mis- sissippi Valley inundations, for failing | 1o give consideration to the flood prob- lems of the tributary rivers. He declared that the Jones bill meant the purchase of more than_2,000.000 {ana. Arkansas and Missouri and the eviction | of about 55000 people at a cost of $600.000.000. Through reservoirs the | floods could be controlled without the | floodways. he claimed. The reservoirs | also wouid stabilize the flow of the | Mississippi and the tributaries so as to | develop them fully for navigation, he added. - TAXI DRIVER ROBBED. Slashed Refusal Hand Over Money. | James R. Garges, 510 Twelfth street southeast, a taxicab driver, was held up and robbed last night by two colored men who slashed him about the hands when he refused to hand over his money. During the tussle they obtained $11.65. They boarded his cab at Unjon Station and held him up at First and Q streets southwest, he said. H | | Garges for to { continue REROUTING OF BUS LINE DISCUSSED BY CITIZENS Richmond Park Group Considers New Plan for Capital Trac- tlon Branch. The proposed rerouting of the Capi- tal Traction Co.'s busses to make loop in the region of Thirty-fourth and Ordway streets, the present terminal, occupied the attention of the Richmond Park Citizens' Association at its meeting | last night in_the Cleveland Park Con- gregational Church. at Thirty-fourth | and Lowell streets. The esecutive com- mittee had made a survey of the pro- posal, which is scheduled to be placed before the Public Utilities: Commission today. The rerouting calls for the busses to from the present terminus down Thirty-fourth street to Quebec street and back up Thirty-fifth street to Ordway street, and then follow the usual route. A report was placed before the asso- clation concerning the paving of ‘Thirty- fourth street in the area of Quebee street. A committee was appointed to study the likelihond (;\l having Quebec 32, | street paved before 1 The association passed a resolution dirccting the chairman of its park com- mittee to work for a playeround in the Bureau of Standards woods. An England- 1.000-mile_hops alia alr N:I\Q ?Now—the brakes that safety de- mands may force other cars to adopt —in 1929. 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