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» » FIRETEST RUNS 100 HOT T0 PROBE Experts Will Be Unable to In-| spect Burned Buildings Refore Tomorrow. Smoldering ruins within the par- tially demolished walls of the F. W, Bol- ®iano Seed and Fertilizer Co. buildings, 1007 and 1009 B strect, today balked Bcientists of the Bureau of Standards, Who are seeking access to 35 safes and Mmetal filing cases placed within the structures for test purposss before the buildings were fired carly yesterday | morning. Smoke and occasional flames still ‘were coming from the debris this morn- ing. and it is not likely that any of the safes will be removed before to- morrow. Workmen today were clearing away the debris around the exteriors of uildings preparatory to pulling down the cracked and leaning walls to- morrow morning H. Ingberg. chief of the fire- ection of the Bureau of n charge of the test. made m of the buildings this morning. scrambling in over some of the cooler portions of the debris. Too Hot To Handle. coming out he announced that would be made today to deter- 5 the effects of the fire on the ummy” contents of the safes and inets. Electric thermocouple units n the wreckage, he said. still re- very high temperatures. which would prohibit handling the metal cab- nets and safes buried there. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1928. okl e ——————————————————— INTERNAL REVENUE BUILDING PROJECT GETS UNDER WAY DIGGING IS STARTED O REVENUE SITE Steam Shovels, Trucks and Piledrivers Begin Work on $10,000,000 Structure. With (hree steam shovels and a fleet of truckn golng full blast, two plle- drivers moving In, and three more due to arrive within a few days, work Is In full sway today on the big Internal Revenue Bullding site. Now that the stage of activity has arrived, prospects are for record-break- ing amount of machinery and conse- quent nolse for many months. The thr team shovels and fleet of | trucks are moving dirt at high speed fon the Internal Revenue site under {the F. W. Mark Co., general contrac- tor, of Philadelphia | Two plle-drivers were being moved |into the excavation today by the Ray- {mond Concrete Plle Co. of New York City, under direction of H. F. Coyle, | superintendent in charge, who said tha | three more plle-drivers were coming | | from different parts of the country. All five of these plle-drivers will be in | action at the same time in the huge excavation at the job of sinking nearly 18.000 concrete piles on which the big | | $10,000,000 Internal Revenue Building { will rest. The Raymond company, it | Is understood, has been given 100 days In_which to drive the 8,000 piles. | Three steam shovels also are snort- |ing over on the Department of Com- | merce site, where a $17,500,000 building |is now under way | _Good progress is being made on the | Department C: Micl today said, from attack The father, Stanley, sr. MRS. JOHN B. of Hillshorough, Calif, Democratic | Houston, secks additional honors. She | Problem before it proceeds with a pub- is after the Bourbon nomination for | lic hearing. Congresswoman from the eighth con- | ressional district of California. Mrs. asserly is the daughter of the late hael Cudahy, Chicago millionaire. national June ! Seeks House Seat | delegate o the convention (). —Stanley jr., shot and killed his father to save his mother, was advanc- PLAN HEARING DATE N FARE INCREASE ' Utilities Commission to De-| g cige if W. R. & E. Should | Be Unwilling Party. Whether the Washington Railway & | | Electric Co. should be made an unwill- | ing party to the application of the Capital Traction Co. for a higher fare | will be determined this afternoon by | the Public Utilities Commission, which i1s meeting primarily to fix a date for a hearing on the fare increase petition. This question has given the commis- | sion considerable concern since lhc[ Capital Traction Co. filed its applica- tion last week. As there is little like- lihod tha® the Washington Railway & Electric Co. will voluntarily subscribe to the petition, the commission is faced with the disposition of this important | The commission, however, has a | | precedent to guide it in making a de- | cision in this case. Back in 1919, when | | the Washington Rai'way & Electric Co. | ~ | applied for a higher fare without the | YOUTH KILLS HIS FATHER. CHICAGO, Piekut, carly | support of the Capital Traction Co., the | commission applicd the increase to both | | companies. ! No indication has come from the com- | mission as to the probable date for the public hearing. ~ There have been | other important matters that are pend- ing. One is the revaluation of the prop- erties of the Washington and George- town Gas Light Companies, which is nearing completion. A rate hearing likely will follow immediately and the commission is represented as feeling that this case should be disposed of before formal consideration is given the Capital Traction Co.s' application. The commission has before it at its meeting this afternoon a petition signed by H. W. Lynn, chairman of the public utilities committee of the Southewse Washington Citizens’ Association, urg- ing the adoption of an 8-cent straight cash fare on all cars and busses oper- ated by the railway company, with free transfers to all intersecting lines. His Truthful Cycle. From the London Ovinion dy—Why do you go around begging instead of working? Tramp (with commendable candor)— Tl tell yer the truth, lady. 1 pegs ter git money for drink. Old Lady—But why do you drink the stuff? Tramp—Ter git up me courage tef go around an’ beg,_mum. CREEN MATERIAL at low prices White pine screen 5" doors with galvan- 33. ized wire........ _Sereen Door Grills. $2.30 _ Screen Moulding. fc Lin. Pt. Galvanized Screen’ Wire, 4¢ 1 Smail Orders, Given Earefat ‘Altenti No Delivery Charke - J. Frank Kelly, inc. Lumber and Millw codn Pont Faint. " Hardm Building Supplies 2101 Ga. Ave. North 1343 | rumors that the case will not be taken | |up until the Fall n view of several Dirt began to fly in earnest this morning on the site of the new Internal Revenue Building when several steam shovels and a fleet of trucks got to work. . Star Staff Photo. Sirn | NEWYORK ARLIE The buildings presented a melancholy ®pectacle today. and I portions of the r - disappeared arge walls were razed. The fires, raging un- | q checked. created tremendously high temperatures within the buildings. Netal pipes and girders were twisted Decorated of Agriculture $2,000,000 | administration building, where actual construction is going on to connect the two long-standing, but separated white marble wings. ing toward Mrs. Helen Piekut, flouris ing a pair of shears, held like a dagger. The 20-year-old son snatcked up a rusty revolver and pulled the trigger twice. 9 When police srrived they found the vouth pacing np and down the living room floor besice” his father’s body, the and bent. and great lumps of glass, | i festooned like ice over pipes and ma- | gonry in the front of the buildings. | &how that the window panes melted and ran like water. The side walls of 1009 B street, a | five-story building, are the only ones | which were not almost completely razed. Portions of both these walls above the People Refuse to Re-enter| fourth story are broken away and the | west wall is cracked and leaning at a | — i dangerous angle. This wall will te| Homes—Americans Flee pulied down tomorrow morning before | the removal of the safes is attempted From Hotels. The four walls of 1007 B street, a two- Stery . structure. were almost entirely | e awn.d fl'rhe ‘f?m of m}?s above the ! p. e Assyciated Eress. #econd floor fell in and the major por- - tion of the back wall also has fajien,| MEXICO CITY, J‘é’"’ h’“’;""" | reigned in Central and Southern Mexico . Temperatures Recerded. today after earthquakes had shaken the Fifty thermo-counle units Wor> | ragion from the Gulf of Mexico to the Placed in the walls of the buildings, the | GUif of Tehuantepec for two days. Fecording ends projecting into the | Apparently the only casualties oc- buildings, and 45 more were placed =0 | curred in the State of Oaxaca. Dis- Bs to be buried in the debris and o | patches from there stated: “There were imaintain 2 constant record of the tem- | casualties and numerous houses col- Deratures until the last vestige of fire Japsed.” The number of the victims disavpears. . was not given These units consist of double strands| In many places people were camped ©f wire of special allovs whose re- in the open. refusing to re-enter their Bistance to the passage of electrical | homes in fear of new tremors. | current is affected by their tempera-| Oaxaca was just beginning to recover | tures. By the amount of current pass- | from an earthquake of two months ago dng through the wires the tempera- |and was the center of the disturbance. | ‘ture can be determined and automati- | Fifty distinct shocks were felt there ‘ gally recorded over any desired period. |in the first hour of the quake Saturday | sald to use the heaviest bat in base rusty revolver ball, | | The “King of Swat.” Babe Ruth. fs | hand. It weight 54 ounce OPENS TMORROW ‘Regular Passenger Plane‘ Service to Be Inaugurated | From Capital. Washington's first scheduled airplane passenger service to New York will be inaugurated tomorrow morning at 9:30 | o'clock. when a plane of the Seaboard | | Air Lines, Inc. takes off from the | Washington Airport, at the south end | of Highway Bridge, for the Teterboro | Alrport, New Jersey, the New York ter- minal, it was announced today by | Robert E. Punkhouser, president of the 5 - | line. JUDGE MARION DEVRI The first pasengers to be caried over | Washington attorney. who has been | the route will be Miss Lillian Lackey awarded the Order of St. Olon, first and William Hottel, dress buyer and class by the Norwegian government. The | traffic manager. respectively, of Lans- decoration was made in recognition of burgh & Bro. Department Store, who DeVries' “professional services -nd\hnve planned the trip in connection valuable legal assistance.” it was said. | With the arrival of a shipment of goods Judge DeVries is a former Justice of | from Europe scheduled tomorrow morn- United States Court of Customs Appeals | IDE. and served in the Fifty-fifth and Fifty- Walter A. Brooke, general manager | | | | still clenched ASTE alone tells you about Tea — taste the unfamiliar delicacy of Wilkins in Character Furniture CONSIDER— Your Pocketbook CONSIDER— Good Taste CONSIDER— - The wires, incased in asbestos, were ht and tremors of lesser intensity | sixth Congresses from th .| and chief pilot of the new service, will Inclosed in’ metal pipes to protect them | weve felt Sunday, . Strecis.in the ety | jrr of Cotitorais e s i ik b e drom breakage as far as possible. Many of Oaxaca were cluttered with the de- Orange Pekoe—unfamiliar because it is not only from one of the two tenderest leaves . KAUFMANNS ©f them, however, were put out of com- | bris of fallen walls. ission when the walls and floors fell.| Heavy seas rushed inland at Puerto All of the thermocouples were con- Angel for a distance of 60 yards. Vari- | cted with recording apparatus in a ous warehouses along the water front brick ‘m concrete “observa- | were destroyed. h sidc of the square| Big fissures were opened in the hills the -buiidings are located. 'along the railroad tracks at Puchutla of the safes and cabinets. in and landslides were threatened. ! Some casualties occurred at Miahuat- | c lan and the property damage was heavy rature of the contents and the time | In Mexico City the earthquakes were e fioors collapsed and allowed the | felt as late as 5:30 o'clock last night. | Mnits o drop into the basement. and these widened the cracks which | ‘When all of the records are compiled. | had appeared in the streets and pave- Ingberz said. the results of the unique | ments. Many plate-glass windows were fest will be made publi~ for the benefit | shattered in the business section, and a of manufacturers of safes and cabinets | few adobe walls fell. engineers, architects and the general! In the hetéls groups of foreign tour-# Ppublic. ists, including many Americans, fled The debris will b> entirely cleared into the strects. | away before the end of the week and | The movement was strong enough to | excavation is soon 1o begin on the site, | swerve automobiles from their course | which is a nart of the area to be cov- and throw pedestrians from their rm.‘ Lime Content of Marl. The term “marl” is used in a gen- wral sense for any soft, earthy and erumbling strata or_deposits, says the New York World. In a more specific sense, however. the term is applied to en earthy. crumbling deposit consisting | of clay and perhaps sand. Chiefly it consists of clay mixed with calcium earbonate in varying proportions. It $s used as a fertilizer on sofls deficient in lime ered by the new Internal Revenue One of the hospitals reported a case of Building. . hysteria on the part of a taxicab driver. ’ IR ST R N, He became delirious with fear when his car skidded erratically. The driver lost MAPLE SUGAR IMPORTED. control of his automobile. and it plunged * | across the sidewalk at full speed, smash- e ing into a building and cutting two pas- A a Challengin r ‘s sengers. s © B Tl ey lcaier ths slliesicaat. Leadership in Production. ed for the exits. There were jams and BT ALBAMS, Y1 Fuse 510 () | Tihes st the doors, :but Do «serious Vermont's claim to leadership in the In one theater a motion picture de- production of maple products is being picting the life of C‘:hrislr s being challenged by the ¢ | shown. A representation of the cruci- . o O'r”,hC;““da he monthly | o it was cast o the screen and the | ement of the Vermont customs dis- | title describing how the veil of the| Arict shows. More than half the $56,821 temple was rent in twain at the mo- in“revenue collected at Newport during |ment of Christ’s death had just been | April came from duties paid on maple | flashed when the first shock came, | #ugar products crossing the border from | __The audience rushed for the strest Canada. Nearly 1500000 pounds was Men and women crossed themselves imported. Automobile travel showed a | and dropped to their knees on the side- marked increase. A total of 28,916 cars | walks, invoking divine mercy. All at- with 82418 passengers crossed the line | tempts of theater employes to stop the | during May. rush were futile. The electric lights went off for a time and increased the panic. Water- mains were also broken. | There was panic as well in Puebla, Vera Cruz and other towns, people | rushed from their homes into the streets and plazas and fell upon their knees in prayer Seismological reports at Tacubaya observatory showed that shocks had oc- curred every hour from Saturday eve- ning until last night. The center of the disturbance was placed at Jamilteper and Pochutla in the State of Oaxaca Woman Clings to Torn Money asga:ait Fires Bullet Through Folds of Dress Refusing o even after zn assal that went Morris, eolored, 1301 jast night walked inio the second precinct station house sull clutching the torn balves of five $1 bills, Bhe was uninjured ‘The woman sald that she was stand- | fng in front of her home about 9:30 Jast night when a colored youth. about 20 years old, approached her and asked whether she would change a $5 bill £ne obligingly producs e money and was starting 1o count it out when relinqu her money the youth grabbed one end of it. She | retained her hold as the youth at- tempted to wrest it from her grasp. Finding that she was stronger than he thought, her assilant said, “If you do not let go I will shoot,” reaching in his rear pocket as he spoke Even when she saw the gun Cecllla clung to her money. 8he stood horri- fied as the bandit leveled the pistol, and a bullet tore through the folds of her dress. the powder hurning the ma- [ But she held the money | outh made one mighty effort to' money, tearing it in half, and Cecllia Freeman's court, The get the fied New House at Less Than Cost 209 Underwood St. N.W. Detached Lot 45x135 Feet to Alley $7,450—8%60 Cash and $60 Per Month Near stores ew 1) ( . Mumcipal Playground Drive out Georgia Ave 1o Rittenhouse Bt and north ks 1o Underwood St 1, 14th Bt. carl J. 5. FRASER, Shep. 3062-W $4.250, chool and hlock S-acre D from cast 10 block of Becond Bt “Takoma” car on plane assigned for the route is a Ryan brougham. with cabin space for four passengers. aving here at 9:30 o'clock the ship will make the journey HOOVER MAY STAY IN CABINET UNTIL | o o b emns hesd ELECTION OR LATER | ®Fukiouser said today only one | {round trip to the metropolis will be | made for the present, but as traffic ! Increases additional planes will be used. of the tea plant, but from the high places of Ceylon and India so limited in their much- sought output. Taste it—your grocer can supply it now < In 10c, % Ib. and ¥; Ib. packages —__ (Continued from _Page,) undergraduate at Leland Stanford Uni- e versity, arrived early from Kansas City, Wealth From Waste. where he attended the convention while | Alumsnu‘m. 50 pnp\;lml" rtm; the man;;‘ is fat] g {facture of pots and kettles may ;“ her was being nominated. Her- superseded or find a close rival in & rt, Jr., an instructor at Harvard Uni- | new metal called beryllium. Extracted versity, and his young wife, had been | from ores previously dumped away as house guests during the past week. | waste, beryllium promises special value Mr. and Mrs. Hoover and their sons | in making kitchen utensils, frames for and daughter-in-law attended church | airships and pistons for motor cars. services in the Friends Meeting House, ! It is about a third lighter than alum- 1817 T strect, where they heard Friend | inum, yet much harder, with four times Julier C. Patten read selections from | its elasticity. It resists salt water, which the twenty-first chapter of Revelations. | corrodes aluminum, and seems unaf- The final verses she read were “I will | ected by liquids and fumes. Its light give unto him that is athirst of the | gray color takes on a polish like that of fountain of the water of life freely. He | fine steel. that overcometh shall inherit all things: | = and I will be his God and he shall be T e wmne "MENU PEAS Prof. Robert Brown of the George | ;-afe srown and packed fo School, Newton, Pa.. o civil engineer || ki, Seople: moderatel like Floover, spoke on “Pioneering.” He : spoke of the pioneers in various fields JAMES M. DENTY of the past and called on men and = women of today to be pioncers in the | Nholsetls Dishlimter: fleld of spiritual thought. | - The Hoovers entered the church dur- ing a period of silent prayer, and they | took their seats without attracting lhz n e r oo attention of thelr fellow worshipers, As the se’rvlccs ’u‘ore]on, however, there were frequenit glances from their __ Shiren” ens, ahd sher hewers = Lhe greatest va- they gathered around and expressed| heir fel 1 0 e 1 ot e TAELY Of Nationally Quaker design, modest in architecture (K 3 2 and plain in furnishings. The services | NNOWN Build ing are quiet and meditative. » Materials. 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