Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1928, Page 12

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 23, 19%8.° ON E4S VALLATION wife had him to bed and that Musical Artists Will Give Program Sherley Resumes Hearings after he had gone up stairs he smelled smoke and went back to investigate. A for Beaefit of Porto Rico School. Before Public Utilities Commission. 12 % REELEST DRSEIL FOR T7TH TERM Mid-City Citizens Name Him President of Association. Clayton Speaks. widow of Reuben B. Keys, chief avia- tion pilot, U. 8. Navy, killed in an air- | ¢ plane accident at Pensacola, Fla., Au- |Service gust 22, 1928, as a clerk in the Navy ! not concur in the action. Luqueer is high Sherley goes into de- tail, but when he is low the lawyer axkl%lx over the items. e comparison of Luqueer's and Wolf's mfl‘m the ”uufilm colatu 4‘)( reproducing the gas p! completely dre nearly the same, but they differ materially in groups of items. Lugqueer’s appraisals total $20,580,510, whereas Wolf's total is $350,000 lower. The main differences are in items for mains, service pipes and meters. Sherley offered to accept Wolf’s ap- praisal at the very outset of the valua- tion hearing two weeks ago, but the commission declined. Had it not done s0, Wolf's higher figures would have replaced Luqueer’s lower ones, and they could not be broken down under cross- examination. davenport was inflames, so he went back and awakened his wife, telling her to get out of the house. He then ran to the street and asked Edwaru Adams, colored, 19 years old, {127 Sixteenth street northeast, to turn | in an alarm. The testimony also showed that the reason for holding Smith was because he, his wife and another man, whose name was not revealed, had been drink- ing. Smith corroborated this on the stand. Smith said he thought his wife had | followed him out and was not aware | that she was still in the house until A group of distinguished musical artists will present the colorful pro- gram, “An Evening in Spain,” Thurs- day night, at the Wardman Park Hotel, for the benefit of the Spanish section nustc-lover who A. J. Driscoll was re-clected for the seventeenth time as president of the Mid-City Citizens’ Association last night at a meeting in Thomson School. Twelfth and L streets. All other offi- cers also were re-elected. The orga zation heard William McK. Clayton, chairman of the public utilities com- mittee of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, expound the utilities situ- ation in the District, forecast that a merger of street railways is coming, in- sist that the people of Washington are not fighting the utilities corporations | and declare that a fare raise at this| time would jeopardize a merger in Con- | gress. “The citizens have not been engaged in warfare on the utilities at any time,” Mr. Clayton declared. “It isn't so that we are fighting the corporations. Never hes there been such a patient, long- suffering people in trancportation mat- ters as in the City of Washington.” Mr. Clayton said he did not think District affairs were ever in finer hands in Congress than in Senator Capper, chairman of the Senate District com- mittee. and his associates, adding that a “merger is worth while waiting a lit- tle time for,” although he insisted the ‘ciupipnnies' merger “wasn't a square a1 Turning his attention to the develop- ment in the triangle, where the Federal Government is engaged in building ex- pansion. Mr. Clayton said that due to this factor and others “the entire trans- portation system will have to be ironed out.” He pointed to what he called a “death trap” on New York avenue be- tween Fourteenth and Pifteenth streets and another on Fourteenth from H to T streets. and said this situation must be remedied. The electric light company wrote its Above—ANNA MARIA SHERWELL. Below—ARSENIO RALON. School Alumni Association, in the in- terest of an item of $400,000 to begin a new structure for the school, this matter now being before the Budget Bureau: urging that a two-hour park- ing limit be enforced on L street: op- position to the establishing of the House | Clai summoned as witnesses. Police reported of the University of Porto Rico, which suffered severe loss in the recent hur- ricane. The program, which will be- gin at 8:30 o'clock, is being arranged by the Washington Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish. Anna Maria Sherwell is the composer of a tone poem which will be one of the featured compositions performed. Martin, a young Spanish dancer, who has studied under the best masters in Seville, is coming direct to Wash- ington from her Chicago home, espe- cially to appear in a group of dances in the benefit. She will present her numbers in_original costumes. Arsenio Ralon, whose violin playing has made him popular in Washington, will present several selections. Other numbers include readings by Miss Mac- Dermott and Dr. Izaguirre - of the Honduran legation. Tickets for this benefit are on sale at theater agencies of the Willard and Carlton Hotels and also at the Restau- rant Madrillon. ARRESTED BY VICE SQUAD. Charles Purvis Harris, colored, 32 years old, in the cigar business in the 1100 block of Eighteenth street, was arrested yesterday afternoon by mem- bers of Sergt. O. J. Letterman’s vice squad and charged with setting up a gambling table. Six men were found in the store by the raiders. They were questioned and L tl t t! [i | the sefzure of slivs indicating plays had been made on the races. Harris de- posited $50 collateral for his ap- gineer of the Washington Gas Light Co., continued today with the resump-} case before the Public Utilities Com- mi company's legal staff, made the exam- ination of Luqueer, and put to full use and the commission’s en ing the 10-day halt in the valuation proceedings. The statement was intr duced yesterday and put into the rec- ord as “Exhibit X.” when Sherley re- fused to accept it as company evidence. what, questioning Luqueer minutely as to items of the appraisals and compar- ing them for the first time with the estimates of H. Carl Wolf, the commis- sion's engineer. This was done to show some cases than Luqueer’s, and in others they are almost equal. estimates failed to contain a total fig- ure as to the cost of reproducing new as Luqueer had listed $2,884,380. Wolf's estimates, oped, were scattered over several pages | without a total, and nowhere in the comparative found a comparison of items showing the reproduction cost of the west sta- tion complete. Ralph B. Fleharty, peoples’ counsel be- rorekthe commission, an impromptu re- mar] Examination of R. O. Luqueer, en- jon of hearings on the gas valuation ission. Swagar Sherley, chief of the gas he comparative statement of reproduc- fon costs prepared by the company’s eers dur- Sherley also changed his tactics some- hat Wolf’s appraisals were higher in Sherley also brought out that Wolf's he gas company’s west station. where- this item at it devel- “Exhibit X" could be Sherley’s new tactics drew from to the effect that wherever HUSBAND IS FREED IN DEATH OF WIFE' Verdict in Case Holds Mrs. Lila Smith Succumbed to Burns Ac- cidentally Received. A verdict of accidental death in the case of Mrs, Lila Smith, 48 years old, who was fatally burned in a fire yester- day morning at her home at 205 Eighth street northeast, today automatically ex- onerated her husband, Sidney E. Smith, of all blame. Smith has been held at — e e ENTERPRISE SERIAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION 7th St. & La. Ave. N.W. 61st Issue of Stock Now Open for Subscription Money Loaned to Members on Easy Monthly Payments James E. Connelly James F. Shea President Secretary he heard her screams after arrival of firemen. her from the second floor and took her | (to Casualty Hospital, where.she died | last night. {PILOT’S WIDOW GETS JOB. the employment of Mrs. Lilian C. Keys, R — AR Two fire lieutenants rescued | S Jas ever longed gt Jor an encore . . Executive orders just issued authorize ILD applause rings through the concert hall as the last piano note dies away. “Again! Again” a thousand clap- ping hands implore. But the master’s hands drop from the keyboard. 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Mr. Clayton said, and | of Detention in any residential section; | Pearance. the gas rate was “pounded down" from | indorsement of the efforts of the Board $1.35 to 81, and he added that “we|of Trade to obtain the Roosevelt me- had no help but from the citizens' | morial for the city: indorsement of the associations.” Kiwanis Club's effort for added edu- Going into the financial aspects of | cational facilities for crippled children the utilities, Mr. Clayton declared that | of the Capital; officially thanking Col. | “the telephone company is admittedly | William B. Ladue, the District’s En- { on the shady side of Easy street” and |.gineer Commissioner, and Mr. Clayton that the electric light company is|and other members of his committee “making big money." for their efforts in opposing any in- ‘'We want them to be just what they | crease in street car fare, and leaving | are,” he declared. “We want them to{to the association’s delegates to the Fed- be not only the most prosperous in |eration of Citizens’ Associations the this section of the country, but in all | choice of the person to be supported for the Nation.” the presidency of that boay. In addition to honoring Mr. Driscoll with another term of office, the asso- ciation re-elected Miss E. L. Grosvenor vice president, G. T. Bowman, finan- cial secretary; Max T. Pimes, treasurer, and M. E. Salsbury, secretary. Taking action on a variety of mat- ters, after hearing from various speak- ers, the association’s business included: Indorsement of the plea of George P. 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