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D. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1928. and secretary of the Board of T-ade; Drown. F. W. A. Sommers, who presented a mo- | Wer l"lyer and Rich Man ) NING STAR, WASHINGTON, point out that his committee is not an “investigating” body in one sense, but THE EV. for the poultry jobbers, and this is ex- pected to be ready for occupc=~v by RAILROAD EXPANDS January 1, Col. Brown poin out. On the western side of Water street, across from the Produce Terminal Stores, the plan is to have parking ~e for automobiles and a landscaped be bulkheaded =o that suitable parking park, Col. Brown declared. The space |along the Washington Channel is to Pennsylvania Soon to Build New Fan-Shaped Bridge in Wholesale District. Expancion of railroad trackage and vehicular facilities in the vicinity of may be developed. Directly adjoining the Cudahy Pack- ing Co.'s premises, to the westward, as another unit in the wholesale market area, now stands the first unit of the | Produce Terminal Building of the Penn- s:lvania Railroad for the display of | samples and sale of produce received in car lots. Col. Brown pointed out that this wholesale market development is going forward with an eye to Washington soon becoming a city of & million people, and Fourteenth and Water streets southwest | while this development is being done in conjunction with the development of | by private enterprise, it fits into the & wholesale market area in that local- | comprehensive “plan of Washington, ity is a program that is taking definite | the L’Enfant plan, as enlarged by the POLECONDTONS PRASED BY BSON | Confidence Resolution Adopt- ed by Trade Group After Legislator’s Talk. Conditions in the local Police Depart- | ment, which last Winter irew scvere | censure from members of Congress and |the public,’ have been greatly improved since adjournment of the last C._.gress. one studying local government affairs with a view to being constructively helpful. Pointing to the “lack of understand- ing” between members of Congress and residents of the District, Chairman Gibson expressed the hope that Con- gress and the local citizenry could get together for greater mutusl under- standing, co-operation and apprecia- tion. W. W. Everett, president of the Board of Trade, said the executives of the board were at work on means of promoting better relations. | The committee unanimous'~ adopted the resolution introduced by Eliot H. | Thomson, which expressed confidence in the “character, courtesy and compe- tency” of the Police Department; the belief that it is “superior to that of | most American cities and excelled by few, if any,” and called upon citizens of the National Capital to give their moral support to the department. Maj. Dcrald A. Davison, Assistant tion, which was adopted, providing for a special committee to collect police statistics; Odell S. Smith, chairnm.“n of { the public order committee; Luther | | Linkins, chairman of the membership | committee, and George W. Offutt, chair- 1zan of the traffic committee. Mr. Gibc.a last night applied for| membership in the Bqard of Trade. MURDER AND SUICIDE. | Bride and Husband. FORT MYERS, Fla, November 20 (#).—A 50-year-old bride and mother ‘of 10 children, and Frank Boxx, her | laborer-husband of 32, were dead today and the verdict was murder and sui- cide. Although a note in the husband's Verdict in Death of 50-Year-Old| = PETERSBURG, Alaska, November 20 (#).—C. M. Holm, World War fiyer and owner of the local telephone ex- | change, and Paul Lund, wealthy busi- ness man and member of the City Coun- cil, were drowned when a small - skiff they wers using on a hunting trip was swamped. . Ulster, Ireland, has started a cam- paign for pre-war prosperity by initiat- | ;ngl 9.'?9 intensive drive for tourist trade n A ' Use Nozol for Sinus Trouble | Those suffering from sinus trouble should | washaway thedrain- age from sinuses and clear out the nasal| cavities with Nozol. Central Armature Works 625-627 D Street N.W. Phcne Main 3660-1-2 SPECIALISTS Industrial Power and Lighting Work Transformer Vaults, Switchboards | _This is the finding of Representative a | Gibson of Vermont, member of the | Engineer Commissioner of the District, | House District Committee and chair- |an honor guest, declared the resolutio | man of its now famous subcommittee | was well merited by the local police. which is continuing its scrutiny of the | On motion of Matthew O'Brien, the administration of District government, | committee approved a resolution onpos- as expressed last night in addressing |ing passage of the Senate bill to author- the public order committee of the|ize amateur boxing in the District, on Board of Trade at a dinner meeting at'th: ground that it was too far-reaching the Raleigh Hotel. ,and would serve to prevent rather than Mr. Gibson emphasized that no police | to encourage amateur. boxing. The force in the country has quite the|committee recommended that the pres- problem that faces the local depart-|ent law on this subject be amended so ment, as to empower the Commissioners to The trade group adopted a resolution | make and enforce regulations governing expressing confidence in the Washing- |all pugilist:> and boxing bouts here. ton police force and urging the public Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen, U. S. A.‘ to give it moral support, and approved | retired, and others spoke in favor of a report by a committee headed by |permitting amateur boxing in the Dis- Claude W. Owen which pointed to im- |trict without heavy handizaps, which, provements in discipline in the depart- |it was felt, would be created by the | ment resulting from the institution of | pending Senate bill. |a new police trial board system. Others who spoke were Ben T. Web- Mr. Gibson took the opportunity to !ster, president of the Real Estate Board handwriting described the woman as | “the sweetest woman on_earth,” the i coroner’s jury decided that he had | beaten her during a quarrel at a fish | pond, and, unable to revive her after | taking her home, had shot himself to | ! death. The children, ranging from 10 to 30 | years in age, were by three other mar- riages. shape and will be pushed in the imme- | McMillan Ccmmission of 1901, and has diate future. The Pennsylvania Rall-|reccived the indorsement of the Na- road, it was learned today, is nearly|tional Capital Park and Planning Com- ready to erect a new fan-shaped bridge | mission and of the Commission of Fine for carrying trackage into the South-|Arts. The whole area, he declared, is west wholesale market area, now being | being co-ordinated. with the steamboat developed, and is likely to start steel |wharves and the fish market docks on construction within a week. The bridge | the Washington Channel fronting on is expected to be completed about Jan- | Water street forming an economic unity. uary 1, and will cost approximately| The farmers’ market controversy, Col. $250,000. Brown made clear, is not a factor in The new railroad bridge, which will | the co-ordinated wholesale market dis- span Water street, hooking up the | trict. The District Commissioners, wholesale market area with the main |however, have recommended that the line to the south, across the Potomac | farmers’ market be located between River, has received the approval of the | Tenth and Eleventh and E and G Fine Arts Commission. The two abut- |streets southwest, and the Stalker bill, ments for this bridge are already in |providing for this, is now pending be- place, and the steel is being fabricated | fore the Senate. This area is directly in Pennsylvania and will be shipped to Washington soon to be put in place. ‘Then the switching tracks will be laid, the new bridge nearly paralleling the resent bridge across Water street and eing placed directly south of it. In_ addition to this railroad - bridge construction, the Fine Arts Commission will soon consider a projected vehicular | traffic bridge across the Washington channel, running paraliel to the rafl- road span across the Potomac. This | will lead from Potomac Park and dis- iribute automobile trafic to Water street, much to the relief of motorists ‘who are now caught in a tangle in the gfi‘x’\‘t’&g of trxlae Bl‘z;esu of Engraving and when there is congestion in that locality. Bridge 80 Feet Long. The new railroad bridge, which will e about 80 feet long, will carry track- age to serve ‘the Terminal Market Stores, Col. Wrisley Brown, president of the Potomac Freight Terminals Co., explained today. Double trackage will be constructed back of the produce terminal building, excavation for which has 'just been begun, Col. Brown said, and double trackage will also be con- structed back 'of E street for team truck delivery. At the present time there are tracks horth of E street,-but in addition, under the new program, Col. Brown declared, E street from Twelfth to Fourteenth, which has been abandoned for street purposes to permit of railroad expan- sion there, has been dedicated for trackage, as have Thirteenth and Thir- teenth-and-a-half streets from Mary- e to Water street. The new swifching bridge of the Pennsylvania ‘Railroad, Col. = Brown pointed' out, will ‘permit Washington’s modern wholesale market-to be better served from the.main running tracks of the railroad system from the North and West and" from nearby Potomac ¥ the converging point for all Southern -~ trunk . lines. . Pennsylvania Railrcad engines bring freight of the | Southarn- carrisrs acfoss Long Bridge | on a tonnage basis, ‘switching the cars Iménxilcénmac Yal;d, ol. Brown pointed out that Maj. Brehon B. Somerville, District englneejr of the Army Engineer Corps, who is in charge of water front development for this area, suggested the plan of archi- tecture for the Produce Terminal Stores, now under construction. This strue- ture will be of modified colonial design, and will harmonize with the Municipal Fish Market, on the other side of the &tireet, but not directly across from the Produce Terminal Stores. The building will serve commission merchants and ‘w!‘;olmalers of fresh fruits and vege- ebles. Cold Storage Refrigeration. Col. Brown ¢alled attention to the point that the projected wholesale mar- ket, is about half a mile directly south of the present market. district, near the new. Nationa] Museum. 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