Evening Star Newspaper, May 3, 1929, Page 5

THE ,EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. €., FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1929 CAPITAL AIRPORT CALLED U. 3. NEED MacCracken Calls for Na- tional Support in Behalf of Local Project. Tetablishment_of a model municipal | airport for the National Capital is one of the greatest aviation necessities in | the United States today, William P.| MacCracken, jr., Assistant Secretary of | Commerce for Aeronautics, told mem- vers of the National Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries at an_aeronautical lunchcon in the New Willard Hotel yesterday The plea of Sccretary McCracken fo® national support cf District business r~n and aeronautical people in the their campalgn for a first-class atrport was made before a distingul. - | Ing of national aeronautical leaders who | were guests of the association, which is | composed of secretaries of chambers of commerce and boards of trade in all| parts of the country. | BLISS ACQURES THE CALVERTON |Several Apartments Figure in Exchange of Ownerships of $3,000,000 Property. A $3,000,000 Teal estate transaction involving the exchange of ownership of | 2 number of large apartment properties |and a long-term leaschold lms been | consummated with the acquisition of | the Calverton Apartments, large eight- | | story apartment structure’ at Columbia and Quarry roads, by the Alonzo Bliss | Properties from the Wardmsn Corpora- | tion, it was announced today. | | The Bliss organization gave in ex- | change for the Calverton property ehe | Dorchester, Twelfth street and Mary- | land avenue southwest, five-story stucco | | building; the Darlington, Twenty-fourth | and L streets. four-story brick builo'sg, | and the Penhurst, 48 H uweet nort¥.- east, » six-story brick spucture, a1d e RAILROADS PLAN SLASH | Eastern Trunk Lines Would Move SR sy iouis Have Bocn o | Iot on Sixteentt street veween Varnum Order to ‘Step Up’ Is Taken Literally By Woman Prisoner Police Court attaches are plan- ning_to _change the order with which they command prisoners to step before the bar of justice. Mary Bailey, colored, first block of Congress court, charged with destroying private property, ap- peared in the court dock this morning to await trial before Judge Ralph Given. When the | ! woman's name was called she | | stepped forth and_stood before | | the counsel table, but as she is of diminutive stature bailiffs be- lieved she should stand closer. “Step up.” ordered a bailiff. Mary did. She stepped up on & | | chair and was about to stand on the counsel table when halted and ordered to retrace her steps. ‘The woman was arrested by Officer L. Parks of the second precinet yesterday, but after tes- timony was heard Judge Given ordered the charge dismissed. iN EXPORT GRAIN RATES DEBENTURE PLAN WINS TWO VOTES Advocates of Measure Claim | Support of Senators Cope- land and Nye. CHILD HIT BY CAR DIES OF INJURIES Three Persons Suffer Slight| Hurts in Trio of Traf- fic Accidents. By the Associated Press. Senate advocates of the export de- benture plan today claimed two more votes from the ranks of those they had | previously put down as certain to cast | their ballot against the proposal. ‘The two claimed are Senator Cope- land, Democrat, of New York, and Nye, Republican, of North Dakota. Senator Copeland declared on the floor that he intended “to hold his nose and vote for the debenture plan” as altered by the Norris amendment, designed to re- duce rates when overproduction is fore- cast. Questioned about the report that he would vote for the debenture plan, Senator Nye said: “I hope I have my A child was fatally hurt, and three persons were slightly injured in traffic accidents yesterday. James V. Taylor, 409 Third street, was driver of a taxicab that knocked down and fatally hurt Irving Williams, colored, 3 years old, of 1833 Florida ave- nue, at Nineteenth and T streets, yes- terday afternoon. Dies of Fractured Skull. A passing motorist took the injured boy to Freedmen's Hospital, where an examination disclosed a fracture of the skull that caused his death about an hour after he reached the hospital. amendments are pending which promise to provoke considerable debate. ‘The announcement of Senator Cope- land that he would vote for the deben- ture section divides the vote of New York on the question. Senator Wagner has declared his opposition to the plan. Senator Copeland argued that the large industrial centers of the country will not have prosperous conditions un- less the farmer 35 prosperous. There- fore, he said, he would vote for the de- benture plan, although he considered it no more than a bounty. He con- tended that the tariff was just as “economically unsound” as the deben- ture plan. He was interrupted by Senator Shep- pard, Democrat, of Texas, who said he felt compelled “to congratulate the Senator from New York for the gener- ous position he has taken in behalf of the farmer, coming as he does from the most populous State in the Nation.” SHOW HOST :I'O CARRIERS. Evening Star Boys Will See Car- nival Free Tonight. More than 700 Evening Star carrier boys will be guests tonight of the Johnny Jones Carnival at Fifteenth and H streets. The boys will be taken into every attraction and on every ride. ‘Tho Star will furnish transportation to and from the grounds. All other attractions and rides will be furnished by the management of the carnival. |FIVE SUSPECTS HELD IN NUMBER GAME RAIDS Detectives Visit Four Places to Ar- rest Quintet for Operating Lotteries. A round-up of alleged operators of the “numbers” game, which is said to have gained numerous followers here recently, netted five suspects today, all colored. ‘They were picked up by headquarters detectives in four places, two in the first block of G street, one in ths 600 block of North Capitol street and an- other in the 1300 block of Riggs street. The arrests were made following an investigation by H. W. Smith and Paul W. Jones, headauanters uetective sergeants. ‘Those booked for alleged violation of the District code prohibiting lotteries are T. S. Dyson, 17; S. A. Stewart, 2 F. D. Crawford, 37; A. G. Smith, 2’ and FEugenia Reese, 40. Salesmen Established firm, member ‘Taylor told police of the eighth pre- mind made up soon.” This is a yearly event and is eagerly | }l| of Washington Real Estate {and Webster streets, containing 20,000 | square feet. | The Wardman Corporation was rep- resented in the transactions by Harry Administration Senators still claim a majority against the plan, although they agmit the vote will be close. Sena- tor McNary of Oregon, who has the |~ tablished,” Secretary MacCracken said, | “there is meed for more airports every- | where and for improvement of those we already have. There is not a perfect | cinct that the accident was unavoidable. He was paroled by Dr. Joseph D. Rogers, deputy coroner, to appear at an in- quest at the morueg today. | Board, now developing sub- division and building new | homes, has opening for 2 Surplus Before New Crop Reaches Market. By the Associated: Press. anticipated by the carrier boys. airport in the United States today. Need Model Airport Here. “Above and beyond ail this slands out the need for an adequate air- port in the District of Columbia. Aero- | rautically speaking, what we need more than anything else in this country to- day is a model national airport for the National Capital.” Mr. MacCracken told the commercial organization officials that they will ren- der the Nation a public service if they will organize pressure upon their re- spective Senators and Representatives %0 vote for the creation here of the ;flazb airport it is possible to design and sedild. **Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecti- cut, president of the National Aero. nautic Association and chairman of the joint congressional committee on airport legislation for the District of Columbia, indorsing the statement of Mr. Mac- Cracken, declared that he is confident Congress will soon enact legislation pro- viding for the creation of a model air- port here. He safd he is confident that members of his comm:ttes are willing to Teport legislation providing for building of the country's finest airport here and ex- pressed the belief that the construction of such an airport will be started soon. Aviation Aides Present. Among the prominent aviation people present at the luncheon, in addition to Mr. MacCracken and Senator Bingham, ‘were: W. Irving Glover, Assistant Post- master General, in chairge of air mail; F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics; Col. Paul Hen- derson, former Second Assistant Post- master General in charge of air mail and now vice president of Transconti- nental Air Transport: Capt. Ross G. Hoyt, chief refueling pilot on the world's record endurance flight of the Question Mark; Miss Amelia Earhart, first woman | of air mail in March and I am sure |0 aid the progress of aviation we to cross the Atlantic by air; Miss Elinor Smith, 17-year-old New York who recently set a new world’s airplane endurance record for women; Rear Ad- miral Willlam A. Moffett, chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics; C. S. J | | Lilias Moriarty, Boston girl fiver, was selected as America’s most fascinating | sportswoman by judges headed by John Barrymore, cciated Press Photo. now is building the world’s two largest dirigibles for the United States Navy, |and Col. C. De F. Chandler, president | of the Aero Club of Washington Chapter | | of the National Aeronautic Association. | Mr. Glover predicted that the day is at hand when American business men | will demand that all mail between the | principal trade and business centers of | | the Nation be carried by air. The Post | Office Department, he says, is ready today to put postal clerks in the air to sort mail aboard planes just as the railway mail clerks work in the mail cars “We ere ready for this step and I do not think the day is far off when we will have to take the step,” he said. Tube System Next Step. As a further means of speeding up the handling of air mail, Mr. Glover | said, the Post Office Department prob- |ably will be compelled before long to | establish a pneumatic tube system be- tween airports and the post office in the cities they serve. In tracing the growth of the air mail system, Mr. Glover pointed out that in {1918, when the air mall siarted, the total amount of mail carried during all of that year was 77,000 pounds. | “Last month,” he ‘said, “mail planes | carried 76,000 pounds in a single day | as much as was carried during the en- | |tire year. We carried 523,000 pounds | {that the figures for April, which are hoolgirl, | now being tabulated, will show in excess | confidence in aeronautics in the minds |'of 570,000 pounds of mail carried by air.” | “casey” Jones took sharp.issue with | the prevailing opinion that commercial “Casey” Jones, famous ploneer aviator | aviation in Europe is farther advanced and vice president of the Curtiss Flying |than in this country. The European Service; Lieut. Lester J. Maitland, Army | reputation for suoremacy, he declared, Alr Corps, pilot of the first plane to| is largely due to American tourists who cross the Pacific Ocean; Richard F.|go there and fly on European passen- Hoyt, chairman of the board of directors | ger planes as a part of their trip, but of the Wright Aeronautical Corporation; | who never fly on the American lines former Representative Allen J. Furlow, ‘war-time fiyer and author of important aviation legislation; William C. Young, manager of the aviation department of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., which | following their return. Fly More Than Any Other. “We are flying more miles on the Wardman, Thomas Bones and James Hobbs. Involved in the transaction also was the 99-year Jeasehold on the lower three floors of the Dulin & Martin Building, at the corner of Connecticut avenue and L street, given by the Wardman Co. to John A. I. Cassedy and Mrs. Hazel D Caldwell for the Calverton | Apartments, and later traded to the | Bliss Properties;: an 8-story apartment | at 2701 Connecticut avenue; a 4-story | apartment at 2659 Connecticut avenue, and a brick residence at 1727 Colum- bia road. ‘The Wardman Corporation took back a 10-year leasehold on the first three | stories of the Dulin & Martin Building, | to be occupied by the firm of Dulin & Martin. ‘Wardman also later sold for approxi- mately $125,000 the apartment house at 2659 Connecticut avenue to the Park Road Development Co. every day than any country in the world, with the possible exception of Germany,” Jobes said, “and we fly every night more miles than all the other countries of the world together. “The United States really is leading | the world in commercial aviation today and such organizations as this gather- ing of commercial secretaries can do the country a great service by correct- ing this mistaken impression.” Women should and will play a very | important part in the development of | aviation in the United States in the | future, Miss Earhart declared. | “Too much attention is being paid to ‘selling’ aviation to the men in this country,” she said. “If the wife doesn't want her husband to fiy he usually oesn't. Similarly, it is_the mothers who give their children their first im- pressions of aviation. If we really want should bend our efforts to instilling of the women.” Miss Smith told the association that | she agreed with everything Miss Ear- hart had said and added that flights such as her endurance record and the ‘Transatlantic flight of Miss Earhart were not “stunts.” “Our flights,” she said, “were made in the honest attempt to create interest | in aviation. I feel that if I have givep | women a more active interest in flyir, that my fiight has accomplished its purpose.” Gerrish Gassaway, manager of the Chamber of Commerce of Wilmington, commercial lines of the Upited States De]., presided. Eastern trunk line railroads today were preparing to apply to the Inter- state Commerce Commission for au- thority to reduce the freight rates on export grain in order to assist in mov- ing surplus grain out of the United States before the new crop is thrown upon_the market. This decision was reached yesterday by representatives of the Eastern trunk lines, who said it was in line with the desires of the Hoover administration. Rates would be reduced between Buffalo and North Atlantic ports, Chicago to New York and St. Louis to New York. The petition is expected to be filed with the Interstate Comerce Commis- slon within a few days and it is under- stood the railroads plan to put the new rates in effect May 25. No oppo. sition from the Commerce Commission is anticipated. HELD AFTER ACCIDENT. Collision Delays Traffic for More Than Hour. Following an_automobile collision at L street and Vermont avenue, which delayed traffic this morning for more than an hour, William Johnson, 24, colofed, of the 900 block of Deleware avenue, was booked at the second pre- cinct on a charge of reckless driving. Johnson was sald to have made a sudden turn out of L street, sideswip- ing car operated by F. L. Thiering, 115 New York avenue. Both cars were badly damaged and there was some de- lay before :Fey could be moved from ! t "mwnmmmuimfily SAVE MONEY ON Lumber illwork Building Supplies Paint -Hardware Coal See Us Fi Small Orders Given Ca, Delivery CI ill in charge, has been hoping the Senaté vote on the de- ion late today, but these ave been diminished by requests for opportunity to discuss the legislation. The best guess now is that the Senate will complete its work on the bill as a whole early next week, probably Tues- Owen Earheart, 40, of Newark, N. J., was shocked and bruised last night when a taxicab in which he was a passenger was struck from the rear by a motor truck driven by William Lang- ley, 1267 Morse street northeast, at Nir'th and B streets. The cun, driven by Charles Marchant, Eciington apartments, Fourth and T streets, northeast, was going south on Ninth street. Earheart was treated at Emergency Hospital for injuries to his forehead and chest. Street Car and Auto Collide. 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