Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1929, Page 13

-~ @he Foen o . 'WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Star. Society and ] General ' BUDGET APPEAL SENT T0 BUREAU Urgent Plea Made for Accept- ance of $48,315,627 Figure for 1931. DONOVAN POINTS OUT TAX RATE IS UNCHANGED Total Is $5,000,000 Less Than; Amount Declared Necessary by Department Heads, An earnest plea was made {o the Rureau of the Budget by the Commis- sioners today to approve without modi- fication the District’s unprecedented tentative financial budget for the 1931 fiscal year. The appeal was contained in a belated letter of transmiftal which did not accompany the budgetary esti- mates which were forwarded to the Budget Bureau yesterday. i The letter, bearing the signature of Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor and budget officer, disclosed that the total of the budgef amounts to $48,315.627, & reduction of more than $5,000,000 in the funds requested by the department heads. It also laid particular emphasis on the fact that while the budget is the largest in history, the entire amount, less the annual $9,000,000 lump sum contribution of the Federal Govern- ment, is to be paid from the general vevenue fund of the District and from certain special and trust funds. Will Retain Tax Rate. The major portion of the letter pre- sented a picture of the financial con- dition of the District, showing its abil- ity to support the record - breaking ‘budget on the existing $1.70 tax levy | and the generous use of the surplus revenues 1o the credit of the District in the United States Treasury. | This surplus at the beginning of | the current fiscal year July 1, together | with the cash fund, amounted to $8.- | 347,067.20, Donovan pointed, out by reason of the appropriations authorized and the estimated receipts in the next 12 months, the surplus probably will be reduced to $6.687,192.20 at the be- ginning of the 1931 fiscal year July 1| next. Increase of $3,775,512. “The Commissioners earnestly urge the approval by the Budget Bureau of a total sum for the financial budget for 1931 equal to that contained in the ientative budget,” said Donovan's let- ter. *“And in this respect the fact! should be borne in mind that, although the amount recommended in the tenta- | tive budget—namely, $48,315,627—is the largest budget total ever submitted for the District of Columbia, the entire amount, less the contribution of $9,- 000,000 by the United States, is to be paid_from the general revenue fund of the District of Columbia and from cer- tain special and trust funds. | The appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, including $3,000,000 appropriated at the recent special session of Congress for begin- ning the purchase of a site for the municipal center, total $44.540.115. The tentative budget for 1931, thercfore, represents an increase over the 1930 | appropriations of $3,775,512." | €Cut More Than $5,000,000. Donovan explained thaf the Com- missioners, in their study and review of the estimates of heads of municipal | activities and activites not under their administrative control, but whose ap- propriations are payable from revenues | of the District, found it necessary to cut more than $5,000,000 from the tofal of the estimates as submitted in | order to bring the amount which they | have approved for submission to the Budger Bureau within a sum that | could be provided on the basis of con- tinuing the $1.70 tax rate. and on the assumption that there will be nol change in the existing policy of fiscal | relations between the Federal and Dis- trict government, while at the same time maintaining approximately $3.- 000,000 as a cash operating fund in accordance with the provisions of the act of June 29, 1922, In preparing the budget,” Donovan sald, “the Commissioners ealled- -into conference with them the heads of the municipal departments to-develop their appropriation needs and to justify their budget recommendations’ Ior the fiscal vear 1931. The tepiative .hudget as submitled to the Budget Bureau rep- Tesents a most careful and painstaking study of the amounts required by the District. of Columbia for the fiscal year 1931 for maintenance and operating ex- penses and necessary public improve- ments.” Donovan pointed out that the $48.-| 315,627 budget, appostioned as to reve- | nue charges. is as follows: General fund of the District, $43418,737 Gasoline tax fund. 1,800.000 ‘Water fund ... 1:499,390 Trust and special fund: 1.597,500 Total ... $48,315,627 Contains Three Statements. ‘The letter also contained three state- ments relating to the financial condi- tion of the District. The first showed the condition of the general fund, be- ginning with the 1929 fiscal year and covering the fiscal years 1930 and 1931. ‘The second showed the condition of the gasoline tax fund covering the fiscal years 1925 to 1931, inclusive, while the 1hird showed the conditfoh of th¢ water fund, beginning with p%q l%é'l cal year to and including the 1931 cal ear. - 2 In the statement for the coming fis- cal year Donovan estimated the assess- ment of real estate and tangible per- sonal property would préduce’ $22,338,- 000 and the assessmept opn, jptangibles $2,750,000. The tax on public utilities, banks, building associations, etc., he es- WASHINGTON, D. C, Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet, chief of the Army Air Corps (right), and Lieut. Elwood R. Quesada are shown just before they left Bolling Field in an amphibian plane yesterday on a vacation trip into west of Hudson Bay. the far Northern Canadian woods north- Gen, Fechet’s family preceded them in another amphibian plane piloted by Capt. Ira C. Eaker, Army Air Corps, accompanied by Mrs. Eaker. All three officers are on leave from active duty. NEW GROUP TAKES| UNION LEAGUE CLUB HOME 1S N OUBT Building Corporation Fails to Make Payments on Site of Structure. Plans for the construction of a mil- lion-dollar home for the Union League Club of Washington, announced this Spring by promotors who came here to sell memberships in the club, were en- veloped in & cloud of doubt today when it was learped that the building cor- poration had failed to make payments on the site of the proposed structure. Lawrence Walker of the board of managers of the club and a promoter of the building project, could not be reached here today and it was said at his former office in the Investment Building that he was not in the city. Members Asked fo Scorn Gossip. Members of the club, however, have received letters signed “Lawrence Walk- " stating that the club had made atisfactory progress” in Washington, but asking that members “not lend your ear to any idle gossip that may be detrimental to your club.” Contracts were signed in May for the purchase of a large site for the pro- posed building on the south side of L street between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, Payments were to be made in June, On default, an extension was granted to July and, it is stated by @ representative of the unannounced own- ers, that no payments were made at that time. The contract for sale there- upon was declared null and void. The Washington Union League Club. according to word from other cities, has no_connection with the Unlon League clubs in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. « Letter Cites Plans. The letter bearing Walker’s name, re- ceived by members of the local club, states: “The board of managers wishes to announce that the club now has mem- bers in every State in the Union. It has made satisfactory progress here in ‘Washington. We are inclosing here- with & new membership roster for your | inspection. “At a Tecent meeting of the board it was decided to close our Washington office for the present time, and we will not offer any more memberships until \ the Union League Building Corporation has completed its financial program. “This decision meets with the proval of the building corporation, who are well pleased with the resulfs we have had in our membership drive up to the present time, and it now behooves | them to do their part. “You will be kept informed of our progress from time to time and we sin- cerely trust that you, a member, will not lend your ear to any idle gossip that may be detrimental to your club.” Jerry Murphy, who offers “Jerry's Famous Hot Dogs” for sale from the south end of the Highway Bridge, is looking for another dog that's “not so_hot.” This was mostly because, in addition to the hot dogs for his regular cus- tomers, Jerry kept a police dog es- | | pecially for burglars. Sunday night, Jerry explained, they called on him. And instead of taking the usual mus- tard and onions, the burglars took Jerry's police dog, with plenty of money. “That dog was not so hot” Jerry told police, “but what about the $120 3 in the cash register?” The police, incidentially, looking for the answer. are still WINS SEWING PRIZE. Mrs. Mary Burns Awarded $100 in timated, should yield $2,310,000. The miscellaneous revenue- ‘cotlections, ac- cording to his estimate, will amount to $3,000,000. With the release af rev- enue reserves for unexpended balances of appropriations, the Federal Govern- ‘ment’s $9,000,000 contribution and the surplus of $6,687,192.20 at the begin- ning of the current fiscal year, he fig- ured, the revenue available for the gen- eral fund for the 1931 fiscal year would amount to $46,435,192.20. The tentative budget charges against this revenue availability are $48,315- 627, less the gasoline tax, water and trust funds, amounting to $4,896,890, re- ducing the general fund charges to $43,418737. The free cash operating fund at the close of the 1981 fiscal year, according to the auditor’ jations, should amount to $3,016,455.20. No allowance was made, however, for supplemental or deficiency appropria- tions in the 1931 set-up. Porker Warms Monkeys. OTTAWA, July 16 () .—There's a pig here that's popular with monkeys. The cage was too chilly at an amuse- ment park nights till Mr. Porker came 1o the rescue. He sleeps in the cage and radiates enough body heat to make things cozy. National Contest. Mrs. Mary Burns, 749 Hamilton street, was presented yesterday with @ check for $100—second prize in a national ~dressmaking contest. ~The presentation was made by Miss Jackie Metz, fashionist for the Hecht Co. —Star Staff Photo. CHARGE OF WILLARD Frank S. Hight Heads Com- | pany Which Acquires Con- trol of Famous Hotel. Control of the Willard Hotel has passed from the Boomer-du Pont inter- | ests, which have been operating it | for the past eight years, to a new oper- ating company headed by Frank S. Hight, it was announced today by Hight, who for many years has managed the historic hostelry for the out-of-town | fi.terests. Hight is president of the new com- pany, The Willard, luc., and today also | announced plans of the new concern | for material improvement of the hotel in the near future, Hight refused today to disclose the names of those associated with him in the deal which brings to local con- trol a historic hotel which has been host to many famous figures in_its time, and which is successor to a long | line of famous hotels on its site. Nei- | ther was the amount of money in- volved in the transaction which brings the lease of the Boomer-du Pont inter- Negotiate Long Time. | for the Willard for some time. A month ;ngo L. M. Boomer, president of the | Capliol Hotel Co.. the firm which bas | been operating the Willard, said he had received an offer for the Willard and that negotiations for a change of | control would be entered into if “con- ‘resswm< ‘were made.” He said at that | time that several previous offers had | beért mdde for the hotel, but refused to | Teveal the sources of any of the offers. At the time Boomer announced the re- ceipt of an offer for the hotel, Hight | declared that it was “too early to make | any statement” about the negotiations in_progress. Hight's statement today says that the { hotel will be operated as an independ- | ent, hotel, its connection with the chain | wirich inclnded the now dismantled Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, the DuPont_Hotel in Wilmington, | Del, and the Bellevue-Stratford in Philadelphia being severed. Built in Three Sections. ‘The present hotel was built in three | sections—the first, in 1901, at the northwest corner of Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania_avenue, site of the original Willard’s Hotel; the second an extension to F street shortly after, and | about. three years ago. ‘The first hotel on the site was John Strother’s Mansion House, which was taken over by Basil Willlamson in 1824, In the 30s Azariah Fuller was the pro- prietor, and he changed the name to the Mansion House, but later this name was changed to the City Hotel, and it was known by this name when the Willards, Edwin D. and Henry A., ook it over in 1847. They gave their name to the hotel upon taking it over. The hotel has been host to Lafayette, Presidents Taylor, Plerce, Buchanan. Lincoln, Grant, Harding, Coolidge and many other famous personages. e R BRIDE NOT IN NEW YORK | ON GAS PROBE MISSION Corporation Counsel William W. Bride had & hearty chuckle this morn- ing over stories published yesterday in- terpreting his one-day visit to New York as evidence of a sweeping investi- gation into recent acquisition of control of the Washington Gas Light Co. by New York interests. “As a matter of fact,” he said, “I was a member of a committee of the bond- holders of a defunct Michigan railroad company. We had a meeting, and I must say we did preity well. We se- cured a settlement of 49 cents on the dollar when I had been hoping for 15. “I saw nobody concerned in the gas purchase, and had no intention of see- ing anybody. The gas company pur- chase is something that must be looked into very carefully, and it will be months “before there will be any progress whatever to report. I could do ngm good by rushing off to New York about it.” Drive to Force Muzzling of Dogs Opened; Enforcement Orders Posted in Precincts A District-wide drive to force own- ers to muzzle their dogs got under way ender and the o :::ammt orders in the various pre- On the heels of two bulletins from the office of Maj, Henry G. - structing the lice force to be on the alert for ingements of the muz- 2l ition, Mrs. Johanna Bauer of at the ninth precinct and required dePont 5 collateral, after her dog was alle k ged to have bitten Irving 9 years old, of 707 Seventh northeast. rke, 8t 08 E street northeast was bouke'g rect | ing _near her home. ‘The child was passing near Mrs, ‘Bauer's home, he said, when the dog attacked him. He was for minor lacerations by Dr. F. T. Crist of 901 H street northeast. ‘Two other children were bitten by dogs 'yesterday afternoon and gvenh-ls. Stanley Becker, colored, 9 years old, of 1610 PFifth street was bitten on the right arm while he was playing in front of his home. He was treated old, | to convince the woman her mi t cheek by a dog as she was play- She A | to Emergency Hospital. ‘esls to the local organization disclosed. | The new group has been dickering | |a third addition on F street was erected | was taken her ,$5lll BOND OR JAL TERM ORDERED IN THREAT 10 KiLL Woman Testifies She Took Out Warrant After Being Menaced by Defendant. LEET HIM LAST NIGHT T0 GO FOR POLICE Says She Met Him on Several Oc- casions, Fearing Death if She Refused. Convicted of threatening the life of Fay McKenzie, 1600 block of R street, Stewart K. Hill of the same address was ordered to post bond of $500 or serve 60 days in jail to preserve the peace when he appeared before Judge Isaac R. Hitt iy Police Court today. The complaining witness, who is sald to be named as corespondent in divorce proceedings filed by Hill's wife, testified that on July 12 the defendant forced her into an automoblle and threatened to kill her. She later secured a war- rant, but as Hill had threatened her she met him on other ocasions, she said, fearing he would put his threat into effect if she refused. ‘When she attended a roadhouse north of Washington, in Maryland, last night with him, his actions frightened—her and she returned to the city on a street car to summon_police. Policeman C. {C. Carver and E. P. Hartman testifled they went with the woman to her home following her complaint last night and found Hill walking back and forth in front of the huose. When they at- tempted to take him into custody he fled to & vacant house, but was later apprehended. He is sald to have re- sisted arrest and was also charged with disorderly conduct, on which charge he was fined $10. Hill is also named as co-respondent in a divorce suit filed by the woman's husband. He denied threatening her and sald they had been friends for more than two years. Hill recently appeared in Police Court jon a reckless driving charge as when operating his automobile he struck and killed the horse of Mounted Police- man W. D. Sheetz. He was fined $50 on that charge. SENATOR DECLINES - TOAD ANDERSON Caraway Commends Wash- ington Police in Holding Trial Board Action Fair. Senator Caraway of Arkansas, to whom Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superin- tendent of police, submitted papers in the case of Policeman Joseph W. An- derson, sald today he had found noth- ing to warrant him In interposing an objection to the police trial board's recommendation that Anderson be dis- missed from the force. Anderson, whom the trial board found guilty of conduct prejudicial to the good order and discipline of the force, complained to Senator Caraway that he had been “framed” because he had accused other officers of accepting graft, and shortly before the Arkansas Senator left Washington after the re- cess of the Senate he asked Maj. Pratt for a full statement of the facts in the case. Anderson appeared before the Trial Board on June 6 last on a charge of failing to pay a just debt and his ex- planation of failure to pay the debt was that he was “not taking graft like some members of the force.” The board sub- sequently found Anderson guilty of con- duct prejudicial to the good order of the force and insubordination. Senator Caraway, pointing out today that he had not promised to help An- derson, but had agreed to look into the facts in the case, sald he was not im- 'gl’ess!d with Anderson’s story and that e was convinced the man was given fair trial by the Police Trial Board. “There never was & police force of several hundred men in which there were not irregularities,” Caraway said. “But I think the Washington force is, on the whole, good. I am convinced the Trial Board was fair to Anderson.” D. C. Student Advanced. Robert W. Brown, 1348 Euclid street, a student at the Citizens’ Military Training Camps Cavalry Camp, at Fort Myer, Va., has been named a stu- dent sergeant in the famous 3d Cav- alry, whose officers are the instructors of the 250 boys in training. Woman Visitor Here Insists Upon Seeing “The” Bureau Chief Mrs, Moses Sweet came to Washing- ton yesterday looking for “the bureau chief,” and stegdfastly resisted the no- tion that there were several of the aforesaid officlals hereabouts. Mrs. Sweet planted herself on the front steps of the Nation's Capital, which seemed a likely place, and there she sat while Capitol guards and an m!rom the Travelers' Aid Soclety di rsed on the multiplicity of “bu- reau chiefs” to no avail. “Needle in Haystack.” “Looking for an unidentified bureau chief in Washington,” sald the guard, “4s like looking for a needle in & hay- stack, only worse. You better go home.” ‘This Mrs. Sweet declined to do. Her husband, she explained, had been com- mitted to the State Hospital at Harris- burg, Pa., and she wanted “the bureau chle‘(" in Washington to get him out again. On her arrival here Mrs. Sweet, about 45 years old, of German-Serbian ted a card to_the agent, Miss Edna inscribed with the words “bureau chief.” Stopped on Steps. “I want to_find him now,” she said, “because he helped us when our barn burned down.” The woman was di- rected to the office of Senator Vare of Pennsylvania, but she got only to the front steps of the Capitol. It took the combined persuasion of the guards and, finally, Miss Schneider, was fruitless, and she left for Pennsylvania late yesterday afternoon still muttering disappointment over missing “chief.” TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1929, U. S. RIFLE TEAM HERE EN ROUTE TO EUROPE [ | l Va. captain; Sergt. R. F. H Washington policemen know their traffic regulations, can even answer the somewhat ambiguous questions put to | applicants for learners' permits to drive | at the Traffic Bureau, a Star reporter found yesterdav. | With reports from the Traffic Bureau | Ilhflb of the upward of 50,000 persons) given examinations for learners' per- mits last year, about 30 per cent were sent back for a more thorough perusal of the traffic regulations, The Star sought yesterday to find out just what | the men on the beats and the police- | men on other than traffic duty knew about traffic regulations. | Answers 100 Per Cent Perfect. A sample learners’ permit examina- tion, copied down while the reporter sat beside an examiner in the Traffic Bu- reau, score of Washington policemen in the precincts and picked at random on the streets and the answers were 100 per cent perfect. The questions on which most of the license applicants fail to qualify were given emphasis in an at- tempt to catch the guardians of the law and the.safety of the streets with- out avail. ‘The quizzing. however, did not include the parking regulations, for the police- men blandly admit they do not know all the local parking fegulations, but de- clare they can set you right on any parking problem you might run across in their particular bailiwick. Nof are the permit applicants questioned on any but the most general parking regulations, their examination being confined to the first 22 pages of the traffic regulations, which set forth only general driving and parking regulations. Sample of Examination. Here is the sample examination which the policemen passed 100 per cent, but which takes a toll of about one-third of those who apply at the Traffic Bureau for licenses: ‘What is the speed limit in the Dis- trict? ‘What do you do in case of an acci- dent? How near to a street corner may you park? How near to a fire hydrant? How near a street car stop sign? ‘What do you do when coming out of an alley? How close may you come to & street car that is stopped, discharging and taking on passengers? How close may you follow fast-moving traffic? ‘When two cars meet at a street in- urse,cuun which one has the right of way Suppose the car which ordinarily should have the right of way is going to make a right or left turn, then which car would have the right of way? How long may you park abreast? When may you turn in the middle of a block? These questions generally suffice to satisfy the examiner that the applicant either has or has not read the traffic regulations, but if he has any doubts he puts a few more queftions as to gen- eral driving, such as the regulaticns governing the rotary left turn, the reg- ulations governing other left turns and the regulations governing leaving a parking space. The alley question, turning in the middle of the block, right of w? and regulations governing actions following an accident trip up the greatest num- ber of those who fail to pass the first learners’ permit test, according to the ‘Traffic Bureau examiners. Must Stick to Book. The answers must stick to the book, according to Assistant Traffic Director M. O. Eldridge, whose work largely deals with permit issuance and their revocation. The assistant traffic di- rector examines many applicants him- self, just to keep his hand in, and finds that while practically all persons who apply at the bureau for permits have a working knowledge of the rules of driving, they make a miserable failure in the examination if they have not read the rdles. “We want them to read the rules, and get the idea of them, realize what they're for, so we make them stick to %: ook dggll making tl‘:‘elr n;;:wefl." Iridge lares. “Lots of people.come ln!ur’e and keep too far on the safe side 18 or 20 miles an hour, or park 20 feet' from a fire plug, or that you may follow fast-moving traffic at a distance of 30 feet. We know right away they haven't read the regulations, so we give them a book and tell them to come back in a couple of days and make the right answers.” No Trick Questions. short time today en route to New York, where they will sail. WASHINGTON POLICEMEN PASS TRAFFIC EXAMINATION 100 PCT. was_submitted to more than a| Despite the ambiguous nature of such questions as “How long may you park abreast?” the answer to which ,is not at all, the éxaminers and Eldridge main- the tain that they do not try to catch ap- trick questions, plicants on that some * These crack shots, who will represent the United States in the international rifie matches, stoppea nere sor & They have been practicing for the past month at Quantico, Front row, left to right: H. N. Renshaw, Sergt. J. B. Sharp, W. L. Bruce, Sergt. Morris Fisher, and Marine Gunner Calvin Lioyd, team coach. Back row: Gunnery Sergl. John Blakely, Sergt. P. E. Woods, Maj. Ralph S. Keyser, team Selfxinger and Sergt. J. ¥. Hankins. -——Star Staff Photo. vReporter of Star Gives Test to Men on' Beats, Using Questions Which Dis-. | qualify Many License Applicants. questions are necessary fo ascertain whether the applicants have read the traffic regulations. ‘The driver in doubt as to just what to do, however, may feel safe in asking lany of the policemen he sees on the street, and after following the officer's direirions feel safe that he has the law 785 ARE ARRESTED UNDERAUTOLAWS ;One Accused of Failure to| | Stop After Collision—47 | Charged With Speeding. | _ Police arrested 285 persons during the | 24-hour period ending this morning, |one for alleged failure to stop after | colliding, 10 for reckless driving, 47 for | speeding’ and 227 for lesser infringe- 100 per cent on his side, 50 far as the,ments. book is concerned, for the Capital po- lice really know their traffic regulations. Traffic Inspector E. W. Brown today declared that while the above driver's permit examination was a sample one, it is not likely to be the one submitted an applicant, and that simply boning | up on this examination would not nec- essarily be expected to pass the appli- cant. “We frequently twist the examina- tions about so that the applicants will learn all the regulations, not just the questions he was asked when he was turned down on his first application for & permit,” Inspector Brown said. PORTABLES SURVEY REPORT IS DELAYED Marsh Indicates Several More Days Will Be Required to Complete Task. Several more days will be required for the municipal architect's special in- spection committee to complete its re- port on Washington's portable schools, according to Harold H. Marsh, chief structural engineer of the architect’s office and one of the engineers who examined the buildings last week. The report was to have been pre- sented tomorrow to Albert L. Harris, municipal architect, but constant in- terruptions and other duties incident to their regular work has delayed the compilation of their findings by Mr. ! Marsh and John A. Long, engineer in charge of the District Repair Shop, the other inspector. The position the engineers will take in their report was not made known by them today. They are expected, how- ever, to stress the fact that constant moving of the portable schools weakens the structures and adds materially to the general cost of upkeep. The engi- neers at present do not intend to make extensive recommendations, but mean to report the actual facts they discov- ered on their five-day tour of the build- gS. After he receives the report, Mr. Har- ris will forward it to the school author- ities, st whose request the inspection was made. TREATED FOR KNIFE CUT. While playing with his employer this morning, Louis Wolf, 15-year-old employe of the People's Hardware Co. store, at 1311 Seventh street, was pain- fully injured when the blade of a knife penetrated his left foot as it fell to the floor. The boy was taken to Sib- ey Hospital by police of the second precinct and after treatment was taken to his home at 1243 Seventh street. ‘The wound was not serious. ‘William Ray of 3203 Perry street, Mount Rainier, Md., manager of the store, said he and the youth were en- gaged in playful tussling when the ac- cident occurred. No. Fourteen precinct led in the ar- | rests for the more serious charges, with | 12 for alleged speeding, and one for | leaving after accident. Cycle Hits Tree. Careening across a stretch of the East Potomac golf course and crashing into a tree yesterday afternoon when the driver lost control, a motor cycle and side car were badly damaged and George Wiggins, colored, 32 years old, of South Washington, Va., a passenger in the side car, was slightly injured. The machine, operated by Roland A. ! Haley, 20 years old, of 3410 Bunker Hill road, was going east in Potomac Park. When it reached the west end of the golf course, Haley failél to make a turn and the accident occurred. Wig- gins was taken to Emergency Hospital in a passing automobile and treated for a fractured left knee and foot. ~_Two colored women sustained minor injuries a few minutes after midnight when an automobile in which they were riding was in collision with another car at New Jersey avenue and Q street. Cora Rivers, 27 years old, and Helen Hightower, 29 years old, both of 327 Fourteenth place northeast, were taken to Freedmen's Hospital and treated for cuts and bruises. The car in which they were riding was driven by Robert Murray, colored, 28 years old, of 416 E street northeast, and the other machine was operated by Willlam D. Contee, colored, 27 years old, of 1614 Third street. Five-year-old Gladys Hind, colored, of 355 C street southwest, was struck down by a machine driven by Maurice Mushinsky of 355 L street southwest, last evening as she ran across the street near her home. The child was taken to Providence Hospital, where she was treated for lacerations to her jaw. UNION MEN STILL OUT ON PRINTING OFFICE JOB Hope Prevailed That Settlement of Strike Is Near, but Every One Is Silent. Hope still prevailed today for early settlement of ' the difficulties which have tied up construction work at the Government Printing Office addition, but all parties concerned continued to decline to discuss the progress of ne- gotiations. Union workmen employed by the Rust Engineering Co., which has the general construction contract, walked off the job when non-union workmen employed by the Virginia Engineering Co., which has the mechanical equip- ment contract, came to work on tge same building. About 12 men working for the Virginia Engineering Co. con- tinued at work today on the mechanical equipment contract, but all union trades still were out. . Pope Receives Omaha Bishop. VATICAN CITY, July 16 (#)—The Pope today granted an audience to Bishop Joseph Francis Rummel of Omaha, Nebr., the pontiff expressing himself as pleased with re of pro- gress in the diocese. He congratulated Bishop Rummel on what had been ac- complished already and imparted the apostolic benediction to his entire flock, PAGE 13 POLICEWHO KILLED ASSAILANTS WIN OFFICIALS' PRAISE Fraser -and McDonald, Who Slew Men Who Wounded Them, Commended. ACTIONS TO BE CALLED TO HERO MEDAL GROUP Officer Bailey’s Dismissal Over- ruled and Sentence Is Re- duced to $75 Fine. The District Commissioners today of- ficially commended two policemen who were severely wounded while making arrests and killed their assailants. Policeman Robert J. Fraser was stabbed near the heart by a colored man in an alley on the night of April 7 when he ordered the man to go into his house. Without warning, the man, Richard E. Hall, drew a heavy dirk knife and stabbed Fraser in the upper left chest. Though desperately wounded and weak from loss of blood, Fraser closed with the man, drew his gun and shot him twice. Hall died at Casualty Hospital a few hours later and Fraser, although lying near death at Emer- gency Hospital for many days, finally recovered and is now back on_duty. ‘The coroner’s jury found that Fraser was justified in the shooting in de- fense of his life. McDonald Is Commended. Policeman Harry J. McDonald on July 6 placed two men under arrest on sus- picion of burglary. Taking the men to Seventeenth and Q streets, McDonald got out of the machine to send in a call for the patrol wagon, when one of the men shot him through the chest, and both made a break for freedom. Not- withstanding the fact that McDonald knew he probably was mortally wound- ed he held onto the machine for sup- port, drew his service revolver. and fired four shots, two of them striking Albert Aldridge, one of the escaping colored men. Aldridge later died at Emergency Hospital. McDonald is still at the hos= pital as the resultof his wounds. ‘The commendations will be entered on the men’s personnel records and their cases will be calied to the attention of the committee, which will make annual awards of gold and silver medals to heroic policemen and firemen under the terms of an act of Congress approved last March. Bailey Sentence Reduced. ‘The Commisisoners also set eside an order of the Police Trial Board dismiss- ing Policeman C. A. Bailey of the second precinct and ordered the sentence of the board reduced to a fine of $75. ‘The Trial Board had found Bailey guilty of failing to communicate ihrough the patrol system, failure to report off duty, neglect of duty, con- duct prejudicial to the reputation, good order and discipline of the force, and intoxication. The Commissioners ap- proved the findings on all charges ex- cept intoxication, which in their opin~ fon was not proved. The Commissioners “relieved Motor Cycle Policemen William R. Greenficld and Bruce C. Black from motor cycle duty and assigned in their places Charles W. Sine and Walter E. Davis. WOMAN REWARDED FOR AIDING POLICE Grace Price, Colored, Receives $100 for “Tip” in Capture of Man in Police Shooting. Grace Price, 48, colored, of 502 Twenty-second street, who materially aided police of the third precinct in apprehending Alfred E. Aldridge, col- ored, who is now charged with the shooting of Policeman Harry McDonald of the third precinct, was the recipient today of $100 contributed by the Police Department as & reward. Following the shooting of McDonald on July 6. when he attempted to ap- prehend Aldridge and his brother Al- bert, who were belicved to have broken into a drug store at Seventeenth and Q streets, Alfred Aldridge went to the woman’s home and asked if she had seen his brother, as he did not know Albert had been mortally wounded in the encounter with McDonald. Having heard of the shooting affair and suspecting that Aldridge was in- volved, the woman, on a “hunch” told him that she knew he was the man for whom police were searching and said that they had been at her home to arrest him. k Aldridge left, but the woman fur- nished Precinct Detective J. L. Billman of the third precinct with information which led to Aldridge’s arrest. Detective Billman made the presenta- tion of the money today. An additional reward is being donated by members of the Police Department and by M. E. Buckley, professional bondsman, and will be presented to the ‘woman shortly. EXPECT FEDERAL OFFICE ALLOTMENT TOMORROW Decision on Space in Railway Building Probably Will Be Made. ‘The decision as to the disposition of floor space in the Southern Rallway Building, which recently was made Navy Goes Shopping for Many Materials, Ranging From Pineapples to Pencils The United States Navy, one of the Iargest purchasers in Washington, went | StoD into the market again. today for & wide variety of materials, ranging from pineapples to pencils. ‘Tuesday is the Navy's shopping day, for then bids are opened for an t of goods and e offers of contractors are made public at the Bureau of Suj and Accounts, Navy Department. Mil- lions of dollars’ worth of goods are pur- chased annually. As an-index of the variety of mate- rials the Navy purchases, bids opened . ¥ Canne placappie crash. towel- ment: Cann ple, cri lowel- ing, black silesia and bleached twill, blue checks, white buckram, bleached and unbleached drill, white hats, sil- ver-plated ware and nickel-silver table- ware, china’'and glass ware for the officers and crews’ mess, for the Bu- reau of Supplies and Ac An electric truck ccounts. crane, wire ignition ket for terminals, seamless steel tubing and ‘watches for the Bureau of Aero- nautics. Telephone equipment, brass, bronze and copper, brass and copper pipe tubing, cruising and high pressure turbines and spare parts for the Bureau of Engineering. Steel shapes, steel flasks, parts for ammunition and powder hoists, ratchet braces, safety treads and gratings, aluminum, steel plates with special treatment, pig lead and soap- stone pencils for the Bureau of Con- struction and Repair. A motion pic- ture camera and acessories, metal kegs, nickel-steel plates, steel rivets and steel plates for the Bureau of Ordnance and cotton rags for the Bureau ef Navigation. At the opening of bids there is usual- ly a goodly representation of con- tractors’ representatives, ki a ‘watchful eye on their competitors’ fig- ures and getting all available informa- tion on what the Navy is in the mar- T, | sion the Government, may T Public Buildings Commission, man Smoot said today. ‘With the new Federal Farm Boerd needing quarters for its complex activ- ities and the Census Bureau in need of additional space in connection with the taking the next census, the commis- expected to consider centering these activities in the vacated building. It was said some time ago that the Department of Justice might be quar- tered there, but officials of the depart- ment have advised Chairman Smoot that they prefer to remain in the build- ing at Fifteenth and K streets until the new Justice Department Building & completed in the Mall development. o MAJ. PETERSON HERE. Maj. Virgil L. Peterson, Corps of En- gineers, recently detached from duty as an instructor at the General Service Schools, Fort Leavenworth, Kan, has arrived in this city in pursuance of or- ders recently issued, and reporied to Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of public buildings and public parks of the Hltlm;ll Capital for duty as his as- sistant.