Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1929, Page 17

The Sunday Star ‘TOMORROW MARKS SCHOOL REOPENING: FOR AUTUNN TERH 65,500 Boys and Girls Ex- pected to Enroll in Classes First Day. PORTABLE BUILDINGS ARE CONTINUED IN USE Peak of Enrollment Anticipated Near End of Coming Fall Semester. Approximately 65,500 boys and girls | are expected to be enrolled in Washing- ton's public schools when they reopen at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, and while none of the new school buildings now nearing completion in various parts of the city will be ready to receive them. school officials are confident the new structures will be available for use at about the same time the year's peak enrollment is recorded near the end ©of the first semester. As it is, the school year for the chil- dren will begin tomorrow with the same facllitles with ~which last year was ended so that not only will 72 portable buildings be continued in service, but before the first three weeks are ended geveral thousand children will be placed in part-time classes. School officials, headed by Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent, however, are optimistic over the outlook for the 1920-30 school year as a whole. They point out that by February 1 a net increase of 74 classrooms Wwill be sup- plied through the completion of the new school buildings. This number of new classrooms, Dr. Ballou declares, Tot only will provide amply for the annual normal increase in enrollment, but will permit the reduction of some of the congestion from which the schools have suffered for so many years. ‘Work Overtime. While they speculated yesterday upon | the coming year and the events it will witness, the school officials worked overtime on the last-minute prepara- tions for the enrollment of the city's greatest number of opening day pupils ever received. 3 Through the last-minute instructions and announcements which were forth- coming from the busy offices, parents were advised that all pupils returning to their former school buildings for omotion woul Fheir Jast year rooms. From there they will be sent to the higher classes. Pupils who are being transferred from one Ppuilding to another and who did not obtain transfer cards from their old hools last June are to report to the old school first. Pupils who received transfer cards in June, however, will yeport direct to their new schools. Pupils entering school for the first time, either in kindergarten or in the first grade, are to be taken by their arents to the school building nearest eir homes. Parents of these young- sters are asked by the school officials to take with them a birth certificate or other acceptablé documentary evi- dence of the little pupil's age, SO that an accurate record may be made l‘n the administration offices of the child’s 'school entry. clals point out, must be vaccinated be- fore they may be received in class. First Day Roll Small The first school-day rolls never are as great as the subsequent enrollment, it was explained at the Franklin ad- ministration yesterday, but, because school is being opened a trifle later this year than usual, a slightly greater number of pupils may enter school to- morrow. In their estimates, officials have established 1,500 as the normal annual increase in first-day rolls. Last year, 63,128 boys and girls entered school on the first day, so that the estimated roll of 65,500 for tomorrow represents an increase of 2,372 over last year. It would not be improbable, however, they said, if the increase reached the 4,000 mark. The year's highest enrollment will be reached in December, when a roll of 75,500 probably will be reached. Shortly after the peak enrollment is recorded, all of the biuldings now nearing completion, will be ready to receive classes. In the 74 elementary classrooms which they will add to the total of school facilities, additional ac- commodations for 3,040 children will be provided. The first of these struc- tures, the eight-room addition to the Burrville School and the addition to the Francis Junior High School, both colored, will be ready for occupancy October 1, or_very shortly thereafter. The Francis Junjor High School will provide six classrooms for seventh and eighth grade pupils. First One Complete. The eight-room addition to the Ray- mond School is expected to be the first of the new white schools to be com- pleted and its first classes probably will | be seated early in November. The re- maining new schools and the number of classrooms which each will afford the. relief of present congestion are the Ben W. Murch, 8 rooms; the new Langdon, 10 rooms (this is a 20-room structure, but the 12 classes now house in the old Langdon School will be transferred to the mnew structure); Powell School, 8 rooms; Paul Junior High School, 12 elementary grade rooms, and the Adams, 16 rooms. All of these buildings will be occupied by the beginning of the second semester. The additional facilities which these atructures will provide after caring for the normal numerical increase in en- yollments, Dr. Ballou saild yesterday, probably will be applied toward the re- | duction of the part-time classes which of necessity will be organized almost with the opening of school. The 72 portables which will remain in use, he said, have been_ inspected and found safe, so that officials are planning an assault upon the part-time class evil. Last year, it was shown, there were approximately 5,000 children in part- time classes in District schools and it is likely that less than this number will receive abbreviated class accommoda- tion this year. At the same time defl- nite advance has been made in the re- duction of the amount of rented school , Only $8,000 was appropri- ated this year for rental of properties used by the schools, whereas last year $11,000 was used for this purpose. From 1919 until 1925 the annual rental of these properties was $16,500, so that this year's figure represents a reduc- tion of more than 50 per cent in the use of such quarters. Conditions Changing. Dr. Ballou sald yesterday that it is barely possible also that one or two portables might be eliminated in Feb- Fuary, although he was not willing to mn:& a definite assertion on this point. W&mfl , oo t ) d report at 9 o'clock to | All new pupils, the offi- { | | | | i | | { permitted to park opposite a street car a car loading platform, | of the Highway Department to increase i g The lower photograph is a scene at the mobiles are permitted to park so close to the WASHINGTON, D. C, loading platform. it by rounding off the corner. —3- - General News SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1929—PART 1—SECTION 2. # These views show three serious traffic conditions caused by the failure of various agencies dealing with the public streets and their use closer to co-ordinate their activities. In the upper photograph, showing the northwest corner of Connecticut avenue and McKinley street, a motor bus | has stopped to take on passengers between a street car loading zone and the curb, and forcing traffic to veer to the left of the car loading zone and run on the car tracks. this point simultaneously prevents the movement of all sout hbound traffic. Both the bus and the car stops were esta lished by the Public Utilities Commission. , The center photograph depicts the traffic “bottleneck” rrow traffic lane t thus blocking the A car and a bus stopping a at Connecticut avenue and L street, where automobiles are In most sections automobiles are forbidden to park opposite northwest corner of Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, where auto- intersection th at the turning radius has been reduced, despite the efforts —Star Staff Photos. HINE DECLARES PORTABLES SAFE Board of Education Secre- tary Says Most Schools Are Ready for Opening Tomorrow | With the exception of a few remain- ing portable schools which cannot be | discarded at this time and which he described as “a thorn in the flesh.” Harry O. Hine, secretary of the Board of Education, announced in a radio address from Station WMAL last night that the public schools of Washington are ready to receive the 72,000 chil- dren who will resume their studies to- mOrTOwW. Careful examinations of all portables have been made, Mr. Hine said, and some condemned. Those that are to be used were described by him as “ab- solutely safe.” The fact that 186 classes remain under half-time instruction for lack of sufficient better accommodations makes it impossible to do away with the use of portables entirely, Mr. Hine declared. 2 The puplls this year will be under the guidance of 2,700 teachers. Plans have been made by representatives of the teaching personnel and the super- intendent of schools, Dr. Ballou, to make adequate provision for the army of puplls who will assemble tomorrow in the 175 school buildings. 15,000 in High Schools. dren will attend the elementary grades while the junior high schools and high schools will enroll approximately 15, 000. The normal institutions will pro- vide instruction for 1,000 and the trade schools, according to Hine, are demon- strating their worth by increasing en- rollments, “In the housing situation, however,” he said, “encouragement is seen in the progress of building operations. Four new elementary schools are approach- | ing completion, while 10 others have additions or assembly halls undér con- struction. Three new junior high schools are being built, the Alice Deal at Reno, the Paul at Brightwood, and the Eliot at Nineteenth and East Capi- tol streets, which will bring the total number of this group to 15. A second health school and sanatorium is ap- propriated for. Plans are on the draw- ing boards of the municipal architect for a new Roosevelt High School to replace Business. The new school in the Upshur street site is to be a build- ing of imposing dignity and beauty.” Hours Are Extended. Another improvement this year winl be the extension in the hours for senior high schools from 2:30 o'clock to 3 o'clock in keeping with the nracticz of other ve cities, Hine. declared. In ition to the facilities for the care and instruction of normal pupils, the deaf, dumb and blind children will be educated at District e in in- stitutions in er{hnd,, was said, while for ‘the first time the crippled children will be the subject of special attention at two schools fitted up to bring them a maximum of comfort, education, with medical supervision to aid in a restoration of health. ‘The Americanization School at the Webster School at Tenth and G streets offers a course to aliens, minors and adults, who seek to fit themselves for an intelligent citizenship, while tl.e.two normal schools, whose course of profes- sional training was recently extended to three years, have, by act of Congress, | 1 Mr. Hine announced that 57,000 chil- | Safety Pointers Given to Protect School Children —_— The following simple, but ex- pedient safety precautions for motorists, parents and children are pointed out by the District division, American Automobile Association, on the eve of the opening of public schools: Motorists — Remember * that children run fast, but do not think as fast on traffic safety; learn to look for the child who unexpectedly darts into the street; make sure your brakes are in good condition; don't give “jifts” in your car (you encour- age children to stand in streets); watch for children on roller skates. Parents—Start your child to school in time so he will not have to run; “be car/ul” is over- worked phrase, use something else to remind your child of safety; train your child in safety by example; see that your child knows the following rules: Children—Look both ways be- fore crossing streets; cross at cross walks, not in the middle of blocks; walk across streets, don’t run; if you must run, do it an sidewalks; don’t step into street from between parked cars; don't play in the streets. MUSICIAN FACES CHARGE OF BADLY SCALDING DOG| Policeman Says Romeo Guareldi Admitted Throwing Hot Water on Neighbor's Pet. Romeo Guareldi, a musician, of the 5100 block of Connecticut avenue, will be arraigned in Police Court this week on a charge of cruelty to animals. Buck, an airedale, according to his owner, C. W. Archer, 5113 -Connecticut avenue, is in a dog hospital in a critical condition as a result of a scalding he received when Guareldi threw a pan of hot water on him last week. Archer said that he was going to work when he was attracted by the barks of his dog from.the direction of Guareldi's yard. He found Buck writhing from pain. Policeman C. W. Peters of the four- teenth precinct, said that Guareldi ad- mitted throwing the water, but said that he had previously complained about the animal. Archer denied that. any com- plaints had been made. S.D. FE_SSEPIDEN, FEDERAL STATISTICIAN, DEAD AT 73 Employe of Department of Agri- culture Expires Suddenly at Newton Street Home. Bu;_:hen D. Fessenden, a statisticlan in the Department of A‘flnllhl’re.‘mfl suddenly at his home, 1417 Newton street, yesterday. He was 73 years old. Mr. nden is survived by _his widow, a son and daughter. Funeral arrangements are awaiting the arrival boay In at the vT'smum:dmukmmg y is a . L. undertaking establishment, 1009 H street. A Oklahoman Crowned Cowboy King. PENDLETON, Oreg., September 14 (#)—Dick Truitt of Okmulgee, Okla., advanced to the distinction of teachers’ colleges, TS el SR Of the 15,000 automobiles sold in Bel- glum during the first six months of this year 900 were from America. was crowned “king of the cowboys” and_succeeded Bob Crosby of Kenna, N. Mex, as of "the coveted possessor Roosevelt Trophy as the twentieth an- nual round-up came to & whirlwind finish here ~ WAGON KILLS BOY INFAIRFAX COUNTY Royce Keys, 8, Dies After Uncle’s Relative’s Vehicle Runs Over Him. Royce Keys, 8-year-old son of Mrs. Mary Moriarity of 516 Seventh street southwest, was fatally injured yester- day afternoon when run over by a heavily loaded wagon driven by his great-uncle, Claude E. Riggles, 47, at Butts’' Cross Roads in Fairfax County. He died nearly five hours later from an internal hemorrhage at the Alex- andria Hospital, where he was taken in an automobile driven by Albert Adams of 611 Seventh street southwest. Didn’t See Boy. Riggles and his son, Gordon, were hauling pulp wood with a two-horse team and wagon from his farm and un- loading it at a point near Butts' Cross Roads on the Fairfax-Occoquan road when the boy was hurt. He told police investigating the case he had not seen Royce prior to the accident. Riggles said that he suddenly felt the wagon lift as if it had struck a bum| in the road, but thaught nothing of it until he heard a cry, and, looking back, saw the boy lying on.his back in the middle of the road. Royce gob to his feet and walked .a short distance before collapsing. A Fairfax County ddctor was summoned and he ordered the boy removed to the hospital at once. Believed He Slipped. Riggles advanced the theory that Royce probably had run down from the top of the embankment that rises from either side of the road and attempted to hop on the moving wagon, as he had often done before, and had slipped and fallen beneath the wheels. The boy had been living on Riggles’ farm for the past six months, moving there when the home of his grand- mother, Mrs. Helen Gutridge, nearby, burned down on March 9. He had lived with his grandmother from infancy. The_youth is survived by his mother and father, who are divorced. The mother has since married and moved here. The father also lives in this city. ¥ . MME. CURIE TO VISIT HOOVERS SEVERAL DAYS Discoverer of Radium Arrives From Paris October 15 for Cancer Control Conference. By the Assoctated Press. SAFETY PLATFORMS Whitehurst Daxres Car Zones Create “Bottlenecks” on All Leading Streets. | CONNECTICUT AVENUE IS CITED BY ENGINEER Blames Lack of Co-ordination in Municipal Departmefits for Present Situation. BY JAMES E. CHINN. To facllitate the movement of traf-! fic, the highway department of . the District in the last several years has spent thousands of dollars to widen streets and to round off corners to per- mit a wider turning radius. And what has been the result? In very few instances have the de- sired improvements followed. Traffic} “bottlenecks” have been created on the newly-widened streets by the establish- ment of street car loading platforms or bus stcp zones. In some cases, both of these obviously necessary obstruc- j tions are found in elose proximity. The | effect expected from the rounding off | of corners has virtually been nullified | because automobiles are permitted to ipark up to the turning point of the | curb, H Co-ordination Scored. ‘The situation has been brought about | througn the lack of co-ordination | among the various agencies of the | municipal government concerned with the streets and their use and which Capt. Herbert C. Whitehurst, co- ordinator and chief engineer of the engineering department of the District, is seeking to remedy. The traffic capacity of a highway, Capt. Whitehurst points out, can be no greater than its capacity at the in- tersections. But with car loading plat- forms, bus stops, hack stands and what- not at the intersections, he said, the usefulness of a street for some distance in each direction is materially reduced. ‘Within the last two years, Connecticut avenue, which handies a tremendous volume of the north and south bound traffic, was widened from 50 to 80 feet at a cost of approximately $300,000. The additional 30 feet in width, it was believed at the highway department, would aid materially in alleviatini traffic congestion which prevailed es- pecially in the morning and afternoon | rush hours. $300,000 “Wasted.” Instead, however, traffic jams are said i to be as frequent in the rush hours as! they were before Connecticut avenue | was widened. The $300.000 spent for the extra 30 feet width has done little more than create an impressive-looking boulevard. Its utilitarian value for traffic purposes is not rated an; h*?:r. in the light of developments that ve | taken place since the project was com- pleted. Street car loading platforms have been located at various points from K street to Florida avenue, thus reducing the full value of the thoroughfare as a traffic carrier. Their presence alone create a so-called “bottleneck” at the points where they have been ’:::M eliminating at least one traffic e in the vicinity of each platform. But in the wake of the loading platforms came the parked automobile further to nar- row the “bottleneck.” In most sections automobiles are not permitted to park opposite street car loading platforms, simply because they are conducive to traffic jams by squeezing moving vehicles into a nar- Yow lane near street intersections, | { where the flow should not be impeded. On Connecticut avenue, however, the unusual situation exists throughout | the newly widened area. Automobiles | park, with police approval, opposite the loading platforms, leaving barely enough Toom for two moving vehicles to maneu- ver between the parked machines and the platform. Away from the loading latforms the avenue will carry four ines on either side. Traffic, therefore, is run through a series of “bottlenecks™ from K street to Florida avenue, McKinley Street Blockade. Further out Connecticut avenue at | McKinley street, near Chevy Chase | Circle, the situation is even worse. | Here a bus stop has been established | at the curb directly opposite a white lined car stop zone. The avenue is much narrower at| this point. When a bus pulls in to| take on or discharge passengers, it | completely blocks the narrow traffic lane, and the vehicles behind must wait until it pulls away, or veer gharply to the left and run on the car tracks past the car stop zone. Should a street car and a bus ‘:.ux imultaneously at this point, all c is completely halted. It would be impossible for ve- hicles to pass between the car and the bus_without running through the car loading zone. The highway department also has spent approximately $150,000 in the last few years rounding off corners in the business section to provide a great- er turning radius to smooth the flow of traffic at intersections. About 150 cor- ners have been rounded off, the turn- ing radius in most cases being increased from 10 to 30 feet.. Yet the actual turning radius is as narrow as-ever, because vehicles are permitted to park to the turning point. ‘These are but several of the illus- trations Capt. Whitehurst had in mind when he recommended to the Commis- sioners last week that definite action be takén to co-ordinate the activities of agencies having to do with the streets and their and thus prevent the virtual nullification of the highway | department’s work to improve the movement of traffic. On Connecticut avenue, for instance, the Public Utilities Commission estab- lished the car-loading platforms and the motor bus stops, obviously with little consideration of the effect on the movement of traffic. The police and traffic departments likewise failed fully to consider the situation, otherwise parking would not be permitted op- gam ;ny car loading platform and e curb. 'NEW YORK, BSeptember 21—Mme.|the Marle Curie, discoverer of radium, will spend several days in Washington as the guest of President and Mrs. Hoover when she visits America next month, the Curie reception committee an- nounced 3 will arrive here from conference of the American Society for the Control of Cancer. While in_this country she will attend the Ford ban- quiet at Detroit to be given in honor of ‘Thomas A. di tion °l{: thehltwhm anni in routing permited an "ot sdes particharly on when an ntn::’hp.wlder and better able to accommodate these large and cuml vehicles, bersome . In this connection the condition on McKinley street was cited as one out- standing example. The street is only 130 feet wide. Private cars um- mitted to 'k on either side, T reducing its width, and the Utilities Commission Touted an important bus line over it. Vehicles, as a h:la:ul':; 15| was_proceeding ~ord!- _ (Continued on Eighteenth Page.). ARE HELD AS CHIEF! STRANDED VISITOR The Evening Star Cup (right), for which fire engines of the District will | Upper lefi: W. W. Deane, a contest judge. | FIRE CUP CONTESTS | | | compete in speed tests this week. Lower left: Thomas O'Connor, a judge. _ SURVEY 1S PLANNED Council of Social Agencies’ Special Board to Study Vexing Problem. ‘The problem of caring for the tran- sient visitor to the National Capital who becomes stranded here is expected to be | simplified by a three-month survey of | the situation which will be made by the Council of Social Agencies. The study | will be made by a special committee on | transients, headed by Mrs. John Jay O'Connor, chairman. The bulk of the research work will be done by two trained workers. The survey will be conducted under the supervision of the Travelers Aid So- | ciety; which maintains 24-hour service at the Union Station and which han- | ‘dllu the greater number of all tran®| sient cases received here. Twenty-| three other local organizations which also handle relief work of this char- | acter have appointed members of a| general advisory committee which will | co-operate in making the survey, Transient Is Defined. As a basis for its survey, the com- | mittee has defined a transient as "a n stranded in Washington, with- out local residence or plans, or one whose plans cannot be carried out with- | out the advice or assistance of a wel-| fare ageney.” | Washington, it was explained, has an | unusually large number or percentage of such transients per capita, due to its position as the Capital of the Nation and the center of governmental activ- ities. These transients comprise sight- seers who become stranded here, fam- ilies from other cities who pull up and come here, serene in their faith that the bresdwinner can get a Government job; former service men who come here to see about compensation, expecting that the compensation will furnish re- turn funds: hitch-hikers who get as far as Washington and decide to stop, | and dozens of other cases, all of which require aid from some welfare organi- zation, During the survey, every case of this kind handled by the various organiza- tions will be brought to the attention of the trained workers who will handle the survey, and from this study the| Council of Social Agencies expects to work out more efficient plans for han- dling such situations. The Community Chest budget com- mittee has allowed the council $1,000 for the purpose of making the suryey. JOHN L. OVERDEER DEAD. | John L. Overdeer, 75 years old, died yesterday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. James William Bryan, | 3038 Dumbarton avenue. Funeral | services and interment will be at Roa- | noke, Ind. He is survived by another daughter, Mrs. John Whitmore of Cambridge, ©Ohio, and a son, Rev. Harvey L. Over- %e;; of Lincoln, Nebr., besides Mrs. n. Speeding in Hearse At 40 Miles an Hour Brings $25 Penalty Arrested while speeding at the rate of 40 miles an hour in a hearse, Walter Porter, colored driver, 743 Fourth street, was fined $25 in Traffic Court yester- day by Judge Isaac R. Hitt. ‘The man told Policemen K. P. Greenlow and Raymond Sinclair of the Traffic Bureau, who ar- rested him, that he was an em- balmer, and that he was on his way to make arrangements for a funeral. He warned them that something terrible would befall them if they delayed him. Not- withstanding this ' prophecy, the officers took him tb the sixth pre- cint station house. The man was ‘arrested yester- day at Sixth and P streets. He was driving a hearse belonging to Moon & Allen, undertakers. TOBEGINON FRIDAY Three-Cornered Battles Are on for Possession of Two Awards for Speed. Featured by a three-cornered con- test for permanent possession of the two silver cups awarded annually to the speediest engine and truck com- pany of the District Fire Department, | the 1929 speed tests, which are to be conducted Friday and Saturday, may establish some new records. Engine Company Nos. 23 and 21 will | compete for permanent possession of | The Evening Star Cup, each having | won it twice in previous contests. Truck | Company No. 14, twice winner of the | Merchants' and Manufacturers’ Cup, is dm{mined to duplicate its record this week, Engine Company No. 23 won The Star | p, cup last year, with a record of six and two-fifths seconds in leaving quarters after the receipt of a test alarm. Its | other victory was scored in 1925, the | first year the tests were held, with a | record of seven and one-fifth seconds. So far as speed records go, Engine ; Company No. 21 has G an edge on its It_won the cup in 1926 in six |Seconds flat and again the following | ‘Year in six and two-fifth seconds. H Rivalry Is Keen, ‘The contest for the Me: Manufacturers’ four years has stimulated equal rivalry. | Truck Company No. 14, winner of the last two. tests, set a mark of six and | four-fifths seconds in 1927, but slowed | down to seven and one-fifth seconds last year. No. 6 Truck Company scored | with eight seconds in 1925 and No. 12 company with seven and four-fifth sec- on%% the follo':ti?g year. le presentation of the cups to the winning engine and truck mm’;ny will be made about two weeks after the contests by Proctor L. Dougherty, chair- man of the Board of District Commis- sioners, Each fire company in the District Wwas supplied with a copy of the contest | | rules last week by Acting Chief Nichol- | | son, with a result that the men are! limbering up” o set new records. The | tests will be “timed” officially by a committee composed of W. W. Deane of the War Department, Battalion Chief Engineer Thomas O’Connor, drfllmuter! of the Fire Department, and a I of The Evening Star. e ‘The committee will start out Friday | morning at 9 o'clock on its rounds of | the various engine and truck houses and make a two-day job of the tests. Go on Thirteen, The test will be started at each quar- ters by striking “1-3” on the big ulnng, At the first strike of the gong members will immediately take their places on the apparatus and the motor started. The apparatus will not be placed in motion, however, until the officer in charge has ‘I:gunte;l the box and has called, “Box . gol” Ruyles governing the tests before the striking of the fire gong were issued u(!o)llg:s: - a) Members of the com will stationed at different pheeg.:g the .gf paratus floor, with the driver 14 feet in the rear of the apparatus seat and on the side from which he mounts to the seat. Where apparatus is started by hand crank the man detailed there- for shall be stationed 14 feet from the crank. (b) In engine companies only one Flece of apparatus will be used, and it will be optional with company com- manding officers as to which piece, the | engine or hose wagon, is selected. (c) The rear step of apparatus in an engine company is to be placed 39 feet | from the front door sill. If the house ot deep enough to allow this, a line will be drawn on the pavement in front of the door 39 feet from the rear step. In truck companies a mark will be laced on the truck 39 feet from the ront door sill. Rotary President to Visit. LYNCHBURG, Va., September 21 (Special). —Etigene Newsom, Interna- tional Rotary president, will pay official visit to the Lynchburg club October 15. Paul Flee has been named chairman of a committee to arrange a welcome for the president. BAD DREAM STAR TLES SLEEPER FINED $5 FOR OBEYING IMPULSE Awakens Suddenly From Nap in Restaurant, but Police- ) man Stops Homeward Rush. ‘Alvin Feinsilber had a bad dream. He admits it was a bad dream, in fact, after it had resulted in his appearance in Police Court the judge and most of tl:llth occnhmbanu of the courtroom agreed " Feinsilber, who lives at 1121 New Hampshire avenue, was caught speed- ing on Pennsylvania avenue by Police- men Raymond Sinclair and K. P. Greenlow of the Traffic Bureau. He at & rate of 40 miles an_hour, according to the officers. When before - Judge Isaac R. Hitt, A man said that he had fallen asleep while eating in & down- town restaurant. In his sleep he dreamed that his baby was very ill at l;om:u u’;u;l th::’ the child’s mother, sleep! another room, was unawgre of its condition. He awoke wu‘l:’ a start, paid his bill, jumped into his car and was hurrying home when the police interrupted his progress. He ad- mitted he was lmdln( and said that he was s0 occupi with getting home as soon as he could that he didn't realize it. - Judge Hitt said that it was the most original alibi that he had heard this muaenammnqmusnne. ” ts’ and | Cup during the ml; PAGE 17 THIRTY REZONING { APPEALS UP FOR RULING TOMORROW | Two Blocks on Calvert Street Figure in Executive Ses- sion of Commission. CHILDREN’S HOME FIGHT ALSO ON LIST No Action to Be Taken on Amend- ment for Engine House in Residence Sections. The Distriet Zoning Commission will meet in execltive session tomorrow tc pass judgment upon applications in- volving 30 cases of rezoning, heard las week. Chief among these is the ap- peal of property owners«to change the two blocks of Calvert street between Eighteenth and Twentieth streets from residential to commercial classification and the fight pending upon the proposed ?:';temctlm:huf 5!;100 Children's Countr; , on the " i 0 block of Potomar No action will be taken by the - ing body at this time on the dispm:d amendments affecting primarily the fu- ture erection of fire engine houses in residential sections. Under the law the commission must advertise for hearing the counter amendment of the Federa- tion of Citizens’ Association, which pro- vides that “municipal recreational uses, pumping stations and fire engine houses may be erected in any one district only upon the unanimous vote of the Zoning Commission after a public hearing.” i Hearing Is Provided. e original amendment, which - voked this proffered substitute, provi%:, in the case of fire engine houses lo- cated in residential districts, a public hearing shall be held by the Commis- sloners of the District of Columbia.” It is likely the issue will be brought up again soon and stir a lively fight, as Henry I. Quinn, vice chairman of the zoning committee of the federation, | challenged the authority of the federa- tion’s representative in agreein, ness and civic interests to th i amendment. iy The case of the Children's Country Home has aroused the opposition L;’( the Conduit Road Citizens’ Association, which protested to the commission last week against the proposed chan; e in zoning for the home site. On the%nher and, some individual property owners have favored the location of the home on Potomac road. The commission vesterday received another petition in behalf of the home from O. L. Helsley, 5720 Potomac avenue, in which he stated he believed it would be an im- provement to the neighborhood. Calvert Street Protest. _ Property owners on Calvert street join in protesting to the Zoning Com- mission that the thoroughfare from Eighteenth street to the Calvert Street Brld“e “has lost its charm as a home- site.” Whereas a decade ago that sec- tion of Calvert street was a quiet resi- dential neighborhood, today they con- tend it is a main artery street cars, trucks and other types of 3tfin:lu at the rate of 9,000 or more y. Because of the noise and inroads of commercial activities, residents of the two blocks are now anxious to move out and give the section over entirely to business, But residents of adjoining Biltmore street and Cliffbourne place have differ- ent ideas and want Calvert street re- tained as a residential area. Hugh S. Frampton, attorney, representing the Biltmore street owners, said their prin- cipal objection was based on a belief that the neighborhood of Eighteenth and Columbia road is over-commercial- ized and fear that their now quiet and secluded street will next be invaded if the bars are let dow: TEXAN REPORTS PLOT TO KILL HIM BY RADIO | Enemies Seek $1,250,000 Due From Investment, He Declares at Police Headquarters. Claiming that attempts are being made to “destroy him by radio,” in order that his enemies might get a sum of $1,250,000 due him through a mysterious investment, & man giving his name as Jeffrey Douglas Neely, 41 years old, walked into police head- quarters in the District Building yes- terday afternoon and asked for pro- tection. He is the victim, he says, of a band of private radio operators, who “are ‘working on my mind by wireless, which sends pains through my head and down my spine. The Government rad operators are trying to cure me,” Neel continued, “but it is all an experiment. ‘The sum of $1,250,000 is due him. Neely claims, through an investment which kept increasing and is turning Wall Street topsy-turvy. He said he had appealed to some one at- Police Court for relief from those using such insidious methods to destroy him, and they had advised him to go to police headquarters. “If they destroy-me and one other man, they will g§t the million and a quarter dollars,” Nee€ly told police On his person was a book, which, he explained, described ‘“automatic letter transmission,” a toothbrush, tooth paste, several pages of the rotogravure section of a local newspaper and several picture cards of Washington buildings. t Neely said his father resides in Fort ; Worth, Tex. The man was sent tc! Gallinger Hospital for observation. ¢ SECOND PUPIL CHARGES TEACHER WITH ASSAULT: John M. Beard, Under $5,000° Bond, Posts Added Sum ) of $6,000 Bail. John M. Beard, 40-year-old music teacher, who is under ‘a $5,000 bond for a trial by & jury on a charge of assault on one of his pupils, was re- leased yesterday under a bond 0. $5000 when he demanded a jury (rial on a second charge of assault, also brought | against him by one of his fQrmer pupils, | The man, who is the proprietor of a school in the 3400 block of Fourteenth. | street, was rearrested Friday afternoon and lodged in a cell in the tenth pre- cinct station house for investigation. He appeared at Police Court yesterday where he made bond. 3 Only 3 per cent of the workers in the Netherlands are unemployed,