Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1929, Page 4

Historic Structure at Ninth and C Will Yield Space to Government. The next block of buildings to be forn down in pushing the Government's Building program, in all probability, will be that bounded by Ninth and Tenth, *7 streets and Louisiana avenue. Fhis bfsck includes one of the oldest SBeater buildings in the city, historically $amous In the Capital's early days, and most recently known as the Bijou. The frea is part of the site for the new Ar- hives building. - The Treasury Department plans to raze the old buildings soon after title 1% acquired to all lanc in the irregular area. Two parcels of the property al- ready have been acquired by the Govern- ment through purchase—the old theater | building at the east end and a piece | of property on the southwest corner of | the block. All the rest of the block is | under condemnation proceedings in the court, and according_to present pros- | pects may go to the Government before long. To Be Parking Space. As soon as the old buildings are torn down and the place leveled off, it will he rented to a company for the purpose #f selling parking space. This pro- cedure was used by the Treasury in other places, in the Federal Building triangle, notably the sites of the In- ternal Revenue Building and the De- partment of Commerce structure, which are both now well under way. The parking proposition, as explained by Chief Clerk F. A. Birgfeld of the Treas- ury Department, in charge of the old buildings and grounds until new con- struction starts, provides both an in- come to the Government from the ground, and will provide a large park- ing space which will help to relieve temporarily the parking congestion in the downtown area. Although this parking policy of the Government met with some protests from certain circles which contended the Government should not use it for gain, the Treasury | believes its policy is sound and will | continue with it. Meantime plans for the great Archives ‘Building, which Congress already has | authorized, to cost $6.900.000, are pro- | office of public buildings and public| gressing. Louis A. Simon, head of the | architectural division of the supervis-| “Snauser,” one of the White House pets, is shown keeping watch over the medicine ball, which President Hoover uses in his workouts with the “medicine ball cabinet.” —P. & A. Photo, GROUP INDORSES CRAMTON MEASURE Rhode Island Avenue Citizens Are Addressed by Col. Grant. Their interest in the Cramton bill re- newed through an address by Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d. director of the embers of the Rhode Island Association, parks: Avenue Citizens, having Ohio Rallroad immediately electrify its service between Union Station and the District line, and that the territory of the Woodridge School be extended west- ward to Twenty-fourth street northeast, | were referred by President Thomas J. | Liewellyn to committees. were admitted to membership. The assoclation is offering a cash sweepstakes prize at the third annual | Fall_ flower show of the Woodridge Garden Club to be held in Sunday School Hall tonight and to- morrow. HEARINGS ON UTILITIES WILL REOPEN OCTOBER 3 Federal Trade Commission Will Take Up Publicity Phase First, ing architect’s office, is in Europe study- | previously indorsed the measure, 1ast| ;e Associated Press. ing the archives buildings of the old | country, where experience of the past is expected to offer many practical sug- gestions to the United States. Tenta- | tive plans already have been drawn in the office of the supervising archi- tect, and they will be finished when | Mr.’ Simon comes back from his Old | World tour with a rich store of data from ancient archives. Funds Are Provided. ‘The Archives Building is the only| ene already authorized and appro-| priated for by Congress in Washing- | ton, as a part of the new Government building program, which has not yet| been actually started, and it is ex-; pected the Treasury will push it for-, ward with all speed consistent with | efficient consideration of the important | project. Congress has appropriated $1,000,000, | ‘which is already on hand in the Treas. Department. Land is being a quired on the site, both by direct pus chase and condemnation, and the whole site will be acquired as soon as possi- ble. The whole site is bounded by Ninth and Tenth, B street and Penn- sylvania avenue. Th> archives build- | ing is to be surrounded by another structure on three sides of this site, the surrounding bullding to be constructed in the nature of a shell or screen, and to be more ornamental than archives. ‘The use to which the shell building will be put has not as yet been determined. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYES RETURN FROM ALASKA Party Toured Scenic Sections of ! West and Went as Far North as Fairbanks. A party of 20 Government employes, who penetrated the interior of Alaska this Summer on a trip arranged by the Alaskan Railroad, returned to Wash- ington yesterday. En route to Alaska the party made frequent tours over scenic sections of | the West, and once in Alaska, they went as far north as Fairbanks, interior | terminus of the Alaskan Railroad, a few | miles south of the Arctic Circle. In| Juneau, members of the party were re- | ceived by Gov. George A. Parks. They | traveled over 11,000 miles by train, | auto and ship. ‘The: Alaskan Railroad plans to make the Government employes' Alaskan tour an annual event. Initial arrange- ments relating to the 1930 tour will be announced soon. The members of the party from ‘Washington were es follows: Miss Mary Virginia Britton, Mrs. A. H. Brooks, Miss Mary Brooks, Mr. Jo- Mr. J. Ward Eicher. Hegeman, Miss Minnie B. Hegeman, Miss Irene Hudgins, Miss Rowena Hud- gins, Miss Marie A. Hushen, Miss Helen Landell, Miss Bernice D. Mansfield, Mrs. Luella M. Moyer, Mr. George D. | C. Nicolson, Mr. Walter H. Olsen, Miss Margaret Scofield, Capt. H. R. Stan- ford, Miss Jennie Taylor and Miss| Laura Virginia Walker. i RUM CHARGE DEVELOPS | FROM TRUCK ACCIDENT, Investigation of Case Leads to Ac- cusation of Selling Liquor Against Colored Man. ial Dispatch to The Star. “ROCKVILLE, Md., September 26. Investigation of the motor truck acc dent on the Seventh Street pike near | Norbeck Monday afternoon in which Porrest W. Gooding of Kensington lost | his 1if= and several colored men who | were with him were injured, led to the | arrest of Thomas Snowden, colored, of | the vicinity of Brighton on a charge | £ selling intoxicating liquor. 1 “According to Chief of Police Alvie Moxley, several of the men in the ! agcident had, they are said to have afimitted, been drinking and the arrest | was made on the theory that liquor | ‘T purchased from Snowden. ~Bnowden was released on $500 bond for his appearance in the Police Court here for trial. HUGHES FUNERAL RITES. | Lifelong Resident of Washington . - Will Be Buried Saturday. “Puneral services for William R.| H 69 years old, who died yes- at his residence, 14 Fowlers 1, Georgetown, will be held at 8:30 Saturday morning at Holy Trinlty Church. Burial will be in Holy Rood Cemetery. Mr. Hughes, born in Wa. hln;{m in 1861, resided here all his life. He was a- member of the local Carpenters’ Union, 132, | “=Mr. Hughes is survived by a brother g:i a sister and two_daughters and 84 Mrs. G BB I s . Margaret O'Brien, Mrs. Mar d Bertha R. and Mrs. Miles, h R. Wiliam L. J, Lawrence, d P. and Farle Martin Hughes. night agreed to “use their influence” to have the bill adopted &s soon as possible. One of the steps in this direction will be the sending of 140 coples of the cur- rent issue of the association’s publica- tion, which expresses the organization's sentiment on the Cramton bill, to mem- bers of Congress. Explains Office. Speaking in the Sunday School Hall of the Sherwood Presbyterian Church, Col. Grant explained the plans of his office, and of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, for the beautification of Washington, citing ex- amples of park development in other cities to show that such work really pays for itself by enhancing property values. Details of the association’s annual membership drive. to be conducted this year from September 30 to October 21, were announced by Wallace E. Perry, | chairman, who named the following team captains: C. G. Bellinger, Chester Bletch, J. O. Bouton, N. J. Brumbaugh, J. F. Carlson, C. A. Deitz, W. H. Dunn, V. R. Durst, B. F. Elliott, A. H. Engel- brecht, F. W. Goodman, C. N. Gordon, J. J. B. Lerch, Thomas S. Mallon, A. Mertz, Arthur G. Miller, F. D. Scott, s’eorge ‘Tasker, M. C. Wilson and Earle To Open Branch. It was reported that arrangements were being made for the “proper dedi- cation” of the new branch of the Pub- lic Library now being erected in the community. Suggestions that the Balitmore & | Federal Trade Commission hearings in the investigation of power and gas utilities, which have been adjourned since June, will be resumed on Octo- ber 3. The first hearing will be occupled | with introduction by commission coun- | sel of additional documents in connec- | tion with the publicity phase of the in- quiry. Some witnesses also may be ex- | amined, but the commission said it was not prepared to announce who will be called at this time. BIG PLANE GOING BACK. | Fokker F-32 Has Carried Nearly 1,000 During Stay Here. After carrying nearly 1,000 persons in | three days of flying from Bolling Field, | America's largest transport plane, the Fokker F-32, is leaving here this after- noon on its return trip to Fokker Field, Hasbrouck Heights, N. J. The big four-motored monoplane will be conditioned for delivery within the P.|next 30 days to Universal Air Lines, which has ordered six of the big ships | for transport service between' Kansas City and the Pacific Coast. Since its arrival here Monday the Coast Guard, Marine Corps and Gov- ernments bureaus interested in trans- port aviation. Yoal Let's stop at The Emily ghops o o o the smartest landing place for those who keep moving with the Mode « « « Emily's jaunty buyers are always roving' ‘round the fashion marts « « « eager to capture the newest conceits in spor'swedr so that we may be the first to wear them o o o Let's hurryl Rea. U. 3. Par. Orrice 1308 F St. N.W. Charles S. Beard and B. W. Wilson | Sherwood | | plane has made a number of flights over the city. carrying officials of the | Army, Navy, Department of Commerce, | CLOSING DELAYED Lincoln Structure to Stay Open at Night as Long as Demand Continues. ‘The recent cool weather has failed to stem the tide of visitors to the Lincoln Memorial after 4:30 pm. so Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, has ordered that it remain open after October 2, in the evenings, as long |as there is a public demand for this | service. Capt. Ray C. Montgomery, ]Unlhd States Army, superintendent of | the United States Park Police, said to- | day that a tab kept by his guard force |showed that from September 10 to 21 there were 4,610 visitors, between the hours of 4:30 and 9:30 p.m.,, who came to_see the Lincoln Memorial lighted. When Col. Grant first authorized | night opening of the Lincoln Memorial, |1t was considered that the attendance | would be so low by October 1 that there | would be no further need of keeping up |the expense of having guards and custodians there in the evenings. The proposal to have two vertieal jets of water playing in the reflecting pool of the memorial and colored lights {lluminating them will have to be given further study by Col. Grant. Due to the lack of appropriations for this pur- pose at this time. the director is unable to accept the offer of & contractor to put in a complicated, yet interesting and picturesque, automatic econtrol | color play system. The cost of this | particular plan was found to be in the | vicinity of $18,000. ‘The ducts for the two vertical jet. are already in place, Col. Grant ex- plained today, and this system of | colored lights “‘as contemplated when the reflecting pool was constructed. Further estimates will be secured, the | colonel said, and it may be that the office will have to be content with add- | ing_a colored light a season, giving & | multi-colored display only on special holidays. 'HITCH-HIKE SLAYER GETS DEATH PENALTY Arizona Jury Finds Young Chi- cagoan Guilty of First- Degree Murder. By the Associated Press. PHOENIX, Ariz, September 26.— Richard Nash Burrows, 19-year-old | | Chicago youth, today was convicted of first-degree murder in his trial for the | slaying of Jack Martin, Arizona sales- | man, who had given the youth an | automobile “lift” last April. The jury | imposed the death penalty. ‘The verdict was returned 14 hours d 20 minutes after the case was given the jury yesterday. | As it was announced Burrows, mo- | tionless, stared straight ahead. His | foster mother, Mrs. Walter Burrows, wife of a Chicago livestock dealer, collapsed in her chair. | When arrested in Denver a few days | after the murder, the youth was in possession of Martin's car 'CREW QUITS WRECKED | SHIP; CAPTAIN STAYS | : By the Associated Press. | MIAMI, Fla., September 26.—A mes- sage from the British freighter Domira. aground at Abaco Island, Bahamas, to | Tropical Radio at 10 a.m. today said the crew was abandoning ship in its lifeboats, but that the captain, radio og;rlwr and one other were staying aboard. An earlier message said the weather was moderating and that immediate danger was believed past. JUST LANDED . » At The -Port For Smart Sportswear o $2075 Emily introduces a 7/8 length belted coat in this jocquard knitted tweed three-piece sult. With swedter blouse in heather colors to match. in the new brown, green and blve. o ¥25 This three-piece jocquard knitted tweed suit has a double breasted [acket with box pleated skirt. The sweater blouse sports an appliqued bow. In To- tem, Myrtil & Moro Brown. Sizes 14 to 20 bia Heights Forum and of the Columbia | Helghts Advisory Committee will open New York—Philndelplni-—wlshington—Cldvéhnd——Newlrk MRS. IDA E. KEBLER, Whe will resign tomorrow night as community secretary 4n charge of the Columbia Heights Community Center. PROGRAM FOR FORUM STARTS TOMORROW Columbia Heights Group to Greet New Secretary of Com- munity Center. ‘The first Fall meetings of the Colum- | the season’s activity at the Columbia Heights Community Center tomorrow night. With the opening of the center activities, the resignation of Mrs. Ida E. Kebler as community secretary in charge of the center will become ef- fective, and Mrs. Edith H. Hunter will become supervising community secretary, with Mrs. Minnie S. Young assuming the duties of executive community sec- retary. | Mrs. Kebler leaves the Columbia | Heights organization to engage in pri-| vate welfare work, having a national scope. She is a pioneer in community work in the Capital, starting in 1903 when, upon her arrival in the city with her husband, Dr. Lyman F. Kebler, she did volunteer work with the playground department, later joining the Parents’ Leagu?, which represented 15 schools in the northwest section of the eity. She became president of the league and | helped raise the money for the first playground in Columbia Heights. Un- der her direction the league began eve- ning classes at the Wilson Normal School. When Wilson Normal School was made a community center, October 17, 1917, Mrs. Kebler became com- munity secretary, which post she has held continuously since. FOUR KILLED IN BLAZE. Ship Takes Fire With 14 Aboard. 10 More May Die. MEXICO CITY, September 26 (#).— | Four persons were dead of burns today | and 10 probably burned fatally as the | result of a fire which destroyed a small | ship anchored off the suburb of Rivera. The fire started last night, when 14 | person were aboard the boat. | — = French Marquisette, Ruffled | Criss Cross Curtains Attractive style, quality, pair .. | MCcDEVITT % | ?nd_Floo: Distriet 21 G R 0 'S N E R S ne ay— nly! F Regular $1 & $1.50 For the one day only— tomorrow—we are going to sell these fine hose, in all sizes—and in all the new solid shades, fancies and black. A Special Group of Regular $7 Wool Knickers Friday Only $3;95 CROS 1325.F- ‘ department has not completed the| Three Pairs, $1.75 TREASURY STUDIES BRANCH BANKING Data Being Gathered on Pos- sibility of Tax Cut by Next Congress. The Treasury Depertment is making a study of the question of branch banking, with a view to subm'tting rec-! ommendations to Congress at the next | session, it was learned todry »: the dc-[ partment. t these recommendations will be were not disclosed, as it was said the, study. Extension Opposed. It is known, however, that high of- ficlals are opposed to extending branch blnllnse:y national banks to the limits of the leral Reserve district, At pres- ent the regulations allow branch bank- ing under certain limitations, within the limits of a city by national banks. ‘The question of possible tax reduc- tion recently disclosed, also will be sub- mitted to Congress through the medium of the annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury, it was learned. Much Data Awaited, Much data remain to be received, many records studied, and the prospects for business in the forthcoming years more nearly estimated than at present, before the extent of a possible tax cut can be determined, it was explained. But from responsible sources indica- tions continue to point to possibilities of a tax slash by the next Congress. Boy Bitten by Dog. While playing on the sidewalk near his home late yesterday afternoon, Jo- seph E. Barrett, 10 years old, 620 Pennsylvania avenue southeast, was bitten on the right leg by the dog of a neighbor front of whose home he He was treated at Providence | New Sash Roofing & Wall Board You Always Save Money at Hechingers Let Us Estimate on Your List of Building Materials 3—Branches—3 MAIN OFFICE-6=&C.Sts S W. CAMP MEIGS-S & Fla Ave.N.E. BRIGHTWOOD-5921 Ga Ave. N.W STREET Tomorrow we offer regular qual- ity merchandise at reduced prices as — Friday Special Full-Fashioned SILK HOSE 65¢ Plus Fours . . . In all sizes . .. 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