Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1929, Page 17

“ Washington News [stee s ENGINE COMPANY NO. 21 MAKES BID FOR STAR AWARD Sets Record of 6 4-5 Seconds | in Getting Qut of Quarters. EIGHT UNITS COMPETE IN OPENING OF TESTS| No. 23, Record Holders of I.nst. Year, Figured in Hard Luck Today. No. 21 Engine Company, twice victor in previous contests, made a strong bid | today for permanent possession of The | Evening Star Cup awarded annually | 1o the engine company of the District Pire Department setting a speed record | in getting out of quarters on an alarm . of fire. Its time of 6 and 45 seconds set & mark for the eight engine com- panies visited by the official committee PUBLIC PARKS SEEN SEEKS TO KEEP petitors as the annual struggle for the s) and Merchants’ early today on the opening of the tests. | Among the truck companies compet- | ing for the cup awarded annually by | the Mercnants and Manufacturers As-| sociation, No. 5 truck got away this | morning to beat other competitors with | & time of 725 seconds. There was the | keenest, sort. of competition among bot! classes and Chief Engineer Thoma: O’Connor, drill master of the Fire De. partment in charge of the contests, was enthusiastic in his praise of early per-; formances ! Lieut. Davis In Charge. Lieut. H. T. Davis was in charge of | the crew for Engine No. 21, with T. H. Fenton in the driver's seat and 8. Gold water at the crank. For Truck Com- pany No. 5, Lieut. W. H. Nash was in | command, with Driver F. F, Ardigo an Cranker H. D. Shepard. The trucl crew was so anxious to set a record that one of the men moved a second before the alarm and Official Gong Striker . A. Biondi, secretary to Chief O'Connor, to start them over again. The timing committee started out at # o'clock and went first to No. 23 En- gine Company, winner last year of The Evening Star cup. In addition to Chief ©O’Connor, the committee was composed of W. W. Deane of the War Depart- ment, who is in charge of all fire ap: us for the Government, and Nelson rd of the Evening St No. 23 Suffers Hard Luck. No. 23 Engine Company, which set a Tecord of 632-5 seconds last year, experienced hard luck today. Despite | the alertness of its men, the old engine simply “wasn't there” and_its officigl 1 ‘was 8 seconds flat. Sergt. J. E. Jebele was in command, with P. L.| d | 'k The time of 73-5 seconds was set by No, 20 Engine Company, in charge | of Lieut. G. G. Fletcher; driver W. L. ! Fielder and Cranker E. B. Lowler. | Shortly before noon the committee | went to No, 29 Engine Company. housed in a new building on Conduit road.! Capt. C. C. Wolz, with B. A. Banagan | as driver, set the fast time of 72-5 seconds. ! No. 5 Engine Company, next of the | engine houses visited, with a time of 71 and 35 seconds nosed out No. 9 Engine Company whose time was 7 and 45 sec- | onds. Lieut. R. E. Oden was in com- | mand of the former, with Driver J. C.I Seabold in the seat. For No. 9 Engine, Sergt, J. E. Hunt was commander, with | without proper funds for the develop- Capps | ment. of the Patterson tract for park | the governments themselves. B. R. Ihrie as driver and W. T. performing the duty at the crank. | Motor Retards No. 7. | Back-firing in the motor of No. 7 Engine Company resulted in the slower | time to time been 7urned over to the | routes over tracts which know neither | Lieut. E. G. Office of Public Bulldings and Public | the highway nor the steel 5 McNerhany was in charge of the crew | parks for maintenance, Congress has | time of 10 seconds flat. and T. L. Phillips was the driver. In the tests for the truck companies competing for the Merchants & Manu- | facturers’ Cup No. 14 Truck Company, twice holder of the trophy, lost a pos- slble chance to retain pernanent pos- | session of the trophy by one-fifth of a ! second. Its time today was 73 seconds. | Last year in winning the cup No. 14 made 7% seconds, and the year previous ! the fast record of 645 seconds. Lieut.| G. Davenport was in command of the ! crew today. with P. C. Plaskett in the | driver’s s No. 12 Truck Company, the next visit- | ed, was & shade slower, with 8'; sec- onds. The crew consisted of Capt. G. W, Wells, A, C. Benson and C. W. Donohoe, cranker. No. 9 Truck did not fare so well. Its time was 11 seconds flat, due to & slow engine. Sergt. E. A. Cox was in eommand of the crew; the driver was J. W, Laughlin and H. B. Beddoo, cranker. No. 2 Truck Company made the clearance 'in 10 seconds flat when the motor coughed several times. The com- mander was Lieut. J. Sheehan; the driver, H. M. McLearen, and the! cranker, W. V. James. i The iast truck company visited this morning was No. 12, which did a little better in & time of 8 and 1-5 seconds. Capt. G: W. Wells was in charge: A. Benson occupied the driver's seat and | C. W. Donohoe did duty at the crank. The official committee will make the réund of companies in the downtown aection this afternoon and expects to complete fl\%o tests tomorrow. Rivalry is -expected be keener, if anything, tomgorrow because those who have not yet . com will know what records they will have o set to win either cup. - Rules for Tests. Rules governing the tests provide that members of the company be stationed at different places on the apparatus ficor, with the driver 14 feet in the rear of the apparatus seat and on the side from which he mounts to the seat. ‘When the spparatus is started. by hand crank, the man detailed for that job shall be stationed 14 feet from the erank. In engine companies only one piece of apparatus was used, engine or lose wagon being optional with the com- pany commanding officers. The rear step of the apparatus in an engine company is placed 39 feet from the front door sill. In cases where the house is not deep enough to allow thisa line is drawn on the pavement in front of the door 39 feet the rear step. In truck companies a mark is placed on the truck 39 feet from the front door sill. " ‘The test is started by striking “1-3" on the big gong. - At the first stroke members immediately take their seats on the apparatus and the motor is started. ‘The apparatus is not placed in motion, however, until the officer in charge has counted the box and called, “Box 13, g0 The Evening Star Cup was won Iasl X e Cgnpany, -with a speed rvord of 6 2-5 seconds, and the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Cu was taken by Truck Company No. 14, ‘with a record of 7 1-5 seconds. “The Department of Railways of Japan will construct at Mindmi, Nagoya, 2 warehouse costing nearly $4,000,000. IN NEED OF FUNDS District Lacks Money to Properly Maintain Reserva- tions Recently Acquired. Although the Office of Public Build- ings and Public Parks has recently ac- quired one large tract of land for park purposes and is about to have another placed under its jurisdiction, it finds that Congress has failed to appropriate sufficient money to maintain these properties in adequate fashion. Maj. Brehon B. Somervell, the dis- trict engineer for the War Department for the Washington area, is preparing to turn over to the jurisdiction of Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, who has charge of the city parks, a large tract of land in the proposed Anacostia park section, officially known as the E-F section. | These two parcels of land, located at | the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge, will likely be given into the custody of Col. | WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1929. BRIDE KILLED ON HONEYMOON AS CAR RUNS INTO ABUTMENT SPEED HONORS 21 engine company, present record holder, which today led all com- peed trophies given by The Evening Star d Manufacturers’ Association got under way.—Star Staff Photo. AVIATION SPURS MAPRING PROTS Dr. Bowie Tells Conference .‘ Topography Aids to Develop | | Natural Resources. 1 The surveyor's transit and rod and the airplane are supplanting the cov- ered wagon and the pick and shovel of the early pioneer in present-day open- ing up of the unsettled areas of North and South America, according to Dr. Willlam Bowie of Washington, speaking in Mexico City at the opening session of the Pan-American Institute of Geog- | raphy and History. | Dr. Bowie. one of three delegates from | the United States to the first meeting |of the newly organized institute, was | designated by the National Geographic | Society. He is chief of the Division of | Geodesy of the United States Coast and | Geodetic Survey and a world-famous authority on isostasy. Chart Potential Resources. Maps which give precise locations, Grant after Secretary Good of the War | ajoyations and other topographic in- Department has officially approved the transaction in the immediate future. Anacostia Area Near Completion. For some years Maj. Somervell's force has been engaged in dredging and filling in the Anacostia Park area. | section of the new branch, which will grace Eastern Washington, is about completed. E. A. Schmitt, engineer of j. Somervell's office, explains that section E, which stretches along the Anacostia River from the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge to the Pennsylvania Railroad freight bridge, comprises a little over 66 acres. P section, he point- ed out, is just north of the other sec- tion and compfrises 51 acres. Patterson Park Work Hampered. The Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks recently acgquired a part of the Patterson tract. This section, comprising a little over 49 acres, cost $395,557. The office now finds itself purposes and maintenance provisions will likely have to be made by borrow- ing from funds allotted for other areas. While small areas of land have from | failed to make financial provisions for | decades of tI taking care of them properly, officials say. COLORED MAN SOUGHT IN DEATH OF WOMAN Police Are U{mhle to Locate Eye- witnesses to Stabbing at Residence. Police were seeking Randolph Jones, colored, 26, on a charge of murder to- day after Magnolla Richardson, also colored, 35, had been fatally stabbed about the heart last night in a house at 1216A Carrollburg place southwest. Police could locate no eyewitnesses to the stabbing and other occupants of the house declared they had heard no sounds of a quarrel. Jones and the woman. police were told, lived at the Carrollburg address. The officers learned that Jones, due to the intervention of fellow members C.lof his church, was packing his effects nrepunwry to returning to his mother's ome shortly before the stabbing oc- curred. formation constitute the framework of | further surveys of forest, mineral, plant, | animal, waterpower and other forms of | potential wealth, the speaker explained. | “Therefore, the engineers and other leaders in industry are making their wants known in regard to topographic | mapping,” he continued. “It has truly, _been said that only a rich nation can afford to develop its natural resources . and its industries without previously having executed the topographic syr- ‘\'eylnn' and mapping. Thus are avold- ed wasteful mistakes of the past in road building and railway construction | by routes which are circuitous and in areas which have not the latent re- sources or are to¢ far from markets to be profitable. | Institute’s Map Program. A major program of the institute is the co-ordination of topographic sur- | veys already made independently, and stimulation of mapmaking programs of | _ Another imperative demand for map- ping of hitherto unexplored areas arises from the commercial airplane lines, Dr. Bowle said, for airplanes now are using “We have heard much in recent application of scientific | principles to iculture and other great industries in exchange of goods and in communication,” Dr. Bowie said. “But science can only go a certain distance ! toward bettering the condition of hu- manity and making civilization nobler without having geographic facts. It is | here that the geographer must supple- | ment. the work of the physicist, the | chemist and the engineer. For without geographical information and back- | ground the other sciences cannot be ef- | ficlently employed in the utilisation of the resources which Nature has given abundantly to the nations of the world. V. S. Not Theroughly Mapped. “The officials of the National Geo- graphic Society have expressed fre- | quer:tly. and do on this occasion through | me. their opinion that civilization will | be greatly advanced by an early com- ing of the world. “We all should like to see the day when there is an adequate topographical | map covering the area of each of the | countries in the Western Hemisphere. Much mapping has- been done in my country, but only 13 per cent of the United States has _as yet been wgo- graphically surveyed and many of the map sheets are inadequate to meet the modern needs of agriculture, mining, de- velopment of hydroelectric power and extension. of rtation and com- munication systems.” | pletion of the maj HALF CENTURY’S SERVICE HONORED | [ie_carony semvi_wovonen MISS ADA L. MALLORY, ‘Who served the Government for over 50 years, 45 of recejving o purse centaining $109 from Wealth Service, Cumming on behalf of 15‘ fellow wotkers upon her of which were with the Public Surgenn S. retirement.—Star Stafl - " WITE SUNDAY MORNING EDITION pening Star. ORAM T0 REQUEST WATER METERS 10 CUT SYSTEM COST Assistant Engineer Commis- sioner Would Replace Pres- ent Defective Gauges. FIVE OR TEN YEAR PLAN WILL BE RECOMMENDED, Construction of New Mains May Be Postponed to Have Cash Available. Most important among the recom- mendations to be made soon by Capt. Hugh 8. Oram, Assistant Engineer Commissioner, on completion of & sur- vey of the Water Department will be a proposal for & five or ten year pro- gram, under which all defective meters would be eliminated. In making this disclosure today, Capt. Oram declared his investigation had convinced him the greatest prob- lem facing the Water Department is the crippled system of meters. He predicted the program he plans to recommend will necessitate no increase in rates. N “It is decidedly desirable to get all of the service metered as soon as possible because & person naturally uses more water if there is no meter to record his consumption,” Capt. Oram sald, “There undoubtedly will be less waste when the service is completely metered.” Would Save Water. ‘The Assistant Engineer Commissioner added if about 14,000 meters now out of service could be repaired or replaced there would be much less wasted water. This would mean, he explained, that less money would be needed to cover the expense of treating and pumping | the water. In addition, more water | would be available for the Dalecarlia hydroelectric plant. Capt. Oram announced he was un- able to tell yet whether the remedy he plans to propose could be carried out in five years. He revealed he intends to study every phase of the situation in order to decide whether a five or a ten year program would be more practical. less of which plan Capt. Oram ultimately decides on, a s led num- ber of replacements and repairs will be allotted for each year. In stressing the importance of his proposal, Capt. Oram pointed out that the Water Department has been fall- ing behind in recent years instead of catching up in its efforts to keep the entire service metered. The investi- gator added this condition must be im- | proved in order to trim distribution ex-! penses. | New Homes Problem. | Capt. Oram pointed out that nu-| merous elements must be taken into consideration_in deciding on a method of eliminating defective meters. One of the most difficults ngles to be con- sidered 1s the probable number of new apartment houses and homes to be built in the next few vears. ‘The labor -gosts involved in making { numerous repairs also must be esti- { mated. The average number of repairs becoming necessary from time to time is another factor. The probable ap- | propriations to be received must be given thought in order that an idea may be had of the amount of money it will | be_possible to use in this work. The possibility that construction of | i some expensive new mains will be de- | | ferred s0 more funds will be avallable was conceded by Capt. Oram. | Pointing out that in cases where | meters become defective and the records | show the consumers have used less than {7500 cublc feet of water a year for several 12-month there . is i policy of charging & flat rate of $6.36 until meter service is renewed, Capt. Oram emphasized his. belief that many consumers are obtaining more water Capt. Oram hopes to mnguu his | survey and prepare his report for Engi- neer Comm! er. Willlam B. Ladue before the end of next week. CITIZENS PETITION' FOR PLAYGROUNDS Potofile Heights’ lepruonhfinl! Ask Facilities on Equitable Basis With Other Outlying Communities. | i i A plea for park and playground facil- ities on an equitable basis with other outlying communities was made on be- half of Potomac Heights and the vicinity last night by Clyde S. Bailey, president of the Conduit Road Citizens’ Associa- S T Lo M association ai uni ure! cofldmz road and mhfi.nl avenue, r. Balley pointed out that recres- tional facilities have not kept pace with the growth ‘of the Potomac Heights section. ‘The meeting last it was the first of the Fall season, and reports of com- mittees in charge of Summer activities of the association were heard. In par- ticular the committees were active in for Potemac Heights. Harold Gray, photographer, gave an illustrated on the scenic and gllsfi:rflc aspects of the upper Potomac ver. Attempts to Spank Daughter, Is Hailed Into Police Court Rainey mln:’wofl.h 56 that hushand “threaten- an _invafiably has a mer in bed with him.” mun“ ".\'.'.5 l':':: e'"nahnnnn, - b4 'wo one of them married. Haines: said that his wife and daughter had “framed” him. “I merely threatened to.spank my daughter,” he said, ‘“when she sassed me for rebuking her on her late hours. .She sits up-with PARK VIEW GROUP HEAD IS ATTACKED BY NONRDEP 1A Officers Say Walker Repu- diated Organization ‘on Shifting of Pup_ils. 18 OF 55 WHOSE PARENTS REBELLED, CAPITULATE Opposition to Transfer Upheld by Mothers of Children In- volved in Order. ‘While 18 of the 55 children, whose parents rebelled yesterday against their transfer from the Park View School to the Monroe School were in their new classes at the latter bullding this morn- ing, charges of repudiation of the ac- tion of his own organization were voiced against Fred 8. Walker, president of the Park View Citizens’ Association, by of- fcers of the Monroe School Parent- Teacher Association. According to these officers, all of whom are mothers of children actually attending the Monroe School, the Park View Citizens’ Association, of which they are members, last Spring adopted a resolution favoring the transfer of pupils residing in the Monroe School's own ed territory, but who attend the Park View 8chool, the Monroe bullding. They point out that Mr. Walker himself presided over that meet- ing and contend now that instead of standing by that action, the asso- ciation’s president is encouraging the rebeliion against the transfer order, which was issuéd from the Park View School Tuesday. Mothers Uphold Opposition. Mr. Walker's support of the action of the mothers of the 55 involved chil- dren in ngponn' the transfer was up- held by those mothers yesterday when they said that Walker had advised them to send their children back to Park View School despite the transfer order and that he would “stand behind us.” Mr, Walker subsequently explained that he did tell those parents that such a course was the only thing left for them to_follow. Mrs. J. R. L. Bean, past president of{ the Monroe School Parent-Teacher As- sociation and now chairman of that » Crash Near .Niaoara Falls Is Fatal to Mrs. Mary Lois Lewis. Accident Happens While on| Way Back to Takoma -Park Home. Married only, last Saturday and on the way back to the home just fitted up in Takoma Park, but never occupied, -Mrs. Mary Lols Lewis, 26-year-old wife of Dr. J. E. Lewis, 31, formerly of Emergency Hospital, was killed yester- | day when their automobile crashed into | & .cement abutment -en.the honeymoon trail of the Million Dollar Highway, near Niagara Falls, N. Y, and over- turned. * Mrs. Lewis sustained internal injuries and died on the way to the hospital. Lewis was only slightly briised. Dr. Lewis is in New York City, but plans tomotrow to take his bride’s body to Waynesboro, Pa., for burial beside her father. Dr. Lewis left Emergency Hospital, where he was an interne, last July to engage in private practice. He estab- lished offices in Takoms Park, and when the young couple decided to get married they looked about in the Mary- land suburb for & home. Together they picked a small house at 57 Sycamore street and furnished it. Last Saturday, with Mr. and Mrs. J. Evan Lewis, Dr. Lewis' parents, they went to Philadelphia, where Mrs. Lewis’ two brothers live, and were mar- ried. Then their honeymoon began. Mrs. Lewis before her marriage w: Miss Mary Lois Kime. She was 26 years old, and lived at Elisabeth Sum- mers Home. TFor the past seven years she has been employed as & bookkeeper | | at the Goodyear Rubber Co. DR. J. E. LEWIS. TRAFFC ACCIDENTS Delegate to Underwriters’ Convention Suffers Possible Skull Fracture. body’'s special committee on districting. made it-plain today that while she and her associates are “amazed” and ‘puz- zled” by the present stand of their citizens' association president, they -re’ anxious that the differences between the two groups of parents be not defined as a “neighborhood squabble.” So far as the parents of children in the Mon- roe School are concerned, they say, there is no animosity, but a sincere effort to adjust unequal student enroll- ments in the two schools. The build- ings are separated by only eight blocks, they point out, and while the Park View School is so seriously congested thet six classes ' already have beer placed on part-time and five portables are maintained to accommodate the overflow enroliment, the Monroe Schoo! | has ample room to give additional pupils, Backed in Contention. In this contention, Mrs. Bean was suj y Mrs. E. C. Bguer, presi- dent of the Monroe Parent-Teacher . J. Sanders, secretary ly. In the minds of the parents of Park View School children and Monroe School children, it was indicated by the officers of the Monroe Parent-Teacher Association and by the complaint of the 20 militant mothers who yesterday stormed the Franklin Administration Bullding to seek a recindment of the transfer order, is the fear that, in view of the changing population just south of the Park View: community, the Mon- roe School soon will be turned over to co‘l!o_:‘eq ‘;;u ils. e e Parent-Teacher officers contended today that unless the puplis who actually -reside in the District ac- corded. to their school. are enrolled there, the student body will drop to such a point that the building’s transfer to the colored divisions must necessarily follow. Such a transition. they sav, would result in comparatively short time in - the necessity of turning the Park View School itself over to the col- ored divisions. They explained this view by pointing out that as a colored school the Monroe B would attract ad- | ditional eolored families to that neigh- borhood, which, in turn, would create a demand for additional classroom space for them. K Board Will Review Taue. On . the other hand, the Monroe par- ent-teacher officer declared there actu- ally is ample white school population in the vicinity of the Monroe School. The kindergarten there, they show, con- tains 53 pu while that structure houses also 87 first-grade pupils in two classes. The reason for the falling off of the enrollment in the upper grades at Monroe is the fact that students, who ll:flllllly live in fihe Monroe terri- tory, have been permitted to enroll in the Park v’g"fi'fi“‘ ‘This enrollment. was about through the efforts of Park View School parents and others. they say, to build up a large enroliment of platoon system pupils so that a de- S R wn lvocates, e M officers mr.tier contended. The whole matter will be reviewd by the Board of Education at its meet- ing next Wednesday and until then the dissenting parents may simply be ac- the advice of . assistant as referee. it e SEASON SHOWS INCREASE IN VISITORS TO LONDON tors | I and M streets by an automobile oper- 'CHANGE BUS STOPS. Numerous in’ a "E,m“ until 2 or 3 o'clock in morning. I ‘have never threatened my wife.” that her' hushend be sent, o Gal~ % SO s of the Chevy Chase line of Caplital Traction ordered by- the Public order ‘to Eight persons were injured. one se- riously, in trafic accidents in Washing- | ton and nearby Virginia reported to police last night and this morning. C. W. Stillson, an Ohio delegate to the National Underwriters’ Convention, now being held here, was serious - Jured last night when run down in front of the Mayflower Hotel, at Connecticut avenue and L street, by a taxicab driven by Lewis Henley of the Lincoln Apart- i ments. The injured man was taken to | Emergency Hospital, where he was found | to have suffered s ible fractured | skull and a broken left arm and leg, | He is expected to recover. Hit-and-Run Vietim. Edward Watson, 18 years old. of 917 | ‘Tenth street northeast was treated at Emergency Hi ital for slight injuries sustained last night when run down by a hit-and-run driver while riding a bicycle in an alley between Thirteenth and Fourteenth and E and P streets. | ‘The youth was taken home after re-| | celving hospital treatment. i Ernest R. Wright. 20 years old, living | ! at 1811 Wyoming avenue, suffered minor | { injuries to the face and hands when the motor cycle he was ri was in collision at the Connecticut avenue en- trance to the Zoological Park with an automobile operated by Thomas H. Royster of 4444 Connecticut avenue. Royster took the injured youth to Emergency Hospital, where he was | treated and later taken home. | Charles Bird of 619 Gresham place. | | was treated at Preedmen's Hospital for | | injuries suffered when, it was reported. | | he was run down while riding his ! cycle at Twelfth and U streets by a | driver who did not stop. | | The boy, whose bicycle was de- ! molished, was taken home after treat- ment. { | “Later eighth precinct police arrested John Lawrence Betz, 21 years old, of | 303 King street Alexandria, Va..' on| | charges of striking the youth and later $500 bond. | released him om ! Bus Crashes Into Bridge. Mrs. Mary Scheldrot_of 2714 Seven- b;:lth “?“ northeast and M‘I’sa.?ofll Railway & Electric Co. . they were s crashed into the Tai over the Northwest Branch of the Anm" tia River on Pros- Sch Hospital, but Miss Foster was declared by police not to have required hospital attention. Willlam B. Huntt, 25 years old, of 1302 E street southeast, driver of the bus, was. taken before Justice of the Peace Isaac D. Arnold of Brentwood and held under $100 bond for the ac- tion of the Hyattsville branch of Prince Georges County Police Court next Wed- nesday on charges of reckless driving. . Huntt is said to have told Town Marshal R. E. Brown that he was forced to’ swerve against the bridge railing in order to avold an impending collision with an approaching machine. Manson Sutton, 48 years old, colored. of 346 C street southwest, was treated at Emergency Hospital for a fractured right wrist, suffered when run down at Sixth atreet and New York avenue by & machine driven by John J. Shotz- b!l"!!olh:l!"l!a.fiet& He was not ‘Ten-year-old 'Wilcie Baylor of 609 M street was bruised about the legs and arms when run down -in -an alley be- tween. Sixth and. Seventh streets and l:d,hby Willam - Massey -of 6115 L stree * ‘The child was treated at Freedmen's Hospital-and later taken home. PARKING PROBERS CLAM 8 INURED 1O HEAR EXPERT William P. Eno_ Will Appear Before Committee on October 4. ! which the Chief Executive e Congress. . 41}1( ral PAGE 17 CONGRESS 15 ASKED T0 ENACT NEW LAW T0 DRY UP DISTRICT Bishop Cannon Says Action Expected to Make Model of Enforcement Here. BROOKHART IS INVITED BEFORE OCTOBER JURY District Attorney Says Iowa Sena- tor Can Then Tell of Liquor Violations ‘With Bishop James Cannon, jr.. call- ing upon Congress to enact whatever additional legislation may be found necessary to enforce prohibition in the District, and with District Attorney Rover announcing he will be glad to bave Senator Brookhart of Iowa give the new grand jury which meets next month any facts he may have on pro- hibition enforcement, the discussion of liquor conditions here went on today. Bishop Cannon, who is chairman of the Board of Temperance and Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, praised President Hoover for the statement issued last Sunday. h& the desire to see the fullest enforce- ment possible in Washington. The bishop added that if further legislation |is found to be needed here, the people will expect it to be forthcoming from Sequel of Statement. ‘The statement of District Attorney Rover that he wouid be glad to have Senator Brookhart testify before the new grand jury was a sequel to the story told in the Senate several S ago, in which the Iowa Senator said he had seen flasks under a table at a dinner at the Willard Hotel at which & number of Senators were guests of a New York man. On the day following the narration of this incident Senator Brockhart offered to go before the grand jury if the District attorney de- cided to go into the matter, while the District attorney took the position that | if & complaint was made to him. he would investigate. This brought from the Jowa Senator yesterday a declara- tion that it is the district attorney's duty to call & witness when he knows where the witness is. In response to this Mr. Rover issued the following statement: “1 have read the statements of Sen- ator Brookhart as reported in today's The Senate subcommittee inquring; newspapers. ‘The term of the present into automobile parking conditions has been called st 10 o'clock Priday, Oeto- | | ber 4, to hear the views of Willlam P. Eno, s recognized authority en trafic| convene early i Oc Eno sent a telegram to- stings the committee on t! Mr. Eno also wrete a I ator Hastings, telling him that he was| of Delaware, forwarding to each member of the com- mittee fie. copies of his Jatest book on traf- Mr. Eno has been called into con- mgrw!ou( occasions jc problems. and Tegard- in 1923 ittee in 1 he assisted the Senate committee the consideration of traffic questions | raised at that time. ‘The subcommittee is considering the proposal of Senator Kean, Republi of New Jersey, that all-night parking be done away with and that purkl.n(’ be gradually restricted on the principal business streets. ANACOSTIA RENEWS RESERVOIR DEMAND | |Citizens Agres to Fight More| Vigorously for Storage Lake. Determination to fight with renewed vigor for a reservoir in Anacostia was | in a_resolution adopted by | Citizens' Association at | its meeting last night. The resolution followed an address on | the need of the reservoir by Dr. George C. Havenner, president of the. associa- tion. He ‘said the present water supply. contained in three tanks, results in | waste of thousands of gallons daily from overflow. Dr. Havenner expressed the view that the reservoir should be con- structed in the vicinity of Good Hope Hill, the highest point in Anacostia. The annual election of officers was held, with all officers incumbent being Thompson and Mrs. ; Robert Carrie G. Smith, vice presidents; W. J. Tucker, secre- tary, and Willlam J. Walter, treasurer. A resolytion also was adopted in- structing the secretary to send a letter to the traffic director asking him to forbid “all-day parking” on M street between Bee%a: and Eleventh streets southeast. ssociation Tequested the trafic director. to forbid long park- backed up to th ing substituted. Repairs on W street southeast were | by motor vans up curb and asked that parallel parking be requested in a resolution. Lone Woman Ba Her battle with wolves while she was e being ttles Wolves. Russia she unable to enter out in a reindeer “pulk,” a ca- traveled 30 miles the wolves at- and the reindeer lay the in its rightened traces. Whip- reindeer into action she kept Bhe wolves off by beating a big stick at he “pulk.” The anim: mmthen frigh men Mrs. Crissy-Marcks then fainted. the back of followed he shots of the away. al the camp and iten etter to Sen- ! grand jury expires Monday. It will. therefore, be impossible for that grand jury to consider any new matter. “However, a new grand jury will tober. When it does convene, I shall be very glad to have Senator Brookhart appear and testify to any facts of which he has personal knowledge.” Included in Report. Bishop Cannon’s reference to prohi- bition in Washington is contained in a report he has pri for the church press regarding the work of the sev- eral international religious conferences he attended as a delegate recently, The report reads in part as follows: “The impression which President Hoover made upon these FEuropean leaders was the thing which struck me most forcibly in my contacts with them in the great social and religious gather- is that he has { highly developed by study and experi- | ence.” With such ability joined to his | high conception of duty and patriotic | purpose, they e: 't him to make onc of our greatest Presidents. They think that his impact upon national and in- | ternational ~ questions the short space of six months has been tremen- dous and unparalleled. “A 'striking example of the Hoover method of dling important sub- jects is found in his npl{ to the state- ment of Senator Howeil on lack of rrohnamon enforcement in the Dis- rict of Columbia. In this statement. which should receive the hearty, thusiastic approval and active support not only of all true friends of p hibition. but of all genuine supporte of constitutional government, the Pre ident declares: ‘It is the intention, not only to ‘secure the fullest enforcement in the District possible under the or- ganization of enforeement agencies as provided by law, but to make it a model in this country.' Promises Investigation. “This declaration is the climax of a statement bristling with facts; asserting that Senator Howell's statement seri- ously impugns the good faith and capacity of the District officials, calling them by name; that the President is glad the question has been raised, ex- pressing & natural confidence that such charges would not be made on the floor of the Senate unless they were based on facts, and declaring positively that if such facts are forthcoming the Presi- dent himself will have the matter thoroughly investigated. “With President Hoover's life record of successful achievement in whatever he has undertaken, these cannot be regarded as idle words or as an ex- aggerated statement issued under sud- den pressure, but as a thoroughly con- sidered and carefully worded expres- sion of the President’s fixed determina- tion to do a certain definite thing. namely, to give to the country and to the world a demonstration of the kind of prohibition enforcement which is possible under existing laws and | agencies as a ‘model’ of what can and what ought to be done in other cities and sections of the country whenever the responsible heads of Government are sincere and vigorous in their pur- pose to enforce prohibition law. Action 1s Expected. “As the Congress of the United States —the Senate and the House of Repre- sentatives—is the legislative body which passes all laws for the District of Columbia, the people of the eountry have a right to expect their Representa- tives in Congress to give sympathetic and practical co-operation to the Presi- als dent, the Chief Executive of the Dis- trict of Columbia, in his expressed pur- ed them mu to make the District a ‘model’ of e el Then Rob How two engaging strangers had “stood” the drinks and then guided him to.a dark corner, where they knocked Two Strangers Treat Visitor to Drinks, Him of $300, He Tells Police engaged In’ conversation by the twb Smith said, nforcement of the prohibition law. And if it shall be found that additional enforcement legislation is necessary for the District, the people will expect it to be promptly. forthcoming, enforcement resulting in model conditions cannot be secured in & day, but those who have followed the 3 s indeed put his hand to the plow he will not turn back until, regardless of opposition and obstacles of every kind. he has plowed -the furrow to the end.” SR John Hill, who lost the use of both at the -Somme, recently traveled 120 miles in his hand- led chair Edmont