Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1930, Page 17

NEW D. C. SIGN CODE BILL IS PREPARED| 10 BEAUTIY E1TY Reconstruction and Land- scaping of Existing Signs Is Proposed. NEW RESTRICTIONS LIFT BAN ON FEW PRODUCTS | District Officials Depending Upon | Development of Vacant Properties | to Eliminate Billboards. Pinishing touches were applied by District government officials todsy to | a proposed modern sign code, designed | primarily to bring about extensive im- | provements in the esthetic appearance | of Washington through a reVision of restrictions on billboards and other | conspicuous outdoor advertising media. | The new code has two outstanding | features. The most important of these would provide for the reconstruction and beautification of the existing au- | thorized billboards and the landscaping of the sites surrounding them. Present | regulations decree that these boards shall mot be repaired or altered in any way, but shall die a natural death] e . 'Then the boards placed. National Products Admitted. ion in the pro- ber of nationally advertised products to be included on signs used by mer- chants to advertise their business. Existing regulations prescribe that such signs Salt contain only a statement of the business of the merchant. Authorization for the rebuilding and beautification of the billboards was written into the code on the theory that as long as the signs are likely to of the city ht better be m by lmpmve::‘nu on these forms of outdoor advertising while they last. The question as to the uititmate fate of the billboards is left in abeyance in the new code, but District officials feel confident that tntt:lleu next bdmfre evelopmen , year by year, -e'l:lndm' g wipe out all of these signs. Many of them, it was pointed out, are located on sites suitably adapted for wiilding purposes. Additional Billboards Barred. ‘The new regulations, however, would not permit the erection of any addi- « tional billboards. The replacement or improvement could only be made on sites where billboards are now au- thorized. Another change proposed in the new code would tighten existing regulations by gt the Commissioners the au- thority reaches a state of ugliness tion sufficient to justify its removal Such control is declared lacking under Dresent regulations.: A bill empowering the Commissioners to adopt the proposed mew regulations has been drawn and fl awaif their approval. In antiefpal of its en- "inthe 1931, Dudges. providing in prot ditional inspector in the office of the building inspector., who would have supervision over billboards, signs and other form of authorized outdoor advertising. G Many Codes Studied. ‘The new code was drawn up by Maj. Donald A. Davison, Assistant Engineer Commissioner of the District, after an exhaustive study of sign regulations in a number of American cities comparable | in size with Washington. The best fea- tures of codes of these cities have been put into Washington's new regulations, modified to meet peculiar local condi- " tions. ‘The present sign code, Maj. Davidson explained, is inadequate and legally un- sound, and District officials have found it impossible to carry out its punitive provisions. These deficiencies, he said, have been eliminated in the new regu- lations, which, if adopted, will give the beauty of Washington precedence over the demand for outdoor advertising. The new regulations, Maj. Davidson said. have been thoroughly discussed | with business men and representatives of the sign industry, and he believes them to be satisfied with all features, }neludm[ the regulatory provisions and ees. GOVERNOR INVITED TO FIREMEN BANQUET Annual Gathering of Cherrydale Department May Include Other Notables. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. CHERRYDALE, Va., February 28.— Invitation to attend the fourteenth an- nual banquet of the Cherrydale Volun- teer Fire Department, to be held Tues- day night in Piremen's Hall here, has been sent to Gov. Pollard of Virginia. Other persons prominent in civic and olitical life of the county, State and ation, including Senator Claude A. Swanson, Senator Carter Glass, Repre- sentatives R. Walton Moore of Virginia, Joseph Manlove of Missouri and Gordon Browning of Tennessee, will be guests of the firemen. Robert E. Janson, president of the department and general chairman of the committee on arrangements, de- clared today that the demand for res- ervations has by far exceeded any pre- vious banquet, and urges those who have received invitations to send in their acceptances as soon as possible, so that Teservations may be made for as many as the hall will accommodate. The Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Pire De- partment, under the leadership of Mrs. Amos Donaldson, will prepare and ‘The entertainment & fine array of | serve the banquet. ¢ committee p: TR St PARK TAX FAVORED. By & Staft Correspondent of The Star. COLMAR MANOR, Md., February 28. —Backing their town officials, mem- bers of the Colmar Manor Improvement Association, meeting in the Wilson Avenue Baptist Church last night, voted to on record as favoring the levllyml of » 7-cent tax for rk' de- velopment in Prince Georges County. ‘Thornton, 'Lomun' ittee of o Tac ap & commi of one o vestigate the feasibility of organizing & Boy Scout troop in Colmar Manor. @he Foening Staf WASHINGTON, D. C, HEIRESS CARRIES OWN GROCERIE MRS. WILLIAM JEFFRIES CHEWNING, Daughter of Senator Couzens, who startled Washington society several weeks ago when she eloped with William J. Chewning, photographer yesterday as she left a meighborhood grocery purchases. young bank employe, snapped by a store carrying her —P. & A. Photo. CHILD INJURED BY PASSING AUTO 4-Year-0ld Reported to Have Run in Front of Car. Others Hurt. Running from behind a parked ma- chine while at play yesterday after- noon, Charles Holden, 4 years old, of 1110 East Capitol street, was struck and ‘grobably seriously injured at ‘Twelfth and B streets northeast by an automobile driven by Edward F. Green of 131 A street northeast. Green took the youngster to Casualty Hospital. He was reported today as having received a compound fracture of the skull, lacerations of the scalp, bruises of the body and shock. Pending the outcome of the boy’s in- juries, ninth precinct police are holding the driver, who told them the child was playing on the corner with com- panions when he suddenly darted into the street and directly in the path of the car. ‘Willlam Williamson, 34 vears old, of 1131 C street northeast, also was badly hurt yesterday afternoon when an automobile, said to have been driven b; Bruce E. Brooks, 33, colored tuucag driver, struck him as he emerged from & manhole at North Capitol street and Filorida avenue. Willlamson, an employe of the Po- tomac Electric Power Co., was removed to Sibley Hospital for treatment for a possible skull fracture, severe cuts and contusions. Brooks is in custody at No. 2 precinct. A hit-and-run_bicyclist felled and seriousy injured Charles Miner, 40, col- ored, of 1816 Twelfth street, at Twelfth and T streets. Miner, who told police the cyclist was a colored vouth, was given treatment at Freedman's Hos- pltl::l for a possible fracture of the e. Five-year-old Calvin East, colored, of 820 Fourth street, received possible in- ternal injuries and bruises about the face when a hit-and-run motorist struck him in the 300 block of I street. The boy was carried to Sibiey Hos- pital, where his conditign is said to be undetermined. NATIONAL HIGH SCHoOOL ORCHESTRA IN CITY 200 Young Artists Play Here To- With Miss Vanden- berg as Soloist. The National High School Orchestra, morrow, | composed of outstanding young musi- cians from high schools all over the country, will give a concert in Constitu- tion Hall here tomorrow night, under the sponsorship of Senator and Mrs. A. H. Vandenberg of Michigan. Prof. J. E. Maddy of the University of Michigan, organizer of the orchestra, will conduct at the concert. The soloist will be Miss Elizabeth Vandenberg, daughter of Senator Vandenberg. ‘The orchestra is made up of 200 high school artists, representing 40 States. WATER NOTICES ISSUED. CLARENDON, Va., Pebruary 28 (Spe- cial).—A letter being mailed to civic and commercial organizations of the county by County Engineer C. L. Kin- nier advises of the board of super- visors’ offer to decrease the water rate from $24 annually to $22, with an ad- ditional 50-cent cut quarterly, provid- ing the bills are paid within 10 days, and asking co-operation in procurement of the new subscribers. ‘The engineer is also sending to the groups coples of his report, which shows the status of the water system from the time of its inception to date. The semi-monthly meeting of the super- will be held tomorrow at 10 a.m. ENGINEER OFFICE - HOLDS WAKEFIELD {Interior Department Lacks Funds to Care for Wash- ington’s Birthplace. | The Interior Department hasn't got a | cent to take care of Wakefleld, Va., the |'birthplace of George Washington, on | | the Potomac River. ‘While tentative plans had been sug- gested for the tsansfer today of Wake- field by the United States Engineer Office to the National Park Service of the Interior Department, as directed by recent legislation, the shift will not be 85 yet because the service is “broke,” when it comes to taking care of new property. Bill Provides for Wakefield. ‘The deficiency bill, which has passed the House and is now pending in the Senate, carries an item of about $65,000 for taking care of Wakefleld. The Na- tional Park Service is biding its time until that legislation passes and, mean- while, Maj. Brehon Somervell, District Engineer for the War Department for the Washington area, will retain official custody of the historic piece of ground. After the birthplace of George Wash- ington is turned over to the National Park Service, that Governmental unit proposes to work in conjunction with the Wakefleld National Memorial Asso- ciation, which has a much larger tract that the Government owns, including the site of the burying place of Wash- ington’s ancestors. The assoclation plans to restore the ancestral home of Washington to what it looked like in 1732, with surroundings in keeping with | early colonial times. i Plan to Restore Home. The tentative program calls for this restored horce and grounds, with sur- fellers, and the 11.88 acres now forming the United States reservation to be under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service. The whole estate will then become a national monument and it 1s expected that this will be accom- plished in 1932 as a feature of the George Washington bicentennial cele- bration. Maj. Somervell made his recommen- dation some days ago concerning the transfer of the property to Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown, chief of Army Engineers, who in turn communieated with Secre- tary Hurley. The Secretary of War has now written to Secretary Wilbur about the project,, hut when Hoarrace M. Albright, director of the National Park Service, looked into his coffers, he was unable to find a penny to take care of the old home of the fathet of his coun- try. 200 SINGERSENROLLED IN CHORAL ASSOCIATION Festival Group Personnel and Or- ganization for 1930 Completed at Evening Meeting. | _ 'With 200 singers now enrolled in the | Washington Choral Festival Association, | personnel and organization of the | association were completed for 1930 at a meeting Teusday night in Thomson Community Center. ‘The choral concert scheduled for May 17, to be conducted by Prof. Frederick Alexander, conductor of the Ypsilanti Normal Choir, Ypsilanti, Mich,, was rehearsed Tuesday nigh Four other rehearsals will be held be- fore the concert. Dr. H. B. Learned, president of the executive board of the association, ad- vised that a plan is being perfected to secure a fund of $2,000 to'promote the May concert. MOTH BALLS IN COCKTAIL GET SECOND OFFENDER THIRTY DAYS Police Two Weeks After A little group of free thinkers, as Robert Bailey explained, is experiment- ing with moth balls and “alky” in the absence of the cherry-Martini combi- nation. Bailey said he was enlisted in the undertaking more as a conscript than & volunteer, which seemed unfortunate in the light of what happened in Po. lice Court yesterday. - At any rate, the experiment was & Success, a policeman stood ready to testity, if it was potegly that the experimenters craved. man Tells How Robert Bailey Got Himself Arrested Court Appearance. The “rnu-ol.mln told Judge Schuldt it looked as if something stronger than mere alcohol was “recommending” Balley to his attention when he ar- rested him for intoxication near Fourth street and the Avenue last night. Bailey told an attendant that if it hadn’t been for the moth ball he never would have been back In court two weeks after his last appearance on a similar charge. After that Bailey got gu he won't need any moth - nd it wasn't in & it away where balls for 30 cedar closet rounding lands, owned by the Rocke- | WATER EMPLOYES GIVEN" FURLOUGH AS FUNDS SHRINK Maintenance Workers ~ Will Be Idie One Day Each Week Until July 1. 1 l CERTAIN TYPES OF WORK WILL BE ABANDONED Oram Places Blame on Break in Main and Addition of 25 Miles to System. One hundred and four per diem em- ployes of the maintenance division, District Water Department, will be furloughed one day per week beginning Monday, owing to a shortage in the lump sum appropriation for the depart- ment. This furlough is a preliminary step, and is not expected to meet the shortage that will exist; accordingly more men will be furloughed later, or certain types of work abandoned in order to keep within the appropriations. ‘These measures will continue until June 130, as the appropriation for the next {fiscal year will be available July 1. On February 1 there was a balance of $125,000 of the department’s main- tenance appropriation of $365,000, cording to Assistant Engineer Comm] sioner Hugh Oram, who has charge of the Water Department. This amount would not be sufficient to carry the maintenance division on full time until June 30. Since the deficiency bill is not expected to pass until about June 5, it decided not to walt for a deficlency appropriation. but to lay off the men once. Capt. Oram explained that the maintenance division, which takes care of all leaks and breaks, 1‘1“:; transpor the department, is essential to the safety of the city, and that it would not be possible to allow its work to be stopped altogether by running out of funds. Places Blame for Shortage. Capt. Oram laid the blame for the shortage at this time to two sources. The first is the large break in the main under the M Street Bridge last April. This necessitated pumping at the | Bryant street pumping station of water i for the first high service area. This pumping had to be done out of main- tenance funds, and since it continued from April until January, when the new main was installed under the bridge, it depleted the maintenance funds durin, the current fiscal year by about $9,500. He said that he was hopeful of recover- ing some of this from the appropriation allotted to the United States engineer’s office out of water rents, amounting to $441,000 annually, which is supposed to take care of putting the water into the reservoirs. The latter appropriation, he said. was saved considerable money by the break, which made it impossible for water to be pumped from the Con- duit road tunnel into the Ridge road reservoir. This saving will not amount to as much as $9.500, Capt. Oram esti- mated. He said that Maj. Brehon Som- ervell, United States engineer for this district. had assured him that when the saving is computed it will be transferred from the supply appropriation to the maintenance appropriation. Appropriation Stationary. ‘The second cause assigned by Capt. Oram is that, although about 23 miles of new main is added to the distribu- tion system each year, the maintenance appropriation remains practically sta- tionary. Last fiscal year it was $330,000, he said, and the department was com- pelled to obtain a deficiency item of $30,000, making $360,000 in all. Last year being one of Congress' short-se: sion years, it was possible to obtain the deficiency item before March 4 and thus avold the necessity of laying off any men. He said that the Budget Bureau | has allowed but $365,000 for mainte- nance for the 1931 fiscal year, and that unless this is increased by Congress the same scenes will undoubtedly be re- enacted next Spring. CAPITAL PLAYS HOST TO SIGMA CHI GUESTS Delegates From Dozen States Wel- comed by Prof. Croissant at Mayflower Session. Delegates from a dozen Eastern States and Canada were present at the open- ing session today: of the regional con- vention of Sigma Chi, national college fraternity, which convened in the Hotel Mayflower. Prof. Dewitt C. Croissant, head of the English department of George Washing- ton University, made the welcoming ad- dress. Harold M. Gilmore of Philadel- phia presided. Brig. Gen. James E. Fechet, head of the Army Air Service, and Harry S. New. former Postmaster General, took part in the meeting. Honor was paid to two of the oldest Slgma Chi’s in the country, both of whom reside in Washington. Joseph M. Dufour of 1015 N street and J. J. Weaver of 1709 § street, 89 years and 90 years old, respectively, were declared to be the second and third oldest mem- bers of the entire organization. Mr. Dufour entered the Indiana University Chapter in 1865, and Mr. Weaver en- :fl!l%e’:he Gettysburg College Chapter n X The delegates adjourned at luncheon for a sightseeing tour of the city. Cere- monial exercises are to be held tonight. A large banquet will be held tomorrow evening, which is to be addressed by Secretary.of War Patrick J. Hurley. GIRL SCOUTS PLAN FETE. Luncheon to Be Given for Retiring Captain of Hyattsville Troop. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., February 28.— In honor of Miss Emma Simonds of Riverdale, who has resigned as captain of the Hyattsville Girl Scout troop, a post which she has held for several years; Miss Lois Hall, field secref of the Girls Scouts Association of the trict of Columbia, and other guests, the Girl Scout committee for this district will entertain at lyncheon at the Girl| thi 'Scout Little House tomorrow in Wash- ington, Miss Simonds has resigned be- cause of press of other duties. Her m‘%r“m will become effective March 3, successor has not yet been an- nounced. Mrs. Louis Dashiell is chairman of the district committee, other members being Mrs. Jacob Waldman, Clyde Brown, Mrs_Hilleary T, Wi Mrs. Smith Brookhart. FRIDAY, : SALTIMAN HEADS FEBRUARY 28, 1930. Above: Forms for the concrete work on the main steps from the roadway under-passage to the bridge, Below: The first stone being set in place in the water gate. ~—Star Staff Photos. RADIO COMMISSION Reorganization of Control| Agency Is Effected at Meeting. Reorganization of the Federal Radio Commission was effected today at a | meeting of the commission, only a few days after confirmation by the Senate | of the five commissioners who were re- | appointed last week by President Hoover. Maj. Gen. Charles McK. Saltzman of Towa, a retired Army officer, formerly chief signal officer of the Army, unani- | mously was chosen chairman of the | commission. By the same vote the com- mission chose Eugene O. Sykes of Mis- | sissipp! as vice chairman. Mr. Sykes has been vice chairman since its organi- zation in March, 1927. Dr. O, B. Jolliffe of West Virginia, now attached to the radio section of the Bureau of Standards, was named chief engineer, under the reorganization plan recently approved by Congress, which suthorized bringing of the engineering section of the commission up to the personnel strength and pay status of the legal division. Dr. Jolliffe’s salary will be $10,000 a year and two assist- ant engineers will be appointed, after | conferences with the new chief engineer, at $7,500 annually. Gen. Saltzman succeeds as chairman Ira E. Robinson of West Virginia, who has been head of the commission since March, 1928. Dr. Jolliffe succeeds Capt. Guy Hill, United States Army, who was detailed to the contmission by the War Department. The new chairman was graduated from the Military Academy at West Point in 1896, and from fhe signal school with honors in 1906. Rising through the various grades in the Army and serving in Cuba and the Philip- pines, he holds two citations for “gal- lantry in _sction” the Spanish- American War and holds the Dis- tinguished Service Medal for ‘“excep- tionally meritorious and conspicuous services” in the World War. E Gen. Saltzman was a delegate from the United States to the international radio conference in London in 1912, represented ‘the War Department at a conference on._electro-technical com- munication in 1924, and was a delegate from this country to the_international telegraph conference in.Paris in 1925 and to a similar radio telegraph confer- ence .in Washington in 102’;? ELECTRIC WORKER SUES FOR LIMITED DIVORCE Clifford G. Sanford Charges Wife Threw Alarm Clock at Him. Asserting that' his wife threw alarm clock at him and broke a clay incense burner over his head, Clifford G. Sanford, an employe of the Potomac Elettric Power Co,, has filed suit for a limited divorce from Shannon Florence Sanford, 1938 Calvert street. They were married tember 7, 1928, and lived at her er’s home u':fl':x !:bm 12, when the ?mb-nd and furn| an apartment, think- ing, he declares, that his wife's dis- position might improve. During the week. they. were in the aj nt, he says, his wife spent, the night at least ree times at her mother’s home and after his wife had thrown the clock at him and the incense burner he walked out of the house, February 19. Later, on his retarn, he found that she had moved and had taken most of the N Ginee e, separation the. wife has e separaf e wite followed him on the street and as- saulted him on one occasion, he tells the court. Attorney Clifford P. Grant appears for the husband. Notebook, Valuable To Army Officer, Is Lost on D. C. Streets S ———— Somewhere in Washington is a tiny, black notebook containing the fruits of five weeks of re- search work by Maj. J. D. Burks, U. 8. A, which was lost Priday between Twenty-third street and Pennsylvania avenue and Farra- gut Square. Maj. B\:;nbybellevu the book was foun some youngster who, not realizing its value, has failed to return it to him. If it has been found, it may be re- ::“:"Q” to Maj. Burks at the City lub, ‘The notebook 1is unimportant looking, but it contains notes on 50 stories about Confederate vet. erans. LAND SALES PRICES INCREASED BY JURY Government Must Pay $22,- 730 More for Six Parcels of Property Here. ‘The Federal Government will be re- | quired to pay an additional sum of $22,730 to acquire six parcels of land in the two squares 263 and 264, which are being condemned for use of the De- partment of Agriculture and whose owners appealed from the award of a commission of citizens, who assessed the value of the property in both squares. The highest increase al- lowed to an objecting owner was $10,850 to John M. Beavers, owner of premises 1316 B street southwest, and the lowest. advance went to Johanna C. Block, owner of 1306 B street, who was al- lowed by the reviewing jury $46,750, when the commission had given her $46,475, an increase of only $275. The reviewing jury, composed of Charles J. Langmead, Julius Egloff, Charles 8. King, Thomas W. Marshall, John L. Grubb, Newman G. Little and William H. Lawton, allowed $14,000 for premises 1367 C street southwest, in- stead of $12,800;* $19,500 for premises 240 Fourteenth street southwest, in- stead of $16,750; $30,000 for premises 206 Fourteenth street southwest, in- stead of $12,800; $19,500 for premises 220 Linworth place, instead of $53,755; $55,500 for premises 1316 B street south- west, instead of $44,650, and $46,750 ;:; &r;mmu 1306 B street, instead of The Government Was represented by Assistant United States Attorney Gen- eral Henry H. Glassie and Assistant United States Attorney Arthur G. Lam- bert, while the objecting property own- ers had as counsel Joseph I. Weller, George W. Offutt, jr.; Willlam C. Sul- livan and Frank Sprigg Pes ITY. JUDGE GUS A. SCHULDT TAKES OATH OF OFFICE Presiding Member of Police Court Bench Renews Vows Quietly Before Chief Clerk. Judge Gus A. Schuldt, presiding member of the Police Court bench, officially sworn into office for another ukmomlu by Frank The magist was recently ap- Krllnud by President Hoover to serve second term of office. The required Senate confirmation of the appointment was made known last weck. The ceremony this morning was per- formed vately. Miss Ethel Spates, confiden secretary to the-judge, was the only witness. After the oath of office Jue Schuldt w: resumed his nluofl the bench. 0L RATENEASURE OFFERED N SENKTE Thomas of Oklahoma Scores Personnel of Finance Subcommittee. By the Associated Press. ‘While its lobby investigating com- mittee was developing that independent oil producers had raised $50,000 for a drive to obtaih an oll tariff, the Senate began debate today on a proposal of Senator Thomas, Democrat, Oklahoma, {for a duty of $1 a barrel on crude oil jand 50 per cent on petroleum by- | products. Ofl. now on the free list, had been | mentioned in reports that a new coali- tion had been formed to put through rates on this product and lumber and |a higher tariff on sugar. The Jones lumber tariff amendment was defeated by a margin of five votes last night. Su;;r will not come up before next weel ‘Will Ask Vote Again. Senator Jones, Republican, Wash- | ington, announced in Senate at | | the outset todag that he would seek | another vote Ister on his lumber duty proposal. | Opening debate, Senator Thomas said | the oil industry was in “extreme dis- | | tress” with price cuts occurring fre- | quently and plans being made for | further curtailment of production. The issue, he argued, was between | {the independents and a “handful of | powerful producers including the Stand- }gxl"fl“:mup. the Gulf and Royal Dutch | Scores Subcommittee. Thomas said Chairman Smoot of the finance committee might as well have | called W. C. Teagle of the Standard Oil of New Jen:i' John.D. Rockefeller ellon, instead of ap- Reed, Pennsylvania, an New Jersey, Republicans, and King, Democrat, Utah, as a sub- to hear evidence on an oil He understood, he added, that Edge, now Ambassador to Paris, was a brother-in-law of Teagle and that was a former counsel for the| Mellon Gulf interests. | Senator . Smoot interrupted at this; point to say “there was no trickery or underhanded work” in appointing the subcommittee. Blames Importation. ‘The trouble with the oil industry of | America was not_overproduction, but | overimportation, Thomas contended. “If the American market is given to the American cer,” he continued, “there would he no surplus.” The Oklahoma Senator listed domes- tle products at 900,000,000 barrels a year and imports at 109,000,000 and saild Venezuelan oil could be laid down in Atlantic Seaboard cities at 75 cents a “barrel, while the domestic oil sold for $1.07. He declared. the Shell irterests could produce gasoline from its Venezuelan ofl at 3 cents a gallon. ‘VAGRANT’ FLASHES ROLL AND CASE IS DISMISSED rthur Mason Is Given Freedom When He Shows Judge Visi- ble Means of Support. Police arrested Arthur Mason on a charge of vagrancy. He quickly ex- pelled the belief that he had no means of support and gained his immediate release at Police Court by flicking 8| large roll of crisp bank notes in front of Judge Gus A. Schuldt. t Mason was picked up on Pennsyl- vania avenue near Twentieth street yes- terday by Policeman 1. Rosenberg. ~He | was taken to a police station and put under key, although he didn't know Just what it was all about. In court the clerk read the long humiliating if not insulting charge, which ‘meant vagrancy, and it dawned on Mason, evidently for the first time, why he was where he was. “What, me a vagrant?” asked Mason rised. He accompanied the word with a quick motion into his pockets and revealed a gleaming roll of ‘“yel- lowbacks.” “There 1is home, 1ugza declared the defendant, mn fingers over the edges of “Case dismissed.” MAJ. DALY TRANSFERRED. 700 there, and more at PAGE B—1 DAVISON APPROVES INSPECTION CHANGE AS RECOMMENDED Assistant Engineer Commis- sioner Favors Efficiency Bu- reau’s Report on Office. DISAGREES, HOWEVER, ON SUPERINTENDENT Part of Suggestions Already Cared for in Pending Bill for Appropriation. The District government is in accord with many of the suggestions made by the Bureau of Efficiency for reorganiz- ing the building inspector's office and related activities. Some of these will be effected if the present appropriation bill is passed. Efforts will be made to effect others by separate legislation in future. This ‘is the substance of a statement made today by-Assistant En- gineer Commissioner Donald A. Davi- son, who has charge of most of the offices dealt with in the bureau's re- port, including those of the building inspector, electrical engineer, boiler in- spector and inspector of plumbing. Maj. Davison went further. He ad- mitted that most of the charges made in the report of inefficiency were true, instancing the fact that no inspection had been made of some elevators for more than a year, although the law re- quires semi-annual inspection. =But Maj. Davison pointed out that thes> facts were made known to the bureau's inspectors voluntarily by the various department heads, and that thé bureau report contains no acknowledgment of this assigtance. K “We are not trying to hide anything, Maj. Davison said. “I venture to say that we are far more interested in giv- ing the city a good job of inspecting its bulldings than is the Bureau o: Efficlency. I do not think it is alto- gether fair for the bureau to sprin these facts in a report as though the: ‘were 50] new, whereas they ar things about which we told them eigh months ago and which we are tryin to’ correct.” Dependent on Appropriation. Passing then to the features of th- report with which he zgreed, Maj. D: son said that the appropriation bill nov: in committee will, if passed, put al building- inspectors on annual salarics instead of allowing some of them to draw their pay frcm the contractors whose buildings they are inspecting: it will add 3 elevator inspactors, to make possible the elevator inspections re- quired by law: it will add 15 other employes to strengthen all inspection work, and it will effect a reorganization s0.as to allow a large amount, of inspec- tion by types of “:yrkmh:s:'l‘fl of the resent inspection stricts. s ‘This latter reform has become neces- sary owing to the complicated structuros called for under modern practice. In- stead of having one inspector do all the inspecting within certain bounda- ries, whether it be of frame garages or of steel and concrete office buildings, there will be separate steel, concrete and brick inspectors; separate forces for ting fireproof and g bufldings; separate forces for inspect- ing bulldings under three stories, and so forth. They will go wherever in the District work of the respective types is being done. ~ As to_the.recommendation that the electrical inspectors be transferred from the office of the electrical engineer to the buflding inspector’s office, Maj Davison -says it is in contemplation, but' will not be made for yet awhile. The present task of the electrical department is lar, the re- lighting of the city with modern electric lamps, he said. When this job is com- plete, in a year or two more, the trans- fer will be made. ‘Would Welcome Counsel. ‘The assignment of an assistant cor- ration counsel exclusively to building {:‘apecuon cases would be welcomed, Maj. Davison sald. The transfer of jurisdiction over public comfort stations from the plumbing inspector to the director of public buildings and public parks likewise. Legislation is now being drafted for presentation to Congress to accomplish some of the reforms suggested by the buread. One of these is a bill to make the inspector of steam boilers a salariecs employe, not dependent upon fees for the boilers inspected, as at present. An- other is a bill requiring examination and licenses for electricians who put in house wiring and do no other electrical work in connection with building tions. A third is a blll giving the Com missioners power to revoke for cause the licenses funled to plumbers under the present licensing act. Maj. Davison said that the bureau's scheme to create a new job, that of superintendent of inspection, and to put under him lubm‘gemn with equal au- thority heading the building, electrical, steam botler, elevator and plumbing in- spection services, does not meet with his approval. The scheme of reorgan- ization now before the appropriation committees makes the building inspec- tor the head man. The elevator, plumb- 1ng°nnd steam boiler inspectors are his subordinates. The electrical inspectors are left for the present where they are, with the prospect that they, too, will eventually be placed under the building inspector’s control, MAN FOUND WITH GIRL T0 BE TAKEN BACK Virginia Authorities Expected Here Today to Get Paul Frye, Arrested Yesterday. Virginia authorities are expected here today to take into custody Paul D, Frye, 24 years old, of Winchester, VA, Who was arrested here yesterdsy when found with Montro] 15, of Mount Jackson, missin, Pebruary 17. ‘The couple were arrested by Detective Sergts. O. W. Mansfield and H. K. ‘Washington Man to Assume Duty at Fort Riley Cavalry School. Maj. Cornelius M. Daly, 5th United States , at Fort Clarke, Tex, has been ordered to Fort Riley, Kan., effective in June, for duty with the staff and faculty at the Arngwcnvnlry School at w&rm He is son of Cornelius T. Daly of the R. P. Andrews Paper Co, and was born in this city August 3, 1891. Following service as t in_the revenue-cutter service and in the District National Guard, he was commissioned a second lleutenant in the United States Cavalry in Novem. ber, 19! during World War. the rank of major since Wilson after Otto V. Pense, State's attorney, of Woodstock, Va. had quested Distriot r)lm to search for the girl and her companion. Dik o charges s besn placed against 1o charges Miss Baker. The girl is being held at the House of Detention for her father, who is also expected here today, while Frye is at No. 1 precinet. He told police he was a wood cutter. Bible Class to Meet. BALLSTON, Va, February 28 (Special).—The ladies’ Bible class of Mount, "Olivet Methodist Protestant - r meeting Mrs. Sutton, Wilson soules