Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1930, Page 17

[wasmvoroy | The Sunday Star POLICEMEN DODGE FOR LIVES AS CAR RACES DOWNALLEY Pair Believe AHeged Rum Driver Tried to Run Them Down. LIQUOR AND GAMBLING APPARATUS ARE SEIZED | | T | Policy Game “Pay Off" Center| Raided While 50 Runners Are Checking on Daily Receipts. Three persons were arrested, 72 gal- Inos of assorted liquors and a quantity of gambling paraphernelia were con- fiscated, and a 150-gallon still was dis. mantled by the police vice squad yester- day during five raids, in one of which | two members of the squad narrowly es- eaped injury when the driver of a eareening automobile nearly struck them down and then crashed over & 10-foot embankment. The officers said they believed the man tried to run them down. The crash occurred in an alley near Twenty-third and N streets while Sergt. ©O. J. Letterman and J. A. Mostyn were raiding a house in the 2300 block of N street. Waiched Unloading. ‘The officers said they noticed an auto- and after car un- the officers, they reported. jumped aside, and watched the car careen crazily and plunge over the em- bankment. | The famous comedians, Amos National Broadeasting AMOS N’ ANDY G ON BUSINESS “Jus' a Dream” Taxi 3 (Freeman J. (Charles Correll), right. In the center is Milton A: WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1930. AMOS AND ANDY AT THE WHITE HOUSE Gosden), left, and Andy ylesworth, president of the Co. They were snapped yesterday at the White House. —=Star Staff Photo. IVE “REVIEW” “PROPALITIONS™ [Visit to Press Club and White House Seems to “Open-Air” Men. bustin’ of de Great Home Bank,” Amos “Oh—oh!” Andy exclaimed. “What'd " |y' want to remin’ me o’ dat fo'? I'se ks arrested Prancis, colored, boone“h:r“at the ‘ilm’?feclnfl of possession of quarts , 1¥ay Oft” Center Raided. “pay off” center for run- policy game in the first street was on of gg?gfi! ge i PROF. ARMSTRONG HEADS U. S. LEARNED SOCIETIES Other Officers Chosen by National Couneil, Representing 18 Prof. Edward C. Arm- mvm;‘-m: :‘n“m composed of 18 national Prof. Willlam A. i e et P ver - - C treasurer. Prof. , _ secretary - P. Albright of Johns Hopkins % o eld'l‘l‘l"? Gay of Prof. . Gay Prof. Edgar H. Sturtevant of Yale. bell Bonner of the Uni- a classicist, has PLANNING BODY DELAYS INCINERATOR DECISION Tentative Selection of Site Is Re- ferred to Park Group by D. C. Heads for Recommendation. the next 'mm'm you and ‘one of the tablets from a pillbox in hand and said: noted it was n - | tell me jus’ what d Amos' tryin’ to forget all about de Great Home d dey was goin' to 'rest de , dat's what “Includin’ de y cabs. We had_ben thinkin’ sumpin’ ‘bout openin’ a Fresh Air Taxicab busi- mness here, but it looks like dere’s tod much compilition. An’ _besides, dey tell me de fresh air idea mightn't work out so well here on recount o' de star- ‘Check an’ double-check” agreed the reporter. He took out his watch and earing 7 o'clock. Mister, but could you e folks here think ?” Andy asked, ear- The re was hastily pocketing his watch as he reached for his hat and made for the door—all in one movement. “Sorry 1 won't have time to answer you, boys. I've got to hurry or I'll miss my favorite radio edpmg'r!m. So long!” ‘The door slammed behind the disap- pearing form of the newspaperman. Andrew Brown looked at Amos Jones me, o' me and ne o | and then sank slowly into a chair. 'se regusted,” he declared. Just Couple of Poor Boys. Amos and here to attend the dinner of the White House correspond- ents last night ted the reporters with “we're just a couple of poor boys trying to get along.’ Efl'denfly oblivious of the $100,000-a~ year contract which the comedians have i | with ther sponsors on the air, Amos “Hello. Dis is Andrew Brown, presi- dent of de Presh Air Taxicab Co. of reporter from de which? De Star? Oh, sho’, ', Send de gentmun right \lr. Room 683. Yes '“'ii, thank you suh!” o | are married. ‘o'fl” handle dese reviews bettern you do. ‘There was a knock at the door. An- drew Brown assumed an important tone and sald “Come in.” o ‘The reporter came in. “So you are Amos and Andy?” the scribe said, as he accepted the seab| offered him. “Propalition Wid Gov'ment.” “Rescuse me for protrudin’,” Brown put in, “but I is Andy, president of de company, and dis here is Amos, my cab driver. I brou{ht Amos along wid me so's he could learn sumpin’ 'bout de gov'ment and de President and de Innerstate Commerce n. You see, me and Amos is got some big bus- iness propalitions to take up wid de gov'ment. Dat's why we're. here.” “De real reason, mister,” Amos broke in, “is dat we was asked to en- tertain some newspaper folks at a din- ner tonight. Dat's de real reason we're here.” “Amos, shut up and let gentmun. How can I 7 sitchiation to 'im wid you buttin’ in all de time? I begs to repologize, Mister.” “r dat’s all.” Amos said, apologetically. “I understand you boys met Presi dent Hoover this afternoon,” the re- porter said. “Oh, sho! Sho! Me and him re- cussed de unreployment question, con ditions in de taxicab business, blns bustin’ and all dose kind o' things”| Andy responded with enthusiasm. “He! asked me for my revice 'bout de tarif an’ I done tol’ 'im dat I was thinkin’ ser'usly 'bout raisin’ de tariff on our taxicab, so's I c¢'n pay my rent on| Amos volunteered, “an’ 1 tol' him if we charged any more 'n we do now we'd lose what cust'mers we y no Mister” Andy continted, know nuthin’ 'bout de taxicab business me talk to de ‘splain de , National Cap- Commission, ‘cept drivin’. I is de president of de comp'ny an’ I knows what's what "bout the dl;‘m‘ and de credits, Andy staf wid Mister Lucas he'd send a slertified public recountant to rezamine de books of de lation. I asked ‘im If de recountant would wanted to tell 'im de truf,| flipped & quarter in the air and it drop- ped into the palm his hand heads p. “It's Monday.” he said. “How would you like to hear a good story?” It was Amos (Freeman J. Gosden) who did most of the talking. Amos told several stories and even Graham McNamee, who was languishin, on a divan, raised his solemn face an laughed. And besides he let the news- - | paper men in on some “secrets.” Amos revealed that both he and Andy Amos sald he was a father. Andy (Charles Correll) inter- rupted to disclose that Mrs. Correll ac- companied him on his visit to Wash- ington and goes with him wherever he goes. “Amos” said he and “Andy” write their own dialogue and try to keep at least a week in advance. The tele- phone numbers used in their episodes may or may not be assigned, with the exception of the number of the “Fresh Alr Taxicab Company, Incorpulated’” which is & “dead” Harlem number. The dog which was taken away from “Amos” probably will come back soon. Both “Amos” and “Andy” imitate the dog’s bark. If “Amos” is talking “Andy” barks, and vice versa. “Amos 'n’ Andy” left Washington early this morning for New York, where they plan to remain for a week before returning to their home in Chicago. PARRO} FEVER VICTIMS IN FAVORABLE CONDITION Laboratory Helper and Watchman Contracted Disease During Serum Experiments. ‘The condition of the two latest vic: tims of parrot fever was regarded as favorable last night. Both of the patients, Mrs. Sadie Carlin, 818 Sixth street northeast, and Robert Lanham of near Walkers Chapel, Va., were em- ployed by the Public Health Service during the laboratory development of a serum for the disease, Mrs. Carlin as a laboratory helper and Lanham as a " Neltner s belte either is ved seriously affec although of two other workers 1o "fi?e' laboratory, who were stricken several weeks ago, one died and the other was critically ill for a conaiderable period. FALL FRACTURES NOSE. World War Veteran Passing Through City Suffers Injury. Falling to the pavement while walk- ing in front of the Capitol Park Hotel . | 1ate last night, Kenneth Sabin, 32, a .| World War veteran, who lives in Jack- | son Heights, Long Island, N. fered a compound fracture of the nose. !l-lo was treated at Casualty Hospital, lfl:‘rmwnhuhml,u re!\l;nefl to his h::g. , Who says he was a captaip ler the 82nd Division and served for twe mind fixin' up Queen’s pflon while he was about it, but he said de Madam would have to fix her own, Dat's bad, cuz I promised de Madam T'd do it for her, an’ iU's & mess, “Tryin' to Porget Bank” “Tell 'tm what de Innerstate Com- merce Remission (ol "bout the de arri years in France, attributes his fall to a Iluflden dizzy spell. He was taken to the hospital Joseph Sproul, who was wal th him when the fall oc- SR T i ew aut today from el b ‘The two ir was ved | CITIZENS DIVIDED OVER ELIMINATION OF TRAFFIC HAZARD Northeast Section Agrees on Abolition, But Not on Order of Procedure. MICHIGAN AVENUE GROUP HITS GRADE CROSSING Question of Abolishing Bottle Neck Viaduct May Be Aired in Congress. Which is the more dangerous—the Michigan avenue grade crossing at the tracks of the Metropolitan branch of the Baltimore & Ohig Railroad, in the shadow of the Catholic University of America, or the “bottle-neck” viaduct over those same tracks at Monroe street? Around the answer to this simple question hinges a controversy that is agitating the interested Northeast sec- tion of the city. The row has its rever- berations downtown, and is likely to be_aired in Congress. Now pending before the House ap- propriations committee for considera- tion with the District of Columbia ap- propriation bill is a Budge Bureau rec- ommendation an item for $145,000, which contemplates improve- ment of the Monroe street overpass and provides that “the tracks and right of way of the said Baltimore & Ohio Rail- road Co. at Michigan avenue in the District of Columbia shall be forever closed against further trafic of any kin Budget Bureau officials are hazy in their recoflection of the ments used before it some six mon! ago with reference to the Michigan avenue grade crosing, they said, in view of the enor- mous mass of business that passes over their desks. There are no steno- Enhle records kept of hearings before bureau. Railroad Would Pay Share. The item in controversy, involving Michigan avenue and Monroe street, provides that one-half of the total cost of constructing the work shall be paid by the rallroad company to the District. Officials of the tion counsel’s office, however, e: ed that there is no broad, general provision of law re- quiring railroad companies to bear part of the expense in eliminating grade crossings, but this is usually taken care of in the particular legisiation under consideration. Consideration of the pending contro- versial items raises a number of vital questions. Tmong are: If the Michigan avenue grade crossing is closed for an interval of several years, might it not be extremely difficult to persuade the Baltimore & Ohio Rail road that it should pay part of the ex- gem of constructing & new overpass? hould an overpass be constructed in the present line of Michigan avenue, or should that thoroughfare be straight- ened north of the present line, with an adequate overpass? Would the wdiening of the Monroe street overpass and the straightening of Michigan ave- nue, with an overpass to eliminate any grade crossing, mean an increase in the District’s tax rate if both were carried forward immediately> 1Is the Monroe street overpass really dangerous now? How long would it take to condemn the property necessary to construct the straightened Michigan avenue and its overpass? Would an overpass in the straightened Michigan avenue over- shadow the buildings in the Catholic University group? Citizens Protest Avenue Closing. One of the most important recent developments in the controversy is the move fostered by the Michigan Park Citizens’ Association, which insists that Michigan avenue shall remain, and which wants the le crossing elim- inated as a dangerous hazard. A pro- test meeting of interested property- owners Thursday night authorized the naming of a committee to draw up resolutions of protest against the clos- ing of Michigan avenue and to raise funds carry on a campaign. ‘The Qesirability of the elimination of the Michigan avenue grade crossing is readily admitted on all sides, but the chief question is which major job in that vicinity should be given preference, the Monroe street overpass or the Michigan avenue grade crossing—or should both be done at once. ‘Those who want the “bottle neck" overpass at Monroe street contend that that is the more important job and must be done now, while advocates of the elimination of the grade crossing and the straightening of Michigan ave- nue insist that theirs should be done without delay. The Star has collected & symposium of views of prominent interested au- thorities, giving a wide divergence of opinion on this subject, and these will be given publicity in this series. In brief, those who contend that the Michltln avenue work should go for- ‘ward ediately emphasize that while the Government is taking some of the | kinks out of the thoroughfare between | Trinity College and the Soldiers’ Home, | ‘a 90-degree angle will be put in at Monroe and Tenth streets if the grade © is blocked. The rapidly grow- ing Michigan Park section is entitled to consideration, they assert, for the elimination of the grade crossing is needed at once, and the need will be- more acute as the section de- Charge Dangerous Condition. Proponents of immediate improve- ment of the Monroe street overpass and its approaches picture this thor- oughfare as one of the heavily traveled streets of the city, now forming onc of the main routes to Baltimore, by way of Rhode Island avenue. The street car tracks over the rallroad tracks at | date Monroe _street, cont say they, make aj} d\tlor{ for automobiles, and Planning Cor one solution of straighten out the question put for- pl ' [ Map showing the proposal, at the grade crossing across the around by way of Monroe and Tenth is suggested. This has a The District is now at work Capital Thy oposen STRAIGHTENING AND WIDENING PAGE B—1 OFFICIAL ‘DEBATE ~ SOLDIERS proponents Michigan avenue and improving the Monroe sireet overpass is carried out. 90-degree angle in the high of the plan to have the HOME now pending in the District of Columbia appropriation bill, to close Michigan avenue tracks of the Metropolitan Branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and divert traffic streets, putting a of protest from ing eliminated at once by constructing an overpass over the tracks and by straightening straightening Michigan avenue between Trinity The heavy dotted lines to the left of the present Michigan avenue line represent the route 'Ln-l Park and Planning Commission to straighten the thoroughfare and construct an "T. e arrow along Tenth street and Monroe street shows how traffic would be diverted if the iway. An item of $145,000 for this work Michigan avenue grade cross- and widening the thoroughfare. lege and the Soldiers’ Home. by the National the improved avenue. present plan of closing MORE ANTI-SMOKE CHARGES ARE MAD Warrants Issued Against Sev- eral District Firms for Alleged Violations. Additional warrants leading to prose- | cutions under the District’s smoke- nuisance law were issued yesterday against leading firms of the National Capital, while David Lynn, itect of the Capitol, appealed to District At- | torney Leo A. Rover for an opinion as | to whether Speaker Longworth, chair- man of the House Office Building Com- mission, should not have been named, instead of himself, in the subpoena based on a charge that the smoke nuisance law is being violated at the Capitol. harges of violation of this statute had their aftermath at the Capitol, for Representative Bowman, Republican, of ‘West Virginia, & member of the House District committee, yesterday took steps to block what he termed efforts of the Board of Health to prevent the use of bituminous coal in the city. The Rep- resentative charged that the anthracite coal producers were responsible for this move. In to requests from Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of pub- lic buildings and public parks; the chief of the Bureau of Mines, Mr. Lynn and other interested officials, the Senate committee will grant a hearing on the Copeland bill, enabling them to set forth their position. Named in Warrants, Yesterday's warrants against alleged smoke violators named Arthur Carr, 700 Seventeenth street, Mills Building; Clarence Smith of the Hugh Reilly Co., 1334 New York avenue; the H. L. Rust Co., through Harry Le¢ Rust of 1001 Fifteenth street, as well as the Wilson Normal School at Elev- enth and Harvard streets. Health Officer Willlam C. Fowler is signing the warrants issued against per- sons and firms accused of violating the smoke-nuisance law, and these have now reached more than 100 since Feb- "hle Dr. Fowler continued, figura- tively, to raise smoke for those charged with violation of this health measure, literally smoke continued to issue forth from the chimneys at the Capitol power plant and other plants that are the targets of the current legal action. In his effort to fortify himself with legal bulwarks, Mr. Lynn has not only besought the district attorney to render an opinion for him, but explained that he has asked the Department of Jus- tice to represent him in court proceed- ings that may follow the serving of the |\ subpoena upon him. He was instructed to notify Mr. Rover, and if the district attorney is unable to handle the case, was __pro that the department would, he said. Explains Conditions. With reference to the continued pres- ence of smoke at the Capitol, Mr. Lynn explained that he is required under law to use the coal supplied by the Gov- g]nmenc {ue} y:.m‘: lndlt::: O?he Capi- power plant'is equip) for bituminous coal and not for anthracite coal. ‘This plant supplies the Capitol Building, House and Senate Office buildings, Library of Con, Govern- ment Printing Office and other build- in that area, all of which would suffer serious venience and loss if Mr. Lynn was forced to shut down | ¢, the plant in order that he might keep within the law and not be held liable for its violation. Following & conference with Dr. Fowler, District health officer, Repre- sentative Bowman issued the following statement: “The activities of the board of health ct, in an effort to intimi- aimed ‘Representative Coyle of Pennsyl- mh&uvmflumh&aflm a use to the north of the of rting near the Maloney Chemical Laboratory. at Catholic ~ University. ml‘Nl "upll.n. officials poh!md out, § ini ing present Micl n ice lt{n:"'ge the presen enue. This old avenue would W extension street. i L gls avenue e houses : 7= i £ of & 13 | representing ' the | 1 | Clark and Dr. D. O. Good and Bad Luck With Boy Who Hits Ambulance on Bike Luck, good and bad, was with 10-year-old Kenneth Gray yes- terday. Kenneth had left his home at 2820 N street and was pedaling _alonj The_driver, George E. Norris, 1301 E street northeast, leaped from his machine and helped the boy_inside. fi.“lt‘l Iu’“l:‘(l;t." Mm Nor- , “you um a Board of Public Welfare ambulance, and now you're on your way to Emergency Hospital.” 1,000 APPLY FOR 3% & CHURCHES TO UNITE IN SOVIET PROTEST ‘Al Denominations Invited to | - Sympathize With Perse- cuted Russians. Religious forces of the Na Capi- tal will gather this afternoon at 4 o'clock | in Constitution Hall to express sympathy for Russians suffering persecution the Soviet government for their religious 'w:}l‘fi Rev. Ji E. Freeman, Bishop it v, James E. an, L of Wi , will preside, and Rev. . Edmund A. Walsh, 8. J., vice presi- | town University and re- | of Foreign Service, GENSUS POSITIONS | ez Nearly 5,000 Additional Clerks to Be Hired in Bureau by May 1. Eighteen hundred ns have plied for the 30 obs &8 census enumer- ators for the Dist will be made available this week. May 1 nearly 5,000 additional clerks wil | % e have been hired by the Census Bureau | pqjier to handle the thousands of en sheets sent to Washington from all sec- tions of the country. Appointment of the 39. enumerators will be announced Wednesday by J. Sterling Moran, census supervisor for | the District. While their work will not cover more than two weeks, they will be paid 4 cents for each name recorded. The actual task of taking the census here will start April 2. In addition to the enumerators there will be 15 or 20 office_jobs available in connection with the District census. | tention in Wi In Europe h | has sources of contact with Russian | fairs available to few Americans. It was said that in the civil service [ W* examinations, held last November, 8,300 were made eligible for appointment. More than half of this number were from the District of Columl fourths of the applicants were women. Census Bureau officials estimate that a majority of the appointments will be made from the District. No transpor- tation to Washington is paid by the Government in the case of clerks who live outside the t. The average term of om‘noyment will be one year, it was said, elthough some of the work will extend two years. The of the hiring will be done on or about May 1. CHURCH SURVEYS LAND WITH VIEW TO PURCHASE Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Forced to Give Up Present Site. Forced to vacate its present site on John Marshall place because of the mu- nicipal bullding program, the Metropoli- tan Memorial Methodist Church yesterday had reached regarding the purchase of the land, a triangle containing 47,000 square feet, Dr. James Shera Montgomery, &n- tor of the church, sald that it was likely definite action would be taken within a few dlK: The committee in charge may to select this triangle as a building site, but it is said the group will pick for the locality of a new in the vicinity of #merican Dr. Montgomery is chairman of the bullding n:qm:fwu composed of F. W. lier, Dr. A, O. Ohristie, Dr. Lucius C. Kinsman. SEEK PADLOCK ORDER. bill m'l!. 8. Attorneys Make Charge Against 18 H Street Northwest. States Atf Leo Assistant Unit States Attorney Harold W. Orcutt. Numerous violations of the national prohibition law on the premises bia and three- | CB prayer, Rev. Dr. k C. Rey. pastor of the Wesley Me! urch. Hymns on Program. of the Washington public schools, will lead the congregad A e :‘ E‘r:up of hymns faiths. Miss Charlotte Klein will be at the organ. Constitution Hall is being provided for through courtesy of opened to the public the will be direct- COL. HENRY MENTIONED AS NEW CAVALRY CHIEF Gen. Crosby Retires This Month to Become District of Colum- bia Commissioner. . Henry, commanding the Fort M e Who stands twenty-first on Oa g list of colonels of Crusade Is Launched in Berlin by Milk Board Askng for Its Increased Use. BERLIN (N.A.N.A.) —Since the Reich- adopted & n-otufio:: &lu all are alleged. Charles Wesley Lee is named as the | Dy Bernard tenant and J. Corridon and Elsie M. Corridon as owners. The court is asked to padiock the premises fiu!fll’.‘ for | o sign and OVERPAYINGREASE NOTCONTROVERSIAL '-hl_l;"m" ative, e: m“ Efficiency Bureau Submits Facts to Shed Further Light on Question. REPORT 'SHOWS VALUE OF SPECIAL BENEFITS d_any lavorable or unfavo: cism, rable, of the proposed increase in pay. its original memorandum the Efficiency Bureau discusses such mat- entirely | year since 1925 have attracted wide at- | of ashingtan, e | agencies. Several members of Con- gress, to whom these varying figures were shown by The Star’s represent- manner. Pirst the Efficlency Bureau presents President Hoover a table showing the Edwin N. C. Barnes, director of music | computations of the bureau’s experts— of commissioned officers of the several tion in the singing of | servic representative of all religious | tors the pay worked out in this table as follows: Guard, ushering Merritt O. Chance, assisted by | Army, 47.6; Navy, 85.1; Coast . M. C. A. and other | 45.1; Public Health Service, organizations. and Geod S letic average percen groups combined being 41.3. In the lowest grades the present sal- arles of officers are somewhat lower than those listed for civilians! Here is the way it runs for those with a service from one to three $1,990; Navy, c Health Service, $2,840 Coast and tic » 8! i vilian engineers, $2,200; mal instructors, $2,150; qnz}gy- n com- merce and business, $2,200. The proposed new salaries for officers in this group lr:hfinmuy higher than those given in tahle for civilians of the same I of service, as fol- lows: Army, $3,150; Navy, $3,140; Coast Public_Health Service, and Geodetic Surve;