Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1930, Page 14

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, POST OFFCE PLA WILSHES53, | ELLIOTT REPORTS Holds Estimate Is Conserva-; tiye and Will Increase Unless Space Is Made Available. CITES OTHER OFFICES HOUSED IN BUILDING | | Says New Structure Should Be of | Four Stories and Provide 260, | 225 Feet of Floor Space. If the new $4,000,000 building for the ‘Washington city post office favorably reported yesterday by Chairman Elliott of the House committee on public buildings and grounds is erected on the lot just north of the present post office, a saving of at least $25378 a year can be effected, according to the report. The itemized saving estimated is as follows: Rent, mail bag depository in the Washington Terminal, $3,120; rent for garage, $7,000: truck travel between | garages, $2,018; salaries of two night | watchmen employed in leased garage, $3,240; by centralizing distribution of incoming mail at main office, $10,000. Chairman Elliott says that this esti- mate is conservative and would be in- creased before long because unless the relief suggested is made available ad- ; g‘x“a(;“l outside space will have to be red. | | Other Offices in Building. ‘The report points out that in addition to the Washington City Post Office the present over-crowded building is occu- pled by the following departmental offices to a total of 106,167 square feet of floor space: Division of dead letters, 7,307 square feet: division of registered mails, 7,766; division of postal savings, 9,609; division of stamps, 14,272; di- vision of equipment and supplies, 58,836; division of topography, 8,377. How the business of the office has grown is stressed by Chairman Elliott: “The City Post Office Building was oc- cupied by the Washington Post Office in September, 1914, and at that time it was expected that the floor space provided would be ample to take care of all increases in the volume of mails for 50 years. Since then the revenue of the office has increased over 100 per cent, and the increase in the volume of mail handled, according to the post- master, has been considerable. There were 1,025 employes of the Washington Post Office in 1915, while at this time there are 1,781, employes in all, an in- crease of 756. The gross receipts have increased from $1,792917 in 1914 to $5,882,851 in 1929, the increase amount- ing to $4,089934. There were 215,264 money orders issued in 1915, amounting to $1,911,491, as compared with 874,805, amounting to $9,229,327, issued in 1929. In 1915, 719,160 money orders, amount- ing to $3,856,521, were paid, in com- parison with 2.245,473, amounting . to $17,655,452, paid in 1929. Gives Plan of Structure. Regarding the proposed new structure Chairman Elliott’s report says: “Any addition to the present build- ing should harmonize architecturally | with the City Post Office Building. It should be four stories and basement high and provide a total of 260,225 square feet of floor space. The base- ment and approximately one-half of the first floor and the upper floors for mail- ing activities, including parcel-post de- livery, outgoing parcel-post, outgoing foreign mail, circular distribution, and allow centralization of city distribution at the main office. The terminal rail- way post office should also be located | on one of the floors, and ample swing room space should be provided. The mail-bag depository should also have | space in the new building. There should | be a platform, of about 5,000 square feet, on the first floor of the new build- ing, which would be on a level with the basement of the City Post Office Building. The second floor of the new building should be on the same level with the first floor of the present build- ing, and those floors connected by two wide bridges. Another wide bridge ! should be provided between the new building and the Washington terminal station, which would relieve the con- gestion of trucks now complained of. Sufficient elevators of ample size should be planned for the new building. “The store room of the division of equipment and supplies would have available the 14,928 square feet of floor space now used by the Washington terminal railway post office, and, in addition, 7,542 square feet of floor space used for the distribution of parcel-post for delivery, which is now separated from the store room by a wire fence. Describes Crowded Conditions. In describing the present crowded conditions the Elliott report says: “The situation is acute and the need for space cannot be too strongly em- ized. P ¥ The Workroom floor 1 badly crowded, particularly in some sections. The space allotted the parcel-post delivery section, in the basement, is inadequte, and this condition has heretofore oc- casioned several reports by post office inspectors, suggesting relief. There is a covered bridge connecting the work room floor with the Washington Term- inal Station, but by reason of in- adequate space and lack of proper ele- | vator service, there is frequent con- gestion at both entrances to the bridge (in the post office and in the station), resulting in a jam of some times as many as 50 trucks in the west end of the station concourse. “The Washington office has no suit- able space for the mail bag depository. | Bags are now stored in five separate | parts of the office and in space leased | in the Washington Terminal Building. ‘There is rented in the terminal build- ing 3,120 square feet of floor space at the rate of $1 per square foot, or at a cost of $3,120 per annum. All the space available 'is congested, and adequate supervision is impossible. “There is a total of 119,529 square feet of floor space available for the Washington Post Office in the building. The office needs at this time 149,776 square feet of floor space, and it is esti- mated that 211529 square feet will be needed 20 years hence.” “MISSING BOY BACK HOME Six-year-old Gerald Clark is back home, “at 625 Fourth street, after his frantic parents searched for hours last night and then discovered him at the first precinct police station, where equally frantic officers were trying to extract from him some clue that might lead to the discovery of his address. o Detective H. G. Wannamaker found the child at Ninth and D streets and took him to No. 1 precinct when he was unable to learn where the boy lived Mrs. Bessie V. Clark, his mother, found her son when she came to the precinct station to report his disap- Ppearance. Union Alumni Meets. ‘The annual dinner of the Washing- ton Alumni of Union College was held Thursday evening at the Cosmos Club. An address by Prof. C. N. Waldron was followed by a motion picture of campus activities in Schnectady. Officers were elected as follows: Edgar Brown, presi- dent; E. 8. Cassidy, vice president, and F. H. Powell, secretary and treasurer, BRING EASTER CH EER TO POOR | man stepped out of the shadows of a | otherwise go unremembered. George Washington girls prepare baskets for Capital youngsters who might Tn the group, left to right: Roberta Sime, Mary Virginia Smith and Jane Bogley. ‘Wright, Jean ~—Star Staff Photo. COTTRELL CONFERS ON GENTER PLANS Sees Donovan Before Re- porting to Board of Trade Committee. Due to an increasing sentiment among a number of influential members of the Washington Board of Trade tha the proposed cost of $35,000,000 for tl.e municipal center is excessive, Robcrt J. Cottrell, executive secretary of the o ganization, conferred this morning w. Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District audi- tor, to acquaint himself fully with the project. He will make a report to the executive committee, which will meet Monday to discuss the matter. Maj. Donovan and Mr. Cottreil dis- cussed in detail plans for the center and the Capper bill providing for a $15,000,- 000 loan to the District to commence its financing. It is felt by certain Board of Trade members that the proposed municipal center is far beyond the present needs of the District or anything that would be required in the immediate future, and that less than half the $35,000,000 called for in the plan, would be ample to mcquire land for and construct a xroug of buildings which would meet all District needs. The trade body members consider the size of the center of prime impor- tance to the citizens of Washington since it would be paid for in its en- tirity from District appropriations. Officials of the trade board today were loath to predict that any definite action would be taken Monday, since the views of all members of the execu- tive group are not known. ARMED BANDIT ROBS WORKING MAN OF $47 Gas Station Employe, While on His Way Home, Held Up by Colored Thug. Accosted by an armed colored bandit, George Van Horn of 1229 N street, was robbed of $47 early this morning, while making his way home from his place of employment at a downtown gasoline- flling station. Van Horn was walking south on| £leventh street near O, when the gun- house and poked a revolver into his ribs. Van Horn surrendered $47 to the | hold-up man, who backed around the | corner and fled. The gasoline-station attendant, who told police the stolen money constituted his week’s salary, furnished detectives investigating the case with a description of the robber. SPECIAL BUSSES TO RUN Will Carry Crowds to Easter Serv- ices at Walter Reed. A special bus service will be instituted by the Washington Rapid Transit Co. tomorrow for the convenience of crowds Walter Reed General Hospital, begin- avenue at 5-minute intervals from 6:30 to 7 o'clock and will travel alternate routes via Massachusetts avenue and Sixteenth street and via K and Six- teenth streets. The busses also will be available at conclusion of the services. GRAF STAMPS ON SALE Post Ofice Agency Already Has $50,000 Advance Orders. Graf Zeppelin air mail stamps were placed on sale today at the city post office and at the Post Office Depart- ment’s philatelic agency, which already has on hand $50,000 in advance orders. The stamps will be made available at specified points in every State on Mon- ay. There had been an unusually heavy demand for the first day dispatch of these stamps, the department said. The stamps are issued in denominations of 65 cents, $1.30 and $2.60, representing the rates for letters and postal cards for the Graf Zeppelin round trip from Ger- many to South America via this country, or for the one-way trip. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. ‘TODAY. Meeting, Biological Society of Wash- ington, Cosmos Club, 8 p.m. Meeting, Federation of Citizens’ As- sociations, board room of the Municipal Building, 8 p.m. Meeting. Dames of Malta, 822 Twen- tieth street, tonight. FUTURE. Dance, Gamma Chapter, Lambda Zeta Gamma Sorority, Hotel Roosevelt, Thursday. Dance and card par ter, No 28, O. E. street, Monday, 0 Meeting, Daughters of Union Veter- ans, Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent . Acacia Chap- 2400 Sixteenth attending the Easter sunrise services at | ning at 7:30 o'clock. Special busses will | leave Eighth street and Pennsylvania | ALLE DWELLNGS SSUE CONSDERED Senate District Committee Defers Final Action on Elimination Bill. ‘The Senate District committee yes- terday afternoon took up pending legis- lation to eliminate gradually alley dwell- ings in Washington, but postponed final action until another meeting at 3 o'clock Wednesday. The committee had before it a bill prepared by the National Capi- tal Park and Planning Commission, to- gether with certain amendments advo- cated by Willlam V. Mahoney of the Federation of Social Service Societies. Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, of the park commission, and John Ihlder, a housing expert, explained the main fea- tures of the bill, which would allow 10 years for the gradual moving of the alley population to houses on streets, or the replatting of squares in which there are inhabited alleys, for the pur- pose of making the alleys unobjection- able for dwelling purposes. Difference on Details Noted. Although Mr. Mahoney and the park officials had different views as to the exact definition that should be estab- lished for an inhabited alley and as to the length of time needed to make the improvements, they were in agreement on the need for some legislation at this session. Mrs. Esther W. Newell, secretary of the housing committee of the Council of Social Agencies, gave the Senate committee the results of a survey by her organization to show the number of dwellings that are available on streets and the average rentals both in the alleys and on streets. Copeland Hopes for Final Action. Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, described the subject as one of the most important that has come be- fore the District committee in recent years and expressed hope a bill would be acted on at this session. In re- sponse to a question, Mr. Thider esti- mated the alley population at 13,000. The Senate committee made a favor- able report on a bill recommended by the Veterans' Bureau to amend the law relating to procedure in handling the affairs of incompetent veterans in the District. ‘The committee discussed one amend- ment to the street rallway merger reso- lution, but deferred action on the merger until next week. PHILLIP WALKER DIES AT RESIDENCE OF SON Well Known Lawyer Formerly ‘Was Assistant Solicitor of Navy. Phillip Walker, 71 years old, well known Washington lawyer for nearly 40 years and former assistant solicitor of the Navy, dled yesterday at the resi- dence of his son, George Walker, 6809 Glenbrook road, after a brief illness. Mr. Walker, a native of Springfield, Mass., was educated at Dartmouth Col- lege, Hanover, N. H. Before coming to WasHington 40 years ago, he had resided several years at Paris, where his father ‘was American consul general to France. Besides serving as secretary to the Georgetown Citizens Association for of St. John's Masonic Lodge, No. 11, and the Sons of the American Revolu- tion. ‘Besides his son, he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. J. W. Hamley of Lynn, ass. Brief funeral services are being held at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the Birch Funeral Parlors, 3034 M street. Inter- ment will be in Springfleld, Mass. tomorrow. OLDEST LAV‘;YER BURIED Bar Subject of Services. | Special Dispatch to The Star. | CUMBERLAND, Md. April 19.—The | funeral of James A. McHenry, aged 79, the oldest member of the Allegany County bar, was held yesterday morning from his late home on Washington street, which Rev. James A. Dwyer, first assistant pastor of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, officiating. Members of Cumberland Council, Knights of Columbus, and of the Holy Name Soclety of St. Patrick’s Church visited the home of Mr. McHenry last night in a body to say the rosary. Besides his two daughters, Mrs, Al- bert DeRoode, New York, and Mrs. Wil- liam T. Torrington, this city, Mr. Mc- Henry is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Fechtig, Utica, N. Y., who was here for the funeral, and Miss Kate McHenry, Huntington, W. Va., and Mrs. George Feeny, Chicago. 8-Year-0ld Boy Bitten by Dog. Edward Bowie, 8 years old, of 923 G street southwest was treated at the Emergency Hospital yesterday for wounds inflicted by his dog while they were at play in the rear yard of the Bowie residence. The boy's condition was pronounced not serious and he was dismissed from the hospital. The dog was turned over to District Health De- No. 1, 1502 Fourteenth street, Monday enin partment authosities for observation. - many years, Mr. Walker was a member | B! James A. McHenry of Allegany | O MICHIGAN AVENUE VIADUCT MEASURE PRESENTED SENATE | District Committee Approves Bill to Place Structure North of Present Crossing. MONROE STREET.PLAN DECISION LIKELY SOON Appropriations List May Include Provision for Part of For- mer Needs. A new development came late yes- terday in the Brookland grade crossing situation, when a bill was introduced in the Senate and immediately approved by the District committee, authorizing a viaduct to carry Michigan avenue across the railroad, but at a point north of the existing grade crossing. The bill was introduced by Senator Bingham of Connecticut, chairman of the subcommittee handling the local appropriation bill. Being new legisla- tion, it was referred to the District com- mittee, where Chairman Capper ex- plained that the measure came from the appropriations group. Senator Copeland, T'emocrat, of New York, pointed out that under existing law funds could be appropriated for a viaduct in the present line of Michigan avenue, but to swing the viaduct north- ward a short distance makes this legislative enactment necessary. It was indicated that the appropriations group 1s considering placing some of the funds {31"! this project in the current supply Procedure Is Discussed. ‘There has been considerable discus- sion in recent months as to how the authorities should proceed on the grade crossing problem in that vicinity. The Commissioners several months ago pro- posed that the existing bridge across the tracks at Eighth and Monroe streets northeast be widened to carry a greater flow of traffic and the House allowed $135,000 in the appropriation measure for that purpose. What action the Senate appropria- tions group will take on the Monroe street item will not be known until the appropriation bill is reported out next week. The introduction and re- porting of the Michigan avenue viaduct bill, however, indicates the inclusion of that project is being contemplated. Measure Passed in 1927, Congress in 1927 passed a measure for the elimination of the Michigan avenue crossing. This bill amends that measure by authorizing the condemnation of the land necessary to swing the avenue total authorization for the project is $500,000. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Partly cloudy and cooler tonight; minimum tempera. ture about 42 degrees; tomorrow fai: slightly cooler; gentle to moderate northwest and north winds. Virginia—Partly cloudy and cooler tonight; light frost in extreme west portion; tomorrow fair; cooler in east portion; moderate northwest winds. Maryland—Partly cloudy and cooler tonight; light frost in extreme west portion; tomorrow fair, slightly cooler in east'and central portions; moderate northwest winds. West Virginia— Fair, slightly cooler with light frost tonight; tomorrow fair. Record for 24 Hours. Thermometer—4 p.ns., 68; 8 p.m., 66; 12 midnight, 64; 4 a.m., 62; 8 am., 60; noon, 60. Barometer—4 pm., 30.00; 8 pm 29.95; 12 midnight, 29.92; 4 a.m., 29.89; 8 am, 29.97; noon, 30.00. Highest temperature, 71, occurred at 5 p.m. yesterday. Lowest temperature, 59, occurred at 6:30 a.m. today. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 65; lowest, 42. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and eodetic Survey.) Today—Low tide, 7.00 a.m. and 7:36 pm.: high tide, 1223 am. and 12.38 :30 pm.; high tide, 1:16 a.m. and 1:32 pm. The Sun and Moon. ‘Today—Sun rose 5:27 a.m.; sun sets, 6:48 pm. sets, 6:49 p.m. Moon rises 12:48 am.; sets 9:43 a.m. Weather in Various Cities. @ Temperature £ e 3 & Stations. Abilene, bany, N. g0, Il 0.16 Cincinnati, Ohio 30.18 Cleveland, ‘Ohio. 30.14 Columbia, S. C. 30.02 Denver, Colo. .. 2986 Detroit, Mich... 30.14 El Paso, Tex. .. 29.04 Galveston, Helena, Mont. .. 3 Huron. 8. Dak., 30.12 Indianapolis.Ind 30.20 Jacksonville, Pla. 2098 Clear Pt.cloudy : Clear Raining Clear Raining Raining Clear Cloud; GidvPey Cloudy ymal ebr Philadelphia.Pa. 29.94 Phoenix, ATiz... 2t Pittsburgh, P: Portland, Portland; Raleigh Salt Lake San Antonio... San Diego, Calif San_Francisco. St. Louis, Mo.. t. Paul, Minn, Seattle. 'Wash. Spokane, Wash. Tampa, FI 2 ! b N OE Clear Pt.cloudy Glear .. Raining .04 Cloudy" FOREIGN. (Noon, Greenwich time, today.) ions. Temperature. Wegther. (Payal). Azores.... 62 Part cloudy (Current observations.) Hamilton, Bermuds 70 Clear 8an Juan, Porto Ri 8 Ci Havana, Guba. uoE loudy g art cloudy Colon, Canal Zo; loudy Citizens to Comsider Cramton Bill. WILLIAMSBURG, Va., April 19 (Spe- cial) —Mayor George Coleman, follow- sentative Cramton, has called a meeting of Willlamsburg citizens for Monday evening to consider the proposed amendment to the Cramton bill for a Colonial monument on the Virginia Peninsula which has encountered such strong_opposition from a majority of people here. The meeting will probably name a committee to appear at a hear- ing by the public lands committee of the House, northward at the proposed viaduct. The | .m. . Tomorrow—Low tide, 7:55 am. and | ‘Tomorrow—sSun rises, 5:26 a.m.; sun | ing receipt of a letter from Repre- | D. C., SATURDAY, FIGURES Upper left: Cragoe and his father, Carl Cragoe, cries of Louis Schneider (right). Lower: were rescued. §293.107 ASKED FOR PARKS GROUP Supplemental Estimates Are Sent to House by Hoover for Fiscal Year 1931. President Hoover today submitted to the House supplemental estimates of appropriation for the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital for the fiscal year 1931 amounting to $299,157. Director Roop of the Bureau of the | Budget, explained that of this amount $166,940 is for salaries and for main- tenance and care of buildings, and $132.217 is for general expenses, in- cluding maintenance and care of build- ings. Fhe purpose of the supplemental esti- mate of $166,940 for salaries is to pro- vide $141,920 for the operation and maintenance of the central portion of the new building for the Department of Commerce which will be ready for occupancy about January 1, 1931, pro- vision for which was not included in | the budget for the fiscal year 1931, and | $25,020 is for personnel for the opera- | | tion, maintenance and care of the Arlington Memorial Bridge and the | bascule draw span which will be avail- | able during 1931 for use in connec- | | tion with construction work on the ap- proaches to the bridge. The purpose of the supplemental estimate of $131,217 for general ex-| penses is to provide $66,217 for clean- | | ing_material, electricity, fuel and so | forth for the maintenance and opera- | tion of the central portion of the new | Commerce Department Building from January 1 to the close of the fiscal year, June 30, 1931; $40,000 for- rent | during the fiscal year 1931 for the Walker-Johnson Building, at New York avenue and Eighteenth street, assigned by the Public Building Commission to the War Department, which will be re- quired to release to the State Depart- | ment quarters now occupled in_the | State, War and Navy Department | { Building; $20,000 for the rental of space | | for the Department of Justice now oc- | | cupying space in temporary building | No. 6, which will have to be vacated early in the fiscal year 1931, in ac- cordance with an ‘act of Congress which substitutes the square bounded by Virginia avenue, B street, and Nine- teenth street, northwest, for the square | named in the act authorizing exten- | sion of the Pan-American Union Office | Building; and, $6,000 for material for repairs and other supplies for the operation, maintenance and care of | the Arlingtor. Memorial Bridge. \CAMPAIGN INQUIRY T0 OPEN MONDAY Senate Funds Committee Will Make Careful Study of Complaints. | By the Associated Press. ‘The Senate campaign funds commit- tee will make a careful study of com-| plaints alleging excessive expenditures by candidates for the Senate before conducting hearings. Following this plan of procedure, the committee will meet Monday to discuss the complaints already received, involving the recent primary campaign in Illinois and the campaigns in Pennsylvania and Ne-| braska. Senator Nye of North Dakota, chair- man of the committee, is making ar- | rangements for an extensive inquiry.| Offices will be established in the Senate | Office Building and the committee will be provided with an executive secretary. The question of retaining counsel is being left to future determination. At a meeting yesterday the commit- tee called upon all candidates for the Senate to submit statements of their campaign receipts and expenditures. Nye regards the primary purpose of the inquiry as the prevention of exces- sive expenditures rather than the prosecution of candidates who may spend large amounts. No complaints or charges against any candidates will be made public, he said, until the com- mittee has determined after a study of them that they merit investigation. GAME BOARD TO MEET | Virginia Commission Takes Over Activities on Eastern Shore. ‘The Virginia State Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries will hold two meetings on the Eastern Shore next month. It will meet at Accomac on May 9 and at Eastville on May 10. The commission has taken over the du- ties formerly exercised on the Eastern Shore by the Eastern Shore Game Pro- tective Association. Temporary game wardens have been appointed and these will be succeeded by permanent wardens following exam- inations to be held next month. There | will be two of these permanent positions | to be filled in Accomac County and one | in Northampton. Radio Set Stolen From Hospital. i A radio set presented two years ago | to the internes at Providence Hospital by Dr. James Cahill was stolen from the hospital yeserday morning. The description of 'a man seen loitering in the room where the radio was kept was i APRIL 19, 1930. IN NEAR-TRAGEDY IN SEWER Nine-year-old Johnny the manhole through which five young- sters were brought to safety late yester- day when the Cragoe boy heard the Ned Denton and Kimball Scribner, two other of the youths who —Star Staff Photo. REALTY BUSINESS REGULATION URGED Secretary of Board Says Or- ganization in Favor of Blaine-McLeod Bill. Enactment of legislation setting up a board to license and regulate the real estate business in the District was urged by the Washington Real Estate Board at a hearing today before the judiclary subcommittee of the Senate District committee, at which no op- position to the proposal was expressed. Oscar H. Brinkman, advisor to the subcommittee, explained the provisions of the pending bill and the several amendments that have been worked out. John Petty, executive secretary of the Washington Re:l Estate Board, explained that a real estate license measure was introduced a number of years ago by Senator Capper at the re- quest of his organization. He told the subcommittee, however, that his organ- ization accepts the bill now pendin; sponsored by Senator Blaine of Wis- consin and Representative McLeod of Michigan, with certain clarifying amendments. Mr. Petty expressed the sincere hope that Congress would enact legislation along this line. After the hearing had been con- cluded on the real estate bill the sub- committee took up another of the Blaine bills to establish a new method of foreclosing mortgages in Washington. Mr. Brinkman began this hearing with testimony to the effect that existing procedure in the District of Columbia is more severe on the borrower of money than anywhere else. It is expected that there will be op- position beforc the hearing closes on |A. this bill. FIVE CHILDREN HURT IN TRAFFIC Four_Were Riding With Parents, ‘While Another Was Struck on Street. Lawrence Allen, jr., 8 years old, of 3029 Vista place southeast, was seriously injured and his sister Mary, 12, suf- fered minor hurts last night when an automobile driven by their father was in a eollision at North Capitol and H streets with a machine operated by Margaret Bentley of 726 Twelfth street southeast. They were taken to Casualty Hosplital. A father and two children were cut by flying glass when an automobile driven by the parent, John Raines, 58 years old, of 113 Elm avenue, Takoma Park, coilided with a car driven by Louise W. Miller of 1205 Pifteenth street at Rhode Island avenue and Tenth street. Raines’ wife' and a baby she was holding were uninjured. The father and the two children, Alta May, 15, and Viola, 12, were treated at_Emergency Hospital. Bruises about the left leg and head were sustained by Louis Schwab, 5, of 508 A street northeast when she ran into the street in front of her home and was struck by a car operated by Mrs. Nan Prances Lingley, 40, of 4400 River road. She was treated at Cas- ualty Hospital. While sitting on a fire plug at Ben- ning road and Seventeenth street north- east last night, William Peary, colored, 40, of 1605 Graceland court northeast was_struck by a machine and iaken to Casualty Hospital with a compound fracture of the left foot. The car, which jumped the curbstone and struck | Peary, was driven, police reported, by Mrs. Ruth Henderson Brown of Lang-| ley Field, Va., who is stopping here at 327 G street southeast. RITES FOR MRS. C. V. DALY Lifelong Resident of Washington | Died at Cincinnati Tuesday. Requiem mass for Mrs. Catherine V. Daly, 65 years old, a lifelong resident of Washington, who died Tuesday at Cin- cinnati, will be held Monday morning at 10 o'clock at the Sacred Heart Church, Sixteenth street and Park road. I?terment will be in Mount Olivet Cem- etery. Mrs. Daly was visiting the Cincinnati home of her son, Lawrence J. Daly, a Department of Justice investigator, when stricken by heart disease. Besides Mr. Daly, she is survived by a daughter, Miss Catherine M. Daly, and four sisters, the Misses Annah R. and Sarah C. Hickey, Mrs. Patrick Shugrue and Mrs. John J. Widmayer. The Daly residence is at 3435 Sixteenth FIVE BOYS ESCAPE DEATH EXPLORING GASFILLED SEWER Gameness of Leader in Seek- ing Help Credited With Saving Band. CRIES FOR AID HEARD BY 9-YEAR-OLD STUDENT Rescue Squad Members Brave Fumes to Bring Adventurers Out of Trap. Search for adventure within the inky blackness of a storm water sewer near their homes In Cleveland Park lured five youngsters to the threshold of death late yesterday afternoon. Only the feeble cries of one of their band and the alertness of Johnny Cra- goe, 9-year-old Janney School student, of 3829 Warren street, saved them from death by asphyxiation in the gas-filled 100 DEVELOPMENT PLANNERS NAMED Nichols and Oimsted Are Ex- pected to Report at May Meeting. Plans for the future development of the National Zoological Park will be shaped in the hands of J. C. Nichols of Kansas City, Mo, and Frederick Law Olmsted, two of the members of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, who are expected to make a report at the important three-day meeting of the commission, to be held May 15-16-17. This gathering is de- scribed as the most important of the calendar year, so far. Charles W. Eliot, 2d, city planner of the commission, reported vesterday at the commission meeting with reference to future expansions of the Zoo, its parking problems, entrance, a program of through traffic from Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway to Rock Creek Park and other problems. Dr. William M. Mann, director of the park, has request- ed the commission to assist the Smith- sonian Institution in laying down a pro- gram. Questions of pending legislation affect- ing the commission’s work were dis- cussed as were land purchases, concern- ing which no information was made available for publication, in keeping | with the commission’s policy. ‘The com- mission deferred action until the next meeting on the proposal pending in Congress to bring the U. S. S. Olympia, famous flagship of Admiral Dewey, to Washington as an historical relic. The commission late yesterday in- dorsed in the main the plan submitted by its landscape architect, C. L. Wirth, for the development of the Brookland recreation center at South Dakota ave- nue, Otis street, Queen's Chapel road and Eighteenth street northeast. The commission decided to forward the Wirth plan to use school buildings and playgrounds, under a combined agree- | ment, to the District Commissioners, to . L. Harris, municipal architect, and other interested parties’ The Wirth plan contemplates the development of the Brookland recrea- tion center for major and minor sports in conjunction with the proposed new junior high school, which would face the playground development. A minor land area exchange is involved. A proposal for the new Army and Navy Department group was laid be- fore the commission by Willlam T. Partridge, its consultant architect. This study was not made public, but it is known that Mr. Partridge has been working in close co-operation with the Navy Department officials in prepara- tion of plans for the new building. The commission took the study under ad- visement. A committee, consisting of Nichols |and Olmstead, submitted a report on | standard paving widths for different |types of street development. Three plans were submitted and the commis- sion decided to make minor changes in all of them. This report was not made | public. | ” The commission was given a progress report from the recreation committee and this report will be transmitted to the District Commissioners and other interested bodies for comment and sug- gestions. THREE SLIGHTLY HURT AS CAR HITS AUTO Alexandria-Washington Trolley ‘Wrecks Machine at North Braddock Station. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 19.—Three men narrowly escaped death at North Braddock Station here yesterday morn- ing when the light car in which they were riding was demolished by an Alex- andria-Washington electric car. All three were taken to the Alexandria Hos- pital, but were released after treatment for cuts and bruises, The occupants of the auto were Mat- tram Wright, 221 Wolfe street, who was driving; Paul Humphries, 415 Prince street, and Wilson Page, 405 South Fairfax street, all of this city. ‘The street car was in charge of Con- ductor James Jones and was operated by Motorman Howard Sims. PARISH MEETING SET tube, where they were playing follow the jeader. ‘The boys, Ned Denton, 13, of 3809 Alton place; Louis Schneider, 13, of 3809 Yuma street; Carroll Bilbrey, 12, of 3651 Veazy street; Kimball Scribner, 12, of 3802 Allton place, and William John- son, jr. 13, of 3800 Yuma street, were all well on the road to recovery at Georgetown Hospital today. Started on Exploring Trip. The youngsters, equipped with flash- lights, told companions they were going to “explore” the sewer and entered the outlet at Reno road, near the Burcau of Standards, and began their perilous jolil:ney through the long, black con- duit. Accumulated sewer gases began to affect them after they had crawled nearly half-mile through the mud and slime of the sewer, and four collapsed as they neared a manhole in front of the Cragoe residence. The Schneider boy, himself & suf- ferer from asthma, kept on, however, and fought against the deadly effects of the gases until he came upon a lad- der leading up 15 feet to the manhole opening. Groping his way up the rungs he tried to push up the cover, but failed and cried out for help. Johnny Cragoe, playing on the front lawn of his home, heard the shouts and ran into the house and brought out his father, Carl S. Cragoe, a physicist at the Bureau of Standards. ‘The father seized a poker and opened the manhole cover with the aid of Harry P. Samuelson of 3805 Warren street, a pressman at the Bureau of Standards, and Capt. H. F. Wilkerson of 3625 Warren street. They found the Schneider boy clinging to the ladder nd pulled him to safety. “Are thers any others down there?” Cragoe asked. “Yes, sir,” the boy mumbled and lapsed into unconsciousness. Sees Boy in Water. Peering into the gloomy interior of the sewer, Cragoe made out the form of a boy in the water. He raced into his house and called the Fire Depart- ment for the rescue squad. The lad later turned out to be Bilbrey. Members of No. 20 Engine and 12 Truck Companies, a block from the scene, and the two downtown rescue squads responded. Pvt. E. E. Davis of No. 12 Truck Com- pany climbed into the manhole with- out a mask and brought out two Boys . he found unconscious in the shallow water. He was sickened by the' gas fumes after the second rescue and was given first-aid treatment and removed to his home at 5500 Wisconsin avenue. Pvt. W. A. Walker of No. 20 Engine | Company and Pvt. R. G. of No. 12 Truck Company also descended into the sewer without .masks and | rescued the remaining two. | Members of the two rescue squads went to work over the youths with respirator apparatus, being helped in the first-aid work by C. L. Bagley, a druggist of 1507 Twenty-eighth street, and Paul Boesch, 15-year-old Bo; of 3801 Warren street. They later were rushed to the Georgetown Hospital. Police Battle Crowds. The noise of dashing fire apparatus attracted hundreds of people to the scene and police of No. 14 precinct had a battle on their hands to keep back the crowds. Pvt. Lee Wilckerson, attached to No. 2 Fire Rescue Squad, donned a mask and searched the sewer from the Reno road outlet to Warren street to ascer- tain if there were any others in the sewer before the fire companies returned to_their quarters. The oxygen supply of Wilckerson's mask was exhausted in the sewer and he nearly collapsed before regaining the street. It was expected that the boys would gddlschfllled from the hospital late a; 'PURSE AND CASH LOST TO COLORED BANDIT Woman's Pocketbook, Uontaiming Valuables, Snatched From Her as She Rested Near Her Home. A youthful colored pocketbook snatcher grabbed the purse of Miss Grace Wil- liams while she.was sitting on a bench in front of her home, at the Montgom- ery Apartments, 1151 North Capitol street, early last night and dashed away before she could make an outery. In her report to the second precinct station the victim said that the pocket- book contained a $100 security bond, $25 in cash, a locket, four checks, amounting to nearly $100; keys, valua- ble tickets and papers and a number of street car tokens. A $400 platinum and diamond ring and a ring valued at $15 were reported stolen from the home of Miss Edna E. Landgraf, at 6101 Georgia avenue. by some one who forced entrance into her residence. A “jimmy thief” forced a window at Paul H. Moreland's residence, at 1505 Harvard street, and escaped with a val uable watch and $40 in cash. The same method of entrance was employed to get into the home of Myland J. Early, 410 Sixth street, where a bank con- taining $10 in change was taken. =« At the thirteenth precinct statfon Edwin R. Armentrout of 5508 Folir- teenth street, told police that a $50 radio set and a $20 revolver were stofen from his apartment. 5 St. Matthew’s Session to Be Held at Pinkney Memorial Church. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., April 19.—For the first time in the history of St. Matthew’s Episcopal parish, the annual parish meeting will be held Easter Mon- day night at 8 o'clock in Pinkney Me- morial Church here. Heretofore it has been held at St. Luke’s Church at Bladensburg, the mother church of the parish. St. Luke's Church is now a part of St. Luke's Parish. Four members of the Pinkney Me- morial vestry will be elected at a short business meeting, which will follow a social hour. The women of the parish will be enuu}d to vote along with the ; 5 Accused of Rose Theft. Sergt. Omar R. Reese of the Uni| States Park Police shortly before night last night arrested William sproesser of the first block of T! street northeast, and charged with t: in_ two rosebushes and one cedar from the rose garden in Potomac Park. Headquarters were told that another man escaped. Colored Man Shot by Accident. Bert Weatherspoon, colored, 26, of 1303 Wallach street, was accidentally shot in the right ankle last night by Charles Smith, colored, 23, of 1315 Wal- lach street while they were examining a pistol. Weathers) was treated at