Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1930, Page 4

THURSDAY, JUNE 5, BREWSTER CHARGED ITH MURDER "ASHINGTON. D. C IBREWSTER TREATED A—4 * 1930. FORD LEAVES D C. ! & rear door wi APARTIENTS HT BY HOME OWNERS Zoning Commission Hears| Encroachment Charges by Residents. An onslaught of criticism against the | encroachment of apartment houses on ! private dwellings was sounded before | the Zoning Commission today by resi- dents of Cathedral Heights in protest- ing against a proposed change in soning te permit the erection of a large apart- ment house on Thirty-eighth street be- tween Cathedral avenue and Garfield street. Strong pleas were voiced by numerous residents of the area seeking to main tain the integrity of the existing A-re- stricted classification of the property, on the ground that to grant the petition | would open Iarger new sections in the | viclnity for possible other apartment de- | velopment Petition for the change of the half square to the rear and west of the Alban Towers Apartment was made by | estate operator | avid A. Bacr, real Erection of an apartment house there. he said, would hide the rear view of Alban Towers and thereby improve the pearance of the west side of the square. Detached houses erected sc near the rear of the apartment, he con- tended, could not be sold. Vigorous Protest Made. Burton L. French, nearby property owner, speaking for a large group of home owners for the saction, raised vigorous protest to the plan. He shouted that already householders around Cathedral ayenue and nearby streets “have been breathing smoke from Alban Towers and eating dirt raised by the construction of the large ‘Westchester apartment development to the west.” He pleaded with the commission for protection against any further handi- caps to their property from additional apartment houses. Countering the contention by Mr. Baer that his property west of Alban ‘Towers could not be developed At~ ably for private dwellings, Mr. Prench declared the commission had no moral obligation or justification to pass the loss, if any, from the operator to the shoulders of the owners of private dwellings. Hugh M. Prampton, speaking for the Cathedral Heights Citizens’ Association, also assaulted the proposed change. Eotntlnl out that whereas apartment ouse zoning had been largely con- fined to Wisconsin avenue frontages in the section, this petition would open up large stretches of Massachusetts avenue beyond Cathedral avenue to proposals for similar developments, Other Residents Protest. William E. O'Connor, Charles D, Sager, Dr. A. Barnes Hooe and other residents of the section also protested. Petitions of protest signed by groups of home owners were filed. Another contested case was to eome before the commission today when rep. resentatives of local market interests affiliated with the Union Terminal Mar- ket Co. asked for second commercial wsoning for the remainder of their larg tract _in the vicinity of Fifth ltrn} and Florida avenue northeast in order to complete their $1,000,000 market de- velopment now in an advanced stage This will be met with = test, by Dr. Percival Hall, meesident. of Gallaudet College, and others protest- noon at Columbia Hospital. OPPOSES BUSINESS HIEH SEHo0L BL Education Board to Carry| Fight on Plan for Its Use to Senate Hearings. Opposition to the pending Senate bill | designed to give the school board more | latitude in the use of the present Busi- | ness High School Building, following its | abandonment Board of Education late yesterday. By & vote of 5 to 2, Henry L. Gilligan, chairman of the legislative committee, was delegated to carry the board'’s fight on the bill to the committee hearings with instructions to urge the defeat of the measure or, as “a last resort,” to seek an amendment which would au- thorize the use of the bullding by the Americanization School. ‘The board contends that legislation on the subject is a usurpation of its rights, In the same meeling the board a cepted the report of Dr, Prank W. Bal- lou, superintendent, that the two offi- clals and three teachers who testified during the Senate hearings on the 1931 appropriation bill attended the h:arings at the invitation of Senate committee members. The letters, which the five school people write in explanation of their activities will be duplicated and given to each member of the board, al- though indications at yesterday's meet- ing were that the whole question of the limitation of school employes’ agitation in the interest of legislation would be dropped as it pertained to these five persons, The five are Miss Catharine Watkips, director of kindergartens: Frank Wood- ing against the creation of industrial area so mear the college grounds and the ad Patterson iract park area. ‘The comm! expected to complete today the hearing of the remainder of the 34 zone changes and two amend- ments which are the subject of this hearing. New Law May Be Invoked. The new Shipstead law may be in- voked for the first time to limit the height of a private buliding erected the fac! E_upon a major Government de- velopment here in the case of the large addition to the office and apartment structure of the Methodist Building lanned by the Board of Temperance, hibition and Public Morals, it de- ;!l.oped late yesterday at the zoning The church board, through its archi- tect, J. Lee Wilkinson, urged the com- mission to the height limit on the site on Maryland avenue near First street northeast from 60 to 90 feet, to permit _construction of the building so that the annex would be of the same height as the present structure, some- what above 60 feet. The proposal brought & round of vigorous eriticism from nearby home owners, who feared this change would make possible the later erection of ad- dmt’ml!l stories bringing the height to eet. Interrupting the flood of complaints against the ‘commercial” features of the church plant there, Col. William B. Ladue, commission chairman, explained that this project. facing the Capital and the site of the projected Supreme Court, Building, wouid come under the provisions of the Shipsieal act, re- cently signed by President Hoover, and would therefore have to be approved by the Pine Arts Commission as well as by the District Commissioners and the | Zoning Commission. Opponents of Limi. Those who opposed the increased height limit included William W. Dodge. | Frederick Bancroft, H. M. Foote and B. F. Campbell. Mr. Dodge livened the | hearing hy recounting that when he | opposed the erection of the present Methodist Building “Dr. Clarence True | Wilson, general secretary of this Metho- dist hoard, came to me and read the | riot act for presuming to oppose some- thing desired by the board which minds everybody's business but its own.” Dodge declared that he then laid the matter before the then architect of the Capitol, who, he said, saw to it that the height of the building was kept below 90 feet and near to 60 feet to prevent it from overshadowing the cornice of the Capitol. Numbers of residents along Connecti- cut avenue voiced insistent protests over the proposal change from residential to first commercial of the two triangular areas at Calvert street and Connecticut vénue and on the side of the nue from Calvert to Woodley road. | Another contest developed over the petition of Waverly Taylor to zone a corner of property at Forty-fourth and | P streets to permit construction 0(| English group houses, a group of nearby | home owners protesting. BANKERS TO MEET Directors of Bank for International Bettlements to Convene June 10. PARIS, June 5 (#).—The bankers' eommittee of the Bank for International Settlements, among whom is Leon| Frazer of the United States, has de- eided to eall a plenary session of the directors on June 10. This is interpreted that all countries concerned in the issue of the first slice of the Young plan loan of $300,000,000 have agreed in principle. The date of ssue is likely *o be announced on June 10. This probably will be June 16, ‘The committee will meet again later in the day to iron out some of the re- maining details. Get 35 Cents by Ruse. A pocketbook containing 35 cents was stolen by two colored youths, who gained admittance to the home of M. - [ment and it is probable the implied ward, R:Anc!pll of the Gordon Junior High hool; Miss Selms Borchardt, Business High School teacher; Daisle I. Huff, Business High School teacher, and Miss Ethel Prince, tern High School teacher. The school board now has s role specifying that it “looks with disfavor” on agita- Uon in the interest of legislation by its employes and Dr. Baliou was ordered to investigate the presence of these five person: whose names appeared in ished bearings, to determine whether they had violated this rule. Rule Is Being Studied. ‘The board’s committee on rules now has this particular rule under advise- curb on teachers and other employes will be either dropped or altered. The board’s opposition to the pending Senate measure concerning the use of the Business High School opened a issue of at least two years’ standing. ‘When the appropriation of funds for the | new Roosevelt High School, which is replace the Business High School, w made, the subcommittee of the House was expressed by the | thi iney Taliaferro. Objects to Guides i Telling Tourists | Memorials’ Cost et ! New Jersey Man in Leller‘i Says He Was, Offended | by Experience Here. In the opinion of Henry Kohl of Jersey City, the guides who show tour- ists about Washington should refrain from mentioning the cost of public | buildings, particularly memorials to the dead. Mr, Kohl sald in a letter to the Chamber of Commerce at Jersey City | t this practice on the part of the | guides had impressed him unfavorably | on a recent sightseeing trip here. “Up to a certain point,”” Mr. Kohl wrote, “our guide was all that could | be wished, reciting interesting eccounts | of the history of the various monuments and_memorials. | Yet every time he stopped his ma- chine before & memorial W one of the | country’s great men or heroes, he im- | mediately told of the amount of money | invested. This, to me, was very offen- ve and entirely unnecessary. 1 am afraid that this practice may give foreign visitors a very bad im- | pression of the value we place on our | great men.” Mr. Kohl's letter to the New Jersey | organization _was forwarded to the | Washington Board of Trade. Queried | with regard to the practice, one guide said that the tourists themselves were the first to ask the cost of the various sights here. | YOUTH IS HELD IN THEFT OF CALF Police Investigate Recent Rob- beriés From Virginia and Mary- land Towns. Frank W. Peters, 20 years old, of | 4461 Conduit road, arresied by Detec- tive Sergt. John Wise yesterday after- noon at & slaughter house on C street is todsy being held by police for in-| vestigation into the recent thefts of | alves and fowls from nearby Virginia i and Maryland farms. Peters is said to have confessed to 11 thefts, among them the theft of a prize Jersey calf from Herbert David of McLean, | which was stolen from David's’ farm | Monday night and sold for $12 at the Benning abbatoir Tuesday. Police lo- | cated the young animal s ‘few mo- ments before 1L was scheduled to be killed. | The youth was arrested when he | called at the slaughter house lor a| check for a calf which he had sold | there earlier in the day. Sergt. Wise, appropriations committee inserted the legislative provision that the present | Business Building be used as a colored | elementary school. The word “colored” | subsequently was dropped, so that the | appropriation was made with the spec fication that the old structure at Ninth street and Rhode Island as “an elementary school.” The school | board sought in vain 1o remoe this final limitation last year on the ground that it was its own piince to deter- mine what use it would make of its buildings in the administration of the | school system. | ng yesterday for the legislative | committee, of which he Is chairman, Mr. Gilligan read a letter which the Commissioners addressed to the Senate | committee and in which they had de- | clared the pending bill, which would | authorize the use of the Business bufld- | ing as a combination senior and junior | high school or an elementary school, as | the board should see fit, was favored by | the school board. Gilligan expressed his | ignorance of such approval by the board | and asked that the board petition the Senate committee to insert “or for Americanization School purposes” in | the measure along with the other pro- posal enue be used Denies Approval by Board. Dr. Charles F. Carusi. president of the board, emphatically denied the board ever had approved the bill. “I will state that the board never h: given its consent or approval to legisiation calling for the use of B ness High School, when abandoned, as | a colored elemetnary school, or as any | other specific kind of school, and the | District Commissioners have been badly | informed if they say otherwise,” Dr. Carusi declared | Dr. Carusi said further that he was opposed to the pending bill “with or without” Gilligan's amendment, but ad- mitted that, failing to secure the com- plete defeat of that and similar legis- | lation, he would accept the bill as| amended by Gilligan. | In the discussion which followed Gil- ligan was delegated as the boards spokesman to seek defeat of the meas- ure in the Senate. He was instructed. however, that if it is impossible to de- feat the measure he is to attempt to| secure the amendment which would permit the Business building to be used | for elementary. junior or senior high | schools or for the Americanization School. This proposal was passed. Navy Officer Fined as Speeder. Comdr. Walter W. Toles, U. S. N. at 1400 Sixteenth street, stationed at the Navy Yard, was fined $5 for speed- ing by Judge Ralph Given at Police Court todsy. The naval officer was arrested on Kansas avenue Tuesday aft- ernoon by Policeman V. V. Vaughn of the thirteenth precinct, who declared that Toles was traveling 36 miles an hour. Women's Club Group to Meet. Study of the architecture and symbol- | 1sm of the stained glass windows of the | Universalist National Memorial Church, Sixteenth and S &wreets, will be the A. Keane. 3611 Fulion street, vesterday by & ruse. One of the men in hile his was occupants of the house in @enversation at the front door. principal order of business at the first ed '.lunm;f. m“lfl fldu’:b‘!’l‘ luca! Federation of Women's Clubs Saturdav #t 2 pm. at the church. in the meantime had called to learn if any one snswering the description of | the man‘who had sold David's calf had ever made a sale there and learned that Peters fitted the description and that he would return shortly. | Wise concealed himself in the slaugh- ter house for an hour and and arrested the youth when he arrived to Claim the check. He i sald to have | fold Wise he stole the call which he sold the C street slaughter house from & farm in Fairfax County. | Summer Sport Ensembles Smartest jacket and suit effects . . . cool colors ... Rajah Silks, pongee...and crepes They're delight- fully a part of summer chic .. with an individual flare and as inex- pensive g | 11650 ‘Women's and Misses’ | Department, 3rd Floor Meyer’s Shop 1331 F Stp- Members of the Women's Board of Columbia Hospital, which held its last meeting for the season Tuesday after- Left to right are, Mrs. Herbert Crosby,' Mrs. John Gulick, Mrs. Frank Baldwin, Mrs. Austin Kautz, Mrs. Barron DuBois, Mrs. J. Spalding Flannery, Mrs. Barry Mohun, Mrs. Chester Wells, Mrs. Thomas Bradley, Mrs. Reeve Lewis, Mrs. Frank Freyer and Mrs. S| tar Staff Photo. GANG WAR SPREAD ALARMS CHICAGD Extra Police Are Sent Into Little Italies as Crack Gun- ners Are Imported. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 5-—Stoppage of further gang carnage rather than the solution of recent killings occupied po- lice today as word was grapevined to them that crack gunners from the East- ern ganglands were being recruited in the local war. Extra squads were detailed early to- day into the “Little Italies” of the North and West Sides to prevent further outbreaks. Officers were sure the gang confiict was by no means ended with its death list of 10 in less than a week. Not one, but two, gang wars are un- | der way, as police see it. On the one hand is the battle between among Sicilian premacy in the traffic, which has fed the purse of cer- tain groups for years. On the other, police said, is the enmity between the Moran and Druggan gangs, accentuated by the triple murder of Druggan men at Fox Lake early Sunday. Hope of new ciues in the latest slay- jng—that of Thomas Somnerio Tues- day night—faded today when police admitted they had learned little from the “pretty blonde” they questioned last night. The young woman, known as “Mabel,” was said by Somnerio’s widow to have been the sweetheart of her hus- band. Mrs. Somnerio believed the girl d Somnerio “put on the spot.” he young woman, however, pro- fessed only a casual acquaintance with the slain man and denied ever having known of his having had any gang con- nections. She was released. factions Just B Along! IN A COOL LINEN SUIT With the hot-weather blues miles away this Lad's taking a jaunt — he’s keeping his savoire faire this Summer— It's no magician’ game, either—It's just good clothes-sense— and a change to linen is all the go— But it’ —you're that sider— Haddington Linens $15.00 With vest, $20.00. Rogers 'Peet Linens not only that getting SOMETHING in mate- rial ‘and value—and inconspicuously well-dressed feeling— only when you con- LIKE OTHERS IN JAIL Deputy Sheriff Denies That Baker “Slayer” Is Given Corridor Freedom. Pyvt. Howard L. Brewster, who late | vesterday was turned over to Arlington | County officials on a charge of the mur- | der of Mary Baker, is being accorded the same treatment in the Arlington County jail that is received by many other prisoners, it was stated today by Harry L. Woodyard, deputy sheriff and jaller, denying rumors that he was being allowed the freedom of the corridor. “At the present time this prisoner is being confined in a separate cell from the other prisoners” Woodyard said, “but T may at any time permit him the freedom of the corridor or any other | privilege that might be enjoyed by other | prisoners in the jail.” Takes Incarceration Lightly. Brewster today was taking his in- carceration lightly, as he did his arrest by civil authorities yesterday afternoon. In the words of Sheriff Howard B. Plelds, Brewster ye ay on his way to Arlington County “acted like a school- boy on a vacation.” Brewster was turned over to Sheriff | Fields and Commonwealth's Attorney | Willlam C. Gloth at 4 o'clock yes- | terday afternoon when the Arlington authorities, accompanied by members | | of the Washington homicide squad, ap- | peared at the barracks of Headquarters | | Company and presented ~the ‘murder | warrant to Capt. A. R. Bolling, the commanding officer. The warrant was issued by Trial | Justice Harry R. Thomas and definitely charges Brewster with the murder of Miss Baker on April 11, Quissing 1o Be Delayed. According to Gloth, Brewster will not be questioned further for several The purpose of this delay, Gloth said, was to permit him ample time to think over his confession to the murder of Miss Baker and his later repudiation. | Gloth this morning was attending a | funeral, while Brewster was left to his | own_devices in his cell. | Arlington authorities feel that his original story should not be disregarded | | because of his later repudiation until | every effort has been made to deter- mine whether he might be the mur- | derer. | There 1s no basis to reports that a pecial grand jury might be called to consider the charges against Brewster, | since the June term of court convenes on June 16, and it is probable that | Gloth and Sheriff Fields will not have completed their investigation much be- | fore that time. FIRE DAMAGES TOWN a | Five Residences and Four Stores | Burned Before Blaze Controlled ST. ANDREWS, New Brunswick, June | 5 (#).—Five residences and four stores | | were burned and fifteen other buildings | | destroyed or damaged late yesterday by fire, which threatened this entire com- munity before it was controlled. | "Two firemen were mjured, one seri- | ously, in fighting the flames, which | aused damage estimated in excess of | $75.000.. | | Firemen and apparatus from nearby towns helped to subdue the fire, Four- | teen other buildings were afire at thell: same time, but damage was confined ‘mostly to roofs. In Madagascar silk is the only fabric used in the manufacture of clothing. It is cheaper than other materials reezing in the sun and likes it Three Piece, $31.50 M eg er’ 1331 s Shop F St Pvt. Harold L. Brewster leaving the Headquarters Company barracks yester- day In the custody of Sheriff Fields of Arlington County, who had just served a warrant on him charging the murder of Mary Baker. —Star Staff Photo. CANNON BALL FOUND IN GEORGETOWN GUTTER Police Consider Canvass of Homes to Locate Owner of Supposed Civil War Relic. “Is there a cannon ball missing from your home?” Perplexed policemen were on the verge of making a house-to-house can- vass to ask that question today after hours of searching records of recent thefts and losses without arriving at any solution as to who might own & 60-pound cannon ball found in George- town yesterday. The missile was discovered lying in the gutter near Maj. L. N. Sylvester's home, at 1713 Thirty-seventh street, by Lindsay Sylvester, the officers’ 8-year- old son, and Rufus S, Lusk, jr. 1717 Thirty-seventh street, and was carried into the vard of the Sylvester resi- dence with the ald of several other children living in the neighborhood. Detective Sergt. John Fowler, firearms expert, is making an investigation in an effort to determine the ownership of the ball. which is believed to be a Civil War relic. It weighs 60 pounds and is 10 inches in diameter. ‘The rose is the symbol of secrecy, (he einblem of the Goddess of Silence. Tnis gave rise to the phrase ~under the rose. SAYS WIRELESS PHONE LINKS BRITISH EMPIRE Postmaster General Outlines Im- portance of Radio Stations at Journalists’ Meet. By the Associated Press. | LONDON, June 5—Delegates to the | Imperial Press Conference today heard H. B. Lees-Smith, postmaster general, tell how the wireless telephone is form- ing another communications link | throughout the empire. | The postmaster general said the wire- less station at Rugby already was con- | nected with land-line telephone lyAu.‘m!| | centering in London and New York. The New York link, he said, permitted | communication ~ with North America. “The London-Australia service al- ready is opened,” Mr. Lees-Smith said. | “Paths have been mapped out for serv- |ice to the other dominions and to In- dia. When the Rugby system is com- pleted, we shall have what truly may be | described as ‘the world voice of Britain' | speaking, not only to the dominions, but to_the world.” The postmaster general said Britain had obfain a “most important position” in the long-distance telephone service of the world, the result of which was that |a telephone subscriber in Vienna eould | speak to a subscriber in Montreal and a subscriber in San Francisco could talk with Stockholm, “provided the message went through Rugby. practically all | [ FOR PHILADELPHIA Spends Night at White house After Conference With Secretary Davis. By the Associated Press. After an overnight visit with the President and Mrs. Hoover at the White House, Henry Ford left today for Philadelphia, where he is expected to be the guest of Cyrus H. K. Curtis. ‘The automobile manufacturer Wwas travling in his special railroad car. Ford’s private car on the Union Sta- tion tracks was the scene yesterday of a four-hour uninterrupted confer- ence between the automobile magnate and Secretary of Labor Davis. ‘The g‘lncip‘l purposes of the confer- ence, cretary Davis explained, were to discuss & survey of the Ford plant at Detroit now being conducted by the Department of Labor and “to exchange views on a multitude of subjects in a place where we would not be dis- turbed.” Ford told his guest that he is plan- ning an extensive selling campaign in China. .The conferees held concurrent ideas on world-wide buying power and Ford complimented Davis, the latter said, on & recent speech in which he asserted that “if the buying power throughout the world was the same as it is in the United States, production would run 10 { years behind demand.” Both speculated on the future buying | power of China, which, they felt, has not scratched the surface of vehicular transportation. “When the Celestial be- comes motor-minded,” Secretary Davis said, “that populous nation will become one of America's best customers.” The Secretary learned from the motor manufacturer . that approximately #s many men are employed in constructing the machinery which manufacturers au- tomobiles as are engaged in producing automobiles. Ford disclosed to Davis plans for enlarging his manufacturing enterprises in Ireland, Russia and Ger- many. The Labor D?‘nmnn survey, Sec- retary Davis said, would reveal the mer- its or demerits of standards of produc- tion, working conditions, and distribu-~ tion as employer by Ford, and their dpoll'-lrl;le application to other lines of tustry. | Why long for CLEAN RUGS| 9 Let’s have them Call Mr. Pyle for clean- ing rugs. Phones Nat, 3257, 3291, 2036, Sanitary Carpet &| iRug Cleaning Co. 106 Indiana Ave. A Special Purchase of Berkey & Gay Suites enables us to offer you dining or bed room suites- at discounts averaging 33 1/3% An advantageous purchase from Berkey & Gay enables us to again offer you a good Berkey & Gay Dining or Bed Room Suite at discounts averaging 33'3%. Here you will find a vast assortment—regular, standard Berkey & Gay construction—prices will tempt you in every corner of the store. Save Now on a Berkey early, please. 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