Evening Star Newspaper, July 10, 1930, Page 17

WASHINGTON, DETEGTIVE SHIFTS MADE NEGESSARY BY 15 PROMOTIONS Reorganization of Bureau Announced by Shelby to Increase Efficiency. POLICY OF SUPERVISION T0 BE FIRMLY ENFORCED New Group Hears Advice on De- portment, With Courtesy Stressed by Crosby. Plans for reorganization of the De- fective Bureau made necessary by the promotion of 15 new detective sergeants were announced at the roll call this morning by Inspector W. J. Shelby. ‘The homicide and safe, business fraud and check, automobile and clothing squads were strengthened by additional men, while numerous changes were made in other units of the burcau and the pairing of detectives on general as- signments. ‘The recently announced plans of In- ctor Shelby for the supervision of z: bureau will be strictly adhered to. Capt. Walter Emerson, administrative assistant to Inspector Shelby, will be in charge of detectives from 8 o'clock to 4 o'clock each day, Lieut. Warren ©O. Embrey will be in command from 4 o'clock in the afternoon until mid- night and Lieut. Charles Weber, for- merly lieutenant of the tenth precinct, will have charge from midnight to 8 o'clock in the morning. Mullin in Relief Role. Detective Sergt. Charles Mullin, for- mer chief of detectives on the mid- night trick, will serve in the future in & relief role for the supervising offi- cers and also will conduct special in- Vestigations. Sergts. Carlton Talley and James C. Collins, who formerly worked on general BALL FANS KEEP PHONE LINES HoT Star Switchboard Operators Are Deluged With Thou- sands of Calls. Base ball fandom of the Nation's Capital—and who isn't a fan when the home team is on top—is showing tell- tale symptoms of pennant mania, that strange disease which was epidemic assignments, have been transferred by Inspector Shelby to serve on the homi- cide and safe squad to fill the vacancy made by the transfer of Sergt. John Fowler to the tenth precinct as lieu- tenant and to give that unit an addi- tional detective for the execution of its work. Lieut. Edward J. Kelly will continue in command of the homicide squad. Bergts. T. J. Sweeney, Joseph F. Wal- dron, George E. Darnell and John Flaherty of Kelly's squad are unaf- fected by the changes. Robey Is Assigned. Hugh D. Robey, former headquarters chauffeur, who was promoted to the rank of detective sergeant, has been assigned to serve in the automobile squad with Sergts. Prank M. Alligood, Eugene Davis, Henry M. Jett and Jacob Wolfe. The automobile squad is headed by Detective Sergt. Joseph A. Connors. D. G. Fletcher, who was promoted from pawn inspector of the bureau with the rank of private to a detective sergeant has been assigned to the elothing squad, succeeding Sergt. Bagby King now a lieutenant at the fourth recinct. Detective Sergt. James E. ane, formerly on general assignments, been transferred to this unit. ‘The clothing squad is headed by Bergt. Clement P. Cox with Sergts. J. A. Foley, T. J. Sullivan and C. E. fleld serving under him, in addition to the two newly appointed men. Piaced on Business Squad. Sergt. Clarence Talley, formerly on eral assignments, and Benjamin H. pson, plain clothes officer at Union Station before the recent changes ¥hich brought him the rank of de- tective sergeant, have been placed on the business, fraud and check squad to aid Detective Sergts. B. W. Thompson and Ira Keck. Leadership of the squad has been given to Sergt. B. W. ‘Thompson. Pvt. Daniel H. Jones, jr., trans- ferred to the Detective Bureau from the eighth precinct, will succeed John C. Dahlgish as a member of the gyhn'nucy and narcotic squad, headed t?em. fi AM saundekn. Jones will continue ) ran of private, Dahigish. appointed a detective ser- E‘nt. will work on general assignments the future. ‘The newly appointed detective ser- ts and precinct detectives also lectures on what the District and the Police expect from y of doing their job from Inspector Shelby and Gen. Her- bert B. Crosby, the police Commissioner. ‘The meeting was executive, but both Speakers later let out some inkling of What went on. Courtesy Is Stressed. Courtesy and common sense were the keynotes of both speeches. Crosby Tepeated to the detectives the words he had spoken to the lleutenants and Sergeants yesterday, when he told them that their increased rank and pay must compensated for by more work. Shelby elaborated these points at great length,” reinforcing them with many homely illustrations. He added a re- Quest for greater personal neatness and improved appearance among the de- tectives. SINGING AND PICTURE COMMUNITY FEATURE Parkway at 27th and O Streets Scene of Gathering Tomor- row in Summer Series. Community singing and the presen- tation of a motion picture will feature & community gathering for colored people at the parkway at Twenty- seventh and O streets tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The meeting is one of a series being held this Summer under direction of the Community Center De- partment, the Associated Charities and other organizations. Leaders in a num- ber of welfare organizations have co- operated in making the affairs a suc- cess. WILL HOLD LAWN FETE Fifth Annual Affair to Aid Curley Scholarship Fund. ‘The Curley Club of Washington will hold its Afth annual lawn fete Tuesday evening at the corner of Sixth street and North Carolina avenue southeast for the benefit of the Archbishop Michael J. Curley scholarship fund. Silvio H. Poli, past vice president of the Curley Club, is chairman in charge of the fete. He is being assisted by Ethel Ammon, Gretchen Baden, Monica E. A. Gordon, Mary L. McGee, Stella MecGarvey, Maud Norton, Elinor Dun- nigan, William J. Boyd, Joseph Mec- Garvey, Harry Candee, Roland Hyland and others. A concert will be given during the the Elks' Boys' Band. In mmmxmwmuhewm . Yollowing evening. here in 1924 and 1925 and which seem- ingly has no regard for rank, sex or social position. In the earlier epidemics, it will be recalled, strong men wept and beat one another on the back, women shouted hoarsely, business of government and industry was stilled, traffic was tangled and Griffith Stadium became a mecca for milling mobs. The current revival has not yet ap- proached the grave proportions of those memorable occasions half s decade ago, but, as said before, there are strong symptoms. Feverish Struggle Daily. One of the indications may be found any afternoon these days in the switch- board room of The Star. In this foun- tainhead of information & trio of ex-| traordinarily efficient telephone oper- ators struggle daily -to supply a base- ball-mad populace with up-to-the-sec- ond scores of the Washington and Phil- lelphia games. It is a real struggle, as a reporter found out during a visit to the tele- phone room during the height of yes- terday’s double-header with Boston. Ac- customed though this veteran news scribe is to scenes of excitement and turmoil, he was forced to shake his head and marvel at the brave efforts of these young women to keep pace with the veritable avalanche of incoming base ball queries. A count kept of base ball calls alone from 12:30 until 6:30 o'clock yesterday | afternoon showed that more than 5,000 inquiries were made regarding scores | of the Nat and Athletics games. The peak of the influx came between 3:30 and 4:30 when 1273 calls were re- ceived and answered—an average of 21 a minute, exclusive of regular news- paper phone traffic. Manage to Keep Apace. As fast as the operators could plug in, give the scores and pull the plug out again they waged their valiant | battle with the blinking lights. Some- how they managed to keep apace of the calls, ‘The shift of operators yesterday aft- ernoon was under the generalship of Mrs, Catherine King, chief operator of ‘The Star’s board, who has put through calls of murders and marriages, fires and 1inaugurations and many other events of news importance. Assisting her were Mrs. Catherine Padgett and Mrs, Charlotte Barnes. Operators who were off duty yesterday afternoon in- cluded Mrs. Alice Carroll and Mrs. Dorothy Bingham. “We run along pretty smoothly as a rule,” Mrs. King explaineed today. “But once in a while we get a call from some one, usually a woman, who doesn't know what it's all about. Then we have to stop and explain. “Yesterday, for instance, we told a woman the score was nothing-nothing in the fourth. “‘In whose favor?’ she inquired.” FINAL SCORES TO BE GIVEN. Telephone Inquirers May Obtain Results | From Star Agencies. In order to insure prompt service to subscribers of The Star desiring to know final scores of the Washington base ball games, and to relieve congestion on the main switchboard, The Star is making arrangements with a number of #s branch agencies to give the scores to telephone inquirers. A group of 10 Star branch agencies in various parts of the city already have agreed to assist in this arrange- ment and others will be added to the list. Only agencies equipped to han- dle the phone calls are to render this added service. Their locations and tele- phone numbers will be announced. JAMES J. KEMP GIVEN CHAIR ON RETIREMENT Ends 37 Years With Civil Serv- vice Commission—Congratu- lated by Officials. James J. Kemp, retiring after 37 years as an employee of the United States Civil Service Commission, was presented yesterday with a chair on behalf of his fellow workers. The presentation was made by James G. Yaden, chief of the examining divi- sion, where Mr. Kemp has served for a number of years as an examiner. Civil Service Commissioners Thomas E. Campbell and George R. Wales were among those who congratulaetd Mr. Kemp's long and faithful service. Mr. Kemp began his Government career in the Rallway Mall Service in 1891. Two years later he was detailed to the Civil Service Commission, and in 1894 was transferred permanently to the commission’s force. Mr. Kemp received the dey bachelor of arts from Union College in 1894 and the degrees of bachelor of laws and doctor of Jaws from National | Law School in 1898 and 1899. He also luate work at Johns kins Lt wat % | of Thi members of the switchboard staff at The Star, who answer thousands of queries daily as to the progress of the Nz!::;als‘ games. Left to right: Mrs. Charlotte Barnes, Mrs. Catherine Padgett and Mrs. Catherine King. D C, | | —Star Staff Photo. WORD IS RECEIVED HERE OF THACHER DEATH Former Resident of Washington Expires While Visiting in Redbank, N. J. Word was recelved by friends here today of the death of Mrs. W. C. Thacher, former resident of Washington for many years, which occurred sud- denly yesterday at Redbank, N. J., where she and her husband were spend- ing the Summer. She was about 60 years old. Before Mr. and Mrs. Thacher went to West Palm Beach, Fla., to live a few years ago they resided here. Mr. Thacher formerly was in the real estate business, being connected at one time with the firm of Allan E. Walker Mrs. Thacher was a native of Stur- bridge, Mass. It was said that the funeral would be held from the home of her daughter, Mrs. Samuel Wight, in that city. During her residence here Mrs. Thacher was a member of the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church. N:.ll;.l and Mrs. Thacher had only one child. CRASH VICTIM DIES OF INJURIES Driver of Truck Knocked in Path of Street Car Succumbs, Benjamin E. Marshall, 27 years old, of 33 T street, died at Casualty Hos- pital early today from injuries suffered in an accident at Second street and Massachusetts avenue on June 6, when & truck he was driving for the Con- tinental Baking Co. was struck by an- other machine and knocked into the path of an approaching street car. ‘The bread truck, according to police, was in a collision with an automobile driven by Putnam Rogers, 23, of 154 T street northeast. The impact drove the truck into the path of a Washing- ton Railway & Electric Co. street car in charge of Conductor L. A. Brown of 1728 Massachusetts avenue southeast. Rogers Is Held. It was at first belleved that Marshall was suffering from minor injurfes but internal injuries developed, it is said, causing his death. Police of the ninth precinct arrested Rogers shortly after Marshall died and are holding him for a coroner’s inquest, which has been called by Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt for 11:30 o'clock to- morrow morning at the District Morgue, The death of Marshall was the sec- ond within a period of 12 hours as a result of recent traffic mishaps. Walter Allen, colored, 27 years old, of 419 K street, died at Walter Reed Hospital early last night from hurts received when a machine in which he was rid- ing collided with another car near T. B., Md, on July 5. Two Are Injured. Willlam C. Hayes, 74 years old, of 1563 Benning road and Jack Lombardy, 25, of 128 D street southeast were in- jured in traffic accidents last night and were taken to Casualty Hospital for treatment. Hayes sustained fractures of both arms and a possible skull fracture when an automobile collided with another car at Thirteenth and C streets northeast, jumped the sidewalk and knocked him down. The drivers of the two ma- chines, Elmer Klopfer of 330 Eleventh street northeast and Napoleon B. Paris of 1410 Fifth strcet were not arrested. A possible fracture of the hip was sustained by Lombardy when his ma- chine collided with another at Fifteenth and H streets northeast. TRAINING SCHOOL BOY DROWNS IN SEVERN Ernest Smith, 18, Lost; Three Others Rescued at Picnic of Group. A picnic for colored boys from the District Training School ended in rage edy " yesterday when one of the boys was_drowned, The group of boys on the outing ar- rived on the banks of the Severn near Wheaton Landing yesterday morning and four instantly ran into the water. Dr, Kenneth Jones, superintendent of the institution, who was in charge of the party, shouted to them to come back, but just as he spoke the quartet stepped into a large, deep area and started floundering helplessly. Dr. Jones plunged in and rescued Leroy Shaft, 18 years old. Two of the others managed to scramble to safety unassisted, but the fourth, Ernest Smith, 18 years old, of 69 L street was drowned. After res- cuing Shaft, Dr. Jones plunged back in & VaIn effort to rescue Smith. He sum- moned help from Glenburnie, Md. Within 20 minutes Glenburnie responded with a pulmotor. The body of Smith was taken from the water about 45 minutes later and artificial respiration was tried but proved of no avail. Dr. Jones said today that he had recommended parole for Smith and that he would have been released from the institution wi & few days, POLICEMAN NABS SHOOTING SUSPECT Colored Man Fires at Officer| in Chase, Pursuer Reports. While the victim lay on the ground a block away with a bullet wound in the abdomen, a colored man accused of the shooting was captured by Pa- trolman Francis B. Ash of No. 2 pre- cinct, after a running gun battle on | Thirteenth street early today. ‘The victim. Dennis Collier, also col- ored, 36 years old, of 411 Elm street, lay at the point of death in Emer- gency Hospital today while his alleged assailant, Condee Harris, colored, 26, of 1529 Vermont avenue, is being held at_the second precinct. Police traced the trouble to a wom- an. Officers investigating the case ex- plained that Collier was fired upon by Harris during an altercation over a | girl at Thirteenth and R streets short- | |1y after last midnight. Prt. was patrolling his beat nearby and came on the rua, reaching the scene in time to see Harris run- ning down Thirteenth street toward | Q street. Ash gave chase and Harris wheeled and fired three shots at his pursuer, -Ash reported. % Ash returned the fire as the col- ored man ducked into the shadows of a row of houses and disappeared from sight. After a cautious search the officer found Harris digging a hole he- neath the steps of a Thirteenth strect home and attempting to bury a gun, he said. ‘The man surrendered without further resistance and was taken to the second cinct and lodged in a cell after Ash gt:d returned to the scene of the shoot- iing with the prisoner and called an ambulance for the wounded man. Dr. Daniel Borden operated on Col- lier. He pronounced the man's condi- tion critical. Boasted of Being Tough. Collier, known to the police of the eight precinct as “Dapper Dan,” was arrested several days ago by Policeman E. Barnett under charges of vagrancy, driving without permit, disorderly con- duct and parking abreast. At the time of the arrest, Collier boasted to Barnett that “he was the ‘foughest gangster | south of New York” and “you can still | run if you want to.” Later, when they reached the station, Collier boasted to several policemen that & judge would be afraid to give him a sentence. Yesterday Collier demanded a jury trial for the no permit charge, while the hearings in the other charges were continued for & week. Last night, “Dapper Dan” left word in the eighth precinct that he, armed with a revolver, was _looking for Policeman E. Barnett on Seventlhr street. Barnett heard and started a search for Colller and soon heard that the man himself had been shot. THIEVES BLAMED IN $1,000 BLAZE Grocery Store Is Robbed of Like Sum in Cigarettes—Fire Is Probed. | Police and fire officials today were | Investigating a fire which caused ap- proximately $1,000 damage to a store of the Sanitary Grocery Co. at 1255 South Capitol street and the larceny of approximately $1,000 worth of mer- chandise from the establishment. It is believed that thieves accidentally set fire to the one-story structure while ransacking the storage room at the rear. Twenty-six cartons of assorted brands of cigarettes were stolen from the store, James Wamsey of 1340 G street northeast, manager, reported. Police of the fourth precinct station found that the burglars gained entrance to the bullding by smashing out the transom over a display window at the front of the store. The fire was discovered shortly before 4 o'clock this morning by a passerby, who saw the rear room of the store ablaze. Firemen confined the blaze to the storage room after a stubborn battle. Fire officials were still investigating to determine how the fire was started, TUBERCULOSIS GROUP DIRECTORS WILL-MEET Tribute to Be Paid Dr. Harvey THURSDAY, jback for an expression from their | average State and city? JULY 10, 1930. LUMP SUM FIGHT MAY BE RENEWED AT NEXT SESSION House Committee to Study Appropriation Believed Hostile to Raise. ACTION UNLIKELY NOW WITH MEMBERS AWAY Report Expected, However, Early in Winter—Positions of Seven Men Analyzed. Another battle at the next session of Congress over fiscal relations between the Federal and District goverpgents appeared likely today 4 w sequel to the forthcoming injuiry into- the{sub- Ject by the special House committee ap- pointed yesterday by Speaker. Long- worth under the Simmons resolution. Judging by the views they have taken on the question in the past a majority | of the seven House members selected to | conduct the investigation have been in accord with those who opposed any in- crease in the $9,000,000 lump sum. The Senate,”on the other hand, has ust emerged victorious from a struggle over the current appropriation act, after having obtained an increase from $9,- 000,000 to $9,500,000 in the Federal con- tribution for the next 12 months. Those Named In House. The seven House members selected yesterday afternoon by the Speaker to make new recommendations to the House on the fiscal relations problem are: Representatives Carl E. Mapes, Re- publican of Michigan; James A. Frear, Republican, Wisconsin; William P, Hol- aday, Republican, Illinois; Edward M. Beers, Republican, Pennsylvania; Charles R. Crisp, Democrat, Georgia: Ross A. Collins, Democrat, Mississippi, and Wright Patman, Democrat, Texas. All members of the committee have left the city, so far as could be learned today, and no definite word has been re- celved at the Capitol as to when the group will organize and tackle its task. It is assumed, however, that they will endeavor to make a report early in the December session, Positions Are Analyzed. Two of the appointees—Mr, Holaday and Mr. Collins—were House conferees during the long controversy just ended over the current appropriations act, in Which the House sought to hold the lump sum at $9,000,000. Representative Crisp of Georgia was the author some years ago of a bill to abolish the original half-and-half plan, under which the United States and Dis-~ trict governments divided the cost of maintaining the National Capital for many years. When the 50-50 ratio was finally departed from, a 60-40 ratio was fixed, but after two years the House again insisted on a change, resulting in adoption of the $9,000,000 lump sum policy. Representative Frear was outspoken during the last session of Congress in support of the position of the House conferees on the local appropriation bill, in addition to which he advocated the collection of a local income tax and a local inheritance tax in the District. Three Not So Active, ‘The other three members have not entered so prominently into recent dis- cussions of the fiscal relations question. Mr. Mapes, whose name headed the list 1n the appointment of the committee, has been a member of the House for nearly 20 years and was chairman of the House District Committee for one Con- gress some years ago. He may be chairman of the special committee, al- though this is not definitely known at present. The remaining two appointees, Mr. Beers and Mr. Patman, are at pres- ent members of the House District Committee. Debates in the House during the last session, while the conferees were dead- locked over the current appropriation act. indicate the feelings which some members of the special committee en- tertain toward District finances. ‘When the dispute over the current appropriation act was at its height last month and the House conferees went branch of Congress, Mr. Frear advanced the suggestion for new forms of tax- ation in Washington. He spoke, in part, as follows: Tax Views Stated. “Every one desires to do what is right for the District, but in all fairness why not collect taxes here as we do in the ‘Why not have District income tax and why not an in- heritance tax, the same as we have in 18 or 20 of the States, and prac- tically in all States with the lattes, tax? Why should we not collect: inheritance taxes from the people of the Distriet of Columbia, many of whom come here as a haven of tax refuge? Why shouid we not have an income tax on intan- gible property as well as other taxes?” Mr. Frear, at another point in his speech, supported the position taken by Representative Simmons of Nebraska in handling the current appropriation act. Mr. Frear said: “We should support the gentleman from Nebraska in the position he has taken until we have positive notice that some injustice is being done. I may venture to offer for your consideration, I tfust with the approval of the locall press, the same kind of tax laws found in the average State. It may be a sug- gestion for this committee or some other committee of the House to recommend both a comprehensive income tax and an inheritance tax for the District.” Position of Mr. Crisp. Mr. Crisp, discussing local finances on the same day, recalled that he was an advocate of repealing the 50-50 law, and added the following comment on the $9,000,000 lump sum, which the Senate Tecently succeeded in raising: “The Congress finally decided that the contribution should be 60-40, after many of us had fought the matter for several years, not with any feeling of prejudice against the District, but in the interest of what we thought was just and equitable to our own con- stitutents and the citizens of the United States. Then further investigation de- veloped that the majority of the House Wiley, for Many Years Vice President. The board of directors of the Wash~ ington Tuberculosis Association will hold a special meeting in the Social Service House, 1022 Eleventh street, to- night to pay tribute to the memory of the late Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, pure food expert. Dr. Wiley was for many years vice president of the association. The meeting was called by Wallace Hatceh, acting secretary, by direction of Dr. George M. Kober, president. - Diamonds can be identified by means of ultra-violet rays, ;t:mu give off various colors that can b 4 thought that was excessive, and the $9,000,000 lump sum was agreed to. “I have not given consideration to the matter for the last 8 or 10 years, but I have been content to follow the lead of the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Cramton), who is able and in- dustrious, and the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr Simmons), and others, and my information is that if Federal Government would pay taxes on its property in the District similar to other taxes paid by private property owners, its contribution would be less than $9,000,000. In our respective States, as some of you gentlemen out West ' know, the Government owns under which the : thousands and thousands of acres of land, and the Government does not contribute one cent on account of-the ROTHSCHILD HITS One of 16 horses being taken out o man Joseph L. Farmer, exchange farewel INSURANCE FRAUD Better Business Bureau’s Director Addresses Colum- bia Life Underwriters. Beneficiaries of life insurance fre- quently are the most pathetic victims | of the “get-rich-quick” security swin- | dlers, Louis Rothschild, director of tne | Better Business Bureau, declared today | in a talk before the District of Columbia | Life Underwriters’ Assoclation at their x;omhly meeting at the Hay Adams ouse. Insurance companies and representa- tives, Mr. Rothschild said, should stress :he slogan of the Better Business*Bureau to “Before You Invest—Investigate,” not only for competitive reasons, but | for the protection of their clients. The “‘vultures of finance” who regard life insurance beneficiaries as prime candi- dates for “sucker lists,” he said, destroy the good effects of insurance and con- stitute a tangible unfair competitor to the insurance business. He cited in- stances in which widows, particularly. had been fleeced almost immediately after the insurance check was received. Affiliation Is Announced. J. H. Snyder, president of the asso- ciation, presided at the luncheon meet- ing and in introducing Mr. Rothschild announced that the Life Underwriters’ Association had become affiliated with the Better Business Bureau. Rothschild responded by expressing appreciation of the support and announced that it was the mutual hope of the two organiza- tions to not only protect those insured against financial fraud but also to work for the improvement of the high ethical standards that already exist in the in- surance ess. Conditions Better Here, Compared with other cities,” Roths- child stated, Washington is free of such bad. practices as rebating, which is the unlawful splitting "of commissions by insurance salesmen, of contract raiding, of high-pressure false promises in sell- ing insurance, and other unethical prac- tices. The bureau anticipates working with the Pleld Practices Committee of the association to grevem such stand- ards from encroaching upon the city, | and to eliminate the few who may now be guilty in Washington. REV. T. A. EMMET, S. ., IS APPOINTED BISHOP Former Headmaster of Georgetown . Preparatory School Gets Post 'in Jamaica. News was received here today of the | appointment of Rev. Thomas Addis Emmet, 8. J., former headmaster of the Georgetown Preparatory School, Gar- rett Park, Md., as Bishop of Jamaica, | Fos British West Indles. The new prelate will succeed Right Rev. Joseph N. Dinand, D. D., who re- | signed recently because of iil health. | No date had been set today for the | consecration. Bishop Emmet, former. prefect of dis- | cipline and director of athletics at Georgetown University, has a host of friends in Washington. He was the head of the Georgetown Preparatory School for six years, leaving about two years ago to ome _associated with St. Mary's rectory in Boston. | The former Washingtonian was born | in Boston August 23, 1873. He was | graduated from Boston College in the | class of 1896. He entered the Society of Jesus August 14, 1893, at Frederick, md. 1 Hél:: ordntln‘e’s A priest by Car- nal ns af 'oodstock C 3 Md., July 31, 1908, oty He had a wide reputation as a lec- rer while residing in Washington. | tu P of public buildings and pub- lic lands in t almese he 48 States.' Mr. Holiday is scheduled to become chairman of the subcommittee on Dis trict appropriations in the Seventy-: ond Congress, after Mr. Simmons takes charge of the agricultural appropria- tion bill. Senators Are Silent. Members of the Senate have not commented on the plans of the House for an independent House study of the fiscal relations problem during the re- cess Representative R. Walton Moore of Virginia endeavored during the recent session to secure a commission on fis- cal relations, composed of members of the House and Senate, a representa- tive of the Budget Bureau of the Dis- trict government and three local citizens. ‘The Moore resolution was favorably reported from the House District Com- mittee, but was not acted on by the House before adjournment. A 'reso- lution somewhat along these lines also was advocated by Senator Bingham of Connecticut, in charge of local appro- priations in’ the Senate. When the Moore resolution was re- ported out of the House District Com- mittee, Mr. Patman, one of the mem- bers of the newly appointed Special Committee, was recorded in favor of it. Mr, Beers, another rember of the New Rock and his master, Police- —Star Staff Photo. 16 POLICEMEN BID HORSES FAREWELL Congressional Edict Replaces Faithful Equines With Motor Vehicles. f service. s, Sixteen heavy-hearted policemen yes- terday removed their spurs, turned re- luctantly toward 15 faithful equine serv- ants from which they lifted slowly the official bridles and saddles of the Police Department, and thereby told their four- footed friends, more - eloquently than words could have done, that the day of the police mount is over. This task, regretfully carried out by direction of higher-ups, was a progres- sive public’s reward for years of devoted sarvice by animals that have uncom- plainingly braved the biting cold of Winter and the sultry heat of Summer at the bidding of kindly uniformed mas- ters. Police Mounts Linger On. ‘The fire horse long ago succumbed to the march of civilization, 'ut until to- day the police horse had lingered on, stubbernly resisting encroachments of the motor cycle and the automobile. Washington had gradually reduced the trength of its “police cavalry,” however, until only 16 horses remained in the mounted service. Today, by congressional edict, supported by the police_administration itself, the 16 vet- eran Dobbins were discharged “for the good of the service,” and their masters were ordered to foot duty. Horses Question “Horse Sense.” In their place will appear shiny new automobiles, inanimate and senseless, and capable of carrying not only the driver but several passengers, if need be. That would seem to be horse sense, in a way, but you can't make a police horse believe it. Removal of the saddles and bridles Wwas a necessary step, since they belong to the Police Department. ‘What the de- partment will do with them now is a matter of some conjecture. Perhaps they Will become permanent relics at police headquarters. Most likely they will be sold to the owners of the horses, for the mounts are owned by the policemen who used them. The Government helped in their upkeep by supplying each mounted officer $450 in allowances for stabling and feed, a sum which no longer will be forthcoming. The Po- lice Department does not pension its dismissed horses, What will become of the fine speci- mens of horseflesh retired today is un- certain. Even their owners were un- decided as to the future of their mounts. Much as they hate the thought of part- ing with companions so faithful and obedient, there is the cost to consider, With the allowances for upkeep cut off, the question of maintenance is a seri- ous one. Few persons can afford to keep a horse these days. The dismounted officers who were pondering sorrowfully over these prob- lems today were Policemen Thomas M. Carter, Howard A. Cheeney, Eugene Danielewicz, Joseph L. Farmer, John ster, Everett Grimes, Warren F. PAGE B-—1 NEW STREET WORK IN MANY SECTIONS OF CITY SCHEDULED Capt. Whitehurst Announces List of Projects Contracted by District Last Monday. CONCRETE ROADWAYS IN SOUTHEAST FIRST Undertakings to Follow Order in Which Recorded, Says Chief Engineer. Capt. Herbert C. Whitehurst, chiet engineer and co-ordinator of the Dis~ trict, today announced the list of new street work to be undertaken under con tracts signed by the District Commis- sloners last Monday. In each case the work is listed in the order in which it will be done, barring unforeseen circum- stances, which might alter the order in some cases, Concrete roadways: First contract— In the Southeast section, Raleigh street, Nichols avenue to Seventh street; Shan- non place, W street to Chicago street; W street, Nichols avenue to Shannon place; Chicago street, Nichols avenue westward; Mount View place, Maple View place to Norris road: Chester street, Maple View place to Valley street: Fourteenth street, Ridge street to S street; Park place, Twenty-third to Twenty-fifth street; White place, Park place to Minnesota avenue; Fifteenth | street, Pennsylvania avenue to K street; K street, Fourteenth to Fifteenth street; K street, Eleventh to Twelfth street: C street, Sixteenth to Scventeenth street, and Thirtieth street, Pennsyl- vania avenue to R street. Streets in Northeast. In the Northeast section—Twenty- fourth street, Benning road to E street; Twentieth street, Benning road to H street; Bennett place, Twentieth to Twenty-second street; Oates street, Montello to West Virginia avenue: Owen place, West Virginia avenue to 300 feet east; Walnut street, Vista street to Myrtle avenue; Thirtieth place, Otis to Perry street; Otis street, Eighteenth street to South Dakota avenue; Urell place, Tenth to Twelfth street; Twelfth street, Upshur street to Urell place; Randolph street, Thirteenth to Four- teenth street; Fourteenth street, Law- rence to Newton street; Jackson street, west of Tenth street; Douglas street, Third to Fourth street; Evarts street, ‘Twenty-eighth street to Bladensburg road; Fountain street, Thirticth street to Bladensburg road; Randolph street, Third to Fourth street; Fourth street, T street to Rhode Island avenue: west approach T Street Bridge and Grant place, Ninth to Tenth street. Northwest Improvements. In the Northwest section—Church street, Fifteenth to Seventeenth street; Swann street. Fifteenth to Sixteenth street. and Washington street, Fourth to Fifth street. Conerete roadways, second contract— ‘Third street, Webster to Allison street; Allison street, New Hampshire avenue to Rock Creek Cemetery; Fourth street, Webster to Allison street; Kansas ave- nue, Fifth to Farragut street; Farragut street, Kansas avenue to Fifth street; Gallatin street, Ninth street to Illinois avenue; Fifth street Longfellow fo Pea- body street; Hemlock street, Twelfth street to Alaska avenue; Twelfth street, Alaska avenue to Hemlock street; Juni- street, Morningside drive to Thir- th sereet; Thirteenth street, Alaska avenue to Kalmia road: Morningside drive, Iris street to Alaska avenue; Van Buren street, Sixteenth street to alley east; Montague street, Fourteenth to Sixteenth street; Iowa avenue, Piney Branch road to Gallatin street; Emerson street, Sixteenth street (o Piney Branch road; Parkwood place, Fourteenth to Center street: Tewkes- bury place, Eighth to Ninth street; Fifth street. Sheridan to Tuckerman street: Tuckerman street, Fifth to Seventh streets; Eighth street, Van Buren to Underwood street; Venable place, west of Piney Branch road; Clydesdale place, Adams Mill road to Ontario street; Twenty-fourth street, Calvert street to Connecticut avenue; ‘Woodley road, Woodley place to Cathe- dral avenue; Macomb street. east of Connecticut avenue; Thirtieth street, Albemarle to Brandywine street; Everett street, Thirty-sixth street to Connecticut avenue; Fessenden street, Connectfcut avenue to Thirty-fourth street: Emery place, Forty-first street to Wisconsin avenue; Rodman street, Thirty-fifth street to Idaho avenue: Thirty-fifth street, Ordway to Quebec street; Thirty-ninth street, Pulton to Garfleld street; Reservoir street, Grimes, Herman W. Kegebein, Arthur L. Lucas, Hiram C. McDaniel, Edward H. Noden, James W. Peters, Willlam R. Sheets, Elmer R. Shoemaker, Frank L. Tyser and Fred H. Xander. One Mount Blue Ribbon Winner. All of the horses are of fine breeding and extraordinary training. Most are thoroughbreds, and at least one of them has been decorated with blue ribbons. The latter is Rock, 7-year-old mount of Policeman Farmer of the eleventh pre- cinct. Most of the discharged horses were too dignified to comment on their fate today. All are said to have taken the blow with heads held proudly erect. Rock Observation Overheard. But there were rumblings of discon- tent and bitterness from many of the affected stables. And Policeman Farmer, who knows how to converse with a horse as well as with a human being. declares Rock made the follow- ing observation: “‘Automobiles — yeah! Well, just watch me give 'em the horse laugh when they want me to pull 'em out of the mud!” . FOUR PRISONERS TAKEN IN SERIES OF 3 RAIDS Small Quantity of Whisky and Beer Seized by Police Vice Squad. Four prisoners were taken and a small quantity of whisky and beer re- ported seized. yesterday afternoon and Iast night by the police vice squad and officers of the third precinet station in three separate raids. Henry Schrader, 28 years old, and Charles R. Pulllam, 18, both of 67 New York avenue, northeast, were taken into custody by the vice spuad and charged with sale of one pint of whisky, illegal possession of eight quarts of whisky and' 26 bottles of ' beér, and maintaining a nuisance. They were booked at No. 6. Precinct Detective Ruppert McNeill Thirty-second street to Wisconsin avenue; Twenty-sixth street, P street to East place; Bancroft street, Twenty- third to Twenty-fourth street, The following streets will be widened and repaved: H street, seventh to Thir- teenth street; Georgia avenue, Creek Church road to Buchanan street, and Twelfth street, B street north to B street south. NEW PARK TOWERS APARTMENTS SOLD Morton Goldenberg and Leo Baum Acquire Sixteenth Street Prop- erty at About $700,000. Morton Goldenberg and Leo Baum, officials of Goldenberg's department store, have purchased the new Park Towers Apartments, located on Six- teenth street opposite Meridian Hill Park, it was revealed today when the transfer of deeds to the property was Pplaced on record. The large property was purchased as an investment for a consideration of approximately $700,000, according to the firm of Shannon & Luchs, Inc., which handled the transaction. The buidling, of fireproof construc- tion, is of five stories, divided into 80 apartment units ranging in size from bachelor apartments of one room and bath to suites of six rooms, two baths and porch. The building was completed during the past year by Z. T. Goldsmith and William Keller. It occupies a large site fronting in both Sixteenth street and Kalorama avenue, and adjoins the property of the French embassy at the intersection of the two streets. Patiiiaty PREPARE FOR FEAST Exercises in preparation for the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel will be and Pvt. F. O. Brass of the third pre- cinct raided two allegrd disorderly houses last night and arrested Julia Special Committee, also was reported at the time as being in favor of the Moore ggoposal. Parrott, 33, of 2100 block of F street, and Helen Willlams, 35, of H street, as tors. conducted tonight at 8 o'clock in the chapel of the Discalced Carmelite Friars, 150 Rhode Island avenue northe east. Rev Eliseus Costp will deliver the sermon tonight and ‘will preach ::chgr;;\!n( until the feast da;