Evening Star Newspaper, August 12, 1930, Page 17

NEWHOLSEOFFE BULDING PLANS ARE COPLETE Construction on $8,000,000 Government Project Will Be Started November 15. SECOND PARCEL OF LAND HELD FOR EXPANSION Allied Architects Will Advertise | for Bids by September—Struc- ture Will Be Ready in 1932, Actual construction of the new $8,000,- 000 auxiliary House Office Building is to be started by the middle of Novem- ber and completed within two years. David Lynn, architect of the Capitol, who is entrusted with this job by the House Office Building Commission, is in conference this afternoon with the Allled Architects, an organization rep- resenting the best talent of Washington, which has offered its advice and co- operation t> the Government. It is expected that the plans and| specifications on which the Allied Architects have been working will be ready to _be advertised for bids by Sep- tember I. A month will be allowed to construction companies to prepare their bids, which are to be opened about October 1. Immediately after the award of the contract the builders .will com- mence fabrication of the steel and gathering of the bullding supplies. Architect Lynn said this afternoon $hat he expects the actual construction work will be started about the middle of November and that it will take ap- proximately two years to complete the structure. Congress authorized the appropria- tion of $7,500,000 for the land and building. The land has been acquired. although final payment has not been | made on & smail portion, but a com- plete agreement has been reached. Cor appropriated $900,000 for ac- quisition of the land—the two parcels lying east and west of South Capitol street between B and C streets, directly south of the Capitol and west of the present House Office Building. Owing to the condemnation awards on cer- tain parts of this land the $900,000 ‘was not sufficient, but an arrangement has been made permitting the architect of the Capitol to draw on the con- struction fund for the balance, which makes the cost of the land approxi- mately $1,000,000. ‘The new building for which contracts are about to be let will occupy only one of the two parcels of land that have been acquired—the one east of South Capitol street and closest to the present House Office Building, with which it will be connected by an underground DTS accond parcel of land will be home acting suspiciously every day held for later expansicn of the House |during the past week. Officé Building plant. In drawing the plans for this im- portant development care has been taken to preserve the beautiful vista from the Capitol down South Capitol street to the river. EASTERN BRANCH WATER GIVEN 0. K. Bamples Taken Near Navy Yard: Show No Evidence of 0il or Tar. Analysis by the Health Department ®f samples of water taken from the Eastern Bra ch near the Navy Yard failed to yleld traces of oil, phenol or tar, such as were found in the samples yecently taken from the water near the Wi n Gas Light Co.'s plant, it was revealed today. In a report signed by.John B. Reed, / ghemist of the Health Department, and ~gorwarded to Commissioner Herbert B. 3 , it is stated that the samples 'yielded traces of “only the ordinary pollution incident to such waters as the Anacostia River.” The analyses were made as a result of complaints to Commissioner Or that boats on the Eastern Branch were getting an unwanted coat of tar on their hulls. The gas compay has agreed to prevent any further discharge of tar grom its plant into the river. RESERVE OFFICERS TO GO 0. FORT G. G. MEADE, MD.| Wen Washington Men in Finance Department Ordered to Take 14 Days’ Training. residents of Washington who are officers in the finance depart- of the Army are under orders to to Fort George G. Meade, Md., y, August 17, to begin 14 days’ sctige duty training. men are Majs. Prank Akers Prost, 750 ‘Quebec place; Harry Keene Bent- Sey. United States Veterans’ Diagnostic Center, 2650 Wisconsin avenue, and El- mer 'W. Reese, 70 Rhode Island avenue: Capts, Prank Binghar. Schlosser 2101 New, Hampshire avenue; Van Wirt Roberds, 1705 Irving street; Ellis Ros- ‘coe ‘King, 5738 Sherrier ; Milton Anthony Lehr, 5817 Colorado avenue; James Cleve Davenport, 3823 Beecher Stregt; Albert Julian Hendley, 2116 P streét, and Ralph Dority, 3115 Mount Pleagant street. YOUTH AND GIRL Jack Floyd, 20 years old woman companion giving her name as Pearl Floyd, and her age as 22 years, yoomers at 603 H streef, were surren- dered to the police of Charlotte, N. C3 yesterday by the local police. They were arrested several days ago by Detec- gives L. A. O'Dea and M. J. Dowd. Floyd, according to the police, was arrested in connection with the ‘theft of $2,000 worth of jewelry, chiefly heirlooms, from & North Carolina family. The girl, said by -the police to have HELD , and a young escaped from an institution in North ! Carolina several weeks ago, is reported to have met Floyd in Norfolk and later in this city. —_—e Summer School a Success. BOWIE, Md., August 12 (Special). Marked success attended the first Sum- mer vacation schoéol of Ascenzion Cath- olic Church here, which recently ended. Conducted by sisters from Baltimore, the school taught fundamentals of re- ligion, but much time also was devoted New York avenue. Mrs, Hoover. THIRD GEORGETOMWN RESIDENCE ROBBED Loot Valued at_$4,000 Is Taken From_Sternhagen 3 Dwelling. ‘With the robbery of a third George- town home in two months, headquar-] ters detectives and seventh precinct po- | lice today were seeking a white man, about 30 years old, seen loitering near the home of John M. Sternhagen, 3328 O street, which was entered some time in the past week, when $4,000 whbrth of Jewelry, ‘books and clothing were stolen. Although investigators of the robbery said they had no thorough description of the man, they expressed confidence this morning that they would solve the recent robberies within a week. The man for whom police are searching was | seen in the vicinity of the Sternhagen Detectives said:in all of the robberies | the homes were thoroughly ransacked and there was widespread disorder. Sternhagen, a member of the United States Board of Tax Appeals, told police he discovered the robbery upon his re- turn from Dodge Farms, Va., where he had been spending his vacation with his family. Sternhagen said he merely returned on a casual visit and found his home in wild disorder. He said that several books he prized highly had been faken, along with scores of other books and clothing and jewelry. A typewriter and a phonograph also were stolen, he reported to police. Detectives said entrance was gained by “jimmying” a rear door. They said enough loot had been taken from the home to fill a large-sized motor truck. | Police are awaiting the return of | Representative Luther A. Johnson of Texas to determine just how much loot was stolen from his apartment at the | ‘Wardman Park Hotel during the past week. Representative Johnson, his wife .lrr"ld son are at their home at Corsicana, e, The ransacked apartment was re- ported to police yesterday by employes of the hotel, who entered the room for the first time since Representative Johnsop's departure, on August 8. Rep- resentative Johnson has been notified of the robbery by police. Entry was_effected, police said, byl s The garden about the Girl Scouts’ Little House at Eighteenth street and Many of the selected plants were sent to the garden by house, which is typical of American homes. gifts of Mrs. Hoover marked the be- ginning of the garden which is destined to be a tribute to its author. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1930. PRICES OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES MOUNT STEADILY —=Star Staff Photo. MRS, HOOVER'S GIFT INSPIES GARDEN Contributions of Noted Per- sons Received for Plant- ing at Little House. Plant by plant, the floral contribu- tions of noted men and women are pushing their roots into the soil about | three ti; the Girl Scouts’ Little House, to merge with the mountain laurel, ferns and wild roses given by Mrs. Herbert Hoo- ver and tribute to Mrs. Hoover’s interest in the Scout movement. Entirely unmindful of the effects of her example, Mrs. Hoover sent selected plants to the Little House, at Eighteenth street and New York avenue. The ferns, laurels and roses, she believed, would be attractive additions to the Instead, however, the floral Since this contribution two old box- wood plants from Gunston Hall have been planted following their receipt from the owner of the historic home of George Mason. . George Aker- son, wife of the secretary to the Presi- dent, has given a Dorothy Perkins rose climber and' Mrs. Harley Peyton Wilson of Hollin Hall, in Alexandria, Va. is the donor of the prize-winning variety of dahlias which grace the memory garden. A hydrangea from the Chevy Chase home of Mr. and Mrs. William Stephen Corby is another of the gar- den’s attractions. Boulders’ stones and pebbles from vir- tually every section of the country are being assembled in the making of the rock garden of the Little House. And now, inspired by the fast-mount- ing success of the memory garden here, Girl Scouts throughout the coun- try are compiling memory gardens of gift plants in their own localities. In the various cities where the gardens already have been launched the gar- den clubs are assisting the girls in their labors. Railway Veteran Dead. CUMBERLAND, Md., August 12 (Spe- cial) —Edward Welsh, 58, retired Balti- more & Ohio Railroad trainman, died yesterday at Allegany Hospi! . means of a duplicate key. Dr. Kathrine Hoffman Would Extend Facilities That Aid Woman Workers. Officials Credit Her With3 “Unquestionably Cutting Down Sick Leaves.” By the Associated Press 2 ‘The appointment of a woman phy- sician to guard the health of 10,000 United States Treasury employes M« result in at least one rare boon for the men workers under her care. It would be a quiet cool room, equip- ped with whitg enameled hospital cots, where a weary man might have a bit of { rest in his lunch hour. Dr. Katherine S. Hoffman, daughter of Brig. Gen. Charles J. Symonds, com- mandant of Fort Bliss, El Paso, Te and for the past thres months phy: cian to the Treasury personncl, was author of the idea. She argued that if 1493 such rest- snatches taken by women In these three months enabled them better to con- be available to the male employe, par- ticularly the older man. Plans Emergency Headquartors, She therefore mhde plans for f in the new emergency_ headquarters now being outfitted undbr her supervision in_the: Treasury Bullding. Dr. Hoffman's work ls broad ingcope, covering several buildings fn Washing- ton and all Treasury comovensation cases throughout the countgy. Her chief interest s first aid to the adult at work, who, the records show can have about s many things happen as the child at lay. “They skin their knees. They get particles in their eyes. They get splin- ters in their fingers,” loffman said. ‘Turning to her records, she quickly discovered that during the past three months in the big ury Bullding to singing, lth]elic;‘ and o?ma:;”r::; o attendance tion. The average daily a4 e the siciors taught & ment, 53 women and 36 24 Woodmore in the aftzrnoons. heve rarticles taken out of 154. Affer conducting the scl 3+ 1+~ mornings the q 6 \ on Pennsylvania avenue 9 women and 8 men punctured themselves with pens s el bea 1> eyes, tinue work, A rest-source should also | TREASURY PHYSICIAN'S PLAN INCLUDES REST ROOM FOR MEN “\\ DR. KATHERINE S. HOFFMAN. \ become a memory garden in |times Fruit of Good Quality, While Drought Hurts Vege- tables. CANTALOUPES ABUNDANT AND VALUE GOES DOWN Tomato Crop Hdérd Hit and Flat- Leaf Spinach and Kale {arce. Apples Plentiful. ‘The drought, which is parching truck farms in nearby Maryland and Vir- ginia, has sent prices of fruits and vegetables to a level considerably higher than is usual at this season and com- mission men are being fosced more and more, to buy their supplies in dis- tant localities. Dealers here offer attractive the fruit line. crop in nearby badly damaged, ally good. Prices are mounting steadily and there is little prospect of a decline this season. Tomato Crop Hard Hit. ‘The tomato crop has been hard hit. Due to higher s, however, dealers say they can meet the local demand. They believe the canners in Maryland Virginia will be forced to go out of business for the rest of the season. ‘Two-peck baskets of tomatoes this morning sold at $1 and $1.50, the high- est’ price the past few days for fanc; stock going as high as $6 a bushel Bushel baskets during ordinary seasons, according to dealers, sell around 75 cents to $1.25. No Flat-Leat Spinach. ‘There is practically no spinach of the flat-leaf variety to be had, prices this week having been quoted as high as $3.50 and $4 a bushel, the usual price at this season being 75 cents to $1. Kale is scarce and high, selling at $1.50 a bushel this morning, or about $1 hl&hfl' than usual. Beets and car- rots this morning were quoted at $5 and $6 per 100 bunches, approximately imes usual price at this beans sold at $3.50 and $4 a is morning, approximately four their usual price, while squash, lima beans and other varieties of veg- etables were similarly affected in price. Corn, usually sold at 75 cents and $1 a sack, brought from $1.50 to $2.50 this morning. Apples have been fairly plentiful and reasonable, many of them of inferior quality, but it is expected they will not be so plentiful the approaching Fall season, nor is the quality expected to be 80 fi”d' a direct result of the continued high temperature and lack of rain. Cantaloupes Plentiful. Dealers say a surprising feature of the market is the plentiful supplies of ‘cantaloupes from nearby and distant sections. They have been received .in such large quantities the past month or more, according to_dealers, that prices have fallen below the average. Peaches also have been coming to the local market in large quantities, the quality being equal to that of the fruit in prior season. Most of them are from the South, however, the crop in this vicinity promising to be smaller than continue, however, to goods, particularly in While the vegetable communities has been the fruit is exception- season. Strin, bushel usual. Low prices offered by canners for California fruit this season, it is said by local dealers, have resulted in increased shipments and lower prices of the fruits offered the local trade. This. applies more particularly to pears and grapes, dealers say, the increased receipts of grapes being attributed to compliance with the laws .prohibiting the making of wine. Bananas continue in heavy receipt and prices are reported extremely low. - WOMAN IN TAXICAB SHOT DEAD BY MAN Police Seek Husband on Theory Jealousy Caused Car Murder. Police today were searching for an unidentified man who last night shot to death Fannie Cozzens, colored, years old, 314 V street northeast, while she was seated in a taxicab at Rhode Island avenue and V street northeast. The man had a few moments before used his automobile to crowd the taxi into the curb. ‘The woman’s husband, police say, is suspected and a description has been broadcast for his arrest. ‘The man fired six bullets from a pistol through a window of the cab, three of them taking effect in the woman's head. She was pronounced dead on arrival of an ambulance sur- geon from Sibley Hospital. Police say they were informed that the woman’s husband had been jealous of her and had followed her in his au- tomobile when she left her home in the cab to go to a nearby beauty parlor. e STOLEN CAR RECOVERED Police Inquiry First Notice Given of Capt Bullene’s Loss. A poilce me:sage of inquiry about 7:30 o'clock this morning was the first 33 women and 12 men came to her headquarters to get splinters removed, | 66 women and 20 men were treated for | skinned knees and elbows, 134 women jand 55 men suffered cut fingers and | lh‘fnhkc in going about their daily office o Minor Allments Treated. ‘With other minor allments that in. terrupt, but do not des the wgrk in the Treasury with Dr. Hoffman on duty, headaches, eye strain, indigestion and colds, Serious cases ske sends home for treatment by the family physician. ‘With light hair smoothly waved and closely coiffured, voice low and sooth- ing, and dressed in a cool green gown, Dr. Hoffman herself could qualify as a remedy for August in hot and humid | Washington. | 'She was graduated from George ‘Wlsh;l;gwn University Medical School in 1925. Though she has been on_duty only since April 21, Treasury Department officials give her credit for ‘“unques- tionably cutting down the sick leave.” They say, also, that woman employes, who predominate at the Treasury, are much more likely to take their minor {lls—those which, if adjusted, do not loss of a day's work—to the physician. cause woman intimation received by Mrs. Bullene, wife of Capt. E. F. Bullene, U. 8. that the family automobile had been stolen from in front of their home, 2310 Ashmead place, last night, while they were asleep. . Policeman Watson H, Salkeld of the twelfth precinct had found the car near Twenty-eighth and Douglas streets northeast, the engine rui and the windshield wiper in operation. He learned that unidentified white men had been seen near the car shortly before he found it. INJURIES BASIS OF SUIT $50,000 Claim Filed Against May- flower Sightseeing Service. | Elzabeth Irwin Townsend, _Pitts- burgh, Pa., has filed suit in the District Supreme Court to recover $50,000 dam- | from the Mayflower Taxicab 'SHE[BY EULOGIZES BUREAU IN REPORT ONHOMICIDE WORK Baker and McPherson Cases Omitted in List of Three Unsolved Deaths. HIGH PRAISE IS GIVEN KELLY BY INSPECTOR Law Sanctioning Pawnbrokers to Aid Detectives and Drug Legislation Advised. record of cleaning up all but 3 of the 41 homicide® in the District in the past year, committed with criminal or feloni- ous intent, as “a remarkable record and orfe of which the department and the public might well feel proud,” In- spector William 8. Shelby, chief of the bureau, today submitted his annual re- port of the activities of the bureau to Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police. listed as an unsolved crime. There fi: no reference to the death of Mrs. Vir- ginia McPherson, one of the year’s mys- teries, which ultimately was held by a grand jury to be suicide. The detective chief closes his report saying: “An analysis of the figures presented in this report indicates clearly the amazing accomplishments of this bu- reau during the past fiscal year. Not- withstanding bitter, and for the most part unjust, criticism, members of this command have stood four-square to all the winds that blew and have ren- dered a conscientious and effective public service.” Lieut. Kelly Praised Highly. ‘The Mary Baker case and the murder of Federal Prohibition Agent Lamar Watson York are pointed out by In- spector Shelby as the outstanding cases handled by the homicide squad of the bureau_during the year. For Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, chief of the homicide squad, who was under fire with his chief during the McPherson death investigation, Inspector Shelby has high praise, saying: “I commend the homicide and safe squad of this bureau for its untiring de- votion to duty and for the unselfish manner in which the members of thif squad, under the able and effective leadership of Lieut. Kelly, have re- sponded to numerous calls for service entailing long hours, great danger and much discomfort.” ‘The three homicide cases listed as not cleared up and closed are as follows: Murder of Christos Haralampidis, Greek restaurant keeper, found, his skull crushed from a brick, in the premises at 511 Ninth street, January 4, two men known to police, wanted for the crime. Slaying of Freddie Cooper, colored, April 20, at 2500 I street, man wanted for slaying known to police. Slaying on May 17. of Sadie E. Bradley, colored, at 149 A street north- east, by her husband, Roy Bradley, colored, Of the safe robbery and attempted safe robbery cases handled by this squad, Inspector Shelby reports that a total of 64 cases were reported and 11 have been closed through arrests of the guilty persons. Alligood Recovers 390 Cars. ‘The automobile squad of the bureau, he reports, has a record to be proud of. Of the 3,049 automobiles reported stolen, 649 have been recovered by the squad, while 288 have not been found. In tabulating the work of the individual members of the squad, Inspector Shelby shows that Detective Sergt. Frank Alli- good 1s credited with recovering more cars during the year than all the rest of the squad combined. has a record of 390 automobiles recovered, while the other four members of the squad are credited with recovering 259. Precincts are credited with recovering 827 cars; owners, 914; repossessed by finarce companies, 105. A total of 2,766 cars is reported recovered. The check squad of the bureau, In- spector Shelby reports, has had an un- usually busy year, handling 497 cases involving various offenses, securing 360 convictions and having 43 cases pend- ing. ‘The pharmacy and narcotic squad, he reports, has performed valuable work, making in the past year 3,290 of- ficial visits to drug stores, dental offices, physicians’ offices and other places and making 1,044 investigations. A total of 133 arrests is reported for this squad. Under Detective Sergt. C. P. Cox the 26 | clothing squad is reported to have “per- formed most effective service.” This squad arrested 372 persons and obtained 279 convictions. The bureau of lost property, he re- ports, recovered during the year prop- erty valued at $38,783. As a result of the efforts of the Sanitary Bureau, Inspector Shelby says, 426 petitions for writs de lunatico in- quirendo were filed in court, with the result that 357 paum%were adjudged insane and sent to St. Elizabeth’s Hos- pital for treatment. Arrest Bureau's Work Reviewed. ‘The Record of Arrest Bureau, he regons, during the fiscal year estab- lished and filed 63,263 cards recording arrests, establishea and filed 18,548 warrant record cards and made search and filed 9,057 records for the courts and various foreign jurisdictions and for the Federal departments. ‘The Criminal Identification Bureau did a vast amount of routine work during the year, supplying the depart- ment with all the necessary informs tion at its command in all cases, iden tified two previously unidentified dead by means of fingerprints, completed a file of the entire Police Department and did considerable work-for Federal departments here. Closing his report, Inspector Shelby declares again for the enactment of a law which will permit pawn brokers to operate in the District, pointing out that & considerable percentage of stolen goods finds its way into these shops, is properly reported and thereby recovered and in many instances the thief lprrehended. He calls for more particular atten- tion on the part of the precincts in se- curing adequate fingerprints from those arrested and asks that this form of identification be taken in me"rrecmeu by experts whose testimony will be ac- cepted by the courts. Drug Legislation Advised. He also asks an additional private be assigned to the pharmacy and narcotic squad to lighten the excessive duties of that squad. & | Need of legislation making drug ad- Sightseeing Service for alleged personal injuries. says she Was a passenger in & cab of the defendant April 26 en route from the Mayflower Hotel to Union Station when the vehicle was in collision with another automobile at Massachusetts and New J-w.uunufi ttorne; . Ralph Burton 5Eare Sipear loce D, diction a felony in the Distric; is par- ticularly stressed by Inspector Shelby. e says: “It is generally conceded that the narcotic evil strikes at the very vitals of society, and as long as drug addicts permitted at large they ‘om'l Pointing to the Detective Bureau's | The Mary Baker murder case is not | PATRICIA HARTMAN, Thirteen-year-old daughter of h H. Hartman, Public Utilities Commis- sioner, is nursing an injured thumb today and a firm conviction that is not an attribute of the simian character. gratitude y & pet monkey kept for the amusement of patrons at s barbecue R ¢ stand on Georgia avenue just north of imost completed a sandwich when the monkey reached out a hand as if begging for food. Patricia thrust the morsel toward of taking the food the animal clamped feeding it a sandwich. Patricia had al the District line bit her as she was him, but instead its sharp teeth on the girl's finger. Patricia was treated by her family physician. The wound was said not to be serious. examination for rabies. ‘The' animal was turned over the District Health Department for HOLD-UP “ALIBIS” RIGIDLY PROBED Police Investigation of Mc- Crory Store Robbery Shifted to Baltimore. Police investigation into: the $1,200 hold-up of two McCrory 5 and 10 cent store employes last Thursday shifted to Baltimore today as detectives sought to check the alibis of two suspects who, according to police, have been identi- fled as participants in the robbery. Meanwhile, James W. Callan, 23 years old, of Alexandria, Va, and Thomas Ellan of the first block of § street northeast, who have been held by police as suspects, were released this morning, the police announcing they were satisfied neither Callan nor Ellan had connection with the case. Claim Three Are Implicated. Police said two witnesses have iden- tified John Irving, 24 years old, and Elmer Bennett, 28 years old, both of Baltimore, as having been in the hold- up automobile at 714 Seventh street. Another suspect being held is Henry J. Mechlinski, 26 years old, of Balti- more, who, police assert, was impli- cated by Bennett and Irving. Headquarters Detective Sergt. Thomas Nally, in charge of the investigation, announced before his departure for Bal- timore that he expected to arrest two more men today. He said he wishes to question them as to the alibis of Ben- nett and Irving. Bennett and Irving claim they were at a Baltimore resort when the hold-up occurred. Irving told police that his automobile, which was identified as the robbery car, was stolen while he and Bennett were in bathing at the resort. Another Robbery Under Probe. Meanwhile, police continue to investi- te the activities of Paul Calvin ‘mbrey, 20 years old, who is now await- ing grand jury action with two other youths in connection with the hold-u; of a bank messenger carrying a $4,00 pay roll. Police say they attach some nificance to Embrey's reference to * while he was in the act of confessing and later when he was pointing out to detectives various es he said he had robbed in the District and in Ar- lington County. Detective Sergt. Hubert E. Brodle, in charge of this investigation, and De- tectives Dennis Murphy and T. C. Bragg sald they found the alleged hang-out of Embrey and his so-called “bandit gang.” They declared they have searched the place for loot, but nothing was found. JAILED FOR MILK THEFT Colored Man Sentenced to Ten Days for Taking Pint. . Convicted of stealing & pint of milk in the 900 block of M street, Elgard Grayson, colored, 500 block of U street, was sent to jail for 10 days by Judge Ralph Given in Police Court today. G wnypluded with Judge Given that he was out of work, out of money and just had to steal or starve. He de- clared that he was “too proud to beg.” Policeman G. W. Absher of the sec- ond precinct testified that he saw the colored man remove a pint bottle from a case in front of the store of Jacob Rosenbloom, 932 M street. The man Elelded with the policeman to allow to pay for it. udge Given Grayson first de milk, later enied to Jt that he had taken the changing his FALLS DEAD ON CAR N. T. Blaser, 60 Years Old, Stricken on' Way to Work. N. T. Blaser, 60 years old, of 218}, Twelfth place northeast, fell dead on a Capital Traction street car at Thir- teenth street and Pennsylvania avenue this morning. Blaser, who was on his way to work, was stricken as he was about to leave his seat in the car and fell in the aisle. where he was pronounced dead. He ml‘e was attributed as the cause of leaf VEHICLES COUNTED INPARKING STUDY Committee Finds Auto Plays Larger Role in Washington Than in Other Cities. who acted as its chairman. the report was summarized in news articles the time it was made, interest in subject has prompted this series, fourth of which will de published tomorrow. BY DONALD A. CRAIG. In its study of the automobile parking and garage problem in Washington, particularly in the downtown business section, the Automobile Parking Com- mittee, comprising_a membership rep- resentative of the Federal Government, District Government and local trade and ic bodies, had a so-called ‘“cordon count” made to show the actual load upon the central district accurately and “the relation of the automobile and parking use to other forms of transpor- tation” in detail. This “cordon count” consisted of re- cording every person entering or leaving the central business district between 8 o'clock in the morning and 8 o'clock in the evening, including the streets used and the means of transportation. It was explained by Charles W. Eliot, di rector of city planning, who represented the National Capital Park and Planning Commission in the drafting of the re- port for the committee’s approval, that all details were recorded “by half-hour periods, thus indicating fluctuations during the day.” ‘Thursday, April 24, 1930, was the day selected for this study. The weather was fair and the temperatures ranged t’;:m cool to warm. Ninety-three check- posts were covered, requiring the services of more than 150 observers and supervisors. at the the Hard to Get Force.. ‘To find a fleld force of such o tions for one day’s mkmwm part by the co-opera- members of the school-boy pa- trol of the iblic schools, who were paid for their work by the American Automobile Association. “The boys individually deserve high praise for their intelligence, accuracy and trustworthiness,” commented the committee. Metropolitan policemen _ supervised the checkers. All street car passenger movements were checked by trained em- ployes of the two local street railway companies and the bus lines by operators. The District Traffic Bureau supplied field forms and additional supervisory assistance. “Computations,” adds the report, “have proved the study to be one of un- usual accuracy, and, due to the cordial co-operation it was ‘completed, except !Urtuchnlcll office work, at insignificant During the 10-hour period of the cor- don count there were a total of 268,669 vehicular movements in and out of the central district. These included 228,087 passenger automobiles, 38,698 trucks and 1,884 horse-drawn vehicles. Large Vehicular Traffic. “This reveals an unusually large vol- ume of vehicular traffic for a city of the WJ’ullthn of Washington,” the re- port declares, “and indeed places it among the cities of foremost traffic ac- consi automobile plays an unusually import- :1nt parc in central district transporta- on = ‘The rapidity with which traffic is developing, according to the investi- gators, is shown by a com) the | | PAGE B-—1 USE OF GARDEN HOSE PERMITTED IN'CHEVY CHASE New Pumping Station Ready and Fourth Water Con- nection Is Made. ORDER APPLIES MERELY TO “TRANSPORTATION” Residents Living West of Rock Creek in Montgomery Get Same Privilege This Afternoon. Less than 10 hours after District of Columbia water mains had been tapped to supply Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties of Maryland with ‘water the Washington Suburban Com- mission today lifted its ban on the use of garden hose to sprinkle flowers and shrubs in the Chevy Chase area. A pumping station was completed at Belt road and Fessenden street late last night and a fourth emergency connec- uon with the District’s water system was made at Chevy Chase at 2:30 o'clock this morning. The pumping station is expected to go into operation T. Howard Duckett, chairman of ti.c m'lnt::\:rfied:‘tnlfl:m o'clock ontgomery Coutit! residents living west of mry ACl‘eflz may use their garden hose this after- noon to water to their floweis and shrubs, but not yet as a means of sprinkling their Jawns. Mr. Duckeit announced further that if the new pumping station at Fessenden street proves successful the same privileges Wwill be extended to other Montgomery County residents. The commission issued an order August 8, forbidding the use of garden hose for any sprinkling purposes, but permitted . residents to. use water for flowers and shrubs if the water was transported in receptacles. Today's or- der authorizes the use of the hose mere- ly for the “transportation” of water to flozm and shrubs, Mr. Duckett pointed ou The emergency connection made at Chevy Chase Circle last night is the second similar tap made at that point on the District’s alwr supply. The Maryland became acute and was an 8-inch pipe. The connection made last night was a 12-inch pipe line. EDWARD HAWKINS PROUD OF HIS HIGH SPEED AF00T But He Ends in Failure When He Ankle in Attempt to Evade Arrest. e w. t that's the law,” whispered to a friend. “I'm going to jump out of the window and run away. ‘They’ll never catch me.” Being a man of his word, Hawkins raised the third-story dow and plunged to “safety.” To his s . however, he was unable to run a step after jolting to earth. He had suffered & broken ln‘:l: Hea! 5 and J. H. Sweeney, policemen of the eighth precinct, who had been knocking nftrl‘l: He was taken to Freedmen's Hos- P The policemen said that lekll.;u. b: theft of an automobile from a local rental company. The car Was recov- covered in Cieveland, Ohio, several weeks ago. It had been abandoned. equal parts, distributed over the 10 hours of the day so that during each hour approximately 13,000 vehicles would enter, transact their business and leave, the problem would be greatly simplified.” Two Peak Periods. ‘The count shows that the flow of traffic is Eharacterized by two peak in the half hour 2 o'clock in the morning and the second and I one with a crest in the half hour bef 4:30 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon. ‘The differential in favor of in-move- ments over out-movements, the com- mittee’s technical experts point out, re- sults in a rapid accumulation, so that by 10 o'clock in the morning there is a load of about 10,000 vehicles in the central district. It is pointed out that this count does not include the ve- hicles that enter the central district ir | Prior to 8 o'clock in the morning, and thus at all points during the day the figures given in the report are “con- sistently below actual conditions.” It is pointed out also that the total legal capacity for curb parking in the central district is only 10,415. “This means,” the report adds, “that thousands of vehicles entering the area Dbetween 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. are con- fronted with a condition of practically complete curb saturation, which con- clusion is substantiated by studies sub- sequently presented.” Report Presents Details. The committee’s 42-page report, pre- pared under the direction of Mr. Eliot and of Dr. Miller McClintock of the Er- skine Bureau of Harvard University as consultant, goes into much more de- tail than can be repeated in a series of articles of this character. It also is accompanied by adequate tables and charts sho! graphically. the various points in the parl situation. king and garage “The inescapable conclusion,” de- clare these experts, “is that in Wash- ington the automobile plays a propor- tionately greater part in normal trans- tion of persons to and from the usiness area than it does in other