Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1930, Page 17

CRIME PREVENTION HELD PRIE SOCIAL PROBLEM OF NATION Paper Read at Catholic Char- ities Session Urges Greater Work Among Qoys. . COUNTY UNIT SYSTEM OUTLINED BY SPEAKER Church Must Be Prepared to Meet Changed Conditions, Confer- ence Is Told. Crime_and sad tendency of the youth of the land is perhaps the paramount social prob- Jem before the country, the National Conference of Catholic Charities was told today. { Questioning the wisdom: with which millions of dollars and the energies of millions of people are being expended annually in the reformation of crim- inals, Rev. Charles P. Maxwell of the St. Louls University School of Sociology and a leader in the Boys’ Club move- ment, expressed the opinion, in & paper read before the convention, that these efforts would be expended for the bet~ ter in measures for crime prevention. “After all, where are we getting in our reform program?” Father Maxwell asked. “Why wait until a man_gets sick before we take an interest in him? ‘Why wait until the home is broken be- fore we lend our aid? Why wait until & boy gets in trouble before we take his part? Would it not be better to_ex- pend our efforts in another line, namely, prevention? And prevention of delinquency is one of the great works of the Boys’ Clubs.” Big Economic Loss. Father Maxwell’'s paper, which was read by Rev. Ralph A. Gallagher, dean of sociology at the St. Louis University, pointed out that crime, with its toll of 2,000,000 arrests a year and 12,000 murders has become & pressing eco- nomic as well as a social problem. At least 30 cents of each tax dollar is spent on courts, penal institutions or other forms of criminal prevention or eontrol. “It costs $450 a year to keep a boy in 8 reformatory or detention home,” he stated. “It would have cost about $30 a year to keep him out of the reform- atory and keep him in a well organized boys’ club.” Explaining the work of the boys’ club, Father Maxwell emphasized its chief | mssets as being an elastic program adapted to meet the individual needs | of the boy in his hours of leisure, with | opportunities for occupational and voca- tional as well as moral guidance. “We must preserve the boy if we would saye the coming generation of men,” he said. “We must save the boy from his environment.” County Unit Discussed. To save the boy from the catches of erime, he emphasized, the church, the | #chool and the recreational agency must awork hand in hand. | Problems of the home and comuivn- fty from the viewpoint of Catholic so- cial workers were considered at a session devoted to the county as a unit in so- clal work. This meeting was addressed by William J. Norton of Detroit; Rev. the anti-social attitude | RAIN MAKER SEEKS HUNTING WEATHER M. E. McEvoy of Milwaukee and Rev. Thomas J. O'Dwyer of Los Angeles. Relating work being done in their re- mflv& States, the speaker pointed out the county unit offers a splendid opportunity for the co-operation of Catholic agencies. The most effective manner of county unit work, they stressed, is indicated in a sharing of bilities, a business like adminis- tration of funds and distribution of ;vork that prevents overlapping of ef- ‘The church, it was pointed out, must be re mt‘a ‘mdeet fahangerd ;(:ndlzlon.s vantage of the oppor- tunities offered by the county unl!prl:lofln in social work. They also told of the possibility of organizing on a wide scale Catholic bureaus along with the county | unit plan. Speakers at General Session. Speakers at last night's general ses- slon included Dr. Shirley Wynne, health commissioner of New York City, and Mrs. E. J. McDonald of Waterbury, Conn., who talked on “Catholic Women and Community Movements.” h efficient co-operation be- $ween the public, physicians and pub- He health agencies, Dr. Wynne pre- dicted the day is not far off when the average span of life will be lengthened by 14 ge.ra, “Diphtheria can be compleiely elimi- nated,” he said. “Tuberculosis and other diseases can be brought under eontrol.” Public health, he declared, looks to controlled methods of advertising as one of its effective weapons of the fu- ture. “There is nothing in the nature of Beuhuc health work which should net ! made to respond to the tested methods of promotion 50 successfully employed in commercial fields” he said. “I dare to prophesy that the health departments of the future will be advertising departments of great | scale public healt.: promotion. The day is not far off when health admin- | istrators will employ copy writers, ar- tists popular journalists, pictures and talkies to put across their health mes- who believes that dis ease prevention should be put fore- most in any health campaign, de plored the fact that too many persons are still _aitng complacently for | some new overy for an elixir of | life. “They prefer the negative state to a little positive exertion of well di- rected effort,” he said. The United States, he declared, is spending $15,000,000,000 annually on sickness and only $76,000,000 on its| prevention. He estimated that in New | York City alone 15,000 lives could be ! saved annually by the application of established prevention measures. “Every doctor should be a public health officer to carry into the homes the message of disease nrevention,” Dr. Wynne said. Mexican Immigrant Problem. One of the most important m:etings yesterday was held by the Committee on Catholic Action Among Spanish and Mexican People in the United States, In addressing this meeting, William A. Montavon, director of the legal depart- ment of the National Catholic Weifare Conference, declared that the Mexican igrant problem presents & chal- e to the National Confeorence of Catholic Charities. Immigration from Mexico has dou- bled in the last 10 years, be said. until there are now not less than 1,000,000 | men, was disposed to discuss the elec- | aliens of Mexican nationality in the United States. g The ultimate purpose of charity is justice, he pointed out, and justice calls for the removal of those conditions out of which arises the inability of men and women to provide adequately through their labor the conditions gispensable to right living Dr. G. A. I. M. Sykes Blasting| to Wet Fox Trails as Aid to Hounds. BY WILLIAM H. SHIPPEN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. WARRENTON, Va, October 1.—In | spite of the county-wide reverberations | which Dr. G. A. I. M. Sykes is creat- | ing with his dynamite, the elderly head | of the Weather Control Bureau of New York is not after a very big rain aftcr all—just enough for fox hunting pur-| poses will nicely satisfy the doctor and his four assistants. ‘That accomplished, the doctor is assured, and it will be raining dollars as well as raindrops on the heads of his band of pioneers, whase detonations have been shaking Fauquier County for a week now, and even starting echoes in the hills of adjoining communities. The Weather Control Bureau took | charge of the weather here after it be- | came apparent that the coverts, the| wooded slopes and jumps of the sport- loving landowners were much too dry, too hot and dusty for the'hounds o | sniff out the foxes and hold the trail. Fox Hunters Stay Away. Most of the fox hunters, the bureau’s spokesman said, have refused to leave New York or the seaside until some- thing is done about the weather where | their estates lay parching. After a conference in New York with certain of the sportsmen, the bureau sent its_expedition here, armed with cases of dynamite, electro-magnetic circuits, broadcasting and receiving ap- paratus and the determination to manu- facture good fox-hunting weather if | it takes three weeks to do it. Meanwhile an air of desolation lingers | about the quarters of the Orange County Hunt Club st The Plains, a | village some 13 miles south of here. | Usually at this time of year the “cub- bing” season is in full swing, huntsmen | are beating the coverts with the young | honnds, teaching them to use ~their heads and not go yelping at the tail of the pack, making ail the noise and none of the progress—cub like But as it is the green hounds are learning nothing. Even their seasoned | elders are scratching fleas in their | kennels, or yelping dismally at the moon—all because of the weather. | Didn't Rain on Races. Then the bureau stepped in, having already made one contribution to sport | by assuming responsibility for the | | weather at the Belmont racing meet | {last month. While on that occasion the rain-makers put their apparatus in | t| REPORTED AS SUICIDE | | reverse and stayed off a downpour | never rained once during the meet— | they nevertheless felt that the greater service lay in creating rain. On arriving at the Plains, they set up a 700~ antenna, both a broad- cast and reception unit, it was said. The plant, however, receives and nds out impulses which in no w come under jurisdiction of the Federal | Radio Commission—a sort of harmless !sound wave which has less influence on radio sets in the vicinity than on | immediate weather conditions. Within a 12-mile radius of the an- tenna five co-ordinating units were set tup. The consulting engineer party, when consulied by newspaper trical apparatus and its effect on the weather only in a general way, due, no doubt, to fear of imitato The bureali, freely enough, accepted responsibility for almost an inch of rain which fell near The Plains Tuesday & week ago, three hours after their paratus was in place. This the was followed Wednesday and Sai | E. today to enlist the aid of the Air Corps | procedure for rainmaking is all’ very | magnificent weather and I hope to en- of the| A ; == by highly-localized showers, unfelt else- | where. Backers of Undertaking. | Among 13 backers which members of | the party said had agreed to sponsor the undertaking were Mr. and Mrs. W. Plunkett Stewart, now on their honeymoon; Johnson L. Redmond of New ,York, and H. T. Archibald of Chicago. While others of the group set off dynamite and manipulated the elec- irical controls, the business manager, B. Twardus, went to Washington in the task. Six planes from Bolling Fleld, Mr. Twardus predicted, could start Flen&y of rain on the scene by sprinkling “electricalized sand in the clouds which Dr. Sykes hopes to manu- facture by that time. When reporters and photographers sought out Dr. Sykes yesterday upon a | mountain top three miles south of The Plains the dust was so thick in the rain- | maker’s vicinity that the automobiles | had to be halted frequently to let it clear, Dr. Sykes had located a sandstone cliff, which, he explained, made an ex- cellent sounding-board for his dynamite. Perspiring somewhat, but cheerfully and thoroughly energetic, the bearded rainmaker tied six sticks together and 1it_the fuse. Everybody “ got behind trees and waited hopefully, but the shower which followed was rather more substantial than raindrops. Felt Like Sandstone. “It felt like sandstone to me,” said & photographer, rubbing his head. But, according to the doctor, the simple. The doctor explained that he set off his detonations at a “cosmic cadence of 27 minutes,” calculated to break up the alr stratas _and inject through the antenna at The Plains a series of ligely “disturbances” into the earth. Sound waves so transmitted have a disturbing effect on clear weather, he | said. Thus, rain. When all is in readiness, the doctor predicted cheerfully, he will “issue an intelligent invitation” to the clouds which abound over Chesapeake Bay. When asked how, he smiled and said “Wait and sce.” The doctor, glancing at the dial on | his wrist, placed another bundle of dynamite on his improvised sounding | board—and a very good one i* was, as | the people for 15 miles about wiil testify. He was halted, however, by the ap- proach of another reporter, toiling up | the hillside. The doctor waited dmpa- | Li;ntly until the belated arrival straggled Magnificent Weather. “Magnificent weather we're having, doctor * * *” began the mewcomer, “We're busy, young man,” sald the doctor, touching off his fuse. “Yes,” gasped the astonished re- porter, joining the genmeral rush for cover, “I'm d--— if I ever saw more joy more!” MAJ. KALB, RETIRED, | War Department Advised Veteran | Officer Jumped Overboard From Steamer Near San Francisco. Maj. Albert Kalb, United States Army, retired, committed suicide by “\lmph\g overboard from the steamer Harvard near San Francisco, Monday | last, according to War Department ad- | vices. A native of Bavaria, Germany, | Kalb enlisted as a private in the 8th United States Cavalry in October, 1888, and was retired for disability in the line of duty in September, 1913, while holding the rank of quartermaster ser- geant. During the World War he | served as a major in the Quartermaster Corps of the National Army and was commissioned captain in the Quarter- master Corps of the Regular Army in July, 1920. He was promoted to major Upper: The rocky hill on which Dr. G. A. I M. Sykes is setting off blasts in connection with his prescription for rainmaking. Lower: Dr. Sykes with some business- like dynamite. —Star Staff Photo. BUYING AT HOME * POLICY BOOSTED District Council Cites Ex- ample to Back Plea for Washington Business. Inability of a Baltimore firm to de- liver to the District government a large printing order on scheduled time, after having obtained the work by submitting a contract bid just $25.74 lower than the lowest local bid, was cited today by the Buy-in-Washington Council as “another reason” why the local govern- ment should be permitted by law to use discretion in awarding government contracts. Under existing law, the District gov- ernment must award bids for public works to the lowest responsible bidder, provided specifications are met. Object of Campaign. ‘The Buy-in-Washington Council is an association of local business leaders who are conducting a campaign to have local work, both public and private, placed in the hands of local establish- ments and local labor, so far as possible, ‘While granting that the District gov- ernment in this case was required by law to let the contract to the Balti- more firm as the lowest bidder, the Buy-in-Washington Council today made public a letter from G. A. Walsh, ex- ecutive secretary of the Typothetae of ‘Washington, which declares: “Another case has come to our atten- tion which again points out the advis- ability of Congress enacting such legis- lation as may be necessary to permit our District government to accept bids for their work when such bids are in the public interest even though not the lowest.” June Transaction Cited. Early in June, the letter recites, the purchasing department advertised for bids on 80 copies of a 288-page book, “Fire Alarm Stations” for the local Fire Department. Delivery of the printed matter was to be made in 60 days. A Baltimore firm submitted the lowest bid, $872.40, Wh‘i‘sh was $25.74 lower than the lowest Washington bid. Having no alternative the District let the contract to the Baltimore firm. ‘The Buy-in-Washington Council now reports that despite the fact that de- livery was to be made not later than August 11, “the purchasing agent’s office advised us on September 26 that they had not as yet received the books and had been unable to ascertain as to when delivery would be made.” ‘The books had not been received this morning, the Fire Department reported. Probably Used as “Filler.” Declaring that the Baltimore firm apparently was using this contract as “filler” work among its other contract jobs, the local typothetae cibed as an example of the “unfairness” of the present contract system that the money for this work is going out of Wash- ington where local printing contractors must pay rent, taxes and other over- head. Had the work been given to a Wash- ington firm, the typothetae declared, $9 of the contract price would have been paid for local taes, $22.50 for rent, $355 for materials from local supply houses, $414 for wages for local resi- dents and $74 in other overhead costs. “It is obvious,” the typothetae con- cludes, “that money which will be spent in Baitimore will never return to the Distriet.” 1t is the contention of the Buy-in- Washington Council that local tax funds, so far as practicable, should be spent so that such public funds will re- main in circulation in Washington, SEASON'S FIRST FIRST FROST IS POSSIBILITY TONIGHT May Nip Suburbs, Says Weather Bureau—Continued Cool Is Fore- cast for D. C. The first frost of the season is a | possibility in_exposed places in the { suburbs tonight, the Weather Bureau made known today in a fo) that fair and continued cool weather would be the order tonight and to- morrow. In sharp contrast to & week ago, when | midday temperatures hovered around 93 degrees, the highest reading yester- |day was 71 degrees. The increased | popularity of blankets at night was | Justified by 46-degree temperatures last night, and tonight the Weather Bureau expects it will be 2 degrees cooler. e Commissioned in Reserve. Commissions have been issued by the War Department to Willlam J. Newsom, 2002 Thirteenth street, as a captain of Infantry, and to Danlel F. Boone, on the retired list & few weeks His widow, Mrs, Clara B. Kalb, m in the Calif, resident of San Diego, 1760 Euclid street, as a first llgu'en.l":. r , both of the Aoy, ecast stating | WERGHANTFEET | CUT WILL AFFEY 200, WIRSERS Administration Head Avers 750 Employes Over Coun- try Will Be Dropped. OFFICES TO BE GROUPED: INTO THREE DISTRICTS Board's Primary Concern Will Be Limited to Efficiency of Services. Officials of the Merchant Fleet Cor- poration today said #ts personnel grad- ually would be reduced as a result of putting into effect the lump sum agree- ment with operators of the Shipping Board lines. The corporation is a sub- sidiary of the Shipping Board. ‘The reduction will affect 200 Wash- ingtonians, mostly clerks, according to J. Caldwell Jenkins, vice president in charge of administration, who said that about 750 employes over the counury would be affected in the reduction. Officials explained that employes in the fleet corporation are without eivil service status. Mr. Jenkins said that because of the introduction of the lump- sum agreement plan wil mean that “al- “almost everything that the fleet cor- poration has been doing in the past in the way of detailed aid and supervision in the conduct of the lines will be shifted to the operator.” The corporation now has a grand total of 1,385 employes, 500 of them on duty here. Grouping of Offices. ‘The reduction will cause the group- ing of domestic offices under three dis- tricts: North Atlantic, at New York, comprising the present offices at Bo-. ton, New York and Philadelphia; Mid- dle Aflantic, at Norfolk, including the Baltimore and Norfolk offices, and the Gulf district, at New Orleans, com- prising the offices at New Orleans, Galveston, Mobile and Houston. ‘The staff of 15 at Boston will be re- duced to 1; Philadelphia from 25 to 1; New York from approximately 50 to 1 district director and 5 or 6 inspectors; Baltimore from 12 to 1; Norfolk from 26 to 9; New Orleans from 64 to about 18; Galveston from 20 to about 4. Fourteen persons will be affected when the Mobile office is closed, as will two others when the Houston office is closed. Work of the personne! remain- ing will be confined to inspection only to see that the operator keeps his ships in repair. Jenkins Outlines Plan. Mr. Jenkins in outlining the fleet corporation’s program said, “in the future our primary concern will be limited to the character and general efficiency of the steamship services con- ducted by the operator and the physical condition and upkeep of the vessels which steamship services and vessels are the property of the Shipping Board. The readjustment in the work of the Merchant Fleet Corporation made neces- sary by this change should proceed in as orderly a manner as possible, “The Fleet Corporation will still have important work to do. In the case of at least one department and some divi- sions in other departments, the work will continue under the lump sum plan with very little change, In other cases the need in the future will be primarily for a few advisory experts. In other cases, the work of departments or divi- sions will practically be eliminated. “It is desired to set forth as nearly as may be anticipated the responsibilities of the organization and will be required in the various offices of the corporation when the new agreements are in full working order spon after the first of 1931. Between now and then the transi- tion should be well under way.” Mr. Jenkins asserted that the lump- sum_ agreement places on the operators of the ships all responsibilities for the plirchasing of supplies. Under the reorganization the corpora- tion’s domestic districts are to be re- duced to three, and under the curtail- ment of the work of the corporation field representatives are to be sharply reduced, the London office will be like- wise cut and the South American dis- trict will be abolished. AIR TERMINAL SITE DATA SUBMITTED Dr. Eckener Informed of Weather Conditions at Hybla Valley, Near Alexandria. Daily weather observations, taken at Hybla Valley tract below Alexandria, Va., at the request of Dr. Hugo Eckener as a part of his study in connection with the location of an American trans- atlantic dirigible terminal, are being sent to the American offices of the dir- igible company in New York, it was an- nounced today by the Washington Board of Trade, The Board of Trade, in co-operation with the Alexandria Chamber of Com- merce, has installed at the Hybla Val- ley site approximately $3,000 worth of meteorological instruments and a com- plete daily weather report will be sent to New York for the next four or five months. ‘The reports include data on clouds, fogs, wind direction and velocity, baro- metric pressure, temperature, humidity and rainfall. These records will be studied by Dr. Eckener and American associates, among them Comdr. Jerome Hunsacker, former Navy dirigible ex- pert, and Ward T. Van Orman, na- tionally known balloon racer, who is in direct charge of the local studies. Mr. Van Orman also has made a study of railroad connections with the site, including the cost of extending a spur_line to the flield, and will submit his findings to Comdr. Hunsacker and Dr. Eckener. ‘The Hybla Valley tract is one of three under considerat! for the American terminal of the proposed in- ternational dirigible line. It was in- spected last Spring by Dr. Eckener and Comdr. Hunsacker, following the last flight of the Graf Zeppelin to this country’ from Germany. At that time Dr. Eckener expressed himself as being highly pleased with the site, both be- cause of its natural advantages and be- cause of its proximity to the National Capital. His visit to the field was arranged by Lawrence J. Williams, chairman of the aviation committee of the Washington Board of Trade, and Robert J, Cottrell, secretary of the board, who have spon- sored the installation of the meteoro- The Foening Sfar WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1930. v POLICE COMMAND SHIFTS e Capt. John M. Walsh (left) took * ver the fifth precinct this morning, relievin Capt. William E. Sanford (right), 'go is retiring. ok . There were two other shifts today also, Capt. James Beckett, just promoted, going to the third precinct to supplant Capt. William G. Stott, transferred to No. 6, where Capt. Walsh just relinquished command. —Star Staff Photo. ALTER REGULATION ON STREET VENDING Two-Year Contest Ends With Both Sides Displeased With Law. A two-year contest between the ice cream and retall druggists’ sections of the Merchants & Manufacturers’ As- sociation and a concern which sells ice cream from trucks parked on the streets during the Summer has ended in a chenge in the police regulations relating to street vending. According to the new rules street venders must keep out of the congested section and off of boulevard highways and arterial highways and away from certain designated circles. But they may now siop for a half an hour at a time and may sell up to midnight in- stead of 10 p.m. as formerly. Under the old regulation they were limited to stops only long enough to make a sale after having been approached a customer. Many Formerly Arrested. ‘The old rules brought many arrests of truck operators, who complained of persecution. At the same time sections of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association complained that vendors made use of unfair competition. Street vendors, the merchants declared, were not faced with tax bills for property and could undersell corner drug stores in ice cream and took legitimate business away from them. The merchants’ groups employed former Assistant Cor- poration Counsel Ringgold Hart to argue their case for them and the ice cream street vending concern employed Martin J. McNamara. Both Sides Displeased. As a result the Commissioners finally adopted the new regulation. It was recommended by Commissioner Herbert B. Crosby. “Now that we have put that rule in,” he sald today, “we have no friends. ‘The merchants tell us we have ruined their business by letting the vendors sell until midnight, and the vendors say we have ruined their business by taking them off the circles and the boulevards and arterial highways. It's one of these ‘heads I win, talls you lose’ propositions, with the District Commissioners getting blamed for both sides.” He indicated, however, that the new regulation would remain. COLORED TRUCK DRIVER MUST FACE TWO CHARGES James C. Jones Alleged to Have As- saulted Foliceman Who Ar- rested Him. Charged with assaulting a policeman and disorderly conduct, James C. Jones, 26-year-old colored truck driver, of 1107 Eighteenth street, was to be erraigned in Police Court today with Pvt. L. E. Cline of the thigd precinct, appearing in the role of complainant. 3 The colored man was taken into cus- tody on the disorderly conduct charge near his home yesterday and was in- structed to drive to No. 3 station. He asked for and was given permission, however, to return the truck to his em- ployer's place of business in Center Market. When the machine reach:d Pennsyl- vania svenue and East Executive ave- nues, Jones pushed the officer from the seat, according to Cline, who said he fell to the ground after his shoulder had broken the windshield. ‘The truck driver made no attempt to escape and was taken to a nearby police box, where Cline summoned a patrol wagon and had the man lodged in & cell in the first precinct. The officer was given first ald treatment for minor cuts at the Public Health Service clinic, WARN HOUSEWIVES OF ‘RAME CHEATS | Better Business Bureau Cau- tions Against “Picture En- larging” Canvassers. Beware of being “framed!” The Better Business Bureau of Wash- ington today issued this warning to the public to be on its guard against an organization of canvassers that is comb- ing the city in & scheme that is not new to Washington, but which is net- ting more and more victims in various parts of the country. The method employed by this organi- zation, which describes itself as an asso- ciation interested in the advertisement of art, is in itself clever, but not un- familiar to those who have come in contact with it before, Louis Rothschild, director of the bureau, said today. ‘The canvasser will approach a house- wife and, after introducing himself or herself, will explain that if the person approached is fortunate enough to pick the “lucky” envelope of a group that the caller produces, she will be pre- sented with an enlarged photograph in color of any small picture she may have. It is made clear that the presentation is free. ‘The victim, of course, always gets a lucky envelope. The canvasser gets a plcture, in some cases quite treasured objects from the standpoint of senti- ment. Some days later the canvasser returns with the enlargement, colored as promised. It is mounted in an elab- orate frame, the cost of which far ex- ceeds its worth, the Better Business Bureau says. ‘The victim sometimes is greatly im- pressed with the picture and its frame, and pays without much argu- ment. In some cases it is explained that no request was made for a frame and the return of the original is asked. In some instances the racketeer| will resort to bluff, even threatening not to return the photograph if the frame is not purchased. Mention of the “frame” part of the transaction seldom is made at the first visit of the canvasser. A contract un- der which the “winner” of the “lucky” envelope agrees to accept the colored enlargement generally is produced. Un- less logmoe is asked by the victim, the cost the frame is not ventured by the caller on the second visit, but a contract to purchase same is exacted and the price pushed up later. If the photograph owner requests the price of the frame, she is some- times informed it is as much as $12.50 and $15, the Better Business Bureau says. LONG DOUBLE PARKING STAND COSTS MAN $5 Jacob Flegle, Philadelphia, Finan- cially Unable to Pay Fine, Pays Nevertheless. ‘The endurance record for parking double was probably broken last night when Jacob Flegle of Philadelphia turned on the parking light of his auto- mobile and allowed it to stand in the 800 block of Ninth street for two hours and a half. Judge Isaac R. Hitt was not In sym- pathy with the record smasher, so Flegle was assessed $5 in Police Court ay. Policemen S. F. Gravely and A. B. Clark of the first precinct saw Flegle climb from his car and enter a Ninth street office at 8 o'clock last night. One of the officers waited patiently until the man emerged at 10:30 o'clock and es- corted Flegle to the precinct. “Your honor, I am mnot financially able to pay a fine,” pleaded the man. “Well,” answered ,the magistrate, “that is exactly what you are going to have to pay.” WOMEN’S BESPATTERED DRESSES PAID FOR; D. C. WAIVES DEFENSE PAGE B-—1 CHANGE N ZONING ASKED 10 PERMIT DOCTORS BUILDING Professional Structure at Connecticut Avenue and " N Street Sought. PROPOSED APARTMENT CONSTRUCTIONS FOUGHT Commercial Use of Rhode Island' Avenue Property Is Hotly Contested. Plans for construction of an 11-story professional building, designed partioe ularly for physicians and dentists, to be erected on the site of the old British embassy at Connecticut avenue and N street, were placed before the Zoning Commission today in support of a petis tion for a change in zoning restrictions on a part of the site, Petition Without Opposition. No opposition was voiced to the pros 0sal to change the zoning of the northe east corner of Nineteenth and N streets {rom residential 90-foot C area to 110~ . | foot D area, which would make this portion of the site econform to that of the Connecticut avenue fronf The petition was presented by Thomas P. Bones, representing Harry Wardman, owner. Approval of the zoning petition and completion of plans for the new devel= opment would signalize the passing of gn:kold and famous Washington land= Debate developed this morning over & petition for the change of zoning of property bounded by Harvard and Eighteenth streets, Quarry and Adams Mill roads and Summit place from resi= dential A restricted and B restricted areas to residential B area, which wuold permit construction of an apartment house, Seek to Build Apartment. Hn;nge Ww. Peul'ee‘lhnrchltect. peared for owners of the proj titioning for the change. g]e p:gyng: orted by E. S. Kennedy, Washington uilder and owner of a mub{ llg- erty; L. P. McLachleh, representing owners of the Ontario Apartments, nearby, and Louls Justement, former president of the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Proponents of the petition argued that the property in question was no longer suitable for private residences, and con= tended that construction of an appro= priate ent house would in no wise be & detriment to the square. Residents Voice Protest. ap- Opposition to the plan came, hows ever, from a number of owners of prie vate dwellings in or near the square, who protested that erection of an aj ment house in the square would smoke nuisance, alley traffic, general traffic congestion and other objectionable features to the square and thereby damage the value of the erty as private homes. A M. Agelasi appearing as one of the protesting property owners, declared that more than 90 per cent of the owners of pri= vate homes in the section were opposed to the change. Another old case was brought before the commission in the petition for change of property on both sides of Rhode Island avenue from Iowa Circle to Fourteenth street, from its present residential classification to first com~ mercial. Business Use Asked. Vincent L. Toomy, representing petis tioning property owners, contended that traffic on Rhode Island avenue has 50 increased in recent years that the old houses in the section no longer are suitable as private residences. He con: tended that the only solution was to permit use of the block for business, for which he declared there was a de- mand. He was supported by A. J. Dris= City Acts Under New Law in Awarding Damages, " Following Breaking of Sewer Hose. Two young women who had their clothes bespattered when a hose owned by the District Sewer Department burst, were the first to benefit from the new w allowing the District to waive the defense of “‘governmental,function” in ginia B‘:im and“‘.lolenhm Robnxxn collected $50 each for the fillm Previous to the gun of law the accident ve been regarded as a casualty in nature of an “act down and injured by fire trucks on their way to & fire. Buits for dam: arising out of these and similar accidents were always met by the the de- fense that the Government was simply pursuing one of its functions when the u‘?\;‘lflem occurred, and that it was not . “Under u&u new law m“nmc is ven opportu whether it qu wuw% se it | E. Leguia, former the | ate and brother coll, president of the Midcity Citizens’ Association, and Bates Warren, repre= senting an owner of one of the prop= erties in question. Maj. Donald A. Davison, executive officer of the commission, reported the Zoning Advisory Council had gone on record as opposed to the change. ‘This afternoon the commission was to hear a hotly contested case, in which home owners on Sixteenth street were prepared to voice vigorous protest to & proposed change from residential A and B restricted classification to residential A area for the property bounded by Sixteenth street, Arkansas avenue ex= tended and Upshur street. The pros change would permit construction of an apartment house. DROUGHT DAMAGES PARKS IN CAPITAL Extra Seeding and Fertilizing Is Found Necessary to Restore Grass and Plant Life. ‘Washington's long drought has de= manded that extra seeding and fer= tilizer be placed on the grass and plant life in the city's park system, so that it may look its best for the Ge ‘Washington bicentennial celebration 1932, so this Fall tons of fertilizer ane seed are to be distributed. Officials of the Office of Public Build- ings and Public Parks sald today that this Fall 10 carloads of peat moss are being placed in the parks for fertiliz- ing. Experiments conducted by the horticultural division have convinced the experts that this fertilizer from Holland, Belgium and Germany retains the moisture well. Fifty tons of seed are to be placed on the parks to make the grass grow. This large amount is made necessary by the reseeding of the downtown tri- angular pieces of ground, classified as park land, which suffered from the long, dry Summer. Extensive seeding is needed in the newly developed section u} Anacostia Park, lying between the Eleventh Street Bridge and Pennsyl= vania Avenue Bridge southeast, and around the Titanic Memorial, soon to be unveiled on the banks of the Po= tomac River, at the foot of New Hamp« shire avenue. ‘To make the plants grow befter and the grass become greener, 65 tons of raw nfinm are to be sprinkled about by the park division. Ask Peruvian Senator’s Extradition LIMA, Peru, October 1 (#).—Accords ing to the government ne: Prensa the Second Criminal has asked for the extradition of Roberto 'nt of the Sen- the recently ousted That, Rokerto. haa Tetuge in Mexican legation.