Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1930, Page 17

CRUSADERSASKU.S. T0 PADLOCK OWN RAIDED PROPERTY Liquor Violations in “Triangle | Area” Cited in Plea Against Discrimination. POLICE BLOTTER FACTS . USED IN OTHER CASES John F. Dryden Tells Rover in Letter Immediate Action Just and Proper. , Declaring the Government should not m:‘t: in (lwr of itself” in con- necuon wi operations un- ln'. John F. Dry- Mrs. D. D. Thompson Says Husband Enjoys Luxury While She Works. Lists Cruelties She Says She Suffered During Married Life. Donald D. Thompson, 2600 Thirty- | first street, said to®own the Dresden Apartments, was named as defendant in a suit for maintenance filed in the District Su e Court ’?My his, wife, Virginia C. Thompson, who says she has been obiiged to take em| nt in a downtown gown &l le her husband liyes in luxury. She says she is able to earn only $100 a monfih. while her expenses run up to $700 monthly, and she asks alimony of this amount to be decreed her by the_court. ‘Through Attorneys Lucien H. Mercier and Frank F. Nesbit, the wife tells the court that she was never reared to take part in the commercial world but since separation from her husband rganiza t public a letter addressed ited States. Attorney Rover in 'hh:h demand is made that a Govern- men;&mperty in the “ mne area” be - emerged repeal ume wctlnn On ‘another occasion, ted in 300 It was explained at ur m‘a of- fice that no comment could nnfllt.hela\‘-wr'llln'-hehlndlo{m dlatflzt -twrney l'!aver lefl hll nflne Olpt. fllmld Orcuu. l.llfint Ufllhfl States lttanq charge of padlock. ing activities. mm-u-ofl-u z b ifseast mtg:hnm n-nmmz,unege- that the liquor laws have been violated. You un“qundw ealy. tnmulh the influence of the d.u- trict attorney’s office have this case set ahead, immediately tried -nd have the United States marshal stick the usual Pudiock this Govern: ‘“,‘.&n vernment e | are certain that you will want to do this ut once heemug have repeatedly stated your intent of enforcing’ the mflblmn law and we are equally cer- the Government will be only too to co-operate with itself and allow prvpeny immediately to be pad- hck vernment surely hss no desire to dkcflmmnte in favor of itself, since it has padiocked the y of mny umoeent citizens and deprived property owners of needed income be- uun llquor violations have occurred on mpert.len without their knowledge. quite -mmh we benm locked in order to set an ulmph observance, because there is some hl.k that the new Department of Justice on this site or across is well that the De- ibition ‘Government zell for iaw violal itted. “We await your reply with interest.” i o 6D S DRILLERS NEAR ROCK Expected to Reach Bolid Stratum Near Monument at 127 Feet. February, 1929, because of his alleged réfusal to uunpm her properly :hg has take ‘been bhll.ed ‘March 2‘. 1927, ‘They married the euurt is told, md during their mar- ried life, the e charges, hus. her up bodily and threw her across the hall, of their home into & bed room, and when she ted the she he piaced a lighted cigaret on mhuxo(herlund Because of the 2 VICE SQUAD JALS 312 DURING MONTH SSAULT OF 3 POLICE GETS 105 DAYS IN JAIL elvin Quade Sentenced by Judn McMahon as Result of Re- sisting Arrest. Melvin Quade, 25 years ccwle.mordl:ww ony in yesterday, and was sentenced to serve 105 Mylinlfllwluflfl John P. M parently in :dmmlandw condition. Quade, they resisted arrest, 's coat and shirt. = ‘Then the man the policeman’s night stick and struck Policeman Poquette over the head. Poquette later received hospital treatment. Quade was finally subdued by the police with the help of their sticks and _patrol wagon summoned. Polige- man J. J. Hunter attempted to it Quade into the precinct and was kicked h'l the stomach. - “Three charges of assault and one of intoxication were placed against the man in court yumdly, TWO SOLDIER_S INJURED WHEN CAR OVERTURNS | 5aray James Boyd and William Davis Treated for Skull Fractures at Emergency Hospital. James d, 22 old, and Wil- liam Dlvl‘:’fllo Z;u'fi')ldifll attached to Walter Reed Hospital, last admitted to Emergency Hospi fractured skulls, recel where it was reported their co: was serious. WOMAN IS SOUGHT Cripple Reported ll.nin‘ From Residence Since Friday. :‘Qneltion of Rezoning Certain Sec- old, 629 L |Uons Gamma I Park November 21 WIFE SUES APARTMENT OWNER ASKING $700 A MONTH ALIMONY “MRS. DONALD D. THOMPSON. —Underwood Photo. she husband’s failure to pay his bills, that declares, she .was so “humiliated in | she scarcely dared to go on the streets or into the shops.” ‘The husband came home one morn- ing at 7 o'clock, the wife says, with the coat of his dress suit covered with “fox fur such as is worn by women, and women’s face powder.” She also says her husband is giving over to nmbnng habits and on one occasion, specified, he 16st $15,000 in the :p;lm ot a few days at a gambling able ‘The husband owns three automobiles, a speed boat and an airplane, the wife 1. OF C. WILL ELECT OFFICERS TUESDAY 424 New Members Attest to Success of Drive. Teams Lauded. ‘With the acquisition of 424 new mem- bers attesting to the success of its membership _drive, the Washin, Chamber of Commerce will ‘The annual mon of the committee work, will be summarizing presented by President Charles W. Darr. Mr. Darr will also outline the five-year Hinton, George E. xenelpp Miss M. Pelrl McCall, Willlam C. Miller, Maur- ice Otterback, Mrs. Caroline B. Stephen, Alfred L. Stern, Col. William O. T‘ufll wcholll L. Whelan and George A. Ten of the 16 candidates wil be Pl voting to be by ballot, the polls being open from 7:30 to 9:30 o’clock on Tues- day evening. Nominations for the offices of president, first vice president and second vice president will be made from the floor during the meeting. R LINCOLN PARK GROUP TO RESUME MEETINGS tions in Southeast to Come Up. ‘The Lincoln Park Citizens’ Associa- tion will hold its first meeting of the Pall season at Bryan School, on B street southeast, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, at 8 o’clock tomor- Tow flhk Officers will be elected and the ques- taken up for consideration will include that of rezoning certain sec- tions of southeast Washington. ‘Three other citizens’ associations also are scheduled to meet tomorrow night— Cental. at Juvenile Court; West End, at Western Church, and Kalorama, at St. Margaret’s Church. TWO WOMEN SOUGHT IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH Qccupants of Machine Said to Have Flown After Hitting Parked Machine. Police: of ‘No. 5 precinct last night were searching for two unidentified woman ts of automobile occupan who made 8 speedy get-away on foot after the car in which they were riding had crashed into a parked automobile on B lmm wu'.geuc‘ ,::"zh:mfih' knocking the mac] on side- walk and b-dly :&A‘tfll it. The parked mu: is the property of Dillenger, an Ohio tourist, lemn( -t 323 B street, southeast, The two women, immediately follow- ing the accident, climbed from their automobile and ran, according to wit- along the lett, side of m street when they struck the rrk S. A. Ellis, 321 B on‘et southeast, were listed by polite as witn declared t.h:y’ would be able to identify the two women. S iy CONVENTION PLANNED Phi Beta Gamma Legal Fraternity to Meet November 21 and 22. national convention of Phi Beta will be held Georgetown nlverlillel and the nesses, police say. They were driving | PROPOSAL T0 MARK CITY ENTRANGES BY COLUNINS FAVORED Garden Clubs of America As- sqred Co-operation by Planning Group. STREET CIRCLE STUDY BY GRANT AUTHORIZED Maryland Commission Favors Oval at Wisconsin Ave. and District Line—Other Agencies Disagree. The National Capital Park and Planning Commission, is favorably dis. posed toward the proposal of the Gi den Clubs of America to mark the en- trances to the District of Columbia by columns, surmounted by eagles. On behalf of the clubs, Mrs. Frank B. Noyes submitted the commission yesterday, - which consid- ered the question and then decided that 1‘: k‘;:uld co-operate in such an under- Columns Would Eliminate Signboards. ‘The clubd hope to have this program m.urmu:‘m time for tmpoeurn Washington Bicentennial observance in 1932. The columns would be utilized instead of signboards and the com- mission asserted that this proposal fits in with its own ideas, as it has long been desirous of improving the en- trances to the city, as befits the Na- tional Capital. Details of the project are to be worked out and Charles W Eliot, 2d, the commission’s director of plmnin‘. said yesterday that he wul llld to lend further aid toward its accomplishment. The commission, which concluded its | in two-day October meeting yesterday aft- ernoon, authorized its executive of- ficer and vice chairman, Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, to bring in the neces- n:ly expert consultants to aid in a spe- mdy into the quuflon of the ef- of circles ’s conf ons, where more four streets meet. For a long time, Mr. Eliot movement of urflc at such points ac- gton | complished through use of a dn:le, has Ch'olc-roml-’l‘nnembleu. Discussion over whether there should be a circle or an oval at Wisconsin the | Avenue and the District line has evoked such interest, the commission thinks, that it is now time to secure expert advice on the poulbmty of usln‘ meth- ods other than the . ‘The Maryland National tal Park and Planning s pre(ennu for an oval at Wisconsin ave | avenue and the line, while Co-ordinating , oonsisting of interested m. ‘District agencies, previously record as favoring a circle whole question has both groups are re- by H. C. wmuhuru -ordinator and chief engin The director of planning explained nm this follows the major ‘tgomu(h!lre plan, previously adopted by the com- Zoning Map Review Indorsed. A review of zoning may nd - cles, nted by 1nlt:r ot, g -umflf. by the in Washing- l(r Eliot said that foremost ame the problems to be ndet this head are: The policy with reference to isolated ;l’!‘l in the city, termed “spot zon- Ing. Industrial areas that are being taken over by other interests, such as the ex- unalnn of Bolling Field for flying pur- P he possible exhaustion of the -p.n- ment house area in the Northwest, in the undevelo) areas. Planning Commission is anxious to know what the controlling pollcy of the body should be in the fuf ‘While it is known that t.he cmnmu- auf d the expentmure of large sums of money yesterday, in the furtherance of the Cappér-Cramton park-purchase act, no information on this was made public. The commission did announce its ap al of & unit of the Rock Creek Parkway, north of the District line, a development that is tak- ing shape under the guidance of the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission. ity CONTRACT IS ALLOWED FOR QUANTICO BARRACKS Extensive Improvements Are Plan- ned to Make Marine Corps Base Model for Country. Four barracks, extensive distributing systems, grading and paving and the re- moval of a number of old temporary buildings at the Quantico, Va., Marine Barracks is provided for in a $1,243,074 contract the Navy rtment let yes- terday to Ralph Sollitt & Sons Con- struction Co. of Chicago. This repre- sents another step forward in the pro- gram to make Qulntlco the model g{ rine Corps base. Four hundred men will be housed in each of the barracks, which will har- monize with the three barracks recently completed. Altogether, nearly 3,000 men will be houséd comfortably at Quantico when the renovation program is finished. Each barracks will have its own mess hall and kitchen and the floors of the structure will be of quarry tile or col- ored cement mortar. ——— MAN AND SON ARRESTED IN PAWNSHOP VIOLATION Garnet and Isadore Rosenblum Obtain Release on Collateral of $100 Each. Two men arrested by police of the Traffic Buresu on charges of violating and Wi alumni here are or the en- tertainment o( the d! The _committee :fim includes John uPl\Il Jones, ehllxmlnA Ohvln Herrell, secretary; uleph E treasurer; M. Hall, District pawnshop law yesterday d later released after posting $100 collateral, each. ‘The men, mrnet I!uenblum. 55 years old, and years old, both l'.lldln‘ in '.h: 700 block '.l‘:: lghth street, were arrested explained, the rotary | vision, o1 MILLION SPENT ON CONSTRUCTION PROIECTS IN 1929 Amount Includes $15,000,000 Government Used on lIts Buildings. LARGE CONTRACTORS EXPEND $37,600,000 Census Bureau Study Shows D, C. Firms Did $8,000,000 Out- side Business. The approximate total value of con- struction work, both private and pub- lic, in the District of Columbia last year was $57,000,000, the Census Bureau announced last night in a preliminary tabulation of data relating to construc- tion, Of this amount about $15,000,000 represented work on Federal Govefn- ment buildings, it was pointed out. the grand total, $37,600,000 was ex- pended - on -construction work by 104 District of Columbia firms classed as operative builders and general build- ing and highway contractors. Estimated value of construction work done directly for owners by 123 sub- contractors whose gross business for the year amounted to $25,000 or over, was $2.500,000. A similar total of $2,500,000 was reported by 389 firms with a gross annual busin than $25,000. o . $15,000,000 Federal Program. Of the $15,000,000 in Federal con- struction about $6,100,000 was included the reports of the firms cited. In addition to District government vnrk included in the foregoing reports the :t'";n{“o% pnl construetion work vuned reported construction :‘o:km in tha Distriet mll.ng in value The minimum volume of business for dustry was $25,000. While this pro- , limited the number olflnmbyllhomntumwmw sger‘n volume of construction wnrk ne by reporting firms may r:hpe resent as much as 90 per cent of possible total for all firms. Thus, of the 170 operative builders and general bul and highway contractors from whom returns have been the 104 firms which did more than l325~ 000 business & total of $42,- 842,000 as the value o{ construction work, of which $37,648,000 was the value of work done within the District and $5,193,000 outside. 446 Subeontracting Firms. The total for the remaining firms whose business fell below the minimum would amount to .only about mo.ooo, greater number fell below the $25,000 umn than in the case of general con- - | tracting firms, the case of subcontract- ing firms is similar and, of the 446 such firms from which reports were recsived, 123 reported a total volume of business amounting to $18,000,000, while the re- maining 323, which are below the $25,- 000 minimum, show only $2,300,000, if their year's business averages $7,000 tach as indicated by reports received. Work during 1929 on Federal Govern- ment construction projects in the Dis- trict of Columbia amounted to about $15,000,000, of which a little more than $6,000,000 is included in reports of local firms contained in the detailed tabula- tion. The bulk of the construction ‘work under the eering Department of the Dla!flct of Columbia is also covered in of these local considered under | firms. The total value of subcontract work performed by local subcontracting firms within the District during 1920 was $15,076,000, distributed among the vari- ous trade groups as follows: Plumbing . Masonry and stone work 186.! Concreting and concrete form work 14.3 Marble and tiling................ 10. Electrical and elevator construction 9.3 Painting, decorating and pluurlnx 86 Heating and piping. . 6.8 Sheet metal, roofing and orna- mental irop work. Excavating ... In addition to this vo]ume of con- struction work which was done within the District, local operative builders and general building and highway con- tractors, from whom complete reports were recelved, dlso did more than $5,000,000 worth of construction work in other lofllififl. 'hlle subcontracting it $3,000,000 worth COMMERCE DEPARTMENT TO INCREASE AIRPORTS Completion of 90 New Fields Ex- pected This Year, With 324 Already in Operation. ‘Though it now is said to rank as the largest operator of airports in the world, with 324 intermediate landing fields already in operation in all parts of the United States, the aeronautics branch of the ent of Com- merce now has 46 additional airports under construction and will complete approximately 90 such fields during the present fiscal year, it was announced ya!teTGl ‘The nirpom to be built during the present year will involve a total cost to the Government of $200,000, co- rating municipalities contributing an ope! additional $80,000. Much of the cost | sa will be shouldered by private citizens through donation of hnd or leasing of land at low rental . Eighty of the 324 fleld.l in opera- tion were completed during the past fiscal year as a part of the depart- ment’s program of promoting the safety of air transport operations over the country’s airways. ] PRIDSIIE LA S MUSIC CLUB ELECTS Mrs. James Weir Kirk Chosen Pres- ident of Cumberiand Body. Special Dispatch to The Star. Md., October 15— Mrs, James Weir Kirk was elected ident of the Music and Arts Study Clllh ! et I 3.6 | when in reality I am rather dul 2| own opinion on this subject, WILFRED | STEVENS. DENIES BEING MENTALPRODIGY THOUGH HE KNOWS 30 TONGUES 2 Stevens. State Departmcnt Translator. £ Protests ¢ t] Erroneous Publicity; Invents New Form of Speech. BY REX COLLIER. Although his associates declare he is called upon to translate some 30 lan- guages in his role of principal trans- lator of the State Department, Wilfred Stevens insists he does not “know an absurd array of tongues” and he doubts in the space of a lifetime.” Mr. Stevens is of a very modest dis- position, and when newspapers all over the land recently disclosed to the world | _his remarkable achievements as a lin- guist he rose in . ‘The Star re- celved a letter from him yesterday re- questing a eorrection of n:e “‘erroneous Impra-lan" -ereated by the publicity, 50 & sought Mr. Stevens out for enlightenment. ,. & man of m-xuxt:g ee, was located on the fiff oor of the State, War lnd Navy Build- ing, seated at a typewriter beside a desk filled with documents in strange Jettering and dictionaries in many languages. Mr. Stevens is in his fAfty- sixth year. ‘The reporter had with him Mr, Stevens’ letter, which said the list of 'languages which he was credited with knowing “must have been copied from a cyclopedia, unless it was furnished by some of my overzealous friends.” Denies Being Mental Prodigy. “It is true,” the letter ‘went nn “that as a tranlator in the State I found it necessary to study many lan- 'l‘;mdw in order to perform the work as- E each has naturally adhered to my cere- bral tissue. I know all these languages is ill and I have never made any such cl much less did I authorize any repm-te to proclaim such nonsense abroad and thus represent me as a mental prodigy, 1l in mind. “If I may be permitted to express my I will say that no person can perfection in more than one language within the span of a lifetime, or any degree of thoroughness In more than . ubtless hundreds of men right in this country who have studied a greater or less number of the wonderful forms of speech that char- acterize the races of mankind, and that is a1l T have done or care to pass as having done. “Let none of my fellow students in this noble domain imagine for a min- ute that I am a monopolist. Many of them are, rerhlpl, far better linguists than myself, though they are lucky enough to avoid notoriety. I expect to Temain a learner, even in my mother lnr'glu:. to the end of my days.” reporter displayed the letter to its author and sald: “Mr. Stevens, do you mean to say you don’t know 30 lan- guages, after all?” “Of course I don’t,” the translator said emphatically. “I don't even know English as well as I would lke to. w:.?m did the newspapers get all that rot?” Says Stevens Is Too Modest. A colleague of Mr. Stevens volun- teered an answer. “I gave that information to the press,” the ‘associate announced. “And I'l stand back of it. Mr. Stevens is just too modest about his accomplishments. ‘Why, just before you came into the room he was chatting with a visitor in Arabic. He knows Chinese and Japa- nese and French and Polish and sev- eral other hnflxun better than some scholars to tongues are native. onsense, don’t you believe what he " Stevens broken in impatiently. “Why,” - continued - the co-translator with renewed vigor, “Mr. Stevens has written & Chinese dictionary. I know personally he has transiated official documents in more than 30 languages that have come to this office.” Studying Languages His Hobby. “Wait a minute,” Stevens interrupted. 1|1s published where it I'm all out, of practice now. I like to study languages. They are a hobby with me. I would have to do a Iot of brushing up to be able to trans- late some of them wdny. It's easy to get out of ‘The '.Be Maryland Federation of Music | as 30 of Clubs at a meet held at the home of Mrs. E P. Otbe'r rs chosen were Miss Mil- 'nm{ vice president; Mrs. Thomn Pickering, recording ucre:.:ry. 3 secretary; chairman; Mrs. to me, and some smattering of | But to infer from this that [ gpow could not resist discussing his favorite subject, it was reasoned. = are about all there I suppose?” Mr. “Well, I should say mot,” he replied quickly. “Let’s sce, I believe uuu are about 3,300 languages in all. So you see that 30 is not even s in the bucket. Nothing w give any w about at all, there hundred llnmm tpokm 1 !Mu. -luu-l" smooth flow of French, with lwmm‘l ate intonations and lueurel PFrench language. “And that isn’t all.” vouchsafed Mr. Stevens’ friend. “He has invented a universal language of his own that is as euphonious as French and much shorter than English.” “I don’t want to tell about that,” Mr. Stevens explained. “Maybe Il hs: time later to work on it. it | aside for the present, because I am too ith other > wit .’ "x:reig like Esperanto?” the reporter “Nq, it's entirely different. Here, I'll you.” He took an envelope and traced some hlefoglyphlea across it for about an inch and a half. like a cross between lhorthl.nd, Eng- lish and ancient “You will note expressed in 13 characters. Now ls what it means in English.” He wrote out a sentence of a dozen words in English. He counted letters and announced that half a hundred letters were to ex- press the same idea in lish. Invents Universal Language. “About a third as many characters in the first sentence as in the second,” he said. “The universal language will shorten sentences to a third, fourth or sixth of their length in mflhh ‘That will mean less pages in the newspapers. What to_learn.” by the aj nce of & young lady from the Public Library 'hn wished ald in translating a note in Turkish. ‘While Stevens was thus engaged the reporter, sought from the translator’s associate additional information about the interesting subject of his inter- view. He learned that Stevens has never attended a university and is vir- tually self-educated. A native of Min- nesota, he learned his first language, German, when only 10 years of . In his home town were & large number of foreigners, whose jargon readily plcked up. A natural curiosity led him the study of various tongues, nnd finally made the hobby his chief vocation. After serving for 20 years as suu Department translator he ref | 1934 to devote his time to furiher ltudy | On the retirement a few weeks ago of John S. Martin, jr, Stevens was pre- vailed upon to retum to the department as principal transiaf Transiates stnu- Documents. Despite his recognized attainments and his invaluable aid to the Govern- ment in deciphering strange documents recelved from every corner of the globe, it is & poor commentary on the Govern- ment’s generosity m poim. out that his annual der $3, Turkish note, Stevens turned back to his interviewer, who had reached for hu hat, and said: “All right, sir, ynu'll see that my letter folks who read the other tommyrot will read it, won't you?"” ‘Even though i really can translate 30, ll;n:uxagu?_t" = reported asked. “Bu lon’t know them,” he insisted, “and that's that.” . GANS HEADS COMMITTEE Is Appointed Mn of Recep- tion Group for Industrial Show. x«rt.hcnxm:nnulinmumd uon.mopent.n torium Mt z this sentence is e and | 92 is better, it is easy The interview was interrupted briefly | States ILLINOIAN NAMED . 10 CHECK VALUE OF TRAGTION LINES Ira L. Reynolds to Do Cost; Appraisal and Inventory Work. UTILITIES COMMISSION SURVEY PROGRESSES Inspections of Street Car Prop- erties to Require More Than Year. The Public Utilities Commission yes- terday announced the appointment of Ira L. Reynolds, formerly on the engi- neering staff of the Illinois Public Util- ities Commission, as an appraisal en- gineer to do cost, appraisal and inven- tory work on the valuation of the two street ear companies recently ordered by the commission. Mr. Reynolds has been assigned a desk in the office of People’s Counsel Richmond B. Keech, and has begun the preliminary work of collecting data “Isn’t that marvelous? I have writ- | al tennpoemlboutlhcbecutyot'.he it The writing looked | mission’s he|92 TUBERCULAR DEATHS IN 100,000 PERSONS HERE r. Anderson Attributes High Rate to Number of Fatalities in Colored Population. still has a death rate of high death khcuel.nvln i her tuberculosis death rate of ORCHARDIST DEAD John P. Kidwell, Pioneer Fruit Grower, Expires at Paw Paw. Special Dispatch to The Stér. WATCHMAN INJURED William ' 0. Wade Sustains Skull Fracture in Fall Off Fence. William _Oscar Wade, 47-year-old watchman for the Terminal Co, of 1444 Newton street, was have routvld skull fracture