Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1930, Page 30

* PARKS CONNECTION PLANS DISCLSSED Georgetown Citizens’ Asso- ciation Outlines Projects Ahead for Year. Outlining of.projects to be undertaken during the coming year and a lengthy discussion over the connection of the Rock Creek and Potomgc parkways were the principal order of business at the initial meeting of the Georgetown Citizens' Association, held last night in St. John's parish hall, Thirty-second and O streets. Widening of Prospect avenue from Wisconsin _avenue to Foxhall Heights, removal of the first pier of the Aque- duct Bridge on the north side of the river, improvement of the Key Bridge approach, indorsement of a site for the Georgetown Branch Library within three blocks of Wisconsin avenue and P streets, and the installationyof a traffic light at the new M Street Bridge were all introduced in the otder of new business to be undertaken by the Exe- cutive. Committee. mac Park connection developed, with members pointing out the improvement which would be brought about in th Georgetown section with this action. It was indicated that Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of public buildings and pub- lic parks, favors the pushing of this undertaking as soon as possible, and that the obstacle holding up such ac-| tion is the pending in court of legal proceedings Wwith regard to tracts of land. The association indorsed the “buy| now for better business” movement. President B. A, Bowles presided at the meeting. - S ACTOR SUCCUMBS William A, Bechtel Was First| Movie Recruit From Stage. | LOS ANGELES, October 28 ().—Wil- ftiam A. (Billy) Bechtel, 63, reputed to |have been the first motion picture | player recruitzd from the stage, died | yesterday after a brief_illness. Born in Germany, Bechtel came to | the United States with an English reper- | | foire company, and for a time was Lil- | lian Russell's leading man. The old | Edison company persuaded Bechtel to | dosert the footlights for the screen in 1907. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. | Jenny Bechtel, former actress. — . THE. EVENING MIDSITY CITZENS REELELT RSEOLL President to Serve 'Nine-; teenth Consecutive Term. Market Question Up. A. J. Driscoll was re-elected pres\dtnt! | of the Mid-City Citizens' Association for | the nineteenth consecutive term last night at a meeting of the u.soclatlon; at the Thomson School. | Re-elected with Mr. Driscoll were the entire roster of 1930 officers: Miss E. L. | venor, vice president; M. T. Pimes, | :'G. T. Bowman, financial sec- Tetary, and M. E. Salisbury, secretary. | Mr. Pimes is serving his elghteenth suc- | cessive term., ‘ Opposes Traffic Amendments. The assoclation opposed two proposed amendments to the traffic situation | here—the curtailment of traffic lights | STAR, WANHINGTON, ing space on New York avenue between Ninth street and Thirteenth street. In answer to statements alleging that Center Market merchants, after the de- molition of the market, will be unable to re-establish their businesses, John Blick, president of the Convention Hall Market, submitted a list of 100 Center Market dealers who have signed con- tracts to transfer to Con®ention Hall Market on or before January 1. Mr. Blick declared that all dealers leaving Center Market can be accommodated at either the Convention Hall Market or the Arcade Market. Mr. Frank Ruppert, local hardware merchant, and John A. Waters of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. gave brief talks. Walter M. Russell, chief Engineer of the Washington Gas Light Co., spoke, on the policy of the company toward service extension and reduction of gas rates. Carnival Invitation Received. An invitation was received by the as- sociation to attend a bazaar and carni- val November 20 at the Immaculate Conception Church. The following new members were ad- mitted to the association: Sidney L. Hechinger, Stanley Czyz, Felix A. Hea- ley, Harry Froehlick, Paul Himmelfarber, Henry Eubank, Father Hurney of the Immaculate Conception Church and Mrs. Mary Clements. The district council at Tottenham, ! From 1920 to 1930 enrollment at the | | University of Southern California in-| d from 4,260 to more than 18,000 and the abolition of the present rotary | England. is asking the British health left-hand turn. Opposition was also | ministry to held an inquiry on the ques- expressed to the proposed removal of |tion of permitting local councils to dis- trees, a plan designed to enlarge parl k- ' seminate birth control knowledge. D. C, TUESDAY, ATTORNEY IS CLEARED IN VOTE FRAUD CASE Woman and Five Other Macon Per- sons Face Trial Upon Grand Jury Indictments. By the Associated Press. MACON, Ga., October 28 —Jesse C. Harris, Macon attorney, was acquitted vesterday by a Superior Court jury on | all eight counts of a special grand jury | presentment charging him with the pro- | motion of an alleged scheme of illegal | V{.)t,ln( in a recent municipal bond elec- | tion. oc Solicitor Charles H. Garrett sald that | = cases pending against six other persons, | including & woman, with whom Harris was charged with having conspired in the promotion of his alleged scheme, would be assigned for trial soon. The election was on a proposed $1.- | 000,000 bond issue for general improve- | ments. It was defeated. Harris was campaign manager for the proponents. Railway Car Tops Peak. Alpine climbers have found & friend | in the Italian government, which has| placed a rallway coach on concrete posts high in the mountains. There the | tourists can take their ease. Its salient position permits to to be seen for many miles, The car, perched on its stone stilts, is reached by a long, steep stair- | way. TOBER 28, 1930. INSTALL ARCHBISHOP DUBUQUE, Iowa, October 28 (#).— The Most Rev. Prancis J. L. Beckman was installed yesterday as Archbishop of Dubuque, with impressive ceremony. Archbishop Joseph McNicholas of Cincinnati, in whose archdiocese Arch- bishop Beckman was ordained to the priesthood, bestowed the pallium and gave the sermon. Bishop P. A. Mc- Govern of Cheyenne, Wyo., celebrated the solemn pontifical high mass. Today Archbishop Beckman will of- ficiate at the consecration of Right Rev. Louis Kucera, who succeeds Archbishop Beckman as Bishop of Lincoln, Nebr. Just Think of It— ‘The Star delivered to your door every evening and Sunday morning at 13;c per day and Sc Sunday. Can you afford to be without this service at this cost? ‘Telephone National 5000 and de- livery will start at once. No pile sufferer can afford to m! ity to wheinda . 3 ‘ CHARGED WITH FRAUD |Man Who Says He's Brother of Screen Actresses Held in Chicago. 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