Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1930, Page 17

¥ Commission Favors Square POST OFFICE PLANS | AND PUBLIC HEALTH SITE ARE APPROVED * Near Nineteenth and C Sts. o3 \m New Structure. LOCATION FOR NEW WAR EDIFICE IS CQNSIDERED Tarif Commission to Get More Room by Removal of Inter- national Joint Group. The square bounded by Nineteenth, Twentieth, B and C streets was ap- foday by the Public Bulldings as the site for the new United States Public Health Service ‘The mmmon. which met at the Senate Office Bullding for the first ‘The commission also gave some con- to & location for the pro- new War Department Building, postponed action until a later meet- to get further information from Treasury Department’s board of The site agreed upon for the Public Health structure is in the general vicin- ity of the Health Service's laborat commission The approved a .nfinned nn l!lnch of t.h: De- lfi 216 'nununm street lml&h'e.t, the nd mother, Mrs. Identification of the De- \mzdmmmumm mlnnh avenue, was eondfl-od. 8. Grant, 3d, executive l.l.ut. Col. U. e also had before it a re-|boy was tal for the oc- DAUGHTER SOUGHT ON MOTHER'S CHARGE @ypsy Says Girl, 17, Took Dia- mond Rings and Fled With Man, Stanley, 17 old, :m.u'%'n'uf&' , 11 years old, o H_street Mn‘ bhrmun-l“emmlq number of diamond rings from her ‘with & man. to arrest ys has inten- . mmn- the coupl address together "who claims g : a ’!!‘E % Engf 58 o PUBLIC LIBRARY STAFF MEETS AT ANNUAL DINNER Dr. Bowerman, Principal Speaker, Pays Tribute to Miss Herbert, His Assistant, Now Il and Chul’th Thllfl and A Harold was staged by the au- fi-’n 'lhh the u-lnunce of Miss Lucile DEPUTY SHERlFF IFF FINED - FOR ASSAULT IN ARREST | The abov: n for the new Post Office Depariment Building was approved today by the Public Buildings Gon.nlflon.. 'l'.im’:llkllno; will be erected on the south side of Pennsylvania avenue between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, and. the southeast corner will form a part of the circle planned at Twelfth and C streets. ‘I‘hg new Internal Revenue Building’s northwest corner also will be made part of the circle. This will be the west side of the building. NEW PROBE ASKED IN DEATH OF BOY, Parents. Believe William Schnabel, Declared Suicide, Died Accidentally. Acting upon_request of the parents of 14- m—old Willlam Schnabel, whose body was found November 11 the bath room of -his home at 4316 street, time. ‘The ’s father, V!chubel boy’ a' ‘Harry o vinced that Wfllhmwllnrlcflclnl lwlmlknm'mhthempevhlch mmm.l;mwmmunum Boy Was Enthusiastic Scout. ‘William, his father said, was an en- thusiastic !eout. and he believes the n'(hfim.h a slip knot and lost his footing le the rope was about his neck. oflm’ end was attached to a 'flno( or a sim- they de- vitt made his in- 's stepmother said home with what uch lower than his . A mag- World” was found in the Another circumstance which seemed it to suicide was the presence of scale standing about 18 inches above the floor. n ‘was supposed then | that Willlam had stood on the scale ‘while tylnc lhe xnw and later kicked | it from I‘-ehm Wll Testify. Schnabel expects to refute the that William was lagging studies by introducing as wit- I_u tomorrow two of his teachers at Macfarland Junior High School, Miss ‘Toner, English instructor, and Miss Emolyn Estey, history instructor. ‘The father said the article on “Death and the Next World” had been found | by his bro'.hfl‘ Wlm.un Schnabel. The | magazine. he said under a pile of books and the ynm.h apparently had not been MM it prior to his death. ‘The scales, Mr. Schnabel said, were in another corner of the room in a position which showed they had not been kicked Mr. away from the bath room door where | Willlam was hanging. He sald the youth was of a cheerful, | ‘was seen | active disposition and had never showed | the slightest wndem:y toward suicide. iee|BOY DIES OF STONING BY HIS PLAYMATES By the Assoclated Press. NORTHFORK. W. Va., November 17. —Bruised and battered by stones hurled by playmates, Norman Williams, 13, struggled home to his father, but died as the father bore him in his arms up the steps of a hospital. Pive other boys, ranging in age from 8 to 15 years, were held in Northfork Jall awaiting a hearing before a justice of the peace. All six, they sald, were returning home from a movie. Norman hned behind. As he caught up with is companions a stone was thrown and Soon it was a battle, It ended when Nor- man dropped to the lrnund and the other five fled to Lhe\r homes. B|SHOP T0 SUBSTITUTE Rt Rev. James E. Freeman to Fill Pulpit at St. Mark’s. Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop nl W.lmn‘um will conduct the preach- at St. Marks' Episcopal eets, each night this week at 8 o'ck He takes the plll:eoflu'ht Rev. H. P. Abbott, Bishop of Lexington, who was unable to come here because of iliness. There is a d.lfly‘ glelebrrlmm n(mEEG Anne Arundel County Officer Gets lu-pnd‘d Bentence in Prince Frederick Court. l\-fl"’lwmlolmmr FREDERICK, Md., Novem- ‘l'l-—J Bruce Lyons, 4‘9“ L Anne Arundel :A convict- ROAD GHOUP HEAD NAMED Herbert Rice to Be Chairman of Alaska Connection Commission. ‘The Interior Depcruncnt today ap- H. Rice of Detroit as Monoxide Gas Victim ‘WALTER C. DIVELY. BLAME GAS POISON FOR DIVELY DEATH Candymaker Collapses Soon After Fighting Oil Fire in Basement, ‘Walter Charles (“Duke”) Dively, 43- | year-old candymaker, collapsed and | died a few minutes after he and a fellow worker had fought early yesterday to extinguish a fire that broke out at, the ofl-fired water heater in the basement of the Martha Washington Candy Store, | 500 Twelfth street, where the men were employed. | Dr. A. MacGruder MacDonald, deputy coroner, who performed an autopsy on | Dively's bndy. declared he had found evidence of gas poisoning and e: d the belief that the man had died of the effects of carbon monoxide. An inquest will be held tomorrow morning. i Answer Fire Alarm. - | Dively, who also is proprietor of a | tire shop at 1211 Ninth street, met his | death at about 4 o'clock yesterday morning. A neighbor of the candy store summoned Richard Morris, an employe of Eli E. Sheetz, head of the concern, and Dively, both of whom oc- cupy quarters over the store, at 3:30 o'clock, giving the alarm that smoke | was twuflnl from the candy store base- ment. |, Dively and Morris seized fire ex- tinguishers and, followed by John Varner, a guest of Mr. Sheetz, hastened | to the basement, where they found the | oll-burner which heats the watet sup- ply for the Sheetz Building a mass of flames. The men succeeded in ap- parently extinguishing the fire and they returned to the store on the street floor, Wwhere they talked with Mr. Sheetz. In a moment, however, the fire broke out afresh and Morris and Dively re- turned to the basement after summon- ing the Fire Department. Collapses and Dies. Again the men returned to the store and Dively sat on a bench talking with Mr. Sheetz. He asked for a drink of water and as he drank it he fell to the floor. Morris took him to Emer- gency Hospital, where he was pro- nounced dead. Mr. Sheetz said today that Dively had been with him for 25 years. So far as he knew, the candy manufacturer de- clared, Dively had not suffered from heart disease. Dively was born in Ber- lin, Pa., July 31, 1887. . The dead man is survived by his wid- | ow, Mrs. Laura V. Dively, and a daugh- | ter, Miss Bernice Talent Dively. Funeral services will be conducted at the Sheetz residence at 1 o'clock tomor- row afternoon. Burial will be in Rock Creek Cemeury FILLING STATION ROBBED Manager Hands Over $20 to Avoid Predecessor's Fate. Robert Newby of Alexandria, Vi Standard Oil Co., filling station man- ager, at 4812 Condult road, said he wu robbed by two armed men last He told police the bandits accosted lm as he was about to close the station for the night and that they took $20 from a safe. An employe of the same station, Clin- lon Baker, was beaten with an iron a week ago when he dllfl no', move quick enough for robbers, and Newby, recalling the other man's experi- ence, orders, he said. Baker is now in Emergency Hospital | 6o, with a fractured lkllll INSPECTIDN PLANNED Women’s Reliet Corps to Hold An- nu-l Event Tomorrow. | b POLICE T0 ASSIST JOBLESS GENSUS Enroliment Possible at All Precinct Stations—6,000 Already on List. The census of the unemployed will be continued through the 14 police stations of the city, the Commissioners’ Com- census taken at public schools on Sat- uxdlymnotmpku the census will 000 persons en- of 'u'k according to mittee. . ‘The enrollment blanks are being for- warded to the varipus police stations enroll may do so The determination to make a census of em was reached by the com- mittee at & brief executive session in the board room of the District Build- ing this ) Those empl who are employing | qu less men than the same time last year will be asked to bring their pay roll up to the normal if ible, while those who no falling off in 3 be asked to make way for more mm if that can be done. Further on the taking of the be announced later. The District Commissioners in a 1 order today made Daniel E. , secretary to the Board of Com- jers, a liaison officer to represent them in the contracts between the com- mittee and , the District government. ‘The order said that Mr. Garges was chosen because he had had “many {ur: of experience and has a thorough nowledge of the workings of the vari- ous departments of the District of Columbia, which makes him the logical official to serve in this capacity.” ———— TAX COLLECTIONS DROP IN QUARTER District Revenue for Three Months Ending With October $354,813 Below 1929 Period. ‘Tax collections for three months ended October 31, 1930, fell off $354,- 813.05 in comparison with the collec- tions for the same period of 1929, according to figures released today by W. D. Clark, jr, acting collector of taxes. The decline was registered in spite of substantial increases in the levies for real and personal taxes. ‘The collections were summarized by Mr, Clark as follow: 1930 38,007.204.90 1,394,941.61 192 $8,794,768.29 1,817,816.12 1.379.772.52 so108.14 17,124.07 Intangible ‘DpeT- ‘sonalty Water fund.. Total collections ‘The items given above do’not include all items of collections, but include the most substantial, from which the bulk of the revenue is derived. The figures for water rents appear somewhat sur- g in view of the increase in water rates in effect during the 1930 months. Mr. Clark, however, had no comments to make on the list. HUGUENOTS TO MEET President of American Society to Be Honor Guest. wfllllm Jay Schieffelin, president Hu;uenot Society of America, wfll be the guest of the Wuhtn!u.‘n | Huguenot Soclety tomorrow evening at & meeting scheduled for' 5 o'clock. Samuel Herrick will preside at the mee Committee reports are expected to be heard, including a report from the com- mittee in ci e of Coligney Memorial, to'be erected ‘Washington in honor of ‘the first colonizer of this country. A special committee having in charge pluu Tor a federation of all the Hugue- not societies in the United States also will make a Npm THREE HELD IN THEFT Martinsburg Judge Holds Trio in $1,000 Bond Each for Action of Grand Jury. B 11 Hott, this city, confessed in a Justice's Court, yesterday to l.l.he theft of ;‘:bblt.- ) wel hl.nc approximatel 500 Dflnfi limestone -4 plant here 'nk. and were held un- x.ooo bond each for the action of l.h- grand jury. Unlble to furnish bond, they were sent to RISING TAX BURDEN IND. C. SHOWN BY FEDERAL ANALYSIS Per Caplta Increase Steady in Long or Short Period Comparisons. $49.53 IN 1929 AGAINST $48.24 IN PREVIOUS YEAR Twelve Years Ago Figure Was $18.18—Levy on Property Also Takes Spurt. “The steadily mounting “fi burden on Washington taxpayers is reflected in an analysis of financial statistics released today by the Department of Commerce. This analysis, which is carried up to June 30, 1929, shows per capita prop- erty taxation in the 1929 fiscal year of $40.53, as compared with $48.24 the year previous and $18.18 in 1918. Meanwhile, the levy on property had risen in importance from 42.8 per cent of the entire tax burden in 1918 to 55.5 Er cent in 1928 and to 56.1 per cent 1929. The city’s revenues from pub- lic service enterprises, such as its Water Department, had dropped from 4.4 per cent in 1918 to 3.2 per Teent i 1929, Large Increase Skown. The increase in the amount of prop- erty taxes actually céllected was 214.5 per cent from 1918 to 1929 and 3.7 per cent from 1928 to 1929. The revenue receipts during 1929, $42,377,027, were $3,101,183 in excess of all payments during that year. The receipts in- cluded, besides property taxes, $2,146, 440 1n'the way of taxes on banks, trust companies and public service corpora- tions. ‘The report on the city's debt, which usually plays a conspicuous part in the department’s financial analysis, shows that there is no net debt. The total of fixed funded debt outstanding June 30, 1929, was $103,950, but this was balanced by a similar amount to the credit of the sinking fund. Comparison With 1918. In 1918 the tax burden was lower, as shown above, in te of the fact that was & net funded ‘debt of $9.80 per capita. One unusual fact recorded was that the property tax collections in 1920 actually exceeded the levy. This does not necessarily mean that taxpayers g:m more unn they were called on for, t is probably due to payments on e paid tax bills of Efliflufl years, Ibe levy rel;!hnl wl‘e to the ux yur ln 3 e per uMfl and the lctunl eollecfiau MD 53 per capita. C. OF C. AIR MEETING LISTS MISS EARHART Head of Ludington Lines Also Will Speak at Session Tomor- row Night. Miss Amelia Earhart and C. Town- send Ludington, president of the Lud- ington Lines, will be speakers at the “air transport night” meeting of the Washington Chamber of Commerce to- morrow night at the Mayflower Hotel. Senator Hiram chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on a District airport, will attend the meeting. Lleut Walter Hinton is expected to urge the closing of Military road, run- ning between Hoover Field and the ‘Washington Airport, for expansion pur- poses. Mr. Hinton is chatrman of the organization’s Aviation Committee. President Rudolph Jose will preunt a directors’ report seeking modifications in the constitution ot the chamber. Vice President George A. G. Wood. chair- man, will report upon the city-wide "B'uy Now for Better Business” cam- paign. Thanksgi;ing Day Dinner Costs Set New Low Record 1930 Prices Under Those of Several Years Past, Say Market Experts. ‘Thanksgiving dinners will come lower this year than for several years. A bountiful repast, as far as can be Jud,zed from prices quoted in the mar- this week, generously serving llx ple. will cost approximate! ly $7.50, lbout $1.25 per person, A typical dinner, which could be served for this amount, would sist of: A 12-pound turkey Three bunches of radishes. Two pounds of mince meat - Lard, flour, sugar and seasonings. . If the houseks more _elaborate course, raisins, she could do so without entail- ing more than a dollar and a half more expense. With this amount, she could serve either a shrimp of an oyster cocktall, providing one pint of shrimp | M at 40 cents, or one pint of oysters at OF '500-POUND BEARING | toma Due perhaps to dry weather, vhu:h is favorable to turkeys, they are this year than they have bun for some time, AM ices this year are 10 cents a pound than a year ago. Retall poultry dealers in Center Mar- kec e at present quoting 40 to 45 cents a turkeys at | res hereas PAGE B—1° [ e e s v v <] CAPTAL ERTS garet Mildred Bishop, Jean Kardell and Mary Sorority pledging was in full swing at George Wi Here are the pledges of the Zeta Tau Alp) Monroe, Elizabeth Orth, Agnes Rydgren and Versie right: Bernice Freedley, Annette Koven and Elisabeth Petty. § Stirewalt, Dorothy Shaffer, Louise '(;emn‘w ‘:nd Virginia Story. Back row: a has. —=Star Staff Photo. WILL SPEED AGTION ON PENSION CLAIMS Distress of Retired U. S. Em- pleyes to Be Relieved by Adjudication Soon. In order to relleve distress among retired Government workers whose annuity checks are still held up for ad- Jjudication, it 'u announced today by E W. acting commissioner of pensions, that when increases under the new pension law have been cleared out of the way before the end of this month, the Pension Bureau will concentrate on clearing up the new claims, which have not yet been adjudicated. Many New Claims Filed. Retired Government workers have suffered, according to the National Federation of Federal Employes, because the Pension Buresiu is so far behind in its adjudication of claims, especially news ones. llll'? persons who reured from service as back as last July have not as yet received their first pension checks, Miss McNally said, ac- cording to complaints being regisiered at her office. Acting Commissioner Morgan ex- plained that the cause of delay was the unprecedented amount of claims and additional work plled upon the Pension Bureau by the new retirement law. More claims have been received by the Pension Bureau, he sald, since July than during all of last year. This has increased the load on the bureau until it has been unable to keep pace with the claims. Out of 17,768 claims that were on the rolls July 1, he said, 15,674 had been adjudicated, and up to and including last Saturday 12,189 had actually been pald. This leaves slightly more than 2,094 of this type of claims, most of which are for increases, and these are expected by Mr. Morgan to be cleared up before the end of this month. Bureau's Work Increased. The situation regarding new claims filed since July 1 is another chapter in the statistical story. have been filed since the 1st of July 3,640 new claims, of which 1,334 have been ad- Judicated. - Work is being done on these gradually, but Mr. Morgan promised | today that as soon as the old claims for increases were cleared up, by the end of this month, then the efforts of the bureau would be concentrated un the clearing up of new claims. He ex- pects the bureau to catch up on all of these by January 1. He thought this morning that very few, if any, of the old July claims were still Fend‘ni‘ as nuy were working on the oldest claims Provmona of the new pension law have greatly increased the load on the bureau, Mr. Morgan said, but the work would be turned out as rapidly as pos- sible under limitations of the size of force at his command. PLAN ARLINGTON BURIAL Brig. Gen. Fountain Served in 2 [Civil and Spanish-American Wars. Funeral services will be held at the Arlington National Cemetery Wednes- day morning for Brig. Gen. Samuel W. Fountain, retired veteran of the Civil ‘War, Indian campaigns and the Span- ish-American War, who died at his o | home, at Overbrook, near Philadelphia, Saturday night at the age of 83 years. He served as a private in the Civil War and received a certificate of conspicuous service and an appointment as a cadet at the Military Academy from President Lincoln. Graduating in June, 1870, and assigned to the Cavalry, he was retired at his own request in April, 1905, in the 'nde of brigadier general. His widow, Fountain, resides at | Island Catherine G. ovzrbrook. Phflldzlph!.l MAN ASKS ANNULMENT Says He Has Just Learned Wife' First Mate Got Absolute Divorce. Alvin C. Boxwell, jr., 419 Third street, has filed suit in the District Supreme Ofl:ll‘:t for the annulment of his mar- granted an absolute divorce against her and under the local law she may not Boxwell says he learned of the wife's dit when she was arrested STATE SOCIETIES STUDY RECREATION CENTERS IN U. §. Fisoal Set-up and Other De- tails Mastered as Aid - to Local Situation. NAMES FOR NEW PARK AREAS TO BE LISTED Population Movement Watched in Order to Plan Civic Develop- ments to Meet Demand. WILL SEEK UNITY === Central Committee to Pre- vent Overlapping of Meet- ings Will Be Discussed. Plans for the formation of a central committee to arrange meeting dates, choose meeting places and arrange for orchestras, to eliminate organizations bidding against each other for these services and thereby forcing up prices, will be discussed at a meeting of repre- sentatives of eight local State societies, the Society of Natives of the m of Columbia and the Southern Society, at the Willard Hotel, onuutnnluof December 6. With the announcement todny of the formation of the committee, Dr. W. J. Davis, president of the New York snt- Society, & leader in the movement. said efforts would be made to have all of the 36 State socleties in the District become affiliated with the central committee. Overlapping Now Exists. A member of the committee, Roscoe Fertich, representing the Indiana State Society, explained the motives for the December meeting. There has been, he said, eomldmble overlapping of meetings of these or-~ nnln lons in the past, with the result that on desirable dates two or more such organizations would be meeting, and hotel space, desirable orchestras and other services necessary for the meetings would be scarce and expensive. The December meeting, Mr. Fertich said, would attempt to form a central committee to act as a clearing house for all the associations and would | posed handle all details of the meeti all bodies u.uochwl needed economies. Committee Is Named. Dr. Davis at a recent meeting of the New York State Society named the following State !oclety memben to at- tend the December m Mr. Fertich, J. D< Alabama State Society, Rex Johnson of the Utah State Society, Sanford Bates of the Massachusetts State Society, Miss Frances C. Linfoot of the Virginia State Society, Representative C. J. Easterly of the Plnnsy ivania State Society, W. Freeman of the California State Society, Capt. Percy Foote of the North Carolina State Soclety, Miss Etta L. ‘Taggart of the Soclety of Natives of the District of Columbia, and J. F. Little of the Southern Society. THOMPSON TO SPEAK Former Trade Commission Head to Address Parent-Teachers. Huston Thompsen, former chairman of the Federal Trade to ting in the school auditorium of the MK iney High School Parent-Teacher Association Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. His talk will include & discussion of the in- fluences affecting child life. of with it lnén:.flect Capital. nue and the District line. M land-National Capital Park lnd ning Commission has Charles | at this projected entrance to the gf Further details the concerning 1 Center will be b c. Cklt"ll‘ r for the Muniei] up by Maj. Jol Commissioner of member of the g T, Dot S 8 mif e 5 transit lem that will ll’ilc thousands of employes of the government are concentra new center. Study States Avenue. Additional studies concerning Avenue of the States, that along the Dition would arect public this new nveAnxllxe, which President Hoover's address to the tentious ‘White House Conference on Child Wel- fare will be heard at the meeting over the radio. ASKS LIMITED DIVORCE Mrs. Dorothy B. Kyttle Charges Husband Deserted Her. Mrs. Dorothy B. Kyttle, 1317 Rhode August. Mrs. Kyttle alleges that her husband has not adequately supported her since 1937, during which time she has been com- pelled to rn to work. Attorney Richard L. Merrick dppears for the wife. VOLUNTARY BANKRUPTS Emanuel Kellner and Frank E. ‘Wood File Petitions. Emanuel Kellner, men:lnnt 07T H in volunt has filled suit for a|Traffic