Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1930, Page 17

s - COMMITTEE TOURGE LOANS FOR OWNERS 0 REPAIR HOMES Citizens’ Associations Group Will Make Appeal to Banks of District. SEE PROGRAM AS AID TO DISTRICT JOBLESS Women Named to Stimulate House Cleaning and Redecorating to Provide Employment. The special committee of the Federa- tion of Citizens' Associations, appoint- ed w0 aid in alleviating the unemploy- ment situation, made preparations to- day to appeal to the banks of the Dis- trict to make small loans availabie for persons who want to make repairs and alterations on their homes but lack the necessary funds. Since its creation Saturday night the committee has learned thy: there are & number of home owners ¥ Washing- ton whi would be willing to undertake substantial répairs on their prop-rty at| this . they had the money to pay | for the work; and have indicated that '.hz{ would borrow the money if they °°a‘ mfm"k ‘Roberts, chairman of the he had discovered that small owners have Mculll;yhlr‘l bt:rm:- ‘money on property which is already Infumberod, ahd he helleves the banks of Washington would be doing & real blic service at this time in aiding m unet yment situation by loaning money to these people for house, repairs and zl .pe‘lgle banks also could t, ions. he g\n‘efl ‘out, by making pub- lie the pi of procuring a loan for such purpose. % Committee Meets Tonight, The commijtee was appointed to co- ra e with the various neighborhood fim‘ assoclation ‘committee, " si in arging the ‘home-owning. members to have needed repairs and other work done at this time to give work to the jobless. It will hold its initial meeting tonight in the District Building to make plans for its vities. ¢ “:‘n th> meantime, Roberts appointed four subcommittees to undertak spe- cific work. The first composed of Edwin 8. Hege, C. E. La V'gne, Fred A. Emery J P. Armstrong, will 5 :>gements, be instrusted to ea’l etives of the Distric | ore’ Associaiion in the fntecest of | small loans mcde to om~ wrers for r~nsi"s snd improverents th mronete whom are wom® employment by extensive house clesning | and home redecoraion - activities. on the part of members of the citizem" as- sociations. i ‘The committee is havirg 15,000 tionnaires intcd to be clrwmd | S as S “¢oms, on whicl - €u o list the type of home repairs necd- ed and whether they are willing to have such wrk undertaken at this time. The subcommittee to take charge of theése - of the distribu MASONS COMPLIMENT AND MASTER IPOLICE HUNT TRIO ! i Wéshington News Unusual Charity Sale Is Be- ing Conducted by Mrs. Blum- enberg to Aid Animals. Winter Emergency Measure Necessary Owing to Lack of Farm Fodder Crops. BY GRETCHEN SMITH. ‘The doors ot 1741 Connecticut avenue op:ned yesterdsy afternoon and invited the public to one of the most unusual beln!flt sales ever conducted in the Dis- trict Donating hundreds of dollars’ worth | of costly household furnishings, import- ed chinaware, cut and knick- | knacks, Mrs. M. R. Blumenberg, for 16 years an active ofiicial of the Animal Rescue League, assisted by Mrs. John H. B. Gilliat, is personally conducting the sale and will use the proceeds to lessen the suffering of working horses of the District. Crop Failure Serious. “Before the more. important suffering | of human beings and the ruination of crops and farm lands brought about by the drought,” said Mrs. Blumenberg, “the country little realizes the great sufiering of the horses, which will be | increased this Winter. Hundreds of| horses, thie sole means of livelihood of as many families, will undergo un-| told suffering through litergl starvation. | The drought which destroyed the crops | also destroyed horse fodder. Hundreds | of poor animals already overtaxing their | undernourished, frequently maimed | bodies will go without food this Win- | ter. They will eke out many a day| of misery before death puts an end to their sufferings, unless some means | is taken to provide food for them. Their owners, poor men themselves, will be unable to pay the high prices demanded for fodder.” “After all, you know, by helping to feed these animals, human beings also will be helped. If it were not for their horses, they cculd not find work whereby to earn their living.” Horses Sent to City. Mrs. Blumenberg, who recently re: | signed from the Animal Rescue League, points out that the problem of under: IN MILK SABOTAGE Have Only Meager Descrip- | tion of Men Who Poured Chemical in Wagons. With only a meager description of | .hree suspects to guide them, police of | No. 14 precinct and the m-aq\mm" narcotie squad today continued thelr | efforts to locaie the men who poured | disinfec.ant over milk in two delivery wagons at Cothedral and Connecticut avenues early Sunday morning. The wagons were operated by two large deiries here, neiiher of which was inclined to regard the matier seriously. Boih dairy officials and police believe the act was perpetrated by some one with a personal grudge against the drivers, G. D. Weimer of the Chestnut Farms Dairy and John C. Croson of Thompson's Dairy. Seen by Tenant. The drivers found their milk had been ruined when they returned from mak- ing deliveries in an apartment build- ing shortly before daylight. An un- identified tenant of the building told them he had seen three men loitering | near the wagons. He said one of their ®hree Lodges Have Record Turn- outs to Greet Leader Upon His Visitation Tour. York avenue. Albert Pike meets regularly in Scottish Rite Third and E erz. Lodge and he was con- by Grand Ma:ter West on lly large attendance and on record for the past year. Follow- this visitation an official call of paid to Benjamin B. French Lodge, Benjamin A. Harlan, and Dawson Lodge, No. 16, 'wis D. Parmelee, master. The at- tendance at this visitation Jodge room No. 1, which is the Jargest Masonic Temple. Following the visitation vocal solos and duets were contributed by Pred East and Wil , there were other entertain- ment features and refreshments were served. Grand Master West and his officers this evening will. vigit. Brookland, where a grand visitation will be made to , No. 28, and East 4. meeting jointly in nic Temple. i s i PIGEON HOUSE AMONG LOOT TAKEN BY THIEVES Kitchen Range, Jewels, Clothing, Golf Clubs Also Reported as Stolen Here. Atticles of jewelry, & pigeca house, kitchen rufie, window slmdes, wearing -apparel, golf clubs and cash w:re .| a"pastorate in Nashville, Tenn. He will number climbed into both vehicles, bearing a gallon container. Later he rejoined his companions and all three drove off in a light sedan. Croson and Weimer told police they noticed the sedan with the three men in it parked nearby when they left their wagons. No one could furnish the tag number, however, nor any but & general description of the men. Union Suspects Plot. Both drivers told police they had been | roached by representatives of a milk | dmen' union, ‘vho had sought unsuc cessfully to enrol, them. Nefther com- pany recognizes s union among its drivers. A representative of the union in ques- tion said yesterday \hat the depreda- tion apparently had ieen committed by persons who wished ¢ discredit the or- ganization by casting suspicion on its | mem ECCLESIASTIC GROUP ENDS PASTORATE {Dr. J. N. Pierce Formally Released | to Accept Call to Post in Nashville. ecclesiastical councll, arranged formally to sever the pastorate of Rev. Noble Jason Plerce with the Pirst Congrega- | tional Church at its ninety-sixth semi- | annual meeting this afternoon at the | Capitol Heights Congregational Church. The me-ting will close tonight. Dr. Plerce recently accepted a call to | assum» h's new port November 30 The elecfion of moderstor and officers | was to be held late this afternoon. | Ministerial and lay delegates to the meeting of the National Council of Con- grégational Churches at Seattle in June | ‘were a'so to be elected. Speskers listed during the afternoon | were Miss Mary Preston of New York, Rev. Clifford Wesley Ccllins of Balti- more and Dr. Charles W, Carroll of Philadelphie. ‘The evening session will be addressed | by William Knowles Cooper, Dr. D. But- ler Pratt and Rev. Robert W. Brooks. ‘The assoclation comprises Congre ticnal churches in Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and the District. PLEADS FOR LOCAL MEN Havenner Calls on District Heads on Behalf of D. C. Contractors. esident of tions, ners | erythi WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1930. INQUEST IS OPENED' WOMAN OFFERS HOME TREASURES TO HELP FEED STAR VING HORSES nourished and suffering horses in_the District _is rapidly becoming more acutc. With pesture lands destroyed, ccrn crops ruined, farmers cannol feed their animals, so many are being brought to Washington every day to be sold. “Who buys the animals?” was asked “Poor men, who pay perhaps a few dollars for them, and use them for haul- ing purposes. - These men are paid $2 for every load of trash hauled to the dumps. -~ Frequently their horses are fed just cnough to keep life in their bodies and have barely enough strength to dras thelr loads. “With the pro~ceds of the sale of my possessions,” ~ raid Mrs. Slumenberg pointing to a handsome Venetian din- ing room set and a-fine old mahozany four-poster bed, “I hope to alieviate, if only in a slight degree. the deplorable condition which 1s bound to come about this Winter if these working horses of the poor are not fed.” Mrs. Blumenberg, who has leased the sales room on Connecticut avenue at her own expense, emphatically states she does not wish contributions to the work she will carry on for the next two months. z “F only want the public to come and buy.” she concluded, “and to get value received for the money which they spend.” PROBE OF BAKER MURDER RENEWED Effort Made in Baltimore tol Identify Scarf Found Near Girl’s Body. Investigation of the eight-month-old Mary Baker murder mystery shified to Baltimore and Philadelphia, where to- day Detective Sergt. John A. Flaherty is reported to be making an effort to identify a scarf said to have been found near -the culvert in Arlington County where the body of the slain Navy De- partment clerk was found. It was learned today that a woman | turned over information concerning the scarf to Inspector William S. Shelby, chief of detectives, several days ago. Sergt Flaherty Investigating. Inspector Shelby immediately dis- patched Sergt. Flaberty to Baitimore and Philadelphia, where, it is believed, he is searching for & young man who may own the scarf. Just what light the identification would throw on the celebrated mystery could not be learned today. All in- ve:tigators would say was “There might be something to this Flaherty trip and there might not—we have to run ev- ng down—we can't pass up one thing.” . In:pector Shelby and other. investiga- tors, however, are not over enthusiastic over the investigation of the new leads which Flaherty, homicide squad chief, is probing in the two cities, Not “Positively Identified.” Stating that the scarf in question “has not been positively identified” the reticent investigators declared that the investigation was precipitated by infor- mation brougnt to them from a source they did not care to reveal. Flaherty left here last right and ac- cording to Baitimore authorities was there today investigating the activities f a young man Inspector Shelby said Flaherty was not expect2d to return to this city until some time tomorrow. BAZAAR TO BENEFIT FOREIGN BORN HERE Annual International Affair Spon- sored by Americanization School Group. The annual international bazaar sponsored by the Americanization School Asociation ana featuring the work done among the foreign-bofn in Washington will be held at the Ameri cantzation School, Tenth and H streets, December 1 to 5, inclusive, for the benefit of the organization's special ald work. Miss Dorothy Donnally of the Amer- icanization Schocl faculty will have charge of the bazaar. Judge Walter 1. McCoy, formerly chief justice cof the District Supreme Court, 'is president of the as-ociation, and Miss Maude E. Aiton, the principal of the Americanization School, - i treasurer. H. Hanessian, who re- signed as president last Fall, has be- come manager of the a-sociation. Hostesses for the bazaar were an- nounced, as f-l'ows: Mrs. W. W. Hus- band, Mrs. Claire Trick Willison, Mrs. Helen P. Magraw., Mrs. ank . Eliot, Mrs. H. Gratten Doyle, . G | P. Gro:s, Mrs. H. O. Rittus, Mrs. A. Geary Johnson, Miss Grace M. Janney, Mrs, Marguerite Spalding Gerry, Mis Ada Wagner, the Mi ses Farnsworth, Miss Esther F. Stott and Miss Clara Saunders. GIRL, 13, HIT BY AUTO Sylvia Parker Has Injured Arm. Drivet Is Not Held. Sylvia Parker, 13 years old, of 1227 N street, received ‘a possible fracture of the left arm and minor ‘ body brulses yesterday afternoon when run down. by an automoblle at Twelfth and L'streets: She went home after being treated at Gorfleld Hospital, The driver of the car, Milton A. Wan- nall. 33 years old, gf 2028 Ham!in street northeas the second -f morning when & grounded pl INTO DEATH OF SON OF JOSEPH ENGLE Base Ball Scout in Texas When Son, 9, Was Run Down by Automobile. MOTHER HAD BEEN GIVEN BOY BY COURT YESTERDAY Child on Way Home From Play When Fatal Accident Occurred. A coroner’s jury opened an inquiry today into the death of 9-year-old Bry- ant Engle, who was run down by an !after his mother had been awarded a divorce from Bryant's father, Joseph W. Engle, president of the Chattanooga Base Ball Club and a former Washing- lonb pitcher and present scout for the clul The child had been out with soms playmates in the vicinity of his mother's apartmen! at 1629 Columbia road. Com- ing hcme shortly after 6 o'clock last night, he ran across the road toward his home and was hit by an sutomo- | bi'e driven by Eldridge Edmund Keedy, 24 years old, an automobile salesman living at 1701 Park road. Boy’s Skull Crushed. Keedy took the child to Emergency Hospital, where young Engle was pro- nounced dead on arrival. The boy's skull had been crushed. Keedy then reported the accident to No. 10 police precinct and was released in custody of | his attorney, Lawrence Koenigsberger, pending the inquest today. Only yesterday afternoon the child's | mother, Mrs. Mary Engle, had been awarded custody of the boy, a divorce { end alimony of $275 a month by Justice William Hitz in the District Supreme Court. Mrs. Engle was notified of the acci- dent, but was too late to see the boy alive. She was prostrated by news of his death. The father, who was at Bel Clair, Tex., on a hunting trip was noti- | fiad by Clark Griffith, president of the | Washington base ball club, and left for “the Capital immediately. | Keedy told police he was driving east on Columbia road when the boy ran from between two cars and into the path of his auto. 3 Witnesses of Tragedy. Clifton Stone, jr. 12-year-old son of | Mr. and Mrs. W. Clifton Stone, of 1630 Fuller street, said that Bryant and he were returning from play with other children living in the vicinity of Co- lumbia road when Bryant tried to cross Columbia road near Mozart place and was run down. Henry Roberts and Stephen Murphy, both of the 900 block H street, who de- and the sound of a horn before the car struck the boy, are to appear as witnesses before the coroner’s jury at the inquest tomorrow. In her suit for divorce Mrs. Engle charged her husband with desertion and declared he called her insulting names. The wife estimated Engle’s in- come was $10,000 a year. She married him at Union City, Tenn., in 1916, ac- cording to the petilion, which was pre- :e"?w by Attorney Neudecker for the e. TAKOMA CITIZENS ASK BORLAND LAW REPEAL Piney Branch Road Project Is Dis- cussed—@G. E. Sullivan Talks on Legal Situation, The Borland law and the effect of the recent Supreme Court decision were discussed last night by Gecrge E. Sulli- van at a meeting of the Citizens' Asso- ciation of Takoma, D. C, in the Ta- koma Park Branch of the Washington Public Library, Fifth and Cedar streets. The question of the widening of Piney Branch road from Butternut street northward to Blair road also was discussed at some length. In accord- ance with the highway plans of the District, Piney Branch road is sched- uled to be widened to a width of 120 feet from the present 35-foot width, South of Butternut street the boulevard 120 feet wide has been completed. In the event of the widening of the road northward, it would necessitate the re- moval of several residences on the west side of the road and eliminate the playground to the Takoma Public School between Cedar and Dahlia streets. At the conclusion of the discussions the association adopted a resolution recommending to the District Commis- sloners_the repeal of the Borland act. Dr. D. N. Shoemaker presided, with Harvey L. Haight as secretary. STUDY LEAGUE TO MEET National Director Will Talk on Education of Adults. Dr. J. 8. Hoftsinger, director of the National Home Study Council, and Dr. . R. Alderman, specialist for adult education in the Bureau of Education, will address the Home Study League banquet at the Washington Sanitarium in Takoma Park at 8 o'clock Thursday night. '{'he dinner marks the league's twenty- first anniversary. Until last Spring the Home Study League was known as the Pireside Correspondence’ School. Other speakers at the banquet will in- clude Rev. C. H. Watson, president of the General Conference of the Seventh- day Adventists: Prof. W. E. Howell, first president of the Fireside School; Dr. M. E. Olsen, present president of the league, and Prof. H. H. Hamilton, presi- dent of the Washington Missionary College. Prof. C. W. Irwin, chairman of the board of directors, will be toast- master. EARLY TRAFFIC SNARLED Trolley Grounds Plough Blocks Traction System. Hundreds of Covernment ‘employes were delayed on thelr way to work this on & street car at TWelfth street and Penn- sylvania avenue caused a tie-up of the Capital Traction system at. the peak of the morning rush hour just before 9 v'elock. Street cars along Pennsylvania ave- nue, Fifteenth street and New York avenue and even ccntinuing up Four- teenth street were at a standstill as many of the proceeded toward and passengers alighted and their oot, automobile last night only a few hours | clared they heard the screech of brakes ! The design for the new bridge on Connecticut avenue over Klingle Valley, which was Amvel today by the District Commissioners. CAPPER MAY: MOVE DISTRIT MEASURES Eight Bills Already Are on| Senate Calendar for Action by March. Senator Capper, Republican, of Kan- san, chairman of the Senate District Committee, is expected back in Wash- ington Priday, and probably will turn attention soon after. his return to the | question of what local legislation is to | be considered during the short session. Senator Capper, who has taken an ac- tive interest in the affairs of the Dis- trict since he came to the Senate nearly 12 years ago, has just been re-elected for another six-year term. There are eight District bills already on the Senate calendar, having been reported from the committee at the last session, but too late to be considered. Since the approaching session is & part {retain their position on'the list of pend- | ing questions in the Senate. Measures Are Important. Among these eight bills are the fol- lowing: The Howell local prohibition | enforcement bill; the ‘measure to au- thorize merger of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light companies; the | resolution defining the terms on which | Congress would sanction a street rafl- way merger, the bill, already passed by the House, to require revocation of the driving permits of motorists convicted of serious traffic offenses until they give proof of financial responsibility; the bill to change court procedure in public utility cases when appeals are taken from decislons of the commission, and a bill to tighten the gambling laws of the District. Any of these measures on the calen- dar which fail to become law before the present Congress ends on March 4 { would have .to be reintroduced and go through committees again in the new Congress, Many Bills Proposed. Among the questions still awaiting action in the Senate Committee are: { The bill which passed the House in the last session to provide for a reduced carfare for school children; the posed new plan for gradual elimination of alley dwellings and the conversion of alley dwellings to other uses; the Capper bill to provide for election of Board of Education; a bill to provide for establishment of a new Center Market, and & number of other meas- ures. The proposed new legislation to regulate the real estate business, the sale of securities and the foreclosure of mortgages is to be considered first by the Blaine subcommittee before being taken up by the committee. As soon as the session gets under way the Republican Committee on Com- mittees probably will consider the fill- ing of the two vacancies on the District Committee left by the departure of Sen- ator Baird of New Jersey, who was serv- ing in the Senete temporarily and did not._seek election, and Senator Robsion of Kentucky, who was defeated. It is likely that the three new Republicans who enter the Senate at this session will be among those considered for assign- ment to the District Committee. They who is coming Pennsylvania; Dwight Morrow of New |GUSTAVE BENDER GIVEN CHAIR BY ASSOCIATES Maj. Gen. Brown Makes Presenta- tion Honoring War Office Engi- neer About to Retire. Gustave Bender of 3200 Nichols ave- nue southeast, who has served under 13 chiefs of Engineers during 40 years of service in the War Department, was honored by his assoclates yesterday as he v;em. on leave preparatory to retire- ment. Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown, chief of En- gineers, on behalf of the office staff, Dresented Mr. Bender with a chair, Mr. Bender is a charter member of the Concord Club of Washington and an honorary member of the Congress Heights Citizens’ Assoclation, having been treasurer and chalrman of the organization’s Legislative Committee for 10 years. He is the aufhor of several newspaper articles on 'the origin of German families in the District. ——— FAIL TO SMASH SAFE, BUT ESCAPE WITH $10 Burglars Make Unsuccessful At- tempt on “Strong Box” in Van Ness Hardware Store. Falling in an attempt to break into ! the safe of the Charles Van Ness Hard- ware Store, 1001 Seventh street, burg- lars stole $10 from the drawer of a cabi- net in the -office’ of establishment and uclped. last night. Police found that the intruders gained entrance by cracking open a side win- dow and then attempted to open the knockiny | of the same Congress, these measures | are Secretary of Labor. James J. Davis, | to the Senate from | Jersey and Robert D. Cary of Wyoming. | New Harding Stamp Showing Full Face View Is Authorized Declaring that the profile pic- ture had not been satisfactory, Postmaster General Brown a nounced yesterday that a full- face picture of the late President Harding will appear next month on the new issue of the 1};-cent postage stamps. The new stamps will go on sale at Marion, Ohio, Harding's home, on December 1, and at other post offices later. SENEFIT FOOT BALL GAME CONSIDERED 25,000 Tickets Authorized | for* Marine-Coast Guard Play for Unemployed. PFinal plans for the Marine Corps- Coast Guard foot ball game, to be payed at Griffith Stadium December 6, were being discussed today by repre- | sentatives of the two service teams, and G. J. Adams, jr, secretary of the Commissioners’ Unemployment mittee. Net proce:ds from the con | are to be turned over to the Unemploy- ment Committee for its relief wo& 25,000 Tickets Ordered. It was decided to issuz 25,000 tickets at $1 for regular seats and $1.50 for reserved seats, the price for boxes not yet havi been stadium has been donat Griffith and expenses for . the are e to be held down to & minimum. Invitations have been sent to President and Mrs. Hoover and the word from the White House is that they will kttend if possible. Many other leaders in political, diplomatic ‘and society circles are expected to attend the game. President’s Cup as Trophy. Maj. David L. 8. Brewster of the Marine Corps and Comdr. J. S. Baylis of the Coast Guard were the ones who talked the matter over with Mr. Adams today. Maj. Brewster is staying at Marine headquarters here, while Comdr. Baylis is staying at the Hamilton Hotel. Both will remain in Washington until arrangements are completed. { The President’s Cup, which will go to the winner, is now in the possession of the*Marine Corps, which woh it from the Coast Guard last year. The com- petition began in 1924 with the pres- entation of the cup by President Coolidge. OLD AGE PENSION LEGISLATION URGED Monday Evening Club Hears De- fense of European Protec- tion System. The old age pension is the answer to ‘the bread line and the old folks' home in this country, Abraham Epstein, ex- ecutive director of the American Asso- ciation for Old Age Security, told mem- bers of the Monday Evening Club at their weekly meeting in the Y. W. C. A. Bullding last night. Epstein denied the charges frequently made that the European system of old age and unemployment protection is & dole, and contrasted the European sys- tem with present conditions in the United States. There is a tendency in America, he declared, to shelve the older employes, with ex.renenee and skill counting for less and less with the mechanising of industry. He advocated passage of the Fita- gerald bill for the District, known as the model old age pension law. Twelve States, he said, have old age pension legislation on their books. ‘The club, following Epstein’s talk, voted to name a committee to study old age pension legislation. Dr. John O’Grady, director of Catho- lic Charities, spoke in favor of social insurance against industrial hazard. Others who participated in the dis- cussion last night were Leifer Magnus- son, American representative of the In- ternational Labor Office, League of N tions; James L. Fieser, vice chairman of the American Red Cross; Benjamin C. Marsh, executive secretary of the People’s Lobby, and Maj. Wallace Streator, member of the board of the Citizens' Rellef Association. i DAL AR A I THREE YOUTHS HELD Baltimore Trio Face Charge of Stealing Automobile. ‘Three Baltimore youths are be! held by District police on a charge of stealing an automobile in the Maryland m;oaunay nght. liceman . 8. Beck took the youths into custody at New Jersey ave- M street and booked them at | BRIDGE DESIGNC D Steel A‘rgh Structure éxpect- KLINGLE VALLEY ed to Be Completed by End of Next Year. The District Commissioners today ved the design of a steel arch bridge to replace the present bridge over Klingle Valley on Connecticut ave- |nue. The design has the approval of the Fine Arts Commission and the Na- tional Park and Planning Commission. The design was executed by Modjeski, Masters & Chase, in architectural col- laboration with Paul Cret. Work to Be Completed by 1931. ‘Working drawings of the selected de- sign are now being made and will be ready in about 60 days. The contract will be advertised about January 15 and let between February 15 and March 1. Work will be enmg'm by the end of 1931. There will no interruption to t!;rl&c during the construction of the | bridge. | The abutments of the new structure are to be concrete faced, with d: | stone quarried near Washington. From these abutments will s a single steel arch, 250 feet long. arch is to suj the roadway, 60 feet wide, | with sidewalks on each ‘side. The life of the bridge is estimated at 50 to 100 | years. Can Be Widened to 80 Feet. The bridg: by removi | the outer and using the space now designed for sidewalk space as extra roadway space. . Extra sidewalk space of the is the sonogf Mme. Kel!fllwm. He designed the for the Alaskan Railway, and was cal in by the Ca- nadian government as an expert after the collapse of the Quebec Bridge. Paul Cret is the designer of the Pan-Ameri- can Union Building and the Folger Memorial Library. BURGLAR STABS MAN; ANOTHER FIRED UPON Both Intruders Escape After En- counters With Residents Chosen as Victims. One man was stabbed and another fired on four times last night in protect- #0g their homes against burglars. Attempting to enter the residence of Max , 528 Twentieth street, an uniden d colored man fired four shots at Zigler and then escaped ap- parently uninjured as Zigler fired five times at him. All of the colored man's bullets went. wild. 2 Zigler told police he believed the same man broke into his grocery store last Saturday. The man escaped on that occasion after threatening to kill him, Zigler sald. Grappling with a colored man he caught trying to enter his home at 2908 Sheridan road southeast, James Roe, c.lored, was stabbed in the right shoul- der. Roe was removed to Casualty Hospital for treatment by police, who were unable to locate his assailant. HIGH SCHOOL HEADS PLAN T0 ORGANIZE Permanent Organization to Be Formed at Dinner Meeting in Alexandria. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALLSTON, Va, November 18.— The plans for a permanent organization of the high school princi of North- ern Virginia will be comj d Saturday evening at a dinner at the rge Mason Hotel, Alexandria. S. P, Van- derslice, principal of the Washington- Lee High School, who is acting as the umw chairman, announces that coac! of the various high schools will be the guests of honor and speak on the relations of sports in schools. High schools comprising more than 50 prineipals from u% Arlls n, Loudoun, Fairfax and ce William Counties, the cities of Alexandria, Fred- emnbmt\’o-nd Culpeper will form the organizaf The dinner will be served at 6:15 o'clock. Sy FRENCH QUIT CARTEL Steel Men Unable to Keep Frontier Market Agreements. PARIS, November 18 (#)—The mnei Econom! ¥ sald thaf ue re today French interests had completed their withdrawal from the European steel cartel, explaining that they had been Ilnlb'l: to continue observance menf GRAND JURY SETS (1 CHINESE FREE IN NARGOTIC CASE Tong Convention Raids Last April Fail to Produce Proper Evidence. RELEASE ALSO GIVEN IN 14 LIQUOR BILLS Two Colored Women and Man Are Cleared of Alleged Homicide Plot. Two Others Held for Murder. Narcotic raids on lower Pennsylvania avenue last April during the national convention of the On Leong Tong, which 11 Chinese were taken into cus- tody and required to post 'bonds $5,000 and $10,000 each, failed to meet with the approval of the District grand jury, which today reported to Justice Luhring an exoneration of all the men taken into custody. raids were made by a r.umber of narcotic agents and officers from. several police pre- cincts at premises 345 Pennsylvania avenue. The grand jurors were not satisfied with the evidence presented to them. Those exonerated were Lee ‘Tet, Charlie Wen, Lee Yow, Le Foon, Muek Suey Soon, Lee Young, Lee Kim, Lee Gongl.ie‘:qunJunl.hl!ln‘lMue rged wil the national prohibition law. clude Elizabeth G White, Cora White, Louis lumbia Goodney, Earl Wilson, Mickens, Willlam H. Robinson, Clarence L. Ware, Clarence F. 'Pettit, Luther Swartz, Charles Carll and Tillle Litto. ~ Homicide Charge Fails. A charge of homicide wes by the grand jury against Philip T. Little- ton, who also had been exonerated by a coroner’s jury of responsibility for the death of Thomas V. Collins, who was struck by Littleton's car May 23 at Thirteenth and Kenyon streets. Charles A. Taylor, Lettie Hickman and Fannie King, exonerated of a Alm; ;. Beard, robb'ry. Roger West, gran reeny; , Carroll, em- William N. ugnux& T Murder Is Charged. Murder in the first degree is charged in indictments against Dillard E. Clark and Charles Young, both colored. Clark is accused of causing the death of ‘Thomas-A. Davis, also colored, Novem-~ ber 9, last, at 2008 Ninth street north- west. Young is sald to have shot to death E. Elijah Quarles, also November 2, follot a.quarrel over & gambling game in a on Virginia avenue near Second street southwest. Aaron Trachtenberg, who was re- cently before United States Commission- er Nesdham C. Turnage on a removal p;oendlng from hl;‘dl:hm on a charge of passing counterfeit mone: a mer~ chant in Hi md’:gm. Te- of rting, and -of & quantity of corn whisky November 5. Lydia E. Graves, 73 old, is accused of forgery and ut{:r.i‘:l in two indictments. ' She is sald to have signed the name of C. Forest Ditkey to two checks for $10 each which she is alleged to have passed on two local merchants in exchange for merchandise. Theft Plot Seen. ‘Theft of $1,000 worth of from a freight car at Deanwood . Huf son, father of Robert, and Mrs. Ollie IBoxwell. and an rglyndlcmnt for recefv- ing stolen property was reported against the father and Mrs. Boxwell, and the ' charges - Others indicted Eyaier Walker and Arth lson alter er an ur L. (alias Arthur Lee thson..-.lluwA. L. Wilson), forgery and uttering; Joseph Harvey and John Baranchuk, assault with dangerous weapon; Samuel Rives Alley, violation national motor vehicle theft act, and John Aberson and Moore, violation national act. Isaac Goldberg, Sidney Lee Jaronske, Arthur Edwin Moulton and Jackson Royal, non-support; Lloyd Williams, Charles Settles, Merrell, Easton, A. Gaither, Frederick Lucas and Hosea Brown, alias Ralph Jones (two cases), Leroy Ha Leonard J. Y robbery; William R. Gourson and Paui , , grand ‘lareény; Hosea Brown (alias Ralph Jones), W. Snowden and Henry T. Snowden, Joyriding and grand larceny; Willlam Mitchell (alias “Bull”) and Emmitt Robert Warring, carnal knowledge, WILL ELECT PRESIDENT BY a Staff Correspondent of The Stas A, Md., November. “The November meeting, of the ;:M. Chamber of Commerce, postponed two weeks ago because of the election, is to be held tonight in' the county bullding ‘The principal business t3 come hefore the body is the election of a president to succeed John J. Miler, the former president, who_resigned, his business taking him to Berlin, Germary. Chester Wells has been suggested the board of for the position. Several adjustments in con chair- manships also are expected to be made i dscers o e chmber fot directors last night, but routine affairs was AIDING IDLE THRONG Legion Post Collecting Olothing for the Unemployed. v The James Reese ¥ teward