Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1930, Page 17

GRASH INTO POLE KILLS RAIL OFFICIAL INAUTO; TWO HURT Louis St. EImo Burgess, 52, Dies Instantly in Rhode Island Ave. Accident. MOTOR OF CAR DRIVEN INTO SEAT BY IMPACT Michael D'Manna and Luciano Maiesti in Serious Condition at Hospital. One man was killed and two others ‘were seriously hurt last night when an automobile in which they were riding crashed into a center trolley pole in the 700 block of Rhode Island avenue mortheast. Louis St. Elmo Burgess, 52 years old, of 2906 Twentieth street northeast, di- vision passenger agent for the Southern Railyay Co., was killed instdntly, while his two companions, Michael D'Manna, 47, 1171 Sixth street northeast and Luciano Maijesti, 47, of 2233 First street ‘were seriously injured. ‘The railroad official was returning to / WASHINGTON, D. C, The Foening MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, . ‘ Victim of Crash | l g . - LOUIS ST. ELMO BURGESS. b —Harris-Ewing Photo. CLASH ON TRAFFIC BILL IS TAKEN UP BY D. . OFFICIALS Commissioners and Public Utilities Body to Seek Ac- cord on Measure. FORMER SEEK POWER " OVER COMMON CARRIERS Issue Also Raised on Proposed Joint Board on Jurisdic- tional Questions. THEFTS REPORTED Visitor Is Robbed at Point of Pistol—Woman Surprises his heme with D'Manna and Madesti in D'Mamna’s machine after spending the afternpon at the latter's residence. Taxicab drivers extricated Burgess an took fim to Casualty Hospital, wh he was pronounced dead. Maiesti, a Navy Yard machinist, was found to be ih a critical condition with & fractured leg and possible internal in- Jjuries when carried to the same insti- tution, while D'Manna is said by offi- cials at Freedmen's Hospital, where he is confined with a compound fracture of the skull and possible internal in- Jjuries, to be gravely hurt also. Motor Driven Into Seat. ‘The motor of the car wasgiriven into the front seat by the force of the im- pact. A police guard has been estab- lished at D'Manna’s bedside and he is technically under arrest for-investiga- tion. ? Fate played an important role in the death of Burgess, police learned. Mrs. D'Manna told officers that she had been invited to accompany her husband and his companions to the Burgess home, but she was too busy. Ordinarily, Mrs. D’Manna said, she would have accepted and taken the seat beside her husband, which the railway official was occupying at_the time of the crash. Bu ,” Who was born in Nelson County, Va., on April 9, 1878, has been associated with the Southern Railway Co. 39 years, and came here in 1919 to take charge of the District and Virginia | When territory as division passenger t. During the World War he serves o Charlotte, N. C., as superintendent of troop movements. and two brothers, Woods Burgess and Arlie Burgess, survive. The body was removed to the funeral parlors of the S. H. Hines Co., at 2901 Fourteenth street, pending funeral ar- Tangements. 2 Members of several Masonic organiza- tions, of which Mr. Burgess was-a mem- ber, will participate in the rites. Several other persons were injured in traffic accidents here yesterday. James Moffett, 37 years old, of 823 G street southeast was injured seri- ously when a truck he was driving was struck at Thirteenth street and BSouth Carolina avenue southeast by a Washingto® Railway & Electric Co, bus, operated by Earl L. Willett, 31, Brentwood, Md. Moffett was taken to Providence Hospital. Bus Driver Injured. A bus driver, R. J. Smith, 27 years old, of Lioyd, Va. also was taken to Providence Hospital with injuries fol- lowing a collision of the bus and a driven by Victor Heflin of 1245 District line. . Augusta husband, L. D. Hawkins, New York City; Willard A. 1400 block Owens e 5 Louis Tehaan, 3418 pect avenue; Mitchell Hoge, 32284 M street, and Beatrice Harrls, colored, 33, 1300 block R street. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt has sched- uled an inquest into the death of Bur- for 11 o'clock W morning at the District Morgue, along with an inquest into the death of Hugo H. Metz- ner, 55, of 322 Eleventh street south- east, who was killed by a hit-and-run driver Saturday night. GAS OVERCOMES WOMAN COOKING IN APARTMENT Overcome by gas while cooking a meal in her apartment, at 1122 Spring Toad, today, Mrs. Elsie Stefonick, 27 years old, was quickly revived b - ;:: of the Fire Rescue Squld? mh - been summoned by neighbors after an ice man discovered her condition. ‘The woman, who was badly injured in an automobile accident some months 280, told police that she had turned on 8 gas jet on the stove and forgotten it and was overcome as she prepared to turn on another jet to light BANQUET TO BE TONIGHT Association of Oldest Inhabitants of D. C. Will Hear Beck. ‘The Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia will hold its -fifth ual banquet fonight at Raleigh to begin at 7:30 o'clock The features will be an ad- dress by Rev. James M. Beck of Penn. sylvania, and the annual address of the it of the organization, Theodore S I MR S Veteran Conductor Dies. Intruder, Who Escapes. Robbers netted $1,145 in loot over the week end, police reported. The heaviest toll was taken at the home of Miss Ruth Ford, 1418 Ninth street, who reported the loss of two rings with a total value of $480. Holding him at pistol point robbers yesterfiay robbed August Yates, New- ark, N. J,, of $17 in cash while he sat in his automobile at Seventeenth and N streets. They forced him from his car and escaped in it. Robbed by Pickpocket. Alfred C. Haliday, 2912 Seventeenth fimzno?heuc,mfleflcumo;fll ickpocket yesterday afternoon while alighting from a street car at Fifteenth and G streets, losing $52. ‘Theft of a suit case containing wear- ing apparel valued at $173 was reported by Harry Perry of New York City. The s\txllt case was stolen from his automo- bile. John Garrison, 27 Adams street, told | police of the loss of a wrist watch with gold chain attached valued at $75. Lieut. Col. Henry 8. Merrick, U. 8. A., 4432 Q street, and Mrs. Ada B. Whipple, apartment 4, 2000 H street, frustrated attempts to rob their homes yesterday. Mrs. Whipple returned home about 7:30 o'clock in the evening she found a young white man in her apart- ment. The intruder had gained en- trance by removing a bath room screen, Mrs. Whipple stated. He left without taking anything. 2 $100 Stolen From Room. Neal V. Johnson, 627 New Jersey avenue, asked police to make an effort to recover $100 stolen from his room last night while he was asleep. A cash register was taken from the place of business of Samuel Degrazia, 909 D street, to a neatby alley, whare an unsuccessful attempt was made to break it open. Burglars entered the apartment of Sidney Atlas at 3620 Sixteenth street last night by jimmying a window and todk jewelry valued at $248. Among other victims of week end thieves were Walter Brooks, 1617 Elev- enth street; Zora A. Krynitzka, 1119 Sixteenth street; Dr. Charles L. Bliss, 6120 Broad Branch road; Jacob Nem- rofsky, 621 P street; John Garrison, 27 Adams street; William Feely, 703 Sixth street northeast, and Mrs. Emily Ashton, 9 Second street northeast. ey TWO WOMEN, SIX MEN HELD IN DRY RAIDS 597 Half-Gallon Jars of Liquor Seized by Police Over Week End. Two women and six men were ar- rested and 597 half-gallon jars of al- leged liquor seized over the week end by members of the police vice squad, Who discovered most of the liquor in & secret compartment under the floor of 8 dwelling in the 900 block of Golden street southwest. Ripping the flooring at the Golden street home yesterday, Sergts. George M. Little and Nelson O. Holmes found 432 half-gallon jars of liquor. They sted Martha Johnson, 28, colored, Lewis Straughn, 23, on charges of possession. Earlier in the day the squad stopped an automobile at Rhode Island avenue and Monroe street and confiscated 162 half-gallon jars of liquor. The driver, James Russell, 28, colored, of the 2200 block of Champlain street, was ar- rested on a charge of possession. Four men were arrested on charges Possession and two half-gallon jars of liquor seized in a raid in the first block of Dingman street. They were Arthur Malgin, 24, colored, of the Ding- man street address, of the 700 block of Seventh street; Al- fred Summers, 44, of the 500 block of New Jersey avenue and Herman Fields, 27, of the 1200 block of Sixth street. Ophella Washington, 39, colored, and her 1'22 uroym Wuhln‘lwn, 18, were arres on charges of possessing a half-gallon jar of glleged liquor and seven quarts of wine in a raid shortly after noon on premises in the 1200 block of Howison street southwest. Civic Clubs Meet School Officials Tomorrow Night ‘The customary t confer~ ence of the Board ,g}’flduunm public .flhtm!womll with citizens of 'ashington as ‘represented in organized civic will be held at the Prank- FROM MANY HONES: Willilam Drury, 36, | this ‘The District Commissioners and the Public Utilities Commission have bien at loggerheads over the proposal con- tained in the Commissioners’ traffic bill to tdke power away from the Public Utilities Commission over routing and equipment of common carriers and odge it in the hands of the District Commissioners. News of the dispute leaked out today for the first time with the announce- ment that a joint meeting of the two commissions would be held at 2 o'clock in an effort to iron ths differences. The Commissioners sent up their traffic bill to Congress last Monday. The bill was put together in a hurry in order to be introduced at the opening .day of the session. Through an error no copy was sent to the Public Utllities Commission for comment and the mem- bers of the latter commissiBn were not apprised of the introduction of the bill until they read about it in the papers. They first saw a copy of the bill on ‘Wednesday. Gen. Mason M. Patrick and Harligh H, Hartman of the Public Utilities Commission decided that they could not support the bill in the form in which it stood. Provisions of Bill. Tt'provided, among other things, that the mxmushmen should have power to regulate the equipment and routing of common carriers, powers which the Utilitles Commission claims now reside he'‘foini hoara propesed. o be set b, the joint set A Thll’ was to comt of the board of District Commissioners and the Public Utllitles Commission sitting together, with the ineer Sl h':’nzjr as chairman: en a dispute as juris- diction between the two bodies should arise, 1t would be referred to the joint board, and that board’s decision would be final. This would give the Engineer Commissioner, who is a membbr of both bodies, the deciding vote in all contests. Gen. Patrick said today that he would have no objection to seiting up the joint board, provided that the legisla- tion is amended so as to take away from the District Commissioners the power to regulate the equipment and routing of common. carriers. He pointed out that such power was intended to be lodged in the Utilities Commission. In setting up a route for a bus line, for instan ice, the return to be earned from the lines under operation depended al- wost entirely on the route established. Sinee the over the carriers’ rate of return, it ought to have the accompanying over the rout! commission hiis jurisdiction Jurisdic , it is contended. Gen. Patrick said at if this amendment were made there probably would be no disputed points left for the joint board to determine, and consequently that he would have no objection to the setting up of the joint board. Hartman Stand Stated. Mr, Hartman, however, opposes the joint board in principle, he said. Engineer Commissioner John C. Got- wals favors the bill as drawn and said today that he would vote for it as it stood. The other two civillan Commis- sioner were attending a hearing of the an‘o;:d committee and could not be Te: acl 5 It is :“ :umr o{u mflfi legal optnion right now whicl ly has pow- el") over taxicabs, routing of interstate busses and many other points. One such matter is now before the Court of Appeals. It involves the right of the ULElel.flles Commission to Bpecllfl the routes which shall be followed by in- terstate buue!ulxdl thetDIstflttl:I!. A de- cision is_ex next _month. Gen. an l';ld '.h-t':z expected the two bodies come an agree. ment this afternoon without any diffi- culty. | Absence of Commissioners Delays 1S, ASKED T0 BEAR COST OF CHANGING! TRACKS AT CAPITOL Traction Interests Protest Burden Necessary for En- larging Grqufids. ' PRESENT LAW PLACES . EXPENSE' ON COMPANIES Hearing on $360,000 Projected Federal Improvement, The two local street railway eom- panies today asked for legislation to relieve them of the cost of relocating car tracks between the Capitol and Union Station, made necessary by the project for the enlargement of the Cap- itol grounds. The work 1s expected to cost approximately $360,000. Law Puts Expense on Companies, ‘The law now directs the companies at their own expenst to remove existing tracks from Delaware avenue between Union Station and B street, and from B street between Delaware avenue and First streel northeast. It further re- quires the laying of new tracks on First street northeast, from B street to Union Station, and on C street, from First street to Delaware avenue. The plans also require the lowering of the prasent tracks on C street hetween New Jersey and Delaware avenues into a depression, so that there will be an unobstructed view between the Capitol and the sta- tion. The companies contended, at a meet- ing today of ths Commission on the Enlargement of the Capitol Grounds, that the Government should bear the costs. They pointed out that at the last session Congress passed a law for the remodeling of the south end of High- way Bridge to provide a connection be- tween the bridge and the George Wash- ington Memorial Boulevard, and that it was provided that none of the cost of that work would be assessed against the District or against any street car company using the bridge. Commission Not Complete, The commission heard some of the arguments of the companies today, but did not finish the discussion, because all members of the commission could not be present. The hearing today was at- tended by William F. Ham, president of the Washington Railway & Electric Co.; John H. Hanna, president of the Capitai Traction Co., and Attorney Levi Cooke. Members of the commission present today were Vice President Curtis, chair- man, and Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Representative Garner of Texas, Repre- sentative Elliot of Indiana, Representa- tive Lanham of Texas and Architect of the Capitol Lynn, ‘OLD GUARD OF NEW YORK’ ADDS HOOVER TO ROLLS President Officially Notified of Hon- orary Membership in 105-Year- 0ld Organization. President Hoover today was presented with a scroll of parchment of honorary | membership in the Old Guard of New York, a famous military organization, organized 105 years ago. At the same time the President was formally invited to attend the annual ball of the Old Guard to be held in New York Janu- ary 30. President Hoover was reminded that every President since James Monroe has been an honorary member of this historic organization and had his name upon the Guard rolls. The invitation for the ball was brought to the White House today by a detall of the Old Guard headed by Maj. Havenmeyer Snyder, commandant, who was occom- panied by Maj. Edward W. Peet, Capt. Philip 8, Tilden, Capt. George Pano- pulo, Capt. David Werden, Lieut. Fred- erick Richmond, Lieut. Albert E. Thyseleus and Sergt. Maj. M. F. Tobias. FIVE LOSE JOBS AT PRINTERY FOR MARRYING AGAINST RULES Apprentices, Two of Them Fathers, Face Christmas Philosophically, With Hope of Reinstatement—Others May Go. A cheerless chrmn;-; “”f,’“ ;w.l:s in the home of five youn - nren{!ce printers, two of them fathers, who have been forced out of their jobs at the Government Prinf Office be- cause they violated rules imposed by Public Printer George H. Carter forbid- di lpmenll:‘u to marry during their of training. peMl: Carter today declined to give the name of the fifth young man. He ex- plained he had not divulged the names of the others and would not do so in case. Mr, Carter admitted today there probably will be other resignations soon for the same cause. He has reasons to believe, he said, that several more ap- Bher marrisge. Thelr Tesignations will their mas e. come automatically when their identity becomes known. About Eight Dropped. iakda t of 136 s in the apprenticeship ug:)l this y:oyx. Mr. Carter said that about eight have been dropped for marrying. All of them signed pa , he said, that they woul to resign automatically in the TS Tesigna will not affect them is “without preju- v / men will be Whether these young The reinstated 1s matter. mn‘:mnmnuuumwmne , but the cases may receive . charged, when summoned before Carter last Saturday. Reid had been on the “sick 1ist” a couple of days and did not know he had been let out of his job until it was reported this morning. His resignation was then’ accepted. Two Married This Year. Reid and Gaffield were married last September and April, respectively, and the others were married about two years ago. They were all dependent upon their meager pay as apprentices in the Government Printing Office for their support. gtpawu explained that their first in- timation that Public Printer Carter in- tended to enforce the rigid rule against marriage was on November 26 last, when cards were given to all the apprentice boys in the shop and they were asked to record whether they were married and with whom they were living. Nothing further was said about the matter until Saturday, when the four, who had ad- mitted their marriage, were summoned to the office of the public printer. Reld was sick in bed and his resigna. be | ton papers, it was said, were prepared for him when he next came for work. to report FAMOUS CRAFT IS Scene at Bolling Field this morning as the glider Eaglet was turned over fo the Smithsonian T Hawks, the pilot, is shown here making the presentation to Dr. Charles G. ant Secretary of War Davison Is also shown in the group. Star 1930. * PRESENTED TO MOSELEY IS NAMED MACARTHUR'S AID New Deputy Chief of Staff Is Detailed to Report for Duty on December 21. | Detail of Maj. Gen. George V. H. Moseley, now military executive in the office of Assistant Secretary Payne, as deputy chief of staff, to relieve Maj. Gen. Ewing E. Bosth, whose detail to that office expires December 21, was announced at the War Department today. The change was one of several made on recommendations of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff. Brig. Gen. Robert E. Callan, npw in command of the Coast Artillery brigade in Hawali, is detailed as assistant chief of staff for supply at the War Depart- ment, to ill a vacancy. Col. Alfred T. Smith, commanding the 34th Infantry, at.Fort Eustis, Va., is detailed as assistant chief of staff for Military Intelfigence, which includes the press section of the War Depart- ment, an office rec:ntly vacated by the detail of Brig. Gen. Stanley H. Ford as military attache to the United States embassy at Paris, France. Another assignment announced was that of Col. Irving J. Carr, Signal Corps, now at headquarters, 4th Arear, at Atlanta, Ga. as military executive to Assistant Secretary Payne at the War Department. All Wear Honors. Each one of the officers named has béen decorated for distinguished and meritorious services, and is well known in this city through service at the War Department or vicinity. Gen. Mosely was born in Evanston, 11, September 28, 1874, graduated from the Military Academy In 1899 and served with the Cavi in engagements in the Phillipines, in Indian campaigns in the West, in the Mexican border troubles and was chief of the supply section of the A. E. F. in Prance with the rank of brigadier general through- out the war. He also served as observer of military operations at the German and French grand maneuvers in 1913 and as observer of military operations between the Tartars and Armenians and the Turks and Greeks in 1919, Since the World War he has served, respectively, on the staff of Gen. Persh- ing, with troops in Texas, in the office of the director of the budget, in com- mand of Fort Sheridan, Il.; Camp Custer, Mich.; the Artillery bridge in Hawali and the Cavalry division at Fort | POrt: Bliss, Tex. He reached the grade of major general in August last and has been on duty at the War Department since August, 1929. In addition to the Distinguished Serv- ice Medal he was awarded an oak leaf cluster, which was equivalent to an award of an additional Distinguished Service Medal. Records Are Notable. Gen. Callan was born in Baltimore and was graduated from the Military Academy in 1892. Most of his earlier service was in the Artillery arm. He took part in the Spanish War in Porto Rico, and during the World War com- manded the 33d Artlllery Brigade and Tractor Artillery, compri a force of 12,000 officers and men. Since his re- turn to the United States, he has served in the office of the chief of Coast Artil- lery, the General Staff College, at Fort ‘Totten, N. Y.; the Panama Canal Zone, with the Coast Artillery School at Fort Monroe and with the Coast Artillery in Hawall, where he is at present. Col. Smith was born in this el&y No- vember 25, 1874, and was graduated from Central High School in 1894. In the same year he enlisted in the - lar Infantry and rose h the in- tervening grades to a second lieutenancy in May, 1897. He served in Cuba dur- ing the Spanish War and afterward in the Pailippine insurrection and other important military operations. In Jan- uary, 1917, he was made military at- tache at Buenos Aires, Argentina, and returned to the United States in May, 1919, and then made an inspection of the western battle front. He was grad- uated from the Army War College in 1921 and from the General Staff School t Fort Leavenworth in 1922. atter he of One of the young married couples said that hope of reinstatement had held out to them. Apprenticeship Near End. Both Traynor and Taylor were mar- ried a few months after entering the shop. They had only about & more to period of apprenticeship. ‘While all regretted 'y accepted their faf y. been | Ni Fort Bustis, $50,000 SUIT FILED Drug Firm Accused of Negligently Refllling & Prescription. MAJ. GEN. G. V. H. MOSELEY. NAVY TEST BASIN DEFINED BY ADAMS {Improvement to Be Placed Near Cabin John Bridge Off Conduit Road. * Secretary Adams ‘explained the pro- posed improvement of the Navy's ex- perimental model basin at the Washing- ton Navy Yard in his annual feport made public today. The National Capi- tal Park and Planning Commission h: recommended that the new model basin be placed at & point near Cabin John Bridge, off Condult road, where borings have shown that the subsoil is satis- factory for this work. New vessels for the Navy as well as for the merchant marine will be tested as miniature craft in the proposed basins, Just as they are being tested at present in the limited facilities at the Washing- ton Navy Yard. ‘With reference to the model testing basins Secretary Adams said in his re- “Lack of space at the Navy Yard and the absence of stable foundations for new basins and apparatus make addi- tions to the present plant impracticable and it will be necessary to go outside thé Navy yards for-a location. Final selections of a site should provide for solid M:wndlum for the basins l.ng the heavy precision apparatus and affore sufficlent area for three basins, a hydraulic structural research laboratory and for future expansion. The three basins are proposed for the proper handling of work falling in the follow- ing categories: Deep-water work for usual ship forms with large models re- Quiring moderate model speeds, medium length of basin and large transverse section; l.lrcnfé vlv'or:‘requlfln'l l?"hl; speed small models, with grea ngt| of basin and small transverse section; shallow-water work requiring bulky models, low-model speeds, with a short basin of large width. No new experi- mental model basin .plant should be built except in this comprehensive man- ner, and such a project is necessary it facilitles are to be available com- parable with those in existence ox con- templated abroad and which are essen- tial if the éxpected growth of our mer- | I chant shipbuilding is to be assisted by and blnnupon adequate research.” ASSAULT CHARGE FILED. AGAINST MAN IN FIGHT Gun Victim Slightly Hurt—Wife Declares Attacker Came to Home in Quarrelsome Mood. T g&ig s i | g i ¢ Eéi Interior Employes Give $552. & lump sum Y SMITHSONIAN tion. Frank Institul Capt. Abbot, secrgttary of the Smithsonian. Assist- —Star Staff Photo. SMITHSONIAN GETS GLIDER OF HAWKS : Famous Craft Presented in Ceremony Today at Bolling Field. Oapt. Prank Hawks today made his last flight in the famous glider Eaglet, which carried him across the United States last Spring, and, in an elaborate ceremony at Bolling Fleld, turned the little scarlet mowrfieu plane over to the Smithsonian Institution to be stored :'m&r;g the historical aircraft of the af Towed behind a plane flown by J. D, “Duke” Jernigan, the pilot who towed him 4,000 miles in the glider, Hawks cut loose high above Bolling Fleld and {Ending before » disinghed sothoring an ore & guished ga! ©of Federal officials and aviation m:m : Drops Cable in River. -_ Jernigin flew out over -the Potomac River and dmgp:d into the stream the tow cable which has connected his plane and Hawks' glider on flights over moun- tains, deserts and cities in piling up the :rer‘tfle:: flying distance ever covered by g “Duke just wanted to make certain he wasn't going to have to tow this glider again,” Hawks explained. “At least a dozen times I have told him, ‘Well, T guess that's the last flight,” and then some city would ask so insistently to see :x?e glider in action that w'ed go up_again.” ®he speech of presentation was made by Prank Tichenor, aeronautical pub- lisher, and the glider was accepted by Dr. Charles Abbot, secretary of the ceremony was broad- tional Broadcasting Co. chain. Music was pro- vided by the Army Band. Came From Atlanta. Following the ceremopy the glider was -prepared for shlp:nfnt by truck from the field to the Sniit will be set up in the National Museum for permanent exhibition among other historical gliders. Capt. Hawks arrived at Bolling Field at dusk yesterday from Atlanta, Ga., after a flight through mist and storm in his fast “Mystery 8" racing mono- plane in which he has'established many national speed records. Though he had to skirt around a yesterday, Wwhich forced him off his course as far west as urg, Va., he averaged 185 miles per hour for the irip from Atlanta. Jernigin flew here from New York this morning. The glider had been shipped here for its final flight. e DRAMA READINGS TESTED FOR USE IN CHURCHES New Exercises Introduced in Lu- ther Place Auditorium Develops Series of Religious Demonstrations. A new form of drama-reading for use in church auditoriums was introduced here yesterday afternoon when the first of a series of religious drama programs was givei at Luther Place Memorial Church, under auspices of the Drama and Pageantry Committee of the Wash- ington Federation of Churches, under the direction of Alice Coyle Torbert. Laurence Housman's drama “Bethle- hem” was given, with Christmas chorals introduced by a choir from the Young People's Unit of the National City Church Choir, directed by Walter Pa- gan, with Margaret Hammerness at the org:n. W. E. Braithwaite was the so- o} Roles in the drama were read by Maurice Jarvis, Arthur White, Terich T. Marye, Ernest Ropes, Ruth Harsha McKenzle, Lena G. Parks, Gail Whiton, Hugh Smith, Eldred Wilson, Arthur Kime and Rev. H. A. Kester. Rev. Earl Taggart and Rev. W. L. Darby conducted the opening and clos- ing devotional services, and Miss Bess Davis Schreiner, chairm: FIRE LAID TO BURGLARS Coal Office Found Ransacked by Firemen Called to Blaze. . PAGE bB-1 2,225,000 PROVIDED FOR HOSPITALS AND HOWARD BUILDINGS House Committee Reports Fund in Interior Department Appropriations Bill. ST. ELIZABETH’S TO GET MANY IMPROVEMENTS Fund of Columbia Institution for Deaf Remains at $125,000. for Year. Approximately $2,225000 for new buldings at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Howard University and Freedmen’s Hos- pital are recommended to be appro- priated in the Interior Department ap- propriation bill reported to the House y. For St. Elizabeth's Hospital the bill Pproposes $750,000 for the completion of the male receiving building, the appro- priation. also being available for the relocation of certain buildings now on the site intended for the new structure. Provision is also made for construction of two continuous treatment buildings and dining hall with kitchen building, costing $825,000. University Recommendation. For Moward University the budget recommendation gpproved by the House Appropriation Committee on mainte- nance and development of that insti- tution under the act of December 18, 1928, provides an increase of $100,000 the item for payment of salaries, that increase. to be devoted to additional personnel and an increase of $65,000 tn the general expense item, also for com= pletion of the educational class room building costing $225,000, and to the reconstruction and extension of system of _distributing heat, light and power. The bill also carries an appropriation of $400,000 recommended by the committee to com~ mence the construction and equipment of a library 3 The act of December 13, 1928, au- thorizing appropriation for the main- tenance and development of Howard University has led to the formation of l‘ definite program for the expansion o this institution, in part by Federal appropriation, in part from the reve- nues of the institution and .in part from contributions by foundations and other ~philanthropic agencies. This program, which has been appro com: For Freedman's Hospital the bill car- $196,900 for the salary roll, which an increase of $15400. It also pro- ides $93,000 for wfl‘l ‘expenses i 500. It provides l’lll.om g.nl ital of $5,500. a addition for clinical activities, lnl&‘lfl- necessary equipment, at $97,000, or a 1 of $387,000, one-half of which is g:ld from the Federal fund and one- alf from the applicable l&propfllflon for the District of Columbia. For the Columbia Institution for the Deaf the Federal contribution is con- tinued at $125,000, the same as for the current year. MINISTER ACCEPTS CALLT0 D. C. PULPIT Rev._ Russell J. élinohy to Take £Lharge of Mount Pleasant Con- gregational Church. Rev. Russell J. Clinchy, associate min- hulfiv of the Broadway Tabernacle Church, New York City, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church, Co- lumbia road near Fourteenth street, it wis announced yesterday. Rev. Mr. Clinchy will succeed Rev. Moses R. Lovell, pastor for the last four years, who has resigned to accept the pastorate of the Second Congregational Church of Watérbury, Conn. Rev. Mr. Clinchy, who is a native New Yorker, was educated at Columbia University, Drew Theological Seminary and the Yale Divinity School. He was minister of the First Congregational Church of Cornwall, Conn., and asso. clate minister of the First Co - tional Church, Detroit, before going to the Broadway Tabernacle in 1927, He will assume his duties at the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church in January and will continue the work of the Washington Life Adjustment Cen- ter, which Mr. Lovell founded. The center is an attempt of the church to meet the personal problems of individ- uals through the combined efforts of medicine, psychology and Teligion, ROAD CONSTRUCTION STARTED TO AID IDLE Kimball Highway in Springfield District, in Va., to Be Im- proved at Once. Special Dispatch to The Star, LURAY, Va,, December 8—Road con- struction has begun in Springfield dis- trict, which adjoins Luray, as a means of providing employment this Winter for the people in that district. The