Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1930, Page 5

CHNGERDADPLA TOSAVE OUSES Location of War and Navy Departments Debated by FIVE SLIGHTLY INJURED IN AUTOMOBILE COLLISION Taxicab Demolished in Crash, but Occupants of Cars Are Not riously Hurt. PFive persons escaped serious injury | in a collision which demolished a taxi- cab operated by Walter P. Hildebrand, | and shock, THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 21, private machine driven by Henry S. Powell, 22, of 4000 Connecticut. avenue, early yesterday at Sixteenth and K streets. ‘The taxi driver was treated at Emer- gency Hospital for lacerations of the knees and right ear, while a passenger, Carry Williams, colored, 23, of 22 De Frees street, was given first aid for shock and cuts about the face. Three occupants of the car driven by Powell were treated at .the same institution for lacerations of the face including Powell, Sunny cut avenue, and Ji ilson, 23, of 1128 sixtemnin ot e went home after receiving medi- cal atention at the hands of staff phy- Sicians, Fewer Casualties in Britain. Fewer casualties in the British Royal Air Forces were reported in 1929 than in the preceding year. —_— Black rust is believed to have dam- aged wheat covering more than 13,000,- 26 years old, of 1740 K street, and a 'Tullock, 19 years old, of 1140 Connecti- 000 acres in Argentina. TWO MEN AND BOY HELD IN EXTORTION PROBE Benton Harbor Ex-Mayor Threat- ened With Death When $50,000 Is Demanded, Say Police. By the Associated Press. BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Decem- ber 20.—Two men and an 8-year-old boy are being held by police as sus- 1930—PART ONE. pects in & plot to extort $50,000 from John Nellls Klock, former Mayor, ]hhk?:néoo‘ e ¢ the Ben- . an of the Ben- ton Harbor Mlllmuuumu‘ Identity of the prisoners was not re- ealed. A third man is being sought. The boy was traced through an offer of a $5 reward, posted in a rural school room, for the name of the boy who de- livered the first of two letters to the Klock home, threatening Klock with death “before Christmas” unless he Pplaced $50,000 on a rural mail box. Police said the boy confessed deliv- ering the letters. They sald they be- lieved him to be a nephew of one of the men in 3 The two men were arrested when After much measuring and many cal- culations a scientist has an- || nounced that while women may vary greatly in their individual heights there | || is a surprising uniformity in the dis- tance between their elbows and the ground. Park Commission. The National Capital Park and Plan- T to save five U road between Buttern District line. The width will be 90 in- stead of 120 feet. Action of the commission was taken ( on_ recommendation of Maj. John C. i Gotwals, Engineer Commissioner of the t District, who explained that by making the road 9T feet wide all of the houses .- between Butternut street and the Dis- f S~ trict line will be saved with the excep- tion of two. The change will be made on the west side. r Other Changes Approved. ‘The commission also approved a number of other changes in the high- way plans as follows: Nebraska avenue near American University, stralghtened out the old plan; near Tunlaw road and ‘Thirty-ninth street, altered to provide that.as an apartment house has been developed on the summit the old street ‘will be eliminated there; Broad Branch road and Loughborough road altered on the plan to conform to the topography in that area; the street plan closed where it interferes with the Burroughs School development: sanctioned taking the streets off the highway plan in the Reno Reservoir recreation area, and ap- proved a change at Alabama avenue and Twenty-fifth street southeast to prevent cutting into a school house. ‘The commission heard Charles Moore, chairman of the Fine Arts Commission, and Rear Admiral A. L. Parsons, chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department, present their views on the new War and Navy Depart- ments. Mr. Moore advocated that the new structures be placed on Pennsyl- vania avenue, west of Seventeenth street, in order to balance the develop- ment in the Triangle. Admiral Par- sons expressed the hopes of the Navy Department to construct its building in the vicinity of the Naval Hospital, not. far from the Interior Department, as a map compiled recently shows that the homes of the great majority of Navy Department employes are in the North- ‘west section of the city. Department Locations Debated. Extensive discussion centered around the proposed new War and Navy De- partment locations and as an upshot, the commission named this special com- mittee to confer with other interested commissions and groups: Frederic A. Delano, chairman; Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, vice chairman and execu- tive officer of the commission, and Maj. Gotwals. This group will consult other organizations interested in the location of the service buildings in an effort to obtain a joint agreement, which will be placed before the Public Buildings Com- mission. The commission deferred its usual meeting until 2 o'clock yesterday aft- ernoon, in order to permit Col. Grant and its director of planning, Charles W. Eliot, 2d, to attend the meeting of the PubliceBuildings Commission. SWITCHING BONDS ALLEGED BY STATE Ohio Official Charges Head of In- surance Firm and Others With Irregularities. $250 to $4 Hand Tailored French and Swiss $25 Imported Silk Brocade Moire & Faile Silk ROBES Reduced to 16% Full silk lined for smartness and in- Neckwear Reduced to $‘| 35 Silks from France, England and Italy in luxurious moires, brocades, gleam- ing satin stripes, small figures, large patterns. Spitalfields . . . every con- ceivable masculine design thatadorns high-priced neckwear is represent- ed. Resilient construction — Hand- tailored. ter-lined for warmth, they are cut to fit and drape perfectly. Shiny satin trimmings on the pockets, collar, cuffs and sash blend with neat pat- terns in blue, tan and winetone. By the AssGeinted Press. g COLUMBUS, Ohio, December 20.—C. 8. Younger, State superintendent of in- surance, today charged Darby Day of Chicago as president of the Liberty In- surance Co. of Dayton and other offi- cers of the company, who also are offi- clals of the Darby Dy Investmen? Cor- poration of Chicago, with switching se- Nfln’mtheir gpennonho( h':e‘;e Lib- e nce Co. which t) pur- e turther charged “giowing srroqu e r charged “glow - larities” and violation of the Ohio in- surance laws, and demanded that offi- cers return immediately to the Libert; Insurance Co. certain securities whicl they had removed for the purpose of sale. In a letter to Day and associates, Younger said: “The Liberty Insurance Co. seems very much impaired” by reason of the switching of the se- curities. Younger said the securities removed for sale consisted of $228,000 of Federal Land Bank bonds, $269,500 of joint stock Farm Loan bonds, United States Government bonds valued at $185,000, and $26,000 of Philippine Island gov- ernment bonds. He charged that other bonds, including real estate certificates on buildings in Oregon, Illinois, Chi- cago, Muskegon, Mich., and a number MUFFLERS $7.50 all-silk squares Day and his associates disclaimed any $ 485 intention of wrongdoing. AUTOMOBILE FfifURE 7 Plain shades and fancy patterns in $] 5 DECLARED BRIGHT! Y heavy English silk mufflers. Large square shapes in 18 combinations of Inventory Shutdowns Likely to Be the newest colors. Followed by Increased Employment. Pre-Christmas Sale of Imported Special! Imported English Cashmere Wool Hose Soft and worm to keep you com- fortable. 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