Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1930, Page 13

SCHOOL BUILDING 1S COMMISSIONERS' J0B, BALLOU SAYS Declares Board of Education and Its Agencies Can Merely Show Construction Needs. SUPERINTENDENT SHUNS ANSWER TO SIMMONS Makes Statement to Explain Posi- tion of Various Officed’ of City Government in Program. Authority for the purchase of sites, the preparation of plans and the award of contracts for new school construc- tion rests upon various agencies in the municipal government which are responsible solely to the District Com- missiqners, and not upon the Board of Education or school system officers who have no power to transact such busi- ness themselves, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent, pointed out today. Dr. Ballou declined to answer spe- cifically the blanket charges of bad ad- ministration hurled yesterday at both the District government and the school system heads by Representative Robert G. Simmons, but asserted that “in fair- ness to the many agencies concerned’ a complete public understanding of the distribution of responsibilities and au- thorities should be had. Can Only Show Needs. Only such an understanding, he said, will enable practical corrections to be made in the involved system under which new .schools are built in Wash- ington, and it is for the definite pur- pose of revealing the retarding steps in the present procedure that he and his assoclates now are making a study of current and recent building operations in the school system. So far as the School Board and the school officials go, he explained today, only needs for new school construction and requests for relief can be voiced. In this connection, it already has been pointed out that too often an actuai need for a building has to be shown in existing pupilspopulation before money items are allowed to remain in bud- getary es‘imates. Is Evidenced. Speeding U] made Iv-fllb!le'.:‘ Dr. Ballou declared, “the function o ns- muting it into buildings is vested in the District Building agencies, largely, of course, in the office of the Engineer Commissioner. The School Board is not empowered to make purchases of land or to enter into negotiations look- ing toward contracts. That phase of District work lies entirely in the hands of the Commissioners themselves.” At the same time, Dr. Ballou said that concrete evidence of speeding up school building construction was becom- ing available all along the line at the Dictrict Building. “Largely through the efforts of Mr. Jér: J. Crane, our school business man- ager, we are rapidly getting into a more WOMAN KILLED @he Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, IN THIS WRECK Wreck of an automobile at the bridge across the Tidal Basin inlet, in Poto- mac Park, in which Mrs. Anna Mildred Hosch of Ocean View, Va., lost her life. —Star Staff Photo. BELMONT HOUSE 10 BE DEDICATED Ceremony at Na’tional Wom- an’s Party Headquarters Will Be Held Sunday. ‘The dedication of Alva Belmont House as national headquarters of the ‘Woman’s Party, on Sunday, will be at- tended by party members frcm all over the country. Alva Belmont House was named in honor of Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, for many years the leader in the cam- paign for equal rights and the donor of the largest gift to the cause of women ever made by a woman during her lifetime. The newest home of the Naticnal ‘Women's Party at 144 B street north- east was acquired when the famous old brick Capitol on Capitol Hill, purchased for the party by Mrs. Belmont at & cost of $160,000 and for many years headquarters and home of the party, was condemned, purchased and torn down by the Government to make room for the Supreme Court Building. Home Beautified. ‘The Alva Belmont House has been occupled by the Women's Party since November, 1929, and since its occupa- j tion everything possible has been done to further the beauty of its famous rose garden and to keep the furnish- ings of the old Colonial residence in harmony with its architecture and P eired by George Thompsan fro cquir y pson m Lord Baltimore in 1663, the list of sub- favorable ition with d to busi- ness lfllm' Dr. Bllhr':“mt.lnued. “While Mr. Crane cannot possibly undertake to issue orders to the Engi- | troops neer Commissioner of the District with regard to new construction, he can and he has aided materially in accelerating | house affairs am« the various municipal agencies sh:rng:[ school responsibilities.” Increased Enroliment Cited. Dr. Ballou added that he had been advised by District heads that Mr. Crane has omitted no move which he lnl(ilt have made to speed up school work. So far as the Western High School situation is concerned, Dr. Ballou cited previously published statements con- cerning the congestion there. The senior high school enrollment increase of the t year was out of all proportion to years. Steps undertaken as long ago as 1926, when initial requests for a site for the Alice Deal Junior High School were made by the School Board, would have been sufficient to care for the Western High School enrollment until later had it not been for the un- usual increase. Many Transactions Needed. Delays which cannot be attributed to the school officials nor to the District Building, but simply to the great num- ber of separate transactions necessary for the location and final construction of that building, Dr. Ballou said, sched- ule the occupation of that school for next September. Had it been possible to make the Alice Deal School available for occupancy by February 1, he said, the double-shift it Western cessary. ‘This view is held also by Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant superintendent, in charge of high schools, who more than a year ago limited Western's stu- dent population to the territory west of Connecticut avenue and withheld new on-resident student enrollments until the third day of each school term. The latter action was taken when it de- veloped that an ever increasinf number of Maryland and Virginia children were going to that building. At present, he recently showed the School Board, there are 280 non-resident pupils at Western. MONTGOMERY CHURCHES sequent owners of the pi y on B street 15 a roll call of the d f Maryland. When British advanced on the City of Wash- itish then standing on this property e riianings Gestroyed o d Famous occupants of the house in their respective generations were: Al- bert Gallatin, Jefferson’s Secretary of the Treasury, and Ellen Daingerfield, famous social leader of her time. Quarters Frequently Shifted. In the past 15 years, the Woman's Party has occupied Cameron House, 21 Madison place; 833 Connecticut avenue; Gen. Sickles' old home, 16 Jackson place; then, for a brief time, offices in the Bond Bullding, from which it moved to its first home, the Old Brick Capitol. At the dedication exercises Sunday speakers will be .Senators Watson and Caraway and Miss Doris Stevens, chairman of the Inter-American Com- mission of Women. A message from Mrs. Belmont to the women of America will be delivered over the radio by Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, national chairman of the Woman's Party, who will also speak on the pur- pose of the ceremonies. Leonora Speyer, vice president of the Poetry Society of America; and mem- bers of the United States Marine Band will take part in the program. The Misses Fanny Bunand-Sevastos and Mabel Van Dyke of the Young Women's Council of the Woman's Party will un- veil the bronze tablet. i g MEMBER OF BODYGUARD FOR GEN. LEE EXPIRES George W. Van Demark, 86, Was in Union Escort of Cpnfederate Leader After Surrender. George W. Van Demark, 86 years old, a member of the Union Army bodyguard that escorted Gen. Robert E. Lee after his surrender to Gen. U. 8. Grant, died at the home of his daugh- ter, Mrs. Minnle Van Demark, 334 E street northeast, Monday after an ill- ness of 10 days. PLAN RELIGIOUS SCHOOL Training Center to Be Opened at Bandy Spring on Janu- ary 10. By & Btaft Correspondent of The Star. SANDY SPRING, Md, December 31.—The Annual Religious Training School, sponsored by the East Mont- gomery County Council of Religious Education, will hold its first session on the evening of January 19 here. The school is supported by the churches of the Sandy Spring, Olney, Ashton -and Colesville neighborhoods and all members of churches in these sections are invited to attend. The date for the first session was set at & recent meeting of the East Montgom- ery Council, attended by Rev. Morris mwomowmnl secretary of the Maryland-Delaware Council of Re- held lduc:‘m. o !nlnl.nf ey lfi y e for 'nh.."‘;vhe schedule of locations has not. been announced. of the school include Rev. A. M. Newell, Burtonsville, dean: Re- bert H. Miller, Spencerville, chairman of the Board of Directors; Mrs. P. Garland Ligon, Asbton, chairman of the Committee on Arrangements; Richard H. Lansdale, Sandy Spring, registrar, and Marcus Dailey, Ashton, treasurer. mlhh; -lor Library Employes. All divisions of the of Con- T with the exception of Sunda; m&ym u,'lfl Mr. Van Demark came to this city from New York about four years ago. He was a member of the 80th New York Volunteers. He is survived by his daughter and a grandson, Grant W. Van Demark. He adopted the latter as a son. His daughter assumed the name Van Demark again following the death of her husband. | _ Funeral services will be conducted in Zurhorst’s funeral parlors, 301 East Capitol street, Priday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in Glen- wood Cemetery. “THE VEGETABLE” LISTED BY COLUMBIA PLAYERS Fitzgerald Production to Be Staged at Wardman Park Theater Friday, January 16. F. Scott Pitagerald’s , “The Vege- table,” will be 'g?....«.fli the Cotum- bia Players at ‘Wardman Park Thea- ter on Friday, January 16, it is an- nounced. { | ‘The performance is the second on the schedule of the Columbia Players for the year and will mark the first presentation of the play on a Wash- ington stage, it is said. The Columbia Players have twice won the annual tour- pament of the Community Drama Guild of Washington. A “Congressional night” is planned as a feature of the forthcoming pro- duction. The committee in charge has of %l James J. Davis, and | Kelly, wife of A Sunday will be open from 2 of DETAIL ARE ASKED IN TOWNSHEND SUIT Choirmaster Denies Grounds for Debt Writs Issued on Christmas Eve. ‘The District Supreme Court was asked today to compel Mrs. Edith L. ‘Townshend to furnish more details re- garding the debt she says is owed her by T. Guy Lucas, choirmaster of St. John's Episcopal Church. Mr. Lucas, through Attorney Arthur J. Hilland, filed a motion for a more complete bill of particulars and a mo- tion to quash writs of attachment and garnishment issued against him Christ- mas eve. He asserts that all the facts in Mrs. Townshend’s affidavit for issuing the writs of attachment and garnish- ment are untrue and that there were no just grounds for their issuance. At the time the writs were issued, he says, he did not contemplate secreting any of his property, and he asserts that the writs were issued solely for-the pur- nothing and that she has no claim on him. Mr. Lucas charges in his motion for & more specific bill of particulars that Mrs. Townshend's bill is vague and in- definite in that it gives the date and amount of the money turned over to him, but does not disclose the item of credit which should have been made against her claim. HUMAN BONES MYSTERY ENDED BY DOCTOR’S SON Skeletal Remains Found by ZLa- borers Bring Police Hurrying to Investigate “Death Farm.” To the interesting assortment of un- claimed curios at the second precinct station were added one hiP and three leg bones of a human’s skeleton yester- day after a group of colored laborers unearthed them at the old Neely house, 17 N street. Police had visions of a death farm similar to that of Bluebeard as they rushed to the scene to investigate the gruesome find, but the mystery was solved as quickly as it had developed. Robert Neely of 1758 Kilbourne place, who formerly lived at the house, told officers his father, Dr. John T. Neely, practiced his profession in the house &,fl:r to his death in 1901 and used the es for study and experimental pur- poses. The bones were found while the cellar of the vacant home was being cleaned. WAR-NAVY STRUCTURES SITES UNDETERMINED to Study Question Further for Public Buildings Group. Having failed to reach a decision yes- terday on locations for the new War and Navy Buildings, the Public Build- m‘n‘. Commission will take up the ques- n again at its next meeting, probabl, the latter part of next mk‘.’ It 1{ understood the Board of Architectural Consultants of the Treasury will give the subject further study before another meeting of the commission is called. The commission went out yesterday and inspected several suggested sitcs, including: One in the southwest section near the Capitol; another on both sides of Pennsylvania avenue, betw:en Eight- eenth and Nineteenth streets, and an- other in the area south of the Interior Department Bulilding. PRAISE NAA SERVICE Naval Authorities Attribute Suc- cess to Officer in Charge. High ranking naval officials have paid tribute to Station NAA, the Navy's big radio station at Arlington, Va., as the best ever inspected. This became known today with the Navy Department announcement that Comdr. Prank Luckel, Atlantic com- municaticn officer, following his inspec- tion of Arlington, made a laudatory entry on the record of Chief Radio | Electrician W. 8. Mackay, the officer |in charge. Mackay, the announcement | said, has made suitable comment in the | service records of his station force. The extract from Comdr. Luckel's report said: “This important statjon is, by far, the best that I have ever inspected, which t condition is knowledge '-ong” t mty of ok executive al Chief Radio Electrician W. 8. Mackay, the officer in charge.” FIRE DAMAGES SHOPS | Blaze Starting in 8hoe Store Base- ment Delays Traffic. Interior furnishings were burned and | stock was slightly dama; when fire | of unknown origin th ¢ L Treasury Architectural Consultants | VETERAN S HELD INWOMAN'S DEATH INAUTO ACCIDENT Edward C. Cruse Drove Car in Which Mrs. Ann Hosch Was Killed. VICTIM’S SISTER SAYS DRINKS PRECEDED RIDE Fatal Crash Occurs Near Inlet Bridge—Injured Man in Cus- tody of His Attorney. Edward Clarkson Cruse, 31-year-old clerk, of 1882 Columbia road, was held in Walter Reed Hospital this morning as the driver of a car in which Mrs, Ann Mildred Hosch, 29, of Ocean View, Va., was killed last night in Potomac Park. He was removed from Emergency Hospital this morning. Lieut. Henry Helms of the Park Police force reported Cruse was intoxi- cated when his roadster ran from the road and struck a tree on the south side of the polo fleld, just northwest of the inlet bridge. Both Mrs. Hosch and Cruse were removed to Emergency Hospital. Mrs. Hosch was pronounced gl:e.d by Dr. Arthur Delgrego on arrival Te. Cruse An Ex-Service Man. Cruse is an ex-service man. He was treated for possible internal injuries, bruises and shock. Capt. Ray C. Montgomery, U. 8.'A,, superintendent of the United States park police, announced shortly after noon that Cruse had been released in the custody of his attorney, Thomas E. Lodge, until an inquest is held. A preliminary inquest was held over the body today. so that it might be released for forwarding to Virginia. Mrs. Helen Hoagland, a sister of Mrs, Hosch, was reported to have told police | Cruse called at her apartment, 1617 | Nineteenth street, laté yesterday. She | sald he brought about a pint and a half | of whisky with him. Mrs. Hoagland said her sister complained of feeling ill after taking several drinks. ‘The sister was quoted as saying Cruse invited Mrs. Hosch to go for a ride. The fatal accident occurred. about 20 minutes later. Declare Liquor Found in Car. Police said they found three quarts of champagne, an empty and a partially filled pint bottle in the wreckage of Cruse's automobile. Mrs. Hosch is survived by her hus- band and two children. She had been visiting her sister since shortly before Christmas. Mrs. Hosch for the first time yesterday when he called on Mrs. Hoagland's hus- lIZ;Iad. John Hoagland. He, t00, is mar- jed. Funeral arrangements remained to be completed. CHEST ISSUES CARDS TO GIVE TO BEGGARS Contributors to Get Tickets for Use When Approached by Needy on Streets. Tickets are now being sent by the Community Chest to contributors, ac- companied by the request that any needy person who may ask aid be given a certificate and referred to Chest head- quarters, 1418 I street, where the case will be investigated and aid given if Justified. [] Elwood Street, Chest director, ex- plained the move was taken both as a means of bringing as many worthy per- sons as possible under the protection of the assoclated charity agencies and to combat the supposition that there is necessity for any person to beg on the streets of Washington or by canvass of residences. Mr. Street said ample provision had been made through family welfare and other assoclated agencies to deal with the unemployment situation. “If any one is entitled to relief,” Mr. Street said, “Chest organizations will perform that service. That is what the people of Washington finance them to accomplish.” GIRL FOUND DEAD IN BED Limerick Believed to Be Heart Attack Victim. ‘Miss Beulah Limerick, 19 years old, of 18 Nineteenth street southeast, was found dead in bed today when relatives went to_her room to arouse her. The Fire Rescue Squad was sum- moned, but returned to its quarters im- | mediately when a physician from Cas- | ualty Hospital pronounced the girl dead. | Deputy Coroner Joseph D. Rogers was notified and was to examine the body. Apparently the girl died from a heart attack. Miss Cruse was introduced to | JOHN C. SCOFIELD - QUITS WAR OFFICE | Chief Clerk, Retired on Ac- count of Age, Has Served 16 Secretaries. John C. Schofleld, chief clerk of the | War Department, was placed on the Civil Service retired list today, by op- eration of law, on account of age, after 46 years of coniinuous, efficient serv- ice in that department. During the last 31 years of that period he has been in charge of the purel§ civil affairs of the department. He served under 16 different Secretaries of War and through the exciting days of the Span- ish War, the Philippine insurrection, the troubles in Mexico and the World | War. Hurley Presents Letter. His official departure this morning | was marked by the assemblage of his associates and many friends in the re- ception room of the Secretary of War and the presentation to him by Secre- tary Hurley of a letter expressing his personal appreciation of Mr. Scofield’s | long and efficient services. He was also | given a fine gold watch and a large album of photographs from the em- ployes of his office. “It is with deep regret,” said Secre- Hurley, addressing Mr. Scofleld, “that I learn of your retirement from the Government service. You have de- voted your youth and your seasoned ma- turity to the War Department. Begin- ning at the entrance clerical grade in 1884 you rose through sheer merit to your present position in 1899. In the 31 years since that time you have dis- charged the duties of your office with conspicuous fidelity, ability and effi- | clency. I feel highly privileged in being | able to voice the debt which the de- | partment owes you for your 46 years' outstanding service. Your personal character and your qualities of mind have won you hosts of friends and ad- mirers within and without the service of the Government. I know that I speak for them all in wishing you great hap- piness in the years that are to come.” Martyn to be Successor. John W. Martyn, who has been the executive assistant to the Secretary of War, since the administration of Sec- retary Weeks, has been appointed to the vacancy in the office of chief clerk caused by the retirement of Mr. Scofield, and will enter upon the discharge of his | new duties at once. As Mr. Martyn is not at present in the classified Civil Service, the President made a special exception to the civil rules, in making this appointment. It is expected that Secretary Hurley will appoint Mr, Marytn's successor in the office of executive assistant in a few days. TYPOS AID JOBLESS Union Plans to Contribute to Mem- bers Now Unemployed. Officials of the Columbia Typographi- cal Union today made plans to con- tribute to members unable to find em- ployment. The organization voted in a referendum yesterday to set aside $5,000 for this purpose. The married men out | those unmarried will get $15. BATHING GIRLS TO BE ADMITTED TOY.M.C.A.POOL FOR FIRST TIME Veteran Physical Di rector Signs Articles of Capitulation Permitting Exhibi- tion Tomorro ‘The Young Men’s Christian Associ- ation has surrendered its last barrier against the fair sex before the march | of emancipated young womanhood. A T5-year-old tradition (prejudice, the girls term it) against invasion of the Y. M. C. A. by the other sex, first violated several years ago when “co- eds” were admitted to the ¥. M. C. A. morrow when a p of bathing the men’s swimming at the Central Y. M. C. A. build- , 1736 G street. Beckett Signs Articles. C. Edward Beckett, veteran physical director of the Y. M. C. A, who has been in charge of the pool for the past 30 years, signed articles of capitula- tion in order to permit girls of the |Y W.C.A tostage a s 1 natatorial exhibition as t of the Y. M. C. A. New Year celebration tomorrow. Beckett declared today that no wom- an has been admitted to the men’s pool since erection of the Central Building Rote was peraiited In the 41d pool of none was in the Oohlmgl: Athletic Club in g‘g , now occupied of the “¥.” to the women is the W Afternoon. | latest step of a modern policy of closer co-ordination of activities of the Y. M. C. A and Y. W. C. A, An inter- association social committee has been appointed to work out the co-operative plans. Joint New Year Party. Under this policy, the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associa- Ealgeg’dodthhyurwhnldnnmt program, beginning men's headquarters tomorrow and afternoon uuun{e:t the Y. W. C. A. B?hwtb"“ Seventeenth and K exhibition will be held at 3 v'c!'olcl:m tomorrow afternoon. In addition, there will be a bowling contest between men and women on the men’s alleys at 2:30 o'clock. Girls and boys of the two associations will sing seasonal choruses in the men’s lobby at 4 o'clock. There will be a general “open house” in all departments of the men’s building, with special entertainment features. ‘The evening program will start with & reception at the Y. W. C. A. head- quarters at 5:30 o'clock, and will con- clude with & motion freshmen at the Te! its. mmm—fihfihflhfllwfifiw eventa, of work will be paid $20 a week, while | . | Worker picture show and | side 1930. Mr. Scofield. PAGE B—1 Officials of the War Department ‘showed their apprecia tion of the 46 years of faithful service rendered by John C. Scofield, assistant and chief clerk, when Secretary Patrick J. Hurley today presented him with a book of autographs and a fine watch from his friends and fellow workers. Left to right: Gen. Dou glass A. MacArthur, chief of staff; Col. F. | H. Payne, Assistant Secretary of War; Secretary Hurley and —Star Staff Photo. Colored Hero Ends Service as Laborer At War College Took Bomb From Be- neath Statue of Fred- erick the Great. At the Army War College today, re- tirement papers were mad: out for George Ellis, the colored man, who | risked his life to spare the Government | her serv:d as a laborer an international | | embarrassment. Ellis, somewhat bent, a trifle lame after 30 years of shoveling, trucking, being a handy man, shuffied up to the paymaster at noon and got his last money on the active list. Many recalled he was the man who, before America’s entry into the World ‘War, noticed a bomb smoking beneath the base of the statue of Frederick the Great upon the terrace at the War Col- lege. Ellis took the explosive, enough to have hroken up the heavy statue, and pulled the hissing fuse from its seat | with his fingers. For that he received a letter of com- | mendation from the late William How- ard Taft, then Secretary of War, and |a gold watch with an appropriate in- scription from Kaiser Wilhelm. At least half of the 30 years Ellis has | been with the Government he has spent working about the grounds and the quartermaster depot af the War College. There was no ceremony today, payday at the War College. Ellis walked up, got his pay, shook hands with a few old- timers, and went off again, presumably to his home in the 700 block of Twenty- third street. After America’s declaration of war the statue was removed from its base, April 13, 1918. It had been the Kaiser's gift to the United States. 'A. A. A. TO DISTRIBUTE | TAGS AT ITS OFFICE | Motorists Can Get Plates From 8 in Morning to 8 at Night, Beginning Friday. District motorists will be able to ob- |uln license plates during the hours of 8 o'clock in the morning until 8 o'clock at night, starting January 2 and clos. ing January 17 at the American Auto. | mobile Association headquarters in the | Mills Building, 1700 G street. The association made this announce- ment today with a view of co-operating with District Commissioners to facilitate distribution of automobile tags this year. The association will start distributing the tags in the “K” series, with “K-1" as the prize for the first person in line, while the District will start with the “E” series. “E-1" will be the number of the tag the District intends to give the first person in line. Representatives from the offices of the District tax assessor, tax collector and superintendent of licenses ‘will be on duty in the A. A. A. offices to aid appjicants. PRESIDENT SETS ASIDE “COLONIAL MONUMENT” | | Parts of Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown Included in Executive Order. By the Associated Press. President Hoover today advised Sec- retary Wilbur he had signed a procla- mation setting aside parts of James- town, Willilamsburg and Yorktown, Va., as the Colonial National Monument. Secretary Wilbur recommended to the President Saturday that the area be set aside to preserve tife historic centers of Revolutionary and pre-Revolutionary fame for future generations. The Colonial Monument, for which a survey has just been completed by | the Geological Survey, will be under the direction ot the National Park Service. ‘The Park Service plans to spend part of the $1,500,000 it received under the $116,000,000 emergency relief fund in building up the Colonial Monument, e N INJURED IN 12-FOOT FALL Drops From Scaffold. Child Bitten by Dog. John J. McCrail of 214 Indiana ave- nue was injured yesterday afternoon when he fell 12 feet from a building scaffold at Dennison and DeRussey streets. He is being treated at the Emergency Hospital. Five-year-old Martha Sneed of 2115 C street received treatment at Emergen- cy Hospital last night after she was bitten on the right leg by a dog while visiting friends at 2121 New York ave- nue. James W. Thompson, 54 years old, of 1316 I street sli] and fell to the lk in the !Mfloekollllfi’lfl wal last night, He at MARKET TENANTS QUIT RELUCTANTLY Some to Finish Out Final Day and Plea to Hoover May Be Made. Moving activity incident to the clos- ing of Center Market will reach its peak after dark this evening, it was indicated today, with many of the dealers affected by the Government's order to evacuate by midnight planning to round out their final day of business at the historic old market place before moving to new loca- tions or abandoning business altogether. A decision of Controller General Mc- Carl yesterday interpreting the law con- cerning the closing of the market place, was to the effect that the Department of Agriculture, which operates Center Market, would have no warrant to con- tinue the expenditure of public funds to continue the operation of the market after midnight tonight. The controller’s ruling came after Secretary of Agriculture Hyde yester- day had asked McCarl for an opinion as to the legality of an extension. Mr. Hyde had been approached earlier in the day by a delegation from the Center Market Dealers’ Association, which sought to have the time limit extended for a period of at least 30 days. Farmers Call on Hyde. A delegation representing Maryland farmers who will be affected by the evacuation order called on Secretary Hyde this morning. Their call was of no avail, however, since the controller general's ruling of yesterday is ac- cepted as final. A delegation interested in the construction of & new farmers’ market, which sought an extension un- til provision for the retail farmers could be made, also met with no suc- cess in this respect. An argument of the delegation yes- terday was that the annual budget of the Department of Agriculture, which is made on a fiscal yearly basis com- mencing July 1, provided for ap- propriations to continue the operation of the market through next June '30. The later congressional legislation, how- ever, ordering the closing of the market by January 1, 193] tion. Wilson, chairman of a farmers’ committee of the ¢ * Mar- ket Dealers’ Association, sai: y that preparations are under way L. ..s com- mittee to make ‘a plea to President Hoover for an extension of time on th closing of Center Market. This constitute a last attempt by the market people to offset the closing, it was said. Senator Tries to Melp. Senator Goldsborough of Maryland, approached by Mr. Wilson yesterday in connection with obtaining an extension for the market's operation, expressed sympathy with the farmers’ position. The Maryland Senator was in com- mthication with Secretary Hyde's office and with the office of Assistant Secre- tary Heath at the Treasury today, but his understanding was that the control- ler general’s ruling was final, Senators Tydings and Shortridge also have been interested in the case. Although most of the market dealers being ousted tonight have obtained new stalls in other markets in various sections of the city, there are some who have not yet secured new locations. Some cof these plan to retire from busi- ness, while others are still fighting the evacuation order. Probably the hardest hit of the many who will be affected by the Govern- ment’s order are some 400 retail farmers who set up their stands outside the market building in the shelter of the long canopies that circumvent the structure. Provision for these at other market places is limited, so that with the removal of retail trade from the Center Market area by the transfer of the dealers to other locations, many will be without stands and will be virtually deprived of a source of income. Many Affected by Order. Business houses in the vicinity of the Center Market, including restau- rants depending upon the nearly 2,000 dealers and employes connected with the market for their business and also a number of butchers and fresh food dealers whose cold storage facilities de- pend on the Center Market system, also are being affected by the closing of the establishment. Some cold storage LAST “FIRE TRAP" BUILDING EMPTIED AT WALTER REED 54 Patients Moved Into New Psychiatric Ward of Gen- eral Hospital. GEN. IRELAND PLEASED WITH PROGRESS MADE Institution Now Has 950 Under Treatment—Peak During War Was 2,200. The last of the old temporary, war- time “fire-traps” was emptied of World ‘War veteran patients at Walter Reed Hospital yesterday, when a group of 54 psychiatric cases moved from their old building to the modern, new fire- proof psychiatric ward. This transfer marked a big step in the transformation of the Army's Gen- eral Hospital here. It not only removed g_ombp:tlenu‘ dthemulves the dread of €, but provided a great relief officials in charge. 5 b Maj. Gen. Merritte W. Ireland, sur- geon general of the Army, made a tour of inspection of the new ward. It has been under the personal supervision of the surgeon general that this hospital has been turned into what is now a pride of the service. A building pro- gram of about $6,000,000 has been car- ried on for several years, during which about 20 new fireproof modern build- ings have been constructed. Once Had 2,200 Patients. Walter Reed Hospital, Gen. Ireland recalled today, was a hospital of only 130 beds at the opening of the war. tAl:em pe:dk !;u‘:mlgt t.'h‘: heavy war load expa; ution accommodated 2,200 patients. But the growth, rapid and temporary 8s it was, of course, was of temporary construction, mostly of wood, with some buildings made of tile and wood. Rap- idly deteriorating, despite the best of care, after the war, these old structures became dangerous fire , and Gen. Ireland was constantly in the forefront of the movement to eliminate all these structures and replace them with per- manent buildings. Co to the need with appropriations. ‘The transfer of 54 patients yesterday was a consummation of the most im- portant phase of the building program, according to officials in charge. ¢ There still remain some temporary buildings on the reservation, but they are used for barracks for the enlisted men on duty there, who are able to get out of the buildings in case of fire. Sev- eral other new buildings are on the pro- gram for construction, but none of them is for patients’ wards. Bad Fire in 1921. Only one bad fire took place at Wal- ter Reed Hospital in all the time since the war. This was in 1921, when two buildings were burned to the ground when they were set afire by a “ b one of the psychiatric patients of the hospital. This “firebug” hid himself in the burning structure and was the only one of the patients who was burn- ed to death. ‘The transfer of the last patients yes- terday started at about 10 o'clock ‘and was carried out under the personal su- pervision of Brig. Gen. C. R. Darnall, commanding officer of the hospital, and Lieut. Col. W. L. Sheep, executive offi- cer. It was completed in about two hours, and the patients had their first meal in their new ward at noon. The food was brought to them from the main kitchen through an underground tunnel, beneath the street, into the basement of the psychiatric ward and on an elevator to the first floor, where it was served in a cafeteria. Ward Has 104 Beds. ‘The new psychiatric ward has 104 to | beds and the latest devices for protec- tion of psychiatric patients to prevent them from injuring themselves. Even the panes of glass in the windows are made over interwoven wire, so that in . case a pane is broken it will not shatter. The building cost $267,000. It is said by experts to be virtually “foolproof.” Among new structures still scheduled for Walter Reed are the Post Chapel, which is now under construction and soon will be complete; the second addi- tion to the nurses’ quarters and a large building for the Army Medical Center. This latter structure will be used for the veterinary and dental schools and as headquarters for the Army Medical Oent:;; 3 Later on there will also be con- structed a third addition for the nurses’ Quarters and new barracks for the en- to replace their present The general hospital now has abouf 1,000 beds in f construction, l: contrasted with 130 beds before the war. The number of patients today is 950. REV. GEORGE R. GEBAUER DIES HERE AT 73 YEARS | Retired Unitarian Minister Held Pastorate in Pittsburgh and Other Cities. Rev. George R. Gebauer, 73 years old, retired Unitarian minister and resi- of this city for the past three at his home, 2313 Wiscon- yesterday after a short ill- ness. Rev. Mr. Gebauer was pastor emeritus of a Unitarlan Church in Pittsburgh. Prior to being pastor there he held - pe.'a‘mnus in Jowa, Minnesota and Illi- nois. s He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Augusta B, Gebauer, and two sons, Max C. Gebauer of Cincinnati and Carl H. Gebauer of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Funeral services wil be conducted in All Souls’ Unitarian Church, Sixteenth and Harvard streets, Friday morning at 11 o'clock. Rev. Dr. U. G. B. Pierce, houses are going out of business, w] other houses are cutting down their staffs in anticipation of slacker busi- ness. ‘There are between 200 and 300 whole- e the pastor, will officiate, HIGHT HELD FOR JURY IN DEATH OF STEVENS 4 Physicians Testify Man Died From o N CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Social, Friendship Temple, No. 9, Pythian Sisters, 1012 Ninth street, 8 p.m. Watch night service, Volunteers of America, 92§ nia avenue, 10:45 p.m. F 3 Dance, ©Ohio Girls’ Club, Hotel, 9 pm. mn&"ummmmm nose. ‘Was University Hospi- House, Sllver | M4, 9. pm, Infection Resulting From Blow on Jaw. Herbert R. Hight of the 300 block of Jjury today by a coroner’s jury in con- nection with the death of George Ste- vens, 52 years old, of 416 Sixth street, who, it was testified, rendered by