Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1931, Page 17

IN FIRM SELLING LOTS IN SUBURBS Original Owners Take Back Country Club Properties as Company Shuts Down. NEW CONTRACTS OFFERED PURCHASERS OF LOTS |, Lee and Hewitt Agree to Let Buy- ers Keep Holdings With Credit for Past Payments. Bale of undeveloped suburban subdi- ‘wision lots by means of a “free lunch— free lecture” promotion system, brought to Washington for the first time by N. B. Clarke from the West Coast and ylashioned after methods used in the - noted Florida boom, has come.to a defi- nite end, leaving investigations and dif- ficulties in its wake. The offices of Country Club Proper- ties, Co., Inc., the promotion concern, have been closed following cancellation of its purchase contract with the owners of the property, it was revealed yester- day. Clarke, pflnclp-l spirit in th: pro- motion, could not reached for a statement. As an aftermath of the operations of the promotion concern, which Clarke sometime Itlo told & Senate Investigat- of lots in eight months of last year, the nt of Justice is continuing its of the concern to determine if any laws had been violated. In another quarter efforts were started yesterday to straighten out the busi- ness relations between the owners of the subdivision and in the large group of individuals who contracted to buy Will Give Credit. Maj. E. Brooke Lee, representing the Land Co., and Prank L. Hewitt, owners of the two sections of Country Club Plrkd m&d belthen fl:rl& lélld!;;l lpfln: an Argyle Coun! lubs, in Montgomery County, Ior which the Country Club Co. was sales agent, revealed yesterday they had ar- ranged to credit the lot purchasers with payments made to the promction con- cern if the buyers would sign new con- tracts directly with the present owners of the land. J. Edgar Hoover, chief ol the bumu of investigation, Department said yesterday that ons of his -(enu is at work on the records of Country Club Properties Co,, and at the conclus- jon of the investigation would make a report to United States Attorney Leo A. Rover. ‘The books of the company were taken ::defr lubpoenfauhy Mr. mmf:l the vestigation after a group of yers had given testimony before the Blaine Bubcommittee of the Senate. which spent some time studying details of the operation of the promotion concern. Purchasers Get Notices. Maj. Lee has sent notices to holders of purchase contracts explaining the plan of his concern to credit the buyers Wwith payments made to the promotion concern, and Mr. Hewitt yesterday held conferer:ces with purchasers of his part of the subdivision with the same "nm.'ue, in his notices, pointed out hndco an-ml given lot purchasers when they hld made full payments to the promotion concern. While the lot buyers were making monthly payments to the pro- motion concern, Clarke, under agency contracts with the owners of the tracts, was to make certain payments to them. The letter Maj. Lee has written to lot purchasers states: “The Country Club Properties Co., Inc., has delivered to us lot purchase contracts which that company executed with various individuals for lots in Country Club Park. The delivery of these contracts to us was accompanied by an authorization to return them, at oour convenience and discretion, to thelr respective makers. Offers New Contracts. “We are willing to enter into an en- $irely new eonmnz with the individuals a‘lha a,u Cl - Cmtrcl%!l with e Coun ul Prglpem !orloul:’(kmnm ubmknt».he figures and rate of payment tha individual contracts have been nponed to us by the Country Club Pmper- ties, Inc. “These new contracts which we ofler to sign will give to each contract pur- chaser with Country Ciub Properties Co., Inc., full credit for all moneys that they have paid to Country Club Prop- erties Co., Inc., as their accounts have been stated to us. “There is no legal obligation upon us to make the above set forth offer, but we believe it a helpful policy from the standpoint of those who have con- tracted to buy lots from Country Club Properties Co., Inc., and a beneficial policy from the u-lndpolnt of this fast- growing and valuable section of sub- urban Montgomery County. “You will further note that we are not requiring any cash payment from any purchaser or any addition to the rate of monthly payments which the contract purchaser has already con- tracted to make to Country Club Prop- erties Co., Inc.” Clarke Contract Canceled. ‘The purchaser, according to the new Maj. Lee said that the contract with Clarke's concern had been cancelled after there was default in payments Fequired to be made to the owners of the property. Maj. Lee also informed lot buyers that the Pairways Land Co. “has not at any time in participted :(momm Club ’%’lflm : ‘wheept Junches and give free lectures. Sales contracts were closed in a series of tiny , in which there was two persons fo be seated he Sunthny Stad WASHINGTON, D. C, consent the Bloflm bfl| yesterday dlrectlnx the director of the Veterans’ Bureau to pay war risk insurance retroactively from April 1, 1917, to Mrs. Annie M. Eopolucei of Washington, whose son, John E. Eopolucci, was the first “Ameri- can killed in the Werld War, five days before the war risk insurance act was passed. Letters from the Secretary of the Navy and the chairman of the a;unppm‘ Board supported this legisla- ‘This legislation established as a legal fact that Eopolucci, a boatswain’s mate, first class, lost his life while serving as a member of an armed guard of the United States Navy on the steamship Astec April 1, 1917 ‘when the vessel was and sunk off the coast of Pn.nee It makes the mother bene- ficlary just the same as though he had applied for war insurance, naming her as beneficlary and had died while such insurance was in effect, and held 2 'l-:hxve matured on the date of his ath. According to the committee report accompanying the Bloom bill the facts are as follows: John E. Eopolucci, boatswain's mate, first class, served 10 years in the Navy of the United States and was the first American sailor killed in the World War. Enlisting in 1907 as an appren- tice seaman, he advanced to the rank of boatswain’s mate on the U. 8. 8. Dolphin. Six days before the declara- tion of war, while this country was in a state of armed neutrality, Eopolucci was transferred from the Dolphin and assigned with 11 other ~men, under Comdr. Gresham, United States Navy, to form an armed guard on the mer- chantman steamship Aztec. On April 1, 1917, at about 9:30 p. the Aztec, then off the coast of France, Was and sunk. At any rate, she sanl nptdly. hardly affording the men time to take to the boats. Comdr. Gresham, who WI.B the last man to leave the ill-fated steamship, declared he saw Eopoluccl assisting the sailors of the Aztec into a lifeboat. Comdr. arel.hun with other members of the armed guard left in another lifeboat and were picked up about 2:30 a.m. the next morning by & patrol vessel. Eopolucci and the sailors in his life- boat were never heard from again. So far as evidence is concerned the exact date of Boatswain Eopolucci’s death cannot be ascertained. The Navy De- partment records it as of April 1, 1917. But emergency rations and water with which Eopolucci's lifeboat was stocked were sufficient to have kept him and his companions alive for seven days at JOHN E. EOPOLUCCL ‘The war risk insurance act went into effect April 6, 1917, the day the United States declared war against the Ger- man government and five days after the sinking of the Aztec. But Eopo- lucci’s mother can not file her appli- cation and obtain the benefits of that act because the records show that her son died on April 1, 1917, Josephus Daniels, then Secretary of the Navy, made the following state- ment concerning John E. Eopolucci: He was the first sailor who lost his life in the World War. His mother gave more to the country than the richest man in America. She gave her son. ‘Two letters are made a part of this report. The first is from the Secretary of the Navy, addressed to the chairman Committee of War Claims, under date of April 10, 1930, corroborating the facts stated above, and the second is a letter from the United States Shipping Board confrming statement that emergency supplivs were undoubtedly carried by the lifeboats of the steamship Aztec. Your committee reported that due to the fact that this sailor died as the result of enemy activities and his de- penflent mother, whom he would have nanted as beneficlary in insurance poliry, should ke given the same rights and privileges as were accorded all othir mothers who lost sons between Aptil 6. 1917, and the passage of the war risk insurance act October 1917. FOUR GVEN TERMS, FORHOLD-UPS HERE Schoolboy, 19, Placed on Probation in Housebreaking. Another Investigated. Four young bandits received prison terms, another was put on probation, and the case of a sixth was referred to the probation officer for investigation and report, by Justice Peyton Gordon ‘ob- | in Criminal Division 1 of District Su- preme Court, yesterday. ‘Theodore R. Brewer, 26 years old, of Winston-Salem, N. C, got seven years for a hold-up on January 10, at an A. & P. store, Tenth and C streets southeast, which netted $31.34. John Boyd, 26, 0f Philadelphia, his companion in the crime who shot him- self when apprehended, entered a plea of gullty when arraigned, and his ease ;"l:dl'tlen’ed to Probation Officer Amos e Boy, 18, Gets Six Years. Morris Carlton Peck, 18, who broke into a drug store in Chevy Chase last month, while on probation after con- viction of participating in the hold-up of a runner for the Mount Vernon Sav- ings Bank, got a six-year sentence. A three-year sentence suspended in the bcn case also was invoked, but allowed to run concurrently, as was a one-year term for grand larceny. James de Lafayette Carpenter, 19- year-old schoolboy of 1816 Kilbourne p)m who was indicted with Beck on ‘housel was given ‘breaking .charge, a lenhenee of six years -na placed on probatior rnocrinu»n Rum Stolen. ‘The pair broke into Samuel T. Hig- ger's drug store, at 5017 Connecticut avenue, January 5 and stole $200 in cash and a quantity of prescription liquor. William C. Anthony, 27, and Lester P. Hockman, 25, recently convicted of rob- blnz a gas station, were sentenced to Lns each in the penitentiary. ld up and robbed David Po assistant manager of the station at 720 Rhode Island avenue northeast December 22. SENATE DISTRICT GROUP WILL CONFER ON PARKS Committee Also to Consider Defini- tion of Naturopathy at Ses- sion Tomorrow. The Senate District Committee will meet at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon to consider several local measures, in- cluding the proposed amendment to the Capper-Cramton park development bill, intended to expedite purchase of some of the land for the George Washington Memorial Parkway along the Potomac. ‘The committee also will consider a bill passed by the House to define nntumpnt.hy under the local healing arts law. Another measure to be taken up is the bill which passed the House author- in parcels of lane e trystees of Howlm University. |BISHOP CURLEY TO SPEAK i | Archbf list of speakers at fied that he was given a down payment of $4,400 and later recelved payments amounting to $12,200. Mr. Hewitt, majority owner of the tract subject to the promotion plan, testified 3 N.land SENATE MAY STUDY FUND BILL AT ONGE $46,090,837 Decided Upon by Bingham Committee for City’s Needs. ‘The District appropriation bill, re- portzd from the Senate Committee yes- terday, carrying a total of $46,090,837, may be taken up for action in the Sen- ate tomorrow afternoon. Senator Bingham, Rc ublican of Con- necticut, in e of the measure, said last night he would ask the Senate to consider it tomorrow. In view of the fact that both the House and the Sen- ate Appropriations Committee have de- cided to leave the Federal contribution of $9,500,000 unchanged for the next nml yedr, it is pmh‘ble that the bill 1 be disposed of in a comparatively lhfll’t time. Senator Bingham made known sev- eral days ago that his reason for favor- ing a continuation of the present lump | sum in next year’s bill was to enable the Mapes Committee of the House time to complete its study of the fiscal rela- tions problem. ‘The net amount added to the bill by the Senate Appropriations Committee was $474,08 Included in the Senate amendments, however, were salary in- creases for employes in underaverage grades, amounting to $111,520." These increases are on the same footing with the amendments the Senate ade all the Federal supply bills, and, since the nate yielded to the House by drop) similar increases from the In- terior bill yesterday, it is expected these District government increases will be eliminated before the bill becomes law. ‘The principal increases placed in the bill by the Senate Committee were: For the expenses of the local George Wash- ington Bicentennial Commission, $100,- 000; for an eight-room addition to the Janney School, $120,000; for the Wood- ridge School addition, $10,000 added to the House item; for the Ben Murch School addition, $10,000 more than the House allowed; for the home care of de- pendent children, under the mothers’ mulon law, $15,000 additional; for road lding in Rock Creek Park, $37,000, for development of a rec- reational center in the Manor Park sec- tion, $20,000. The Senate Committee amended the item for paving B street between Four- teenth street and Virginia avenue by eliminating the provision to widen it to 80 feet. This means the conferees of boch houses will finally determine how the street should be widened in con- nection with the paving. e WOMAN, 79, INJURED WHEN STRUCK BY AUTO Mrs. Ellen Brady in Serious Condi- tion After Being Knocked Down—Driver Held. Mn Ellen Brady, 79 years old, of 3 nfie northeast, was injured serious. ly when knocked down at North c-mol and K streets shortly before 8 o'clock last night by an automobile driven by Turner A. Burns, 64 years old, of 3214 M street. Mrs, Brady was taken to Sibley Hos- pital in a passing automobile, where she was treated by Dr. W. E. Long for Burns was arrested by police of the | 10 o 'A'he Right Rev. Michael J. Curley, of Bdumore. will head a mnunl mass meeting of the Bod.l.“ty Union in Gon- zaga Auditorium tomorrow evening at 8:15 o'clock. Otheu speakers on the program are be Rev. Willlam Howard -Bishop, prealdent of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, and Rev. J. V. Buck- s\z HELD IN ELECTRIC RATE CONTROVERSY Conference Between Utilities Body and Pepco. Will Begin Tomorrow. WOULD AVERT RESORT TO COURTS IN DISPUTE Disposition of Excess Earnings Issue Before Officials and Power Representatives, Officials of the Potomac Electric Power Co. and of the Public Utilities Commission will gather in a conference in the offices of the commission at 10 o'clock tomorrow to talk over a com- promise of the commission’s threatened court action to reduce Washington's electric rates. For six years the rates have been set by following the dictates in a decree signed by Justice Wendell Phillips Staf- ford of Equity Court, a decree which ended six years of litigation between the commission and the company over the commission’s orders to the company to reduce its rates. According to the decree a compromise valuation of $32,500,000 was set on the properties of the company. The com- pany was to be allowed to earn 714 per cent on this valuation. If it earned more during any one year, then its rates for the following year were to be reduced so as to take up one-half of the excess. Yearly Gaing in Valuation. Each year the company was allowed to add to its valuation the weighted value of all net additions to its prop- erty. Thus if a plece of new equipment | ; was installed for six months of the year one-half of the value of the new equipment would be added to the $32,- 500,000 figure. The value of all plant discarded was %o be subtracted. The $32,500,000 ‘e Was a compromise be- tween the $40,000,000 valuation claimed by the company and the $25,000/~ claimed by the commission. No allow- ance for depreciation was made in this figure. ~ ° ‘The theory ‘behind the arrange- ment is that excessive earnfngs by the company are to be corrected by rate reductions, but that the company is to be encouraged to good manage- ment and economical operation by al- lowing it to keep all of the excess it earned. ‘The effect of working under the de- cree is that rates in those six years have been reduced from 10 to 4.2 cents per kilowatt hour, but at the same time the earnings of the company have al- ways been in the close neighborhood of 10 per cent upon the agreed valuation plus net weighted additions. Open Hearings Won. ‘The arrangement was first questioned in the latter part of 1930 by Willlam McK. Clayton, who forced the Public Utilities Commission to held open hear- ings on the rate fixing for 1931, for the first time since the decree me effective. As a result of testimony pre sented by Mr. Clayton and People's Counsel Richmond B. Keech, the com- | tioi mission found as a fact that the con- sent decree arrangement had worked 50 as to yleld the corporation an exces- sive return. It announced its intention of immediately going to court to secure a modification of the decree which would effect a cut in this return. Over this policy, the commission and its legal adviser, Corporation Counsel ‘William W. Bride, came into sharp con- flict. Mr. Bride contended that al- though the rate making was adjusted under the degree, that instrument was not binding on the commission, and that if it found that the decree had re- sulted in excessive earnings to the company, it had the power, and should set rates which would not yield an ex- cessive return, regardless of the decree. Such a course would abrogate the decree, instead of modifying it. Never- theless the commission decided to stick to its announced intention of modification, and announced the terms to | of the desired modification. The com- mission wanted to use as a reduction fund one-half of the earnings above s% per cent (instead of 71; per cent). f the earnings exceeded 7%, then the oommiulan wanted % of the evcess used as the reduction fund. If they exceeded 8%, then they wanted 5-6 of the excess used as the reduction fund. Petition Prepared. - Mr. Bride yieldéd, and prepared s penllon embodying the suggestions of the commission, with an amendment suggested later to the effect that if the court could not see its way to gran the commission the modification sough! then it should return jurisdiction of the case to the commission. ‘This petition has never been pre- sented to court. Mr. Bride, after pre- paring it, suggested to the co; lon that it allow him to invite the cor- poration officials into a conference, to see if the matter could not be settled without resort to court. commis- sion agreed. People’s Counsel Keech and the corporation officials accepted invitations to the parley. Tomorrow the meeting will be on. Neither side has stated what it will accept in the way of a compromise. Mr. Keech is hopeful that it will result in a reduction of rates. The company and the commission are non-committal. MAN SERIOUSLY HURT WHEN STRUCK BY CAR John Foster, 57, Treated for Head Injuries—Charge Lodged Against Driver. John Foster, 57 yun old, of 1826 Willberger street, was reported serious- ly injured last night when struck by an automobile while crossing the street at Fifth and Q streets. Mr, Foster was taken to Sibley Hos- pital and treated for head and internal !0 colored, 2512 f the car, was precinc give th% e T LAW HITS 2 PUBLISHERS es. William B. Foster, Ontarlo road, driver of arrested by second charged with Tailure 10 @ - | 1aw would be a hardship on DAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 15, 1931. REFUSED PERMIT T0 GET NEW SITES Commissioners Use Existing Authority to Keep Down Number of Billboards. LIMITATION PLACED ON REPAINTING WORK Inspector of Buildings Holds Pres- ent List of Authorized Loca- tions in District “Useless.” With legislation now pending in Con- gress to provide strict regulation of out- door signs in Washington, the District Commissioners yesterday exercised ex- isting authority by refusing the Cri- terfon Advertising Co. of Philadelphia permission to obtain new billboard loca- tions here in place of those the com- pany has lost. The Criterion company, which has numerous small billboards in the Wash. ington area, had appealed to the Com: missioners for their “co-operation” in helping the company to carry out ob: ligations it had assumed to advertisers. “You may continue to make use of present locations for which permits have been issued, pmmded you main- tain your boards in a structurally safe wndluun ” the Commissioners replied to the company, “but no further au- thorizations may be obtained for bill- board locations regardless of any obli- gations which you may have incurred.” New Permits Required. At the same time the Commissioners notified the General Outdoor Advertis- g Co., largest of the Washington op- eratives, that it would be necessary for the company “to obtain a new permit in every case wlure an old wall sign is to be repainted.” practice,”. the Commissioners added, "h considered necessary to ob- tain a check on those signs being re- painted, will serve to defray the cost of inspection which must be made to see that the sign is properly repainted and is not considered a hardship or an unnecessary tax upon your company.” Under - existing authority the Com- missioners have not authorized new billboard locations for years, although at times reallocations of sites has been authorized. - The General Outdoor Ad- vertising Co., which has agreed to take down its billboards in a two-mile zone of the District line and reduce the num- ber of its units in Washington by the time of the 1932 Bicentennial celebra- tion, wrote that recently its men had been stopped by building lnlpeemn and wllce officers and told a permit would be required to repulnf. old wall llgnl ‘The company had been repaintin signs for many years, it uuonud the issioners, without any permit be- P8 g W et fohn an, inspector of build- ings, brought both matters to the at- tention of the issioners. The General Outdoor Co. pointed out that it doesn’t expect ever to be able to paint any new wall signs, but as its old loca- ns are diminishing, due to the process of new building operations, it suggested that inspectors be furnished a lm of nuthorlud spaces. r. Oehman explained finc the cur- ess” due e t n ility from the Police Department to the Building Department some time ago. A survey of the whole field of billboard sites is now being made. The building inspector explained furthermore that the practice of permitting advertising companies to repaint old signs had be- come to be “greatly abused” and con- sequently was stopped. The sign boards of the Criterion Co., Mr, Oehman told the Commissioners, are of the 4 by 8 type, being considered as & “sign” at the time they were ap- “This department has refused issu- ance of permits for more of these boards,” " he said, “inasmuch as their classification is considered to be a “bill- board’ rather than a ‘sign’ It is to be noted these boards do not advertise a business conducted on the premises.” Lost Many Locations. ‘The company had: complained it had lost quite & number of its locations due to changes in the classes which the a] plications covered and 'hk.h cannot g; substituted. With the uuennmt ol the desired new legislation the - District Commis. sioners would be empomed to promi gate new. for '.Iu eontrol of all forms of outdoor signs wi Jurisdiction. 14 ety U st o 1 mrm ;;s “:xvlug:.fl‘.n wpuu to those en- ess of erecting signs, and does not provide for an annual license fee for the sign itself. This ex- planation was given in answer to & complaint received that the proposed men and boarding house keepers who usually have a small engraved brass plate on their outside office or bullding. CIRCULARS DESCRIBE BILL. Members of Maryland Assembly Given Details of Proposed Legislation. ly 2 snlr Correspondent of Thé Star. APOLIS, Md., February 14— Anvlcipn bri‘lf the early introduction of an bill, and seeking oounmm some o( the has already been ad Present plans tion of the bill joini u’ W Engle of Montgomery County and Dele- gate Kent R. Mullikin and Ouve: Mets- erott of Prince Oe County. In sddition to exphlnlnx the chief features 01 t.he bill, the circular points out that it does not contain oblecmmlblc points attributed to it. Mrs, Edward H. MeKetm. president of Maryland, the Garden and mnxmuk.,-uudmax- Will Require $200 Fee. One of Pair in Pueblo Is Jailed; | Second Just Sentenced. PUEBLO, Colo., February 14 (#)— The publisher of one of Pueblo’s two daily newspapers is in jail and the other is under sentence for contempt of court. st | will not curtad the [ 1t * \WO policemen and a civilian es- caped without a scratch last night when a police radio cs on a rush call, collided with private automobile at Ninth and N streets with such force that both were overturned. The police machine described a complete circle before it came to rest against a lamp post. ‘The police car, driven by Pvt. Clyde N. Strange and occupied also by Pvt. C. R. Bremerman, was traveling west on N street in response to a reported shooting, while the other, driven by Sam Mensh of 3218 Georgia avenue, was going north on Ninth. They met antheurtrm‘.rllhtnthe intersec- tion. Mensh said Was lmmpun( to turn out of the way when he struck the other car, hurling it diagonally to the corner, while h!x machine over- turned in the middle of the street. Mensh kicked a glass out of his car to extricate himself, while the police- PUPLS' FARE CUT PLANS TAKEN UP BY UTILITIES BODY Preparations Being Made for Carrying Out. Provisions; Conferees Meet Tomorrow. TICKET DISTRIBUTION DIFFICULT PROBLEM Assistance of School Officials Would Be Added Burden for Them, It Is Said. In anticipation of early enactment of the bill provluln‘ reduced fares for Washington , the Public Utilities c«mmhnun yesterday began & nudy «:’r‘ plans for “carrying out m men worked their way out of their morro + wrecked vehicle. The crash attracted residents from all over the neighborhood, and in the first . | excitement some one sent in calls that brought out the reserves from the sec- ond and d precincts and an ambu- lance from Emergency Hospital. Other n investigating reported ting in the 1200 blor,k of ‘Tenth street Iound that the call -p. parently was a ADMITS ROBBERIES IN 17 RESIDENCES Colored Man Takes Officers Over Scenes—Specialized in Cash Loot. Willism Horace Smith, 29-year-old colored man who police say is an .ex- convict, has admitted to detectives of the eighth precinct that he broke into 11 Northwest residences, including those of former Senator Nathan B. Dial and Capt. Lewis Sable, attache of the French embassy, during the past two months to collect approximately $500 worth of loot. Smith was arrested Wednesday night by Policeman 8. M. Scott of the eighth precinct as he was about to enter a Kalorama' road residence from a rear alley. When searched, he was found to carry only a glass cutter, and he ex- B9 0. KD [ FOR S[NATE WING Explained by Jones as Supply Bill Passes. An appropriation of $3,079,350 to complete the Senate Office Building, in- cluding a new wing on Pirst street be- tween B and C strects northeast, was approved by the Senate yesterday after- noon when it passed the annual legis- lative supply bill' for the next fiscal |nh Qle unumd for the coming ym u:e unex- pended. balance of xnmunmmmmmn- Jones plained to the police that he does not | of carTy a gun any more because every time he did he “got into trouble.” For the same reason, he explained during | © the investigation which followed, he re- jected jewelry on his housebreaking mudu and confined his haul to Looks Over Ground. According to James E. Kennedy and L ct detectives who the his nmmd. demonstratin, lllned entrance and how is robberies. In some instances, he told Kennedy and Mahaney, he became weary and sat down to rest as his victims slept undisturbed. The detec- tives say Smith has served terms at At- lnnu and Leavenworth Penitentiaries umd as com| ints against Smith in the hl:rln of ho\uebré:dk:n( and rob- charges filed yes! ly afternoon glomer Senator Dial, from whose home at 1852 Kalorama road Smith is alleged to have taken $53 in cash and | necessary $300 in checks. The checks were found rded in the alley at the re-r of e is !lfldd. entnn e to the kitchen of the g::h 's home he found the door lead- ing to the .other-rooms locked and he departed empty handed. contracts have expired. of these contracts is usually one or two years. ‘Will Not Hurt Farmers. further declared that the curtail the farmer’s revenue to moved does _not §f bL oig FE T 535&%1 i ] ] g i proved the item. 2 Provides $27,000,000 Total. cogn- the Congress, the office of the Architect of the Capitol and the Botanic Gardens, contains a total of approximately $27,000,000. The following items in the House bill ‘were nppmved by the Senate without For co&l\‘.rucuan of m annex to the Ll 000,000, to l]oznm vailable, with luthorl!,y ao enter into eontracts up to $5,500,- For the tew conservatories and other in nurebentefl mhm“ 6,398. ‘The bill will go $340,000 IN JANUARY $19,602,625 Taken in First Seven Months of Fiscal Year. Real Estate Leads. lClllll'.lon. porte ratifi For All Under-18. As passed by the House at the mlm,mobtunxed:mr.nuo( cents. The Senate rewrote the meas: mwlunflunnflxingw Utilities with fiu Kansas, Blaine m of ‘New York. conferees are Representatives Maryland, McLeod of Mich- lfinlMNmofme mdy The system of distributing to the children is expected lmthe n“?.l;:“. ;lenlnpnt is hel::vee.'; to turn. fHiokots ‘o,ve; wmfiu schools for e uckzh nder 2 iy B mmntmml. however, then teachers and school take the work. PAVING BILL FAILS - OF SENATE ACTION Copeland Expected to Seek Vote * This Week on Borland Law Substitute. Aylv-n of its consides heu cons! said Senlhr nl-lna has as- Copeland au;flh&nfi;uwmmem nator of . lary Oregon, assistan cessed for the day a few Senator Copeland IN LESS THAN 5 MINUTES Police Get Radio News of Case and Arrest Follows After Short year, although in |several blocks receding fiscal . mpnl the earlier months there were decreases. Wbet‘ctl Formkflrfinvenmnmofmccm Of the January collections, res tate taxes lld ‘with uuuo:!, lbl- mud with motor vel | sent MAH FOUND ON STREET STABBED AND SHOCKED Tells . Police He Was Attacked ‘While in Bed at Home—Con- ‘dition Is Serious. streets northeast. for lacerations behind the ear, apparently made by a knife and also for shock. to Give Program Tuesday. ! ‘The Chevy ch.l- Chanters vm their concert —chevy Chase m Forty-fourth street and Willow Chevy Chase, Md., Tuesday :30 o'clock. They will be. section of the Women's Club ofisis Wil be 3 Jolin A violinist, and Mrs. Emerson