Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1931, Page 17

@he Toening Star General News WASHINGTON,, D. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1931. PAGE B—1 §1,163.059 LOW BID ON MEMORIAL ROAD T0 MOUNT VERNON Georgia and Maryland Firms’ Offers Cover Whole Route of Boulevard. ALSO MAKE MINIMUM ESTIMATES ON SECTIONS Contracts for Work Not to Be Let for Some Time—Total of 47 Bids Tendered. Reptiles Like New Home | | ‘The lowest bids on the construction of the new Mount Vernon Boulevard were submitted by the MacDougal Con- struction Co. of Atlanta, Ga.. and the Rcberts Paving Co. of Salisbury, Md., #t was learned today at the Bureau of Public Roads. Estimates on the project were taken on the work as a whole and on_ the two sections into which it had been divided. The Atlanta concern’s bid of $605,619.25 was the lowest offered cn section 1, while the Salisbury com- pany’s estimate of $557.440.20 was the lowest submitted on section 2. Their bids totaled $1,163,059.45 for the entire ‘work. 12 Bids on Entire Work. ‘The highest estimate on the project a5 a whole was $1,658,569.85, while the highest bids on the two sections to- taled $1.724.840.25. Altogether 12 estimates on the entire work were offered, while the number of bids on Sections 1 and 2 were 15 and 20 respectively. Section 1 consists of the paving of the highway from Columbia Island to the southern end of the hydraulic fill over Hunting Creek, south of Alex- andria, a distance of 7.567 miles. Paving of the boulevard from -the hydraulic fill to Mount Vernon, a dis- tance of 7.794 miles, comprises Sec- tion 2 Difference in Pipes. The Salisbury concern’s bid provided for the use of concrete pipes. An alter- Mate estimate of $557,29: based on the substitution of vitrified pipes, also | OPERing tomorrow night of the new reptile house. was submit'ed by the company. Bids on the project were advertised January 20 and were opened yesterday at the Department of Agriculture. Nearly three hours elapsed before all the estimates had been opened and read. Tabulations were started im- m>diately. Contracts for the work probably will not be awarded for some time, it was said at the Public Roads Bureau. The estimates, it was pointed out, are mere- Iv proposals and must be given con- sideration before the awards can be mad-. VIOLATION OF “U” TURN RESULTS IN FINE OF $2 Judge to Follow Lenient Policy Un- til Autoists Are Conversant With Rule. Judge Ralph E. Given, in Traffic Court today after hearing a man's de: fense based on meted out a lenient sentenc: for viol tion of the latest addition to the Dis- trict traffic regulations—no “U” turns on F and G streets between Fifth and Fifteenth streets. The Traffic Court judge, after ques- tioning the officer in the case closely relative to the display of the signs pro- hibiting “U” turns, sald he would asses minimum fines for violation of this ordinance for the time being, but that *“if these violations continue after mo- torists have had a reasonable length of time to acquaint themselves with the Jaw. then the fines must be reased.” The case this morning was that of James G. Brown, colored, 43 years old, of 1722 First street, who was arrested last night by Policeman V. V. Vaughan of the Traffic Bureau for making a com- plete turn in front of the Fox Theater. He was fined $2. AID IN ADMINISTERING WILL ASKED BY WIDOW. Mrs. Annie L. Casey Executor and Trustee of $475,000 Estate Left by Carl Casey. Mrs. Annie L. Casey, Casey, who died February 7 leaving an estate valued at $475000, today asked the District Supreme Court to permjt the National Metropolitan Bahk to act with her in the administration of her husband’s estate. She is named as sole executor and trustee, but is empowered in the will to select a co-executor and co-trustee. She tells the court that her husband owned land in Oklahoma, which had been bought for $1.317.50: had stocks ‘worth $34.000 and bonds of $439,000 Under the terms of the will, dated Decamber 17, 1930, a sister, Mrs. Theo- dora Casey Tonliffe, Highland Apart- ments, is g .. $50,000, and the re- maining escate is devised to the widow as trustee, to pay to herself the net income for life. At her death the Na- tional Metropolitan Bank was named to act as trustee during the life of the sister and directed to pay over to_her the net income. On the death of Mrs Toplife the estate is to be distributed three-tenths to James B. Platt, Baiti- more: two-tenths to Landra B. Platt this ci three-tenths to Lester B. Platt, Caldwell. N. J. and one-tenth each to T. Beach Platt, Boston, and Anna B. Platt, New York City widow of Carl D. C. AIR LEGION WINS TROPHY “ignorance of the law,” | SNAKES AND LIZARDS MOVE INTO “NATURAL HABITAT.” pper: The alligator garden. Center: The giant python trapped be torn down immediately. Lower: OVING day for snakes, alliga- tors, turtles and lizards at the National Zoo today stirred cold- blooded creatures to an un- wonted activity as they ex- plored their quarters in the new reptile | house, one of the finest in the world. A giant python slithiered into an em- barrassing situation at once. He cciled up a tree in his new cage, extended his | |body a yard upward and nitched it | along the sill. | Quite unable to get down sgain, he | | squirmed uncomfortably as the length | of his body came in contact with sky- | lignt glass chilled by morning frost. | Coaxed Down Ladder. | The big python was in decided dan- ger of catching a cold or everf pneu- monia. Headkeeper W. H. Blackburn | discovered his plight and enticed the | runaway down a_stepladder with con- | siderable difficulty because of the awkward position | " No sooner had Mr. Blackburn turned | his back than the snake returned to his percarious perch, and again haa to be ushered down a step-ladder. In the native-habitat cages, painted nd fitted with living shrubs and mo:s, many of the snakes were sloughing off the | cld and emerging in bright new skins, presumably with an eye to the formal | opening of the reptile house at 8 o'clock | tomorrow night. Invitations to this affair have been issued to many prominent Washingto- nians and to.zoologists and park officials in all parts of the country. Many have signified their intention of attending ‘The doors of the new house will be thrown open to the public Saturday morning. Tenants Move In. Meanwhile the reptile house hums with activity. Finishing touches are be- ing put cn here and there, making ready the cages and installing new tenants. HENRY W. LEE, 53, DIES; WAS RETIRED FIREMAN Spanish-American War Veteran Will Be Buried in Arling- ton Cemetery. Henry W. Lee, 53 years old, retired fireman of No. 13 Engine Co., veteran of numerous campaigns with the United States Army znd well known in Ma- sonic circles here, died in Naval Hos- pital yesterday after a long iliness, A > was a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, was a member of Naval Lodge, . A. A. M.. and of Almas Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He served with the Army during campaigns in Cuba and the Philippines and was a veteran of the Spanish- American war. He was retired from the Fire Department about_three years ag His I here was at 3627 New Ham; shire avenue He s survived by his wid 3 Carrie Gertrude Higdon Lee, and a sis- ter, Mrs. Viola Perry of Boston services will be conducted at Saturday aft:rnoon at Interment will be in Ar- lington Cemetery. Temblor Hits Africa. CAPETOWN, Union of South Africa, February 26 (). —An earthquake of con- siderable force was experienced at 10 pm. Wednesday in the cotton-growing area north of Rusenburg. There were no casualties and no damage was re- ported AS OUTSTANDING CLUB OF YEAR Prize Awarded on Training Students, Piling Up Flying Hours and Buying Planes. The D. C. Air Legion, local private fiying club, has been selected by the American Society for Promotion of Aviation as the Nations outstanding flying club during 1930, 1t was tn- nounced here today. A silver trophy will be presented to the local club. ‘The award was made, it was an- nounced, “cwing to the remarkable yecord made by the D. C. Air Legicn in the matter of training students, pil- | pur- | ing up of fiying hours and the chase of planes by members of the ion.” The Legion was organized 18 months ago, 1t was pointed out oy the society in anncuncing the award, with Aiva Soie and J. C. Shaw, of this city, as chief organizers. “It is interesting to note” the an- nouncement continued, “that neither Mr. Sole nor Mr. Shaw had previous aviation training. Mr. Sole was former locomotive engineer and Mr Shaw is a practicing lawyer in Wash- ington. bers drawn together by this unit the organization advanced rapidly, particu- larly in the last 12 months. During 1930 the Legion raised its membership to 135 active members and of this mem- bership sent 32 men and women on their first solo flights. The Legion pur- chased two new airplanes and two gliders and members who have learned {to fly have jointly purchsaed seven air- planes.” The 1920 award of the society was made to the Danbury Aero Club, Dan- bury, Conn, o From the small group of mem- | on sill inside of new hcuse. The sill will Attendants brushing off the backs of the turtles, preparing for the —Star Staff Photo. Snakes, lizards, alligators and turtles were carried into the reptile house to- day, penned in crates, tied in sacks or swimming in tubs. Each was accommodated in a cage made to resemble as nearly as possible ti natural habitat. Lizards scurried happily over their native gravel or dozed on cactus plants. Alligators and _crocodiles splashed about in large pools fringed with palm trees and surrounded by a tropic set- ting. Many weird lizards were visible for | the first time in their new glass-walled | tanks, as were a variety of water tur- tles rarely glimpsed in their old pools. Cobra Has Special Cage. A special cage has been prepared for a 14-foot king cobra, to be seen here for the first time on the opening night. The cobra, one of the largest in cap- tivity, was acquired by the National Zoo several months ago at considerable cost. No suitable place was availuble here and the snake has becn kept at the Bronx Zoo. It is one of the most dan- gerous and aggressive of the 16 species | of deadly ccbra. The newly-completed building is I'roofed by skylights of a glass which lets | in beneficial rays of the sun. Tre cages under the skylights are heated at auto- matically-reguiated temperatures from 190 to 75 degrees, depending on the re- quirements of the individual reptiles, The large cages are acting as a -stimulus to cold-blooded creatures | which have been sluggish for years, ac- | cording to Dr. William M. Mann, di- | rector of the Zoo. Many snakes and lizards already | have broken long fasts. and onc 26- foot Indian python, the longest in cap- tivity, merged from his new bath and demanded food after he had fallen off in weight from 135 pounds to 84 | pounds. | | Attorney Dies WILLIAM TAYLOR FITZGERALD. —Harris-Ewing Photo. W. T. FITZGERALD DIES IN FLORIDA William Taylor Fitzgerald, 73 years old, for 30 years a prominent local pat- ent attorney, died at his home ‘in Co- | eoanut Glove, Fla, Wednesday morn- ing after an illness of several years For the past seven years Mr. Pitz- | gerald had been a citiz:n of Florida, residing in that suburb of Miami. | Born in Indiana, he lived in Kansas for several years and as a youth was employed as a train brakeman. He came to Washington to take up th~ practice of pat:nt law toward the rid of the past century, and for m:ny | years was established in offices at Eighth and F streets Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Belle | Prye Fitzgerald: two sons, Col. 8. W. | Filzgerald. U 5. A. commandant of | Langley Field, Va. and Lieut. Donald | Fitzgerald, also of the Army Air Corps, {and a daughfer, Mrs, Harriet French, Catonsville. Md. | Mr. Fitzgerald was a member of Osiris Lodge, No. 26. of Masons, serv- |ing, as its treasurer for 22 years: also of Sons of the American Revolution and Society of Colonfal Wars, Interment will Cemetery Priday at 1:30, |services at the grave. ort Lincoln ith Masonic IN PLUNGE IS HELD AGCIDENT BY JURY Mrs. Rose Spinelli Attempting to Escape, Coroner’s Jury | Finds at Inquest. DEATH OF WONAN | STEPS TOisTOP FLEEING OF PRISONERS SOUGHTl 1 Investigators Find Some Windows Barred After Like Fatality Here Last May. A coroner's jury today returned a verdict of “accidental death while at- tempting to escape” in the case of Mrs. Rose Spinelli, who was crushed to death | when she jumped or fell frcm a fourth- floor window of the House of Detention | shortly after 1 o'clock this morning. In bringing in its verdict, the jury recommended to the District Cormis- | sloners that “further help oe employed to saleguard inmates and to prevent their attempted escapes in such a man- ner from the House of Detention.” Some Windows Barred.- Officials of the House of Detention, | questioned about recommendations for bars over the windows made by a cor- oner's jury last May, when a prisoner was killed under similar circumstances, said the windows of some rooms had been barred in response to the recom- | mendation, but others could not be be- cause of fire hazards and the fact the building's use as a place of detention is only temporary. Communications between police and fire officials, read at the inquest in con- nection with the case last May, revealed that these officials had recommended the barring of only such windows as are now barred. Over Gas Station. The House of Detentior. is located above a gasoline filling station wh occupies the entire first floor of the buflding at Louisiana avenue and Sixin street. Relatives of the dead woman could not be located by police today, and offi- | clals said a woman of her description | had been in the House of Detention on | prévious occasions under the name of | Josephine Spinelli. Ninth precinct police were trying to get into touch with the family of Mrs Spinelli, said to live at 725 Fourth | street northeast, but they were unsuc- | cessful. Relatives out of the city were | notified, but had not arrived at noon. Arrested as Drunk. The woman was arrested lest night at Sixth and K streets southwest on a charge of intoxication and taken to the House of Detention. She left her room shortly after 1 o'clock, going { down the hall and into another room, from the window of which she plunged to her death on the concrete sidewalk | below, according to Sergt. Rhoda Milli- ken, in charge. | The woman was apparently asleep when Mrs, Lola Warner, matron, made a tour of inspection shortly after 1 | o'clock this morning and about 10 min- utes before the thud of the woman's body was heard on the concrete. It was said she had apparently recovered from the alleged intoxication and had spoken rationally some minutes before | "Lillian Dehaaf, housekeeper at the | institution, heard the woman’s body strike the sidewalk. She called an Emergency Hospital ambulance. The physician pronounced the woman dead REPORT ON FOOD PRICES TO BE MADE TO SENATE | The Caoper subcommittee of the Sen- | ate which inquired into food prices in ‘Washington and throughout the coun- | try will meet tomorrow to draft a report to be submitted to the Senate belor: Congress adjourns next week. | During the two weeks of hearings, the subcommittee made a study of wholesale and retail prices of bread, mik and | meats. It also gathered statstics on sugar prices. WORKER HURT IN TUMBLE Eric O. Zabel, 916 Irving street north- | east, a carpenter, was slightly injured { today while at work on the new House | Office Building. He was said to have been the fourth workman injured on the construction job this week. Zabel fell off a board a distance of about five feet, wrenching a thoulder. It_was impossible to secure an zm- bulance from a hcspital, 5o after a con: siderable wait, the Fire Rescue Squad i was called. The injured man later | was taken to Providence Hospital. He | was at work on forms for fire-proof- | ing Thompkins Denies Drowning as Parked Car Starts Report. String of Catfish Proof of Life During Absence at Four- teenth Street. Policeman Larney Thompkins, cat-| fish expert of the eleventh precinct, was | never so0 embarrassed in his life as when he learned today that a police boat was dragging the river for his dead body. | Policeman Thompkins purked his au- tomobile at the foot of Fourteenth | street, near the river, this morning and | rentured forth in quest of his favorite | Potomac fish, in _company with Po- | |'iiceman Paul E Berger of the ninth | precinct, who also knows his “cats.” | Parked Car as Clue. It happened that Policeman Thomp. kins parked his car at exactly the same spot yesterday morning, while on an- other” catfishing round-up, and Sergt. Omar Reese, of the Park Police, noted it at that time. When Sergt. Reese passed again this morning and saw the same car there, he grew suspicious and investigated. 'Finding Policeman ‘Thompkins ’'hat, overcoat, inner coat | and night-stick in the car, he notified police headquarters. It seemed plain to all that Policeman Thompkins had thrown himself in the river, perhaps in a hand-to-hard en. counter with a ecatfish, and the police boat, Maj. Sylvester, swung into action with a rescue cre®, armed with grap- l Air Views Show Capital Area Developing TON BRIDGE AND MASONIC MEMORIAL NEAR COMPLETION. R0AD AND DISTRIT FUNDS PUTINBIL Senate Approves Money for Mount Vernon Boulevard and Bicentennial. Funds to complete the the expenses of the District of Columbia George Washington Bicentennial Com- mission and to provide for the depart- ment of vehicles under the new traffic law were added to the second deficiency appropriation bill on the floor of the Senate yesterdav afternoon. For finishing tne highway along the Potomac, from the Arlington Memorial Bridge to Mount Vernon, the Senate put in the $2,700,000 authorized by the bill passed Tuesday. Commission Gets $100,000. Fer the local Bicentennial Commission the Senate allowed the $100,000 from District funds, which was recently eliminated from the District appropria- tion bill because at that time the en- abling authorization had not passed. For personal services in the new de- partment of vehicles the deficiency bill contains $34,300, and a provision stating that funds in the District appropriation: act for next ar for the existing Traf- fic Bureau be available for the de- partment of vehicles. Amendments Approved. The Senate also approved the follow- ing amendments put in the deficiency bill by its Appropriations Committee: To make a stait on a new building in Washington for the Ccurt of Claims, the final cost of which will be $1,225.- 000: to erect two experimental radio stations for the Bureau of Standards, $147,000; to eliminate fire hazards in the ‘Senate wing of the Capitol and Senate Office Building, $100,000; fo expenses of the Pan American Com- mercial Conference to be held here this year, $15.000; for expenses of the Dis- trict employment service. $4,500. ‘The bill contains various other de- ficiency items for the municipal govern- ment, put in by the House and approved by the Senate. The Senate may com- plete work on the deficiency bill and send it to conference today or tomorrow. SHOW GIRL WILL WEAR $5,000,000 COSTUME HERE Helen Polka Will Introduce “Money Mad” Dance at Local Hotel Saturday. A scanty, fringe-like’ costume, made from material which formerly consti- tuted bills of the $10,000 denomination, amounting to an estimated $5.000,000, will be worn by Miss Helen Polka, for- mer Earl Carroll show girl, at the Shore- ham Hotel Saturday night. when she will introduce her new “Money Mad" dance specialty. Miss Polka also has other gowns made from macerated y, but they are said to represent only $3.000 to $5.000 each in crushed old money. The $5,000,000 costume is said to con- sist entirely 'of {rmnge, weighing only a few ounces, but of a glittering silk- like substance. POLICEMAN IN TIME TO SEE RIVER DRAGGED FOR HIS BODY POLICEMAN THOMPKINS. pling hooks, resuscitators and other ‘mergency equipment. Appears on Scene. The rescue crew had just completed its first dragging of the river bottom when Policeman Thompkins and Po- liceman Berger appeared, carrying proudly a fine string of seven catfish, some of them still wiggling. A policeman standing beside his car recognized Thompkins as he approached. “For whom,” asked Policeman Thomp- kins, with a strange feeling in his throat. “are they dragging the river?” “Por you,” replied the officer, “Tell "them I'm not biting tod ‘Thompkivs is reported to have re- sponded, as he loaded his fish into the car and drove away, posthaste, memorial | boulevard to Mount Vernon, to defray | | | | ROGRESS on the development of | ton Memorial Bridge, the water g: Potomac Parkway are shown in the Washington terminus to the Arling- ate and the approach to the Rcck Creek- the upper photograph. The road from the parkway to the bridge will approach the bridge plaza along the top of the long curving granite wall seen to the left. Below is an unusual view cf the nearly completed George Washington Masonic Memorial on Shooters Hill, | Alexandria, Va. The view is from the rear of the memorial, with Alexandria in | the background. Bota photographs were made by Elwood Baker, Star staff pho- | tographer, from a New Standard open cockpit plane loaned by Washington- Hoover Airport and pilcted by Roger Scott. HARD TIVE CALSE 0SS TO CURGHES ‘Membership Slump in Ger- | many Reported to Preshy- | terian Session. | “A difficult and troubled year, both in the United States and abroad,” was | reviewed by Dr. J. Ross Stevenson of | Princeton, N. J., in a report presented today at the closing session of the Western Section of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches. Dr. Stevenson said that distress in | Germany and Austria was growing | alarmingly, and that the unemployment | situation in Europe was immeasurably worse than in the United States. He rendered his report as chairman of the Committee on Work on the Continent of Europe. ‘There is actual famine in Silesia, he declared, 4,000,000 men being out of | work, with'little or no hope for any | improvement in the near future. Ger- many alone has 750,000 orphans under 16 yeas of age, he said. Losses in Membership. | He quoted from labor newspapers in | Germany advertising against religion | with resultant withdrawals from church membership at the behest of atheistic proletariat propaganda. The German Evangelical Church Pederation reports 56,000 resignations from official church | membership, Dr. Stevenson pointed out, | due in part to this propaganda and to the inability of many persons to pay | their dues. Russia remains the “black spot on the religious map of Europe,” he re- ported. Dr. Stevenson told of a move- ment to rescue 100,000 survivors of the | 200,000 Christians, mostly Mennonites, | driven by the Soviet government into exile in Russia's far north, where half | of them perished from cold and hard- ships. He lamented the fact that no | Christian nation undertook to influence | the Soviet government to accord the | survivors free passage out of Russia. Dr. W. I. Wishart of Pittsburgh, Pa.. where he is minister of the Eighth United ' Presbyterian Church, submit- | ted a “doctrinal basis for Presbyterian | Church union.” He said that the joint committee Tepresenting the five major | churches holding the reformed faith | and the Presbyterian order has agreed | that in the proposed merger of these | five communions the doctrinal basis of union shall be the “existing standards | ot the several uniting churches.” | Nevertheless, he pointed out, this pro- | posal as to the doctrinal basis for the united church is not entirely ideal. Higher Education Hit, In a sermon delivered at the con-| ference last night, Dr. Joseph E. Simm! pastor of the New York Avenue Pres-| byterian Church, where the s°ssions | are being held, charged that higher education in the scholarly sense was becoming a thing of the past in the | modern attempt to turn education into | money and luxury by using a college | as @ short cut to wealth and leisure, which was thrown away. “Thinking people have become deep- Iy impressed with the decrease of in- tellectual maturity,” he said. “The intellectual lights of the world are | flickering and the lamps are going out | in the world of moral ideals. than 300 miles of the inter- highway from Matamor: 10 | | | | n, xico, have been graded Recentiy,® : tar Staff Photos. DOCTOR COES HOME DESPITE INJURIES John A. Hornshy Returns to | Charlottesville With Broken Pelvis and Hip. With a startling display of fortitude, Dr. John A. Hornsby, 69, superintendent | of the University of Virginia Hospital, carried out plans for his return to| Charlottesville' yesterday afternoon de- spite painful injuries suffered when run down by an automobile a short time | before his train was due to leave Union | Station. Dr. and Mrs. Hornsby had been visit- ing their daughter, Miss Edith M. | Hornsby of 2423 E street, for the past three days, and the former was down- | town completing a few business mat- | ters before making his departure when the accident occurred at Fourteenth and L streets At Emergency Hospital, Dr. Hornsby's | injuries were diagnosed as fractures of the pelvis and left hip. Raymond F. Robertson, 21, of the 100 block E street, driver cf the car, was released by sec- ond precinct police. The auto victim was advised to re- main at the institution for further at- | tention after first aid treatment was | adminisered, but he expressed a pref- erence to be taken care of at his own infirmary and insisted he Could stand the long train ride. The physiclan was carried to the sta- tion and placed aboard the 3 o'clock train for home. He was acccmpanied by his wife and son, Hubert, who is in | the Department of _Agriculture. Dr. Hornsby served in the Medical Corps during the World War. Stepping out of a safety zone at Thomas Circle last night, Theodore Sheba Willis, 29, of 1408 Massachusetts avenue, was knocked down by a hit- and-run taxicab and suffered bruises of the left leg. She was treated by a pri- Vate physician at her home. | Georgetown Hospital physicians treat- | ed Mrs. Edna E, Proctor, 3627 Van Ness street, for shock yesterday afternoon | after ‘on automobile she was driving overturned in_a collision with another | machine at Volta place and Thirty- fourtk. street. Police said Julian B. Jacobs, 1701 Sixteenth street, was the driver 'of the second car. Two motorists, Frederick F. Chesley, 19, of 1513 Cliffbourne street, and Lloyd H. Roberts, 29, of 908 Pennsylvania ave- nue southeast, were arrested by police | after crashes in which pedestrians es- | caped with slight hurts, Chesley, charged with reckless driv | Ing, demanded, a jury trial today and | the case was set for March 26. FAIL TO REVIVE GIRL Rescue Squad Workers Battle to Save Pneumonia Victim. Miss Dorothy Bernard, 17-year-old ‘Western High School student of 4915 W street, died of pneumonia at her home last night despite the efforts of fire rescue squad workers to revive her by artificial respiration. The girl had been su a week with influensa to be convalescing, wi contracted pneumonia. flering for nearly but was believed | was found in an unconscious by her parents shortly after tnd was pronounced dead le hour later after firemen to revive her, o'clock han an yain \ OFFICIALS PROBING ISSUANCEOF STOCK BYPHONE CONPANY $2,000,000 in Common Shares Put Out Without Approval of Commission. ACCORDING TO CHARTER, IS FIRW'S EXPLANATION Penalty May Be $1,000 Fine or Nullification of Issue, if Law Is Violated. The Public Utilities Commission is investigating the issue of $2,000,000 worth of common stock by the Chesa- peake & Potomac Telephone Co. last September, not authorized by the com- mission. According to a statement from the telephone company today, the stock was issued in accordance with' the provisions of the charter of the corporation as amended in 1923. This charter, granted by the im.e orzwpw York, permitted the corporation to issue stock not 1 of_$15,000,000. i The corporation had issued $13,000,000 previous to 1909. Last year the cor- poration borrowed $2,000,000 on demand notes for construction purposes. It sold the additional $2,000,000 stock to its parent company, the American Telphone & Telegraph Co., at par, and with the cash thus realized it retired the demand notes. Dividends on the stock have since been paid to the American Tele- phone & Telegraph, The public utilities act passed In 1913 prohibits the issuance of any stock by any public utility corporation doing business in the District without the ex- press permission of the commission, Penalties provided for a violation are {8 fine of $1,000 or a nullification of the stock issue. The question has been put up to Cor- poration Counsel W. W. Bride whether the agtion of the corporation was prop- er under its charter, or whether it should have been governed by the Pub- lic Utilities Commission and sought first the leave of the commission. $10,000 BONDS SET IN HOLD-UP CASE | Two Held for Jury After Pleading Guilty to Robbing Gas Sta- tion Collector. Two men who entered pleas of guilty to charges of holding up a runner for "lh-, Lord Baltimore Filling Stations February 1 and robbing him of $1,04337 were bound over to the grand jury to- day on $10,000 bonds each when ar- raigned in United States branch of Police Court before Judge John P. Mc- Mahon. ‘The men, Samuel A. Johnston of 637 G street southeast, and Clarence P. Hulse _of Baltimore, Md., are charged {with _holding up Benjamin F. Burch, a collector of the gas station firm, as he was leaving a filling station at Rhode Island avenue and R street Feb- ruary 1. Burch lives at 6609 First street. Information supplied by Headquarters Detectives Michael Dowd and Larry O'Dea, who arrested the men, that they are believed to have been involved in a series of other hold-ups, resulted in the high bond being set. These other cases are still under investigation, the tectives said. 30 DAYS GIVEN DRUNK WHO ASKED ICE CREAM Judge Schuldt Hears Story of Wil- liam Brown’s Voluntary Visit to Police Station. Even a drunk can fall victim to cravings for the delicacies of the soda fountain, but William Brown is prob- ably one man who is unalterably con- vinced that a police precinct. station house is one place where ice cream is not_served. When Brown wandered into No. 3 precinct last night, lifted his foot awkwardley to the brass rail in front of the sergeant’s desk and boisterously is- sued an order for ice cream, he was immediately placed under arrest on a charge of being drunk. Judge Gus A. Schuldt heard his story in Police Court today and sentenced him to 30 days in jail. Brown had just completed a sentence for drunk- enness last night. * CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.’ ‘TODAY. Card party, Keane Council, Knights of Columbus, K. of C. Hall, 918 Tenth street, 8:30 p.m. Bingo and card party, Columbia Council, Sons and Daughters of Lib- erty, 1125 Third street northeast, 9 pm. Dance and card party, Towa State Society, Willard Hotel, 8:30 p.m. Dance, Massachusetts State Society, Shoreham Hotel, 9 p.m. Meeting, American Society of Me- chanical Engineers, Cosmos Club, 8 p.m. Supper, Mothers’ Club, St. James' Catholic Church, Thirty-seventh street and Rhode Island avenue, 4:30 to 8 pm. Sermon, Rev. Harris E. Kirk, D. D, Franklin Street Presbyterian Church, at All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Chevy Chase Circle, 8 p.m. Smoker, Delta Tau Delta Alumni, 1524 K street, 8:30 p.m. Meeting, Conduit Road Citizens’ As- soclation, Community Church, Conduit road and Cathedral avenue, 8 p.m. Dinner meeting, Davidson College, N. C, alumni of Washington and vi- cinity, Racquet Club, 7:30 p.m. Recital, auspices Prince Hall Chap- ter, No.' 5, O. E. S. Metropolitan A.’M. E. Church, 8:15 pm. Spelling bee, Women's City Club, 736 Jackson place, 8 p. Dinner, Reclprl;t Club, Mayflower Hotel, 6:30 p.m. . e Smoker, Military Order of the World ‘War, Mayflower Hotel, tonight. FUTURE. Cantata, Second Street Baptist Church Choir, Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, Vermont avenue between Q@ and R streets, tomorrow, 8:30 p.m., Dr, W, Scott $dayo, directing, '\ -