Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1931, Page 5

POLICE ENLISTED IN SIGN SURVEY Data Will Be Used in Draft- ing New Set of Regula- tions. Before any attempt is made to draw up a new set of outdoor sign regula- tions in the Disrict of Columbia, under authority of the newly enacted law, it ‘was announced yesterday that a thor- ough survey would be made with a view to obtaining an accurate list of all authorized and illegal signs. This survey is to be made in each olice precinct with the aid of the po- ice, who are in a better position to do this work, it was explained, than any other department. By such a survey the committee which is to draft the regulations will be able to secure much needed information about the number and locations of signs and billboards. The committee, which is headed by Maj. Donald A. Davison, Assistant En- eer Commissioner, is expected to hold its first meeting this week. The corporation counsel's office and the Police Department are to be represent- ed on this committee, and Maj. Davi- son has requested that W. W. Bride and Maj. Pratt designate an assistant cor- ration counsel and a police official serve. committee are Roland M. Brennan, chief clerk of the Engineer Depart- ment, who helped draw up the present law, and John W. Oehmann, inspector of buildings. Public Hearings Authorized. Public hearings are authorized under the new signboard law, and it is under- stood that these would be held in the near future so that no delay might be made in restoring order to what even some of the representatives of the bill- board interests admit is a “messy” con- dition in Washington. Except for a few rominent corners which are lined with uge billl on two or more sides when they happen to border on alleys, the worst conditions in the city are due to the hundreds and thousands of small signs plastered over buildings. Referring to the work that has to be done, Mr. Brennan said yesterday that the police would be requested to see that all vacant lots are cleaned up, for one thing. There is no doubt, Mr. Brennan said, that thousands of ille- signs are plastered over Washington. Practically every vacant store or build- ing is used to show window signs for ‘which, he declared, there is absolutely no authority. Another condltion which has been greatly abused, Mr. Brennan pointed out, is the placing of portable signs outside the authorized lines. Many of these are placed on the sidewalks outside of stores and build- ings, he said, and some are placed near the street on the edge of the sidewalks. ‘These conditions have grown up in Wi under the general laxity of sign law enforcement in recent yeal He also expressed the view that a nu ber of the larger billboards already es- tablished are placed in positions that constitute violation of a strict interpre- tation of the existing regulations. Billboard Companies Urge Plan. ‘The organized billboard companies operating in Washington, anxious to get rid of the indiscriminate plastering of small signs on bulldings, are practi- cally a unit in support of the intention, under the new law, to require one sign of a reasonable size on buildings which actually advertise the products sold on That was one of the objectives of the new law, as the Commissioners hereto- fore have been powerless to control the digplay of tack-and-) er signs ad- vertising products which have no rela- tionship at all to the business conducted on the premises. With the co-operation of the police, it was said this condition can be remedied under the new law. Although the actual revision of the existing regulations is & matter that has been left to the determination of a committee of District officials, it was said there is nothing vertising companies, the Merchants’ and Manufactursrs Assoclation and others who will be affected by the law, including so-called representatives of the public. It was on the theory that the District officials represent every in- terest in the city that the drawing up oulu;‘he regulations was left entirely to At the public hearings, it was said, ample opportunity will be given to have all sides of the question presented. That was the pwpose in having a public teed under the bill be- tions are made effective. ENGINEER IN WRECK EXECUTED BY SOVIET| Better Railroading Expected as Be—| sult—Twelve Others of Crews Imprisoned. By Cable to The Star. MOSCOW. U. §. S. R, March 7.—As 8 service measure to improve raliroad- | ing, an engineer has been shot and 12| others of the crews of two trains which | collided were sentenced to serve from | 3 to 10 years in prison. | The wreck occurred at Karimskay: where the Chinese Eastern Railway | poins the Transiberian line, damaging ! two locomotives and injuring an un- | mentioned number of humans | The director of a factory near Mos- | cow has been sentenced to two years | and three of his assistants to one year of compulsory labor for fatlure to un- load cars promptly, delaying the work until 811 accumulated on the factory | sidetracks. | (Copyright. 1931.) BELLE LIVINGSTON QUITS JAIL WITH CHEERS IN AIR| Police Restrain 500 From Con- gratulating Night Club Hostess. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 7.—Freedom | Ta t in cheers from 500 well-wish- as Belle Livingston, New Yoi':'s nky hostess, left Harlem women's priscn after serving 30 days fo" contempt of court 2olice reserves had to restrain the d from congratulating her person- 1 Photographers, sound news reel men and reporters met her at the door. ‘Do you think your morals have been v _contact with tbe other she was asked “No, they have been improved,” she replied She was met by her secretary in s limousine in which was also a man who described himself only as an “ar- tist.” Miss Livingston was dressed in black and wore a string of peerls. She | The other members of the|. uilding | 878 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Bureau Honors Founder STANDARDS BRANCH s DR. SAMUEL IGH-RANKING Government of- ficlals and scientists attended exercises at the Bureau of Standards last night in cele- bration of the organization's thirtieth anniversary. ‘The outstanding event on the pro- m was the presentation to the institution of a portrait of Dr. Samuel W Stratton, founder and first director of the bureau, by Henry A. Wise Wood of New York. The portrait was paint- ed by Margaret Fitzhugh Browne of Boston, who was among the guests. Dr, George K. Burgess, present direc- tor, accepted the gift on behalf of the bureau. Other guests were Robert P. La- mont, Secretary of Commerce, and Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary. Many of the present policies of the bureau were inaugurated by Dr. Strat- ton during the 20 years he was in charge of the Commerce Department unit It was under his direction that the bureau aided numerous large in- NOW 30 YEARS OLD W. STRATTON. | dustrial concerns to solve their techni- cal problems. He influenced many cor- | porations to' form tkeir own research departments. | Native of Illinois. | Dr. Stratton left Washington to be~ | come president of the Massachusetts | Institute of Technology. He resigned | last June to be chairman of the cor- | poration of the same inst:tute. | Born in Litchfield, Ill, Jaly 18, 1861, he was graduated from the: University | of Illinois with the degree of B. 8. in | mechanical engineering in 1884. He re- mained as a member of the Illinois faculty until 1892, at which time he was professor of physics and electrical | engineering. He transferred to the | University cf Chicag> in 1892. He was professor of physics there when called to Washington. His honorary degrees include doctor of engineering, University of Ilinols, | 1903; doctor of science, University of | Pittsburgh, 1903; doctcr of science, s air. Here's that “Ounce of Prevention” Better than a pound of cold cures is this | Ventilator. 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Arrayed against it in the competition was a far-flung private organization in- | vestigating countless lines of inquiry that lle outside the jurisdiction of the New York police. One of these was re- ported to said to be on vacation in Havana. Miss Adler’s police record showed she | was arrested and discharged 11 times on charges of operating a disorderly house. She is not suspected of having any- thing to do with the murder, and police denied any desire to question her, but private detectives believed she might have information to ald in capturing whoever took Miss Gordon for a “ride,” strangled her with a length of clothes- line and tossed her body into a Bronx gully nine days ago. Miss Gordon, vice graft tipster, de- scribed as a blackmailer of her men ac- | quaintances, was on a_ hunt for evi- dence to support her charge that she wes “framed” by police on a vice charge eight years ago. Broadway, where Miss Gordon moved in udy compa: for man; ears, University of Cambridge, England, 1909; doctor of science, Yale, 1919; doctor of laws, Harvard, 1923, and doctor of philosophy, Rensselaer Institute, 1924. He was made a chevalier of the Legion of Homor in 1909 and an officer in 1928. He holds the Elliott Cresson medal and the welfare medal of the National Academy of Sciences. He is an honorary member of the Society of the Sigma X, the Soclety of Tau Beta Pi and the Society of Phi Beta Kappa. Member of Organizations. Dr. Stratton is a member of the Visiting Committee of the Bure:u of Standards, the National Advisory Cor mittee for Aeronautics, the Interna- tional Committee of Weights and Measures, the American section, Inter- 101 Chamber of Commerce, the Naticnal Academy of Sciences, the Na- tional Research Council, the American Physical Society, the American Philo- sophical Society, the American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science, the Washington Academy of Science, the American Institute of Electrical En- gineers, the American Mociety of Me- chanical Engineers, the American So clety of Testing Matertals and the Americap Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the Cosmos, Chevy Owase and Army and Navy Clubs of Washington and the Union. Tavern, Algonquin, Engineers and Uni- versity Clubs of Boston 0o 6% % % ’00.00'00.0 Specializing in Perfect DIAMONDS Also complete line of stand- ard and all-American made watches. 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