Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1931, Page 17

ROVER 70 CONTINUE GAMBLING CASES IN SPITE OF REVERSES Refusal of Two Juries to Con- vict Defendants Not to Halt Prosecutions. WARRANTLESS RAIDS FORMED TRIAL BASIS Four More Accusations to Be Heard in Courts Here on Next Wednesday. The refusal of two juries in Police Court yesterday to convict alleged gambling cases made by headquarters detectives on warrantless raids whon “looking for a couple of fellows,” Wi not result in the dropping of maining cas's, United States Attorney 1c0 A. Rover announced today, after a conference with his assistints, Wilbert McInerney and Prank Adams, who had conducted the prosecutions. Rover declared he is in accord with the decision of Judge John P. Mc) hon that the raids were legal, and that ion to order the papers in the ca based on an opinion of the Di urt of Appeals in the Groce case, in which it was held that officers had the right to enter a public pla where they suspected law violations wes being conducted, and to make arrests if such violations proceed:d in their presence. Cases Set Wednesday. Four of the remaining cases will be get_down for next Wednesday, Rover said, for jury trials, and the responsi- bility put up to the jurors. These cases are against Jaabe Ehrlich and Joseph A. Sullivan, arrested at 500 Tenth street; Frank G. Davis_and Joseph Lewis. arrested at 518 Tenth street: Morgan G. Wilson, arrested at 702 Ninth street, and Gustave B. Rinehardt, arrested at 1230 H street. Rover's announcement came 8s something of a surprise, as it had been felt in some quarters that dismissal of the other cases was almost a certainty. in view of the severe blows struck at the warrantless raid system y erday. One Verdict Directed. Pirst, Judge Ralph Given directed & Police Court jury to return a verdict of not guilty in the case of Louis Palumbo who, with William Baroni, was charged with permitting gaming at 408 Ninth street. The police, it was pointed out, had not produced sufficient evidence to prove Palumbo was connected with the alleged gambling establishment. Later in the day another Police Court Jury acquitted Baroni. i The jury which heard the Baroni case deliberated little more than half an hour before returning its verdict. Five women were on the jury, Shortly thereafter a jury in Judge McMahon's branch of ~ Police Court cleared Steve J. Nichols and Thomas Simon, 915 Ninth street, despite the i fact Simon had admitted the previous | day that he operated a gambling estab- lishment. Warrantless raids on places of this kind previously had been upheld by Judge McMahon. Charged Tllegal Entry. Harry Whelan, attorney for Nichols and Simon, conceded gambling had been permitted nt the Ninth street address, but maintained the raiders entered the building illegally. Judge McMahon, on the other hand, held the police had not violated the men'’s constitutional rights by entering the establishment without a warrant The presence of peepholes and barred doors gave the police good reason to believe the law wis being violated in- side, the judge pointed out. HOTEL SUES IN ROW OVER NEW BUILDING Work on House Office Structure Cuts Patronage, George Wash- ington Inn Charges. The District of Columbia and the Consolidated Engineering Co.. which is erecting the new House Office Build- ing, were jointly sued today in the District Supreme Court for $30,000 dam- ages by the George Washington Inn, New Jersev avenue and C street south- east. for alleged loss of patronage, due tc the alleged illegal shutting off of three approaches to the hostel ing only access from the south. inn management charges that the Dis- trict illegally gave permission to the en gineering company to close Jersev avenue, the direct approach to the inn from the United States Cavi- tol, with quantities of dirt, debris, build- inz materials and other articles and also to clutter up two other approaches, £0 that the clientele of th inn has been greatly reduced in numbers and the business of the plaintiff damaged ex- cessively. Through Attornevs Charles S. Baker and Benjamin L. Tebper. the court is told that the plaintiff caters to mem- bers of Congress and to transients and tourists by advertising its location as “one square south of the Unfted States Capitol Dome” and by the alleged 1il- Jegal closing of the streets approach from the House Office Building is cut off sad transients are prevented from locating the place. BODY CLAIMED BY WIDOW up New | + Annex to Temporary Any one who doesn't think that a one-story ennex to the temporary buildings housing the Census Bureau workers is the warmest spot in the Government establishment likely can get a bet. Situated in the middle o having & top layer of cinders—never noted for their cooling properties—the long low structure has a reputation for heat in surroundings where heat is commonplace. At 11:30 yesterday morning the tem- perature there registered a liberal 88, which was a shade above the highest mark shown in the adjacent “tempo.” is maintained. A nearby temporary building also is used by the bureau. 24 Overcome in Afternoon. ‘Throughout the main building the temperatures ranged from 82 to just about 88 in one wing on the second fioor, but, in the language of those {qualified to know, “that's nothing.” It has been as high as 97 this year, and once last vear it was said to have | reached 104. | Tuesday afternoon 24 employes of the bureau were treated in the emergency 1 room after being overcome, eight being !affected to sucn an extent that it was necessary to carry them' on stretchers to receive attention. That is not un- common, it was said. The empl were dismissed at 3 o'clock that day, when the thermom- |eters which ave distributed around the bureau showed from 93 to 95. The temporary buildings are three- |story structure fer ‘most in the afternoon, although erday morning the readings on the three floors were about uniform, run- I ning between 85 and 87. There is a boy who woes hourly to each of the thermometers. takes a read- g and then furnishes the data to the | chief clerk’s office, in order that the workers may be dismissed when condi- WASHINGTON ROLE {Commission Wants Actor to Match Character as Well as Looks. | | If you resemble George Washington, in |general characteristics as well as in | fetaures, here is your chance to play |the stellar Tole in a great historical | pageant, Fame—but hardly fortune— awaits the successful applicant. The George Washington Bicentennial Commission 1s looking for a “double” {to take the part of the First President in the pageant that is being planned for next June on the grounds of the i Washington Monument. Any one who thinks he meets the qualifications is i eligible to enter this contest. In can- | vassing the Nation for the ideal charac- ter to take the role, the commission ! will extend its search into every walk of life. Nation-Wide Search. While the Bicentennial authorities believe it is not impossible to find some- { where in these broad United States a man who meets all the physical quali- fications, they realize it is quite another {thing to match George Washington in |all those personal characteristics which make for one, and only one, George | Washington. So quite liberal allowances | will be made in that respect. 1t is stipulated in advertisements that |will be distributed throughout the | country, that the man the commission is looking for to take the part af the Father of His Country must have a knowledge of surveying, understand farming and, in case of emergency. know how to lend a hand in directing a revolutlon. Already, it was sald, g prominent Gov- | ernment official has been suggested for |this coveted role, but the commission does not intend tomake a decision until it has canvassed the entire country. Other Players Wanted. The pageant is to be one of the largest ever attempted in the United States. A cast of 5000 persons. repre- senting all sections, will take part in it. In additon to George Washington, there will be portrayals of those other | “immortals,” ‘Thomas Jeflerson, Alexan- {der Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, | Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Charles ! Carroll of Carrollton, the Lees of Vir- |ginia and other giants of the Revo- | lutionary period. “As in the case of | Washington, every attempt will be made |to have the impersonations as true to life as_possible. Maybe, if your mirror does not re- {flect the feafures of a Washington, a Henry or an Adams or a Franklin will | serve the purpose just a well. |SUSPECT ADMITS PART IN CAPITAL HOLD-UP | William H. Collier, 18, Is Captured at Father's Residence in Md. Milestown, Taken into custody at_his father's {nome_in Milestown, Md., William Her- |bert Collier, 18, alleged to have partici- pated in the hold-up of William Saun- ders at Georgia avenue and Roxboro I place two months ago, was brought to | Washington_yesterday by Detective E. F. Lewis, thirteenth precinct. Collier is said to have admitted to pelice that he was with a companion, now serving time for the affair, when the hold-up ook place and that his t & yard | where the headquarters of the census | and the top floors suf- | wa: share of the loot was 50 cents. | The prisoner told of shots fired at him while running from the scene, land sald he continued running until he was able to find a hiding place. Later he made his way to Southern Maryland. Police are holding him while they in- vestigate to learn if he participated in any other rohberies. WOMAN IN AUTO HURT dCar Skids and Overturns Near Bat- tery Park. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, M July 24.—Miss Adele May Parker of 410 H street, ‘Washington, received shocks and bruises yesterday afternoon when the automo- on the bank of a river on the grounds | bile she was driving skidded on the of the home. His death was attributed | old Georgetown road and overturned 1o natural causes. Several futile efforts | on the car tracks at a point just above had been made to locate relations of | Battery Park. the dead man, after which he was' Wet streets, caused by the heavy interred in Potters Field. showers, are believed to have con- A brother and daughter of Schutz, | tributed to the accident. Miss Parker Charles B. Schutz and Irene Dodd, | was brought to the office of Dr. B. C. were finally located living on Blair | Perry here and treated. The accident toad. They communicated with Schultz's [ was reported to police at the sub- widow, who ordered the body exhumed | station here by Mrs. J. Thomas Austin end transported to Baltimore for|of Bethesda, and was investigated by burial. Officers Davis and Shoemaker. ) FROM POTTERS FIELD TUnmarked Grave Is Reopened Aft- er Relatives of Robert Schutz, 67, Are Found. ‘The relatives of Robert Schutz. 67- year-old inmate of the Blue Plains Homes for the Aged Poor, who were sought in vain to ‘'save him from a })nuper‘s burial in Potters Field follow- Ing his death early this month, finally were located yesterday. Today the un- marked grave was reopened and the body of Schutz claimed by his widow. Schutz disappeared from the poor house July 6, slightly more than six months after he became an inmate there. His body was later discovered ™ Claim Hottest U. S. Office | PATENT OFFICE'S Sweltering Census Emplo&es Housed in One-Slor}' Buildings—Willing to Bet on Discomfort. tions warrant. All this with batteries |of elctric fans hard at work. Whimsically enough, the census work- ers won't benefit by the air-cooling that | hereafter will be incorporated in the | new Government buildings, for they will be located in Commerce Department Building, that was built before the question of air-cooling was raised. The | Bureau of Internal Revenue, which also had employes in temporary buildings at one time, is another built without this facility. To have installed air-cooling in these two buildings after their erec- |tion would have required an expenditure | put at about $700,000. Secretary’s Suite to Be Cooled. In Commerce, arrangements after- ward were made to cool the suite occu- !piad by the Secretary and a section | used for iridustrial purpose: | The other new buildings in the tri- |angle will be cooled, however. Where |the cooling and heating systems are | combined, the plant can be installed for around $300,000. To establish separate systems would cost_double. The idea of cooling the offices was said to have been raised only after the matter was brought forcibly to atten- tion by instances in which it was nec- sary to dismiss thousands of workers because of the hot weather. The coolest place to work in the Government_establishment is the of- fice of President Hoover. There the air is cooled, washed and maintained at an average of 74 degrees. Only a small plant was necessary there, and the cost as but a fraction of that for one of the large buildings. Incidentally, on the top floor of the Treasury Building. where architects and engineers are busy planning the com- forts in the new buildings, they are working In quarters that they'll dare any one to tell them are not the hot- It was 83 there at 10:30 yesterday 1 { | PLAYER IS SOUGHT POWERS INCREASED Order Covering All Assets of Real Estate Properties, Inc., Is Signed. A general receivership of all the assets of the Wardman Real Estate Proper- ties, Inc. was established today when Justice James M. Proctor of the Dis- trict Supreme Court signed an order enlarging the powers of Thomas D. | Carson, Joseph P. Tumulty and Julius | 1. Peyser, who had been named re- | ceivers July 14 of the Wardman Park | Hotel, the Carlton Hotel and eight other | | Wardman-built properties for default |in a first mortgage bond issue of $16,- 1000.000. The receivers were directed to take possession of cash, notes and' | other securities of the ~corporation | found in banks and in vaults in the various hotels and apartments covered by the original receivership, The bond | of the receivers was enlarged to $250,000. |~ Application for the general receiver- | ship was made by Randolph P. Comp- ton, Scarsdale, N. Y.. & general creditor, | through Attorney Willlam C. Sullivan. The applicant explained he has & note of the company for $2,750 which is overdue and points out that the original receivership left in the hands of the defendant company assets approximat- ing $200,000, and it would be to the | benefit of all general creditors as well as the company for an enlargement of | the powers of the receivers to cover all the company's assets in their admini: tration of the affairs of the corporation. The company, through Attorney Dan- 1el Thew Wright, consented to the gen- | eral receivership. 'YORKTOWN SCENES URGED BY MONARCHS | Washington Club Joins Protest Against Elimination From Pageant. The local Monarch Club has added | its voice to the chorus of protest over tentative plans of the Yorktown Se: quicentennial Commission for elimina- tion from its pageant next October of scenes depicting the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. The club has adopted a resolution | expressing .its conviction “that there is nothing in the portrayal of known historic events which should offend sen- sible people” and ‘shat the celsbration at Yorktown will be incomplete without a review of the historic events connected with the surrend-r of Lord Cornwallis.” ‘The club urges retention of the sur- render scenes and “other historic events connected thercwith.” A committee of the Yorktown com- mission recently disapproved the sur- render episode on the grounds it might offend British visitors. Action of the committee will be passed on by the com- mission at a special meeting next Mon- day. FALL IS BASIS OF SUIT Simon Kimche, 609 Maryland avenue southwest, has filed suit in the District Suprem= Court to recover $25,000 dam- ages from the Cudahy Packing Co., 431 Twelfth street southwest, for alleged personal injuries, He says he was a customer of the company and because of its alleged negligence a quantity of fatty and greasy substance had been al- lowed to accumulate on the floor of the store and caused the customer to fall Febru: 13 last and to sustain serious injury. ~Attorneys Simon, Koenigsberg- er, Young & Brez appear for. the plaintiff. Occoquan Prisoner Asks Police Here To Return Cane Having served half of a six- month sentence at Occoguan on vad check charges, Jesse Cun- ningham Stilly of Denver has asked police headquarters by let- ter to return the malacca cane he left there. Stilly explained he abandoned his walking stick b>cause when he left headquarters he wasn't wa'king. He extended greetings to Detective Bernard W. Thomp- son, chief of the check squad, and closed with a wish Thompson is still wondering about, in of the hot spell: “Hope you are enjoying these fine Summer days!” @he WASHINGTON, D. C | NEWHOME TOHAVE FINEST FAGILITIES Commerce Building Quarters to Improve Service for Entire Industry. WING TO BE OCCUPIED BEFORE CLOSE OF YEAR Fashioned to Meet Particular Needs, It Has Vast Search Room and Large Library. Improved service for the entire in- dustry of this country which is depend- ent upon careful, yet prompt, action in | the issuance of patents, will be provided ! before the close of the present year.! | when the Patent Office moves into the | | entire north third floor of the new Com- | merce Building. At the Patent Office | they are now preparing to move 1500 | employes and more than 5,000 tons oli material, aside from office furniture, | which is essential to the proper admin- | istration of patents. For more than 100 years the Patent | Office has occupied as a lighthouse for | American industry the historic reserva- | tion set aside by Maj. L'Enfant’s plan | for the Capital City for a nationali church and mausoleum, and has ben | | housed in a building the main portico ! { of which is modeled after the Pantheon ! {at Rome, and which has been one of | the historic landmarks intimately con- | | nected with the history of the Capital { for nearly a century. Z The Patent Office Is now preparing to move into the entire north wing of the Comrerce Building, the largest office building in the world. and this, wing, facing Pennsylvania avenue and nearest to the T-easury and White | House, Is considered the most desirable, office location in the entire Capital. | This third of the Commerce Building | was designed especially to meet the par- ticular needs of the Patent Office and | to give that important branch of the Government service the best possible | facilities to serve American business and the inventive genius of this Nation. | The requirements of the Patent Office are distinctive, because hundreds of in ventors and thousands of patent attor neys daily make searches in the records | to determine questions of novelty and infringement. Has Vast Search Room. ! _Facilities, which _are pronounced | | “wonderful® for these purposes, have | been provided. ‘These include a vast| | search room, with a ceiling two uorios“ ! high, and a correspondingly large and well lighted scientific library. The copies of patents already granted | must be stored in proper condition for | ready access for sale. About 10.000.000 | | copies are kept in stock, and the office sells about 3,000,000 copies a year at 10 cents a copy, o that the Patent Of- fice is said to conduct the largest 10- cent store in the world disposing of only one class of goods. i For more than half a century no models have been required to be sub- | { mitted with patent applications. Now | only drawings are required. no matter how complicated the machine may be. | An accumulation of more than 150,000 old models were disposed of several years ago under authority of a special act of Congress. However, all of the | historical or especially interesting mod- els were preserved in the Smithsonian Institution for posterity. When the Patent Office vacates its present home. that historic building. in the very heart of the business section | {of Washington, will b> used to house| some independent establishment in the Government service which now oceu- ples rented quarters. Considerable opposition has been volced, mainly on sentimental grounds, against the moving of the Patent Office from the location at which it has been “the lighthouse of the inventors” for a century. The necessity for more room and up-to-date facilities, however, have outweighed such sentimental considera- tions. Tssues 40,000 Patents Annually. ‘The Patent Office issues more than 40,000 patents annually, related to al- most every manufacturing industry and device used by man. There is still great patent activity, particularly in the radio field, the perfection of dyes and dying processes, as well as in the im- proved economies in obtaining pe- troleum products, especially motor fuels The recent amendment to the patent statutes, providing for the issuance of | patents for new species of plants. flow- | ers and fruits has thus far not been productive of many applications. In this connection it is interesting to note that the Patent Office was a forerun- | ner of the present Department of Agri- | culture. In 1839 an Agricultural Bu- | reau was created as a division of the | Patent Office, which was then a branch of the Department of State. In 1848, when the Department of the Interior was created, the Patent Office, including the agricultural branch, was transfer- red to the jurisdiction of the Interior Department. While Herbert Hoover was Secretary of Commerce the Patent Of- | fice was again transferred to that de- { partment. The Agricultural Bureau re- | mained under the direct supervision of the commissioner of patents until 1862, and the chief activities were the distri- bution of seeds and publication of agri- cultural information. Office Organized in 1790. The Patent Office was organized in 1790 when the first patent was taken out by one Samuel Hopkins, July 31, “for making pot or pearl ashes,” and the second by Joseph Stacey Sampson, August 6, “for the manufacture of candles.” Before the outbreak of the Foening Staf WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION FRIDAY, JULY 24, Mount Vernon Remodeled to Be.as in ’76 1931. I L | PORCH ERECTED BY WASHINGTON'S NEPHEW REMOVED. The photograph above shows the south end of Washington's mansion at Mounit Vernon as it appears today. fol- lowing removal of the porch built by Washington's nephew. Photograph below shows the mansion before the alterations. f N line with its decision to present Mount Verncn to Bicentennial visitors exactly as it appeared when Washirgton lived there, the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association has had extensive alterations made to the south end of the old mansion. ‘The restoration project, just com- pleted, involved the removal cf a porch erected after Washington's death by his nephew, Judge Bushrod Washing- ton, and the remodeling of the windows {and of a cellar entrance. The venerable house now appears just as it did when completed in 1776, according to Col. H. H. Dodge. superin- tendent of Mount Vernon. In that year Gen. Washington constructed the north end of the building. balancing the gouth wing he had built the year be- ore. Built in Three Sections. The mansion was built in three sec- | tions, the middle portion being com- . The original residence s erected in 1743 by Lawrence Wash- ington. Gen. Washington added wings in order to contribute to comfort and to provide better facilities for en- tertainicg guests. The lower floor of RALWAY DISCLAIMS BLAVE FOR CRASH Assistant to B. & 0. Official Says Berwyn Probe Not Completed. Special Dispatch to The Star. | BALTIMORE, July 24.—The Balti-| more & Ohio Railroad disclaims re- | sponsibility for the crossing tragedy at Berwyn, Md., Tuesday, although a coro- ner’s jury placed the blame upon the | locomctive crew and the crossing ‘watchman. ‘The jury, which met in the Berwyn Heights station Wednesday, exonerated | the girl driver of the automobile which stalled on the track, and who escaped | when the New York-Washington express | crashed into the machine. | ‘The engineer and a student engineer | died in leaping from the cab of the locomotive as the tank of the automo- bile exploded, showering the crew with fiaming gasoline. In an official preliminary statement late yesterday, F. X. Milholland, assist- ant to the senior vice Baltimore & Ohio, said: ““The company’s investigation has not yet been completed and, until it is, we are not in position to pass judgment on the case, or comment on the verdict of the coroner's jury, but so far as the investigation has gone, it would seem to indicate that the railroad company was not responsible for the accident or any of its consequences. i TAXICAB OVERTURNED IN DOWNTOWN CRASH Jeff Van, Driver, Slightly Injured. Occupants of Other Auto Es- cape Harm. A taxicab operated by Jeff Van, 1226 resident of the | Civil War more than 30,000 patents had | Twelfth street, overturned shortly be- been granted and the war so far stimu- | fore noon today in a collision with an- lated inventive genius that by 1870 the {other automobile at the busy intersec- number had risen to 40,000. tion of Thirteenth and E streets. One of the historic anecdotes con- Van, driver for the Diamond Cab Co., nected with the old Patent Office Build- | was only slightly injured, however. He ing concerns Dr. William Thornton, ar- | was treated at Emergency Hospital for chitect of the Capitol, then Commis- |cuts caused by flying glass. His passen- sioner of Patents. When the British [ger, G. H. Alder, 1223 -rwe);zh‘meet, captured the City of Washington in |escaped uninjured. 1814, one of the officers ordered a gun | Mrs. Henry J. Hunt, 47, of 4605 Lan; to be turned on the Patent Office vy Chase, was the oper- Building. Dr. Thornton rode up and ator of the other car. Neither she nor | jumped from his horse in front of the | Mrs. J. Warder, 4609 DeRussey gun, demanding: “Are you Englishmen Parkway, Chevy Chase, who was riding or 'Goths or Vandals? -This is the | With her, was injured. Pl!:lnt Office, the‘ de::mrv t;; u:hl‘:‘;l e e ventive genius of erica, tentive gentus of Amerlcs, 1 cerned. | FACE TRACK RESURFACED Would you destroy it? If so, fire away and let the shot pass through my body.” | Special Dispatch to The Stai In 1865 the second Lincoln inaugural| HAGERSTOWN, Md., July 24.—The ball was held in the Patent Office |race track at the Hagerstown Fair- Building. grounds, where two five-day running - ——————— race fmzeés nxrgoénlg annually, :lx l;h::n‘ s resurfaced, 1, ns of san In; Plan Annual Excnmon.c w S 'elgur flg, flnln;zemrym 15 eterans, Lincoln Camp, en compl 1l work will make s«fl'fih\fi'&?fnl and Mrs. Ellen Spen- | the local track one of the fastest half- cer Mussey Tent will hold their annual | mile courses in Maryland. joint excursion to Marshall Hall to-| The work is being done under the morrow, Members, wives and widows of | supervision of Oliver Eisemann, who the Grand Army of the Republic will 'has in charge of the Havana, be guests on the outing. Cuba, track for years. - the south end contained the study or library, and the second floor provided a larger master’s bed room. 'The lower fioxr at the north was made into a banquet hall. When Gen. Washington died n 1799 the property passed to his widow, who survived him by only three years. Upon the death of Mrs. Washirgton in 1802 the estate went to Judge Bushrod Washington. Judge Washington used the bed room his uncle had occupied at the south end of the mansion. Not long after he came into possession of the property the judge added a porch and lengthened the first and second ' story windows to afford easy access to the floor and roof, respectively, of the porch. Porch and Cellarway Removed. ‘This porch. considered out of har- mony with the architecture of the whole buildirg. remained as a distin- guishing feature of the scuth end throughout the years. The disclosure that the porch was a later addition was made during perusal of letters and papers of Judge Washington, telling of the alterations TALL CORN WAVES AT SOLDIERS’ HOME. A. E. BAIRD. He did not grow them, nor were the giant corn stalks of the soil of his native State, yet A. E. Baird cut two from a field at the Soldiers’ Home this morning and, forgetting his 71 years, trudged five miles with them to a news- paper office, humming “That's Where | the Tall Corn Grows.” Less than a year at the Soldiers’ Home, however, was time enough to instill local pride in the former Hoosier, ‘who had been an Indian fighter, Klon- dlk€e gold miner and Florida land pro- moter. Moist from the brisk hike, with 50 %:‘:?dda of dead weight upon his back, grinned as he up-ended the 14- | foot products of Washington soil. “Dad gum it!” he slapped his thigh. “They talk about corn in Iowa and Kansas, but look what we raise in the District!” “Did you help grow it?"” “No,” said Baird, just before he hiked the five miles back, “but I watched it grow “It’s like this with us old soldiers,” he went on, “it’s our corn out there, our chickens, our cows. “It's our home, I guess—and the Dis- trict's our State now.” ’ | original cellar entrance had been changed radically. As Gen. Washing- | ton built it, the entrance was through | a small vestibule. with peaked roof, | similar_to the entrance on the north ! side. Jucge Washington eliminated the | vesiibule and substituted a flat, sloping’| cellarway. | Windows Made Early Size. The old vestibule had left its marks | on the side of the building, to guide | modern architects in the restoration | work. The vestibule at the north was ' used as a model. The lcng windows | were shortened to their original size | and the scars of the alterations care- fully obliterated by mge craftmanship. When the Mount Vernon Ladies’ As- | sociation came into possession of the | mansion in 1858, after a long struggle, | the building was in a sorry state of | decay. columned front | porch had sagged to such an extent that | wooden props had been used to shore it | up. Since becoming the custodian of | the property the association has ap- | plied itself diligently to the process of restoration, until today the mansion 2ppears exactly as it did in its hey-day. | MMOTOR TITLE FEE METHOD DEFENDED Van Duzer Says Payment by/| Check or Money Order Offers Protection. Answering a complaint that currency is being refused as payment of the $1 fee for issuance of the new certificates |of title for motor vehicles, Traffic Di- rector Willlam A. Van Duzer explained | today that a check or money order is | preferred for the protection of both parties, but denied that any one had authority to refuse cwurrency when| tendered either by letter or in person. In a letter to The Star, N. A. Olm- stead of 3020 Porter street stated that when his personal representative at- tempted to make cash payment of his fee at the Department of Vehicles and | Traffic, he was informed “that the ap- plication would have to be accompanied |by a check or money order for $1 before it would be accepted either in person |or by mail."™ A. A. A. Members Turned Down.' Making inquiry of the American Automobile _ Association, Mr. Olmstead | wrote, he was told that members of | that organization also had been simi- larly turned down. Mr. Olmstead suggested that this practice was unfortunate in view of the department’s efforts to complete the job of titling the cars in the Dis- trict at the earliest possible date. Mr. Van Duzer pointed out today that a check or money order becomes the motorist’s receipt when paid to the District. This form of payment, he added, protects the District in cases where absent-minded persons write that they are paying the fee but neglect to attach the $1 bill. Notice on Application. “All 21 States which have automobile title law,” Mr. Van Duzer said, “bear a notice on the application for title similar to that on the District'’s ap- plications.” Mr. Van Duzer refered to a provision |on the reverse side of the District | application, stating: “Do not send post- | age stamps or money.” A notice on the | face side says, “Do not send cash.” |SOLDIER’S SI:OGAN WINS EMPLOYMENT CONTEST | Service Man Who Failed to Put in His Address Identifies Self to Get $20 Prize. Howard C. Martin, a soldier attached to the office of the chief of Coast Artillery, appeared at the offices of the District Employment Committee toda | and proved to the committee's satisfa tion that he was'the H. C. Martin who submitted the prize-winning slogan for mel_ committee’s Midsummer job cam- | paign. Mr. Martin, whose sl ploy for Prosperity,” ailed to put his address on the original communi- cation, and hence the necessiity for identification. He received the $20 gold plece offercd by the committee as a an was “Em- 1is s — .—1 MEETING 10 SEEK WAY OF CONTINUING CARS 10 VIRGINIA Alexandria and Fairfax-Ar- lington Delegations to Be Heard by Utilities Body. P TRACK ELIMINATION PROBLEM DIFFICULT Company Laying Rails on Bridge Which Will Carry Traffic to Boulevard. ‘The Public Utilities Commission will | meet soon with a delegation of repre- sentatives of civic and governmental units from Alexandria, Fairfax and Arlington Counties, Va., in an effort to find some way to secure a continuation of street car service to Alexandria and points in Pairfax and Arlington Coun- tles. Earl V. Fisher, executivessecretary of the commission, has written J. Wilham May, acting president of the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce, that the com- mission would be glad to confer with such a group to see if the problem can be worked out. The lines are threatened with extinc- tion because of the building program of the Federal Government, the plans for which call for closing streets on which the ‘tr.du are laid east of Fourteenth street. Trackage Request Denied. The Utilities Commission has denied a request of the Mount Vernon, Alex- andria & Washington Railway Co. to brings its cars up into E street by crossing Pennsylvania avenue at Four- teenth street, and the company is un- willing to stop its cars south of this point. - The company has filed suit for an in- junction to restrain the Government from ousting it from its trackage east of Fourteenth street without compensa- tion, and a long series of conferences between company officials and repre- sentatives of the Treasury Department, charged with execution of the building program, has failed to yield any tangi- ble result. It is believed that some makeshift arrangement will be entered into until Congress can be asked for an appropriation to compensate the com- pany for losing its trackage. $98,000 Payment Shelved. 1t has been said that this would mean that the company would go out of busi- ness and remove its tracks, and at one time there was a plan for the District to pay the company $98.000 in exchange for its promise of departure. This, however. was shelved by the District Commissioners. Meanwhile the Federal Government laying out money for shifting the tracks of the company at the south end of Highway Bridge. first were moved on to a temporary ‘wooden bridge, over which the cars now run. Now they are beirg built on the ?ergmnent “I:r!dge, which will carry raffic over the new George Washington Memorial Boulevard. - This work is actually being done by the company, but the cost will be billed to the Federal Government as part of the cost of the Memorial Boulevard. About $10,000 is involved for 200 feet of track. AERONAUTIC OFFICIAL TO WED CAPITAL GIRL Senator Bingham Among Notables Who Will Attend Adams and Shorter Wedding. Porter Adams of Boston and Wash- ington, former president of the National Aeronautic Association and now chair- man of its Executive Committee, and Miss Sue Shorter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Shorter of 1312 Kalmia road, will be married Monday at the home of the bride’s parents. Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecti- cut, president of the National Aero- nautic Association, will be best man, and Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam, in- ternationally known aviatrix of trans- atlantic fame, will be matron of honor. Following the wedding ceremony, which will be attended only by imme- diate relatives and friends of the prin- cipals, the couple will leave Washington for a motor trip. They will make their home at Mr. Adams’ country residence, Aero Acres, at Thetford, Vt. In addition to his affiliations with the National Aeronautic Association, Mr. Adams is chairman of ths Boston Mu- nicipal Air Board, and is a trustee of Thetford Academy and Norwich Uni- versity. He is a member of the Army and Navy Club and the Metropolitan Club of Washington. He also is a commander in the United States Naval Reserve, having been on active duty during the World Wat. BUILDING MACHINE EXPORTS INCREASE Construction Programs of Foreign Governments Aid American » Factori Expanded construction programs un- dertaken by foreign governments as measures of unemployment relief were reflected an increased demand abroad for American construction ma- chinery during the past year, the Com- merce Department said tod: Exports of this type of machinery from the United States during 1930 continued on the upward trend which has been in evidence since 1925, of- ficial statistics indicate. The total shipped last year was valued at $16,- :'Ilm as compared with $16,370,000 The Commerce Department report showed Canadian purchases amounted to $4,710,000, a slight increase over gx;;fimu of $4,690,000, established in Shipments of construction machinery and equipment to Chile amounted to $2,115,000, or 2!, times greater than the total of the previous year. Scviet Russia boosted its: purchases of this class of from $1,180,000 in 1929 to $1,500,000 in 1930. Greece purchased equipment valued at $1,400,000, as compared with a total of $283,000 in the previous year. France, Great Britain and Italy also showed gains.