Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1931, Page 17

TANGIBLE PROPERTY VALUE DROP 1S LAID TOBUSINESS SLUMP Assessment for Past Year Set at $82,039,776 by W. P. Richards. INCREASE OF $3,597,247 SHOWN IN INTANGIBLES he bemny ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 5 af WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1931 Paints Landscape in Plane AMATEUR ARTIST TO FINISH JOB ON RETURN TRIP. Mandamus Action Under Congress Act Threatened for Failure to File Returns. reduction in the value of Aaeet g tary of Bullet Victim Ask Administration. i William ¥. Norman, Jawyer, who was| killed at the Wardman Park to Court for letters of ad- ministration on his estate. Mr. Nor- real in Maryland Besides the brother, the deceased is survived by & number of nieces and fixed their bond at $80,000. Attorney C. R. Heflin represented the estate. Edwin Luther Wilson, lawyer, who died August’ 20, executed his last will on the day before his death it was Jearned with the filing of the paper to- day for probate. It leaves his entire estate to his sister, Mrs. Katie Wilson Greerie, who is also named as ex- ecutrix, U. S. INSTALLS LIGHTS AT BOWIE AIR FIELD Intermediate Stopping Point Ex- pected to Be Ready for Use in Fall. Installation of boundary lighting, its and approach and obseruc- tion lights has been started at the new intermediate langing field being estab- lished by the Commerce Department at Bowie, ., on the Washington-New York af , Shipments of materials to the fleld 2:;-':‘& o be ‘1""«“‘:"“&‘.&‘2“:" complsted in or Fall. ‘Etabiisnment of the ld 1s part of & program of im- t of this airway, one of the in the world. being straightened by relo- several of the 10-mile air- made trat- completion on which_reduces between W by about 400 miles. and Horse Show Chartered. Ambassador Forbes Urges Speedy | cording *He Jeaves two sons and a daughter in Miss Hasseltine M. Dickens at work at her easel in transport plane. —Star Stafl Photo. to fill in details on the work executed today on a return trip over the same route, and also to start another paint- ing, on the way back. Dickens, whose local address is at the Dresden Apartments, Connecticut avenue and Kalorama road, was accom- OMPLYING with a friendly wager, Miss Hasseltine M. Dickens, amateur artist of New York and Washington, today painted & pe scene in oils while a passenger on a plane flying from Newark to the Capital. The work was not quite ( panied on the journey by John J. eunple&d when the plane landed at|O'Neill of the staff of the Brooklyn Wi -Hoover Alrport shortly Eagle. Mr. O'Neill said the wager which inspired the feat today grew out of a recent discussion in which Miss Dickens described having painted a landscape in ofls while standing in 3 h | feet of water in a Louisiana swamp las’ “seemed magn to canvas.” Some one then challenged her ability to ents | produce & lan scene while riding She plans | aboard a pitching airplans. JURY TORESUME TENANTS ASK VOICE STAPLES HEARING! N RUNNING HOTEL Dozen New Witnesses Are Want Resident of Wardman Under Subpoena for Park in Sympathy With Further Probe. Them as Receiver. | | ‘Twenty-eight tenants of the Wardman Park Hotel asked permission of Justice F. D. Letts in District Supreme Court today to intervene in the foreclosure sut brought by the Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. of New York against fi ‘Wardman Real Estate Properties, The tenants spectfically requested that in the Wardman Park vacate. ¥ Declare Lobby Neglected. ‘Witnesses Ezell, Anderson and Good- | Because of this uncertainty, it was win were attached to the third precinct | stated, many of the tenants have moved, while was on duty in that com- | to the great fipancial loss and injury ‘mand. testimony expected to be | of the hotel. secured from the other witnesses was| The lobby of the hotel has been neg- |lected, the tenants said. and has been | | allowed to deteriorate. The furnishings, |including carpets and furniture, are 1bldly worn, and the lob?_vA“:lhlcht h';d |been a most attractive feature o e P hotel, presents the appearance of & sec- BY. HERNDON, PANGBORN ond or third rate hostelry. and is sub- | Ject to daily criticism from tenants, ac- to the petition. Because of the | inty, many tenants are contem- | plating the vacating of their apart- | ments when their leases expire, it was said. they id be The petitioners suggested that if are to rexmmntfimnu they |.!m|.|by . filed an application with the Japanese | Fepresen g 3 government for a permit for Hugh | {enant who would be in sympathy with Herndon, jr. nnd Clyde Pangborn, | § med“":n";m e ey American aviators, to fly across the Pa- | (ormed of the true con the e gy g added that this also would be:to the Ambassador Porbes iaformed the State | 1€7eSt Of all creditors of the hotel. Departzant today that the embesey had Called Valuable Property. urged speedy action on the application. Herndon and Pangborn, after the fail- |, The Sourt was told the hotel is wel ure of an attempted round-the-world | \RONT TRISUETOUL the CORTLN ARG LR . flew over Japan and were fincd | 157 ISHVIE PAOPETIY, VIESR, T o ving beavily for taking unauthorized photo- | Siajone aguinst other Wasdman proper- graphs of Japanese fortified sreas. tes if properly conducted. ————m Attorney R. B. Behrend is appearing [ for_the following petitioners: | William O. Chapman, Lee G. Lauck, WINCHESTER, Va., August 23 (Spe- | Harry Hull, F. R. Boeller, W, clal).—Relatives here were notified | moth, C. G. Marshall, John Munhall, jr.; last night of the death of Charles | Gertrude L. Reed, W. J. Drew, Jessie K. Wesley Kyle, 86, native of this city, | Darragh, Charles P. Cralg, Gerald M. which occurred at his home at Carth- | Johnson, Prancis L. Browne, A. 8, Mad- age, Mo., where he had been engaged | dox, Paul D. Miller, Hester M. Gillett, in farming. He was found dead in bed, | C. B. Rodrick, James E. Duke, S. A. and had been in fll health some time. |Manuel, Lewis W. Cass, Robert E. Schoenield, Florence Kelly, Iva M. Sinn, Catherine McClosky, Mary C. 4 Ross Eberly and A. T. Walker. DISTRICT FARMERS DECREASE 100 PER CENT IN TEN YEARS Only 435 Shown by Census; “Rural Non-Farmer” Pop- ulation Shows Increase. L Action on Request to Japanese. By the Associated Press. ‘The Americen embassy in Tokio has Farmer Is Found Dead. Missouri and a brother, Thomas K!le.j ‘There were only 435 farmers in the | 662,710, as compaged with 20,047377 in District of Columbia when the 1930 cen- 1'_‘7& e S0 wa SRR sus enumerators made their Tounds. ¥ | forming ‘34.8 ‘per cemt of the total. In 1920 this amounted to 31,614,269, and i’ FLEXIBLE TRAFFI CONTROL TRED ON RHODESLAND AVE New System to Be Extended Throughout City if Re- sults Are Good. USE OF AMBER LIGHTS IS TO BE RESTRICTED Varying Time Cycles 1§ Expected to Permit Uninterrupted Flow of Cars. The new flexible system of t.ralm‘“ control, recommended last year by the| Traffic’ Advisory Council, was put into operation today on Rhode Island ave- | nue l':letween ‘Twelfth and North Capitol It is found to facilitate the flow of | traffic it will be installed throughout | the downtown area, W. A. Van Duzer, of vehicles and traffic, an- nounced. ‘The system is called the complete progressive traffic signal system and| carries the indorsement of the fore-| most traffic engineers and organiza- tions in the country. It differs from the old system principally 12 that the; lights flash on different’ but co-ordi- nated time cycles, whereas formerly all lights on a given street changed simul- taneously. Increases “Wave Band.” ‘The particular advantage cf this, A. G. Seller, Trafic Department engincer, explained, is that it increases the “wave band” or length of the groups of vehicles an_intersec be- tween changes of lights, thereby in- the street's traffic capacif ity ), under the new system, amber lights will flash at half-second inter- vals from midnight to 7 o'clock in the morning, warning motorists of the in- tersections. ‘The Rhode Island avenue experiment tes the “skip amber” system, tried out at several inter- sections ughout the city. By this is meant that the amber light will show only when the signal is changing from green to red. The change from red to gun will be without warning. This is tended to prevent drivers “beating the Iight.” Mr. Van Duzer said he intended to proceed immediately to advertise for bids for other equipment of the flexible type if the experiment on Rhode Island avenue proves a success. Twenty-five thousand dollars was made available by the last Congress and approximately $5,000 was spent on Rhode Island ave- nue. in now Plan 100 Installations. ‘The traffic director estimated that | the rest of the appropriation would be | sufficient to install the flexible system | at 100 downtown intersections. When more money is available, he stated, it |may be extended throughout the en- tire city. “The new system is in complete ac- cord with the recommendations of the National Conference of Street and Highway Safef down to the most minute detail,” Mr. Seiler, who has su- pervised the installation, declared. “It differs from the old, or limited, ive system, in that it is now to adjust the timing in ac- possible | cordance with the flow of traffic at a particular street intersection, whereas formerly the time divisions throughout the entire street were equal, disregard- he | ing completely heavy or light cross traf- fic,” he continued. “The installation days, since it was necessary to mak traffic counts at each of the intersec- tions before determining the time pe- riods.” Cycles Vary. ‘The time cycles vary at almost every intersection, but the average is about 40 seconds for Rhode Island avenue traffic to 20 seconds for cross | lights flash at different times it is pos- sible to obtain an uninterrupted flow of trafic. The new system also dis- courages speeding, since the motorist traveling at a speed greater than 22 | miles per hour will find himself run- ning into a red light. He must main- tain & 22-mile rate, however, or he will miss the lights. - great advantage over the old system lies in the increase of the traffic wave band. By ‘wave band’ is meant the groups in which vehicles travel. Under the limited system these groups contained only 11 or 12 cars, while with the flexible system they are increased to 18 to 22. “Each light has a separate timing device which regulates its time cycle. A master timer, however, controls and co-ordinates the entire system. This master timer starts the amber flashing at midnight and automatically changes back to red “and green at 7 o'clock in the morning. “The flexible system has been in use in the Chicago loop district for more than five years, where it has been found highly successful. It now is being in- stalled on some streets in New York and Philadelphia.” FUGITIVE CORNERED Occoquan Escape Injures Police- man in Leap From Shed—Chased in Taxi. After an exciting chase through the northeast section yesterday, William Edmonds, 27, colored, an escaped Occo- quan workhouse prisoner, was cornered in the women's waiting room at Union Station, where he surrendered to Po- Hayden effected the cflg:ure despite the fact he was injured when the fugi- the roof of a shed in the rear of 721 Sixth street nertheast. and timing has taken approximately 10 ! skv. streets. By this means of having the | liceman Carl L. Hayden, ninth precinct. | ber Naval Hero Laid to Rest PAGE B—I GAS ADJUSTMENTS | AR from Palermo, in sunny Sicily, where he died in 1849, Capt. John Gwinn, U. 8. N., who once commanded the U. 8. 8. Constitution, famed relic now being exhibited in Long Island, N. Y., was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery this morning, with full mili- tary honors. The Acting Secretary of the Navy, Ernest Lee Jahncke, accompanied his aides, Lieut. Comdr. T. de Witt Carr, U. 8. N, and Capt. Frank B. , U. 8. C., took purt in the ceremony. Capt. Sydney K. Evans, chief of the Chaplain Corps of the Navy, officiated. A company of bluejackets, & company SKIPPER OF OLD IRONSIDES BURIED IN ARLINGTON. of Marines and thie Navy Band formed the military escort. Honorary pallbearers for the re-inter- ment, which took place at 10:30 o'clock, included Rear Admira] Henry V. Butler. commandant of the W-hlutgn‘!i;'vy in request of his widow, who was also laid to rest with him at today’s ceremony, TOTAL 30837 IN 3 ° MONTHS' PERIOD Requested Data Given Util- ities Body Covering Both Companies’ Records. SURVEY APPARENTLY SHORT OF DEMANDS Official Comment Withheld Until Reports Are Checked With Other Information. . More than 30,000 gas appliances were was | 8djusted by the Washington and Philadelphia Cemetery. | Georgetown Gas Light Cos. during the remained for well over| three-month period ending Friday, of- it ke | ficials reported today. n red, wfin Wfi‘l; tummmm was forwarded to for ."n-’nmmc cemetery wen lic Utilities Commission today The Veterans of Porelgn Wars py gert 1. Peck, assistant to the presi- THREE VICTIMS DIE INAUTO MISHAPS Score Injured—D. C. Woman Killed and Nine Hurt in Five-Car Crash, Two persons were killed and nearly & score injured as slippery roads led to many automobile accidents on near- by Maryland and Virginia roads over the week end. A third fatality resulted when » woman, injured on the Lee Highway Friday, died at Emergency Hospital. The dead are Mrs. Suzelle Carroll, first block of V street; Corpl. Mack | Marosy, 1300 block of Eleventh street, and Mrs. Anice L. Bayne, 1300 biock of Maplewood street. Five Cars Collide. Mrs. Carroll was instantly killed and nine other persons injured in a colli- sion involving five cars on the Defense Highway near the Ardmore terday afternoon. Her husband, Frank S. Carroll, and her 14-year-old son Norman were in- jured, as was . M. E. Smoot, 900 block of Massachusetts avenue north- Mrs. Smoot suffered a broken leg. The | three were taken to the Pinehurst Sanitarium, Mount Rainier, for treai- ment. Others injured in the accident. ac- cording to police reports, were Louis Maxbury, his wife and Esther Eolum- Wi William James deiphia, el h Pa. , 0 n; Heller, 1800 block of W! Mildred C. Schwartz, of and Mary Cox, of Georgetown, ‘Two Others Cut. Police reports rhow Miss Schwarts and Miss Cox, who were passengers in the car operated by Heller, were treated at Casualty Hospital, the former for lacerations about the legs and the latter for a fractured rib and ankle. | The cthers were treated by local physi- cians. The Prince 's_ rescue squad took the injured to the hospital. Policeman William E. Clifton, wh investigated the crash, said Mrs. Car- | she was riding and pinned beneath an- | other machine which overturned. He said the accident was apparently | cause when one of the cars hit the rear of the Carroll machine, the other cars then piling into the two. Officer Clifton /_declared his investigation showed Carroll, Heller and Max- bury were the drivers of three of the cars, but two other machines involved in the crash left the scene before he arrived. Other Motorisis .Sought. | _ Policeman Clifton, County Officer | Ralph Brown and State Patrolman C. W. Cubbage are continuing their in- vestigation to learn the identity of all involved in the accident and its cause. No arrests have been made. A coroner's jury under Justice of Peace John A. Downing viewed the body of Mrs. Carroll last night, and an inquest will be held next week, Officer Clifton said. George B. Swain, 33, and Catherine Swain, 28, of Baltimore, were treated near Md. Lambie, also of Baltimore, sustained a lacerated forehead in the same crash, according to police, and was also treated at the hospital. in an accident on the near Bull Run Friday. by a sister, Mrs. H. Washington. Services for her will be held at { Emanuel Church, Thirteenth and V streets southeast, at 3 p.m. Tuesday. Burial will* follow in Congressional Cemetery. Guardsman Is Killed. Corpl. Mack 21, Eleventh street, Wi , & of the 290th Dnlim Lee Highway She is survived A. Griswold of tive landed on him after jumping from | inj east, & passenger in the Carroll car. |/ Explorer, 5, Falls Two Stories When Skylight Caves In London Correspondent’s Son Lands on Head; Not Seriously Injured. basement. boy’s father, shaving floor, ran downstairs, picked up summoned the e boy and si Hospital ambulance. His mother and grandmothe r also were in ihe house. VICTIM OF AUTOMOBILE Englehart Grau, 69, Run Down at Rhode Island Avenue and 22d Street—Driver Held. Englehart George Grau, 69 years old, when he was hit by an automobile on Rhode Island avenue near Twenty-sec- jond street last night. He was pro- nounced slightly improved this morn- | roll was thrown from the car in whick®| in g. | Almac Lakeland Butler, 32, colored, of Cockeysville, Md., driver of the au- tomobile which struck Mr. Grau, was held at No. 12 police station pending outcome of the man’s injurie: lives with his father on the Rockville trash occurred. Colinge of 537 Sixth street at the entrance to the Woodmont Coun- try Club. Neither driver was injured, although both cars were considerably and Bean, drivers of the | brothers are also members of the Na- tional Guard and were on their way by train Mrs. Bayne died of injuries sustained | 0, ! NAVAL OFFICERS |2 SERVANT ROBBED Thieves Take All of Colored Man’s Wardrobe but Pants. Others Held Up. : st & i § : H ; : fr IN SERIOUS CONDITION and FUNERAL RITES HELD FOR SAMUEL CAPLAN Ball Star Died Suddenly at Perry Point. Purse Cut From Wrist. A pocketbook containing $20 was cut fromdthe arm of Leila Ledbetter, 2027 it. Georgetown Uni~ Iast TUSht tennls | versity. He also attended Lehigh Uni- v 3 Caplan formerly was a crack athlete and was chosen for the All-High foot ball teams while an ent teams about the . _At Lehigh ‘%n‘ mflwli.l llre‘l;llh';m:’hh;h. R.O.T.C. cases obtained clothing and jeweiry | He is sur mother, Mis. worth $75 and $4.50 in cash. Two of | 1da Caplan; five brothers, James, Ben- e %o Elizabeth McNa- | jamen, Asron, William and Irving 'and - Dorol Shotts, both of | Caplan, and two sisters, Sophie and were taken from the|Rose Caplan. walting room at Union Station. The other, the property of Gertrude Bliss, Va., was stolen from an auto- GRADING FOR BRIDGE SITE NEARLY COMPLETE Arlington Cemetery Progress- ing, Engineer Reports. LOWMAN CONSIDERS CLOSING OF BRIDG | 4] !sif il : $ i ‘ i ! i o