Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1931, Page 17

VINTER' DSTRESS EXPECTED TOELS 1S STEMI0 Estimate Based on Relief Provided by 370 Cities Last Year. BIGGEST FUND DRIVE SINCE WAR DUE IN FALL Gifford Reports Campaign Co-ordi- nating Red Cross and Community Chest Set for October 19. To relieve distress conditions arising from unemployment this Winter will cost citizens of the United States be- tween $150,000,000 and $175,000,000, ac- cording to a conservative estimate made today. - The estimate is based on the amount - raised in 1930 by the 370 member-cities of the National Associatidn of Commu- nity Chests and Councils, the special American Red Cross campaign, figures compiled by the Children's Bureau of the Labor Department, together with the mounting unemployment statistics compiled by Federal and State agencies during the Summer. Inasmuch as Walter S. Gifford, direc- tor of the President’s Organization on has announced that his tion was being built up to con- duct between October 19 and November i g2 By H g H H 58 3 H g g 2 1 3 } i1 ol £ £ | £ § g 2 i RS ¢ g i as H i Q 88 888 : = 8! e ] 2 H e & i E B £ ) J | been designated as “playground night,” 1o him data on condl tistics indicated the expenditure of re- lief funds decreased materially with the arrival of warm weather last Spring, | but were still much higher than for the same perfod the year before. Miss Lenroot's figures also indicated that the jon of tax money to ihe total relief funds last year were higher than the year before, pointing t0 a possible increase during the coming months. President Hoover and Mr. Gifford ars in complete accord that each commu- nity and each State should assume jts full responsibilities for organization of ‘employment and relief of distre ‘The of the Gifford organization is | 1o strengthen the raising of these local | funds. Hoover to Urge Support. In accordance with this policy of de- pending primarily upon voluntary co- operative measures, President Hoover is ‘expected to issue a proclamation prior 1o October 19 urging full support of the fund-raising campaigns of the Com- munity Chests, the Red Cross and other welfare and relief organizations whose campaigns will be held during that lod. Voluntary relief efforts on a scale Jarge enough to win general recognition of its effica sdministration circles, will be necessary to strengthen the President’s hand when Congress meets in December if doles or huge bond issues to provide relie; in indirect form are to be fore ctalled. It was against proposals this sort that the Piesident fought dur- e of .the last sess'on of ‘Congress, and he is likely to face an even more difficult task in keeping the Government out of any dole system at the next session, when he wiil have on] & slim Republican majority behind him. $50,000 LEFT UNWILLED ‘Nephews Ask to Administer Estate of Mary C. Barnum. Mary C. Barnum, who died July 29, Jeft no will, but had personal property «valued 2t $50,000, according to the pe- tition of her nephews, Edwin H. Ba v, and Charles Barnu: for letters of admin estats, tomorrow o | They will go by the Pa., following the it was pointed out in| | | “What’sItto You?” Van Duzer Is Asked By Irate TaxiDriver If you don't know to whom you are speaking. it is often bet- ter to remain quiet. A taxicab driver found that out yesterday to his regret. Traffic Director Willlam A. Van Duzer was driv- ing west on P:;mrylv-nh lvenue‘. Noticing a taxi one of e ey ‘marked. trafhe lines, he drew up beside driver and asked if he did not think it better to keep within the lanes. The driver angrily yelled: Mr. Van “What's it to you!™ “‘Oh, nothing,” replied 17(uxgl nof ‘;he Hne:ls number of the machine, and dropping back while the cab continued the straddling act. tol};uht"th’ hth!kflb‘nwdflver t;:: y, the hac ething it was “‘som to him.” WORLD AIR CHAMPS COMING TOMORROW Boardman and Polando to Get Hoover’s Felicitations | for Non-Stop Feat. who established a world non-stop dis- tance record during their recent flight from New York to Istanbul, Turkey, will arrive in Washington tomorrow to re- ceive the Nation's official recognition of | their achievement. The fiyers, who captured for the United States its third of the four “ma- jor” records of aviation—speed, altitude, distance and duration—will stop in ‘Washington for two or three hours on their way to the national air races opening Saturday at Cleveland. The flight from New York to Wash- ington will be made in their monoplane, Cape Cod, in which they crossed the Atlantic and Europe. They will be ac- companied by another plane Earl Boardman, Russell's brother, and | ber of Commerce. ‘The party will be given a police escort ‘here Boardman Russell Boardman and John Polando, ' by Mr. he Fp WASHINGTON, D. C, 'SKULL OF MONKEY, LIVING 20,000,000 YEARS AGO, FOUND Primitive Bones Recovered on Smithsonian Hunt in Wyoming. ROCK SHELL TO BE CUT FROM AROUND REMAINS Specimen Is Expected to Prove More Nearly Complete Than One Other Now Known to Exist. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. A skull tentatively identified as that of a o&;lmltlve monkey more than 20,000, years old_has been recovered from the Big Horn River basin in Wyo- ming by a Smithsonian Institution ex- pedition, it was announced today. It was brought to Washington by C. W. Gilmore, assistant curator of paleon- tology and leader of the expedition, and is the most prized of more than 1,000 specimens of animal life in the early Eocene period, before the great ice sheets spread over North America. Although precursors of the present Simian group of mammals, from which man is supposed to be a derivation, are known to have existed in an even earlier geological age, Mr. Gilmore said, these animals have been described la from fossil fragments, such as si teeth. There is one other Simian skull from the Eocene, but it is not as com- plete as the present find, if it actually turns out to be what Mr. Gilmore be- lieves it is. Before it can be identified positively it will be necessary to cut away ths rock in which it now is in- closed so that only the front teenth and a bone under the eye are visible. Appear in Preceding Period. ‘The Simian family, Mr. Gilmore says, appeared suddenly in the age preceding the Eocene with no known direct an- cestors, although they are derived from a generalized insect-eating stock. The skull found by the Smithsonian paleon- tologists was that of a very small ani- mal. Nothing can be told of its general appearance or manner of life. Another valuable specimen secured Qflmore was a Coryphodon, an extinct animal of the Eocene swamps with no 1Ii relatives, but which - hippopotam: ey and several lower jaws of the Eohippus, the first animal of the evolutionary line which led to the horse. been & swamp dweller. It was flight- ber | less, stood about 6 feet high and had way of Bellefon transcontinental air- way across the mountains. DIPLOMATS TO SEE CLOSING FESTIVAL Representatives of Three lxtiom‘ Asked to Attend With Commis- sioners Tomorrow Night. District Commissioners and d'p- lomats from three foreign countries are the National Capital at the Sylvan Theater on the Washington Monument ds tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock. ‘The affair will be the last of a series of nine outdoor festivals under the auspices of the two agencies and has Representing the playgrounds of Wash- iington, 106 girls will perform in the dances. Pour countries will be represented in the dances, including the United States, Great Britain. Sweden and the Nether- lands. ‘The District Commissioners will be e, tatives of the United States, while the diplomats from the three for- eign countries named have been in vited to represent their respective countries. Music will be furnished by the United a very large head with a heavy beak. Eocene bird life is very poorly repre- sented in collections, Mr. Gilmore ex- plained, because the light skeletons of birds usualy were destroyed before they d. { had time to become fossils. Fiercest Animal Traced. Among the finds of the expedition was part of the skeleton of the fiercest animal of those far-off days—the pachyaena, This creature was some- thing like a big cat and is in the gen- eral ancestral line of flesh-eating ani- mals, although not directly related to any living today. It probably made many a meal off the little insectivores from which the monsk:ln arose. e age Idaho, under the direction of Norman H. Boss, unearthed a 20,000.000-year- old horse corral, out of which were obtained 2 complete skeletons and 35 skulls. These were of the Plesippus, an animal just a shade removed from the true horse. The d it was discovered last year by Dr. mes H. Gidley of the Smithsonian staff, and the discovery made it possible to complete the evolu- tionary line of the horse. The large number of horse skeletond’ in this one place, it was explained, probably was not due to some sudden catastrophe, but was the accumulation of centuries. Herds of the pre- bistoric horses visited the and a few of them died there. fore the di the pus was known only by two or three bones. ‘The object of his expedition, Mr. Gil- more said tcday, was to got as complete & cross-section es possible of the Eocene animals in Western North Amer- ica. Wh'p there are some duplications in the 1,000 specimens, they represent a great many distinct species. The col- lection is especially rich in specimens of the anclent reptile life which still was striving with the earth dcminion. There were numerous States Marine Band, under direction | of Second Leader Arthur S. Witcomb, | | Miss Maud= Parker, director of girls' activities. District of Columbia Play- | | ground Department, will be in dirsct charge of the program. The invita- | tions to the Commissioners and diplo- mate were extended by Mis: Sybil | Beker. supervisor of the District of | Columbia Playground Department | TRAINMEN TO HAVE DAY IN WEST POTOMAC PARK | Exhibition, and Tidal Basin Regatta Is Feature. | The United States park police are | Jooking forward to a busy time Satur- | dav, because a number of major events | will be held in Potomac Park. Members of Bill Doak Lodge. Brother- hood of Railway Trainmen, will hold an ! all-day field dav in West Potomeac Park. outh of the Tidal Basin. from 9 until | 6 o'clock. Troops from Fort Myer will stage an exhibition of mounted drill n the park | The Tidal Basin will be given ov {to & regatyr, in which motor | will race. {6 pm. | The Army Polo team from Fort Myer | will play in West Potomae Park at 3:30 p.m. Capt. P. J. Carroll is getting his policemen in trim to handle these events. ORDER CAR STAND CHANGE Commission Asks Company to Alter Columbia Road Platform. Changes In street car loading lat- forms at Eighteenth streel and lum- { Troops From Fort Myer to !u‘ei monster crocodiles, little changed from their present relatives, besides many lizards. Many Not Represented. While & great many enimals appar- enfly gathered here from time to time, Mr. Gilmore explained, they probsbly represent only & small part of the ac- tual lif> of the early Eocene. A crea- ture beccme a fossi) on) cident snd there must | s2nds of creatures who never secured a permanent resting place in the preserv- ative rocks. Many of the species have been identified only by single teeth. DISTRICT WOMAN, DROWNING, SAVED :lin Agnes Broderick Rescued in Surf While Companions Seek Safety on Sand Bar. 1 | Special Dispatc! Scherz of Charlotte, N. C., a vacationist at the resort, who has figured in & number of rescues this year and last. Miss Broderick had gone swimming with hurhmzr]:s, three women and a man who also were guests Pocahontas. fve H e{lck ;;n swept to strugg to keep swimming, weakening swiftly when' plight. He went to her her in through the wa g’ i { bia road were ordered today by the Public Utllitles Commission. Miss Barnum is he: a sister, Harriet E. Jones, city; rirude B. MacSh ‘Stoneham, Mée., and Mary E. ‘Rochester, N, Y erry, East . Weston, some water in her lungs ! pulled up on the b»‘-“c;-. avickly revived and today ‘The EEH mammals for | I WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening Stap ¢ THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1931. How to Make Those New Left Turns Beginning September 15 VAN DUZER'S CHARTS EXPLAIN THE FOUR WAYS THE “INSIDE” LEFT TURN WILL BE MADE HERE. ———f——— -—— - ! L Avtos on red s, 1000 PR - —— Poe = ™ :._ v 4 4 By R AR ’ g s-— - -4---- B g 4 -l_--.‘\_- e R EP [ Duzer, director of Illmtot traffic, , to expedite the making of the “inside” from today. left turn, ef- fective a little more than two weeks ‘There are about 300 con- trolled intersections and about 1,700 un- controlled. The left turn will be under- taken at all of these intersections in & uniform manner, beginning the mid- in the office of William A. Van | the depart- | motor vehicles and | ] / ’ §9. ;i i g‘ i E%fie i 1 gies isg i g i ] < < gt i g § g § § i i 55 h § i i ' % -‘E igigg E il g S ] § i §8& ! % enters the intersection by the right of the center line dway then entered. Car No. sketch will have the right over car No. 1. Car No. 1, however, will have the right of way over :r)lo, 3, which has not entered the The turn from a one-way street into a two-way street (sketch No. 2) should made by passing to the right of the center line of the street being en- the roa in this ‘way Avlos. redegd Y into a ‘one-way street (sketch No. 4) the. should be made from the center of the intersection and passing either to the right or left as the street now enteted has no oncoming traffic. All turns should be made on the go signal. Seven-year-old Ma Reservoir road, d in Hospital yesterday when she was knocked down by ‘Tuesday night. Police are seeking small delivery truck, believed ble for the child's death. took e gtrl 1o the hoepitar e gir al, i Dl wes rou scene. Several Others Hurt. 24, west. dfter receiving treatment, to be serious. She was treated at dence Hospital. " 13, Neunie Johnson, street, suffered a 1 2121 New York avenue, while skating on Sixteenth street. of Vermont avenue late last ni { mobile operated {31, 1812 D street_southeast, at eenth street and Massachusetts | southeast. colored, GIRL HIT-AND-RUN Utterback, 3414 of injuries received & hit- and-run driver on Thirty-fourth street the driver of & responsi. A. R. ‘Thirty-fourth street, who . Rol- seen such a truck leaving the Mrs. Simpson returned to her home while the Branson woman's injuries were said not Provi- 1610 skull when knocked down by an auto- mobile operated by John J. Sullivan, roller Master Battles, 29, colored, 1500 block of Pourth street, received broken legs and other injuries when caught between a watermelon truck, on which he was/| working, and an automobile which hit | the truck while the latter was parked. | The accident occurred in the l'")‘:.l block ight. John Baker, 9, of 1551 Sixth street | avenue | | | | | | | VICTIM DIES HERE Mary Utterback Believed Struck by Truck—Several Other Persons Injured. Several other persons were injured | in traffic accidents here yesterday, two by hit-and-run drivers. The hit-and- run victims were Mrs. Rae Simpson, of 817 Sixth street northeast, struck by an _automobile crossing a |y sidewalk on H street northeast, and Pearl Branson, 30, colored, of the 800 block of Second street, hit by an aut mobile at Second and H streets south: MRS. KEELER Died June 21 Keel-r, mother of ler, 133 | 0dd-Job Worker body was still amined. ay with his when noticed by Lewis employe of ment. ing odd jobs of tering in the ne knew his name. en route to clean brick when stricken. ‘The body was removi pending identification. The man was pronounced posedly of a heart attack, of the Casualty Hospital ambulance. IS BURIED Mother of Mrs. Ernest H. Kettler at Balboa. Funeral services for Mrs. Agnes L. Mrs. Ernest H. Kett- {BODY OF UNIDENTIFIED MAN FOUND AT DUMP =5 Discovered in Road With Head Cupped in Hands. Police of No. 9 precinct are seeking to identify the body of an elderly white man found shortly after death this dead, sup- on arrival warm when ex- ‘The man was stretched in the road- face pillowed in his hands Cliffton Hill, an the Distriet Sewer Depart- Several persons had seen the man do- inting an hood, d carpen- but none He presumably was and resell discarded ed to the Morgue ARMED HOLD-UP Left in Auto Parked Nearby. A freckle-faced girl, who confronted | him with a pistol, robbed Lyle Boucher, $30 catly this morning, he toid potice. early 3 police. young man told Detectives Charles E. Mansfield and John Wise the hold- up occurred at about 12:15 o'clock, just as he was about to enter his apartment house at 2500 K street. Boucher said he was about to go into W] young woman, about 22 years old, called to him from across the street. Boucher said she drew a gun when he approached and said “I want your wallet.” He said he allowed her to take his | purse and when she started to take change from another pocket he asked her to leave him enough for food. She granted the request. After taking his money, Boucher said the woman held the gun she was about 40 feet away, when she ran to a car parked, running, between K and L streets on Twenty-fifth, and was driven away. He said he called for help but received no | Tesponse. Stories of how he had spent the eve- ning previous to the robbery, however, were contradictory. Boucher told police he had been a member of a theater party, and named his companions. ‘When questioned by police they demed having been with him. Boucher later told police he had been falsifying, al- though he said he did not know why. His story of the actual hold-up, how- ever, was unchanged after questioning. 123 PRIZE BABIES PARADED IN ANNUAL GEORGETOWN SHOW | - [ley was first, in | Betty | Be-ribboned and Be-decked Entries Show Unconcern as as Twelve Winners Are Named. In the 1-to-2-year class Charles Hur- Shirley Marie Goroum ‘Andrew Kennedy L Marilyn Derryberry were :Ivfn able ition. ‘ment . Pirst honors in the 2-to-3-year class second BY GIRL REPORTED ‘| Clerk Says She Took $30 and on him until | with engine | his BIDS 0 INSULATE ZTreasury Ends Year’s Con- | troversy Over Keeping Com- merce Structure Cool. Ending a year's controversy with the architectural firm handling constiue- | tion of the new Commerce Department Bullding over the advisability of insu- lating it against heat, the Treasury today issued a call for bids for an insulation to be installed vnder the roof. ‘The call came after repeated efforts of the supervising architect's office to have York & Sawyer, New York archi- tects overseeing construction of the ding, make recommendations and | draft_speeifications for the insulation. The Treasury itself finally drew up the specifications, which call for a one-inch | material of cane or fiber board to be attached to the under side of the | conerete roof siab. F. M. Kramer, resident architect for York & Sawyer, previously had reported firm was unable to find a suitable | insulating material which could be ap- plied to the roof slab, and, moreover, doubted that insulation would be nec- | essary, suggesting instead used. The Tre tached to the under side of the roof slab with any standard cement and named two suitable tions. in the newly Revenue cials of the supervising architect’s office, Midsummer readings in that building show the following temperatures: Sec- ond floor, 88 degrees; seventh floor, 91 degrees;: attic, 92 degrees; on slate , 134 degrees, and pent house, 105 degrees. Officials contended that with- out insulation, the attic temperature would be at Jeast 105 degrees and others correspondingly higher. CRUISER SEEKS STORM TO TEST ROLLING TANK Vessel, Equipped With Device, Has Found Nothing but Calm Weather. ‘The Pensacola, one of the eight cruisers in which anti-rolling tanks installed after it was found hu‘ § if 3588 Eg t ui!! that fans be | issued. PAGE B—-1 'STORM THREATENS WOMEN'S CLUBS OVER PUBLICATION Comparison of Hoover With Washington Defended by Mrs. Sippel. OFFICERS ASTONISHED BY PARTISAN CHARGES Dissension Witkin Ranks Prior to Booklet's Issuance Flatly Denied by President. Distribution of a booklet by the Bi- centennal Committee of the General Federation of Women's Clubs compar- ing the greatness of President Hoover e N street, in'this city, Mrs. is absolutely untrue” she said, “that I took this matter with President. I BULDING SOUGHT £ pul ve written copies. of the hooklet for the informa- Comment Declined. ‘The president of the . ation of Women's Cluh,mm,:'" Meritt, sald today that the District Federation had no connection with the ::her political intent.” by Mrs. Rudolph S. Allen, president of Count the Prince Georges Pederaf jof qWomm‘l Clubs, llkewz ‘would !x‘:‘o'tl be L At the national offices of - ation it was admitted that t;‘:bootmxnn might be construed as a political move, as did Mrs. Robert Frank Skutch, presi- dent of the Baltimore Federation, wio was quoted as saying: PGoms ‘know why. they Presi- on’t know why the; J - dent Hoover.” ™ o - Deplores Publication. added that she had known advance that some o Bicentennial “But I didn't know 1t was in this form, which I the explained. . J. Enos Ray, State director the Maryland &ederation and ing representative on the board General Pederation, was quoted ing that she hadn't known of for the booklet until she recel: Chaliman of the Demosratie B¢ of the tnll & :m ocratic State 5 ven't examined it,” she said, * it wouldn't be fair for me to maki any comment at this time. However, I n:ny"hnve something to say in a day or t JEALOUS SUITOR KILLS COLORED GIRL AND SELF Bodies of Thomas oWrtham, 25, and Bernice Tanner, 18, Found in Her Home. Apparent ‘motivated ‘Thomas w‘?nhnm. enlcud.w Fg iy it £l ] i i _g