Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1931, Page 17

The Foening Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Society and General WASHINGTON, D, G ” FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, FVE ARE INDCTED IV HORSEWHIPPIG OF UNON GFFIL Ousted Engineers’ Member, Wife and Three Pals Held in Assault. LASHING CI-iARGES GROW OUT OF LABOR STRIFE| Action Follows Indictment of For- mer Sccretary in Alleged Embezzl:ment. s. her husbind, Rob- | Robert E! William I} ence B. cted toda the Green and Cl were jointly i jury growing out Charles E. Ha te! nal Union gineers, in fic union at Te: 31 last The indi and alloges sons made an “did beat, Rockenbaugh, ¥y the gr: mple assault owhipping of | of the In-| of Operating En- t of the offices of the | h and K streets, March on a ct ent is in a cingle count | he five wccused per- | ssault on Haury ¢nd| wound and ill-treat” him | against the peace and Government cf | The charge is the | the grand | the | the United States. outcome of an inquiry by into the tangled affairs of which reculted in an indictment | Dave Evans, a former sccretary- treasurer of the umion, for alleged em- | bezzlements totaling several thousands of dollars. ‘Woeman Awaits Haury. Mrs. Stevens, wife of an ousted mem- ber of the Int>rniticnal Union of Operating Engine-rs, waited more than half an hour for Haury in front of the union_headquariers build:ng at Tenth MRS. RUTH VENS. ar Stafl Photo. CARPENTERS SEEK AIDFOR D. . LABOR Commerce and Trade Bodies Told Unfairness of U. S. Importing Workers. The Carpenters’ District Council, rcpresenting more than 3,500 union carpenters here, s seeking the aid of the Washington Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade in its fight to pro- [ tect the interests of labor in connection | with contracts for Government projects in the District. At a spocial meeting of representatives ! of the three groups in the Homer Build- ing yesterday the labor council. and K streets on the aiterncon of March 31. it is alleged. The horsewhip was concealed beneath her coat. Wi aury appeared on the steps | of the buildir hed h:m and | after a few y produced the | whip and b gan lashing ‘the union of- | ficial. Haury attempted to d>fend him- of the men with b signal fo . perscns in the n of the building join'ng in. Haury Iy escaped and Te-entered the building, whereupon Mrs. Stevens drove away in | | | {the trade organizaiions already are on | | record as opposed to the importation of | On April 17 Mrs. Stevens, with Rob- ert Ely, William I Gre>n and C. B.| Rockenbaugh, was ordered to stand | «rial, after a_preliminary hearing in ! <lice Court. On April 29, however, the | case was nolle pressed by the District | Attorney's office. Explains Nolle Prosse. | Wilbert I. McInerney, assistant di trict attorney, tild th time that “it is not our policy to try | laber differences in his court. ‘The case | 0 be about eve ing the s.me number of t weuld only mean a hear- ing of workmen's grievances with Gov- ernment witnesses almost as much on trial as the defendants The horsewhipping incident was fol- Jowed on May 20 by an attempt by an | unidentified gunman to shoot three of- | ficials of the International Union of | Operating Engineers while they sat at | Junch in a cafcteria opposite the labor | Reichard said 10 local carpenters em- | offices at Tenth and K streets. Zangdon, Frank | r-old editor of a labor | s seriously wounded, but | ed following an operation | for the removal of his eye. | Arthur M. Huddell, president of the union, who xisc fired upon, escaped injury. although a ! pocketbook stopped a bullet | aimed at his t probably saved his life at the time He died of pneumonia | some weeks la‘er in Sibley Hospital. | The third member of the group. John | Possehl, general secretary of the union, | was uninjured in the shooting affair, | although the gunman fired between | 6 and. 10 shots from two revolvers. Po- | lice here never succeeded in tracing | the assailant, who escaped the scene of the shooting on foot through adja-, with | 1 ‘ { outsiders on Government jobs now in! was one of the party | A through 1. H Hardison, its president. voiced the union complaint against im- ! portation of out-of-town labor by out- side contractors to whom the ment awards its work. District Goveinment, altkough Feders projects were ciled by the labor group in fome instances. Movement Given Support. Although the Chamber of Commerce, through H: King. president. and the Board of Trade, through Claude W. Owen, vice president. pointed out that outside labor for local work, the bodies pledged their supprt to the movement. The represcntatives of the three groups 2lso asked the aid of the public press in the fight. Richard H. Burdette and Robert Reichard, other spokesmen for the labor council, declared that because of the partiality of out-of-town contr:ctors court at that | ¢, ymported labor, between 30 and 40| per cent of Washington car) now unemployed. It was G vworkmen are being sub penters are also that tituted by progr Wage Scale Not Paid. Reichard said three out-cf-town con- ! tractors now engaged on seven District | building projects are not paying the prevailing wage scale. Ancther about to begin work on a school building is opposed to the local rate, he sid. ployad on the Agriculture Department Building by a Southern contractor were dismissed this k and their positions filled by men brought from Louisville. Mr. King suggested that the support of the Merchants end Manufacturers’ sociation and of th> Buy in Wash- ngton Council be enli: in the move- ment. The latter, Mr. King pointed out, has been active in the fight to pre- serve local labor conditions and encour- age home purchasing, The groups were agreed that em- ployment of local labor on District work not only preserved the standard of labor conditions here, but also kept in circulation here money paid out in wages in Washington. . TOSTART BIG WORK The complaint | » was directed in the main against the | ARCHIVES BULDING GROUND-BREAKING Ceremony on Old Center| Market Site Temorrow Be- gins Second U. S. Frogram. HEATH TO GIVE TALK UPON SIGNIFICANCE Representatives of Many Organiza- | tions Invited to See First Shovel Turn. Inaugurating the second phase of the Government's huge public building pro: gram here in Washington, ground will be broken for th> new Archives Build- ing on the site of Old Center Market, setween Seventh and Ninth streets, Con- | stitution and Penns nia avenues, to- at 10 o'clock | of the Treasu in charge of the Gov will _turn nd will nce of | Ass stant Ferry K. H croment’s building program. over the first spadeful of deliver a speech on thi | tha cceas’on. | The ceremony will be open to the ned at the | entatives of ! historical local, patriotic, or trade bodies in the National Capital would all be welcome to attend. No formal invita- tions are b sent out, but Maj. Heath today informzlly imvited the public, through the press. | Brief but Significant. | The ceremony will be brief but sig- | {nificant. It will mark not only the| beginning of actual work on the grea | Archives Building, which is to house | | the priceless records of the American | | Government, but will signalize the | {opening of a new era in public con- struction. This new era will open | what is called the second phase of build- ! ng and w e the most active progress on great public structur ever carried on &t one time in the history of Wash- 1. Beginning with the preaking for Archives, th charge of the Treasun will go forward without One job will follow o.her until the new Washington, ri out of the demolished squares of old cutmoded buildings, will have all its n homes for Federal departmer end establisiments. These new hon i will be of an architectural type bs the classic style of permane | an- ed | Buildings to Follow. Following the Archives Building in the Federal Triangle will b> the Inter- state Commerce, Government Audi rium and Department of Labor, cou- | structures to f itution avenue b-ty | pleted Internal Revenue | Twelfth street and the n | plete Department of Comm |ing at Fourteenth strect: the new Office De, avenue betw-en T streets. the D tween Ninth and Tenth st Consti tuticn and Pennsylvania aventes, the Coast Guard Building on Peinsyl- {vania avenue between Ssth and +Scv- enth streets | "Other great structures of the Gov- ernment under way cr soon ) go ward in cther clud: the new headquarters on Constitution avenu tween Nineteenth and Twentietl strects. where foundations a {1aid; th House Office Building, which is nearing completion: the Supreme ourt Building, where foundations have been sbout finished, and the extens! | ble building for the Department of Ag- | riculture. LOWER COAL RATES PLEA BEFORE |. . C. the cif ) Health Service ?Reduction on Anthracite to D. C.l and Nearby Maryland and Virginia Asked. Sketches of New Post Office and Justice Buildings 1931. PAGE B—1 DS for digging the foun show BIDS TO BE OPENED THIS MONTH ON TWO NEW PROJECTS. tions for the new and uniquely shaped n above, and the Justice Department, ]Disbarred Colored Lawyer projets in the huge triangl> Government be cpened this month at the Treasury hitectural beauty and ed on the south side » Post Office Department, a model of a will be siluated on the site now bing ci 1 e. between Twelith and Thirteenth streets. Exca- proiect will be opened September 8. Its concave he Grand Plaza and the Great Circle. To the right of the Post O uilding, and attached to it, is seen the Interstate Com- e Commission, al Twelfth street and Constitution avenue, excavation ch will son be begun under a contract already let. MLAURIN INDCTED fronts will ’s Verdict of The street running north and south through the circle is Twelfth street, which is to be widened 2nd developed with a fountain in the center. At thie corner of Twelfth street and Constitulion avenie. in the upper Interna The adjoining Twelfth street cn the circle will be the building to tal present old Post Office Depertment Building. What Government ager upy it, has not yet been decided. The Justice Department Building, below, is shown in this new sketch from a point behind the equestrian statue of Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock in tie parkway north of Pennsylvania avenue, between Eighth and Ninth The building will be erected on the site between Ninth and Tenth center of the picture, is the completed and occupied. will streets. streets, Pennsylvania and Constitution avenues, vation will be opened next Tuesday. SAILOR ABSOLVED E;OR POEM NEWPORT TOOK AS AN INSULT Guilt Set Aside Here as Officials Fail to Find Malice. A sailor found guilty at a summary court-martial of defaming and libeling the fair city of Newport, R. I, by the Accused of Purloining the commanding officer of *he Naval Hospital ordered the hospital apprentice to be court-martialed. Federation Approves i | | evade capture. PROGE OF CUNPLAY BY POLIE N CHASE STARTED BY STOLL Driver Flees, but Two Men Are Caught in Pursuit of Speeding Auto. OFFICER FIRES TWICE AT CAR, REPORT SAYS Private Is Grazed and Second Nar- rowly Missed by Car Going at Dizzy Pace. Gunfire which marked a two-mile chase of & reckless driver through Northwest Washington last night was being investigated today by police. Craige L. Smith and J. O. Hite, motor cycle policemen, overtook the car at Georgia avenue and Howard place, but the driver escaped. They began the race after the unidentified colored motorist _disregarded a traffic light at New York and New Jersey avenues. The fleeing machine was reported to have been struck twice by bullets said to have been fired by Hite. Police officials today launched the ation to determine whether Hit» justified in using his revolver. In- spector Louis J. Stoll was placed in charge of the inquiry. Two Officers Endangered. Smith suffered slight bruises when grazed by the automobile at First a N streets. Another policeman, G Moore, was forced to leap out of th- path of the car when it struck a traffic signal he was operating at Georgia and Florida avenues. Police reported the driver of the car frequently ran on the left side of the street at a dizzy speed es he sought to They said several pass- ing mctorists were forced to mount side- walks to avoid coliisions. Second Shooting in Week. After the driver escaped on foot the into custody his com- r Lewis, colored, of of Sherman avenue, and colored, 25, of the 900 block of Columbia rcad. They were released after being questicned at the tenth precinct. Police said the driver panicns the 3000 bl Judd Augusta, | would be arrested on a warrant charg- ing reckless driving, operating a car i without a permit and assault with a | early Wednesday in another chese. Revenue Building already ure to the north ke the place of Bids for the Justice exca- FOR CELEBRATIONS Pro- | posed Halloween and Home- - Examination Files. publication of & poem in & service pa- per has been absolved from blame. it | was learned today. and the proceedings “The specifications said that he had | knowingly held up to contempt agt| ridicule the City of Newport, and tne | coming Events. dangerous wea Firearms also were used by police W D. Perry reported he returned the fire after the driver of a machine fired point-blank at him near Twenty-first | street and New Hampshire avenue. The | driver escaped. 'KIWANIANS PLEDGE GIFFORD FULL AID Club “Stands Ready to Carry Ort All Allotted Work as Far as Possible.” Promise of “all possible aid” was given to Dircctor Walter S. Gifford of the President’s National Unemployment Relief Organization in a_resolution adopted erday by the Washington Kiwanis Club. The resolution asserted the club “stands ready to carry out, as far as within its power, all work or assistance allotted to the club.” Charles W. Pimper, chairman of the Orthopedic and Welfare Committee of the club, reported that 97 children were cared for by the club during August Of these. he said, 45 were patients at the Kiwanis Clinic at Children’s Hos- pital. Nurses provided by the club made 136 visits during the month. Eugene R. Woodson and Edwin ¥. Hill, vice presidents, and Edgar Morris, district trustee, were named delegates to the Capital District Convention of Kiwanis Clubs at Baltimore, October 29 to 31 Alternates elected were Mr. Pimper, Frank T. Mitchell and Dr. O, U. Singer. Alvin W. Hall, director of the Bureau U. S. CHAMBER 10BLESS cent alleys and drove away in an auts 2 mobile which was waiting on Massa- chusetts avenue. s = _— of the court set aside by the Navy De- |summary court-martial = found — him of Engraving and Printing, was pre- | guilty. The Federation of Citizens' Associa- partment. 1 COMMITTEE ADJOURNS 5Gmup BtudyTn:N:t‘io;ml Planning MORE THAN 7,000 FIREMEN EXPECTED| - "“wuu'vom | The special committee from the Additional Two or Three Thousand ; Chamber of Commerce of the United | States which has been From Outside City Entered for {up @ national planning board designed ‘The Interstate Commerce Commission | today set for hearing October 8 the complaint of a group of coal dealers I in this section who are seeking a re- duction in rates on anthracite from the Pennsylvania fields to Washington and | nearby Maryland and Virginia. | | Joined in the action are John P. Agnew & Co.. George M. McCuliough, | | James E. Colliflower & Co., L. P. Steuart | i & Bro, District Coal Co.. A. P. Wood son Co., Fadeley Co. and Leroy O. King, | all of Washington, and Thomas W.| Perry Columbia. Sylvester L. McLaurin, colored mem- ber of the District bar, who is appeal- ing from an order of disbarment, was indicted today by the ggand jury on a charge of larceny from the District of He is accused of purloining examination papers from a cabinet in the office of the Board of Education in the Franklin School Building July 25. The value of the papers is placed at $1 E. B. Layfield, a hospital apprentice, | second class, at the U. S. Naval Hos- pital at Newport, R. 1., waxed poetical The proceedings were forwarded to ‘Weashington for revie: but Navy Deas partment officials, believing that the £nd dashed off a poem, entitled “Here's | poem was written more in levity than to Newport.” June 20 Wecekly. officials of Newport and other indig-| nant citizens bore down upon Pcet Lay- | field and the storm became so lot that It was published in the | o, set aside jssite of the United States Navy | sentence of the court. When it was circulated, city | have been given a bad conduct dis- with malice, set aside the findings and Layfield might charge had the proceedings been sus- tained by the judge advocate general here and Secrefary Adams. tions at a special meeting last night went on record in favor of two celebra- tions pianned for Washington. One is a celebration being arranged for Hal- | loween by the Greater National Capital | Committee of the Board of Trade and | the other a homecoming day to be held | | next July 4 as part of Washington's | celebration of the George Washington | Bicentennial year. | Name Committee of 15. sented to the club as a new member yesterday by Mark Lansburgh GOLD ON HAND IN U. . BREAKS ALL RECORDS Total of $4,998,000,000, Nearly Chevy Chase, Md.; Griffith A AR Perry, Silver Spring. Md., and Dickey | Bros.. Hyattsville, Md. by the indictment. Complaint was made by Howard H. A committce of 15 was appointed to work with the Board of Trade in mak- ing the Halloween festival a success. A | to promote continuity of work and pre- | { vent unemplovment, adjourned today | {to meet in New York September 21.§ QUIZFOUR SOLDIERS | two days studying a Parade Here Labor Day. | Entries for the Firemen's Labor day | parade received so r. indicate two or tiree thousand more volunteer firemen | than were expected from outside the | city will participate, Sergt. A. J. Bargagni, direclor and marshall, said ady. he added, more than 5.000 | signidied their intention of coming 19t take part in the till coming in. the probable s at about 5000, suid today that he | cen 7000 and 8,000 floats of the local Fire Department k. n coripleted aj the firemen v getling their equipment in order for the parade. CAPITAL CLERK HURT of voluntes t. Bar expects bt Most of the Miss Margaret Hutchison, 39, Em- ployed in Bureau of Internal Revenue, Suffers Injuries. Miss Margaret Hutchison, 39. a clerk ight arm and shock when a taxi- | cab in which she riding this morn- | ing collided at Sixteenth street and | Constitution avenue with an automobile | operated by Carl Bertho, 38, of 3109 Nichols avenue southeast, financial offi- cer of the Park Amusement Co.. which operates the golf concession in East Po- tomac Park and elsewhere. The taxicab was turned on its side, and its driver, Claudius Green, 87, cf | Glen road, Cherrydale, Va.. was badly | shaken up. U. S. Park Police toek him to Emergency Hospital, where he was found to be suffering from shock. The injured woman was taken to Emergency Hospital by Leonard Lawson, another cab driver. Bertho was not injured. Park police .said_the cab driver was traveling east on Constitdtion avenue, while Bertho jot when it will formulate a report to go to the board of directors of the cham- ber, mecting here October 2 and 3. A Dbrief statement announced the decision of the committee to delay its report until later in the month and made no mention of the nature of the disoussion which was carried on here. Che statement said, however, that while the program for the national planning board was designed as a long- rarge measure, in view of the cur- rent dep “the committee h: turned its attention to the immediate situaticn and will deal with it in its report.” LINCOLN PLAZA BIDS | ARE ASKED BY GRANT| | Paving Will Mark Another Step Looking to Completion of Bridge Project. Another step looking to completion the Arlington Memorial Bridge project was taken today when Lieut Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, executive officer | of the Arlington Memorial Bridge Com- mission, called for bids for the paving of the Lincoln Memorial Plaza, the con- truction of curbings and sidewalks and the paving of the highways adjacent to the bridge. Bids will be opened at 11 am. in room 1613, Navy Building, on September 17. The successful bidder will be given 60 calendar days to com- plete the job and will not be permitted, without speclal authority, to interfere with traffic. . Announcement of this contract fol- lows - closely the publication of invita- tions for bids for the paving of the bridge proper, and .these prospective contracts will be opened at 11 o'clock ! next Wednesday morning. Planes Hop for Honduras. KEY WEST, Fla., September 4 (#).— Three Navy seaplanes which arrived here last night, en route from Norfolk, Va.. to Panama, left today for an over- 1 The action is directed against the! | Baltimore & Ohio. Pennsylvania and! other coal-hauling lines. i The petition for a decrease calls the | rates, which range from $2.65 to $3.28! a ton, unreasonable and excessive and | asks that the commission fix a reason- | able rate and require the defendants! to pav reparations for allegedly unlaw- ful charges collec This refund would cover two y \WIFE FINDS MAN BEATEN | | AND ROBBED IN HOME, Used on Clarence E. Mathias, 54, Two Escaping in Auto With Ring and Radio. Two unidentified men, with a hammer, last night stole a $50 | diamond ring and a $90 radio from the home of Clarence E. Mathias, 701 G street southeast, and, after beating him, left him heipless, escaping in a [ big_automobile, police were told. | | The beaten man was found by his wife. returning home a short time after | the attack and robbery, who reported the affair to police of the fourth pre- cinct, The ring was taken from Ma-| thias’ finger, she said. and the radio from a table in the house. Hammer blows over the left eye and on the nose were suffered by Mathias. Mrs. Mathias named a suspect. | Hammer { | STROKE AT DESK FATAL Fred P. Witt of Veterans' Bureau Dies of Heart Attack. . Fred P. Witt. 45, an adjudicator in the claims division, United States Vet- erans’ Bureau, died today efter a_heart attack, suffered while at his desk at the bureau. Bureau physicians, ‘who were called immediately, pronounced the man dead. He resided at 2807 Rhode Island ave- nue northeast. Coroner J. Ramsay was going north on Sixteenth street!water fiight to Trujillo, British Hon- | Nevitt issued a certificate of death by into the Ellipse. duras. natural causess one armed | & Long, chief examiner for the District, who claimed that McLaurin took the papers quring his absence from his office. Captured in School. McLaurin was indicted in conrection with his capture at the Franklin School Administration Building July 26 wher witnesses told police, he sought to sub- tute new examination papers for a of failing papers on file with school record: 72 was captured bv detectives who d laid in wait for him. while Frank rter, colored janitor of the administra- tion building. pretended to assist him in gaining access to the papers. According to the story told police, ha C: IMcLsufln's niece, Willi May McLaurin, had taken an examination for a clerical position in the school system. She failed nd her submitted examination papers were filed in_the examiner's office at the Franklin Building. McLaurin then approached Carter, who at that time was a new employe at the building. ask- ing that he be permitted to open the files and, Carter said, offered a sum of money. Seen Opening Files. Qarter told Ceorge Hulse. superin- tendent of the building, who in turn notified police. McLaurin made sev- el visits to Carter and on one occa- sion gave him a dollar “for cigars” and told him to.‘keep mum.” On advice of Mr. Hulse and the police. Carter agreed to advise McLaurin when it would be safe for him to return to the Franklin Building and it was agreed that Sfilurd?y afternoon, July 26, was the proper time. Depzectlves and school officials secreted themselves in an adjoining office and watched McLaurin open the files with 2 key given him by Carter and care- fully take from the mass of papers those submitted by his niece. When seized, McLaurin had the fraudulent test pa- pers in_ his possession. Before he at- tempted to use the key, police said, the mnntcnret:lly wrapped & handkerchief about his fingers. McLaurin's apphl against the dis- barrment action taken against him still is pending. Company Makes 91,633 | Tests, 12,810 at Order | of Commission. | The Washington Gas Light Co. has | made a total of 91,638 adjustments to | gas appliances in consumers’ establish- | ments since January 22 when the check was ordered by the Public Utili- | ties Commission, according to a report filed with the commission yesterday by | Bert H. Peck. | " Of these, however, only 12,810 were made as a result of the company's sur- vey ordered by the commission, the | report stated. Other adjustments were made as follows: | service calls, 33,740; on installing new | appliances, '17,344; others, chiefly at | time of water checks, 10,308. These figures will be examined at the public hearing before the commis- | sion September 14, at which the rela- tion of the local company with one of its chief stockholders, the Central Pub- lic Service Corporation, will be studied. The general question of gas pressures and their relations, if any, to custom- { ers’ bills, will also be examined at this hearing. It had previously been planned to hold two separate hearings | on these subjects, but the two have | been consolidated at the request of the ccmpany. 5 T O L Church Secretary Resigns. | ATLANTA, Ga., September 4 () — | The Commiitee on Stewardship and | Finance of the Southern Presbyterian Church announced here today the res- ignation of Dr. Roswell C. Long as secretary and the election of Edward D. Grant of Nashville, Tenn, a8 his successor, GAS ADIUSTMENT | REPORT IS FLED On_complaints and | | nessed the hold-up April 3. IN JAYNES SLAYING Police Try to Link Quartet| Held in Robbery With Cashier’s Murder. Four Fort. Washington soldiers, held in connection with a robbery which they are said to have admitted, were to be questioned today in connection with the hold-up at the Garden T Shoppe last Spring, during which Mrs. Elizabeth Jaynes, 57-year-old cashier, was fatally wounded. Revolver Is Examined. The soldiers—James Boyd, 23; Ira R. Jones, 24; George Gallow 21, and George Lippman, also 21—will be viewed by-employes of the tea room who wit- Decision_to atterpt to link the four with the Jaynes case was made, police said, after & .25-caliber revolver was found in the possession of one of them. The gun was turned over to Lieut. John Fowler, police ballistic expert, who will examine it in an effort to learn whether it was used in the Jaynes slaying. An effort also will be made to link it with | qy,je the killing of Beulah Limerick, who likewise was killed with & .25-caliber revolver. Tdentified by Woman. The soldiers are said to have admit- ted robbing George Tuegale of $150 Wednesday night. They also are said to have been identified by Mrs. Dolly Russell, 40 B street southwest, as the men who robbed her of $20. Pedestrians who really cnjoy walking will have to-move either to China, Ethiopia. or the Solomon Islands, for Eresorhion io ther Bopuatin, than any n eir any other countries covered by the census. | Curtis Hodges of the Board of Trad | They call for a parade down Pennsyl- | be offered for the native Washingtonians committee on the July 4 celebration will be appointed later. Those on the Hal- loween Committce are William A. Rob- erts, Joseph L. Gammell, Willam J.} Weber, Edwin S. Hege, Mrs. R. C. Rit- tue, L. S. Trundle, M. Z. Baughman, Fred A. Emery, George Sullivan, Mis. | Elizabeth Sullivan. M. M. McLean, A. J. | Driscoll Proctor, W. L Swanton and Lewis J. Gelbman. The Halloween plans were outlined by | vania avenue consisting of floats, com- mercial trucks end foot marchers, with prizes for the best in each class, and a carnival and dance on Constitution avenue, which will be roped off for the | occasion. ‘Home-coming Plans. ‘The Home-coming day plans were outlined by old §K. Kruckman, director of the Distridt of Columbia Bicentennial Commission. He explained that the main national events next Independence day would occur in Philadelphia, and that the celebration for each other city was planned to be something in the nature of a home town celebration. He suggested that prizes returning to the city from farthest away after longest absence. The federation approved the action of the Public Utilities Commission in re- fusing to allow cars of the Mount Vernon, Alexandria and Washington Rallway to cross Pennsylvania avenue to a terminal north of that thoroughfare. action was by unanimous vote on motion of Willlam McK. Clayton, chair- man of the Federation’s Committee on Public Utilities. HELD IN SHOPLIFTING Jesse Willis, 27, colored, 229 V street, was held under $5,000 bond today fol- lowing his arrest on charges of petit larceny and resisting arrest, after he was taken into custody by Detective Reported by Reserve Board. Establishing a new high record, the United States had on hand at the close of business Tuesday nearly half the world supply of gold. according to a statement made public today by the Federal Reserve Board. ‘The total monetary gold stocks was reported at $4,998,000,000, or $6,002.- 000,000 less than the total werld supply of $11,000,000,000. This was an increase of $6.000,000 jn a weck and $498,000,000 in the last year. The board’s report also showed increass last weex' of $41,00.550 money in circulation, with a total out- side the Treasury in this couniry of $5,035,000,000. This was an increase «f $524,000,000 in a year. TRAFFIC LIGHTS SET ON CONSTITUTION AVE. New Signals at 17th Street to Operate in Conjunction With Metal Strips in Directing Traffic. ‘Traffic lights were being installed to- day at Seventeenth street and Consti- tution avenue and are expected to be in_ operation in a few days. These lights are to be operated in conjunction with metal strips in the roadway that permit a continuous stream of traffic to flow by when set for that purpose. When Constitution avenue was paved recently, the metal strips were inserted in the road bed. Capt. R. C. Montgomery, U. 8. A, superintendent of the United States park police, belleves that with the con- tinuous traffic method, operated by the wheels of the automobiles running over the metal strips, the plan will prove invaluable in times when great parades traverse Constitution avenue or when the traffic stream is headed for Poto- mac Park, as in cherry blossom time. John R. Palmer in the Palais Royal Dej ent Store when caught shop- A woman, sald to have accompanied the man, escaped from the store, DAL R g Sy Ttaly's trade delegation to Russia re- ports having booked several orders, but cannot see prospects for indefinitely ex- panding markets there.