Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1931, Page 15

WAS S Southwest Area Shows De- cided Price Variance Dur- ing Negotiations. PURCHASE NOW ASSURES KEEPING WITHIN $300,000 Refrigeration Plant Owners Slash Figure to Bring Farmers to Section. By paying $18,000 for a plot of ground, originally held for $69,640 and later offered at $40,500, the District government has completed negotiations for establishing in Scuthwest Washing- ton the much discussed Farmers' Pro- duce Market on ‘'a site specifically named by Congress, which appropriated $300,000 for the purpose after extended and acrimonious debate in both House and Senate. The District has just taken title to 8 half-squere block in the site, the purchase price of which proved the key to the vexing problem of carrying ofit the mandate of Congress and at the same time remaining within the limit HINGTON WASHINGTO! Map of Market SHOWS Plicl DIFFERENCE IN PARTS OF SITE. W0OD 10 TESTIFY AT GAS HEARINGS Answer Utilities Body Under Oath, He Says. NAMES MAY EXPLAIN OWNERSHIP QUESTION Public Disclosures Would Be Fol- lowed by Commissioners’ De- cision as to Prosecution. President George A. G. Wood of the Wash ngton Gas Light Co. will be que: tioned at open hearings before the Pub- lic Utilities Commission tomorrow after- noon on the disappearance from the gas company files of an “organization chart, said to be one of the links in a chain of evidence connecting the company with the Central Public Service Cor- poration. Mr. Wood said yesterday that he would be prepared to answer ques tions on this subject under oath, bu declined to be quoted on it for ne paper publication. It is said that the chart, wanted by Assistant, Corporation Counsel William A. Roberts as part of the evidence in an investigation to determine the pres- ent ownership of the gas company, Was prepared by R. H. Morrison, an ac- countant sent to Washington to revise its accounting system. Mr. Morrison was sent down by the Central Public ON MISSING CHART |Company Head Prepared to‘ Injured 12 PERSONS HURT, TWO SERIQUSLY, IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS Capital Men Severely Cut When Car Leaps Over Embankment. FIVE STRUCK BY AUTOS SUFFER MINOR INJURIES | | STRUCK IN POLICE CAR | CRASH. Three Men Cut and Bruised as Machine Runs Into Ten-Foot Ditch on Canal Street. SAMUEL TATE, Of 919 South Carolina avenue south- east, who suffered contusions of the shoulder and neck late yesterday when knocked against a lamp-post at Sixth and B streets southeast, after a crash Twelve persons were injured in a series of traffic mishaps in and about the_ Capital yesterday and last night. Two of them are in Sibley Hospital suffering from serious injuries. They are Eugene Longpras, 24, of Hans Kindler, Conductor and Org.cnizer, Shows That the Work Must Begin at the Bottom— Auditions Separate the Sheep From the Goats. BY E. DE S. MELCHER. NE, two, three, four! “One, two, three, four!” personality. You know—whether a man wants to work for the orchestra or for himself. Wait now I'll show you— I T and, leans el h against one of the 11 pianos | """,‘}Ci*":e‘,‘s“‘-'y ;;;D‘:‘{l;‘;k‘f”‘%u e in the room (it’s third floor front in | thi roing. sal g | called me up this morning. He said. Droop’s music store), looks at musician | T qon't need an audition do I I No. 1, violinist, who, étanding before | answered, ‘Not if you dom't want to e owa¥ay | play in the orchesira’ ‘Well, I can't “Fifth Symonaky’s | come this morning. T1l try to make it ymphony,” | this afternoon.’ And now here he is— and—presto! e | this morning!” first aucition for| “Mr. 7 sweeps into the Toom, shakes the National Sym- | hand gallantly with Mr. Kindler, smiles phony Orchestra is | benigniy at the others. “1 didn't think I could make it,” he says with a light laugh. “But her I'am.” Play What You Wish. here you are” echoes Mr. Mr. Kindler. “It's|Kindler. He goes to the piano while a struggle from the | the man tunes his instrument. After- ground up.” | wards he stands directly in front of First, the inter- | him. est, then the guar-| “What will you play? antee, then the| “Anything you wish,” replies the man. men, then the mu-| “A concerto? sic, then the re-| “I don't know any off hand. What hearsal, and finally | I mean is I haven't practiced for so {he concert. Somewhere in between long—I've been so busy.” 13 under way. ‘The formation of & symphony chestra: “Oh, no, | it's not easy,” says “Yes, ‘ou. must have something you can between the first precinct radio scout 4602 “Fifth street, Washington Rapid car and an automobile driven by Joseph | Transit Co. mechanic, and Johh S. Rosner, 39, of €219 Twelfth street.|Jordan, 20, of 3151 Mount Pleasant Tate, a pedestrian, was hit by Rosner’s | street. Both men received severe lacera- car after it had been struck by the|tions when the automobile in which police machine, which was returning | they were riding, a light coupe, plunged from a false riot call at Seventeenth|over an embankment and crashed into a and B streets southea: telephone pole on Eastern avenue near —Star Staff Photo, | Bladensburg road northeast. Miss _Virginia Bowman, 28, of 2115 Pennsylvania avenue, also a passenger in the machine, according to police, escaped injury. Car Hits Side of Bridge. The car, owned by Longprae,:was operated by Jordan at the time of the | accident, police said. DECISION DELAYED It was believed | are the adjustments with the Musi- clans' Union, the selection of a hall, whether the men can play in the or- chestra and the theater at the same | time, whether Mr. X or Mr. Y is going | to head the second stands, who is going | to be soloist. The first, step—the audition. On a hot September morning the | conductor and the concert master and | the personne! manager gather together precisely at 9 a.m. Against the walls stand the 11 planos. In thé center of | the room is a vast corcert grand on | which recline large envelopes contain- | ing the music “for violin,” “for cello, “for cornet’—no auditions necessary i | pidy from memory. “Just a few bailads.” Mr. Kindler groans inwardly. “All right then—let’s have a ballad.” The ballad is “Love Sent a Little Gift of Roses.” You can tell what Mr. Kindler thinks of it even if he is only looking sadly into those green shades. When it is over, he says “All right, try this"—and he puts the Beethoven “Fifth” in front -of the_man. SHOT AS CLIMAX 10 HOLD-UP WAVE Colored Victim Attempted to Rob Him, Grocer Tells Police. STORE OWNER IS HELD PENDING INVESTIGATION Three Taxi Drivers Report Stif Ups—Salesman Eludes Bandit Trio—Woman Routs Thug. An alleged hold-up marr was shot and seriously wounded by bis intended vic- tim last night as a climax to a series of robberies, which had kept police busy throughout the evening. Three taxicab drivers reported they had lost their money at the point of pistols, a tobacco salesman carrying $800 of his company’s funds eluded three would-be bandits after a 4-mile automobile chase, and a woman fright- ened off a robber by screaming. ‘Grocer Shoots Man. The man shot was William Dunlop, colored, 32, of the 1300 block of Third street. ' Abe Rosenblatt, 29, a grocer, told police he was forced to defend him- self after Dunlop had attempted to rob him in his grocery store, 300 P street, at 10 o'clock last night. o] was taken to Emergency I with a bullet Wound in the of the appropriation. { After the Terminal Refrigerating & w using Corporation, which has a for drums—either you can beat a drum or you can’t. Mr. Kindler takes off his coat, rolls up his sleeves. “This is going to be hot Service Corporation, and in several of o the letters about his mission, now in evidence in the case, he is referred to as “our Mr. Morrison.” Officials of the { the vehicle struck the side of a bridge | over the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad | tracks, and careened off the road at, w, then— |up goes his right | hand, he leans When the colored man entersd the store he asked for some potatoes, the T It was grocer said. . As Rosenblatt bent over large investment in other market facil- jties in the section, slashed $51,640 from its original asking price of $69. 640 for this portion of the site the District Commissioners. bought it for $18,000, it was revealed yesterday. ‘Wanted Adjacent Market. Desire on the part of the refrigerat- fng concern to assure establishment of the farmers’ market by the District on a location only a few steps ‘from pri- vate market facilities in the section, to well informed District | Shaded area in upper square indi- | cates property which has been pur- chased by the District for $18,000 after Terminal Refrigerating & Warehousing Corporation slashed its original offer from $69,640 in order to assure carrying out of project. This part of site is about twice the size of the quarter block | in lower square, also fllustrated here by | shading, for which a condemnation jury has found an award of $32,677, al- | though the assessed value is $8,715. | The upper square was bought at private | Central Public Service Corporation testi- fied, however, that Mr. Morrisori really never had any connection with that cor- poration, except as an employe of a firm of accountants employed by them from time to time. Tells of Seeing Names. Mr. Roberts said that he saw the chart on one of his visits to the gas company's offices, and that it showed Morrison as controller of the gas com-| No action will be taken during the pany, with Richard A. Ennis, who has|coming week on the resignation of Dr been 'the company’s controller for many | H. Barrett Learned from the Board of !Resignation of President Learned Will Await Jus- tices” Return. { | ONSEHOOLBOARD the south end of the bridge. demolished. The passengers were taken {to the hospital by Theodore Randall of the 700 block of A street southeast, a passerby. Longprae was treated for lacerations of the scalp and possible fracture of the skull, by_broken glass. Felled by an automobile at Four- teenth street and Park road, Delmar D. Hale, 34, of 423 Addison avenue, | Virginia Highlands, Va., suffered lacer- ations of the right knee, seve frac- tured ribs and body bruises last night. Both men were badly cut| work.” Goods and N. G's. The manager produces a long list of possibilities. On this list are “to be marked the “goods” and their-opposites. the “N. G's.” The concert master sits back and smiles, thankful that his au- dition days are over. He looks at his watch. § “Pirst man ought to be here,” he says, mopping his brow. Mr, Kindler mops his brow, too. The manager arranges the music for the AN | against one of the § | eleven piancs, he — on | starts again to get the potatoes, the other man, he said, pressed a knife in his back, and told him to “stick 'em up.” Rosenblatt who was armed as a result of an tempt of five men to steal mercha; 'dise from his store Friday night, whirled and fired at Dunlgp. The bullet struck him n the back, but Dunlop ran a block to Bates street before collapsing. He was found there by headquarters detectives. Rosenblatt was held pend- ing investigation. Woman Screams for Help. two, three — No. Start again — It goes like this, ‘La- | da-da -dee’” he hums the opening bars. | ow, then, start—one, two, three—" The man starts again, badly. “Play in tempo,” cries Mr. Kindler, in tempo!” S The man doesn't. He changes his stand from one foot to another. <@l one of his subordinates. Chief Justice Alfred A. e Beetnoven's “Fifth" for the vio- | ,Fi2y in tempo! Bl iz, o Iatersind GoRY & S officials, led the company to slash its on this property by approximately per cent. Had the District been unable to buy the site and erect the necessary facil- fties for the farmers within the limit of the tion, it is explained, the whole matter might again have been carried back to Congress by an I‘m: for more money. was not desired by certain in- ferests, since the question of why tax- payers should be assessed $300,000 to provide business quarters' for private ‘marketing was seriously raised in Con- before the appropriation was au- E!‘n‘.a. There was als0 a protracied ttle over the site, victory finally being by proponents of the area between E, G, Tenth and Eleventh streets south- Pennsylvania Raflroad interests were described in congiessional debates as among the principal beneficiaries of lo- cation of the Farmers' Market on the specified Southwest location, which is served handily by freight lines of that railroad. Al close at hand to the Farmers' Market site are the extensive facilities of the Potomac Freight Ter- minal along Water street between ‘Twelfth and Fourteenth streets, con- struction of which was started before the Farmers' Market site was selected. $30,000 May Be Needed. At the time of the starting of the Potomac Freight Terminal stores for commission merchants and wholesalers Col. Wrisley Brown, president of that company, announced that his concern was “associated with the Pennsylvania Railroad.” <That was on November 8, 1928. The Parmers’' Market act became Jaw March 2, 1929. The appropriation was made in the 1931 budget, enacted * July 3, 1930. Col. Brown actively urged passage of the Farmers’ Market bill While a Farmers' Market is established under negotiations now being consummated, indications are that the city heads may be forced to ask Congress to appropriate perhaps 30,000 more, in order to round out the development. Slashing of price by the Terminal Refrigerating & Warehousing Corpora- tlon, however, has enabled the District to buy most of the site and build fa- cilities immediately needed within the appropriation, being Further, one qurter of a squar block, in the Jower half of the . i site, owned by the refrigerating concern, is to be purchased under condemnation proceedings for a price of $32,67 this lot and appropriation structures. The refrigerating conce according to Distr I have eno t to erec e market therefore, large lot as a the amount of the ard can be found Contracts Awarded. 5 the District has been enabled development of « the $300.000 , ored, drew clemency from Police Judge ; been let for the ! part of the 1 of sheds. Pre- s old frame and brick i mh y of the negotiations. t Commissioners found ! confronted with a real prob- when the $300.000 appropriation | me available in July, 1930, Prices nsied for the two will allow { squares by the various | WILD AUTORIDE DS N ARRET {Driver Held as Drunk After Crashing Into Three Machines. A wild 50-mile-an-hour ride through the northwest section was climaxed last night when a colored driver, allegedly drunk, crashed into a parked automo- bile at Seventeenth and Q streets, knocking it scross the sidewalk. viously he had struck three other m: chines, No one was injured. The driver, said by police to be too | intoxicated to give his name and ad- | dress, was charged at the third pr cinct station with reckless driving, lea ing the scene of an accident, speeding, failing to stop for traffic lights, driving | while drunk and colliding. His first victim was Wiliam Hardy, 119, colored, of 1141 Fifteenth street. | After ramming Hardy’s car into an au- | tomobile driven by Robert E. Towe: | 22, of 1610 Sixteenth street, he backec into another car, driven by J. €. Flack of 6201 Brookville road, Chevy Chase, Md. The man then sped down Seven- !teenth street, with Flack in pursuit At Massachusetts avenue, Flack said, the colored man made a right turn against a red light and raced at & 50- mile-an-hour speed out to Dupont Circle, The two cars raced completely around the circle, terrifying pedestrians end motorists alike, then sped back Seventeenth street. At the intersection {of @ street the ride ended with the | crash into the parked automobile. Only two blocks away, and at about the same time, another colored man, |also believed to have been drunk, crashed an automobile stolen from John {’A. Cannon, 21, into a machine driven | by John D. Bowen, 25, of 1815 H .!tl’ee?. {The colored man escaped. ~Cannon’s car was virtually demolished. Neither | Bowen nor Miss Minnie Spencer, 23, of 1409 Fifteenth street, who was with | PLEA WINS CLEMENCY Man Accused of Theft of Paper From Rack Says He Is Jobless. Declaring he took a newspaper from an henor system rack because he was and wanted to look over the William Scott, col- | | Py | “broke’ | want add columns, Gus A. Schuldt today, with the pro- sion {2at he would return immediate- ¥ to his native North Carolina. | Police reported that the man removed | a newspaper without paying for it from rack at North Capitol street and assachusetts avenue. Myslm:y of Autos i Lures Boy, 4, Into Wild Ride on Hill s totaled more than the appro- tion, with no allowance for the con- | uction work | On November of last year, the refrig- erating concern asked $69,640 for its holdings i square 354, amounting to about half of the area between E, F, ‘Tenth and Eleventh streets southwest. ‘This offer w rejected by the Com- missioners. Maj. H. L. Robb, Assistant Engineer Coy fesioner, then started new nego- 8 10, last, the re- g .Ld) ey b J\"d‘(’ an offer n!l 500 for its holdings in this square.! Automobiles have long been a source in, however, the District deferred | of mystery to 4-vear-old. Louls Den- signing. . . 1658 Avon place. Yesterday he de- On August 11 the refrigerating com- | ¢ to satisfy, partially at least, a pany agreed to sell its property in this | long yearning to operate one. square for 18,000 Louls, police were told, clm‘:ed‘ into an sutomobile which Mrs, Masie L Wmional 56 WERION, omwell, 34, of Bethesda, Md The current sed value of this | parked on an incline at Avon and Dent P"flpfl"t)‘ 3'; 'b‘%l;lpultd for taxation pur- places while shopping at a nearby store. poses, 15 $33, - 1S 30000 | the property in the | 1€ Teleased the brake and the machine started backward down the hill entire square 354, acquired under pr ~ . B O Besotiatine. will Smount 10 80~ de e F e thomenbi, nar rowly missed two approaching machines phu:lmltcly $123,000," District regords | 55 it cross>d the street and did not stop show. umtil it crashed into the front of a sto Moanwhile, condemnation _proceed- | B g5 Avon piace. A Jarge. aire acquis y s ¥ ant O ewkets, Tt oy Y DA oL e window ‘demal and Eleventh southwest. The awards ’fl!bw'nmhn”o i on Page 2, Column 3.) taken. o | Child Releases Brake and Ends Up in Crash. had ears, as x. Gallagher, controller of the Central Public Service Corporation, who sent Morrison to Washington, said he was quite sure Morrison entertained no ambitions, and that he had never seen the chart. Its absence is thus far un- explained. Most of the questioning of the re- maining two days of the hearing will be devoted to getting from Mr. Wi and from Walter M. Russell, chief en- gineer of the local company, an ac. count of interference by the Central | velopment plans of the Washington Gas Light Co. This was strongly hinted at | during the hearing on the question of gas pressures, and officials of the Cen- tral Public Service Corporation at the present hearing have admitted frequent | “advising” of the Washington company, | although they all denied that they had issued any “Instructions.” 1t was testi- fied, nevertheless, that all of the im- i were scanned by the Executive Com: mittee of the C. P. S. and “approved' before they were put into execution, and that the plans underwent notable changes in the process. -One of the plans was to spend $1,000,000 on im- proving the east station of the local company. This plan never went through, and more detalls concerning what hap- pened to it are expected at the sessions tomorrow and Tuesday. Submission of Records. After the public hearings ths Utili- ties Commission is expected to content itself with submitting the record of the case to the District Commissioners “fo) such action as they see fit to tak: that an action be instituted by the Com- missioners under the La Follette anti- merger law to compel sale of the ma- jority stock in the gas company, by its present owners. The law, which was passed at a time when the utilities com- mission was not in existence, makes it the duty of the District Commissioners, or the Department of Justice, or the U. 8, Attorney for the District, to bring the prosecutions. The law forbids acquisition, holding, controlling or voting of more than 20 per cent of the stock in local utilities corporations by foreign utility or hold- ing corporations. All of the.testimony | | of the majority of stock in the gas com- pany in & common law trust, the Wash- ington and Suburban Companies, which is in turn owned by another trust, the Westfield Trust, which is in turn owned by Col. Alfred E. Peirce, president of ths Gentral Public Service Corporation. The Central Public Service Corporation, however, owns notes in large denomina tions made by the Westfield Trust, and the hearing has dwelt at length on the part played by that corporation and its officers in regulating the business of the local company. 'HOOVER PAMPHLET AGAIN ASSAILED Likening President to Wash- ington as Propaganda. The General Federation of Women's Clubs drew further criticism yesterday for its issuance of pamphlet depicting President Hoover as another George Washington, when the newly organized Federated Democratic Women of Ohio, in session at Colum- bus, adopted a resolution publicly pro- testing against it as “distasteful propa- ganda.” Recently the Maryland State Federa- tion of Women's Clubs condemaed the pamphlet, which is the work of the Pederation’s Bicentennial Committee, of which Mrs. John F. Sippel, national president, is chairman. Before then, various leaders in the federation were critical of the pamphiet but Mrs. Sippel refused to withdraw it. The Ohio women, in the resolution adopted yesterday, said “the parallel 50 clearly lends fiself to & partisan in- terpretation it is certain to be. dis- , tasteful to large numbers of loyal club women, * * flhu protest is issued as a | warning to women who belong to sup- posedly non-partisan organizations not | to permit themselves to become propa- gandists.” Mrs, Sippel had explained that the Bicentennial pamphlet was not_issued for palitical pi s although she ad- mitted reluctantly at the time that the nature of the booklet was such as to lend itself to that interpretation. Com- parison was made between Hoover's and Washington's public utterances, she said, so as to impress new citizens with the fact that %flflfin traditions are being let tained lithographs of Wash) mmew-r | and R, | Education, provement plans of the local company | This is the official way of suggesting | in the case so far places legal ownership | Ohio Democratic Women Protest | | until Dr. Learned’s resignation was ac-| { Whea, of the District of Columbia Su- i preme Court said last night. | School board members are appointed, | court as a tribunal, but by the justices {of the court as a group of individuals. Until all the members of the court re- turn to Washington, the chief justice sald, no consideration will be given Dr. 0od | Learned's letter of resignation, dated September 12. All of his associates on the District Supreme Court bench, | Justice Wheat said, are not expected Public Service Corporation with de-|back in the city until the end of the | coming week, so that nothing can be | done until after that time. i Believes Letter “Conclusive.” Asked by The Star last night whether t is likely that, in view of Dr. Lezrned’s scheduled return to the Capital in April, the court justices might refuse to accept the resignation, Justice Wheat said that while he had no right to speak officlally without consulting his assoclates, he felt that the school resident’s letter was “quite con- and devoid of gualifications | which would wararnt such a refusal by {the court members. Meanwhile, the Board of Education { continues in the dilemma Dr. Learned’s {sudden departure created for it. By | virtue of the postponement since last ! Spring of the election of & vice presi dent, the board is entirely without offi- cers in its present organization emer- gency. Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle and Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith have been nominees for the vice presidency await- jing & full attendance of the board.be- | fore either is chosen to that office. ( Interviewed over long distance tele- phone from Scarsdale, N. Y., last night, Mrs. Smith expressed both sur- first time by The Star of Dr. Learned's Mrs. Smith, although she was formerly vice president, together | with most other board members and the | board's secretary, had not been advised {by Dr. Learned of his contemplated | resignation from the board. Favors Man for Place. Asked for her opinion as to the ad- visability of a woman president for the school board, Mrs. Smith was reluctant to comment in view of her lack of fa- miliarity with school board develop- ments. She said, however, that under {normal conditions she would favor a | man president of a board which was so | resignation. |of Education is with its six men and three women. Two other board members vesterday |asserted emphatically that they would {prefer a man president. Mrs. Doyle, | herself, and Henry Gilligan, who nomi- nated her .as vice president after Mrs, Smith’s name had been proposed, both told The Star they believed a man would be a more fitting head of the school board. Mrs. Willlam C. McNeill, the third woman member of the board, declined to_comment. Dr. J. Hayden Johnson, dean of the school board members, said yesterday that in his opinion the next move of the school board would be dictated largely by the action of the District of Columbia Supreme Court justices. He and Mr. Gilligan pointed out that cepted by the justices he still was a member of the board. Told Ballou of Plans. It was revealed at the Franklin Administration Building yesterday that the -only person in the school system’s prise and regret when advised for the | oy t"0) 0 %l ™ iomobile Tan into | | predominantly masculine as the Board | He was taken to Garfield Hospital. Struck at Intersection. Evelyn Williams, 13, of 532 Fourth such | Justice Wheat explained, not by the |street northeast, received bruises of the | | right hip and arms late yesterday when |an automobile driven by Mary Sher- burn, 40, of 4122 Twenty-second street | northeast, knocked her down while she | was crossing the intersection of Mount Vernon place znd Seventh street. She ! | was treated at Emergency Hospital. A companion, Mabelle Davis, 15, of 534 Fourth street northeast, also was struck ! by the car, but escaped injury. Cuts about the face were suffered by l. H. G. Hunt, 1527 Rhcde Island evenue, when he was brushed by a pass- way while crossing in the 1200 block !of N street yesterday afternoon. He | refused hospital treatment. The driver jof the car, lice reported. was Mrs. 1 Ethel A. Birchland, 42, of 4707 Connec- ticut avenue. ‘Thomas C. Warren, 18, of 306 Sev- enth street northeast, was treated at Freedmen's Hospital for leg cuts re- ceived when a motor cycle he was op- erating collided at Ninth and O streets with an automobile driven by Charles ‘W. White, colored, 27, of 818 O street. Woman Is Injured. Mrs. Lena Feldman, 38, of 908 Emer- | son street, was cut and bruised when run down by 2n automobile driven by Prances R. Ewing, 41, of Chaster County, Pa., in the 1400 block of Sev- enth street. Alice Smith, 35, colored, was severely injured when struck by an automobile on Rhode Island avenie near Hyatts- ville, Md. She was treated at Casualty Hospital for possible fractures of the legs and pelvis and lacerations. Three colored men were injured last | | |a 10-foot ditch in the 400 block cf | Canal street soutbeast. Those injured were: Leger Marlow, 40, of 15 C street southwest; Andrew Wood, 23, of 531 Forty-eighth street, northeast; Ben W. Calloway, 24, of the 300 block of C street southwest. U. S. TO RAZE BLOCK FOR NEW BUILDING | Agriculture Dept. Extensible Proj- ect to Start When Purchase of Site Is Completed. Demolition of all old buildings in the i square bounded by Twelfth and Thir- | teenth, B and C streets southwest will | be started as.soon as possible after the Government completes acquisition of the site for erection of part of the ex- tensible building for the Department of Agricultury This was officially stated at the Treasury Department yesterday to an- swer a number of confused questions which have been increasing lately from residents of the bloc! Plans have Been completed by the office of the supervising architect of the | Treasury for the second third of the extensible building for Agriculture. The first third is now almost finished in the block bounded by B and C streets, Thirteenth street and Linworth place southwest, and the second third is to | be erected on the block just to the east {@s soon as possible. The Government j has acquired most, of the property and ing automobilé and thrown to the road- | the now famous | | offictal staffl who was aware of Dr. Learned's _ contemplated resignation wes Dr. Prank W. Ballou, superin- i5 getting the rest of it as rapidly as {it can. The last third will be erected on the lins, “Peer Gynt’s Suite” for the violas, end if you come there with a trumpet a brass) you'll have to blast out Gounod’'s “Reine de Saba.™ “What a hot day,” says Mr. Kindler. He thinks of Senlis in France, where he has been spending a cool Summer in anticipation of all this. “What a frightfully hot day.” He sets up a steel violin stand and puts a chair before it. “Now we're ready,” he rattles at his side. “Good morning. He shakes hand with Kindler, with the manager, with the concert master. | A young man, shy, he unwraps his violin hurriedly. Tunes it. A Difficult Piece. Mr. Kindler sits down at the concert grand—taps an “A” lightly—then “G— |D—A—E.” He turns around. | :Now then what can you play?” The young man will play Lalo's “Symphony le. A good omen, thinks Mr. Kindler, a difficult piece (Heifitz does it superbly). He accom- panies the young man on the piano. “Very good,” he says to himself. “Good tone” (he really says “goo-ood tone”) and looks into the green shades which have been pulled down to keep out the hot sun and hopes that all the men will be able to play Lalo as well, 2 plece is over. He rises, puts the Tschaikowsky “Fifth Symphony” before the young man, points to the beginning, says simply, “Let me hear you play this” and stands back to 2 'One—two—three—four.” He is the conductor now. His hand moves through the air as if it held a baton. His face is serious. at the young man—and the young man {looks earnestly at the music. “One—two—three—four—That will do very nicely. Very nice indeed. What {kind of a_violin is that you have? Splendid tone—Is it an old one?” he examines it silently. Hands it back. “Do you think you can learn your musi In time for the rehearsals?” “I'll have it by heart for every re- hearsal, sir.” “Thank you—that's all.” The boy puts his violin away. Mr. Kindler makes a mark on his chart—a good mark—says nothing except “good- by” when the young man leaves. Judged by Three Things. A guest intruder asks the conductor, “How do you pick your men? What goes? What doesn't?” “I judge them by three things,” re- plies the leader of what will soon be the National Symphony Orchestra. “In the first place, tone and technique —tone and technique first. Then | ability to read—when I put this music in front of you whether you can polish it off or not—And last, but not least, says. | The first man arrives. His violin case H: looks earnestly | He winces, he cringes, he coughs, and he stops. Then he puts the violin un- der his chin. Begins again. Mr. Kind- ler's hand hovers above him—"“One, two, three—" | The man stops. | He has a silly smile on his face. “T can't go on,” he says. “You've got me rattled. I've never been this way be- fore. I don’t know what's the matter with me.” Insists He Can Do It. “T don’t know, either,” Mr. Kindler looks him straight m the eye. thought you didn’t need an audition.” ‘The man buckles under that. do it alright. I can do it—just give | me time.” He grits his teeth and puts the violin again under his chin. - But he can’t. The beat is too fast—the measure too . complicated. He “flats.” H# “sharps.” He stumbles and he stops. The sweat pours off his brow. He says in a low voice, “I'm getting mad at myself.” He walks around the chair once for good luck. 've never been mad at myself this way before.” He remembers the tele- phone conversation, “I don’t need an audition, do I?” Then he takes a deep breath—begins again. “There, you see,” says Mr. Kindler ‘when the man has gone. “That'’s the trouble. The man is a good musician. I know him. He plays well. I'll use him.. Of course I'll use him. But he’s so darn sure he's good that if I don’t | beat him on the | head first he'll end | up by hitting me | on the head first. And I have enough | troubles as it is.” He smiles — the auditions have just begun. More than 30 men still to come. He mops his brow. He isn’t mad—not the least bit. You can see he was enjoying it all, “I have so many troubles.” Ah—another—perhaps— a cellist ap- | pears at the door. His cello is larger | than he is. | “Good morning.” | Kindler smiles. He sits down at the plano. The man | plays something of Mendelssohn's. His | tone is “goo-cod.” He will be a valu- | able member. Mr. Kindler smiles some more—winks at the concert master and the manager. Then rises. “Now let's see you play some of this— “he raises his hand, he is very hot—so | is his blue shirt, open at the throat— | “Alright begin—one—two—three— four,” and so on—ad finitem. | l He smiles. Mr. INQUEST ORDERED IN ELECTROCUTION Man Installing Meter Killed at McKinley High School by 220-Volt Current. An inquest into the death of George Beech, 38, 2301 Second street north- east, electrocuted at McKinley High PLAN OF REMOVING PARKWAY DELAYED| | Further Study Decided Upon After Residents’ Petition Opposing Proposal. The National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission yesterday decided that | | further study should be given the pro- | away from the shooting, Mrs. Nellie Gamerman, 442 O street, told police she was walking near her home when a colored man held her up with a re- volver wrapped in a handkerchief. She told police that when she screamed the man fled. § Chased for more thah 4 miles by three men who attempted several times to force his machine from the road, Louis Weaver, a tobacco salesma) finally escaped his pursuers at Twenty- first street and Pennsylvania avenue. Weaver, who lives at 4123 Hayes street northeast. said the chase began at Clarendon, Va. when the robbers drove up and ordered him to stop his automobile. Weaver said when he re- fused the other car was driven straight at his machine. He said he managed to avoid it and sped for the city limits. At Twenty-first street and Pennsyl- vania avenue, he said, he lost sight of his pursuers. Leaves $600 With Police. He deposited ‘the $600 at the Arst i precinct station house for safe keeping. A taxi driver, William J. Balbree, 23, of 1620 Park road, was held up at pis- tol point, stripped of his clothes, and robbed of $8 and his taxicab by three colored bandits at Fifty-third and East Capitol Streets last night, police were told. Balbree was forced to walk to a gasoline station four blocks away, where he obtained a raincoat and a pair of trousers. Balbree said he picked up the three men at North Capitol and § streets. He was told to proceed to Fifty-third and East Capitol streets. ving there, he was confronted Wit a pistol and ordered to give up his money and | clothes, The taxicab later was recovered by police at Fifty-third and Grant streets. Two white men held up James Ed- ward Tilman, colored, 24, taxicab driver for the Central Cab Co., after having him drive them along Cathedral avenue and under the Calvert Street Bridge, Tilman told police of the fourteenth precinct. The pair escaped after taking about $8 in bills, he told police. Martin C. White, 31, of 2319 Pennsyl- vania avenue, was the third cab driver robbed. He said $4.30 was taken from him by two white men who held lfln in his back while they made him follow their directions. The robbery occurred in Balls court. g 6. U. STUDENT STRUCK BY HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER Youth Held Pending Query of Accident—Victim Gives Li- cense Number. Anthony J. Stabb, 23 years old, of 4430 Reservoir road yesterday was struck by a hit-and-run automobile while walking in the 3800 block of his home street. Seventh precinci police later arrested Richard Lee Brown, 19 years old, pending an investigation. Stabb, & student at Georgetown Unl. versity, was treated at the universit infirmary for minor injuries. He gave police the license number of the auto- mobile which he claimed struck him. Brown was traced to his home, in Ross- iyn, Va. by Arlington County authori- vhere he was taken into custody after his altomobile’s license checked with the numbers given police by Stabb. Brown was Qrought back to Washing= School yesterday, will be held at the|posed removal or reduction in size of District ‘Morgue tomorrow morning. at | the strip of parkway south of the Taft | tendent of schools. It was learned that Dr. Learned has discussed his plans with the superintendent, who, in turn, took the view that the school board head's withdrawal was a matter between the court justices and Dr. Learned. Dr. Learned’s departure from the Capital was discovered by Harry O. Hine, veteran secretary of the school board, who delivered a sheaf of offi- cial papers to the Learned home for the presidential signature. The follow- ing~day—Friday—Mrs. Learned tele- honed Mr, Hine that her husband ad gone to California the previous COLORED MAN INJURED Boundary Channel Bridge Acci- dent Sends Worker to Hospital. Roscoe Meeks, 35, colored, was in- jured yesterday afternoon during eon- struction work cn the new Boundary Channel Bridge just wi of the Vir- ginia side of the Highway Bridge. He was working below when a piece of timber was said to have fallen on his head. Meeks, who lives in the nejgh- hood, was rarrie Aknmgh borl , »d to th Hospital for \tment. were not bel western section of the area at the cor- ner of Fourteenth and B streets south- west. The three parts not only will be connected to each other, but also will be connected by bridges over B street, | :tu}:,hthebem“rnt administrative 1bufldlml e a ture in O the Department of Agriculture Congress .authorized this extensible | building to cost $5,750,000. —— Executives of 8. Kann's Sons Co. Observe Store Anniversary. The Buyers' Club of S, Kann's Sons Co. was host at a dinner last night in the Italian Garden of the Mayflower Hotel, at which B. B. Burgunder, Sol Kann and Adolph Sinsheimer were guests of honor. occasion was celebration of’ the thirty-eighth anni- versary of the firm in Washington. Assistants and executives of the store {also were guests. 1 The store has been into three teams—the Army, Navy Ma- ::;wdlfin‘ to"m mh next week anni and ization was 11:30 o'clock. Beech, an employe of the Potomac Electric Power Co.. was installing an electric meter when his hand acci- dentally came into contact with two live wires. The wires carried 220 volts. Members of the fire rescue squad worked over Beech for two hours. He was pronounced dead by F. H. Morhart, 1704 Sixteenth street, Police sald Beech was working in the power room at the high school when the accident occurred. Charles B. Gardner, superintendent of con- struction for the Potomac Electric Power Co., was leaving the power room when the accident happened. Gardner told police he had warned Beech to be careful of live wires and that as’ he throug! | Bridge, in the 2300 black of Connecti- icul avenue. This action followed the filing of protests of residents in that | area and their friends, who presented a | petition to the commission, urging that the parkway be maintained intact and not removed as a trafic menace, as ordered by Federal and District officials. ‘The commission is of the belfef that traffic hazard, but thinks closer study should be given the problem. Capt. E. N, Chisolm, jr., the commis- sion’s engineer, today explained its at- utuwg;, as follows: X “Fhe ton by Policeman H. E. Watson of the seventh precinct station. CURLEY, CLUB TO GIVE FIRST ANNUAL BAZAAR- Entertainment and Dance Arranged for Friday and Saturday Eves nings at Carroll Hall. . i The Curley Club of Washington stage its first annual bazaar, ment and dance in Carroll Hall '-\ Friday and_Saturday evenings. * de"uluom’m the