Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1931, Page 16

RAL STATIN PLEA| 10 BE PRESENTED Virginia Group to Again Ask Site North of Pennsyl- vania Avenue. PRt Faced with possible loss of their ter- minal at Pennsylvania avenue and Twelfth street. this week, representatives of two Virginia traction companies, backed by civic bodies of both Virginia and Washington wi'l go before the Public Utilities Commisison tomorrow to make another strong plea for a new terminal north of Pennsylvania avenue. Under formal notice by the Treasury Department, the terminal is to be vi *cated on the evening of Wednescay, September 30, and turned over to the .Government Thursday morning, as part of the public building program. The new Post Office Department is to be erected on the site. In the meantime both sides girded for court battle on Thursday mornifig in District Supreme Court, when the | Mount Vernon, Alexandria and Wash- | ington Railway will ask an_injunction be granted to prevent the Government from tearing up the tracks of the line in the Federal triangle, without first paying for the tracks. Controller Gen- eral McCarl has held there are no funds to_reimburse the company for such loss. | The cars of the Arlington & Fairf; Railway also use the same tracks and | terminal for bringing their pascengers | into Washington, but the court pro- | ceeding is brought by the owner of the Alexandria line, Robert L., May. The street car lines cross several bullding sites in the triangle, but the most disputed crossing at the present time is between Twelfth and Thirteenth street on D street, where they cut over the site of the excavation for the Post | Office Department. Bids have been opened and contragt is expected to be let soon for both excavation and con- struction of foundation. Should tie injunction be granted by the court, however, the Treasury Depertment is prepared to order the contractor to ex- cavate to the full depth of the basement and foundation on both the north and south sides of the D street tracks. Postponement Sought. Efforts were made recently by reps | resentatives of the traction lines to get a postoonement in the date for vaca- tion of the terminal. But, it is under- stood the Treasury still stood on Sep- tember 30 as the last day of occupancy. Whether there will be any extension of time for use of the terminal depcnds on events of the next few days and the position of the Treasury. But if the formel netice is adhered to the railway must be moved out by Wed- nesday night. The terminal.is to be torn down by the contractor who gets the excavation | and foundation contract for the Post Office Department, but as yet this con- tract has not been let. Meantime civic leaders of both Wash- ington and Virginia prepared for the hearing tomorrow before the Public Utilities Commission, armed with sta- tistics in recent traffic surveys, both fn Washington and in other cities. | A. K. Shipe of the Washington Board | of Trade, a prime mover in the drive vice, sald the Utilities | Commission would be told it should be | ipossible for the Virginia street cars to ‘be rerouted across Pennsylvania ave- | flu> at Fourtenth street The Virgioia commiitee, headed by | J. William May, chairman, has statistics of traffic movement of the interseciion | at Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue and of corresponding move- ments 2t similar interscctions of other large cities. It hopes to convince the commission that the Fourteenth strect intersection can easilv handle the few more cars of the Virginia lines. 3,138 Use Lines. In 2016 answers received from the 3.000 questionnaires sent out by the Virginia Committce to patrons of the Toad, 1,489 stated that they work either | on or north of Pennsylvenia avenue, and 405 others stated that they transfer 1o other car lines to get to their place of business. The patrons also stated that 3,138 members of their families use the same lines. May has refused a proposed terminal site south of Pennsylvania avenue, and | has intimated that he will abandon the line unless given a terminal north of the Avenue. Another step in an effort to solve the problem was taken by the Virginia Committee yesterday. In a letter to the Federal National €apital Park and Plan- ing Commission, preparation of a com- prehensive plan for a system of transport within and into Washington, in which the present Alexandria and Fairfax lines may be preserved in operation, was urged to be given immediate con- sideration. The Utilities Commission has taken the position that it would be a physical ~ impossibility to move the Virginia street cars across the Avenue fast enough to prevent severe traffic tie-ups. 'I'hfp at- titude was expressed at an earlier com- mission hearing into demands for re- routing of the Virginia street cars. TYPIST APPLICATIONS DUE TO BREAK RECORD More Than 200,000 Will Take| Tests for U. 8. Jobs, Civil Serv- Heads Estimate. The Civil Service Commission ex- pects all records to be broken in the number of applications for entrance into the forthcoming competitive tests to establish an eligibility list for stenographers and typists. | lready the commission has complied | with requests for 160,000 announce- ments of the test, which outline the| scope it takes. and before the deadline, | October 8, it is expected 200,000 will be | out. This 2lso constitutes a record The examinations will be held all over the country, but no applications | will be received from the District of Columbia, Maryland, the Virginias and | North Carolina, where the register al- | ready is full. MISSIONARIES TO MEET ice ‘The District branch of, the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopai Church. South, will | hold its annual meeting at 10:30 o'clock | Tuesdsy morning in the Simpsop | Memorial Hall, 100 Maryland avenue. | The Baltimore brench of the organ- dzation will convene here next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The Balti- more group will meet at Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church. D. C. Title Orator Wants Star Sent To Swiss School Jimmie Moore, diminutive ‘Washington orator, who last year won The Star area championship in the National Oratorical Con- test, wants but one thing from America sent to his school in Switzerland. His mother, Mrs. Vergll Y. Moore, returned from Europe recently bearing Jimmie's order for the dally and Sundsy Btar. With foreign postage costs, the subscription for a year will amount to $25, but Mr. and Mrs. | erating concern, consisting of a quarter lof the square, for which the jury awerd Clinic Speaker Urges Canada Aban- Rites Monday RETIRED OFFICER DIED FRIDAY. der W. Maish, U. S. A, retired, who was assistant professor of military science snd tactics in the District of Columbia public school system, will be held in Bethle- hem Chapel, Washington Cathedral, at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow. Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery. Col. Maish, who had charge of the High School Cadets at McKinley High School, died at Walter Reed Hospital Friday after a long iliness. SITE IN SOUTHWEST PURCHASED BY D. C. FOR FARM MARKET ¥lCont1nue7dmi=‘1;st Page) of the jury for this properiv total $175,000. This would have carried the total purchase price too close to th appropriation limit of,$300,000 to leave sufficient funds for the construction work. Therefore, it is explained, it was found necessary to leave out of present consideration two of the lots in the southern half of the site, square 355. One of these carrics a condemnation jury award of approximately $35,000 and is not to be acquired now since the owner has protested the awarded price. The other is that owned by the refrig- of $32,500 is to be reserved for its later | purchase. District Building records also show ! some interesting comparisons as to val- | uations of lot 800 in square 335, which the refrigerating company is to allow the District to use free of charge for &s long as two years, while awaiting addi- tional funds with which to effect its purchase. This lot is unimproved. TIts current | assessed value s $8,715. The award of the condemnation jury was $32,500. Another Comparison. | There exists another interesting com- | aricon. This lot 80 in square 35;}, f;)r which the refrigerating company is to receive the jury's award of $32,500, is just about half the size of the half of the square block in square 354 for which the refrigerating concern re- cefves but $18,000. Also, on the larger area owned by the private concern, was a row of brick and frame houses, while the more expensive but smaller lot was vacant. Debates in Congress, in the Seven- tieth session, when the Farmers' Mar- ket expenditure was authorized, are recalled in c’cmxtificflen j"“th current de- velopments in the project. S:nawr Carter - Glass of Virginia at that time, while arguing in favor of | selection of the southwest site, in- stead of the proposed Patterson tract area, declared that not one dollar had been spent or would be spent by private || interests in developing a private mar- ket in the northeast area, whereas considerable private development had been accomplished in the southwest. Since that time, however, the Union Market Terminal, with retail, wholesale and commission house facilities, hes been erected in the Patterson tract by private interests at a cost of over $100,- 000, Provision has been made there also for accommodation of the farmers. Senator King of Utah, opposing the measure for the southwest site, de- clared during the debates: “This site will be of great advantage to the Penn- | sylvania Railroad Co., and if the com- mission merchants and wholesalers can have the Government furnish them a market site adjoining the railroad station, it will be of great benefit to m. ¢ * I regard this bill as{ unjust and unwise. I think it is un- fair to the people of the District, as well as to the taxpayers of the United States, who will be called upon to make no small contribution to the acquisi- tion of the grounds * * *. In my opinion, the overwhelming majority of | the people in the District sre not in favor of the bill. I am unwilling to | take the money out of the Treasury of the United States for the purposc of benefiting the Pennsylvania Rail- | road Co. and the commission mer- | chants and wholesale dealers who are | greatly profiting in their business ac- | tivities ‘within the’ Distriet of Co- lumba.” A | Somewhat Questionable. | Again, Senator King asked: “Is there any reason why the Government of the | United States or the District should | | make an_appropriation for one part of | town or for another part of town for a | wholesale or a retail market?" Senztor Tydings of Maryland, opposed to the measure, repiied, “From | a legal standpoint, the whole thing is | somewhat questionable. I do not know | of any purely wholesale market any- | where wiich has been constructed with | funds of the people, unless it was con- | structed with the proceeds of a bond issue submitted to the people of the commonwealth or municipality and in that way ratified and made the law.” At another time in debate, Senator Tydings said: “The only justification at all which we can make for this expenditure would be because of its retail feature, where all the people would have a chance to receive some benefit from dealing with the producer without an intermediary. If we eliminate that feature of it—and the Senator (Glass) says it is a whole- sale market—that is the purpose of it, he says—what justification is there for taking the money of the people of the United States and the taxpayers of ‘Washington and using it to further the ends of a small group of people whose interests are apt to be more seifish than patriotic.” The law was enacted and the money later appropriated. HOSPITAL RATES HIT don Building Program. TORONTO, Ontario, September 26 T‘Tfi?‘fi“fi'&?m of the Government 08! uilding program was urged yesterday by H. H. Keefe of St. Paul's clinfe, 8t. Paul, Minn. Keefe declared private institutions in the United States maintalned war veterans at a cost of 35 p‘e{. |’c,:em less tban Government hos- Albert G, Stasel of the Nicolet Clinie, Moore intend to send Jimmie the paper, inasmuch as he regards it as the sole necessary American Minneapolis, Minn., another speaker at the clulnt'.:ll:,l:n of the ru{g:tmnn- ' oon’ , suggested hos- itals and clinics Jower their rates dur- the depression, INERAL services for Col. Alexan- | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. SEPTEMBER 27, 1931—PART ONE | CATHOLC WONEN MEET NEXT SUNDAY IApostolic Délegate to'U. S, Five Bishops and 500 Dele- | Bishop to Speak gates Coming Here. The apostolic delegate to the United States and five American bishops will | take leading parts in the eleventh an-| nual convention of the National Coun-| cil of Catholic Women, which will open | | here next Sunda: | Approximately 500 delegates from all parts of the country are expected to attend the three-day conclave, which will begin with a pontifical high mass Sunday morning in the National Shrine | of the Immaculate Conception, with the apostolic delegate, Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi as the celebrant. Rt.| Rev, Joseph Schrembs, Bishop of Cleve- land, will preach. | The other bishops listed on.the pro. {gram are Rt. Rev. Joseph F. Rummel, | | Bishop of Omaha; Rt. Rev. Joseph C. Kelley, Bishop of Oklahoma City: Rt. | Rev. Karl J. Atler. Bishop of Toledo, &nd Rt. Rev. Emmet J. Walsh, Bishop | of Charleston, S. C. An address on “The Modern Conflict Between Paganism and Christianity” | will be delivered by Bishop Rummel at | | 2 mass meeting in the ball room of the | i Mayflower Hotel Sunday evening. | The delegates will be officially greeted | during a business session the following morning by Bishop Kelley, while Bishop Alter, former director of the National Catholic School of Social Service, will ba the speaker at the Tuesday afternoon meeting. This session will be devoted to & conference on the Social Service School, founded here in 1921 by the national council. Bishop Walsh, who is scheduled to talk on “Catholic Action in tHe South- crn Diccese,” also will lead some of the other discussions listed on the program. Chairmen of nine national commit- { tees, with a total membership of 262 | women, will present conclusions ba: {on a year's study of nine phases of various social, economic and religious | problems related to family life. |* The reports will be made by Dr. Anne | M Nicholson, Washington: Mrs. C. B. Mendel. Houston, Tex.; Mrs. William J. Hotz, Omaha; Mrs. Harry A. La Berge, Yakima, Wash.; Mrs. H. J. Key- ser, Milwaukee; Mrs. M. J. O'Fallon, | | Denver; Mrs. George V. McIntyre, Chi- | cago; Miss Anna D. Gamble, York, Pa. and Mrs. A. 8. Musante, San Francisco. Others slated to address the conven- | tion are Miss Mary C. Duffy, East| Orange, N. J., speaking for the Catho- | lic Daughters of America; Mrs. Philip A. Brennan, Brooklyn, N. Y., for the International Federation of ~Catholic | Alumnae: Miss Louise McGuire, Wash- ington, Newman Clubs; Miss Dorothy | Willman, St. Lous, Sodality of Our| Lady, and Very Rev. Frank A. Thill, | Cincinnati, Students’ Mission Crusade New members of the national board will be elected from Cincinnati, Phila- | delphia, Portland, Santa Fe and Boston. { MMEL. CHILDREN’S CONCERTS PLANNED BY SCHOOLS RIGHT REV. JOSEPH F. RU Community Center Discusses Sup- pliments to Symphonies with Kindler. Representatives of public school mu- sic departments and the Community Center Department met yesterday with Hans Kindler, conductor of the Na- | tional Symphcny Orchestra of Wash- | Federal farm-marketing aet as the only | ington, to discuss plans for children’s | major legislative measures enacted dur- concerts to supplement the National Symphony Orchestra’s Winter program. The Community Center Department, which is co-operating in the program of children’s concerts, was represented by Mrs. Elizabeth K. Peeples, director. Dr. Edwin N. C. Barnes, head ot the music | department of the public schools and music supervisors of the schools, at- tended the session, which was held in the Franklin School Building. The children’s concerts sre to be held in Central Community Center, begin- ning sday, November 12. There will be efght in the series. IAL RELICS NEE COLONI DED Material Sought for Exhibition at Yorktown Celebration. Material of Colonial and Revolution- ary War nature is needed for exhibition purposes during the sesquicentennial celebration at Yorktown, Va., accord- ing to an announcement last night of William M. Robinson, jr., superin- tendent of the Colonial National Monu- ment. Persons having such material are re- | quested to communicate with Mr. Rob- inson at his Yorktown office. Arrange- ments will be made for transporting the material’to and from Yorktown. ROBINSON SEORES- HOOVER ON CRISIS President Has Forfeited Pub- lic Confidence, Says Ar- kansas Senator. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., September 26.— Senator Joe T. Robinson of Arkansas said tonight that President Hoover's “indecision and lack of leadership have added to the distress incident to the major depression which is gripping | every form of industry and business.” “Mr. Hoover’s administration has for- feited confidence and the right to a continuance in authority,” the Senate Democratic leader said in'an address in | behalf of the candidacy of R. D. John- son, Marshall, Democrat, for the | seventh district congressional seat. | He attacked the Hawley-Smooth tariff | act and charged it had contributed to | unemployment. Foreign Markets Hurt. | “It has contributed to business stag nation by the restriction of foreign mar | kets and the reduction of domestic con. | sumption. “Its harmfulness, he said, “is estab- lished by the general reduction in wages now being carried into effect, by the retaliatory measures now being taken | by Canada, France, Italy and Mexico, resulting in the loss of our best cus- | tomers for both raw materials and manufactured products.” | He described the tariff act and the |ing_ President Hoove:'s administration, |and added that the latter “has proved | so ineffective that sentiment for its re- | peal is gathering volume.” Partiality and Interference. “The Democratic party does not claim | that business prosperity is solely or | chiefly attributable to politics. It does, however, recognize that through par- | tiality and the unwarranted interference |of Government unsound economic con- | ditions may be caused. | “It pledges equality of opportunity |to all who owe allegiance to our flag. It recognizes the disturbed conditions | | of finanice and industry and proposes no | patent cure-all for the ills that inflict mankind. It would restore and build up |our commerce with other countries | through_well considered reductions in | the tariff. It would maintain the pur- | chasing power of our citizens by ar- | rangements to carry on additional pub- ! | lic works, including the improvement of | rural post roads and the acceleration of | construction of public works pertaining | to rivers and harbors and to flood con- | trol.” | " He proposed an international confer- | ence on silver. Coffee received at ports in Colombia | in July totaled 337,704 sacks, compared with 304,085 sacks in the same month | of last year. 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Plans for mobilizing the Nation's manufacturing resources in times of war will be outlined before 10,000 key men of American industry, who would become munitions makers in event of | armed conflict, at the opening session of the thirteenth annual meeting of the Army Ordnance Association here on Wednesday evening, October 7. Meeting in_ the council chamber of | the United States Chamber of Com- merce, the gathering will be addressed | by Assistant Secretary of Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke, Magnus W. Alexander, | president of the National Industrial | Conference Board, and Maj. Gen.| George Van Horn Moseley, acting chief of staff, United States Army. Brig. Gen. Benedict Crowell, war-time as- istant Secretary of Watr and director of munitions, will preside. Besides delegates of the Army Ord- | nance Association, there will be present at the sweeting members of the Na- Ordnance Medal The Army Ordinance Association will award this Medal of Merit, at its an- nual meeting here October 7, to Secre- tary of Commerce Thomas W. Lamont, Maj. Gen. William Crozier, former chief of Ordinance, and Col. Willlam C. Spruance of the E. I. du Pont de Ne- mours & Co. AIR LIN ES TO D. C. GET PLAN FOR ’32 FARE CUTl Officials of Three Groups Meet to Discuss Proposed Slash During Bicentennial. tional Industrial Conference Board and the United States Naval Institute as invited guests. | “One of the subjects to be stressed | for the benefit of the delegates is the | importance of supplies and munitions in event of & major war,” sald a state- | ment issued yesterday by the Ordnance Association, | “Under the national defense act of | {1920, the American policy is based upon | slash. a dependence upon industry for the| products of munitions in the event of | war. While progress has been made | in the design of types of American | military equipment, very few have ac- tually been manufactured. While a vocates of national defense favor a limited supply of the newer types for | use of the Regular Army, the principal | cbjective is the ability of industry to| manufacture these types after war i | declared.” Miss Menchik, the English chess player, whose opponents included two well known European experts, won the Officials of three passenger air lines conferred here yesterday on proposals for reduced rates to Washington during the Gearge Washington Bicentennial celebration next year. A. K. Shipe, local attorney, was re- | quested to communicate with othér im- rtant lines throughout the country to learn whether they would foin in the The amcunt of the prosxued cuts remains to be determined, but will be substantial. They would be effective only on special occasions during the celebration. Interests represented at yesterday's conference included Pennsylvania Air Lines, Eastern Ajr Transport and the Ludington Line. Oldest Family Bible Found. Aubigne-sur-Sarthe, France, claims that it has a Bible older than the one/ recently discovered in Texas and de- clared to be 333 years old. M. Legeay has a family Bible which was com- Model 70 Highboy STREET N.E. major open tournament at the Worces- | pleted on March 27, 1569, and therefore ter, England, 1931, chess tournament|is 29 years older than the one in the without the loss of a game. ! Lone Star State. Monday Bringing to your attention BALTIMORE PIKE SECTION OPENED Stretch Between Hyattsville and Bladensburg Paved and Widened. ., By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., September 26. ‘The Baltimore Boulevard between Hy | attsville and Bladensburg, now paved and widened, was opencd to traffic yes- | terday. | With the exception of a short stretch | at Bladensburg the portion opened yes- $ | teraay marks the completion of “the widening of the Boulevard from the District line to Hyattsville, At Bladensburg the work of widening the bridge over the Northwest Branch has not yet been completed, although the project has advanced all Summer without interruption to traffic, It is also planned to transform the sharp left turn at the Peace Cross into a sweeping arc, but work on this has | been delayed because of difficulties in securing rights of way. As a result, a short rough stretch of road remains north of the Peace Cross. Because of this and other small uncom- pleted features of the roadway, the de- | tour signs directing traffic to Hyattsville | via Rhode Island avenue will remain in place for several days to come. 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