Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1931, Page 17

THE ,SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.. SEPTEMBER 27, 1931—PART ONE. TREASURY SUUARE TOHAVEFOUNTAN Reflecting Pool Also Planned for New Park Below Pennsylvania Avenus,. A fountain and reflecting pool will be |, the principal features of “Treasury | Bquare,” the new park between Penn- wvivanin avenue, E, Fourteenth and | Fifteenth streets, where Poli's Theater | formerly was located. ‘This was decided definitely during | the past week when the matter was ap- proved by the Board of Architectural Consultants of the Treasury Depnrt-; ment, the National Cepital Park and Planning Commission and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. Plans for the landscaping of the square are being drawn by Edward H. Bennett of Chicago, who is chairman of the Treasury Board of Architectural Consultants. His ideas were approved by the Government agencies consider- ing the matter at'several meetings last week, and his firm of Bennett, Parsons & Prost now will procezd to complete plans for construction of the fountain and the pool. Trees and Shrubs to Be Low. The fountain, Mr. Bennett explained, will be placed in about the center of the square, and will be comparatively Jow in height so as to harmonize with the general size of the park, and the height of the Sherman equestrian statue in Sherman Square, to the west of Fifteenth street. The reflecting pool, it was explained, will extend eastward from the fountain, and in line with the Kosciusko Statue, in the park between Thirteenth street, E street and Pennsylvania avenue. | ‘Trees and low shrubbery will be used around the edge of the parkway, and sufficlent sidewalks will be installed to| accommodate the throngs which no | doubt, will cross the park from the Fed- | eral triangle building to the south. | Will Be “Treasury Square.” To Receive Their Wings WASHINGTONIANS GRADUATE AT KELLY. | PASTORS AR TALK TERMED VLS Radio Commissioner Scores Coast Cleric for Catholic Reference. By the Associated Press. The Rev. “Bob” Shuler, self-styled | “agitator for righteousness” over his Station KGEF, Los Angeles, yesterday enlivened a Radio Commission hearing ‘The little park at the foot of Penn- | sylvania avenue at Fifteenth street | never has been officially named, but for | convenience purposes it has been in- | formally called “Treasury Square,” after the great structure which stands | at the end of the Pennsylvania avenuc v ta. 5 The park has just been seeded to| grass, Preliminary plans some years ago for T on a license renewal application when questioned regarding “his reference to | one of the commissioners as a Catholic. Commissioner Robinson of West Vir- ginia demanded an explanation from the pastor of the Trinity Methodist Church South, owner of the station, of & communication he recently sent the commission, referring to “a Catholic commissioner.” Shuler responded that he meant “the | HESE three Washingtonlans are | to graduate from the Army Air Corps Advanced Flying School, | Kelly Field, Tex., on October 10. | ‘They will receive their wings and the two above will receive com- missions as second lieutenants in the the State of Pennsylvania to donate a | fountain for this park evidently have | fallen through, and the fountain will be put up by the Federal Government. Plans for eventual treatment of Pen sylvania avenue in the vicinity also pro- yide for leaving two other small adjacest park areas, one in front of the District of Columbia Building. between Thirteen- and-a-half and Fourteenth street, and the other in front of the former South- ern Rallway Building, now owned by the Government, between Thirteenth and Thirteen-and-a-half street. three small parks from Thirteenth to Fifteenth street thus will curbline of Pennsylvania avenue. E street, which recently was cut through in front of the District Buildéng, fur- preserve the nished a new traffic artery to c-rry‘ downtown traffic, Botanical Garden Ex.avated. Two other city beautification projects in which Mr. Bennett has been asso- ciated as architect with David Lynn, to be piaced about midway between Union Station and the Oapitol Building, in the plaza. Excavations for the Botanical Garden structures have been completed, and concrete will be poured within a day permits. The new location of the Botanical Gardens is directly south of its present site. Rapid progress is being made on the srntrll development of the Union tation-Capitol Plaza, where new street car tracks are being installed. Within & short time, it was predicted last night, the cars can be run over the new tracks. Lat the old tracks will be torn up an id prepared for location of a new fountain. is is to be one of the large and beautiful foun- tains of the city, designed to throw & “bowl” of water, at the maximum capacity of 3,000 gallons an hour. Plans for this fountain are well under way and small models of the statuary have been completed, as part of the progress towards carving them in stone. ROCKEFELLER FAILS | TO CELEBRATE BIRTH o Rain Interrupts Usual Activity of Tarrytown, N. Y., Native ‘Who Made Millions. I'7 the Associated Press. TARRYTOWN, N. Y, September 26. —For the first time since he got the humble job that started him on the road to fabulous riches 76 years ago, John D. Rockefeller, sr., today failed to celebrate the anniversary. His normal daily routine of golf and auto riding on his Pocantico Hills estate was inter- supted by rain. It was on September 26, 1855, that Mr. Rockefeller, then an ambitious lad of 16, landed a job as istant book- Keeper with the produce firm of Hewitt & Tuttle in Cleveland, Ohlo. He had tramped the streets from 8 am. until 6 p.am. every day for six weeks before he settled himself on his high stool in the company’s warehouse on the lake front. When he took that first job, Rockefeller did not know what his = BINGHAM PREDICTS Alr Corps Reserve. They are James E. | De Marco, 2310 Branch avenue south- and_Henry E. Wheeler, | Bureau of Public Roads (right). Below is Lieut. Troup Miller, jr., of this city, | who graduated from {he United States | Military Academy in June, 1930, and was given s Cavalry commission. By | reason of his graduation he will trans- | in the crowded hearing room. - Star- | | fer to the Air Corps. buck himsel! demanded to know —U. 8. Army Photos. | whether Shuler had “checked this =) “As a matter of fact,” Robinson put | in as Shuler began to answer, “there are two Methodists on the commission, :1:: three members of other denomina- | Robinson took Shuler to task for broadcasts attacking public officials and events, “I think the radio is for the purpose of public discussions,” Robinson said, “but the fear I have is whether you | have done this in the right way— | whether you have done it in & reckless, indecent way, gentleman from New York"—Commis- sioner Starbuck—and that he had been | informed of the commissioner’s religion by an examiner “in whom you all have | confidence.” Demands Report Check. The exchange caused much laughter | ! east (left), INCREASE INTAXES |Senator Believes Revjsion| i Exalts Radio Values. Probably Unavoidable at | Con's you e sn reckies 2 1o bring al thai Next Congress. aervice YO 40F * o o ihe radlo La'the greatest gift God has yet given the | human race for enlightenment, culture, | high-mindedness. * * * I am afraid | you're wrong about Commissioner Star- | buck. He is not a Catholic and is not I believe, recognized many.” Shuler cited instances in which he said public officials testified that law enforcement policies had been improved by the existence of his station, and criminals of a class previously im- mune were brought to punishment. He said he had not attacked indi- viduals as Catholics or Jews, but merely mentioned the religion, “feeling sure they were proud of it.” Increase of taxes at the coming ses. sion will probably be unavoidable, ac-| cording to Senator Hiram Bingham, | Republican, of Connecticut, member of the Senate Finance Committee. | Senator Bingham, who came here at | the invitation of thé White House to | g0 to the Rapidan as the week end | guest of President Hoover, pointed out that the Treasury deficit is increasing | | and he does not believe it feasible to continue to meet it by owing. Even with an increase of taxes, he be- | lieves some borrowing will be necessary. Sl Urges Tax Revision. In other cases, Shuler recited, he did The Connecticut Senator declared | attack officials who were or had been | anew for a revision of the income tax |in the past guilty of his charges. rates all along the line. Not only| Thomas Littlepage, representing Los R Tl brackets, but he would lower the e~ | peatedly attacked individuals, churches, emptions and broaden the base, In 1 taxes | officials and others with untrue state- addition he would impose sales taxcs Do some of Which he termed “vi- | on luxurleg S, Senator $ingham last Summer stir- | clous. red up widespread discussion and con- | troversy by a pronouncement in favor of making the case, but gave no indication when it would rule on Chief Examiner Yost's | | recommendation that Shuler's license be renewed. income taxes more inclusive and lowering exemptions. He en- countered no little criticism, but stood | to his '\B:j He wnunuell:: ‘lclki: lh: o 4 SO same position. He mainta not| One of Japan's largest steamshi B I ries ad S cnly & TS| con A Tt ) | should exceed 7 by Tam-|in The commission closed arguments in | INJUNCTION ASKED "IN SUT BY PEPED {Would Enjoin Utilities Body From Changing Consent Decree. ‘The matter .of Washington's electric | rates, which has stayed out of the ! courts for six and a half years, found its way back to them yesterday, when the Potomac Electric Power Co. filed a bill in Equity Court to restrain the ! Public Utilities Commission from en- forcing the terms of an order modifying |or changing the consent decree of the | same court under which they had been ! annually adjusted for six years. i The commission's order, adopted ' June 8, was designed to affect the new rates to be set in December for the 1932 calendar year, and probably would | mean lower rates than those available under the consent decree. ‘The last time the electric rate ques- tion was litigated, the litigation lasted | seven years, and went to the United States * Supreme Court inconelusively before it was finally compromised by the signing of the consent decree in December, 1924, by former Justice W. P. Stafford. The bill contends the order 1s illegal | for numerous reasons—among these that it is indefinite, uncertain and vague ahd that at the timie it was| made any investigation of the rates| effective since January 1, 1931, if other- wise proper, was premature, ‘The bill also held that the order was adopted | without any complaint or inquiry as to | any of the existing rates and without a finding of fact that the existing rates were unreasonable and without any finding of fact as to the amount of rate base, earnings and -operating expenses of the company. ‘The .company etates that it is the duty of the commission to construe the consent decree so as not to violate its provisions, but that this was not done. On the contrary, according to the com- pany, the commission’s order has mis- construed, misapplied and violated the purpose and content of the public utili- | ties act, and the order prescribes con- fiscatory rates of return, independent | of and unrelated to any proceedings properly before the commission, Compromise on Valuation. According to the consent decree, the commission and the company agreed to & compromise valuation of $32,500,000 on the corporation's properties, and each year the rates were adjusted so as to yield the corporation 71 per cent return on this value, plus net ad- :mom, weighted but underpriced, to late. If the resulting return in any year per cent, then the rates for the fefiowlng year were to be designed so as to recapture half of thte excess earnings by way of reduced rates, In aetual practice, however, the rates never brought the return down to 7% per cent. Each reduction brought th company so much more business that the ‘return stayed steadily around 10| per cent. This, the commission held, Wwas unreasonably high, so that early this Summer after public hearings they ordered a mnew sliding scale of rates to take the place of the scale in the consent decree. ‘The new scale gives the company per cent return on the agreed valua- tion, and if the return exceeds this hy not more than 1 per cent, then the rates for the following year are to be ad-| justed s0 as to take up one-half of the excess. 1f the earnings are between 7 and 9 per cent, then three-quarters of the excess is to be taken up, and if the earnings are more than 9 per cent, then five-sixths of the excess is to be taken up. ‘There are also provisions for adjust- ing the rates in case the return should | fall below 7 per cent. ‘The present rates on electricity are 4.2 cents per kilowatt hour for most domestic consumption, with lesser rates secondary and subsequent consump- tion groups. At the time the consent decree was put into eflect the rates were 10 cents per kilowatt hour. Historic Inn Burned. Six families were rendered homeless as the result of a fire in the famous Carron Inn, Falkirk, Scotland, recently. ‘The bullding is one of the landmarks of Scotland, and it was here that Robert Burns, the poet, scratched on a window pane with a diamond & rebuke evoked by his being refused admittance to visit the Carron iron works. 2001 Sixteenth St. N.W 3 ROOMS, KITCHEN AND BATH Private Entrance Off Lobby Electrical Refrigeration Reasonable Rental ¢l number of wealthy people. tion of four freighters for service be- Stand Held Significant, tween the Orient and New York. Senator Bingham, in view of the de- | HEATING pletion of incomes in recent months, feels that merely to raise the higher brackets of the income tax would be | disappointing in respect of revenues | |and would not raise anywhere near | what the Government needs. He holds | | the inheritance tax should be left to | the States. | It is considered significant that while some of the Republican leaders in | Congress are opposing tax revision Senators Bingham and David A. Reed, two leading Republican members of the Finance Committee, look on tax | revision as something which cannot | well be escaped when Congress meets. His Eighth Escape Fatal. Escaping seven times in five months 1 from prison at Kragujevatz, Jugoslavia, | Voljimir Militch, serving three years for | | theft, was recaptured each time within | ‘When he made the eighth at BIG SAVINGS Lowest prices NOW—up to 3 years to pay! PLANTS No Cash Needed |GODFREY, RADIO ANNOUNCER, SERIOUSLY IN JURED IN CRASH Former Globe-Trotter Lies in; Sanitarium Suffering From Broken Pelvis. Left Lung of Broadcaster at| | WRC Also Punctured. Other Driver Is Held. -+ Arthur M. Godfrey, 31, radio an-| nouncer for Station WRC, was injured seriously yesterday in a head-on colli- | sion between his automobile and a truck | on Chillum road between Takoma Park | and Hyattsville, Md. | He & at the Washington Sanitarium suffering from a broken pelvis bone, partial collapse of the left lung and a | dislocated hip, besides numerous cuts and lesser injuries. ' Truck Driver Arrested. George R. Diggs, 2701 Bruce place southwest, driver of the truck, was held | on a charge of reckless driving. God- | frey, it was said, will face the same| Tourists visiting Minehead, England, charge if he recovers. Diggs was hurt| recently got an extra thrill while view- only slightly, as also was John Jackson, | solyotlz street southwest, & passenger [N€ the Doone Valley when & stag hunt- on‘the truck. ed by the Devon and Somerset Stag- “Red” Godfrey, as he has been called | nounds leaped over their sight-seeing since boyhood, has been the man be- | hind the microphone at WRC with the | Motor coach. The coach had been distinctive voice which has won him stopped to enable the passengers to local fame. He was born in New York | watch the hounds. Suddenly the stag City and started globe trotting at the | broke cover and jumped from one field age of 15. He roamed the United States | to another over the heads of the and worked at a score of jobs, once be- | tourists, ing sales manager for a cemetery. | After three years of wandering, God- | frey joined the Army. But Army life | was irksome, 50 he transferred to the | Navy to see the world. Two of his four | years in the Navy were spent in| Constantincple. \ While there he wit- | nessed the burning and evacuation of | Smyrna and aided in relief work. Quit Service for Radio. ; When Godfrey returned to this| country in 1924 he discovered he could sing. .At night he crooned in clubs and later broadcast In Chicago and Detroit. Then he tired of it, enlisted in the Coast Guard and was sent to a radio engineering school near Washington. | From there he was assigned to the | Coast Guard adio experimental labora- tory at Curtis Bay, Md. | Curtis Bay is close to Baltimore and Godfrey in his spare time appeared there regularly as a radio singer. Later | he sought a release from the Coast Guard and joined the station’s an-| nouncing staff. Then he changed to | WRC in Washington, l Women Only in Air Meet. | ‘What is believed to be the first air meeting for women ever held was open- ed recently by the Duchess of Bedford at Sywell, England. 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