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A—16 #» MARKET MANDATE | BEING CARRIED OUT, D. C. HEADS STATE Letter to Controller Generai. Says Intent of Congress Is Complied With. | $30,000 BALANCE KEPT FOR DEVELOPING SITE Liberal Sum Is Reserved Until, Jury Acts on Appeal of Lot Owner, Note Avers. Controller General J. Raymond Mc- "Carl was advised in a letter sent by | the District Commissioners yesterday that the city heads believed their steps | to acquire the property for the South- west Farmers' Market had carried out the intent of Congress as expressed in its act appropriating $300,000 for the purpose. The communication, which was very | brief, outlined the present situation, which has been criticized by Edwin S. Hege of the Federation of Citizens' As: soclations, as follows: One Lot Being Condemned. i “The status of the matter at the| present time is that the Commissioners have purchased by negotiation or by condemnation all properties in both squares except two lots in Square 355.| A contract to purchase one of the- lots has been entered into by the Dis. trict, and the other lot is now in the process of condemnation. “The metter of this lot would have been settled by this time except for an appeal by the owner. which may pos- ibly result in his securing a higher award. The District of Columbia has in its possession sufficient funds to pay for all land, including the lot now un- der condemnation. As the exact amount of this award cannot be de- termined until the matter is settled by the court, a liberal sum has been ro-| served to cover any possible increase in the price determined by the jury in the first consideration of the case. | $30,000 Kept for Development. “In addition there is a balance of ap- | proximately $30,000 available for the| development of the ground for use as| a market site. This sum will be suffi- cient to remove the buildings from the | site, to grade the site and surface it, a least in part, and to erect steel shed: for market use. | “The Commissioners are of the opin- | fon that they have carried out the in- | tent of Coneress in their procedure in | this matter.” CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Meeting, Mount Pleasant Citizens' Association. Mount Pleasant Branch | Public Library, 8 pm. Food sale, Women's Guild. Incarna- tion Lutheran Church, 5114 Georgia avenue, all day. Card party, Sons and Daughters of Liberty. Columbia Council. No. 4, 809 Portland street southeast, 8 p.m. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair today and tomorrow; warmer tomorrow; gentle variable winds. Virginia and Maryland—Fair tonight and tomorrow: warmer in the interior; moderate northeast win West Virginia—Fair tonight; tomor- row, somewhat cloudy and warmer. Report for Last 24 Hours. Temperature. Barometer. Degrees. Inches. 64 30.19 30.24 30.26 30.27 | | | 4 pm. | 8 pm Midnight 4 am. 8 am. 3032 11 am 3034 Highest. 64, 12:30 p.m. yesterday. Year ago, 7 1 Lowest, 45, 7 a.m. today. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today. Tomorrow, 6:38a.m. 7:28a.m. 12:56 a.m. 7:07 p.m. 1:20 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Rises Sun, today 6:11am. Sun, tomorrow 6:12a.m. Moon, today.. 4:56a.m. 5: Automobile lamps to be lighte: half hour after sunset Rainfall. Monthly rainfall in inches in the ! Capital (current month to date): Month. 1831. Average. January ...1.56 355 February March April May June Year ago, 55. | 10 p. d one- ) 841 89 00 | 77l October Weather in Various Cities. FTemperati oy <« s B2 Btations. *£8p121ss, GENERAL'S WIFE MILITARY ORDER | The youth was treated at Emergency | Montello avenue northeast, | vember. | and Cennecticut avenue, $17,098.61. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. Take Yqul_' Choipg! ‘Three kegs of alieged liquor seized by the police today in a raid on the home of & woman u:gphone operator at police headquarters. If the chalk the kegs mean anything, the contents had been carefully graded. Y iy —Star Staff Photo.. & # INIURED BY AUTO HITS ARMS TRUCE Mrs. Ida A. Shaw Suffers World War Group Advocates Brain Concussion When Hit Crossing Street. Full Navy Strength Al- lowed by Treaty. All suggestions of an armament holi- day were vigorously opposed by the Military Order of the World War at its | annual convention in the Mayflower Hotel yesterday. | The group advocated a Navy of the | full strength allowed under the London | treaty and an Army increased to the limit of the national defense act, or 165,000 enlisted men and 18,000 officers, The organization also suggested a big- Mrs. Ida A. Shaw, 60 years old. wife of Brig. Gen. George Clymer Shaw, U. 8. A, retired, suffered concussion of the brain and shock last night when an automobile driven by Arthur G. Sunder- man, 37, of 1515 Twentieth street, struck her in front of her apartment at 1801 K street. Mrs. Shaw and her husband were crossing the street in front of their residence. = First aid treatment was ad- | ger air force, & minimum training yearly ministered by Dr. Virgil B. Jackson. | of 50 per cent of the Reserve officers resident physician in the apartment | and increased increments of 5,000 men {l‘?ulse. -;a dsh:! le:.l - ;‘errr{%\;ed tto annually for the various State militias. It 1 T at- alter Reed Hosp! for i ks byt tention. | _Before action was faken Brig. Gen. | Frank T. Hines, administrator of vet- erans’ affairs, urged the delegates to |stand by the Hoover administration. Driver Is Arrested. Police of the third precinct station arrested Sunderman on charges of rec! {less driving, operating a car without| He said the war-time leaders should | a District permit d driving with dead tags. He was to be arraigned in Police Court today. Severe head and internal injuries and a compound fracture of the left arm were received by Wayne D. Bronson, 19 years old, of 1724 Park road, when an_automobile he was driving was in a head-on collision with a street car at Connecticut avenue and Albermarle street last night. Trying to Pass Street Car. Bronson, police say, was attempting to pass a southbound street car on the left side and crashed into a northbound Capital Traction Co. car operated by Motorman Raymond Holt and in charge of Conductor Everett Strawdermann. Several passengers on the street car were shaken up, but were not injured. | keep down criticism of the Government | during the depression. | Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, former stormy petrel of the Marine Corps, was named a vice commander in chief. Brig. | Gen. John Ross Delafield, Ordnance Reserve, U. 8. A, New York City, will | continue as commander in chief. Wash- ingtonians selected for national offices included Capt. Edwin S. Bettelheim, | treasurer general; Maj. William L. Sy- mons, judge advocate general: A. A. McCallum, chaplain general, and Maj. | Gist Blair, historian general. Headed by Col. Ijams. The Washington chapter will be headed by Lieut. Col. George E. Ijams, director of the Veterans' Bureau. Other officers: Col. Walter C. Clephane, senior Lieut. Col. Edgar J. Roberson, Maj. John D. Cutter, Capt. Watson B. Mil- !ler and Col. J. Miller Kenyon, junior vice commanders; Capt. John Lewis Smith, historian; Maj. Edwin S. Bettel- | heix. adjutant; Maj. Julius I. Peyser, judge advocate: Capt. Charles D. Col- | lins, surgeon, and Capt. Arlington A. { McCallu aplain. Hospital. Solomon Tucker, 66 years old. of 1666 was taken to Casualty Hospital with severe back injuries last night when the car in which he was riding collided with a Washington Gas Light Co. truck at Montello avenue and Oates street north- east. Tucker was riding with Richard Crooks, 31, of 631 North Carolina ave- nue southeast, when the car struck a truck operated by Harry Evans, 32, of 633 Franklin street northeast. \CAPITOL PLAZA CARS TO CHANGE TONIGHT Tunnel and New and Rebuilt Tracks, Involving $370,000 Cost, Nearing Completion. COLUMBIA HEIGHTS GROUP -~ GET PARADE PERMISSION Commissioners Authorize Santa Claus Lane—Giddings School Land Is Purchased. New street car tracks on the Capitol Plaza will be connected tonight with the | existing lines of the Capital Traction and Washington Rallway & Electric Co. | The cutover will be started at 11 o'clock and is expected to be completed in a ! few hours. Busses will b substituted for street car service at the station until the connections are made. The track changes have been made in accordance with the Capitol Plaza beau- tification program. The project involved construction of a tunnel under North | Capitol street and the laying of new tracks from New Jersey avenue and C street to First and C streets northeast and from First and B streets to the Union Station Plaza. Altogether 6,100 The District Commissioners vesterday authorized the Columbia Heights Busi- ress Men's Association to establish Senta Claus Lane again this year on Fourteenth street between Fairmont street and Meridian place, and to stage a parade there onc night late in No- The city heads completed purchase of all land for the Giddings School addi- tion by authorizing acceptance of an offer of Wallace Hales to sell a lot ad- Jjacent to the school at Third and G streets southeast for $4,000. These sewer contracts were let: To Roy D. Schlegel—V street re- placement sewer between Six‘eenth and Seventeenth streets, and Seventeenth street storm-water sewer between Blag- den and Colorado avenues, $1,898.59 and $3.600.45. respectively. To J. D. McCrary Co.—Porter street. storm-water sewer, between Rock Cresk feet rebuilt and 6,850 feet of old track abandoned. | The total cost of the work was esti- mated at $370,000. It will be shared intly by the two car companies. The special track layout at First and C streets alone cost about $75,000. The vice commander; Col. Fred B. Ryons, | feet of new track was installed, 1,200 | 'TWO COMMITTEES NAMED TODIRECT | STILL AND LIQUOR | D.C. JOBLESS AD | Refinancing for Winter Isj Job Assigned to One Group. CHAIRMAFASSURES FUNDS WILL BE RAISED Foot Ball, Vaudeville and Horse Show Among Benefit Features Proposed to Raise Money. Formation of two important subcom- mittees to further the work of the District Committee on Employment was decided at the first Fall meeting of the organization in the District Building yesterday. One of these committees has been appointed to devise ways and means of | refinancing the committee for the com- | | ing Winter, the balance in its treasury having dwindled to the point where it | probably will be exhausted by Oc- tober 31. | E. C. Graham, newly appointed chair- man of the committee, who succeeds | Frederic A. Delano, who resigned be. cause of illness, gave the committee as- surance that funds would be raised by means of some -of several proposed | methods now being considered by the committee. These include a benefit mof ball game, a benefit vaudeville performance and a horse show. Would Create Work. Linking up with“ vlan suggested at the meeting by Dr. Charles P. Nelll, the appointment of a subcommittee to wori along the line of creating work for the unemployed was decided by the commit- tee. Dr. Neill told the committee that activity in the creation of jobs among the home owners especially could be further intensified by the committee. | George J. Adams, jr, who serves | without remuneration as executive sec- | retary of the committee, told the mem- bers that the committee had a balance | of $937.39. Reporiing on the activities of the Summer months, Mr. Adams said much emplcyment had been provided by bringing Scrap wood from the Marine base at Quantico, and by clearing tim- {ber from a_projected roadway site in Arlington National Cemetery. The | funds of the committee had been used to pay workmen on thesc jobs, he said. | Seeks to Ald Jobless. Mr. Adams pointed out that the com- mittee does not function as a placement agency for the jobless, but when ap- proached by an unemployed person it i makes every effort to provide work. | The Executive Committee of the com- | mittee decided early in the year that the better plan would be to co-operate { with the established public employment | agencies in the placing of jobless. | Hence the committee works in close | co-operation with these bodies, M. Adams said. The committee period- ically transfers tofthe Public Employ- ment Service assembled records of un- | employed, which are placed in its hands, he explained. The work of the food subccmmittee of the District Employment Committee has prepared 3,500 jars of fruits and vege- jtables for the needy was outlined by Mrs. Harvey Wiley. | Joshua Evans, jr. trezsurer of the | committee, submitted his resignation | frem that post. It will be accepted when a successor is named. 'BANDITS TAKE $150 IN THREE HOLD-UPS Delicatessen Cash Box Is Looted by Robbers—Hacker Threat- ened With Razor. Approximately $150 was stolen from three men here last night in a series of hold-ups. Peter Majio, proprietor of a delica- | i dished pistols and demanded his cash. Majio was led to a rear room by one of the robbers while the other intruder | took $75 from s cash register. The | men then fled. The victim told police | one of the hold-up men appeared to have a crippled arm. ymond F. Pennington, taxicab driver, of 1121 Tenth street, was em- ployed at Second and F streets north- east to take a colored man to a house in the 1800 block of Seventh street. On arriving at the destination, the passenger drew a razor and demanded Pennington’s cash. The cab driver handed over $7.80. Police were given a good description of the man. Marvin Jones of 701 Fourth street | declared he was standing on the corner of Eleventh street and Potomac avenue | southeast when two colored men drove | up in an automobile, alighted and threatened him with death unless he gave them his money. The men were | armed. Jones reported he was relieved | of $63. He failed to notice the license number of the automobile. P. 0. CLERKS DINE Local of National Federation Has W. C. Hueston as Speaker. William C. Hueston, assistant solici- tor of the Post Office Department, and i | | POLIGE EMPLOYE'S SEIZED BY RAIDERS Mrs. Anna E. Jett Arrested With Boarder After Mate’s Capture. SERVES HEADQUARTERS' AS PHONE OPERATOR House Watched for More Than Month Before Husband Is Stopped 1 by Detectives. Mrs. Anna Elizabeth Jett, 32, & tele- phone operator at police headquarters, and Johr Tyler Gill, 37, were arrested early today when the second inspection district prohibition squad raided Mrs. Jett’s home at 3701 Sevente>nth street northeast and seized a 100-gNlon still, 130 gallons of alleged whisky and 900 gallons of alleged rye mash. The raid was made on a warrant ob- tained several hours after Mrs. Jett's husband, Franklin Jay Jett, 34, had been arrested at Twelfth and Monroe streets northeast, where two half-gallons of liquor are said to have been found in_his automobile. The three prisoners were released | under $500 bond for a preliminary hearing October 16. Watched for Last Month. According to Inspector Albert J. Headley, commander of second district | police, the Jett residence has been un- der surveillance for more than a month. The raiding squad, corisisting of Sergt. Albert I. Bullock and_ Dete Charles Dwyer, watched the house for several hours’ last night, Inspector Headley said. Waen Jett left in his car, the in- spector related, the detectives followed him for some distance before deciding to_place him under arrest. With Jett locked up, Headley added, the squad, armed with a_warrant, went to his residence, where they found Mrs. Jett and Gill. Find Still in Attic. ‘The still, ascording to the detectives was in the attic of the dwelling, while the alleged liquor and mash and a quantity of sugar and other | supplies, said to have been used in the manufacture of whisky, were in the | cellar. The liquor. the detectives explained, was in kegs marked “Very Good." “Good” and “Fair.” The “Good"” on one of the barrels, is was added, was followed by a question mark. The Jetts'and Gill were charged with possession, manufacture and violation of section 25 of the prohibition law, which prohibits the possession of equip- ment and supplies for use in the manu- | facture of liquor. Mrs. Jett was turned over to the Woman's Bureau, while her husband and Gill remained in the custody of police. Served for Five Years. Mrs. Jett became & telephone operator at headquarters about five years ago after passing a civil service examination for the position. She was on sick leave yesterday, but was to have reported for work this morning. Gill, who said he is a welder, has been boarding in the Jett home for some time. Jett gave his occupation as a steamfitter. At headquarters, it was declared he is no relation to the detective sergeant of the same name. CONNECTICUT SOCIETY ELECTS EDWARD LANG New Head Is Cliosen at Meeting, With Charles Morganston as Honorary President. The Connecticut State Society meet- ing last night at the Willard Hotel elected Charles E. Morganston honor- ary president, succeeding Representative John Q. Tilson. Edward J. Lang was elected president. Other officers named for the season were C. O. Buckingham, Elmer E. Fields, Mrs. M. Eva Woodward and Mrs. C. W. Sorrell, vice presidents; Mrs. J. Robert Conroy, secretary; Mrs. Kath- leen B. Burke, social secretary: Dr. R. 8. Pendexter, treasurer, and Clarence A. Clough, sergeant at arms. The board of governors was named to include Dr. Morganston, Mr. Buckingham, Joseph R. McCuen, Miss Margaret A. Horan, George D. Watrous, jr.; Myer Landerman, Mrs. Sorrell. Mrs. Conroy, Henry H. Morgan, Mrs. Wood- ward, Le Grand J. P. Fichthorn, Walter T. Cahill and Joseph J. Drennan. A dance will be held at the Willard Hotel November 7. DR. CHRISTIE HONORED BY MEN’S BIBLE CLASS Dinner Marks Close of Eight Years as Teacher at Calvary M. E. Church. Dr. Arthur C. Christie was honored last night at a dinner given by the Men's Bible Class at Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, which he taught for eight years, and which he is leaving because he is transferring his church membership to the new Metropolitan Memorial M. E. Church near his home in Wesley Heights. Speakers who praised Dr. Christie SATURDAY, OCTOBER Couple Married in Park BYLVAN SETTTING CHOSEN FOR NUPTIALS. » 10, 1931. Left to right: P. W. Gilbert of Syracuse, N. Y., best man; L. Ray Torpy of Syracuse, engineer in’ the Bureau of Valuation. Interstate Commerce Com- mission, bridegroom: Rev. G. G. Johnson, pastor of the National Baptist Memo- ctives | !J. Finley Wilson, grand exalted ruler | from various standpoints, included Rev. rial Church, Sixteenth street and Colu MIDST a sylvan setting in Rock Creek Park, Miss Frankie Jo A o'clock _this morning_became the bride of L. Ray Torpy of Syracuse, N. Y. an engineer in the Bureau of Valuation of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Rev. G. G. Johnson, pastor of the National Baptist Memorial Church, Sixteenth street and Columbia road, married the couple. Love of nature impelled the couple three-story | to choose the park setting, with the o October sun shining out of the East, for the ceremony. The maid of honor was Miss Thelma Harris of Canton, N. C.. while the. best man was P. W. Gflbert of Syracuse, N. Y. | " Dr. Johnson said the couple desired { to have the simplicity of the park and i mbia road, who performed the outdoor ceremony; ‘Miss Frankie Jo Mann of Canton, N. C., the bride, and Miss Thelma Bernard F. Day, Willlam C. Wrenn and | Harris, also of Canton, the maid of honor. —Star Staff Photo. the natural beauty around them for their ceremony and it was not that Some 60 people witnessed the ceremony. Later a wedding breakfast was served at_the Shoreham Hotel. The bridegroom’s colleagues in the Bureau of Valuation e 't that he will be back at work on Thursday of next week and are arranging to give him a wedding gift. The honeymoon destina- tion was not announced. The permit for the ceremony was btained late yesterday through Miss D. T. Mayfield, the permit clerk in the office of public buildings and public parks. Capt. P. J. Carroll instructed the United States park policemen on the midnight to 8 am. shift to give proper escort to the wedding party, and this was don CSCAPED CONVICT 5 FOUND ASLEEP l it Third Fugitive From Lorton | Caught in Alexandria. Pair Still Hunted. Mack Pierse. one of the five convicts who escaped Thursday night from the District Reformatory at Lorton, re-captured late last night. prehension left only two of the fugi- tives still at liberty. Two others were taken into custody early yesterday. Fierse, serving a two-year sentence for grand larceny. was found hiding in ta biarn in Alexandria. Acting on a “tip,” three officers from the penal in- stitution crept into the barn, where they found their quarry asleep. Search Is Continued. With Fierse recaptured, an armed posse continued its search for the oth- er escaped prisoners—Edward Larson, serving four years for grand larceny, and John Irwin, serving five years for robbery—who are believed to be hidirg in a heavily wooded swamp about 3| miles below Alexandria. | The posse, consisting of 10 men,| searched the marsh all day yesterday, | but found flo trace of the ~fugitives. According to Fierse, however, the offi- cers several times were close to the con- victs, who were hiding in the tall grass. Flerse told Supt. Tawes he crept from his hiding place, leaving his com- panions in the swamp, and ‘hooked™ a ride on a truck. He left the vehicle in Alexandria and secreted himself in the barn, he added. Outskirts Guarded. With the coming of darkness, the cfficers abandoned their search of the swamp and took strategic positions on its outskirts, where they remained on guard throughout the night. They re- sumed their search at dawn, however. The convicts fled the reforma affer forcing a window of their dor- mitory. With the aid of bloodhounds, the posse overtook them on the fringe of the marsh. William Sullivan, serv- ing five years for d larceny, and Richard Stockton, doing two years for a similar offense, surrendered when the | officers fired several shots into the air, | but their companions darted into the | swamp and disappeared. | | | ARMY NURSE SCHOOL | CLOSED FOR ECONOMYI; | PARKWAY BEAUTY TOBE OLD AN Publicity Program of Me- morial Project Would Be Directed by C. P. Dodge. A Nation-wide progrem, designed to icquaint the people of the United States | George Washington Memorial Parkway, to be formed on both sides of the Poto. mac River southward from Great Falls, is soon to be undertaken. In decid- ing this yesterday at a meeting at the Cosmos Club the trustees of the Me- morial Parkway Fund decided to invite Clarence Phelps Dodge of Colorado | | Springs. Colo. and Washington to be- come director of the association ‘and undertake the organization. Mr. Dodge makes his home at 3238 | R street and he has been prominently identified with Washington interests. He has been a director of the Brookings Im\::tule and & member of the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Washington Community Chest. Born in Honolulu, T. H., on July 26, 1877, Mr. Dodge graduated from Phil- Academy, Andover, Mass., and ob- tained his bachelor of arts degree from Yale in 1899. He was publisher of the Colorado Springs Gazette and was a member of the Colorado House of Rep- | Tesentatives. He is a member of the United States Chamber of Commerce, 8 fellow of the American Geographic Society and the Roosevelt Society. He 1s listed as a Progressive Republican. Col. George B. McClellan, the chair- man of the trustees of the George ‘Washington Memorial Parkway Fund, explained today the new organization will have State branches to disseminate information concerning the parkway and would be given the prablem of collecting contributions for the acquisi- tion of land needed for the parkway. Headquarters of the organization, | Col. McClellan said, will be established in Washington and efforts will be made | to complete the program as early as possible, Plans are now going forward to en- list the support Maryland and Vir- ginia authorities in the financial pro- gram of making the parkway a reality. GROUP ASKS WIDENING OF EIGHTEENTH STREET The widening of Eighteenth street from Florida avenue to Columbia road TREASURY DECIDES T0RAZE BUILDNS ONNEN PLAZA ST Government to Clear Twq More Squares in Triangle at Once. FIRE HOU;E TO BE ONLY STRUCTURE TO REMAIN Orders Being Prepared Today fop Occupants to Vacate Property ‘Within 30 Days. Two more squares of old bufldings were doomed to destruction today when the Treasury Department decided that the area between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, Ohlo avenue and D street should be cleared off as soon as possible to make way for what prob- ably will be the most elaborate and beautiful plaza in the National Cap- ital, the heart of the Federal buflding triangle. Notice to vacate will be served within the next day or two, it was learned at the Treasury, where papers were being prepared today for serving to occu= pants. The notices will order vacation of 1 property in these two squares, which are bisected by Thirteen-and-a-H-1f street, within 30 deys Plans to Be Pushed. It is expected that plans then will ba pushed forward for demolition of both squares, beginning shortly after ths middle of next mcnth. There had been several questions con- cerning destruction of these buildings, 2s they rest on sites where no new buildings are to be erected. Considera- Mann of Canton, N. C. at 7 the park was chosen for sensationalism, | tion had been given at one time to leav~ ing up a few of the more useful struc- tures for a while longer. But decision was reached today to push forward the rubllc building program without delay, leaving no old buildings standing in the site of the Grand Plaza itself, with the single exception of No. 3 Tryck Com- pany of the Fire Department, located in & tiny triangle of land bounded by Fourteenth street, C street and Ohin avenue. When this fire company is t» be moved out has not been decided, but for the time being it will remain, serve ing & valuable purpose in protecting the new buildings in the vicinity. Will Have Fountains. Final plans for the Grand Plaza have not yet been completed, but it is to be developed as the highest expression of the architectural beauty and majesty of the Government's building program in the Federal triangle. It will be an area completely surrounded by new monumental Federal bufldings. It will have fountains, a reflecting pool, sunken gardens, and shrubbery laid out after a carefully studied plan of land- scaping. The west end of the plaza will be at the new Department of Commerce Building, already virtually 'complete, and the east end will be at the concave front of the new Post Office Depart- ment Building, where operations al- ready are under way. On the south of the plaza will be | the Department of Labor, Government, Auditorium and Interstate Commerce Commission Buildings, .where exciva- tion and foundation work is well started, and on the north will be a new building to replace the District of Co- lumbia Building and the Southern Rail- His ap- With the importance and beauty'of the | W&y Building, now owned by the Gov- ernment. These latter developments, however, replacement of the District and Southern Railway Buildings, will | be the last phase of the building pro- gram. CITIZEN HEAD CHOSEN TO SERVE 14TH TERM Charles W. Ray Again Re-Elected by Brightwood Group. Beggars Scored. Charles W. Ray was re-elected for his fourteenth term as president of the Brightwood Citizens’ Association at a meeting held last night in the Paul Junior High School, Eighth and Pea- body streets. Other officers elected for the ensuing year were as follows: First vice presi- dent, John Clagett Proctor; second vice-president, L. F. Randolph: third vice president, Prof. L. J. Cantrell; fourth vice president, A. W. Foster: corresponding secretary, H. E. King; recording secretary, C. E. Bogardus; financial secretary, Elmer Johnson: treasurer, Vincent P. Russo; delegates to the Pederation of Citizens' Associa- tions, Willlam McK. Clayton and John A. Saul. A resolution was adopted, “expressing appreciation and indorsing the action of the District Commissioners in hold- ing down the next year's budget to the figures of the present year.” ‘The lack of playground facilities for Brightwood and vicinity was stressed and the Government authorities will be advised of the need of a recreational center, at the same time being urged to locate it on the Cox estate, bounded by Georgia avenue, Madison, Ninth street and Concord avenue. ‘The association voted not to beeorn a member of the North Washington Joint Committee, following the report of & special committee. The steady influx of blind and la beggars into the National Capital and {Maj. Gen, Patterson Tells Reason was proposed last night at a meeting | their taking regular stations resulted in e Baltimore, Birmingham ... Bismarck, N. D, 2 Eostor s o Chicago, il Cincinnati, Ohio 3030 Cleveland, Ohio. 30.30 ia, S. C.. 30.26 Bt.cloudy Pt.cloudy glear ear Bt.cloudy Pt.cloudy Gléar Pi.cloudy Clear ear Pt.cloudy Cloudy ¢ Portiand . Me. 32 Oreg. 30.08 Raleigh. N. C. FOREIGN. (7 a.m.. Greenwich time, today.) Temperature. Weather. 52 Cle Brest. Pr. Geneva, Btockholm, Gibraltar. (Noon. Gre Horta (Fayal). Asores... (Cutrent obser: Bermuda Hamilton. San Juane Porto Rie Favana. Ouba S on. CRal Zops. ar Part cloudy Cloug dy. | tunnel under North Capitol street, to be { used by cars of both companies, is about | 280 feet long. ! Rearrangement of the plaza track svstem was started May 26 and is ex- pected to be entirely completed by HURT BY STRAY SHOT James Raymond, 23, Wounded in Ankle—Police Investigate. innulry 1. Police today were investigating th- story of James Raymcnd, 23, 7107 Sev- ' T REA enth street. who said he was struck in | left ankle early last night by a| bullet. e man was treated for 2 bullet | SURY ENGINEER, ILL TWO WEEKS, DIES wound, after being taken to Emergency | Sedley Chaplin, for many years an Hospital by Jack wford. who found : architectural engineer in the ‘office of him in a dazed condition in the allay i the supervising architect of the Treas- in the rear of his home at 500 Mary-, ury, died ot his home, 1742 Kilbourne land avenue southwest. Raymcnd said i place, late Friday, after an illness of the stray shot struck him as he walked ' ahout two weeks. Funeral services will through the alley. be'at Cambridge, Mass., with | Mount Auburn Cemetery, in that city, | of which he was 3 native. | ' Mr. Chapiin hed lived in Washington | thirteen years, during whicih he had su- jpervised the conctruction of sevéral Government buildings in and out of the {eity. One of the buildings in the city 11 | which he supervized is the Liberty Loan ! Building, adjoining the Bureau of En- igraving. He had built a number of | butidings in New York State and was |out of the city on a Government con- | struction job when stricken {ll. E. C. GRAHAM ELECTED l ‘The District of Columbia Comimittec jen mvlfl{ment vesterday elected E. C. | Graham, former T;muldent of the Board of Education, chai eric A. Delano. an to replace Fred- Mr. Delano res| because 11l health on the duties of the office. & e tiommtm d:elded tm, e:;h}ue vigorously employment campaign (during ihe coming Winiet . - Man -Returnsrlilome Day After “Burning To Death” in Bar Specials Dispatch to The Star. LEONARDTOWN, Md., Octol 10.—Martin Amesworthy, 35, who it was believed had perished Wednes- day in the fire which destroyed a large barn containing tobacco and other farm ipment valued at $20,000 on the farm of Charles Mil- licent of Great Mills, 10 miles south of here, returned to his home yes- terday very much alive, having spent the night away from home. ‘The bones found in the debris, and which were believed to be those of Amesworthy, are now supposed to be those of #dog or some small ani- * BICIUIR. . mal asleep im' the were among the speakers addressing the lof the Grand Lodge of Colored Elks, | Mark Deep, pastor of Calvary M. E Church; Dr. George B. Wood: | first annual banquet of Local 148 of the ' Lucius C. Clark, chancellor of American | National Federation of Post Office University; Dr. Willlam Knowles Cooper, | for ‘Discontinuing Training at burial in | }mvnmd his urry-l Clerks last night in St. Augustine's avditorium, | History and reminiscences of the i organization. were presented by W. H. Webb and R. J. Pollard, while Lieut. Leon M. Anderson was acting chairman and J. M. Trigg toastmaster of thel occasion. VIOLATE LAW, 1 ‘The District Commissioners yesterday referred to the. Corporation Counsel's office for advice, a complaint from 23 j residents and taxpayers of the 7300 and | 7400 blocks of Blair road, to the effect that & golf driving school. conducted “in the 7400 block of Georgia avenue, is ;in violation of the zoning regulations jand & cnmmon»{mkln». | Aceording to the complaint, 100 feet of the property.used. in teaching aspir- |ing golfers to steer. their drives between hooks and slices is zoned commercial, ! and may be properly used for, | poses. Once the aspirant T the hang of the thing, however, a good solid whgck will ueng' the ball across the | di line ‘between commercial and | residential A area. | ‘There the peliets; heedless of their b GECEArT, S 18 Page McK. Etchison, Dr. Frank Horna day and H. G. Taylor. Dr. Christie was presented with a testimonial on which was engraved the appreciation of the class, and bore the signatures of every member. Dr. Christie responded with appreciation for the tributes. |GOLFERS’ ZONE-TO-ZONE DRIVES RESIDENTS HOLD Tee Off in Commercial Area, Land in Residential A, Taxpayers Charge. to be confined to building detached resi- dense:o churches, schools or passenger stations, bound hither and yon, until they are collected by an agent who “moves over the A re:t.nr‘imot:ge l;:ls.t:‘l;::n lace, a cont - gl"euw'b‘}nglg:u been “furnished him by the management for protection against injury from such balls as may be driven while he is upon the field. i The _school _ already n m‘g‘mflm its itions to the cord| honors of Bobby Jones has begun to get | & missioner A. Da WM District I&lflm suit l:” Bgui!y & 'nm “inn recidential 3 Walter Reed Hospital. The Army School of Nursing at Wal- ter Reed General Hospital, ordered dis- continued last August, is being closed primarily as an economy move, but also because nurses of exceptionally high caliber can”be obtained from civil in- stitutions, Surg. Gen. Robert U. Patter- son explained in a statement made public yesterday. Maj. Gen. Patterson’s statement was made in response to protests filed with the War Departnent through members of Congress and by nurses graduated from the Army School. Explaining that the school was estab- lished primarily as an emergency meas- ure to provide qualified nurses during the World War, Surg. Gen. Patterson disclosed that today only about 64 per cent of the total number of Army nurses are graduates of the school. “Economy was one of the important | factors having weight in arriving at this decision,” Patterson said. “The annual institutions, is out of with the policy of the War ment.” Former Racing Star Wed. ! CHICAGO, October 10 (#).—Joan La . Costa, former auto racing star, and Jo- of the Eighteenth Street and Colum- bia Road Business Men's Association in Johnson’s Cafe, 2463 Eighteenth street. 1. 8. Miller, chairman of the proposed Improvement Commitiee, declared & mmon demanding the change had n signed by 93 of 119 eligible prop- erty owners. He explained other sig- natures would be sought before com- pleting plans to present the petition to_the District Commissioners. William Hornstein and Cyril Smith estimated business in the community would increase 40 per cent with a wide street and more automobile parking space available. ‘The organization decided to place a Christmas tree on the triangle at ‘Eighteenth street and Columbia road. The committee to arrange this will in- clude I. S. Miller, S. P. Holland, Cyril B. Smith, Mrs. L. E. Colller, M. Avignone and J. Kornhauser. . SUSPECT IS RETURNED Ex-Sailor Brought Back to D. C. on Safe-Robbery Charge. Adam John Urban, 18, an ex-sailor, seph Maurer, a wholesale meat sales- specific suggestion man, were married & week ago, it was paroled f was brought here from Columbus, Ohie, Iast night by Detective F. A. Truscott to face a charge iplicity in robbery with Frank Wen, 18, of 2839 Four- teenth street. Wen is accused of rob- bing the safe of his uncle, George Wen, of $240 and Urban is alleged to have Teceived $45 of the loot. Police say the two youths have ad- mitted the charges. Both will face a preliminary hearing in Police e B e b police o Have beén n ¥ r District Reformatory the adoption of a resolution designating F street as “Mendicant Lane” and G street as “Beggars' Highway.” | A committee was appointed by Bresi- dent Ray to confer with the Bright- wood postmaster regarding the sefvice at the Brightwood post office. Births Reported. | Rudolph F. and Katherina Kelle Zdward W. and Catherine nd t J. and Mildred Frank H. and Elizabeth Benjamin M. and Helen Robert E. and Cecl 3 1 i H v Wy Tiony bos. “Buetiner. "girl N, Fosckier fgir H, Saers. mrl s, Geor d Elizabeth Harris, gir Sammie and Pearle Chambion. boy. || Miles and Mary Coleman, giri. Walter and Dalsy Ps 4 il ia 'Mahoney, girl. trice Powe, sirl. e Deaths Reported. Lessie E. W. Whitine. 84, 1773 Lantex Joaenh Bmail. 13, 3100 1 st Eva Hichew. 69, Homeopathic Hospital Israel Ogush. 64, 3583 Warder st. Alice R. Blaine. 63, St. Elizabeth's H| 111 Skegxs. 61, U. 8. Soldier Mary P, Tancock, 56, Eme Belle 8. French. “:'..‘-.Wn"m‘kunmwm. ©, U. 8 Neval H L. a8 M. Catterton, 39, Walter Reed General Hospital, 4 D"'l.mfl G. Bowles, 33, U. 8. Veterans’ Hos- % “fl J. Murphy, 20. Gallin Hospltal. seph J. Roche. 18, 722 P 5w, wil kins, 15, Casualty Hospital. -d'fl' Henson, 66, ’I’T‘flfllml!‘l st. n.e. i Tt s W5 S .