Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1931, Page 33

THE SUNDAY STAR, V HINGTON, D 0. NOVEMBER _ 29. .P.0.1S OUT FRONT 4N RED CROSS DRIVE fl'reasury, Commerce and | War Departments Follow { in Order Named. | ®mployes of the Government Print- gm Office, the Treasury Department, epartment of Commerce and War De- “Jartment lead in the order named in ‘$he amount of their subscriptions to the annual Red Cross roll call, according to| the second list of the returns made| public yesterday. At a later date, it was said, announcement will be made of | geturns from industry. The second list of returns, which in- #lude churches, private and public schools, hospitals and speciai gifts, was pnnounced as follows: | Government Departments. | Government Printing Office, $2,366.16; ‘ Department .of Commerce, $1,896.75; War Department, $1,619; Treasury De- partment, $2,285.25; Veterans’ Bureeu, #577; Department of Justice, $574; Li-| brary of Congress, $400; General Ac-| wounting Office, $320; Federal Trade Commission, $209; District Building, $171; United States Shipping Board #125; Federal Farm Board, $122; Alien Property Custodian, $65; Soldiers’ Home, ©36.55; United States Railroad Admin- istration, $10; United States Tariff Commission, $148. | Government Hospitals. g:ldlers' Home, $162.75; Walter Reed | Churches, | | PFirst Oongregational (additton #$41.05; Church of the Covenant fount Pleasant Congregationa. Calvary Baptist (additional). $19 t;hn's (Bixteenth street), $48: Epworth . E., $42; Eastern Presbyterian, $27. | worth of new naval craft on the seas. .| the House committee in favor of this | League. Jefferson Junior (additional), $16; Langley Junior, $16; third division, $19; Dennison Vocational, $9; Howard Uni- versity School of Law, $5, Hospitals. Emergency Hospital, $100; Instructive Visiting Nurses, $54. Special Gifts Through Miss Boardman, Mrs. E. D, White, $100; Mrs. Robett T. Lincoln, $100; Lawrence C. Phipps, s B AT, € aoartens, $oug: | ACting Commissioner Orders Purchase or Condemna- Chief Justice and Mrs. Charles Evans! tion of Property. DAVISON SETTLES Hughes, $200; Chief Justice George E. Martin, $100 FOES OF NAVAL SLASH PLAN CONGRESS FIGHT Hale and Britten to Meet at Luncheon Next Week and Vin- son Will Be Present. Maj. Donald A. Davison, Acting Engineer Commissioner, yesterday an- nounced settlement of the dispute be- tween the Commissioners and the Board of Education relating to the ac- quisition of a site for the Reno High School. He sald Assistant Engineer Commis- sioner H. L. Robb had been instructed to proceed with the purchase of “site " bounded by Fort Drive, Nebraska avenue and Chesapeake street. If the mpmy owners will not come to terms, j. Robb was instructed to start con- demnation proceedings. Maj. Davison said that it had also been decided to put the elementary school on & site now under condem- nation at Thirty-ninth and Fessenden streets. ‘The two projects represent a complete victory for the Board of Edu- cation on all points, ‘The Commissionérs, although they were given the money for the purchase of the high school site last February, had balked because of opposition of Senator Gerald P. Nye and others to the location of an elementary school on the Fessenden stréet site. It had been planned to put the high school there, and find some other site for the elementary school. of Bducation protested Big Navy men in Congress will meet here next week to pool ideas for an as- sault on President Hoover's efforts 1o reduce the naval budget and to speed up the drive to put a billion dollars Chairman Hale of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, who i¢ drafting & bill authorizing construction of a treaty- strength Navy, will meet at luncheon this week with Representative Britten, Republican of Illinois, chairman of the last House Naval Committee. Also pres- ent will be Representative Vinson, Dem- ocrat, of Georgia, who intends to ine troduce a bill identical with Hale's. Britten and Hale agreed, before Dem- ocrats obtained a mathematical su- |)m‘lhr)({' in the House, to work for a treaty Navy. Vinson also believes the London treaty established the smallest Navy the United States could have and be_able_to defend itself. The Board ‘The Hale bill probably will provide | vigorously when these plans became for gradual construction and include | known, and a long series of confer- submarines, 7,500-ton cruiser-aircraft | ences between representatives of the carriers and cruisers, destroyers and |board and of the Commissioners have other ships as well as complimentary |followed. aircraft. ‘There is $180,000 available for the There _appears unanimity among | purchase of -the high school site, and ranking Democrats and Republicans in | an lpm'orflttlofl 1l be asked at the next session of Congress for money to draw plans for the new high school, Togram. Y Maj. Davison sald. Vinson 1is considering whether the committee should go into the dispute between the President and the Navy Man, 85, Learns Fate of Brother, HIGH SCHOOL SITE| Murdered in 67 Witness, 71, Ends Silence of 64 Years as Slayer, Last of Trio, Dies. By the Assoclated Press, MARION, Ohio, November 28.— Eighty-five - year - old Elifah Russell heard for the first time today at his farm home, north of here, the fate of his brother Jonathan, who disappeared 64 years ago. He was told that Jona- than, a former Marion County farmer, had been murdered more than three- score years ago near Shelbyville, Ill. ‘The story, as received here, was that George A. Pifer, 71, of Pana, Ill, who sald he was an eyewitness of the mur- der, remained silent for 64 years fear- ing one of the three murderers would kill him. Robbery was the motive for the murder. Pifer told his story when the last of the killers died. Elijah said that Jonathan moved from this county in 1865 and pur- chastd & 140-acre farm in Illinols Mrs. Phoebe Seckel, a sister, resides here at the present time. By ART ENTRY CARDS OUT Water Color Club to Hold Exhibit December 3 to 27. Entry cards are out for the exhibi- | tion of the Washington Water Color Club, to be held at Corcoran Gallery | The exhibit | from December 3 to 27 will include not only water colors, but etchings and drawings not before pub- | licly shown in Washington. An extra gallery has been assigned for the pur- pose this year. 1931—PART ONE. IMAIL PILOT'S LEAP STIRS PITTSBURGH Thousands See Plane Crash Into Old Exposition Building. By the Assoclated Press. PITTSBURGH, November 28.—The Caterpillar Club, reserved for aviators who cheat death with parachutes, to- night had a new member, Airmail Pilot Melvin C. Garlow of Suburban Homestead Park. Garlow, flying a Pittsburgh-Cleve- land ship today, went over the side of | his spinning craft at 400 feet and |landed virtually unhurt in his first | parachute jump. The plane sliced off a corner of the old Exposition Build- | ing, & landmark, and crashed in & heap | of debris. A man wnrklnf on a loading | platform was slightly injured when | struck by flying fragments of the ship. Shoppers See Crash. ‘Thousands of downtown nhnpgn were treated to the spectacle. ive mail sacks in the plane’s cargo were undamaged. Garlow sald he took off from Bettls Fleld, at McKeesport, with mail des- tined from Akron and Cleveland, Ohio, after the regular passenger service was canceled because of bad weather. “In the middlc of a large bank of clouds, my instruments showed that I was flying over on one side. I tried to maneuver the ship onto an even keel, but I found I was spinning too rapidly and falling fast” he continued. “By this time I was falling about 800 | feet a minute. “When my altimeter read 400 feet, 1 jumped. ‘The ship spun rapidly cut of GOING OUT OF B sight below me. T must have been 250 feet up when the parachute opened. “I_drifted down, suddenly finding myself over the Ifl.ludirai 1 tried to slip away from 16, but the shrouds of the chute eaught and I was thrown against the side of the building, twist- ing an ankle slightly,” New Shanghai Consul Named. ‘The State Départment announced yes- terday that Willlam Clarke Vyse of this city, consul at Stuttgart, Germany, has been assigned as consul at Shanghai, PADLOCK IS SOUGHT | Application Filed to Close Building at 406 Second Streets Application for a temporary padiock injunction was filed in Distriet Supreme Court yesterday by Assistant United States Attorney John B. Willlams against premises at 406 Second street, which, it is claimed, has become & nui- sance under the national prohibition law through the sale and possession of intoxicants. William C. Guterman and Adelaide T. Guterman were named as tenants. Violations d‘:‘:d‘ back to September 12 ‘Washington Jews in Protest. The Jews of Washington will held & meeting at the Typographical Teple tomorrow night st 8 o'clock to protest the recent pogroms in Poland ih which 2 students were killed and 20 seri- ously wounded. The public vited to hear the speakers. 5 - SANTA CLAUS HAS COME TO TOWN ([Christmas hasn’t come, but Santa has—and in all his glory in the Washington’ shops and stores. QAnd he hasn’t forgotten a single thing—lovely toys, beautiful gifts, pretty clothes . . . everything to make this Christmas more enjoyable than last. QThis Christmas (just a few short weeks away) you may purchase su- [ —_———————— hcnhedrnl School for Girls, sx;%v‘ Consuls Transferred. lends, $137; Misses Eastman's, 103:| gecent changes in the United States fing Smith Studio, $45; Lewls Hotel) foreign servied include the ~trans- ning, $39. | fer of William C. Vyse of this city, con= Public Schools. sul at Stuttgart, Germany, to Shanghal, Sixth division, $170; Eastman, $103; | China, and the transfer of C. T. Steger oard of Education (Administration of Richmond, Va. consul at Malmo, uilding), $42; seventh division, $21; Sweden, to Beirut, Syria. perior articles for far less money than in many years past. But now the as. sortments are largest and now Santa’s salespeople can give you much more attention and service. Why not take advantage of this early shopping and - | know your gifts will be the choicest y ones to arrive . . . before Christmas? Private Schools, Oreella Rextord, food scientist, was in Washington today for & series of lectures at the Masonic Auditorium. The series will commence at 8 o'clock Thursday night and there will be a lecture on eight successive nights. There will be special afternoon talks for women only Saturday and a week from Tuesday. | GIVE something .+ . give it NOW! Every day many attractive gifts are displayed in THE STAR. Read these advertisements... and Bargains of a Lifetime SACRIFICING ENTIRE STOCK THOUSANDS DAILY ATTEND AND SAVE HAVE YOU? 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