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WAS HINGTON Zhe Sundiy St WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNIN( i, DECEMBER 3. 1 1931. PAGE B—1 BURNED AS BLAZE SWEEPS HOSTELRY Victims Trapped in Rooms. Firemen and Others Are Injured. VETERAN RISKS LIFE TO RESCUE WOMAN Boales Fire Escape and Carries Un-| identified Female to Street $25,000 Damage. Two men lost their lives and seven other persons, including four firemen were burned, injured or overcome by smoke in a spectacular $25000 fire which yesterday afternoon wrecked the | old Franklin Hotel, 623 Pennsylvania | avenue, and attracted thousands of | Christmas shoppers and home-bound | Government employes. | While traffic in the vicinity of Beventh street and Pennsylvania ave- nue was badly snarled, firemen fought | the blaze for almost an hour before | bringing it under control. When the first fire trucks reached the scene | flames were shooting 20 to 30 feet above the roof of the ancient five-story | structure. Two alarms brought out virtually all downtown apparatus, The traffic jam was unraveled only after hose carriers were erected across street car tracks to permit firemen to play & dozen streams into the burning | building. | Two Roomers Killed. | The dead men, both roomers, are | Walter Irving Conley. 45, an inmate of | the Soldiers’ Home, and L. “Murph; Young, a candy vendor, about 30 years old, who had lived at the hotel for sbout three years. ! Thomas Piner, 53, night manager of | the hotel, was severely burned about the head, arms and shoulders, and last night was in the most serious condition of those injured in the blaze. Emer- gency Hospital attaches said his condi- tion was not critical, however, and ex- essed the belief he would recover. hers injured or overcome are: Capt. Charles Galpin of No. 17 Engine | Company, overcome by smoke. Pvt. Edward B. Smith, 28, 234 Tenth street southeast, of No. 1 Truck Com- pany, cut by glass. Pvt. Morris Hollis, 32, 427 Seventeenth street southeast, of No. 1 Truck Com- | pany, also cut by glass. Firemen Is Injured. Pvt. Michael F. Kane, 33, 1228 D street’ southeast, of No. 6 Engine Com- ny, bruised and shaken up when hit & fire truck while laying out hose. Virginia Green, cut by fiying glass. Virginia Shahpazian, 20, whose hard was cut when she turned in the first alarm The men who lost their lives were trapped by the flames which originated on the third floor. Both occupled fourth-floor rooms and were ssleep ‘when the fire broke out. Young was found burned almost be- yond recogntion in a bathtub, while Conley was taken from under s wash basin, where he had sought cover from | the raging flames 1 Veteran Saves Woman. i The life of an unidentified woman was | saved by C. A. Bouk, a Seattle World ‘War veteran, who is here with 57 other ex-service men from the Pacific North- west leading a fight for the balance of the soldiers’ bonus. Bouk scaled a fire escape in the rear of the hotel, entered an upper story window and carried the scantily clad woman to safety. He then re-climbed the fire escape and shouted ‘warnings to other roomers. Capt. Galpin was leading the fight ainst the flames on the third floor en he was overcome by inhaling emoke. He lost consciousness and top- pled to the floor. Lieut. I. W. Lusky of No. 2 Engine Company saw him fall and carried the husky captain outside, where he was revived by the Pire Res. cue Squad. He insisted on resuming the fight, but was persuaded to go to Emer- gency Hospital for an examination Ambulances from Emergency, Cas- wualty and the Fire Rescue Squad were pressed into service to care for the casu- alties, Damage Set at $25,000. Pire Marshal Calvin Lauber set the | damage at $25000. He said the fire| started on a third-floor stairway, but | declined to state what caused it. E. G. Hopkins, branch manager of the Huss- | man Refrigerating Co., next door to the hotel, reported to police the flames and water did $10,000 worth of damage to his show rooms. He said eight huge re- frigerator display cases were ruined and would have to be sent ba to the fac- tory for repair The blaze broke out shortly after 1 o'clock, and was discovered almost simultaneously by Virginia Shahpazian and George Avadikian, owner of the| hotel. Virginia ran to the nearest fire- | alarm box on the corner of Seventh street and rang for fire engines Avadikian's wife, Mrs. Lucy Avndl-; kian, meanwhile also had detected the odor of smoke and ran from the build- ing, carrying her 18-month-old son, Ru- Efin ‘Two other roomers, James Mil- urn and Milburn Reese, also fled to| safety. | For & time the fire threatened the Metropolitan Hotel, famous hostelry of bygone days, which adjoins the Frank- | lin to the east, and the Atlantic Hotel, | on the other side. Streams of water were played on the walls of both these buildings, however, averting a spread of the flames, | CIVIC OPERA TO MAP | PLANS NEXT THURSDAY Teachers, Students and Artist Mem- | bers to Attend Evening Session at Thomson School. Plans for presentations next Spring will be discussed by members of the organized Washington Civic Opera at thelr first meeting in the son School, Twelfth and L streets, mext Thursday night at 8 o'cl-ck ‘Teachers, stude: are to attend R. R. Edvards, organizer and ge manager, will preside at t Non-members who are intere coming essociated with the orzani: tion are invited to aitend, it is an- nounced, a specal invitat’on being ex- tended might be interested in stu: dying roles for different p’rodumou ‘Opportunity in | FOURD. €. BILLS READYFRSENATE Capper to Present Measures Next Week at Request of Commissioners. Four bills will be introduced in the | Senate early this week by Chairman Capper of the Senate District Com- mittee at the request of the Com- missioners. The measures contain the following proposals: To amend the law for the condemnation of land for munictpal purposes; to authorize the District as- sessor to testify as an expert on values in condemnation cases; to suthorize the admittance of pay patients to the contagious disease ward at Gallinger Hospital, and a bill to sanction an ex- change of land in connection with re- location of roadway near the District Workhouse at Occoguan, Va. The proposed change in the local condemnation law would give the Dis- trict government the same provision enacted two years ago for the Federal Government, by which the local gov- ernment could obtain immediate pos- session of property pending condemna- tion procéedings by depositing with the court an amount estimated as fair com- pensation. Any additional amount found to be due at the close of the pro- ceedings would be paid with 6 per cent interest In sending up the bill to admit pay patients to the contagious ward at Gal- linger, the Commissioners pointed out that the budget for 1933 contains an estimate for $250,000 toward construc- tlon of an additional ward at that hos- pital with a contract authorization of $600,000. DEMOCRATS ADVISED TO AVOID PANACEAS West Is Conservative, but Not Re- actionary, Governor of Kansas Says, The Democratic party will win the West in, the 1932 campaign if its goes before the people with a sound, conserv- ative platform devold of panaceas, Gov. Harry H. Woodring of Kansas predicted in a speech Priday night at a dinner given for him by the Woman's National Democratic Club of Washington. Referring to himself as “one of the political grandsons of the ‘wild jack- asses’ a name given to the Progressives by Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire.” Gov. Woodring declared that the West is truly “the most con- servative section ey are progres- sive, but not radical, he explained, and are therefore conservative without be- ing_reactionary “It would for the Democratic ’ in the next campaign to appeal for Western votes by advocating pana- ceas involving further governmental in- terference in private buginess, with & promise of artificial prosperity created by legislative act,” Goy. declared. COURT CHANGE URGED Lawyer Advocates Enlargement of Claims Jurisdiction. New legisiation to broaden the juris- | Purse from Isabelle C Ciction of the United States Court of | enteenth street, last ni nts and artist members | Cl2ims to include tort actions against |0 make their escepe, jovernment was recommendzd yes- | t0, by Freder! | nert Wash'nston attorney and form General, in &n ad- dress at the luncheon meeting of the | Barristers, Washington lawyers' club. David A. Pine, president of the Bar- bass voices who | risters, presided at the luncheon, which wli,held at the Cosmos Club- ick D. Faust, promi- oy Upper: Fire raging in the upper floors of the Pranklin Hotel, 623 Pennsylvania avenue, in which two roomers were burned to death Lower: C. A. Bouk, World War vet- eran from Seattle, who climbed & fire escape, rescued & woman from the flames and shouted warnings to other Toomers. ___—Star Staff Photo HURLEY EXPLAINS DEAL FOR BUILDING |Shoreham Purchase Made in Good Faith, Court Told by Secretary. | Patrick J Hurley, Secretary of War, yesterday described in detail the part he played in the purchase of the Shore- hsii Office Building from Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co. six months prior to the failure of the mortgage-banking | house. | Appearing as a witness before Justice |P. D. Letts in District Supreme Court | in a suit to reinstate a $2,250,000 trust | on the property, Secretary Hurley de- clared he acted in entire good faith in purchasing, the building. |” He said the purchase was made in the name of the Shoreham Investment Co. The stock of this corporation, he said, is owned by himself and Jofiefluh X Cromwell of Oklahoma, each holding one-half. Mr. Hurley declared he purchased | the building in the belief that all of | the noteholders had been or would be paid in accordance with the terms of | the deed of trust | Edmund D. Rheem, now serving a penitentiary - sentence, and Luther H. | Swartzell were trustees of the deed of | trust for $2,250,000 on the property. The trust was released by them in ac- cordance with a provision that such ac- tion would be teken upon payment in full at the offices of Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co. Cash Payments Disputed. At recent bankruptcy hearings, testi- mony was introduced to the effect that | & number of the noteholders under the | deed of trust never received payment in | cash. Rheem said they were paid | through reinvestments to their credit. | The property was purchased, accord- ing to Secretary Hurley's testimony, by Cromwell and himsell. He said the | deal involved the trade of the Hurley- | Wright Building, in which he had = $740,000 equity, and a cash considera- | tion. | 1t was also brought out that the | Shoreham Investment Co. advanced | $150,000 in connection with the refi- | nancing of the property at the time | of the sale | Mr. Hurley sald & certificate of title | was secured through the District Title | & Insurance Co., which indicated that | the property was free of all liens. He sald Bheem told him he had ar- | ranged to secure all the money neces- | sary for the payment of the original mortgage on the property with all ac- ‘cmed costs. He said he did not ques- tion Rheem as to how or where this | money was coming from. Repayment of Loan, It is alleged in a suit now on file that Rheem borrowed this money from the Riggs National Bank and repaid it im- | properly. “At the time of this transaction,” | Secretary Hurley said, “I had no rea- son to believe there was anything frregular about it. I would not have gone through with the deal had I known otherwise.” After he had concluded his testimony, Secretary Hurley told the court he had nothing to conceal in this transaction. “Td like to say” he stated, “thaj the Shoreham Investment Co. has ng secrets in connection with this mal ter. Its books are open and any fur- | ther information the court wants is available.” Mr. Cromwell succeeded Mr. Hurley on the stand and told practically the same story as the Secretary. He said he was present at the July 15 confer- ence. He declared it did not oceur to hom to ask Rhgem where he ob- tained the money intended for use in paying off the notes. He testified the Shoreham Investment Co. spent more than $30.000 to complete construction of the Shoreham Office Building due | to the failure of Swartzell, Rheem & Woodring | Hensey Co. to carry out its contract. SNATCH WOMAN'S PURSE ‘Two Colored Men Flee on Bioycles, Victim Tells Police, Two colored men who snatched L3 00per, 2544 Sev- ght used bicycles it was re tenth precinct police. o The woman said she w dor on the second floor - ment house at that address when thy men grabbed the pocketbook, whiol | contained $5.50 and a gold class ring. 2s in a corri- of the apar ‘Woman Held in }h;id, Mrs. Mary Ellen Swan, M street, gt of Erh arrested last nf on | family will also demand tha the pres- Hotel Fire Where Too Dica | YULE FUNDS CUT ARMED FARES A0S ATWHITEHOUSE | TOASSIST NEEDY Saving to Mark Festivities Eniivened by Family Reunion. PRESIDENT AND WIFE URGE FRIENDS’ HELP| Want Less Costly Presents and Urge That Remainder of Normal Total Be Spent on Poor. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. ‘While President and Mrs. Hoover are observing Christmas this year, with their children and grandchildren and intimate friends gathered about them, they will not be unmindful of the many thousands of less fortunate homes throughout the country. It is the aim of Mr. and Mrs. Hoover to spread good cheer and comfort to some of those whose prospects of a happy Christmas are remote. Not only are they plahning their Christmas ob- servance with this object in view. but they are passing the word along to their many friends to follow suit. Like last year, the White House Christmas will be centered about the young people of the family. who are Zoming to visit for the hollays. The usual atmosphere of genuin» Yuletide spirit, enlivened by two livély grand- children, will again prevail, ‘and there will be the customary Christmas din- ner parties and the other - incidental parties, but all of these festivities are to be simple in nature, with a careful avoldance of extravagance of unneces- sary expense. Everything is to be ar- ranged and conducted with a kindly and generous thought of those many households where, because of 50 much unemployment, Christmas is likely to be a grim and pitiful occasion. Plan to Help Needy. In curtailing what they are to spend on Christmas, it is the purpose of the President and his wife, not to save money, but see to it that a goodly por- tion of their Christmas outlay will | serve to bring some little cheer and comfort to at least a few of those in distress With this charitable thought in mind the Hoover household will give only in- expensive Christmas gifts. The Hoover ents to be sent to them by their friends and others be of small cost, and that the difference in the cost of these gifts and what would have been spent ordi- narily for this purpose be given to the homes of the poor and deserving Moreover, there will be a large re- duction in ‘the amount of money gen- erally spent in making the Yuletide at- mosphere about the presidential home. This, the Hoovers believe confidently, can be done without detracting the| slightest from the genuine fun and hap- piness of the White House observance. Already Mrs. Hoover is personally checking up on_what was spent on Christmas at the White House lgst year. Then she will figure just how much is actually needed to have & simple and inexpensive observance, and when she arrives at this total, the difference be- tween the reduced amount and what was spent for the White House Christ- mas last year, will be used in helping those in need. Judging from Mrs, Hoover's spirit in this benevolent undertaking, what is finally turned over to charity will, when everything is ad- ded, be greatly in excess of what was spent last year. Swells Other Donations. This contribution to bring Christmas cheer will be entirely aside from the generous donations already made by both the President and his wife to the various organizations engaged in dis- tributing assistance to the poor and distressed this Winter. However, in this unusua! Christmas plan, Mr. and Mrs. Hoover have no de- sire to encourage less spending. On the contrary, to those ~friends to whom they have revealed their plan, they are insisting that just as much, if not more, be spent this year, but that the greater portion of it be spent on the poor. With the presence of their children and grandchildren, the happiness of the President's and Mrs. Hoover's Christmas is assured, regardless of how little is actually spent on the event. Herbert Hoover, jr. the elder of the Hoover boys, with his wife, and their two elder children, Peggy Ann, 7, and Herbert, 3d, better known as “Peter,” are coming to the White House from their home in Pasadena, Calif. Allan Hoover, who has recently en- tered the banking business in Los An- eles, also will be at the White House for this happy occasion. Yule Program Outlined. Although the Christmas expense will be curtailed in the interest of charity, there will be no curtailment of Christ- mas activities at the White House. Pirst of all there will be a children's party two nights preceding Christmas and another one early Christmas eve to be followed la(z’r 1nmme evening by an informal party for the “grown-ups,” fo which s few intimate friends wil be invited. There will be another children’s party Christmas afternoon. Christmas night there will be another party, which will be attended prin- cipally by members of the President's cabinet and their wives. During Christ- mas week there will be several social affalrs, including & dance for Allan Hoover, to which will be invited the young members of the Capital's most exclusive social set. These various parties, with the ex- ception of the several dinner parties, will be strangely unlike those of for- mer Christmases at the White House during the occupancy of the Hoovers. There will be no presents or favors or refreshments. This curtailment will ; be a part of the saving-for-charity lan. | P"The fust of the children's parties is to be especially interesting because of these omissions. The invitations to this lively little m}xrbmg' w;l; b.emhfld on the night ol o 3 e ready bel‘:lgc delivered. The invitations, which are. being sent ‘n the names of Peggy Ann and “Pefer,” explain very clearly the charity plan, because, at- tached to the invitation s the following written reminder: Unlike Other Furties. “This is not like the Christmas parties you usually go to, where you get lots of toys and prue{xh!f to 'o:k:‘gwmz and good things to eat. y BuL It 15 8 pnm'”wmre you bring toys and warm gay sweater!or candy, or things other children would like who otherwise would ro! have much Cq'?i:né.:hu Claus has sent word that he is not going to be able, by himself, to take care of all the l!m:nd and 1s he wants to this year m&mdodmrmuwmlpmmumh as TN And T | | 1 TAY DRIVER AN FLEE N HS AT Diminutive Cabby Fights Bandit Trio Trying to Save Cash. POLICE COMB CITY FOR MEN AND CAR One Bandit Kicked in Stomach. Grocery Store Loses $35 to Thieves. Prail of build aid weighing but 125 pounds, James B. Flanary, 42-year-old taxicab driver, was overpowered &nd robbed by three cofored men last night, but only after he had kicked one of them in the stomach as he resisted de- | spite a threatening gun. | The robbers tock $4 and Flanary's cab, but overlooked $2 in his pockel HES e book. Police were searching the city for them early today. Flanary, who| lives at 2060 Thiuy= er street northeast, told fourth precinct police he picked up the three men at| New Jersey avenue and H street and they directed him to drive to, Third street and * Dela- ware avenue south- f west. When he reached that inter- F section he was in- structed to proceed south to N street. There Flanary's passengers told him they had gone too far and to turn around. Halted In Dark Spot. Midway between M and N streets on Delaware avenue the cab driver said he was told to halt his cab. The spot ;el;;ded was some distance from a street ight. Flanary sald all three got out and | one of them who appeared to be the! leader gave him a dollar bill. As he reached in his pocket for change, one of the men drew a gun and another climbed into the front of the cab. Without ~hesitating, Flanary kicked the bandit in the stomach, knocking him from the car. Meanwhile, the other two had climbed in the back seat and one of them seized him around the neck while the other held the gun to his ribs. While he was held helpless the man he had kicked strick him on the jaw with his fist. Return Part of Money. One of the three went pockets and supposedly took all the money also out of his pockethook. When Flanary pleaded with them not to take his driver's permit they gave him back the pocketbook, containing the permit and the $2 they had over- looked. Then the robbers forced him from the cab and drove away rapidly, Flanary told police. The cab was owned by Flanary and his name was printed on the side. Before becoming a taxi driver, Flan- ary was a musician. For three years he played the cornet as a member of the Earle Theater Orchestra, but was displaced when the theater was pur- chased by Warner Bros. Shortly before Flanary was robbed, three white bandits obtained $35 and a gold watch at a grocery store at 932 M street, owned by Jacob Rosenbloom. Rosenbloom, who lives at 1532 Var- num street; Benjamin Epstein, 4012 II- linois avenue, a clerk, and Joseph Mes- sick, 13, 1237 Tenth street, a customer, were in the store when two youths en- tered and purchased two bottles of soda water. They paid Rosenbloom for the drinks and had almost finished them when a man described as about 30 years old appeared, flourished & gun and ordered the two boys to “put down the pop and go to work.” The older man covered the three while the youths searched the cash register and rifled their pockets. The three robbers then fled together. Ros- enbloom called police and furnished de- tailed descriptions of the thugs. A po- lice lookout was broadcast for them. BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETS WITH C!TIZENS School Appropriation Requests Will Be Discussed With Civic Group Representatives. The Board of Education will report to Washington's organized citizenry to- mOITow night on the status of public school appropriation requests with re- spect to the items actually included in the budget as it went to Congress. A list of items requested by the school board and the fate of each, indicating just where it was drépped from the budget and by whom, where it was pruned, or increased, will be discussed by the board. The session will be the second annual conference with the rep- Tesentatives of civic groups, the first, ;’;’Jfi the delegates presented _their ons for approj ving been held last Bpr%ng?r Sonn TOmOIToW's conference will a8t 8 pm. in the nudanumb:zhfi Franklin School Administration Bufld- ing, Thirteenth and K streets. James B. Flanary. HOOVER TO OPEN SHow President Hoover has accepted an in- vitation by Mre. J. Julien Southerland of Miami Beach to open from Washing- ton an International Tropical Flower Show to be held there from March 17 to 19. Mrs. Southerland, president of the Miami Beach Garden Club, said yoo. te how was planned gesture - of international friendship hung on a flower” As was done last year, she said, blooms will be broyght from 22 Latin American countries, the candy and ° TS’ o JSoappers’ and cake and course, in their cha Hoovers have no intention bf- Gt without severnl trimmed Ghristmas. trees and the wreaths and other sea- sonal floral decorations. Then, 106 there will be the march of the “wooder, soldiers” introduced last Christmas time, Which will again serve as one of the entertainment features of the ghilx dren’s party Christmas eve, Lists Deserving Families. Just how the President and Mrs. Hoover ‘will distribute money and pres- ents to the needy, as a result of their own personal Christmas curtailment, has not been revealed. It is understood that Mrs. Hoover will obtain the names in Wi RS SEER v his | A. Davison, Acting Engineer Commis- District Commissioners. inset. The other will be built in NEW INCINERATORS 10 BF BUILT SOON Work on Two Modern Plants to Begin When Congress Provides $760,809. Construction of Washington's first high-temperature incinerators, where the trash and refuse of the entire city will be reduced to ashes by modern, scientific methods, will be started early in the Spring, according to an an- nouncement yesterday by Maj. Donald siofier of the District. Everything is in readiness for con- struction—the contracts have been written, the plans drawn and the sites acquired. The signal for starting the work will be given just as soon as Con- gress passes the first 1932 deficiency appropriation bill, reappropriating the $850,000 appropriated for the incin- erator in the 1930 deficiency bill and allowed to lapse into the Federal Treasury because of a ruling of Con- troller General McCarl, which prevent- ed the awarding of the original con- tract for the work. The two incinerators, together with the sites, plans and engineering fees will cost the District a total of $760,809, leaving & balance of $89,191 to be re- turned to the Treasury. One of the | incinerators is to be located in George- town at Thirty-first and K streets. The | other is to be erected in the southeast | section at First and O streets southeast. | ‘Will Meet Needs for 20 Years. Maj. Davison pointed out that plans for the two incinerators provide for buildings of architectural dignity which will enhance the appearance of the neighborhoods in which they are to be built. Modern in every detail, he seid, the refuse plants will be free of odors of any kind, and will be of suffi- cient size and capacity to provide for the destruction of Washington's refuse for the next 20 years. Despite reports to the contrary, Maj. Davison d‘lared it had never been the intention ol District officials to use the new incinerators for burning gerbage. Garbage will continue to be shipped to the municipal reducing plant at Cherry Hill, Va, he said, which was recently modernized at a cost of $125,000 and will be adequate to dispose of the Dis- trict’s garbage for at least 10 years. Virginia Dump to Be Closed. The present small incinerator plant at Montello avenue and Mount Olivet roed northeast is recognized as inade- quate and a public nuisance. It showers sparks and is a fire menace, according to Maj. Davison, and several times in recent years has been completely de- stroyed by fire and rebuilt. For the last two years, this plant has been incapable of disposing of all of the refuse. The bulk of it was trans- ported to the swamp lands adjacent to the Washington airport in Arlington County, Va., and burned. Now, how- | ever, the swamp has been filled and this dump is about to be abandoned. $500 AND BOOKS LEFT CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY Mrs. Bdith Pratt Dickins Bequeaths Bum Also for 8t. Matthew’s Church. The Catholic University of America is given $500, a collection of books on Oriental subjects, and a set of the World’s Great Classics by the terms of | the will of Mrs. Edith Pratt Dickins, | who died November 14, leaving an es- tate valued at about $70,000. Arch- bishop Curley is also to have $500 and a like amount is given Mgr. Edward L. Buckey for the use of St. Matthew’s Catholic Church After distributing her personal effects among & number of relatives and friends the testatrix directs that the remaining estate shall be held in trust by H. Rozler Dulany, jr, and the National Savings & Trust Co. One half of the net income is to be paid to her siste Bessle P, Chenoweth, Pasadena, Calif. for life, d the other half to her brother, F,:mn R. Pratt, of this oity, during his life. ‘The National snvinnm& 'n-mwco. Mr. Dulany are named as executors, ‘I:g today ukeyd for the probate of the will. They tell the court that Mrs. Dickins owned premises 2015 Columbia road and other property of an assessed total of $17,779, and had personal prop- erty estimated at $50,700. PRESENTS LOW BID ‘The Little Construction Co. of Char- lotte, N. C., in & low bid of $131,850 for T, of an addition to the |* RCHITECT'S drawings of Washington's new high-temperature incinera- tors. Construction will start in Spring in accordance with plans of the The Southeast incinerator is shown in the Georgetown. NEW PAVING JOBS PLAN ANNOUNCED Capt. H. C. Whitehurst Ar- ranges Spring Program of Street Work. Capt. Herbert C. Whitehurst, District | highway engineer, yesterday made pub- |lic a list of street paving jobs to be undertaken next Spring, assuming that Congress passes an appropriation act | containing the provisions as to high- | ways recommended by the Budget Bu- reau. This list is in addition to the list of streets to be paved out of gaso- line tax funds, printed in the 1933 es- timates. It includes two important street-widening projects. The jobs are: Resurfacing by replacement method: B street northeast, widened to 80 feet from Delaware avenue to North Capitol street; Constitution avenue, widened to 73 feet from North Capitol street to First street, 80 feet from First street to Sixth street; widen E street from PFifth to North Capitol streets to 46 and 56 feet; Mount Pleasant street, Sixteenth street to Park road; Kalorama road, Champlain to Sixteenth streets; New Hampshire avenue, S street to U street; Twenty-fifth street, Virginia to Pennsylvania avenues; U street, Ninth to Tenth streets; Florida avenue, Seventh to Ninth streets; E street, Twenty-first to Twenty-second streets; G street, Twenty-second street to Virginia avenue; Eleventh street northeast, East Capitol to D streets; Nichols avenue southeast, Sheridan road to north end of concrete; Good Hope road southeast, Nichols to Min- nesota avenues; Fourteenth street southwest, Water street to Highway Bridge; F street southwest, Third to Four-and-a-Half streets; D street northeast, First street to Massachusetts avenue; North Capitol street, Louisiana to Massachusetts avenues, - 30,000 GET NEW AUTO LICENSE NUMBERS Van Duzer Reports Tags Issued Sinoe DBecember 1 for 1932. Approximately 30,000 sets of 1932 automobile tags have been issued since December 1, according to a report sub- mitted yesterday to Traffic Director Willlam A. Van Duzer. Nearly 16,000 were distributed my mall, the remain- ing 14,000 having been issued at the tag bureau at John Marshall place and Pennsylvania avenue. Another report submitted to Mr. Van Duzer showed that approximately 92,000 motor vehicles have been titled, leaving 30,000 yet to be titled. Mr. Van Duzer said about 1,000 of the tags mailed by the bureau had been returned because of improper address. He believes persons to whom these tags were sent moved without notifying the bureau of the new address. Such per- sons, he explained, should go to the bureau, establish their identity with the certificate of title, and the tags will be turned over to them. 300 CAPITAL CRIPPLES REHABILITATED BY U. §. Board for Vocational Education Reports on Assistance Given and Jobs Secured. Three hundred Washingtonians, once D.C.VAGRANCY LAW, AIMED AT RESORTS, DRAFTED BY BRIDE Drastic Provisions Urged to Rid Capital Area of Undesirables. GAMBLERS, BOOTLEGGERS AND IDLERS INCLUDED Sweeping Changes Would Place Burden of Proof on Suspects Caught in Police Clean-Up. Bootleggers, gamblers and habitues of speakeasies, gambling houses and other places of ill repute would be classified as vagrants under a proposed new vagrancy law written by Corpora- tion Counsel William W. Bride and submitted yesterday to the District Commissioners. Drastic in its provisions, Bride's bill is designed to give the police depart- ment & new weapon with which to deal with persons it now finds difficult to reach because of elasticity in the exist- ing vagrancy law. It classes as vagrants a large number of persons who at com- mon law and under most statutes could not be described as vagrants—regularly employed persons who make their living in _violation of the law. Mr. Bride defends the far-reaching effect of the new bill with an explana- tion that it is now difficult for police to prove that gambling goes on or that liquor is sold in any specific house, and that the pr ed law would establish a ‘“very useful means” to ‘“end the establishment itself.” Cites Present Rulings. In his accompanying report Bride admits that the present vagrancy act has been construed by the Court of Appeals “as limiting to a too great ex- tent the personal liberties of residents of the District of Columbia.” The full text of the draft follows: “Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress as- sembled, that the following classes of persons shall be deemed vagrants in the District of Columbia: “First. All persons classed as vagrants at common law. “Second: All persons known to be beggars, bootleggers, burglars, drunk- ards, gamblers, pickpockets, thieves, confidence operators or prostitutes, whether by their own confession or by conviction in this or another jurisdic- tion, unable to give a good account of themselves, found loitering in or around any place of public resort or assembly, or upon any highway, or in any place of business or entrance thereto. “Third: All persons in whose posses- sion or under whose control or dominion shall be found any instrument or tool usually employed, or that reasonably may be employed, for the commission of crime, who shall fall to account sat- isfactorily for the possession of the same. Idlers Also Included. “Fourth: All persons over the age of 17 years who do not have sufficient means to maintain themselves or their families, who live idly and without em- ployment and who are able to work and e " 1 1 e 3 persons found who do not follow any llmmm occupation or business and can give no reasonable account of themselves. “Sixth: All persons who have mno lawful occupation, nor sufficient prop- erty lawfully acquired from which to obtain support, who wander in or about or lodge in market houses, market places, wharves, docks, watercraft, de- pots, public buildings, vacant houses, out-houses, barracks, barns, garages, sheds, cars, automobiles, or other vehhiclea or in any public park or open place. Seventh: Any person who loafs, loiters or idles in or around or is the owner, occupant or employe of any house which is, or is reputed to be, & house of ill fame, gambling house, or place where Intoxicating liquor is sold. “Section 2. That all persons con- victed of vagrancy shall be imprisoned for a period of not more than 90 days; provided, that the court may, in its dis- cretion permit such person so con- victed to give bond in the amount of not less than $100 and not more than $300, conditioned upon his future in- dustry and good conduct for a period of one year, and the punishment shall not be imposed during his faithful observ- ance of this condition, but his own recognizance shall not be accepted. Burden on Defendant. “Section 3—Whenever it shall be es- tablished by the evidence in any prose- cution under paragraph 5 of section 1 of this act that the defendant has been guilty of wandering or strolling about in idleness, or living in idleness, or that such defendant is leading an idle, irn- moral, or profligate life, and that such defendant is able to work; or under paragraph 6 of section 1 of this act that defendant loafs, loiters, idles, wan- ders in or about or lodges in the places named in said paragraph then, or in either of such events, a prima facie case of guilt is hereby declared to be estab- lished, and the burden of proof shall be upon the defendant to show that he has a lawful occ‘xlxganon, or is unable to work, or has sufficient property law- fully acquired from which to obtain support. “Bection 4—That l‘x.‘ for x:‘.ny Teason any section, paragraph, provision, clause or part of this act shall be held un- constitutional or invalid that fact shall not affect or destroy any other section, paragraph, provision, clause or part of this act not in and of itself invalid, but the remsining parts of the act shall be enforced without regard to that so invalidated. Replaces Other Acts. “Sectlon 5.—Prosecutions for viola- tions of the provisions of this act shall be in the Police Court of the District crippled so badly that they thought they never could work again, today are rehabilitated and able to hold jobs, thanks to the Federal Board for Voca- tional Education, it was disclosed yes- terday in the board’s annual report. Services to pped authority of an act of Congress which extended the board’s supervision over | the District of Columbia. An example of the type of service rendered by the board is the case of a gnlnber, injured so badly in a fall that e was unable to continue in his trade. Through the Public Health Service this man, who has a wife and two children, was given a physical examination. A leg brace, recommended by the board, was supplied by the Board of Public Welfare. Now the man is taking patent and mechanical drafting course, B e e, °tp % "dotng and is of Columbia, in the name of the Dis- trict of Columbia by the corporation counsel or by one of his assistants. “Section 6.—aAll laws ofid ordin: 1 or parts of laws and inances, now in ‘e in the District of Columbia in- ranged | consistent with the provisions of this act, or any part thereof, ars herel pealed.” tpiaw HEADS EDUCATION OLUB Miss Florence P. Marks Hiected by G. W. U. Women’s Group, Miss Florence Pool Marks was elucted president of the Women's Education’ Club of George Washington University at a meeting Friday night. Miss Mil- dred Green was elected vice presidery; Hazel G. Cragun, secretary, and rer. Dr. Jilia. Hahn, supervising of ‘the third division of mm‘