Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1931, Page 36

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The association subscribed to the sentiments expressed by other civic groups of the vicinity and adopted a resolution commending The Evening | Star for its editorial atiitude in cor- nection with the ruining of the elm tree vista on East Capitol street | The Mid-City Citizens’ Association recently took action condemning the destruction of the elms. The northeast group last night passed a resolution calling for the paving of | several streets in the vicinity, including Twelfth street, Thirteenth street, Mary- land avenue, H shreet, L street between Sixth street and Florida avenue, East Capitol from Eighteenth to Nineteenth street and G street between Maryland | avenue and Sixth street and Second | and Fourth streets, | Befter Lighting. The citizens' body also reite: request for better lighting under the H street northeast viaduct. | A request to improve Nineteenth street from East Capjitol street to Benning road was also made. The association opposed a movement on foot to reduce the number of traffic lights on K street | northeast and made the recommenda- and H streets and Eleventh and H streets northeast. A resolution recom- mending repainting of boulevard stop | signs on H street was p: The Washington Police Department was commended for its handling of the recent visit of the “hunger marchers” in another resolution adopted by the group. The location of a post office branch on East Capitol street between Fourth and Eleventh streets was advocated by the civic body. The recommendation was made that it be placed in some al- ready established store on the street. New Members. New members added to the association | last night included Albert Baker, O. D. | Hale, G. A. McKinney, J. S. Everett, | Margaret K. Fiedt. Mrs. Dan Gotses, R. | B. Rainey, M. E. Staman, W. H. Bowen, Charles Oskinsky, Fred Ansley. Mary A. | Bown, J. N. Thrash, R. J. Chaillet, jr.; | Joseph Pino, Mrs. M. Newman, Jame: W. McGinn, Walter Williams, E. G.| Baldwin, Meyer Burka, Daniel Gilbert, B. W. Seaton, A. Kantsandros, Louis Lasky and Dr. Louis Notes. Evan H. Tucker, president of the as- sociation, presided. \PUBLISHING COMPANY | | ENTERS BANKRUPTCY | Owners of Washingtonian Maga- | zine Sued by Local Writers for Pay. | Application was made in District Su- | preme Court yesterday for an involun- | tary bankrupt adjudication against the | Washington Publishing Co., publisters of the Washingtonian, a magazine of | local circulation. The complaining | creditors were George Abell, columnist | 3140 Dumbarton avenue; George A Lohr, trading as the Commercial Art | Studio, Press Building and Elizabeth | Onativia, New York City a book re- | | viewer. e | Abell said the company owes him $150: Lohr is seeking $201.50 and Miss | Onativia said she has not been paid | for her reviews to the extent of $300. | Payment by the company of bills to | the printer and engraving firm were alleged as acts of bankruptcy. 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Then Patrolman Richard Frederick had testified raiders could not inter- fere with a speakeasy displaying one of | the little blue cards without consulting their superiors, even though complaints had been made. Club of “Old Boys.” “The blue card places were all in Schultz's organization,” the witness had | said. But Schultz pictured the Liberty League as a purely social club “of the old boys"—former saloon keepers—who met occasionally to chat about what they called “the good old days.” He said some of the members might | be running speakeasies, but they did not use their membership cards as es of protection The committee took another step inquiriug into Mayor James J. ‘s affairs when the mayor's ac- countant, Russell T. Sherwood, was given the choice of appearing here Fri- d day or leaving himself open to a $100,000 fine for contempt of court. Sherwood has been sought for months. Once he was located in Mex- —A. P. Photo. |ic5 on his honeymoon, but refused to = |recognize the committee’s subpoena. the record is quickly put into a ma- | His whereabouts now.is unknown. chine and the message is repeated for the benefit of the attendant. Samuel Seabury, committee counsel, i filed affidavits that the accountant had been served by publication with a show cause order. On a motion made yester- day, the order will come before the Supreme Court Friday. On the witness stand at the com- mittee hearing former Patrolman Den- nis Wright admitted bank deposits of $99,240 between 1921 and 1931, but denied being a partner in an inn at Croton, N. Y., described by Seabury as a speakeasy. ‘The committee counsel produced a check for $10,500 Wright indorsed to the owner of the inn and said the for- mer policeman had received many checks since then from Croton. Wright testified the checks came from relatives who own the land on which the inn is situated. 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