Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1932, Page 4

GOTWALS ARBITER IN BILLBOARD ROW Engineer Commissioner As- sumes Full Responsibility in Signboard Dispute. | | Maj. John C. Gotwals, Engineer Com- missioner of the District, has assumed full charge of all matters involved in the plan of the General Outdoor Ad- vertising Co. to establish a precedent here by erecting a new billboard fence in the heart of one of the largest in-| dustrial areas of the city. A strong believer in impartial sign | law enforcement, Maj. Gotwals is giv- ing careful and disinterested attention | to all the conflicting arguments ad- | vanced for and against the proposal, | which opponents contend is contrary to the aim of the regulations. Meanwhile, new developments which have occurred have served to hold up for the time being the carrying out of the earlier plan of the Commissioners to grant the permit for the company to replace old boards with new ones on O street at the intersection of New York and Florida avenues northeast. Watch Clean-up. Both Maj. Gotwals and Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer were interested in the cleaning-up process underway at | the automobile dump which the new | 20-foot billboard fence was proposed to screen. They each agreed that pictures of the tmproved conditions on this lct indicated that the billboard fence might be an entirely unnecessary screen. Maj. Gotwals said he would watch the course of improvements with personal interest, as the main argument advanced for the | crection of the billbcard screen was lbl.sed on the unsightly condition of the ot. The District government, Maj. Got- wals said, is directly interested in the general improvement cf the northeast industrial area and is already carrying | forward its own improvement program. He indicated that he would take these matters in consideration also, as they had a bearing on the question of whether new and permanent billboards should be erected in the vicinity. At the samg time Maj. Gotwals pointed cut that the regulations give | the Commissioners authority to revoke permits for signs and billboards. | Photographs made of the site actually | show a decided improvement of condi- tions cn the lot which did not exist at | the time the Board of Commissioners | passed on the replacement plan last week. The lessee, I. Glasser. ordered conditions cleaned up when requestedb | the police and Sign Inspector Thomas F. | Roche. | Favors Replacement. ‘The property is owned by the Winslow estate. Its representative, Francis Win- slow, is in favor of the General Co.’s plan to replace the old boards. He said, however, he would co-operate in en- deavoring to have the lessee keep con- ditions improved, as he has tried to do in the past. Maj. Gotwals, who has impartial en- forcement of the sign regulations in | mind, is giving weight to arguments that a permit to grant the erection of | new billboards on this site is regarded | as a discrimination by some in favor of the outdoor advertising industry. It was | learned by The Star that applications | for the erection of new signs and bill- | boards would be made by other interests if this permission is actually granted. PLAN RESURFACING | OF MANY STREETS| List Previously Printed Stated| Roads Were to Be Repaved i With Concrete. | In the list of streets printed in the | Star Wednesday with the statement that they were to be repaved with con- crete, the statement should have read that these concrete streets were to be resurfaced with asphalt. The streets are all now in good condition, and the asphalt topping is part of the regular program of street construction. The list is as follgws: Twelfth street northeast, Rhode Island avenue to Monroe street; Monroe street northeast, Eighteenth street to| ‘Twenty-sixth street; Tenth street north- T shown to Indicate that a new whole block. Billboards Not Needed Here THE EVENING STAR, WASIHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY. ATBATIE CRODND Cemetery Rites on Memorial Day Sponsored by G. A. R. and Citizens. Plans for the Memorial day exercises at Battle. Ground National Cemetery were announced today, the principal speaker being Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, past department commander of the American Leglon. A bugler will sound the assembly at 3:15 o'clock, and Maj. John Deavy will | lead in the salute to the colors. Music | will be furnished by the 3d Cavalry Band. | “'The exercises are being held under joint_auspices of the Grand Army of | the Republic and the Brightwood Citi- zens’ Ascociation. | Dr."C. V. Petteys, past department commander, G. A. R, will read the | Memorial day orders. Vice Chairman | John Clagett Proctor will then intro- duce the senlor vice commander, John M. Kline, sr., Department of the Poto- mac. Rev. William L. Mayo will pro- nounce the invocation. There will be | a recitation by John M. Kline, jr., of i"ThP star Spangled Banner,” and Mr. Proctor will recite an original poem. The Battle Ground Quartet will sing, and Mrs. Thomas H. Mullenberg, so- ! prano, will render a solo. | Graves to Be Decorated. | L. F. Randolph will sing a tenor solo, HE above photos. taken on the same site, at New York and Florida avenues “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” while northeast, show how cne half of this O street bl and the other half with a plain whitewashed fence. and higher billbcard fence i needed to screen unsightly conditions since remedied by I. Gl of the lot involved in the billboard dispute. | This whitewashed fence (in upper photo) extends the entire length of the block, some 20 feet behind the billboards (lower photo), which the billboard company wishes to replace with permanent poster panels | which the billboards would screen has been removed since the dispute arose The whitewashed fence itself effectively serves as a screen for operations behind | it and demonstrates no further need of a 20-foot billboard fence across the | ck locks with billboards | Theodore "Hardy will recite Lincoln's The contrast is Getty address. _ After the selec- t new | tion . Soldier Boy,” by the band, lessee | the school children from the neighbor- | hcod public schools will decorate the graves of the veterans in the cemetery under the direction of Mrs. Angus La- mend, jr. The assemblage will sing ~America,” after which the benediction will be pronounced by Rev. Willlam La Rue, taps by & bugler, and firing of a salute. The personnel of the Battle All the wreckage COBLENTZ BANK'S ACCOUNTS AIRED | Official Who Took Charge of Central Trust After-Failure | Goes on Stand. Special Dispatch to The Star. | CUMBERLAND, Md., May 27.—With | S. E. Meeks, assistant in the office of | the State Bank commissioner, on the | stand, there was much sparring today | among attorneys regarding what the | State would offer from the mass of | figures presented by Meeks, who took charge of the affairs of Central Trust Co., Frederick, several weeks after ll[ closed on September 3 last. State Senator Emory L. Coblentz, president of Central Trust Co., is on trial charged with having accepted a deposit in the | ‘Washington Trust Co., the Ellicott city branch, when he knew the bank was insolvent. Meeks is the fifteenth wit- ness called among nearly 50 summoned. The accounts presented were thel| profit and loss for 1929, 1930 and 1931 and surplus, capital stock, reserve and| banking house accounts, the latter per- taining to the building, furniture and fixtures. The defense wanted to know what State’s Attorney James Clark wished to show. Among the items which Clark said he wished to present in argument were a $5,000 reserve in June, 1929; placing of $66,500, proceeds of stock | sales, in the profit and loss account March 30, 1929; adding $75.000 to build- | ing value, $42,000 earnings in a_six- | month period and payment of $93,750 dividends for the same period. The court ordered transcriptions made for its enlightenment. Clark detailed the capital stock in- crease from 1913, when it was $300.- 000, until it finally reached $1.500,000, when the surplus was given as the same re. Yesterday afternoon, Zebulon M. Hewitt, local banker, formerly of Rockville, Md,, was on the stand, pre- Ground Quartet includes Mrs. Thomas H. Mullenberg, Miss Catherine Mullen- berg. L. F. Randolph and Dr. A. Owen Penney, with Harry Wheaton Howard accompanist | The guests of honor include Maj. ! Gen John M. Glem, Eugene Black, Col. | Harry N. Cootes, Mayor Ben G. Davls, Capt. Alonzo P. Fox, Col. U. S. Grant, | 3d; Maj. Gen. M. W. Ireland, Blair | Let. Maj. E. Brooke Lee, Major-elect Frecerick L. Lewton, Walter Newton, Theodore W. Noyes. Dr. Luther H. Reichelderter, District Commissioner; Senator Arthur R. Robinson and Brig. Gen. H. O. Williams. The G. A. R. committee in charge of the program includes Mr. Kline, chair- man: Mr. Proctor, vice chairman; Wil- liam P. Dorsey. commander, Depart- | ment of the Potomac. G. A. R.: Miss Nan D. Slattery, president, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War; Maj. Edward R. Campbe!l. Maj. Gen. | John M. Clem, Judge Hosea B. Moul- ton, Dr. Henry A. Johnson, Samuel G. | Mawson, Dr. C. V. Petteys and F. J.| Young. Included on Committees. | The Executive Committee represent- | ing the Brightwood Citizens' Assocla- | tion is compased of Mr. Proctor, chair- man; Charles W. Ray, vice chairman; | |Carl' E Bogardus, secretary; Elmer | Johnson, treasurer; William McK. Clay- | ton, Ma). John Deavy, Washington Top- | bam. John M. Kline, sr.. Mrs. Angus| | Lamond, jr.; Lucius F,bRan%)llph. Harry 3 e L Syle and Capt. Herbert Turner. EESINE WACEEN, '~ The Reception Committee is com- Eight, who was stabbed to death by a| pased of Mr. Ray, president of the knife-wielder who wildly plunged into Brightwood Citizens' Association; E. B. a_group of schoolgirls' in Cleveland, | Henderson, vice chairman; William D. . Ohio, yesterday. Their assailant, who, Wilson, secretary; Thomas L. Blagden, gave his name as Jake Gordon, 40, Was | Prof. Louis D. Bliss, Mrs. Louis D. captured by a nearby patrolman after | Bliss, Henry L. Bryan, Col. Risley slashing the girls. ~ Two other girls| Brown, L. B. Burdette, Prof. L. J. Can- were seriously cut. —A. P, Photo. | trell, Allen C. Clark, Rev. Thomas C. O Clark, Arthur L. Colburn, Col. C. Fred | HAMLET TO REVIEW | Cook, George R. Dickson, Maj. W. W. ‘Dyar Capt. Walter Emerson, Dr. C. C. SQUADRON AT QUANTICO Galloway, B. A. Herriman, Capt. Harry | | King. Rev. William La Rue, Ludwig E. | Manoly, Mrs. Ludwig, E. Manoly, W. W. | Superintendent of Coast Guard | Matthews, Charles E. Matthews, Charles E Mitchell, Capt. Joseph E. Morgan, Academy | R. W. W. Owens, Lieut. Col. Barton W. Cadit Prachice: Perry, Wilmer G. Platt. John H. Ray, Capt. Harry G. Hamlet, H. E. Rogers, Judge Gus A. Bchuldt, Who has| A D. Spangler. H. C. Spencer. Jesse C. been nominated by President Hoover to | be rear admiral and commandant of | V o | Suter, T. S. Tincher, Dr. Thomas N. incent, George Francis Williams, Rev. the United States Coast Guard, plans | C- M. Young and O. W. Younghlood. to go to Quantico tomorrow, where, in | o —r—s his capacity as superintendent of the | Coast Guard Academy, at New Lon- | don, he will review the cadet practice | Schoolgirl Slain STABBED TO DEATH IN CLEVELAND, OHIO. | W. Hill, James F. Hood, William L. F. to Witness Pedestrian, 77, Hit by Auto. Napoleon Bonepart, 77, of the 800 SERVIGES PLANNED | IMOTHY G. HISTON of 1349 Kenyon street, who his career as a soldier so young the company captain had to act as his guardian. recently has been added to the brief list of District resi- dents possessing the Military Order of the Purple Heart. Born in Ireland, Histon nourished a boyhood ambition to see America. He ran away from home, came to New York, and for lack of other connec- tions decided to join the 7lst Regiment of the New York National Guard. Shortly afterward the regiment was ordered to Mexico. Histon, then 17, was under age and without relatives in this country. It was necessary to ap- point hia company captain _legal | guardian in order that the young Irish- | man might go to war. Returning from Mexico, he received the Foreign Service Medal from the State of New York in recognition of his services. Soon after the United States went into the World War, -His- ton renewed his military adventures as a member of the 308th Machine Gun Battalion. His outfit went to France and Histon, an expert machine gunner, was assigned to the Belgian sector with British troops. He participated in active engage- ments there, was transferred to the 8t. Mihiel drive and took part in the cap- ture of Thiarcourt. During a flerce engagement he was wounded 13 times and severely gassed. As medical aides were about to place him in an am- bulance, a shell struck the machine and blew all its occupants into pieces. Histon was unhurt, but he was of-| + ficially reported killed in action and his parents in Ireland notified to that effect. He later disproved the official sta- tistics vigorously by suecessive enroll- ments at New York, National, Colum- bia, American and George Washington PLANS ANNOUNCED 100 Organizations Expected to Be Represented in | June 14 Event. | More than 100 patriotic. veteran and | fraternal organizations, State societies ! and other groups will take part in the | gigantic Flag day procession June 14| being planned under the sponsorship of the District of Columbia George Wash- | ington Bicentennial Commission, Dr. George C. Havenner, executive vice| president of the commission, said today The parade, which will march from Constitution avenue and Seventeenth street to the Capitol. by way of Penn- sylvania avenue, will be featured by colorfully decorated floats, brass bands and drum and bugle corps. Poreign-born societies also will be represented in Flag day ceremonies, with marching units entered from New York, Philadelphia, Washington and other cities Historical episodes will be depicted by the floats entered by the State societies and fraternal and patriotic groups. Such scenes as the ride of Paul Revere. George Washington crossing the Dela- ware, George Washington’s wedding, the Minute Men of Concord and Lex-| ington, Virginia Presidents and others | will be included. Among the units to be represented in | the marching column will be the Na- tional League of American Pen Women, the American Red Cross, Daughters of the American Revolution, Children of the American Revolution. Daughters of | Union Veterans, Disabled American Veterans of the World War, Military Order of the World War, Navy League of the United States. Washington Post Soclety of American Military Engineers, | Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy, Society of the War of 1812, Sons and Daughters of the Republic. United Confederate Veterans, United Spanish ‘War Veterans, Women's Relief Corps, | Benevolent Protective Order of Elks| and 35 State societies which have al-| ready signified their intention of being | represented in the line of march. WORK SUMMARIZED MAY Winner of Purple Heart TIMOTHY G. HISTON GIVEN MILITARY ORDER. 27, T. G. HISTON. Universities, where he obtained B. S., M. A. LL.B., Doctor of Juridical Science and other ees. He also was ad- mitted to practice hefore the United States Supreme Court, the District Su- preme Court and Court of Appeals, the | United States Court of Claims and the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals. While emplcyed as an accountant in New York, Histon received appointment to the audit division of the Bureau of Internal Revenue and later became a special_attorney in the general coun- sel's office of the bureau, a position which he now holds. Histon is unmar- ried and lives with his sister and ycunger brother here. Buys Apparatus. BOGOTA, Colombia (#).—Fortified against fire by its stone buildings, Bo- gota for 10 years was virtually free from serious blazes. \ A few months ago the city purchased five modern fire fighting trucks in the United States. Recently. within three days, two fires caused $500.000 damage, but authorities agreed that the new equipment pre- vented greater losses. - e I Bats Shield Bathers. VIENNA ().—As gnats are a_nuis- ance, especially to bathers, the Dar bian resort Klosterneuburg has im- ported 2.000 bats, it being estimated | that each bat will swallow+50,000 gnats a night 1 H ORCHESTRA AT MADRILLON| | 1f you remember Bert Bernath and his music from Club Chan- | tecler and Les Paradis Roof, | there is no neec to tell you | how good he is. If you haven't | heard him, you have missed a | real musical treat, for his darce rhythms are smooth, sophisticated and make for | real dancing. Come to Madrillon and | hear Bert Bernath. Lis-| ten to him play the popu- lar foreign dance mum- FOUR COMPANIES GIVEN D. C. SEWER CONTRACTS Commissioners Award $25,000 on New Drainage Work to Low Bidders. The District Commissioners today awarded $25000 worth of sewer con- struction contracts to low bidders as follows: ‘To the Warren F. Brenizer Co., Ta- koma Park storm-water sewers in the vicinity of Aspen street and Sandy Spring road, $7,22943, and Eighteenth Eighteenth street and Rhode Island avenue northeast, $6,210.38. To Peter D’Adama Construction Co., Forty-sixth street storm-water sewer, between Chesapeake and Fessenden streets, $9,204.78. To Ligon & Ligon, Bowen road sanitary sewer, between Sheridan and Howard streets, $1,922.04. ‘To Rose & Reddick, Inc,, New Hamp- shire avenue combined-system sewer, between V and W streets, $1,449.47. French Are Hunters. PARIS (#).—Despite complaints that game is scarce in France, 1,600,000 per- sons have taken out gun licenses, the fees totaling $15,000,000. Concerns sup- Street Branch, Upper Hickeys Run|plying hunters estimate their business storm-water sewer in the vicinity of at $58,000,000 annually \) Let ‘'em go '/} for %10 less keen WORSTEDS headed for our '30 selections step dowen to | bers in the continental | Miss Margaret Xlein Reviews . ‘ 3 manner. Dance to his su- 20 with two trousers east, Rhode Island avenue to Evarts|senting correspondence between the street: Evarts street northeast, Tenth Cumberland Steel Co. of which he is to Twelfth streets; Douglas street, | vice president, and the Central Trust Tenth to Twelfth streets; Cathedral|Co. involving a deposit of $96,000 avenue, Twenty-ninth street to Woodley | which the company had in the Fred- rol(i;n Woodley road, Cathedral to Wis- erick fx;qesu&unon.h The o denc; con: avenue; arrison street, elt | was offered to show me S pursues road to Connecticut avenue; Legation by the depositor to withdraw his street, Thirty-ninth stréet to Connecti- | money. cut_avenue; Livingstone street, Thirt Several witnesses testified regarding ninth street to Connecticut avenue; | accounts the Central Trust Co. had with Towa avenue, Thirteenth street to|their banks, the collateral posted and Georgia avenue; Allison street, Iowa to | the status of the collateral at the time Georgia_avenue; Webster street, Iowa | the Frederick institution closed. ~They to Georgia avenue; Warder 'street, |included William A. Smith and John avenue; Webster street, Rock Creek | M. E. Deffenbaugh, e.m,{:f,’t am,f; Church road to Second street; Ninth | of Unien Trust Co.; Stuart Galloway of street, Varnum to Buchanan street; Pidelity & Deposit Co., George Shriver 'V street, Second street to Rhode Island | of Hambleton & Co., Jacob 8. New, vice avenue northeast; Summit place north- | president of the Eureka Maryland Life squadron. The squadron, with two ships, the cutters Sebago and Saranac, 100 cadets | and the crews are at Quantico for cadet small-arms target practice. Their commander is Comdr. C. H. Jones. | block of Sixth street escaped serious injury when hit by an automobile at Sixth and H streets last night. He re- fused hospital treatment. The auto- mobile was operated by Joseph Huritz, 30. of the 900 block of Decatur street, police said PiQINCE OF MAKE-BELIEVE DONS SILKS AND DIES UNDER GAS JET Rex Fairbanks, “Mythical Millionaire,” at Last Courts a Real Adventure. ‘ Health Activities in Radio Talk. | Miss Margaret Klein, chairman of | the Publicity Committee of the May | Day-Child Health Day Committee, | summarized the work of the various agencies co-operating in the May day campaign in a radio address over Sta- ! tion WMAL yesterday. She urged parents to continue throughout the year the special health suggestions conveyed on May day. The talk was broadcast on the Board of ‘Trade's program. ——e Addresses Round Table. Claude R. Porter, chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, ad- dressed the weekly luncheon meeting of the Washington Round Table today at the University Club. His topic was | “The Railroad Situation in America.” ! perior music. Come down any evening for | inner or supper dance. Dane- ing from 7:00 to 1:30 A. M. No cover charge at any time. RESTAURANT MADRILLON | Peter Borras. Nost L ———— Truth of the matter is our $20 stocks needed reinforcements. $20 suits have been moving fast. We had to have more, in a hurry. These more expensive worsteds arrived from our factory early this week. They were born and bred as $30 suils — and they east, Todd place to Rhode Island | avenue; Uhland terrace northeast, | Summit place to Second _street; street northeast, Lincoln road to Second street; Forty-first street, Ellicott to Livingstone street; Thirty-fourth street, | Garfield street to Massachusetts avenue: Lowell street, Wisconsin avenue to | ‘Thirty-fourth street; Thirty-fourth | street, Lowell street to Woodley road; Cathedral avenue, Forty-sixth street to ‘Tunlaw road; Courtland terrace, Klingle road south to end of concrete, and Kearney street northeast, Eighteenth to Twentieth streets. This work will be done with funds from the gasoline tax. Clubbing Gorillas Reported. Gorillas which drive elephants away with large clubs are reported to have been found in Africa. The terms of Morris Plan Loans are simple and practical—it is not necessary to have had an account at For each $120 bor- rowed you agree to deposit $10 a month in an account, the pro- ceeds of which may be used to cancel the note when due. Deposits may bemadeon a weekly, semi-monthly or monthly basis as you prefer. Morris Plan Bank Under Supervision U. S. Treeswry 1408 H Street Northwest Insurance Co., and Louis Eliasberg, president of the Pinance Corporation of | America, all of Baltimor HUNTING TAX URGED By the Assoclated Press. A Federal tax of 81 for hunting migratory water fowl was recommended to the Senate today by its special Com~ E'fit'fil for the Conservation of Wild e. The tax would be collected by selling 8 $1 stamp for each State huntin license if the holder sought to -hoc{ water fowl. The stamps would be sold through local post offices. ‘The money collected would go into a special fund for creation of a system of sanctuaries and breeding grounds to increase the stock. Loans ere passed on within & dey or two after filing application ~with few exceptions. are usually made for 1 year, though they may be for eny period of from 3 to 12 months. By the Associated Press. Fairbanks gloried in the role of “mil- NEW YORK, May 27—Rex Fair-| lionaire witness” in the investigation of banks, prince of make-believe adven- | the Starr Faithful mystery death, al- tures, was finally embarked on & rea!l though he never knew the woman. He adventure. enjoyed playing the part of rich play- The 28-year-old clerk, whose strange | boy, but there was no money to back complex of greatness led him to play | up his claims of a vast inheritance. imaginary parts in every great mystery He left no explanation. 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