Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1932, Page 17

Washington News MAN AND BOY DIE 1N TRAFFIC MISHAPS ON CAPITAL STREETS | Lanham Parents See Child Crushed Beneath Wheels of D. C. Motorist’s Car. MOTHER TRIES TO LIFT AUTOMOBILE OFF BODY Alexandrian Succumbs to Injuries Reccived Sunday—Three Others Are Hurt. WASHINGTON, WORK AT QUANTICO Hear Anglers’ Tall Stories U. S. ICTHYOLOGISTS ENJOY RESPITE AS FISHING SEASON WANES. 3-year-old boy and a! aimed in the past 24| a result of traffic accidents. | Douglas Cornwell, son of | to reach the side of | the latter waved| to remain on the| willlam Lloyd of | died in Casualty > fron . wh d street | 's | brought to them by bewildered fishermen, internal in- | 18. of | which | sed in cus- ple T of his attorney following the| | uest was held at the District | y in the ceath of the hl\lel Charles W. Thomas, 44, | of E street northeast, | k vd ‘uficiently to| Mother Tries to Liit Car. | > made a frantic effort| r end of the automobile e son as the rear ted squarely upon him. The, with Douglas and three other wes waiting on the far side cet while Mrs, Cornwell was a apartments. Suddenly, s saw his mother and darted side of the Cornwell's parked ) le to meet her. The father ng across the street after him e fellow was struck. The 1ed to Casualty Hospital, | s pronounced dead a few | e wa later. 5 Three Oters Injured. petsons were injured in | last night. two of them | cther a woman. They minutes Connell, 61, 10 received a broken hip when an automobile operated by | Mrs. Viola A. Childs, 25, of the 6200} block of Eighth street, while at Four- teenth street and Park road: Willilam Bmith, 56, who received a broken leg when down 1343 Park | struck re 300 block of F street southw Lewis Mudd, 56. who sustained in- the body and head when| automobile operated by | of the 500 block of , the latter 2 Mudd's Connell was treated at Garfield | pital, Mr. Smith at Emergency and Mudd at Casualty. BENJAMIN LEAVES | FOR WELFARE POST i Ho Mr Former Chief of D. C. Job Commit- | tee Paid Tribute on Departure for Buffalo, N. Y. L. Benjamin, executive secre- the Social Hygiene Society and mer executive of the District Em- ment Committee, left Washington to take over his new duties as| r of the Buffalo, N. Y., Council | cial Agencies. Resolutions of appreciation of serv- fces rendered here and regret at his ture, adopted by three social serv- organizations, sped him on his way. Benjamin succeeds David C. who has been_ appointed commis- lic welfare for New York Previous to coming here, Mr. | Benjamin was executive secretary of | he Family Service Orgenization in| tions expressing regret | e in resolutions were the | Society, the Health | of the Council of Social| ncies and the Juvenile Protective | been ap- | | omas West has & sccretary of the Social Iygicne Society. BEARD T0 OPEN Dr. S. F. Hildebrand (upper left) and Isaac Ginsburg, icthyologists of the Lloyd | Department of Commerce, and a sea robin, most ccmmon of the “monsters” | Isaac Ginsburg, who listen to more fish stories in a Week than any one could believe, are at last anticipating a little peace now that the angling _season wanes In Chesapeake Bay and here- abouts. What with the “flying fish,” “under- water cows” and “sea-going robins’ thinning out, even in the imaginations find some time for their work as icthylogists in the tment of Commerce. Occasionally, as late as November. a rodsman scurries in their offices, fish in hand and ready to be acclaimed discoverer of a new and ter- rible species of sea monster, but most of the tall lying is done in the hot months. when imagination waxes warm In full season never a week goes by some one does not SNOW up with a fish that has “wings like a bird, hops about like a robin, stands on birdlike legs and makes a noise like a chirp would sound under water.” That one is a sea robin and even the scientists sre willing to admit to its “discov- erers” that the fish has superficial, birdlike characteristics. Usually, however, the Government icthyologists have a task of disillusion- ment_before them when an enthusias- tic pioneer appears with his catch. Nine times out of ten the strange monster turns out to be of a variety common in other Atlantic Coast areas, but seldom seen near here. When a straggler wanders into Chesapeake Bay and concludes his meanderings in a ‘Waltonian hook or in a net, the tour customary Dt —Star Staff Photos. | R. S. F. HILDEBRAND and been plunked down on Dr. Hilde-| brand's or Ginsburg's desk with a cry of “looka, looka.” Lizard fish, which haunt Florida | waters in large numbers; lump suckers, which resemble nothing so much as a shapeless mass of dirty leather; the cow-nosed ray, which makes some fish- ermen believe there is pasture on the bottom of the sea—all are common in other territories. But if they appear hereabouts, the excitement seems to be unbounded. In recent years, none of these ama- teur “scientific_discoveries” have added anything of value to piscatorial records. Fifteen hundred species of fish have been caught and classified in American coastal and inland waters, but it seems probable only the commonest first saw dry land and the record book because of fishermen. That, however, does not halt the annual anglers’ pa- rade to the Bureau of Fisheries. The explanation is that flsh caught today with ordinary gear probably have been caught yesterday also with the same sort of equipment. The “new” fish—real discoveries—are brougnt in by | scientists, who believe trey exist in cer- tain waters, go there equipped with spe- | cial rigging of the type they belleve will catch the “unknown,” and use all their | knowledge of fish habits towrap the dis- covery. With 100.000 species of fish and ma- rine life extant in the world todzy, how- ever, it seems probable the fish experts | wil get their peace only as before—in the Winter.-or when they can escape to sea themselves, net in hand, trymng to | catch subject matter for a few yarns usually is not complete until he hasof their own. PAYMENT BY BANK Federal Receiver Tells G.P.0. Depositors Dividend to Come After November 25. The North Capitol Savings Bank, | which has been in the hands of the controller of the currency since July, | will make its initial payment to de- positors as soon as possible after No- | vember 25, the legal date for filing claims, it was announced yesterday aft- | ernoon by John S. Bryan, the Fed- eral receiver. Mr. Bryan made this statement at A5 25 ANNOUNCES FIRST |END BURGLARIES, -~ ORDER TO POLICE 115 Cases of Housebreaking Added to Number Overnight in Residential Area. | Police in residential sections of the | city where an unusual number of burglaries have occurred recently were ordered today by Asst. Supt. of Police L. I. H. Edwards to exercise special dil- igence to put an end to the depreda- | tions, | For several weeks Northwest residen- | tial areas have undergone an epidemic | of thefts and last night 15 cases of The Foe types | a meetli;ng of employes of the Govern- | housebreaking were added to the rap- ment Printing Office, 1,800 of whom | 1 were included among the 15,000 de-“d];'e:"e‘]’:’;“:_':ug’;"'t i itors of the bank. PoMr. “Bryan caid he did not know |1ast night from an apartment occupied what the first payment would be, nor | by tWo women in the 2000 block of what the eventual payments would | Sixteenth street. They were Miss Jane amount to. Succeeding dividends will | Enke, who reported the loss of a dia- be paid as speedily as assets can be|mond ring worth $1,200, and Mrs. Ida converted into cash. he said. | Roosevelt, who missed a diamond- The speaker told his auditors that | Studded wrist watch valued at $600. the Harvard Hall apartment, which was | Thieves yesterday afternoon took three among the bank's assets, will b2 saved | fur coats, worth $525, frcm a shop i and will be operated for a period g(ithe 1500 block of Connecticut avenue. years for the benefit of bank depositors. | Loot of lesser value was obtained in the He warned against giving heed to | other cases. any rumors, saying that the only cor- | Included among the housebreakings rect information on the affairs of the |recently reported to police was the en- bank would come from himself or the | try cf the home of Justice Hitz of the Government Printing Office committes | District Supreme Court. The residence, Tepresenting the depositors there. He |located in the 3100 block of Woodley braised the efforts of this committee, | road, was broken into during the ab- Which is headed by James M. McCauley, | sence of Justice Hitz and his family. A and the latter, in turn, assured his as- |servant discovered the burglary Satur- sociates that the receiver is doing every- | day. Only & small amount of jewelry thing possible to aid their interests. ‘was taken. Mr. Bryan's appearance before the ITH SUNDAY MOENING D. C, 10 COST $2:0,000, ADAMS ANNOUNCES $10,000,000 Building Pro- gram of Navy Department Is Made Public. $20,000 TO BE SPENT ON ANNAPOLIS WHARF $640,000 for Navy Yard at Nor- folk and $150,000 for St. Juliens Creek, Va., Are Planned. In making public its $10,000,000 pub- lic works program, under the emergency relief and construction act of 1932 to- day, the Navy Department revealed that the service will spend $250,000 for im- | provements at the Marine Barracks at | Quantico, Va. Secretary Adams made the announce- ment today, after he had directed an inquiry into the whole program, to make sure that it was absolutely essen- tial to the naval establishment, officials asserted. At Quantico, the Navy will spend |$180,000 to complete the bachelor offi- cers’ quarters there; $45,000 for the fiying field, especially to relocate the | hangar, and $25,000 for water distribut- ing systems. $20,000 at Academy. At the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., $20.000 will be expended in im- provement of the Santee wharf. At the Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va. $640,000 expenditure will be distributed as follows: Improvement of distributing systems, $50,000; extension of foundry. |$215,000, 'and_for improvement of dry | dock No. 2, $375,000. At the Naval Ammunition Depot, St. | Juliens Creek, Va. $150.000 will o spent, $40,000 going for an explosive | Ioading plant, $20.000 for extension of the wharf and $90,000 for underground wiring. The Navy will spend $40.000 for fleet landings at the Naval Operating Base, Hampton Roads, Va. Other major expenditures fcllow: Navy Yard. Portsmouth, N. H. $250.- )00; Navy Yard, Boston, Mass.. $230.000 Newport. R. I. $506,000: Submarine ]Ense. New London, Conn., $72,000; Navy Yard, New York City, $850,000; Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, $1.600.- | 000; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, $350,000; ! Naval Ammunition Depot, Fort Mifflin, Pa. $113.000; Navy Yard, Charleston, is. | 000:'Navy Yard, Mare Island, Calif. 1$718,000: Naval Ammunition Depot, | Mare Island, Calif, $135000: Navy | Yard, Puget Sound. Wash., $45500¢ | Ni Ammunition Depot, Puget Sound, | Wash.. $50.000: Naval Torpedo Station, | Keyport, Wash., $57,000; Naval Train | ing Station. Great Lakes, Ill, $30.000. For general aids to air navigation, 1$110,000: Fleet Air Base, Coco Solo. | Canal Zone, $90.000; Naval Operating Base, Pear] Harbor., Hawafl, $650.000; | Naval Station. Pearl Harbor, $699.000. Submarine Base, Pear] Harbor, $100.000, and $280,000 for the Fleet Air Base there. | D. C. Is Exempted. This construction will be supervised by the Bureau of Yards and Docks. Under the terms of the emergency relief nd construction act cf 1932 the Dis- ct of Columbia is specifically exempted | from its provisions. This means that { construction of a new naval ho:cpital !here will have to await further appro- | priations. In meking the items public Secretary | Adams announced that the funds for | the new ccnstruction have been released | by the Treasury Department with the approval of President Hoover. The Navy Department asserted that the Bureau of Yards and Docks will advertise for bids for the majority of the projects as soon as plans and speci- fications are completed. Some of the work will be constructed under direct | supervision of navy yards and naval | stations by additional day labor forces. RITES FOR MRS. WEBB ' CONDUCTED IN HOME Husband and Five Brothers and Sisters. Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Yeatman Webb, who died Friday at Sibley Hospital, were held yesterday at the residence of her brother, Dr. Hen: L. Yeatman, 1729 F street. Rev. Henry Teller Cocke of All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal Church, of which she was a | member, officiated. Mrs. Webb, who was born here, was { the daughter of the late Robert Henry i Yeatman and Mary Olivia Simpson Yeatman. She had resided at 401 Shepherd street, Chevy Chase, Md., for the past 26 years and had been an em- ploye of the Federal Farm Loan Bu- Teau for the past 15 years. She was a descendant of Capt. Rich- ard Dorsey of the Revolutionary Army, one of the original members of the So- clety of the Cincinnati of Maryland. TUESDAY, C., $55,000: San Diego, Calif, $300.- | EDITION ning Star Society and General S HE picture shows how the new | Calvert Street Bridge will look after construction. The de- sign has been epproved .by the District Commissioners. The picture was obtained by taking an air- plane photo of the old bridge and then drowing the new in over the old. The Willam Howard Taft Bridge is shown in the immediate foreground. The design is for a single-span steel arch bridge, the arch being 400 feet long. The abutments are stone-faced. PLANE PROTECTION BY ZONING URGED |Commerce Department Plan Is Result of Study of Hoo- ver Field Problem. Adopticn of zoning regulations are suggested by officials of the aeronautics brench of the Department of Commerce s a solution of the problem created at ‘Washington-Hoover Alrpert by the pro- ! posed erection of a rendering plant and 100-fcot chimney, which the de- SEPTEMBER 20, 1932 PAGE B—1 Proposed New Calvert Street Bridge APPROPRIATION FOR $1,000,000 STRUCTURE TO BE ASKED SOON. The roadway is 60 feet wide, in con- trast with the 26 feet of the present bridge. The construction is expected to cost about $1,000,000 and an_appropriation fcr commencing work will probably be asked of Congress at the coming ¢ sion. According to present plans there original width was 40 feet, but this| ban which he ha will be no interruption to street car traffic during construction, but vehicu- lar traffic probably will be detoured on account cf the extra cost of keeping the bridge open for vehicular traffic during construction. Modjeski, Masters & Chase of Phil- ! ROBBERS TAKE CAR | Hold-up Men Also Get $10.50 in { Cash From Motorist. Ruby Dates, colored, of the 1100 block of Fairmont street, was held up last night by two colored men while an automobile in the 900 block | street and robbed of $10.50 and the automobile. The men ran up to the side of the car, took the money away from her. forced her from the machine and drove | away, the woman told police. The | tomobile later was found abandoned at Thirteenth and S streets. | BETTER AGENCIES . FOR J0BS URGED partment has found will constitute a serious menace to air navigation. Protection of the interests of the pub- lic in its legitimate use of air transpor- tation can only be assured by ;:»m\'xdlngi at all times for safe avenues of ap- proach for aircraft landing on or tak- ing off from established terminals and intermediate landing flelds, it was pointed out. Aviaticn terminals such as Washing- ton-Hoover Airport can continue to meet public needs only so long as they can be protected from the erection around their borders of structures which will endanger the cperation of planes, and this, it was said. “may be brought abcut to the best interests of all concerned through the application of suitable zoning ordinances and powers of eminent domain.” Department Receives Report. ‘The Department of Commerce some months ago received a detailed report on airport zoning and eminent domain from a special committee of aviation, | city planning, legal and civic leaders, |in which recommendations were sub- | mitted for handling such prcblems as that now confronting Washington- Hoover Airport in connection with the rendering plant plans. This committee recommended appli- cation of zoning regulations for the | protection of airport properties and drafted a suggested airport zoning code municipal governments. Ilinois Official Asks Improved Public Facilities to Aid Employment. | Larger and more comprehensive em- ployment services maintained by city, State and Federal governments would materially hasten business recovery, in the opinion of Barney Cohen. director of the 24 employment offices supported by the State of Illinois Mr. Cohen, addressing the Twentieth Annual Convention of the International Association of Public Employment Serv- ices, in session at the Washington Ho- tel, declared that the house-to-house | method of job hunting is proving too costly. | Interstate Co-operation. He said the increased burden to the taxpayer represented by broader pub- lic employment service would be more than offset by the benefit to job hunt- ers, who require expert assistance to find proper place in & complex indus- trial system. | The opinion is growing, he said, that | the man out of a job should not be re- | quired to pay the cost of finding em- ployment. Larger and better-trained employment personnels are required to analyze the job cpportunities of indus- | Member of D. A. R. Survived by for the guidance of State, county and | try and fit workers into them. | 'He recommended interstate co-operd- | “The ~committee recommended that |tion in handling transient labor, such | “public airports and intermediate land- | as the men who harvest grain in the | ing fields, together with commercial | West, and more comprehensive Federal [mpnn.s of the public utility class, be|aid in this field. | given the powers of eminent domain | He declared that the present low state for the following purposes: | of factory employment is nct only a | “To condemn air rights over ccn- problem but an opportunity for public | tigous property in order to insure safe employment experts, and expressed con- aproaches to the landing area. | fidence in the future. | ""“To condemn easements for the air | | marking of obstructions to air naviga- Other Speakers. | tion jeopardizing the safety of the More than 50 delegates from the public in its use of the port. | United States and Canada are attend- | “To condemn contiguous property | ing the convention. which met this | necessary for expansion of the port to morning for a fcur-day session. meet public needs.” | Other speakers will be H. C. Hudson, | The Department of Commerce has past president of the association, and found that the air traveler needs pro- | general suj tection from obstacles such as the pro- ment Service of Canada: R. A. Rige. posed rendering plant chimney for a director of the Canadian Employment distance of about 1,500 feet in all direc- | Service; Richard M. Neustadt, director tions from the outer boundaries of the | of the Philadelphia State Employment airport, | Commission; Jess T. Hopkins, man- «Prevention of Construction.” |ager of the &.nploymenc Center, Ro- “So far as is reasonably possible,” it chester, N. Y. B. 'f Seiple, s]uperm- { At f the State-City Employment | s stated i the report before the de- e S Service, Cleveland, Ohio, and A. L. rintendent of the Employ- | | | Clifford R engi) n, w adelphia_drew the design. Whyte. District bridge supervise the constructi 1 cccupy about 18 months’ working time The present bridge was constructed | in 1891 at a ccst of § and has | cost $111,000 in maintenance since. Its | vas cut to 26 feet so as to cut down | he traffic locd on the bridge. not de- | 4 for -day loads. Excessive | maintenance costs and inadequacy to) sent-day traffic conditions are given | as the reascn for replacing the old | bridge G.W.UOPENS 112TH TERM TOMORROW Q | eries of Student Assemblizcs to Hear President Marvin and Others. The 112th academic year of George Washington University will open to- morrow with a series of student as- =emblies Freshmen will meet in Corcoran Hall at 12 noon ¢nd at 5, to hear talks by Dr. Cloya Heck Marvin, president; Dean Henry an Doyle, chairman | | of the Committez on Student Life; Mrs | Vinnie G. Barrows, director of wom- | en’s personnel guidance: Prof. Ruth At- | well, director of physical education for | women, and Prof. James E. Pixlee, di- | | rector of physical education for men. i An assembly for medical students will | be held at the medical school at Tl | am. at which President Marvin and | Dean Earl Baldwin McKinley will speak. i Students to Be Guests. Wednesday night 2ll students will be guests of the university at the an- ght” The program, ¥ the Student Council, will vith a concert by the university ! at 9:30 o'clock in the college Dancing will follow in Corcoran Hall and Steckton Hall Thurscay evening at 8 o'clock a freshman rally will be held in the col- lege yard, when the new students will| be instructed in the university songs preceding | opening foot ball game with Wash- ington and Lee University at Lexington | on Saturday, will be held Friday after-| noon. | Organization Perfected. Under the guidance of the Studena Council, the varicus classes are per- fecting their organization. Freshman elections will be held September 27 and | sophomore elections shortly thereafter. | The Student Council is headed this year by T. Elton Billings of Utah, a senior in the Law School. Other officers | are Kathleen Watkins, first vice presi- | t: J. George Wenzl, second \'icei ident: Chester Chamberlain, secre- | y: Betty Coon, James W. Haley and | Mabel Money. representing the junios| college: Dorothy Niess, Columbian Col- | |lege; D. J. Goode, Law School; Loren | | Murray, division of fine arts: Samuel | Danno, School of Medicine; H. Velpeau | Darling, School of Engineering; Edith Grosvenor, School of Education. PLEADS SLAYING GUILT ‘Colcred Man Held in Killing on | May 24 Changes His Plea. Henry C. Lyon, colored. indicted for degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of his wife, Dorothy today withdrew his plea of not_ guilt and pleaded guilty to murder in the| ‘second degree before District Supreme Court Justice Peyton Gordon, He was | remanded for sentence. The shooting occurred in the jan- itor’s quarters of a Sixteenth _street fan fuily developed at the old By printing office depositors was to in- | form them of the progress being made MEMORIAL OF TREES Veteran Scout Leader Will Dedi- cate Anacostia Tract for Seed- lings of Historic Significance. Daniel Beard, veteran Scout leader, will dedicate a tract of land in Ana- costia Park October 15 for the planting of ‘trees with historical significance. The ceremony, expected to be attended by $00 Boy Scouts, will follow a pil- griMage to Mount Vernon. The first tree to be planted in the dedicated ground will be a Mount Ver- non_walnut tree descendant. Other | tress to be planted during the ceremony | wiilicome from Lee’s home and Gettys- B. For a number of years Boy Scouts, in conjunction wWith the American Forestry Association, Department of Agriculture nd the American Walnut Manufac- turers’ Ascociction, have gathered nut; seeds st Mount Vernon and other American shrines for national distribu- tion 1t is intended to plant trees with his- | toric value from every State in this| plot. Petroleum production in Trinidad for | the first half of this year was greater n for the same period of 1931, | toward straightening up affairs, and to Turtle Has Two Heads. A baby turtle with two heads was She was a member of Maj. L'Enfant | partment, “this protection should take Urick, State commissioner of the Iowa | apartmen:t May 24. Attorney Nathan A. Chapter, D. A. R. the form cof prevention of the construc- Besides her husband, William Lansing | tion of these obstacles in the future, | Bureau of Labor. | Dobbins represented the prisoner. STRICT BAN LIFTED AT ROOSEVELT HIGH FOR NEARBY PUPILS Others Taken in Addition to Those Enrolled in Busi- ness Courses. THIRD AND FOURTH YEAR ENTRIES STILL OPPOSED City Day School Figures Climbing Steadily Toward 80,000 Mark, With 76,155 Listed. ‘The bars were let do |living in the vicinity of dore Roosevelt High Stephen E. Kramer, perintendent in charge of at noon tcday, following survey of the territory and ment demands being made at $1.500,000 institution Meanwhile, the enro| 76,155 for the = slowly m stimate made late last gether, 82,428 persons enrol day and evening schools The day school enrolime: 1.186 over the opening figur ago. but much of this crease is explained by the fact t hool day a gious holiday and many ch not enter school until a day lat: Boundary Lines Fixed. In announcing the lifting of the strict d placed on new pu- pils for the Roosevelt High School, Mr, declared that il high school children living south of Farragut street and.nnr!h of Spring road, and between ock Creek Park on the west and Sc diers’ Home on the east would be ad- mitted to the first and second year . . 68.969, dren er. | classes, Until today the buildin; roll, those children who. were ec"l}nl s last June, end t rsue intense bu ness course student be admitted to Roosev s of the city. The new first and second year dents living wiihin the territo today, however, need not be students, but m: standard acaden mer would dis ge_third and fo year students from efforts to e Roosevelt on the ground that higher years of academic work ha p business I s High School, it Scheol succeeds. By the time the first and second vear udents enrolled this are ready the third and { ear w said. Roosevelt's academic depar t will be ready for the) he boundaries T caid that this territory will tended if the new earollment does n seem to tax its capacity to the p of congestion 2,986 Enter Central. which the Roosevelf day with a total of 2,3 ga: 2,172 of last year, Eastern’s opening day roll was 2,348 yesterday, compared with 2,077 ile Western admit as vear ago. The new Theodore Roose- velt High School enrolled 1,403 persons yesterday, although it already had the mes of 1620 persons cer! entrance there at e close of scl st vear. The school expects to m: the difference before the end the wesek. Dunbar_led the senior colored hi schools in 1 with 1434, against the 1.348 of I year. Arm- strong High School opened the year with 1,372, an increase of over last aga of ch t year. Of the 4,089 students who enrolled in the night schools last night, McKinley had the largest number, registering 1.490. The new Roosevelt was second with 1.300. Central was next with 516. while others included Hine, 444; Webster Americanization School, 170, and the Abbott Vocational, 169. The Garnet-Patterson led the col- ored night school enrollment with a student body of 644, followed closely by the Shaw, with 630, and the Arm- strong, with 549. Other colored night school enroll- ments follow: Francis, 109; Lovejoy, 104; Bell, 100; Burrville, 38, and Briggs, 4. The total colored night school en- rollment was 2,184. Enrollments in the night schools are expected to be brought up during the first two weeks, so that the expected 11,000 mark will be surpassed. HILLIG ABANDONS ATLANTIC FLIGHT Government Cautions of Ocean Hop at This Season—Planned to Start Today. By the Associated Press. LIBERTY, N. Y. September 20.— Otto Hillig has abandoned for this year his plan to fly to Greece, because he wishes to “co-operate” with the Fed- eral Government. Although their plane was in readiness and their lunch basket partly filled, Hillig and his pilot, Roger Q. Williams, decided last night not to attempt the flight which they had expected to un- explain matters on which they might | found by Fred Durdal, a schoolboy, at be in doubt. Uxbridge, Mass. |CIVIL SERVICE DENIES MARRIAGE IS BAR TO PROMOTION IN SERVICE | Statement Follows Announcement by National Woman’s| Party That Veteran’s Wife Had Last Advance. Marriage is not a bar to promotions in the Government service the Civil Service Commission announced today. If any woman employes have been denied promotions solely beczuse they are the wives of Federal workers, the Commission said, there has been a mis- application of the economy bill and the | mistake will be corrected. The commission’s statement followed an announcement from the National Woman’s Party that the wife of a war veteran, llmougt;lnmamed for hl:; vancement by her ent, been denied promotion solely because hervlhuxb.:'d ‘::-l in the Oovea;x;mg: ‘Woman's Party it was D: 0oday sa there have: been “four or five” such cases. Workers there said they had no record of the names of the Government employes affected. The Civil Service Commission today | was checking its files in an effort to Plocate records of any cases such as those | described by the Woman's Party. In an opinion last week, the commis- sion held that the marital status of an employe had no effect on promotions. The secticn of the economy bill involved was held to apply only to persons com- ing into the service from the outside. ‘The section of the act in question says that “in the appointment of per- sons to the classified civil service, pref- man‘mbemmven :‘n’m‘;‘ with ol\;h = us- band and wite. Webb, she is survived by three brothers, Dr. Yeatman, Warren S. Yeatman and D. Ammen Yeatman, and two_ sisters, Neilie L. Yeatman, all of this city. Pallbearers at the services included H. Prescott Beach, Robert Carter, Ferd E. Carter. Richard D. Stimson, Alex- ander Clayton and Duke Evans. . CAIN RITES FRIDAY Rail Executive Will Be Buried at Arlington. Benjamin Butler Cain, 73, vice pres- ident and general counsel of the Amer- ican Short Line Railroad Association, Wwho died yesterday of a paralytic stroke 2t Boulder, Colo, will be buried in Abbey Mausolem, Arlington, Va., on Friday, under tentative funeral ar- reangements. The plans anticipate the arrival of the body early Friday morning and services at St. Paul's Church, Alex- andria, at 11 am. Mr. Cain, who had been actively connected with a number of railroads and public utilities in Texas for more than a balf century, and who was prominent in railroad legisla- tion here, lived at 3930 Connecticut avenue. Besides his wife, Mrs. Belle C. Cain, he is survived by two sons, James and Ben, jr, of Alexandria. Former 1 Y | and either the removal or the day and Mrs. Walter Rogers Beach and Miss | | night marking of existing hazards, as | conditions may dictate.” | " Public airports and commercial air- | ports such as Washington-Hoover, the | Department of Commerce has found, | when suitably located and properly de- | veloped, “are not only utilities of con- venience and necessity to the general public, but in many cases are cf direct value to the neighboring land, planned with reference to them.” “Conflicts of interest between the port and its more immediate neigh- bors,” it was stated, “cannot, however, always be avoided, and it is therefore proper to consider the protection which the law may afford the port in such cases, first studying the general princi- ples of law involved and then taking | them.” LAND SOLD FOR TAXES | Approximately 200 Tracts Auc- tioned Off in Prince Georges. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., September 20.—Approximately 200 parcels of land were aucticned off at final tax sale yes- terday. Most of the parcels, consisting of small lots, were sold to the county, W. | according to Deputy Treasurer R. Smith. up the specific measures based upon | 3,311 COMMERCE With all of the 3,311 rooms in its eight-acre building now occupied, the Commerce Department today inaugu- rated an electric truck system to carry | supplies to the more than 5000 em- ployes in this massive structure. Two bright red colored trucks, chauf- feured by two members of the depart- ment's supply division, now comprise the rolling stock of the delivery sys- tem. Officials said they will be kept busy throughout each working day run- ning supplies to various sections of the building. Before the inauguration of the truck delivery system_ the supply division pushed hand trucks around, taking two men lgfmmuly three days to cover the entire building. The last vacant room in the building was occupied today when a new division 1 ELECTRIC TRUCKS NOW SERVING | Fast Delivery of Supplies Is Needed to Cover Floors of Eight-Acre Structure. BUILDING ROOMS | of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board was set up. Outside of its own nine divisions, in- cluding the Patent Office and Census Bureau, which almost completely take up two separte sections of the building, the Commerce Department has been called upon to house seven commissions set up by the administration within the past year. Besides the Home Loan Bank | Board, office space has been allotted to the Federal Employment Stabilization | Board, the Timber Conservation Board, the Inter-American High Commission, | the American Marine Standards Com- mittee, the President’s Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership | and the National Committee on Wood Utilization. When the $17,500,000 structure was designed exclusively for the operation of the Commerce Department, the ar- chitects made provision for depart- ' mental expansion for the next 15 years. dertake this week. Hillig said Williams flew to Liberty during _the day, bringing permission from the Department of Commerce to make the flight, but also bringing an urgent request from the Government not to attempt to cross the Atlantic in a plane this late in the season. “REQUEST” DENIED HERE. Officials Say They Had Not Instructed Hillig. Government officials here today de- nied any “urgent request” had been made upon Otto Hillig and Roger Q. ‘Williams not to fly from Liberty, N. Y., to Athens, Greece, as reported from Liberty. All officials identified with Govern- ment aeronautic services contended it was “none of the Government's busi- ness” whether the pair flew the Atlantic or not. Williams was quoted as saying the request had been made due to the lateness of the season. Licensed to Marry. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., Septem- ber 20 (Special).—Marriage licenses have been issued here to the following: Peter Paul Messina, 27, Washington, and Margaret Frances Mote, 25, College Park, Md.; Worthington B. McKncer, 28, and Gladys Theresa Nally, 19, both of Washington.