Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1932, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1932. Irish Orator DUBLIN YOUTH TO COMPETE HERE. BONUS GAMP SITE 0 BE DEVELOPED Area to Be Intersection of| Constitution and Penn- sylvania Avenues. WO0ODWARD & LoTHROP O™ 11I™ F AND G S'l:RBB'l's Part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force | camp in downtown Washington soon will be developed into a new entrance | from Constitution avenue into Penn- | sylvania avenue, between Four-anZ-a Half street and Sixth streets, it was | learned yesterday. ‘The Treasury Department, which ac- Handsomely B,ound' One-Volume Editions of Classics A selling that offers you value in contents and binding. Imagine, collected works of great authors com- lete in one volume, printed in large type on good paper, bound in polished alligator-grain genuine limp leather, with 2314 carat gold stamping ; curved corners and gold edges all around. quired the land from its previous own- ers. today turned over to the jurisdic- tion of the District a right-of-way about 110 feet wide from Four-and-a- Half to Sixth street on the line of Con- stitution avenue. At present. Consti- tution avenue, formerly known as B street, comes to an end at Sixth street and exit to Pennsylvania avenue is north on Sixth street. Will Be Cut Before Winter. The new Constitution avenue will be eut through the site before Winter, it was learned at the District Building. The roadway will be graded to a width of 80 feet and a temporary surface placed on it. It will not be completed with a herd surface until more appin- priations are available, but will be opened before Winter to allow traffic to flow into the new intersection between two of the Capital's most important avenues It is through this new cut that the great ceremonial parades and funeral processions of the future will pass on their way. either from the Union Sta- tion or the Capitol to the Mall or to Arlington National Cemetery Two more blocks of Constitution ave- nue on the north side of Pennsylvania have just been paved, from Second street to Four-and-a-Half street, but there still remains to be developed that part of the new avenue from Second street northward. . . Louistana Avenus to Be Cut. Bventually, too. the new avenue known as Louisiana avenue, which has been partially developed from Union Station, will be cut straight through from Union Station to enter Pennsyl- vania avenue at what will be known as Union Square Constitution avenue. along which is being erected one of the most impos- ing groups of new Government build- ings ever erected here, has been wid- ened from Fourtenth street to Virginia avenue, but the stretch from Sixth street to Fourteenth street, where the new construction now is proceeding, will be lefy for development later, when the heavy hauling of construction work will have been finished . GAS CONNECTION FEE MAY BE REDUCED HERE Commission Orders Company to File New Schedule of Instal- lation Charges. The Washington Gas Light Co. yes- terday was ordered by the Public Utilities Commission to file a new schedule for service connection charges. The new schedule would be considered between now and January 1, when new gas rates are expected to be ordered. At present the gas consumer pays one-half the cost of installing the pipe- line from the street gas main to his house. The commission proposes that the company install the line free of charge irom the strcet main to the property line of the consumer. The question now is whether the consumer would be required to pay the total cost of continuing the pipe line across his property to his house, or whether this expense would be shared by the com- pany. ESCAPED D. C. YOUTHS CAUGHT IN MEMPHIS Three Fugitives From National Training School Suspected in Filling Station Robbery. Three boys who escaped from the National Training School for Boys on Bladensburg road about two weeks ago has ben arrested at Memphis, Tenn.. and held as suspects in a Ailling station robbery. according to an Asso- ciated Press dispatch. The boys. EcLby Ware. 19, of Shreve- port, La.. Orville Hartung of Kansas City and Matthew Homer. 18, of Birmingham, Ala.. told police they drove to Memphis in stolen automobiles. Police quoted Ware as saying that after they escaped from the reformatory they stole a car and drove it to Louis- ville, where it broke down. They then entered an automobile agency, accord- ing to Ware, and drove a new car through a plate glass show window. Theft of a radio from a filling station ot Paducah, Ky. also was admitted by the boys. police said Officials at the training school here said Ware and Hartung were committed to the institution for automobile thefts, ‘whfle Homer had violated the postal aws. Border Closing Attacked. LOS ANGELES, October 1 (#).—A tition for an injunction restraining en- orcement of the new order closing the Mexican border gateway into Tijuana at 9 p.m.. instead of midnight, was filed in Federal Court here yesterday by Na- than W. Kaufman, Coronado, Calif. Naming the Secretary of the Treasury, Ogden L. Mills, and various customs men as respondents, Kaufman said the elosing works a hardship on commercial Interests. | | R. ERIC BODE! Eighteen, a student in the Belvedere High Schcol of Dublin, Iretand, has won the cratory championship of the Irish Free State and will represent his | | country in the International Oratorical Contest finals in Washington October 22. He will compete with the national high school champions of England, France, Holland and the United States | for world forensic honors. Boden's sub- ject will be “Ireland's Contribution to World Civilization.” He will sail to-| morrow on the S. 8. Scythia and will arrive in New York about October 10.} 'SEVEN ARE DROWNED | "IN RIO GRANDE FLOOD Lowland Dwellers Again Are ; Driven From Their Homes o as River Waters Rise. | Bs the Associated Press RIO GRANDE CITY, Tex., October 1.—For the second time n & month lowland dwellers along the Rio Grande have been driven from tneir homes by flood. Seven deaths by drowning were Teported from the Mexican side of the river which separates Mexico and the United States. ‘The river was several miles wide here and had risen past the 30-foot stage. | Rain had been heavy in Southwest Texas and still heavier in Northern Mexico. There were many washouts on Mexican railw Travel to Monterey was cut off and there were unverified reports the Mexican city was partially | under water. Marfa, Tex., was {solated. The San Juan, which flows into the Rio Grande near Rio Grande City, brought most of the flood water. Water was two feet deep in Camargo, just across the border, and the river was cutting a new channel there Mexican towns along the lower reaches of the Rio Grande were cut off irom the interior as railways and roads were washed out | 'The Weather Bureau at Brownsville | predicted the new flooc would reach | levels as high as those a month ago. | Water was already running into flood- | ways on the American side near | Hidalgo. There is an eiaborate system | of floodways and levees in the lower | valley. |~ Far upstream at Presidio another rise was moving down the Rio Grande. Farmers in the Presidio Valley aban- | doned their homes. A seven-foot flood | was reported moving down the Concho River in Mexico. PRINCE OF WALESV dUEST | OF KING GUSTAF ADOLF | Arrives at Stockholm With Prince | George for Four-Day Visit | at Royal Castle. | By the Associated Press | STOCKHOLM, October 1.—The Prince |of Wales and Prince George arrived | here by train today and went directly | to the royal castle, where they were to | be guests four days of King Guataf | Adolf. |~ Wales came directly from a yisit to | Denmark, where he spent a week fa- | miliarizing himself with trade condi- | tions, in connection with an exposition |at Copenhagen of British export prod- ! uets. An extensive program has been ar- | |ranged for the two royal emissaries, starting with a dinner tonight at the castle. Next Wednesday the Prince of ‘Wales will honor Kiry Gustaf at a din- | ner at the British embascy ‘myllzy to Sweden since 1906. | | GREYHOUND LINES WIN 1t is the first official visit of English | BUS TERMINAL PERMIT| | Public Utilities Commission Al- ‘i lows Structure at 1403-1411 New York Avenue. The Public Utilities Commission yes- terday granted to the Greyhound Lines | Inc., permission to build an interstate | bus” terminal at 1403-1411 New York | avenue. | " The permission was granted on con- dition that between 8:15 and 9:15 am only one inbound and two outbound busses be operated, and that between 4:15 and 5:15 pm. only, two inbound and three outbound busses should use the terminal. | “Previously the Commissioners had |ordered the north curb of New York avenue cut back 8 feet, half of the | cost of the job, estimated at & total of £1,500, to be borne by the Greyhound ' | Lines, and the balance to be paid by |the District. ‘Woopwarp & LoTHROP DAHLIA SHOW here next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Scores of standard varieties, and many of the new novelties will be displayed. 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