Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1932, Page 36

SEEKS T0 REGULATE D. C. DAMAGE SUITS Chairman Norton’s Bill Would Limit Time for Bringing Actions. Chairman Nofton of the House Dis- trict Committee, acting at the request | of the District Commissioners, today introduced & bill to regulate the bring- ing of actions for damages against the District. The purpose of the bill is to require persons having claims for either per- sonal cr property damage to give no- tice to the District within 30 days| after the injury or damage is received. | The District at present, Commissioner Reichelderfer pointed out, is handi- capped in the defense of suits for in- juries due to the lapse of time which frequently occurs before notice is given the District. Where the injury is the result of a depression in the street or sidewalk, it is frequently repaired be- | fore the District is aware that an acci- dent has occurred. Commissioner Reichelderfer told of a case now pending in the Court of Ap- | peals in which & judgment of $7.500 was awarded egainst the city. On De- cember 11, 1928, the plaintiff filed an action for $20,000 damagzes, alleging a | fall nearly three years before as a re- sult of a defective condifion in a brick sidewalk. This was the first knowledge the District had of tie accident. On January 18, 1929, the declaration was amended to change the location of the | alleged accident. The sidewalk at the | altered location was not brick but con- crete, Five years and four months after the date of the alleged accident, the declaration was amended again to| charge the location of the fall. | Commissioner Reichelderfer said that assage of the proposed bill would. he lieves, protect the District against many unfust claims and yet will im- pose no hardship upon those having legitimate causes of action. DEADLOCK MAY CUT MAINE DELEGATION, Brewster Supporters in Congres- | sional Vote Contest Block | Utterback Certificate. By the Associated Pre: AUGUSTA, Me., December 16.—Maine | may have only two Representatives when the National House convenes next March, as a result of a deadlock over issuance of a certificate of election in the third congressional district. Democrat John G. Utterback defeat- ed former Gov. Ralph O. Brewster, Re- publican, in the third district in the September election. But Brewster con- tested the election, asked for a recount. and his supporters in the Executive Council—four out of the seven mem- bers—have blocked every attempt to de- clare Utterback elected. On the other side, the three anti- Brewster councilors, joined by Gov. Wil- liam Tudor Gardiner, stopped all efforts of the pro-Brewster crowd to throw out enough votes to give the election to the former Governor. The Brewster forces, supported by a Supreme Court opinion that votes in two plaptations in Aroostook County should D& Tefetted, and that the Gev- | ernor was*t6 vote not as a member of & canvass board- of eight, but as a separate , cargied a motion to declare Brewstey:glecfed by 681 votes. The motion wa# killed, however, when the Governor refused to concur, { There remained only ome action in| the case for the ‘council. That is the| report of it§ Comntittee .on Elections, | consisting _of three councilors, two of | them Brewster partisans. SON OF LABOR OFFICIAL HERE IS HE'.D SUICIDE | Harry Spencer, World War Vet- eran, Victim of Fumes in Bellingham, Wash. By the Ass ed Press. BELLINGHAM., Wash.. December 16 —Harry Spencer. 36, Custer farmer 2nd a son of William' J. Spencer, sec- retary of the building trades’ depart- . American Federation of Labor at tcok his own life yes police said, by inhalin t c fumes. i He was a World War veteran. His widow and a stepson survive. | william J. Spencer has bren secre- tary of the building trades department | of the American Federation of Labor | since the founding of that division in | 1908. with the exception of only twec years. He has resided in Washington | Mmost of that time. At the federation | offices today it was said Harry Spencer | had been living in Washington State for many years. LITTLE NE;FS RUM HAULS Much Contraband Seized by Police Dry Squad. The round-up of contraband liquor by Lieut. George M. Little's prohibition squad in the last two weeks has netted 1.660 quarts of alcohol, 180 qua whisky. 2 quarts of gi and 1. lons of mash. Fo were seized ion and card Possos di w stop sign registration hundred qua ¢ alcohol in his made b v G. Bauer and Prohibition Agent Cyrus B. Thomas in he 3600 block of Quesada street. Hat and Scarf Set 7 Colors: Black, Green, Red, with white combination. ALL S1ZES ' 115 F St. N.W, Giant Plane Marks New Transport Era. LINDBERGH HEAD OF DESIGN BOARD FOR TRANSATLANTIC AIRLINERS. glant 50-passenger airliners de- | signed at the Sikorsky plant on | the specifications of Col. Charles | A. Lindbergh and members of his Technical Committee for Pan-American | Airways. The great flying boaf, now under contract for construction at | Bridgeport, Conn., is to be capable of scheduled ‘transport operation over the | largest water gap between the United | States and Europe, Lindberg's commit- | tee announced. The plans for this | plane and another of similar capacity | HIS is an artist's drawing !roml | | the specifications for one of ‘the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY. DECEMBER’ to be built at Baltimore, Md., were de- veloped after eight months of secretly conducted engineering and research. Though technical details are being carefully guarded, the new- air. are said to involve “revolutiona: provements of structure and englreer- ing” and are claimed to be advanced heyond any transport plane so far de- veloped. All divisions of the aviation industry have co-operated with Col. Lindbergh and his committee to make possible the development of a standard | per planes. which also were designi would gain | Col. transport plane which American leadership on world airways giants. m- | 16, 1932, against the aggressive competition of | sary concessions from foreign govern- e s b EE L e D e s. an al : have already been put to work on the | transport service, and now has two contracts signed by Pan-American Air- | scientific parties in Iceland and Green- ways under the,guidance of Col. Lind- | land making preliminary ‘meteorological bergh, and nearly 2,000 persons will bey and ground studies for a northern required in all branches of the indus- | transatlantic route. Agreements have try to complete the projects. \been reached with Great Britain cover- The ships are the result of experience | ing_operations from the United States gained in operation during the past year | to Eurcpe by way of Bermuda. In the fa Caribbean air transport operations of | awarding of the contracts for these the great four-motored American Clip- | great planes aviation leaders vision the ed to | beginning of aviation's last great plo- Lindbergh's specifications. Pan- |neering effort, the linking of the hemi- American Airways has obtained neces- spheres by commercial airlines. ARGUMENT OVER ASHES LEADS TO MAN’S SLAYING Colored Man, Confessing to Shoot-| ing Today, Is Being Held | by Police. An argument over where he was to | colored, 31. of the 1300 block of Union street southwest. Lee Ferrell, also colored, of 1901 First strect couthwest, who told police he shot Wilson, is be- ing held. According to police, Wilson was pre- paring to dump a load of ashes from his- truck in a vacant lot in the rear of Ferrell's residence. Ferrell, believing | the dust from the ashes would get cn some laundry on a line in rear of his rome, engaged in an argument with the dri to make him desist until after the laundfy was taken in. . . Locomotite .. Fender First Time a Standard Gauge Electric Train at This Price Ives Tigér $10 Or;'ginally $22.50 Locomotive with two head- lights and whistle. Parlor car and observation car, with electric light. 12 sec- tions of track. -With 75- watt transformer. (Sixth Floor, The Heeht Co) . . Baggage Car . 2-Passenger Cars «.. Transformer «++8 pes. Track | SYMBOLS MARK CHAIRS He told police Wilson took “something shiny” from beneath the seat of the truck, whereupon he shot the man with & 32-callber : Tevolver, | PARIS (#)—Members of the French me of rrell's three ots went v * e willa i et s teothe: in jcaDne Mis belug suppled (w3, B9 his back. He was pronounced dead on armchairs, each with a symbol appro- priate to the particular ministry in its arrival at Casualty Hospital. | tapestry back. For example, the min- which then included South Dakota and Northern Nebraska. Impressed by Visit. Philadelphla, was of the association. INDIANS FRIENDO MARK ANNIVERSARY Rights Association Reviews 50 Years of Service to Protect Tribes. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 16— Fifty years ago last Summer two Phila- delphians spent four weeks on the| Great Sioux Reservation in the Dakotas, | and last night as a result of that visit | | the Indian Rights Association observed | | the golden anniversary of its organiza- tion. The two Philadelphians were Herbert Welsh and Dr. Henry S. Pancoast. They went to the Far West at tbe invitation of Bishop Hare of the Niobrara diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church, o S Many industrial leaders in Germany ister of finance has one with bank notes and coins, the biggest coin in the feel that tomunUy"mcreumg foreign. t ntable dfi?fdf nsetsrxglonsr;w;;n!;x;uxn;':mm._ center having win For the minister tional trade. of war there is oniy a laurel wreath. Here comes the Blue Vagabond spee servation car in rear. (8ixth Floor—Toyland—The Hecht Co.) Yankee Cliper Originally $5.95 $10 BLUE VAGABOND track. Blue engine and tender, blue-trimmed cars. Engine has clectric headlight. Baggage car has sliding dodrs. Ob- ding around the Powerful electric locomotive Pullman car Observation car Eight sections curved track Complete wi : BlaCk Origin;llly Diamond $24.95 Red reversible steam-type locomotive Two Pullman cars Observation car Eight sections of track Complete with transformer (Sixth Fioor, The Heeht ©0.) .$1 95 th 50-watt transformer (Sixth Floor—Toyland— ‘The Hecht Co.) // FORZT7€eZ A GENUINE SUPER-POWERED FRIGIDAIRE FRIGIDAIRE SALES CORPORATION 1401 14th St. N.W., Washington, D. C. | 3 . So impressed were they, said a his- | Freed by Mistake; Rearrested. ll;l'y of vthg o;ga;xl'l;)mon. of ll;xg n(‘eg PADUA, Italy (#).—Giuseppe Favaro of organized effort to assure justice an ved 15 4 T ity fox aavancementionithe | o, T iontis ot s Jaik sentenice and Indians, that they held a meeting in| Was released. In two days he was again the patlor of Mr. Welsh's home and | &rrested. “Sorry” sid the jailer who organized the Indian Rights Association. [ Teturned him to his cell, “it was an- ©ne of the principal speakers at the | GLICT man we were supposed to release; fittieth annual meeting last night was ¢ mistake. Excuse it, please, | Dr. Samuel A. Eliot of Boston, chair- | man of the Board of Indian Commsi sioners, who said “it has been of vital importance in the work for the civili-| zation of the Indians that there should exist an organization like this which has no political or partisan or sectarian ties and obligations.” Opposes Change. | Mr. Welsh, who is president emeritus and sole surviving founder of the as- sociation, said that the “greatest serv- ice that President-elect Roosevelt could Sat., Dec. 17th render the Indian cause would be to continue Charles J. Rhoads and J. Henry Scattergood as commissioner and ant commissicner of Indian af- Matthew K. Sniffen, secretary of the association. revi 5.000-mile trip of investiga udy of Ing problems during last Summer. NEW BUS TERMINAL 633 F Streef N.W. (Directly Across the Way from The Hecht Co.) Nation-Wide Express Bus Service CHRISTMAS Special Round Trip Rates to inaugurate the new terminal Bpecial Philadelphia . .¢ .$4.50 New York.... 825.. 6.50 Pittsburgh ...10:3 8.00 Jacksonville ....30.00..22.00 Bims Froight Bus tickets to all points may be obtainable at The Hecht Co. In= formation Desk, Matn Floor T .. . HecHT Co. F Street at Tth DELIVERED © INSTALLED AND FEDERAL TAX PAID $ 5.95 Accessories Originally $1.95 to $6.25 T R 81,95 .. 81.95 $1.95 $2.95 Ives Semaphore; standard . Ives Semaphores O gauge. Ives Bridge: stand- ard or O gauge A% 5 08 U 98 W e Gauy ge . Brid, 79¢ (8ixth Floor—Toyland,' ‘The Hecht Co.)