Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1933, Page 17

Washington News NEW CEREMONIAL AVENUETOBEUSED | FORINAUGURATION, Portion of Constitution to Be Included in Route of Two- Hour Parade. PARTICIPANTS LIMITED T0 10,000 BY RULING Plans Being Completed for Ball to Be Held at Washington Auditorium. Constitution avenue, the great cere- monial avenue of the future, will be officially used as such when the Nation welcomes Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the White House March 4, it was an- nounced today by the Inaugural Com- mittee. The Parade Committee, headed by Col. E. M. Watson, announced that a portion of the new avenue, that from the east front of the Capitol to Third street ang Pennsylvania avenue, will be used by the inaugural parade. From Third street, according to the line of March announced, the parade ‘will follow the usual course along Penn- sylvania avenue, west to Fifteenth street, north on Fifteenth street to Pennsylvania avenue, and west on Pennsylvania avenue again to Twentieth street. It has not been decided, the commit- tee announced, at what points in the vicinity of Pennsylvania avenue and ‘Twentieth street the various units of the parade will disband, but by the parade farther along Pennsylvania avenue than has been the custom in former inaugural years the Inaugural Committee will be enabled to erect an additional reviewing stand in front of the State, War and Navy Building, and will carry the parade beyond any point at which street car or bus operation might be disrupted on side streets. Limited to About 10,000. The original plan to hold the length of the parade to a column that will pass a given point in two hours will be ad- hered to. This means the number of a:rsnns participating will be limited about 10,000. The plans now call for four divisions of the parade, with the first composed of the Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard. The second division will in- clude the Governors of the States, with their staffs. The third division will embrace the National Guard, the or- | ganized reserves, the Officers’ Reserve ‘Training Camp members and represen- tatives of the Citizens’ Military Train- Camps. n the fourth and final division will be the delegations of patriots, fraternal, civic and political organizations. The Parade Committee reports that applications from almost every State in the Union have been received. There is every indication that the numbers wishing to participate will have to be | limited severely to keep the parade! within the desired length. Meanwhile the Pax1¢ Committee will be kept busy for weeks allotting space for the marchers; and will not e able to announce the exact number of marchers to be allowed each group until all requests for permission to enter the parade have been studied. ‘The utilization of Constitution ave- nue at the beginning of the parade is expected to get it started much more smoothly than in former years. This move will eliminate two turns which have heretofore been made, getting from B street around Peace Monument and into Pennsylvania avenue. This plan also insures that street car traffic on First street and in the vicinity of the Capi- tol will be delayed a mueh shorter time than in former years. . Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, chair- man of the Inaugural Committee, has | approved the recommendations of the Parade Committee. ‘The Inaugural Ball Committee, head- ed by Mrs. John Allen Dougherty, yes- terday selected the Washington Audi- torium as the scene of the great in- augural ball, which is to be the out- standing social event of the inaugural week end. It will be the first official inaugural ball since the Taft administration, others since that time having only a semi-official status. Members of Mr. Roosevelt’s family have signified their intention of attending the affair, al- though Mr. Roosevelt is not expected to be present. The Auditorium was chosen because | of its size. An effort was made to find some Government building which might ; accommodate the huge crowd that is expected to attend, but the require- ments of the ball have grown so since the first of these affiairs that, without entailing great structural changes, no Government building would be suitable. The Auditorium, it was announced, permits of practically all the plans of the committee being carried out, in- cluding the erection of two great tiers of boxes all around he lower floor of the bullding, in the form of horseshoes. ‘These tiers would be so constructed that the upper tler would be well! above the lower one, and allow an un-‘ obstructed view of the floor below. ! Use also will be made of the stage and balcony boxes already in the building. 3t also is planned to erect another set of boxes, eight on either side of the stage, in the orchestra stalls. ‘Will Honor Governors. Elaborate plans have been made for the reception of each gubernatorial party attending the ball. A guard of honor of soldiers, sailors and Marines will be formed from the entrance to the Ral! 2eading to the stage, at the time set for the official opening, and the Gov- ernors and their staffs will march through this guard of honor while one | of the bands plays the naticnal anthem. The State flags and the national em- blem will be carried before each guber- natorial group as it is seated on the stage. When the distinguished guests have been seated, the floor will be cleared, and the platforms from which the two bands will play during the prelimi- naries will be consolidated, and they will play together for the dancing. It was announced definitely at Annapolis today that the regiment of midshipmen will not march in the in- sugural parade, he expense of trans- portation and meals being considered too great. It also would necessitate the postponement of an Army-Navy basket ball game scheduled for In- auguration day, officials of the Naval Academy said. Many members of the first class, it i was said, had offered to pay their own | to Washington for the affair, mute u}u‘ Mr. lRooled wvelt, 'IAI:O served during the Worl ar as As- sistant Secretary of the Navy, but this was frowned upon by academy officials. The Inaugural Committee has es- tablished offices for the sale of tickets to the grandstands on the ground floor of the Washington Building and is re- ceiving reservations daily. Telephones, District 4813 and 4814, have been in- stalled on tickets and_all information msy be obtalned by calling either! the number, | I a special statistical report which show- Volunteers Fit Needy Shoes RS OF “OLD WOMAN” DON'T EXPECT THANKS. [ANKS or no thanks—it’s all the same to the volunteers who are tediously fitting free shoes upon the feet of the unemployed at 727 Seventeenth street, working long hours seven days a Wweek. The job is the thing. If the line is kept moving, if none of the many charges of the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe is disappointed, the men are satisfled. ‘Time enough, when the stock is ex- hausted, when' the “old woman” has handed out her last pair of “kicks” for the helpers to straighten their backs and wonder if their day was richer in grief than human gratitude. There are five helpers regularly on the | job, recruited from the unemployed, working for their keep, Sundays and holidays, seven days a week. They at- tend personally to the wants of each applicant, going about the patient busi- ness of fitting second-hand shoes. Supply Soon Exhausted. Sometimes the line of applicants is boisterous and unruly; almost daily it grows in numbers. The rush hour, how- ever, is over sooner than it should be, owing to the fact that the daily sup- ply of men’s shoes is soon exhausted. Before noon today the men’s shoes in the racks had dwindled to the last pair—two white buckskin crespers. “No more shoes larger thon a six!" the helpers shouted, “No more shoes larger than a six!” But_that spoken assurance was not ‘enough. Footsore, tattered men, stand- ing too long in Jine to be lightly turned aside, must se¢ for themcelves. They crowded forward, eagerly scanning the empty racks. There was bitter disappointment among them, disappointment and a growl of criticism, as if the workers were to blame for the barren racks in sizes 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11. “They kick, sure,” grinned a helper, who had not learned from a book what it means to be barefoot as well as job- less. “I only wish we had the shoes for them. Big shoes, men's shoes, with thick soles. A fellow's feet swell pounding the pavement; theyre on their salt are. * * * Look at that guy!” A giant colored man, hunched for- | ward in disappointment, shuffied out on | feet which showed bare through rags |of leather. “We've handed out more ithan 5,000 new and rebullt shoes since we opened December 20" the helper said, “and still they come! ‘Women came, white and colored, with babies in arms. A cripple deposited his crutches against the wall and was helped into a seat, while the assistants { found two shoes for him, a large shoe for the good foot and a much smaller one for the other. A girl who might have been a private secretary in a happier day came to inquire for a small size and narrow last. It was impossible to fit her, and she left with a nod of gratitude for the men who had done their best. “Who said they never thank you.” cried a helper. returning to the job with fresh enthusiasm. “She gets nothing and appreciates it!"” Rebuilt Free of Charge. The shoes which are handed out have been collected from public contribution and rebuilt free of charge by the Hahn Shoe Store. Carroll's Laundry is send- office and Government workers are col- lecting the names of persons willing to give old shoes to the cause. “We've a big call for women's and children’s shoes, too,” said George Emerson, secretary in charge of the | Seventeenth street headquarters, “wives | and unemployed girls and school chil- | dren who ate ashamed to go out with | the other children because of their | shoes. But we are better supplied with | these shoes—it's the men’s shoes, large | sizes, high and low, we need most.” The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe was founded last Winter by F. Regis Noel, local attorney, and a com- mittee of prominent Washingtonians. The activities of the organization have | been carried forward since independent | of cash contributions. Mr. Emerson’s helpers at the shop, | | almost without exception, came in to ask for free shoes, became interested | in the work and remained voluntarily | { to assist other applicants in finding | proper shoes. | “Our helpers are the biggest boosters | we have,” Emerson said, nodding to | one of them, called Blackie by his fel- lows, as he hustled about the shop, courteous and intent as if he were wait- ing on cash customers. Blackie’s case, it scemed, was typical. He considered his job a start toward in- dependence, and worked long hours willingly for no other compensation than free meals at the restaurant of a committee member and lodging at the Y. M. C. A Got Letter From Chicago. Only yesterday a letter came from his wife in Chicago, where Blackie had left her with their 18-months-old daughter while he came East to look for a job. “As you know we were put out of our apartment,” the letter said, “and for two weeks we stayed with Maude, six of us in one room. For two weeks | straight we never went to bed, but sat | up in chairs all night with the ther- mometer down to zero outside. Baby just fine, but, Blackie, hurry and send for us, or send some money. You know how things are here.” “Things look better now I've got this job,” Blackie sald. “For a while, as we say out in Chicago, with Lake Michigan always ready, I was going to ‘walk East 'till my hat floats!’” ‘““That’s the kind of thing he's up against,” said Emerson. “Can you wonder why Blackie and the rest of the men know how to sympathize with the unemployed. It's a thankless job, but they don't want thanks as long as the line moves.” Texas U. May Use Talkies. Talking pictures may be used in chemistry instruction at the University of Texas to explain oxidation and re- duction and the molecular theory of matter. Two films on thess subjects have been completed by the University their feet all the time, or the ones worth | ing its trucks for donations, and many | GEORGE EMERSON. —Star Staff Photo. VETERAN COSTCUT New Figures Show Peak of $1,913,000,000 Expendi- tures in 1950. By the Associated Press. Looking far into the future on vet- erans’ relief, Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, | administrator of veterans' affairs, yes- terday advised Congress that the peak | of expenditures might reach $1.913,- 000,000 in 1950, then decrease to $1,- 1 581,000,000 in 1966. In estimates sent to the joint con- | gressional committee studying benefits | paid veterans and suggestions for econ- omies, Gen Hines explained his figures | were based on anticipated changes in laws in keeping with the experience of the Government with veterans of past | wars. |~ Accompanying these estimates were | others covering probable payments un- | der existing laws and procedure at cur- | rent rates, which set forth a peak of $1,- | 081,000,000 in 1958, the annual total | falling ‘a few millicns yearly to $960,- 000,000 in 1966. Error Is Clarified. The administratcr submitted the fi ures in answer to a request from the committee and to clarify an error he made before the committee in an ex- ecutive sesslon scme wecks ago, in which he said the possible peak would be_$2,964,000,000 in 1949. The table of possible costs submitted by Hines estimated 3,738,500 persons would be recciving benefits in 1950, with expenditures for World War vei- |erans alone $1,626,0.0,000 to 3,397,800 | persons. | Estimates for possible World War veterans expenditures in 1966 were put at $1.322,000,000 to 2,556,100 persons. In the estimates for expenditures un- der existing laws, Hines sald $1,095,- 000,000 would be needed in 1945, but explained this was an aruficial peak, since $180,000,000 was added in this year when the soldiers’ bonus matured. Current Laws Estimate. The peak for World War veterans un- der current laws was put at $854,- 000,000 in 1960 to 2,306,500 persons, against the 1958 peak of $1,081,000,000 for all veterans expenditures going to 2,646,800 persons. Opposition to recucing benefits was put before the committes on behalf of the Veterans of Foreign Wars by L. C. Ray of Washington, vice chairman of the National Legislative Committee of the organization, who contended cuts were urged to reduce the taxes of “big income tax payers.” TWO BOYS DETAINED IN AUTO THEFT CASE Youths Accused of Taking Naval Officer's Car on Ride to North Carolina. Their brief career of high adventure ended, two Park Lane, Va. youths are under arrest here for the alleged theft of an automobile belonging to Lieut. Comdr. Edward N. Webster, U. S. N. On January 19, Loring Jackson Turner, 16, and Jack Hunter, 15, both of Park Lane, saw the Naval officer's car parked in front of his home, 3200 Porter street. Neither had driven before, but the ition keys were in the lock, and po- lice said they decided to try a short ride. Once on the road, however, the exhilaration of their new accomplish- ment kept them going. On the outskirts of Durham, N. C., they ran out of and, according to police, while replenishing their sup- ply from' the tank of a machine parked alongside the road, they were discov- ered by the owner of the car. The boys ran and hid in a clump of trees. A little later they came back to the highway and “thumbed” a ride from & motorist. _Unfortunately, he hap- pened to be Sheriff L. L. Morgan, who placed the boys under arrest. Later of Chicago, and efforts will be. made to obtain use of them. they were turned over to Hea 3 Detective Frank M. Alum brought them back to Washington. The lifé of a Washington policeman is becoming increasingly arduous, Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of the Metropolitan force revealed today in ed that in 1932 every officer averaged 15 days 'of extra duty for which he re- celved no compensation. In addition to the overtime, M:‘i. Brown pointed out, members of force took the 8.3 per cent salary cut provided in the Federal economy act, and only a few got the full benefit of the 20-day annual leave privilege. New members of the force also lost the year increase in pay‘when from the probationary EXTRA DUTY OF D. C. POLICEMEN AVERAGES 15 DAYS DURING 1932 'Brown, Announcing None Escaped Overtime Without | Pay, Gratified by.Lack of Complaints. duty. Numerous parades incident to the Bicentennial Celebration of the birth the force escaped extra duty. station clerks, who rarely patrol beats, he declared, “were out pounding the bricks” during the emergencies, after an_8-hour trick in the station house. Despite all the extra work, Brown said not g complaint was re- ceived from any nm’er. which he re- The WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1933, BY HINES ESTIMATE Maj. | w, IBANK ROBBERIES BELIEVED SOLVED BY FOUR ARRESTS Members of Barney Neufield Gang Questioned in Two Hold-ups He,re.' PLEAD GUILTY DURING HEARING IN NEW YORK 'D. C. Police on Extra Duty in Ef- fort to Prevent Increase in Crime. With two of the city’s most baffing bank robberies apparently cleared up with the arrest and conviction in New York of four members of the Barney j Neufield bandit gang, Washington police today were hopeful of connecting the robbers with at least one other bank hold-up. Announcement to this effect came from Inspector Frank S. W. Burke, chief of detectives, as Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police, dis- closed he intends to continue his plan of staggering the hours of patrolmen so that Washington streets will be fully protected during the most dangerous hours. Under Maj. Brown's plan more than 300 policemen and detectives now are | working overtime in an effort to pre- vent crimes. The police chief denied existence of any crime wave, but said some of the 300 officers are being de- tained on duty after their regular 4 p.m. quitting time, while others a working after the midnight “off-duty” hour. | Crime List Reduced. | resulted in 16 fewer crimes, excluding | homicides, last Saturday, as compared with the same day the week before. The four bandits convicted in New York, each of whom faces from 10 to 20 years in Sing Sing, have been iden- tifled as thoss who robbed the Georgia | Avenue Branch of the Washington Me- chanics Savings Bank of $9,931 last June 10, according to Inspector Burke. They have been tentatively identified in connection with the hold-up January 116, 1932, of the Eighth and East Capitol | Strets Branch of the same institution, | Burke said. He added he hoped also | to pin the $25,000 robbery of the Wood- | ridge-Langdon Savings & Commercial Bank last October 12 on the quartet. To ccmplete identification, he said he would send witnesses to both robberies to New York to view the four men in 4 line-up. The bank robbers, who suddenly entered guilty pleas during their trial | yesterday in New York on charges of | Tobbing the Seward National Bank & { Trust Co. in 1930, are Barney Neuficld, 35; Samuel Rubin, 39; James Foley, 41, and Joseph Flynn, 26. In addition to being warited hére, they are sought by Pittsburgh for bank robberies. ' Fight Extradition Here. The guilty pleas were entered when the- men learned that Federal authori- ties were attempting to extradite them for the bank robberies here. Inspector Burke, in an effort to obtain prior i rights in extradition proceedings, had made the case against the men a Fed- eral one, and in his opinion_this move resulted in the gullty pleas. Under New York law, the four will be required to serve their New York sentences before local authorities can_institute extra- dition proceedings. Inspector Burke said he intended to ask United States Attorney Leo A. Rover to obtain indict- ments against the men so they could be brought here upon their release from Stg Sing. Discussing the general crime situa- tion, Maj. Brown said the protective measures he had invoked were as a “preventive” rather than an acknowl- edgment of a crime wave. “Our experience has been that when a crime has been committed which at- tracts wide attention, like the pay roll hold-up and murder near the House Office Building last week, two or three similar crimes follow closely upon it,” he said. “With this in mind, the additional . men were placed on patrol to prevent zuch a series. So far we have been fairly successful, not only in the matter of prevention but in the solution of the crimes which have occurred.” Statistics Compared. Police statistics for the first 23 days this month compare favorably with last year, he said. He cited reductions in the number of housebreakings from 198 to 187, in grand larcenies from 61 to 39, in stolen automobiles from 228 to 224, and in lesser crimes corresponding- ly. Slight increases were noted, however, in robberies and larcenies from auto- ‘mobiles. Meluwhfie. search was being con- tinued by the detective bureau for the accomplice of George McK. Pittman, 33, colored, who has confessed the murder of William Simms, colored watchman, during the safe-cracking early Sunday at the Dickey & Sons feed and coal establishment at Benning. Acting on information from Washington, Balti- more police yesterday arrested a white man in connection with the case, but he was rel 5 Pittman originally told police a white man had been his accomplice, but later changed the story and said it was a colored man. Speedy Trial Assured. Spedy trial of the six men held in conecticn with the pay roll murder of Edwerd Ecklund, Browning Painting Co. pa ter, last week, was assured y the district attorney’s office. United States Attorney Leo A. Rover has conferred with p&uu. it was under- | stood, and pr¢ the men to trial next month. Indictments against the men—Claud Myers, 28, and Sewell ‘Workman, 23, both colored, and Albert E. Cash, 20, and Everett Blackwell, 22, for first-degree murder, and Oscar Cash and Clyde E. Templeton as accessories— are expected to be returned soon, it was said. Seventeen men, both colored and head- rprint gimmmm held ‘for_investigation for at least 48 hours. The arrests came as a result of a close watch maintained by police on various railroad yards in and around 'ashington. Agricultural Club Elects. MONTROSE, Md., January 24 (Spe- cial) —The Montrose 4-H land Mansfleld; secre- ‘Wallace McDaniel, and treasurer, The system, instituted last week end, | police in Newark, Philadelphia and | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Truesdell School is shown. | unbearable, Lower: Mrs. H. P. Clarke. president of the Truesdell P.-T. A. is shown pointing to a gas-fired radiator used in ment the heating plant. Upper: Proximity of the coal-fired furnace to class rooms in the George | The Truesdell Parent-Teacher Association com- | plains that gas, smoke and coal dust make habitation of the Complaint is made of danger of explosion and location of the gas cock, where children may turn it on. pening Slaf FHP lass room almost | a portion of the school, instalied to aug- —Star Staff Photos. HOUSED. C. GROUP INSPECTS STREETS Committee Opposed to Cu- pola on Taft School De- spite Citizens’ Pleas. The subcommittee on District appro< priations today is making its annual tour of inspection of streets in the District, after all-day hearings yester- day of citizen groups who argued in support of particular projects they de- sired to have included in the District appropriation bill. - The committee is “set” against the proposed cupola for the Taft Junior High School, despite heated arguments by a group representing the Burroughs Citizens' Association. _Representative Holaday, Republican, of Ilinois said the subcommittee’s objection was on two grounds: First, because there had been an agreement with Maj. Gotwals, the Engineer Commissioner, that such “doodahs” would be eliminated; sec- ond, because the price of the cu had been jumped up from less $4,000 to approximately $10.000. Chairman Cannon told the citizens delegation that the subcommittee is still opposed to the cupola, as Representative Holaday had explained carrying out the program set when Representative Sim- mons, Republican, of Nebraska, was three years ago when the “gentleman’s agreement” was made. The purpose of the economy was 5o that more money could be used for supplying much-needed elementary class rooms. ‘The citizens’ group, composed of John M. Stockard, Raymond L. Gilbert, Ken- neth Armstrong and Wilbur French, emphasized that the cupola propcsal carried the indorsement of the Com- mission of Fine Arts and the District Commissioners. Under these circum- stances, they argued, the congressional subcommittee had no right to prohibit the construction of the cupola. Repre- sentative Holaday told them the com- mittee can insert a retroactive proviso prohibiting the use of any funds for that purpose. The subcommittee late yesterday also heard a delegation of unemployed single the District, who were accom- panied by Rev. Dr. John A. Ryan and Rev. R. A. McGowan of the rocial action ent of the National Catholic Welfare Council. They sought to have removed the present against dis, that ne cluded in the re! n emergency rellef so le males might be in- from public funds/ Herndon Science Club Meets. HERNDON, Va., January 24 (Spe- — The Herndon High ch The mm‘v'mbewl the Bk e Friddy in February, | ARCHBISHOR CURLEY TO ADDRESS SOCIETY | Prelate to Be Guest of Washing- } ton Section of Holy Name Group at School Tonight. Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, Arch- bishop of Baltimore, will be the guen‘l of honor and principal speaker at the | quarterly meeting of the Washington | section of the Holy Name Society to- | night in St. Martin's School Hall, 72 T street northeast. K The meeting, scheduled to begin at 8 o'clock, will be marked by the elec- tion of officers. Entertainment will be furnished by George O’'Connor and Matt Horne, vocalists. Music will be provided by the Wheeler Boys' Band of Holy Cemforter Parish. Other guests will include Very Rev. Thomas F. Conlon, O. P., national director of Holy Name Societies; the Very Rev. Ignatius Smith, O. P., past national director, and others. FIREMAN K,A.Y PROMOTED Given Vacancy Created by Retire- ment of Sergt. Moxley. Pvt. Joseph W. Kay, No. 3 Truck Company, Fire Department, was pro- moted to sergeant today to fill the va- cancy created by the retirement of Sergt. G. C. Moxley. Kay will be as- signed to No. 19 Engine Company. Two civilians, B. R. Howard and B. ‘W. Kline, were appointed privates in tl{le department to fill existing vacan- cies. iW. C. Miller to Be Installed REALTORS ARRNE FORSESSION HERE as President at Banquet Friday Night. Leading realtors from scattered sec- tions of the United States and Canada | were arriving in Washington today for | the annual business of the National | PAGE B—1 TRUESDELL SCHOOL PROBE IS ORDERED AFTER COMPLAINT Commissioners Told to Inves- tigate Charges of Insani- tary Conditions. HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE TAKES QUICK ACTION Heating System Declared Menace to Health and Building Is Held Unsafe. ‘The District Commissioners today undertook to investigate reported in- sanitary conditions at the George Truesdell School, in accordance with instructions given Dr. Luther H. Reich- elderfer, chairman of the Board of Commissioners, by Chairman Clarence Cannon of the subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. Mrs. H. P. Clarke, president of the Truesdell Parent-Teacher Association, complained during the “hearings yester- day on the 1934 school Budget that the 25-year-old combination brick, frame and stucco structure actually menaces the health of its pupils. So strikingly did Mrs. Clarke present her case ghat Chairman Canncn immediately sum- | moned Dr. Reichelderfer. Items Stricken Out. In ordering the Commissioners to in- vestigate the school conditions and re- port back to the subcommittee, Repre- Sentative Cannon virtually ordered the District heads to defend their act in eliminating for three consecutive years the School Board's requested item for a new addition to the Truesdell School which would replace the antiquated section of the school. In 1931 the Board of Education asked for $140,000 to build an 8-room and combination assembly hall-gymnasium at the Truesdell School. This proposed structure would have completed the new section of the school. The Com- missioners, however, eliminated this item from the 1932 bill which then was Ascociaticn of Real Estate Boards to| Cc.8 Prepared so that neither Con- take action on many matters affecting the property owner and realty operator. Adoption of a proposed national tax program, designed to lighten the bur- den on real estate owners; action on proposals for Federal aid for rebuild- g of slums areas of cities, improve- ment of appraisals and betterment of the cornditions of home ownership are licted as major subjects for considera- | tion. Directors Meet Today. Members of the board of directors of the national body met tcday in ex- ecutive session at the Willard Hotel, the convention headquarters, to formu- late general policies to be recommended to the delegates. Tomorrow will be devoted to sessions of the American Institute of Real Es- tate Appraisers, a professional body set up during the last year by the associ- ation. The first general session is to be held | Thursday wnen addresses will be deliv- | ered by Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secre- tary of the Interior; Herbert U. Nelson, national secretary to the realtors, who will cutline the proposed national tax program, and Edward A. MacDougall of New York, who will discuss Govern- | ment subsidies for housing. | Rufus S. Lusk, real estate statistician, | and a former president of the Operative | Builders’ Association of Washington, | will address the convention Friday aft- | ernoon on surveys of apartment build- | ing properties. Miller to Take Office. W. C. Miller of this city, past presi- | dent of the Washington Real Estate | Board, and a former chairman of the | home builders’ division of the national | association, will be installed as presi- | dent of the national body for 1933 at an inaugural banquet Friday night. The sessicn also will mark the in- auguration of H. Clifford Bangs of this city as chairman of the brokers' divi- sion of the national association; Waver- ly Taylor, as vice chairman of the home builders’ division, and J. F. M. Bowie as a member of the Executive Committee. of the property manage- ment division. Arrangements for the visiting realtors are being handled by a group of local realtors, headed by Mr. Bowie and in- cluding Mr. Taylor, H. Tudor Morsell, F. Eliot Middleton, Horace G. Smithy, hur Carr, Homer Phillips, Milton F. Schwab, A. C. Houghton, William L. King, Charles H. Hillegeist, John T. Meany, Charles J. Rush and Norman C. Brown, INSPECTOR HEADLEY SAVES YOUTH'S LIFE Shuts Off Ignition of Car as It Runs Backward After Be- ing Cranked. ‘The quick thinking and action of In- spector Albert J. Headley, veteran po- lice official, probably saved Alton Jack- son, Virginia youth, from serious injury yesterday. Jackson, said to be about 14 years old, was standing behind an automobile being cranked at the Eleventh Street ‘Wharves when it studdenly began run- ning backwards. Inspector Headley, passing nearby, noticed the car, leaped on the running board and shut off the ignition just as it knocked down young Jackson. But for the inspector’s quick adtion, the car probably would have run over the boy. Jackson's home is at Amberg, Va. Traffic Director William A. Van Duger i sggi VAN DUZER PREPARES TO ISSUE N EW CON GRESSIONAL AUTO TAGS the 900 block of First street, was rohbe‘g Changes Made in Design, and They Will Be Distributed Every Two Years. te | bl In accordance with the wishes of g it he will draw Tag No. 1 in- . 2 which was assigned to 3 congressional ' tags allow mem- to k their automo- i i i t- " rum, gress nor the Bureau of the Budget gave it any consideration. The next year the board asked for $180,000 for the same purpose, the sum tg be appro- | priated in the 1933 bill. Again the Commissioners_eliminated the item Recently, when they were considering | the 1934 estimates, the Commissioners once more struck out the School Board's request for relief at the Truesdell School. This year the School Board had asked for only $95,000, which would build the eight-class room addition. The request for the assembly hall-gym- nasium was omitted. Among conditions compiained against by Mrs. Clarke and Mrs. N. P. O'Con- | nell, chairman of the Truesdell School's Parent-Teacher Association’s Legislative | Committee, was the effect of the hot= | air heating plant in the old school { This plant embraces two coal-fired fur- naces placed in the center of the ground floor of the building. Immediately ad- Jacent to these furnaces are two former play rooms which, because of congestion, now are occupied by classes every day. As the custodian of the building stokes the fire just outside the class room doors great volumes of gas, smoke and coal dust make habitation of the two rooms practically unbearable. The colored fireman of the building was overcome by the fumes last week, and at one time last year the entire kindergarten class was dismissed because of the fumes, it was declared. Mrs. Clarke also complained to the District Subcommittee of the House that the building itself is unsafe by virtue of its frame construction, which includes wooden stairways and a wood- beamed attic. The heating plant, Mrs. Clarke said, is not adequate to heat the girl's toilet room, hence, a zas- fired radiator was installed to augment the plant. This radiator, the Parent- Teacher Association president said, once “blew up” and at another time was found with its flame cut off and the gas flowing from the jets. The gas cock is so situated, less than a foot f{nm the floor, that children may turn on. Located on Ingraham Street. ‘The present George Truesdell School is situated on the south side of Ingra- ham and east of Ninth street. The original portion of the school is the frame, brick and stucco. four-class- Toom structure which was erected in 1908 at a cost of $26,300. The rest of jhe school is a mod- ern, brick fireproof structure, and the addition which the school authori- ties have sought for the past three years would be erected on the site of the an- tiquated 25-year-old portion and thus complete the modern school. The old portion at present houses three first grades, one second grade, and a fourth grade class. Congestion has made it necessary to transfer the sixth grade pupils out of the school entirely. The kindergarten classes which formerly were housed in the old structure have re- treated to two small auxiliary rooms in the new portion of the school. $36 LOOT OF BANDITS AND PURSE-SNATCHER Store Proprietor and Taxi Driver Are Victims in Two Hold-ups. Two hold-ups and a pocketbook snatching netted robbers $36 last right and early today as police continued to exercise special diligence to check this form of crime. Mario Mencarini, store proprietor of between $6 and $7 at pistol point by an armed colored bandit. The other hold-up victim was Fraser R. Ham- ilton, cab driver, of the 2100 block of O street, who early today was robbed of $3 by a colored “fare” at Twenty- first and G streets. Jennie Steinberg, 1000 block of M near her home. The thief grabbed the pocketbook and ran before she had time to get any description of him. Police held under arrest William ‘Ward, 27, colored, for investigation in connection with the theft of jewelry and a small amount of clothing valued at a total of $461, and a Greek gov- ernment bond valued at $1,000, from Alexander Cokinos, 1005 Ninth street. Most of the jewelry has been recovered, Lfuse. igarettes and cigars, valued juor, ci and c lu at & total of $268, were stolen from the drug store of Dr. Bernard Van Sant, 4900 block of Wisconsin avenue, by some one who entered by breaking a 1 in the front door of the estab- t. The loot included -49 pints of whisky, 8 pints of brandy, 6 pints of 3 cartons of cigarettes and 10