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MRS CANN TRAEES HARDING REEIE Says Hi§ ‘Death ' Prevented Him From Remedying “Un- happy Conditions.” This is the fijfth of a series of daily articles in which Mrs. Dolly Gann, sister of Charles Curtis, Vice Presi- dent in the Hoover administration, is giving feminiscences of her inter- esting @xperiences in politics and society in Washington. BY DOLLY GANN. My connection with the campaign of 1920 and the Republican landslide was that of a distant though interested on- looker. I don't believe any intelligent citizen doubted the result. The country was in the mood for change—a shift uickly from control of parties or in- glvidulls connected with' the years of war catastrophe. ‘meant a re- le Republican party, an exit of the Democrats from the eight-year rule our split in 1912 had given them. I recall with amusement that my only political activity in 1920 was a minor part in the Democratic pre-convention campaign. One of our good friends was A. Mitchell Palmer, under whom as At- torney General my husband served in the Wilson administration, Mr. Palmer sought the Democratic presidential nomination, and one of his representa- tives remarked in my presence that he expested the Kansas delegation to sup- port Palmer. I told him I was about to visit Topeka. “I will find out how the Kansas Democrats stand,” I said. Investigation showed that they would support William G. McAdoo. I sub- mitted the unfavorable report to Mr. Palmer. It was correct. She, Favored Harding. We Republicans in Washington fa- vored Senator Warren G. Harding for President.. T khew and liked him, and my brother, .Charles, was' one of his best. friends. His chances were not bright, however, as the convention drew near, The primaries had shown that the leaders for the nomination would an‘:;n, Tllinois, and Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood. w!hue he was serving his first term G. C. ELLIS CO. 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His per- sonal popularity was _extraol From a woman'’s viewpoint he logked as if he ought to be President. The men all liked him, in and out of bis party. An intimate companion was ‘a Demo- cratic leader, Mr. Harding was most gregarious, wanted his friends around him continually and entertained them often. Amiability was his characteristic. ‘With 10 years in Ohié polities before he came to the Senate in 1915, he lost no time learning to know every one with whom he wa$ to be associated. side included Senators Gallinger, Lodge, Penrose, Knox and Brandegee. As a speaker Mr. Harding had more than ordinary ability. On committees he was a hard worker. dm. e nelx:e; as n r owner and pul T ha sem??:s‘l:‘n introduction to the press gallery, in which he became a prime fa- vorite, with the result that his activities received attention beyond the average. ‘When he mentioned as “presiden- tial timber” in 1920 he quickly became the Capital's favorite candidate. Story of the Nomination. So many reports have been circulated about the method of Harding's nomina- tion that I repeat here the accurate account given me by my brother. I asked Charles about it as soon as he returned from the Chicago convention. The night before the nomination Senator Brandegee invited to dinner in his hotel room Senator Lodge, brother and Col. George Harvey, all warm friends of Harding. The convention was deadlocked and the factions be- hind Lowden and Wood would not yield. Bitterness prevailed. The weather was| hot and the delegates wanted to go heme. Things were such that the Re- publican outlook in November might be jeopardized unless thé widening breach between the Lowden and Wood groups could be dealt with. It appeared to those at the Brandegee dinner that time was ripe to bring for- ward Senator Harding. The conventicn had adjourned overnight. It was agreed by the four friends that they wculd; muster as much strength as possible before morning, and they decided to round up all available friends of Hard- ing and set them to work at seeing delegates. Brother started out to visit leaders and delegates; the others remained in the room and telephoned. Charles in- vited all Harding sympathizers he could find to call at Senator Brandegee's apartment. Soon they began to ar- rive, and for hours the procession con- tinued. By 2 in the morning Hard- | ing’s nomination began to look probable. | It was felt that if New York could |be won the movement would succeed. Senators Wadsworth and Calder were | consulted, but said they could not speak for their whole delegation. About | 3 o'clock the Harding supporters felt they had enough votes. It was nearly four when brother, on his way to his room in a nearby club, met Raymond Clapper, a reporter, and told him Hard- ing would be nominated. So it came about. On the vice presidential ballot Coolidge was chosen quickly. { | The Democratic Sooth-Sayers. i Socn after Mr. Harding became Presi- [ dent began an era of prosperity un- paralleled. In those days no one—even a Democrat—arose in the land with sufficient wisdom to read the future. No small voice—not even a Democratic prophet’s wail—pointed out a lack of vision which in later years the oppo- sition’s after thought attributed to our leaders of that golden era. We pros- pered and the multitude applauded. Only in the remote aftermath of the depression, which nobody foresaw or could have forese2n, was the cry heard that hard times could have been avert- ed by different methods at Washington. Had President Harding lived to com- plete his term it is probable his ad- ministration would have been remem- bered as among our safest and most | conservative. I believe he would have | remedied the unhappy conditions which arose without his knowledge, and would not have permitted to reach fruition | the schemes unworthy underlings pro- ' moted. After his death the treachery of a few of his assoclates caused in- vestigations which brought to light grave scandals. ‘ It has always seemed to me that! Mark Antony's epigram “the evil that | men do lives after them, the good is| oft interred with their bones” was intended for Warren G Harding. His warm heart, sense of loyalty and trust ) in his fellow men, all virtues in them- selves, were translated after his death into sinful weaknesses by the detractors who tried to blacken his memory. Mrs. Harding returned to Washington after her husband’s burial. I went to | see her. Always I had had a soft spot in my heart for Mrs. Harding. when she was entertaining daily and attending to countless other details, not a day passed without flowers going from the White House to my brother Charles' wife, who was ill, and_ often the Pirst Lady visited the invalid. Mrs. Harding received me with the old cordality, but she was crushed. Her entir> conversation was of Presi- dent Harding—his work, aims and am- bitions. She told me how she had been sitting by Mr. Harding’s bedside at the last, reading to him. There was no one else in the room. When she IF YOUR ROOF —nheeds painting or repairs. send for us. ‘e see to it that every job is & &0od job. years in Washi . Cal D K 935 Bt N.w. i COMPANY orth 4423 looked at him an agonized look of pain was on his face. He tried to speak, but, no word.came. She screamed for help. He was gone before any one could reach her. 3 Mrs. Harding appeatedtterly lonely. | Accused of the crime, In her busy months at the White House, ' THE EVENING | Mrs. ° Warren G. Harding (upper left), Gen. Leonard Wood (upper right) and FPrank O. Lowden (lower), Republican candidates for President in 1920. her life was finished, and so She felt it She died a few months turned out. later. (Tomorrow: My_l-‘_lrn National Con- | vention.) (Copyright, 1933, by North American News- parer Alliance, Inc., and Dolly Gann) POLLARD TAX PLANS ARE OPPOSED HERE Jerome Fanciulli of National High- way Users’ Conference Against Gas BRate Boost. ‘Taking issue with the prcposal of Gov. Pollard of Virginia to reduce au- tomobile license fees by perhaps 40 per cent and raise the gasoline tax to 7 cents, conditional upon nearby States apply- ing the same rate, Jercme Fanciulli, assistant _director of the National Highway Users Conference, today op- posed the move in a letter to the Vir- ginia cxecutive. Fanciulli,- who also is secretary of the Executive Committee, Virginia Highway = Users Association, favored the cut in registraticn fees, but quoted statistics from other States to show that the gas tax boost would operate to curb consumption. He figured net loss from the twin proposals would appreximate $1,800,000. Fanciulli also took particular ex- ception to the suggestion that the gas tax in the surrounding States and District of Columbia should be in- creased to the 7-cent level proposed for Virginia. “Is it not unreasonable to expect the people of Maryland and West Virginia to submit to a 3-ceni in- crease when they do not need the revenues for roads?” he inquired as for the District of Columbis cent tax would produce near): times as much revenue as is requirea to maintain its highways.” . INUTE YSTERY Can You Solve it 7 Dr. Fordney is professor of criminology at & famous university. advice is often sought by the police ities when confronted with particularly bafing cases. This problem has been taken from his case book covering hundreds of criminal investi- ons. Try vour wits on it! It takes but ONE MINUTE to read! Every fact and every clue necessary to its solution are in the story it- self—and there is only one answer. ®00d a detective are you? Reviewing the Evidence. BY H. A. RIPLEY. TUDYING the official photographs taken at the ccene of the crime, Prof. Fordney saw a beautiful young woman of about 25 ex- pensively and tastefully groomed | lying on a patch of dense rank grass. Apparently she had waged a valiant battle for her life, for in her gloved hand had been found some blond hairs and her disarranged clothing bore wit- ness to the terrific | struggle that had | taken place. i Winifred Rich- ards, returning| home from town by train, had ex- pected the family chauffeur to meet her at the subur- ban station at 11:15 p.m. He was late, and evidently while awaiting him she had been forced by some one to walk to the de- serted spot where the assailant killed her by a blow (probably with a | piece of wood) at the base of the neck. Good detective work and some luck | led to the discovery of her body shortly | after the commission of the crime. hour later a big. blond, rough looking | character was picked up attempting to | board a freight train 5 mdles down the line, he stoutly maintained his innocence, admitting, however, that the fresh scratches on | his neck and face had been made by | another girl he had accosted who re- sisted his advances. He insisted, | |tnough, that this happened 3 miles | from where Winifred’s body was found jand stated he had never been nearer than that to the place. No, he didn't know who the girl was. The police, believing they had Wini- ifred’s murderer, were chagrined when ! Fordney, after reviewing the evidence, | stated they were probably holding the wrong man. Perhaj \?’H‘” tory b- ps you have a sf or prob- lem you would like to submit to Prof. Fordney. If so, send it to him, care of this paper. He will be delighted to receive it. (For Solution See Page A-10.) Gann Writeé of Politics An s STAR, WASHINGTON, BREF D, BIL HEARING FORECAST Senate Subcommittee Will Meet Tomorrow to De- cide on Procedure. (Continued From First Page.) tax receipts to pay all annual expenses of the District, with a surplus of $3,- 400,000 left unused. “The Commissioners of the District of Columbia already have the power) ton. under existing law to make this reduc- tion in the tax rate. “The committee that framed this bill has been criticized for not putting a provision in-the bill directing the Commissioners to reduce the tax rate. That would be legislation. The Commit- tee on Appropriations cannot legislate. If those who made the criticism would just think and reflect a moment they would realize that the committee would never include a directory provision in a bill to any officials who have discre- tion unless these officials were refusing to do their duty. I am one of those who is assuming that the Commission- ers of the District of Columbia will perform llhel'l:h duty which :h}c‘y owe u‘; the e they represent here, an I lmpeuo?umlng that when this bill be- comes law the joners them- selves will enter an order fixing the tax rate in the District at $1.50, lower- ing it from $1.70, which they are au- thorized o do by law and by the sav- ings we have made in this bill. Believes They Will Aet. “It has been intimated that they might not do it. If they should not do it then there will be time enough for Congress to direct them to Teduce the tax rate to $1.50 per $100, but I do not believe the Congress will ever have to do that with the present Commissioners. I have perfect confidence in Dr. Reich- elderfer, the chairman of the Board of Commissioners, and in the other Com- missioners, and believe they will per- form their duty. And it is ir duty to change the tax rate from $1.70 to $1.50 per $100. As heretofore mentioned, the District then would have a surplus of 33,000.0()‘0 left unspent at the end of the fiscal year.” “If the amounts contained in this the | Pill are ultimately approved by Con- gress,” Chairman Buchanan said, “at the end of the fiscal year 1934 the gen- eral fund of the District of Columbia will have a surplus of $6,000,000. The law requires that a surplus of $3,000,000 be maintained. Even so, it will be $3,- 000,000 over and above what the law re- quires as a surplus in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia. “As my colleague has said, the tax rate is $1.70 on the fair full valuation of real estate. In my home State and in yours, when property is asszssed for| taxation purposes it is assessed at about 50 per cent of its fair value and taxes are paid on that amount. Here the property is assessed at full value and the tax rate of $1.70 is paid on the full value. This is an exorbitant and un- reasonable tax on real estate in this District. There are thousands of poor people attempting to buy homes in the District, and for them to be requirea to pay $3.40 per $100 in taxes on the valuation of these homes according to the way property would be asdessed in the other States of the Union is too much. “Let me call attention further to the fact that there is $4,000,000 in delin- quent taxes on real estate due the Dis- trict. On what character of real estate? The little homes poor peorle are trying to buy and pay for. Wherever possible we should encourage people to buy and pay for homes so they can have a castle of their own. Then they will naturally be proud of their country. “The tax rate in the District of Co- lumbia should be reduced from $1.70 to $1.50 on real estate.” WILL PRESENT PLAYS Southeast Community Center to Stage Children’s Fetes. A program of children's plays and dances, by the dancing and dramatic groups of the Southeast Community Center, will be presented Saturday, at 8 p.m., at the Hine Junior High School, Seventh and C streets southeast. Miss Evelyn Davis will be in charge of the entire program. Plays to be given will be “The Mermaid Who Wanted Feet,” “El Capitan Ma- “Thé Two-part Tap Mel- The Legend of the Willow “Birds,” “Wooden Soldiers and ‘Sing-Song Man” and | in “The Stolen Princt Deaths Reported. Jignry Schroeder, 90, Soldiers’ Home Hos- pital Mary Brower, 74, National Homeopathic ‘Hospital. ‘Annie’ J. Butler. 62, 1237 Pennsylvania avenue southeast Benfamin L. Emerson, 49, 1408 Decatur LD, Mary Donaldson. 49. Sibley Hospital 18233 Kalorama rd. B h st n.e. Emergency Ho: Loreto, 8, Eastern Branch Infant Dorothy L. Ellertson, \valter Reed 320 Q $t. 0. i st. 0w, | Stephen Queenan, Virginia ave. e. Louise Bolen. 60, Emergency Hospl uel Snowden. 80, 426 21 Rodny Mitchell, 54, 23K L st. 5.w. gy Robert Carter, 53, Home for Ased and In- rm. Sarsh Williams, 52, Bt. Ellzabeths Hos- al inger Hospital Ocellous Berry, 4 iter Reed Hospital. Marshall Fry, 45, en route Freedmen's ospita Melvin_Wilkerson, 43. 1112 23rd st. n.w. Leroy Veney, 40, en route Emergency Hos- al Willlam Bolton, 29, 1804 10th st. n.w. rtha Anders: . Gallinger Hospital. Samuel Riddle Sibley Hospital. Augustus Lewt: Preedmen’s Hospital. Albert L. Faulkner. 1, Children’s Hospit st H Baby of Annie Sinith,” Freedmen's Hos: il Births Reported. Carl P. and Mildred D. Stone, rlfl. Abbs sirl. boy. Jackson, girl. wiri, D. C, THURSDAY, IN SCHOOLS SOUGHT Board to Ask Senate for Hearings on Supply Bill. Salaries Face Slash. The District of Columbia Board of Education iz meeting as a committee of the whole in special executive ses- sion this afternoon in an effort to de- vise ways and means of operating the school system in 1934 on an appropria- tion that is $3,633,917 less than this year's appropriation. The grimness of the problem which the board is attacking was established definitely at the board’s regular meet- ing late yesterday when Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, re- ported officially that the task facing the schools “means not only the exercise ot every possible economy and any pos- sible reorganization of the school sys- tem, but also inevitable curtailments In many features of the established edu- cational program.” Dr Ballou's 13-page report, which is an exhaustive analysis of the entire school budget problem, is being made | his the basis of today’s discussions and study. The report lists the effects of the slashed estimates and outlines in detail the facts on which the School Board may base its attempt to solve its ' dilemma. Ameong Effects of Cuts. Chief among the effects of the cuts are: 1. Increased - congestion becoming acute in the senior high schools and necessitating general double shift pro- grams in these buildings. 2. Inadequate supplies for teaching purposes, with inevitable “corresponding effects on the efficlency of instruc- 3. Reduction in pay scale of officers and teachers in the vacation and night schools—if such cuts are legal—and fewer of these schools and, consequent- ly, smaller enrollments in them. In addition to these effects as the superintendent sees them, the school authorities are confronted with the ne- cessity of saving $271,627 in officers’, teachers’. librarians’, attendance offi- cers’ and custodians’ salaries, over and above the 15 per cent pay cut already authorized by Congress for Govern- ment salaries, the report shows. ‘Will Appeal to Senate. Upon recelving Dr. Ballou’s report the board immediately voted to ask the Benate for hearings on the 1934 Dis- trict of Columbia appropriation bill in an effort to have some of the severe cuts eased through the restoration of items and amounts carried in the conference report bill which failed of passage in the Joggress. George Whitwell, chairman of the board’s Finance Committee, made the motion for this petition to the Senate, and Henry Gilligan, chairman of the Legislative Committee, seconded it. Only one item in the entire school budget, Dr. Ballou's report showed, is larger than the current appropriation allowed. That is the item for the edu- cation of colored deaf children, and the amount was raised from $5,500 this year to $6,000 for 1934. Only two other items are identical with the 1933 appropriations: Retirement annuities remain at $400,000 and the item for the education of white deaf children re- mains at $31,500. All other appropria- tion items suffered a substantial re- duction, not only below the appropria- tion for 1933, but also lower than the appropriations agreed to by the con- ference on the bill which failed, the report asserts. Personnel Items Slashed. ‘The school personnel items, Dr. Bal- lou reported, “appear” to have becn uniformly reduced to cover the Presi- dent’s 15 per cent salary reduction and moreover, “each of the personnel items has still further been reduced below the actual cost of such personnel items during the school year 1933” This actual cost of personnel items was com- puted, the report explains, on the basis of actual expenditures through Febru- ary 28, and the estimated expenditures tll;;guxh March, April, May and June, Using these computations as a basis, Dr. Ballou estimates in his report that the school authorities must do the foi- R 1. Find ways and means of rating in 1934 with $24,753 less I;De;;‘l:ol officers than was available this year, ovir and above the 15 per cent salaiy cut. 2. Finds ways and means of main- taining a clerical staff with $3,126 less than in 1933, over and above the 15 per cent pay cut. 2 3. Find ways and means of operating | with $219,160 less for teachers and | librarians than in 1933, over and above the 15 per cent salary cut. 4. Pind a way to effect a reduction in the department of school attendance and work permits of $2,882 beyond the 15 per cent reduction in ralaries; thls{ additional saving being equivalent to approximately two attendance officers a year. 5. Find a way to maintain the school custodial staff in 1934 with $21,706 less than was available in 1933 even after the reduction of 15 per cent in the custodians’ salaries. Reduced Service Impends. Besides the personnel problems, th: sehool * authorities are confronted in their session this afternoon with the prospect of reduced service which herc- tofore has been provided the people ‘of the District and their children, the Ballou report shows. The activities and items which have suffered reductions and their respective cuts for 1934 below the 1933 appropriation include com- munity center department, $11,900; fuel, gas and electricity for school buildings, $55,000; furniture and equipment, $5.- 651; repairs and improvements to build- gs, $112,500; playground equipment, $2.500; maintenance of tubercular and crippled children, $2,000; and trans- portation of tubercular and crippled children, $1,500. Besides these items, the customary improvements to schoci grounds probably would not be made by virtue of the complete elimination from the 1934 estimates of the $100,000 which this year was reappropriated out of un- expended school balances. Commenting on the elimination of estimates for all school buildings and site purchases, Dr. Ballou, in his re- port, declares that this elimination APRIL IRELIEF FROM CUTS 6. | | | e |Aroused Citizens and - Edu- cators Gather Tonight at Reosevelt High. | An aroused Washington _citisenry, fearful of the cts of crippled | schools, closed librariés and curtailed | playground facilities, will meet in the | Roosevelt High School Auditorfum, | Thirteenth and Upshur streets, at 8:30 | tonight to protest the slashes in the District’s 1934 appropriaticn bill. Called by Mrs. Joseph N. Saunders, president of the District of. Columbia Congress of Parents and Teachers, to- night's protest meeting will be attended | by delegations from parent-teacher as- sociations, home and school associa~ | tions, civic organizations, labor organi: | zations _and individual citizens and tax | | payers interested in the educational and | recreational institutions of the District. Budget Director Inmvited. Mrs. Saunders issued a special invi- tation to Lewis Douglas, director of the | budget, to attend. At noon, however, | Mr. Douglas had not been able to con- sider the invitation because of pro- longed conferences at the White House and elsewhere. Whether Mr. Douglas will attend could not be forecast by office. | Prominent among the speakers will |be Miss Selma Borchard, legislative | chairman of the Teachers' Union; | George Sullivan of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations; Edward F. Mc- Grady of the American Federation of Labor; Miss Mary Dent, presidentsof the Teachers’ Union; Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, who ‘will speak on the public library cuts; Mrs. W. W. Husband, on | the Americanization work, and Herbert F. Woods on the school gardens. Charles 1. Stengle, president of the Public School Association, or some other rep- resentative, also is expected to speak. Others to Attend. The reorganizations expected to send delegations also inelude District of Co- lumbia Educational Association, Ameri- can Association of University Women, Business and Professional Women, | League of Women Voters, District of Columbia Federation of Women’s Clubs, ‘Women’s City Club, Federation of Citi- zens' Associations, Kiwanis Club and | Rotary Club. Besides the disastrous effects which confront the public school system, the drastic cuts in the 1934 appropriations are sufficient to force the closing of three existing subbranches of the Dis- trict of Columbia Public Library and re- sult in the discontinuance of the municipal playground wading pools. The closing of the branch libraries, it is pointed out, would be particularly dis- astrous in these time when many per- sons are out of work and turn to the libraries to spend their enforced leisure in self-improvement. These branches are many miles from the central library, at Eighth street and Mount Vernon place, and records indicate heavy in- creases in the use of their books. ‘The wading pools have been used by District children for 25 years and dur- ing the coming Summer they would afford thousands of children their only | means of water recreation. FIRE AUXILIARY ELECTS Mrs. Arthur H. Buell Is Named Head of Herndon Group. Special Dispatch to The Star. HERNDON, Va, April .—The Ladles’ Auxiliary of the Herndon Vol- unteer Pire Department elected the following officers: Mrs. Arthur H. Buell, presicent; Mrs. Theodota Filly, vice president; Mrs. Bentley’ Harrison, second, vice president; Mrs. . W. W. ‘Taylor, treasurer; Miss Mary C. Hurst, recording secretary, and Miss Virginia Lang, corresponding secretary. Mrs. Buell will appoint the standing com- mittees at the meeting in May. The auxiliary, assisted by other civic organizations of the town, will present a vaudeville entertainment April 21 in the Herndon High School. Mrs. E. M. Armfield is chairman of the Committee on Arrangements, R. H. Post Weds in Paris. PARIS; April 6 (#).—Regis Henri Post of New York and Nantucket,! former Governor of Puerto Rico, and Mme. Denys de la Garde were married yesterday at the City Hall of the Elysee quarter. Witnesses were the bride’s sister, Mrs. Theodore Davis, and the bridegroom’s aunt, Countess de Rodellec du Porzic. “will inevitably result in increased con- gestion which the construction pro- gram that has been carried on during the past several years has gradually reduced.” Shortage of Classrooms. Continuing, the report shows that while the building program reduced the elementary classroom shortage from 487 rooms in 1920, there still was, on No- vember 1, 1932, a shortage of 176 classrooms. Portables, it asserts, were reduced from 78 in 1920 to 25 in 1932, and part-time was reduced from 150 classroom needs in 1920 to 38 in 1932. Since the use of portable buildings as a policy was abandoned following a series of narrow escapes to pupils through storm damage to these frail structures, the superintendent points out that the only way in which “inevitable increased enrollment” can be taken care of is through a part-time program for elementary, junior high and senior high_schools. “The most acute congestion,” Dr. Ballou asserts in the report, “is now in the senior high schools. The en- rollments on November 1, 1932, in the eight senior high schools was 2252 pupils in excess of the capacity. This figure represents an enrollment of ap- proximately the capacity of our largest high school. Eastern High School is already on a limited, double-shift pro- gram, and the Western High School is faced with the same necessity. Other high schools must follow suit, unless Woodrow Wilson High School is provided for. “The enrollments in the junior high schools are kept within the capacity of the buildings by retaining pupils in the elementary schools who ought to bs | accommodated in the junior high' schools. i “The only way to avoid the unfor- tunate educational consequences at- tending congestion in our schools is by the construction of school buildings.” | OWING TO THE DEATH OF ARTHUR BROWNE Who, while not a member of the Firm, was for ' many years associated with us, the office of RANDALL H. HAGNER & CO. 1321 Connecticut Ave., Will Be Closed on Friday, April 7th, After 1 P.M. S. N.E. S.W. N.W. 4 Building Material Chain Store Announcing the Opefiing of our new Anacostia Branch : 1905 Nichols Ave. S.E. 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