Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1935, Page 4

BLLBOARD FIRY ACCUSEDBY ORAM Inspection Chief Says Com- pany Broke Pledge to Remove Signs. The General Outlook Advertising Co. has violated its ‘“gentleman’s agreement” with the District Com- missioners to take down the promised | number of billboards in residential | and public building areas, in return for the privilege of rebuilding others in commercial zones, it was charged today by Capt. Hugh P. Oram, Dis- trict director of inspection. ‘The statement was made today when the Commissioners granted a private hearing to spokesmen for the adver- tising company on a request to build four new billboards on new locations, not listed in the agreement of three years ago. Commissioners said they would take no action on the petition until they had heard from opposition groups. The date for their hearing will be fixed later. Four Sites Proposed. John E. Shoemaker, representing the | concern, asked for the privilege of | building new billboards at Georgia | avenue and Peabody street, in the 6500 | block of Georgia avenue, the 1200 | block of New York avenue and the | 1200 block of I street. The agreement was entered into | three years ago and some 280 signs | in all were to be taken down. The company was to have the privilege of rebuilding 63 signs, at 29 locations, after the signs had been approved by | Capt. Oram. The rebuilding Wwas to proceed as credits were established by razing those on banned locations. 46 Signs Approved. To date, the Commissioners have approved rebuilding of 46 on 19 loca- | tions, and 24 of these have been re- built. The remaining 22, subject to re- building, under the agreement, the company now finds are on locations not deemed advantageous for advertising, and the request was made for the four | new locations. | Capt. Oram reported that there are billboards at 17 locations which as yet have not been taken down as re- quired by the agreement, This was to have been accomplished by Novem- | ber 30, last, under the three-year | agreement, he said. FULTON LEWIS AGAIN | T0 HEAD ARTS CLUB, Chosen to Succeed Bittinger as Other Officers Also Are Elected. Fulton Lewis, well known Wash- ington attorney, former president of the Arts Club of Washington, was elected for a third term at the annual meeting last night to succeed : Charles Bittinger, president for the last two year On the board governors of the club for the last two years, Lewis is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, _ and the Chevy Chase Club. Commodore Al- § bert W Stahl, re- elected treasurer on an uncontest- . ed ticket, reported a successful finan- | cial year for the club. | Other officers elected were: Frank | B. Steele. vice president; Henry Jay Staley, recording secretary, Miss Anne Bradbury Peebles, correspond- ing secretary: Charles Bittinger and Harold Allen Long, the board of gov. ernors for three years: Willlam Mal- colm Corse, the board of governors for two years. New members of the Committee on Admissions, to represent the various arts, are: Osgood Holmes, architec- ture; Miss Anne Ives, drama; Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, indus- trial arts; Mrs. Norman T. Anderson, for the non-artists; Dr. De Witt C. Croissant, literature; Miss Dorothy H. Bowman, music; Mrs. Susan B. Chase, painting, and Miss Clara Hill, sculp- ture. ‘The Nominating Committee includ- ed Miss Eleanor Parke Custiss, Nor- 'y Fulton Lewis. “Trainman” Bruce Lyon, 3-year-old son of He is shown here with Policeman G. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1935. CORCORAN BUYS BLOCH PAINTING “The Striker,” Admired by Roosevelts, Added to Per- manent Collection. Goes Astray The Corcoran Gallery of Art today announced the purchase for its perma- nent collection of Julius Bloch's painting, “The Striker,” which is said to have attracted special attention from President and Mrs. Roosevelt during their recent inspection of the Fourteenth .Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paint- ings at the gallery. A companion picture, “Young Worker,” which Bloch exhibited in the Public Works of Art Project show at the Corcoran Gallery last year, now hangs in the White House. Ready to Do Battle. The earlier painting depicts a young man in work clothes, ready to tackle his trade. The picture just acquired by the gallery shows the same young worker in militant mood, with facial muscles fixed and fists clénched—ready to battle for his “rights.” President and Mrs. Roosevelt are Mr. and Mrs. Deward Lyon of 505 Eighth street southwest, was found yesterday riding the rails of the street car track on Seventh street southwest at E street, with his little wagon. He was taken to the fourth police precinct until he was called for. A. Beachman. SANITY HEARING FOR TEXAS YOUTH Prosecutor Declares Slaying of Parents Will Be Probed Thoroughly. By the Associated Press. AUSTIN, Tex., April 26.—A sanity hearing and the possibility of.a “hard | prosecution” was in the offing today for | Howard Pierson, confessed slayer of his mother and his father, William Pierson, an associate justice of the State Supreme Court. and shot them to death, sat broken and dejected in his cell today. Going Into Case Thoroughly. “We are going into the case thor- oughly and investigate all angles,” said District Attorney James P. Hart. “If we determine he is sane we will prosecute as hard as we can.” Hart had in his possession a signed statement in which the former Uni- versity of Texas student detailed how he had shot his father and mother, wounded himself in the arm and then reported they had been shot by high- waymen. Sheriff Lee Allen said young Pier- son admitted killing his parents to obtain $17,000 in life insurance and to avenge wrongs. “I hope you don’t think I am a cold-blooded murderer,” a cousin, Walter Pierson, quoted the confessed slayer after a visit t& his cell. “I'm BOTHFORCES WARY ON LYNCHING BILL Foes of Measure Maneuver for Recess That Would Halt Test Vote. | By the Associated Press. Supporters and opponents of the ‘Wagner-Costigan anti-lynching ‘bill maneuvered cagily in the Senate to- day—the former seeking to force a roll call vote that would amount to a test on the measure and the latter to ad- Journ over the week end Democratic leaders planned to move ' adjournment instead of a recess later The 20-year-old youth, who re- inthe day and hoped to avoid a record | | mained calm for many hours after he | vote. had lured his parents to a lonely spot | Of Colorado, co-author of the bill mak- | by him and other officers of the Senator Costigan, Democrat, ing lynching a Federal crime, wanted the roll call. If the Senate adjourns today, reported to have lingered for some | moments before “The Striker” while | on a tour of the biennial exhibition | and to have expressed their admira- tion of the artist's virile work. Aided by P. W. A. P. Program. Bloch, a naturalized German, re- sides in Philadelphia. He is a pupil of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and a member of the Society of Independent Aritists. He was one of many artists who benefited through designed to lend aid to worthy artists. He received the Pennsylvania Acad- emy’s Tappan prize in 1912 and won honorable mention at the fourth an- | nual exhibition of the Philadelphia Print Club in 1932. His paintings hang in the Pennsylvania Academy, in the Whitney Museum of American | Art at New York City and in the | Newark, N J.. Library. | “The Striker” was one of the pic- —Star Staff Photo. | tures selected by The Star for re- | production in the rotogravure sec- tion when the biennial show opened last month. It elicited much favor- able comment at the opening private view of the exhibition. WOMAN AND MAN " HELD IN ROBBERIES Mrs. Emma G. Shrieves and Jehn T. Gilbert Bound Over to Grand Jury. Although he expressed the belief that they were tools of a gang which had been conducting a series of Jewelry robberies during the past sev- eral weeks, Judge Ralph Given held Mrs. Elma G. Shrieves, 22, blond and prettty, and John T. Gilbert, 23, for action of the grand jury on two house breaking + charges in Police Court today Detective Sergt. Thomas Nally in- | formed the court that investigation Jewelry robberies led them to a house |in the 900 block of K street where they made a raid and found a bushel the Government's P. W. A. P. program | Costigan was informed by the chair, basket full of jewelry mountings from this would automatically sidetrack his | which the stones had been removed. motion to consider the measure—it While they had reason to believe there is not officially before the Senate yet— | Were a number of others implicated | and make way for recognition Monday | in the robberies, only Mrs. Shrieves | of Senator Harrison, Democrat, of and Gilbert were found there at the Mississippi, to take up the bonus bill. Meanwhile Senator Bailey. Demo- crat, of North Carolina, resumed his | time, Nally said. Judge Given set the bond for the woman at only $1,000 because she has argument against taking up the one child to look after and also be- lynching legislation, but without further reference to Father Charles | neither she nor Gilbert were the activa | E. Coughlin, Detroit radio priest, members of the gang for whom police | whom he attacked last night. | have been searching. Gilbert’s bond | Bailey asserted that the attempt was set at $3,000. to extend Federal control into the| The two charges against the couple States by making mob action a Fed-‘lmude in court today were that they | eral offense “negatives every theory of | | jurisprudence from which this coun-|son street and 609 Nicholson street. | try derives its life.” | Police told the court the woman had | “It is” he continued, “a denial been seen riding in an automobile with cause of his expressed belief that | had burglarized houses at 412 Jeffer- | BOARD OF TRADE - NAMES DIRECTORS John Saul Slated to Succeed Robert V. Fleming as President. | Ten new directors, chosen at the annual meeting of the Washington | | Board of Trade last night, will meet | tomorrow with 20 holdover ‘members | | to elect new officers. John Saul, who has served as first vice president the past year, is ex- | pected to succeed President Robert V.| Fleming, who presided at the meet- ing last night at the Mayflower Hotel. The new directors, announced after more than two hours of balloting, are A. C. Case of Palais Royal, Inc.; Ben | T. Webster, Boss & Phelps, Inc.; | Thomas ¢ Littlepage. attorney; Harry H. R. Helwig. Underwood-Elliott | Fisher Co.; Marcy L. Sperry, Wash- | ington Gas Light Co.; Willlam R. | Ellis, real estate dealer; Howard | Moran, American Security & Trust | Co.; James B Edmunds, Chesapeake | & Ohio Railway: Samuel J. Prescott, Samuel J. Prescott Co., Inc., and Saul, | head of the B. F. Saul Co. H | Officers Present Reports. While the membership was busy | | selecting new directors, officers pre- sented their reports. Robert J. Cot- trell, executive secretary, read the re- port of J. Harry Cunningham. treas- urer, which showed the organization had’ strengthened its financial posi- tion during the past year. Fleming presented a detailed state- ment of the policies and activities of his administration. The year was | hailed by members as one of the most | successful in the history of the or- ganization. | Helwig, elevated to the board of directors, reported for the Member- | ship Committee, of which he has served as chairman. New members for the year totaled 907, a record, but | Helwig pointea out that a part of { them came into the organization | through consolidation of the Board of Trade with the Wachington Chamber | of Commerce. | Officers, however, were so impressed by the membership activities that sev- eral members of the committee were awarded gifts by Fleming and his associates. Leaders in Drive Honored. | | Among those so honored were Hel- wig, Robert W. Davis, who enrolled 80!, new members during the year (to lead the fleld of campaigners; | George Plitt, Thornton W. Owen. | Hollis G. Fritts, Fred A. Smith. W | Russell Lamar. Crosdale Whitt,! Robert E. Lee, Karl E. Jarrell. Pres- ton W. Perkinson. Christian Heurich, jr. and William E. Wise. Bishop James Hugh Ryan. rector of Catholic University, told the board the plans are now being made for the institution to call upon Wash- ington -for the first time in its 50 vears of existence for financial aid The city will be asked to contribute $400,000 to the endowment fund be- fore the campaign is taken to the country as a whole to raise a total | of-$2.000,000. ! Bishop Ryan described the work of | the university, stressing the fact that primarily it is an institution of re- search.. He also pointed out that| the university is not exclusively an ecclesiastical school, although it has gained that reputation locally. “I shouldn't think,” he said. “you would believe the school is filled only with priests if you have read the accounts of its foot ball team and its boxing team. I know some priests who are boxers, but they do their fightiflg privately and among them- selves.” GLEN ECHO PARK OPENS l TOMORROW FOR SEASON Crystal Pool, Ready May 25, Will Be Scene of Swimming | Exhibitions. | Gler. Echo reopens its nuldoor‘ amusement season tomorrow after- noon at 1 o'clock. The opening will mark the park’s twenty-first season. Crystal Pool will open May 25 and will be the scene of several important | swim exhibitions this Summer. | Street cars tomorrow will resume their regular Summer schedule to and trom Glen Echo. BELTSVILLE PROBE! Leaders of Trade Board John Saul, vice president of the ashington Board of Trade (left). who is expected to be chosen president tomorrow when the new board of di- rectors meets. He will succeed Robert V. Fleming (right), who has served during the past year. \PEACOCK SUPPORTS | ‘ SHIP SUBSIDY BILL | Outright Merchant Marine Grants Advocated Before Senate Com- merce Committee. | By the Associated Press. | Outright subsidies to the American | Merchant Marine to offset cheaper | construction and cperating costs of | foreign lines were advocated yesterday | before the Senate Commerce Com-, mittee. | James C. Peacock, director of the | Shipping Beard Bureau of the Com- merce Department, gave tentative ap» proval of the department to the Cope- - land ship subsidy bill, a measure asked by the administration to eliminate- use - | of ocean mail contracts as subsidies. The bill, as explained by Senator- Copeland, Democrat, of New York, its" author and chairman of the Commerce-~ Committee, has two primary purpcses. * The first would be the determination and payment of subsidies for new ship construction equal to the difference in | cost of having it buflt in foreign ship yards. The second would be the pay-- ment of subsicies to meet lower operat- ing costs of foreign vessels. Peacock said the Department of Com- | merce favored the bill, but suggested that the “United States maritime au« —Star Staff Photo. QUSTSE.W. SHEETS Friend of Tugwell Prepares to Quit May 15 as Re- sult of Inquiry. Earl W. Sheets, close friend of Rex- ford Guy Tugwell and manager of last Summer’s drought-relief program, today prepared to leave the Govern- ment service May 15 as a result of a dismissal order from Secretary Wal- lace following charges of alleged ir- regularities in connection with the Beltsville, Md, P. W. A. building project. The ouster climaxes a six-month probe by the office of Administrator Ickes of Dr. Sheets' alleged “neglect of duty, maladministration and mal- feasance” in handling $1.314,890 pub- lic works funds in the plan to turn Beltsville into the greatest farm ex- perimental post in the world. As co-ordinator of the program. he | reported funds were exhausted before two-thirds of the building was com- pleted. Ickes declared there had been an infraction of a stringent rule that P. W. A. money can be spent only on specific projects for which it is al- loted. When charges of technical violation of Ickes' rulings were made, Sheets was first suspended and then sent to a post at a minor Florida agricul- tural station. Ben F. Brandon, super- intendent of the Beltsville animal husbandry farm. was dismissed, and Louis R. Glavis, head Interior Depart- ment investigator, ordered to conduct an inquiry into the affair. At no time was there any accusa- tion of personal corruption or misap- propriation on the part of Dr. Sheets, who has held important posts in the Department of Agriculture since 1918. Ickes later alloted an added $426,500 to complete the work, and Dr. E. B. Butterfiel, former director of the Ar- lington experimental station, was put | in charge of the projec o - | thority” provided in the measure be | directed to perform but three major functions—the awarding and adminis- tration of subsidies, the making of construction loans, and the adjustment of existing contracts in relation to new ones. . Bars Jubilee Celebration. Greenock, Scotland, Town Council has voted not to celebrate the King's Jjubilee. Looking After Your Financial Health! * Most r-n and women know more about looking after their health then they do about looking after their money. A man does not become ill —or remain healthy — without reason . . . neither does he get into financial trouble —or become successful — without cause. And just as it is a good plan to watch your physical condition, so it is well to have your financial health looked after occasionally. 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AND AUTOS TAKEN Small Amounts of Cash Seized by | Hold-up Men in Two great scientist, couldn't send me.” Has Inferiority Complex. ‘Walter Pierson said he was con- vinced the youth was laboring under hallucinations that his father had not favored him as he had another brother and a sister. An opinion that the youth was suffering from dementia praecox was expressed by Dr. Joe Wooten, family physician. “He often spoke of discriminations but father said he| |ESTATE TAX PLAN | TO PAY OFF BONUS OFFERED IN SENATE (Continued From First Page.) Special in the Golden Jubilee World-Famous | months it has been apparent the Sen- | |ate would be the real battleground, Sale we offer the outstanding Suit Sensations of his parents against him.” said G. N. | Where the veterans’ drive would finally “Jobs.” Two taxicab drivers were held up early today by white bandits, who took small amounts of cash and drove | off in their cabs. Martin F. Bartscheck, 822 Seventh | street southwest, was forced to hand over $4.60 at Ninth and C streets gouthwest to three men who ordered him from the driver’s seat and made off with his cab. A bandit pair took a cab operated | by Merle Shelton, 306 Third street southwest, after halting the driver on North Vista Drive and robbing him | of $6.60. The cab later was found | abandoned at Delaware avenue and C street southwest. Police early today arrested two men and a woman in connection with the robbery of Samuel J. Elliott, 63, of Mount Vernon Apartments, who was forced to hand over $30 to thugs who attacked him in an alley in the rear of the first block of H street northeast. Elliott was treated at Casualty Hospital for a possible fracture of the jaw and bruises about the mouth and eyes. A colored bandit robbed Harold J. Leach of $55 early today as Leach was parking his car in the rear of his home at 1410 N street. Leach gave Ppolice a description of his assailant. g PO T WOMAN ON VESTRY At the annual election for vestry, held in old historic Christ Episcopal Church last Monday, Miss Bessie T. Wood was chosen to sit on the gov- erning board. Washington Parish was established in 1795 and the present church build- ing, at 620 G street southeast, was first occupied in 1807. This parish was the first in the city proper and this is the first time in its history that a woman has been elected to a place on the vestry. Members of Washington Parish, under the leadership of Rev. Edward Gabler, rector of the church, will | morning. Stovall, warehouse foreman of an ol | company for which Pierson was work- | ing. “I think he magnified these | things and brooded over them too, much. | “He always seemed to take every- | thing at its face value and seemed un- | able to take a joke or pass off a trivial | matter.” | The bodies of the slain justice and | his wife will lie in state in the Su- preme Court chambers this afternoon. Funeral services will be held tomorrow | CELLER URGES U. S. PROTEST T0 NAZIS B'nai B'rith Lodge Hears Bepre-i sentative Rap “Indifference” to Anti-Jewish Drive. Renewed demand for administration protest against anti-Jewish movements | in Germany was volced last night by Representative Celler of New York at a meeting of Argo Lodge of the B'nai | Brith at the Jewish Community Center. Representative Celler criticized the State Department for its “indifference” to the plight of Jews in Germany and cited a number of precedents for such a protest in cases where the rights of American nationals are not involved. Celler said the Catholics of this| country are confronted by a similar situation in their efforts to get the administration to raise its voice against persecution in Mexico. Plans for the coming quinquennial convention of the Constitution Grand Lodge of the B'nai B'rith were dis- cussed at last night's meeting. Alfred L. Bennett, president of Argo, called for a 100 per cent attendance at the convention banquet May 6 at the Willard. Speaker of the House Byrns celebrate the 140th anniversary of zl;e founding of the parish next Sun- y. +-ll be the guest of honor. 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The game will be held on the polo fleld in West Poto- mac Park between the Third Cavalry OST Officials of the National Capital | Parks said meanwhile the cherry trees found around the speedway in East Potomac Park are in full bloom. They are expected to attract thousands of visitors over the week end. Park officials today were having the polo field steam: rolled, the grass cut, and the ground generally put in good shape for the ponles, said Albert Clyde-Burton, . assistant superintend- ent of the National Capital Parks. He explained that Sunday was chosen for the opening game to permit the thousands of visitors to Washington to see it. The season here will continue until October, when a grand finale will be reached in & match with a team from England. This will be similar to the international matches here last year with a team from Mexico. Through the season, polo games will be held regularly in West Potomac Park, on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3:30 p.m. and Sundays at 10 am. 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