Evening Star Newspaper, June 24, 1935, Page 19

Washington News WEEK END TRAFFIC TOLL'3 DEAD AND TWOSGORE HUR Bridge Crash Climax of Many Accidents as Two Lose Lives. WOMAN HURT JUNE 16 DIES AT HOSPITAL ‘Washington Record of Fatalities for Year Mounts to 54—One in Critical Condition. Three persons were killed in traffic accidents over the week end, two of them in the District, while a fourth died of injuries received in the city a week ago. Nearly two score others were hurt in accidents in the District, nearby Maryland and Virginia. Martin J. Mueller, 21, 2613 L street, and PFrancis Mulcare, 33, of 634 D street northeast, were killed early yes- terday in a head-on collision on High- way Bridge between automobiles they were driving. Mrs, Mary L. Osborne, 68, visiting here from Buffalo, N. Y. and staying at 719 D street southeast, died in Garfield Hospital yesterday from in- Juries received June 16 when an auto- mobile in which she was seated drifted away from its parking place in the 1200 block of Clifton street and crashed into the wall of the Garfield ‘Hospital grounds. Annie Turner, 27, colored, was fatally injured early yesterday when hit by an automobile in front of her home near Rockville, Md. She was a cook in the home of Mrs. Cecil All- mutt of Rockville, a sister of State Senator Stedman Prescott. District Toll Now 54. ‘The deaths nere raised to 54 the total number of traffic deaths in the District since January 1, according to the official police count. Another fatality on a street car right of way Etnoh included in the police traffic In the Highway Bridge accident, Charles Stebbens, 28, 335 Eighth street northeast, a passenger in Mul- care’s car, suffered serious head in- Juries. X-rays were to be taken at Emergency Hospital to determine whether he has a skull fracture. Two others, Paul Sullivan, 20, of 2223 H street and Bernard Niland, 21, 930 ‘Twelfth street, passengers in Mueller’s machine, escaped with minor injuries. ‘They were treated at Georgetown Hospital. The automobile in which Mrs. Os- borne was fatally injured had been parked on Clifton street by her son, Thomas M. Osborne, whom she was visiting here. Mr. Osborne, accord- ing to police, said he had set the emergency brake and placed the car in gear when he parked it. Charles Butt, 21, of Rockville, Md., driver of the automobile which struck the colored woman, Annie Turner, was arrested by Maryland authorities on a charge of manslaughter and leaving the scene after the accident. He later was released under $1,000 bond. Wit- nesses told police he leaped from the car and ran. Some 10 others were injured in local traffic accidents since midnight Sat- urday. Mrs. Myrtle C. Richardson, 51, of 520 Tenth street northeast, Treasury Department employe, was treated at Emergency Hospital early yesterday for numerous cuts, bruises and shock suffered when struck by an automobile at Seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue. Herbert A. Rosch, 21, of 317 N street southwest, driver of the auto- mobile, was arrested on a charge of reckless driving. ‘Two colored persons, William Bur- ton, 40, of the 1000 block of Twenty- second street, and Bessie Burton, 30, of the N street address were treated =t Emergency Hospital for cuts and bruises when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by an allegedly hit-and-run machine at Fourteenth street and Constitution avenue. Others injured in local accidents included: Estelle Tagalon, 60, of 816 XK street northeast, who suffered cuts and bruises when struck by an auto- mobile at Eleventh and K streets mortheast; Prank Daniels, 4, colored, of the 1200 block of Union street southwest, who suffered a leg fracture and cuts when hit by an automobile in front of his home and three col- ored persons injured, one seriously, ‘when their automobile ran into a pole at Twenty-eighth street and Benning yoad northeast. They are Stewart McCald, 72, of the 1100 block of Nine- teenth street, who may have a back fracture; John Gant, 59, of the 1900 ‘block of L street and Garrison Smith, (44, of the 3100 block of Highland place, both of whom returned home after receiving first aid at Sibley Hos- pital. McCald, was transferred to Gallinger Hospital, after receiving first aid at Sibley. North Carolinian Hurt. In an accident early today, E. P. Rackley of Wallace, N. C., was seri- ously injured when a truck he was driving collided with a parked inter- city bus on the Baltimore Boulevard at Berwyn. He was removed uncon- scious to Sibley Hospital. B. J. River- back, also of Wallace, N. C., said to be a helper on the truck, was taken to Casualty Hospital suffering from bruises and shock. Andrew Baremtine, first block of M street, a mechanic in charge of the bus, which had broken down, es- caped unhurt, but was arrested on a charge of failing to park the vehicle as far as possible from the center of The Foening Sfaf WASHINGTON, D. €, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1935. Doctor, 89, Losing All Skin - By Degrees, Battles Death Rufus Choate Treats Himself and Insists He Will Recover. Epidermis Comes Off in Strips, Resembling Severe Burn. BY GEORGE HURD. In a dimly-lit third-floor reom out at 1401 Thirty-third street, death is gradually being defeated by an 89- year-old physician, Dr. Rufus Choate, who has practiced medicine in Wash- ington for 68 years and should be qualified to recognize the spectre when he meets it. Dr. Choate, seemingly in full pos- session of his faculties, is fast being “skinned alive,” as he expresses it, by what appears to be an epidermal ailment which takes the appearance of a severe case of burning. Dr. Choate chooses to call it death and be convincing about it, too. According to the theory of Dr. Choate, who has written numerous books on the subjects of death, life, mathematical fractions, skin tissues and mythology, death has laid siege to his body through his skin. Life Held Stronger. “The battleground between the op- posing foes—life and death—lies be- tween the skin and the internal organs,” Dr. Choate told a reporter last night in a weird, sepulchral voice. “Life is stronger than death in the human body, because death must enter from the outside, while life already is there. There is nothing wrong with my body. My strength is at its best for my age and my heart is pumping away as it did when 1 was on my feet, joshing my patients about their ailments.” Dr. Choate proved his strength when he asked the reporter to shake hands with him. “Now don’t be afraid to grip my hand,” he said, “I can take it. Do you feel that grip?” The writer did, painfully, despite his comparative youth. The doctor then asked the writer to turn his hand over, a trick practiced by playful boys when they want to show off their strength. The surprising strength in the slender hand of the doctor kept it from turning. He then asked that his pulse be felt and it was found to be beating strongly and evenly. Death Kept Outside. “If death were touching me inside, could my strength hold up and my heart beat be practically normal after such exertion”? the doctor asked, with & slight chuckle. “I have been living with death al- most at my fingertips for 68 years,” he continued, “and I should be able to recognize it when I see it, and I tell you now that I have no disease. It is merely that death has laid siege to me, and that life is so strong within me that death is being “stayed in my outer body. I have been on a bed of white-hot coals for six days and have been scorched. I am being skinned alive, but life is stronger than death and will win out, and I shall have made a discovery beyond anything ever imagined by man before.” ‘While talking, Dr. Choate reached up to his chest and pulled away a long strip of his skin and held it up to view. The place from which the strip came was left unwrinkled and white, standing out gruesomely in the almost black parchment-appearing fleld of his mummy-like body. Was Born in Capital™ Dr. Choate was born in Washington January 31, 1846, and has lived all his life here, with the exception of eight years in the Army during the Civil War and the Indian wars. He has DR. RUFUS CHOATE. lived and practiced medicine in his present home for 45 years and is being attended by a nurse who was his housekeeper more than 40 years ago. Mrs. Emma Cook, before her mar- riage 31 years ago, was housekeeper for Dr. Choate. She “up and got mar- ried,” she said, and left the doctor’s employ. Then came the break-up of the marriage and she took up nursing. Now she is back, 31 years later, taking care of her former employer. Dr. Choate lives alone in the old house since the death of his wife, Mrs. Ellen Olivia, last March 26. They had been married 51 years. He is the grandson of Solomon Drew, who came to Washington from Cromwell, Eng- land, only two years after the British had burned the Capitol in 1814. Also attending him is his cousin, Mrs. Em- ma F. Carroll of 1325 Vermont ave- nue, who formerly was the attractive Miss Emma Drew. Vitality Is Marvel. The writer was called to the Choate home last night by a message that the aged physician wanted to make a death-bed statement. Arriving at the bedside, the visitor sat and listened and marveled at the vitality of the man who is “being skinned alive by death.” “I am being burned up outside” the man on the bed spoke clearly, unfalteringly, “but I am perfectly cool inside. Christ was crucified on the cross, but I am undergoing crucifixion on my bed and I am going to win the battle, because life is stronger than death and I shall prove it for mankind.” And as the blackened body, for all the world like a mummy in its tomb, was bereft of another huge strip of skin, the story of the Persian prince in the old legend came into mind. Like the prince, the aged Dr. Choate had, doubtlessly, met death and was re- buking him Practiced Until Last Monday. Dr. Choate is a first cousin of the famous Rufus Choate, who was widely known for his court room wit years ago, and is a second cousin of Joseph Choate, who was at one time Ambas- sador to England. Up to last Monday Dr. Choate was going about his regular practice, which involved the treatment of from 20 to 25 patients a day in his home. He gave up bedside calling several years ago, but carried on his work at home. Although he has Dr. A. E. Craig, his neighbor, at 1330 Thirtieth street, call on him every day, Dr. Choate ex- plained that it is more in the nature of a social call, since he insists on treating himself with his own medi- cines. Dr. Craig says Dr. Choate is suffer- ing from a dermititis which is a break- ing down of the skin tissues. If we can keep his body built up inside he will be able to overcome it and will recover, he said. CLOSED BANK TO PAY DEPOSITORS $200,000 Frederick Institution’s Third Dis- tribution Within Year Is Announced. By the Associated Press. FREDERICK, Md., June 24—De- positors of the defunct Central Trust Co. of Maryland will receive a dis- tribution totaling $200,000 on August 9. Plans for the <distribution, the third within a year, were announced by W. Clinton McSherry, attorney for the People's Liquidating Corp., which is liquidating the trust company. The three distributions, only ones which have been made to depositors, total $1,030,240.44. The company closed September 3, 1931. Emory L. Coblentz, its presi- dent, was indicated in connection with its failure and his latest case now is before the Court of Appeals. Railroader-Poet Dies. ‘WELLINGTON, Kans., June 24 (#). —Oliver Grifith Crawford, a train dispatcher, who wrote suca good poetry in his spare time that na- tionally known magazines purchased it, died yesterday at the age of 60. His pen name was Griff Crawford. —————————— nue, Hyattsville, was critically in- jured when the car in which he was riding ran off the Gaithersburg road, near Emory Grove, and crashed into a telephone pole. He was taken to the home of a doctor, but later 1 SERRERRECEE %3{;? §§§§‘§ BE £ £ % Right of Master To Kiss His Dog Upheld by Judge Case Comes Up in Police Court After Protests by Landlady. A man’s right to kiss hi$ own dog was upheld by Judge Robert E. Mat- tingly today in a case in Police Court. Judge Mattingly took the place of Judge Gus A. Schuldt, who left today for a two weeks’ vacation. The case was that of a colored man who told the court he was kissing his dog when the landlady objected to the proceedings. Where- upon the landlady claims the former said: “This dog’s mouth is just as ‘When the land- knocked her down. In dismissing the case, Judge Mat- tingly declared that & man has a right to kiss his own dog even if its mouth isn’t sanitary. STATION MEASURE GIVEN APPROVAL House Committee Orders Favor- able Report on Proposal to Substitute Shelter. The Public Utilities subcommittee of the House District Committee to- day ordered ‘a favorable report on a bill suthorizing the Pennsylvania Railroad to substitute an inclosed BN % BENT[R PRUBRAM New Bridge for New Hampshire Avenue l CONFLICT WILL BE LAID BEFORE QUIZ Pension Office Additions Would Interfere With Fu- ture Court Building. GARNETT WILL APPEAR BEFORE SENATE HEARING Suggestion Is Made That U. S. Take Over Pennsylvania Ave- nue Frontage From Distriet. ‘The Senate subcommittee which be- gan hearings today on the second defl- ciency appropriation bill will have brought to its attention the fact that the remodeling and enlargement of the old Pension Office in Judiciary Square, provided for in the House bill, would prevent the carrying out of plans to erect a new District Court Building on the Pension Office site at some future time. United States District Attorney Les- lie C. Garnett was waiting to discuss the problem with the subcommittee this morning, but his testimony was postponed until tomorrow. Bill Carries $4,700,000. The House bill authorizes $4,700,- 000, of which $2,000,000 is to be ap- propriated at this time, to add two wings to the old Pension Office and to cover the exterior with stone. The General Accounting Office, which oc- cupies the building, is in need of additional space. Various agencies connected with the development of the National Capital have been working on a plan under which it was hoped a future home for the District Supreme Court could go on that site. The enlargement and remodeling of the Pension Office would preclude that possibility. Another part of the plan was to ask the Federal Government to take over from the District the Pennsyl- vania avenue frontage of the Munici- pal Center site and use that for a new General Accounting Office. Congress Forced Purchase. Congress, before the depression set in, required the District to purchase | four squares extending from Pennsyl- vania avenue to Indiana avenue be- tween Third and Sixth streets for a group of municipal buildings. It has since been recognized that the Munici- pal Center program was too elaborate for the District Government to carry out under present conditions, and Congress recently authorized the Com- missioners to erect in Judiciary Square three buildings for the Police, Juventle and Municipal Courts, if a pubhc works loan can be obtained. The Pen- sion Office remodeling would not in- terfere with these small court build- ings, but would conflict with the plans for a future new Supreme Court build- ing. The new Supreme Court building would be a Federal structure. INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE GRADUATES 52 MEN Col. Frank B. Scott Is Principal Speaker as Service Officers Receive Diplomas. Fifty-two officers of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, graduates of the Army Industrial College, located in the munitions building, received their diplomas from Secretary Dern Satur- day. Addressing the graduates was Col. Harry B. Jordan of the ordnance de- partment, who is director of the in- stitution. He introduced Col. Frank B. Scott, holder of the Ditsinguished Service Medal and first chairman of the War Industries Board, who de- livered the principal address. He en- joined the officers fo get the best use from the lessons they had learned in the college, and to be a credit to their profession. Maj. Gen. George S. Simonds, dep- uty chief of staff, participated in the ceremony, as did other high-ranking officials. Admiral Willlam H. Stand- ley, chief of naval operations, also attended. —— NAME CHANGE OPPOSED The Society of American Foresters, with a membership of 2,500 profes- sional foresters, yesterday opposed & bill advocated by Secretary Ickes to change the name of the Department of Interior to that of Conservation and Works. Prof. H. H. Chapman of Yale Uni- versity, president, outlined the so- ciety’s position in a statement. He said: “The Society of American Foresters Bunions Threaten . Zoo’s Stork Unless He Gets Some Mud But It Has to Be From Congo, Not Ordinary Everyday Kind. Mortimer, the new hammerheaded s sadly in gumbo et ifigizg i iy edvetn % i i i i ; ; E The new $100,000 bridge spanning the B. & O. Rallroad tracks at the District end of New Hampshire avenue which was formally opened and dedicated on Saturday. Condemnation proceedings will start soon, instituted by the State of Maryland, to open farm land for the highw: SUTS CONSIDERED T0 CLEAR ROUTE Maryland to Begin Action Over New Hampshire Avenue Span. Condemnation proceedings against property owners in Maryland whose farm lands block the right of way of the new New Hampshire Avenue Bridge at Chillum Heights are con- templated in the near future by the State, it was learned today from Nathan L. Smith, chief engineer of the Maryland State Roads Commission. On Saturday, with elaborate cere- mony, the new bridge spanning the Baltimore & Ohio tracks at Chillum Heights was opened for contemplated | traffic to Baltimore, but any commer- | cial traffic that went out that way this morning found progress blocked by a 12-foot ctlay bank on the Mary- land side of the bridge. While Maryland has the money ap- propriated for opening the new high- way to Baltimore, a highway designed to cut down traffic on the Baltimore pike, according to Engineer Smith, certain farm land owners of the Chil- lum Heights sector “are holding their acreage at prices that would apply to land down Pennsylvania avenue.” Farm Owners Accused. It is understood that some 12 to 15 farm owners are blocking the right of way into Maryland—and that one man alone is holding his farm property at $4,000 an acre. Engineer Smith said today he hopes to get the condemnation proceedings under way in about two months. It would then take many more months to cut the road through to College Park, Md., where it will join with the Balti- more pike. “The contract has not been awarded for this work,” Mr. Smith said, “be- cause we have not been able to get the right of way.” ‘When the barriers on the other side of the new bridge are removed the new road out of Washington will shorten the route to Baltimore by 4 miles, it is said. At the dedication ceremonies and official opening on Saturday the new bridge over Upper New Hampshire avenue was decorated with flags and bunting. A new idea in super- structure was imposed when aluminum side rails were uncovered instead of the customary iron or steel. Also & novel road bed of sand, clay and calclum chloride was used instead of concrete or cement. Lights Turned On. Last night the bridge was fully illuminated. by Cyrus T. A program sponsored Bright, chairman of the Dedication Committee, marked the formal open- ing of the bridge. The States of Maryland and New Hampshire were officially represented. Hon. George H. Duncan, representing the New Eng- land State, spoke briefly. An address was also delivered by Melvin C. Hazen, president of the Board of District Commissioners. Dr. Liewellyn Jordon represented the Washington Board of Trade. Invocation was pronounced by Rev. F. J. Bohannan, D. D., Harrison M. Dixon was master of ceremonies. Music*was played by the Elks Boys’ Band. Thomas W. Joy, president of the Chillum Heights Citizens’ Associa- tion, delivered the address of wel- come. A short talk was made by United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage. The cutting of .the rib- bon, an impressive ceremony, was per- formed by two girls and two boys— the Misses Farrell and Mills and Masters Joy and O’Malley. Charles C. Langley, with Commissioner Hazen, led the procession that marked the official opening of the bridge. Many Honored Guests. Guests of honor at the ceremony were: Lyster H. Dewey, president of the Petworth Citizens’ Association; Fred A. Emery, District of Columbia civic worker; George V. Graham, chairman Streets and Avenues Com- mittee, the Board of Trade; Walter Irey, president of the Takoma Park Citizens’ Association; T. J. Llewellyn, Federation of Citizens’ Association; zens’ Association; W. A. Mellon, Mary- land civic worker; E. H. Pullam, Mrs. Alice Kincaid, 70, of 1363 Park road, sustained a fractured hip last she fell from a street i ! L. ALLYN SHACKELFORD. RESORT TRAGEDIES TAKE TWO LIVES One Drowns in Two Feet of | Water—Pair Saved as Boat Capsizes. ‘Two Washingtonians were drowned | at nearby resorts yesterday, while two others narrowly escaped a similar fate when their outboard motor boat cap- sized and hurled them into Chesa- peake Bay. L. Allyn Shackelford, 52, week end- ing with friends at his Summer cot- tage at Colonial Beach, Md., was drowned in 2 feet of water when he suffered a heart attack. Shackelford, a pressman at the Government Print- ing Office and prominent in Masonic activities, lived at 500 E street north- east. Efforts of friends to revive him were futile. He was a member of Lebanon Lodge, No. 7, F. A. A. M. Surviving him are two brothers, J. W. and Charles Shackelford, and a sl:ur, Mrs. Lida Sandy, all of this city. ‘Wallace Timco, 25, of 1114 Penn street northeast, drowned while swim- ming alone off Woodland Beach, South River, near Annapolis, Md. He was apparently stricken with acute indi- gestion as a result of eating heavily before his swim. His wife Ruby was one of many per- sons on shore who saw him sink after yelling for help. Swimmers and ca- noeists rushed to his aid, but he had disappeared in the water, which was 25 feet deep. Efforts to dive for him were futile. His body was recovered an hour and a half later with grap- pling irons by Annapolis police. Hurled into choppy waters off Ches- apeake Beach, Victor M. Eisenbeiss, 34, 207 Philadelphia avenue, Takoma Park, Md, and George Clark, 26, Silver Spring, Md., escaped a similar fate. They were rescued by Capt. R. B. Mortimer, Seaside Park, Md., and Edward Price, Cambridge, Md. Rudolph C. Lubbert, 22, of Bal- timore was drowned while swiruming in the Severn River yesterday. Vol- unteer firemen recovered his body. Meanwhile, police were still search- ing for the body of Horace krskine, young employe cf the R. F. C. here, who was drowned after his canoce overturned Saturday while trying to shoot the rapids at Little Falls, above Chain Bridge. Erskine lived at 1426 M _street. Police were uuabl: to learn the identity of two womer companions of Erskine and France Frasze, 1322 —Star Staff Photo. RAZING OF SLUMS T0 START BY FALL 13 Acres to Be Cleared in| Southwest for Low-Cost Homes Project. Wrecking crews will be moved into Southwest Washington within three months to start clearing away colored slums in the 13-acre area selected as | the site for the first low-cost housing project in the District of Columbia. The project, it was estimated, will | provide a total pay roll of $1,496,000 for direct and indirect labor during | the next year. Condemnation proceedings, filed last | Saturday in the District Supreme | Court to enable the Government to| obtain title to the site, are expected | to require about two months. This| period will give tenants in the area | ample time in which to vacate and | look for other homes, officials said. Meanwhile, housing officials are going ahead with plans for one or more projects for white residents. They said several other sites are un- der consideration, sites generally un-| der one ownership. These, includin; the one frequently mentioned of Rhode- Island avenue northeast, may or may not be secured through con- demnation proceedings. Officials said they will be governed entirely by con- ditions encountered. Work to Require Year. P. W. A. housing officials were esti- | mating today the economic aspect of | | the $3,000,000 slum clearance program for colored residents in the southwest section. It was estimated the actual construction work, beginning probably in September, will provide a full year'’s work. Engineers today had set up a working chart showing the number of man hours of employment and the cost of labor employed on the site and in the trarsportation and manufac- ture of materials. The southwest project, it was esti- mated, will provide a total of 1,980,- 852 man hours for direct and indirect labor. This is made up of a number of individual estimates. The con- struction work creates to skilled and unskilled labor 750,000 man hours on the site plus 129,908 man hours for fleld supervision, engineering and clerical forces, or a total of 879,908 man hours of direct labor at the site. In addition, the project will create 228,261 man hours of indirect labor to provide the raw materials and 742,925 man hours for fabricating materials at mills and factories, such as making shingles, window frames, rain spouts, etc. Transportation, including truck- ing, is estimated to create 129,758 man hours of labor. The total for indirect labor is estimated at 1,100,944 man hours. Pay Roll Is Broken Down. P. W. A. officials have not as yet broken down the man hours into the actual number of workmen expected to be employed on the housing site. ‘The $1,496,000 total pay roll, like the hours of labor, was broken down in the estimate. For skilled and un- skilled labor at the site the project will create a $712,500 pay roll. The pay roll for supervising service is esti- mated at $112,500, making a total of $825,000 in direct pay rolls at the site. The indirect labor pay roll was estimated at $671,000. The regular P. W. A. wage scales, based on a 30-hour week and meet- ing conditions in the Washington area, will prevail. Under general con- ditions the P. W. A. wage scale in this section is $1.10 per hour for skilled labor and 45 cents per hour for un- skilled labor. DEFENDS REPEAL Willam H. Stayton, chairman of . | Repeal Associates, said yesterday that hausted and had to swim to save him- self. Police were crntinuing their search for the body today. $967,558 BELTSVILLE FUND ASKED OF P. W. A, Project Includes Construction of Power Lines, Water System and arrests for drunken driving were more numerous during the last four “typical years” of mational prohibition than for the first full year under repeal. Stayton, founder of the Association |, Against Prohibition Amendment, said in a statement that the average num- ber of arrests for the four prohibition years was 24,306, and the average for the beer and repeal years, 20,927, “The highest record of arrests was 24455 in 1928, which was 5805 in excess of the beer year of 1933, and 1,250 in excess of the repeal year of Society and General PAGE B—1 DSTRT OFFCALS SEEKNG PROECTS N WORK PROGRAM Allen Gives “Go” Signal for Selection of Plans to Employ 16,000. PROPOSAL DRAFT LEFT TO DEPARTMENT HEADS Seven Recommendations Already Sent to Federal Agency. Start Awaits 0. K. A half-hundred District department executives set to work today to find projects under which the District will spend millions of dollars within a year in giving steady employment to the 16,000 or so persons on the relief rolls. The “go” signal for preparation of work programs as speedily as possible was given by Commissioner Allen, Dis- trict works progress administrator, at a meeting of all department officials in his office at 11 am. He advised them that those who were wise would have suggestions on file by tomorrow morning. Allen left preparations of the pro- grams directly up to the department heads, saying they should submit pro- posals for all projects deemed needy and worthy. $900 Limit Is Fixed. Under Federal rules for the District, the expenditures on projects must not exceed $900 per year per man, includ- ing material costs, but Allen explained projects of higher cost could be bal- anced by those less expensive. It was indicated this would restrict the works program to projects mostly along the lines of highway and sewer work, building repairs and alterations, im- provement of grounds and a wide field of white-collar projects. In other words, there is little chance for in- clusion of many construction jobs, where the cost of materials and the employment of skilled workers would run the cost of an individual project well in excess of the $900 limit. Allen cautioned the officials, how- ever, not to be “too bashful” in pro- posing projects calling for materials and skilled workers if they deemed the work of permanent value to the Dis- trict. Allen has sent to the Federal Works Progress Administration seven projects designed to give employment to 3,500 men, and these will start as soon as Federal approval is forthcoming. The Commissioner announced he xpects the program will be started about July 15, and will be in full swing by September or October. Allen has been informed of the granting of a huge sum for the conduct of the program, but the Federal apportion- ments have not been published. Decision on what projects will be started rests with Allen as adminis- trator, subject to approval by the Pefleral administrator. It was ex- plained the Federal agency will not review proposals for projects and will act only on those forwarded by Allen. Asks About Branch Libraries. Dr. George F. Bowerman, public librarian, asked the Commissioner it he was correct ‘n assuming that con- struction projecis, such as the tuild- ing of branch tibraries, had but little chence of approval because of the cost of materials and skilled labor. “Yes,” said Allen. Details of procedure in preparing projects and fihng applications were outlined by Capt. Howard ¥. Clark, District deputy administrator; Wil- liam C. Cleary, administrative as- sistant, and Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, director of finance for the program. Until the works program is in full swing those now employed on the emergency works p.ogram wil be continued on the present work-relief program until drawn into the new system. — THOMAS TO ADDRESS VETERANS’ SESSION Southeast Business Men to Stage Parade Tonight Before Opening Meeting. Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma will be guest speaker tonight at the first session of the encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars heing held in Southeast Washington under sponsorship of tne Southeast Busi- ness Men's Association His address will follow a dress parade, whicn will begin at 7:45 o'clock, and last about an hour. A number of Government officials and ranking officers of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps are expected to attend. Merchanis of that sec- tion will participate ir the parade. A reviewing stand will be erected on Pennsylvania avenue, between Eighth and Ninth streets southeast, and a bandstand will be placed on the Avenue, between Fifth and Sixth streets southeast, to provide for street dancing after the parade. Sessions will be continued through Wednesday evening. TWO MEN CAPTURED IN COIN BOX THEFT By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, Md, June 24—At- tracted by the sound of hammering in a vacant lot near the intercestion of Oliver street and Kirkside drive, Chevy Chase, Md., at 3:30 o'clock Sunday morning, Patrolman Willlam 1934," Mansfield to Give Talk. HYATTSVILLE, Md., June 24 (Spe- clal) —Richard H. Mansfleld, captain of the Washington police and & car- of The Evening Star, will give t at 8 o'clock before the Pinkney Memorial Prot- the pezish D. ment house on Macomb street, Wash- ington, according to police. ‘The men, who gave their names as Thomas McGrath of 416 North Charles street, Baltimore, and John Holmes, alias Henry R. Milton of 3151 Mt. Pleasant street, Washington,