Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1935, Page 24

o0 PLAYGROUNDS OPEN TOMORROW All Are in Addition to 34 City Areas Available Year Around. Fifty Summer playgrounds will be ppened tomorrow, four days ahead of normal schedule, Miss Sibyl Baker, head of the District Playground De- partment, announced yesterday. These grounds will be in addition to the 34 municipal playgrounds open the year around, the municipal swim- ming pool at Seventeenth street and Constitution avenue and the three ppecial play centers in Section D of Anacostia Park, in Franklin Park and the Langdon Recreation Center, Franklin, Eighteenth and Hamlin streets northeast. | Four new grounds will be opened. They are the Hardy, at Foxhall road and Volta place; Kingman, Four- teenth and E streets northeast; Stod- dert, Thirty-ninth and Calvert streets, Long Service Terminated THE SUND\Y STAR, WASHINGTON, Former U. S. Attorney Dew- | eoxay- ey Urged as Prosecutor by Lehman. By the Associated Press. over New York City’s underworld to- night when Gov. Herbert H. Lehman thrust former United States Attorney Thomas E. Dewey to the fore in New York’s fight on rackets and vice. The Governor recommended Dewey to District Attorney Willlam C. Dodge as prosecutor in the specially-ordered grand jury investigation of commer- D. C, JUNE 30, 1935—PART ONE. Junior Colleseand College Preparatory for Girls. Develop: culturaland practical apti- tudes by individual guidance. Alsopreperes for professiona and_business positions. Enrollment limited. Secretarial. Journal- Evans Hughes, jr., son of the Chief clalized crime scheduled to stsrt|and Charles H. Tuttle, or Charles July 29. NEw YURK RABKET Dewey, when in office, scored major | Justice. offensives against some of the most powerful of the city’s racketeers, in- “Waxey” cluding notorious and “Dutch” Schultz. The need of a special prosecutor was accepted by Gov. Lehman follow- ing charges of laxity made against Tamanny Democrat, by the grand jury, tempted to take the reins of prosecu- tion from the district attorney’s hands. The Governor’s recommendation of Dewey followed upon his failure to obtain the services of either former United States Solicitor NEW YORK, June 29.—The fgUr€ | momas D, Thacher, former United of a fighting prosecutor cast & shadow | gigtes Attorneys George z. Medalie DRAFTING ALL BRANCHES START NOW! Columbia “Tech” Institute 1319 F St, N.W. Met, Send for Catalogue. Abbot Art School Refuge for Tramps. Cambridge, England, has a rest cot- tage for tramps, with about 10 guests daily. ForxUnION 1 CA D Fully sccredited. Frcpares for coliege or business Able faculty. Small clames. Supervised smudy. Lower School for small boys o sew separate buildi C. 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S The Brightwood and Wallach pl-y»‘ 4 A M.. P Box S, Danville, grounds will not be opened for the -y P - present because of extensive work. All the grounds except nine will be LAST DAY opened from 9 am. to 5 pm. The : ; | nine, which will be open only from | 4 to ENROLL for 1 to 5 p.m., are Buchanan, on E street | The Civil Service Commission halted work yesterday to pay tribute to Dr. Thomas A. Grifin (center), || BERLITZ SUMMER COURSES Children’s Classes FOR SECRETARIES between Thirteenth and Fourteenth | chief of the editing and recruiting division, retiring after 45 years. He is flanked here by Harry B. Mitchell. in. Prench Spanish—and save 60% A Major Development in American streets southeast; Fairbrother, Tenth | president of the commission, and Commissioner Lucille Foster McMillin, who praised his record and presented BOSITIVELY ‘no.enroliment_ for, these || Day School 9:30—3:30 Education and E streets southeast; Ludlow, Sixth | a purse and flowers as the gift of his associates. Dr. Griffin entered the commission when Theodore Roosevelt || SPEY 3o gt ool of A%, ¥4 || Mon., Wed., Fri. Evening 7-9 4 Hours Weekly $45.00 8 Hours Weekly ......$80.00 Easy Terms Classes Start JULY 1 Enroll now and save 50% ® The famous direct “Berlitz o Method.” always successtul, e is available at the SCHOOL OF National Press Building and G streets northeast; Macfarland Junior High, Iowa avenue and Web- ster street; Stuart Junior High, Fourth and E streets northeast; Burr- | ville, Division avenue between Hayes | street and Bell place northeast; Love- joy, Twelfth and D streets northeast; | Morgan, V street between Champlain and Eighteenth streets, and Phillips, N street between Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth streets The remainder of the 50 grounds, to be open all day, are: Bancroft, Eighteenth and Newton streets; Barnard, Fifth and Decatur streets; Benning, Forty-second and Benning road northeast; Brookland, Tenth and Monroe streets northeast; Congress Heights, Nichols avenue, be- tween Fifth and Congress road south- east; Cooke, Seventeenth and Euclid | streets; Corcoran, Twenty-eighth and | Olive avenue; Deal Junior High, Thirty-eighth place and Davenport street; Eaton, Thirty-fourth anl Lowell streets; Eckington Recreation | Center, Second and Lincoln road | northeast; Fillmore, Thirty-fifth, be- ween R and S streets; Hayes, nrth! and K streets; Hearst, Thirty-seventh and Tilden streets; Henry-Polk, Sev- enth and P streets: Janney, Wisconsin | avenue and Albemarle street; Jeffer- | son, Sixth and D streets southwcsl:[ Johnson, Hiatt place and Lamont street; Kenilworth, Kenilworth ave- | nue, between Ord and Olive streets ! northeast; Key, Conduit road and Danna place; La Fayette, Northhamp- ton street and Broad Branch road; Murch, Thirty-sixth and Elliott | streets; Noyes, Tenth and Franklin streets northeast; Orr, Twenty-second | and Prout streets southeast; Paul| Junior High, Eighth and Oglethorpe streets; Petworth, Shepherd street. | between Eighth and Georgia avenue; | Truesdell, Ninth and Ingraham streets; | Van Buren, W street, between Thlr—l teenth and Fourteenth streets south-| WED WITHOUT A WORD east; Weightman, Twenty-third and | M streets; Wheatley, Montello avenue | and Neale street northeast; Banneker, | Third and K streets; Crummell, Gal- | laudet street, between Kendall and | Providence streets northeast; Francis ! Junior High, Twenty-fourth and N streets; Garfield, Twenty-fifth street and Alabama avenue southeast; Mont- gomery, Twenty-seventh street, be- | tween I and K streets; Shaw Junior | High, Seventh and Rhode Island ave- | nue; Stevens, Twenty-first, between K | and L streets, and Walker stadium,‘ First, between N and O streets. ! POLICE FINALLY GET | LAUGH ON ANNOYER| Irked by Auto Tower Who Got There First, They Manage to Assess Fine After 8 Months. YONKERS, N. Y. (#).—Tt took the police eight months to do it, but they finally got the laugh on Robert Deshefy. Deshefy runs an automobile wreck- ing and towing business and invari- ably turned up at the scene of an ac- cident before the police got there themselves. Deshefy had a short- wave radio set and tuned in on the police alarms. R The police couldn’t do anything about it. Then Deshefy went to one ‘accident end parked his truck in such a way that a policeman told him he was blocking traffic. He refused to move the truck and was fined $25. Crow Broth in Budapest. Crows are being sold in Butapest, Hungary, at 3 ccnis each in the la- boring-class districts where he poor make them into a form of oroth. It is similar to roox nie, made from the | the visitors, was planning to spend | the camp clinic by Dr. Alexander | |and dumb. | an official report. was a commissioner, and for 23 years was chief of the application division, in that capacity supervising the hun- dreds of thousands of applications for employment in the huge Government war machine. He was the senior member of the stafl. OFFICIALS TO SEE | CHILDREN’S CAMP Superintendent Prepares to Re- ceive 60 Tubercular Boys and Girls Tomorrow. The Children’s Health Camp, for | boys and girls suffering from tuber- | culosis, Thirteenth aud Allison streets, will be inspected at noon tomorrow by District Commissioner Dan I. Sul- tan, Health Officer George C. Ruh- land, Dr. George A. Murphy, chief | school medical ‘nspector, and Supt. of Schools Frank W. Ballou. 1 Miss Margaret H. Craig, camp superintendeat, who will be host to today and tonight at the camp with members of her staff to prepare to receive the some 60 children scheduled to enter tomorrow morning. The children will be examined at Leonardo, resident physician at the ‘Tuberculosis Hospital. The first camp meal will be served at noon under the direction of Mrs. Nellie Berry, dietitian. More than 60 children, under 10 vears of age, already have been ac- cepted tentatively, for the camp, while many others are cn the waitirg list. The camp is conducted by the Tuberculosis Association and financed | with funds raised from Christmas seals. It occupies the Allison Special | Health School building and adjacent | grounds. Written Questions and Replies Marry Dumb Couple. BOONVILLE, Ind. (#) .—Joseph McGrue, 37, Atchison, Kans., and El- sie Deer, 22, Evansville, Ind., handed the county clerk a note. It said: “We want to get married.” 1 When the clerk had supplied a li- cense, a justice of the peace finished | the request by writing out the ques- tions, to which the couple wrote re- | plies. | Both McGrue and his bride are deaf | Drunkenness Mounts. Drunkenness in the Witwatersran| district of South Africa has reached “startling proportions,” according to CRASH ENDS SOFTLY Thrown From Motor Cycle, Police- man Lands on Mattress. DALLAS, Tex. (#) —Patrolman L. M. McKinney found the going hard, the stopping soft. Thrown from his motor cycle when it collided with a truck, the officer landed on a mattress being hauled on the vehicle. McKinney, motor cycle, mattress and machine escaped injury. 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