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A—16 w# AIRPORT ROAD BUY FAVORED BY BOARD FIGHTING CLOSURE Arlington County Body Is Firm Against Cutting Artery to Capital. ARLINGTON CEMETERY IS DECLARED BARRIER Garnett Attacks Proposal to Close Highway as Pressure From “Private Interests.” By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Va., July 13.—Refusing to withdraw their opposition to the clos- ing of Military road across Washing- ton Airport until a satisfactory sub- stitute is provided, the Arlington County Board, in session here today, voted to purchase the right of way of the road if it is offered for sale by the Federal Government. The board members voted to con- tinue their opposition to the McSwain bill now pending in the National House of Representatives unless the measure is amended to provide for a substitute road around the airport. ‘They approved the War Department amendment to the bill whick: provides that the Federal Government may sell the right of way of Military road- to Arlington County or the State of Vir- ginia for $1 The board adopted a resolution pro- viding for acceptance of the road, if it is offered for sale under the terms of the War Department amendment, *as a county and State asset.” Cemetery Called Barrier. Christopher P. Garnett, member of the board, who led the opposition to closing of the road, declared the Fed- eral Government already has estab- lished a great barrier between Wash- ington and Arlington County in Ar- lington National Cemetery and op- posed great barrier in the form of an air- port. He declared the Government should open a highway through Ar- lington Cemetery to provide better communication between Washington and the county. Garnett attacked the proposal to close Military road and charge that “private interests are involved, who are seeking to put the rights of a few airplane users ahead of the rights ©of many automobile users.” A letter from an Interdepartmental Committee composed of Assistant Sec- retary of War Woodring, Second As- sistant Postmaster General Branch and Eugene L. Vidal, director of Air Commerce, to the House Military Af- fairs Committee urging closing of Military road as an emergency meas- ure to safeguard human life was read in the board record. Garnett also read into the record a letter written by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace opposing the use of Arlington Experi- mental Farm property for airport purposes and objecting to the closing of the portion of Military road serv- ing the farm property. Wallace, Garnect observed, “has more sense than all tne rest of them put together.” The board was iaformed that Rep- resentative Howard W. Smith of Vir- ginia, who has led the fight in the House against the closing of Military road, “thought that a solution can be worked out which wul be satisfactory to the county.” Opposition of tha A1lington board to the closing of the road is expecied to prevent passage of the McSwain bill by unanimous consent in the House. An objection by Judge Smith will be sufficient to ber its passage. This probably will force Chairman Mec- Swain of the Militarv_Affairs Com- mittee to apply tu tiie Rules Commit- tee for a special rule for consideration ©of the measure. WASHINGTON MAN KILLED BY BULLET Victim of Accidental Shot, A. P.} Jardin Dies at Virginia Resort. Armand P. Jardin, 35, of 1530 Otis &treet northeast, was accidentally shot and killed while watching a group of Youthful vacationists at target shoot- ing at Potomac Beach, Va., late yes- terday. Witnesses told police a .22-caliber rifile went off as one of the group passed it to another and the bullet struck Jardin in the heart. Physi- cians were summoned but he died within a few moments. The accident occurred in the yard of Mrs. T. W. Johnson's boarding house, where Jardin had gone for sev- eral days’ vacatica. A verdict of acci- dental death was returned at a cor- oner’s inquest last night and the body ‘was turned over to a local undertaker to be prepared for shipment to Wash- ington. 5 Jardin, who was unmarried, for- merly was employed as a title searcher by the District Title Co., but had been unemployed the last two years. He is survived by a brother, Charles A. Jardin, connected with the West- ern Auto Supply Co., and a sister, Madeline. P STREET BRIDGE T0 OPEN JULY 22 the interposition of another | Woman Is Fined For Taking Wheel In Taxicab Ride Also Held in $500 Bond on Drunkenness Charge and Driver Is Fined. Mrs. May O'Neill of Benning, Md,, insisted on taking the wheel of the taxicab she had hired yesterday, and today she landed up in Traffic Court. Both Mrs. O'Neill and Clarence B. Rose, the cab driver, appeared before Judge Gus A. Schuldt. The woman was charged with driving while drunk and operating without a permit and the man with permitting an unauthor- ized person to operate the cab. Mrs. O'Neill was fined $25 on the permit charge and held under $500 bond for jury trial on the driving-while-drunk charge. Rose was fined $25. Testimony was to the effect the woman had insisted on operating the cab when she went yesterday to meet her husband at the Government Print- ing Office. In pronouncing sentence upon Rose Judge Schuldt said that, since taxicabs are classed as public utilities, it was Jjust as mueh of an offense for a cab driver to allow any one else to operate the cab as it would be for a motor- man on a street car to yield the con- trols to some one else. FRIES S SPEAKER AT FORT STEVENS Battle Anniversary Observ- ed—Civilization Credited to Fighting Spirit. It is axiomatic that civilization came to mankind through the ability and willingness of certain races to fight, Maj. Gen. Amoe A. Fries, U. . A, retired, declared last night at exercises commemorating the seventy- first anniversary of the Battle of Fort | | Stevens. He spoke from the parapet cf the fort, where President Lincoln stood | July 12, 1864. The ceremony was under auspices of the Department of the Potomac, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, and the Fort Stevens Post, No. 32, of the American Legion. Gen Fries is a past com- mander of the Legion's District de- partment. The speaker lauded Lincoln and told of the battle. He said, capture of Washington by Gen. Jubal Early, seriously threatened at Fort Stevens, would not have saved the Confeder- acy, but would have been a terrible blow to the North. Gen. Fries said the man who stands | by and says nothing when th: peril of his Government is discussed, can not be misunderstood, and, if not hindered, is sure to help the enemy. Seated on either side of Gen. Fries during his address at the base of the big stone memorial boulder, erected by the Associated Survivors of the 6th Army Corps, were Maj. Edward R. Campbell and Vice Comdr. John T. Ryan of Kit Carson Post, No. 2, G. A. | R, both veterans of the Civil War. | Maj. Campbell, now in his 93d year, | is one of two survivors of the Battle of Fort Stevens and it was his regi- ment that built the fort where the exercises were held. { The assemblage was called to order | by Miss Emma F. Hayward, president of the Department of the Potomac, Ladies of the G. A. R. This was fol- lowed by prayer by Miss Olive Van | Wagener of William Beck Circle, No. 4, and “Assembly” by Richard H. Viancour of Fort Stevens Post Drum and Bugle Corps. Massing of the colors of the various organizations followed in front of the monument: Pledge to the Flag and the reading of a letter from John M. Kline, de- rartment commander, G. A. R, who was unable to attend, by R. J. F. McElroy, past commander of the Department of Maryland, Sons of Union Veterans. The singing of “America” followed, accompanied by the Fort Stevens Post Drum and Bugle Corps; recitation of Lincoln’s Gettysburg address by Comdr. John F. Houck, Department of Maryland, Sons of Union Veterans, and brief remarks by Post Comdr. William H. Hargrave, Fort Stevens Post, No. 32, the American Legion. A wreath was then placed on the monument by Miss Hayward and “Taps” sounded by the drum and bugle corps. The boulder marking the spot where President Lincoln stood was selected by the late Lewis Cass White, a pioneer resident of Brightwood, who raised and lowered the flag at Fort Stevens during his lifetime on all public occasions. AIR LEAGUE TO SEND NO FLYERS TO ETHIOPIA By the Associated Press. BARCELONA, July 13.—Clifford B. Harmon, American vresident of the International League of Aviators, made plain today that his organiza- tion would not co-operate in any way in ‘the recruiting of aviators for Ethi- opia. (Reports from Grasse France, yes- terday quoted Hal Duberrier, Ameri- can aviator who claims to have en- listed 12 fyers to fight for the African kingdom, as saying that he was nego- tiating with Harmon for support for his venture.) “The League of Aviators is abso- lutely neutral and takes no sides with any country,” Harmon said. He added that the league, although it has branches all over the world, takes no part whatsoever in political questions. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, -D. C, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1935. Camera Study of Construction Angles and Shadows Looking west from the east end of the new Calvert Street Bridge, 730 feet long and 125 feet high, showing the progress of construction on the project since it was begun in March, 1934. Costing well over a mil- lion doliars, it is expected to be completed this Fall —Harris-Ewing Photo. UPTOCOMMITTEE Health Fund in Second Deficiency Bill. ‘The Senate Appropriations Com- mittee met in executive session today | to act on the second deficiency bill, | including the plea of Chairman King of the Senate District Committee for the urgently needed $61,240 for the| District Health Department. ‘ Senator King several days ago took the initiative in trying to have this supplemental item added to the defi- ciency bill. He obtained the approval of the District Committee before hav- ing his proposed amendment sent to the appropriations group. | Need of Health Funds. { The District Commissioners came | to the support of Health Officer Ruh- | iand when he called attention several | weeks ago to the necessity for this| additional fund if the Health Depart- | ment is not to be handicapped in safe- guarding the health of the city during the coming year. The Commissioners submitted to the Budget Bureau a request for a supple- mental estimate for the Health De-, partment, and while the Budget Bu- | reau has not transmitted the esti- mate to Congress, Senator King is| hopeful of being able to convince thei Senate of the need for adopting the | amendment. The Senate indorsed the proposed health program earlier in the session when it increased tl'e health items in the regular District zppropriation bill, but in conference with the House the Senate had to yield un nearly all of | the health increases. The pending amendment to the deficiency bill covers in general those same items. Estimate tcr Fumps. There is also pencing in the Ap- propriations Committee a budget esti- mate of $150,000 to come from the Water Department funds to replace old pumps at onc of the filtration plants. Another impoitant issue to be de- cided today is how to provide better office accommodatiwous for the General Accounting Office. The House bill provided for en'arging the old Pension Building in Judiciary Square, but the Senate Committez Is considering the advisability of ordering a new building elsewhere as a substitute. HITZ LEFT $154,124, WITH $130,000 DEBTS Widow and Sons Named in Will of Late U. S. Court of Ap- peals Justice. ‘The late Associate Justice Willlam Hitz of the United States Court of Appeals left an estate valued at $15412¢ and debts aggregating $130,000, it was disclosed today in District Supreme Court. Justice Hitz, who died July 3, left his estate to his widow, Mrs. Esther Porter Hitz, for life, and then to his sons, Fred- erick and William Hitz. ‘The petition for probate of his will, filed through the law firm of Mc- Kenney, Flannery and Craighill, dis- closed he owned real estate in the District valued at $124,624, a farm in Maine worth $3,000, and $26,500 in personal property. The petition stated $118,000 of his debts were secured by deeds of trust or collateral, and $12,000 unsecured. His visible real estate holdings consisted of a half- interest in 1100-1106 Connecticut ave- nue. ‘ < ‘ Ceremonies to Be Under Auspices of Georgetown and Dupont Circle Associations. The new P Street Bridge across Rock Creek will be opened to traffic July 22 with ceremonies under the direction of the Georgetown and Dupont Circle Citizens’ Associations, in co-operation with District officials. At the same time, P street, which has been closed for repaving, will be opened from Twenty-second to Twenty-eighth street, the western boundary of the -section under im- provement. The section from Twenty- second street east to Dupont Circle is scheduled to be completed by August 1. The bridge, which cost about $200,- 000, now is finished except for some final cleaning operations. It has a stone face with granite trim, with rubble masonry spandrels. The span has a 40-foot roadway, with a 10- foot sidewalk on either side. It car- ries no street car tracks, since ihe P street line has been supplanted by bus service. Sure enough, the pretty girl who issued all those elegant checks seems to have been Isabelle Lorraine Mess- mer, the perennial headache of the Metropolitan Police Department. ‘The department suspected as much in the first place. It had saved Isa- belle’s photograph and autograph for just such an eventuality, “That’s the girl,” said clerks at a fashionable hotel, where Isabelle had been living in luxury. Her picture was recognized also by officials of a leading bank where she had deposited $100, and by department store em- ployes who cashed $400 worth of her checks. Isabelle herself, after stretching all that rubber, bounced out of town on a bus. The department today broadcast a lookout for her. The department had to go into some detail, as Isabelle is known in - Checks Start Hunt for Girl Known as Headache to Police various corners of the United States as Ruby Coleman, Jerry O’Conner, Dorothy McNally, Joyce Palmer and Joyce Larimore. Incidentally, the hotel here thought she was Shirley Ann Hoffman. In addition to all those names, Isabelle travels as a girl or boy, ac- cording to whim or the expediency of the moment. When she came to Washington & year or so ago the! police at first thought she was a boy. At that time Isabelle was dressed in trousers, her dark hair was cropped short and she had a masculine-look- ing gun in her possession. Her fem- inine costume included s blond wig and all the embellishments. Early this Summer she turned up briefly, then dropped from sight. The police hope to see her again soon, at which time she may become a semi- permanent resident. $fi]’24fl|]'[}”EM ;Ba‘rge%Sm;,ndVirng Board Ready For First of Symphony Concerts ‘Double Shift of Workers Necessary to Senate Considers Proposed Com plete Equipment for Opening of Summer Series on River. The huge sounding board. which to- | morrow night will waft the music of | the National Symphony Orchestra out | over the Potomac River in the first of a series of Summer concerts near the Arlington Memorial Bridge, was to | be put in its place aboard a Navy barge this afternoon. The sounding board. or shell, was made by relief workers furnished by Commissioner George E. Allen. A double shift of workers was needed to finish the job in time for the concerts. The concert, beginning at 8 p.m. to- morrow, will open with a literal “bang” as Dr. Hans Kindler raises his baton on the first crashing notes of Wagner's “Die Meistersinger.” New Musical Era. The opening also will mark the be- ginning of a new era in musical presentations ir Washington, being the first Summer concert series by the Na- tional Symphony and the first time that a concert has been attempted from water to land. The orchestra will be stationed on the Navy barge while the audience will be seated on the terrace of the huge water gate of | the bridge, which forms a natural am- phitheater seating arrangement. Although there 1s no gauge of at- tendance at such a program, C. C.| Cappel, business manager of the or- chestra, said he expected a larger crowd at the open-air performance than has yet attended the indoor Winter concerts. These expectetions are based on advance ticket sales. Both the singles and season tickets have met with a brisk demand since they were put on sale at Garfinckel's Department Store several weeks ago, Cappel said. When the orchestra gathers for its first concert one familiar face will be missing. It will be that of Emil Spit- zer, diminutive oboeist, whose dis- puted place in the personnel for a| | time threatened cancella on of the whole Summer series. After weeks of wrangling between the orchestra man- agement and the local Musicians’ Protective Union, Spitzer was finally given an audition as a mediaticn measure and was found competent, with the understanding that he was to be given the place. Decision of Management. The demand of the musicians™ local | was that a local man should Le em- ployed in preference to an out-of- town player. The orchestra msnage- ment accepted the findings of the mediator, but dec'ded on William Schnabel of Baltimore, who also is & member of the Washington local Spitzer still is on the F E. R. A. relief rolls and works part f.me as a clerk The program for tomorrow night follows: Overture to “Die Meistersinger.” Wagner Symphony in D Minor._ -.-Franck Lento—Allegro noa troppo. Allegretto. Allegro non troppo. (Intermission.) “Voices of Spring”_ _________Strauss “Perpetuum Mobile” ‘a musical witticism) --Strauss “Wiegenlied” Brahms Overture, “Solenneile 1812, Tschaikovsky D. . RELIEF LOAD DROPS 14PERCENT Decrease for 140 Large Cities Totals 3.3 Per Cent in Month. Washington ranks eighteenth on a list of 140 large cities showing a de- crease in the number of emergency relief cases cared for in June from public funds, according to figures made public today at F. E. R. A. head- quarters. The total decrease in urban relief population amounted to 249,897, or 3.3 per cent, relief expenditures decreasing by $4,450,459. A decline of 14 per cent in the relief load of the District was shown, the total of cases amounting to 17,702 in June, as compared with 20,482 in May. At the same time, there was a re- duction of 20 per cent in relief costs. The relief decline in Washington was exceeded by only two industrial centers, Atlanta, Ga., and Flint, Mich. d by 15 much smaller cities in various sections, such as Charlotte, N. C.; Oklahoma City, Augusta, Ga., and Duluth, Minn. Baltimore, the only Maryland city cited in the study, showed a 11 de- cline in relief rolls and 21.2 per cent in obligations incurred. Three Virginia cities were included in the survey. Norfolk, with a drop of less than a half of 1 per cent in the number of cases, had its reliet cost reduced by 20 per cent. Richmond showed a 4 per cent de- cline, but an increase of 1 per cent in relief cost, while Roanoke with a decline of 7 per cent on relief rolls, experienced a 2.2 per cent drop in cost during June. The figures showed a 6.6 per cent decline in expenditures—from 2,070,- 640 families and single persons in May to 2,003,073 in June, and from $67,384,249 to $62,933,790. Of the 140 cities, 123 were reported to have shown declines in the number of cases. —_— SOVIET ASKS PERMIT The Soviet Union yesterday re- quested permission from the United States for & Soviet plane to fly over American territory on what is under- stood to be a projected flight over the North Pole. Alexander Troyanovsky, Soviet Am- bassador, made the request during a conference with Assistant Secretary of State Moore. Both declined to reveal any details of the proposed flight, but it was reported the Russians will at- tempt to fly over the Pole from Siberia and then pass over Alasks. SHORE'S PROPERTY TOBESOLDBYL.S. Claim Against Former Lor- ton Prisoner Totals More Than $260,000. To satisfy, partially at least, a claim for non-payment of more than $260,000 in income taxes against Frank Shore, who once served s term at Lorton for smuggling liquor, the Government disclosed today it will sell at public auction August 7 prop- erty seized from Shore at 1223 New York avenue. ‘The taxes which Shore did not pay, according to Governmeunt officials, are for the years from 1921 ‘o 1929, as disclosed in the record of liens filed with the recorder of deeds and the clerk of the District Supreme Court. With interest brought up to August 6, the total claim by the Government amounts to $262,122.33. Official notice of the auctioneer’s sale of the property was advertised today by Lewis M. Milbourne, acting collector of internal revenue for this district. The auction sale will take place at 11:30 am. Terms of the sale will be $500 cash at the time of sale and the balance in 30 days. Additional in- formation concerning the property, Milbourne announced, may be had from Clarence C. Keiser, acting as- sistant chief field deputy, Room 100, Internal Revenue Building. Shore was sentenced in District Supreme Court on January 9, 1830, to pay a fine of $1,000 and to serve a year and a day for “smuggling liquor into the United States.” The Court of Appeals sustained the sentence February 24, 1932, when he began serving his sentence at Lorton. He was paroled September 22 of the same year and released from parole Decem- ber 17, 1932. Another case in which Shore was indicted for violating the national prohibition act December 3, 1929, was nolle prossed in March, 1930. —_— “MUST” PHRASE HIT President Roosevelt doesn’t like the phrase “must legislation.” He called it a stupid phrase yesterday at his press conference and suggested in good spirits that “desired legislation™ would be better. Meanwhile, the existence of a list of legislation bearing & presidential “must” tag was denied by Chairman Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee. He said the Presi- dent had not labeled any of the bills “must,” - FIVE ARE INJURED IN TRPLE CRASH Mount Vernon Highway Tied Up by Accident When Driver Falls Asleep. Pive persons were injured, three se- riously, and several hundred automo- biles were delayed in a jam caused by a three-car collision on Mount Vernon Memorial Highway at Four Mile Run last night. Park police were forced to work nearly an hour to remove the injured and untangle the cars held up by the collision, Harry Temple, 23, a soldier of Fort Belvoir, Va., was arrested and later released in custody of Capt. M. Gilland of Fort Belvoir. He was or- dered to appear before United States Commissioner John Barton Phillips at Alexandria Monday. Temple told park police he fell asleep at the wheel of his car while driving toward the Capital. The ma- chine collided with one driven by John Zier, 39, Cherrydale, Va., traveling south. A third car. driven by Abe Yaffe. 19, 1836 Seventh street, ran into the rear of Zier's car. Treated for Cut Nose. Temple was treated at Emergency Hospital for a cut on his nose. The others injured were Sarah Yaffe, 46, of 1836 Seventh street, treated at Alexandria Hospital for a broken collarbone and possible frac- tured skull; Willlam Connally, 21, a soldier of Fort Belvoir, treated at Emergency for a broken nose, lacera- tions of the forehead and possible in- ternal injuries; Pauline Zier, 62, Cherrydale, treated at Georgetown Hospital for a broken leg, and John on the head. Four children were injured in other traffic accidents yesterday. Allen was struck by a car driven by Eugene L. Battaglia, 2201 North Capitol street. He was treated at Emergency Hospital for scalp and neck injuries. Knocked down in the street near his home at 4950 Canal road. Charles Fletcher, jr., suffered bruises and lacerations and was treated at George- town Hospital. Charles R. Simpson, McLean, Va., was driver of the car. Boy of 4 Struck. Roger Heller, 4, son of Mrs. Bernice Heller of Philadelphia, who has been visiting her mother at the Euclid Apartments, was struck by an auto- | mobile at Euclid street and Ontario | road. He suffered a compound frac- ture of the right leg and was treated | at Emergency Hospital. The driver of the car was Melvin C. Nourse, 1803 Baltimore street. Harry L. Carter, 4, colored, 1619 Church street, was knocked down in front of his home by an automobile | driven by Miss Jewell Moore, 24, of 1509 Sixteenth street. He was treated at Children’s Hospital for a | head injury and possible internal in- juries. Miss Moore was charged with reckless driving and having no driver’s permit. BOARD TO BE NAMED President to Confer With Secre- tary Perkins on Labor Group. President Roosevelt sald yesterday he would confer with Secretary Perkins next week about appointments to the new National Labor Relations Board. Until the three-man board is ap- pointed. enforcement of the Wagner labor disputes act is being held up. Edwin S. Smith, former Massachu- setts labor commissioner and remain- ing member of the old board, has been mentioned as a possible appointee to | the new tribunal. L ANAGOSTIA' JUNIOR HIGH T0 BE READY FOR FALL SESSION Sultan Says Building May Be Occupied by End of October. ORGANIZATION OF STAFF VALUATION REVIEW ASKED OF COURT BY GASUTILTES D. C. Supreme Bench Told Figures Unreasonable and Dangerous ROBERTS HAS DRAFTED IS BEING UNDERTAKEN Seventh and Eighth Grade Classes to Be Held in Elementary School Until Completion. Assured by Engineer Commissioner Sultan that the Anacostia Junior High School Building will be complet- ed by October 1, school officials today turned thier attention to organiza- tion of the institution’s staff in time for opening this Fall. It had been feared that construction delays would prevent completion of the structure before November, there- by making impractical the school's opening before the February term. Dr. Stephen E. Kramer, first assist- ant superintendent of schools, said the new completion date would permit use of the building for the Fall term. Seventh and eighth grade classes will be organized in Anacostia ele- mentary schools on a junior high APPEAL OF HIS OWN Will Tell Court Commission Erred in Some Cases to Favor Companies. Contending the recent valuation of their properties by the Public Utilities Commission was unfair and inade- quate, the Washington and George- town Gas Light Companies today asked the District Supreme Court to review the findings of the commission ‘The value of the Georgetown Co was fixed by the commission at $1.- 954,000, while that of the Washington Co. was valued at $15.039,000. The | companies say these findings were con- |trary to the evidence, unreasonable and inadequate. It is claimed they | will serve as a dangerous precedent if allowed to stand, The commission's valuation will face a double-barreled attack, since People’s Counsel Willlam A. Roberts school basis when they open in Sep- tember and only their physical trans- fer well be necessary when the new | building is made avallable. Exact Date Uncertain. ‘The exact date for opening of the school cannot be determined at this time, since equipmeit must be in- | stalled and other preparations made | after the building is turned over to | the school authorities by the District | Engineering Department, but it prob- | ably will be before the end of October. | it construction actually is completed I by the first of tnat rionth. Col. Sultan said it is difficult to forecast definitely when any construc- tion job will be completed, but, on present indications, the Anacostia ISchool should be finished by Octo- ber 1 | Considerable difficu'ties were experi- | enced with the foundations of th school and work wes thrown back | | more than a month. Since then, how- | ever, the contractor has rushed oper- ations. Schools Overcrowded. In a recent report Assistant Super- intendent of Schools Jere J. Crane, business manager for the system, charged Engineering Department offi- cials with failing to hurry the con- struction work and with manifesting little interest in the needs of the | schools. The Anacostia Junior High is gen- | | ereally conceded to be sorely needed, | since schools in that section of the city are badly overcrowded. | At the same time he notified school authorities of the Anacostia School | completion date, Col. Sultan said the | | new Woodrow Wilson Senior High | | Conciliators | September 1, which will give sufficient i {oohootdn Ohery, Qnase, will he Zeady | time for its opening in the middle of | that month, \BANK GETS $50,387 ' DEFAULT JUDGMENT Federal-American Receiver Wins | on Stock Assessment and | | Note Suits. | _Cary A. Hardee, receiver for the closed Federal-American National Bank & Zier, treated at Georgetown for cuts | Trust Co., was awarded default judg-| ratification. | ments totaling $50,387 in District Su- | preme Court yesterday. to answer by persons who had been sued on stock assessments or promis- | sory notes. | In the largest case, Edward H. Jones was held to be in default on a $26,000 | note. Judgments on notes were re- | turned against Albert W. Jacobsor | for $1,720 and against John W. Glen- | non for $6.247.20. ’ Small _judgments were obtained against Charles B. Stewart, Thomas | J. Gibbons, R. P. Whitty, Mrs. Lucy M. | Clarke, Joseph H. Milans, Robert R. | Hottel, Kenneth M. Livingstone, Mrs. | Elizabeth Kahn, John B. Flynn, Mrs. Eleanor Tracy Gardiner, Charles, Fac- china, Joseph Perna and Frank Perna. WHITE SLAVE CHARGES HOLD TRIO IN $10,000 Two Well Dressed Young Men and Comely Young Woman Said to Have Offered Girl Illicit Work. Two well-dressed young men and A comely young woman were held under $10,000 bond each today by United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage for action of the grand jury on charges of violating the white slave law. The charges grew out of an alleged offer of illicit employment to a Washington girl,, who did not appear in court. In recounting statements made by the trio—Robert Martin, 26; James Roderick, 28, and Betty Martin, alias Betty Bailey—four detectives and two Justice Department agents testified the two men met the girl in a cafe and later took her to the home of the Martin woman, in the 1700 block of K street. The three were arrested by De- tectives Roy E. Blick and W. Fawcett, members of the vice squad, and L. B. Nichols of the Federal Bu- reau of Investigation. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., July 13.—A large quantity of bottled beer which was seized last Monday, election day, by Sheriff Joseph W. Alton and other Republican police officials on the grounds that Democrats were planning to use the beer to entice colored voters from the city, which alleged move they claimed, violated the elections laws, yesterday was used to quench the thirst of both Democratic and Re- publican politicians. ‘The person from whom the beer was taken sald it did not belong to him nor did he want it, so it was taken from the jail to a shore, where a majority of the Democrats who swept | the city with record majorities in 1 Rivals Enjoy Beer Allegedly Intended for Election Purposes company with Republican officials, en- joyed the beer along with crab soup and other edibles. Today one G. O. P. police official sald that he didn’t see why any one should desire to see the beer poured out when it could be used to refresh both parties. “We aren't enemies any time except election day,” he added. Anyhow the beer is gone and the six bus loads of colored people who the Republicans say were to have consumed the beer, now can only think about it. Maybe the Democrats can be grateful to the G. O. P. for preserving their stock if the beer was actually purchased by the former as claimed on election day, « | The judgments were awarded be- | Weinstein, 2, of 1007 Seventh street, | cause of faulty answers or a failure| current in the Interior Building from has prepared an appeal of his own, to be filed promptly in the event the gas companies appeal. Testimony Held Not Foliowed. Roberts, however, is not joining hands with the companies, since he will tell the court the commission erred in some instances in favor of | the companies. He also will complain | that the commission in some instances did not follow testimony as to facts submitted by its own staff. Marcy L. Sperry, president of the companies, stated: | “In filing the appeals we are simply preserving our statutory rights under the acts of Congress establish- ing the Public Uti'tirs Commission, | which require tha: such appeals to the Supreme Court be taken within 120 days from the date of the commis- | sion’s decision. This move is not to be construed as contrary to my re- ently expressed esir. to co-operate | with the commission and the people’s | counsel in bringinz about a settlement, of these expensivz and long pending proceedings.” Roberts, a few doye ago, proposed | that the valuation and rate cases be | abandoned and that the companies and the commission accept a proposed | agreement on rates which, he said. he was ready to submit. He did not then nor has he since announced his pro- posed rate cut. INTERIOR WORK RESUMPTION SEEN Obtain Agreement Affecting 350 Striking ‘Workers. Labor Department conciliators ex- | pressed hope today that work could he resumed early next week on the In- | terior Department Buildng where 350 building trades workers went on & | general strike last Monday against the | employment of non-union electricians by the Industrial Power & Equipment Co. of Baltimore | Howard Colvin, conciliator, said | union officials had accepted terms on | which the men would return to work and that the agreement had been for- | warded to the Baltimore concern for No word from the com- | pany has been received yet. | The Baltimore firm was low bidder on a contract to change the electrics! | direct to alternating. Forty non- union men reported for work and all | union workers engaged in installing | elevators and air-conditioning the ib\llldmg went on a strike in support of union electricians. Negotiators for he union insisted the men would not iTPLUrn until non-union workers were | taken off the job. | . Colvin declined to state the condi- tions accepted by the union, saying any announcement at this time might nterfere with early termination of the strike. He said he believed, how- | ever, the company also would accept the terms. 'HEARING IS CALLED | ON COURT NOMINEES jSenate Subcommittee Considers | Letters of Protest on Three Prospects. The Senate subcommittee handling | the four District judgeship nomina- tions was to hold a hearing at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the Distriet | Committee room of the Capitol. The subcommittee consists of Senmators | King, Democrat, of Utah and Borah, | Republican, of Idaho. The subcommittee had expected to poll the membership of the Judiciary Committee on reporting the nomira- tions, but because of several letiers of protest that have been received, a hearing was decided on. It is uncer- stood that no protests have come in regarding the reappointment of Judge Nathan Cayton of the Munici- pal Court. The other three nomina- tions to be considered at the hearirg are: Reappointment of Judge George C. Aukam, of the Municipal Court; appointment of Miss Ellen K. Reacy, to succeed Judge Mary O'Toole in Municipal Court, and appointment of Walter J. Casey to replace Judge Ralph Given in Police Court. | —_— CAPT. G. H. MILHOLLAND IS DESIGNATED AT POST Capt. George H. Milholland, 3d Cav- alry, was designated today by Col. Kenyon Joyce, commanding officer at Fort Myer, Va., as public relations officer of the post, effective Monday. Capt. Milholland will succeed Capt. Frank A. Allen, jr.. who has been or- dered to Fort Leavenworth, Kans., to attend the Command and General Staff School. Capt. Allen first will take 30 days’ leave and visit Estes Park, Colo., reporting at the Kansas post about August 19. Capt. Milholland came to Fort Myer on June 1 after completing a tour of duty with the Pennsylvania National Guard at Tyrone, Pa, \