Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1935, Page 23

PARK 10 REPLIE TRACK INDGATED Tabler Declares Full Paving Along Wisconsin Is Not Feasible. BY JACK ALLEN, Staff Correspondent of The Star BETHESDA, Md.. July 13—While no definite decision has been reached, it appeared likely today that the center of Wisconsin avenue will be parked instead of paved when the Capital Transit Co. ahandons opera- tion of its electric ratlway between Washington and Rockville. Dr. E. N. Tabler, chairman of tne State Roads Commission, declared construction of a landscaped parkway through the center of the street seems the most logical way to correct the traffic hazard created by the cpen ditch in which the railroad tracks now lie. He stated that the inequality of the grades of the dual traffic lanes that border the tracks would require the entire street to be torn up and re- paved if the center of the thorough- fare is to be surfaced as advocated by citizens and civic groups in this section. The State highway head explained he made a recent inspection of Wis- consin avenue with Nathan L. Smith and E. G. Duncan, chief anc dastrict engineers of the roads commission, respectively, and found the west lane to be slightly higher than the east lane in several places. Dr. Tabler asserted, however that the commission has ieached no de- finite decision in the :matter and in- timated that his group would discuss the situation with the United States Bureau of Public Roads before defi- nitely deciding what steps to take to improve the center strip. Some time ago the Federal agency advanced a tentative suggestion that @ parkway be built in the center of the avenue if the Tapital Transit Co.'s tracks ever were removed. The Bureau of Public Roads turther suggested that the parkway be in- stalled in such manner that it could be taken out and the center strip paved if traffic conditions warranted. S Crime (Continued From First Page) the House calendar, and several others lar meeting Wednesday of the House District Committee. Only two, how- ever, are regarded as of major im-| portance. and of course, controversial. One is the Ellenbogen bill to revive | the wartime rent commission, and the other is the amended Senate ap- | proved bill to liberalize the District divorce laws. The Ellenbogen bill has been on the calendar for more than a month, but it has been skipped over each District day in that period. The divorce bill, however, is the latest ad- dition to the calendar, still is uncertain. Even if the House passes the divorce bill, it will have to go back to the Senate for concurrence in the amend- ments already made by the District Committee. Other changes may be made on the floor when the bill is under consideration. The principal revisions made by | to the brink of fiery may be added as a result of the regu- | and its fate| | hoisted THE 'SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, CatsRideTrashTrucksat Riskof TheirLives Curiosity Lures Alley Tabbies to Brink of Incinerators Where City’s Refuse Is Burned. Enterprising Tabby may have anticipated an enjoyable ride when she scrambled into a she is approaching a real scare as a load of refuse tumbles into a hopper on the way to furnace. She was rescued, however. biggest waste basket trash truck but the incinerator Cats, cocktails, razor blades and love letters all mingle in the District’s —Star Staff Photo. BY BLAIR BOLLES. 1 URIOSITY—traditional cause for high mortality amcng | cats—daily lures a numbcr of Washington alley felines death in city’'s two trash incinerators, where they are rescued in the nick of time by doughty employes of the Refuse Department. ‘ With true feline curiosity, the un- suspecting Toms and Tabbies make the mistake of searching for food, mice or other appetizing tidbits in | the truckloads of trash that go e‘ght hours a day, five days a week to the furnaces at O street and Anacostia | Creek southeast and in Georgetown | So interested do these cats necome in what may lie beneath the papers | and cans and bottles and boxes that | they do not become aware of their approach to dangerous domaia un-| til the trucks are up-ended and they find themselves sliding with tons of | derbis into huge hopvers that 1eed | the furnaces. From these bins the trash—and cats—are due to be into the flame-spouting | mouths of the incinerators, heated to the District Committee were elimina- (1500 degrees Fahrenheit | tion of cruelty, incurable insanity for five years and drunkenness for a pe- riod of one year as grounds for an absolute decree. Cruelty. however, will serve as grounds for a limited divorce which would become absolute after two years if the separated couple are not reunited. Taxi Bill May Fail. Representative Quinn, Democrat, of Pennsylvania, is hopeful of getting early action on his bill for compulsory taxicab liability insurance, but that is doubtful in view of the prospective adjournment of Congress about the middle of August. In fact, hearings on the measure have not been completed, because Representative Patman, Democrat, of ‘Texas, chairman of the subcommittee | which has it in charge, has been too busy with other congressional affairs. At the last hearing, more than a month ago, Patman asked for certain data on insurance rates for several classes of liability protection. Quinn #aid he had collected the information and would have it ready as soon as Patman resumes hearings on the bill. He intends to urge Patman to resume the hearings this week. Parks (Continued From First Page.) ning Commission at the August meet- ings. Completion of Meridian Hill Park will take $145,000. Construction of the dyke and revision of the grade on the Washington Monument grounds in conjunction with the flood control program will cost $55,000. ‘This work will start when the new In- terior Department Building excavation is begun next month at Eighteenth and E streets. Earth from the excava- tion will be used in building the dyke and raising the ground level. At Work on Pool Designs. ‘The engineers of the Natinoal Park Bervice are at work giving the final touches to the designs for the new swimming pools that are to be con- structed under the new plans. They will replace the municipal swimming pools on the Washington Monument grounds. One is to be built in South- west near the Hoover Playground, while the other is to be constructed in Georgeiown, at a point not yet officially revealed. The réplacement of these two pools will cost $120,000. Out of the $1,000,000 $80,000 has been set aside for improvements to the Memorial Bridge approach to Arlington National Cemetery. The construction of a police an informa- tion lodge in Rock Creek Park will take $15,000, while moving the pres- ent utility structures in that park to other locations will cost $15,000. Getting the entire program under way will take some weeks, said Mr. Gartside, as this is one of the most ambitious ever embarked upon by the Jocal park authorities. Altogether, it is expected to repair the needs of half a century back in many of the older parks of the city, the soil of which has become worn out, officials de- clared. Couzens Improving. ROCHESTER, Minn, July 13 (®). ~—*“Continued improvement” tonight was reported of the condition of Sen- ator James Couzens of Michigan, re- covering from an operation for a blad- der ailment. His personal physician sald the Senator has gained strengtn steadily since the operation. [} The car is yours . .. THE MOST FINELY BALANCED LOW-PRICED CAR EVER BUILT W Your Chevrolet dealer is host! You are his invited guest! Invited to drive the new Master De Luxe Chevrolet and prove to your own satisfaction that it’s the most finely balanced low-priced car ever built! Come in today . . . and have the most thrilling experience you have had in a long, long time! Try the new Master De Luxe Chevrolet in traffic, on the hills, on the straightaway, and learn how much finer it is than any other low-priced car! How much more perfectly it combines power with CHMaster De [wzq | spots Steps taken to solve the beselting| They feed the furnaces sets of question of what to do with a daily | china, pink-ribboned love letters, rub- load of 4.250 cubic yards of rubbish— a question made pregnant by the fact that nowadays almost everything from beds to berries comes in pack- ages—make it possible for the «mnty tomato can you toss aside into your kitchen trash-box ‘o hecome some day part of Anacostia Park. The District of Columbia burns its | trash. But the more you burn, the more the ashes. and tincans will not burn at all. although milk bottles are melted into puddles of slareless glass. So cans the ashes and the flame-licked are carted off to a variety of after they are shaken from the furnaces—and one of the spots is the site for a future Anacostia Park. The trash trucks bring more than [ tomato cans and paper and cats and milk bottles to the incinerators. “All Manner of Things.” They dump into a 30-foot trough iron bedsteads, oil stoves, bicycles and automobile tires, fenders and engines. They fetch mattresses, Bibles, book- cases, typewriters. the ber boots, saddles, cocktail shakers They consign to a warm oblivion razor blades in the millions. chewing gum wrappers in the gross, hairpins, shoe laces, button hooks, stomach pumps, bootjacks, stuffed owls and rusted shotguns. The Department of Agriculture sends unwanted bug powder which | pop-pops in the furnaces like a ma- chine-gun nest. ‘The Bureau of Engraving thrice daily sends trucks groaning with loads | of brightly inked paper, used to wipe | the plates on which dollar bills and ! postage stamps are made. The end-all and the be-all is the | incinerator furnace. It's the last rest- ing place of all inanimate objects Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego would probably at least develop blis- tered feet in an incinerator furnace. Fire Burns for Week. The fire is lighted Monday morn- ing and continues to blaze until Sat- | Colored men stoke | Barrymore, who was beside the strug- | juries. gling girl, managed to keep himself | urday morning. the furnaces with long metal forks A steady stream of trash drops from the hopper into the fire box. | protege, | away from life lines. D. C., JULY 14, 1935—PART ONE. The ashes are shaken down into a water-cooled ash tunnel. They stay here 15 minutes, end then are carted off—gray, indistinguishable remnants of one-time valued possessions. ‘The furnace got o hot during the week that not until 3 a.m. Monday have they cooled enough to permit a man to enter and clean them. The daily record of incineration is an indicator of the trash habits of the residents of Washington. February produces less trash than any month in the year; October produces the most, because of the moisture prevalent at the time. April housecleaning and September moving time also increases the rub- bish load. Incineration Is Recent. Incineration is a recent develop- ment in the District. Little more than two years ago the two buildings, designed by Harrison P. Eddy of Boston, with the help of John Blake Gordon, director of sanitary engineer- ing in the District, began operation. Up to that time trash had been burnt in dumps, and billowing smoke from widespread fires grayed the at- mosphere and made breathing un- pleasant. As recently as June 1 of this year a trash-dump operated in Arlington County to take care of commercial rubbish, but this has been halted end all rubbish now goes to the imcinera- tors. The Rust Engineering Co. of Pitts- burgh built the O street plant, with five furnaces, at a cost of $321416, and the Northeastern Construction Co. of New York and Baltimore built the Georgetown plant, a two-furnace incinerator, for $169,268. The two plants have a capacity of 595 tons of trash a day—a lot when it is considered 10 cubic yards average a ton. The cost per ton operation is esti- mated at $2.40, although actually the expense is less than this. Built of Brick and Steel. In a technical description of the in- cinerators Mr. Eddy says: “Both buildings are of brick and steel with concrete substructures, floors and roofs. “At Georgetown the foundations were simple due to the close proximity or rock. “At O street, however, an old map showed that at one time the shore line crossed the site. Concrete piles were used, cast in place within cor- rugated steel shells, designed for the maximum loading permited by the building code. “There were 44 piles under each of the two chimney: the entire plant. There is no salvage at the incinera- tors. Everything goes into the furnace; the operators are deaf to the pleas of those who stand by and beg for one of the hundreds of milk bottles due for the hot spot. —_— e JOHN BARRYMORE FAILS IN REAL-LIFE RESCUE | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 13.—The Daily News says that John Barrymore, with many brave rescues of damsels in despair to his credit—on the stage and screen—was left in the lurch to- day when he tried to rescue his friend 19-year-old Elaine Barrie, from the surf off a Long Island Beach A heavy wave swept Barrymore and Miss Barrie beyond their depth and Barrymore swam around her shouting for help. Guards rescued Miss Barrie and afloat long enough for the life guards to swim back and rescue him. CHEVROLET MOTOR COMPANY, DETROIT, MICHIGAN Compare Chevrolet’s low delivered prices and easy G.M.A.C. terms. A General Motors Value S and about 500 under | WARNING IS ISSUED ON' PERSONAL TAX 39,000 Washingtonians Must File Returns in July or Face Suit. ‘Warning that 39,000 residents of the District have failed so far to file their annual personal property tax returns and must do so before the end of the month or face court action was sounded yesterday by Charles A. Rus- sell, deputy assessor of taxes. Less than 7,000 returns have been filed, and of these 1,600 showed no taxable personal property. “Personal tax returns must be filed during July or mandamus proceed- ings will be filed against those per- sons who fail to file a return, which increases the tax by the cost of the mandamus, or $11 additional, in ad- dition to the 20 per cent penalty pro- vided by law for failure to file a re- turn during the prescribed period,” Russell said. The assessor’s office has adopted a change to further strengthen its hand in assessments, Russel said. In past years, in some cases, the assessor made so-called tentative assessments when returns were not filed. This year the facilities of the office have been increased and it is the inten- tion of the office to force the filing of returns from all having taxable property, he said. Longer hours have been ordered for the assessor’s office from July 15 to July 31 to handle the business. The office will remain open from 8:15 am. to 5 pm., except on Saturdays, when the closing hour will be 12:45. e Ll Women Live Longer. Official figures show that in England women live longer than men. Veteran Disputes |Contention of U. S. He Has Succumbed “Widow" Receives Offer of Assistance in | Benefit Claim. By the Associated Press. William Richard Redmond is in open conflict with the Veterans' Ad- ministration over a matter of vital concern to himself—whether or not he is dead. Mrs. Viola Redmond, the alleged widow, recently received a letter from the Veterans’ Administration offering to assist her in any benefit claim she might have against the Govern- reason of the death of your husband.” She appealed to Postmaster C. F. Snover of Fort Atkinson, Wis., who in | turn passed the case on to Senator | Duffy, Democrat of Wisconsin, with | the assertion that Redmond was | “very much alive” and was working | for the Union Pipe Fitting Co., of | that city. He described -Redmond as | a married man with a family who 1s | drawing compensation for war in- Duffy has interceded to convince Veterans’ Administration officials that ' Redmond is alive. » B3 Sixteenth Child Is Born t6 Mother Of 38, on Relief By the Associated Pre: WOODS RIVER, I, July 13. —Mrs. Clarence Swarringin, 38, today was a parent for the six- teenth time. The latest arrival, a girl weigh- ing 7% pounds, was born yester- day. Ten of her children are living. Thr oldest is 16, The husband is 43. ‘The family is on relief. CHARLES COUNTY LEVY IS INCREASED 25 CENTS Set at $1.15 by Board as Ex- penses Gain—Welfare Costs Are Gaining. Special Dispatch to The Star. LA PLATA, Md, July 13.—The county commissioners have fixed the Charles County tax rate at $1.15 on | This represents an increase | of 25 cents over last year's rate, and | the $100. was made necessary by the expense of the election last Fall, provisions for county welfare and an increase in school budget. The cost of county patients at State hospitals is an increasing item of ex- pense each year, now being between $7,000 and $8,000. SO 500 OFFERED FORW. B.& A.SPUR Pennsylvania Also Promises to Operate It for at Least 3 Years. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, July 13.—An offer to purchase the Southshore line of the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad, extending from Annapolis to Odenton, was filed in Federal Court here today by the Pennsylvania Rail- road. In a petition filed by an attorney for the Pennsylvania and signed by Vice President C. P. Young, the steam line offered $283500 for the trackage and rolling stock of that section of the W, B. & A—e price $15,255 in excess of previous bids. ‘The Southshore spur of the electric | line connects with the Pennsylvania’s main line at Odenton, and the petition stated the plan was to continue opera- tion of freight and passenger service between the three cities now served by the W., B. & A. The latter road was sold at auction last June 14, after operating in re- ceivership for several years ‘The Southshore spur was bought by J. J. Quinn for $16100, and the rolling stock and equipment by Morton H. Rosen for $252,100. At JORDAN’S, 13*-G T he two-tub washer and dryer is the safest and quickest way to wash JORDAN’S Special Two-Tub 33 81 Week Buys I and dry your clothes e e Only a few demonstrators at this attractive price. Come early. PIANO COMPANY 1239.G Street ~ Cor 13 NW. 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