Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1935, Page 19

General News - BUDGET FOR 1957 INCLUDES FUNDS FOR 2 LIBRARIES Estimates of Dr. Bowerman Seek $150,000 to Build Petworth Branch. $25,000 IS REQUESTED FOR ANACOSTIA SITE Librarian Asks Total of $729,670, Increase of $259,175 Over Present Appfopriltions. Funds for construction -of a Pet- worth branch library and purchase of # site and drafting of plans for an Anacostia branch are sought in the | 1937 budget estimates of the Free Public Library, made public yester- day by Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, Dis- trict budget officer. Estimates submitted by Dr. George | P. Bowerman, librarian, call for an sppropriation of $150,000 for building & Petworth branch at Kansas and Jows avenues on land owned by the District Government. ‘The sum would provide -for equipping the building and improvement of grounds. “A population of 50,000 is esti- mated for this section which is prac- tically without library service, as it is over a mile from the over-crowded Mount Pleasant Branch and over two miles from Takoma Park and the Central Library,” library officials informed the Commissioners. Branch Would Serve Adults. “A site is available on the campus of the Roosevelt High and Macfar- land Junior High Schools. A branch there would serve the adult popula- tion, the students of these schools and eight elementary and parochial achools in the vicinity or within easy walking distance. The citizens of the section are most urgent in their ap- peals for the branch and it has the approval of the Federation of Citi- gens’ Associations.” For the purchase of a site for a branch in Anacostia,- library officials asked $25,000 and $3,750 for draft- ing of specifications. “This branch will serve Anacostia, Congress Heights, Randle Highlands and Good Hope,” the Commissioners were advised. “The population within & mile radius of a proper locaticn is estimated at 20,344 and is rapidly in- creasing. There are 10 public schools and two parochial schools in the ter- ritory to be served; also the personnel of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and the fiying flelds. Suitable Sites Scarce. “The section is cut off from other library facilities by the river and by distance. It is about 2 miles from the nearest library branch, South- eastern, to the center of Anacostia. Suitable sites’ are getting so scarce that one should be acquired at the earliest opportunity.” ‘The type of library building pro- posed for the section would cost | $125,000, including equipment. i For all purposes, the library esti- mates call for $729,670, an increase of $259,175 over appropriations for the present year. Thirty-four additional employes will be needed by the sys- tem to meet growing service demands, the Commissioners were informed. A total salary appropriation of $404,100 was ‘The sum granted for this year was $343,550. For the Central Library, four librarians, four library assistants, one part-time assistant, two clerks, three mechanics and four messengers would be added. The re- mainder of the additicaal employes ‘would be scattered among the various branches, On this point, library officials stated: “No.new positions have been grant- ed during the years 1933-1935 and the ones granted for 1936 are for new agencies, the Georgetown branch (now being opened) and the new music reading room. The whole library sys- tem is seriously in arrears and in the face of continually growing use is unequipped to render essential service. “Since 1930, the increase in the Jnumber of registered borrowers is 1.5 per cent; in volumes circulated, $2 per cent, as against an increase in staff of only 13 per cent.” "' Increases in personnel would be for affording some measures of relief to the departments and branches deal- ing directly with the public, by the adddition of 12 new positions, at a cost of $15460. For the Central Library, there would be a readers’ adviser in history and economics, an assistant for the music division, an assistant for the reference depart- ment, an assistant superintendent for work with schools and three pages. Five positions are requested for the branches: An assistant readers’ ad- viser at Mount Pleasant, an assistant children’s librarian at Takoma and two aids and one page for the Chevy Chase, Woodridge and Tenley sub- branches. ‘The administrative offices and ac- quisitions departments also would be strengthened by additional salary sums ©f $4,430 and $3,060, respectively. Longer Hours Proposed. Other sums asked would permit Jonger hours of libraby operations, to afford better public service. It is proposed to operate the Central Li- brary, the Mount Pleasant, Northeast- ern, Southeastern and Takoma Park Branches for 72 hours weekly instead of the present 64 hours. Eight new positions would be needed for this purpose. The Chevy Chase and Woodridge 8ub Branches would operate on a full- time basis instead of the present 32 hours & week. Such operation would mean they would stay open until 9 pm. on five or six nights a week, thus providing greater opportunity for reference use by students and work- ers. It is impossible to do this with the present very limited staff, the Commissioners were told. + An appropriation of $70,000 was Qerials, The minimum requirement for binding is $20,000, library officials declared. For maintenance and re- pair of library properties $48,500 was Tequested, as against $32,635 for this A sum of $4,000 was urged for <& half-pint of whiskey. 225 Years ¢ Sunday Stae WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1935. of Service SIX CAPITAL TRANSIT EMPLOYES HAVE SERVED ON CHEVY CHASE LINE, GEORGE HEN the Capital Transit Co., puts its last street car in the barn and switches over to bus service on the Chevy Chase Lake line next Sunday, six of its motormen and con- | ductors on the division will have fin- { ished out 225 years of active service, most of them having served all their time on the Chevy Chase Lake line. Outstanding among the veterans are Eugene J. Fling, 63, motorman, lving at 8 Watkins avenue, Chevy Chase, and George T. Pulliam, 64, conductor, living at 10 Watkins | avenue, Pulliem was on his regular ]run yesterday, but Fling took the day | off to go on a party. His friends call | him “a dancing fool.” Pulllam has been on the Chevy | Chase line since 1901 and Fling began his service in 1895. In those days, the veterans say, running the cars | beyond Chevy Chase Circle was a | snap. The cars hardly ever had to be stopped, going either way, between Chevy Chase Lake and the Circle. Only Wilderness and Farms. In those days, say Pulliam and Fling, there was nothing but wilder- ness and farms out that way. In the years since they started their service with the street car company the whole area has grown up to be one of the finest residential sections. Now a car is required to run over the line every 10 minutes to take care of the heavy passenger traffic, where in the early days “one a week would have done Jjust as well.” ‘When the new busses are put into service on the Chevy Chase Lake, Kensington, Garrett Park, Rock Creek Loop division September 15 the veter- ans will all be transferred to other | divisions. Pulliam and Fling will go to the Fourteenth street division. The younger men will be transferred to driving busses. Other Old Timers. Other old timers who will go to other lines from the Chevy Chase Lake | division are John Marshall, motor man, and W. B. Giddings, a conductor, both of whom started to work in 1904. Charles H. Beaver, motor man, and A. Broadus have served almost a century between them, but they came to the old Capital Traction Co. from the Washington Railway & Electric Co. during the strike of 1917, but Broadus | started work as a conductor when horse cars were in vogue. Both now { have nearly 50 years each to their | credit. T. PULLIAM. —star Staff Photo. - In the beginning, when ‘the line | was built in 1892, it was known as the Rock Creek Railway Co., and | was run out into the country as a stimulus to a real estate development promoted by Senator Newland. Never Had Bad Accident. Pulliam boasts that in his 34 years ious accident. He has had two minor mishaps, be says. when he signalled his motorman to go ahead when a car was too close to an adjoiaing track on a curve and the bumper of the car was torn off. Anothe; was when a passenger got | behind him just as Pulliam closed | the doors. His ankle was bruised. Oldest of the veterans on the line is John H. Stout, now retired and liv- ing at 9 Williams lane, Chevy Chase. Stout was the first man to run a car on the line back in 1892. change to bus service on their line. “That’s progress,” said Pulllam. “Be- sides, we still have jobs. Of course, it will take us away from our homes here, but that wcn't be so bad.” Old Car Barn in Use. line was first laid, is still in use, but the power plant that also was built at the time long since has fallen into disuse and now ruin. Its tall brick smokestack is the only substantial- looking thing about it. Day in an day out, the old-timers bhave watched the section change. The most impressive thing in their minds, however, is the change in Chevy Chase Lake itself. Where the water once covered seven or eight acres, it now is little more than a duck pond “and a very shallow one, at that,” they say. There is a spirit of good fellowship evident among the employes on the line as they gather in their room at the car barn office. They have this room all fixed up for their entertain- ment while awaiting their turn out. Spread on the table were two checker- boards, a marble board (without & coin slot), cards and magazines. “Everybody knows everybody else by their first name around here,” H. W. Thompson, superintendent of the division, said. “When men have worked together, eaten together and almost lived together for as many years as most of these men have, they must be either very good friends or else very bad enemies. I don't know of any enemies around nere.” VETERAN® KILLS SELF ATHOSPITAL {Mount Alto Inmate Cuts| Throat—Fear of Trans- fer Blamed. Because he “would rather die. than go to Hampton Roads, Va., for treat- ment,” Alfred B. Merriman, 43, an inmate of Mount Alto Hospital, yes- terday afternoon sought the seclusion of Hunlaw road in the rear of the hospital and slashed his throat with his razor, it was determined by Dr. A. Magruder, MacDonald, District coroner. Dr. MacDonald said he would issue a certificate of suicide, but was with- holding it while a sister of the dead man, supposed to live in Washington, was being sought. Police did not know hex, name. Merriam’s body was found at the rear wall of the veterans' hospital by George Morris of Glen Echo Heights, Md., and Harold P. Voss of 4968 Quebec street shortly before 5 o'clock. They reported to the hospital and Dr. R. T. Perkins, officer of the day, in- vestigated and summoned police. Merriman entered Mount Alto last March and was discharged in May. He was readmitted in August for & nervous disorder and soon was to have been transferred to the hospital at Hampton Roads, Va., for treatment. Dr. MacDonald said fellow patients told him that Merriman had said he MAN IDENTIFIED AS “CORK” BANDIT 11 Pistols Reported Found in Room—Gamblers Hold-up Victims. Believing that several local gamblers have been the victims of bandits with- in the last several months, the De- tective Bureau last night attempted to have 10 of them appear at police line-up in an effort to identify four suspects who were held in connection with the. “burnt cork” hold-ups of the last two weeks. The gamblers, who have never yet made a report to police that they have been robbed, had promised to appear and it was hoped through their appearance to get definite in- men held. Although this part of the pro- cedure failed, one of the suspects, Carmen J. Quantrille, 27, of 15 N street, was identified as the burnt cork bandit in the hold-up last Tues- day night of Rowe’s seafood restaurant at 911 Thirteenth street southeast, where Willlam Carroll, manager, was robbed of $200 in cash. The identi- fication was made by the manager. In an effort definitely to establish the participation of Quantrille or any of ‘the others held, police have ar- ranged a special line-up at the Detec- tive Bureau for 1 p.m. today. In his room, police say, were found 11 pis- tols, ranging from a 60-year-old Der- would “rather die than go.” 1. After he admitted that he shot and killed Henry Holmes, 35, colored, 1000 block of Twenty-second street, and carted the body in a push cart from his’M street home several miles away to the 4200 block of Forty-second street, Manuel Johnson, 40, colored, of the 2300 block of M street, yester- day was ordered held for grand jury action by a coroner’s jury. s The shooting occurred - Tuesday home, Johnson told the jury. The fight started over an argumen! about . ringer to recent 38s and 45s. Man Admits Carting Victim Through City After Killing Johnsoh said he. shot the man and then with the aid of his wife he loaded the body into the push cart and took it ‘out near the woods in the 4200 block of Forty-second street. There the body of Holmes was found the following morning,. a bullet wound over his heart, The jury's verdict also held as ac- night during an altercation at his/: of service, he has never had a ser-| One of them was | jon his car and stuck his foot out| ‘The old-timers do not bemoan the | ‘The old car barn, built when the | formation to aid in identifying the FOR UTILITIES UNIT ASKED IN BUDGET Increase Held Essential for Proper Regulation in 1937 Estimates. COMMISSION REQUESTS $113,200, $44,200 RAISE Held Essential to Restore Bobk Checks The addition of 16 employes to the staff of the Public Utilities Commis- sion is essential to permit proper utility regulation, the Commissioners are told in the 1937 estimates for the body, released yesterday by Budget Officer Daniel J. Donovan. The commission proposes first the restoration of 10 employes wiped out by the wave of economy in the fiscal year 1935 and was continued last year. The addition of six more is needed if the commission is to cope successfully with its work, it de- clared. For all purposes the commission re- quested appropriations totaling $113,- 200 as against $69,000 for this year. In justification for the $44,200. in- crease the commission states that the gross revenues of District utility firms have increased from $11,400,000 in 1913 to $43,300,000 in 1934¢. The com- mission staff of 21 is now of the size it was in 1913, The commission would raise it to 37. New Employes Desired. New employes would be two engi- neers, two electrical inspectors, ory valuation accountant, five accountants, one general investigator, two assistant accountants, twe clerks and one mes- senger. Enlargement of the accounting staff is vital since the commission has been unable to make an annual check of the books of the utility firms since the economy salary cuts were levied two years ago, it argues. to depend on statements submitted by the companies. Appointment of the additional en- gineers and inspectors would permit the commission to re-establish regular investigation of electrical and gas meters, which now can be done only in special instances with the present | stafr. The commission last year sought but failed to get approval for the general investigator.. This employe is needed, the body states, to permit the commission to keep abreast of utility regulation methods and prin- ciples and to make constant search for progressive methods of control. Maj. Donovan also released esti- mates for the office of National Cap- ital Parks, for reclamation of the tional Capital Park and Planning Commission. Hearings Begin Tomorrow. ‘The District Commissioners tomor- row will start hearings for depart- ment heads, in preparation for their action on a proposed 1937 budget to g0 to the Budget Bureau later this month. The grand total of requests is $54,971,351, an increase of $12.- 764,736 over appropriations for this year. Heavy slashes will be made in many brackets to bring the expenses down closer to expected revenues. Maj. Donovan now is preparing a financial review to show the present condition and the anticipated reve- nues in the next year. This will serve partly as a guide to commisgion ac- tion on the budget requests. For National Capital Parks a total of $1,127,320 is asked for next year, an increase of $229,320 over this year. The addition of 74 employes is sought in salary requests, totaling $460,920, an increase of $110,920. This would permit. employment of 25 more labor- ers, 75 gardeners, 29 mechanics and 4 assistant foremen. In justification officials declare the park acreage has increased 63 per cent in the past 10 years without any commensurate increase in working force. Twelve additional park police are urged. The present force is unable to cope with a great amount of petty thefts and traffic problems, it was said. For park police $197,190 was 'asked, as compared with $175,000 for this year. Appropriation of $454210 was sought for general expenses, mainte- nance and improvements, an increase of $87,210. This would cover an in- crease from $20,000 to $42,600 in sums for preparations for open-air sports and band concerts, for which demands have been increasing. $180,000 Asked for Flats. Completion of the Anacostia River flats development in four years was proposed in a request for an appropri- ation of $180,000 for 1937, three more grants of equal amount to be approved in the following three years. The 1937 proposal would permit completion of the .northern section, between Benning road and the Dis- trict line, officials said. This would make the whole project 87 per cent completed. The District already has invested $3,500,000 in the program. Citizens' spokesmen have urged re- vival of work to hasten completion so the park can be turned over to public use. For the National Capital Park and Planning Commission a total appro- priation of $352,790 was asked. The current appropriation is $337,500. The principal increase is for a full- time city planner. Of the grand total $300,000 would be for. the District payment for park land extension under the Capper-Cramton act. CHILD ESCAPES INJURY A 3-year-old child escaped injury last night when, while being carried in his father’s arms, the parent was struck and knocked down by an au- The father, John Kazalski, 30, 727 Twelfth' street, was struck by an au- e been ‘Thomas Vaden, 36, the driveway Twelfth and ered & N street, Accounting Staff Enlargement Is; It has had | Anacostia River flats and for the Na- | national secretary-stenographer. national secretary. AF.G.E PRESIDENT CONTEST LOOMING Paul David of Knoxville T.! V. A. Opposes Donovan of N. R. A. Lodge. Contest over the presidency of the| American Federation of Government | Employes, held for two years by E.| Claude Babcock, loomed last nlgmi as 100 delegates left Washington for! the Cincinnati convention of the or- ganization. Paul David of the Tennessee Valley Authority in Knoxville and John Don- ovan, turbulent leader of the N. R. A. Lodge, are candidates for the post. The fight over the presidency was .expected to begin almost at the out- set of the third annual convention of the organization, which opens to- day at the Netherland-Plaza Hotel headquarters in the Ohio city. Breach Long Standing. Miss -Esther Penn, secretary, also must stand for re-election, and if repeated assertions are made good, | she will be opposed by an administra« tion candidate. A long-standing breach between Miss Penn and Bab- cock supporters has never healed. Cecil E. Custer, named treasurer last year, has another year to serve. A shake-up in the offices of vice pres- | ident, with three or four on their| way out if the Babcock forces control | the election, is another prospect. The Babcock faction in the Execu- tive Council is picking its slate over the week end during a council meet- ing prior to the opening of the con- vention proper. Another issue threatening contro- versy is & proposed constitutional amendment proposed by the adminis- tration which would prevent constitu- ent lodges from acting independently of national headquarters in seeking legislation. Some past difficulties have been laid to this practice. Committees to Be Named. Babcock’s annual report will be presented at the first session, and committees will be named to draft the program to be urged on the next Congress in the interest of Federal workers. The major items, of course, will harmonize with those to be pushed by the rival National Federation of Federal Employes, which just con- cluded its convention in Yellowstone Park. These include extension of the | merit system and application of uni- form classification pay rates to the field. Along with these will be a large number of other recommendations on working conditions. The convention is expecting & mes- sage from William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, with which the A. F. G. E. is affiliated. Other Speakers, Other speakers will be Represent- ative Sirovich, Democrat, of New York: Arthur G. Newmeyer, publisher of the ‘Washington Times; George Googe, Southern representative of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, and Gilbert E. Hyatt, National Federation of Post Office Clerks. The National Convention Committee includes J. A. Campbell, general chair- man; R. T. Hoffman, Arthur Moore, C. E. Woodward, Margaret Koppmeier, Catherine Wilkerson, F. L. Woodruff, J. A. Gayman, D. R. Wells, W. C. Dev- ereux, Dr. C. W Payne, Edward Deems, Joseph Wallace, Clifford Kern, Frances Walsh, Caroline Schock, Charles Crouse, Edward Kersting and 8. F. Montague. DAVEY IN RACE AGAIN Ohio’ Governor Says Tax Plan Insures Victory. KALIDA, Ohio, September 7.—Gov. Martin L. Davey announced his can- didacy for re-election today amid the hog-calling and old fiddlers’ con- tests of the annual Putnam County Pioneer Association session. More than 5,000 persons heard him declare the Legislature's passage of his tax plan providing Installment payients of delinquent taxes over 10 years without penalty was sufficient guarantee of his return to office. PARISH SCHOOL TO OPEN The Immaculate Conception parish will open its Fall school term tomor- row. . The church is located at N and Eighth streets, The Brothers of Mary will conduct the boys’ school, and the Daughters of ‘Williams, national treasurer; Mrs. Martha B. Washington members of the American Pederation of Government Employes as they departed from Unicn Station yesterday for the organization’s convention in Cincinnati, Front row, left to right: Mrs, Marguerite Bruns, Mrs. Minnie Lenhart, past national president; Mrs. Anna Nagel, national president; Mrs. Marie C. Hart, national junior vice president, and Edith M. Tavarozza, Back row: Miss Greta W. Ludwig. national musician: national flag bearer; Mrs. Bertha R. Cook, national reporter; Mrs. Mamie Smidt and Mrs. Olive M. Raven, [ 2 $1,390 POSTAL SAVINGS CERTIFICATES STOLEN Physician Reports Theft From Parked Car—Woman Reports Two Snatch Pocketbook. The theft from a parked automo. bile of $1,390 in postal savings cer- tificates, a $20 money order and $6 in cazh was reported to park police last night by Dr. Northern O. Tribble, 5540 Massachusetts avenue of the Medical Section, Agriculture Depart- ment. Eloise Kirksey, 2417 Seventeenth | street, reported two colored men | snatched her pocketbook containing | a $10 bill while she was walking on Thirteenth street at B street south- east. She furnished police with a description of her assailants, ROCK CREEK SLIDE BORINGS TOSTART P. W. A. Grants $2,000 for Preliminary Study of | Subsoil Stratas. ‘The Bureau of Public Roads of the | Department of Agriculture soon will| start borings to determine subsurface | conditions upstream of the Q Street Bridge in Rock Creek Valley, where| a landslide occurred as a result of | the heavy June rains. C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent of the Na- tional Capital Parks, yesterday an- nounced that the Public Works Ad- ministration has granted $2,000 for a preliminary investigation. ‘When the bureau has its data the engineers will be better able to recom- mend steps for prevention of a re-! currence of the slide, which has blocked part of the park drive. Off- hand, the officials say that the re- taining wall will likely have to be | rebuilt, but they want the scientific | information on which to proceed to determine if subsurface conditions are such as to permit construction of & much more substantial wall. Early in July the park authorities asked Secretary Ickes and the Public Works Administration for an allot- ment of $120,000 for repairing the damage. Further investigation re- sulted in yesterday's authorization | for $2,000 to be expended without de- lay in ascertaining what foundation conditions are. ‘When the slide occurred, it clipped off part of the back yards of residents living along Massachusetts avenue, near the Japanese Embassy—includ- ing that of the eminent Washington attorney, Frank J. Hogan, who lives at 2320 Massachugetts avenue. Mr. Finnan said that the heavy rains of last ‘week apparently had little effect upon the slide, but he wants the en- gineering data to make sure. He is hopeful of obtaining funds shortly with which to repair the damage and open to full traffic the park drive that has now been partly blocked for a couple of months. CARPENTER STRIKE PARLEYS TO BEGIN Walkout of Union Workers Is, Holding Up Annex to Con- . gress Library. Negotiations to end the strike -of !Inquest Reveals Mrs. Haus- | . held yesterday for grand jury action union carpenters that is holding up work on the Library of Congress An- nex are expected to begin early this week, About eight carpenters employed In the preliminary work on the $6,250,- 000 structure walked out, it was said, when they learned they were to re- ceive $1.25 an hour instead of $1.37'3. ‘The former scale prevailed, John Locher, president of the Central La- bor Union, said, when specifications for the annex were drafted long ago. In the meantime, however, the car- penters’ wage scale was boosted 12 cents an hour. Although the Government and the contractor, Consolidated Engineering Co., knew of the increase in the scale, Locher declared, the old figure, $1.25, remained in the specifications and when the carpenters went to get their pay it is understood the company of- fered to pay them at that rate. Airline Capitalized in Peru. LIMA, Peru, September 7 (#).—The government authorized today the Sociedad with & eapital of 500,000 soles (the sole is nominally about 20 cents). Mrs. Grace Byrme, —Star Staff Photo. DRIVER IS BLAMED INTRAFFIC DEATH enfluck Was Killed Al- most Instantly. Morgan Glaze, 27, colored, 400 block of M street, driver of the automobile which struck and killed Mrs. Mary C. Hausenfluck, 79, at Fourteenth and Euclid streets Thursday, was ordered by a coroner’s jury. It was disclosed that Glaze was| operating his car without a permit and that he had used another’s name at the time of his arrest after the accident. Death on Scene. Mrs.~ Hausenfluck, widow of Rev. | John Mausenfluck, a Lutheran min- ister, who lived at 1303 Euclid street, was killed almost instantly when hit | by Glaze's car as she stood in the| middle of the southbound car tracks on Fourteenth street. Frank R. Carter, 3100 Warder street, an eyewitness to the tragedy, testified that Mrs. Hausenfluck stepped out | of a safety zone just as Glazer's car | approached the intersection inside the zone In another traffic inquest yesterday the jury placed a charge of negligent homicide against Stephen B. Gray, 22, of 30 O street northeast, in connection with the death of Mrs. Annie Mack, colored, 47, of 1416 South Carolina | avenue southeast. Mrs. Mack died Tuesday of complications caused by | injuries received in an accident Au- gust 5, In Truck Collision. Mrs. Mack was injured when a car driven by her husband, Richmond Mack, 50, colored, was in collision with a truck driven by Gray at Florida and Montello avenues northeast. Mack was exonerated by the jury. Gray will be brought to trial in Police Court and if convicted he is liable to a fine of $1,000 or one year in jail or both. FEDERAL EMPLOYE FOUND DEAD IN CAR George W. .J:cnbs. Printer, 56, | Had Been in Ill Health Several Years. George W, Jacobs, 56, of 4902 Fourth street, was found dead in his car last night by a step-daughter who returned from a picture show to find | the house filled with gasoline fumes and all doors locked leading into the garage below the house. Police who were summoned found the rear door of the garage closed and tied by a clothesline to the car bumper. | Jacobs’ body had slumped part way | out of the front door of the car.. The motor was not running when the body was found, but the radiator was still warm. Police believe the switch was turned off by Jacobs’ knee as he fell. | A printer at the Bureau of Engrav- | ing and Printing, Jacobs had been in| ill health several years, police were told, and last week he had been forced | to give up his work. Surviving are his wife, Edna Jane Jacobs, and the step-daughter, Alice Louise Berry. ; e MEDAL TO BE GIVEN Samuel Ross to Receive Certificate Of Jewish War Veterans. A medal and certificate of merit will be awarded Samuel Ross of ‘Washington Post, No. 58, Jewish War Veterans, at a meeting tomorrow at 8 p.m. at the Jewish Community Cen- ter. Ross was awarded the Watson B. Miller Trophy for 1930 and 1932 for outstanding and unselfish service to the American Legion. He is com- mander of Stuart Walcott Post, No. 10, of the District of Columbia De- partment, American Legion. | REGATTA BOXES SOLD More than one-third 6f the 100 boxes for the President’s Cup Regatta and Water Carnival on September 27 and 28 have been sold. The boxes are located on the water front along Hains Point, commanding excellent views. They are equipped with um- brella tables and six chairs. Boxholders will be given special privileges, it was announced by Cur~ 'LEGATI Sports—Pages 7 to 11 PAGE B—1 3 PARK. HIGHWAY PROJECTS DUE FOR START TOMORROW P Street Low-Level Bridge Will Be Begun by Roads Bureau. WORK IN UNION SQUARE IS INCLUDED IN GROUP Road Building to Begin in First Unit of George Washington Memorial Parkway. Three major highway projects in the park system will get under way tomorrow, C. Marshall Finnan, super- intendent of the National Capital parks, announced yesterday. These will be the low-level bridge at P street, in the Rock Creek and Poto- mac Parkway; road construction in Union Square, just west of the Cap- itol, and road building in the first unit of the George Washington Me- morial Parkway between the Arling- ton and Key Bridges on the Vir- ginia shore of the Potomac River. Construction of the low-level bridge at P street will go forward under the direction of the Bureau of Public Roads of the Department of Agri- culture. The recent completion of the high-level bridge built by the District government, spanning Rock Creek Valley at P street, has cleared the way for the work across the creek that will carry the projected park drive from the east to the west bank. At present the highway in the valley terminates at the Church of the Pilgrims, downstream of the Q Street Bridge. A park roadway is under construction from Q street to K street, passing under the Q, P and M Street Bridges as well as that at Pennsyl- vania avenue. Finnan said the Union Square work will be the last contract to be entered into there, save for the electric ligh:s that will conform to those in the Mall. Landscaping and other im- provements now are underway in that area, In the George Washington Memo- rial Parkway, which will eventually g0 on up to Great Falls, surveyors have been laying lines for the road cut, between the Arlington and Key Bridges This project will open up another scenic riverside drive, taking motorists past Theodore Roosevelt Island and up to Rosslyn, Va. Details of the plans around the Key Bridge are being worked out by the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission in _collaboration with the Bureau of Public Roads. Officials said yesterday that this new highway will likely be open for traffic early next year. —— ON EMPLOYE INJURED BY AUTC Iranian Butler Struck at Dupe-* Circle—Man, 73, Also Is Hurt. Carl Olsen, 33, butler at the Iran- ian legation, was one of two pedes- trians struck and seriously injured last night by automobiles. Olsen was struck as he was cross- ing the street on the west side of Du- pont Circle by an automobile said by police to have been operated by Har- old V. Daniels, 30, 405 Tenth street southeast. Olsen was taken to Emergency Hos- pital, where he was treated for a possible fracture of the skull and con- cussion of the brain. George Offenstein, 73, of 213 B stree northeast, suffered a fracture of thc right leg and severe lacerations of the forehead when struck at Massa- chusetts avenue and Second street northeast by an automobile operated, police said, by Samuel Franton, 27 of 1305 Tenth street. The injured man was taken to Casualty Hospitai where it was said his condition is undetermined. WOMAN AND SON, 14, BOOKED AT STATION Charge of Being Drunk and Dis- orderly in No. 6 Precinct Honse Is Filed. Mrs. Alice Thorp, 42, of 1667 Wis- consin avenue, was charged with in- toxication and disorderly conduct in the station house at No. 6 precinct after she was arrested on Sixteenth street last night in an automobile driven by her 14-year-old son Mat- thew, who was booked for operating without a permit. The arrests were made by Police- man C. H. Gould of the Traffic Bu- reau. Mrs. Thorp posted $6 collateral and her son was released under $100 bond pending a Juvenile Court hearing. The boy, police said, declared he was driving for his mother at the time they were arrested. _— ZION UNIT HITS BRITISH POLICY IN PALESTINE | Revisionist Group Meets in Vien« na—Condition of Jews Held Worse Now. VIENNA, September 7 (Jewish Tel- egraphic Agency) —Denunciation of Nazi treatment of Jews and criticism of the British administration in Pale estine were voiced tonight by Viadi~ mir Jatbotinsky, president of the World Union of Zionist Revisionists, addressing the opening session to- night of the constituent congress of the New Zionist organization. The congress was initiated by the right-wing Zionists, who split away from the main hody. Jacob De Haas, veteran New York Zionist, said the condition of the Jews, which necessitated the Zionist move- tis Hodges, chairman of the Review- ing Committes. , ment 39 years 8go, is infinitely worse now, »