Evening Star Newspaper, October 3, 1935, Page 30

‘B—10 NAVY AR STATION ERONTH DELAVED Expansion to Old Bolling “Field Help Up by Army Program. % T'he Naval Air Station at Anacostia “will be unable to expand to old Bolling CLOTHING DRIVE AIDED BY DISTRICT OFFICIALS | Good Samaritans Given Co-opera- tion, and Police Precincts Are Collecting Posts. fieveral District offi:ials are co- operating with the Good Samaritans in their drive to obtain clothing for distribution to the needy. Those who wish to contribute during this one- week campaign, which started Mon- day, are urged to call Metropolitan 4141. The clothes will be taken to THE EVENING police precincts and fire stations by taxicab drivers. The officials aiding the Good Samaritans in this work are Miss Mae Helm, assistant corporation counsel and member of the board of the Good Samaritans; PFire Chief Charles E. Schrom, Supt. of Police Ernest W. Brown, Arthur Clarendon Smith, pres- ident of the Federation of Businuss Men's Associations, and othe:s. Banana Output. Honduras shipped nearly $500,000 bunches of bananas in one month re- cently. : STAR, WASHINGTON, FIRST-AID CORPS PLANS EXPANSION Mrs. Charlotte Randall Begins Second Term as Director - of Organization. ‘Mrs, Charlotte Randall yesterday be- gan her second term as director of the Emergency First-Ald Corps with plans for & better-equipped organiza- tion and an expansion of its field for the coming year. Election of officers Tuesday night D. C, THURSDAY, marked the first anniversary of the corps, which, since its inception, has had a hand in virtually every impor~ tant first-aid assignment in the city and in sections of Maryland and Vir- ginia. Roy L. Hunt was named first as- sistant director; William M. Rohrer, second assistant director; Mrs. Ran- dall, Mrs. Eva Phillips and Rohrer, trustees; Wililam T. Needham, re- cording secretary and treasurer; Alice Sherman, corresponding secretary; Bernard Carroll, quartermaster, and Roy Dean and Elliott Sumter, as- sistant quartermasters. In the last year, the organization has attended 430 emergency cases OCTOBER 3, 1935, and is credited with saving four lives. It is on duty 24 hours a day and is in constant touch with the Police and Fire Departments. HICKEY IS RE-ELECTED Massachusetts Society Names Officer for Fifth Term. Frank E. Hickey has been re-electzd president of the Massachusetts So- clety of Washington for a fifth term. At & meeting Tuesday night Halelt C. Shepheard was elected first vice president; Miss Fanny E. Buck, second vice president; William J. Byrne, third vice president; Robert H. Kempton, secretary, and Miss Martha H. Gould, treasurer. Elected trustees were: Leon E. A. Chagon, J. Chase McKenzie, Dr. Hen- ry Gratton Doyle, Representatives Pehr Holmes and William P. Connery, Miss Harriet M. Cheney and Mrs. Lawrence Lawlor. Cawnpore Active. Cawnpore, India, scene of the Se- Poy mutiny 78 years ago, is today one of the principal business centers of interior India with one of the largest woollen mills in the country. T 'BLENDED FLAVOR Savory Spi Mellow Mustard.. GULOENS ‘ Mustard . “¥leld, in accordance with President “Roosevelt's executive order, until the {&rmy can get some $2000.000 addi- tional to complete its new flying field | “to the south, it was learned today. fFurther, the expansion of the Navy | £8ir fleld and the growth of Army fly- | “ing activities here will have little “affect on the Army and Navy opposi- | £tion to construction of an airport for | ¥Washington at Gravelly Point, as #Ygcommended by the National Capital vPark and Planning Commission. # “There are about 300 Works Progress # Administration employes engaged on ¢grading operations at mew Bolling “Fjeld. Officlals have been informed that there are more than 3,000 men voh the District’s rolls waiting to go | 7to work, and sources close to Secre- #tary Dern said the Army would be “able to use 1,000 more men at new #Bolling Field, clearing runways and #cpnstructing a new road. In addition “to the 300 men at work on the flying ¥ fleld proper, there are 300 more W. | “P, A. employes engaged in landscaping | § “and road building, under the direc- ftion of the post quartermaster. | t The Army already has spent about | | # $2.169,641 on the improvement of new { Bolling Field and its equipment and 4 1s now spending about $1,200,000 un- | & der the W. P. A. set-up; $2,000,000 ¢ additional is needed to put the flying | + field and its auxiliaries in first class | 4 shape. i Army and Navy opposition to the | establishment of Gravelly Point Air- | port has not abated, it was learned, i in the face of the new development in the Anacostia area. Officers ex-| plained that from the center of old Bolling Field to the center of the projected Gravelly Point site is about b 8,000 feet, whereas the air commerce $ rules require that fields should be & | minimum of 10,000 feet apart. The situation will not be improved, officials | declared, when the Army moves onto new Bolling Field. S TWO TRAFFIC SUITS ASK $50,000 DI\MI\GESi Child Sues Through Mother lor[ $25,000—Woman Names Two ] Drivers in Other Case. | Two suits, in which a total of $50,- 000 damages is asked for injuries sus- | tained in recent traffic accidents, have | | been filed in District Supreme Court. | Alleging he was seriously hurt April 29 when he was struck near his home by the automobile of Alpheus L. Em- | . brey, 5734 Fifth street, John Richard | Minar, & child, of 5339 Nevada ave- | * nue, asked the court to award him $25,000. He brought the suit through his mother, Mrs. Mary J. Minar, who . was represented by Attorneys Norman E. sill and Elmer E. Cummins. In & second suit, Henietta S. Moul- throp, 412 First street southeast, sought a like amount from Abraham | Greenbaum, 800 Fourth street south- | west, and Frances E. Wolfe, a Navy | Department employe. The plaintiff | ! stated she was injured January 30 at | ‘ First and D streets southeast when | Greenbaum’s car was backed across | the crosswalk compelling her to jump forward to avoid being hit. As she | jumped, the Wolfe car struck her, she alleged. She was represented by At- ! torney James F. Reilly. I Service Orders l ARMY ORDERS. i3 Turner, Col. Frederick G., Cavalry, ¢ %o be retired October 31. /: Goedike, Lieut. Col. John G., Corps {76 Engineers Reserve, from San An- ‘ffinnlo, Tex., to active duty in engineer “geproduction plant, here, October 13.' &7 Textor, Capt. Gordon E, Corps of #/Engineers, to Fort Belvolr, Va, upon ~gompletion of present tour of foreign “Mervice. “ Tracy, Capt. Maxwell W., Coast Ar- | llery Corps, from Fort Monroe, Va., “40 Fort Sam Houston, Tex., about De- | éember 29. | i Carter, Pirst Lieut. Clifton C., Coast | ,o#Mrtillery Cqrps, assigned to duty at' +-Fort Monroe, Vsa. | ,~ Hoffman, Second Lieut. Theodore ! F., Coast Artillery Corps, from Fort | , Monroe, Va., to the Hawalian Depart- , ment, about December 12. Gifin, Second Lieut. Sidney F., 3 { Coast Artillery Corps, from Fort Mon- | ' A 9 ! roe, Va., to the Philippine Depart- | Bin ; # i ! ment, about December 31. | i . p : : NAVY ORDERS. | M Godfrey, Lieut. Comdr. Vincent H., | detached U. S. S. Henderson; continue : treatment Naval Hospital, Annapolis, | Md. | ¢ McCluen, Lieut. Elmer J., debflched‘ ¥ 12th Naval District on November 1; * to home, relieved all active duty. ¢ _ Schlapp, Lieut. Frank, detached U.| ¢B. 8. Brazos: continue treatment | i Naval Hospital, San Diego, Calif. « Dispatch orders September 7 revoked. + Wilson, Lieut. Comdr. George W. { (M. C.), detached U. S. 8. 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