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Washington News e CHILD IN AGONY | FROM WOUNDS IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENT Flesh Pierced by Bone of Leg as Coaster Hits Car in Alexandria. CAPITAL DEATH TOLL FOR YEAR NOW IS 84 $kull Fracture in Auto Crash With Street Car Week Ago Fatal to Colored Man. A smashed head, a badly cut ear and a leg torn by a broken bone that pierced the skin—that is the price 7- year-old Alfred Vermillion of Alexan- dria, Va., paid for a coaster ride on & traffic-congested highway. In agonizing pein, the boy is hov- ering between life and death in Alex- andria Hospital, while three of his companions on the ill-fated ride are under treatment for, less serious in- juries, which are destined, however, to cause long weeks of suffering. In Washington, the traffic fatality record for the year jumped to 84 with the death in Preedmen's Hospital of ‘William Taylor, 25, colored, of the 4400 block of Douglas street north- east. Taylor's skull was fractured a week ago when a machine he was driving collided with a Capital Transit ;. Co. car at Third street and Florida avenue. Two in Hospital. ‘Two of the children who went riding with the Vermillion boy—Keith and John Grimes, 7 and 6, respectively— are fighting pain and misery in the Alexandria Hospital. The fourth vic- tim of the ride, Paul Cover, 3, is under ~= treatment at home for raw wounds ~ where the skin was torn from the side of his face. Gay and carefree, the four children started out for the ride yesterday afternoon from the Vermillion home at 115 Grove avenue. From the top of a steep hill the coaster gained momentum. The children shouted with pleasure. But at the bottom of the hill the coaster turned into Wash- | ington avenue and crashed head-on with an automobile. The impact hurled the boys in four different direc- = tions. Otherwise, they may have been | --crushed under the wheels of the -“machine. George P. Conner, 35, Vienna, Va,, driver of the car, picked up the chil- dren and rushed them to the hospital. A hasty examination revealed that Keith Grimes’ skull had been frac- tured. His younger brother suffered ,-principally from shock. They are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. William L. 1-Grimes, 103 Mount Ida avenue. ‘The Vermillion ‘boy is the son of Mr. end Mrs. E, J. Vermillion, of 115 Grove avenue.. Cover's parents are Mr. and Mrs, George M. Cover, 119 Grove avenue, Boy’s Third Accident. The accident marked the Cover boy’s third in his three years of life. A year ago his knee cap was broken “when he was struck by a car. Last Summer he was again hit by & ma- chine, but received minor injuries. At the time of the accident Con- ner had his wife and 2-year-old baby in the far. He left them at the scene when he took the four injured boys to the hospital. Police released him in the custody of his attorney pending the outcome of the <hildren’s injuries. In Washington another 3-year-old «<hild, Victor Brown, of 203 G street, was cut and bruised when he was struck by a car in front of his home. Casualty Hospital physicians found Ais teeth had been driven into his lip. On his forehead was a large bump - 8nd a bruise. Police reported that the machine | -which struck the Brown boy was -driven by Alleen L. Henger, 200 "“Massachusetts avenue. Another child, James Albert Fer- “nandes, 8, of the 800 block of Forty- -Zourth street northeast, and a pedes- -trian, Benjamin J. Turner, 38, of 216 D street, were among the other traffic victims in Washington during the last 24 hours. The boy was struck by a car in ~the 4400 block of Hunt place north- east. At Gallinger Hospital he was treated for brulses to the face and body. Stitches Given Wound. ‘Turner was struck while crossing ~Massachmusetts avenue between New Jersey avenue and Second street. Casualty physicians found a cut over —his left eye and a dislocated elbow. ~¥Four sitiches closed the wound over “-his eye. According to police, the -- €ar which struck him was driven by Pierre Taulelle, 441 Fourteenth place - fortheast. - Samuel Davis, colored, Silver = Spring, Md, is in the Washington Banitarium Hospital with a skull No. 1. No. 2. Paul Cover, another No. 3. Victims of Highway Tragedy The Fne WASHINGTON, John and Keith Grimes, little brothers, who narrowly escaped death with two of their playmates in Alexandria when a scooter on which they were riding crashed head-on into an automobile. victim of the Alexandria accident. His baby face is now a raw wound. Victor Brown, 203 G street, who was cut and bruised when knocked down by a car in front of his home. “KICKBACK" QUIZ SET FOR MONDAY Effort Will Be Made to Fix Wage for Work at Com- merce Building. First application of the amended Davis-Bacon act relating to wage rates for laborers and mechanics em- ployed on Federal building projects | will be made Monday, when & hearing is scheduled at the Labor Department. Involving an alteration and repair project for the cafeteria and hearing room of the Interstate Commerce building, the hearing will be for the purpose of determining the prevailing rate of wages for the work involved, as judged by similar types of work in the District of Columbia. According to terms of the amended act, these rates must be determined before contract advertisements are is- sued, the figures then to be cited in the call for bids. The project in- volved is to be under direction of the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department, the predetermination be- ing requested by the contracting officer of the division. A hearing first was scheduled for this morning on a Bureau of Mines project in College Park, Md., but it later was found that the proposed work is to be done with emergency work funds and that the wage rates in such a case must comply with W. P. A. regulations. The amended Davis-Bacon act be- came effective on September 29, and regulations for its administration were issued by the Labor Department this week. Its object is to check the kick- back racket which has cost labor thousands of dollars on Federal build- ing projects as unscrupulous contrac- tors evaded the original Davis-Bacon law. FAITHFUL HORSE IS SHOT AFTER AUTO COLLISION fracture and concussion of the brain—the victim of an unusual ac- cident. He was hurled from the rear end of a truck on which he was - riding when it rounded a corner in Silver Spring. In the meantime, Casualty Hospital announced the death there of George D. Howard, colored, of the 3500 block of Benning road northeast, whose head “was crushed and skull fractured Mon- - day when a car he was driving crashed _into & warning sign on the Washing- ton-Baltimore highway near Beltsville, -Md. The accident was blamed on “Howard's failure to negotiate a curve - while going at a high rate of speed. Coincident with the announcement of Howard's death, Casualty reported that Harry Ghant, 44, 44 I street, -~whose internal organs were torn apart ‘when he was struck by a car Wednes- ‘day night at North Capitol and H “streets, is still struggling for life. The pain which has racked his body since the accident, doctors said, has intensi- fled, and his condition is extremely - eritical. Church Club Elects. BLADENSBURG, Md., October 11 Special).—Mrs. Irene Pickett has “heen elected president of the St. Luke's Church Club, with Mrs. Harold Stansfield, vice president, and Mr. Jake, Driven by Huckster, Wounded in Crash at Dela- . ware and Canal. A collision with an automobile and & policeman’s bullet last night ended the long career of Jake, faithful black horse of a colored huckster. The huckster, John White, 215 C street southwest, was driving Jake at Delaware avenue and Canal street ‘Southwest when the horse was in- jured by an automobile operated by Andrew Vernon, colored, of Wonder court southwest. Jake was 50 badly hurt he had to | be killed. A single shot from the service revolver of Policeman Homer O. Tutt, fourth precinct, dispatched the old horse. e s WIFE 37 YEARS SUED Divorce Asked by Father of 13, Who Was Immigrant in 1808. Matthias L. Gflliam, 706 Eleventh street, asked the District Supreme Court today to grant him a divorce from the mother of his 13 children, whom he married 37 years ago. . With his wife, Theresa, Gilliam im- migrated to this country from Ger- many in 1908. Claiming she deserted him in 1926, he requested an Is _’lhed\\b'fllholfllmdplnyinthfl =parish hall of the. church the evening of October 32. 3 decree, He was represented by At- torneys Robert I. Miller, C. F. John- son and W. J. Sullivan, CAR GRASH BRINGS JOY-RIDING CHARGE Youth, 19, Indicted as Re- sult of Collision—24 Others Are Held. ‘The District grand jury today in- dicted George W. Harris, colored, 19, ‘ on a joy-riding charge as an aftermath to the head-on automobile crash at Bladensburg and Queens Chapel roads northeast, September 29, in which a | middle-aged couple was seriously in- jured. ‘Twenty-five indictments in all were in the jury's report, the first since it was sworn in more than a week ago for a three-month term. Eight cases were ignored. Injured in the collison with the car allegedly driven by Harris, which was pursued by police, were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Phillip Bowden, 615 East Cap- itol street, who have not yet recovered from their hurts. Police charged the machine was taken from a parking lot in the 1300 block of G street. It be- longed to Louis Salem, 1332 Vermont avenue. p Others indicted were John Reed Cheseldine, non-support of wife; Hen- Ty P. Fursdon, non-support of wife and minor child; Lawrence E. Tull, non-support of minor child; Robert Jones, Sam Thomas and Russell Tay- lor, assault with a dangerous weapon; John Greco, Richard B. Brody and James Edwards, joy-riding; Walter Haines, Donald Jackson, Paul L. Mar- shall, Walter ‘L. Ivery, Hilmon L. Bright, Donoway B. Garner, Fred Cook, William E. Mallory, Charles Wilson, Prank Jackson, Julius Small and Randolph Lewis, housebreaking and larceny; Henry Shields, grand lar- ceny; James Johnson, Ernest Jerome Jackson, John Terry, William Terry, Sandy Reid, Elmer Southern, Donald Mack and Walter Jones, robbery, and Javan Isley and Basil P. Gordon, as- sault with intent to commit robbery. Cases ignored included James Ev- ans, grand larceny; Leonard Sims, at- tempted robbery; Montell B. Burgess, grand larceny; James A. Butler and Frank Brown, assault with a danger- ous weapon, and Henry Jackson, Edgar Thomas and Arphelius Gatling, carnal knowledge. MODEL PLANE CONTEST FINALS TO BE TOMORROW Event Will Be Held in Constitu- tion Hall—Five Classes of “Flyers” to Compete. ‘The finals of the eighth annual plane contest of the District Air ¢ i - e Uial B henm B IMPROVEMENTS AT Directs W. P. A. Engineers to Make Study After Mak- ing Surprise Visit. EXECUTIONS IN DINING HALL HELD INHUMAN Commissioner Also Interested in Need of More Employes for Gallinger Hospital. Commissioner George E. Allen to- day ordered engineers of the District Works Progress Administration to make studies of possible physical im- provements at the District Morgue and Jail. The move resulted from & Surprise visit last night to both these insti- tutions and to Gallinger Municipal Hospital. He was accompanied by Ross Haworth, Allen’s administrative assistant. “I was shocked to mote some of the conditions that exist due to lack of proper and modern buildings for the jail and morgue,” he said. The fact that executions at the jail have to be staged in the mess hall of the building was characterized by Al- len as “almost inhuman.” Allen today directed William C. Cleary, assistant deputy works admin- istrator, to send engineers to the morgue to determine if it would be possible to build a new home for the institution under the works program. Doubt exists as to whether limita- tion on costs per man would permit this, and Allen directed engineers, as & first alternative, to plan any remod- eling that would improve conditions there. He also ordered engineers sent to the jail to study possibilities of mak- ing improvements there, with one thought directed to possible construc- tion of temporary quarters for execu- tions away from the mess hall. He was advised on crowded and in- adequate conditions at the jail by Capt. Thomas M. Rives, superintend- ent, and at the morgue by William Estes, assistant morgue master, on duty 24 hours a day for $1,440 per year. Allen also was interested in the need of more employes for Gallinger Hos- pital. He talked there with Dr. Ed- win McNamara. B — WRIGHT GROWS WEAKER Publicity Director, Hurt in Car Accident, Is in Hospital. Art Wright, 1341 Irving street, na- tional publicity director of the Amer- ican Automobile Association, today was reported “steadily growing weak- er” in a hospital in Atlanta, Ga., where he was taken last Monday after an automobile accident in which he was critically injured. —_— BARTENDERS’ UNION URGES HOUR LIMITS| Want Standards of N. R. A. Res- taurant Code Applied to Re- tailing Employes. Limitation of the hours of work by employes of retailers holding liquor licenses, in keeping with standards of the N. R. A. restaurant code, was urged on the Alcohol Beverage Con- trol Board today by the Bartenders’ Union, old Local No. 75. Members of the board declared themselves in sympathy with adoption of a reasonable work day for all types of employes, but decided they should leave the question for settlement among units of the industry and pos- sible enactment of laws by Congress. Informal discussion also raised the question of whether the terms of the District liquor act were broad enough to enable the Commissioners to write restrictions on hours of work into licenses the A. B. C. Board may grant. There was no decision on this point. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1935. ALLEN ACTS TO GETINEW SCRAP IRON | Larger Library Staff Is Urged MARKET [SSEENIN| . Electrochemists Hear New Melter Cuts Cost of Handling. CONSERVATION OF METAL SUPPLY HELD POSSIBLE Heat of Interior of Stars Reported to Be 2,000,000,000 Degrees. Dr. Tone Honored. * A simple change in construction of electric furnaces was said today to hold promise of extending iron ore resources of the United States by many years. W. B. Wallis of Pittsburgh described in a paper read before the Electro- chemical Society how this new type of furnace permits the salvaging of old scrap iron and mill sweepings for- merly discarded because re-melting of them was too expensive. The society is meeting at the Wil- lard Hotel for a three-day convention. There are 167 members in attendance. Some concern has been expressed recently by conservationists over the amount of iron ore left in this coun- try's deposits, once believed inexhausti« ble. With the use of steel alloys in- creasing yearly, many were said to be pessimistic over the outlook. The new electric furnace offers now, how- ever, Wallis said, possibility for much more economical use of the available supply. Quick Unload Possible. ‘The major point in which it differs from older types is in the method of charging or putting the metal to be melted into the furnace, formerly done laboriously through a door in the side of the furnace. Instead, the new model has a top which lifts off and swings completely to one side, mak- ing it possible for a machine to dump the entire charge, ranging from 5 to 20 tons, into the furnace in one operation. A marked saving in time and power consumption is claimed for the change. Stars with an interior temperature | of 2,000,000,000 degrees were discussed yesterday at the eighty-sixth meeting | of the society in Washington—where | a temperature of 95 degrees in the shade is considered something to talk about. Energy Is Visible. In estimating that the gaseous in- teriors of ordinary stars produced a temperature of about 2,000,000,000 de- grees Fahrenheit, Dr. T. E. Sterne of the Harvard College Observatory told the electrochemists that “radiation 1s leaving the stars, or else we should not see them. So far as is known,” he continued, “no appreciable energy en- ters a star from outer space. There must therefore be a flow of energy from the inside of a star toward its surface. There are good grounds for belleving this energy is mainly in the form of radiation, while it is quite cer- tain that the temperature must in- crease as the center of a star is ap- proached.” The electrochemists also considered a sun furnace used by Dr. W. M. Cohn of Berkeley, Calif,, to produce tem- peratures of about Fahrenheit, and to make an extremely hard glass called zirconia for use in kilns and high-temperature furnaces. Dr. Frank J. Tone of Niagara Falls, N. Y., president of the Carborundum Co., was awarded the Edward Good- rich Acheson Medal and & $1,000 prize at a banquet of the society lest night. Dr. Tone, father of Franchot Tone, actor, said he would turn the $1,000 prize back to the society. The Ache- son medal is presented biannually by the society for the most outstanding accomplishment in electrochemics. The presentation was made by James H. Critchett of New York City and witnessed by Dr. Tone’s two sons, Franchot and Jerry. Legitimacy Records Opposed. OMAHA, Nebr, October 11 (#).— The Central Association of Obstetri- cians and Gynecologists yesterday passed a resolution favoring the elimi- nation from public birth records of all reference to legitimacy of the child. Arthritis Cure Clue Sought In Fingernails of Victims Chronic Sufferers Found to Be Defi- cient in Sulphur, Dr. M. X. Sullivan Reports to Chemical Society. Chemical analysis of the finger nails is providing a clue to the nature and possible treatment of arthritis, Dr. M. X, Sullivan of the Chemomedi- cal Institute of Georgetown Univer- sity reported last night to the Wash- ington Section of the American Chem- ical Society, meeting at George Wash- ington University. The clue, Dr. Sullivan reported, is the percentage of cysteine, a form of sulphur compound in the nails. Nor- mally this runs between 11 and 15 per cent. In victims of arthritis, it is down to only 8 or 9 per cent. This is true, he said, in 90 per cent of the chronic arthritis sufferers in one hos- pital from which he and his asso- ciates analyzed 5 grams of finger nail clippings from 70 persons. On the other hand, Dr. Sullivan said, victims of acute arthritis have normal finger nails. He failed to find any relationship to the disease in ex- amination of the finger nails of many tuberculosis victims. Barometer of Sulphur. ‘The finger nails, it was explained, serve as & natural body sulphur indi- cator. Hence the evidence is clear that arthritis is in some way asso- ciated, either as cause or effect, with pituitary gland in the brain, was re- ported by Drs. V. du Vigneaud and Robert R. Sealock of George Wash- ington University Medical School. These two chemical substances, which agt in incredibly small amounts, the one to raise and the other to lower the blood pressure, thus far have defied efforts to either synthesize them or isolate them in pure form. Their chemical behavior is extremely complex. Few Keep Secrets. Most other hormones, it was ex- plained, have either been isolated in pure form or even built up artificially soon after their effects have been discovered. Pitressin and pitrocin ap- parently demand much more intensive chemical study before their real na- ture can be determined. The program of work in splitting up various forms of gasoline into their constituent elements was reported by R. T. Leslie and J. D. White of the Bureau of Standards. Other papers were presented by Norman Bekkedahl, B. J. Mair, 8. T. Schicktanz, F. W. Rose, F, W. Glaze, A. N. Finn, G. E. F. Lundel], J. L. Hoffman, F. W. Schwab and E. Wich- ers of the Bureau of Standards; George R. Greenback, George E. Holm, Oliver Wulf and Urner Liddel of the Department of Agriculture; J. L. Shereshefsky, Sylvia Steckler, A. H. Blatt and P. T. Barnes of Howard Unie versity, and Nathan L. Drake of the University of Maryland, ng Staf 5,000 degrees | * To Increase Hours of Service g Gains in Circulation Cited in An- (ORELE AND AL FOUNDRY FURNACE| L Reports o President of Board Trustees and Librarian. An increase in the staff of the Pub- lic Library to permit longer hours of service by the major agencies is asked by the Board of Library Trustees and the librarian in the annual report submitted to the District Commis- sioners this morning by Theodore W. Noyes, president of the board. Since 1930 use of the library has increaséd ‘62 per cent in the number registered borrowers, Mr. Noyes states, while the staff has increased only 13 per cent, a fact which “clearly shows the widening breach between the demands on the library and the per- met those demands.” “It is impossible to give adequate service on the present appropria- tions; substantial reinforcements are essential,” Mr. Noyes continues. “The trustees are, therefore, recommend- ing in the estimates for 1937 addi- tional sums of personnel to strengthen the library service, to do away with the discreditable closing of the cen- tral library and major branches at 1 pm. one day each week, and to make the subbranches at Chevy Chase and Woodridge into full- fledged branches by extending the hours open to the public from 32 to| 64 a week. “The service at these subbranches | has now reached proportions which | Justify such expansion and the citi- zens of the communities are keen| not only for more service but new branch buildings. will not be possible in the interest of the sections of the city which are erect new buildings in Chevy Chase and Woodridge at this time.” Petworth and Anacostia are cited as two sections without library facili- ties, and the “trustees are recom- mending in the estimates for 1937 funds for the erection of a building for the Petworth section on land available at the Roosevelt-Mcfar- land High School campus, and for a site and plans for a branch at Ana- costia. Branches for hoth these sec- tions are long overdue,” adds. Books and Repairs Needed. “Another major need which the trustees feel requires urgent and im- | fund,” Mr. Noyes continues. abreast of the new books and to re- | place books worn out by the wear and tear of a circulation amounting to 2,723,623 volumes a year make neces- sary a substantial fund. The reduced funds of 1934 and 1935 have resulted in the deterioration of the basic stock at all of the agencies serving the public.” The District Engineering Depart- ment has made detailed studies of the condition of the library buildings dur- ing both of the last two years, Mr. Noyes declares, and indicated urgent repairs. “The amount required to complete these repairs, which become more costly the longer they are post- poned, is now estimated to be $20,000. Some of these may be taken care of as W. P. A. projects, but the majority of them require too large a percentage of materials to be eligible for grants.” Report of Librarian to Trustees. “The past year was one of con- tinued progress, with better and more | diversified service to more people in spite of straitened financial support | for staff, for books and for all other maintenance expenses,” according to made a part of the trustees’ report to the Commpissioners. The increase in the home circula- tion of books was 100,712 volumes over the previous year, or 2,723,623 volumes. In addition, 154,274 mounted pictures were circulated, making a total of 2,877,867 pieces. An analysis of the circulation shows a further drop in the percentage of fiction circulated to 47.5 per cent. The book collection was increased to 473,194 volumes, with gross addi- tions of 40,451, which, after deducting books worn out or withdrawn to the number of 23,581, gave a net increase of 16870 volumes. These additions were altogether insufficient to give the best service to readers. Georgetown Branch Completed. ‘The outstanding feature of the library’s prospects for an expanding service, according to Dr. Bowerman, was the erection of the beautiful and well-planned Georgetown Branch Li- brary building. “The appropriation of $30,000 for the fiscal year 1936 for the original stocking of the branch and funds for a staff comparable with those of the two other major branches, Mount Pleasant and Northeastern, make provision to meet the large de- mands that are sure to come from a community that has long been eagerly waiting and working for its branch library.” “It is gratifying to record that the trustees of the 60-year-old Peabody Library of Georgetown have agreed to turn over their collection of books to help build up the Georgetown branch book stock,” Dr. Bowerman continues. “The agreement with the Peabody trustees provides for the transfer of their librarian to have charge of the Peabody room in the new branch and of the development of a collection of materials, books, pictures, museum articles, etc., on Georgetown history. The agreement further provides that the Peabody trustees shall control their endowment funds and shall use the income for the development of this feature, but not for any phase of the usual maintenance of the branch library.” Music Division Established. “Special satisfaction is taken at the establishment of a music division in the central library in charge of a reader’s adviser who combines general education, both library and musical training, zeal, and skill in service to the readers,” Dr. Bowerman declares. “This venture was set on its way through the financial help of a com- mittee of music lovers, with Mrs. Hugo Hesselbach as chairman, who raised of volumes cirrulated for home use and 61 per cent in the number of | sonnel and equipment wherewith to| Unfortunately, it| entirely without library facilities to | Mr. Noyes | | mediate correction is for a largcr book | “To keep | the report of Dr. George F. Bowerman, | | librarian to the trustees, which is| Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, under whose auspices a concert by the Italian trio was given in the central library on October 29, 1934, in part to cele- brate the opening of the music di- vision.” ‘The new division opened in Novem- ber, 1934. The circulation of music and of books about music and musicians immediately rose from a previous to November to over 2,300 in May, 1935. Not only has individual use of the music collection increased, but also its use by organizations, as 16 professional and amateur orches- tras now borrow music from the di- vision and 5 amateur orchestras owe their existence to the fact that music The adviser gave 16 talks on music to teachers and pupils and held 9 music appreciation hours for children on Saturdays. “In addition to granting the funds for the chief of the music division, the Appropriations Committee also restored to the appropriation for per- sonal services the reductions resulting from the economy act which would otherwise have reduced the staff by ‘the equivalent of 6 persons,” Dr. | Bowerman continues. “The funds monthly average around 1,000 volumes | is lent them by the Public Library. | Society and General PAGE B—-1 CONGRESS 10 RULE ON FUTURE TRIMS OF N.R. A ROSTER 25 Per Cent Slash Set for November—Later Cuts in Doubt. COMMITTEES TO DECIDE ON NEEDED INFORMATION | _— 8 to 10 Employes Per Week in Field Are Leaving—Posts & Not Refilled. With one cut of approximately 25 per cent definitely in prospect for the local force of the National Recovery Administration, which now numbers around 2,200, future reductions de- pend on the amoun. of information wanted by Congress in the several studies the erganization is making, Administrator L. J. Martin said today. In the field, where between 650 and 700 employes are engaged, the staff is considered close to the level to be maintained until the recovery act ex pires April 1, Martin figures the local personnel |needed for heating, lighting and | otherwise maintaining the George- town branch, which without them | could not have been opened, were also | granted.” Advisory Service Given. “The chief circulation increases were in the adult and juvenile loan | divisions of the central library and | the schools division,” Dr. Bowerman reports. “These are the departments which afford the most extensive indi- vidual advisory service to readers and teachers, and the figures, therefore, | are indicative of the direct influence of advisory service in extending the usefulness of the library in the com- munity.” “One of the most notable increases was in the field of economics. Slightly a year, were circulated in this class from the central building alone. “The art division arranged for and installed 10 exhibitions at the central building, in which different types of art by local and out-of- town artists (Continued on Page B-T) 'CHECK PR PROBE HOLDS | Isabelle Messmer's Arrest Two Years Ago Recalled by Reappearance Here. Isabelle Lorraine Messmer, whose first skirmish with the police here occurred about two years ago when she appeared in male garb armed with a pistol, alighted from a bus at New York avenue and Fourteenth street late night and was promptly | arrested by Lieut. R. C. Pearce and Pvt. F. F. White, first precinct. The 20-year-old girl, styling herself a night club hostess, was arrested | on charges of passing bad checks on local merchants some time ago for ’xums aggregating more than $400, using the name Shirley Ann Hoffman. She was taken to the Woman's Bureau. Several persons appeared | there this morning, but none could | positively identify her in connection with any unlawful acts, police said. The girl told police she had just | She said she did not know why she | came here. Police know her under | which the girl says is her real name. Joyce Palmer and Ruby Coleman. HEAVY DOCKETS DELAY 3 POWER LOAN CASES Utility Companies Seek to Re- strain Ickes From Aid- ing Cities. By the Associated Press. Crowded court dockets today de- layed until Monday arguments in three District Supreme Court cases involving public works loans and grants to seven Alabama and Texas cities for power plants. Three utilities companies are seek- [ing to restrain Secretary Ickes from assisting in financing of these proj- ects because their business would be |injured and his acts involve an illegal | delegation of power. Cities affected are Guntersville, Hartselle and Russellville, Ala., and Huntsville, Post, Littlefield and Plain- view, Tex. {D.C.FIRM GETS CONTRACT Fuller Co. Will Erect Housing Project in Cleveland. projects already under construction, the P. W. A. today accepted a $2,569,~ 975 bid of the George A. Fuller Co., Washington contrtactors, to erect the Outhwaite housing project in Cleve- land. Construction will be completed within one year under the contract. P. W. A. also called for bids on the demolition of a site in Nashville, Tenn.,, for & $1,500,000 housing project. —_— Births Reported. Earl and Katherine Wilet, boy. Thomas and Carrie Rogers; bor. aze Johw and Marsarel Pi num-m “boy. i the funds by subscription for the first | Egward an year. Efforts of this committee and the librarian with Appropriations commltm of Congress were successful | R for the | Georze in securing an chief of the division for the coming | H fiscal year. Grateful thanks are due to this committee and the other con- tributors for their public-spirited serv- [ Sl ice. In this connection also thanks and satisfaction are expressed 1o Mrs, - . over 78 books a day, or 23,960 volumes | GIRL OF MALE GARB arrived from Pueblo, Calif., where she | had been hostess at a night club. | | several other names besides Messmer, | They are Dorothy Ann McNally, | Wayn “ With six Federal low-rent housing at 2,000 regular and 200 per diem. He | said that by November 15 some 500 of these would lose out. More than half of this force now is writing & | history of the operation of the recove | ery act and of the many codes. | As a “guess,” he continued, there will be another slash January 1 and a third February 1, but they depend |on the wishes of congressional com- | mittees as to additional light on N, R. A. activities. | In the field, the force is keeping in | touch with the conditions growing out of the outlawing of codes in so far as they affect employers, employes and consumers, compiling also informa- tion which is expected to have definite bearing on any further trade practice operations. Over the country, about 8 to 10 employes a week are leaving for other work and these positions are not being filled, Martin said, except in emere gency, and then only in rare ine stances. For several months the N. R. A, reduction has been a subject of study, with officials attempting to ease the | situation as much as possible by find- ing other employment for those being dropped. At the end of May, before the Su- preme Court outlawed the codes, the local force stood near 3,800 and that in the field 1,300. In the former group the separation has been rune ning from 300 to 500 monthly: in the latter the principal cut—400—came in August, — CALVERT BRIDGE OPENS TOMORROW Trafic Will Be Permitted Over North Half of New Span. Engineer Commissioner Dan I Sul- tan will give the signal for traffic to start moving over the north half of the new Calvert Street Bridge at 9:30 am. tomorrow. Work will begin promptly on razing the old span to the south of the new bridge and the whole project is ex- pected to be completed about Thanks= giving day. While only the north half of the roadway of the new bridge will be open tomorrow, two-way traffic will be per~ mitted, since the half roadway is 30 feet wide. Paving of the south | half will start soon. Twenty-ton loads will be the maxi- mum permitted on the new span. The general limit on District bridges is 14 tons. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Meeting, Facullty Women's Club, American University, 3645 Forty- ninth street, 8 p.m. Dance, Odd Fellows' Temple, 419 Seventh street, 8:30 p.m. Bingo party, auditorium St. Francis de Sales Church, TWentieth street and Rhode Island avenue northeast, 8:30 pm. TOMORROW. Meeting, executive board, Dames of the Loyal Legion, Mayflower Hotel, 2 pm. Meeting, Delta Zeta Sorority, La Fayette Hotel, 8 p.m. Bingo party, Mizpah Chapter, 0. E. S, Masonic Hall, 1210 Wiscon- sin avenue, 8 p.m. . Marriage Licenses. 24, 1745 Columbia rd.. and 'e{)"o"gh]y“g-m, . "Abiline, Tex.. Rev, ller napolis. Md 5515 Tilinols H 18th st.. and Carol 2 Geranium st.; Reve Bois, Nebr. and 708 Longlellow st.: Rev. A. 3, Reading. Pa.. and Mars u-lxll":ll %luk;:mt Chlll&"flfl W. Vai Rev. G. C. F. nah) st Petersburg. Fla, Speake, 24, WOL Park el . Hyattsville. Md.. ueirs § oo 1205 Ingraham and Helen C, “Gia u" R Haris, A E Bheoe B sidney T Hiagrison, ave. snd Etfaloy : Rev. u A ron Gilman. Rebecca_Dantzie, ®) poth o Baltimore, Ma; Rev. O Bi° V!rfl Golden Rodge! Clarice Wmllmx Isaac Jackson. Clarence Gardell, and_ Ethel 1 Tuder. 21. both of Denver, Cofo.. A H Washington Hawkins, 24. 912 T st., Hattie Jones. 21, 319 G st. n.e.: W. A. Randolp] George Orletsky, 26, 102 Seaton pl ne. 103 Kennedy rma_D. ldv irds, 26, st.; Rev. W.'S_ Abernethy. Jammis B Besermun. S5 Ariington. Va. and Lou u’e M. Crawn, 20, Pairfax, A, Andsew i Tiadrant28. 228 12th st se., god Helen L, Hm 10. 808% Bth st. n.ed Morris Bulman. zm n& rem ol.. it 09 Quincy G. D!orle w. Yw '1! 1417 Belmont g & < anclll, 37, 1410 38 Myrtle st. ne.. and 18. 0 R st. E. Rev. and Rev, lnd st. n.e., st.; Rev.