Evening Star Newspaper, November 10, 1935, Page 8

A8 BUSSERVIGEPLEA SINED BY 300 Delegation to Ask Utilities Body for Eighteenth Street Schedule. A petition signed by 3,000 persons requesting bus service on Eighteenth street will be submitted to the Dis- trict Commissioners and the Public Utilities Commission this week by & delegation headed by Attorney W. Gwynn Gardiner. The petition was circulated in the vicinity of Eighteenth street and Co- lumbia road by Ernest L. Stewart, president of the Northwest Business Men's Association, and a committee representing business interests in that section. Serious Traffic Problem. Pointing out that increased bus traffic on Connecticut avenue follow- ing the abandonment of street car service there has created serious traf- fic problems on the avenue, the pe- tition urges the Commission to route some of the busses across the new Calvert street bridge and down Eigh- 3,000 Sign Bus Petition THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, F00D SHOW OPENS SATURDAY NIGHT Calvert Exhibit Hall to Be Scene First Time—Huge Crowd Expected. The annual food show of the Dis- trict Grocery Stores will open at 7:30 D. C, NOVEMBER 10, show will be nightly amateur contests. A large number of persons from the audience usually take part in the fun- making. Planned along humorous lines, the contests begin promptly at 9:30 pm. and are held on a raised platform so they can be witnessed by all. An innovation will be introduced in this year's show with a “vox pop” radio broadcast from the floor of the exhibit hall. From 9 to 9:15 nightly, announcers will shoot questions at persons chosen at random and their answers will be sent over the air from Station WOL. The first matinee will open a week from .tomorrow and show will begin daily at 2 pm. and 7:30 p.m. p.an. Saturday in the Calvert Exhibit Hall opposite the Shoreham Hotel with the largest and most varied dis- play since the exhibitions were begun eight years ago. This is the first year the food show has been held at this location. Pre- viously it occupied the Washington Auc orfum, the largest hall in the city, but a change was necessitated when the Federal Emergency Relief Administration took over that build- ing. Following closely on the automobile | *ow, which was held in the Calvert | Hall last week, the display by the- District Grocery Stores is expected to attract crowds equaling those of last year, when an average of 5,000 persons were in daily attendance. There will be major prizes awarded every afternoon and evening and on| Saturday, November 23, last night| of the show, an automobile will be given away. Baby contests, which attract from 30 to 50 entries daily, will be held every afternoon at 4 p.m., beginning the first Monday of the show. Prizes will be awarded on popular acclaim. | Children between 1 and 4 years are eligible. | A Santa Claus will distribute pres- | ents every afternoon to all children | under 6 years old. In former years, there has been a Christmas tree for the youngsters, but lack of space has caused it to be eliminated. Has Six Husbands. 1935—PART ONE. Auditorium Decorations. The large auditorium is being deco- | A Wwoman in Hungary has been rated in orange and green to symbolize ' found to have six husbands. the plenty of the Fall season, and the | — — Ernest L. Stewart, president of the Northwest Business Men's As- sociation, is shown with petitions signed by 3,000 persons requesting bus service on Eighteenth street. They will be turned over to the District Commissioners and the Public Utilities Commission—Star Staff Photo. teenth street. The use of Eighteenth street as a by-pass, it was stated, not only would reliev avenue congestion but would supply badly needed transportation facilities on Eighteenth street. Cit- ing the relatively narrow Taft bridge, with the parkways at the southern end, as one traffic hazard, the pe- tition calls attention to the fact that the new bridge is much wider and better able to accommodate the large busses. Former Car Line Route. The street cars formerly ran to Eighteenth street and Columbia road, where passengers could transfer to other cars going out upper Connecti- cut avenue. This led to the deevlop- ment of the business district at the transfer point, which has suffered heavily since the uptown car service was abandoned. Stewart said his group also has received numerous complaints from residents on Con- necticut avenue who formerly shopped in the district, but have stopped do- ing so because they must transfer twice to get there under the present arrangement. The petitions will be turned over to the District officials Wednesday or Thursday. Accompanying Gardiner will be a group of business men from the Eighteenth street and Columbia road section, who contend there is no reason why some of the busses should not be routed through their district. CRASH BLAZE BURNS STORE-GAS STATION Car Collides With Fuel Pump at Accotink, Va.—Damage Esti- mated at $10,000. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ACCOTINK, Va., November 9.—Fire caused by a’freak explosion resulting from collision of an automobile with a gasoline pump here tonight, destroyed a combination store, dwell- ing and filling station, an adjoining garage and the machine involved. ‘The buildings and car were owned by A. S. Lynn. Damage was estimated at $10,000. Traffic on the Richmond highway was halted for several hours while fire companies from Fort Bel- voir, Alexandria and Fairfax vainly fought the blaze. The explosion occurred when the |in Washington at 111 Carroll street machine, which was being pushed out | southeast. of the garage in gear, started with a splutter of its motor and crashed into the pump. shattering the gasoline- filled globe and the electric light beside it. The gasoline-fed flames spread rap- 1dly from the car to the two buildings. Firemen were hampered in their ef- forts by the absence of & sufficient water supply. PLAN NEW BOYS’ CLUB Lieut. Weber Will Discuss Project Before Citizens. Plans for organization of a boys’ club in the second precinct will be dis- cussed by Police Lieut. Charles J. P. ‘Weber at a meeting of the East Cen- tral Civic Association Tuesday at 8:30 p.m., in room 69, Dunbar High School. | Officers of the Banneker Center have expressed interest in the pro- posal and have tendered the use of the center for the purpose. Male Beauties Compete. Beauty contests for men are popular in Scotland. William C. Houk, After 30 Years’ Watching, Is Candidate. Desires to Take Place Once Held by Father and Brother. After sitting for 30 years watching Senators and Representatives come and go at the Capitol, William C. Houk, recently retired as a clerk in the House Office Building, is going back to his native Tennessee. “I want to take the place in Con- gress once held so illustriously by my | father and my brother,” he says. Houk is the son of Judge Leonidas| Campbell Houk, who served in the| House from 1879 to 1891. He is a brother of John Chiles Houk, who succeeded his father in Congress and | served two terms. It is on the| strength of the family's record in the legislative halls that he will seek laurels in his home State. As House Office Building clerk, Houk had his office at the entrance to the building. He became intimately acquainted with such famous members of Congress as “Uncle Joe” Cannon, Champ Clark, Nicholas Longworth and many others. Before going to the House Office Building, Houk was a file clerk under R. B. Nixon, financial chairman to | the ‘secretary of the Senate. While ,in this position it fell to his lot to | refile George Washington's speech to | the five nations of Indians at Phil- adelphia and also Washington's | speech to the six nations of Indians a year later, both of them written | in Washington’s own handwriting. 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