Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1935, Page 3

PROMOTIONS MADE IN MARINE: GORPS Col. James Joseph Meade Is Chosen to Become Brigadier General. Col. James Joseph Meade, U.S.M.C, who used to be an enlisted man in the Army, today was chosen by Presi- dent Roosevelt, on the advice of & Selection Board, to be cne of the two brigadier gen- erals of the line of the Marines. ‘The other is Col. John €. Beau- mont, command- ing the 4th Regi- ment of Marines at Shanghai, China; Col. Meade . commands the 1st Brigade of the Fleet Marine Force at Quan- tico, Va. Col: Russell B. paymaster, was Gen. Meade. Putnam, assistant chosen for promotion to brigadier | general of the staff'in the Paymaster’s Department. Lieutenant colonels selected for pro- motion to colonel were: Albert E. Randall, commanding the Marines at Mare Island, Calif.; David M. Randall, executive officer at Peéarl Harbor, Hawali; Alley David Rorex, assistant adjutant and inspector, Marine Corps Headquarters here; Leander A. Clapp, commanding the Marines at Guantana- mo Bay, Cuba; Thomas S. Clarke, com- manding the Marine Barracks here; Joseph C. Fegan, in charge of public relations at Marine Corps headquar- ters; Alexander A. Vandergrift, execu- tive officer at Peiping, China; Roy S. | Geiger, commanding Aircraft No. 1, Fleet Marine Force, Quantico, and Charles B, Barrett, on the staff of the commander of the Battle Force. Majors selected for promotion to lieutenant colonel are Charles A. Wynn, Roger W. Peard, Charles I Murray, Samuel C. Cumming; Gilder Jackson, jr.; Fred G. Patchen, Edwin P. McCaulley, Graves B. Erskine, Louis R. Jones, William W. Ashurst, Francis Patrick Mulcahy, Robert M. Montague, Daniel E. Campbell, Maurice Gardner Holmes, James E. Betts, James W. Webb, Louis E. Woods, William M. Marshall and Franklin A. Hart. WIFE HELD.AS SLAYER Murdered Husband Remembers “Beloved” Mate in Will. SAN FRANCISCO, December (#)—The will of John H. Dumbrell, leaving his small estate “to my be- loved wife,” was filed for probate yes- terday while Mrs. Amy Dumbrell was held in prison on a charge of slaying him. Dumbrell was shot November 20 after a quarrel over another woman, identified by Mrs. Dumbrell as a “red-headed telephone operator.” SPECIAL NOTICES. ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- holders of the Thrift Commercial Com- pany, Incorporated, will be held at Room 208, " Prudential 'Bank Building. 717 Florida ave. nw. Washington, D, 'C. Thursday. January 9. 1936, at 8 o'clock p.m.. for the election of trustees for the ensuing vear and for such other business as may ‘lawfully come Lefore it THE RIFT COMMERCIAL COMPANY. INC. . H. GREENE. Secretary-Treasurer. 13| NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING. { The annual meeting of the Stockholders ©of the NATIONAL CAPITAL REPUBLICAN CLUB. INC.. will be held in the club house southwest _corner Sixteenth Street at Scott Circle. otherwise known as 1234 Sixteenth Street and 1600 Rhode Island Avenue, on Monday. January 15th, 1936 at & B.M., for the election of a board of ffteen direc- tors (trustees). to serve for one vear and for the transaction of such other business | as may lawfully come before the meeting. ALNEY E. CHAFFEE, , Lol Srintag Secretary. THE NATIONAL METROPOLITAN BANK ) . December 12th. - The annual meeting of the sharehold ©of this bank for the election of directors and the trapsaction of such other business as may_properly come before the meeting will be held st the banking house on Tues- day. January 14th. 1936, at 12 M. Polls to remain open until 1 P.M~ Transfer books will be closed from 'January 5th. 1936 to January l4th. inclusive. C. F. JACOBSEN. ¥ Cashier. NOTICE. WASHINGTON AND OLD DOMINON RAILROAD hereby gives notice that on the Bth day of December. 1935, it filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission at | Washington. its application for a 1836, both dates | certificate that the present and future pub- | lic convenience and necessity require the acquisition and operation by it of that pat of the Washington and Old Dominion Railway extending from Rosslyn to Blue- mont Junction. a distance of five (5) miles, all in Arlington County, Vireinia. WASHINGTON AND OLD DOMINION RAILROAD. NOTICE. G. C.BAGGETT. RECEIVER OF THE WASHINGTON AND OLD DOMINION RAILWAY, hereby gives notice that on the BSth day of December. 1935. he flled with the Interstate Commerce Commission at Washington, D. C.. his application for a certificate that the present and future public convenience and necessity permit the abandonment by him (a) of the_railroad of the Washington and Old Dominion Railway which extends from Rosslyn to Bluemont Junction. a distance of 5 miles, and (b) of operation over a line of the Southern Rajlway Company which extends from Alexandria to Bluemont, a distance of 54 ‘miles. all in Arlington. Fairfax and Loudoun_Counties. Virginia. G. C. BAGG] RECEIVER OF P THE WASHINGTON AND OLD DOMINION RAILWAY. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- holders of the Lincoln National Bank of Washington. D. C.. will be held on Tues- day. January 14. 1936_at 12 o'clock noon. ain Office. 7th and D Streets . for the “election of directofs and such ‘other business as_may properly come before the meeting. Polls open from 1% o’clock noon to 1 o'clock p.m. Books for transfer of stock will be closed from De- 29, , to January 14, 1936, BS A. SOPER. Cashier. 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Office room on sixth floor of the new Post Office Department Building, - near the spot where the fire started. shown viewing damage to floors. 3 ;O P Blinded by smoke. List of Injured Thirty-seven firement were treated | at Emergency Hospital today, includ-| ing more than a dozen who came in after 7:30 o'clock this morning. The list follows: Chief Edward O'Connor of the 2d | Battalion, 1436 Meridian street. Capt. Joseph A. Mayhew of No. 1 Rescue Squad, 1811 Kearney street. Capt. Roy B. Hanback, No. 21 En* gine Company, 3741 Military road. Capt. Millard Sutton, No. 16 Engine Company, 1314 Twenty-sixth street northeast. Lieut. Richard J. Holmes, No. 4 En- gine Company, 90¢ O street. Lieut: Walter Hurley, No. 28 Engine Company, 4213 Ingomar street. Lieut. Irving W. Laskey, No. 2 En- gine Company, 1122 Morse street northeast. Lieut. Pred Litteral, No. 3 Truck Company, 1449 Harvard street. Lieut. Charles G. ‘Harper, No. 14 Engine Company, 512 Thirteenth street southeast. Sergt. Ernest M. Warfield, Rescue Squad, 44 Shepherd street, Hyatts- ville, Md. Sergt. Raymond E. Hunt, No. 4 Truck Company, 3601 Austin street southeast. Sergt. Clarence Quick, No. 6 Engine Company, 1375 Pennsylvania avenue southeast. = Pvt. Richard Holmes, No. 4 Truck Company, 532 Fourth street northeast. Pvt. Millard Coxen, No. 4 Truck Company, 1143 Forty-fourth place southeast. » Pyt. Edward B. Smith, No. 1 Truck Compeny, 234 Tenth street southeast. Pvt. Valentine Crawford, -Rescue Squad, 1430 V street. Pyt, Sidney Carter, No. 2 Engine Company, 227 Upshur street. Pvt. Raymond Hooper, No. 1 Engine 4%; | Company, 1629 K street. Pvt. Stanley. J. Horan, No. 2 Engine Company, 1816 A street southeast. Pvt. Stewart Riltnour, No.. 1 Engine 3 comp-ny 3114 W street southeast. Pvt. Maurice F. Keane, No. 6 En- Company, 6213 Eighth street. Employes, reporting for work, are Helpless fireman being supported by comrades. ‘What clerks -found when they reported for work this morning. Company, 1015 Varnum street north- esst. Pvt. Walter S, Boss, No. 2 Engine Company, 2811 Ghanning street north- east. Pvt. Wilbur Brown, No. 28 Engine Company, 148 Seventeenth street. Pvt. Roger Gray, No. 2 Truck Com-« pany, T14 Sixteenth street southeast. Pvt. Benjamin' R. Howard, No. 3 Truck Company, 1420 Harvard street. Pvt. Julian D. Hall, No. 2 Truck Company, 5025 Seventh street. Pyvt. Franklin Helt, No. 31 Engine Company, 3209 Nineteenth street. Pvt. Earnest Inscoe, No. 3 Truck Company, 2506 Twenty-&ighth street. Pvt. Herbert Morat, No. 14 Engine Company, 1436 -Meridian street. Pvt. Andrew Sharper, No. 13 Truck Company, 1280 Bladensburg road northeast. Sergt. C. R. Bassett, No. 3 Engine Company, Landover, Md. Pvt. Howard Thrasher, No. 4 En- gine Company, 134 U street. e Fire (Continued Prom First Page.) were ‘damaged before they could be removed to the corridors, firemen groped their way through the smoke to bring additional hose to bear. Pvt. Charles Wright, No. 16 Engine . Company, 4018 Seventh street. Pvt. George Reardon, No. 2 Truck Company, 3314 Mount Pleasant street. Pvt, John P. Bamskey, No. 3 Engine L} extinguishers which firemen brought to play. Up to the fifth floor, the great building was almost free of smoke, Fresh firemen massed on the stair- cases below the sixth floor level, waiting to replace those working in the smoke when they came stagger- ing back. Firemen found the lighter type of gas mask practically useless in the gas-filled chambers. The Fire De- partment, it was said, is equipped with only a limited number of the heavier gas masks. Drill Through Floors. Although streams of water were poured into the file room through doors giving to the corridor, the blaze was not brought under control until firemen cut through the stone and ce- ment floor above with pneumatic drills and lowered sprinkler nozzles among the blazing cabinets. ‘The filing room, it was said, was not protected by an automatic sprinkler system. - The water poured into the room was still 3 inches deep on the dixth floor and at lesser levels on the lower floors at daylight today. In the Interstate Commerce Build- ing some rooms were flooded on the sixth floor but high sills protected offices lower in this building, though hallways and elevator shafts were drenched. 4 ) Government employes reporting this morping found the fire out and most of the water gone from the building, but fire apparatus was still standing by pending a final check on the dam- aged structure. Work ‘was naturally disorganized. Officials went their rounds seeking to learn what documents had been lost. Reed Martin, chief clerk of the General Accounting Office, said val- uable vouchers covering a series of Pederal disbursements dating from before the Civil War until the presen time had been lost. o ‘The vouchers were those drawn by disbursing officers of the General Ac- counting Office for the disbursement of various appropriations. majority of the destroyed records were old, however, and were moved to the new Post Office Building upon its| completion from a former storage place in the White House garage. Sparks Ferreted Out. ‘The filing cases were tightly packed together and filled with papers - tied in bundles and pressed between two boards. * Farley arrived at work soon after 9 o'clock. He went immediately to his office suite to survey the damage to the interior trim of his reception room. In the black, unlighted file room on the sixth floor firemen worked this morning, dousing bundles of charred papers in event of a hidden spark and clearing away the debris and standing ‘water. Stenographers and clerks stood about waiting to salvage damaged papers or to reclaim personal possessions in the water-soaked desks. ‘There was only slight damage in the offices.of the Federal Communications Commission, across the corridor from the filing room. Other departments disrupted by the blage were the Fed- eral Home Loan Bank Board, the Home Owners’ Loan Corp. and the Reclama- tion Service. Lauber’s estimate of the fire dam- age rather tallied with the observa- tions of Charles A. Peters, assistant director in charge of buildings, who, with A. W. Cline, superintendent of buildings in the triangle, and engi- neers of the National Park Service, were on the scene as early as possible, making & careful survey, Peters thought it possible the dam- age might be less than surface appear- cracking traces of this sort were being. pains- takingly hunted. Wiring also was subjected - to close examinstion, as The great | ‘William Overal, second engineer of the building, who discovered the fire, Unconscious from fumes. —=Star Staff Photos. IOWA GAMBLING CASE DEADLOCKED Defense Attempts to Impeach Testimony of Two State Witnesses. By the Associated Press. SIOUX CITY, Iowa, December 13.— Testimony of two State witnesses in the gambling conspiracy trial of At- torney General Edward L. O’Connor was regarded as the focal point of the case today by defense attorneys. For two days the defense has at- tempted to impeach stories told by Bert Rollinger, a convict, and Jake Harkaway, Omaha cafe operator, of- fered by the State in support of the charge that O'Connor was pald to permjt slot machine operations. Defense witnesses have sworn ©O’Connor and the late Park A. Find- ley, chief of the State Bureau of In- vestigation, were elsewhere on dates when Rollinger and Harkaway testi- fied they met the officials. 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