Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1936, Page 25

Washington News GARNETT REFUSES T0 SUBMIT BASEY CASE T0 JUROR Inter-Racial Committee Is ; Informed Grounds for ] Action Lacking. CRIME COMMISSION TO BE PETITIONED | Charles Edward Russell Heads Delegation Presenting Demand to District Attorney. Headed by Charles Edward Russell, noted liberal writer, a delegation from the Interracial Committee of the Dis- trict of Columbia called on United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett to- day to demand that he present to the grand jury evidence concerning the fatal shooting August 31 of Lawrence Basey, 27, colored C. C. C. worker, by Policeman V. H. Landrum, ninth precinct. Garnett refused to comply, telling the group independent studies of the facts of the case by three of his assist- ants had resulted in the unanimous conclusion that the matter was not & preper one for grand jury action. Up to Crime Group. Russell then informed the district ttorney he would take up the mat- ter with the District Crime Commis- sion, before which he asked a hearing last July on the general subject of Negro crime in the District. He said the Basey case would constitute the major part of his presentation to the commission. The result of an investigation made | for the Interracial Committee by Harlem E. Glazier, a member, was read at the conference, and afterward. Russell stated it contained new evi- dence. Garnett and the three assist- ants 'who had studied the case said, however, that no facts were brought out by Glazier which were not before the coroner's jury. Two inquests into the death were held, the first ending when the jury could not agree on a verdict. The second jury returned a verdict stating Landrum shot in self-defense, but adding that he was induced to fire on | Basey by his own state of mind rather than by any untoward action by Basey or his companions. Attempt to Arrest Five. Testimony at the two inquests in- dicated Landrum attempted to arrest five colored men for disorderly con- duct and drew his gun and shot one of them while they were waiting at a patrol box near Nineteenth and M streets northeast. The officer said the colored men had intimated they ‘would resist him and he was afraid of his life. He told the coroner’s jury that recollection of the beating to Keath of a park policeman in Logan Circle some years ago by a band of colored youths flashed through his mind at the time. | Assisteat United States Attorney | Allen J. Krouse was present at the first inquest and Assistant United States Attorney Howard Boyd at the second. Although both advised Gar- nett it would be useless to present the case to the grand jury, the District attorney submitted a transcript of the | yecord from the inquest to another of his assistants, Charles B. Murray, who studied it without consulting either Boyd or Krouse. He arrived #at the same conclusion that they had. ATHLETIC COUNCIL | PERSONNEL CHOSEN Bupervisor Bayh Announces Those | Who Will Handle High | Schools’ Schedule. Birch E. Bayh, supervisor of health @nd physical education in th: high schools, today announced the per- sonnel of the new athletic council which will handle administrative de- tails of all high school athletics. The council replaces the old Inter-high Athletic Association and includes two members from each schol, selected by their principals. They are: Central, Hardy Pearce and Harold Crankshaw; McKinley, N. Leonard Brown and Elmer P. Hardell; Eastern, E. J. Holmes and J. W. Buber; Western, Robert O. Anderson and Clifton Moore; Roosevelt, Lynn Woodworth and R. O. Sharitz; Wood- yow Wilson, Carl Heintell and H. K. Easley. Under the organization's by-laws, Bayh automatically is chairman of the group. Sharitz was elected sec- getary and Anderson treasurer. ‘The council also announced its chairmen of the four major sports as follows: Foot ball, Brown; basket ball, Suber; base ball, Bosley, and track, Crankshaw. All inter-high games to be played §n October will start at 3:30 o'clock. In November the starting time will be 3:15 o'clock. A general admission price of 50 cents has been established, with members of high school athletic sssogiations being admitted for 15 cents on presentation of their athletic ticket. Perspiring Hands | Prolong Life o ' Book Coverings * Perspiring hands may be a nuisance at times, but are not entirely without advantage, Agriculture Department scientists have found. The department said today research has shown perspiring hands are good for books—make leather bindings last longer. Salt—sodium chloride—is an excellent leather preservative. Perspira- tion exudes salt. Librarians have found that leather- nd books in constant use are more durable than those rarely handled. Until the scientists learned otherwise, 1t was thought this was due to oil or grease absorbed from readers’ hands. 4 7’ Y \ Crash Victim RITES SET FOR THIS AFTERNOON. Y RUTH HARGITT, Eighteen years old, of 228 F street northeast, who died in Alexandria Hospital® yester= day of injuries received Sun= day when a taxicab in which she was riding left the road and struck a tree in Alerxan- dria. Funeral services are being held this afternoon at Wheat- ley’s. funeral establishment, Alezandria. Burial will be at Marbury, Ala., the girl's home. Surviving are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Hargitt, two brothers and five sisters. DURAND HEARING BRINGS CHARGES Counsel for Dismissed Em- ploye Charges Union Lit- erature Was Banned. John H. Finerty, counsel for Robert Y. Durand, dismissed employe of the Federal Power Commission, charged yesterday that the Commission pro- hibited the distribution of union liter-_ ature among its employes and at the same time failed to enforce a similar prohibition against other forms of literature. The charge was made during the testimony of Basil Manly, vice chair- man of the Commission, before a special committee of Labor experts hearing Durand’s charge that he was dismissed for union activity. The Commission declared he was not dismissed at all, but that as an emergency employe he was let out when the work for which he was em- ployed was completed. “Chairman to Testify. Today, Chairman Frank R. Mc- Ninch and Commissioner Herbert J. Drane were expected to testify. Drane made the original investigation of Durand’s charge that he was dismissed for union activity and reported that no discrimination was shown. Du- rand is corresponding secretary of the Federation of Architects, Engineers, Cpemists and Technicians and was employed on the electric rate survey made under the direction of Manly. Most of the first day of the hearing was devoted to the presentation of correspondence regarding the Durand case betweer the Commission and the federation, Manly was the first wit- | ness. “I favor letting United States em- ployes organize in any way they want,” Manly said. “I don't believe they have the right to engage in union activity on Gov- ernment time. Statutes fix the hours for employes’ official duties.”, Two Forced to Leave. Finerty brought out that on one occasion, two men were forced to col- lect union literature distributed in Power Commission offices and then leave. Manly countered with the statement that similar activity on the part of the organization of a group hospitalization plan also was prohibited by the Commission. “We felt,” he said, “that to sanc- tion such activity might carry with it some decree of co-ercion, and we did not inted to co-erce our employes.” Finerty then charged that Govern- ment time and materials are used by Power Commission employes to tabu- late, print and distribute base ball, bowling and tennis scores. Manly said he knew nothing about such ac- tivities. There were numerous objections to Finerty’s line of questioning made by Oswald Ryan, general counsel, and Dozier A. DeVane, solicitor, for the Commission, but the erperts permit- ted the examination to continue. @he Zoening Stod WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1936. N P - Society and General PATTEN PROPERTY Beautiful Bride in White Velvet Is Style Show Treat ZONED O PERMIT APARTMENT HRUSE Decision on Massachusetts Avenue Change Given by Commission. 12 REZONING PETITIONS APPROVED IN SESSION 13 Applications Are Rejected and Action on Three Others Is Deferred. Conversion of the Mary E. Patten property at 2122 Massachusetts ave- nue to apartment house purposes will be permitted under a decision by the Zoning Commission late yesterday when it acted in executive session on 28 petitions heard at public hearings last week. The commission approved 12 changes in zoning, several of them subject to specific conditions; denied 13 applications and deferred action on three others. The Patten case has been before the commission six times before in recent years, the body heretofore re- fusing to grant the requested change from B restricted to residential C area. Only about four-fifths of the property involved in the present case was ap- proved. The commission refused to change the zoning of one lot so as to retain protection for the adjoining Larz Anderson property from apart- ment house. Opposed by Dupont Citizens. The petition was opposed by the Dupont Citizens’ Association and a number of residents. Several retired admirals participated in the hearing. The commission also finally grant- ed another long-sought change, ap- proving a petition by Marie von Un- schuld for a first commercial zoning for property at 1646 to 1654 Colum- bia road, but insisted on certain re- strictions. The case had been before the commission 10 times previously. In granting this zoning the com- mission made it conditional upon widening of the alley to the rear of two of the lots and ruled the com- mercial zoning should apply only to the front portion of one of the four lots under consideration. The following additional changes were granted: Property near Thirty-ninth and W streets, from A restricted and un- zoned area to B restricted, and prop- erty in the vicinity of Fortieth and W streets, from A restricted to A area. Both these were proposed by the Na- tional Capital Park and Planning Commission. The zoning changes were approved subject to the closing of a stretch of Wyoming 'avenue and acquisition by the United States of some land for park purposes. Thirty-ninth Street Change. Property on the east side of Thirty- ninth street north of Calvert street, {rom residential A area to residential B restricted area. Rear portion of premises at 2548- 2550 Seventeenth street, from resi- dential C area to first commercial. Property bounded by the line of Juniper street, Eastern avenue, Kalmia street and an alley in the rear of commercial 1ots on Georgia avenue, from residential A-restricted to resi- dential A area. Property at 308 Concord avenue, from residential B area to first com- mercial. Property fronting on Ingraham, Hamilton and North Capitol strects: A portion of the area affected by the petition was changed from first com- mercial and unzoned to residential B area and a portion from residential B area to first commercial. Lots on the south side of Taylor street from Eighth to Tenth streets and west side of Tenth street from Taylor to Randolph streets northeast, from second commercial to sesiden- tial B-restricted. Property at Third and C streets and Indiana avenue, from residential D area to first commercial. Also, the commission gave Louis L. Jacquier permission to use an alley lot in the rear of 1224 Thirteenth street for an automobile repair shop and approved petition by Cauther & Slocum, Inc, to use alley lots at the rear of 1218 North Capitol street for & machine shop. Altrock to Be Guest. Nick Altrock of the Washington base ball club will be the guest of honor at the Central Business Men's Association’s luncheon tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. at the Burlington Hotel. Rumfest Marked Launching - Of U. S. Coinage 144 Yedrs Ago By the Assoclated Press. Fading records of a gargantuan rumfest that occurred back in the days when George Washington was President led officials to decide that today was as a date as any to celebrate the 144th birthday of American coinage. By the aid of some neat deductive logic Ind.l whiff of strong drink coming to them from the 18th cen- tury, researchers have decided that the first coins, & batch of half-dimes, p;uhbl: were minted October 15, 1792, For a long time the exact date was & mystery. All the historians had to go on was George Washington’s no- tation that the event occurred some time in October, 1792, in Philadelphia. “There has been a small beginning in the cofnage of half dismes (old word for dimes),” he reported to Congress. But when research turned up three terse notations in the crumbling ledgers of Henry Volgt, first chief coiner: “September 11, 1792—First pur- chase of coinage metal. “October 6, 1792—Purchased 15 gallons of rum. “October 17, 1792—Purchased 15% gallons of rum.” Now historians knew that the mint had only & small force of employes in those days. They figured that, hile some of the men may have A been mighty guzzlers, they would be unlikely to consume 15 gallons in the 11 days between October 6 and Oc- tober 17—unless some special cele- bration took place. So the reasonable conclusion was that the coins were minted on the 15th followed by a big blow-off that evening. The 16th was devoted to re- cuperating from an early American hangover and on the. 17th the mint replenished its supply of stimulant. From then on the annals of the coinmakers are rather .drab, until January 7, 1793, when the mint bought & watchdog named Nero for $3. In addition it two watch- men and armed them with pistols and dirks, In 1795, the mint received its first letter from a fault-finder. “I have seen all the coins issued,” wrote Carlisle Pollock of New York, “and nothing can be more wretched— & fool's head on one side and some- thing that resembles a turkey cock on the other, oh, shame, shame, shame!” He referred to liberty and the eagle. Nowadays talented artists turn out meticulous designs. Instead of & dog, the mint has stone and steel, tear gas and machine guns. And in place of punched 1935 the tota] was 560,758,047 and 1o gold was being minted. N Bouquefs of Large Chrysanthemums, Long Flowing Train Are Features of ‘Autumn Bridal -Outfits as Seen Here. Left: What the bride and bridesmaids will wear, as typi- fled yesterday by the exhibits at the fourth annual beauty show at the Raleigh. Right: Shirley Straus, at- tired in bridal negligee, hav- ing her toenails painted by A. K. Adolph. c % Lower: Helen Gray, beauty expert, making up new style eyebrows on Shirley Schwartz, who was “Miss Washington” at this year’s Atlantic City beauty pageant. Make-up shows Oriental and modern- istic eyebrows. —Star Staff Photos. POTOMAG FLOOD ¢ DAMAGES $420,000 Figure for March Overflow Revealed at Control Hearing. BY LESTER N. INSKEEP, Staff Correspondent of The Star. PETERSBURG, W. Va., October 15. —Damages to roads and bridges in the three counties to which the South Branch of the Potomac River runs amounted to $420,000 during the rec- ord-breaking flood of last March, ac- cording to a report submitted to Lie W. J. Matteson, acting district engl- neer of the Washington area, at the second of a series of flood control hearings. Matteson and his staff were told that the town of Moorefield alone suffered damages amounting to $74,800. The greatest highway and bridge losses in this area were in Hampshire County, where they amounted to $300,000, according to Dr. J. B. Grove, member of the advisory board of the State Roads Commission. Hearings are under authorization of an act of Congress-looking to control of flood waters in the Potomac River basin, Lieut. Matteson, accompanied by E. A. Schmitt, senior engineer of the United States Engineer Office, and engineers Byron Byrd and Harry Law- son, opened the hearings yesterday afternoon at Paw Paw, W. Va., where they were fully acquainted by citizens with the losses suffered by farmers, merchants, orchardists and the Union Tanning Co., a subsidiary of the United States Leather Co., and the only in- dustry in that village. While definite figures were not avail- able regarding property losses, it was estimated by Representative Jennings Randolph, who appeared in behalf of the affected persons and corporations, that the loss, exclusive of that to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad would run over a half million doltars for that section. Only Two Suggestions. Lieut. Matteson attempted to gain some definite information from resi- dents regarding proper courses of flood control, but all seemed to be willing to leave it to the Federal Government. It was explained that property owners will be required to donate any lands negessary for the erection of levees, dams or reservoirs to control waters in flood time. Only two definite suggestions were received. One was that seven islands between Paw Paw and Cumberiand be destroyed, and another that a new channel be cut to eliminate a sharp bend east of Paw Paw to prevent ‘water backing up. Lieut. Matteson, after hearing the descriptions of the last flood, revealed that a survey made in 1930 for pro- levees at Paw Paw and Spring- fleld fell far short of the height that | secohd would have been necessary to protect these two villages. He considers the surveys useless at this time. Paw Paw Hard Hit. Paw Paw itself suffered total dam- age of more than $46,000, while the tanning factory losses amounted to more tham $100,000 and caused the suspension of operations for several months, according t6 Mayor David ~ Kifer and W. C. Mitchell, representing the company, C. S. Stout, division freight agent,. and M. B. Jones, assistant division engineer of the B. & O. Railroad, attended the meeting but declared they could give no definite figures regarding losses sustained in the destruction ofg tracks and roadway during its course from Cumberland to Harpers Ferry. They will complete a survey and submit it later, they said. Mrs. Christine Bergen, Martinsburg Red Cross worker who had eharge of relief in the Green Spring area during and after the flood, said that of the 76 homes there were 756 under water to the second floor. The Red Cross, she said, purchased four of the homes outright and repaired and refurnished 50 more. Approximately $14,000 was spent in this work. All-Time Record. All agreed that the flood was an all-time record. Mrs. Hannah Law- less, 64-year-old resident of South Branch, said water ran to a 12-foot depth in her home, which is more than 100 years old and had never before been touched. Many said the water ran 8 or more Zeet above previous levels. A. H. Horton of the United States Geological Sufvey, who has charge of the 30 gauging stajions in the Poto- mac River area, said many of the "houses in which gauges are located were under water for the first time. Representative Randolph suggesjed the use of dams at the headwaters of streams and pointed out he was the patron of three acts passed at the last-session of Congress for flood con- trol surveys. Dozens of others were heard on the subject of their losses and the possi- bility of some remedy by the Federal ‘Government. LABOR FORUM TOPIC Speeches, followed by discussion from the floor, will be the program order as the Capital City Forum’'s symposium of the current series takes up the topic ““Labor and the New Deal” at 8:15 p.m. tomorrow at the Workmen's Circle Lyceum, 1502 Fourteenth street. TRAINING SCHOOL TRANSFER STUDIED Budget Bureau Officials Would Move Wards of Industrial Home. District officials today debated, with some hesitancy, whether to follow the suggestion of Budget Bureau of- ficials to ask Congress to enact legis- lation for dissolution of the Industrial Home School and transfer of its wards lfo the National Training School for Boys and the National Training School for Girls. The study was being made by mem- bers of the Board of Public Welfare as the result of a conference late yes< terday between the Commissioners, District Welfare Board members and officials of the Budget Bureau, headed by Acting Director Daniel W. Bell. The Budget Bureau has prevailed on the Commissioners to halt drafting of plans for improvements at the National Training School for Girls, for which Congress at the past ses- sion appropriated $100,000. Delay was asked in these plans be- cause of & dispute over the size of two dormitories to be erected. The Wel- fare Board proposed buildings hous- ing 12 girls, but the Budget Bureau last session approved the $100,000 appropriation, then pending, on the assumption the buildings would house 25 girls each. Study of Legislation. The conference yesterday went into additional plans, the Budget Bureau officials insisting there should be, study of legislation dealing with. how and where delinquent and dependent children shquld be housed. District welfare officials recently voiced objection to the plan of plac~ ing “dependent or backward or preb- lem” children in the two national reform schools, the national training schools for boys and girls. At yes- terday’s conference, however, accord- ing to a report made by Commis- sioner Melvin C. Hazen, none of the members of the Welfare Board, or ‘Welfare Director Elwood Street, raised an objection to placing the dependent ol ,or backward children in the same HE newest styles in beauty and dress, many of them with an old-fashioned touch, have found their way to the altar in models introduced to Washington’s | fourth annual beauty and style show. Long, flowing gowns of white velvet for the bride, and wine-colored velvet | for her maids of honor will be seen {in the weddings this Fall and Winter, |along with the pompadour coiffure, | the beauty spot, puffed sleeves and | for the bridesmaids, a white chrysan- | themum centered over the forehead. Norma Shearer promoted the latest bridal costmue in a recent movie success. Over her pompadour coiffure was & Juliet pearl-studded cap. The pompadour was set for the model on the closing day of the show at the Hotel Raleigh yesterday by Laurent of New York. Bouquets of large white chrysan- themums are the vogue for the bride and her maids. The bride carries a long, flowing train. Pointing to the bride’s carriage, | Laurent said she refuted the British statement made this week that Ameri- | can women lack sufficient poise to| carry their trains without awkward- ness. The latest in bridal negligee also was introduced, the outfit including white satin pajamas with black lace gown. The contrast between modern and “ Oriental eyebrows was shown by Miss Shirley Schwartz, the “Miss Wash- ington” of this year, with Aurelea and Helen Gray 6f New York as make-up experts. The beauty and style show, at- tended by almost 3,000 yesterday, closed last night with the annual grand ball. institution with those convicted of law violations, who are committed by PAGE B—1 ! ABATTOIR PLANS CLOSELY STUDIED AFTER PROTESTS District and Federal Agen- cies Consider Application for New Plant. “NUISANCE” IS FACTOR CONTROLLING DECISION Possibility of Conflict Over Ben- ning Road Construction Since Permit Was Issued. Plans for construction of an en- larged abattoir near Benning road and Kenilworth avenue northeast by the Adolf Goebel Co. are being scrutinized by six District and at least two Fed- eral agencies, it was learned today. The new plant would replace one which has been in operation for about 20 years, Interior Secretary Ickes was said to have called attention of District of- ficials to the fact that a low-cost housing development along Ridge road, about a half mile from the lo- cation of the proposed new Goebel plant, is being considered. Protest against the abattoir has been registered with District officials by the American Civic Association, which is headed by Prederic A. Delano, chairman of the National Capital Park and Planning’ Commission. Many Angles Considered, Many angles of the case are being considered, not only by the Commis- sioners, but also by the District Zone ing Commission; by Maj. J. B. Gor= don, director of sanitary engineering; Capt. Hugh P. Oram, director of in< spection; Health Officer George C. Ruhland, and Vernon E. West, prine cipal assistant corporation counsel. Also concerned are agents of Secre tary Ickes and officials of the Bureau of 'Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture. According to Engineer Commissioner Dan I'Sultan and Dr. Ruhland, the action of District officials will turn primarily on the question of what cone stitutes a “nuisance” under the meane ing of District laws and regulations. ‘This point also was being studied by the health officer and the corporation counsel’s office. Dr. Ruhland indicated he would be guided to a considerable degree by of- ficials of the Bureau of Animal Indus- try. He was informed by Dr. Reid R. Ashworth, his chief sanitary inspector, that if the plant is to have its products pass Federal inspection, “very rigid re- quirements” of the Federal bureau must be met in the plant's operation. Conflict Possible. ‘There are possibilities of a conflict over the case, however, since the Dise trict. government already has issued & permit to the company for the build- ing of foundations for the enlarged plant. On the other hand, the plant must = have a District license from the Health Department before it can ope erate. Dr. Ruhland indicated he is con- cerned over whether the enlarged plant will engage in rendering grease and fats as by-products of the plant, and whether a public nuisance might be created by the operation of stock yards. He said he did not yet know if the plans contemplated rendering operas tions. DR. LEWIS IS GIVEN COLUMBIA U. POST Psychiatrist Appointed Executive Officer of Department legal process to the national training schools. ‘The Burget Bureau plan appears to be to seek legislation transferring jurisdiction over the National Train- ing School for Boys from the Justice Department to the District and to abolish the Industrial Home School, transferring its boy wards to the Na- tional Training Schdol for Boys and its girl wards to the National Train- ing School for Girls. Expansion Possibilities. ‘That is the apparent reason why the bureau has raised the question of the size of buildings and the pos- sibilities of future expansion at the National Training School for Girls, it is said. District welfare officials yesterday voiced some questions as to the cost to the District from transfer of the National Training School for Boys to the District government. At the close of the conférence, however, Hazen said, the Commis- sioners agreed to call on the Welfare Board to consider the proposed legis- lation, and to reconsider its proposals for the $100,000 improvements at the National Training School. for Girls. ‘The $100,000 appropriation was voted by Congress after Senators Copeland .of New York and King of Utah, the latter the chairman of the Senate District Committee, had de- clared physical conditions at the Na- tional Training School for Girls were “barbarous” and should be remedied. Mrs. Roosevelt also took an interest in conditions at the trainjng school Grid Team to Be Guests. Edward E. (Hooks) Mylin, coach, and members of the Bucknell Uni- versity foot ball team, which plays Georgetown here Saturday, will be among the guests at a reception and dance to be held by the Pennsylvania Democratic Club of Washington Fri- day night at the Willard Hotel. Cooking Demonstration Tonight. “Fall Food Fashions”—a cooking demonstration—will be sponsored by the U. 8. Grant Circle, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, tonight at 8 o'clock at the General Baking Co., 2146 Georgia avenue. Special dishes will be prepared under the supervision of Miss Ernestine Chubb. 9w at University. Dr. Neolan D. C. Lewis, Washington psychiatrist, has been appointed ex- ecutive officer of the department of psychiatry in the Columbia Uni- versity School of Medicine, President Nickolas Murray Butler announced yesterday in New York. From Januery until September of this year Dr. Lewis was associate director of the Neurological Institute. He was appointed to the Columbia faculty in July as professor of neu=- rology, & post from which he resigned September 1. In his new position he also will be director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He suc- ceeds Dr. Clarence O. Cheney, re- signed. Dr. Lewis, a graduate of the Uni- versity of Maryland, was professor of experimental pathology at George ‘Washington University from 1920 to 1924 and professor of clinical psychiae try until 1935. He lectured on psychie atry in the Naval Medical School from 1919 to 1935. For 10 years, until 1933, * he was also director of clinical psychiatry at St. Elizabeth's Hospital and from 1933 until 1935 director of the hospital’s laboratories. Messenger’s Row With Dog Catcher Nets Sporty Home While a 17-year-old messenger nurses a black eye and a dog catcher awaits an assault trial, Sporty, the crippled police pup responsible for their trouble, appears to have profited. He comes out of the squabble with a new home and a collar and tag. Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, 2117 Leroy place, director of the Yard School of Fine Arts, has claimed him. She had frequently seen Sporty bee fore the dog catchers saw him at Con= necticut avenue and S street Tuesday and Pound Attendant Clyde Undere wood became embroiled in an argue ment with Clifton Plummer, the mes« senger. Frank Marks, District pound mase ter, is glad the dog is getting a home, but he is sorry Sporty was the cause of so much strife. 2 “Why,” Marks said today, “couldn’$ somebody have bought a tag for the dog before this?” i v