Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1936, Page 25

Washington News 3000IND.C.T0GET J0BS INHANDLING CHRISTMAS MAIL Holiday Force to Go on About , December 15 and Work Until Yule. LISTS ARE ESTABLISHED TO MEET ALL DEMANDS Half of Extra Help Will Come From Register Exams, With Others From Needy Rolls. Preparing for a huge volume of Christmas mall, Postmaster Vincent C. Burke said today approximateiy 3.000 extra employes would be taken on at the Washington Post Office. This force will go to work around December 15 and its services will be required until Christmas day, when, in conformity with orders that went out from the Post Office Department today, it is intended to have the mass movement cleaned up. Burke said more than half the extra help would come from registers estab- lished when the clerk-carrier examina- tion was held some time ago. The others, as is customary, will be drawn from lists of needy supplied by vet- erans’ and other organizations. For the most part, only men will be hired, because of the rigors of the work. No more applications are being received. ‘Most Employes Off on Holiday. The departmental order, which went to all the postmasters over the signa- ture of Postmaster General Farley, said it is contemplated all Christmas mail shall be delivered by midnight, December 24, and that all postal em- ployes who can be spared shall have the opportunity to spend Christmas day with their families. Star routes will operate as usual, with mail to and from these handled as on other days. There will, however, be no city delivery, village delivery, rural delivery or window service in post offices on Christmas day except for handling “gift” parcels. Such parcels are to be handled so | they may be delivered on Christmas | day, but the order said it is not in- tended that this service shall keep postal employes from taking the day off. Overtime Pay Allowed. “The employment of regular em- ployes or classified substitutes in the delivery of ‘gift’ parcels on Christmas | day should be voluntary on their part,” the order said. “It is deslredi‘ that a sufficient number of compe-| tent temporary employes be assigned to the delivery of parcels on Christ- mas day, in addition to the classified employes volunteering for such serv- ice, as insure a complete deliv- ery of all parcels received in time for | delivery on December 25. All regu-| lar employes, either scheduled for duty or voluntering for service on| Christmas day, should be given the| privilege of receiving either overtime | pay or compensatory time for the service rendered.” The order explains also that special delivery and perishable mail is to be handled upon receipt and that the| usual limited collections and dis- patches provided on holidays for first- class mail and newspapers is to be maintained. s ZIONCHECK ESTATE ASKED FOR $3,179| Pamela Young Claims Amount for Damages in Apartment. A claim for $3179 as damages to| furnishings in the Harvard Hall apartment, which she leased to the late Representative Marion A. Zion- check of Washington, was filed in probate against the Zioncheck estate in Distriet Court yesterday by Mrs. Pamela Schuyler Young. H. Max Ammerman, counsel for Zioncheck’s widow, the former Rubye Louise Nix, said he would advise her as administratrix of the estate in the District to reject the claim promptly. This would permit Mrs. Young to file suit for the amount in District Court. Mrs. Young is represented by Philip Herrick and Robert H. McNeill, Mrs. Young originally sued Zion- check for $999 damages in Municipal Court. This action was thrown out shortly after his death, which auto- matically shifted jurisdiction to Dis- trict Court after the widow had been named administratrix. RAILROAD LINEMAN SHOCKED BY WIRE | Eleven Thousand Volts Burn Re- pair Man When He Falls Mrs. The Foening Ftar WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, Auto Plunges Into River » This_car took a notion to % roam today when its owner, % 7 i Stanley Beech, 1220 D street northeast, cranked it—presumably while the motor was in gear. When the engine started the ma- chine, parked at the foot o, or 20 feet forward, over a water, ahout 30 feet deep at that Thirty-third street, careened 15 0-foot embankment and into the point. Beech, shown in the inset, escaped injury by leaping aside as the automobile began to move. the car from the river. BANKER DEFENDS CEMETERY BONDS New Yorker Tells S. E. C. His Friends Will Be Eager to Buy Issue. Charles W. Banker, New York busi- ness adviser, assured the Securities and Exchange Commission today his friends would be eager to buy the $225,000 bond issue he proposes to offer to finance initial improvements for the undeveloped Washington Na- tional Cemetery. If his friends should fail him, Banker added, he would assume the financing himself. The S. E. C. had summoned the New Yorker to show cause why a stop order should not be issued against the bond offering for the burying ground, which is just out- | side the District line on the Marlboro | pike. Next to it is the Lincoln Me- morial Cemetery and across from it is the Cedar Hill Cemetery. | After Banker declared he expected | to net $38,000 during the first year of the operation of the Washington National Cemetery, Prescott Edmonds of Lynchburg, Va., president of Lincoln | Memorial, testified that the best year his burial ground ever had was 1935, | when it netted $1,200. “Do you know whether any of your friends have put up money for a cemetery before?” E. Forest Tancer, counsel for the commission, asked Banker. “Yes,” replied the witness. ame one,” suggested Tancer. don’t want to make them pub- " said Banker, Will Tell Financial Status, “Well,” Tancer remarked, “this thing depends to a great extent on your own ability to put up the money. But you say you object to letting us know exactly what your personal financial situation is.” Later Banker agreed to submit to the commission his Federal income tax statement which lists his invest- ments. ‘Work on developntent of the ceme- tery was to begin today, Banker told the commission. It formerly was part of the Lincoln Memorial Cemetery and the Washington National Ceme- tery Corp. obtained the ground from Lincoln on a $150,000 note. Statistics on Burials. Yesterday developed this infor- mation concerning the business pros- pects of District burying-ground pro- prietors: In 1935, 5,270 white persons and 3217 colored persons died in Wash- ington. Two thousand three hundred and seventy-one of these were burried out- side the District and beyond its im- mediate environs. Seven - hundred twenty-two bodies were brought into the District for lic, Off Ladder. - Ray R. Forbes, 35, of Landover, Md., lineman for the Pennsylvania Rail- road, was shocked and burned se- verely “early today when he fell from & ladder and struck a high-tension wire ‘while working on an electric wire repair train at the Benning freight station. Eleven thousand volts coursed through his body. His condition was reported unde- determined at Casualty Hospital, where burial. Three hundred seventy were cremated. Pive hundred sixty-four were turned over to the Health Department for scientific use. 6,324 for Burial Here, ‘Thus 6,324 were available for burial here, an average of about 13 a day, according to J. B. Irvine, chief of the Vital Statistics Bureau of the Dis- trict Health Department. he was taken after first-aid treatment by the Rescue Squad. Police said he | case, A derrick was ysed to pull —Star Staff Photos. HEARING ORDERED BY ZONING BODY Abattoir Fight Leads to Quest for Data on Ob- jectionable Uses. As & direct outgrowth of the pub- lic stir over plans for re-establish- ment of an abattoir in Northeast ‘Washington, the District Zoning Commission today ordered a xpecm{ public hearing November 24 on the proposed-adoption of drastic new re- strictions on ‘‘noxious, offensive or hazardous” business uses. The commission proposed that the zoning regulations be amended to include 16 types of business establish- ments which are barred outright from second commercial districts. The commission also proposed that before 30 different types of business operations may be permitted in in- dustrial areas, special approval must be obtained first, in each individual from the commission. This plan must be approved in detail by the commission. 75 Types Now Permitted. As regulations now stand, 75 types of business or industry are permitted in second commercial districts, as shown on the zoning maps. The Com- mission proposes that the following be barred from second commercial districts and relegated to industrial zones: Bag cleaning establishments, assay- ing, bottle factories, distilleries, fish canning, curing, grinding or smok- ing; flower grist or grain -mills or elevators; glass factories; grinding, cooking, boiling, rendering or stor- ing of slaughter house refuse or animal refuse or rancid fat or refuse of dead animals; hair factories; iron, steel or copper works or foundries; manyfac- ture of concrete and mortar; pulver- izing charcoal for coal; starch, glucose or dextrine manufacture; sugar re- fineries, tetra-ethyl lead precipitate for liquid manufacture, To extend restrictions on the so- called noxious and haszardous uses which are permitted in the industrial districts, the commission proposes adoption of this amendment: “In the industrial district all build- ings and all premises may be used for any purpose whatsoever not in conflict with law or municipal regulations, ex- cept that hereafter no building shall be erected or altered for use and no building or premises shall be used for any of the following uses, unless the application for the permit shall' first be presented to the Zoning Commis- sion and the approval of the commis- sion in each instance obtained. Many Other Uses. “Abattolr, ammonia, bleaching pow- der or chlorine manufacture, bag- cleaning establishments, blast fur- These cemeteries 'eomprhe about D. . HEADS PLAN FIGHT 10 FINISH AGAINST ABATTOIR Encouraged by Roosevelt Support forsBattle Next Week. BOARD ACTS MONDAY ON DENIAL OF PERMIT Legal Contention to Be Based on “Public Nuisance Grounds.” Encouraged by support from Presi- dent Roosevelt and other prominent Federal officials, the District Com- missioners today were preparing for & sharp court battle next week in resisting the efforts of Adolf Gobel, Inc, to re-enage in large-scale slaugh- tering and meat preparation opera- tions in Northeast Washington. “We are going to fight this thing out in the courts, and fight hard,” Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen said. “We feel pretty confident of winning, but if the court rules against us we'll appeal.” To expedite the pending mandamus suit brought by the company, which is set for argument Tuesday in Dis- trict Court, the Commissioners called another board meeting for Monday at 10 am. They are expected then to deny the abattoir permit by formal board action. To Meet Technicality, ‘This is more or less necessary action to meet a technicality involved by the mandamus suit. Legal aides held that the Gobel action in bringing the man- damus suit was premature, since the Commissioners had not denied the permit for the superstructure. In- stead, they had simply delayed issu- ance pending an investigation by spe- cial committee headed by Health Officer George C. Ruhland. “There will be no abattoir on that site if I can prevent it,” Commissioner Allen said today. “I am for keeping ‘Washington pure, beautiful and odor- less.” Joining forces with the District in the legal fight to bar the abattoir from resuming slaughtering operations are legal aides from the Interior Depart- ment, Public Works Administration and National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission. To “Fight It Out® ‘The Commissioners had decided to “fight it out in the courts” a short | while before President Roosevelt, at | the intercession of Seerefary Ickes, let it be known that he was in sympathy with the fight to bar stock yard activ- ities in an area near Federal Park improvements. The President's position, however, greatly strengthened the Commission- | ers’ determination to meet the issue squarely in the courts. It was ex- | pected that Corporation Counsel El- wood H. Seal, who will argue the case, would file an amended answer to the Gobel demurrer. The Federal lines are sharply drawn in the fight. Frederic A. Delano, | chairman of the Park and Planning ! Commission, and Secretary Ickes, to- gether with the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, presented evidence to convince the Commissioners that operations as proposed by the packing firm would constitute a “nuisance” in an area in which the Government is particularly interested. The case pending in court, it was indicated today will be fought chiefly on “public nuisance” grounds. The main contention of the Gobel Co., it appears, hinges on the fact that it previously had been awarded a permit to dig foundations for the plant at Benning road and Kenilworth avenue and has already expended a large sum of money. Could Start New Action. Regardless of the way the court may rule in the matter, & protracted legal battle was forecast. The Gobel Co,, if it chose, could begin a new ac- tion if the opinion supported the posi- tion of the Commissioners. Regardless of the fact that the Bu- reau of Animal Industry has approved the plans of the packing firm as meeting Federal requirements, the Commissioners” believe they have & strong case in contending that the operations would now or at some fu- ture time become a nuisance affect- ing & wide area of the city. VICTORY DANCE SET MORE: JURY CASES DUE. WITH SHIFTS IN'DRUNK' CHARGE First, Second and Third Offense Counts Now Held Necessary. A.B.C.ACT AMENDMENT IS BASIS FOR DECISION Former Procedure Called Unfair to Those of Meager Resources. Several thousand additional eases may be thrown open to right of trial by jury through the action of Rice Hooe, assistant corporation counsel, in ordering that informations be drawn charging first, second and third offense drunkenness, it was learned today. Hooe, who recently was appointed by Corporation Counsel Elwood Seal as chief of the office at Police Court to succeed Stanley DeNeale, based his decision on the amendment to the alcoholic beverage control act, passed August 27, 1935. This amendment, Hooe pointed out, provides for & maximum fine of $100 or not more than 30 days in jail or both for first offense intoxication; $200 fine or 60 days in jail or both for second offense, and $500 or 180 days or both for third offense. Although the provision was made for the higher penalties by Congress more than a year ago, no such charge as second or third offense intoxication has ever shown up in the Police Court. Several sentences of $500 or 180 days in jail have been meted out to offenders but in every instance they have been charged with first offense. Cites Necessary Change. Hooe said today that in order to justify the higher penalty, the prose- cution must specifically charge sec- ond or third offense in the informa- tion and then go into court and prove it. The mere fact that a man's rec- ord is presented in court, according to the prosecutor, does not justify his conviction on the more serious of- fense. In the past, persons charged with drunkenness, regardiess of whether it was the first, second, third or fif- tieth offense, have been allowed to post $10 collateral at the precinct with the cholce of forfeiting it or standing trial. This has allowed defendants who had been convicted numberless times to go free with a minimum cash settlement, while those who were un- able to furnish the required $10 col- 1steral were held ‘In fail, brought into court snd fined as high as $500 or 180 days in jail. Hooe has held that this is unfair to those persons who are unable to pay fines. With the new order in effect, those who are able to pay will suffer equally with thoge who are not, Hooe belleves. He contends that if & man arrested for drunkenness is found to be gullty of other convictions for the same offense by & search of the records, the police should require & bond commensurate with the seri- ousness of the offense and more of those who escape because they have money will be br t into court for trial. Under the fhore serious charge a defendant could not forfeit col- lateral, since the law requires that he stand trial. If he does not appear in a court, his collateral will be for- feited as is the case now, but an attachment would be issued for his arrest. Police Court Overburdined. The Police Court jury branch, al- ready overburdened by the more than 2,500 cases passed on to it each year through the other courts, would have an estimated 2500 to 3,000 cases additional placed on its docket through the new charges. The District Court of Appeals has held that where the penalty is greater than 90 days in jail, the defendant is entitled to trial by jury. This decision, rendered in a test case to determine if persons charged with soliciting prostitution’ were entitled to jury trial, has sent several hundred cases into the jury court and others are piling up daily. The Police Court now disposes of more than 15,000 drunkggness cases a year, according to Willlam A. Norgren, acting court clerk. A search of the records, he claims, will show that & majority of these cases are old d therefore will have to NOLAN LABOR ROW FORMALLY ENDED Labor Relations Board Dismisses Charge Worker Was Dismissed. ‘The National Labor Relations 1936, ek Tliey ‘Defy Friday 13th If ‘Annette Theriault were superstitious, she would have something to worry about—she’s 13 today, Friday the 13th. Besides, Annette, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Theirault, 3724 Yuma street, is a member of a class of 13 at St. Ann’s School. Miss Leila Laney, a performer at thé Earle Theater, ex- hibits a mirror, broken in deflance of the hoodoo. She re{uud to break the gflua. but stood aghast as the cameraman obliged. The picture puts two sirikes on him. He obtained his job on Friday the 13th a year ago. T —>Star Staff Photos. o Superstition or no superstition, Mrs. Dorothy Murphy shows defiance by raising an umbrella and continuing her typing. Gov. Nice Cool to Suggestion He Intervene in Bonding Quiz Despite Gov. Harry W. Nice's avowed intention “not to enter the investigation at this time,” Keystone Automobile Club attorneys were to confer with the Maryland Executive within the next two weeks in seek- ing aid of State officials in the Prince to ‘confer with the Governor today, but the latter said he was leaving for St. Louis. Last night, the Governor said, by telephone, he did not wish to inter- vene in the probe of alleged law en- forcement irregularities until county officials and the grand jury had fin- ished their part of the investigation. Photostatic copies of arrest and bonding records were to be brought to Upper Marlboro this afternoon from Baltimore, where State’s Attorney Alan Bowie and Louis Lebowits, Mount Rainier lawyer, took the origi- nals yesterday. The duplicates prob- ably will be turned over to Keystone attorneys today for study in connec- tion with affidavits taken from Wash- would appoint an assistant after close of crimina! prosecutions in the cur- rent circuit court term, has not yet announced His choice, although his court work ended last Tuesday. The State’s attorney has indicated he might need a member of the State auditing staff to help him check ac- counts of some minor county officials. Reluctance. In explaining his reluctance to enter the investigation last night, Gov. Nice pointed out that the “affair is purely a local matter, and it must be handled by local means for the present.” He indicated any subse- quent action by him would be by findings of the grand jury, sched- uled to be recalled next month, and the county Board of Commissioners, expected to suspend at least two more constables at Tuesday’s meeting. bave already been removed from duty pending completion of the jury’s study. The Maryland Chief Executive was recently asked by the District Com- . | missioners to investigate the report T i LEH g i a?i of a Washington policeman’s arrest Society and General | B PAGE B—1 TWO PERSONS DIE INROAD MISHAPS; SIX ARE INJURED D. C. Man Held by Maryland Police After Woman in Car Is Killed. TRUCK COLLISION FATAL TO DRIVER OF VEHICLE Park Policeman and Civilian Are Hurt When Machine Runs 0ff Richmond Highway. A man and woman were killed in traffic accidents near Washington last night, while six other persons were reported injured. There were two accidents in the city, but police reported only one per~ son jnjured here. As a result of one of the fatal acci« dents Maryland police are holding Paul Ward, 42, a painter living in the 1500 block of Wisconsin avenue, until they can investigate a wreck near Waterloo, Md., which resulted in the death of Mrs. Sarah Rocks, 35, of Baltimore. Accerding to police, Ward was drive ing with Mrs. Rocks about 3:30 am. today, when he swerved to the side of the Baltimore highway to let a truck pass. As he did s0, Ward said, he lost control of his car, the machine crashe ing into a tree. Dies in Hospital. Mrs. Rocks died fh St. Agnes Hos- pital, Baltimore, where Ward was treated for cuts and bruises. ‘The other fatal accident, in which & truck driver was killed, occurred on the Richmond-Washington highway, 10 miles south of here. In still another accident a park po- liceman and a civilian were injured when their automobile ran off the same highway into a ditch near Alex- andria, The truck driver killed was Ibra Harmon, 25, of Magtinsville, Va.” He died almost instantly as his mangled body was thrown clear of the wrecke age. Both vans interlocked in the almost head-on crash, the impact being heard by garagemen at Accotink, a quarter mile away, who hurried to the scene, Furniture loaded in one of the vans was broken and strewn about the roadway. General freight in the other truck also was damaged. In Critical Condition. The injured are Carl Brent, 28, Burlington, N. C,, who is in & critical condition at the Alexandria Hospital with a fractured skull, shock and other injuries, and Harold W. Cecil, 25, Mar= tinsville, Va., admitted to the hospital with severe shock and a possible frac~ tured leg. They were brought to the hospital in the Fort Belvoir ambulance, Police said the trucks, owned by the Bassett Furniture Co., Martinsville, and Bonwell Bros., Burlington, N. C., were traveling in opposite directions, The furniture truck was practically demolished. Park Policeman Flem Burke, 37, 1622 Mount Vernon avenue, Alexandria, and George Crawford, 36, 432 Hume ave- nue, were injured when their auto- mobile left the highway near its intersection with the old Mount Vere non cut-off road, ran down an embanke ment and into a ditch fllled with shale low water. Officer Burke, a guard at Memorial Bridge, and Crawford are Both being treated at the Alexandria Hospital for brain concussions and severe head lacerations. An Emergency Hospital ambulance was put out of service while respond- ing to a call early today when it was in collision with a truck at Eleventh and K streets. Except for being shaken up, the am- bulance driver, an interne and the driver of the truck escaped unhurt. The ambulance was driven by Ernest A. Yates, 45, colored, 52 Fenton street northeast, and the truck was operated by Frank Lambert, 28, of Wood- stock, Va. . In another traffic accident, Mrs. Lula Bowman, 50, of 708 F street received scalp lacerations and other head in- juries. She was riding with her hus- band, Brent Bowman, when their car was in collision with another at Third and F streets northeast. Bowman was charged with operating with defective brakes. STUDY IS LAUNCHED OF CRIME COUNCILS National Probation Association Scans Units Co-ordinating Agencies’ Functions. ‘The National Probation Association is nning a Nation-wide study of the rapid rise of co-ordinating coun cils, designed to integrate the functions of various jes interested in measures for control of crime, it was announced today. The councils are organized on & city-wide basis, with local district or neighborhood branches. They seek to combat juvenile delinquency by bringing together representatives of public agencies, civic and social wel« fare groups and private citizens ine terested in the crime problem. The association belleves the rapid growth of these councils is indicative of a steadily-growing interest in crime control measures. The councils row are in existence in 146 cities in 20 States, their total number running well over 250. ® pointees.” ceived from the justice of the peace last night, tHe" Governor declared.