Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1936, Page 15

General News LIQUOR BILL TEST TOMORROW MAY PRECIPITATE: FIGHT Sale Measure to Be Dis- cussed Publicly at In- formal Hearing. 2A.M. CLOSING AND 1P.M. OPENING HOURS SOUGHT 10 Other Proposals Selected for > Airing, 17 More Being Studied by Officials. Abmwpennllthellleu(;m{fll Nquor on Sunday will be one o legislative proposals to be subjected to & test of public sentiment tomor- row at a public hearing called by the District Commissioners. The session will be opened at 10:15 am. in room 219 of the District Building. While arrangements for the hear- ing are informal, and officials have not scheduled time for the appearance of | spokesmen for various civic and pro- | fessional groups, Corporation Counsel | Elwood H. Seal anticipated there will | be a battle over this proposed amend- ment to the District liquor act. The measure was introduced at the fast session of Congress by Repre- sentative Dirksen, Republican, of Ili- mois. It would allow restaurants, hotels and clubs to continue the sale | of hard liquor until 2 am. Sundays | and to resume such sales at 1 pm. on | Gundays. Sale of hard liquor now wmust stop at midnight on Saturdays. The 11 bills selected for discussion ot the hearing are only part of the tentative legislative program being considered by the Commissioners. There are 17 other bills, many of which were presented to Congress last session, which are being studied. Many of them may be submitted to the Budget Bureau for its reaction. Building Sale Proposed. Among the latter are proposals for the sale of the District Building to the United States as & step toward development of a new home for the municipal government; to control the small loan business; to place wres- tiing under the control of the Dis- trict Boxing Commission, and to ex- tend the powers of the District Com- missioners (but not to give them power over the Board of Education and other citizens’ boards). In the past, the Commissioners have opposed many suggestions for major changes in the District liquor act, holding that the present law is work- ing well and should not be radically revised. Their report on the Dirksen measure, however, may be influenced by the public reaction that._develops at tomorrow's hearing. A second important measure sched- uled for consideration tomorrow is one to put additional “teeth” in the District laws against gambling. This is one urged for several years by Police Supt. E. W. Brown. It would | amend the code of laws to make the possession of tickets, certificates, slips, tokens and other devices prima facie evidence of the purpose of engaging in the numbers games. A third important bill for tomor- fow's consideration is the proposed amendment of the Juvenile Court act to modernize the treatment of Juvenile Court cases. Amendments to this bill have been drafted in| keeping with ideas developed at hear- | ings at the past session of Congress. Subway Survey Urged. Other bills scheduled for the hear- ing include the following: To ap- propriate $25,000 for a survey of the need and cost of & subway system for street car transportation; to extend Prospect avenue through Georgetown to provide a by-pass for M street; to | extend control over the sale of bar- baturic drugs; to establish a farm for the treatment and cure of habitual drunkards and authorize expenditure of $200,000 for the development of such an institution; to create a men- tal health commission to take over the handling of lunacy cases, now considered by juries in United States District Court; to require that per- sons practicing law in the District must be members of the Disirict bar; to establish Government stations for compulsory semi-annual inspection of motor vehicles; to regulate and license real estate brokers and realty sales- ‘men, ‘The Dill for the sale of the District Building to the Federal Government proposes creation of a commission consisting of the architect of the Capitol, District assessor and the su- ‘pervising architect of the Treasury to report to Congress what would be the “fair value” to be paid for the struc- ture. “:l"l\uh-mrtoftheplmwrflu funds for the construction of a new District Building in the municipal center site. The Commissioners have proposed sale to the Federal Govern- ment of the lower two squares of the site to raise the remainder of the needed funds. Other Measures Considered. Other legislative measures which the Commissioners may submit for in- incl To license and require s bond for gasoline importers who act as fiscal agents for the District in the collec- tion of the gasoline sales tax. To increase penalties for persons after Koehler spent $500 of his Bonus Buys Dream Home Federal E;@“ Remodels Shanty On SHUI IN BAHI_E Acreage in Prince Georges County. WITH POLICEMAN Stray Bullet Hits Cab Oper- Above: Koehler's house before he remodeled it with the $780 he received as his soldier’s bonus, and below, the same house bonus meney on it. in a Seventeenth street flat for $34.50 a month. Now he is the master of a 6-acre plot in the country. He dwells in his own house. He has six chickens which lay regu- larly. He raises his own vegetables. He can watch the sun setting over his own trees. The answer is the soldiers’ bonus. Last March, after several weeks of figuring by Koehler about how he would spend the money due him on his adjusted compensation certificate, his superior in the Internal Revenue Bureau, Daniel Rice, suggested that | he buy some land attached to the Rice property at Temple Hills, Prince Georges County, Md., 6 miles from Washington. Koehler went, saw and decided to buy. On the property were some trees, IOU'SKOMMM“V! no water and a weather-blackened clapboard shanty. But Koehler en- visioned its possibilities. In June he got his $780 bonus. In July he moved to Temple Hills with his wife and 12-year-old step-son. He remodeled the house. He dug a well. He built a hen house and tool shed. He prepared a garden. It cost him $500 in cash to make his home habitable, and he paid $200 down on the land—taking all but $80 of his bonus, but he remarked yester- day that he really has something to show for it. To Rice he pays $10 monthly plus interest, which makes the total $14 a month. In nine years everything will be his. “You don’t know what it means to be able to step on grass and touch trees,” Koehler exclaimed. “You can't do these things in New York, where I come from.” SHOOTING INQUIRY OPENS TOMORROW Homicide - Squad Still Prob- ing Death of Kellison, Wife Is Held. Circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of John H. Kellison, 25, during a quarrel with his wife early yesterday will be investigated by a coroner’s jury tomorrow, Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald announced last night. Meanwhile, the wife, Mrs. Frances Norene Kellison, 35, mother of six children by a -former marriage, is being held at the Woman’s Bureau. Police said she has admitted having shot her husband with a pistol she bought to “protect” herself. . In announcing the inquest will be held beginning at 11:30 am., Dr. MacDonald said the homicide squad had not yet completed its investigation of certain angles of the case, Kellison, an unemployed truck driver, was shot twice in the back outside his home at 1311 Eleventh street shortly after returning from Baltimore with two of his wife's sons, Roy Gregory, 21, and Louis, 18. At- tracted by the shots, Wilson Moore, 1321 Eleventh street, found the vic- tim lying in the yard. Kellison died two hours later at Emergency Hos- pital, According to police, Mrs. Kellison said she was standing at the corner of Eleventh and N streets awaiting her husband. She said she walked up as he crossed the street to their basement home and asked where he had been. ‘When he replied with an oath that it ‘was none of her business and started to strike her, the wife drew out the gun and fired four times, she said. Two of the bullets went wild. Mrs. Kellison then went back into her home and took her three daugh- ters—Doris, 10; Bessie, 12, and Prances Mae, 14—to the home of her sons on Tenth street, where she was later arrested. Mrs. Kellison is said to have stated she bought the gun from a colored man to ‘“protect” herself from the abuse to which she said she had been subjected during the four years she had lived with her second husband. Kellison has been jobless for about a month, and the wife had been sup- pom':u him, according to her state- men! COURSE ARRANGED Red Cross First-Aid Instructors ‘Will Be Trained. ‘The District Chapter of the Ameri- can Red Cross has arranged its annual course for first aid lay instructors to run from January 4 to January 15 under the direction of Dr. Otis Mar- this | shall and others of term of not less than 15 years for & third felony offense. ‘To require the placing of a silver- two classes of detectives Department, one to re- year additional pay and of the American chapter tendent of weights and standardize the sizes of of coal and coke, at 50, YULE TRAFFIG TOLL RISES T0 SIX HERE Roland Steiner, 25, Dies of Injuries Received in Land- over Road Crash. ‘The holiday traffic toll for the ‘Washington area reached six late yes- terday when the victim of a Mary- Jand crash died. He was Roland Steiner, 23, of 1350 C street northeast, who was a pas- senger in a car in which two other persons were killed on the Landover road near Cheverly. The other fatali- ties occurred Christmas day and early yesterday. Steiner’s death followed that of Miss Florence Recknor, 19, of 1424 Belmont street, and Frederick Mills, 25, of 616 C street northeast. Five Hurt in Accidents. Five other persons were injured in traffic accidents in the Capital and nearby Maryland and Virginia yester- day and last night. The most serious mishap occurred at Silver Spring, Md., and sent a 66- year-old mother and her daughter and grandson to the hospital. Those hurt were Mrs. Rose Buckley, the grandmother, who suffered a brok- en leg and cuts; Mrs. Mary Bergen, 45, who received a broken toe and per- haps internal injuries, and Joseph Bergen, 18, whose nose was broken, Car Hits Viaduct, Their car, driven by Joseph, struck the steel center of the viaduct leading under the Baltimore & Ohio Raiiroad tracks, according to police. All three were taken to the Washington Sani- tarium. ‘The other victims were Alice Dunn, 16, of 824 B street northeast, who was taken to Georgetown Hospital with & fractured pelvis after an accident at Falls Church, and James Stokes, col- ored, 1100 block of Wallach place southeast, who was injured internally ‘when his automobile struck a tree at First and D, streets southeast, VIRGINIA WOMAN KILLED BY BULLET Boy, 15, Says Gun Was Fired Ac- cidentally While He Was “Breaking” It. B the Associated Press. AXTON, Vs, December 26.—Miss Edna - Lovelace, 30, was almost in- stantly killed today by a bullet from & .22-caliber rifle while churning in ator in Gun Fight on Six- and-a-Half Street. PSS COLORED MAN FIRED FIRST, OFFICER SAYS Condition of John Jumper, Alleged “Match Burglar,” Reported Serious. A colored ex-convict was shot and critically wounded last night, follow- ing a fight in the 1200 block of Six- and-s-Half street, by a policeman who fired half a dozen bullets, and in the exchange a bystander, operator of & fleet of 10 taxicabs, was struck in the lower part of the body. Responding to & radio call in s Police scout car, Policeman Joseph P. Miller of No. 2 precinct, said he fired half a dozen shots at John Jumper, colored, 34, of 657 Mades court when he allegedly tried to shoot the officer. Police sald Jumper had a service re- volver, reported to have been stolen from Officer C, C. Carver's home on July 27, 1935, Alfred H. Lagrasse, 34, of 217 C street northeast, who was going into & nearby garage on Six-and-a-Half street to get & battery, was shot. He was taken to Sibley Hospital, where his condition was said to be not seri- ous. ‘Jumper is at Freedmen's Hos- Pital, said to be in critical condition, Argument Inspector Bernard Thompson said he learned Jumper got into an argu- ment with & companion, Moses Ter- rall, colored, during a card game at 1224 Six-and-a-Half street. Jumper allegedly fired at Terrell, but missed. A colored man police said, got into the argument and was chased out of | doors by Jumper. As he fled down the street, two officers from No. 2 | precinct drove up in a scout car. The radio call “man with & gun” sum- moned the police. Miller said he ordered the armed colored man to “drop that gun,” and the latter replied by aiming the re- volver at him and pulling the trigger twice. The policeman shot the ex- convict several times through the hips and abdomen. Inspector Thompson said Jumper had been convicted in Washington and in Maryland on housebreaking charges. Policemen said the wounded colored man had been known as the “match” burglar because he left burned matches behind him after second- story jobs. Has Police Record. Jumper had been arrested five tintes E‘mtnml:ngo years on charges rang- lousebreaking to carrying & concealed weapon. The shooting occurred about 9:15 o'clock. Police said that there were two | empty shells recovered from the re- volver Jumper used. Officer Miller said that he did not know if Lagasse was hit by one of his bullets that ricocheted from a nearby wall or if Jumper had hit him. VIRGINIA LIBRARY EXCAVATION RUSHED Digging Nearly Finished, Forms Are Poured to Support $950, - 000 Structure. By the Associated Press. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Decem- ber 26—Excavation for the founda- tions of the $950,000 General Library Building at the University of Virginia were nearly complete today and work- men have been casting concrete forms for the supports of the new structure. Bids for the building proper, which will be erected through a loan and grant from the Public Works Ad- ministration, already have been ad- vertised for and the contract will be awarded on January 15. The terms of the contract will provide that con- struction be started no later than February 1, and completed not later than January 31, 1938. Detailed plans and specifications for the building were completed in the offices of R. E. Lee Taylor, an alumnus of the university, for many years associate on the school’s archi- tectural commission. The library building will be five stories in height, will contain more than 100,000 square feet of floor space, and in its entirety will be in keeping with the Jeffersonian style of archi- tecture followed since Thomas Jeffer- son designed the original buildings. It will provide shelf space for 600,- 000 volumes and desk space for 1,000 students in the study and reading GREEK SHIP CALLS AID OF COAST GUARD CUTTER Mount Dirfys Goes Ashore on Frying Pan Shoals Off Cape Fear River. g § Musical Skits to Be Presented Wednesday in Roosevelt High School by Community Center Department. T This is the way composers would dance if they danced io the compositions they compose. Left to right: R. Deane Shure, composer; La Salle Spier, composer, and Lisa Gardiner, dance + instructor. Two of Lisa Gardiner’s pupils who will actually do the dancing. Eleanor Gatch (left) takes the part of a goose, lacking only headgear in this picture. She will be assisted in her dance by Leila Gurley (right). EVERAL Washington composers shed their dignity and stamped out some rhythms yesterday when interviewed about the dance revue they are planning. R. Deane Shure and LaSalle Spier demonstrated the manner in whica their dances will be presented. They matched steps, and got none the worst of it, with Lisa Gardiner, whose pupils will give the recital. The composers are among six whose works will be enacted at 5 pm. Wed- nesday in Roosevelt High School un- der- auspices of the Gardiner studio and the Community Center Depart- ment. Pantomime Among Skits. Among skits to be offered is a pantomime entitled “The Barnyard Bully.” It was written by Spier, and will be played on two pianos by .the composer and Miss Helene Finacom, to a dance accompaniment. Other composers who have written dance music especially for the revue are Edward Potter, Henry Gregor, Mrs. Mary Howe and Mrs. Dorothy Radd Emery. Mrs. Howe's contribution is & two- piano selection entitled “Cards—the Game in One Trick.” Miss Anna Hull of New York will accompany the composer at the second piano. Minuet on Progrhm. Shure and Miss Margaret Barringer will play s new minuet by the poser. Potter will render his position, “Old King ,” with the assistance at the piano ;. 4 hrilid BF s —Star Staff Photos. of Baltimore will appear as guest artists. The program will close with the singing of Christmas carols com- posed by Mrs. Howe, Shure and Potter by the choir of the Mount Vernon Methodist Episcopal Church, con- ducted by Shure, ‘Tickets may be obtained at the Lisa Gardiner Studio, 1708 8 street; the Willard Hotel, the American Auto- mobile Association offices, or at Roose- velt High School. INAUGURAL CHIEF SELECTS AIDES Officials Who Served in First Event 4 Years Ago Renamed by Grayson. Appointment of an Advisory Com- mittee to assist in planning the cele~ bration for the inauguration of dent Roosevelt January 20 an- nounced yesterday by Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Inaugural Committee chairman. ‘Those named include the following, who were active in arrangements for the first Roosevelt inauguration four years ago: Daniel C. Roper, Secretary of Com- merce, who served four years ago as head of the Grandstand Ticket Committee; John B. Colpoys, United States marshal for the District, who was charman of the Committee on Printing in 1933; Col. E. M. Watson, military aide to the President, who formerly served as Parade Committee chairman; Mrs. Blair Banister, as- sistant treasurer of the United States, “who directed the work of the Hous- ing Committee at the first Roosevelt inaugural; Judge James M. Proctor of the United States District Court, who was chairman of the Commit- tee on Aides, and Leslie C. Gar- nett, United States district attorney, In addition to these, Admiral Gray- son named as other members of the advisory group Hugh T. Nelson and Mrs. John Allan Dougherty, head of the 1933 Insugural Ball Committee. Columbus “Discovery” Disputed. MUNICH, December 26 ()—Gen. Erich von periodical, Kraft,” o -q:knnu;mz to be has decided BLOOD 1 SOUGHT FOR BURNED GIRL 8-Year-0ld Fire Victim Is in Critical Condition. Also Needs Nurse. A call for volunteers for blood trans- fusions was made at Emergency Hos- pital last night in an effort to save a fire at her home the day before Christmas. Betty was badly burned about the say -she is in a critical - condition. Persons with No. 3 type blood are be- ing sought for the transfusions. While his sister’s life hung in the balance, 4-year-old Benny Jarman, overcome by smoke, while suffering from pneumonia, showed slight im- provement: and was taken from the oxygen tent to which he had been confined. Lack of Nursing Felt. Meanwhile, another obstacle—lack of nursing—threatens to delay or possibly prevent the recovery of the children. Both need trained nurses in con- stant attendance, hospitals officials said. One nurse, who has been on duty three days, will have to be returned to regular duty unless some provision is made for her employment. Nursing time has been given to the children through the Gold Cross Nursing Serv- ice of the hospital, which provides for the giving of one day by each nurse free. With the end of the year in sight, however, this time has been exhausted. Full-Time Nurse Necessary. “I would be willing to nurse them free,” one nurse said, “but this 1s impossible for me right now. It is absolutely necessary, though, that they have & nurse on duty all the time. 1 am sure some one would help them, if The Star would tell of their plight.” Betty, Benny and their mother were removed to the. hospital after tne three-story building in which they lived at 922 F street was destroyed. Two other children were overcome by smoke. Six Persons Recovering. 8Six persons slightly hurt in a fire which swept their home at 1677 Wis- consin avenue early yesterday are re- covering at Georgetown University Hospital. Doctors said all six patients are “doing fine.” Those injured were Mrs. Catherine Milistead, 28; her mother, Mrs. Aurelia Carroll, 58; her grandfather, Henry Harding, 82, and her children, Er- nestine and Christine, 10-year-old twins, and Gerald, 7. Mrs. Millstead, her mother and the children leaped from a second-story window after the fire broke out in the home about 2 am., and firemen carried the elderly man down a rear stairway. All six members of the fam- ily were bruised and slightly burned. BERRYVILLE MAN DIES IN HIGHWAY ACCIDENT Benjamin Phillips, 67, Believed Struck by Ties Projecting From Truck. Special Dispatch to The Star. BERRYVILLE, Va., December 26.— Benjamin Phillips, 67, of this county was killed instantly tonight when struck by & truck driven by M. K. Sandy of Stephens City, Va., while walking along the highway near White Post. Officers who investigated the ac- cident held it unavoidable. The truck was laden with ties, and Sandy said he believed that the ties projecting cast and found two cats fighting in & Betty Jarman, 8, who was burned In | eyes and hands and hospital attaches | REPORT IS READY FOR PRESIDENT Recommendations of Com- mittee Are Being Guarded With Utmost Secrecy. MORE EQUITABLE SHARE FOR DISTRICT IS HOPE Findings Destined to Play Major Role in Hearings on 1938 Supply Bill. The long-awaited report of Presi- dent Roosevelt’s special Fiscal Rela- tions Investigating Committee, carry- ing Washington’s hope of a fair and equitable basis for determination of the amount of the Federal payment toward District expenses, is expected to go to the White House before the end of the week. J. L. Jacobs, Chicago efficiency en- gineer and tax expert, directing the study, who went home for the Christ~ mas holidays, will return tomorrow to apply finishing touches to the report. According to present indications, it Wwill be a document of several volumes, The conclusions and recommendae~ tions of the committee are being guarded with utmost secrecy, and will not be made public until the Presie dent transmits the 1938 District budget estimates to Congress early next month. Figure Included in Budget. The amount of the Federal pay- ment recommended by the committee is to be included in the new budget. The Commissioners, at the direction of the Budget Bureau, predicated the 1938 estimates on a $5,000,000 Federal payment, the same amount as appro- priated for the current fiscal year, This figure is to be changed, however, to coincide with the recommendations |of the Piscal Relations Committes before the budget goes to Congress. The committee’s findings are dese tined to play a major role in the hear= ings on the 1938 District supply bi before the House Subcommittee Appropriations. These findings are ex« | pected to be accepted by the subcome | mittee as well as the House providing they bear the President'’s stamp of approval. Hearings on the appropriation bill | are expected to be started later than | usual because of the present unorgane | 1zed status of the subcommittee which Wil write the bill. "Attaches of the Appropriations Committee believe it | Will be February before work is started on the bill. Old Committee Wrecked, The 1936 elections and death virtue | ally wrecked the old subcommittes, | the one which wrote both the 1936 and, 1937 supply bills. There are only two members of this subcommittes available for service in conrection With the 1938 bill—Representatives | Johnson, Democrat, of West Virginia, | jand Ditter, Republican, o Ang ! an, of Pennsyl Existing vacancies caused by the defeat of Representative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas, and the death of Representative Jacobsen, Democrat,, of Iowa, cannot be filled until the House is organized for the new session. Since Johnson and Ditter, as well as the new appointees on the subcommite tee probably will be assigned to other subcommittees, the District bill probe ably will be sidetracked until some of the larger supply bills are out of the way. Johnson, by virtue of his seniority on the District Subcommittee, is exe | pected to be selected as chairman. | There has been no intimation as to Who may be named to replace Blane ton and Jacobsen. Representative Norton, Democrat, of New Jersey, chairman of the District Legislative Committee of the House, planned to appeal to Speaker Banke head to permit a member of her group to sit with the Appropriations Sub- committee during hearings on the 1938 bill and advise the new members of the needs and problems of the District. Bankhead, however, already has frowned on the idea. He said he foresaw serious danger in an inter- mingling of Appropriations and Legis= lative Committees. 400 CENSUS BUREAU WORKERS LOSE JOBS W. P. A. Fund Exhausted and Need Over, Director Austin Discloses. Four hundred temporary employes of the Census Bureau, all here, will lose their jobs this week, Director Wile lam A. Austin disclosed yesterday. The workers have been employed on the censuses of agriculture and manufactures, which are divisions of the larger census of business. Although they were not hired as relief workers, most of their pay is drawn from W. P. A. funds, Austin said. “The money is exhausted and we really “have no more need of these ‘workers,” he added. The employes were chosen from the rolls of the 7,000 temporary workers hired in 1930 for the decennial census of population. They were notified at the end of November that they would ne longer be needed after December, Austin said. WOMAN, HURT IN FALL, SUES TOWN FOR $5,000 Mrs. Ethel 8. Turner Seeks Dam~ ages From Culpeper—Case Set for Feb. 18. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. been incurred because of a fall on Cam- eron street on October 3. Mrs. Turner is represented by nett Miller, sr., and Attorney E. E. Johnson will represent case has been set for ary 18 ‘