Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1937, Page 3

ONE-MANCAR SUIT ISHIT INREPLY Motion to Dismiss Appeal Filed by Attorneys of Utilities Body. Attorneys for the Public Utilities | Commission today expressed the hope | that the District Court will decide on | its merits the appeal by the Federa- | tion of Citizens' Associations and the | Central Labor Union from the com- | mission’s refusal to reconsider its au- | First at Whtte House John Hunefeld Rounds Out 10 Years of New Year Day Visits. thorization of 40 additional one-man | street cars. Announcement that alleged techni- | eal defects in the bill of complaint wiil not be pressed was made by Assistant Carporation Counsel Hinman D. Fol- | som after filing a formal answer to the appeal late yesterday. For purposes of the record, however, the municipal attorneys incorporated in the commission's answer a motion to dismiss the appeal, pointing out various technical points which they | #aid rendered the bill deficient. | | Allegations that a petition for a | one-man car rehearing was not given | sufficient consideration were emphati- | cally denied. The court was told that the dis- continuance of the $1 street car pass was improperly incorporated in the appeal because the discontinuance oc- | curred after the issuance of the order | objected to. In addition, it was point- | ed out, the effect on the finances of | the Capital Transit Co. of the with- drawal of the pass is “more or less speculative.” The appellants had claimed that abolition of the pass would boost revenues. | In the motion to dismiss, the com- | mission contended that the two ap- | pellants have no corporate entity lndl ean sue only through their members, that they failed to show sufficient in- terest in the controversy, and that the Capital Transit Co. is an indis- pensnble pnrvy to the hngnncn. NEW YDRK G-MAN DENIES DISGORD No Friction Between His Office and City's Police, Rhea Whitley Says. ®r the Associaied Press. NEW YORK. January 1.—Rhea Whitley, agent in charge of the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and police in connection with the arrest of Anthony Cutro this week on bank robbery charges. A high police source yvesterday gave own information that Cutro, charged with robbing banks in Queens and New | had been moved several times | from one precinct station to another | Jersey. to keep Federal agents from question- ing him. Whitley yesterdav said reports that the police had not co-operated with | his men were “absolutely without | foundation,” and thal as soon as Cutro was identified the bureau was notifled. Meanwhile Sixth Deputy Police Commissioner Byrnes MacDonald was relieved of night touring duty by Com- missioner Lewis J. Valentine. MacDonald participated with Ped- eral agents in the capture on Decem- | ber 15 of Harry Brunette, wanted on | kidnzping and bank robbery charges. After the raid on Brunette’s apart- ment MacDonald praised the accom= plishment of the Federal men. The following day Commissioner Valentine and Fire Commissioner dling of the raid as and “melodramatic” | small town stuff.” | Insurance Leader Dies. ' LOS ANGELES, January 1 (#).— Robert J. Giles, 63, chairman of the board of directors of the Occidental | Life Insurance Co., died yesterday at his home after a long iliness. Giles was widely known in insurance and business circles. BRACELET. di nd platinum. con- taining_about ds. plain clasp. about Oct b!twsen 34t “and Porer | ats n.w. National Theater and A Gonn. Ave, Hot Shobpe. Reward ' Youngz | & Simon, Mr Cumb!(r and. nw. Woodward | CARTON, eonumm' United States postal fards: Between District Bldg ‘and Soha Marshall ol n.w. Reward. Mr. Gelbman. 214 _District Bldg. o EYEGLASSES. !elhesdl Post Office, Dec. 23, _Phone Rockville 2: » ms’r—w'u 'nldm' Fol M s 228- | 474, D, C. line. in vicinity of Wiston- on chnslm s morning. Reward Phone Wi i rocmnoox»uan “brown. money ‘and check. Please return to 901 Florid: e. n.w Reward. POCKETBOO] K Jeather. Hecht Dent. Store Tuesd 9. rcunumlmu flusses, kev, compact. 6 chanse. Reward is “with | PUPPY. small. 3 months, white with Tclolty 18 snd Jackson nee. "Dec. “Kiltie. 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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- OF THE HOME BUILDINC 'TION will be hel o o sociation. 2 for the Tection o iz election Teotors for th Transaction of ""‘;‘n’a‘ 7 B ly M-! fore motor nook- der the . Tiesdas Jamoncy p.m. . vesterday denied there | had been friction between his office | T John J. McElligott criticized the han- | | two vears. John W. ~unefeld, 225 C street northeast, THE EVENING shown at the White House this morning as he kept intact his record of being fir OHN W. HUNEFELD, veteran | house painter, arrived at the 1 White House today at 9:01 am. [ after a cross-city dash from his | home in Northeast Washington and breathed a big sigh of relief as he learned that his 10-year record of be- | ing first on the scene st the Executive Mansion on New Year day was intact. Hunefeld could have taken his time. as & mstter of fact, tor he found the White House grounds entirely deserted except for & policeman and two news- | ! clear for the world,” he told the news- | paper photographers. President Roose- | velt_has not held a public reception on New Year day sinve taking office, but this fails to daunt Hunefeld. He has beccme the last of the first-in-line contenders, line or no line. The White House police and the | Photographers were expecting Hune- | feld earlier. but apparently he is | willing to take risks with his record in ! view of the lack of competition. He breezed up to the door of the executive offices with a broad smile and a cheery New Year greclmg to Secret Qrfirvu‘p Chief Pr’rmlllvd st on the scene at the Executive Mansion each New Year day. —Star Staff Photo. the cameramen and to Lieut. Seaman of the White House police force. “We've been looking for you.” Lieut. Seaman said as he shook hands with his old acquaintance. “Some of the newspaper boys were beginning to fear you were not going to show up this year." Hunefeld seemed pained that any one should entertain any doubts as to his dependability on New Year day. I wouldn't miss keeping my record men, Hunefeld said proudly record, begun January 1, 1926, now is complete. There is only one cloud on that record, he commented. Back in 1930 a woman pushed ahead of him in the reception line and succeeded in main- taining her front position over Hune feld's indignant protests to police. The woman insisted she was a re- porter. ‘n was just a trick,” he lwned Morafl Cut Adnit From Vital Part of His Llfe by Reurement No Hobby or Interest to Share His Love in 54-Y BY JOHN JAY DALY. For the first time in 54 years William Herman Moran, former chief of the United States Secret Service, who retired at midnight last night, | today was without an office in the Treasury Building. It was on the first day of December in 1882 that Moran, then an 18-yeai- | old boy, went to the Treasury Depart- | ment to take over his duties as mes- senger in the office of James Brooks. then chief of the Secret Service. Chief Brooks had been young Moran's Sun- day school teacher, liked the lad. and started him on his career—a career that was destined to break records in Government employ. So! | far as the records disclose, no other man ever worked for Uncle Sam s0 long as William Herman Moran. When Chief Moran reached his 70th birth anniversary, President Roose-| velt extended the period of his service | When that period ran out it extended again—so that Chief Moran, when he closed his desk for the last time yesterday afternooa | and took down his favorite pictures | from the wall, left behind him 54, years crowded with memories. He can | boast of being older than the Secrei| Service itself, which was established | on July 1, 1865, a year after William | | Herman Moran was born, in Hyatts- ville, Md., March 28, 1864. Father Was Government Clerk. From the time he was a base ball| pitcher on a sand-lot team in Hyatrs- ville, until that memorable morning when he got his first job with the | Secret Service, young William Il Moran knew he was going to spend his life as a servant of Uncle Sam. His father before him was with the Government, 8s a clerk in the War Deplrtment—qnd these two recors, by the bye, constitute a service of 107 years with the Government. From messenger boy, the future chief ran the gantlet. He became a clerk. On the side he was an as- sistant operative. This taught him| the tricks of the trade. Then, on De- cember 16, 1897, they made him chief | clerk. In 10 years’ time he had be- | come assistant chief of the service. That was July 1, 1907. FEleven years ! later he hit the heights, became chief | of the Secret Service—January 2, 1918, | Fame World Wide. For 18 years the man who went out of office yesterday was known the world over as chief of the United States Secret Service. The tenth man to hold the post since the service was established under William P. Wood, Chiet Moran lived his role 24 hours & day all during those 18 years. Ia recounting his activities yesterday the old hands at the game recalled that the Secret Service was the actual life- blood of Chief Moran. They claim ue ate, drank, and slept Secret Service. Some of the oldtimers—Joe Mur- phy, assistant chief; Jim Sloan, for years with the White House detail, and Julian Baber, executive officer—were sitting around hesdquarters talki over past glories and especially the influence exerted on the Secret Service by the retiring chief. “He was the embodiment of the Secret Service,” said Joe Murphy. “He knew what the word ‘seeret’ [N ear Career. means.” said Jim Sloan. “and service.” He was deeply beloved by all nis| men.” said Julian Baber, “particularly | the older ones who knew him better than the others. They all regarded the Secret Service as a sort of big family, Chief Moran, father of t'ie flock. so to speak.” “Right you are.” came a chorus of hard-boiled old Secret Service men who rarely express an emotion—never of fear, and seldom of love—but thev o1l admired the old chief, the chiei- tain on the wayv out. Gone. Chief Was Strict Boss. The old chief had been a strict | boss. Of him it was first sald, s0 the oldtimers claim. “He saw his duiy and he did it.” That was why onlv | the Secret Service entered his life | outside the confines of his home. E belonged to no clubs, no fraternal | organizations: the Secret Service. Like Sherlock Holmes. Chief Moran was an smoker—and the nearest approach ever came to having a hobby wa when, several years ago, he started & collection of pipes. That is all any- one in the service can remember him | bestowing his affections upon. aside | from his family and the Secret Service —=a hundred-odd pipes. Because he was a boy when he broke into the service, Chief Moran in :is early days took over the habits of the old-time Washingtonians. He walked to work each morning, and he walked back home at night. That was in the horse-and-buggy days. an established family man, the chief made his home on Biltmore stree &nd each morning he joined the down- town promenaders. They were from all walks of life; Secretaries of State | —War and Navy—Government clerks, newspaper men, merchants, mechan- Ics, insurance agents—diplomats, too, from all the world—a polyglot lot. For more than a quarter of a century Wil- liam Herman Moran kept step with them. Until the fashion changed and Washingtonians took to faster means of transport—but even up to last year he occasionally walked to the office. Has “Photographic Eye.” Some of the boys in the service refer to Chief Moran as “the man with the photographic eye.” Once he sees an object—person, place or thing—it makes an indelible print on his mind. Also, the old chief has the memory of an elephant. He never forgets. They tell of the time when he was riding in an sutomobile ahead of & President of the United States, in & Par-western city. Along the side- walk stood & man wanted by the Secret Service—sa man they had besn after some 10 years. The chiet spotted him. Immediately the file system in back of the chief’s mind went to work, and he told one of th2 operatives: “There’s so and so back there in front of that drug store. Get him!” And they got him. All because of that camera eye. It stood the chief in good store over his 5¢ years in harness. He had use for it on two oc- casions when he went in advance of the Jate President Woodrow Wiison to Furope. Moran made all the ar- rangements for safeguarding the life ¢ STAR, WASHINGTON LOW ASSESSMENT RATE THOMAS GOAL Tax Burden in Di'strict Is Misunderstood, Says Oklahoma Senator. ‘Washington's tax burden will con- tinue to be misunderstood as long the present formula of high assess- ment and low rate is retained, in the opinion of Senator Thomas, Democral of Oklahoma, who has charge of Di: trict appropriation bills in the Senate. Senator Thomas reiterated yesterday the belief he has held for several years that some members of Congress under- estimate the District's share of the cost of running the Capital by looking only at the tax rate of $1.50 per hun- dred, without considering the fact that this rate is applied to & high basis of assessment. For & number of years District officials have been required to assess property at full value, whereas many other cities reverse the pro- cedure by adopting low assessments and & high rate. The Oklahoma Senator believes | that some legisiators look at Washing- ton's $1.50 rate and recall that the | rate back home is $2 or 33 without | considering that in some States the basis of assessment is 50 per cent or | less of true value. For several years he has felt the | Commissioners should recommend & | change in the law to permit adoptio: of the low assessment and high rate | system. The taxes paid by locel resi- dents would be the same, he pointed | out, but the rate would not be mis- | understood as it is now. The fact that Washington has no bonded debt 1o necessitate large an- | nual interest payments is another point the Senator beliaves is frequently overlooked by persons who compare Washington's tax levy with other | cities. Senator Thomas urged Inclusion in the current District sppropriation act | of the provision under which a study of fiscal relations between the Federal Larry | his 10-year | had no hobby—only | inveterate cigar and pipe ! 3 | to Honolulu during the first part of As he became and District governments is now being | made by a committee of experts, ap- pointed by the President. The report | is scheduled to be presented to Con- D. C. JAXN Year message sald Germany in the future will be “mor¢ and more a bulwark of European culture and civilization against ' the Bolshevist enemy of mankind.” Michael Car- dinal von Faulhaber in Munich de- plored “the alienation of Germany's youth from the church.” Nicaragus began the new year with the inauguration of s new President, Gen. Anastasio Somoza, who last year overthrew President Juan B. Sacasa in a coup d’etat. The observance was noisy but con- trolled throughout the Philippines. Commonwealth President Manuel Quezon extended executive clemency to 105 insular prisoners, FEW ACCIDENTS INHEAVY TRAFFIC Only Three Mishaps in Jam! Last Night Are Re- ported. Despite the .heaviest flow of New Year eve traffic in years only three ac- cidents were reported last night, and two of these resulted in only minor injuries, according to police. FRIDAY, | Year eve mishap victims, police re- poned was Mrs, Pearl Knuckles, 34, | | of 1248 G street northeast. Struck by gan n | ® Street car at Thirteenth and H | orously | streets northeast, Mrs, Knuckles was anti-Semitic weekly Stuermer, which | taken to Sibley Hospital, where phy- | recently has carried a series of cari- | | sicians said she was suffering from in- | catures of Catholic and Protestant | Juries to her head and spine. The car | was operated by Motorman Dwight | Dennis, 35, of 1701 West Virginia ave- | nue northeast, the police said. Meanwhile, Senator Guffey, Demo- UARY 1, 1937, GERMAN CHURCHES RENEW PROTESTS “Nazi Drive Against Chris- tianity” Deplored by Car- dinal Von Faulhaber. By thie Associated Press. BERLIN, January 1.—Germany's churches last inight faced the New | | District Attorney Atkins SKELETON DECLARED COLLATERAL FOR DEBT Report Strong Man Le{t Bones Found in Blazing Shack Eliminates Murder. Bv the Associated Press. LEBANON, Pa, January 1.-—Testi- | mony that a woman's skeleton, found in a blazing shack, was part of a ‘ ery at McAdoo, told the coroner’s jury | stranger several years ago toured this district with a “strong man” 1 act, left his paraphernaliz with Stano- | vich as security for a loan four years | 8go0. > Stanovich said he brought the ap- paratus to Lebanon last Summer and stored it in a shack on property of his uncle, which burned Tuesday night. professional strong man’s collateral | for a $200 debt “pretty well satisfled” | yesterday that county officials had no murder mystery on their hands. After an inquest, Atkins said in- Year with renewed protests .“;mt‘ vestigators still had some minor points what their spokesmen called the Nazi| !0 clear up definitely, but that the drive against Christianity. Michael Cardinal Von Faulhaber, in a New Year's eve sermon in Mumcn.! deplored sharply “the alienation of Germany's youth from the church.” | “We already had this battle against | church and Christianity 18 years ago,” | he sald. “In those days it was Marx- | ism. i “Today Christianity is accused of veing the cause of wars and blood- shed. In this respect, the crusades are often cited but in the last analysis the crusades were really a flaring up {of knightly spirit in the name of Chrls(lln spirit. If only we had one glimmer of that Xxnightly spirit now——" | Letter Against Bolshevism, | | case was ‘“about closed.” Mllo Stanovich, who operllu a bak- — Auto Painting “ thaleys 2020 M ST. N.W. Let Haley's Q. It Right! COLONIAL COAL The Finest Coal Money Can Buy R. S. MILLER 805 Third St. N.W. NAT. 5178 He said that next Sunday a pas- | | Most seriously injured of the New toral letter against bolshevism would ' | be read in the churches. In Berlin, the official Catholic or- “Katholisches Kirchenblatt” vig- assailed Julius Streicher's clergy. One caricature pictured a Catholic priest and a Protestant pastor em- bracing. Beneath iL was the text: “Lsn't it fine, my brother in Christ, ' crat, of Pennsylvania was in Emer- that we both agreed on sabotaging | gency Hosgital recovering from a frace tured rib and bruises received yester- day afterncon when a taxicab in which he was a passenger collided with a mail truck. The accident occurred at Second street and Indiana avenue as the Senator was on his way from his Capitol Hill ofice to the Raleigh Hotel. “Unless complications develop.” Guffey’s physician sald today, “the ' the Government.” us Accusations.” The organ branded this As “a monstrous accusation of high treason against both churches.” Two declarations will be read from :miesunl confessional pulpits Sun- av. In one it is complained that events | Of the last year have shown that the church can no longer place anv faith gress early in the session which starts SeP3tor will be able to attend the in assurances that Christian churches | next week. . l i Festivities | (Continued From First P_I]!.) e fant—this one four months old—wi awakened from a deep sieep in a ! punch bowl by the blowing of horns at midnight in a Miami hotei. Miami, incidentally, did itself proud !as a celebration point with 50 night spots operating full blast at prices which yielded nothing to New York. The little island of Manhattan weas packed for the night with perhaps as | many millions as it accommodates every business day. | From tranquil old Trinity Cburch. | with its watch night service snd | thousands grouped outside “Auld Lang Syne,” to Harlem and s { “jam” banas, the celebration flowed Liquor flowed, too, in the same raiio as the crowds, but while there was | plenty of drunkenness, there were oniy & few dozen acute alcoholic cases re- | ported at hospitals, as compared with the hundreds every New Year day during prohibition, | Twins in Different Years. An unusual birthday anniversary was celebrated by two men in Elora. Ontario. They were born in different days, different months and different years, but they are the Connors twins —Joseph and Patrick—now 76 yvears old. Joseph was born shortly belora | midnight, December 31. 1860: Patrick was born a few minutes later on | January 1, 1861. | After 20 years in which high jinks were frowned upon. Soviet Russia cut | loose in pre-revolutionary gaiety. The | prices in Moscow's hot spots were {enough to make a Broadway night | club operator green with admiration — and Moscow reported the hot spois filled. It was & lonely New Year dav for the Duke of Windsor in his Austrian | exile. However, he talked on the long- distance telephone with Mrs. Wallis Warfleld Simpson in Cannes at mid- night. King George issued to the British | Fmpire a New Year greeting in which ha spoke of his “brother whose bril- liant qualities gave promise of another historic reign—a reign cut short in | eircumstances upon which, from their | very sadness, none of us would wish | | to dwell.” Reichsfuehrer Hitler in his New | e e of the war President on those oc- | | casions. He also went ahead of Presi- dent Roosevelt when the present oc- cupant of the White House journeyed | this administration. Morning, noon and night Chief | { Moran was chief of the Secret Service. ‘He had no other diversion. It was golf to him, theater, horse racing, | night club life and high jinks—and all | the other things that the tired busi- | ness man likes to believe buoys him | over the cares of the day. Even though | | the United States was not a member | | of the League of Nations and there- fore not interested in what the League did, in sn official way, Chief Moran made it his duty to go to Geneva where he attended special sessions con- | | ducted under the auspices of the | League for the purpose of establishing | & central system for the suppression | of counterfeiting throughout the world. Not present in any official capacity, Chief Moran went as an un- official observer—and helped draft s system. That was merely because the Secret Service happened to be inter- ested in this work. He would go to the ends of the earth for the Secret | Service. Now, Chief Moran's work is all over, and the chief is free to do whatever he wants to do. According to those who know him best, he leaves office with only one deep regret, and that is that Uncle Sam does not see fit to take care of the old retired secret service men, the boys who veritably laid down their lives for their country. As one who put in 54 years at the same old stand, Chief Moran retires with $1,500 pay. It is his firm belief that men who risk their lives for the protection of the American people from fraud and swindle deserve a better fate ‘than this, because some of the old-timers will not get this much. They probably saved Uncle Sam millions. PAINT Pur g MUTH ;¢ 3th St singing | _ | Maj. | White House reception, opening session of Congress next | Tuesday.” Esther Tinkins, 50. of 3615 Newark street was run down by a truck while crossing Wisconsin avenue at Ma- | comb street. She was taken to George- | town Hospital and treated for internal injuries. The truck was operated by James H. Winslow, 26, colored. Jack Tarr, 25, of 1507 M street suf- fered cuts about the face and pos- sibly a skull fracture when hit by an automobile at Fifteenth snd M streets. He was taken to Emergency. The au- tomobile was driven, police reported by Walter F. Scott, 25, colored, 700 block of Park road. ew Year (Continued From PFirst Page.) | Ernest W. Brown to give New Year celebrators a “break” when pos- sible, found it necessary to arrest 60 revelers who let their enthusiasm get out of hand. Thirty-five arrests were made in the first precinct alone. Last year only 47 drunks were taken into custody. White House Foregoes Reception. Today the traditional free-for-all standardized in the pattern of 100 vears, was aban- doned again. President Roosevelt is | limiting his New Year day observance 10 a quiet family galhering., Else- where there were New Year calls and receptions —and the business of catching up on back sleep lost in the Joviality of 2 post-depression Yuletide. Night clubs, hotels and theaters were jammed last nigth in the face of prices ranging up to $7.50. There were countless private parties in homes, many of which broke into a din of pan beating and horn biowing at midnight. The Capital Transit Co. operated street cars and busses on a late schedule to handle the early morning transportation problem which devel- oped after midnight, when the citi- zenry finally decided the new year had been received properly and now was time to go home to bed. Traffic lights were kept in operation all night in most sections of the city, and special police detalls were on duty during the night to encourue safe driving. The local automobile clube had issue warnings to local mo- torists to use caution in driving home | after the celebration, One of the outstanding church programs was a testimonial watch- night service in honor of Dr. John Compton Ball at Baptist Church, where he has been pastor 34 years. The church was ! jammed as a number of fellow clergy- | men extended felicitations to the vet- | eran pastor. J Associate Editer Talks. | Gideon A. Lyon, associate editor ol The Star, gave an illustrated talk on | “The Chalice of Antioch” at services | in the Chevy Chase Baptist Church, | after which Rev. Edward O. Clark, pastor, preached a devotional watche night sermon. The challenge presented by the new year and its muiltitude of national and world problems was the theme of sermons in a number of churches. | For the Federal and District govern- ment employes, department store workers, bank employes and others today is & holiday. Although business | will be resumed tomorrow in the | shopping district, the Government of- | fices will not reopen until Monday. The central building of the Public Library and most of its branches are closed today and will remain closed until Monday. The sub-branches at Chevy Chase, Conduit road, Tenley | and Woodridge are to be open today | from 2 to 6§ pm. and the Eastern | High School branch from 10:30 to | 6 p.m. All the community centers are closed | today and will not reopen until Mon- day. There will be a dance at Lang- ley Junior High School, Pirst and T sireets northeast, at 8:30 tonight. Although 1936 automobile tags ex- pired officially at midnight, police were given instructions not to begin making arrests for dead tags until § a.m, today. China Unifies Currency. the first .time .China has Multitude of Friends and Patrens A VERY HAPPY New Year e One Crewded With All Success and Presperity x FERGUSON 3831 Ga. Ave. COL 0567 L ) it! BERLITZ can pursue their aims unhampered. The spread of neo-| heathenism, it declares, shows clearly in what direc- tion Nazi “weltanschauung” (view of life) is tending. 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Were $2 and $2.50 59 3 for 1% 4% Imported weave; white $3.50 value ‘Mode Pajamas Twe speciol groups in the popu- ler models. $2 and $2.50 Grade $]59 3% $4.50 Sitk Pajamas Piped 53.19 Edges. $5 Value _ $5.50 ond $6.50__ ¥4-%5 $71.50 _ R xci Charge Accounts— Monthly Settlements— or 12-Pay Plan F at E Norwegian Grain and Saddle Colf—black and tan. of the styles have waterproof soles. REDUCED Silk Cravats $2.50 Grode__ °1-8° $3.50 Grade- 12> $5 Grade ____ 53'39 Mode Underwear French back shorts and lisle Undershirts—those two populer numbers of ours. 75¢ Value 45C Each Southampton Broadcloth Shirts only. A distinctly $7.59 Lisle, Silk mixtures and Wool mixtures in a variety of smart patterns. Were 50c and 75¢ 39c¢ 3 for §1 4 Groups Whitehall Shoes g the populor leathers—Cordovan, Scotch Grain, Most 56.85 38.85 Free Parking at N.W. Cor. E and 12th Sts. and N.E. Cor. 11th and N. Y. Ave. $8.50 $10.00 _ leventh