Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1937, Page 19

Washington NGL‘ @hk ann ~ FIDELITY STUDIES 10 SPEED PLANS FORNEW SET-UP Inspection of Equipment Is Made by Home Loan Bank Examiner. RECORDS FOR PROPOSED FIRM WILL BE STARTED Report Based on Figures at End | of Year Due to Be Brought Up to Date. Preparing to set up preliminary rec- ords for the proposed First Federal Real Evidence of Spring s sk Bavings & Loan Association of Wash- ington, to take over the closed Fidelity | Building & Loan Association, John W, Ballard of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board staff today made a per- sonal examination of bookkeeping ma- chines at the Fidelity. Ballard, who is chief examiner for | the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, | conferred for sime time with the re- ceiver, James H. Nolan, who is in | charge of the Fidelity for the office of | the controller of the currency. After- | ward Ballard expressed the opinion | that two bookkeeping machines, which originally cost about $2,000 each, can be altered by a small expenditure so they can be used in setting up records | for the new association. | Ballard indicated one of the first steps he will take will be to bring his | examination up to date. A report| which he made to the H. L. B. B, on the basis of which two Government | agencies agreed to go forward with the reorganization plan, showed the | figures of the Fidelity as of December | 31, 1936, Gross Assets Listed. At that time, it was learned today, the gross assets of the Fidelity were listed as about $4,700,000. A write- down of about 15 per cent on the lia- | bilities of the institution was estimated | at about $650.000, including known and estimated losses In this report, however, no investi- | gation was made concerning the case of Fred B. Rhodes, former president of the institution, who faces charges of forgery and larceny. He is now out on bond, pending a new trial April 12 on a charge of forgery. A | jury recently failed to agree in the first case brought against him New management will be assured when the Federal Savings and Loan Association takes over the Fidelity, it was learned authoritatively today. While detailed orders have not been laid down in this particular case, it is known that in such instances the F. H. L. B. B. has required that a majority of the directors of the new institution sha!l be persons who did not serve as directors of the closed institution. About $1,000,000 in Cash. Among the assets listed as of De- cember 31 is about $1,000,000 in cash. | The rest of the assets include princi- | pally first mortgage loans on real | estate in Washington and vicinity. | The order of procedure in the plan to take over the Fidelity will be first to set up the new Federal association, which will make an offer to buy the assets of the Fidelity at 85 cents on the dollar. When this offer is official- | 1y made, the receiver and the con- | troller will go to court to ask au- | thority to sell all the assets of the old association to the new one. When this is granted, the new as- | Bociation will take over the assets, and | when it opens it will make available to the 18,000 shareholders 85 per cent of their holdings. The shareholders may take this 85 per cent in cash, or they may leave it to be invested in the new association, which will be | a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank system. All accounts will be insured up to $5,000 each. FUNERAL RITES HELD FOR WIFE OF OFFICER Mrs. Edward 0. Hopkins to Be Buried in Arlington Na- tional Cemetery. Mrs. Russell L. Hopkins, wife of | Capt. Edward O. Hopkins, commander ‘of the Gray Horse Battery, 16th Field | Artillery, Fort Myer, Va., died Sat- urday in Walter Reed Hospital after a long illness. | Funeral services are being held this | afternoon in the Fort Myer Chapel, | with Chaplain Ora J. Cohee officiat- ing. Burial will be in Arlington Na- tional Cemetery. Besides her husband, among Mrs. Hopkins’ survivors is a young daugh- ter, Nancy. BAND CONCERTS. y the Marine Band in the audi- torium at 3 pm. tomorrow. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader; William F. Santelmann, second leader. Program. “The Marines’ Hymn.” March, “Punjaub” .. Payne Cornet solo, “Carnival of Venice,” Del Staigers Musician Robert De Hart. Belection, “Prince of Pilsen”__Luders “Fantastic Dance,” for woodwind instruments _____ Paul White Intermezzo, “The Waiter” _____Rohde “Procession of the Holy Grail” from “Parsifal” Waltz, “Jolly Fellows” March, “Will Rogers' Trio for piccolos, Birds” - .- --Pillvestre Musicians Clayton Lindsay, Bartley Moor and Luis Guzman. “Sleepers Wake” __ - Bach Hymn, “To the Faithful” -Douse “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the Army Band in the audi- torium at 6 p.m. teday. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, leader. Program. Finale from the “New World Sym- phony” “Triplets,” trio for saxophones, Tucker “Gielito Lindo” Fernandez “The Spirit of Pageantry,” grand march in F Fletcher “Valse Militaire” ‘Waldteufel arch, “Always Forward” ... Missud| “The Star Spangled Banner.” TWOPERSONSD | stitution avenue early yesterday. | and brain concussion. This is how the Speedway 1 Capital celebrated the first day of Spring. The photograph was ‘made from the Highway Bridge., E INAUTO CRASHES Virginian Crushes to Death When Car Rolls Down Embankment. Two persons were killed in nearby Maryland and Virginia traffic acci- | first day of Spring and the beginning | dents yesterday, while several others are recovering in hospitals here today | from week-end accidents in and about the city. | Curtis Jarrell, 25, of Cherrydale, Va., | was crushed to death when a car in | which he was riding overturned and rolled down an embankment on the | Lee-Jackson highway, 2 miles west of Fairfax, Va. Two companions, Leo T. Goode, 23, Ballston, Va., and Edward Berlin, 22, | Cherrydale, escaped with cuts and | bruises. Goode, said by police to have been | the driver of the car, was released | under $500 bond for appearance at a | coroner’s inquest at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Alexandria, Va. He told police he was blinded by the headlights of an approaching machine | Passing motorists lifted the wrecked | automobile from Jarrell’s body. The | car apparen‘ly rolled on him after he had been hurled from the vehicle as it careened from the road. He was | pronounced dead at Alexandria Hos- pital homas Tolliver, 29, colored, 1319 | | Minnesota avenue northeast, was pro- | nounced dead on arrival at Casualty | Hospital after his automobile ran off the road and overturned at Fairmont | Heights, Md | Carroll A. Fitzgerald. 31, of 4615 Eighth street, and Miss Dorothy | Blackwell, 23, of 223 F street, were reported recovering at Casualty Hos- | pital today from injuries received in | a eollision at First street and Con- | According to police, Pitzgerald's car | collided with one driven by Leo A. | Webb, 25, of 621 E street southeast. Webb received only minor hurts. Miss Blackwell suffered cuts, bruises, Fitzgerald re- | ceived a severe head injury, dislocated | right shoulder, and cuts. George A. Moran, 24, Capital Heights, Md., was reported in an im- proved condition at Providence Hos- pital today from injuries received yesterday when his automobile over- turned on the Marlboro pike, between Forestville and Meadows, Md. He was treated for internal injuries and a broken right leg. COURT OVERRULES DISTRICT JUDGE Another Hearing in Sentence Mix-Up on Downey Case Ordered. The United States Court of Appeals held today that a District Court judge should not have acted to correct a sentence which he imposed five years ago, but should have sent the matter to another magistrate. The case concerned Bernard L. Dow- ney, who pleaded guilty to three rob- bery indictments and was sentenced March 24, 1932, to four years’ impris- onment on each case. The clerical recording of the sentence left doubt as to whether the terms were to run concurrently or consecutively—a difference between 4 and 12 years. Downey was sent to Atlanta and at the expiration of four years obtained his release by habeas corpus. He was then brought to Washington tor correction of the original sentence. Over objection of his attorneys, Albert Stern and Albert Lyman, the motion for correction of sentence was heard by the same judge who imposed it—Justice James M. Proctor. Draw- ing on his own recollection of circum- stances surrounding the case and let- ters in his files, the jurist decided the sentences should run consecu- tively. This meant Downey would have to serve eight inore years in prison. Associate Justice Harold M. Stephens of the appellate court declared, how- ever, that the hearing was improper, since Justice Proctor acted both as judge and witness. He remanded the case to District Court for another hearing before a different judge. [ 4 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON D, €. MONDAY, MARCH 22, ooked most of yesterday as the —Star Staff Photo. FAIR WEATHER 10 EAD TODAY Tomorrow Expected to Be Cloudy—Thousands Ob- serve Palm Sunday. The fair weather which marked the of Holy Week yesterday was expected to continue today, according to the Weather Bureau. Tomorrow is expected to be cloudy, however, possibly with rain in the | evening. The temperature tonight | may reach a low of 40 degrees. THREE-ALARM FIRE DAMAGE 1S §13.000 AT BEAUTY SALON Several Thousands in Pre- Theater Crowd Drawn by Flames. ANTIQUES ARE RUINED INRESIDENTIAL BLAZE Canary and Rabbit Found Safe After Flood Home Is Par- tially Burned. Fire swept through the upper floors of Emile's beauty salon at 1221 Con- necticut avenue last night, attract- ing a pre-theater crowd of several thousand and jamming traffic in the neighborhood for more than an hour. It was the second three-alarm fire within a few hours, the other oc- curring at the Rosslyn Steel & Ce- ment Co. plant, Thirty-first and K streets. Earlier in the day, Dickie, a canary bird, and Easter Bunny, a white rab- bit, emerged bedraggled, but still play- ful from a blaze that burned through the dining room and kitchen of the home of William J. Flood, 1322 Massa- chusetts avenue, destroying valuable European tapestries and century-old cut glass. The first fire companies arriving at the blaze at Emile's immediately turned in a third alarm, calling ap- proximately 30 pieces of apparatus to the scene. Police ordered all avail- able motor cycle men to the blaze to handle the crowds. Damage May Be $15,000. The fire, according to Emile Beauvais, operator of the salon, caused between $10,000 and $15,000 damage. He was not sure how completely the loss was covered by insurance. | matically when the flames from an elevator shaft, confined most | of the blaze to a gymnasium on the | fourth floor. Much of the equipment there was destroyed or seriously damaged The proprietor was in his fourth- floor apartment when firemen ar- rived. When he opened the fire door for them he was drenched by water from a fire hose Cause of the blaze was not definitely determined, but firemen believed a short circuit in the elevator shaft was responsible. The blaze in the gymnasium created heat so intense that ventilators on the The capital’s churches were filled to | capacity as thousands of worshipers | celebrated the anniversary of Christ's palm-strewn entry into Jerusalem High mass was sung in all Catholic churches where, in accordance with | the old tradition, each member bore a palm leaf symbolic of the original tribute. ushering in Holy Week began early in both Catholic and Protestant churches. The pre-Easter promenade crowded the parks, Connecticut avenue and Sixteenth street as worshipers thronged the streets before and after the religious commemoration. Although the sun shone only at in- tervals throughout the day, thousands of residents and visitors turned out for strolls or automobile rides on the Speedway and through the darks. Many visited the Japanese cherry trees to get first-hand information on the arrival of the blooms. The highest temperature yesterday was at 8 am. when the mercury climbed to 53 degrees. It was some- what colder in the afternoon, and by midnight the temperature had dropped to 40 degrees. The “low” was 36 de- grees, reached at 4 a.m. today. NORMENT FAMILY WILL GET ESTATE Widow and Three Children Left Fortune of D. C. Finan- cier. Clarence F. Norment, 80, one of ‘Washington's most prominent finan- cial figures, who died March 14 at his Wardman Park Hotel apartment, left most of his large estate to his widow and their three children, it was re- vealed today in District Court when his will was filed. No estimate of the former banker’s holdings was furnished the court. This will be provided later in a peti- tion to probate of the will which was made May 14, 1935. Mr. Norment left $50,000 outright to his widow, Mrs. Lizzie Smith Nor- ment. His son, Clarence F. Norment, jr., president of the Norfolk & Washing- ton Steamboat Co., which the senior Norment once headed, was made trustee of a $750,000 fund. The son was directed to pay the income from $300,000 of this sum to his mother for her life. At her death the $300,000 will be divided among the son and two daughters, Mrs. Judith E. N. Fuller and Mrs. Ethel N. Alden. All the children live here. One hundred thqgsand dollars of the trust fund will be held for the benefit of each of the three children, who will receive the income for life. At the death of each child the principal of the $100,000 trust will be distributed among his or her children, provided that event takes place 15 years after the death of the testator. In any case the distribution must wait the expira- tion of that period. The income from the remaining $150,000 of the $750,000 trust fund will be allowed to accumulate for 15 years, and then the principal and ac- crued income will be distributed to all grandchildren of Mr. Norment then living. The will provided for six other be- quests and then directed that the residue be divided in equal shares among the three children. The specific bequests were $10,000 to a niece, Ida M. Walters; $10,000 to George L. Starkey, $3,000 to a cousin, [ sidewalks | street cars to be halted and automo- | The special religious services | roof still were drawing hot air from the building an hour afterward. Spectators thronged the street and in the fire area, bile traffic to be rerouted. One of the apartments in the build- | Ing was the scene of a raid on an al- | leged gambling establishment several weeks ago. Occupants of the suite es- caped by running into a women's | turkish bath in an adjoining building. The Flood family was in church when fire broke out in the newly- equipped kitchen of their Massachu- | setts avenue home. Firemen Don Masks. Firemen donned their masks to bat- tle the blaze. In the dining room they | found the canary singing and the rab- | bit frolicking on the floor. The pets, | belonging to Dolores Flood, 3, and members of her private kindergarten bird was given a bath late yesterday and the rabbit was to be cleaned with a cornmeal rubdown today. Mrs. Flood estimated damage at $10,000 and said the cause of the fire was still undetermined. Much of the valuable sterling silver, two European tapestries and a set of English rose cut glass more than 100 years old. ernoon by the blaze at the Rosslyn Steel & Cement Co. plant. A wooden file room was swept by flames, but firemen extinguished them quickly. The second and third alarms were turned in as a precautionary measure, firemen fearing the blaze might spread to an adjoining lumber yard. The cause was not determined. George A. Ford, 47, of 478 F street southwest, was burned about the right hand when he tried to put out a fire that started in a mattress at his home yesterday. Only slight damage was caused by the flames. He was treated at Providence Hospital and later dis- charged. D. C. WORKERS HONOR HAZEN, ALLEN TONIGHT missioners Melvin C. Hazen and George E. Allen with a banquet at the Mayflower Hotel at 7:30 o'clock to- night, celebrating reappointment of the officials for second terms. More than 600 workers and guests are ex- pected to attend. Special guests invited are Senators King of Utah, Thomas of Oklahoma and Capper of Kansas, and Repre- sentatives Norton of New Jersey and Collins of Mississippi. A steel fire door, sliding shut auto- | spurted | causing | class, were none the worse for their | experience, except in appearance. The | loss cannot be replaced, as it ncluded | Traffic was paralyzed yesterday aft- | 0. €. ACADENY BLLINTRODUCED | Senate Measure Would Al- low 12 Annapolis Ap- pointments. [ BY J. A. O'LEARY. | The first step toward giving the Dis- | trict & larger number of appointments | | to the Military and Naval Academies | was taken today when Senator Walsh, | Democrat, of Massachusetts introduced | & bill under which Washington would | get 12 instead of 4 at Annapolis | Later today or tomorrow Senator | Reynolds, Democrat, of North Carolina will offer a companion measure to in- | crease the total quota at West Point | from five to nine. If enacted, these two bills would place the Capital on a parity with | States that have two Senators and one Representative. | | | | | Provisions of Existing Law. Existing law entitles each member | of Congress to an authorized maximum | of five places at Annapolis and three at West Point. The present policy of | Congress, however, is to make appro- | priations for only four naval appoint- | | ments for each congressman, or a | total of 12 from a State having two }Senamrs and one Represeentative. Therefore, while the Walsh bill changes the substantive law applying | to the District from 5 to 15, it was explained that, under the present ap- propriation policy, the actual effect of | the bill will be to raise the number at | Annapolis from 4 to 12 { At West Point the District is getting | |all the five appointments authorized by law, and an increase to nine is | sufficient to put the city on an equal basis with congressional allotments from the smaller States. Approved By Committee. The Military Affairs Committee al- ready has approved the increases, and | is expected to report the Reynolds bill | without delay. It also favored (he; Annapolis increase, but the Naval| Affairs Committee, presided over by Walsh, will have to pass on that meas- ure as a matter of jurisdiction. If Congress ever decides to give each | member of Congress the full quota of five instead of four at Annapolis, the | Walsh bill will enable the District to | receive 15 instead of 12. CHEVY CHASE WOMAN | HURT IN GAS BLAST | Mrs. Courts D. Rea, Wife of Re- settlement Aide, in Critical Condi- tion—Note Reported Found. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star CHEVY CHASE, Md., March 22— Mrs. Courts D. Rea, 30, wife of a Re- settlement Administration official, was | critically injured by an explosion of a gas range in the Kkitchen of her home, 4515 Ridge street shortly before noon today. The force of the explosion blew the door between the kitchen and the din- ing room off its hinges, broke several windows and blew the frame of a kitchen window into the yard next door. Paul Oldfield, member of the Be- thesda Volunteer Fire Department, entered a kitchen window when he found the rear door locked and brought Mrs. Rea outside. She was lying on three chairs which had been placed in front of the oven door of the stove. Her hair and face were burned and the oven door cut a gash in her fore- head. Officer Leo Day of the Montgomery County police said that several burners of the stove were open and that he found a three-line note in the kitchen, but he declined to reveal the note's contents. The fire department was notified by Mrs. Richard Cunningham who lives across the street from the Rea home. Mrs. Rea was treated at her home by a private physician. Twenty-six animals native to the United States were the first to occupy the pens which Dr. William M. Mann is setting up at his base camp in Sumatra for the collection of exotic specimens for the local Zoo. The National Geographic Society announced today that Dr. Mann, di- rector of the Zoo here, had cabled the safe arrival of the bears, jaguars, mountain lions, alligators and rac- coons which were sent to him from ‘Washington. The expedition leader will give the American animals to zoos in the Far East. These animals are as rare in the East Indies as Far Eastern speci- mens are here. The animals arrived in good condi- tion after a 40-day voyage eastward Anna Beall Norment; $3,000 to Mrs. Mary Ward Lewis, $1,000 to the So- ciety of Oldest Inhabitants of Wash- ington and $1,000 to the dety of Natives of the District of Colufnbia. around the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip of Africa. They were under the care of Malcolm Davis and Roy Jennier, Zoo keepers. Davis and Jennier left he#e in Feb- 26 U. S. Animals Arrive Safely At Dr. Mann’s Camp in Sumatra ruary with their charges and sailed from New York aboard a Dutch freighter. Dr. and Mrs. Mann and Dr. Maynard Owen Williams, the so- ciety’s photographer and staff repre- sentative, left earlier and proceded to Sumatra by the western route, arriv- ing a month ago to visit neighboring islands and to set up the base camp near Medan, Sumatra. The expedition will remain in the field for at least four months yet, col- lecting animals which will be dis- played in the elaborate new buildings now nearing completion at the Zoo. The enterprise is jointly sponsored by the society and the Smithsonian Institution. The expedition will return by the European route. Other American specimens which Dr. Mann will distribute in the East Indies are 'possums and hellbenders, & strange salamander pative to Alle- gheny Mountain streams. ny Stap 1937. | employer said. FHR¥ Society and General PAGE B—1 Flood Levees Near Completion General view of the Anacostia dike, looking toward the Naval Air Station. levee to the left. The road to the station is at the foot of the In the lower picture are W. J. Yarnoff. assistant engineer, United States Army Engineer Office (left), and Lieut. B. W. Fink, public works officer at the Anacostia station, in joint charge of the work, standing on top of the partly completed levee —Star Staff Photos. Nursemaid, 16, Seriously Hurt Act Laid to Baseless Fear of Being Sent Home. A 16-year-old English nursemaid today fought to recover from injuries received in a 35-foot plunge from Al- ban Towers yesterday—the result, her of brooding over a baseless fear of being sent back to her native land. The girl, Rose Bridger, is in Emer- gency Hospital in a serious condition, although she showed improvement last night after being given a pint of blood by her employer, Jean C. Baube, Washington correspondent of Havas French news agency. Smarting under a jesting reprimand, the girl waited until Mr. and Mrs Baube left their apartment to visit friends before she attempted to end her life. Climbs to Windowsill. After tucking the Baubes' 18-month- old son and 3-year-old daughter in their cribs, she climbed to the window- sill of the third-floor suite and leaped to a concrete driveway while a group of children watched from below. The girl apparently had considered stabbing herself or slashing her wrists, because she was holding & butcher knife as she stood in the window. The cries of the children who saw | an effort to save the life of the young | her—Brennan Hatley, 13, and William Walker, 14—failed to dissuade her from jumping. Dr. Joseph S. Laughran, pastor of Cleveland Park Community Church, who was eating lunch in the Alban Towers dining room when the inci- dent occurred, accompanied the girl to the hospital and offered to submit to a transfusion. His blood did not match, however. Hurries t> Hospital. Baube, learning what had hap- pened when he and his wife returned home several hours later, hurried to - In 35-Foot Leap From Window ROSE BRIDGES, Shown with Ian Baube, 21 months old, one of the two children for whom she is ‘; nursemaid. | the hospital and gave his blood in nursemaid The girl received a broken arm | and leg and may be injured internally, according to hospital attaches Rose was brought here last year from England, where her nearest rela- tive is an aunt, Baube said. writer said, Rose had been scolded mildly for something she had done seriously a jocose remark about send- ing her home. Ironically enough, Baube said he must return to Europe in a few months anyhow. CHARITIES NAMED IN ARMSTRONG WILL Three Kentucky Institutions Re- ceive Bulk of $200,000 Estate. Disposing of an estate valued at slightly more than $200,000, the will of Mrs. Lyda S. Armstrong, who died here January 24, was filed for probate in District Court today. Three Ken- tucky charities teceived the bulk of the estate. In a will dated March 7, 1935, Mrs. Armstrong provided for the following cash bequests: $1,000 to a niece, Frances A. Jones, Auburn, Ala.; $1,000 to another niece, Mary Armstrong of Auburn; $1,000 to Mary Flowers, Montgomery, Ala.; $10,000 to a cousin, Margaret D. Golterman, St. Louis; $1,000 to Mrs. Anna D. Woods of the Brighton Hotel here; $3,000 to Annie B. Davis, a nurse; $1,000 to the Wash- ington Club; $500 to Mrs. Mary G. MacCurdy of Washington; $500 to Mrs. Helen R. Thierolf of Philadelphia, and $5,000 to the Norton Memorial Infirmary, Louisville, Ky, Mrs. Armstrong directed her execu- tor, the American Security & Trust Co,, to divide the residue of her estate equally among the Children’s Free Hospital of Louisville; the Morton Home for the Aged, Louisville, and the Bishop and trustees of the diocese of Lexington for the benefit of a moun- tain school they conduct. - Poetry Clinic to Meet. The Poetry Clinic sponsored by the District Federation of Women’s Clubs will meet from 4 to 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Hotel Roosevelt. Mrs. Inez Shel- don Tyler, poetry ghairman, will con- duct the clinic. POSTPONE HEARINGS IN GAMBLING CASES | Commissioner Continues Sessions for Six for Two Weeks. Six of seven men seized in simul- taneous raids on alleged gambling places Saturday afternoon were ar- rajgned today before United States | Commissioner Needham C. Turnage, who continued the cases for two weeks. The six were Robert H. Miller, Ely Friedman, Frank Joseph Meletti, George Shettel, jr.; Max Brody, charged with conspiracy to violate the gambling laws, and Harry W. Wood, charged with setting up a gaming table. Bonds of $1,000, under which the men were at liberty, were contin- ued in each case. Meanwhile, the United States at- torney’s office nolle prossed a charge of conspiracy lodged by police against John V. Laforte, the seventh man arrested in the raids. Commissioner Turnage also contin- ued for two weeks cases against a number of additional defendants taken in gambling raids during the last month. The commissioner’s pol- icy is to continue the cases to permit raiding officers and the United States attorney's office to present the cases to the grand jury. More than 30 places have been raided during the last two weeks by specially-organized squads striking simultaneously at various suspected places throughout the city. Many raided places have opened for business a day after the #ids. Before the Baubes went out, the | wrong, and she evidently had taken | NAVY IR STATION LEVEES ARE RISING AS PACE QUICKENS 600 Truckloads of Earth a Day Dumped on 3-Mile Front. PROGRAM’S COMPLETION IS EXPECTED BY JUNE 30 Flood-Gates in Front of Hangars to Allow Planes to Be Moved Into River. An earth levee system similar to the one along the Mississippi River is | taking shape at the rate of 600 truck- |loads of earth a day along a three- mile river front around the Anacostia Naval Air Station and old Bolling Field. The $225.000 levee prog taken last October, is expected to be | completed by June 30, it was e | plained today by Lieut. B. W. | Navy public works officer at th costia station. Permanent protection against Potomac River floods, which | have caused damage runr up to m, under- | nearly $50,000 during a single flood, | is expected The levee is being raised to a level of 17 feet above mean low water, Lieut. Fink said. This will be about 3 feet higher than the record flood of March 19-22, 1936, which rose 6 feet into buildings of the Naval Air | Station and reached a depth of more | than 10 feet on parts of the landing field Built by W. P. A. Employes. The levee system is being constructed by Works Progress Administration | employes under supervision of Army and Navy enginee The proje volves the placing of 182,000 yards of earth in the levees; construc tion of water-tig of the air stat house and reconstru the field drainage system The levee is to have a thickness of 30 feet at the top, the base aver- aging about 70 feet through The most interesting feature of the system will be the flood gates in front of the hangars. Water-tight sections will be stored at each side of the gap in the dike, through which seaplanes and flying boats are moved from the hangar into the river. These tions may be put into place q to provide protection against any from an unusually high tide flood of all-time record proportions an| of of part Valves Are Provided. The field drainage system provides for flow under the levees into the | river during times of low water. In case of flood, values are provided on | all drainage outlets to prevent water from backing up into the field Pumps and electric pumping equip- ment are being installed to clear the field of rain water or seepage during times of flood, The levees extend from the ground at Giesboro Point up: along the Potomac and along the of Eastern Branch to the District Nursery and Anacostia Park. across the river from the Navy Yard. The levee line then turns sharply inland to high ground near Howard road The Army participation in the proj- ect is under direction of W. J. Yarnoff, assistant engineer in the United States Engineer Office for the local district. EX-WIFE GETS $25,000 IN ALIENATION SUIT | Large Verdict Returned After | D.cC. Woman's Case Goes by Default. A District Court jury today awarded Mrs. Rose Russo $25.000 damages for alleged alienation of her husband's affections by his present wife, Mrs. Vita Russo, 1530 Gale street The unusually large verdict was re- turned after the case went by default several days ago. The first Mrs. Russo, who lives at 1913 Thirty-fifth place, told the court she married John Russo October 10, 1917, in New York City and that they lived together for 18 years. She charged that Mrs. Vita Russo alienated her husband’s affections so that he and his first wife were sepa- rated in June, 1935. Mrs. Rose Russo sued and obtained a divorce and then brought the .present action for dam- ages. |Banquet Manager Protects Justice From Coffee Bath Helps Waiter Carrying | Beverage Near Van De- |vanter Regain Balance. A banquet manager's quick work in helping a waiter, carrying a big coffee pot, recover his equilibrium saved Supreme Court Justice Willis Van Devanter from possible scalding Saturday night during the Wyoming State Society's feast at the Raleigh Hotel. Cowboy costumes and 10-gallon hats adorned a number of dignitaries and shots from blank cartridges filled the air as a dinner of Wyoming elk, slaughtered especially for the occa- sion, was being served. In one corner was a covered wagon, reminiscent of pioneer days. Justice Van Devanter, seated at the head table, was watching the goings- on when a waiter approached from behind, pouring coffee into each cup. Apparently, the waiter lost his footing as a Wyoming cowboy dashed by and the coffee pot moved toward the jus- tice’s head. Ernest J. McCarthy, the banquet manager, rose to the occasion, reach- ing the walter just in time. Fortu- nately, the pot's spout was turned upward and none of its contents spilled. Only a few persons at the speakers’ table witnessed the incident. Justice Van Devanter is one of Wyoming's piceer citisens.