Evening star. [volume], January 18, 1929, Page 20, Image 20

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U. S. DISTRICT RENT
BILL IS $1,210,000
Increase Due to New Leases,
i Grant Estimates 1930
[ * Repairs at $84,000.
’ The Federal Government's bill for
rent in the District of Columbia Ls now
$1,210,000, representing an increase from
Just under a million dollars for last
year, due to new leases entered into
because of expanding governmental
business.
Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant. 3d, director
of the Office of Public Buildings and
Public Parks, in testimony before the
House appropriations subcommittee hav
ing in charge the independent offices
appropriation bill, which is now before
the House, explained that for the fiscal
year 1930 $84,000 will be needed for re
pairs and alterations. This will include
$30,000 for leveling the floors of the
Navy and Munitions Buildings, which
have settled; $40,000 for the installation
of boilers in the State, War and Navy
Building; SIO,OOO for emergency repairs
to temporary buildings and $4,000 for
repairs to War Department buildings.
Kent List Published.
Col. Grant inserted in the hearings
on the measure a table which showed
that the Government is paying since
July 1. 1928. these sums for rentals;
Barr Building, $28,500; Investment
Buildins. $70,004.87; Earle Building,
$65,341.50; National Press Club Build
ing. $167,750; Lemon Building, $8,400;
Otis Building, $16,000; Civil Service,
$24,592; Department of Commerce,
$65,500; Denrike Building. $17,869.50;
Hurlev-Wright Building, $75,000; Inter
state "Commerce Commission. $139,000;
Department of Justice, $100,000; Labor
Department, $68,000; National Savings
& Trust Building. $10,000; 462 Louisi
ana avenue, $11,500; Walker-Johnson
Building. $40,000; Winder Building An
nex. $2,500, and these Department of
Agriculture buildings: 220 Lin worth
place, $4,800; 215 Thirteenth street
southwest. $4,000; 221 Linworth place,
$5,400; 513-515 Fourteenth street, $14,-
000; Atlantic Building, 928 F street,
$35,000; Ohio Building. American Uni
versity, $10,000; Chemistry Building, 216
Thirteenth street southwest, $16,000;
22C Fourteenth street southwest, $24,-
000; 1358 B street southwest, $55,000;
920 F street (basement), $600; 2513 M
street, $1,000.80; 217 Twelfth street
southwest (rear), $360; 210 Eleventh
street southwest, $900; 220 Thirteenth
street southwest, $4,000; 1350 B street
southwest. $1,580; 1363 C street south
west, $9,000; 212-214 Thirteenth street
southwest. $960; 1316 B street south
west, $3,000; 1304-1306 B street south
west, $3,000; 200-202 Fourteenth street
southwest. $3,750; 215 Twelfth street
southwest (rear), SI,OBO.
Other Bents Listed.
The table then proceeds with other
rentals of the Government other than
the Department of Agriculture, as fol
low’s: Emory Building, $20,000; Mer
chants’ Transfer Garage, $12,000; Mer
chants’ Transfer Sc Storage Building,
$12,500; Terminal Storage, $3,600; Kal
orama Garage, $13,000; 240-248 Nine
teenth street, $9,000; 1810 E street,
$1,800; Twenty-sixth and E streets,
$4,500 ; 230 Nineteenth street. $5,400;
306 Ninth street, S4BO, and the Albee
Building. $7,740. . ,
Col. Grant explained that decreases
in rent were secured in the Earle Build- j
ing, in the Investment Building and in I
the Otis Building. Additional space was
secured in the Lemon Building, in the
Barr Building and some additional space
in the Earle Building and in the In
vestment Building at new low rates.
AL SMITH ELECTED
DIRECTOR OF BANK
Chairmanship Question to Be Set
tled After His Beturn From
Florida Visit.
By the Associated Pres*.
NEW YORK, January 18.—Alfred E.
Smith has been elected a director of
the County Trust Co. of New York.
James J. Riordan, president of the
trust company and friend of the for
mer governor, said the matter of the
chairmanship had not been deter
mined and w’ould not be until after the
return of Mr. Smith from a vacation
in the South.
Should Mr. Smith accept the chair
manship, he would have to devote the
greater part of his time to the affairs
of the trust company.
The County Trust Co. opened for
business on February 23, 1926, with a
capital of $1,000,000 and a surplus of
$500,000. Mr. Smith, then governor,
was its first depositor.
Directors of the company include
William F. Kenny, John J. Raskob and
M. J. Meehan, personal friends of Mr.
Smith.
Mr. Smith will leave Sunday with
Mrs. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Kenny and
Mr. and Mrs. Raskob for a month or
six-week visit to Sarasota, Miami and
Palm Beach, Fla.
HELD IN $3,000 BOND.
Accused of breaking into the resi
dence of John H. Havenner, 1800 block
of R street, and stealing three packages
of laundry valued at $25, Luther Chap
man, colored, was yesterday held under
$3,000 bond for the action of the grand
jury on charges of housebreaking.
The man was presented before Judge
Gus A. Schuldt by Policemen McNeill
and Hopkins of the third precinct, who
made the arrest.
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CANCELS BANQUET DATE.
Kappa Alpha Association Pays Re-
Ispect to Founder’* Memory.
Samuel Z. Ammen, one of the found
ers of Kappa Alpha fraternity and the
author of Its ritual, having died recently
at his home In Florida, the Kappa
Alpha Association of the District of
Columbia, will not give Its banquet on
January 19, the birthday of Gen. Robert
E. Lee.
It is the annual custom of the asso
ciation to give a banquet on the birth
day of Gen. Lee. who made possible the
founding of the order at Washington
r and Lee University, of which he was
if the president.
Weekly luncheons, however, are held
1 at the City Club on Tuesdays, to which
t all members of the order are invited.
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1 PRESSMEN ARE NEEDED. !
1 The Civil Service Commission has an-1
s nouneed that it will receive applications
■ for positions of printing pressmen j
> (cylinder) in the Government Printing j
s Office and Bureau of Engraving and
l Printing at Washington until Jan
• uary 30.
; Full information and application
: blanks may be obtained at the office of
i the commission, 1724 F street.
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| Appointed to West Point.
The President has appointed Frank
W. Moorman, 6905 Fifth street; Winton
Brown, State War and Navy Building,
and Daniel W. Smith, 1918 Calvert
I street, cadets at large to the West Point
Military Academy, subject to qualifica
tion at the entrance examinations in
March.
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THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C„ FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1929.
CATTLE-OIL BARON
IS DEAD IN TEXAS
Lee Bivins, Picturesque
Mayor of Amarillo, Held
1,000,000 Acres.
By the Associated Press.
AMARILLO, Tex., January 18—Am
arillo today mourned the loss of its first
citizen, Mayor Lee Bivins, 68, cattle and
oil baron, who owned or held under
lease for cattle grazing more than
1,000,000 acres of Texas and Mexico
land. He was reputed to be the largest
individual cattle owner in the United
States.
The cattle king died at Wichita Falls
vesterday, at about the time of the fu
neral of B. S. (Breck) Walker, Fort
Worth and Breckenridge oil millionaire,
who died the previous day.
Mr. Bivins was responsible for the
growth of Amarillo from a cattle town
to a booming oil metropolis. Two hun
dred thousand acres of his 400.000-acre
ranch here were under lease to oli com
panies. Despite his oil enterprises and
executive duties, however, he never
changed from what he always told
every one he would be until his death,
“just a Texas cowman.”
Bivins came to the Panhandle when
he was 27 years old and bought 12,000
acres of land at $1.06 an acre. "As I
sold my cattle, I bought more land,’
he said, in explaining his acquisition of
land and wealth.
He was bom in Texas, reared on a
ranch and his first investment was a
calf. He was ever ready to grubstake
a friend, even during his lean days.
When prosperity came in later life this
generosity was expressed in many phil
anthropies. His widow and two sons
survive.
Two Fathers and Sons on Paper.
DANVILLE, 111. (A*). —On the reper
torial staff of the Commercial-News
there are two fathers and their two
sons. A second son of one of the elder
men Ls a pressman on the paper.
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Landover Couple Injured in Car-
Bus Collision.
Emory W. Brown, 55, and his wife,
Mrs. Ida J. Brown. 44, of Landover,
Md., were slightly injured yesterday as
a result of a collision between their
automobile and a Richmond-Washington
motor bus at Fourteenth street and
Ohio avenue. The accident occurred
while Brown was making a left-hand
turn. He received injuries to his right
hand and his wife’s forehead was bruised
and lacerated. They were treated at
Emergency Hospital by Dr. I. Rutkoski.
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Second Day of Our Great Value-Giving Sale of
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