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1 ■ .....t- Washington News ! ■ . PURCHASE OF SITE ! IS COMPLICATED BY SUBSURFACE WORK Government Studies Question of Whether It Should Pay for Cables. FURTHER DATA ASKED BY M’CARL IN STUDY Acquisition of Potomac Electric Co. Property Would Require Loca tion of New Stations. * The Government’s efforts to pur chase the square of ground at Four teenth and B streets, occupied by the Potomac Electric Power Co., for use as a new home for the Department of Labor, have been highly complicated by the question of whether the Govern ment should pay for underground con struction of cables and conduits, ,t was disclosed today. As a result, pur chase of the site is held up. The Treasury Department, explaining, to Controller General McCarl that ne gotiations were under way, asked if the same principles should be consid ered in a purchase as in a condemna tion proceeding, especially regarding the value of the conduit and cables. McCarl Asks Further Data. The question was left undecided by Mr. McCarl, who asked for further data 1 which will be submitted by the Treas- j ury Department in another letter j shortly. McCarl’s conclusion in the matter. | thus far, which Treasury Department j officials said would require another sub- t mission by them, said: "No reason is: apparent why in negotiating purchases , of property pursuant to the applicable 1 law, the same element may not be given consideration that would be proper for consideration in connection with con demnation proceedings, but in your sub mission there has not been given suf ficient facts to permit a determination of what element in the particular matter may be proper for considera tion.” The Treasury Department explained to McCarl that Congress had author ized $25,000,000 and appropriated of this amount $12,000,000 to buy land j in the triangle bounded by Pennsyl vania avenue, B street. Third and Fif teenth streets. The square on which the Potomac Power Co. is located is bounded by Thirteen-and-a-Half, Fourteenth, B and C streets in the Federal triangle. •'Some preliminary negotiations have been had with the power company,” said the Treasury letter signed by Secretary Mellon, "for the acquisition of the square and property located thereon, and there enters into the negotiations a factor which, in equity to the power company should be con sidered in the purchase price to be for the property, but as to which doubt exists as to' whether the present au thnrization is sufficient permit of con sideration. •‘When the Government causes the vacation bv the power company of square 259 the Potomac Electric Power Co. will be required to establish in other parts of the city at least two sub stations to take care of the power dis- Wibution now handled from the power i Station located on square 259. One of these substations is to be located some where in the downtown district and thp other somewhere in the northwest section, probably as far out as Florida avenue. Thus will require a complete revision of the distributing system of the power company and the abandon ment. of conduits carrying main feeders and distributing systems as now located in the triangle from such point where the main feeders are diverted to con nect with the new conduits and cables which must be laid through the city streets. Compensation Is Factor. “Should the Government condemn this property it would seem that tjiere j would necessarily enter into the case A fair recompense for the conduits and tlie cables in the streets and outside *ie lot lines of the property to be ac quired since such conduits and cables are inherently necessary and valuable of the power distributing system which radiates from the power plants. “Your consideration and decision are respectfully requested as to whether in the acquisition of the property of the Potomac Electric Co. by private purchase there may be taken into con sideration the same elements which would be considered in condemnation proceeding, namely the value of the conduits and the cables which must be abandoned incident to the removal of the power company from the tri angle.” As a further factor in the situation it was Indicated that before the whole matter may be settled the Department of Justice may be asked to consider whether the matter of underground construction will be considered formally in condemnation proceedings. According to present indications, it will be some time before legal and ac counting questions involved may be cleared and the Government acquire the site for the Government building. EXPECT EARLY SALE. Report Says Property Owners Willing to Take Assessed Valuation. Acquisition of the site for the new municipal center is expected to be ex pedited as a result of reports reaching the District Building today that some of the property owners in the four square area plan to sell at the assessed valup. While no direct offers have been* made to the committee designated by thp commissioners to acquire the land, Maj. Layson E. Atkins, assistant engi neer commissioner, and its chairman, said he had heard the rumors and ex pected to open negotiations with those property owners who are willing to sell at assessed value. “There is no doubt that some of the property owners In the area are anxious to sell and get out as soon as possible and re-establish their business in other locations,” said Maj. Atkins: “It is these property owners, I believe, who will sell at the assessed value.” The committee’s first negotiations, Mai. Atkins indicated, will be with the property owners who are willing to sell at the valuation figure of Tax Assessor William P. Richards who, with Cor poration Counsel William W. Bride, constitute the other members of the purchasing committee. The square which District officials are particularly anxious to acquire early is bounded by Sixth street on the west, C street on the south, John Marshall place on the east and Louisiana avenue on the north. The courts building, the initial project in t.he development, is to I se located in this square. STATUARY HALL AS JUNK SHOP j FORESEEN BY NOTED SCULPTOR F. W. Ruckstull Says Work ‘‘Might as Well Be Placed in Cellar.” Statue of Gen. Hampton, South Carolinian, Unveiled in “Chamber of Horrors.” Its d ! m confines' cluttered with im properly displayed works of art, Amer icas famous Statuary Hall in the Cap itol seems doomed to descend to the level of a “junk shop," in the opinion of F. W. Ruckstull, noted sculptor, whose statue of Gen. Wade Hampton was added today to the hall's collec tion. “It is like placing the work in a cel lar,” Mr. Ruckstull commented as the imposing statue of the distinguished South Carolinian was unveiled in what other critics have termed the Capitol's “Chamber of Horrors.” Mr. Ruckstull says the statue of Gen. Hampton had “life” and all that goes to make a good statue when he com pleted it in his studio in New York City. Today he sadly saw it lose most of that in Statuary Hall when the veil was lifted from it by a delegation of South Carolina notables, among them Gov. John J. Richards of South Caro lina. “It's as though.” the sculptor said. “I had been requested by a fellow sculptor I might have known for 50 years to make a statue for him and upon visit ing him a year later to have found he had set it up in his cellar.” Urges Showing for Works. Mr. Ruckstull has been advocating the remodeling of Statuary Hall for many years to give the good works he says are on display there something of a showing. It isn’t the statues, he declared, that have brought the ap pellation of “Chamber of Horrors” to Statuary Hall; it is the lighting and i the general condition of the hall as j it stands now. The sculptor advocates changing | Statuary Hall so that there will be 48 small alcoves, about 20 feet square and properly lighted, where each State i could have its two representatives shown ! under ideal conditions and where small busts and pictures might be placed. "Most of those statues,” he said, “are good ones. There are only 3 or 4 of the 58 there now I would say are really bad. The great majority of them are good and there are half a dozen masterpieces in these, but you’d never know it. “The States are not to blame. In THREE MEN FACING CONTEMPT CHARGE Realty Dealer and Assistants Accused of Misrepresenta tion in Property Sale. John B. Showalter, trading as the Showaltor Realty Co., and Alexander O. Campbell and Luther A. Bennett, salesmen in his employ, were cited in | contempt of court today by Chief Jus- : tice McCoy on a charge of obstructing justice made by United States Attorney Leo A. Rover and Assistant United States Attorney Neil Burkinshaw. The men are directed to show cause Thurs day, July 18. why they should not be adjudged guilty of criminal contempt. The petition charges that the re spondents while serving as real estate agents In behalf of Sarah Bennett, executrix of the estate of John H. Burke, deliberately suppressed an offer of $6,000 for premises 1129 G street northeast, procured a sale by the court to Campbell, one of the respondents, at a price of $3,400, and later conveyed the property through Campbell for $6,000. Claimant Files Charges, It is stated in the petition that the respondents, or some of them, repre sented to the executrix and her attor ney that $3,400 was a fair and reason able price for the property and pro cured affidavits to that effect, which were filed with the court. The petition recites that the executrix, her attor ney and the court were kept in igno rance of the negotiations leading to the off of $6,000 for the property. The contract for the sale at $6,000, it is said, was signed January 30, several weeks before the court was persuaded to approve the sale at $3,400. Disclosure Made by Guardian. The alleged transaction was disclosed to the court by Attorney Charles H. Houston, who had been named by the court as guardian ad litem for the in fant children interested in the estate. As the Probate Court has no authority to punish for criminal contempt, Jus tice Bailey, then presiding in that court, referred the matter to the United States attorney for action. HUNGARY RATIFIES PACTS. Arbitration and Anti-War Treaties Given Approval. The American legation at Budapest has informed the State Department that the Hungarian government has | ratified the treaties of arbitration and eonciliation between the United State* and Hungary and the general pact for the renunciation of war. Mrs. Bliss Petitions Court to Nullify Divorce; Asks Support From Husband Mrs. Ruth Clarke Bliss. 1819 M street, today asked the District Su preme Court to nullify a divorce de cree given to her at Reno and to re quire her former husband, Arthur Lorraine Bliss, now residing in Flor ida, to contribute to her support. She says she went to Reno while under the domination of her husband and only nine days after being released from a hospital following a surgical operation and filed her complaint through a lawyer, with whom ar rangements had been made by her husband and whose fees were later paid by her with funds, furnished by the husband for that specific purpose. Mrs. Bliss tells the court that she was married February 7, 1920. and lived with her husband until May 7, 1920. She declares she was in igno rance of the extent of her husband’s finances and at his request, after be ing told by him that he wanted a di vorce, she signed a paper which waived her dower and marital rights, but which, she claims, was not read W )t %\mxim Sfaf. V*/ V / WITH SUKDAI MONNINO EDITION F. XV. RUCKSTULL. —Star Staff Photo. 1864 they were invited by Congress to send two statues each of their most famous sons to be placed In Statuary Hall. Later this invitation was brought forcibly to the attention of the States by President Lincoln, but it was not until 19 years later that the first statue was placed in the hall.” Mr. Ruckstull believes that when the full quota of the States' statuary adorns the hall it will look like a junk em porium. He doesn’t know how much it will cost the Government to give these statues the proper display, but says that. *100,000,000 would not be too much.” Sees Interest in Art Here. Mr. Ruckstull is 76 years old, and looks 20 years younger. He says he : foresees a great era coming in this country when the appreciation of art ! will reach the place it really should occupy. All through history, when great na tions have become prosperous, they have found the leisure and means to indulge their tastes in art, he declares, and in the next 50 years he looks for a great awakening to the beauties of the world in the United States. Besides the statue of Gen. Hampton unveiled this morning. Mr. Ruckstull is the sculptor of John C. Calhoun of South Carolina and of U. M. Rose of Arkansas in Statuary Hall. He is also the sculptor of “Solon,” an heroic bronze, at the Library of Congress and of the colossal granite heads of Frank lin Goethe and Macaulay on the facade of the Congressional Library. Mr. Ruckstall will leave this evening for New York. He is a guests at the Grace Dodge Hotel. RESCUES OWN SON FROM DEEPWATER Policeman on Outing Saves Boy, 12, From Death in Rock Creek. Although he was nearly drowned In (he effort, Sergt. O. R. Reese of the U. S. Park Police yesterday rescued his 12-year-old son. Lester after the : youngster had waded into deep water i at the point where Broad Branch emp ties into Rock Creek, It became known today when he made his formal report on the affair. Motorists, summoned by Mrs. Reese, assisted Sergt. Reese and the boy from the water. One of the rescuers said his brother was drowned in the same place two years ago. Their names were not taken. Sergt. Reese Aaid that water pouring over % dam from Broad Branch into Rock Creek has formed a hole 8 feet deep, which he regards dangerous to children. He recommended that the hole be filled or warning signs posted. Sergt. Reese had driven with his family to the park yesterday, and had permitted the children to wade in the water. Suddenly his wife called to him that the boy was drowning. Running 200 yards to the juncture of the two streams, he dived in. After considerable difficulty with the strug gling boy he swam to shore and was pulled from the water by men his wife had notified. ATTORNEY SUES TURKEY FOR UNCOLLECTED FEES Vahan Cardashian, a New York law yer, filed suit In the District of Colum bia Supreme Court yesterday against the government of the Republic of Turkey to recover $20,000 said to be due him for legal services rendered from 1909 to 1914. The lawer says by reason of the World War ? e was unable to collect his bill owing to the action of the Turkish government in abolishing its mixed courts. He presented his claim May 17 last to the Turkish Ambassador at Washing ton and, he says, was requested by him to file claim through the American De partment of State. At the State Depart ment, he says, he was informed that it is the universal practice of the depart ment not to espouse a diplomatic claim based on a contract between an Amer ican citizen and a foreign government unless in an appropriate case the claim ant has exhausted his legal remedies in ihe contracting state with the resulting denial of justice. As he may not sue in the Turkish courts, the lawyer seeks to have a judgment rendered in his favor by the local tribunal. Attorney Weston Ver non, jr„ appears for the plaintiff. to her. She has since learned that her husband owned property worth more than $250,000 which he had in herited from the estate of his father. The real estate involved has been transferred, she states, to a corporation known as the “Bliss Properties” and that her former husband owns $225,000 of the shares of the corporation and is in receipt of an income of $25,000 an nually. The petitioner tells the court through Attorneys Julius I. Peyser and Milton Strasburger that in the latter part of April, 1920, she underwent an opera -1 tion and was in a nervous and weak ' ened condition when she returned to . her husband’s home when she was in ' formed of his wish to be divorced. He I told her, she says, that he had made , all arrangements and that she should ■ go to Reno for the purpose. Since the i signing of the divorce decree January ■ 5, 1921, she says her husband has not > contributed to her support. Bhe now i asks that her marital rights be restored . and that his property be sequestrated l for her support and maintenance. WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1929. * NEW LIGHTS HERE FOR INSTALLATION AT BUSY CORNERS Traffic Heads Plan Soon to Put New Signals in Place. PROGRAM’S COMPLETION IS NEAR REALIZATION City Counsel Approves Cruising Taxicab Ban for F Street. 1 The traffic light installation program which has been delayed for several months by the lack of poles on which to attach the signals will be resumed with in a few days it was announced today by Traffic Director William H. Harland. The 125 poles needed to complete the program have arrived, and orders have been given to proceed with the iastal lation on K street from Washington Circle to Fifteenth street northeast. This Is the largest project in the in completed prograjp. The other projects to be undertaken 1 after the K street network are the long planned installations on Maryland ave nue northeast from Second to Fifteenth street. Eighteenth street from H street to Massachusetts avenue and around i Thomas and lowa circles. Others Planned. In addition to these Mr. Harland has planned to install independently op erated lights at the Intersections of Georgia and New Hampshire avenues and at Connecticut avenue and Albe marle street. An independent signal at Georgia and New Hampshire avenues. Mr. Harland said, will relieve an acute traffic situa tion, which exists at this intersection. The signal at Connecticut avenue and Albemarle street he said has been , urgently requested since an accident , | near this point several weeks ago in : j which a child was killed, j Although the lights along K street will be connected to operate on the progressive system like other network | installations. Mr. Harland intends to | h »ve the signal at Fourteenth and K streets controlled independently, so when traffic congests at this busy inter | section, a policeman can operate the I light. Protection Needed. Special attention will oe given the installations around lowa and Thomas Circles in order to afford greater pro tection for pedestrians These signals will be operated somewhat similar to j the lights around Dupont Circle, where j pedestrians are given a path clear of I all moving traffic at certain periods. Announcement also was made at the J Traffic Bureau that the corporation counsel’s office had approved the legal construction of a proposed amendment to the traffic code to prevent taxicabs from •■cruising’’ on F street between Ninth and Fifteenth streets from 8 am. Ito 12 midnight. The amendment was ; drawn by Inspector E. W. Brown, in charge of the Traffic Bureau, and will | be forwarded to the Commissioners this ; week with a recommendation for its I adoption. | The proposal wohld make it a viola | tion of the traffic regulations for a i taxicab to enter F street without a i “fare” unless called. Inspector Brown | believes the adoption of this measure | will greatly alleviate congestion. WELFARE OFFICIAL DENIES “WASTE” Kirby Answer* Efficiency Bnrean. Says Move Taken to Save Freight Cost. Paul L. Kirby, as assistant director of public welfare, said today that he did not think the board had shown "poor business judgment” as charged by the Bureau of Efficiency in ordering a ship ment of surgical supplies, destined for seven District institutions, sent to one point for redistribution. The action was taken advisedly, ac cording to Mr. Kirby, to save freight charges. By having the shipment sent in one lot it was sent as a carload, and by that means a cheaper rate was ob tained than could have been for seven separate shipments. Besides freight charges, a saving was made by not hav ing the goods crated separately, Mr. Kirby said. The bureau charged that the District was put to labor expense in having the materials sorted out after they arrived, but Mr. Kirby said the work was being done by prisoners under supervision of the physicians at Lorton, and that no expense is incurred. Even assuming that the charges of the bureau are correct, he said, the dif ference in money involved would have been slight. Speaking of the bureau’s recom mendation that a business manager be appointed for the board, Mr. Kirby pointed out that there is a business manager for the penal institutions, which Is the only place where such a position is needed, and that the busi ness manager had approved the ship ment to a central point. Mr. Kirby said that the board had not expected the shipment to be so difficult to redistribute as it had proved, but that an additional business man ager probably would not have foreseen that difficulty either. The work of re distribution of the supplies has been under way for a week, he said, and substantial progress has been made in getting them where they are needed. HORSESHOETOURNEY EQUIPMENT OFFERED Winfree Johnson, supervisor of ath letics of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, in addressing the Burroughs Citizen Association last night on Community Center development, of fered such equipment as may be neces sary for residents of the Burroughs community to participate in The Even ing Star Horseshoe Tournament. Ray mond Lee Gilbert, chairman of the committee on parks and playgrounds, i wiU have charge of this equipment. Tne association went on record favor ! ing an appropriation for the construc i tion of a new Junior high school on the 1 site purchased for that purpose at i Eighteenth and Perry streets northeast. The action of the Board of Education ; in transferring the seventh and eighth ' grades from the John Burroughs School l to help fill up the new Langdon School, i or to the Langley Junior High, was condemned in a resolution adopted.- SMALL SIZE CURRENCY MAKES ITS APPEARANCE HERE i- ; i'Mtkim ’ll ®jg 8 jm | \v y/ : ga ... j'. SIIwrIP-* ■r# ■'/' ; ■L Jm [ispl if/SBB/L / 'WMfc ’ * ■ NEW GROUP GOES |IO CAMP GOOD WILL 160 Mothers and Children to Spend Two Weeks at Rock Creek Park. A second party of 160 mothers and children left their homes today for a two-week vacation at Camp Good Will in Rock Creek Park, financed by the Community Chest. Early this morning a large number of children assembled at the Hyde Schools for medical examinations, upon passing of which their admittance to the camp was predicated. In motor busses and private cars the 160 were driven to the ramp, which had ; been thoroughly cleaned in anticipa tion of their arrival. Miss Rachel Havi land is in charge. Kiwanians Furnish Autos. The first group, which completed its stay at the camp yesterday, was re turned in private cars furnished by members of the Kiwanis Club. Cars for this purpose were donated by the following members of the club under direction of William Bailey: Vaughn Darby. Harry Hahn. Steven Talks. Edward Morris. George Winslow', Charles Guest. William Freeman. Leroy King. John Harding. William Schmuder. George Shaeffer, Edward Wallace and several others. Volunteer helpers at Greenleaf School , were Mrs. George S. Fraser, Miss Helen B. Mcßride, Mrs. Herbert J. Taylor, Miss Louise Allman, Mrs. W. S. Davis, Mrs. Raleigh Taylor, Miss Kelsie Mar , tin and George Sprague. The doctors examining were Dr. J. S. Arnold, Dr. , J. S. Heitmuller, Dr. J. S. Stanford. . The volunteers helping with ine party , at the Hyde School were Rev. Bland , Tucker, chairman of the first district conference: Mrs. A. Darcey, Mrs. C. ’ Darcey, Mrs. B. Riley. Miss Bertha ; Looker, Miss R. F. Whitehead. Miss , Carry Naylor. Miss Elizabeth Naylor, Miss Cora McCarthy. Mrs. John lhlder I and Mrs. Charles Wagner. ' Physicians Give Services. The physicians giving service for this party were Dr. Joseph A. Murphy. Dr. R. L. DeSaussure, Dr. Margaret Dußois ' and Dr. Thomas Linville. They were aided by these trained nurses: Miss Eulah B. Flynn, Miss Inez Sager and Miss Mary E. Jordan. The transportation of the Hyde School party was provided by the Capital Traction bus donated by Edward Pardoe. three cars by Harmon Pardoe, the Rotary bus and Kiwanis cars given I by Harold Marsh. Pinkney Harmon, C. D. Blackstone, James B. Evans and M. O. Chance. A party of 151 mothers and children was taken to Camp Pleasant, at Blue ; Plains, D. C., yesterday to replace the * first group, which had completed its ; stay. i AUSTRALIAN WHEAT MEN TO VOTE ON POOL By the Associated press. SYDNEY, New South' Wales, July ■ io.—A recommendation that a ballot i be taken among the w'heat growers of ; Australia on the question of establishing . a wheat pool was accepted by the cabi i net today. i It Is understood that banks are willing l to guarantee a certain amount in event , of the formation of the pool. The gov s ernment share of the guarantee will be discussed latex.- > • Hamilton-Biirr Duel Brought to Memory By New $lO Bills i Those new smaller $lO bills, out today with other denomina tions. are starting in circulation cu the tragedy, i They bear the picture of Alex ander Hamilton. One hundred and twenty-five years ago today Hamilton wrote a farewell note to his wife. The next day he was wounded fatally in a duel with Aaron Burr. ANACOSTIA BUS LINE | PROBE IS ORDERED Formal Move of Commission Clears Way for Trial of Altman Case. I The Public Utilities Commission to -1 day formally ordered an Investigation ! into conditions on bus lines east of , the Anacostia River. As a matter of fact the investigation has been under | way for some days, members of the commission having made a personal 1 investigation of the routes last week. 1 The order was entered, however, to > enable trial of an existing case re > lating to the bus line to Bradbury ; Heights, D. C., operated by L. L. Alt ’ man. Mr. Altman recently was granted an , extension of his present rates within . the District until September 30. and I when his case comes up after that date ' for final adjudication, a public hearing • probably will be held of the entire sit ; uation east of the Anacostia. Meanwhile, members of the commis ; sion’s staff w'ill check the length of the various routes, the rates charged, the transfer rules, the service given and schedules maintained, "and other mat . ters. No cost will be assessed against the companies for this work, but should | it develop that outside assistance must ! be employed for the investigation, the : cost of this will be assessed among the [ companies affected. MRS. BRANDSTATTER DIES i Funeral Services to Be Held at St. Matthew's Tomorrow. Mrs. Engelbert Brandstatter of 1309 P street, for 10 years a resident of i Washington, died at Providence Hos pital yesterday. She had been in poor I health for some months past. Born in Wurtemburg. Germany, in 1883, Mrs. Brandstatter came to this country 20 years ago. She was a trained nurse for many years. Mrs. Brandstatter is survived by her husband and. a daughter, Helen M. Brandstatter. Funeral services will be held from St. Matthew’s Catholic Church, at 9 o'clock r tomorrow morning. Interment will be : in St. Mary’s Cemetery. Dog Hospital Erected. PARIS 14*).—A dog hospital with a : capacity of 80 patients has been con : structed at a cost of $140,000 in Alfort, ■ a suburb. The institution has the ! usual operating and laboratory rooms and also a park for convalescents. Society and General ! I’pper: Runners from the Second Na tional Bank leaving the Treasury this morning with their first consignment of the “little money.” Lower: Robert V. Fleming, president of Kiggs Bank, with his secretary, Mrs. B. B. Shropshire, inspects the new legal tender. —Star Staff Photo. NEW BILLS NESTLE IN CAPITAL POCKETS “Little Money” Appears, With “Curiosity Demand” Be low Expectations. New. small size currency made its ap pearance in Washington today in com mon with the rest of the country, but j the “curiosity demand” here was far i short of expectations, although bank 1 messengers crowded the cashroom of the Treasury at 8:30 o'clock in order | that depositors throughout the city | might have a glance at the new money. About $2,000,000 of the currency w'as : available here. j The cashier of one downtown bank | arrived at his office 15 minutes earlier j than usual today in anticipation of an | imagined line of depositors and was sur | prised to find that the new currency ap j parently was being taken for granted, j As a matter of fact, his bank s de positors were taking it any way they could get it. Hulbert in Charge of Distribution. At the Treasury Department the dis tribution was in charge of H. H. Hul bert, cashier of the Treasury, and James N. Kline, assistant cashier. Bank mes sengers were supplied with amounts previously requested by their banks and the cash room was open to the public, with individuals limited to S2O in $1 bills and larger bills “within reason." While it will be three or four months before the new currency supplants the old. the consensus of bankers today w'as that they would be able to meet the demands of depositors. Little confusion was reported and It was the opinion of bank officers that the public would Rccept the change in currency—the first undertaken by the Government since 1861—with apparent > unconcern. The amount of new money that went into circulation today depended largely , on the number of worn-out bills re ceived by the banks. Treasury officials estimated that $50,000,000 or more of I that immediately available will dnap i pear to be held as souvenirs. They do I not anticipate a shortage of currency, however, because only bills of small de nominations, from $1 to S2O, were in cluded in Ihe first, issue. I The new bills are one-third smaller than the old, measuring 6 5-16 inches long and 2 11-16 inches wide. It prob ably will be difficult for the man in the street to realize that he isn’t getting any more for the new' bill, because the imagination w'ill insist that quite a quantity of goods can be had for so small a piece of money. The shades of Alexander Hamilton [ may be smiling in gratification, for the , great exponent of a firmly centralized Government is the symbol for the new • ten-dollar bill and on its back is em ■ bellished the United States Treasury, , while Jefferson, Hamilton's fellow cabinet member and arch-antagonist in 1 the theories of government, adorns the new two-dollar bill and is backed up i by an embellishment of his home at • Monticello. On the other hand, chances r are that more people will get their . hands on Jefferson than on Hamilton, $lO being $lO, regardless of the size of , the bill. i The first issue of the new currency l included United States notes, silver » certificates, gold certificates and Fed r eral Reserve notes. National bank ! notes will not be put in circulation until next w'cek. The bills available today were: ■ Denomination. Face portrait. • $1 Washington 1 $2 Jefferson $5 Lincoln ; $lO Hamilton S2O Jackson ; SSO Grant SALE OF BUILDING • SET FOR AUGUST 15 The Washington Building. 10-story stone office structure fronting on Fif i teenth street. New York avenue and G ’ street, opposite the Treasury Building, which has been the subject of a long series of legal actions involving many litigants, will be sold at auction to the highest bidder August 15, it was an ; nounced today by Harold E. Doyle and ; Andrew B. Duvall, trustees. The property will be sold free and ■ clear of all liens, encumbrances and . leases, including existing trusts on the property, it is stated. The property will be knocked down to the highest bidder : by an official of the firm of Thomas J. i Owen & Son, auctioneers. The sale will be conducted on the first floor of the building, east of the main lobby. Advertisements of the forthcoming auction sale have been published in , Boston, Philadelphia and other cities as • well as in Washington. , The building occupies approximately ’ 22.358 square feet of ground space, s Under the forms of the sale a de posit of $200,000 is required.- PAGE 15 ITWO KILLED, FOUR INJURED IN D. C. TRAFFIC MISHAPS Inmate of Maryland House of Correction Steps to Death in Front of Truck. OFFICER HURT WHEN MOTOR CYCLE SKIDS Colored Woman Succumbs to In juries Sustained on Bladens burg Road, Md., July 4. Traffic mishaps in the District and nearby Maryland late yesterday and early today took a toll of two lives and resulted in the injury of four other per sons. Among these was Motor Cycle Policeman Anthony Richitt of the fourth precinct, who fell from his machine. The dead are Andrew Page, colored, 30-year-old inmate of the Maryland House of Correction, and Ella Davis, also colored, 50 years old, of 1302 C street southeast. Page was killed instantly early todav when he stepped into the path of a five-ton truck on the Baltimore boule vard near Waterloo, Md. According to State Policeman McCarthy, he was walking along the shoulder of the road with three other prisoners on their way to work when he suddenly stepped in front of the truck, which police say was traveling at a rate of about 15 miles an hour. Driver of Truck Held. Emory Watson of Glenburnie. Md., driver of the truck, was detained pend ing an inquest. Ella Davis died at her home yester i day afternoon following injuries sus tained in an accident on Bladensburg | road. Maryland, June 4. Maryland au thorities have been notified of her death. Richitt was hurt about 9 o’clock last night as he was riding west on N 'treet southwest and attempted to make a turn into Water street. His motor cycle skidded, throwing him to the roadwav. At Emergency Hospital he was treated by Dr. C. B. White of the staff tor shock, lacerations to one shoulder and bruises to both elbows. Samuel Louis Wright. 78 years old, of 645 C street northeast, was knocked down by an automobile as he was cross ing in front of 245 Eighth street north east last evening. The driver of the car, Dominic Mulloy, 26, of 1313 Emer son street northeast, took him to Cas ualty Hospital where he was treated by Dr. H. J. Konzelman for injuries to his , head, face, elbow and left leg. Truck Driver Injured. When two trucks collided yesterday afternoon at West Virginia avenue and . K street northeast, IBernard V. Moran. 37 years old, of 419 Twelfth street southeast, the driver of one of them, was slightly injured. First aid was ad ministered at Emergency Hospital. Al ; fonso J. Eiggs. colored, of 1203 Water street southwest, who w ! as operating the other truck, was not hurt. Anderson J. Marks, 21 years old. of Capitol Heights, Md.. sustained a frac ture of his left foot and injuries to his leg yesterday afternoon when his motor cycle was in collision at Twenty-ninth street northeast. Marks was treated at Emergency Hospital by Dr. White. During the 24 hours ending at 8 o’clock this morning, 271 persons were arrested in the District for traffic violations. Os these, 69 were speeders, 2 were charged with leaving after col liding. 5 with reckless driving, 1 with driving with dazzling headlights, and the others were booked for lesser offenses. RUM CAR UPSETS, POLICE GET CARGO Machine Flanges Down Embank ment When Chased—Occu pants Escape. A speeding rum ear plunged down a 10-foot embankment, at Livingston and Giesboro roads near Anacostla early 1 today, when the driver failed to make the sharp turn while trying to escape : a policeman, and the automobile, with i its cargo of 125 quarts of corn whisky, , fell into the hands of Policeman C. O. i Rouse of No. 11 precinct, although the two occupants of the machine escaped, i Rouse was cruising in a new police . car near Good Hope road and Nichols j avenue when he sighted his quarry r and gave chase. The fugitive automobile led through Anacostia. moving swiftly. At Liv | ingston and Giesboro the driver at t tempted to turn into the Fort Wash , lngton road, apparently with the idea , of getting back into Maryland, where he is thought to have picked up his | cargo. The hard-pressed rum car, however, skidded on the curve and swung over ! the embankment. Two men in the front seat of the car leaped out and , fled into the undergrowth. Policeman . Rouse stood guard over the car until assistance came from his precinct. WALES ACTS FOR KING. LONDON. July 10 (/P).— The Prince of Wales held a private investiture in behalf of King George at St. James’ Palace today. Wearing morning dress, the prince walked from York House to St. James, where he presented insignias to 860 per sons on the list of birthday honors. Traffic Fatalities In D. C. Outnumber Those From Disease The deadly nature of modern traffic was shown by mortality figures released by the District Health Department today, which show that during the calendar year 1928 there were 120 deaths from traffic accidents in Wash ington and only 111 from the following diseases combined: Diphtheria, scarlet fever, whoop ing cough, measles, smallpox, typhoid fever and .infantile paralysis. The figures ■ given include deaths which occurred in Wash \ lngton from traffic accidents out side and, therefore, are greater than the figures published by the traffic director’s office. But the 1 figures for deaths from the dis -1 eases also Include all deaths in Washington from the respective diseases, whether the diseases were contracted here or not, and are, therefore, comparable. m