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_ WASHINGTON, I). 0., SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 13, 1931. * PAGE B—1
BURNED AS BLAZE
SWEEPS HOSTELRY
Victims Trapped in Rooms.
Firemen and Others Are
Injured.
VETERAN RISKS LIFE
TO RESCUE WOMAN
foal Fire Escape and Carries Un- j
identified Female to Street.
$25,000 Damage.
Two men lost their lives and seven
other persons. Including four firemen,
were burned, injured or overcome by
■moke In a spectacular $25,000 fire
which yesterday afternoon wrecked the
old Franklin Hotel, 623 Pennsylvania
avenue, and attracted thousands of
Christmas shoppers and home-bound
G jvemrnent employes.
While traffic In the vicinity of
Seventh street and Pennsylvania ave
nue was badly snarled, firemen fought
the blaze for almost an hour before
bringing it under control. When the
first fire trucks reached the scene
flames were shooting 20 to 30 feet
above the roof of the ancient five-story
structure. Two alarms brought out
Virtually all downtown apparatus.
The traffic jam was unraveled only
after hose carriers were erected across
■treet car tracks to permit firemen to
play a dozen streams Into the burning
building.
Two Roomers Killed.
The dead men, both roomers, are
Walter Irving Conley. 45. an Inmate of
the Soldiers’ Home, and L. "Murphy”
Young, a candy vendor, about 30 years
old, who had lived at the hotel for
about three years.
Thomas Piner, 53, night manager of
the hotel, was severely burned about
the head, arms and shoulders, and last
night was in the most serious condition
of those Injured in the blaze. Emer
gency Hospital attaches said his condi
tion was not critical, however, and ex
pressed the belief he would recover.
Others injured or overcome are:
Capt. Charles Galpin of No. 17 Engine
Company, overcome by smoke
Pvt. Edward B. Smith, 28, 234 Tenth
■treet southeast, of No. 1 Truck Com
pany, cut by glass.
Pvt. Morris Hollis, 32, 427 Seventeenth
■treet southeast, of No. 1 Truck Com
pany, also cut by glass.
Firemen Is Injured.
Pvt. Michael P. Kane, 33, 1223 D
street southeast, of No, 6 Engine Com
pany. bruised and shaken up when hit
by a fire truck while laying out hose
Virginia Green, cut by flying glass.
Virginia Shahpazian, 20, whose hand
was cut when she turned In the first
alarm
The men who lost their lives were
trapped by the flames which originated
on the third floor. Both occupied
fourth-floor rooms and were asleep
when the fire broke out.
Young was found burned almost be
yond recogntion In a bathtub, while
Conley was taken from under a wash
basin, where he had sought cover from.I
U>e raging flames.
Veteran Saves Woman.
The life of an unidentified woman was
saved by C. A. Bouk, a Seattle World
War veteran, who is here with 57 other
ex-service men from the Pacific North
west leading a fight for the balance of
the soldiers' bonus. Bouk scaled a fire
escape in the rear of the .hotel, entered
an upper story window and carried the
scantily clad woman to safety. He then
re-climbed the fire escape and shouted
warnings to other roomers.
Capt. Galpin was leading the fight
against the flames on the third floor
vmen he was overcome by Inhaling
smoke. He lost consciousness and top
pled to the floor. Lieut. I. W Lusky of
No. 2 Engine Company saw him fall
and carried the husky captain outside,
where he was revived by the Fire Res
cue Squad. He Insisted on resuming the
fight, but was persuaded to go to Emer
gency Hospital for an examination.
Ambulances from Emergency, Cas
ualty and the Fire Rescue Squad W'ere
pressed into service to care for the casu
alties.
Damage Set at $25,000.
Fire Marshal Calvin Lauber set the
damage at $25,000. He said the fire
started on a third-floor stairway, but
declined to state what caused It. E. G
Hopkins, branch manager of the Huss
man Refrigerating Co., next door to the
hotel, reported to police the flames and
water did $10,000 worth of damage to
his show rooms. He said eight huge re
frigerator display cases were ruined and
would have to be sent back to the fac
tory for repair.
The blaze broke out shortly after 1 ,
o'clock, and was discovered almost
aimultaneously by Virginia Shahpazian j
and George Avadikian, owner of the i
hotel. Virginia ran to the nearest fire- !
alarm box on the corner of Seventh
atreet and rang for fire engines.
Avadiklan's wife, Mrs Luc* Avadi
kian. meanwhile also had detected the
odor of smoke and ran from the build
ing. carrying her 18-month-old son, Ru
pan Two other roomers, James Mil
burn and Milbum Reese, also fled to
aafety.
For a time the fire threatened the
Metropolitan Hotel, famous hostelry of
bygone days, which adjoins the Frank- I
lin to the east, and the Atlantic Hotel, !
on the other side. Streams of water'
were played on the walls of both these
buildings, however, averting a spread of
the flames.
CIVIC OPERA TO MAP
PLANS NEXT THURSDAY
Teachers, Students and Artist Mem
bers to Attend Evening Session
at Thomson School.
Plans for presentations next Spring
will be discussed by members of the
newly organized Washington Civic
meeting in the
. -lfth and L streets,
next Thursday night at 8 o’clock.
Teachers, students and artist members
are to attend.
R. R Edvards, organizer and general
manager, will preside at the meeting.
Non-members v.'ho are interetted in be
coming associated v.th the orcaniza
tion are Invited to attend, it "is an
nounced. a special invitation being ex
tended to men with bass v ices who
might be interested in studying roles
far different productions. Opportunity
abo is open for persons Interested in
chorus work.
The natpf 71 the opening production
b to be announced later.
Hotel Fire W here Two Died
FOUR D. C. BILLS
READY FOR SENATE
Capper to Present Measures
Next Week at Request
of Commissioners.
Four bills will be introduced in the
Senate early this week by Chairman
Capper of the Senate District Com- j
mlttee at the request of the Com
missioners.
The measures contain the following
proposals: To amend the law for the
condemnation of land for municipal
purposes; to authorize the District as
sessor to testify as an expert on values
in condemnation cases; to authorize
the admittance of pay patients to the
contagious disease ward at Gallinger
Hospital, and a bill to sanction an ex
change of land in connection with re
location of roadway near the District
Workhouse at Occoquan, Va.
The proposed change in the local
condemnation law would give the Dis
trict government the same provision
enacted two years ago for the Federal
Government, by which the local gov
ernment could obtain immediate pos
session of property pending condemna
tion proceedings by depositing with the
court an amount estimated as fair com
pensation. Any additional amount
found to be due at the close of the pro
ceedings would be paid with 6 per cent
interest.
In sending up the bill to admit pay
patients to the contagious ward at Gal
linger, the Commissioners pointed out
that the budget for 1933 contains an
estimate for $250,000 toward construc
tion of an additional ward at that hos
pital with a contract authorization of
$600 000.
DEMOCRATS ADVISED
TO AVOID PANACEAS
West Is Conservative, but Not Re
actionary, Governor of
Kansas Says.
The Democratic party will win the
West in the 1932 campaign if its goes
i before the people with a sound, conserv
i stive platform devoid of panaceas, Gov.
! Harry H Woodring of Kansas predicted
in a speech Friday night at a dinner
given for him by the Woman's National
Democratic Club of Washington.
Referring to himself as "one of the
political grandsons of the ‘wiid jack
asses.’ a name given to the Progressives
; by Senator George H. Moses of New
I Hampshire,” Gov Woodring declared
! that the West is truly “the most con
servative section " They are progres- 1
sive, but not radical, he explained, and
are therefore conservative without be
! ing reactionary.
| "It would be fatal for the Democratic
' t>ar ' the next campaign to appeal
| for Western votes by advocating pana
ceas involving further governmental in
1 terference in private business, with a
■ promise of artificial prosperity created
j by legislative act," Gov. Woodring
declared.
COURT CHANGE URGED
Lawyer Advocates Enlargement of
Claims Jurisdiction.
New legislation to broaden the juris
diction of the United States Court of
| Claims to include tort actions against
<h? Government was recommended yes
I tarda- by Frederick D. Faust, promi
I r.e-t Washmton attorney and form-r
Assistant Attorney General, in an ad
dress at the luncheon meeting of the
Barristers, Washington lawyers' club.
David A Pine, president of the Bar
risters, presided at the luncheon, which
was held at the Cosmos Club
After making his recommendation,
Mr. Faust talked on jurtullctlon. pro
cedure and practice be aide the Court
Of Claim* to Which makers he is
accepted author!*.
Upper: Fire raging in the upper floors
of the Franklin Hotel. 623 Pennsylvania
avenue, in which two roomers were
burned to death.
Lower: C. A. Bouk, World War vet
eran from Seattle, who climbed a fire
escape, rescued a woman from the
flames and shouted warnings to other
roomers._—Star Stag Photo.
I
I
Shoreham Purchase Made in
Good Faith, Court Told
by Secretary.
Patrick J Hurley, Secretary of War,
yesterday described in detail the part
he played in the purchase of the Shore
ham Office Building from Swartzell,
Rheem <fc Hensey Co. six months prior
to the failure of the mortgage-banking
house.
Appearing as a witness before Justice
V. D. Letts in District Supreme Court
in a suit to reinstate a $2,250,000 trust
on the property, Secretary Hurley de
: dared he acted in entire good faith in
purchasing the building.
He said the purchase was made in
the name of the Shoreham Investment
Co. The stock of this corporation, he
said, is owned by himself and Joseph I.
Cromwell of Oklahoma, each holding
one-half.
Mr. Hurley declared he purchased
I the building in the belief that all of
| the noteholders had been or would be
j paid in accordance with the terms of
| the deed of trust.
Edmund D. Rheem, now serving a
j penitentiary sentence, and Luther H
I Swartzell were trustees of the deed of
! trust for $2,250,000 on the property.
The trust was released by them in ac
cordance with a provision that such ac
tion would be taken upon payment in
j full at the offices of Swartzell, Rheem
! & Hensey Co.
Cash Payments Disputed.
At recent bankruptcy hearings, testi
; mony was introduced to the effect that
! a number of the noteholders under the
| deed of trust never received payment in
cash. Rheem said they were paid
| through reinvestments to their credit.
The property was purchased, accord
ing to Secretary Hurley’s testimony, by
j Cromwell and himself. He said the
i deal involved the trade of the Hurley
Wright Building, in which he had a
$740,000 equity, and a cash considera
, tion.
It was also brought out that the
i Shoreham Investment Co. advanced
$150,000 in connection with the refi
nancing of the property at the time
| of the sale.
Mr. Hurley said a certificate of title
was secured through the District Title
& Insurance Co., which indicated that
the property was free of all liens.
He said Rheem told him he had ar
ranged to secure all the money neces
sary for the payment of the original
mortgage on the property with all ac
icrued costs. He said he did not ques
tion Rheem as to how or where this
money was coming from.
ivepaymeni or l,oan.
It is alleged in a suit now on file that
Rheem borrowed this money from the
Riggs National Rank and repaid it im
properly.
"At the time of this transaction ”
Secretary Hurley said. "I had no rea
son to believe there was anything
irregular about it. I would not have
gone through with the deal had I
known otherwise.”
After he had concluded his testimony
Secretary Hurley told the court he had
nothing to conceal in this transaction
"I’d like to say,” he stated, "that
the Shoreham Investment Co has n*
secrets in connection with this mat
ter. Its books are open and any fur
ther Information the court wants is
available.”
Mr. Cromwell succeeded Mr. Hurley
on the stand and told practically the
same story as the Secretary He said
he was present at the July 15 confer
ence. He declared it did not occur to
horn to ask Rh^em where he ob
tained the money intended for use in
paying off the notes. He testified the
Shoreham Investment Co. spent morp
than $30,000 to complete construction
of the Shoreham Office Building due
U> the failure of Swartzell. Rhefm &
Hensey Co. to carry out its contract.
SNATCH WOMAN’S PURSE
Two Colored Mem Flee ^ BioycUa,
Victim Tells Police.
Two colored men who snatched a
purse from Isabelle Cooper. 2544 Sev
enteenth street, last night used bicycles
to make their escape, it was reported
to tenth precinct police Ported
The w-oman said she was in a corri
do- on the second floor of the apart
ment house at that address when the
men grabbed the pocketbook which
contained $5.50 and a gold class nng.^
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Woman Held in Haid.
Mrs. Mary Elen Swan. 37, of 3*07
mhn. juas a a?
YULE FUNDS CUT
AFWHITEHOUSE
TO ASSIST NEEDY
Saving to Mark Festivities
Enlivened by Family
Reunion.
PRESIDENT AND WIFE
URGE FRIENDS’ HELP
Want Less Costly Presents and
Urge That Remainder of Normal
Total Be Spent on Poor.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.
While President and Mrs. Hoover are
observing Christmas this year, with
their children and grandchildren and
intimate friends gathered about them,
they will not be unmindful of the many
thousands of less fortunate homes
throughout the country.
It is the aim of Mr and Mrs Hoover
to spread good cheer and comfort to
some of those whose prospects of a
happy Christmas are remote. Not only
are they plahning their Christmas ob
servance with this object in view, but
they are passing the word along to
their many friends to follow suit.
Like last year, the White House
Christmas will be centered about the
young people of the family who are
coming to visit for the holidays. The
usual atmosphere of genuine Yuletide
spirit, enlivened by two lively grand
children, will again prevail, and there
will be the customary Christmas din
ner parties and the other incidental
parties, but all of these festivities are
to be simple in nature, with a careful
avoidance of extravagance or unneces
sary expense. Everything is to be ar
ranged and conducted with a kindly
and generous thought of those many
households where, because of so much
unemployment, Christmas is likely to
be a grim and pitiful occasion.
Plan to Help Needy.
In curtailing what they are to spend
on Christmas, it is the purpose of the
President and his wife, not to save
money, but see to it that a goodly por
tion of their Christmas outlay will
serve to bring some little cheer and
comfort to at least a few of those in
distress.
With this charitable thought in mind
the Hoover household will give only in
expensive Christmas gifts. The Hoover
family will also demand that the pres
ents to be sent to them by their friends
and others be of small cost, and that
the difference in the cost of these gifts
and what would have been spent ordi
narily for this purpose be given to the
homes of the poor and deserving.
Moreover, there will be a large re-‘
duction in the amount of money gen
erally spent in malting the Tuletide at
mosphere about the presidential home.
This, the Hoovers believe confidently
can be done without detracting the
slightest from the genuine fun and hap
piness of the White House observance.
Already Mrs. Hoover is personally
checking up on what was spent on
Christmas at the White House l*st year.
Then she will figure just how much is
actually needed to have a simple and
Inexpensive observance, and when she
arrives at this total, the difference be
tween the reduced amount and what
was spent for the White House Christ
mas last year, will be used in helping
those in need. Judging from Mrs
Hoover’s spirit in this benevolent
undertaking, what is finally turned over
to charity will, when everything is ad
ded, be greatly in excess of what was
spent last year.
Swells Other Donations.
mis contribution to bring Christmas
cheer will be entirely aside from the
generous donations already made by
both the President and hia wife to the
various organizations engaged in dis
tributing assistance to the poor and
distressed this Winter.
However, in this unusual Christinas
plan, Mr. and Mrs. Hoover have no de
sire to encourage less spending. On
the contrary, to those friends to
whom they have revealed their plan,
they are insisting that just as much, if
not more, be spent this year, but that
the greater portion of It be spent on
the poor.
With the presence of their children
and grandchildren, the happiness of
the President's and Mis. Hoover’s
Christmas is assured, regardless of how
little Is actually spent on the event.
Herbert Hoover, jr„ the elder of the
Hoover boys, with his wife, and their
two elder children, Peggy Ann, 7, and
Herbert, 3d, better known as "Peter,”
are coming to the White House from
their home in Pasadena, Calif.
Allan Hoover, who has recently en
tered the banking business in Los An
geles, also will be at the White House
for this happy occasion.
Yule Program Outlined.
Although the Christmas expense will
be curtailed In the interest of charity,
there will be no curtailment of Christ
mas activities at the White House.
First of all there will be a children's
party two nights preceding Christmas
and another one early Christmas eve
to be followed later In the evening by
an informal party for the "grown-ups,"
to which a few intimate friends will
be invited. There will be another
children's party Christmas afternoon.
Christmas night there will be another
party, which will be attended prin
cipally by members of the President's
cabinet and their wives. During Christ
mas week there will be several social
affairs, including a dance for Allan
Hoover, to which will be invited the
young members of the Capital’s most
exclusive social set.
These various parties, with the ex
ception of the several dinner parties,
will be strangely unlike those of for
mer Christmases at the White House
during the occupancy of the Hoovers.
There will be no presents or favors
i or refreshments. This curtailment will
be a part of the savlng-for-charity
plan.
The first of the children's parties is
to be especially Interesting because of
these omissions. The invitations to this
lively little affair, which will be held
on the night of December 23, are al
ready being delivered. The invitations,
which are being sent in the names
of Peggy Ann and "Peter," explain very
clearly the charity plan, because, at
tached to the invitation is the following
written reminder:
Unlike Other Forties.
“This is not like the Christmas parties
you usually go to, where you get lots
of toys and presents to take home and
very many good things to eat.
"But it is a party where you bring
toys and warm gay sweater1 or candy,
or things other children would like
who otherwise would not have much
Christmas. _ ...
“For Santa Claus has sent word that
he is not going to be able, by himself,
to take care of all the little boys and
girls he wants to this year and he has
asked other people to help him as much
as possible. t
"So If you belli
we wtM sent them
_ but*. And me mfil
ARMED ‘FARES' ROB
TAX! DRIVER AND
FLEE IN HIS AUIO
Diminutive Cabby Fights
Bandit Trio Trying to
Save Cash.
POLICE COMB CITY
FOR MEN AND CAR
One Bandit Kicked in Stomach.
Grocery Store Loses $35 to
Thieves.
Frail of build and weighing but 125
pounds, James B. Flanary, 42-year-old
taxicab driver, was overpowered and
robbed by three colored men last night,
but only after he had kicked one of
them in the stomach as he resisted de
spite a threatening gun.
The robbers took $4 and Flanary’s
cab, but overlooked $2 in his pocket
i _ book. Police were
searcmnjt tne city
for them early
todity.
Planary, who
lives at 2960 Thay
er street northeast,
told fourth precinct
police he picked up
the three men at
New Jersey avenue
and H street and
they directed him
I to drive to Third
street and * Dela
ware avenue south
west. When he
reached that inter
section he was in
Jamt* B. rianary. structed to proceed
_ south to N street.
There Flanary's passengers told him
they had gone too far and to turn
around.
Halted In Dark Spot.
Midway between M and N streets on
Delaware avenue the cab driver said he
was told to halt his cab. The spot
selected was some distance from a street
light.
Flanary said all three got out and
one of them who appeared to be the
leader gave him a dollar bill. As he
reached in his pocket for change, one
of the men drew a gun and another
climbed into the front of tbp cab.
Without hesitating, Flanary kicked
the bandit in the stomach, knocking him
from the car. Meanwhile, the other two
had climbed in the back seat and one of
them seized him around the neck while
the other held the gun to his ribs.
While he was held helpless the man
he had kicked struck him on the law
with his fist.
Return Part of Money.
One of the three went through his
pockets and supposedly took all the
money also out of his pocketbook.
When Flanary pleaded with them not
to take his driver’s permit they gave
him back the pocketbook, containing
the permit and the $2 they had over
looked.
Then the robbers forced him from the
cab and drove away rapidly, Flanary
told police. The cab was owned by
Flanary and his name was printed on
the side.
Before becoming a taxi driver, Flan
ary was a musician. For three years
he played the comet as a member of
the Earle TTieater Orchestra, but was
displaced when the theater was pur
chased by Warner Bros.
Shortly before Flanary was robbed,
three white bancits obtained $35 and a
gold watch at a grocery store at 932 M
street, owned by Jacob Rosenbloom.
Rosenbloom, who lives at 1532 Var
num street; Benjamin Epstein, 4012 Il
linois avenue, a clerk, and Joseph Mes
sick, 13, 1237 Tenth street, a customer,
were In the store when two youths en
tered and purchased two bottles of
soda water. They paid Rosenbloom for
the drinks and had almost finished
them when a man described as about
30 years old appeared, flourished a gun
and ordered the two boys to “put down
the pop and go to work.”
The older man covered the three
while the youths searched the cash
register and rifled their pockets. The
three robbers then fled together. Ros
enbloom called police and furnished de
tailed descriptions of the thugs. A po
lice lookout was broadcast for them.
BOARD OF EDUCATION
meets With citizens
School Appropriation Requests Will
Be IHscussed With Civic Group
Representative*.
te'wLhw of EducaU°n Will report
to Washingtons organized citizenry to
™ nlght on the status of public
tnaPhr° or‘atl0n rrciuests with re
the „ .“TP1® actually included in
a went to Confess,
bo^ri Lri ‘terns request'd by the school
d h5 fate of each, indicating
budoet h«nrt *1 WaSv. dr6PPed from the
budget and by whom, where it was
pruned, or increased, will be discussed
by the board. The session will be the
second annual conference with the rep
when^the* groups' the first.
n^tiUnn? delates presented their
es?sSd iZt e°gpriations’havdng
atTsmPm0Wii conference will be held
Sg^TWrWnth' ^d^^ration Build
ing, Thirteenth and K streets.
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HOOVER TO OPEN SHOW
President Hoover has j
KKzaiS
Mis. Southerland, president of thp
Miami Beach Garden Club Lid v«
terday the show was planned as a
gesture of international friencShiD
hung on a flower.- As was donflaft
year, she said, blooms will be brought
from 22 Latin American countries. ^
W™'
Of course, lr> their charity plan the
H°°ve« have no Intention of doir£
without several trimmed Christm^f
trees and the wreaths and other sea
K JK decorations. Cn ^
there will be the march of the “wooden
soldiers” introduced last chJSnuE
time. Which will again serve m one “
the entertainment features of the chil
dren s party Christmas eve.
Lists Deserving Families.
Just how the President and Mrs
Hoover will distribute money and pres
ente to the needy, as a result of their
own personal Christmas curtailment
has not been revealed. It is understood
that Mrs. Hoover will obtain the names
and addresses at families in Washington
and elsewhere, who are in genufcie need
XXJtiSS
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Plans for Incinerators
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AKomrEui s drawings of Washington’s new high-temperature incinera
tors. Construction will start in Spring In accordance with plans of the
District Commissioners. The Southeast Incinerator is shown in the
inset. The other will be built in Georgetown.
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NEW INCINERATORS
10 BE BUILT SOON
Work on Two Modem Plants
to Begin When Congress
Provides $760,809.
Construction of Washington’s first
high-temperature incinerators, where
the trash and refuse of the entire city
will be reduced to ashes by modem,
scientific methods, will be started early
in the Spring, according to an an
nouncement yesterday by Maj. Donald
A. Davison. Acting Engineer Commis
sioner of the District.
Everything is in readiness for con
structionr—the contracts have been
written, the plans drawn and the sites
acquired. The signal for starting the
work will be given just as soon as Con
gress passes the first 1932 deficiency
appropriation bill, reappropriating the
$850,000 appropriated for the incin
erator in the 1930 deficiency bill and
allowed to lapse into the Federal
Treasury because of a ruling of Con
troller General McCarl, which prevent
ed the awarding of the original con
tract for the work.
The two incinerators, together with
the sites, plans and engineering fees
will cost the District a total of $760,809,
leaving a balance of $89,191 to be re
turned to the Treasury. One of the
Incinerators is to be located in George
town at Thirty-first and K streets. The
other is to be erected in the southeast
section at First and O streets southeast.
Will Meet Needs for 20 Years.
Maj. Davison pointed out that plans
for the two incinerators provide for
buildings of architectural dignity which
will enhance the appearance of the
neighborhoods in which they are to
be built. Modern in every detail, he
said, the refuse plaints will be free of
odors of any kind, and will be of suffi
cient size and capacity to provide for
the destruction of Washington’s refuse
for the next 20 years.
Despite reports to the contrary, Maj
Davison declared it had never been the
intention or District officials to use the
new incinerators for burning garbage.
Garbage will continue to be shipped to
the municipal reducing plant at Cherry
Hill, Va., he said, which was recently
modernized at a cost of $125,000 and
will be adequate to dispose of the Dis
trict’s garbage for at least 10 years.
Virginia Dump to Be Closed.
The present small incinerator plant
at Montello avenue and Mount Olivet
road northeast is recognized as inade
quate and a public nuisance. It showers
sparks and is a fire menace, according
to Maj. Davison, and several times in
recent years has been completely de
stroyed by fire and rebuilt.
For the last two years, this plant has
been incapable of disposing of all of
the refuse. The bulk of it was trans
ported to the swamp lands adjacent to
the Washington airport in Arlington
Ocunty, Va., and burned. Now, how
ever, the swamp has been filled and
this dump is about to be abandoned.
$500 AND BOOKS LEFT
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
Mrs. Bdith Pratt Dickins Bequeaths
Sum Also lor Bt. Matthew’s
Church.
The Catholic University of America
is given $500, a collection of books on
Oriental subjects, and a set of the
World’s Great Classics by the terms of
the wUl of Mrs. Edith Pratt Dickins,
who died November 14, leaving an es
tate valued at about $70,000. Arch
bishop Curley is also to have $500 and
a like amount is given Mgr. Edward L.
Buckey for the use of St. Matthew’s
Catholic Church.
After distributing her personal effects
among a number of relatives and friends
the testatrix directs that the remaining
estate shall be held in trust by* H.
Rosier Dulany, jr., and the National
Savings & Trust Co. One half of the
net income Is to be paid to her sister,
Bessie P. Chenowetb. Pasadena, Calif.,
for life, and the other half to her
brother, Philip R. Pratt, of this city,
during his life.
Tie National Savings & Trust Co.
and Mr. Dulany are named as executors,
and today asked for the probate of the
will. They tell the court that Mrs.
Dickins owned premises 2015 Columbia
road and other property of an assessed
total of $17,779. and hai personal prop
erty estimated at $50,700.
PRESENTS LOW BID
Tie Little Construction Co. of Char
lotte, N. C., put In a low bid of $131,860
for construction of an addition to the
Douglass aril Simmons Schools among
ft jpfc received by the District yea
Capt. H. C. Whitehurst Ar
I
ranges Spring Program
of Street Work.
Capt. Herbert C. Whitehurst, District
! highway engineer, yesterday made pub
1 lie a list of street paving jobs to be
undertaken next Spring, assuming that
Congress passes an appropriation act
containing the provisions as to high
ways recommended by the Budget Bu
reau. This list is in addition to the
list of streets to be paved out of gaso
line tax funds, printed in the 1933 es
timates. It includes two important
street-widening projects.
The jobs are:
Resurfacing by replacement method:
B street northeast, widened to 80 feet
from Delaware avenue to North Capitol
street; Constitution avenue, widened to
73 feet from North Capitol street to
First street, 80 feet from First street
to Sixth street; widen E street from
Fifth to North Capitol streets to 46
and 56 feet; Mount Pleasant street,
Sixteenth street to Park road;
Kalorama road, Champlain to Sixteenth
streets; New Hampshire avenue, S
street to U street; Twenty-fifth street,
Virginia to Pennsylvania avenues; U
street, Ninth to Tenth streets; Florida
avenue, Seventh to Ninth streets; E
street, Twenty-first to Twenty-second
streets: G street, Twenty-second street
to Virginia avenue; Eleventh street
j northeast, East Capitol to D streets;
| Nichols avenue southeast, Sheridan
road to north end of concrete; Good
Hope road southeast. Nichols to Min
nesota avenues; Fourteenth street
southwest. Water street to Highway
Bridge; F street southwest, Third to
Four-and-a-Half streets; D street
northeast. First street to Massachusetts
avenue; North Capitol street, Louisiana
to Massachusetts avenues.
30.000 GET NEW AUTO
LICENSE NUMBERS
Van Duzer Imports Tags Issued
Since December 1 for
1932.
Approximately 30,000 sets of 1932
automobile tags have been issued since
December 1, according to a report sub
mitted yesterday to Traffic Director
William A. Van Duzer. Nearly 16,000
were distributed my mail, the remain
ing 14,000 having been issued at the
tag bureau at John Marshall place and
Pennsylvania avenue.
Another report submitted to Mr. Van
Duzer showed that approximately
92.000 motor vehicles have been titled,
leaving 30,000 yet to be titled.
Mr. Van Duzer said about 1,000 of
the tags mailed by the bureau had been
returned because of improper address.
He believes persons to whom these tags
were sent moved without notifying the
bureau of the new address. Such per
sons, he explained, should go to the
bureau, establish their identity with the
certificate of title, and the tags will be
turned over to them.
300 CAPITAL CRIPPLES
REHABILITATED BY U. S.
Board for Vocational Education
Reports on Assistance Given
and Jobs Secured.
Three hundred Washingtonians, once j
crippled so badly that they thought |
they never could work again, today are
rehabilitated and able to hold Jobs,
thanks to the Federal Board for Voca
tional Education, it was disclosed yes
terday in the board’s annual report.
Services to the handicapped ranged
from vocational guidance to vocational
training and placement in jobs or in
businesses set up by the disabled them
selves. 8uch services were made under
authority of an act of Congress which
extended the board’s supervision over
the District of Columbia.
An example of the type of service
rendered by the board is the case of a
painter, injured so badly in a fall that
he was unable to continue in his trade.
Through the Public Health Service this
man, who has a wife and two children,
was given a physical examination. A
leg brace, recommended by the board,
was supplied by the Board of Public
Welfare Now the man is taking a
patent and mechanical drafting course,
and. though he has not yet been placed
'In regular employment, he is doing
work for natent lawyers and is able to
take a lob* as soon as an ape^toig can
D. C. VAGRANCY LAW,
AIMED AT RESORTS,
DRAFTED BY BRIDE
Drastic Provisions Urged to
Rid Capital Area of
Undesirables.
GAMBLERS, BOOTLEGGERS
AND IDLERS INCLUDED
Sweeping Changes Would Place
Burden of Proof on Suspects
Caught in Police Clean-Up.
Bootleggers, gamblers and habitues
of speakeasies, gambling houses and
other places of ill repute would be
classified as vagrants under a proposed
new vagrancy law written by Corpora
tion Counsel William W. Bride and
submitted yesterday to the District
Commissioners.
Drastic in its provisions, Bride’s bill
is designed to give the police depart
ment a new weapon with which to deal
with persons it now finds difficult to
reach because of elasticity in the exist
ing vagrancy law. It classes as vagrants
a large number of persons who at com
mon law and under most statutes could
not be described as vagrants—regularly
employed persons who make their living
In violation of the law.
Mr. Bride defends the far-reaching
effect of the new bill with an explana
tion that it is now difficult for police
to prove that gambling goes on or that
liquor is sold in any specific house, and
that the proposed law would establish
a “very useful means” to “end the
establishment Itself.”
Cite* Present Rulings.
In his accompanying report Bride
admits that the present vagrancy act
has been construed by the Court of
Appeals “as limiting to a too great ex
tent the personal liberties of residents
of the District of Columbia."
The full text of the draft follows:
“Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of American in Congress as
sembled, that the following classes of
persons shall be deemed vagrants in
the District of Columbia:
"First. All persons classed as vagrants
at common law.
“Second: All persons known to be
beggars, bootleggers, burglars, drunk
ards, gamblers, pickpockets, thieves,
confidence operators or prostitutes,
whether by their own confession or by
conviction in this or another jurisdic
tion, unable to give a good account
of themselves, found loitering in or
around any place of public resort or
assembly, or upon any highway, or in
any place of business or entrance
thereto.
“Third: All persons in whose posses
sion or under whose control or dominion
shall be found any instrument or tool
usually employed, or that reasonably
may be employed, for the commission
of crime, who shall fall to account sat
isfactorily for the possession of the
same.
Idlers Also Included.
“Fourth: All persons over the age of
17 years who do not have sufficient
means to maintain themselves or their
families, who live idly and without em
ployment and who are able to work and
refuse to work.
“Fifth: All persons found loitering
who do not follow any lawful trade,
occupation or business and can give no
reasonable account of themselves.
"Sixth: All persons who have no
lawful occupation, nor sufficient prop
erty lawfully acquired from which to
obtain support, who wander in or about
or lodge In market houses, market
places, wharves, docks, watercraft, de
pots. public buildings, vacant houses,
out-houses, barracks, barns, garages,
sheds, cars, automobiles, or other
vehicles or In any public park or open
place.
“Seventh: Any person who loafs,
loiters or idles in or around or Is the
owner, occupant or employe of any
house which is, or is reputed to be, a
house of ill fame, gambling house, or
place where intoxicating liquor is sold,
“Section 2. That all persons con
victed of vagrancy shall be imprisoned
for a period of not more than 90 days;
provided, that the court may, in its dis
cretion permit such person so con
victed to give bond in the amount of
not less than $100 and not more than
$300, conditioned upon his future in
dustry and good conduct for a period of
one year, and the punishment shall not
be imposed during his faithful observ
ance of this condition, but his own
recognizance shall not be accepted.
Borden on Defendant.
“Section 3—Whenever it shall be es
tablished by the evidence in any prose
cution under paragraph 5 of section 1
of this act that the defendant has been
guilty of wandering or strolling about
in idleness, or living in idleness, or that
such defendant is leading an idle im
moral, or profligate life, and that such
defendant is able to work; or under
paragraph 6 of section 1 of this act
that defendant loafs, loiters, idles wan
ders in or about or lodges in the places
named in said paragraph then, or in
either of such events, a prima facie case
of guilt is hereby declared to be estab
lished, and the burden of proof shall
be upon the defendant to show that he
i has a lawful occupation, or is unable
| to work, or has sufficient property law
fully acquired from which to obtain
support.
Section 4.—That if for any reason
any section, paragraph, provision, clause
or part of this act shall be held un
constitutional or invalid that fact shall
not affect or destroy any other section,
paragraph, provision, clause or part
of this act not in and of itself invalid,
but the rema ining parts of the act shali
be enforced without regard to that so
invalidated.
Replace* Other Acts.
“Section 5.—Prosecutions for viola
tions of the provisions of this act shall
be in the Police Court of the District
of Columbia, in the name of the Dis
trict of Columbia by the corporation
counsel or by one of hi3 assistants.
■'Section 6.—-All laws sgid ordinances,
or parts of laws and ordinances, now
in force in the District of Columbia in
consistent with the provisions of this
act, or any part thereof, ar» hereby re
pealed.”
H€ADS EDUCATION CLUB
Mis* Florence F. Maries Beefed hr
G. W. IT. Women’s Group*
Miss Florence Pool Marks was else ted
president of the Women's Education
Club of George Washington University
at a meeting Friday night. Miss Mil
dred Green was elected vice president;
Hazel G. Cragun, secretary, and Bertha
Merdian, treasurer.
Dr. Julia Hahn, supervising principal
of the third division of the Districts
public school system, addressed the
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