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W\t %\smm J V , V WITH iCNDAT MOKNINO EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1934. *** PAGE Β—1 MUNICIPAL CENTER CUT IN HALF HELD ADEQUATE!! D. C. Hazen Sees Possible Plenty of Space for District Agencies. PLANS ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES FOR SCHOOLS Would Sell lower Two Squares of Site and Still Have Enough Room. Cutting the size of the proposed Municipal Center in half by the sale of the lower two squares of the site •till will make possible development of a building having about three times the floor space now provided for Dis trict agencies, it was estimated today by Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen. He gave out rough estimates to this effect in support of his proposal that Congress be asked to authorize sale of the lower half of the site, or the area, south of C street to Pennsylvania avenue, between Third and Sixth etreets. Plans School Offices. Commissioner Hazen also revealed he is contemplating providing housing for the administrative offices of the public school system in his plan for the Municipal Center. Earlier plans have not incorporated this idea. If adopted, it would bring the school ad ministration into much closer physical contact with the District Government. Commissioner Hazen is one of those who have suggested that members of the Board of Education should be ap pointed by the Commissioners, instead r\f Htt thn TPrf-cirtenfr Hazen had before him figures show ing District agencies now are housed In quarters having floor space amount ing to 511,000 square feet. He figures that since there are 326.000 square feet of area in the north two squares where he would build the Municipal Center, a building could be erected there which would have floor space amounting to 1,630,000 square feet. He was informed that the District agencies now ε re using the following floor space areas: District Building, 190,000 square feet; Juvenile Court, 24,000; Municipal Court, 26,000; Po lice Court. 50,000; police headquar ters, 44.000; school administration, 60,000, and Traffic Department and several other agencies in the Ford Building, 117,000, making a total of 511,000. Two Sections Planned. Hazen would build a Municipal Cen ter in two sections, the first to house the three minor courts, the register of wills and recorder of deeds, police headquarters. Traffic Bureau. Women's Bureau, Insurance Department, some administrative agencies of the Board of Public Welfare and the relief administration headquarters. In the second section of the build ing he would provide housing for offices now in the District Building and quarters for the school admin istration. He finds that the ground area of one-half of the site he proposes to use is about 163,000 square feet. The building would be four stories on the north elevation and five or possibly six on the south, due to the slope of the land. He believes, therefore, the floor space in the first section would amount to about 815,000 square feet. With completion of the second section, he believes the total floor space would amount to 1,630,000 square feet. His purpose in revealing these esti mates of space was to show that there would be more than ample room for District administrative offices in a building erected on but the two northern squares of the site. Confirmation Set. HERNDON, Va., November 8 (Spe cial ι .—Right Rev. Harry St. George Tucker, Bishop of Virginia, will offici ate at confirmation services in St. Timothy's Episcopal Church here Sun day. November 25, at 7:30 p.m. Rev. Arthur Le Barron Ribble, rector, will assist. legion to Hold Rites. WARRENTON. Va., November 8 (Special).—Armistice day services will be held in Warrenton Methodist Church Sunday at 3 p.m., under auspices of John Sudduth Post. Amer ican Legion, and the Warrenton Auxiliary. Mrs. Gann Gets Parking Ticket As Rush-Hour Crowd Watches Tells Officer, "I'll Cet Rid of ItEyewit ness Says. Was Waiting for Her Brother, Former Vice President Curtis. Mrs. Dolly Gann, sister of former Vice President Charles Curtis, was given a parking ticket during the rush hour yesterday afternoon. What she will do with it is something of a mystery. Eyewitnesses of the ticket ceremony yesterday afternoon said that she told Policeman Charles W. Feagan: "You can give me a ticket, but I'll get rid of it." The Gann limousine was parked on Fifteenth street near H shortly before 5 o'clock, where parking is forbidden between 4 and β pjn. The afternoon traffic rush was on and a two-car lane tried to split into one as Mrs. Gann sat in her limousine. There was a jam and Officer Feagan came over to investigate. He opened the rear door of the limousine, knocking first on the win dow. "I'm sorry," he said, "but I'll have to give you a ticket unless this car is moved." Reports have Mrs. Gann saying: "You can give me a ticket, but I'll get rid of it." So Feagan wrote out the ticket and handed it to the chauffeur. Finally, at 5:11 p.m.. Mr. Curtis came out of the Shoreham Building, got into the limousine and drove away. The ticket giving had attracted quite a crowd. Questioned about the occurrence to day, Mrs. Gann said: "I'm sorry, but nothing for.the news papers." She hung the receiver up decisively. Mr. Curtis said: "I don't believe my sister said any thing about getting the ticket Axed. We have the ticket, and in three days we will make up our minds what to do about it. We haven't decided yet. "I am a sick man. and my sister told me she explained this to the officer and offered to drive around the block, but he declined to allow this. I was only a few minutes getting from my office to the car, and I don't see why he should have raised such a fuss. He struck me as a young officer out trying to make a record." MRS. DOLLY GANN. WRONG ADDRESSES DELAYJAG MAIL More Than 15,000 Applica tions Already Returned to Car Owners. Although District automobile tags will not be mailed out before November 15, more than 15,000 applications have been returned to car owners because of incorrect addresses, it was an nounced today by Traffic Director W. A. Van Duzer. It also was announced by the direc tor that no applications will be mailed to the more than 2,000 motorists for whom police have warrants for traffic violations. Already there have been 8,000 proper applications made for tags and these will be mailed beginning No vember 15. The counter service at 451 Pennsylvania avenue will start the morning of November 26. For those who apply for their tags by mail, there is an additional charge of 10 cents for mailing as well as the dollar for the tags and the per sonal property tax. All applications for the 1935 tags will have been mailed by November 12 and should be received by the owner not later that November 15. If the owners of automobiles have not received their applications by November 15, the traffic director said, they should immediately appear per sonally in his office to determine the reason therefore. Numerous applications are being returned because the applicants have not signed their names on the applica tions or the amount of their checks does not cover the cost of the personal tax and the delivery of the tags. The 1935 tags may be placed on vehicles on December 15. The 1934 tags will expire at midnight De cember 31. JAILING OF 'REDS' URGED s Imprisonment as criminals of all Communists or others who advocate the overthrow of our Government by violence was urged by Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, U. S. A„ retired, in a radio address under the auspices of the Daughters of the American Revolu tion yesterday. "We have become so foolish, or soft," Gen. Fries said, "that we allow Com munists to run for office on a platform to destroy our Nation by revolution. That seems to be unbelievable, yet it is a sad fact. Those Communists are responsible, they and their friends, for nearly all the violence and bloodshed in strikes and other disorders through out the United States." MORE 10 QUIT TREASURY POST Architects, Former Treas ury Associates Plan Fare well Dinner Monday. James A. Wetmore, former acting supervising architect of the Treasury Department, and now chairmaikof the Board of the Procurement Division, Public Works Branch, will retire from the service Saturday, on his 71st birth day anniversary. Some 200 architects and associates of Mr. Wetmore in the Treasury Depart ment will tender him a farewell dinner in the Carlton Hotel on Monday night, November 12, at 7 o'clock, at which Edwin B. Morris, author and architect, will be toastmas Jkmei A. Wetmore. ^r. Grand "Send-Off" Seen. "The judge," as Mr. Wetmore is af fectionally called by those who have worked with and for him, is going to get "a grand send-off"—after his 49 years with the United States Govern ment. Mr. Wetmore, who started out in life as a court reporter, in New York, came to Washington in 1885 to enter the Treasury Department. He has been there ever since. In 1903, he en tered the supervising architect's office. Twelve years later he took charge of the office. Though a lawyer by profession. Mr. Wetmore displayed such marked ability as an executive that he was tendered the office of supervising architect by former Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo. Twice Mr. Wet more refused the honor. He refused to have the administration embar rassed by any complaint that might have been launched through archi tectual societies. Nevertheless, he was made acting supervising archi tect. a post he held until recently, when he was placed in the executive end of the procurement division. orrai Duuainu iKpmc, Under the Wetmore regime the greatest Government building cam paign in the history of America came into being—the launching of the $300,000.000 triangular project, here in Washington. In 15 years as head of the gov ernmental architectural program Mr. Wetmore's name appeared on more than 1,000 corner stones of post offices and other public buildings throughout the land. While names of Secretaries of the Treasury and Postmasters General also appear on these corner stones, the name of Wet more outnumbers any one individual. They came and went through the ad ministrations—almost six—but Wet more remained. He goes out of the service now, in a blaze of glory, with the well wishes of all his associates. William A. Carr, in charge of ban quet arrangements, has sent out formal invitations to the dinner Mon day night. Other friends of Mr. Wet more who wish to attend are re quested to notify Mr. Carr, room 518, Federal warehouse, Ninth and D streets southwest. FIRST LADY WILL OPEN NATIONAL CHEESE WEEK Wisconsin Grand Champion to Be Given Mrs. Roosevelt by Dairy Queen. National Cheese week will be in augurated today with the presenta tion to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt of the Wisconsin grand champion cheese by Miss Virginia Kelly, Wis consin dairy queen. Miss Kelly, who arrived here this morning, is to make the presentation at 4 p.m. at the White House. A reception will be held in Miss Kelly's honor tomorrow evening, to be attended by the Wisconsin congres sional delegation, Wisconsin State So ciety and officials of that State In the Agriculture Department. Accom panying her on the trip are Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ammon. Mr. Ammon Is head of the Department of Agriculture ol Wisconsin. Miss Kelly will remain here until Saturday nooa. "Dangerous" Circus Pythons, So-o-o Long, Brought to Zoo Practically chased all the way from Florida by a basket of pythons con signed to the Washington Zoo, the dean of circus press agents hastened Into a New York newspaper office yes terday, almost but not quite speech less with apprehension, the waxed tips of his mustache all of a flutter. "What snakes they were!" cried Dexter Fellows, "—14 feet long If they were an inch!" "How long?" drawled a reporter. "Well, 12 feet, anyhow," amended Mr. Fellows, who is known from coast to coast because of his passion for veracity. Truth, to Mr. Fellows, is bright and untarnished, like the silver knob of his favorite cane. Snakes Got Laid Off. Sure enough, it was a perilous jour ney. Barnum & Bailey and Ringling Bros, had gone into Winter quarters, after wowing 16,000,000 kids and grown-ups in the greatest season of years. The Indian pythons got laid off. and Mr. Fellows set out to bring them to his friend. Dr. William Mann, director of the Washington Zoo. The jungle reptiles rode in the bag gage car. Mr. Fellows declared they escaped. One huge fugitive, he said, climbed a steam pipe and tapped the baggage master on the head. "Well, to sum up in a few words," Mr. Fellows continued, "the train men roused up Mrs. Charles Ringling, ■widow of one of the Ringling brothers, who was in a Pullman behind the baggage coach. "She went into the baggage car, gTabbed hold of that pesky python and slid it back into the hamper tail first!" "Cross your heart, Mr. Fellows, Is that all true?" "Every word of it," Mr. Fellows blushed slightly, "except that Mrs. Ringling had nothing to do with the capture. I handled that snake my self." Be that as it may. the pythons ar rived at the local Reptile House yes terday in fine shape. They weren't in a basket ; they were in a python box. "Who brought them to town?"· Dr. Mann was asked. Sent Others by Express. ''Clyde Ingals," Dr. Mann replied, "the operator of Ringling's side show. He brings them every Fall, at the close of the season. We keep them for him until Spring, when the big top takes to the road again. About a week ago he sent three others by express." "But, Dr. Mann, how many came yesterday? Mr. Fellows talked like there was a coach load." "Three," said Dr. Mann, who is a scientist and knows his numerals. "How long were they?" "Six, maybe 7 feet." "Are they the kind of snakes to climb steam pipes and paste baggage masters on the head?" "Well, now," the doctor said, "I don't know about that. You see, they're the ones the lady snake charmer handles. "My wife, Lucy, used to handle them some, but that was four years ago. She doesn't do it any more; the pythons were so tame I think they must have bored her." SPECIAL GIFT UNIT OF CHEST TO PLAN CAMPAIGN TONIGHT Way to Be Cleared for Drive for $1,675,000 Fund to Begin Monday. DR. SIZOO CHAMPIONS HUMAN NEEDS IN CITY \ Metropolitan Group Organized With 1,000 Members—Ad Club Presents Pledge. The way will be cleared for the offl cial opening Monday of the 1934 Com munity Cheat campaign for $1,675,000 with the mobilization tonight of the last of the special campaign groups, the Special Gifts Unit. The unit will be organized for action at a dinner meeting in the Mayflower Hotel. Sir Willmott Lewis, correspondent of the London Times, will be the principal speaker and Carroll Morgan, chairman of the unit, will act as toast master. The quota of this unit has been set at <501,000. It is exceded in size only by the $570,500 quota of the Governmental Unit. Work of the Community Chest and its member organizations was described as an important cementing force in holding the community and the Na tion together, in an address by Rev. Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, at the mobilization meeting of the Metropolitan Unit of the Chest Cam paign Committe last night in the Wil ia rd Hotel. It is not sumciem mai peopie re given something to live on. Dr. Sizoo said—they must be given something to live with and something to live for. If this is not done, he said, society must crumble, in spite of every effort of government. Neighborline·· Lacking In Citie·. City life, the speaker said, has done away with the neighborly spirit that prevailed · In the open country or small villages, and this blessing of individual neighborliness must be taken by "that expression of organ ized good will called the Community Chest." "It Is ever essential to bear In mind." Dr. Sizoo said, "the vast, dif ference that exists between relief and welfare. We have in this city an emergency relief organization that is both effective and efficient, minister ing this month to 22,000 units—one third of whom are detached persons. "We may well be proud of the relief Drought In this cruel crisis to these perplexed people, but at best that Is not an adequate provision for thoee who are both shelterless and un employed, giving a person a mere subsistence and enough shelter to keep him from freezing. Emergency relief deals with physical needs only, but leaves untouched human needs. It may supply a bare subsistence, but what of those provisions needed for care and sickness and morale? "The emergency relief is never enough. These persons must be re constructed and need to take their places in the life of the community. That is the mission of the Community Chest, and there is no other agency set aside to deal with that problem." Dr. Sizoo said it is "a well known fact of economics" that a family of four needs a minimum of $80 a month for adequate provision. "When you realize that the maxi mum provision available for such homes in the District is less than $50, and that the average allotment is $22, then you see at once that other agencies must be called Into being to make available an adequate subsis tence. It is necessary to keep In mind that emergency relief Is not enough without the co-operation of the Com munity Chest enterprise." Dr. Sizoo declared that living to gether in a city is "not only a privi lege, but a responsibility." Defines Citiienship. "Citizenship," he said, "is not simply the demanding of rights and the standing on one's own dignity, but also the sharing of life with those about you. Citizenship in itself is hollow and unreal and soon exhausts itself, for it lacks vitality. Democracy may begin with the issue of freedom, but it can never end there. Democracy is something more than demanding one's rights—it means sharing respon sibilities. we need loaay uie recov ering of that lost sense of citizenship." Last night's meeting, at which Jo seph D. Kaufman, chairman of the unit, presided, was opened with an invocation by Maj. James Asher of the Salvation Army. Messages of greet ing to the 1,000 workers of the unit vere delivered by Clarence Phelps Dodge, president of the Chest, and H. L. Rust, jr., campaign chairman. Herbert L. Wlllett, jr., director of the Chest, explained the purpose of the Chest and the great task confronting the 64 member agencies during the coming year, despite the relief given by the Government. A playlet, "It Happened One Night," written by W. W. Wheeler, chairman of the Speakers' Unit, and produced under the direction of Harold Allen Long, chairman of the Dramatic Com mittee of the Arts Club, was given. The players were W. P. Studdlford, William E. Mitchell, Estelle Ormand, Joan Pefley and Betty Bliss. The playlet represented the efforts of a Community Chest solicitor to obtain a contribution from a man and his wife. The Advertising Club of Washington became the first civic organization to contribute to the 1934 Community Chest fund yesterday when Norman Kal, president of the club, presented to Allen De Ford, subchairman of the Metropolitan Unit, a pledge for $100, voted at a meeting of the club Tues day. The pledge was made payable on a 10-payment plan, in accordance with the plan urged upon contributors by solicitors and keymen to meet the pocketbooks of persons who find it easier to give a stipulated amount over a period of months than to make a cash donation at the time of the campaign. Junior Teams Appointed. The newly formed Washington Junior Board of Commerce yesterday enrolled in the Community Chest drive, appointing seven teams to seek funds. The teams are under the leadership of Morton W'lner, Joseph Trew, Oliver Gasch. James Owens, Albert Con radis, Henry Kaufman and John Beecher. Mass meetings of employes of two Government departments were held yesterday preliminary to the cam paigning for funds for the Community Chest. Interior Department workers were assembled in the Interior auditorium at 3:30 p.m. to hear Chest appeals by MaJ. Gen. Frederick W. Coleman, chief of Finance of the Army and chairman of the Governmental Unit; Assistant Secretary of the Interior Theodore A. Walter, who presided; Miss Antoinette Funk, assistant com missioner of the General Land Office, and Elwood Street, director of public welfare. "I hope," Secretary Walter said to the 500 chairmen and keymen of the Interior Department Group, "that we may have our contributions in hand by Monday noon." Gen. Coleman said that he -knew of no work more deserving of support of the citizens of Washington. "1 feel," he said, "that the Com munity Chest is not primarily char ity, but self-preservation of the com munity." Secretary of the Treasury Morgen thau was the principal speaker at a gathering of Treasury Department employes at 5 p.m. yesterday in the Commerce Department auditorium. Qen. Coleman and Campaign Chair man Rust also addressed the chair men and keymen, who will solicit the 17,000 Treasury employes for their Chest contributions. * Bilbo Says D. C. Is · Safe in His Hands Senator-elect Théo G. Bilbo of Mississippi, erstwhile major domo of the paste and shears at the Agriculture Department, is shown (left) as he chatted at the District Building this morning with Col. Dick Wooton of the P. W. A. and Commissioner George E. Allen (right). —Star Stall Photo. BILBO PROMISES D. C. SQUARE DEAL Senator-elect Says Alien,, Harrison and Self Will Aid City. With the election of Théo G. Bilbo. | I once the master of scissors and paste at the Agriculture Department, as Senator from Mississippi, the des tinies of the District have been placed in safe hands, Senator Bilbo himself stated today. The announcement of the status ! of the District was given this morn- | ing by the newly elected Senator after a chat with Commissioner George E. Allen at the District Building. Sen ator Bilbo took only a part of the credit for improvement of the Dis trict status. He said: "With George Allen as Commis sioner and with Pat Harrison and Bilbo in the Senate, the District has nothing to worry about—the District will get a square deal." Commissioner Allen, like Bilbo, Is a Mississippian, and his appointment1 was attributed to the influence of : Senator Harrison, also a Mississippian. Asked by reporters if he knew Sen ator Huey P. Long of Louisiana Sen- j ator Bilbo asked once again, "Who is ! he? Where is he from?" One reporter wanted to know if 1 Bilbo would make the acquaintance ! of Long when Congress convenes. Came the reply, with a smile, "I rep The Senator said he had no plans for the country generally, except that his purpose would be "to make a damned good Senator." Asked if he had any plans for the District government as to legislation ( or administration, the Senator said he had not and then promised a square deal from Allen. Harrison and Bilbo. Some one then wanted to know if Bilbo was interested in any District job. The Senator replied "My only interests in having folks on the job that will leave my car : alone." This recalled the Senator's difficul ties in finding a parking place for his automobile while he was "paste mas ter general" at the Agricultural De partment. He tried without avail to get a reserved parking space, being told that he came too late; that all I the reservations were taken. Later he gave out the statement that he had , decided to run for the Senate so he could find a place to park his car. The Senator was in a cheerful mood and announced that the national elec tions appeared to him to be a vindi cation of the New Deal. He said he called at the District Building just to get acquainted and to pay a visit to Allen. It was Bilbo who, when Governor of Mississippi, gave Allen a commission as first lieu tenant in the National Guard. Allen spoke up to recall that at the time the Allen family was a political oppo nent of Bilbo. He said Bilbo had given him the commission to get him out of politics. Bilbo said, "I thought he would make a better soldier than politician, but now he has made a success of both." Bilbo was accompanied by Col. Dick Wooton of the Public Works Admin istration, also from Mississippi. CLERIC'S BRIDE MISSING DYERSBURG, Tenn., November 8 (Λ*).—Rev. Ralph E. Banney of Chi cago, a Church of God evangelist, said last night he had asked police of Dyersburg, Memphis and nearby cities to search for his 20-year-old bride, who disappeared from here Sunday morning, an hour before the couple was to leave on a honeymoon. The young woman, Mrs. Thelma E. Banney, left in the minister's auto mobile, Mr. Banney said. THOUSANDS SET FOR Gil). FETE Homecoming Rally to Draw Huge Throng—Ball to Be Climax. Thousands of graduates and the stu dent body will take part In George Washington University's annual home coming celebration, opening with a rally in the university's gymnasium to morrow at 4:45 p.m., and climaxed by the foot ball game between the varsity and Louisiana State University at Griffith Stadium Saturday. Alumni from out of town and many of the institution's 7,000 graduates re siding in the District will take part in festivities incident to the celebration. Baker to Greet Group. The rally program will include sing ing of university songs by the student body and alumni, accompanied by the university band, and cheering the foot ball team, whose members will be in troduced to the gathering. Charles S. Baker, president of the General Alumni Association, will welcome the alumni and James R. Kirkland, home coming chairman, will preside. Tomorrow night the homecoming ball will t« held at the Wlllard Hotel, where university officers and mem bers of the official party from Louisi ana State University will occupy boxes. Saturday morning a women's ath letic meet will be held, with alumnae and undergraduates competing in tennis, badminton, archery and rifle competition. The events will be staged in the university yard, gym nasium and on the rifle range, re spectively. 25.000 to See Game. The foot ball game Saturday after noon is expected to draw a crowd of approximately 25,000 persons. Open house will be held at the various fraternities for alumni and active members Saturday night. Meanwhile, decorations will adorn the facades oi the university's fraternities through out the city and the General Alumni Association will award a cup at the ball tomorrow night to the fraternity whose chapter house is adjudged the most appropriately and attractively decorated for the homecoming. GREEK ARMISTICE DAY PROGRAM ARRANGED Archbishop and Rector of St. Sophia to Officiate at Orthodox Church Sunday. Archbishop Athenagoras of the Greek Orthodox Church of North and South America and Archimandrite A. Laloussls, rector of St. Sophia, will officiate Sunday at Armistice day ceremonies of the Greek Community of St. Sophia's Church, Eighth and L streets. Charalambos Simopoulos, Minister Plenipotentiary, will attend the ceremonies. Former Senator Rice Means of Colorado and Capt. Watson B. Miller of the American Legion will speak. After ohurch services the group will march to Arlington National Ceme tery where a wreath will be placed on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Achilles Catsonis, supreme president of the Order of Ahepa, will address the group. The late George Dilboy, who was killed in action during the World War and who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for the feat In which he lost his life, will be honored by the group. Old Pierce Mill Wheel Replacing Gets Under Way Side Porch of Structure in Rock Creek Park Beinfg Torn Au:ay. Workmen today are tearing down the side porch oi Pierce Mill in Rock Creek Park to make way for the large mill wheel which will be the main feature in the landmark which has stood 130 years. The work is being done under a public works allotment oi $19,250 by the National Park Serv ice. Since 1887, when the mill was last operated, the original log bank has been washed out by a flood, the mill race has been (Hied up and the ma chinery broken. These things will all be restored. Workmen digging out the mill race are finding strange bottles and other relics probably caught in it several generations ago when the mill teemed with activity. Also reminiscent of the period a century ago was part of a packing bo* nailed to the wall on the third floor of the mill which is ad dressed simply "J. R. Barr, G street, Washington." Old-timers who used to work around mills congregate at thlsfenlll to watch the restoration work. Some of them walk several miles from outlying sec tiona of the city. They wgtch opera tions and discuss the days when Joehua Pierce, son of Isaac Pierce, ran the mill and lived in the stone mansion across from it. MRS. JENCKES WINS HOUSE SEAT AGAIN Indiana's Only Woman in Con gress Sweeps to Victory in Home County. Br the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, November 8 —In diana's only woman representative in Congress, Mrs. Virginia Jenckes, of Terre Haute, won her race for re election over Fred S. Purnell of At tica today in a final sweep of be lated returns from her home county. She held a lead of 333 votes with only one pracint missing. The victory of the sixth district Democrat held the Republican gams in Indiana congressional contests to a single seat. That was captured by Frederick Landis, Logansport Repub lican editor, who broke the solid Hoosler Democratic delegation with an overturn of George R. Durgan of Lafayette in the second district. The rush of ballots for Mrs. Jenckes in her home county, Vigo, overcame Purnell. a former Representative, who led in 6 of the 10 counties. Tabula tions today gave Mrs. Jenckes 67,266 votes, Purnell 66,933. BABY BLINDED BY ANTS MEMPHIS. Tenn., November 8 <A>). —A skilled eye specialist will attempt, through surgery, to restore the sight of an 8-month-old baby, blinded early this Summer by the sting of red ants, at his home near Bells, Tenn. The child, Harold Watson Patrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Patrick of Gadsden, Tenn., at present can only tell light from dark, hospital at taches say. Heads Board MRS. GILBERT GROSVENOR, Who yesterday was elected by the Women's Board of George Wash ington University Hospital to com plete the unexpired term of Mrs. Cloyd Heck Marvin, who resigned as president of the board. Mrs. Frederick True, third vice president, presided at the meeting, at which two new members were elected to the board. They are Mrs. J. E. Pixlee and Mrs. John Mc Pherson. It was reported that the Sewing Committee has completed more than 1,000 articles, including sheets, pillowcases, curtains and towels, for use at the hospital. DISTRICT MAN DEAD,MAN HURT IN All CRASH Mrs. M. A. Cooper's Body at Laurel, Leo Fitzgerald in Hospital. BOTH EMPLOYES OF D. C. GOVERNMENT Witness Says Car Struck Culvert at Terrific Speed—Crank Frac tures Man's Arm—Boy Injured. A young Washington widow was in stantly killed and a Capital man was critically injured when their auto mobile hurtled head-on into a culvert on the Washington Boulevard near Laurel, Md., early today. The dead woman, whose body lay unidentified for nearly 10 hours in a Laurel undertaking establishment, is Mrs. Myrtle A. Cooper, about 30, oi 2809 Fourteenth street. Leo Fitzgerald, 3811 Tenth street, driver of the car in which she was a passenger, received a fractured skull and had both jaws broken. Fitz gerald. a clerk in the gasoline tax audit section of District tax assessor's office, was taken to a Baltimore hos pital where his condition was said to be critical. Mrs. Cooper was identified by a member of her family and an em ploye from the public welfare office at the District Building, where she was a file clerk. Accident at 3 A.M. According to State police, the ac cident occurred about 3 a.m., when the car crashed into the culvert after Fitzgerald is believed to have lost con trol of it about 300 yards south of the Laurel police substation. Corpl. C. W. Cubbage, on duty at the station, heard the crash and ran to the scene where he found the woman some distance from the wreck. Fitzgerald also was thrown clear and was cut and bleeding. The officer summoned Howard Gos nell, magistrate and coroner at Sav age, Md., and Dr. Frank E. Shipley, who pronounced the woman dead and had her body removed to the under taking establishment. Gosnell said he notified Fitzgerald's wife of the accident. Fitzgerald had been employed by the District gov. ernment about 15 years. Mrs. Cooper has an 8-year-old son, friends said. A single witness to the accident, John Henderson, colored, told police that he was walking along the boule vard when the car, coming at a terrific speed, almost struck him. He said he climbed the hill at the side of the road to escape being hit. Arm Fractured by Crank. Another employe of the District government, John Kidd, 60, of 507 Twelfth street southeast, received a possible compound fracture of the left arm today when the crank shaft of a roller he was cranking caught his sleeve. Three other persons were injured in traffic mishaps in the District yesterday, while another died from injuries received in an accident Tues day. There was another fatality on the Richmond-Washington Highway. The death in Gallinger Hospital of Richard J. Stretch, 58. of 905 H street, who was struck by a taxicab on Κ street between Eighth and Ninth, brought the traffic fatalities for the month up to four. Andrew J. Robertson. 31, of 1318 Eleventh street, said by police to have been the driver of the cab, was to appear at an inquest into Stretch's death today. Boy Struck by Auto. Three-year-old Larry Spellbring, 2141 Thirty-second street southeast, received severe head injuries when knocked down near his home by an automobile said by police to have been driven by Mrs. Edna Laws, 41, a neighbor. The child was treated at Providence Hospital. The others hurt were John R. Mc Kenna. 73. of 410 Sixth street south west, who received several fractured ribs and probable internal injuries when the car he was driving crashed into a tree on Sixth street, near Con stitution avenue, and Theodore Mor gal. 4. of 764 Sixth street southeast, who was cut about the face when struck near his home by a truck said to have been operated by Milton Ε Wiggins, 19, colored, 334 F street southwest. The Richmond highway victim was Owen L. Carter. 73. of 2426 North Capitol street, a retired Government Printing Office employe, who was killed late yesterday when struck by a truck near Arlington pike. He was the fifth person killed in that vicinity by motor vehicles in the last two or three months. Claude Rogers, colored, 400 block of Maine avenue southwest, operator of the truck, is being held by Arlington County authorities under bond of $2.000. Vendor Again "Lady for Day " Unperturbed by Experience They took their Cinderella from the street again and made her this lime a "lady by choice." A year ago Mrs. Elizabeth Hart became, by reason of the fact that she had been known to the public of Washington for 22 years as a vendor of newspapers on the corner of Fourteenth and G streets, the fac tual local counterpart of the woman In the cinematic Action titled "A Lady for a Day." She was lifted from comparative corner obscurity, wined and dined, feted and fussed over for a day. Last night there was a repeat per formance. In connection with the new picture "Lady By Choice," R K-O Keith's officials entertained Mrs. Hart again, calling for her in a limousine, letting her sit in the Presi dent's box and in general resuming the Cinderella role she enjoyed a year ago. As the picture unreeled, Mrs. Hart's expression scarcely changed. There was no Indication Mrs. Hart was undergoing what psychologists call "delusions of grandeur," no indlca tion she at all identified herself with the saint-under-the-skin portrayed by Miss May Robson on the screen. But what does Mrs. Hart think of it all? · What has it meant to her? Mrs. Hart's remarks were those of a woman who was very much at ease, a woman who had simply been picked out of a whole city, for some reason, that certain people might be espe cially nice to her for an evening. "Being 'lady for a day' was an ex perience, of course, that I will re member as long as I live." she said. "I think I liked talking over the radio best tha' day last year. For a few months after they had me in the papers I did do a little better busi ness, then it was just about the same. There hasn't been any difference in me." And there you are. Except for the fact that now Mrs. Hart, bringing any one she pleases, may attend all the shows at R-K-0 Keith's Theater free of charge, it is a case of business at the old stand as usual. But the pattern of the old fairy story has been broken. Cinderella has been lady for two days. *