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____WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1937._ *** PAGE B—1
10 SPEED PLANS
FOR NEW SET-UP
Inspection of Equipment Is
Made by Home Loan
Bank Examiner.
RECORDS FOR PROPOSED
FIRM WILL BE STARTED
Report Based on Figures at End
of Year Due to Be Brought
Up to Date.
Preparing to set up preliminary rec
ords for the proposed First Federal
Savings & Loan Association of Wash
ington, to take over the closed Fidelity
Building & Loan Association. John W.
Ballard of the Federal Home Loan |
Bank Board staff today made a per- j
sonal examination of bookkeeping ma- j
chines at the Fidelity.
Ballard, who is chief examiner for
the Federal Home Loan Bank Board,
conferred for sime time with the re
ceiver, James H. Nolan, who is in
charge of the Fidelity for the office of
the controller of the currency. After
ward Ballard expressed the opinion
that two bookkeeping machines, w'hich
originally cost about $2,000 each, can
be altered by a small expenditure so
they can be used in setting up records
for the new association.
Ballard indicated one of the first
steps he will take will be to bring his
examination up to date. A report j
which he made to the H. L. B. B, on
the basis of which two Government!
k agencies agreed to go forward with
the reorganization plan, showed the j
figures of the Fidelity as of December
31, 1936.
Gross Assets Listed.
At that time, it was learned today,
the gross assets of the Fidelity were
listed as about $4,700,000. A write
down of about 15 per cent on the lia
bilities of the institution was estimated
at about $650,000. including known
and estimated losses.
In this report, however, no investi
gation was made concerning the case
of Fred B. Rhodes, former president
of the institution, who faces charges
of forgery and larceny. He is now
out on bond, pending a new’ trial
April 12 on a charge of forgery. A
Jury recently failed to agree in the
first case brought against him.
New management will be assured
when the Federal Savings and Loan
Association takes over the Fidelity,
it was learned authoritatively today.
While detailed orders have not been
laid down in this particular case, it
is known that in such instances the
F. H. L. B. B. has required that a
majority of the directors of the new
institution shall be persons who did
not serve as directors of the closed
institution.
About SI,000,000 in Cash.
Among the assets listed as of De
cember 31 is about $1,000,000 in cash.
The rest of the assets include princi
pally first mortgage loans on real
estate in Washington and vicinity.
The order of procedure in the plan
to take over the Fidelity will be first
to set up the new Federal association,
which will make an offer to buy the
assets of the Fidelity at 85 cents on
the dollar. When this offer is official
ly made, the receiver and the con
troller will go to court to ask au
thority to sell all the assets of the
old association to the new one.
When this is granted, the new as
sociation will take over the assets, and
when it opens it will make available
to the 18,000 shareholders 85 per cent
of their holdings. The shareholders
may take this 85 per cent in cash,
or they may leave it to be invested
in the new association, which will be i
a member of the Federal Home Loan 1
Bank system. All accounts will be
Insured up to $5,000 each.
FUNERAL RITES HELD
FOR WIFE OF OFFICER
Mrs. Edward 0. Hopkins to Be
Buried in Arlington Na
tional Cemetery.
Mrs. Russell L. Hopkins, wife of
Capt. Edward O. Hopkins, commander
'of the Gray Horse Battery, 16th Field
Artillery, Fort Myer, Va„ died Sat
urday in Walter Reed Hospital after
a long illness.
Funeral services are being held this
afternoon in the Fort Myer Chapel,
with Chaplain Ora J. Johee officiat
ing. Burial will be in Arlington Na
tional Cemetery.
Besides her husband, among Mrs.
Hopkins’ survivors is a young daugh
ter, Nancy.
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BAND CONCERTS.
*By the Marine Band in the audi
torium at 3 pm. tomorrow. Capt.
Taylor Branson, leader; William F.
Santelmann, second leader.
Program.
"The Marines’ Hymn.”
March, "Punjaub” _ _ Payne
Comet solo, "Carnival of Venice,”
Del Staigers
Musician Robert De Hart.
Selection, "Prince of Pilsen”__Luders
“Fantastic Dance,” for woodw'ind
instruments - Paul White
Intermezzo, "The Waiter”... ..Rohde
"Procession of the Holy Grail,”
from "Parsifal” _Wagner
Waltz, “Jolly Fellows”_Vollstedt
March, "Will Rogers”.. Pryor
Trio for piccolos, "The Three
Birds” _Pillvestre
Musicians Clayton Lindsay, Bartley
Moor and Luis Guzman.
“Sleepers Wake” _Bach
Hymn, "To the Faithful”_Douse
“The Star Spangled Banner.”
By the Army Band in the audi
torium at 6 p.m. today. Capt. Thomas
F. Darcy, leader.
Program.
Finale from the "New World Sym
phony" ___ _Dvorak
“Triplets,” trio for saxophones, Tucker
“Glelito Lindo” Fernandez
“The Spirit of Pageantry,” grand
march in F _ Fletcher
"Valse Militaire” _Waldteufel
March, "Always Forward”_Missudl
• “The Star Spangled Banner.” 9
Real Evidence of Spring
This is how the Speedieay looked most of yesterday as the
Capital celebrated the first day of Spring. The photograph was
'made from the Highway Bridge. —Star Staff Photo.
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TWO PERSONS DIE
Virginian Crushes to Death
When Car Rolls Down
Embankment.
Two persons were killed in nearby |
Maryland and Virginia traffic acci
dents yesterday, while several others ;
are recovering in hospitals here today j
from week-end accidents in and about j
the city.
Curtis Jarrell, 25, of Cherrydale. Va.,
was crushed to death when a car in j
which he was riding overturned and j
rolled down an embankment on the I
Lee-Jackson highway, 2 miles west of j
Fairfax, Va.
i
Two companions. Leo T. Goode, 23,
Ballston, Va., and Edward Berlin, 22,
Cherrydale, escaped with cuts and '
bruises.
Goode, said by police to have been j
the driver of the car, was released I
under $500 bond for appearance at a I
coroner’s inquest at 2 p.m. tomorrow 1
in Alexandria, Va. He told police he
was blinded by the headlights of an
approaching machine.
Passing motorists lifted the wrecked !
automobile from Jarrell’s body. The |
car apparen*ly rolled on him after he |
had been hurled from the vehicle as j
it careened from the road. He was j
pronounced dead at Alexandria Hos- j
pital.
Thomas Tolliver, 29, colored, 1319 !
Minnesota avenue northeast, was pro- |
nounced dead on arrival at Casualty I
Hospital after his automobile ran off
the road and overturned at Fairmont
Heights. Md.
Carroll A. Fitzgerald. 31, of 4615
Eighth street, and Miss Dorothy j
Blackw’ell, 23, of 223 F street, were j
reported recovering at Casualty Has- j
pital today from injuries received in '
a wllision at First street and Con
stitution avenue early yesterday.
According to police. Fitzgerald's car
collided with one driven by Leo A.
Webb. 25, of 621 E street southeast.
Webb received only minor hurts.
Miss Blackwell suffered cuts, bruises,
and brain concussion. Fitzgerald re
ceived a severe head injury, dislocated
right shoulder, and cuts.
George A. Moran, 24, Capital
Heights, Md.. was reported in an im
proved condition at Providence Hos
pital today from injuries received
yesterday when his automobile over
turned on the Marlboro pike, between
Forestville and Meadows, Md. He
was treated for internal injuries and
a broken right leg.
COURT OVERRULES
DISTRICT JUDGE
Another Hearing in Sentence
Mix-TJp on Downey Case
Ordered.
The United States Court of Appeals
held today that a District Court judge
should not have acted to correct a
sentence which he imposed five years
ago, but should have sent the matter
to another magistrate.
The case concerned Bernard L. Dow
ney. who pleaded guilty to three rob
bery indictments and was sentenced
March 24, 1932, to four years’ impris
onment on each case. I'he clerical
recording of the sentence left doubt
as to whether the terms were to
run concurrently or consecutively—a
difference between 4 and 12 years.
Downey was sent to Atlanta and at
the expiration of four years obtained
his release by habeas corpus. He
wis then brought to Washington for
correction of the original sentence.
Over objection of his attorneys,
Albert Stem and Albert Lyman, the
motion for correction of sentence was
heard by the same judge who imposed
it—Justice James M. Proctor. Draw
ing on his own recollection of circum
stances surrounding the case and let
ters in his files, the jurist decided
the sentences should run consecu
tively. This meant Downey would
have to serve eight more years in
prison.
Associate Justice Harold M. Stephens
of the appellate court declared, how
ever. that the hearing was improper,
since Justice Proctor acted both as
judge and witness. He remanded the
>case to District Court for another
hearing before a different Judge.
10 END TODAY
Tomorrow Expected to Be
Cloudy—Thousands Ob
serve Palm Sunday.
The fair weather which marked the
first day of Spring and the beginning
of Holy Week yesterday was expected
to continue today, according to the
Weather Bureau.
Tomorrow is expected to be cloudy,
however, possibly with rain in the
evening. The temperature tonight
may reach a low of 40 degrees.
The capital’s churches were filled to
capacity as thousands of worshipers
celebrated the anniversary of Christ’s
palm-strewn entry into Jerusalem.
High mass was sung in all Catholic
churches where, in accordance with
the old tradition, each member bore
a palm leaf symbolic of the original
tribute. The special religious services
ushering in Holy Week began early in
both Catholic and Protestant churches.
The pre-Easter promenade crowded
the parks, Connecticut avenue and
Sixteenth street as worshipers
thronged the streets before and after
the religious commemoration.
Although the sun shone only at in
tervals throughout the day, thousands
of residents and visitors turned out
for strolls or automobile rides on the
Speedway and through the darks.
Many visited the Japanese cherry
trees to get first-hand information on
the arrival of the blooms.
The highest temperature yesterday
ivas at 8 a m., when the mercury
climbed to 53 degrees. It was some
what colder in the afternoon, and by
midnight the temperature had dropped
to 40 degrees. The “low” was 36 de
grees, reached at 4 a m. today.
NORMENT FAMILY
WILL GET ESTATE
Widow and Three Children Left
Fortune of D. C. Finan
cier.
Clarence P. Norment, 80, one of
Washington's most prominent finan
cial figures, who died March 14 at his
Wardman Park Hotel apartment, left
most of his large estate to his widow
and their three children, it was re
vealed today in District Court when
his will was filed.
No estimate of the former banker’s
holdings was furnished the court.
This will be provided later in a peti
tion to probate of the will which was
made May 14, 1935.
Mr. Norment left $50,000 outright
to his widow, Mrs. Lizzie Smith Nor
ment.
His son, Clarence F. Norment, jr.,
president of the Norfolk & Washing
ton Steamboat Co., which the senior
Norment once headed, was made
trustee of a $750,000 fund. The son
was directed to pay the income from
$300,000 of this sum to his mother for
her life. At her death the $300,000
will be divided among the son and two
daughters, Mrs. Judith E. N. Puller
and Mrs. Ethel N. Alden. All the
children live here.
One hundred thqjisand dollars of the
trust fund will be held for the benefit
of each of the three children, who
will receive the income for life. At
the death of each child the principal
of the $100,000 trust will be distributed
among his or her children, provided
that event takes place 15 years after
the death of the testator. In any case
the distribution must wait the expira
tion of that period.
The income from the remaining
$150,000 of the $750,000 trust fund
will be allowed to accumulate for 15
years, and then the principal and ac
crued income will be distributed to all
grandchildren of Mr. Norment then
living.
The will provided for six other be
quests and then directed that the
residue be divided in equal shares
among the three children.
The specific bequests were $10,000
to a niece, Ida M. Walters; $10,000 to
George L. Starkey, $3,000 to a cousin,
Anna Beall Norment; $3,000 to Mrs.
Mary Ward Lewis, $1,000 to the So
ciety of Oldest Inhabitants of Wash
ington and $1,000 to the Smjiety of
Natives of the District of Columbia.
THREE-ALARM FIRE
DAMAGE IS 515100
AT BEAUTY SALON
Several Thousands in Pre
Theater Crowd Drawn
by Flames.
ANTIQUES ARE RUINED
IN RESIDENTIAL BLAZE
Canary and Rabbit Found Safe
After Flood Home Is Par
tially Burned.
Fire swept through the upper floors
of Emile’s beauty salon at 1221 Con
necticut avenue last night, attract
ing a pre-theater crowd of several
thousand and jamming traffic in the
neighborhood for more than an hour.
It was the second three-alarm fire
within a few hours, the other oc
curring at the Rosslyn Steel & Ce
ment Co. plant, Thirty-first and K
streets.
Earlier in the day. Dickie, a canary
bird, and Easter Bunny, a white rab
bit, emerged bedraggled, but still play
ful from a blaze that burned through
the dining room and kitchen of the
home of William J. Flood, 1322 Massa
chusetts avenue, destroying valuable
European tapestries and century-old
cut glass.
The first fire companies arriving at
the blaze at Emile's immediately
turned in a third alarm, calling ap
proximately 30 pieces of apparatus to
the scene. Police ordered all avail
able motor cycle men to the blaze to
handle the crowds.
Damage May Be $15,000.
The fire, according to Emile
Beauvais, operator of the salon, caused
between $10,000 and $15,000 damage.
He was not sure how completely the
loss was covered by insurance.
A steel fire door, sliding shut auto
matically when the flames spurted
from an elevator shaft, confined most
of the blaze to a gymnasium on the
fourth floor. Much of the equipment
there was destroyed or seriously
damaged.
The proprietor was in his fourth
floor apartment when firemen ar
rived. When he opened the fire door
for them he was drenched by water
from a fire hose.
Cause of the blaze was not definitely
determined, but firemen believed a
short circuit in the elevator shaft was
responsible.
The blaze in the gymnasium created
heat so intense that ventilators on the
roof still were drawing hot air from
the building an hour afterward.
Spectators thronged the street and
sidewalks in the fire area, causing
street cars to be halted and automo
1 bile traffic to be rerouted.
One of the apartments in the build
ing was the scene of a raid on an al
leged gambling establishment several
weeks ago. Occupants of the suite es
caped by running into a women's
turkish bath in an adjoining building.
The Flood family was in church
when fire broke out in the newly
equipped kitchen of their Massachu
setts avenue home.
Firemen Don Masks.
Firemen donned their masks to bat
tle the blaze. In the dining room they
found the canary singing and the rab
bit frolicking on the floor. The pets,
j belonging to Dolores Flood, 3, and
members of her private kindergarten
class, were none the worse for their
experience, except in appearance. The
bird was given a bath late yesterday
and the rabbit was to be cleaned with
a cornmeal rubdown today.
Mrs. Flood estimated damage at
$10,000 and said the cause of the fire
was still undetermined. Much of the
loss cannot be replaced, as it included
valuable sterling silver, two European
tapestries and a set of English rose
cut glass more than 100 years old.
Traffic was paralyzed yesterday aft
ernoon by the blaze at the Rosslyn
Steel & Cement Co. plant. A wooden
file room was swept by flames, but
firemen extinguished them quickly.
The second and third alarms were
turned in as a precautionary measure,
firemen fearing the blaze might spread
to an adjoining lumber yard. The
cause was not determined.
George A. Ford, 47, of 478 F street
southwest, was burned about the right
hand when he tried to put out a fire
that started in a mattress at his home
yesterday. Only slight damage was
caused by the flames. He was treated
at Providence Hospital and later dis
charged.
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D. C. WORKERS HONOR
HAZEN, ALLEN TONIGHT
missioners Melvin C. Hazen and
George E. Allen with a banquet at the
Mayflower Hotel at 7:30 o'clock to
night, celebrating reappointment of
the officials for second terms. More
than 600 workers and guests are ex
pected to attend.
Special guests invited are Senators
King of Utah, Thomas of Oklahoma
and Capper of Kansas, and Repre
sentatives Norton of New Jersey and
Collins of Mississippi.
26 U. Sm Animals Arrive Safely
At Dr. Mann’s Camp in Sumatra
Twenty-six animals native to the
United States were the first to occupy
the pens which Dr. William M. Mann
is setting up at his base camp in
Sumatra for the collection of exotic
specimens for the local Zoo.
The National Geographic Society
announced today that Dr. Mann, di
rector of the Zoo here, had cabled the
safe arrival of the bears, jaguars,
mountain lions, alligators and rac
coons which were sent to him from
Washington.
The expedition leader will give the
American animals to zoos in the Far
East. These animals are as rare in
the East Indies as Far Eastern speci
mens are here.
The animals arrived in good condi
tion after a 40-day voyage eastward
around the Cape of Good Hope on the
southern tip of Africa. They were
under the care of Malcolm Davis and
Roy Jennier, Zoo keepers. A
Davis and Jennier left hwte in Feb
ruary with their charges and sailed
from New York aboard a Dutch
freighter. Dr. and Mrs. Mann and
Dr. Maynard Owen Williams, the so
ciety’s photographer and staff repre
sentative, left earlier and proceded to
Sumatra by the western route, arriv
ing a month ago to visit neighboring
islands and to set up the base camp
near Medan, Sumatra.
The expedition will remain in the
field for at least four months yet, col
lecting animals which will be dis
played in the elaborate new buildings
now nearing completion at the Zoo.
The enterprise is jointly sponsored
by the society and the Smithsonian
Institution.
The expedition will return by the
European route.
Other American specimens which
Dr. Mann will distribute in the East
Indies are 'possums and hellbenders, a
strange salamander native to Alle
gheny Mountain streams.^
Flood Levees Near Completion
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Senate Measure Would Al
low 12 Annapolis Ap
pointments.
BY J. A. O’LEARY.
The first step toward Riving the Dis
trict a larger number of appointments
to the Military and Naval Academies
was taken today when Senator Walsh.
Democrat, of Massachusetts introduced
a bill under which Washington would
get 12 instead of 4 at Annapolis.
Later today or tomorrow Senator
Reynolds, Democrat, of North Carolina
will offer a companion measure to in
crease the total quota at West Point
from five to nine.
If enacted, these two bills would
place the Capital on a parity with
States that have two Senators and one
Representative.
Provisions of Existing Law.
Existing law entitles each member
of Congress to an authorized maximum
of five places at Annapolis and three
at West Point. The present policy of
Congress, however, is to make appro
priations for only four naval appoint
ments for each congressman, or a
total of 12 from a State having two
Senators and one Represeentative.
Therefore, while the Walsh bill
changes the substantive law applying
to the District from 5 to 15. it was
explained that, under the present ap
propriation policy, the actual effect of
the bill will be to raise the number at
Annapolis from 4 to 12.
At West Point the District is getting
all the five appointments authorized
by law. and an increase to nine is
j sufficient to put the city on an equal
I basis with congressional allotments
from the smaller States.
Approved By Committee.
The Military Affairs Committee al
ready has approved the increases, and
is expected to report the Reynolds bill
without delay. It also favored the
Annapolis increase, but the Naval
Affairs Committee, presided over by
Walsh, will have to pass on that meas
ure as a matter of jurisdiction.
If Congress ever decides to give each
member of Congress the full quota of
five instead of four at Annapolis, the
Walsh bill will enable the District to
receive 15 instead of 12.
CHEVY CHASE WOMAN
HURT IN GAS BLAST
Mrs. Courts D. Rea. Wife of Re
settlement Aide, in Critical Condi
tion—Note Reported Found.
By a Staff Correspondent of The Star.
CHEVY CHASE, Md„ March 22 —
Mrs. Courts D. Rea, 30. wife of a Re
settlement Administration official, was
critically injured by an explosion of
a gas range in the kitchen of her
home, 4515 Ridge street shortly before
noon today.
The force of the explosion blew the
door between the kitchen and the din
ing room off its hinges, broke several
windows and blew the frame of a
kitchen window into the yard next
door.
Paul Oldfield, member of the Be
thesda Volunteer Fire Department,
entered a kitchen window when he
found the rear door locked and brought
Mrs. Rea outside. She was lying on
three chairs which had been placed in
front of the oven door of the stove.
Her hair and face were burned and
the oven door cut a gash in her fore
head.
Officer Leo Day of the Montgomery
County police said that several burners
of the stove were open and that he
found a three-line note in the kitchen,
but he declined to reveal the note's
contents. The fire department was
notified by Mrs. Richard Cunningham
who lives across the street from the
Rea home.
Mrs. Rea was treated at her home by
a private physician.
General view of the Anacostia dike, looking toward the
Naval Air Station. The road to the station is at the foot of the
levee to the left.
In the lower picture are W. J. Yarnoff. assistant engineer,
United States Army Engineer Office (left), and Lieut. B. W. Fink,
public works officer at the Anacostia station, in joint charge of
the work, standing on top of the partly completed levee.
—Star Staff Photos.
Nursemaid, 16, Seriously Hurt
In 35-Foot Leap From Window
Act Laid to Baseless
Fear of Being
Sent Home.
A 16-year-old English nursemaid
today fought to recover from injuries
received in a 35-foot plunge from Al
ban Towers yesterday—the result, her
employer said, of brooding over a
baseless fear of being sent back to her
native land.
The girl. Rose Bridger, is in Emer
gency Hospital in a serious condition,
although she showed improvement
last night after being given a pint of
blood by her employer, Jean C. Baube,
Washington correspondent of Havas.
French news agency.
Smarting under a jesting reprimand,
the girl waited until Mr. and Mrs.
Baube left their apartment to visit
friends before she attempted to end
her life.
Climbs to Windowsill.
After tucking the Baubes’ 18-month
old son and 3-year-old daughter in
their cribs, she climbed to the window
sill of the third-floor suite and leaped
to a concrete driveway while a group
of children watched from below.
Tlte girl apparently had considered !
stabbing herself or slashing her wrrists,
because she was holding a butcher
knife as she stood in the window.
The cries of the children who saw i
her—Brennan Hatley, 13, and William !
Walker, 14—failed to dissuade her
from jumping.
Dr. Joseph S. Laughran, pastor of
Cleveland Park Community Church,
who was eating lunch in the Alban
Towers dining room when the inci
dent occurred, accompanied the girl
to the hospital and offered to submit
to a transfusion. His blood did not
match, however.
Hurries to Hospital.
Baube, learning what had hap
pened when he and his wife returned
home several hours later, hurried to
CHARITIES NAMED
IN ARMSTRONG WILL
Three Kentucky Institutions Re
ceive Bulk of $200,000
Estate.
Disposing of an estate valued at
slightly more than $200,000, the will
of Mrs. Lyda S. Armstrong, who died
here January 24, was filed for probate
in District Court today. Three Ken
tucky charities teceived the bulk of
the estate.
In a will dated March 7, 1935, Mrs.
Armstrong provided for the following
cash bequests: $1,000 to a niece,
Prances A. Jones, Auburn, Ala.; $1,000
to another niece, Mary Armstrong of
Auburn; $1,000 to Mary Flowers,
Montgomery, Ala.; $10,000 to a cousin,
Margaret D. Golterman. St. Louis;
$1,000 to Mrs. Anna D. Woods of the
Brighton Hotel here; $3,000 to Annie
B. Davis, a nurse: $1,000 to the Wash
ington Club; $500 to Mrs. Mary G,
MacCurdy of Washington; $500 to
Mrs. Helen R. Thierolf of Philadelphia,
and $5,000 to the Norton Memorial
Infirmary, Louisville, Ky.
Mrs. Armstrong directed her execu
tor, the American Security & Trust
Co., to divide the residue of her estate
equally among the Children's Free
Hospital of Louisville; the Morton
Home for the Aged, Louisville, and the
Bishop and trustees of the diocese of
Lexington for the benefit of a moun
tain school they conduct.
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Poetry Clinic to Meet.
The Poetry Clinic sponsored by the
District Federation of Women’s Clubs
will meet from 4 to 6 p.m. tomorrow at
the Hotel Roosevelt. Mrs. Inez Shel
don Tyler, poetry chairman, will con
duct the clinic.
ROSE BRIDGES.
Shown with Ian Baube, 21
months old, one of the two
children for whom she is
nursemaid.
the hospital and gave his blood in
an effort to save the life of the young
nursemaid.
The girl received a broken arm
and leg and may be injured internally,
according to hospital attaches.
Rose was brought here last year
from England, where her nearest rela
tive is an aunt, Baube said.
Before the Baubes went out, the
writer said, Rose had been scolded
mildly for something she had done
wrong, and she evidently had taken
seriously a jocose remark about send
ing her home.
Ironically enough, Baube said he
must return to Europe in a few
months anyhow.
POSTPONE HEARINGS
IN GAMBLING CASES
Commissioner Continues Sessions
for Six for Two
Weeks.
Six of seven men seized in simul
taneous raids on alleged gambling
places Saturday afternoon were ar
raigned today before United States
Commissioner Needham C. Turnage,
who continued the cases for two
weeks.
The six were Robert H. Miller, Ely
Friedman, Frank Joseph Meletti,
George Shettel, jr.; Max Brody,
charged with conspiracy to violate the
gambling laws, and Harry W. Wood,
charged with setting up a gaming
table. Bonds of $1,000, under which
the men were at liberty, were contin
ued in each case.
Meanwhile, the United States at
torney’s office nolle prossed a charge
of conspiracy lodged by police against
John V. Laforte, the seventh man
arrested in the raids.
Commissioner Turnage also contin
ued for two weeks cases against a
number of additional defendants
taken in gambling raids during the
last month. The commissioner’s pol
icy is to continue the cases to permit
raiding officers and the United States
attorney’s office to present the cases
to the grand jury.
More than 30 places have been
raided during the last two weeks by
specially-organized squads striking
simultaneously at various suspected
places throughout the city. Many
raided places have opened for business
a day after the Aids.
IVY AIR STATION
LEVEES ARE RISING
AS PACE QUICKENS
600 Truckloads of Earth a
Day Dumped on 3-Mile
Front.
PROGRAM’S COMPLETION
IS EXPECTED BY JUNE 30
Flood-Gates in Front of Hangars
to Allow Planes to Be
Moved Into River.
An earth levee system similar to
the one along the Mississippi River is
taking shape at the rate of 600 truck
loads of earth a day along a three
i mile river front around the Anacostia
i Naval Air Station and old Bolling
j Field.
The $225,000 levee program, under
taken last October, is expected to be
completed by June 30, it was ex
plained today by Lieut. B W. Fink,
Navy public works officer at the Ana
costia station. Permanent protection
| against Potomac River floods, which
j have caused damage running up to
nearly $50,000 during a single flood,
is expected.
The levee is being raised to a level
of 17 feet above mean low water,
Lieut. Fink said. This will be about
3 feet higher than the record
flood of March 19-22, 1936. which rose
6 feet into buildings of the Naval Air
I Station and reached a depth of more
| than 10 feet on parts of the landing
field.
Built bv YV. P. A. Employes.
The levee system is being constructed
by YVorks Progress Administration
employes under supervision of Army
and Navy engineers. The project in
volves the placing of 182.000 cubic
yards of earth in the levees; construc
tion of water-tight flood gates in front
of the air station hangars and boat
house and reconstruction of part of
the field drainage system.
The levee is to have a thickness
of 30 feet at the top. the base aver
aging about 70 feet through.
The most interesting feature of the
system will be the flood gates in front
of the hangars. Water-tight sections
will be stored at each side of the gap
in the dike, through which seaplanes
and flying boats are moved from the
hangar into the river. These sec
tions may be put into place quickly
to provide protection against anything
from an unusually high tide to a
flood of all-time record proportions.
Y'alves Are Provided.
The field drainage system provides
for flow under the levees into the
J river during times of low water. In
| case of flood, values are provided on
| all drainage outlets to prevent water
j from backing up into the field.
Pumps and electric pumping equip
| ment are being installed to clear the
j field of rain water or seepage during
times of flood.
The levees extend from the high
! ground at Giesboro Point upstream
along the Potomac and along the shore
! of Eastern Branch to the District
Nursery and Anacostia Park, across
j the river from the Navy Yard. The
j levee line then turns sharply inland
| to high ground near Howard road.
The Army participation in the proj
ect is under direction of W. J. Yarnoff,
assistant engineer in the United States
Engineer Office for the local district.
EX-WIFE GETS $25,000
IN ALIENATION SUIT
! Large Verdict Returned After
D. C. Woman’s Case Goes
by Default.
A District Court jury today awarded
Mrs. Rose Russo $25,000 damages for
alleged alienation of her husband’s
affections by his present wife. Mrs.
Vita Russo, 1530 Gale street.
The unusually large verdict was re
turned after the case went by default
several days ago. The first Mrs. Russo,
who lives at 1913 Thirty-fifth place,
told the court she married John Russo
October 10, 1917, in New York City
and that they lived together for 18
years.
She charged that Mrs. Vita Russo
alienated her husband's affections so
that he and his first wife were sepa
rated in June, 1935. Mrs. Rose Russo
sued and obtained a divorce and then
brought the .present action for dam
ages.
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| Banquet Manager
Protects Justice
From Coffee Bath
Helps Waiter Carrying
Beverage IS ear Van De
vanter Regain Balance.
A banquet manager's quick work
in helping a waiter, carrying a big
coffee pot, recover his equilibrium
saved Supreme Court Justice Willis
Van Devanter from possible scalding
Saturday night during the Wyoming
State Society’s feast at the Raleigh
Hotel.
Cowboy costumes and 10-gallon hats
adorned a number of dignitaries and
shots from blank cartridges filled the
air as a dinner of Wyoming elk,
slaughtered especially for the occa
sion, was being served. In one corner
was a covered wagon, reminiscent of
pioneer days.
Justice Van Devanter, seated at the
head table, was watching the goings
on when a waiter approached from
behind, pouring coffee into each cup.
Apparently, the waiter lost his footing
as a Wyoming cowboy dashed by and
the coffee pot moved toward the jus
tice’s head.
Ernest J. McCarthy, the banquet
manager, rose to the occasion, reach
ing the waiter just in time. Fortu
nately, the pot’s spout was turned
upward and none of its contents
spilled. Only a few persons at the
speakers’ table witnessed the incident.
Justice Van Devanter is one of
Wyoming’s picAper eitisen*.