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-- 3 SUNDAY MORNING EDITION '
_WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1937._**_ PAGE B—1
EXTENSIVE MOVING
PROGRAM FOLLOWS
INTERIORJHIFT
Six Departments Get Added
Space After New Build
ing Is Occupied.
U. S. WILL SAVE $180,000
IN RENTALS ANNUALLY
Security Board, Power Commis
lion and Other Agencies to Be
Expanded in New Quarters.
Added space for the Treasury, War,
Navy, Commerce, Justice and Post
Office Departments will result from
the move of the Interior Department
Into its new building, which was
launched Saturday afternoon, officials
said today. On completion of a series
of shifts in which leased space will be
vacated, the Government will save
aome $18J,000 in annual rent, it was
estimated.
Secretary Ickes and Arno B. Cam
merer, director of the National Park
Service, have approved the estensive
moving program, which will place the
Social Security Board in the Potomac
Park Apartments at Twenty-first and
C streets, which will be vacated by
the housing division of the Public
Works Administration, to move into
the old Interior Building.
The Federal Power Commission, now
occupying three buildings will, under
tentative plans, occupy the entire
Hurley-Wright Building at Eighteenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue. That
structure is now housing the Office
of Indian Affairs and Office of Educa
tion of the Interior Department, which
go to the new building. The Power
Commission w'ill vacate space in the
Printcraft Building at 930 H street,
the Carpenters' Building at Tenth and
K streets and the Machinists’ Building
at Ninth street and Mount Vernon
place.
The division of accounts and de
posits of the Treasury Department will
be assigned vacated space in the Print
craft Building to permit assembling its
scattered activities, now located in a
portion of the City Club Building and
the entire second floor of the building
st Seventh and I streets. The space
vacated in the City Club Building will
be released to the Resettlement Ad
ministration, now occupying the re
mainder of that structure.
S . E. C. to Get Quarters.
into the new Interior Department
will move the libraries of the Office of
Indian Affairs and the Office of Edu
cation and certain Interior Department
flies from 1778 Pennsylvania avenue.
This vacattv. space will be assigned to
the Securities and Exchange Com
mission, now occupying the rest of
that building.
The Office of Education will con
tinue to maintain certain emergency
activities in the Metropolitan Club
Annex, 1712 H street, although a por
tion will eventually be shifted to the
new building of the department.
National Park Service activities per
taining to emergency conservation
work will be shifted out of the Bond
Building, at Fourteenth street and
New York avenue; the Commercial
National Bank Building, at Four
teenth and G streets, and the Evans
Building, at 1420 New York avenue,
Into the new Interior Department.
The Bureau of Mines will be shifted
out of the Washington Loan & Trust
Co. Building, at Ninth and F streets,
and the McGill Building, at 906 G
•treet, into the new building. The
apace thus vacated has been assigned
to the Federal Alcohol Administration,
now located in the Department of Jus
tice Building.
The Works Progress Administration
will take over the entire Lemon
Building, at 1729 New York avenue.
At present it is being used for various
Interior Department activities and
the Public Works Administration. The
reassignment of this space, officials
asserted, will permit releasing of space
In buildings at 1417-19 F street and
1400 G street, “at a material saving
In rent.”
The Puerto Rico Reconstruction
Administration, now occupying a suite
of offices in the Munsey Building,
1329 E street, will be moved to the old
Interior Department Building.
Coal Commission to Move.
The office administering the affairs
of the Coal Commission will be shift
ed to the old Interior Building, out
of the Investment Building, Fifteenth
and K streets. The space thus re
leased will be taken over by the Rural
Electrification Administration, now
occupying other space in that build
ing.
Space totaling some 300,000 square
feet in Government buildings and
175,000 square feet in leased build
ings will change hands in the gigantic
shift. Clay J. Guthridge, chief of the
division of Government space con
trol, National Park Service, Interior
Department, will supervise the Gov
ernment’s big moving program, which
Will occupy several weeks.
In Government-owned buildings
these shifts will take plaoe:
The Geological Survey of the In
terior Department will expand In the
old Interior Building, which will also
house smaller activities of the depart
ment which will be unable to find
place In the new edifice. Certain
■mall laboratory activities of the Na
tional Park Service wil be moved out
of the Winder Building, Seventeenth
and P streets.
Within the next month, the tiny
Research Building at Nineteenth street
and Constitution avenue will be de
molished. It houses activities of the
Public Health Service, which will
go Into the Navy Building, and the
office of Lewis R. Barrett, the Dis
trict’s * eo-ordinator of recreation,
which will go into the new Interior
Department.
The branch of buildings manage
ment and the National Capital Parks
of the National Park Service, the Fine
Arts Commission, the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission and
certain units of the Bureau of Mines
will move out of the Navy Building
to the new Interior. Space thus freed
will be utilized for expansion by
ths Navy Department, by the district
engineer for the War Department
for the Washington area. Public
Health Service and the division of
accounts and deposits of the Treasury
34 Husky Armed Men Guard
Supreme Court and Justices
Capt. Crook’s Detail
Ready to Meet Trouble,
if Any Arises.
BY PHILIP H. LOVE.
A special police force of 34 “strong”
men—all trained in marksmanship by
the Coast Guard—protects the Su
preme Court and its nine justices.
Husky blue-uniformed officers, with
revolvers swinging in holsters at their
sides, patrol the spacious Supreme
Court Building night and day, keeping
in constant communication with their
headquarters through signaling de
vices at strategic points on their
“beats.”
Inside the four-story structure po
licemen either stand guard at stations
designated by their commander, Capt.
Phil H. Crook, or else follow pre
scribed routes which, in the course of
an eight-hour “trick of duty,” take
them through miles of white marble
corridors and rooms. Outside they
patrol the area bounded by First and
Second streets northeast and East
Capitol street and Maryland avenue
northeast, maintaining contact with
headquarters by means of regular
police call-boxes.
"Very Few” Arrests.
Although the force is trained and
equipped to meet virtually any emer
gency, it has encountered "no real
trouble” thus far, according to Capt.
Crook. Despite the fact an average
of 6.000 or more visitors enter the
building every day, no member of the
force fias ever found it necessary to
use his gun and arrests have been
"very few.”
"As a matter of fact,” said Capt.
Crook, "we hardly ever have any
trouble—largely, I suppose, because
most people hold the court and every
thing pertaining to it in such great
awe.”
Crook and his men have comprised
the force since its organization in
June, 1935, when the tribunal moved
from the old Senate chamber in the
Capitol. He had been a lieutenant of
Capitol police, in charge of the House
Office Building details, but only two
or three members of that force fol
lowed him to his new command.
No Patronage Jobs.
"Capitol police jobs are patronage
propositions, but this isn’t,” he ex
plained. "My men—all of whom were
appointed by Supreme Court Marshal
Frank K. Green, with the approval
of Chief Justice Hughes—had to meet
strict requirements, even though they
aren't under civil service. Most of
them are ex-service men and all are
healthy and strong, a$ well as intel
ligent.”
A native of Maine, Crook had
a background of 14 years’ experience
as a Capitol policeman when he was
placed in charge of the court force.
Before coming to Washington, he was
chief telegraph operator for the Bos
ton & Maine Railroad.
Scattered through the structure are
CAPT. PHIL H. CROOK.
—Star Staff Photo.
28 “clock stations," which Capt.
Crook's men are required to "punch”
at two-hour intervals 24 hours a
day, while fellow officers stationed
outside "pull” street-corner call-boxes.
"Although we are an independent
body,” Crook pointed out, “we’re all
sworn in as special officers of the
Metropolitan Police Department. And,
like the Metropolitan force, we have
plainclothes men—three trained de
tective who sit among the spectators
in the court room and mingle with
visitors elsewhere in the building.”
Visitors Set Record.
Heaviest work of the force at
present is in handling the large
crowds attracted to the tribunal by
the controversy over President Roose
velt’s "reorganization” proposal. Last
Monday, for instance, the court had
the largest number of visitors in its
history—11,535 between 9 am. and
4:30 p.m., according to the tabulations
of policemen assigned to "clocking”
duty at the various entrances.
“Our biggest month was last April,”
Crook said. "We clocked 74,329 visitors
then, but, judging by the way things
are going now, this month is going
to beat that figure by a considerable
margin.”
As he spoke, a line of visitors
standing two abreast stretched from
the main entrance of the court
chamber to a point out of sight
around the comer of an intersecting
corridor at the front of the building—
a distance of at least a block.
“The big problem.” he pointed out,
“is how to get all these people into
a court room designed to seat only
265 and with standing room for only
about 135 more.
“Fortunately, most of them are
patient, and if they wait long enough,
the chances are they'll all be able
to go back home and tell their friends
they actually saw the justices on
the bench. And that, I take It, is
what they come for.”
D.A.R.ATTENDANCE
RECORD EKPEC1ED
Report by Mrs. Becker and
Several Elections to
Mark Congress.
The forty-sixth Continental Con
gress of the Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution, which will convene
here April 19 to elect seven vice
presidents general and one honorary
vice president general, is expected to
break all attendance records, it was
announced today.
The congress will mark the close
of the second year of the administra
tion of Mrs. William A. Becker, presi
dent general, and her report to the
delegates assembled from the various
States, Territories and insular pos
sessions will be one of the high lights
of the gathering.
The seating capacity of Constitution
Hall will be taxed to the limit during
the congress, national headquarters
stated. Mrs. Becker assured local
members of the organization, how
ever, that after opening night, every
effort will be made to find seats for
members who are not delegates.
Mrs. Becker’s report is expected to
detail the work of her administration
in conducting a Nation-wide program
to aid youth and the underprivileged,
a vigorous campaign against com
munism, subversive propaganda and
anti-American activities; energetically
supporting development of an ade
quate national defense and expanding
the D. A. R. student-aid program.
A number of resolutions of ‘‘para
mount importance’’ will be laid before
the congress, Mrs. Becker said.
Mrs. Becker will hold her reception
at Constitution Hall on the evening of
April 20. Mrs. Roosevelt will receive
the delegates at the White House
on April 21. The election of officers
will be held April 22 and the con
gress will adjourn following a banquet
at the Mayjlower Hotel April 23.
Civil War Veteran Is 91.
CUMBERLAND, Md„ April 5 (/P).—
James Reed, one of the few surviving
Civil War veterans in Western Mary
land, is 91 years old. He celebrated
his birthday anniversary Saturday at
his home here.
Department. The division, now lo
cated in wings four and five of the
first floor of the Munitions Building,
will expand.
The laboratory activities and the
library of the Bureau of Mines and
the Office of Geographic Names will
move into the new Interior Build
ing from the Department of Com
merce. The released space will be
taken over by Commerce.
The Bureau of Reclamation and
Division of Motion Pictures of the
Interior Department will move from
the New Post Office Building to the
new Interior Building. Expansion of
several congested divisions of the
Post Office Department will care for
the extra space in that building thus
created.
With the Social Security Board
taking over the Potomac Park Apart
ments, some space mi the first floor
of 1300 E street will be given over to
the Farm Credit Administration, now
occupying most of that building.
17 Defendants Arraigned on
Charges and Bonds Are
Reduced.
Postponement of the gambling cases
against 17 men arrested Saturday in
a series of raids on Ninth street estab
lishments and reduction of the pris
oners’ bonds resulted today when they
were arraigned before United States
Commissioner Needham C. Turnage.
Pleading not guilty, the prisoners
were released for a hearing May 5.
Their bonds aggregated. $41,500, com
pared with a total of $69,000 originally
set by police.
Only those charged with violating
sections of the gambling code were
arraigned, 123 others having been
released over the week end after being
booked as witnesses.
Vincent Marino appeared on two
charges of setting up a gaming table
and two charges of conspiracy to
violate the gambling laws. His bond
was fixed at $6,000.
Action on Others.
Charged with conspiracy and setting
up gaming tables, Bernard Newyhar,
Howard Michelson, his father, Isaac
Michelson, and Arthur E. Williams,
were released on $3,000 bail each.
Bonds of $2,00fl each was set for
Herman E. Roach, James Campo,
Thomas W. Bean, Melvin O. Zirzle,
John Dumlea, Manny Klein, Nick
Koury, Prank La Barr, George Craig,
Clark Stockstill and George H. Lilley,
all of whom were charged with setting
up gaming tables.
Jacob Jackson, colored, charged with
conspiracy to violate the gambling
laws, was released on $1,500 bond.
Three of the places raided were
pool rooms, while the fourth was a
fountain service establishment.
Paraphernalia Confiscated.
Paraphernalia allegedly used In
bookmaking, numbers slips and a
number of pin-ball and claw machines
were confiscated, police said.
Since they started their latest war
against gambling, police have made
43 raids.
Early last month, police had been
fixing bonds of $1,000 on each gambl
ing charge. Saturday night, however,
they boosted it to $3,000 per charge.
Turnage today set it at $1,500 on each
count.
CHINESE DIPLOMAT
IS INJURED IN JUMP
Jen Chao Shieh Leaped From
Hone to Avoid Collision
With Bicyclist.
Jen Chao Shieh, attache of the
Chinese Embassy, was injured yester
day when he jumped from the horse
he was riding in West Potomac Park
to avoid a collision with a bicyclist.
The injufed man was taken to
Emergency Hospital by Park Police
man A. Krueger and treated for a
sprained back and bruises. He later
went home.
Police did not learn the name of
the bicyclist.
SPORTSMAN HELD
IN OLD DOMINION
IN 2 AUTO DEATHS
Virginian Posts Bond on
Manslaughter Count in
Rappahannock.
VICTIMS WERE STRUCK
BY STATION WAGON
Thomas 0. Greenough Arrested in
Arlington After D. C. Police
Broadcast Lookout for Car.
Thomas O. Greenough, sportsman
and member of a prominent Virginia
family, who was arrested in Arlington
County, Va., earl/ yesterday in con
nection with the death of two colored
men in a highway acident, near Wash
ington, Va., returned to his home
near Orange today after posting
$5,000 bond on a charge of involun
tary manslaughter.
Greenough, clad in riding clothes
and driving a station wagon he used
on his mother's farm, which he
manages, was stopped on the Lee
Highway between Cherrydale and the
Key Bridge about 2:30 a m. by Deputy
Sheriffs J. E. Conway and Lyman
King. They had received a descrip
tion of his car relayed from Rappa
hannock County authorities through
the Washington, D. C., police radio
station. He was returned to Wash
ington yesterday afternoon by Deputy
Sheriff James Lillard of Rappahan
nock County.
Rappahannock County Prosecutor
Frank Moffett said that no charge
of leaving the scene of an acci
dent had been placed against Green
ough, who claimed that he had stopped
after hitting something he "thought
was a dog” on the Lee Highway north
of Washington, Va.
Headlights Reported Bent.
Moffett said Greenough told him A*
got out of his station wagon and looked
around, but saw nothing except *
"couple of colored men approaching.”
and got back in his car and continued
on his way.
According to Moffett, the four col
ored men were walking on the left side
of tbe road, faring southbound traffic,
and were struck from behind by a car
going north. Walton Fletcher, 20, and
Nathan Fletcher, 28, brothers, who
lived near here, were killed. Henry
Starks, 38. and William Roy, 26. were
seriously injured and taken to a hos
pital. The headlight and fender of
Greenough's car were bent and there
was blood on the side of the car,
Moffett said.
Lyttleton Waddell, attorney of
Charlottesville, represented Green
ough when bond was set yesterday,
and said his client would have noth
ing to say about the case until the
; hearing, set for April 16, before Trial :
Justice George Settle.
Attended Cambridge University.
Greenough said he was en route to
New York to visit his brother, Robert,
when he was arrested in Arlington
County, according to Moffett. Robert
Greenough arrived here to aid his ;
brother yesterday afternoon.
Thomas Greenough for the past
several years has managed the large
estate of his mother, Mrs. Henry
Waldo Greenough, who was prominent
in Virginia society 20 years ago, but j
who has dwelt in seclusion for many i
years.
He played foot ball at Amherst Col- •
lege and later went to England to
2ftend Cambridge University.
-•
R. E. CHADDOCK HEADS
CENSUS ADVISORY BODY
Columbia Professor Succeeds Day,
Commerce Department
Announces.
Robert E. Chaddock, professor of
statistics at Columbia University has
been elected chairman of the
Advisory Committee of the Cetisus
Bureau, it was announced by the
Commerce Department. He succeeds
Edmund E. Day of the Rockefeller
Foundation.
The election concluded a two-day
session of the committee with Census
Director William L. Austin and bureau
officials to discuss current census
problems and to discuss preparations
for the dicennial census in 1940.
The committee consists of Murray
R. Benedict of the University of
California, Paul T. Cherington of New
York, J. Frederic Dewhurst of the
Twentieth Century Fund, New York;
Frederick C. Mills, professor of eco
nomics and statistics, Columbia Uni
versity, and William F. Ogburn, profes
sor of sociology, University of Chicago.
These members will serve until
March 31, 1938.
DISTRICT UPHELD
IN TAXING PEPCO
U. S. Appeals Court Rules Against
Company on Maryland
Power Revenues.
The United States Court of Appeals
today upheld the righ^of the District
of Columbia to tax the Potomac Elec
tric Power Co. on its revenues ob
tained from the sale of electricity in
nearby Maryland.
This authority had been challenged
by the power company in a bill asking
that a $45,303.84 tax assessment for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935,
be set aside.
It was contended that the tax, levied
on a basis of gross earnings both
within and without the District was
unconstitutional because it was, in
effect, a burden on interstate com
merce.
The court decided, however, that the
levy was a franchise tax measured
by gross earnings, but not a tax on
such earnings.
Associate Justice Charles H. Robb,
who rendered the decision, said Con
gress may set whatever basis it sees
fit for levying on legitimate subjects
of taxation.
Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal
and his assistants, Hinman D. Folson
and Raymond Sparks appeared for
the District.
Hundreds Meet to Assist Unemployed
Approximately 1,500 citizens (upper) gathered at First Congregational Church yesterday to
launch a drive for additional relief funds.
Pictured below are three of the leaders, left to right, Canon Anson Phelps Stokes of Wash
i Ington Cathedral, Chairman Coleman Jennings of the Community Chest campaign and Rabbi
Abram Simon. —Star Staff Photos.
FOUR DIE. 6 HURT
INAUTOMISHAPS
Valentine Walsh, 67, Killed
When Struck by Car in
Maryland.
Four deaths and at least four serious
injuries have been reported during
the last 36 hours from traffic acci
dents in Washington and nearby
Maryland.
Valentine Walsh, 67, of Pitcher Inn,
near Savage, Md., a former inmate of
the Soldier’s Home here, was killed
when run down by an automobile
while walking on the highway near
his home.
Police released D. H. Brady, 25, a
barber of Laurel, Md., on his personal
bond pending a coroner’s inquest.
Wesley Lowman, 70, of Gambrill,
Md., died shortly after he was hit by
an automobile while walking near the
intersection of Defense and Crain
highways.
Omer E. Kawk, 25, of Mount Ranier,
Md., was the driver. Police took his
personal bond for appearance at a
coroner's inquest.
Boy Dies of Injuries.
David Jackson, 13, Silver Spring,
Md., who was Injured in a smash-up
in nearby Maryland on March 13,
died yesterday in Freedman’s Hos
pital. The boy was injured when an
automobile driven by his father, Wil
liam Jackson, ran off the highway
and struck a telegraph pole.
The body of George L. Miller, 40, of
Howard County, Md., was found on
Washington-Baltimore Boulevard near
Halethorpe early yesterday by three
Arlington, Va„ girls who happened to
be driving by. Miller apparently was
the victim of a hit-and-run motorist.
Miss Hazel C. Posey, 18, of Arlington
and her companions put the body into
their car and took it to a Baltimore
hospital, the Associated Press reported.
Seven persons were injured, at least
four seriously, in Washington traffic
today and yesterday.
Roger Lewis, 32, of West Palm
Beach, Fla., was run down and seri
ously injured about 10 a.m. today while
walking across the intersection of
Connecticut avenue and M street.
Lewis was taken to Emergency Hos
pital and treated for a possible skull
fracture and scalp lacerations. The
automobile, police said, was driven by
Everett S. Sasel, 18, 1131 Park place
northeast. No charges were placed
against Sasel. The injured man was
stopping at the Mayflower Hotel.
Perhaps the most seriously hurt was
William K. Price, 35, of Lincoln Uni
versity, Chester County, Pa„ who suf
fered a broken leg and a possible skull
fracture when an auto in which he
was a passenger collided with a street
car at Sixteenth street and Rhode Is
land avenue northeast.
Taken to Hospital.
The machine was driven by Betty
Peal. 27, of Oxford, Pa. Police re
ported the street car had stopped to
take on passengers wheli the mishap
occurred. Price and the young woman
were taken to Casualty Hospital. Miss
Pearl was cut and bruised about the
face and body.
Eleven-year-old Evelina Louise
Robertson, 340 Fifteenth street north
east, was hit by an automobile while
crossing Eighth street southeast in the
700 block. She was taken to Casualty,
where she was said to have scalp
cute and concussion of the brain. The
car was operated by F. N. Boyd, 40,
of 1112 D street northeast.
Daniel Smith, 33, colored, 1350 First
street southwest, suffered internal in
juries early today when hit by a truck
operated by Nick Baker, 19, of 910
Fourth street southwest, while cross
ing Pennsylvania avenue at Seventh
street. He was taken to Emergency
Hospital.
Samuel R. Litoff, 28, of 1733
Webster street, was cut and bruised
when his auto was in collision with
a street car at Fourteenth and Webster
streets. He was treated at Sibley
Hospital.
Name of Twin Girl
Honors Mrs. Rohde
And Mrs. Roosevelt
Mrs. Armstrong, Former
Bess Furman, Also Is
Mother of Boy.
Mr*. Roosevelt. Mrs. Ruth Bryan
Owen Rohde and a proud father all
were honored today in the naming of
twins bom yesterday in McCook,
Nebr., to Mrs. Robert Armstrong. Jr.,
4920 Western avenue, the former Bess
Furman, Associated Press staff writer
here for more than eight years.
The twins, a boy and a girl. 7
pounds and 6 pounds 12 ounces, re
spectively, entered the world in the
home of Mrs. Armstrong’s parents,
Dr. and Mrs. Donald Furman, at
McCook.
Mrs. Armstrong carried out her
promise to name her first daughter
Ruth Eleanor after Mrs. Roosevelt
and Mrs. Rohde. The Armstrongs
were married in Mrs. Rohde's office
on Capitol Hill when she was a Rep
resentative of Florida, before her ap
pointment as Minister to Denmark
and subsequent marriage to Capt
Boerge Rohde of Denmark.
Mrs. Roosevelt appeared pleased at
the new-s today, at the opening of her
press conference. She received the
announcement last night, she said.
The son was named Robert Fiirman
for his father and the Furman family.
The father, now employed in the
Interior Department, formerly was
Washington correspondent for the
San FYancisco Chronicle. He is the
•on of Robert Armstrong, for years
head of the Lo6 Angeles Times Wash
ington. Bureau.
CHERRY BLOOMS
LIKELY THIS WEEK
Warm Weather Due to Bring
Out Buds Before Fes
tival Thursday.
Prospects of warmer weather and
occasional rains today strenthened
the probability that the cherry blos
soms will be blooming Thursday when
the blossom festival program is held
at the Tidal Basin.
The forecast is for occasional rains
tonight and tomorrow, with slightly
higher temperatures and a minimum
tonight of about 55 degrees. 6 above
the low last night.
Experts say a few days of compara
tively mild weather will bring the
blossoms out in their full glory. Just
now, however, only a faint haze of
color is visible in the trees.
Nevertheless, the drives under the
trees were packed with automobiles
as thousands of motorists sought a
first glimpse of Washington's famous
floral display. Special details of po
lice were on hand to direct traffic,
which was rerouted at some intersec
tions.
Tickets at 25 cents each for chairs
at the festival Thursday night have
been placed on sale at leading depart
ment stores, hotels, the American Au
tomobile Association, the Keystone
Automobile Club, the Housing Bureau
of the Greater National Capital Com
mittee and the Standard Oil Co.
Building, First street and Constitu
tion avenue.
Comparatively few visitors were In
town yesterday, word having gone out
that the blossoms would not be open
for several days yet. A few festival
visitors are expected tomorrow. Given
favorable weather, at least 100,000
visitors should be In Washington for
the festival, experts say.
The Easter holidays drew huge
crowds of sight-seers here last Mon
day, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day, but few remained over the week
end.
•
Bandit Suspect Captured by
Police Soon After Cab
Was Taken.
Soon after the cab of one of Wash
ington's few women hackers was taken
and her passenger robbed last night a
• man suspected of being the bandit was
captured by police.
Two men entered the cab of Mrs.
Alice E. Willoughby, 1202 G street
Mrs. Willonrhby.
sourness t, at
i Sixth street and
Pennsylvania av
enue southeast.
One of them,
Everett H, Bur
row, 35, Carvan
rode, Va., had
hailed the cab.
When he told the
driver to take
him to Benning
road and Minne
sota avenue
southeast, the
other man walked
up and asked if
he could go, too,
because he wanted to visit the same
neighborhood. Burrow consented.
When the cab reached the Benning
and Minnesota intersection. Burrow
paid Mrs. Willoughby $1 and left the
cab. The other man forced him back
in with a gun and directed the driver
to take him to Great Falls, Md. At
Twentieth street and Constitution
avenue, however, he ordered her to
turn back toward Highway Bridge
and to head for Alexandria.
Mrs. Willoughby said the bandit told
her to observe red traffic lights, but
not to sound her horn. There was a
red light at Fourteenth and Water
streets southwest. When she pur
posely choked the motor after she had
stopped, the bandit forced her out of
the taxi and drove off. A few min
utes later he robbed Burrow of $5
and a watch, then put Burrow out
and abandoned the cab.
Police captured a man answering
the robber’s description as he ran
through Potomac Park. He identi
fied himself as Richard S. Watson, 32,
of Lynchburg, Va.
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BAND CONCERT.
By the Marine Band in the audi
torium at 3 pun. tomorrow. Capt.
Taylor Branson, leader; William F.
Santelmann, assistant.
Program.
"Marines' Hymn.”
Overture, "La Cenerentola”...Rossini
March, “The Keystonian."
Schoendorfer
Trombone solo, "Ave Maria”..Gounod
Dale Harpham.
March, "Homage,” from "Sigurd
Jorsalfar” _Grieg
"Song of the Fighting Marines,"
Burnett
Comet solo, “Cameval of Venice,”
Del Staigers
Robert De Hart.
March, "Gridiron Golden Jubilee,”
Taylor Branson
“Flower Walt*,” from "Nutcracker
Suite” .. Tschaikowsky
“Friml's Favorites" . Friml
Suite—
(a) “Flight of the Bumble Bee,”
Rimsky-Korsakow
(b) “Mosquito Dance”..Paul White
Arrangement by Siegfried Schar
bau. Marine Band.
(c) “Perpetual Motion”...Paganini
Transcription by Cerminara.
Humoreske, "Darkies Jubilee”.Turner
March, "Colonel Bogey”_Alford
Hymn, “To the Faithful,”
Kenneth Douse
Marine Band.
"The Star Spangled Banner.”
Red Snow Seen on lilt. Ranier.
Colored snow exists in the United
States. Red snow Is frequently re
ported on Mount Rainier. The ruddy
color is due to a tiny plant, 1 of the
100 or more kinds of snow algae.
CH
VIGOROUS FIGHT TQ
AID EMPLOYABLES
Mass Meeting Told Help
Now Will Save Greater
Expense Later.
$1,000,000 FUND URGED
AS HUMANITARIAN NEED
Coleman Jennings to Lead Appeal
to Congress and Attempt
Jobless Solution.
A new campaign to break the im
passe barring 10.000 impoverished
men, women and children from any
form of relief in the Nation’s Capital
will get under way today with the
determined support of an aroused
District citizenry.
The 10,000 persons involved include
3,000 jobless "employables,” for whom
the District has no relief funds, and
their families.
At a mass meeting yesterday in the
First Congregational Church, 1,500
citizens approved, without a dissent
ing voice, a six-point program which
will be carried to the President. Con
gress, the District Commissioners and
the Bureau of the Budget, in an ef
fort to meet the present relief crisis.
Stirred by stories of the misery and
I hardships inflicted upon fellow hu
j mans by the current policy of deny
; ing both direct relief and work relief
I to families of wage earners who can
not find jobs, citizens expressed unan
imous support of a moderate in
crease in local taxation, if this is nec
essary to care for the city's health
and relief needs.
Coleman Jennings Chairman.
Coleman Jennings, prominent lay
social worker, who presided at the
mass meeting, was designated chair
man of a special citizens' committee
to direct the fight for adequate relief
funds.
The mass meeting contended that
a deficiency appropriation providing
$100,000 a month until the end of
the current fiscal year and an addi
tional appropriation of at least $1,000 -
000 for the next fiscal year are neces
sary to meet the city's relief needs.
The Federal Works Progress Ad
ministration was called upon by the
mass meetnig to provide additional
projects in Washington to create jobs
for employables and the Board of Pub
lic Welfare was urged to base its re
lief grants upon verified need, rather
than employability.
The special committee created at
the mass meeting was Instructed not
to confine its work to the present
emergency, but to develop a plan for
solving the city’s unemployment prob
lems in the future.
Problem Seen as Menace.
Dr. William McClellan, president of
the Potomac Electric Power Co., and
principal speaker at the mass meet
ing termed the present relief program
a “serious menace to our present and
future community life.’’
Dr. McClellan said that if the city
does not carry its full relief burden
now, the burden will grow in weight
and expense.
"If you don’t pay the bill now." he
said, “you'll pay it later and it will
be bigger. The people needing relief
are human beings and not worms, but
even a worm will turn.”
Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes, Canon
of Washington Cathedral, said the
present relief situation is “intolerable
for sufferers today and will be equally
intolerable for the taxpayers of com
ing decades." "They will have to gup
port at great expense," he said, “public
institutions and permanent relief for
the cases of demoralized and sick men,
women and children who could be
saved from suffering and in many
cases made self-supporting by a little
more help now.
Tumulty Makes Appeal.
in a moving appeal on behalf of the
unemployed "employables" and their
suffering families. Joseph P. Tumulty,
formerly secretary to the late Presi
dent Wilson, said:
"There are those who say that this
additional burden to take care of the
human needs of the District would
make inevitable an increase in our tax
rates and that, therefore, this move
ment should not be encouraged. That
is the argument of a miserable Scrooge
and not a blessed Samaritan. I be
lieve that I but express your own
opinion when I say that if, through
additional tax burdens, we can rescue
these precious lives, we wall feel that
the burden upon us is sweet indeed."
Joseph D. Kaufman, vice chairman
of the Community Chest, told the mass
meeting that "the time has come
when the citizenry of Washington
must get up on their physical, spiritual
and moral hind legs and do battle ”
Edward Keating, editor of Labor,
declared that last November the people
delivered a mandate clearly approving
the proposition that every American
able and willing to work should be
given an opportunity to work.
Advises Insistent Plea.
“It is difficult to believe." he con
tinued, "that either the President or
the Congress will deliberately flout this
mandate.
"The people of Washington should
thunder at the doors of Congress,
pleading that adequate appropriations
be made and indicating that the people
of Washington are willing and anxious
to pay their proper share of the bill."
Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, presi
dent of the National Training School
for Girls and Women, declared the
Federal Government should assume
more responsibility for relief in Wash
ington. She urged all at the mass
meeting to form themselves into a city
wide job-flnding committee to find
work for the employables in need of
help.
MaJ. Campbell C. Johnson, executive
secretary of the Twelfth Street Branch
of the Y. M. C. A.: Laurence J. Shehan,
assistant director of the Catholic
Charities, and William H. Savin, di
rector of the Family Service Associa
tion, related tragic case histories taken
from their files showing the suffering
undergone by families denied relief
because the wage earner Is unable to
find a Job.