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Zoning Adjustment Board
0. K.'s Altering Mansion
Conversion of the old Matthews
mansion at 1403 Thirtieth street, in
Georgetown, into a five-unit apart
ment house was approved late yes
terday by the Board of Zoning Ad
justment, following a public hearing
at which this and eight other ap
peals trom existing zoning rules
were considered.
The large house, built shortly
after the Civil War, was considered
electric substations at 2006 Bunker
Hill road N.E., subject to approval
by the Public Utilities Commission.
The Emanuel Baptist Church was
given permission to erect a one
story rear addition to the church
at 2409 Ainger place S.E.; F. Weber
was granted permission to remodel
the office building at 5913 Georgia
avenue into an apartment house;
Elmer M. Nelson was given permis
sion to make alterations in the
dwelling at 1830 Jackson street N.E.,
and Mrs. J. Simmons was granted
an appeal for erection of a one
story addition at 3061 Clinton street
N.E.
D. C. Motorists Urged
To Aid Out-of-Towners
Washington motorists were urged
today to be more courteous to out
of-town drivers unfamiliar with
local streets and traffic regulations
in a bulletin issued by the Keystone
Automobile Club.
The bulletin, in part, stated: ‘‘A
more considerate and tolerant atti
tude is needed. The National Cap
ital’s reputation for hospitality will
be greatly enhanced if local motor
ists accord visitors the same consid
eration they expect in strange ter
ritory.”
Army Names Reserves
To Air Corps
Two men who gave Washington
as their home address are among
more than 300 Air Reserve officers
appointed second lieutenants in the
Air Corps, Regular Army, on Tues
day as the result of examinations
heid in June, it is announced by
the War Department.
The two are John Kuie de Russy,
who already was on active duty
at March Field, Calif., and Jo Kyie
Warner, who when appointed was
on duty at Hickman Field, Hawaii.
All of the newly-appointed officers
are to remain at their present sta
tions, it was said at the War De
partment.
The following Virginians were
among those made Regular Army
Air Corps officers:
William Sydnor Barksdale, jr„
Richmond; William Coombs Clark
of Dutnbarton, Skidmore Neale
Garrett of Cumberland, Thomas Ed
ward Gumett of Hampton, Donald
Waters Macdonald, Hampton, and
Philip Lambeth Mathewson, Rich
mond, all stationed at Langley
Field, Va.; Elmer Earle McKesson,
Richmond; Robert Danforth Van
Auken, Fort Belvoir, Va., stationed
at Selfridge, Mich., and Henry Vic
cellio, Chatham, Va., stationed at
Barksdale Field, La.
Capt. John W. Joyes, Jr.,
Dies at Albany, Oreg.
The War Department yesterday
announced the death of Capt. John
W. Joyes, jr., U. S. Infantry, Tues
day at Albany, Oreg. He was 34
years old.
He Is survived by his widow In
Vancouver Barracks, Wash., and his
parents. Col. and Mrs. John W.
Joyes, and a sister, Miss Patricia
C. Joyes of 2029 Waterside drive
N.W. Funeral arrangements have
not been announced.
(
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Radios. Bicycles. Outing Supplies. plainly marked with big “easy-to
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Our BUDGET PLAN Provides for Easy Payments
on an appeal by the Demarest Lloyd
estate, but It was explained the con
tract purchaser was Mrs. Emily H.
Shepard, who was represented by
A. R. Reed.
The board also granted an appeal
by the Hebrew Home for the Aged,
acting for the Jewish Social Service
Agency, for permission to erect a
two-story office building for the
agency, west of the home for aged,
near Eleventh street and Spring
road N.W.
Thfe Potomac Electric Power Co.
was granted permission for the erec
tion of one of its series of new
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bier type lock
prevents theft
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