Evening star. [volume], February 25, 1940, Page A-10, Image 10

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Bridge and Overpass
Work Is Progressing'
Despite Bad Weather
Rock Creek Parkway's
New Lane at K Street
To Be Ready Soon
Construction work on bridges and
overpasses here is forging ahead de
spite recent bad weather, according
to Highway Director H. C. White
hurst.
At the K street intersection with
Rock Creek, plans are under way,
Capt. Whitehurst explained yester
day, to divert traffic on the Rock
Creek and Potomac Parkway into
its new lane beneath the K street
overpass in about 10 days or two
weeks. Paving work was proceeding
yesterday on the new parkway near
the intersection with Virginia ave
nue. The concrete is laid from that
point northward to the north side
of the K street overpass. From that
point to the permanent connection
with the parkway is only a short
distance, which will not take long to
complete.
Two Sloping Curves.
North of the K street overpass are
two sloping curving roads. One will
carry the parkway traffic out of the
parkway up to K street, the other
will provide a lane to carry K street
traffic northward into the parkway.
When parkway traffic is diverted
from its temporary pathway to its
permanent roadway beneath the K
street overpass, work can proceed
more easily on the new bridge over
Rock Creek. Foundations and abut
ments are completed on the east
bank of Rock Creek. Work soon will
be started on foundations and abut
ments for the west bank. If weather
permits steady progress, the whole
job should be completed sometime
in June, Capt. Whitehurst estimated.
Modified Cioverleaf.
The project is a kind of a modified
cloverleaf. There will be two low
level traffic lanes on the bridge over
the creek, one on the north or up
stream side, and the other on the
south, or downstream side. These
lanes will cross the stream from the
parkway to the level of K street, at
the intersection with Twenty-ninth
street. The upper level overpass
from K street will make a gradual
descent from its present westward
abutment, to join the two low-level
lanes on the K street level.
The overpass structure has been
designed, however, so it can be used
to connect with the proposed ele- i
vated highway along K street, in
Georgetown, in case the elevated
project is ever authorized.
Building Pay Roll
Includes Cat at
85 Cents a Week
9s the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Pa.. Feb. 24.—A
15-story building in the downtown
“golden triangle” has a cat, Betty,
en its pay roll.
A gray meower of uncertain an
cestry, Betty won her job on merit.
A gay man about town one night
In a hilarious mood dropped her in
the vestibule, thinking it was a joke.
Betty sniffed and went forthwith
te> the basement, where she began
liquidating unwanted tenants. She's
so efficient that the building's pay
roll now lists, along with 67 othre
employes, this item: "Betty, 85 cents
per week.”
And Betty's smart, too. Six days
a week she sticks to her job in the
basement, never venturing upstairs.
But on Sundays she takes the day
off, and loafs around the lobby.
This panorama, taken from a tall building on the south
side of Rock Creek, looks eastward over the complex “modified
cloverleaf” traffic separation at the Intersection of K street and
Rock Creek.
K street is shown coming to an end at the newly completed
stone overpass which carries K street over the permanent loca
tion of the Rock Creek and Potomac parkway. - Concrete is
being laid on this permanent location of the parkway, and ma
chines are shown at far right, near intersection with Virginia
avenue laying concrete. To immediate left of overpass is shown
circular road which will carry traffic out of the parkway up to
the K street level.
Automobiles are running along the temporary route of the
parkway which is to be abandoned in about two weeks when
Relief
(Continued Prom First Page.)
age assistance (3,129) and aid to
the blind (210).
At the end of January, aome 17,
000 persons were registered with the
District of Columbia Employment
Center, agency of the United States
Employment Service. Two thousand
six hundred and ninety persons were
receiving National Youth Admin
istration assistance, and 863 were
on Civilian Conservation Corps rolls.
A recent W. P. A. report showed
that 11,921 persons were on work
assignment here, with 1,921 await
ing work assignment, 2.000 eligible
for work but with no suitable proj
ects available, and another 1,179
awaiting interview. In considering
this total of 17,074 persons, it is im
portant to remember that to receive
W. P. A. certification an applicant
must show he is in need and has
! exhausted his own financial resour
ces. Thousands, considering them
selves in need, have sought W. P. A.
jobs here and have been rejected as
ineligible.
182,000 Names Cleared.
Figures on the total number of
applicants at private welfare insti
tutions would be virtually meaning
less because of the varied and non
relief services offered. But It Is
interesting to note that last year
the Social Service Exchange, which
maintains a master file of persons
and families that have sought aid
through local social agencies, report
ed that 175 agencies "cleared” some
182,000 names with the Exchange.
These factors added together ob
viously do not give a comprehensive
picture of local relief needs, for they
are neither mutually exclusive or all
inclusive. They are presented, in!
part, to illustrate the point that no
one person or agency knows the ex
: tent of the public relief problem.
Simple addition of general public,
relief and W. P. A. rolls will not1
provide an answer, despite the pop
ularly accepted idea that public re
' lief takes care of the “unemploy-!
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engineers and built by Capehart craftsmen, is a pre
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amaze you.
Created by the makers of the famous Capehart, this
superb quality instrument fills a long-felt need of
music lovers, who have always wanted a Capehart,
but who have found the cost of the De Luxe instru
ment beyond their reach.
' The Panamuse embodies outstanding Copehart fea
tures, including the ''Maestro" Tonol Control, and a —
superb tonal quality. The dependable automatic
record changer which plays ten 12-inch or twelve
10-inch records provides almost an hour's continuous
music without interruption. The radio Unit is of su
perb quality, and is equipped for television sbuhd.
Other Capehart Panamuse models are
priced from $159.50 to $299.50 on easy
terms. De luxe models are from $595 up.
Write or phone for descriptive literature.
CALL NATIONAL 4730
ablet" and W. P. A. the "employ
ables."
Ne Work for Many Eligible.
It has been shown that there are
several thousands W. P. A. eligibles
for whom there are no (available
jobs. Further curtailment of W. P.
A.'s program this spring will add to
this number. And, even if the W.
P. A. program were to be expanded,
there are several hundred so-called
employables, certified by physicians
as “able to do very light work,” who
would be difficult to fit into suitable
projects. These include several per
sons recovering from tuberculosis.
And, for reasons which will be ex
plained in a subsequent article, the
Public Assistance Division lays no
claims to provision of adequate re
lief for all of the “unemployable"
needy.
In the fiscal year 1938-9 Ihe Public
Assistance Division expended a total
of about $2,400,000 in local welfare
programs. The total in the current
fiscal year and the Bureau of the
Budget's estimated requirement for
the next fiscal year will be slightly
less, with some $700,000 allocated
each year for general public relief,
exclusive of the co-operative social
security programs. *
Since it is this 1700,000 item that
is referred to particularly when Mr.
Bondy expresses doubt that the tax
payer is getting his money’s worth,
this series will be confined primarily
to the general public relief program.
In this phase of welfare work the
District is strictly on its own. There
is no matching of local funds by
Federal funds.
Alpha Phi Chapter
Initiates Three
American University’s Beta Xi
Chapter of Alpha Phi International
Fraternity last night initiated three
new members from Washington and
vicinity at its banquet at the Ken
nedy-Warren, 3133 Connecticut ave
nue N.W.
Initiates were Germaine Coffey of
3361 Rittenhouse street N.W., Elaine
Davenport, 2929 Connecticut avenue
N.W.. and Doris Kanode, 3113 North
Eighth street. Arlington. Va.
Betty Slick Will Marry
Lewis J. Moorman, Jr.
ll the Associated ?rm
OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 24.—Oil
Heiress Betty Slick—once named one
of the Nation's five most eligible
bachelor girls—will wed Lewis J.
Moorman, jr., March 19. -
Mr. Moorman, now a senior law
student at the University of Vir
ginia, is a son of Dr. Lewis J.
Moorman, nationally known chest
specialist. His family lives here.
Announcement of the impending
marriage was made by Mr. and Mrs.
Charles F. Urschel. Miss Slick is a
daughter of Mrs. Urschel and the
late T. B. Slick, pioneer oil man
known throughout the industry as
-the “king of the wildcatters.”
In 1936 the “rocking chair bri
gades" at the wealthy summer re
sorts named Miss Slick as one of
the five leading candidates for des
ignation as America’s "eligible bach
elor girl No. I.1'
Others were Barbara Field, daugh
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Just Arrived! Only 17 Famous-Make
All-Electric Machines
w
6-Day Special!
Your machine in
spected, Piled Pnd
adjusted- 59c
Brand-New 1940 Models
Made to Sell for $58
Full-Size
Westinghouse
Cool-Running
Motor!
Buy on Our Liberal Budget Plan. Pay $1
Down, Balance in Monthly Payments.
5-YEAR WRITTEN GUARANTEE
A product of the famous "New Home" Company,
whose name for eighty years has represented the lost
word in sewing machines. Act now, and act fast, os
these machines at this low price should sell out in o
ljurry. Only 40!
EXTRA! 8 Electric Portables, from $19.75 ug
Treedle Machines-,..,$$.§5 we
1 White Electric Censele, Like New-$42.50
Tht Palais Ray at. Sitting Machines , . . Secand Flaar
Ample Stocks in Our Famous
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February Sale
Spring Fabrics
ONLY A MORE DAYS remain in this important annual fabrics
event. You will note that only newest Spring (and some Summer)
fabrics ore included in the collection.
A Particularly Inripor
_ ,tant Group!
• Regular 59c Printed Rayon, a Regular 59c Rayon "Playtime
"Thick and Thin"_49c Cheeks."
• Regular 69c Novelty Rayon a Regular 59c Spun Rayon Mix
Sharkskin ---49e tures.
a Regular $1 "Ninjoh," and "Iverfost" Fabric; rayon with a lintn
look_*_•_____—— 49c
I mmmmm i -
59c Y°rd
Rtf ulor $1 Cotton Loco in a wide os*
sortment of patterns.
The Palais Royal, Fabric» , . . Second Floor
29^ Yard
Regular 39c Rayon Toffeta in ef se
lection of 40 shades.
the permanent roadway under the overpass is opened.
In foreground on the east bank of Rock Creek are seen the
foundations and abutments of the bridge which is to carry traffic
over the creek on two levels. The high-level bridge comes from
K street. The low-level bridges seen in beginning of curve on
either side of the abutment, will carry traffic to and from the
parkway across the creek. •
ter of Marshall Field of Chicago;
Ethel Du Font of the famous mu
nitions family; Gloria Baker, daugh
ter of Mrs. Margaret Emerson and
half-sister of Alfred and George
Vandeerbilt, and Dorothy Fell,
daughter of Mrs. Gordon Mills.
Miss Slick, who met Mr. Moor
man while both were attending high
school here six years ago, attended
the Madeira School, Washington,
D. C.; Briarcliff Manor, New York,
and 8mith College, Northampton,
Mass.
Mr. Moorman took his academic
work at Dartmouth College, Han*
over, N. H.
Almost three time* as many per*
sons last year in the District were
victims of traffic accidents occurring
in clear weather as those killed in
accidents in rainy or foggy weather
or on icy streets.
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Free-'Nee Ling"
T. A. G. Hose
Here is a radically new stocking that eliminates strain causing
garter runs. Most runs start when the tops are too taut . . .
To absorb this strain and cut down stocking casualties, Lady
Washington now uses 2-way stretch elastic fabrics in their 3-thread
chiffon hose. Obtainable in sizes 8V2 to 10’/2 . . . Colors, Musk,
Toast, Sun Tan and Dewberry. 3 pairs, $3.60 or, pair— $1.25
The Palais Rayal, Hosiery , . . First Floor
Helena Rubinstein's Reg. $1.50
Herbal Cleansing
Cream.$1
A magical beauty preparation especially good
for dry, sensitive skin. Highly recommended
for the mature woman. $2.50 size now $1.75.
$4 size now $3.
Stop in or phone MISS MARGARET HOFFMAN, Special Helena Rubinstein
Representative, who will help you solve all of your skin and make-up problems
with the following preparations.
Novena Night Cream Anti-Wrinkle Lotion
$2 and $5 $1.25 and $2.25
Tkt Ptltis Mtytl, T&iUtrin , , . First Fl»or
Town and Country
Make-up Film
$1 and $1.50
Community Plate
Reduced 25%
8's for Hie former price of 6's!
Get tfo silverware you need while these savings
Ore possible. Each spoon and fork is reinforced
by an overlay of pure silver at the point of
greatest wear. All Community patterns are here.
Pick yours today while your money still goes
so much farther.
• t Teaspoon*. (M
Were $5.33. Now. *P '
• 8 Knives. • ^19
Were $16.67. Now. 'Y ' *•
• * $8
'Were $10.67. Now. Y0
• t Salad Forks. CTO
were $10.67. Now..
• 26-Piece Set for Six
in tomish proof chest
Tkt Palms M oyal, Silvtrwmrt . . .
Firti Flamr
f COtONATlON
BERKELEY SQUARE
LADY HAMILTON
' FOREVER
RENDEZVOUS
fi). C. Man Held
For 'Kidnaping'
Automobile
Federal Bureau ox Investigation
agents yesterday accused 33-year
oM Logan E. Hill of the 3«00 block
O( Ordway street N.W. with ‘'kidnap
ing'’ a Baltimore woman’s automo
bile and holding it for ransom. ,
Announcing that a complaint had
been filed in Baltimore charging
Hill with extortion, the agents said
■tm had stolen the car February 10
from Mrs. Jeanette Beck.
The car was then brought to
Washington, it was said, where Hill
is alleged to have transferred it
from one parking lot to another to
avoid detection. t
Meanwhile, according to the F. B.
I„ Hill obtained the owner’s name
from articles in the glove compart
ment and sent Mrs. Beck a threat
ening letter, saying he would strip
the car if he didn’t get $50.
Tracing the automobile through a
radio lookout, the agents took Hill
, into custody recently at a drug store
• near his home. He is lodged in the
District jail, awaiting return to
Baltimore to face the charges.
Lame Beggars Arrested , ' /
Police of Bucharest, Rumania,
have arrested a band of 200 cruppled #
beggars, including their leader,
Tanasi Burdujan, a legless man who
traveled in a hand-propelled invalid
chair. It has Just been disclosed
that he owns several houses, two
taxicabs and a private automobile.
Washington traffic victims last year
who were 75 years of age and over
accounted for 15.3 per cent of the
total of 85 fatalities, although that
particular age group formed only 1.8
per cent of the population.
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