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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
Street Work Immediately Is
Urged by Hazen-May
Cost Half Million.
PROJECT TO INCLUDE
OTHER THOROUGHFARES
Width Would Be Increased to 1870
Feet on One and 80
on Others.

The first definite step to carry out
plans for the widening of Foxhall road
throughout its entire two-nile course
from Conduit road to Massachusetts
avenue was taken today by Melvin c.
Hazen, District surveyor, who recon-
mended to the Commissioners that
condemnation proceedings be institut-
ed without delay to acquire the property
needed
The project, the largest of its kind
to be undertaken this year, also in
wolves the widening of two other
-Forthy-SiXth street from
Cathedral avenue to Macomb street,
and Nebraska avenue from McComb
street to Massachusetts, avenue. The
widening and improvement of the three
thoroughfareS will provide the major
link in the proposed boulevard drive
connecting the Potomac palisades with
Rock Creek Park.
Road Now SO Feet Wide.
Mr.. Hazen describes Foxhall road.
as IAN old country road" 1t is SO feet
wide and runs through a group of newly
developed residential areas near the
western fringe of the District-Wesley
Heights, American University Park,
TenleytoWn and Fort Reno.
The plans provide for the widening of
The road to l20 feet. Cathedral avenue
and Forty-sixth street, both now 80
feet wide, also will be made 120-foot
boulevardS.
The widening of Foxhall Road, ac-
cording to Mr.. Hazen, will affect 80
houses. which will either have to be
condemned or moved back to the pro-
jected building line. 1t also will take
parts of 100 parcels of land.
Cost May Total 100000.
The cost of the three widening prof.
ectS has not been estimated, although it
IS expected to exceed $50o,000 The
District government, however, will not
bear the entire burden of the expense,
as property owners in the vicinity of the
three thoroughfares will be assessed for
benefits arising from the widening.
MI. HAGEN regards the early widening
of the three thoroughfareS as of utmost
importance to the continued develop
ment OF the area through which Fox
hall Road passes. AS soon as the neces-
sary land is condemned he pointed out,
the District will install sewer and water
mains in proper relation to the new
building line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
Toy Balloons Used
At Airports in Test
OF Safe Landings
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Toy balloons are now being
used to aid in the safety OF
aviators.
They are employed, the Depart
ment of Commerce announced
today. in determining the cell
ing" of airports to insure safe
landing.
"The chief concern Of pilots"
the announcement said, "is suff1-
Gent ceiling height at the ter
minal field to assure a safe land
ing. the ceiling height is the
height of the clouds above the
surface of the landing field"
The toy balloon is inflated with
hydrogen until it will support
weight OF 40 grams and then is
released. Under these conditions
it will soar skyward 512 feet per
second.
A stop watch registers the time
elapsing between the release of
the balloon and its disappearance
among the clouds. After that it
is simple problem to multiply
the number of seconds by 515
and ascertain the ceiling height.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
BOY HELD ON BOND
FOR ACTION BY JURY
17-Year-0ld Youth Is Described by
Judge Schuldt as Gang
Member.

Albert L. Wilson, II, of the 1900 block
OF Minnesota avenue southeast, de-
scrlbed as member of a youthful
gang" by Judge Gus A. Schuldt. was
held under $4,000 bond today pending
grand jury action, when he appeared
In Police Court on two charges of
houSebreaking
Arrested by Precinct Detective J. j.
TolSon, Wilson is said to have been a
member of gang of boys, ranging from
Il to II, who have been connected with
robberies in southeast. Wilson is ac-
cused. according to testimony of hav-
ing entered grocery store in the 1900
block of Minnesota avenue on May 2,
taking cigarettes. chewing gum and
money.
Wilson was employed by Leroy MAJ
zullo, proprietor of a gasoline filling sta
ton in the 1900 block of Good Hope
road southeast, and according to police
he entered the establishment after it
was closed for the night. Money total
ing $50 is said to have been taken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
Representative Gibson Con-
ferS With Officials on Bill
to Be introduced.
ASKS RECOMMEN
FROM MAJ. H. G. PRATT
Measure Will Be Pushed in Regu-
lar Session of Congress in
December.

The Washington police force will be
made equal if not superior to the po-
lice force of any other city in the coun-
try in organization. equipment and
training under provisions of legislative
program, the preliminary steps of
which were mapped out this morning
at a conference in the District Building.
The conference was participated in
by Chairman Gibson of the special COM
mittee that has been making compre-
hensive study of the municipal admins
tration; Maj. Henry G. Pratt, Superin-
tendent of police, and Inspector William
Shelby, chief of the Detective Bureau.
Actual preparation of the legislative
program will be started as soon as pos
sible.
Representative Gibson after the meet
ing said he has asked Maj. Pratt and
Inspector Shelby to prepare recon-
mendations which he expects to re-
ceive in two or three weeks. He will
then confer with some of those who
were members of his subcommittee in
the last session of Congress and with
legislative leaders, and in the light of
a considerable volume of information
which he now has will drafe a bill to
be introduced in the December session.
Mr.. Gibson pledges to the District
officials and the residents of the Capital
IIldI III IAlC 4lloI ACSuleaA oCSoAOAA Va
Congress he will do his utmost to have
this police reorganization bill passed.
The report of the Gibson subcommit-
tee, on which Mr.. Gibson has been
working and for which special author
ity was given the subcommittee to file
a report up to July /, probably will be
delayed in order that the recommended
lions for reorganization of the Police
Department may be stated specifically
In this report.
I'VE are determined to do something
constructive for the Police Department"
said Mr.. Gibson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
DOOM LANDMARK
At GEORGETOWN
Commission Orders Rey-
noIdS to Vacate Boathouse
on Water Front.

Frequenters of the Georgetown wa
ter front will soon miss an old familiar
acknowledgements boathouSe. w. T.
Reynolds, the owner, has been served
notice that the house is on public prop
erty, and must be moved within 10 days
from the date of service.
1t has been questioned for some years
whether the boathouSe was on public
property, according to Roland M. Bren-
nan, chairman of the wharf committee
of the District government, but the
matter was finally settled by reference
to the corporation counsels Office. Rey-
nolds has been very favorably known
to District officials because of the help
he always renders the Police Depart
ment in recovering the bodies Of
drowned persons from the river.
The boathouse would probably have
remained undisturbed but for the fact
that the Lone Star Cement Co. proposes
to put up building on Thirty-fourth
street by the river and demanded &C
cess to it's property through Thirty
fourth street. The boathouse lies on the
line of Thirty-fourth street, which has
never been cut through.
The Commissioners yesterday also
served notice on, the Columbia Granite
& Dredging Co. to vacate frame shed
also on the line of Thirty-fourth street,
but this is small portable building
used to house materials while construc-
ton work is in progress nearby.
According to Brennan, several other
houses are built on public property near
the river where the streets have not
been cut through, but no action is eX-
pected to remove them except in case
such as the present, where access is
demanded to property. This the Dis
trict cannot legally refuse.
In order to establish the Districts
claim to the line of Thirty-fourth
street, a search had to be made by the
corporation counscl's Office of records
back to 1875, when Frederick street, in
the CITY of Georgetown, was changed to
Thirty-fourth street. The boathouse
has been there since 1899.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
BRIDGE INSPECTOR HURT
BY ACCIDENTAL FALL
Benjamin Ramos Suffers Skull
Fracture at Arlington Structure.
Condition Regarded Critical.

Benjamin Ramos, 81 years old, of AIS
Queen street, Alexandria, Va, employed
as an inspector for the company con-
structing the Arlington Memorial
Bridge, met with an accident while
making an inspection near the north
end of the bridge this morning that re-
suited in fracture of his skull.
Ramos, according to information OBJ
tanned by police, fell from the bridge,
possibly as result of the breaking of a
timber, landing on the pavement below
He was unconscious when picked up
and taken to Emergency Hospital, where
his condition is reported critical. Ra-
mos wife and two children were mott
fed Of the accident.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
KIWANIS GETS REPORT
ON ORTHOPEDIC CASES
Total of 800 Children Treated I'm
der Washington Clubs Direc-
ton.

A total of 300 child orthopedic cases
have been treated under the direction
Of the Washington Kiwanis Club, with
ITS receiving treatment at the present
time, it was reported by Radford Moses
and Charles w. Pimper at luncheon
of the club in the Hotel Washington
yesterday.
A resolution appropriating the sum of
$500, to be used in connection with the
work of the committee seeking to have
the international convention of KiWanis
Clubs held in this city in 1882, was
adopted. Eugene r. Woodson is chair
man OF this committee. The appropria-
ton will be used in getting people in
terested in the convention.
program of music was rendered at
the luncheon under direction of Sam
Norman. conductor at the Fox Theater,
and John Irving, master of ceremonies
there.
r. Lester Rose and Herman F. Carl
were installed as new members Edgar
Morris, president of the club, presided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
Sentenced by Justice SiddonS
on Plea of Guilty to Sec
ond-Degree Murder.
SCHENCK, EX-P0LICEMAN,
ADMITS TWO ROBBERIES
Awaits Courts Judgment in Hold
Ups Involving Small Sums
of Money.

George Bongers, As years old, who
shot and killed his wife. Eva lola Bon
gers. october last in Judiciary Square
when she refused to allow him to return
to live with her and the children, was
sentenced today by Justice SiddonS in
Criminal Division 2 to serve rs years
in the penitentiary.
Bongers, following the attack on his
wife, attempted to take his own life, but
was unsuccessful. He was indicted for
murder in the first degree, but was al
lowed to withdraw a plea of not guilty
to that charge and to plead guilty 10
murder in the second degree.
Mrs. BongerS was accustomed to pass
through Judiciary Square on her way TO
work, and her husband waited there
for her. He pleaded with her to take
him back, and when she refused he
continued to walk at her side, until she
threatened to call policeman. Angered
at the threat, the man drew his gun and
shot her He then put bullet in his
right side and spent several weeks in a
hospital.
Assistant United States Attorney Jo-
seph v. Connolly appeared for the Gov
eminent, while the prisoner was repre-
Sented by Attorney Edward E. Mitchell
Frederick A. Schenck, former police
man of the third precinct, pleaded
guilty before Justice Siddons to two
indictments charging him with robbery
at the point of a pistol last February
To a third indictment charging rob-
berry at Sanitary Grocery Store, 1901
Fourteenth street, the former policeman
entered a plea of not guilty. He was
remanded to await sentence.
Schenck admitted that he robbed
Kenny c. Van Meter, manager of an oil
station at Fourteenth and D streets, of
$40 February 18 and that he took $50
from Russell Bennett, night clerk al
the Meridian Mansions, 2400 Sixteenth
street. in the early morning of Febru-
airy 20.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
WASHINGTON CAST TAKES
PART IN TOURNAMENT
Columbia Players Present "The
Monkeys Paw" in Annual Lit
tie Theater Competition.

The Columbia Players of Washington
presented The Monkeys Paw" at I'll
Waldorf Theater in New York Iec
night in competition with other 81.
trants in the seventh annual Liteit
Theater tournament. Little Theat>.
groups from Denver, Colo; Dayton
Ohio, and st. Augustine, Fla, also W.,
on the nights program.
The cast of the Washington play il
cluded George Odell, Elizabeth Dye
Paul Alexander, Harry Westcott -
Charles Gilman. THE Monkeys Pa
was written by w. w. Jacobs and drer.-
atized by Louis N. Parker.
On Saturday the four plays adju6ro
the best according to tournam~
standards will be represented, and 6
urday night the play winning the Da
Belasco Cup will be staged and the c
awarded.
Judges of the tournament are F
rest Davis, chairman; Louise Will
Dorothy Stockbridge. Percy Hutchin
and Richard De Rochemont.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
THEFT OF BABY'S BANK
BRINGS 80 DAYS IN Jt
Willie Howard Is Denied ClemeI
When Arraigned Before
Judge Schuldt.

Willie Howard, colored. 900 block
U street, charged with petit larcer
was arraigned in court today on /
complaint of Mrs. Sophie Cahill of [
3100 block of Hyatt place, who
Howard robbed the baby's bank vi
left at her home on the night of n
7 to care for an infant son while
and her husband went to a theater.
Arrested at his home, Howard
mitted the theft of the bank, accord
to Policeman P. E. Peterson, but tot
in court he asked clemency as he {
the money amounted to only So inst
OF more than SIS, as Mrs. Cahill CLAIM,
Judge Schuldt sentenced him to Sc
60 days on the recommendation of
sistant United States Attorney Hob"
Newman and warned him that UNI
he changed his conduct he would n
steal pennies from dead men,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
WOMEN |NDORSE
LABOR PROPOSALS
Resolution Barring Children
Under Is From Employ
ment Is Given Support.

Resolutions supporting various aims
of organized labor were up for con-
sideration today before the eleventh
annual convention of the National
Woman'S Trade Union League here to-
day, with action probable before con-
cluSion of the days session, which also
was to witness the nomination and
election of officers.
Legislation to take all children under
the age of Is, out of employment: to
abolish night work in industries, and
for shortened hours to afford more
employment were proposed by dele
gates meeting at the Grace Dodge Hotel.
League Receives Greetings.
Another proposal finding support is
embodied in a resolution to increase the
use of union-made Shoes.
Greetings upon the attainment of the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the league
were read at today'S session.
kilograms were received from vari-
Gus parts of the United States, and one
came from the International Leather
Workers Organization of Nurnberg,
Germany. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
wife of the Governor of New York, also
wired greetings.
Garment Workers Face Strike.
The convention was informed yeSter-
day afternoon that the International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union is
facing strike, involving 10000 needle
workers in the city of New York.
A resolution was submitted by the
Women's Trade Union League of Mil
Waukee urging a study of consumers
cooperation" 1t was stated that efforts
of unions for increased wages are too
often counterbalanced by increased
prices.
Considerable interest was aroused
Yesterday by the story told by Miss
Margaret Bowen of Elizabethton, Tenn,
secretary of the United Textile Workers
Union. Miss Bowen gave a vivid por-
trayal of the events leading up to the
EliZabethton strike.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
McCARRON is SPEAKER.

John F. McCarron, newly elected
president of the Archdiocesan Union of
the Holy Name Society of the diocese
of Maryland, was principal speaker last
night at a meeting of the society held
in honor of the incoming administration
at Holy Trinity Hall. Other speakers
were Patrick Haltigan, John Alec, j.
Earl Ready and John H. Doyle.
Rev. Louis Weber, as moderator, and
Paul Kinnehan, as president, presided
at the meeting. A musical program was
presented under direction of John
Garland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
BUS DRIVER is BLAMED
IN ACCIDENT FATAL TO 20
Report Made to I. C. C. by Director
of Safety Bureau on Ohio
Tragedy January 20.

BY the Associated Press.
Blame for the collision between a
motor bus and a Lake Shore Electric
Railway passenger train January %
neAs Bellevue Ohio, in which 20 per-
sons were killed and several injured,
was placed today on Edward Butler,
driver of the bus, in a report to the
interstate Commerce Commission by
w. P. Borland, director of the commits
sion's safety bureau.
The report said the accident was
caused by the bus being driven on
the tracks directly in front of the ap-
preaching train.
The bus driver said snow restricted
his view to a distance of 25 or 80
feet. but Borland reported that other
evidence indicated that visibility was
from 700 to 900 feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10

the Naval Proving Grounds, at Dahl
gren, Va.
There Lieut.. Momsen and Navy 'yers
Joseph Eiben and Edward Kalinoskb it'll
the aid of crude model of the lung"
as it is now used in the Navy, made
from whatever could be picked up
around the navy yard, including some
old gas mask hose, some rubber sheet
ing an automobile tire valve and other
odds and ends, assembled from a diving
bell sunk 10 feet down the river. They
felt no i'll effects from their tests, and
so confident were they in the efficacy of
the lung" that they allowed reporter
from The Star to test out the device
from a depth of about 80 feet.
Similar tests were made in Chesa-
peake Bay, off Solomons Island, and
the "lung" worked satisfactorily when
the divers wore it ascending from the
diving bell sunk to 1855 feet.
The reconditioned Navy submarine
S-4 then was taken to the deep waters
off Key West, Fla, and Lieut.. Momsen
and his corps of divers gave the lung"
exhaustive tests at depths up to 200
feet.
Shortly after this the Navy Depart
ment placed contracts for the manu-
facture of the lung" in large guam
titles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
REMOUNT SHOW PLANNED.
Army Event to Attract Many tc
Front Royal, Va.

The Army remount service will give
its seventh annual horse show tomorrow
at Front Royal, Va. It is expected that
there will be large attendance from
this city and nearby Virginia.
Among those who are expecting to go
from here are Col. Patrick j. Hurley,
Assistant Secretary of War; Maj. Gen.
P. II. Wells of the general staff; Quar-
termaster Gen. B. F. Cheatham, Maj.
Gen. H. P. Crosby, chief of Cavalry,
and Maj G.. S. Patton, Sd Cavalry. The
last named officer will serve as one Of
the judges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
MADDEN BUST LOCATED.
Spot in Capitol for Memorial Fixed
by Sculptor.

A location in the Capitol was selected
today for bust of the late Martin B.
Madden, chairman of the House appro-
p1iations committee and a veteran
legislator from Illinois.
Albin PolaSek, q sculptor, of Chicago,
accompanied by David Lynn, architect
of the Capitol, and Charles E. Fairman,
curator of art works in the Capitol.
made a tour of the building today and
selected location i'll the main corridor
near the entrance to the House cham
Der. This is near where the two busts
now stand of Champ Clark, former
Speaker, and James r. Mann. who was
long the Republican party leader in
the House.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
POLICEMAN DISMISSED.
Private Found Guilty of Being
Drunk-Second Fined $40.

The Police Trial Board yesterday
ordered Pvt. jeff Van, fifth precinct, re-
moved from the force on charges of
intoxication, conduct unbecoming an
officer and leaving his beat, it was an
nounced at police headquarters today.
E. H Braxton, second precinct, was
found guilty of failure to patrol his beat
and entering a building, and fined $40.
w. S. Brown, fifth precinct, and w. D.
Davis, tenth, were eXonerated on
charges of conduct unbecoming an Of
ficer and conduct prejudicial to the
good order of the force, respectively.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
PROMOTIONS ARE MADE.

nounced at District Building.
Several promotions in the District
auditors Office as a result of the
resignation of E. E. Naylor were ordered
bv the Commissioners today. Simon
McKinnie was promoted from third to
second assistant auditor to take Mr..
MAYORS place. William G. Wilding,
secretary of the District Personnel
Board, was promoted to Mr.. McKinnie's
place; j. M. Cornett, stenographer and
typist, was made secretary of the
Personnel Board.
Increases in salary also were ordered
for Bernard j. Cain, chief of the book
keeping section, and Franklin P. LepSon,
chief Of the retirement section.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
Sidewalk Contracts Let.

The Crawford Co. of Washington, was
awarded a contract toGay for constIuc-
ton of concrete sidewalks in various
sections of the city. The concern bid
$62,415 for the job.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
Advisory Council to Meet.

The Citizens Advisory Council will
meet at 7:3O pm. Monday in the office
of Engineer Commissioner William B.
Ladue, District Building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
ASK CONSTRUCTION BIDS.
y a STAFF Correspondent of The Star

by SVdu Correspondence VI NC oIdE.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. May 10
Bids for the construction of shoulders
along the Grain Highway through MARI
boro, from Merricks Bridge to Hills
Bridge, and on the Southern Maryland
pike from T B to MattaWoman, have
been asked by the State Roads Com
mission, the local Office announced yes
terday.
The bids on the Grain Highway prof.
ect are returnable May 81. and those
on the Southern Maryland pike May IA.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-03-22
SELLS HORSES IN OHIO

j. A. Mccain, the stock man of
Lanark, returned Tuesday from a
trip to Ohio where he sold a car
load of high grade work horses
for S85 per head. On the way
there the stock train on which he
was travelling met with bad luck
at the Minnesota transfer. At an
intersection of tracks, where the
Great Northern train had the right
of way, a train from another road
Unexpectedly pulled across in
front of the G.. N. train. The G..
n. engineer prevented a collision
in the only way possible, by APP
plying the emergency air brakes
which brought the train to dead
stop. There were II men in the
coach and they were hurled to
the front end of the car and piled
in a heap. All were from slightly
to seriously injured. Mr.. Mccain
suffered two broken ribs but was
able to proceed on his journey
two days in the hospital.
Some of the livestock was injur-
cd. Mr.. Mccain also made a re-
cent trip to Iowa to purchase a
registered bull.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-03-22
F0USEK DEMOCRATIC
NOMINEE FOR MAYOR

Albert j. Fousek, former mayor OF
Great Falls, defeated Mayor H. B
Mitchell by 47O votes in the con.
test for the democratic nomination
for mayor in the primary election
Monday. 10y J.. Molumby won
the republican nomination by pill
ing up Gil votes than John
Mckenzie.
The unofficial returns from the
2S precincts gave: Fousek, 1854;
Mitchell, 1.114; Molumby, 1,445;
Mckenzie, 1874.
H. A. Sheppard, incumbent, de-
feated d. J.. Ryan by a wide mar
gin for the democratic nomination
for public magistrate. Clarence
Enlow polled just twice as many
votes as Alfred Dahlin in the re-
publican police magistrate race.
The vote Sheppard. 1.f54; Ryan,
1872; Enlow, 1,210; Dahlin,, sos.
Without any competition in
either party, w. P. Wren polled
1928 votes in his uncontested
campaign for reelection as city
treasurer.-Great Falls Tribune.
Albert J. Fousek is the father of
Mrs. Mayme Vigil, a we'll known
member of the Wolf Point school
faculty. The democratic nomin-
alton for mayor, in Great Falls,
is generally considered equivalent
to election.