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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-07
CITY WITHIN CITY
| ROCKEFELLERPLAN
Millionaire Proposes Biggest
Project on Record in Any
Modern Metropolis.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. February TN the
central part of New York City, hard by
the streets where millions shop and
play, John d. Rockefeller, jr., has ac-
CURED an 11-acre tract upon which he
Contemplates the biggest buildngi prof.
ect ever known to a modern metropolis.
He has leased for 81 years three
rectangular blocks in the midtown BUSH
ness district as the site of city within
city. In it a new Metropolitan Opera
House is TO be the principal edifice,
bounded by shops and plazas which
will make the scene an elaborated
counterpart of the Place de TOpera in
Paris.
& "a Years Rent S9O,O0O.O0O.
For the first "a years, Rockefeller will
pay to Columbia University, which
owns the property, S90,000,000 in rent,
or about $3.750000 a year. Thus does
the university dispose. for several gene
rations to come, of plot of land which
was a white elephant when it obtained
it as a grant from the State in 1914.
It was four miles from the heart of
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Present Site Held at $4,000, 900.

Es.-oit police issued 418 tickets for
speeding In 48 hours.
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the city and SO difficult to lease even
for a few hundred dollars year that
the university believed it had been
bilked, and wished it might have gotten
q few thousand dollars in cash instead.
The plan for the development of
Rockefeller City" is to rae the four
and five story structures now occupying
it--moStly brownstone fats with stores
and eating places on the first two floors
and apartments above-and to build an
architectural entity of shops on three
sides of plaza which will be fronted
by tn enew Metropolitan Opera House.
Plans as yet are tentative and must
be worked out between officials of the
Metropolitan Opera Co., Rockefeller
himself and prospective Subrenters of
the business buildings which will flank
from the opera house.
Probable Outline Of Building.
But it is probable that the new opera,
with seats for 300 persons, will have
its back to Sixth avenue, and that its
courtyard will be parked square liz the
middle of the block now bounded by
Forty-ninth and Fiftieth streets.
Whatever its evolution all of 1t will
be built as a unit, with uniformity in
setbacks, building materials and archi-
tectural styles, and with gradations of
height which will enable the new opera
house to rise above its surroundings like
the dominant castle of city in the
clouds.
The Metropolitan has been housed
since the early eighties at Thirty-ninth
street and Broadway. dozen blocks
farther downtown. Its directors have
been talking for years of new site and
finer building. Before the Rockefeller
site can be accepted, there must be con-
sideration of finances, nearness of trans
portation lines and other factors. But
nobody deems it possible that the Metro
politan will reject this opportunity for
a new home, and Rockefeller himself
Evening star., 1929-12-15
BILL FOR MILITARY
PATROL IS OFFERED
Would Give Park Police Au-
thority to Patrol Certain
Roads in Nearby Virginia.

A bill to give the United States park
police authority to patrol military roads
in nearby Virginia, which was con-
sidered but not completed in the last
Congress, was reintroduced yesterday
by Senator Reed OF Pennsylvania, chair
man of the military affairs committee.
Provisions of Measure.
The bill passed the Senate last year,
but failed to receive action in the
House. In its present form it has been
amended to meet several objections
raised year ago. AS revised the bill
provides that any additional expense
for the park police shall be carried In
the executive and independent Offices
bill, a Federal appropriation measure.
1t also provides that the rules govern
ing these roads shall include the ap-
plicable laws of Virginia and that hear
ings for violations shall be held before
a United States commissioner with the
right of appeal to the United States
Court.
The War Department. has advised the
Senate committee that. while the Fed
eral Government is charged with re-
sponSibility for policing these military
roads, it has no means specifically au-
thoriZed by law for doing so. The de-
partment believes it would be better to
assign the task to the park police than
to use troops from Fort Myer for po-
lice work.
Policing Outside City.
The bill would make the director of
Public Buildings and Public Parks OF
the National Capital responsible for the
policing for distance of S miles from
the District of such military roads in
Virginia as the Secretary of War may
designate.
Evening star., 1929-12-15
LIMIT
URGED BY CITIZENS
Mt. Pleasant Association
Would Bar 0verIapped
Memberships.

A resolution urging that admission
of further organizations to membership
in the Federation of Citizens Asocia-
tions be confined to citizens aSsocia-
tions, formed with geographic bound
aries, as distinguished from groups or
societies otherwise organized" was
adopted by the Mount Pleasant Citizens
Association, meeting in the Mount
Pleasant Branch of the Public Library
last night.
The resolution also urged that the
federation take "cogniZance of terri
torial limits of citizens associations
making application for admission.
In Same Vicinity.
Mai. A. M. Holcombe, who introduced
the resolution, said that number OF
organiza tions not coming speclhcally
under the head of citizens associations
now send delegates to the federation,
and also pointed out several instances
where there are several associations
within the same vicinity with delegates
seated in that body.
resolution urging passage by Con-
gress of the bill for increasing the pay
of firemen and policemen was adopted,
with an added clause that promotions
or increases in pay in the future be
governed entirely by seniority rather
than by any merit system, except TO al
low for refusal of an increase in the
case of any particular policeman VINO
has been proved inefficient.
The latter resolution was adopted
following a discussion Of the so-calleo
merit system by members of the asSo-
ciation. Policeman Daniel Foley OF the
seventh precinct and member OF the
association, in answer to an inquiry py
another association member, said tnat
under the merit system a policeman
may receive a pay increase because the
locality of his beat enables him to make
a more favorable showing or because
he is highly spoken of by group OF
citizens, while another policeman is
possibly overlooked.
Would Limit Garages.
The association also adopted reso-
luton that the proposed change in the
zoning regulations to permit the build
ing of so-called storage garages IN
apartment houses-now pending-be
limited to construction of garages for
pleasure cars of occupants OF the apart
ments only.
Another resolution was adopted in
dorsing IN principle, the new Public
Utilities Commission merger plan for
transit companies here.
Reappointment of Judge Gus A
! Schuldt as Police Court judge also was
! urged in a resolution. H. B. B. Gordon
and Maj. c. E. Mcdonald were elected
new members of the association. G
Dwight Marsh president of the associa-
| ton presided
Evening star., 1929-12-15
YATES NOMINATED
CHIEF OF CHAPLA|NS
President Hoover Sends
Name to Senate-Post
Carries Rank of Colonel.

The nomination of Lieut. Col. Julian
E. Yates to be Army chief of chaplains
with the rank of colonel. for term of
four years, was sent to the Senate yes
terday by President Hoover.
Col. Yates, a native of Williams Mills
N. c., will replace Col. Edmund P
Easterbroc&, who retires on December
90 The new chief of chaplains was
last assigned as post and regimental
chaplain, 9th United States Cavalry
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. He is a member
of the Baptist Church, North.
Col. Yates was born in 1871 and is a
graduate of Wake Forrest College In
North Carolina and of the University OF
Chicago. His Army service began in
1902, when he was appointed a chap
lain with the rank of captain. He saw
service in the Philippine Islands fol
two years after entering the Army, and
then was detailed to duty at various
army posts in the East, including Forts
McHenry, Howard and Washington, Md.
Throughout the World War Col. Yates
was attached to an artillery unit in
France. He was honored by the French
government, receiving a silver medal
and citation for having "co-operated
most faithfully with the French public
health service"
After the war. Col. Yates saw duty
with the War Plans Division, War De-
partment, as assistant to the officer in
charge of moral training, and also was
stationed at Camps Stuart, Eustice and
Fort Myer, Va. In 1922 he was pro-
NOTED from major to lieutenant colonel
and given duty in the office of the chief
of chaplains as executive officer. -Four
years later he was transferred to Fort
Oglethorpe.
Evening star., 1929-12-15
BROWN APPOINTED
RADIO BODY COUNSEL
Succeeds B. M. Webster, Jr., Who
Resigns to Return to Pri-
vate Practice.

Thad H. Brown, general counsel of
the Federal Power Commission, was
yesterday appointed to the same Office
in the Federal Radio Commission. He
will succeed B. M. Webster, jr., who
resigned Friday to return to private
practice after several years of Govern
ment service. The place of assistant
general counsel on the commission,
made vacant when Paul M. Segal re-
tired with his chief, has not yet been
filed.
Brown was born in Ohio, and served
AS secretary of State there from 1922
until 1926, He was a candidate for
governor that year. but was defeated in
the Republican primaries. He was grad
uated from the College of Law of the
Ohio State University in 1912, and en-
gagged in practice of law in Columbus.
He was captain in the World War,
and following his discharge from the
Army in February. 1919, he was COM
missioned a major in the Officers Re
serve Corps. Later he was appointed
lieutenant colonel, Infantry, of the Re-
serve Corps. subsequently being made a
lieutenant colonel in the judge adVo-
cate generals Reserve Corps.
Brown will take over his new duties
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1929-12-15
AUTHOR OF ANTI-CIGARETTE
TRACT TAKES ISSUE WITH LUSK
Miss Robertson Defends
Pamphlet Sent to PIT. A.
Groups.
Explains Wording and AmpIi-
fieS Her Ideas and
Motives.

Miss Georgia Robertson, author of
numerous tracts on child raising and
child welfare, including the anti-cig-
arctic pamphlet which recently drew
the fire of Rufus Lusk Parent-Teacher
Association president, yesterday came
to the defense of her assertions and
motives by taking issue with Mr.. Lusk
and amplifying her own ideas.
Miss Robertson, who is member OF
the Womens Christian Temperance
Union, pointed out in a statement to
The Star that her pamphlet, "A Peep
Inside Your Wonderful House." con-
tanned the sentence: I'VE ought to
take the very best care of them and not
degrade them in any way, or injure
them by smoking, or drinking alcoholic
liquors."
Explains Usage of Degrade"
"It does not say degrade them by
smoking or drinking" Miss Robertson
said. by degrade them in any way
I meant to infer, without mentioning it,
sometimes committed even among
youths"
Miss Robertson takes issue with Mr..
Lusk particularly in his assertion that
practically all able-bodied men,
whether engaged in a business or pro-
fession, are cigarette smokers"
II know of no place where proof CT
this can be found" the pamphlet writer
declared. "I hardly think any one
would claim these men owed their sue
cess to cigarette smoking or would be-
lieve that they were regular cigarette
smokers in their childhood or youth
In her statement Miss Robertson
urged abstinence from smoking as a
preventive of crime.
TOlstOi Is Quoted.
Those who have an intimate ac-
quaintance with large numbers of de-
linquent children believe cigarette or
tobacco smoking by children or youths
leads to juvenile delinquency" her
statement read. "Tolstoi said of mis-
smoking days, I never felt a twinge
of conscience after the third whiff.'
why not profit by the old adage,
An ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure?' While we are search
ing for a remedy for the crime wave
and also trying to find way to secure
adequate medical treatment within the
means of all needing it, why not aim to
lessen the spread of those habits which
lead to sickness and loss of working
time and sometimes to degeneracy re-
sulting in crime?
Physicians tell us that anything that
irritates the lungs favors the develop
ment of tuberculosis. This is true of
cigarette smoking, especially when the
smoke is drawn into the lungs, as 1t
Evening star., 1929-12-15

usually is. Last year, for the first time
since beginning the intensive campaign
against tuberculosis, there was an in
crease in its death rate. Undoubtedly
undernouriShment caused by reducing
the diet in order to maintain slender,
stylish figure, was one cause of the in
crease, also the reSorting to cigarette
smoking to lessen the desire for food,
or make one appear smart thus irritat-
ing the lungs and adding its quota of
tuberculosis victims"
Says Children Have Right to Know.
Miss Robertson asserted that it is
Door business to spend millions of dol
lars a year on public education land
not make certain that every child re-
ceiVes adequate instruction concern
ing the know injurious effects of alco-
holic beverages on the human body and
also the effects of cigarette smoking or
other use of tobacco, especially among
children and young people"
THE law of the District of Column
bia,'' Miss Robertson concludes, re
ouires instruction to be given in the
public schools regarding the effects OF
alcohol and narcotics upon the body
Children have right to know the facts
concerning the injurious effects of alco-
hol and tobacco on the organs of the
body whether their parents use these
things or not. Why should their future
health be sacrificed from lack of knowl-
edge because their parents choose to
indulge in these harmful things? Would
any one object to children being taught
honesty and truthfulness because their
parents might not measure up to these
standards?"
The pamphlet about which is center
ing the discussion of anti-cigarette
and instruction of pupils IN
the effects of tobacco, was written by
Miss Robertson and sent by Mrs. Giles
Scott Rafter president of the District
of Columbia Congress of Parent-Teacher
Associations, to the Fillmore Parent
Teacher Association, of which Mr.. Lusk
is president, as we'll as to other groups.
Mr.. Lusk condemned the pamphlet in
no uncertain terms, which in turn were
confirmed by Dr. Charles F. Carusi,
president of the Board of Education.
Evening star., 1929-12-15
Six Grand Jurors Among
Those Called by Prosecu-
tion to Testify.
GROUP INCLUDES POLICE,
REPORTERS, OFFICIALS
Defense Expected to Bring in
Members of Grand Jury
Also.

Thirty-two witnesses. six of them
members of the July grand jury, have
been Subpoenaed to testify for the
prosecution in the trial of Inspector
William S. Shelby and Lieut.. Edward
j. Kelly next Wednesday for alleged
bungling of the police investigation into
the death of Mrs. Virginia Hurley Nc
Pherson.
The list of defense witnesses is not
expected to be ready until tomorrow.
It is expected that on the list will be
the names of several of the grand
Jurors not called by the prosecution.
Merritt o. Chance, foreman OF the
grand Jury which returned a special
report charging the officers with IN
efficiency. and which indicted Robert
A. Mcpherson, jr. husband of the dead
woman, for murder, is one OF the prose-
cution witnesses. Other members OF
the grand jury called are John D. Nc
Night, 1900 r street: John L. Kearney,
1896 Quebec place; Baxter M. David
son, ir. 1015 N street; James I. Scott,
Sl9 Sheridan street; and Samuel r.
Agnew, Cordova Apartments.
Assistant United States Attorney Will
liam Collins who represented the DIS
trict attorneys office at the coroners
jury inquest into Mrs. McPherSonS S
death, is another prosecution witness.
Rex Collier of the Star, Harold Klee-
land of the Daily News and Louis NC
Mahon of the Herald, newspapermen
who covered the story, are other wit
nesses.
The balance of the list is made up
of police and other officials, and resi-
dents of the Park Lane Apartments,
where Mrs. McPherson's body was
found. 1t includes the following:
Mai. Henry G. Pratt. superintendent
of police: DIR. Joseph D. Rogers, acting
coroner: Patrick ]. Lynch, American
Railway Express Co.; William Burke,
detective, third precinct; William g..
Stott. captain at the third precinct;
Joseph H. Bait, Insurance Building;
Mr.. and Mrs Roy Heavrin of the Park
Lane, Mrs Alice Brown and Mr.. Brown
of 9O6 Twenty-third street, Miss Betty
Novel;, formerly of the Washington
Times: DR.. Edward A. German, house
physician at the Park Lane; Frank ..
Brass of the Park Lane, Wilmer G. Run,
manager of the Park Lane; Sergt. Fred
Sandberg, fingerprint expert of the
Police Department; former Policeman
Robert j. Allen and Policeman Lawrence
Bolts, Aliens partner on the beat on
the night of Mrs. McPherson's death;
Louis Kaplis, detective bureau; David
E. Schott, clerk at the detective bureau;
Earle P. Hartman of the third precinct,
William r. Enyeart of detective head
quarters. and Headquarters Detective
Dennis Cullinane.
Evening star., 1929-12-15

ington. The child of Lund's indiscre-
tion lived in a State other than Virginia
under the name of Washington. He
served in Hamar's Indian expedition,
married twice and raised large family
of children.
There was no secret about his pa
ternity at the time. He was respected
in the community and often recognized
as Washington from his remarkable
likeness to the family"
AS the last charge Mr. Fitzpatrick
says the foundation is equally nebu-
lous. This is the charge that the fatal
illness of Washington, contracted De-
cember l3. 1879, was the result of "an
aSsignation with an overSeer's wife,"
1T is the most nebulous of the
slanderS," says Mr.. Fitzpatrick. ut
seems to be based entirely upon the
inclement weather of the day and to
be buttressed by the general assumption
that all the other stories are true.
1.-THE obligations Of the people of
can have not been lessened. One of
these obligations, quite properly. Is to
reprehend and check with rebuke the
loose, unfounded and despicable SLAM
ders directed against George Washing
ton"
william Buckner McGroarty. presi-
dent OF the Washington Society of
Alexandria, says the society hopes to
place this pamphlet in all of the ref
erence and historical libraries OF the
country, "after which there will never
exist the shadow of an eXcuie for any
one, be he writer or speaker. whJ may
seek to endow any OF these vieiols - aS
with the slightest scmblance Of truth"
Evening star., 1929-12-15
FRATERNITY TO HOLD
INITIATORY BANQUET
Ambassador Culbertson Heads List
of Speakers for Delta Phi Epsi-
Ion Event Tonight.

The twentieth initiatory banquet of
Alpha Chapter, Delta Phi Epsilon, for
eign service fraternity, to be given at
the Lee House tonight at 8 O'Clock, will
feature speeches by prominent members,
headed by DR. William S. Culbertson,
Ambassador of the United States to
Chile, and the welcoming of a new
chapter just installed in the School OF
Government at George Washington
University.
In addition to Ambassador Culbert-
sons address. active and alumni MEM
bers will hear DR.. Leo Drew O'Neil of
Boston University, national president
of Delta Phi Epsilon; DR.. William F.
Notz, dean of the Foreign Service
School, Georgetown University, and DR..
Charles E. Hill, dean of Columbian Col
lege, George Washington University. a
member of Eta Chapter. now being for
mally admitted into the national or
gganization, in installation ceremonies.
Delta Phi Epsilon was founded at the
School of Foreign Service, Georgetown
University, January 25, 1920.
Evening star., 1929-12-15
.HEFL|N SAYS VETS
IN ASYLUM DOOMED
Introduces Bill Requiring
Periodical Tests of Patients
in st. EIizabeth'S.

A board of review would be set up at
st. Elizabeth's Hospital to make re-
port every six months on the mental
condition of patients at the institution,
if bill introduced in the Senate late
yesterday by Senator Hef1in, Democrat,
of Alabama, is enacted. The measure
provides that whenever a majority Of
the board finds person has been re-
stored to sanity, such person shall be
released Immediately.
In presenting the bill, Senator Hefiin
said:
Complaint has been made from time
to time about the treatment of ex-
service men and others who have been
put in st. Elizabeths Asylum in the
District of Columbia. 1t is claimed
that these eX-service men have money
and that people on the outside get that
money and handle it and put it out at
interest. When once an ex-service man
is put in the insane asylum, the door
OF hope is shut on him and he is
doomed"
The Senator said he was introducing
the bill in order to give every one at
the hospital the right to demand a
hearing every six months. The DILL
reads as follows:
THAT there is hereby established a
board of review at st. Elizabeth's Hos
pital, to be composed of the superin-
tendent of such hospital (who. shall act
as. chairmanJ, and every physician afil-
lated with such hospital. The board
shall review, at least once every six
months, the case of each person COM
mitted to such hospital. and shall file
with the superintendent a report on
the mental condition of each such per-
son. The board shall grant, as mat
ter of right, to any such person who
may be of the opinion that he has re-
covered his reason, and to any repre-
sentative or attorney of any such per-
son, an opportunity to appear before
the board during the review of his
case. Whenever majority of the board
shall declare any such person restored
to sanity. the superintendent shall
forthwith discharge as cured such per-
son from such hospital.
Section .2-The superintendent OF
st. Elizabeth's Hospital, as chairman OF
the board of review, shall, subject to the
approval of the Secretary of the In
terror, make such rules and regulations
as may be necessary to carry out the
provisions of this act"
The bill was referred to the Senate
District committee for consideration.
Evening star., 1929-12-15
BAN PUT ON SIRENS
MAY BE RESCINDED
Chairman of Hospital Board Dis
agrees With Order to Slow
Up Ambulances.

Indications that the order passed by
the board of directors of Emergency
Hospital Friday ordering removal of
sirens from the ambulances in favor of
a regulation horn and instructions to
ambulance drivers to reduce speed in
answering emergency calls and to move
with the regular flow of traffic might
be rescinded was given impetus yester-
day when Woodbury. Blair, chairman of
the board and president of the hos
pital, declared himself at odds with the
boards action and said he would ap-
peal to the District Commissioners for
a definite ruling on the matter.
Mr.. Blair was advised that the order
was the outgrowth of storm of pro-
tests and criticisms which the hospital
had been receiving lately from Wash
ingtonians that the ambulances made
a lot of unnecessary noise and travelled
at an excessive rate of speed through
the city's streets while responding to
calls.
Mr. Blair said he considered the prac-
tice of having the ambulances respond
to emergency calls in haste was an in
dispensible necessity and was for the
greatest good of the community, and
added further that he would oppose any
move to abolish this practice.
Evening star., 1929-12-15
WIDOW OF OFFICER
ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
Police Report Woman Despondent
Because of Inability to Buy
Presents for Son.

Despondent, police said because she
had no money to purchase a Christmas
present for her little son, Mrs. Eliza
beth Ezen. 26-year-old widow of a
former Army officer, attempted to end
her life last night by inhaling gas in
the kitchen of her second-floor apart
ment at 827 Florida avenue northeast.
She was revived by members of the
fire rescue squad and later taken to
Casualty Hospital where physicians said
she would recover.
The young widow was found in an
unconscious condition by Mrs. A. j.
Parker, who lives on the first floor of
the two-family house. and who had
gone upstairs to ask Mrs. Ezell a ques-
tion. The woman's body was stretched
out face downward on the kitchen floor
with all gas jets turned on.
Mrs. Ezell is said to have told police
she had young son, Herman Lee Ezell
staying. with relatives in a little North
Carolina town and was unable to buy
the things she wanted for him for
Christmas.