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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-27

it Is only through the very gener- ous help of our contributors, our
 endowment fund and our own very careful attention to finances that | have enabled us to do this. And when this is accomplished we
 make the required changes and feel that we are that much better
 equipped than before. We have painted all of the bedrooms and
 railways in the main building, paint ed and papered the annex rooms, have replaced several beds and rem
 ovated or replaced all of the mat
 tresses. Rugs have been purchased.
 dressers replaced, and in the kitchen a brand new gas range to replace our old coal stove has been in-
 stalled. This will benefit our kitchen
 help greatly inasmuch as the heat in l the summer months was almost un-
 bearable, fire having to be kept through "A hours of the day.
 We have also obtained three
 more bedrooms by the release of the rooms of my apartment to the club.
 This replaced the rooms lost | lthroughs the changing over of other
 rooms to the lounge room. With
 the making of the lounge room, our old office was included in the | change. We are now located along | side the business desk in the lobby, giving us very advantageous loca- ton. The new office was papered and reconditioned and the whole
 lobby was papered in the same pat tern as the lounge room, giving it all an appearance of one big room. Each year we present our annual
 report to our public. We lay before them the work accomplished through the year. our hopes for the future, but you always find that we stress very strongly our need for
 room. This is our honest and sin cere wish. It is very much needed and We hope and expect that you all
 will see our need and lend your sup
 port at such time as we feel proper
 friends to whom I am thoroughly grateful for their long and continued support. We have depended upon them and they, knowing that we
 have depended upon them, have adopted a policy of giving us a sum to be invested during their lifetime,
 which will render us an income after life has departed equal to their annual contribution. This insures regular contribution from them
 which they know is merited, inas-
 much as they have looked upon our
 forty. years of struggle in the com
 munity. we hope for the support
 of their descendants, but the younger generation has not lived
 With us in our struggle and ,natur-
 ally does not realize our need. We
 are still the dependent child and un-
 til our endowment has grown to fill
 the gap between our income and eX-
 pense, then we will require that
 small percentage to balance our books.
 We have been indebted to the
 press for their continued coopera- tion. and to them, our public, and all who have extended helping
 hand. we thank most heartily and reel that better things in the future are in store for us through their continued help.
 Respectfully submitted.
 NICHOLAS COMBELLACK, Managing Director. Financial Report For Year Ended December 3f, 1880.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-27

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 Officers were elected AS follows; rrederiek $. Chase, president; Julius B, Smith, iee.pfesident; Robert H. Leach, treasurer; William |. Larkin, Jr sseretary; Nicholas c0mbeilack, managing director,
 = Dtrsetorsi Frederick E. Chase, Dr J' <, Dye, William % J, Larkin, G i. Jr. Robert q. Leach, Mark L, sperry,
 Managing director and assistants; Nieboiss c0Dlbsjiaek, managing di. rseiogi William ~, Johnson, boys effrsigrgi PfIts q, klambi, physical girsei0ri Alvin Hutchinson. msms bershiD ksGrstarK,
The Washington times., 1931-03-20
Il NEW SCHOOLS.
i. PROJECTED |

Twenty-six new building projects
in the District have been planned
and scheduled by Assistant Engi-
neer Commissioner H. l.. Robb
and Municipal Architect Albert L.
Harris.
The projects include II school
buildings, including additions; a
tuberculosis sanitorium for juve-
niles, new fire engine station at
Thirteenth and K Streets North
west, and a building for small ami
mails at the Zoo.
The school projects include an
eight-room elementary school to
be erected in the Burleith and
Glover Park section, the new
Brookland Woodbridge Junior
High School, additions to the
MacFarland Junior High School,
the Burleith- Glover Park School,
Murch School, Janney School,
Douglas-Simmons School, Orr
School, Harrison School and the
Paul Junior High School.
Work on the projects will be
begun this spring, the first prof
ect being the erection of the new
elementary school in the Burleith
and Glover Park sections on May
5. The building program will con-
tinue through the summer and
fall.
The Washington times., 1931-03-20
Indiana Ave. Is Giiuen
Run-Around, Thus
Puzzle VaniSheS

The District Commissioners
yesterday decided to twist Indiana
Ave. around a corner. They there
by solved the problem of what to
call the remaining section Of
Louisiana Ave., from Seventh to
D SITS. NV.
Old Louisiana Ave. Is to be
swallowed up in the Federal Build
ing program and Congress at it's
last session voted to name the
new avenue, which will run be-
tween the Union Station and
Pennsylvania Ave. after the State.
This left the District Commission
ers with the problem of remaining
the small section Of thte old ave-
nue. which remained.
The Washington times., 1931-03-20
SPR|NGTOBR|NG
JOB RELIEF

Although the cleanup cam.
paign of the District Committee
on Employment does not start
until April 20, indications are
there will be a sufficient number
of jobs to fill the applications on
hand.
George j. Adams, jr., executive
secretary of the committee, says
jobs are being rated at the rate
of between 10 and 20 a day.
Most of these jobs are temporary,
but he is certain that many per-
manent positions will result from
the campaign.
A scale of wages has been set
by the committee under which
unskilled laborers will be paid 40
cents an hour, skilled laborers so
cents an hour, gardeners, handy
men and similar workers 40 cents
an hour, cooks, maids and similar
employees from 80 cents an hour
to $40 a week.
The Washington times., 1931-03-20
WILL
BEPUSHED
HERE
Justice Department and PUG.
Officials to Get Copies of the
Results of Roberts Tour

Assistant Corporation Counsel
William A. Roberts today COM
pleted a report of his out-of-town
investigation of the ownership of
the Washington Gas Light Com.
pany which recently took him
to Boston and New York.
Copies of the report win pe
furnished Corporation Counsel
William w. Bride, the Depart
ment of Justice and the Public
Utilities Commission. The con.
tents of the report were not
made public.
Mr.. Roberts explained that the
mere completion of the report
was by no means an end to the
investigation to which he has
been assigned.
Until all local phases of the
investigation are completed, Mr..
Bride and Mr.. Roberts will not
discuss what has been uncovered.
The Washington times., 1931-03-20
HELD HERE
AS FORCERS
Times Staff Photo

Testimony in the case of Will
liam F. Belodeau, SO, and his
wife, Dorothy, 10, charged with
forgery, was to be presented to
the Grand Jury today.
Judge Isaac r. Hit held the
woman under $4,000 bond follow
ing a preliminary hearing today.
Evidence in the case of her hus-
band will be heard by the Grand
Jury when he is released from
Gallinger Hospital this afternoon.
The couple is alleged to have
passed a number of bad checks
along the route from Cheyenne,
Wyo., where they were said to
have been recently married. The
charge on which they were ar
rested here was the passing Of
an alleged bogus $40 check.
The Washington times., 1931-03-20
TREE REMOVAL
To GIVE VIEW
Of CAPITOL
Planning Commission Seeks
to Open Up Leafy ArChway
Over East Capitol Street

Removal of the large trees
along East Capitol Street to new
positions some Is feet back from
the street is favored by the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission, it was made known
when the commission members
left on a tour of inspection of
various Government building prof.
ects this morning.
The trees as they now stand
spread their foliage so widely
that they meet in a green arch
above the street. 1t is pretty
enough in itself, but the Capitol
is screened from view.
First Work Scheduled
The first of these trees which
can be moved are in the block
between First and Second streets,
on the south side of which is the
Congressional Library, and on the
north side the new Supreme Court
Building, now under construction,
and the block between Second
and Third streets, on the south
side of which the Folger Library
is being built.
In developing the Monument
Grounds west of the shaft, it
was proposed to the commission
yesterday that on one side there
might be a statue Of L'Enfant,
planner of the city, and on the
other one of Jefferson, who has
no statue here, despite the i'm
portant part he played in the
early development of the Capital.
White House Statue Gone.
There was once a statue of JEFF
fersOn in front Of the White
House, but that one has disap-
peared. The place where the
Jefferson statue would be is di-
rectly in the line of Virginia Ave.
nue., the only avenue which
spreads directly from the foot of
Washington Monument.
Another landmark which will
be preserved in the development
of the Monument Grounds is
the Jefferson stone," some $50
feet from the base of the shaft,
The Washington times., 1931-03-20
Cruising Police Take
Alleged Burglar

A man giving his name as
James w. Gray, 1901 Seventh st.
N. W., was captured by police in
a radio cruiser today shortly
after He is alleged to have at,
tempted to break into a house
at 2915 Sherman Ave. N. w.
Residents of the neighborhood
called police as they saw a man
attempting to enter the house
but by the time the cruiser ar
rived the man had escaped. A
colored woman who had seen the
affair was found by police and,
taking her into the car, they
secuted the neighborhood until
they found Gray. When arrested
he had pair of pliers, a flash,
light and eight rings in his pock,
cts, police say.
The Washington times., 1931-03-20
Gas Company Deal
Aids Old Fight on
Merger Program

Regardless of the outcome Of
the Districts investigation into
the financial operations which
have recently centered around
the Washington Gas Light Com
pany, the transactions are be-
lieved to have virtually killed any
chance for enactment of the
merger bill which would have al
lowed the company to expand its
Capital set-up.
Senator Robert b. Howell (R.)
of Nebraska, who blocked action
on the measure in the last Con.
gress, is now i'll in a local hos.
pital. but is expected back at his
office in few days.
Will Probe Changes
One of the first tasks which he
will undertake will be a study
of the recent operations, which
have transformed the Seaboard
Investment Trust into the Wash
ington and Suburban Company,
with management Of the local gas
plant vested in the Central Public
Service Corporation.
While the measure is generally
known as the merger bill, its most
important feature is a provision
which would allow the merged
company to issue additional stock.
This is the feature which the
new owners of the company
wanted to get on the statute
books, and they made a vigorous
drive for the bill in the last ses-
sion. r..
But when it became evident
that the bill was lost, and that
no additional stock could be is
sued by the local the financial
operations which the District
and the Department Of Justice
are now investigating were
launched.
High Finance" Hinted
There is just enough high
finance" and mammoth corpo-
ration" connection with the opera.
tions to cement the opposition to
the merger bill on the part of
the progressive group in the
Senate.
No lovers of big business they
were willing to let the merger
bill go through if they could have
obtained the concessions for the
public which they wished. Now
the big business feature Of the
local utility is being emphasized.
The Washington times., 1931-03-20
PARKWAY ADDS
ACRE PLOT

Acting Secretary of War Payne
today announced the purchase of
a 56-acre addition to the Anacos-
tia parkway on the southern
shore of the Eastern Branch.
The tract, which belongs to the
heirs of Alethea V. H. McCor-
mick, has a. small area OF marsh
land, but this will be reclaimed.
The acreage will cost the United
States $17,552, it is announced.
The purchase is in line with
the plans of the Park and Plan
ming Commission for the continu-
alton Of the Anacostia parkway
to link up with the proposed
boulevard to connect the various
parks Of the District.
The Washington times., 1931-03-20
BRIDE SILENT ON ROBERTS REPORT OF GAS firm INVESTIGATION
Marine in Midget Car
Leads Policeman
In Wild Chase

Private Perry Staughton, of
Marine Barracks, was today
sentenced to Is days in Jail or
a $25 fine on a charge of
speeding in a midget automo-
bile.
Policeman A. H. Poole told
Judge Gus A. Schuldt he ar
rested the Marine following a
spirited chase on Georgia Ave
nue.. Due to the twists and
turns with which the small
car could weave through traf-
fic it was rather difficult to
keep up, the policeman said.
Staughton also was charged
with failing to have a drivers
permit but on that charge the
judge took his personal bond.
Poole told the court two
passengers were in the small
car with Staughton and that
they fitted in it so tight they
had difficulty in dislodging
themselves.
The Washington times., 1931-03-20
Maj. Gen. S. D. FuQud
To Tour Canal Zone

Maj. Gen. Stephen o: Fuqua.
chief of infantry, U. S. A., will
make a trip of inspection of in.
fantry in Porto Rico and the
Panama Canal Zone, beginning
next week.
Sailing on the transport Cha
teau-Thierry next Friday, Gen
eral Fuqua will go first to San
Juan, Panama. to visit the
Sixty-fifth Infantry, a regiment
of native troops stationed at the
Henry Barracks.
He will then proceed to the
Canal Zone, arriving at Cristobal,
April 3,
The Washington times., 1931-03-20
Poll Theater Wall Defes
rs Sticks of Dynamite

Downtown Washington was
shaken shortly after 10 o'clock
this morning when rs sticks of
dynam tie were exploded in an
effort to bring down the E Street
wall of the old Polls Theater.
Although the charge was an
exceedingly heavy one, the wall
still stood when the smoke and
dust cleared away.
A small column of bricks above
the stage entrance, through which
The Washington times., 1931-03-20
Policeman Is Fined
As Drunken DriUeT

Policeman Hiram McDaniels. of
No. 5 precinct, was fined $126
by Judge j. Chew Sheriff at
Upper Marlboro today.
Arrested several days ago after
chase down the highway, Nc
Daniels was fined 500 on a
: charge Of driving while drunk,
81 for reckless driving and $25
for carrying concealed weapons.
The Washington times., 1931-03-20
Commission AUOWs
Track In1prOUenaent

The Public Utilities Commission
today approved an application of
the Washington Railway and
Electric Company for track inn
provement on the Brookland line
The application was for re-
newal of the tracks on Monroe
Street Northeast from Michigan
Avenue to Twelfth Street and on
Twelfth Street from Monroe to
Otis Street.
The commission declined to
change the route for busses of
the Old Dominion Stage Line.
The change included a terminal
at Fourteenth Street and Pennsyl,
vania Avenue Northwest.
The Washington times., 1931-03-20
KILLER REVEALS
STRANGL|NG
DETAILS
Confirmation of Confession
Awaited; Tucker Asserts He
Had No Motive for His Act

Preparations were begun today
by local police to seek an immedi-
ate Indictment against George P.
Tucker, 80, confessed slayer Of
Miss Emma Kirk, 70-year-old UNI
brella shop proprietor, who was
killed here five years ago.
A telegram confirming the iden.
tification Of the man through
fingerprints is expected momen-
tariIy.
Detective sergt. Fred Sand
berg. local fingerprint expert,
yesterday declared that prints Of
Tucker, found in the files here
on a circular sent out from Den
yer, where Tucker was picked
up on suspicion five years ago,
tally with print found on Miss
Kinks glasses.
Calls Self Murderer
Muttering incoherently that he
was. "cold-blooded murderer" I"
Tucker, on Wednesday night,
stumbled into the arms of two
policemen in Los Angeles.
When first arrested in Los An
geleS, Tucker gave his name as
Jones. A search of police files
here showed no one by that name
whose fingerprintS correSponded
with the print found on the spec
tacles of the aged woman, and
Q request was sent to Los Ange-
les for the fin G er prints of
"Jones."
Later in the day Sandberg was
informed by The Washington
Times that the man mad admit
ted his name was George Tucker
and another search of the files
was made.
A circular from Denver was
found and the prints were de-
clared to tally. Tucker had been
arrested in Denver on suspicion
and his photograph, fingerprints
and description broadcast.
He Gives No Motive
Tucker is said to have confess
ed to the Staying in detail. He
told Of going to the shop of Miss
Kirk following. Stunning"
party at a black and tan cafe.
He knocked, he says, and she
came to the door. Then he
strangled her. No motive for the
crime has been given by Tucker,
who declared:
II don't know why I did it.
There was no reason"
Tucker told police that he min.
gled in the crowd of curious per-
sons who gathered outside the
shop when the murder was dis
covered. Since that time, ne said,
he wandered all over the country.
Though he did not fear arrest,
his conscience finally led him to
confess, he said.
Tucker said he is from a
prominent family, and that his
parents, wife and 10-month-old
son are in San Francisco.
Prints Never Checked
AS soon as the necessary ar.
rangements can be completed it
Is planned to return Tucker to
Washington in the custody of a
United States deputy marshal.
Although Sergeant Sandberg
has kept the thumbprint from
Miss Kinks glasses on his desk
ever since the murder, they were
not checked with fuckers when
the latter were sent here from
Denver. At that time, Sergeant
Sandberg explained, he was out
Of the city on the Hall-Mills case.
The Washington times., 1931-03-20
AndcOstia Tract
ACQlIired for Park

The purchase of 54.846 acres of
"fast land" and 1885 acres of
marsh area from the heirs of Ale
thea V. H. Mccormick and others
for the sum of $17,552.50 was ap-
proved today by Assistant Secre-
tary of War Col. Fred H. Payne.
The land is within the author
ized lines of Anacostia Park and
is to be used for park purposes.
The Washington times., 1931-03-20
4 Are Commissioned
In Reserve COrpS

Gustave Albert Ring, 312 Tay-
lor St. N. W., is commissioned as
second lieutenant in the Army
Reserve, Corps, according to a War
Department announcement today.
Similar commissions were is
sued to Adam Short Trowbridge
and to Harry Amos Bohney, and
one as captain to Harold Witt
Gardiner, all Of Baltimore, Md.
The Washington times., 1931-03-20

some of the most famous actors
and actresses of the world have
passed, refused to yield and kept
tons of brick and steel from fall
ing.
The walls have steadily with
stood smaller charges of dyna,
mite. The heavy charge today
weakened the east end Of the
structure sufficiently for it to be
torn down by laborers, the fore
man said.
The Washington times., 1931-03-20
T1UO Boys Charged
With House BreGkin0

Two boys today were charged
with housebreaking by detectives
Of the Thirteenth Precinct in
connection with a robbery on
February 26 at the home of Fin
Mss .. Morris, 80 Madison st,
N. w.
The two boys are Rockford
Thompson, Is, and Marion Wood.
both living at the Masonic and
Easter Star Home.
The Washington times., 1931-03-20
BALL TO AID LOAN FUND

The seventh annual ball of the
District of Columbia Hebrew
Beneficial Association and its
auxiliary will be held Sunday
night at the Jewish Community
Center for the benefit Of the free
loan fund. -.
The Washington times., 1931-03-20
UNION ELECTS WARREN

George A. Warren, of the solici-
tors office, last night was elected
president of the Interior Depart.
ment branch Of the Federal En-
ployes Union. Albert M. Reising
was elected secretary.
The Washington times., 1931-03-20

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are news events. The Washington
Evening star., 1931-12-23
OLYMPIC GAMES
TO BE BROADCAST
Columbia System Will Give Inter-
views With Stars
Every Friday.

One OF the most extensive schedules
Of sports broadcasts in the history of
radio, including descriptions Of the
Olympic Winter Games and the
Olympiad at Los Angeles, has been
arranged by the Columbia Broadcast
ing System for 1882
The Olympic Games, in which repre-
sentatlVeS Of so nations will compete
for world championships in different
branches of sport will be described
over the air for the first time in the
history OF radio and Of the Olympiad.
Every Friday at 5:45 pm. Ted Husing
Columblas sports announcer. will
interview before the microphone one
or more of the outstanding contestants
Tor berths on the teams that will repre-
sent tke United States in the OIympics
Commencing February and con-
tlnuing through February 13, Husing
Will furnish radio listeners with vivid
Word-pictureS of the Olympic Winter
Games to be held at Lake Placid. N Y.
The events tentatively scheduled 70:
description over the air include tn.
opening misunderstanding. skiing,
bob-sled and dog-sled races; hockey
matches, ski jumping, curling and the
closing ceremonies, during which the
prizes will be awarded
The main events of the Olympiad,
which will open within the majestic
confines of the Olympic Stadium in
Los Angeles on Saturday, July 30 with
the impressive Parade of Nations
also will be described by Husing
Stag. the by-product of steel mills,
is useful for road building
Evening star., 1931-12-23

mark. His words are picked up by the
RRG receiver at koenigsWuesterha
Germany, and distributed to the CONT
mental systems. His comment is not
heard in America.
A RRIVAL of the new year is to be
L \ celebrated with a five-and -one-h9lf-
hour radio dancing party. Schedules
are being laid out at Columbia to start
at 1890 New Year eve and present %
CrcheStraS from l3 cities in the period
until the following morning Besides,
there will be pick-upS of street ce'ebra-
tons in New York and Chicago at the
midnight hour in each city. The broad
cast will be closed from Seattle.
VAUGHN DE LEATH, "the original
radio girl" is coming back On the
network. Columbia announces she
has been signed to do a program of
popular songs each Monday and Fri
day, starting December 28. .WJSV has
arranged to pick up and broadcast the
regular Monday and Thursday after
noon concerts Ct the United States
Marine Band. Eddie Cantor's last pro-
gram on N. B. c. is set for January 8
the date having been changed from
January 10. N. B. c. and Columbia will
carry Paul Won Hundenberg's MESA ge
from Berlin December 81.
TDIOSYNCRASIES of those who broad
cast manifest themselves in numer-
Gus ways. For instance: