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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
MATHER MEMORIAL
BILL GOES TO HOOVER
Provides Tribute to Late National
Park Service Director Some
where Near Capital.

A memorial to the late Stephen r.
Mather, director of the National Park
Service under three Presidents and the
man credited with the development of
national parks in this country, viii be
erected on the Potomac River near the
Capital.
Congressional action upon the pro-
poSal to erect the memorial was COM
pleted today as the House acted favor
ably on the Senate bill and sent 1t to
President Hoover.
Although suggestions from the Ma
tional Park land Planning Commission
would place the memorial somewhere in
the George Washington Memorial Park
way, no definite site has been decided
upon.
Mr.. Mather's death came January %
at Brookline, Mass, just Is years and a
day after he took over the direction of
the national parks and only little more
than a year after his resignation from
the post Of director of the National
Park Service.
He served as assistant to the Secre-
tary of the Interior in charge of ma
tional parks for more than two years
before he was appointed director of the
National Park Service, May, 1917.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
COURT WILL DECIDE
IF JAIL is SANCTUARY
Attorney Raises Point Trying to
Show Subpoena Validity in
Pitts Action.

The District Supreme Court was asked
yesterday to decide whether a peniten-
tiary can be sanctuary" for con-
victed criminal imprisoned pending
appeal.
The point was raised by Attorney
Robert H. Mcneil, who is seeking to
establish the validity of subpoena serv-
ice on G.. Bryan Pitts. former chief
executive of the F. H. Smith Co., who
is in the District Jail under sentence of
IA years for his part in a conspiracy to
defraud the corporation.
MCNEIL commended that the late Chief
Justice Taft of the United States Su-
preme Court had ruled that "jail or
penitentiary is not and shall not be-
come a sanctuary"
The attorney, who has filed a civil
suit against Pitts, points out that If a
man is immune from service pending
appeal of a conviction in a criminal
matter, it would serve as a bar to all
persons with civil claims against him.
The appeal could be carried to the SUI
preme Court, he said, and in the mean
time the statute Of limitations would
have run against civil actions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
DESPONDENT MAN
SHOOTS HIMSELF
Leo D. Shire, Visitor, Tries
Suicide, Say PoIice-Con-
dition Critical.

Dependent because Of i'll health, Leo
D. Shire, 65 years old, of Marshall,
Mich, attempted to end his life by
shooting himself through the head to-
day in his room, on the seventh floor
of downtown hotel.
The report of the revolver was heard
by employees of the hotel, who rushed
to Shire's room and found him lying
on the floor with blood pouring from a
bullet wound in his head. A 38-caliber
pistol was on the floor near his OUT
stretched hand.
Shire was taken to Emergency Hos
pital, where physicians said his con-
dition was critical.
Shire was a patient at the hospital
several days ago, it was said, having
gone to the institution for observation.
In his room at the hotel police found
a letter addressed to his daughter, Miss
Rita Shire, student at college in
Sherman, Tex. In the note, Shire COM
planned of being in ill-health, and de-
clared he was "tired of it."
Employees of the hotel said Shire, a
representative of a concern in Marshall,
had visited the hotel frequently. On
this visit, it was said, he had been at
the hotel since February 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
AVIATOR ESCAPES
injury IN CRASH
Lieut.. Comdr. BartIett's Plane
Hits MudhoIe and Tips
Over on Field.

Lieut.. Comdr. Harold T. Bartlett of
the Navy Department narrowly escaped
serious injury this morning when a
Navy observation plane he was taxing
along the field dipped into a mudhole
and tipped over on its propeller.
Lieut.. Comdr Bartlett came out of the
wrecked plane only shaken up. The
propeller was smashed and the forward
part of the plane damaged.
Enlisted men and officers of the sta
ton escorted Lieut.. Comdr. Bartlett off
the field and gathered up his damaged
plane.
The officers Of the Anacostia Naval
Air Station pointed to the accident this
morning as an example of the danger
to which flyers are subjected in using
the flying field in its present condition.
The landing and take-of area, used by
the naval station and the Army flyers
of Boiling Field, was built over marsh
land, is usually wet and soggy, and has
caused similar crack-ups of planes be-
fore. 1t never has been raised TO the
grade originally intended, they added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
HOLIDAY LAW NOT TO CLOSE
PUBLIC LIBRARY NEXT SATURDAY
DR.. Bowerman Says Main Building and Branches Will
Remain Open at Least Until PM.

Putnam, the librarian of Congress, said.
DR.. Putnam explained that due to fiscal
reasons, it might not be possible to
keep the Library of Congress open
after 6 pm. on Saturdays after July 1.
Conditions at the Public Library,
whose staff was said to be greatly over
worked, are far from satisfactory when
1t comes to operations under the new
Saturday half holiday law.
DR.. Bowerman had requested eight
additional flll-time employees and four
half-time employees to relieve these con-
ditions, but Congress failed to make the
necessary appropriation for their sal
aries.
It would require certain amount OF
readjustment of working hours for the
Library to remain open Saturday after
moons under the new law, for the en-
ployes are legally entitled to a hall
holiday. While hopeful and extremely
anxious to continue this service to the
public, Dr. Bowerman had not been able
to reach definite decision today. The
same establishments must be made at
the Library OF Congress,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
Construction of $500, 900
Memorial Project to Begin
on July |.
HOOVER CONSULTATION
TO PRECEDE CONTRACT
Six Firms Submit Figures for
Building Of Hemicycle, Pylons,
Balustrade and Gate Houses.

The Arlington Memorial Bridge Com
mission prepared to start building the
last major feature in the ambitious
project, when Lieut.. Col. u. S. Grant.
Sd, its executive officer, opened bids
today for granite for the construction
OF the 100000 memorial entrance near
the east wall of Arlington National
Cemetery. The memorial entrance will
terminate the Memorial avenue, which
will go from the Lincoln Memorial to
Arlington Cemetery.
Six Concerns Bid.
Six granite concerns offered to fur
nish material for construction of the
So-called hemicycle, the circular ar
rangement at the embankment at the
cemetery wall, that will represent the
terminus of Memorial avenue, and for
the pylons and gate houses which will
flank the road leading into the
cemetery.
Bids were divided into these four
groups: One, hemicycle proper, ex-
elusive of ballustrade Two, balIus-
trade Of hemicycle. Three, six pylons,
and four, gatehouses, structurally sepa-
rate from the hemicycle, but part OF
the whole composition. Four, granite
for the curb stone and step stones.
W GpCSAA1 July
In the first section, the North Caro-
lima Granite Co. of Mount Airy, N, c.,
was the low bidder, with a figure of
$185,000 For the balustrade contract,
the New England Granite Works of
Westerly, r. l., was the low bidder,
with $4,000. For the pylons and gate
houses, the John Ewenson Granite Co.
Of Concord, N. H., was the low bidder
with .$224,500, while the New England
Granite Co. was the low bidder for the
curb stone and step stones, with
5000.
Engineers of the commission said
that construction work, including the
setting Of the granite, Is likely to start
on the memorial entrance about July
l. concrete and structural work will
be included in this program.
Hoover To Be Consulted.
The Fine Arts Commission has al
ready put its stamp Of approval on the
whole project for the memorial en-
trance. When flished 1t will be possible
to walk up the steps of the north and
south sides of the hemicycle, to the top
OF the structure, and get an imposing
view eastward of the Arlington Memo
rial Bridge, the Lincoln Memorial, the
Washington Monument and the Capitol,
as well as other scenes in the National
Capital, standing on the heights of Ar
Hngton, just at the eastward fringe of
Arlington National Cemetery.
President Hoover, as head of the Ar
Hngton Memorial Bridge Commission,
VIII be consulted before final contracts
for the furnishing Of the granite are
made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
INVESTIGATION BEGUN
IN DEATH OF NURSE
Inquiry Ordered to Learn if Won
an Took Sedative Overdose
by Accident.

An investigation into the death Of
Mrs Marian Farley, 47-year-old trained
nurse, last night at Providence Hospital
was instituted today by Coroner J. Ram
say hewitt and members of the Detective
Bureau homicide squad in charge Of
Sergt. John F1aherty. The woman lived
at Brandywine, Md.
1t is believed that the woman died
from an overdose Of sedative which,
police learned, she took Monday night,
and the inquiry was ordered by Coroner
hewitt in an effort to determine whether
or not she took the drug accidentally.
Mrs. Farley was found lying uncon-
scious in an apartment at 1925 Fiji
teenth street on Monday night by her
daughter, Mrs. Chesley Boiling, and was
taken Immediately to the hospital, where
her condition steadily became worse.
The woman was employed by a tenant
at the Fifteenth street apartment,
police found.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04

Confronted with difficulties to over
come under the new Saturday half
holiday law, DR.. George F. Bowerman,
librarian of the Public Library, decided
today nevertheless to keep the main
building and branch libraries open this
coming Saturday, at least, until 8 pm.
The question of whether the library
would continue open under its usual
Saturday schedules or close the same
as other Government agencies, he will
leave to the determination OF the
trustees who meet March IL. Under
present conditions" DR.. Bowerman ex-
planned, 81 do not care to assume the
responsibility myself in deciding whether
the library shall keep open or close on
Saturdays after this week"
Conditions are different at the Library
Of Congress and that monumental
building, the mecca of as many sight
seers as readers, will keep its doors open
as usual on Saturday afternoons and
evenings. For US to close would be
very hard on the public. including the
employees of the Government. who like
TO use the reading rooms" d.. Herbert
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
CARSON AND 2PALS
ESCAPE OCCOQUAN
D. c. Man Who Held SibIey
Nurse Captive Sought in
Guards Stolen Car.

Howard L. Carson and two compan-
ions, who last night fed in a stolen
automobile from Occoquan Work House,
where Carson was doing time fol-
threatening q sibley Hospital nurse In
his parents home here last September
were the objects Of a widespread search
today by District and Virginia police.
Prison alarms were sounded when the
break was discovered at 1880 o'clock
summoning all guards to duty. Search
ing parties were organized and descrip-
lions broadcast, but without result. AL
three were serving one-year terms and
live In Washington.
Carson's case attracted considerable
attention here. On the night of Sep
TENDER he held Miss Annie D. Jen-
nings captive on an upper floor Of the
Carson home, on s street near First
street, alternately pleading with and
threatening the young nurse unless she
would consent to marry him.
Police Halted with Gun.
Police were summoned, but Carson
held score Of them at bay with his
gun for more than two hours.
He was finally subdued by Policeman
Earl Baker, who improvised a bridge
from a neighbours house into the Jen-
nings' home and sprang upon the armed
man from behind.
Carson, IS years old; Raymond Ball,
80, and Henry F. Sweeney, %, all of
this city, were missed by the guards
when they checked up. An investiga-
ton disclosed that an old touring car
belonging to Raymond English, guard,
had been driven out through a back
gate leading to the farm behind the
work house, and communicating with
country roads In the rear Of the reserva-
ton.
All three men were on special duty.
Carson and Ball at the laundry and
Sweeney on the grounds, and therefore
had considerable freedom of action
within the Enclosure.
Terms Of Other Two.
Sweeney was under sentence for
HOUSEKEEPING. His relatives live on
Taylor street near Seventeenth street.
Ball, whose address is Girard near
Fourteenth street, was serving a year
for petty larceny.
Carson began serving sentence last
November, Sweeney in October and Ball
January 3.
According to M NJ Barnard. general
superintendent of District penal institu-
lions, Ball recently completed a three
year term in the Lorton reformatory
and has served several terms in the
Occoquan work house. Sweeney, Mr.,
Barnard said, spent three and one-half
years in the Federal prison at Leaven-
worth, Kans., before being committed
to the work house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
BUILDING HIT BY FIRE

The rear rooms on the first floor Of a
three-story building at 615 F street
were damaged by fire originating, it is
thought, in the heating plant, shortly
before noon today.
The building is occupied by the East
ern Electrical Co. and by number of
law firms on the second and third floors.
The fire was discovered by Max Graf
man, 1923 Arkansas avenue, who con-
ducts a furniture and upholstery busi-
ness at GIT F street, next door to the
building
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
STAFF AT POST OFFICE
is INCREASED BY 1903
Better Service, Earlier Deliveries
and More Mail Collections
Are Anticipated.

The staff of the United States Post
Office Department was augmented by
103 men and women, who began their
respective duties at 8 o'clock this
morning, according to Postmaster
General William Mooney.
Fifty-six additional clerks, laborers
and A extra carriers are working today.
The clerks will be paid $1,700 annually,
the laborers, $500, and the A car
riers, $1,700.
Postmaster Mooney said today that
the augmenting of his force was pre-
cipiated following an extensive survey
of conditions in his Office. which showed
that our department had been working
with too few employees"
The Postmaster General pointed out
that with the additional employees the
department will be enabled to give bet
ter service, earlier deliveries and more
mail collections.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
C. P. 0. EMPLOYEES
MARK 81 FOUNDING
Institution Enters Its list
Year With Exercises at
Harding Hall.

Several thousand employees today cele-
brated the SEVENTEEN anniversary Of the
Government Printing once at exercises
In Harding Hall.
The growth of the institution was
outlined by Senator George H. Moses Of
New Hampshire, chairman Of the joint
congressional committee on printing.
The workers were praised for their ef-
ficiency and loyalty by David Lawrence,
president of the United States Daily.
Among the guests of honor were Maj.
Thomas Defrees, son of the first super
intendent. John D. Defrees; William A.
Smith, william w. Maloney, Samuel
Robinson and Miss Mary It. Spalding,
all employees with more than so years
service.
Established in 1861.
Music was provided by the printing
Office orchestra and chorus, w. G. Buck
ingham, G. L. Whelan, Miss Mary APP
pie, Christopher Tenley and Miss Jean
Mum.
The printing Office was established
March 4, 1861, at its present location,
North Capitol, @ and H streets. The
original plant consisted of a drying
room, press room, wetting room, job
room, folding room, reading room, office,
bindery, machine shop, boiler house and
stable. The equipment included time
piece, wrenches, a 40-horsepower en-
CINE, 104 pressboardS, 2 wetting tubs
and an assortment of book and job type.
Wage Then S14 Weekly.
In the year of the foundation of the
institution printers and pressmen re-
ceived S14 a week. AS living costs be-
came higher salaries were increased.
The last annual report Of George H.
Carter public printer, disclosed that the
output of the Office during the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1880, broke all
records. The total computed value Of
the products for that period amounted
to $14,096, 520.25.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
OWNER OF NOTES SUES
TO RE-ESTABLISH TRUST

Edith 2. Pyles. 1889 @ street. today
asked the District Supreme Court to
vacate a release executed by Luther A.
Swartzell and Edmund D. Rheem and
to re-establish a trust of Sis 900 on
the Eldon Apartments. 49 street. She
owns $4,000 of the notes secured by
the released deed Of trust, she informs
the court.
Through Attorneys H. Winship
Wheatley and H. Winship Wheatley,
jr., the court is asked to substitute some
other person to act under the trust
Another deed Of trust was placed on
the property the court y told.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
Iceman's Graft Pays Well.

DORTMUND, Germany, March 4 [41.
"A dishonest iccman has caused a
large ice plant of this city, famed for
by other operatives of the plan, has for
the past SIX years been conducting a
lucrative lce-selIing business Of his own
with the firms rna6uctS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
NAVY PLACES PICKET
Order Has No Connection With
Raid, Officer Declares.

The placing of picket at the Nav.
Yard gates has no connection with q
raid by Washington police on an alleged
malt shop in the vicinity Of Eighth and
M streets southeast, Lieut.. Comdr.
Lucien B. Green, 3D., commanding ON
Ger Of the receiving station at the
Washington Navy Yard, said today.
Comdr. Green said that the picket
has been placed at the gate during the
hours when the service men may OFF,
cially 60 on leave Of absence, merely to
see that these men going on liberty in
the city are in proper uniform and are
presentable, so that they are in keep
ing with the traditions Of the naval
service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04

until about May 1, because Of the ne
cessity of closing the Aircraft Museum
for repairs and improvements, which in
clude sprinkler system to protect the
aircraft collection from fire.
The Bremen is the property Of the
New York Museum of Science and In
dustry, to which it was presented by
Baron Won Huenefeld following the
transatlantic flight. Because of lack of
space in the New York museum, the
plane has been on exhibition in the
Grand Central Terminal, New York
The German plane, which completed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04

TINE German monoplane Bremen,
first heavier-than-air craft to
make the East-West passage of
i the Atlantic in nonstop fight,
arrived in the National Capital
in crates aboard an automobile truck
today to be exhibited for the next three
years in the Aircraft Museum OF the
Smithsonian Institution.
The famous plane, which was flown
on its Atlantic trip by the late Baron
Guenther Won Huenefeld, Col. James H.
Fitzmaurice and Capt. Hartmann Koehl,
will not be placed on public view here
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
d. C.. WILL EXECUTE
SLAYER ON FRIDAY
Coardoza Bell, Twive Given 30-Day
Stay, Must Die in Elec-
trio Chair.

Cardoza Bell, colored, "a years old.
whose execution already has been de-
layed twice, is scheduled to go to the
electric chair In the District Jail at 10
o'clock Friday morning for the murder
of Alice Metz, colored, Is years old, dur
ing an alteration in August, 1929.
The date was first set for November
IA, 1880, but a 30-day stay was granted.
Four days before the second execution
date it was reset for March 6.
Bell was indicted for first-degree muir
der October %, 1929. The Metz worl-
an died of a shotgun charge fired by
Bell while in q house In the 900 block
of N street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04

the Atlantic crossing by forced land
ing on Greenley Island, of the coast
Of Newfoundland, is the fourth trans
atlantic plane to be brought here for
exhibition. The Smithsonian Institu-
ton now houses the Spirit of st. Louis.
Col. Charles A. LindberghiS plane; the
NC-4, giant Navy -motored plane
which was the first airplane of any
kind to fly the Atlantic, and one of the
Army round the-world" planes, which
crossed the Atlantic by the northern
route in several stages.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
POLICE TRIALS SHIFTED

Board Sessions to Be Held at De-
tective Headquarters.
Sessions Of the Police Trial Board,
heretofore held at the sixth precinct
station, will in the future be staged in
the squad room at detective headquar-
tiers, Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintend-
ent of police, announced today. The
board meets at 10 o'clock each Saturday
morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04
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RENT Observation-Disclosures

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04
GET OUR APARTMENT FOR RENT LIST
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bath and porch to six rooms, two
baths and porch from 500 to $40.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-04
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1925 18th ST. NV.
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