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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20

which Mr.. Sale could not identify and
brought it down over the latter's skull.
Semi-conscious, the injured man was
dimly aware that the other was empty
ing his pockets. Then Mr.. Sale felt
himself picked up from the floor and
laid on his bed. The stranger then left.
boiling the door from the outside.
Hours passed and Mr.. Sale, reviving
somewhat from time to time, mustered
strength to call for aid. Two of his
windows opened on the sidewalk and
he could see hundreds of people passing
almost within reach, but could not at
tract the attention Of any one. .
Robber Missed Cents.
Some time early today, about 7 hours
after Mr. Sale had been attacked, an
mother roomer CHANGED along the hail.
way and heard a feeble call for help.
The injured was was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital and treated for a severe
scalp liberation and possible fracture
Of the skull. His condition was not re-
garded as serious. although it was
serious enough to loose the job of floor
waxing which Mr.. Sale had obtained
Well" grinned the injured man this
morning, that fellow left he cents,
anyhow. can't understand how he
happened to overlook it,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
WEEK END TRAFFIC
COSTS YOUTH LIFE
Motor Cycle Tire Blowout
Fatal to C. B. Woodsome.
Boy and Man Injured.

youth was killed, boy hurt seri-
ously, and a man was the victim of a
hit-and-run driver in traffic accidents
over the week end.
Crashing into a tree when a tire on
his motor cycle blew out, Chadbourne B.
Woodsome, 10 years old, stepson of
Chief of Police Henry Haddaway of
North Beach, Nd, was fatally injured at
Blair road and Van Buren, street, yes
terday.
Police said Woodsome was driving
north on Blair road when the tire blew
out, catapulting the machine over a
slight embankment and into the tree.
He died a short time later at Walter
Reed Hospital of skull fracture and
internal injuries Woodsome lived at
1927 Farmont street He is survived by
his mother Minnie c. Haddaway; a step
sister, Miss Alice Haddaway: a brother,
Curtis Woodsome, and his grandmother,
Mrs. Alice B. Curtis.
Running from behind a parked auto
mobile at Florida avenue and Holbrook
street northeast yesterday, Francis
Shade, IA years old, of 1400 H street
northeast was struck by an automobile
driven by Hubert Hoskins, 709 Newton
street.
The boy was treated at Casualty Hos
pital for fractured right collarbone
and injuries TO his ribs. His condition
is serious.
Rudolph S. McCondia. % years old. of
the 800 block of Eighth street, received
slight cuts and bruises yesterday after
he was struck by a hit-and-run driver
at Third and Rhode Island avenue,
while crossing the street. He was treat
ed by private physician Six other
persons were hurt slightly over the week
end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
|NC|NERATOR BIDS
MAY Be REJECTED
BY COMMISSIONERS
Exact Fate of Project in
Doubt as MCCarI Writes
Letter to Officials.
MAI. DAWSON DECLINES
TO REVEAL CONTENTS
All Correspondence Regarding
Project Kept Secret
by Officials.

Fear was expressed at the District
Building today that all bids for the
construction OF two incinerators will
have to be rejected, the plan readver-
tised and the work delayed at least a
year. The exact fate of the bids could
not be learned with certainty. Acting
Engineer Commissioner Donald A. Dav-
ison refused TO discuss the subject until
after the Commissioners have made a
decision
Controller General McCarl is known
to have written the Commissioners a
letter with respect to the bids. The
letter arrived Saturday and today was
referred to Corporation Counsel Will
liam w. Bride for legal opinion, but
Maj. Dawson ordered its contents kept
secret.
Sees Important Question.
ITS very important question for
the Commissioners to decide" he said.
and I'd rather not say anything about
1t until after the decision is made"
The specifications were prepared by
Metcalfe 81 Eddy, engineers Of Boston,
especially retained by the District for
the purpose. Bids were opened March
II and were then sent to Boston for
Metcalfe g. Eddy to inspect and make
report recommending the lowest &C
ceptable bidder.
Since then there has been a good deal
of correspondence. all of it kept secret.
There was letter from Mr.. McCarl to
the Commissioners asking for informa-
ton on the bids and reply from the
Commissioners.
Bidder Complains.
There also was some correspondence
from Metcalfe g. Eddy, on the basis of
which, it is reported the Commissioners
were ready to reject all bids. Then
came the McCarl correspondence. The
Controller Generals ONCE IS reported to
have become interested when one of
the bidders complained regarding the
report that the Commissioners were
going to reject all bids.
Meanwhile, more than a month has
elapsed since the bids we're opened, and
apparently no action has been taken
| toward letting the contract. This sit
uation is so unusual, with the District
making every effort to rush all of its
work under contract to help alleviate
the unemployment conditions, that the
belief is steadily gaining ground that
| the contract will not be let, at least
| until the present bids are ruled out and
new ones advertised.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
FREIGHTER is DESTROYED
IN WILMINGTON BOAT FIRE
100000 to 100000 Loss EST
mated-other Shipping Suffers
Damage.

The passenger steamer, City Of Wash
ington, of the Wilson Line, was burned
TO the water line, and the State of
Delaware, her sister ship, was damaged
with other boats when fire broke out on
ships at the foot of Fourth street. in
the Christiana River, at Wilmington,
Del, yesterday.
The small freighter West River, like
the City Of Washington, burned to the
water line. A barge. laden with skins
for a Wilmington morocco plant, also
was burned
Unofficial estimates OF the damage
varied from 100000 to 100000 a good
share of which was borne by the Wilson
Line, which runs passenger steamers
into Washington. The City of Wash
ington last Summer piled the Potomac
River south from this city. Both she
and the State Of Delaware have been
running between Wilmington and
PHILADELPHIA.
John Smith of Beverly, N. j.. member
of the West River crew and only person
on the scene when the fire started, ex-
pressed belief that fire followed an ex-
plosion in the acid cargo of the West
River.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
MAN SHOT AND 5 GET
STAB WOUNDS IN ROWS
Two Victims in Critical Condition
After Altercations-Pol Hold
Trio Pending Outcome.

Gus Jones, 40 years old, colored, was
reported in a serious condition at Emer-
gency Hospital today with three bullet
wounds in his body, received, he told
police, during a quarrel with his SON
in-law, Robert Coleman, %, colored.
The shooting occurred last night in
front of Jones home, GIG Third street
southwest, where Coleman also lives.
Coleman fled following the shooting.
Five persons, two white and three
colored, suffered stab wounds yesterday
during fight in front of the home of
Margaret Jackson, colored, 216 Clarks
court southwest.
The most seriously wounded was
Moses Bunter. Sc, colored, 13l P street
southwest. Three of the others John
Rock, So, Soldiers Home; Charles
Barnes, As, colored. 1874 Second street
southwest, and the Jackson woman, suf-
tered only minor wounds and were held
by police pending the outcome of
BunterS wounds. The other man in
volved, Charles Quigley, SO, of 496 G
street southwest, who also was wounded
slightly, was not held.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
'DR|VE TO CLEAN Up
| CAPITAL OPENS
Barrage Dispensed With Due
to D. A. R. Convention.
Balloons Sent Up.
allows one-hour parking from $50 am

The 1881 cleanup campaign got un-
der way today but without the salvc
Of artillery that had been intended tc
precede it. At the last minute the com.
mittee, of which Frederic A. Delano /.
chairman, decided that, out of courtesy
to the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton, it would be better not to fire of
anti-aircraft guns on the Monument Lot
because so many members of that So
ciety were in session at the annual con-
vention nearby.
Otherwise, the start was quite Off
cial. DR.. Luther H. Reichelderfer
president of the Board of Commits
sioners, was at the Monument Lot when
five toy balloons filled with hydrogen
were released to mark the start of the
campaign. Each balloon carried brief
message offering the finder five-dollar
credit for merchandise or labor, to be
used only for merchandise purchased or
labor employed within the District of
Columbia. The credit is to be extended
personally by George j. Adams, execu-
tive secretary Of the Campaign Com
mittee.
The sending of the balloons was
symbolical According to Mr.. Adams,
the three purposes of the cleanup
campaign are to stimulate business and
employment, and to beautify Washing
ton for the George Washington Bicen~
tennial celebration, next year.
If the balloon finders cash their credit
and spend the money on merchandise
or labor, that will be a partial realiza-
ton of ambitions numbers one and two,
and, should the merchandise bought be
paint, garden seed or the like, or the
labor be painting or cleanup work, the
third campaign goal will be a little
nearer.
The campaign is to be divided into
four weeks. Today is the official OPEN
ing of Paint week, following which
come Home week, Garden week and
Community week in the order named
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
LIFELONG GEORGETOWN
RESIDENT DIES AT "a
Miss Eliza c. Ma9ruder. Whose
Father Was DR.. Hezekiah Ma
gruder, Had Long Been Ill.

Miss Eliza G. Magruder, 81 years old.
a lifelong resident Of Georgetown. died
at her home. l407 Thlrty-f1rst street,
last evening after long illness.
Miss Magruder was the daughter Of
the late DR.. Hezekiah Magrudcr and the
late Mrs. Eliza Fitzhugh Magruder. who
were among the oldest inhabitants of
Georgetown She was a sister Of DR..
Alexander Magruder, U. S, N. retired,
and the late John r. Fitzhugh Ma
gruder. whose wife was the daughter of
Henry D. Cooke, former Governor of the
District Of Columbia under the old form
of government here.
Miss Magruder formerly made her
home with her sister-in-law, Mrs. J. r
F.. Magruder, at BOOT @ street, formerly
the residence Of Gov. and Mrs. Cooke
and social center OF both Georgetown
and Greater Washington.
Funeral services will be conducted by
Rev. John Temple and Rev F. Bland
| Tucker at Oak Hill Chapel tomorrow
afternoon at o'clock. Interment viii
be private.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
MAN, IS, DIES BY GAS
Rug Stuffed Under Door, Bath
Room Heater Jets Found Open.

Her attention attracted to the bath
room by the odor of gas late last night,
Mrs. May Harrison, 1880 Massachusetts
avenue, found one of her roomers, Will
liam M. Steele, 65-year-old engineer,
dead. Gas was flowing from the open
burner of heater, rug having been
stuffed under the door in an effort to
prevent its escape into the hallway.
A physician from Emergency Hospital
examined the body and pronounced life
extinct. Police of the SeeOnd precinct
conducted an investigation and reported
the death to Coroner j. Ramsay hewitt.
1t was reported to police that the
dead mans name formerly was Thomp-
son and that he formerly resided in
Canaseraga, N. Y. He changed his
name to Steele 20 years ago, pAice
were told l.. r. Thompson. LivoiIls,
N. r, was notified of his fathers deatn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
ALASKA TO BE STUDIED
FOR MINERAL VALUES
Coal Field Will Be Principal OBJ
jcct OF Survey Under S25O.OO0
Funds Available.

SD Cl@i D3.SSLtA 20 lat STAR.
Speeding up the work Of aScettainine
the mineral values Of Alaska. the Geo
logical Survey this Summer VIII make
an intensive study Of areas along the
route of the Alaska Railroad
Principal attention VIII be given to
exhaustive investigation of the Anthra-
city Ridge Coal Field Six parties will
conduct the work in the Willow Greek.
Fairbanks, Copper Mountain, Girdwood.
Kantisflna and Moose Pass districts.
Four more investigating parties will
study the west fork Of Chulitna Valdez
Greek, Talkeetna Mountains and Yetna
districts.
Congress last year made available
$250,000 for such exploration, effective
next July l. Work is TO start as soon
as weather permits
Results Of the investigations will be
made public Immediately In Alaska
through representative Of the survey
who will have headquarters at Anchor
age Meantime the Anthracity Ridge
area has been withdrawn temporarily
from classification.
The principal object of the work Is
20 hasten development of natural re-
sources along the Alaska Railroad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
MACKALL ESTATE
VALUED AT $76,891
Executor Asks Probate Of viii
Left by Woman Who Died
March 27s

Sarah Somervell Mackall, who died
March 81. left an estate valued at
$76,891, according to the petition of
her executor, Louis M Weld of Meyers
dale, Pa. for the probate of her viii.
She owned real estate assessed at $685.
891 and had personal property of
$4,000.
She is survived by sister Mrs. Mar
garet M. Weld of Meyersdale: brother,
Upton B. Mackall, AIT Decatur street,
and nieces and nephews. Attorneys
Daniel THEW Wright and Philip Ershler
M1pnear for the executor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
|. c. c. OFFICE SITE
SET NEXT PROJECT
Building to Cost $4,000, 900
viii Be One of Three-U. S.
Prepares for Razing.

The next structures to be RACED in the
public building program probably will
be those in the two blocks between
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, ConSti-
ton avenue and c street, the site for
the new Interstate Commerce Commits
sion.
This was indicated today by the
Treasury Department. where it was said
that as soon as the last piece of prep
erty in this area has been officially
decided to the Government date can
be fixed for clearing the whole area.
Already notice to move has been
served upon virtually all property own
ers and tenants in the area, with the
latest date for vacating fixed at May Is.
The washington Woodworking Co,
located at Twelfth street and Constitu-
ton avenue. is understood to have asked
for more time to move to its new loca-
ton, but final decision on its request
had not been reached today at the
Treasury Department.
Three Buildings Planned.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion Building is to be part Of devel-
opment stretching from Twelfth 10
ternal Revenue Bureau Building TO the
new Department Of Commerce Building.
The square also will be occupied by a
Government auditorium in the middle
and by the Department Of Labor at
Fourteenth street and Constitution
avenue.
Already wreckers are tearing down all
the old buildings on the two other
blocks OF the area to the east 10 clear
the site for this development.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
part of the building will be probably a
little more than a block long, from
Twelfth street TO a point past Thir-
tenth street, as Thirteenth street Is 10
be closed.
viii Cost S4,50O,OO0.
Arthur Brown, jr., Of San Francisco
is architect not only for the /. G. c.
Building, but also for the Department
of Labor and auditorium, which will
form a trio of structures tied all into
one. The estimate on the cost of the
Interstate Commerce Commission Sec
ton is about S4,500,000.
Another operation which will follow
shortly is the Post Office Department
project, located directly north of the
L c. c. site. The Post Office Building
will be attached to the north wall OF
| the l. c. C. Building and will be con-
! cave on both the east and west fronts
/ stretching between Twelfth and Thir-
: tenth streets, from about C street tc
Pennsylvania avenue. Plans for it are
! being drawn by William A. Delano OF
! New York City. The estimate of cost
! for this structure is about $4,000 600.
| 1t is probable that the Treasury De.
/ partment will ask for bids on the Post
Office Department job to include botr
! wrecking of old structures and eXca.
/ waiting for the foundation
I This project is complicated somewhat
! by the question Of the tracks of the
| Mount Vernon, Alexandra IL Wash.
ington Railway. which has protested al
order for removal of the rail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
BOYS RESCUED AS CANOE
CAPSIZES IN TIDAL BASIN

Two boys were rescued today in the
Tidal Basin. when the canoe in which
they we're padding around, viewing the
cherry blossoms, capsized.
The boys. Robert Dixon, Is years of
age, 1929 Jocelyn street. Chevy Chase,
and Robert Dannerella, l6, address I'M
known, were padding the canoe near
the Outlet Bridge when it capsized.
Pvt. Thomas p. Fogarty of the United
States park police saw their plight and
Immediately went to the boat house for
aid.
Howard Grantham, operator of the
swan boat, and owen W. Shelby, an
employe at the boat house, went to the
rescue in fast boat. Both boys re-
fused hospital treatment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
NAVY PILOTS SON, 10,
FLIES DUAL CONTROLS
Lieut.. Harper's Boy Goes With
Father on Week End Trip
to Hampton Roads.

Lieut.. c, r. Harper, U. s. NJ, on duty
at the AnacCstia Naval Air Station, be-
lieVes the younger generation is going
to fly and that it might as we'll learn to
fly young. He is applying his philosophy
to his lo-year-old son, and the boy,
acting as navigator and co-pilot &C
companied his father on a week end
trip TO the Hampton Roads Naval Air
Station, returning TO Anacostia today.
On the trip the boy plotted the course
after fashions OF his own and once or
twice had fist in on the dual con-
trolls, 1t is said. The flight was made
in a privately cabin monoplane
equipped with side-by-side dual con-
trolls, so Harper junior was able to sit
beside Harper senior, who acted as his
counselor and Ssyerest critic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
J. w. BEAN BEQUEATHS
$1,000 TO AID HORSES

James w. Bean, we'll known turfman
who died April II. left $4,000 to the
Washington Humane Society for the
purchase and disposing of horses that
have served their usefulness, but If re-
Mobilization IS possible the fund may
be used tor that purpose also. He also
gave SIS 900 for the perpetual care of
the family burial lot in st. Johns
Cemetery at Forest Glen, Md, and
$4,000 to the Shrine of the Sacred
Heart for masses
The remaining estate, the value of
which is nt disclosed, is left abso-
lutely to his widow, Mrs. Edith E. Bean.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
Fined for Shooting Craps.

FAIRFAX, Va. April 20 Especially -
Four colored men were arrested yeSter-
day in Fairfax by Sheriff E. p. Kirby
and Deputy Sheriff Henry Magarity and
fined $25 and costs each by Mayor
Chapman on charges of shooting craps.
Kirby claims that frequent complaints
had been made to him of gambling in
the colored settlement. The men were
james Brooks, Edward Butler, Stephen
Payne and Vernon Murray.
Nogales international., 1931-07-15
Boy Succurnbs
In Fathers S Arms

William Fischer, 16, who was in
jured while riding horse on a
ranch about 25 miles south of No
gales in Sonora Saturday, died a
few hours later in his fathers arms
while being removed from an auto
mobile to DR.. W. F. Chenoweth's
office in this city.
The boy was caught beneath bis
horse when the animal stumbled
and fell When the horse appeared
at the Fischer ranch house the
youths father started search and
found the boy unconscious where
he had fallen. He was rushed to NO
gales by his father and c.. r.
(Shorty) Holcomb for medical at
tention.
Funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon, with igIperment IN
NogaIes, Sonora.
Nogales international., 1931-07-15
THREE HUNDRED YOUTHS TO Be AT C.M.T. CAMP
Only TWO FOREST fires this
SUMMER IN CORONADO AREA.
One Hundred Acres Burned Over Plenty OF Rain
Except At Ramsey; Lookout Rangers
Dismissed For Season

who was at Ramsey Canyon Sunday
there were only two fires in the
Coronado forest this summer and
there has been plenty of rain
throughout the forest except at
Ramsey Canyon.
One of the fires was in San Ra-
fael Valley and the other at the
head Of Montezuma Canyon at the
south end of the Huachuca noun
tains close to the Mexican border.
About 100 acres were burned over
during the two fires.
Accompanying Assistant Super
visor Anderson to Ramsey Canyon
Sunday were Fred Winn of Tucson,
supervisor of. the Coronado forest,
and o. j. Olson, forest ranger Oh
son said there was q total of three
and one half inches of rain at Ca
mile during the last week in June.
Nogales international., 1931-07-15

Four leaders Of the Boy Scouts of
America will represent the United
States at the sixth international
Conference opening at Vienna,
July 23rd and closing July 29th.
The American delegates are MesSrs.
Barron Collier of New York, mem
Der of the National Executive
Board and chairman of the Ma
t1onal Publicity Committee; George
w. Olmsted of Ludlow, Pa, chair
man of the Region Three Commit
tee; Robert S. Hale of Boston, Mass,
chairman Of the Camping Commit
tee, Region One, and DR.. James E..
West, Chief Scout Executive.
Forty-three nations, each of which
is a member of the International
Bureau Of the Boy Scout Movement,
will be represented at the confer
ence. The world Scout enrolment
according to latest available figures
is at the highest figure in history
and is close to the two million mark.
To Promote Understanding
The purpose of the International
Conference is to promote unity of
Nogales international., 1931-07-15
Office Workers
Urged Spend More
Time Outdoors
By WILLIAM TURNBOw

........ BY WILLIAM TURNBCW -----
United Press Staff Correspondent
PHOENIX, Ariz., July IL. fU-P9
Office workers of Arizona have peen
asked by the state health board to
spend more time outdoors this sum-
mer in guarding against i'll health.
Accompanying a plea to business
and professional persons OF the
state, the health board issued a
group of suggestions, in the form
of "Ten Commandments, which
are not only timely at this season,
but good to practice throughout the
year.
Gertrude Bryan Leeper, executive
secretary of the board, drafted the
commandments They are:
Thou shalt store up good
health by living out of doors as
much as possible while the sun
shines.
2-Thou shalt see thy dentist
twice each year and have thy teeth
examined and kept in good condi-
ton.
3-Thou shalt eat good food with
a liberal allowance of green 1eafy
vegetables. Thou shalt also drink
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Nogales international., 1931-07-15
Work Begins
On $1,000 Home

Construction work on new home
to be owned and occupied by Del
Peterson was begun Saturday by
Contractor George Heder.
It will cost $1,000 and will be To-
Gated next door to the Paul Sum
mers home on the Tucson road a
short distance north Of Nogales.
Construction work is also under
way on new homes for A. L. Mel
oche and family ano Mrs. Mary
Welty and family. These two houses
are being erected near. the E. R.
Thurman place in Esplendor
Heights, and will cost about $500
each.