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Evening star., 1932-06-22
CANCER HOSPITAL
|FOR WOMEN T0BE
STARTED IN CITY
Institution to Be Constructed
! on Grounds of Garfield
Memorial.
$500, 900 is AVAILABLE
UNDER WARWICK WILL
Work to Center on Treatment of
Patients, With Little
Research.

Construction Of Washington's first
hospital for the treatment and care Of
women afflicted with cancer will be
started soon on the grounds of Gar
feld Memorial Hospital with funds pro-
vided under the will of R. T. Warwick,
1t was announced today by Clarence A.
ASpinwall, president of the Washing
ton Home for Foundlings.
The Warwick will left more than
100000 for the institution, to be ad-
ministered by the Washington Home
for Foundlings. Mr.. Aspinwan an
nounced today an arrangement has
been made between the trustees Of the
home and the trustees Of Garfield Hos
pital, whereby the new cancer institu-
lion will occupy a portion of the
grounds of Garfield and have available
Tor its use much of the hospital equip
ment of the larger institution.
Equipment to Be Bought.
Considerable of the money, Mr..
AspinWall said, will be spent in ac-
curing equipment necessary for the
treatment of cancer alone, since through
the arrangement with Garfield much
Of the hospital equipment which would
be necessary if the new institution
were placed elsewhere. will be at hand
for use by the staff of the cancer hos
pital.
Specialized equipment, such as, ra-
dium, will be bought. and will bring
this far South for the first time IA
cilities for modern scientific treatment
OF cancer in women.
Efforts will be made later to extend
the facilities of the new hospital by
seeking additional funds to enlarge and
better equip the hospital.
At present. the plans call for treat
ment and care of cancer patients only.
and little or no research work. except
that developed in the actual treatment
of cases, will be attempted.
Building Group Named.
A Building Committee from the board
of trustees of the Washington Home for
Foundlings has been named, consisting
of Mrs A. C. Oliphant, Victor B. Deyber,
joseph Fairbanks and Mr.. Aspinwall.
Members of the hospitals Advisory
Committee are: DR.. William Gerry
Morgan, dean of the Georgetown Uni
versity Medical School; DR.. Earl B. Nc
Kinley, dean of the George Washington
University Medical School; DR.. E. A.
Merritt, DR.. H. H. Kerr and Admiral
Gary T. Grayson.
Arthur B. Heaton has been chosen
as the architect for the new building.
Plans have not yet been drawn. but 1t
is expected the building will be under
construction within short time.
Evening star., 1932-06-22
Naval Officer Signs
$500 Steel Check
With Arc-Welder
Unusual Bank ''Paper''
Given as Prize in
Essay Contest.

The 40-pound check which Lieut.
Henry A. Schade signed yesterday
being steel instead Of sterling, was gocL
for $500 American dollars.
The naval officer used an arc
welder to sign the check, a 24xl0 inch
piece of steel, an eighth of an inch
thick, representing frst prize in an es-
say contest sponsored by q Cleveland
electrical manufacturer.
Lieut.. Schade, attached to the E:,eau
of Construction and Repair, Navy De-
partment, was co-author with Lieut.
Comdr. Homer N. Wallin, now on duty
at Mare Island, Calf, Of an essay en-
titled 1.-The Design and Construction
of an Arc-welded Naval Auxiliary
Vessel"
The steel check. which Schade and
Wallin share. was drawn on the Cleve-
land Trust Co. and presented for pay
ment through the Union Trust Co. here
The check will be Cancelled, 1t was
said, by Cleveland bank guards shoot
ing perforations with machine gun
bullets.
Evening star., 1932-06-22
GAS HOLDER BILL
MAY CO THROUGH
Company to Spend About
$50O,000 in Section Near
Navy Yard.

Under legislation which the Senate
and House District Committees are seek
ing to enact before Congress adjourns
the Washington Gas Light Co. would be
given the privilege Of erecting huge
gas holder in the vicinity Of Virginia
avenue southeast near the Navy Yard
1t was estimated the company intended
spending approximately 100000.
The House District Committee today
heard Corporation Counsel w. w. Bride
and William E. Horton, assistant coun-
sci for the gas company, both of whom
urged enactment of the legislation. II
was decided to ask for special rule In
the House.
The bill would authorize the Commits
sioners to close Virginia avenue be-
tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets.
The Park and Planning Commission
also has small reservations in the area
In return for the mere use of part
of the area for erection of a 5000 00O-
cubic-foot gas holder. the company
would turn over to the Government
outright an adjoining tract of land
which would insure access in the future
to Anacostia Park. Since the gas COM
pany already has three holders in the
area. there would be no objection to the
erection of another.
Chairman Capper Of the Senate Dis
trict Committee introduced a bill for
the same purposes late yesterday.
On motion of Representative Black
Of New York, acting chairman in the
absence Of Mrs. Mary T. Norton. the
House Committee adopted resolution
extending a vote of commendation to
Mr.. Bride, William A. Roberts, special
assistant corporation counsel for the
Utilities Commission, and Vernon A.
West. assistant corporation counsel. for
their intelligent and useful cooperation
with the committee during the year.
Evening star., 1932-06-22
BOY CAUGHT IN ELEVATOR
kids" WITH HIS RESCUERS
Lad Is Pinned by Arm in Au-
tomato Lift in Apart
ment House.
Urges Firemen to "Hurry" So
He Can Be on Time
for Dinner.

Vincent Perley, II, who exchanged
"wiSecrackS" with firemen working to
extricate him from an automatic ele-
vator from which he dangled by his
crushed left arm yesterday, was re-
ported in an improved condition at
Sibley Hospital today.
Vincent, second-year student at
Mckinley High School, was trapped be-
tween the third and fourth floors Of an
apartment house in the $500 block OF
Tenth street northeast. his arm pinned
between the floor Of the elevator and
the wall OF the shaft.
Delivering newspapers in the apart
ment house, Vincent, who lives at 1C16
Douglas street northeast, started to
enter the elevator on the third floor
The outer door slammed behind him
but before he could open the grilled
inner door, some one on the floor above
pushed the button.
The elevator rose, catching Vincent's
arms in the door and pulling him up
ward. His feet dangling from the floor
of the elevator, he managed to twist
his body to safety, at the same time
jerking his right arm free.
His left arm was tightly wedged,
however, and he hung in the shaft, his
body held only by his injured arm. An
occupant of the apartment house sum-
moned the fire rescue squad.
Meanwhile, Vincent kicked out the
glass of the door on the floor below
Evening star., 1932-06-22

ciety Of Children Of the American Rev.
olution, Christian Endeavof Players,
Daughters of America, Daughters of
American Revolution, Daughters of
Liberty, District of Columbia Boy
Scouts, East Washington Community
Players. Friendship House, Henry D.
Spengler Post and unit of American
Legion, Helen Griffith Studio, Women's
Club of I. o. o. F. Temple, Improved
Order Of. Red Men ard Degree of Poca-
hontas, Luther Place Memorial Church
group, Mount Pleasant Congregational
Church group, Mckinley High School
group, Mid-City Citizens Association,
National Capital Choir, Neighborhood
House, Northeast Bicentennial Com
mittee, Salvation Army, Scottish Clan
Mcclellan. The Washingtonians, Wash
ington Readers Club, Woman's Relief
Corps and Sons of Union Veterans,
Women's City Club, Grace Church,
Abraham Lincoln Circle, No. 8; Ladies
of the G. A. r. and District Of Colum-
bia Congress Of Parents and Teachers.
Evening star., 1932-06-22
SUSPECT IDENTIFIED
in HOTEL ROBBERY
Albert K. Johnson Picked
From Lineup by ChastIe-
ton Auditor.

Albert K Johnson. %, of the 800 block
of Seventeenth street, was being held
by police today after William H. Dunn
auditor of the Chastleton Hotel, picked
him out of a police lineup last night
as tie man who last Friday robbed him
of 1922 of the hotels funds after fore
ing him into closet at pistol point.
Several other Chastleton employees
also have named johnson as the man
they saw leaving the building at the
time OF the robbery, according to head
quarters detectives.
johnson, it is said, was taken into
custody for questioning in connection
with other crimes He was first point
ed out by Dunn when the latter passed
room where a number Of prisoners
were being held for questioning. john
son, who denies any connection with
the hold-up, was still booked for in
vestigation today.
Police also held hopes Of solving a
number of other recent hold-ups and
robberies through further questioning
and check of the activities Of other
prisoners.
Among them is William E. Bedell, 35
recently indicted in the Salvadorean
legation liquor robbery. Bedell and
three others-Frank c. Courtney, 81
of the first block of Logan circle;
Samuel CHASER, ST. Of the 47O0 block
of De Russey parkway, Chevy Chase,
and Benjamin Covell, 80, of the 14OO
block of Rhode Island avenue-were tc
be viewed today by two New York jew
elry statesmen who were robbed OF
S22, 900 worth Of jewelry here some
weeks ago. They also were to be ques-
toned in regard to the $500 Western
Union robbery on April 8.
Bedell and the other three were
viewed by officials of the Georgia
avenue and East Capitol street branches
of the Washington Mechanics Savings
Bank, who failed to identify them as
the men who robbed those institutions
Police also were questioning two
women in connection with recent hold
ups and robberies, but expected to re-
lease them socn.
Evening star., 1932-06-22
CUT HITSLEAVES
OF SCHOOL CLERKS
Influx Of Applications for Time
Off Upsets Vacation
System.

Public school clerks who have had
less than two days leave since January
l, 1882, will be allowed only enough
leave between now and July / to make
a total Of two days for the entire six
month period, it was announced TODAY
by DR.. Frank w. Ballou, school suner-
intendent. following a two-hour con-
ference with his official staff
In a formal circular addressed to
oftcers In charge of clerks, DR.. Ballou
explained that the limited leave allow
ance was prompted by a sudden influx
OF applications for leave.
Commenting on the leave situation
for the current year. DR.. Ballou said 90
OF the 90-odd clerks have not had a
days leave since January l of this year,
while others have had from S to III
days of. Since the school system would
be crippled If all clerks undertook to
crowd in as much leave of that which
Is due them during the remaining few
days OF this month, the superintendent
explained that a total Of two days leave
will be allowed any person who has not
had that much time of.
The situation in which the public
school system clerks find themselves to-
day with respect to leave Is due largely,
to the cooperative spirit which they'
SNOW tnelr POSITIONS by virtue of the
peculiar needs of a school organization,
1t was explained in their behalf at the
Franklin Administration Bulletins.
Because the clerical personnel already
is dangerously small, the clerks are
asked each year to refrain from taking
their annual leave during the school
year. Consequently, virtually every
clerk In the school system has more
leave than there are days remaining in
the current fiscal year. School officers
said that to allow them to be off for
the remaining days of the year in an
effort to crowd in as much leave as
they can would completely cripple the
school system.
Meanwhile, the Summer school organi-
zation is being set up ION paper so
that as soon as the District of Columbia
appropriation bill is enacted and the
school authorities find out what money
Is coming to them for the operation Of
vacation schools. these classes will be
put into operation. At present, however,
no appointments are being made.
Under the present emergency pro-
gram concerning leave. the school off,
GERS will not undertake to make any
changes in the sick leave schedule.
Evening star., 1932-06-22

and rested his feet on the frame.
While the firemen worked to free him
it took them more than half an hour
to do the job-he urged them to hurry
up."
IF you don't get me out OF here
pretty soon" he said, IN be late for
supper-and 1 always like to be on
time for my meals"
Firemen lowered a rope from the
fourth floor, and Vincent made half
hitch around his waist while the fire.
men on the floor below tied another
rope around his feet.
The elevator was started back to-
ward the third floor, the firemen draw
ing his body in as the car descended.
He was taken to the hospital where
physicians decided to X-ray his arm
today.
II didn't worry much" he said. II
knew they'd get me out all right"
Evening star., 1932-06-22
CENTRAL POOL TO OPEN
FOR SWIMMING CLASSES
Free instruction for Special Groups
and individuals Will Start
Tuesday, June 2S.

Free instruction in swimming and
life saving will be given to the public
in the indoor swimming pool of Central
High School, which the Welfare and
Recreational Association of Public
Buildings and Grounds, Inc, will oper-
ate this season for the Community
Center Department.
F. w. Hoover. general manager Of the
association, said today the pool would
be open to the public on Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of
each week from l TO and from Z to
1890 pm.
The mornings will be set apart for
special commercial, fraternal and other
groups. The customary charge will be
made for the service, 10 cents for
children and Is cents for adults. The
pool will be opened June %.
Evening star., 1932-06-22
John Guernsey, Government
Expert, Gives $30,000,-
100000 as Total.
CREDIT BALANCE MAY
REACH SO, 900, 600, 900
Mckee Addresses Association on
Uses and Abuses of Credit-Del-
egates Call at White House.

Retail credit men from all sections
OF the country, in session here, toda,
were told that the Nations total retail
business for 1882 would reach the. $50,
900 100000 mark, reduction O
$500, 100000 under that trancactec
across store counters last year.
The forecast was made by Johr
Guernsey. in charge Of retail census o
the Commerce Department, one of th'
speakers during the second DAYS ses
sion Of the National Retail Credit Asso'
cations Twentieth Annual Convention
at the Mayhower Hotel
He based his predictions upon tn,
approximate $50,0OO,0OO. 900 Of retail
sales in 1929. s44, ,OOO. 100000 in 1896
and the estimated $37, SOC, 900, 900 ir
1881.
The Government expert said Slightly
more than one third of the business ir
1929 was on credit. The sl6,750 ,000, ,00(
included both open-account credit anc
installment credit Based upon tht
Commerce Departments tabulations o.
all returns from seven test States, ht
said 1t was probable that the install.
ment propositions was about 80 PEI
cent Of $6,50o.000 900.
Retail Credit Reduction.
Guernsey explained that on the basi,
Of such ratio, it is probable the tota
credit balance outstanding at the be-
ginning of 1882. both installment anc
open accounting. Appropriated So
900,000000 He saidethat 1t Is likely
at the present time this balance ha.
been reduced 10 per cent and by the
end Of the year the total amount Of
retail credit outstanding would be
SO 900 100000. compared with a tota
Of SIS, 200, 10000 at the end of 1929.
Harold H. Levi, vice president anc
general manager Of the Hecht Co., SAID
in his address on Developing You
Stores Credit Policy" that the credit
department has had a good opportunity
to be one of the greatest statesmen tina,
store can have
In his talk on the use and abuse oi
credit. H. H. Mckee, president of the
Washington Clearing House and presi-
clared, Credit Is good servant, but a
harsh task master"
Debts Battle Imagination.
Commenting on this country's public
debts. particularly local public debts. he
said they have gone to such stupendous
proportions since the World War "as tc
battle the Imagination"
Uncle SAM" he declared. has acted
fairly cautious and with admirable re.
straint has paid of the large part ol
his war debt, but he Is having an un-
happy time in resisting demands oi
social service which. If rendered would
increase the national debt and perhaps
affect seriously if it did not destroy his
power to borrow.
Our political subdivisions have not
been so careful and among them the
rising tide of debt and taxes is alarm
ing thoughtful men It is estimated
that in the next year the people in the
United States will pay in national and
local taxes rs cents out of every dollar
Of income.
Other speakers were o. L. Pfau oi
youngstown, Ohio. E. G. Graves of Fort
Worth, Tex, and Lawrence Mcdaniel OF
St. Louis.
Shortly after noon the delegates
called at the White House and were
greeted by President Hoover.
Evening star., 1932-06-22
FRIEND ASKS SEARCH
FOR ALBANIAN HERE
David Greenfield Left Knoxville
for Wilkes-Barre on
June 13.

Washington police were asked todav
70 aid In search for David Greenfield
"a, member of a prominent Atlanta
Ga, family, who left Knoxville. Tenn..
on June l5 for Wilkes-Barre, Pa, and
failed to arrive there.
The aid of police here was asked by
David R. Simon of the Woodley Park
towers Apartments, a fried of Green
field.
Simon said the ticket purchased by
Greenfield had been traced by the rail-
road and showed he should have been
through washington. AS Greenfield is
acquainted here, it was thought he
might have stopped in this city.
Greenfield Is described as feet tall,
weighing ITS pounds and having dark
hair and light gray eyes. He has a
slight scar over the right ear.
Evening star., 1932-06-22
ARRESTS POLICEMEN
AND OTHERS ON TRAFFIC CHARGES
Chief Furnishes Couple by Making Them Reflect on Need
for Obeying Red Lights.

light on Pennsylvania avenue. The
offenders pleaded to be let of, and
as neither had the S. required for COL
lateral the superintendent decided on
a compromise.
Gen. Glassford ordered his prisoners
to sit for half an hour at No. 4 precinct
and reflect upon the necessity Of obedi-
ence to traffic regulations. Neither was
booked on the charge and hastened
from the precinct on conclusion of their
penance.
The fifth person arrested was Lewis
o. Ryon, 80, Of Landover, Md, who
posted 50 collateral on charge Of
parking abreast and So more on q
charge Of unnecessary use Of his born.
Evening star., 1932-06-22
WILL STUDY AIRSHIP BILL

The Crosser merchant airship BILL
intended to foster the development of
an international airship mail and
transport service. will be considered by
the Senate Commerce Committee In
executive session at 10:30 o'clock to-
morrow morning. It was passed by the
House last week.
The McNary bill, similar to the
Crosser measure, already Is pending on
the Senate calendar.
Evening star., 1932-06-22

Two policemen, who had parked de-
partmental cars in front Of No. II pre-.
cinct while they attended to official
business inside, were among five persons
arrested on traffic charges yesterday by
Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, super
intendent of police
Detective Sheldon r. Mckee and Pvt.
Milton M. WEIGH were booked at their
own precinct and required to post 81
collateral shortly after Gen. Glassford
drove up on his motor cycle from the
bonus army camp and noticed the OIL
GERS cars were nearer than Is feet
to a stop sign.
At another time yesterday Gen. Glass
ford stopped two motorists, . man and
woman. who had driven past . red
Evening star., 1932-06-22
HOKE SMITHS FORMER
SECRETARY is BRIDE
Mrs. Bricker, Wed to August Klec-
ka, Baltimore Council Official,
on Honeymoon Here.

August Klecka, 81, Democratic leader
of northeast Baltimore and vice presi-
dent of the Baltimore City Council, is
honeymooning in Washington with his
bride Of yesterday, Mrs. William S.
Bricker, 81, former secretary Of the late
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia. and
more recently resident of Baltimore.
The former Mrs. Bricker was the
widow Of lifelong friend of Mr.. Klec-
ka. The couple was married in Fred
erick, Md. by Rev. G. Ellis Williams.
president Of the board of directors OF
Sibley Hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Klecka came on to
Washington after the ceremony and will
be the guests Of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Raugh, 116 F street southeast, before
leaving for Chicago tomorrow to attend
the Democratic convention.
Evening star., 1932-06-22
PLAN PARACHUTE DROP

Despite the lack of an arm and a
leg, Capt Smiles" O'Timmon, vet
eran parachute jumper and high diver,
will undertake a delayed parachute
drop at Washington n-Hoover Airport at
7:30 pm tomorrow. He will drop from
an airport plane piloted by Roger Scott
at an altitude of about 1000 feet.
Night passenger flying will follow
the demonstration.
Evening star., 1932-06-22
COUNCIL RECESSES
Buy-in-W Washington Group Hears
Attack on "Gas" Hucksters.

The last meeting of the Buy-in-
Washington Council before the Summer
recess was held yesterday In the Raleigh
Hotel
Brief addresses were made by Marcy
Sperry, new president of the Washing
ton Gas Light Co.; Robert ]. Cottrell,
executive secretary of the Washington
Beard of Trade Mrs. Grace Hayes
Riley, president of the Washington Col
lege of Law. and Miss Helen D. Reed of
thn Soroptomist Club.
Mr. Cottrell attacked the District
Commissioners for not proceeding at
once to rid the streets of rowing gaso-
line venders. He said they have ample
authority to prosecute.
Evening star., 1932-06-22
WOMAN RIDER INJURED
Mrs. Shirley Abrahams Falls From
Horse in Rock Creek Park.

Mrs. Shirley Abrahams, 20, of 812
Nineteenth street, suffered a severe back
injury today when she tainted and fell
from horse while riding in Rock Creek
Park near Massachusetts, avenue and
Rock Creek drive.
Members of the fire rescue squad took
Mrs. Abrahams to Emergency Hospital,
where physicians said X-rays were nee
essary to determine whether her back is
broken. Her conditions was described
as Undetermined.
Evening star., 1932-06-22
Nine GIVEN AWARDS
Garnet-Patterson Junior High Spe.
cial Exercises Held.

Recipients of special awards at the
graduation exercises yesterday of the
Garnet Patterson Junior High School
we're: William Watts, athletics; Edward
Cornick and Nimrod Durbin, boy pa
troll; Lorenz Mills, military training,
and Mae Arlington, scholarship. Awards
for attendance were given Faustina
Brown, Julian Brown, Louise Chavis
and Susie Nickens.
Evening star., 1932-06-22
BLOCKS AUTO TAG BILL
Representative Collins Objects to
Granting Rights to Elective officers

Unless Representative Collins, Demo-
crat, of Mississippi withdraws his objec-
tion, it is probable Congress will ad-
journ without enacting an amendment
to the District traffic code whereby
elective officers and disbursing clerks Ii
the Senate and House would be given
all the privileges that go with con-
gressional automobile tags.
When the bill came up on the unani-
NOUS consent calendar of the House
late yesterday, Mr.. Collins succeeded in
blocking it. The measure already has
passed the Senate.
Evening star., 1932-06-22
FRANK B. GIBSON
DIES IN CARLSBAD
Retired Banker, Formerly Resident
of Washington Succumbs
at 72.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, June 22-Frank B.
Gibson. retired banker and former vice
president of the International Trust Co.
of Denver. died last Friday in Carlsbad,
Czechoslovakia, a me- sage to the Guar
anty Trust Co. of New York revealed.
Gibson, who at one time was director
of several companies in the Middle
West. was 72. He was born in Logans-
port, Ind, on August l3. 1885,
He was active during the war in the
American Relief Clearing House in
Paris. His first wife was Miss Lollie
Lyon of Delaware, Ohio, sister of the
late Mrs w. F. Mcdowell wife Of
Bishop w. F. Mcdowell of Washington,
D. G. After her death he married Miss
Edith Swan of Washington, who sur
wives him.
He also is survived by two sons. Paul
and Howard l.. Gibson, and a sister,
Miss Aletta Gibson of Hollywood, Calf.
Funeral arrangements have not been
announced.
Evening star., 1932-06-22
SENATE GETS D. C. BILL
Redrafted Measure Provides Street
Change for Gas Holder.

A new draft Of the bill which would
authorize the closing of Virginia ave-
nue. southeast, adjacent to the east
plant of the Washington Gas Light
Co., so as to permit the company to
erect there a 5,000,000 cubic foot gas
holder, has been sent to the Senate
District Committee by the District
Commissioners with a recommendation
of enactment.
The measure was offered as a sub
stitute for a bill already before Con-
gress. The measure provides for the
exchange Of certain property in return
for the use of the portion Of the street
which would be closed