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Evening star., 1932-12-17
Distinctive Home Is Planned on F0xhall Road
Residence for Mrs. Sid
ney c. Graves to Be
Started in Spring.
SHOWS INFLUENCE
OF ENGLISH STYLE
Main Living and Entertain
mcnt Quarters in First
Story.

A LARGE. new home of distinctive
n design, revealing the influence
II OF the English style, is to be
4 i erected for Mrs. Sidney C.
Graves on a spacious site on
FoXhall road between Wesley Heights
and FCXhall Village. Plans for the resi-
dence have been completed and build
ing is to be started in the early Spring.
The house will be of all native stone
construction. with roof of tile or slate,
and will be marked by the character
istic of low and rambling roof lines
which will be broken in an interesting
manner.
The house will be set back from the
road about los feet. and will have a
site of about two acres Of wooded area
as setting.
Distinctive in Plan.
The building, as designed by Clifton
B. White OF this city, will be distinctive
in plan, in that the most of the main
living and entertainment quarters will
be provided in the first story. This is
made possible by the extent of the area
of the ground floor, and contributes to
the character of the low roof lines
The main entrance, near the center
of the main facade, leads to a lateral
hall connecting with the living room
in the central unit. This room meas
ureS 10 by 80 feet, and has two ex-
pcsures, one adjoining a rear porch and
the other at terrace at the right. To
the right and front of this room are a
guest bed room and an antique room.
To the lett of the living room will be
a dining room 10 by "a feet, with rear
exposure. The plan calls for a vanity
on the front side Of the hall
In the left wing will BE- found quar-
ters for housekeeper at the front, and
pantry kitchen, maids dining room
and rear entry at the rear
Private Quarters.
The private quarters of the family
will be in the right wing. extending to
the rear of the main section of the
building, shut off and distinguished
from the living and reception portions
of the house Here will be a masters
suite and quarters for Mrs. Graves, in
Guiding bed room, dressing room ana
bath. with sun room and porch ad-
joining at the rear of the building.
One of these bed rooms will be Is by
II feet inches and the other 13 by IL
feet 6 inches.
The guest bed room at the front of
the right wing will measure 16 by 16
feet
A portion of the building will be of
two stories, and on the upper floor will
be sitting room, sewing room. game
room, storage space and servants
quarters.
The house will have an overall 'front.'
age of 70 feet and depth of about 100
feet.
The house will be located near the
residence Of Senator Key Pittman of
Nevada.
Evening star., 1932-12-17
HOTEL LA FAYETTE
LEASEHOLD SOLD
Bid in at Auction by Thomas H.
Pickford, the Owner, for
$4,000.

The remainder of a leasehold of 10
years on the Hotel La Fayette, Sixteenth
and I streets, which will expire in 1888,
was bid in yesterday at auction by
Thomas H. PickfOrd. the owner OF the
property The bid was for $4,000.
The sale was advertised by Chester
H Bennett. attorney. as trustee. and
was conducted by Thomas j. Owen g.
Son. auctioneers, in their Offices. at
tracing a number of interested specta-
tors. The sale of the lease involved the
hotel furnishings and equipment.
The trustee announced the hotel
would be continued in operation by
Mr.. Pickford as in the past. He has
conducted the property during the past
two months. The property was &C
quired some time past by Mr.. Pickford.
originally noteholder. The lease
formerly was held by Capt Walter
Fletcher Smith Of Havana, it is re-
ported.
Evening star., 1932-12-17
CONSTRUCTION THRIVES
Stanley, Va, in Midst of Its Big.
gest Enterprise.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LURAY, Va. December 17.-Stanley
at the close of 1882 will have witnessed
the greatest volume of building in its
history, nearly 100000 of construction
having been in progress.
Optimistic town officials said today
that with such a program continuing
in Stanley, and a similar one in Luray,
the towns might meet each other in a
couple of years. Stanley is located nine
miles south of Luray on the Eastside
Highway, and near the Skyline Drive
in the proposed Shenandoah Park area.
TWcnty-Seven residences. one apart
ment house and about half a dozen
filing stations have been erected. A
Gem is being constructed at a site
where swimming pool will be built
for the community. In addition. ten
more buildings, together with numer-
GUS minor improvements. are under
construction.
Evening star., 1932-12-17
BUILDING LEAGUE OPENS
SESSIONS HERE MONDAY
Directors Expected to Take Action Crowded
Docket Concerning 1888 Policies on Home
Owner Credit and Other Matters.
IRECTORS of the United States Building League will
in quarterly session Monday action

- crowded doeket concerning 1888 policies
credit Chicago of the today
The directors regional representatives of the
building business
stock to date.
policy of with respect formation build
of
decided
Evening star., 1932-12-17
Many Inquiries Received.

Officials of the league report that
many inquiries have been received from
business leaders wishing to organize as
Sociations.
Amendment of State laws which do
not now permit building and loan asSo-
Citations to become full members of the
Federal banks also will be discussed.
The board will hear report also
from the League Advisory Committee on
State Legislation which has prepared a
proposed model amendment to State
codes to authorize home loan bank par
ticipation.
Proposed Standardization of the su-
pervision of building and loan opera
tions in the various States also will be
considered. The proposal is the result
of study of more than two years.
Formal Statement Seen.
Ward B. Whitelock. Springfield, ILL.,,
president of the league. said he expect
ed the directors would iSsue a formal
statement urging associations which
have not become members of the home
loan banks to join the system imme-
diately
Our leaders are satisfied that the
home loan bank law as it now stands
will take care OF the needs of the home
owner in future years as we'll as pro-
vide a sound basis in 1888 for the re-
habilitation of home-owner credit to a
point safe against recurrence of present
hardships," he declared.
Evening star., 1932-12-17

County Council workers in Kilkenny,
Irish Free State. are organizing to pro-
tect their employment against threat
ened incursions by the unemployed.
Evening star., 1932-12-17
Bids on School Opened.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special DISPATCH to The Star.
BALTIMORE, December 17.-Bids
for the construction of the new Mary
land Training School for Colored Girls.
near Glenburnie. in Anne Arundel
County were opened this week by DR..
George G Finney, president of the
board. Acceptance was postponed
pending readiustments to bring the
cost within the allotment under the
sl5O,000 legislative appropriation for
the project.
Evening star., 1932-12-17
EXHIBITION PLANNED

illustrations of contemporary archi-
lecture, sculpture, landscape architec-
ture and decorative painting will be in
cluded in the 48th annual exhibition
of the Architectural League of New
York February 18 to March II, it is
announced by committee headed by
Arthur Loomis Harmon
Evening star., 1932-09-24
HIGH TAXES ON OIL
TERMED MENACE
Head of Sun Co. Says Levies Will
Drive Industry Into Hands
of Racketeers.

High taxes in the oil industry have
put premium on fraud and a penalty
on honesty and will eventually drive
the business into the hands of gangsters
and racketeerS, j. Howard Pew, preSi-
dent of the Sun Oil Co., warns in an
article appearing this month in Ma
tion's Business Magazine.
wholesale tax lodging, bootlegging
Of gasoline, corruption of officials,
wreck of price structure and demor-
alization" have resulted from the heavy
levies laid upon oil products and in
come, Mr.. Pew says. He asserts the
oil business is paying sos, 100000 in
taxes this year-equal to the State gov
e-nment costs of 40 States.
If such tax burdens were imposed on
any other industry they would be con-
sidered confiscatory, Mr. Pew says. The
recently proposed sales tax might have
equalized the Federal tax load, he main
tains, but "a conspiracy of selflshness'
defeated that plan and compelled the
imposition of 5000, 1000, 900 Federal taxes
on the oil industry on top of State taxes
already amounting to $709, 100000"
Citing statistics to show the country
averaged a tax of 3.3 cents per gallon
in 1881. Mr.. Pew expresses fear this
level will be raised to 5 cents, and the
1-cent Federal tax is added to that
figure. On the basis of Accent State
average and a 1-cent Federal levy. the
sales tax on gasoline in the United
States is 125 per cent, he charges.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
NEW CIVIL SERVICE
CLASSIC Y|NG BODY
WILL Be CREATED
Personnel Board to Cease as
Independent Agency on
October !.
COMMISSION TO ABSORB
PRESENT ACTIVITIES
System Of Handling Ratings, Re-
tirement, Transfers and Separa-
tions Are Announced.

A group to be known as the Division
Of Personnel Classification will be Gre
ated in the Civil Service Commission to
take over the function of the Personnel
Classification Board, which goes out of
existence as an Independent agency on
October /, when 1t Is absorbed by the
commission, it was announced today.
The moving of the board will start
ready been arranged While the duties
Of the board will in great part be han
died by the new division, some of it's
activities already are being merged
with commission activities already in
existence
In this connection the commission
has arranged the following set-up:
The duty of performing surveys and
making recommendations in connection
with the revision of the efficiency rat
ing system and research in connection
with the theory and practice of clasSi-
ication go to the Research Division.
The service record and retirement
division will pass upon reductions and
separations connected with efficiency
rating work. The board of appeals and
review will hear and determine appeals
on ALLEGATION matters.
The transfer of the board will bring
some dismissals of excess personnel but
the number has not yet been deter
mined, 1t was said today at the COM
mission. The economy law by which
the merger is taking place specifically
provided that those employees who were
not needed under the consolidation plan
should be cut of from the service On
August 81 there were SO employees at the
board.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
BANDITS ROB TWO
DURING transform
$466 Taken From E. A. Kelly
by TWo-Woman ThWarts
Laundry HoId-up.

Apparently taking advantage of con-
fusion created IN the streets during the
storm, bandits yesterday afternoon held
up and robbed two persons.
Edward A. Kelly, 1900 block of K
street, was robbed Of s466, he told po-
lice, by two men who forced him into
his automobile at pistol point at Nine
teenth and K streets. One of the men,
Kelly said, then climbed behind the
steering wheel and drove him to Twen-
tieth street and New Hampshire avenue
while the other kept him covered with
a gun. At the latter intersection the
men, according to police, jumped out
of the car and ran up Twentieth street.
Mrs. Nora Osborne, 1900 block OF
Eighteenth street, by a ruse succeeded
in preventing two armed bandits from
obtaining more than Sc when they held
up a Palace Laundry branch in the
100 block of Connecticut avenue.
Pointing a pistol at Mrs. Osborne, the
men demanded money and she hastily
handed over to them Sc and said that
was all she had. The men then walked
from the store. A much larger sum
actually was on hand at the time, 1t Is
said.
Descriptions of the men in the two
hold-ups were furnished police, and 1t IS
thought both robberies may have been
committed by the same pair.
William Lee, 1900 block of New Jersey
avenue southeast, reported to police he
had been robbed of So by two colored
men whom he had given lift on
wagon
Evening star., 1932-09-24
TRAFFIC SURVEYED
N3O-M|LE AREA
Federal, State, County and
Municipal Joint Data to
Aid Improvements.

Survey Of traffic at approximately
$50 points on highways within 30
mile radius of Washington has been
completed after more than a year of
observation, which began September 10.
1881, it was announced today.
The study to determine the average
density of vehicular traffic on high
ways in this area was conducted jointly
by the Bureau of Public Roads and
State, county and municipal authori-
ties.
Following reports Of exact figures
compiled during the survey, the sta
ment of comprehensive and connected
system of main highways in the Wash
ington regional area. The program of
construction and betterment may in
clude suitable belt lines, relief roads
or necessary relocations and extension
of existing highways.
Although most of the survey observa-
tions were made between am and
10 pm, traffic movement at all hours
was recorded and more than 10000
post cards were mailed in by motorists
giving information required by the
bureau.
The local agencies which cooper
ated with the Bureau Of Publis Roads
and betrayed half the field expenses
include: The District of Columbia Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning Com
mission, Maryland State Roads Com
mission, Virginia State Highway Com
mission, City of Alexandria, Va: Mary
land National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission, Arlington County,
Va; Fairfax Sounty, Va; Prince
Georges County, Md, and Montgomery
County, Md.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
LEARNING ABILITY OF STUDENTS
OUICKENED BY COFFEE DRINKING
Experiments at Catholic u. Disclose Effects of Stimu1an
ON Nervous System.

the test started. The tests we're con-
Quoted by Miss Gertrude Reiman. The
coffee was served precisely at the same
time each afternoon and was so pre-
pared that it was of approximately the
same strength each day-a cup con-
tanning about 3.5 grains Of caffeine
The results showed that the subjects
not only associated the letters and syl-
tables considerably better on the coffee
drinking days, but that>they were able
to fill in the correct numbers with
greater speed and accuracy. Other ex-
periments conducted during the morn
ing hours, DR.. Moore says, have given
much the same results and ruled out
the element Of fatigue.
The explanation, DR.. Moore says, is
that the caffeine acts as a stimulus to
the central nervous system, including
whatever elements of it are employed
in forming associations. This, he says,
might have been theoretically predicted,
but the actual results fitted the predic-
tions better than had been expected.
The effect was noted with all the
students tested, but In varying degrees
When the results Of all for the Diff
ferent trials are averaged the difference
between the coffee days and the non
coffee days becomes clear.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
D. c. WOMAN VETS
GOING TO CONVENTION
Two Officers of Local Council Will
Attend Sessions in
Twin Cities.

Two officers Of the local council will
attend a convention of the Women's S
Organization for National Prohibition
Reform at Minneapolis and st. Paul
Wednesday and Thursday to help
organize opposition to dry congress
sional candidates in the November
elections.
Mrs William Beverly Mason. chair
man of the District council, will leave
Washington tomorrow for the meeting,
while Mrs. Henry Leonard, vice chair
man, plans to stop in the Twin Cities
en- route home from Colorado.
The drive will be based, Mrs. Mason
said, on a poll of all candidates to
determine their stand on prohibition.
The result of the poll will be announced
at the convention Wednesday.
1.-The fight for repeal of the eighteenth
amendment" Mrs. Mason declared,
will be determined in the Senate and
House of Representatives, and our
organization believes the voters are
entitled to know how each candidate
stands on the dry issue"
Evening star., 1932-09-24
MAN, 70, BADLY HURT
WHEN STRUCK BY AUTO
Harry Kolodin Knocked Down in
Northeast-Police Injured
by Colored Driver.

Harry Kolodin, 10, Of the 1000 block
of I street northeast, was seriously in
jured last night when knocked down
by an automobile at Fifteenth and H
streets northeast. Mike Biuccese, II,
of Capitol Heights, Md, said to be the
driver of the car, was charged with
reckless driving and released under $500
bond
Police are seeking colored man as
the hit-and-run driver whose automo-
bile yesterday slightly injured Detec-
tive Sergt. Thomas Bragg, Al, member
of the headquarters check squad. Bragg
was treated at Emergency Hospital for
cuts on the leg.
The detective reported he told the
colored man to drive on when he was
found to be blocking traffic and that
the man deliberately drove straight at
him.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
FALL ASSERTS ITSELF
AND DISPELLS HEAT
Wind and Rain Storm Accompanies
Change of Season Doing
Little Harm.

Autumn, which officially arrived at
1:16 am. yesterday, asserted its right to
displace stubborn Summer yesterday
afternoon, and the storm it brought
with it lashed into the city for more
than an hour, sent the temperature
down to more moderate levels, and left
as suddenly as 1t came.
The storm, accompanied by wind Of
about 80 miles an hour. did little serious
damage. Several minor traffic acci-
dents. a few broken trees and window
glasses were attributed to it, but that
was all. Traffic was tied up for some
time by the downpour, which came just
as Government workers were leaving
their Offices, bringing 1.54 inches of pre-
cipitation.
The Weather Bureau said the mer-
curry dropped from the days maximum,
86 degrees at 2:30 pm, to &c degrees at
4 pm. Last nights minimum was 58
degrees, and the rate of the mercury's S
climb today indicated temperatures
would be moderate. Fair weather is
forecast for the week end.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
CHEST Will COMBAT
CRITICS OF ITS WORK
advance Guard" to Reply to
Those Misinformed of Relief
Program and Agencies.

The Community Chest will organize
an advance guard" of spokesmen this
year to combat misinformation con-
cerning its agencies and management
usually prevalent at campaign time.
Plans for the new good will unit were
outlined to the council Of Community
Chest executives yesterday by H. S. F1tz,
captain of the advance guard"
Staffs of various agencies allied under
the Chest will be enlisted in the unit
and are to inform themselves as fully
as possible on Community Chest affairs
in order to distribute first-hand mfor-
nation to the public.
Others in the advance guard will be
board members of agencies, trustees OF
the Community Chest, members OF the
Campaign Committee and prominent
residents not associated with the or
ganlZation.
The advance guard members will
wear special Community Chest buttons
and pledge themselves to answer misin-
formed critics of the organizations and
tell the story of the Chest at every
suitable opportunity.
The new guard, in cooperation with
the Community Chest Speakers Bu-
reau. will arrange to furnish speakers to
any group desiring more information Of
the Community Chest.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
MORE FEDERAL GROUPS
PLAN CREDIT UNIONS
Navy Yard and War Department
Join Move in Interest of
Emergency Needs.

The move to organize credit unicns
here, under the new law providing for
such establishments, advanced last night
when groups from the Navy Yard and
War Department decided to embark on
this venture.
Action was taken following a meeting
of representatives of all the Washington
locals CT the National Federation of Fed
eral Employees at headquarters, ITO
Fourteenth street, where the workings
of credit unions were explained by Roy
F. Bergengren, secretary of the Credit
Union National Extension Bureau.
The unions are designed to allow
members to get money for emergency
needs at low rates of interest. One
share is the least any member may own
and under the District law 200 Is the
maximum. They are paid, for under
the installment plan.
The administration of the unions will
be under the commissioner of insurance
Of the District and they are subject TO
the jurisdiction of the Controller of the
Currency.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
Zoo Snake Dying
After Swallowing
China Nest Egg
Reptile, Afte, Raid on Hen
House, Finds Meal
Indigestible.

The new chicken snake at the Zoo Is
slithering about the Reptile House,
blissfully unaware that the last egg he
swallowed is the last egg he'll ever
swallow.
The newcomer arrived in box this
week from Biloxi. Miss, where ne was
captured whilef pilfering a henhouse.
The egg was responsible also for his
capture. 1t SO distended his girth he
couldn't use the knot hole he entered
by as an exit.
The egg itself, q china substitute,
intended to inspire more eggs by fooling
chickens, fooled the chicken snake as
well. He gulped it.
And today, despite the fact that Zoo
officials have failed to make him dis
gorge it, and can only await the fatal
result, the snake is still satisfied with
the egg he swallowed and declines fur
ther nourishment.
He appears as well fed and contented,
Headkeeper w. H. Blackburn said, as if
he had eaten a real egg instead of a
china hester.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.

Coffee increases markedly persons
ability to learn.
This has been demonstrated by ex-
periments with graduate students at
the psychological laboratories Of Cath
olic University.
Over a period of five days the volun-
teer subjects were given a set mental
task. Before them was displayed for a
brief period large placard divided
into squares. In each square was q
three-letter syllable and three-digit
number They were instructed to asso-
ciate the numbers and the syllable.
Then they were given squared sheet
Of paper on which appeared only the
syllables. They were to write in the
appropriate numbers associated with
the syllables. This was special test
devised by DR.. Thomas v. Moore, pro-
fessor Of psychology, for facility OF
forming associations-essenti the
same thing as learning facility.
Throughout the experiment the sub
jects were instructed to drink neither
tea nor coffee outside the laboratory.
On three days they were given no
stimulant before starting the test. On
two days each was given q cup of
strong black coffee half hour before
Evening star., 1932-09-24
CIVIC Federation DEFERS
ACTION ON RESIGNATION
Committee Named to Draft Proper
Resolution Concerning Rich
ardSon's Retirement.

The Federation of Civic Associations.
at meeting last night in the District
Building. deferred action on the resig-
nation of its president, DR.. George
Richardson. until the November meet
ing. DR.. Richardson has been presi-
dent for II years. A committee was
named to draft an appropriate resolu-
ton on DR.. Richardson's impending re-
tirement from the presidency.
Miss Fay Bentley, head of the school
attendance division, will be invited to
attend the october meeting to explain
conditions in colored schools.
The same rules for the election Of Of
ficers as were in effect last year again
were adopted. The election takes place
in November.