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Evening star., 1933-08-24
.2,,14O HOMES SIGN
F0RN.R N.R.A.LOYkLTY
Captains Make First Reports
in Campaign to Start Off,
ciaIIy Next Week.

A total Of 2,140 Washington house.
holds have been signed up as N. R. A.
consumers by the women's canvaSsing
group of the Presidents Emergency Re-
employment Campaign Committee for
the District of Columbia.
This total was compiled at the local
N. r. A. headquarters in the Board
of Trade Offices in The Star Building
shortly before noon today. when the
first meeting of the women workers
since they began their campaign ahead
of time was held. The various captains
made the first reports on the progress
of the work, which officially starts next
week.
Turned Down by 10.
Mrs. Walter c. Jones, captain for the
Trinidad section. reported that while
she and her staff signed up 500 homes
they were turned down by 10 of the
housewives on whom they called
Some of those who refused to become
N. r. A. consumers, Mrs. Jones said, eX-
planned their action on the ground that
President Roosevelt had taken away"
their pensions. Others refused because
they had lost Government jobs, and
still others defended their action on the
grounds of pay cuts. One woman said
she could see no reason why, since the
Government had reduced her income,
she should agree to spend more for
groceries at Blue, Eagle stores than she
might be able to buy them elsewhere.
In all, today's reports were made by
II captains. The lowest number Of
signed-up households reported by any
one group was 86, while the highest was
the 500 made by Mrs. Jones.
Slowed by Weather.
The weather yesterday slowed up the
drive considerably But efforts will be
made to press the drive to completion
in short order Evidence of the zeal of
the women was shown in their requests
today for additional stickers and con-
sumers cards. In all, the captains
asked for 10000 card-and-sticker sets.
The Washington Base Ball Club has
been invited by Gen. Amos A. Fries,
chairman of the National Recovery day
parade, to participate in the parade and
recovery program next Tuesday. The
clubs schedule, of course, will not per-
NIT the team to be in the parade, but
Clark Griffith, president of the club,
has promised Gen. Fries he will be
there himself and will do the best he
can" to give the club members repre-
sentation.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
EXECUTION STAY
GRANTED YOUTHS
Postponement Made to Allow At.
torney to Ask Roosevelt for
Clemency.

Three colored youths, who were to
be executed September for the mur-
der two years ago of Mamie Solomon,
were granted a stay today by District
Supreme Court Justice Daniel w.
ODonoghue, when Cedric johnson,
their attorney, announced he intended
appealing to President Roosevelt for
clemency.
At the suggestion of Assistant United
States Attorney Julian I. Richards, Oc-
tober was set as the new execution
date.
The three under sentence are
William c. Robinson, Charles Edward
Washington and Leonard A. Layton.
They were convicted March 4, 1892, of
shooting Solomon, taxicab driver, in
an attempted hold-up at Union court
and o street southwest on July 29,
1881. The case was taken to the Dis
trict Court Of Appeals, which upheld
the lower court, and then to the United
States Supreme Court, which refused
to consider 1t.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
CATALANO SEEKS
WAGE COMPROMISE
School Contractor Wants
BrickIayers Paid Full Day
Rate for 900 Brick.

Dominic Catalano, head Of the Balti-
more construction firm bearing his
name, called on Assistant Corporation
Counsel William H. Whaley today in
an effort to obtain a compromise on
the rate he has been ordered to pay
bricklayers on q District school con-
struction job. No compromise was
reached.
Catalano, against whom complaints
had been made when he failed to pay
the prevailing scale of wages to work.
ers on the Phelps Vocational School,
Twenty-foyrth and H streets northeast,
has been given by the Commissioners
until tomorrow to make good the short
payments to all workers. Catalanos S
compromise effort today was directed
toward bricklayers whom he was Or
dered to pay S1.50 an hour, or $12 for
an eight-hour day. The proposition
he put up to Mr. Whaley today was
that he should be allowed to pay $12
for full days work only where q
bricklayer had laid 900 brick. In the
case where bricklayers work a full
day but laid number smaller than
900 then his compensation was to be
proportionately reduced
Mr.. Whaley said after the talk that
he had informed Mr.. Catalano that
such change would be up to Corpora
tion Counsel William w. Bride and the
Commissioners to make, but that he
personally would not recommend it, and
did not believe that Mr.. Bride would.
Mr.. Bride is out of town.
Evening star., 1933-08-24

by bus yesterday afternoon and went
er Northland.
25-Foot Waves.
The Northland had laid over in tide
wash dock since arriving there early
yesterday morning. Capt. George Il.
NOVEL; said he had never encountered
such waves in his 81 years experience
as these which swept the Northland
early yesterday.
"They were running IS feet high and
breaking over the upper deck. When
we arrived, the dock was awash in the
highest tide on record. We made fast
in the slip. all right, but we had to
land the passengers in the life boats.
When We left the mouth Of the
Potomac Tuesday night we ran into
Norfolk encountered the roughest going
in my experience.
THE passengers arose and dressed,
but there was no sign Of panic among
them. And they had reason to feel
safe. After the way the Northland
weathered those seas I wouldn't be
afraid to take her anywhere and into
anything"
The high wind and seas disrupted
the schedule of the boats for the first
time in 20 years. The steamers have
such regulations of punctuality that
housewives set their clocks by the
whistles and their husbands 60 to work
by the 7 am. blast which heralds the
arrival of the northbound boat.
THE highest waves I ever saw" Capt.
NOVEL; declared. "Ill never live to
see more like them .. I hope not.
anyhoW!"
Evening star., 1933-08-24
SUPPORT OF DAUGHTER
ENDED BY COURT 18
Justice o'Donoghue Rules Father
May Stop Payments to Di-
vorced Wife.

District Supreme Court Justice Daniel
". O'Donoghue ruled today that q IA
ther may stop payments to his divorced
wife for support of their daughter when
the daughter reaches 18 years of age.
This point was decided in contempt
proceedings brought against william r.
Jones, whose wife, BERTHE P. Jones, was
given an absolute divorce last March.
In the divorce decree, Jones was ordered
to pay SIS a month alimony for the
support of his daughter. The daughter
reached the age Of 18 and Jones stopped
payments.
Through Attorneys Raymond Neu-
decker and Jean NJ. Boardman, Mrs.
Jones instituted the contempt proceed
ings, which were dismissed. The atotr-
neys, said they would appeal Justice
ODonoghue's ruling to higher court.
They contend that girl does not reach
her majority until 81. Jones was repre-
sented by Attorney Henry M. Fowler.
Evening star., 1933-08-24

in extreme anxiety here. She appealed
to the Coast Guard for aid. This morn
ing message came through from the
commander of the New York division
Of the Coast Guard that the patrol boat
Travis had located the Baldrock at
Lewes about 8 o'clock this morning and
that all is well.
Previously the Cape May, N. j., Coast
Guard station had reported to head
quarters here that the Baldrock had
been at that point and had left Tues
day, about 1880 am, from the Della
ware Breakwater for Norfolk. Soon
the storm enveloped her. but, fighting
against the mad seas, the little Bald
rock forged her way to safety at Lewes.
Miss Adams, who Is most appreciative
Of the work Of the Coast Guard and
the cooperation given, expects to hear
directly from her motheS before the
day Is out.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
d. C.. WOMAN AND TWO SISTERS
SAFE ON TUGBOAT At LEWES, DEL.

A Washington woman, aboard a tug
boat on an unusual vacation with her
two sisters, bound from New York to
Norfolk, Va, when caught fl the storm
that swept up the coast, was safe today
at Lewes, Della.
Miss Betty Adams Of 1912 K street
learned, through Coast Guard head
quarters here, that her mother, Mrs.
Ellen S. Adams, who lives here with her,
is safe aboard the tug Baldrock at
Lewes, where the tiny craft took shelter
to ride out the terrific storm. Mrs.
Adams was aboard the Baldrock, which
left New York at 2 o'clock Sunday aft
ernoon, In company with her two sis
tiers, Mrs. F. NJ. Meyer and Miss Min
ME Steele, both Of Norfolk. The tugs
skipper Is friend Of the family.
The little craft lacked radio, and ab-
sence Of we'd from her when the storm
broke had Mis- Adams and her friends
Evening star., 1933-08-24
SEWERS SWAMPED
BY RECORD FLOOD
Plant -on .Anacostia River
Keeps Force Working Night
to Guard Pumps.
The flood in the Anacostia River yes

The flood in the Anacostia River yes
terday, which rose over the sea wall
and swamped the sewer departments
main pumping station at First and N
streets southeast, was the highest en-
countered since construction Of the
pumping station In 1908, Sanitary En-
gineer J. B. Gordon said today.
A force Of workmen called out last
night tried to stave off the flood by
piling three-foot embankment Of sand
bags around the entrances of the pump
ing station, but the water made its way
in anyway. It backed up in the sta
ton to a depth of nine feet five inches.
There was no interruption to the pump
ing service In the afternoon maxi
mum of seven pumps. with a combined
capacity Of ass 900 900 gallons per day,
were operated. This Is two more than
the maximum of operation at that sta
ton ever before. It is equipped with
II pumps, with a capacity of 7l5,000,o00
gallons per day.
Sub Station Put Out.
The flood put the Poplar Point sewer
department pumping sub-station out OF
commission through failure Of power,
and consequently sewage backed up in
the station and mingled with flood wa
ters of the river there. Water rose to
within about six inches Of the motor
room floor. After night Of hard work
Potomac Electric Power Co. electricians
got the station working again at 10:45
o'clock today.
Six feet of water backed into the
pumping sub-station at Twenty-seventh
and K streets, but there was no inter-
ruption to the service.
There were no flooded cellars at
spots where the sewer department ex-
pected the most trouble, at the inter-
sections Of Fifth and Ingraham streets.
Seventh and Hamilton streets. and
Arkansas avenue and Delafield place.
The nine-foot sewer under the inter-
section was reported running about two
thirds full The flood left maximum
of "a inches of silt In the sewer IN Fifth
street between Han ilotn and Ingraham
streets. This is nj being removed.
100 Easements Flooded.
Mr.. Gordon reported that about 100
cases of basement flooding were re-
ported directly to the sewer division and
that crews of men from that division,
the water division and the Fire Depart
ment pumped cellars all last night and
are continuing today. He said that
there had been many complaints that
catch basins choked with debris are not
functioning.
All of the Sewer Department rain
gauges recorded approximately 90
inches Of rainfall during the storm.
The heaviest rainfall to be recorded
x,,oc y Al inches in August 1923.
Forty-one oil drums were recovered
from the Anacostia River at the main
pumping station and are being held for
their owners.
Mr.. Gordon reported viaducts at
Fourteenth and Water streets south
west, Rhode Island avenue northeast,
H street northeast and Florida avenue
northeast all flooded and said that the
mems quarters at the Army War College
were flooded and that Boiling Field was
under water
Evening star., 1933-08-24
MARYLAND STORM
RU|NSFARM CROPS
Property Damage in Tens OF
Thousands-WorSt in so
Years.

Southern Maryland counted the toll
of the worst storm in so years today
in terms Of ruined farm crops and
tens of thousands of dollars in prop
erty damage. As far as could be
learned no lives were lost.
Waterfront property was partic-
ularly hard hit, the wharf at Leonard
town being partially washed away;
while a State roads commission wharf
there was partially swept into Brettons
Bay.
Southern Maryland was cut of from
Washington for more than "a hours
because all trunk telephone lines also
because all trunk telephone lines were
down. Most of the rural telephone lines
also were out of order.
Road Is impossible.
The State road to Point Lookout was
impossible beyond Ridge because OF
high water, according to the roads COM
mission. A bridge to st. Georges Is
Evening star., 1933-08-24
ASKS APPLICATION SPEED
Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MANASSAS, Va, August 24.-Wheat
growers of Prince William County are
being urged by County Agent F. D.
Cox to file their applications for Gov
ernment aid at the earliest possible
moment, rather than to wait until the
next community meeting
Assistance is being given at the
county agents Office in Manassas to all
who desire help in making out these
applications for Federal aid.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
RED CROSS TO MAKE
GARMENTS FOR NEEDY
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, August 24.-Mem-
bers of the Montgomery County Red
Cross Chapter and other women Of the
county are expected to soon begin knit
ting sweaters and making clothes for
needy children Of the county. as is
their custom every Fall and Winter.
Announcement has been made that
the materials are on hand, large part
of which came from the National Red
Cross. Those wishing to participate are
asked to get in touch with Miss Estelle
T. Moore of Sandy Spring, chairman
Of the Red Cross Chapter, or the So
cial Service League office, Rockville.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
Fireman REWARDED
Raymond c. Roberts Promoted to
Acting Sergeant.

Raymond c. Roberts, Fire Depart
ment private attached to the Fire Mar
shaPs of1ce, who has made name for
himself In recent years by solving bafa-
ing mysteries surrounding ncendiary
fires, has been rewarded by promo
tion to acting sergeant. He had pre-
viously won bronze medal for his
work In solving the Carberry School
and Kann,s warehouse fires.
Another promotion. was that of Pvt.
Carlisle Peterson, who was also made
an acting sergeant. He was assigned
to the ONCE work previously done by
Capt. o. r. Moxley at Fire Department
Headquarters. Capt. Moxley was trans.
ferred to No. 2s Engine Company.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
STAR ROUTER DRENCHED
Rescue Hardly Necessary as Mail
Man Emerges From Storm.

Abe Cordover, superintendent Of the
Postal Department Garage, set out last
night to rescue a star route driver,
bound for Point Lookout, Md, who was
marooned with his mail at Scotland
Beach.
Cordover, in the stormy darkness,
rescued instead two children, three
women and one man, whose car had
gone of the road near Bryantown.
In q mail truck he forwarded them
to a place of safety, but failed to re-
port their names and addresses to the
Post Once Department. What Cordover
reported was:
Believe me, when I say we were
wet"
The star router struggled II alone.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
Whisky License
Requested By Man
Anticipating Repeal

Vernon D. Lee, 1900 block Of
Fourteenth street, believes In tax
ing time by the forelock.
Today he wrote to Daniel E.
Garges, secretary to the Board
of District Commissioners. saying:
Il am sending my application
for license to sell whisky when
the dry law Is repealed"
Lees application was duly
turned over to the Beverage Per-
init Board, which has been
handling beer and wine permits.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
DOGS HAVE HAY fever
Veterinarians Discuss Significance
of Canine Sneeze.

of Canine Sneeze.
CHICAGO P).-Maybe hay fever was
responsible for their being called dog
days" CANNES, too, may contract hay
fever.
Veterinarians at their SEVENTEEN an
nual meeting learned that sneezing and
coughing in dogs quite often may be
due to hay fever and other allergic
complains. The solution is to take out
Of your pets diet the food which causes
the allergic reaction-or send him to
the North woods.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
N. B. C. NAMED IN SUIT
Action Asks Cancellation of Sta.
ton WMAL Permit,

Gerald v. Moore, 1920 I street, yes
terday filed suit in District Supreme
Court to compel the Federal Radio
Commission to cancel the permit issued
to the National Broadcasting Co. for
operation of Station WMAL.
Moore's petition, filed through At
torney M. E. Stamen, charged the COM
pany was found guilty Of obtaining q
monopoly for sale of radio apparatus
by Federal court In Delaware.
Evening star., 1933-08-24
D. c. SUED FOR $4,000
Collapse of School Sliding Board Il
Blamed for Personal Injury.

Jerome d. samelson, Goa South Caro-
lima avenue southeast, yesterday filed
suit for $4,000 in District Supreme
Court against the District Of Columbia,
claiming he was seriously injured when
a sliding board at Barnard School,
Fourth and Decatur streets, collapsed
p May, 1880.
The suit, filed through Attorneys
James p. Donovan and Isadore Born
stein. said the plaintiff was sliding on
the board when 1t fell
Evening star., 1933-10-27
BRITISH PEER INSISTS
AUTOS SPOIL HIGHWAY
Duke Of Devonshire, Glancing Back
ward, Sees World That Was
Better when Horse Was Xins.

~ the Assoeiate4 Prsss.
DERBY, EnSland-The Duke o6
Devonshire, it may b taken. does not
Ike motor cars.
At . horse ihow here, he desc1ibed
them as foul, sinking thtnss'' that
made life hideovy, ruined the roads and
increased taxes.
I'VE formerly travelled ~ gentlemen
and not As crashing cads." he said.
When In London the duke, Who Is 6s,
hires . horse-dravn hansen cab.
He is the father-in-lsv a the former
Adele Astsife, the AnaaRican dancer,
Who married Lord ChASies CoyondiSh.
Evening star., 1933-11-18
.REALTOR BOOSTS
HOME OWNERSHIP
John l.. Weaver Points to
Numbers Who Visit Sample
Houses.

The unusually large number of visi-
tors to model homes in the Greater
Washington area in recent weeks is
proof of sharp and sustained interest
in home ownership. in the opinion of
John L. Weaver realtor.
Few Of the thousands who attend
these showings go simply to satisfy their
curiosity as to What is being done in
new home construction or from want of
anything more interesting to do, he
says. Most of them still cling to the
hope of eventually finding an exquisite
small home to fit a modest pocketbook
There is nothing wrong with the
market" continues Mr.. Weaver. 1.-THE
appeal of home ownership has been in
tensified rather than diminished by the
depression and in spite of arbitrarily
imposed vacations and pay slashes there
are today probably more good risks
among potential home buyers than
there were in the eXtravagant times of
1928-29. Anyway every one has gained
keener appreciation of the value of
the dollar and come by more
thorough understanding of the meaning
OF financial commitments during the re-
cent years of grief.
More than rs per cent of the Dis
trict'S potential home buyers are to be
found in the long queues passing
through and avidly exclaiming over the
modern marVelS Of this or that model
home
While each of these offerings is in
dubitably splendid buy at the price
the TACT remains that comparatively few
Continued on Second Page.)
Evening star., 1933-11-18
BY JAMES WALDO FAwCETT.

The residential portions Of the Capt.
tai as they were A years ago are vivid
ly portrayed in Frank Leslie's Popular
Monthly for June, 1889, tattered copy
of which recently came to light in an
old book shop
The magazine contains an article on
Historic Houses in Washington" from
the pen of w. A. Croffut, long well
known figure in local newspaper circles.
"On the streets Of Washington" Mr..
Croffut said, "still stand the quiet homes
where the most masterful Americans
have lived in private Hfe-Washington
Jefferson, Madison, Adams the younger,
Jackson, Randolph, Clay, and the
houses where Benton and Webster prac-
ticed law; and the very spots are every
day visited where Sumner was struck
down tc inconsistencies, where Cal
houn died in his house on Capitol Hill,
where Decatur perished miserably,
where John Quincy Adams expired (the
Speakers room of the House Of Repre-
sentatives), where Secretary Of State
William H. Seward was attacked by
Payne, and where Abraham Lincoln and
James A. Garfield we're assassinated."
OF the buildings listed, many passed
out of existence during the period OF
Evening star., 1933-11-18
SURVEY SHOWS DROP
IN BUILDING PERMITS
Dun & Bradstreet Report Reveals
$6,09S,662 Decline During.
October.

A rather sharp decline in the value
Of building permits filed during Octo-
Der is revealed in the latest compila-
ton by Dun & Bradstreet, Inc, for 215
identical cities of the United States.
Building permit values for that month
aggregated $26,145,o42. as compared
with S32.243,704 in September. This
was a drop of 1876 per cent, as against
a normal seasonal rise of about 2.5
per cent at this time. The total for
October however, was slightly in excess
Of the corresponding month of 1882,
when building permits aggregated $26,-
107,428. This marks the fifth month
in succession that building expenditures
have exceeded those of year ago.
The South Atlantic, West Central
Mountain and Pacific groups Of States
showed fairly good gains in October. as
compared with the preceding month
but declines in the New England, East
Central, South Central and Middle At
lantic divisions (the latter including a
sharp drop in New York City, we're
more than sufficient to bring the total
below September.
Evening star., 1933-11-18
SILVER STAR HOME !.
CLOSES TOMORROW.
Dwelling at Greenwich Forest
Has Been on Display for
Month.

The Silver Star Model Home at Will
son and Hampden lanes, Greenwich
Forest, Md, will be on display for the
last times under sponsorship of The
Star today and tomorrow.
This home, which has been on public
exhibition for the last month as one in
series of model dwellings shown under
auspices of this newspaper, has been
viewed by thousands of interested
Washingtonians during its display
OF the English farmhouse type of
architecture, the home occupies large
wooded lot in the new Cafritz develop
ment adjacent to Edgemoor. Battery
Park, and the country club section of
Montgomery County. Alvin L. Aubinoe
was the architect.
EIizabethan Furnishings.
known as the "Oxfordshire House."
the residence has been treated In keep
ing with the style of the period of which
it is characteristic, including furnish
ings of the Elizabethan period.
The house is constructed of Stretch
er-type" stone, with Brittany tile roof
and aged wood gables. feature is its
two-Story studio living room, with ex-
posed beam ceiling and rustic finish. A
porch fanking this room overlookS the
delightful terrace and formal garden In
the rear of the home.
A dining room, library bed room,
kitchen and pantry complete the first
floor plan. while the second floor in
cludes two bed rooms, cedar storage
room and bath. Maids quarters are
located over the attached garage, form
| ing wing Of the house.
Silver Star Award Displayed.
The Silver Star Award for merit In
| building is prominently displayed over
| the large fireplace in the living room.
This award indicates the home was ap-
proved for demonstration by the Silver
Star Model Homes Committee, a group
of experts in all fields of building and
planning, which acts impartially on
these homes at the request Of The Star.
James S. Taylor, chief of the Division
| of Housing. Department of Commerce,
is chairman of the committee.
Furniture and accessories were sup
piled for the demonstration period by
w. B. Moses 81 Sons, while draperies,
| rugs and carpets were provided by Dulin
g. Martin. Other contributors of fur
nishings and equipment include Charles
B. Jarvis. D. L. Bromwell, Inc; Jordan
Piano Co.. and the Packard Washington
Motor Car Co.
The house may be conveniently
reached by way of Wisconsin avenue
north to Bethesda, turning left on the
! old Georgetown road three blocks to
/ Wilson lane, and left again at this point
/ one-half mile to the house.