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Evening star., 1933-12-06

7 rs not the cop on the beat that
overtime parkers have to watch
now, but the cop in motor cycle
L sidecar
He works SO rapidly and SO quietly
that scores of drivers have been caught
off their guard Even his work has
been made easier. although he covers
four times as much ground in one day
as the man on foot could possibly do.
The idea is new one in Washing
ton, and. according to police officials, is
producing results-results far more sur
prising and effective than its advocates
had anticipated.
All the cop in the side car has to dc
is to ride along the street slowly and
draw a chalk line across the tire Of a
parked automobile. All the motor cycle
driver has to do is to be the chauffeur
The system can't be beaten for speed
Whereas, the man on foot took about
Is minutes to mark cars in one block
the COP in the motor cycle side car does
it in three.
Twenty blocks in an hour is the usual
speed Then the cop in the sidecar
goes over the same route again, and
plasters overtime parking tickets en-
cars which still have his chalk mark
visible The only way to beat the sys-
tenn is to catch the cop marking the
car and then erase the chalk mark
But overtime parkers have found him
hard to catch because of the speed
with which he works.
Three Do Work of IL.
Police officials admit that three men
in motor cycle sidecars are taking care
of the overtime parking situation in
zone l, the one-hour parking zone in
the business section, and doing better
and more effective job than a dozen
men did before
Evening star., 1933-12-06
BUS R|DESFREE
ON PASS BOOKS
Extra Charge for Lines Using
Tokens Dropped by
Company.

Liberalization of the use of the weekly
street car passes, requested by the Capt.
tai Transit Co.. was approved today BY
the Public Utilities Commission. The
change will eliminate the 2-cent charge
formerly made for ride on the regu.
lar fare bus lines of the company or
presentation of the pass.
When the operation of the merged
street car company began December
the plan was that the 81 pass woul6
be good for transportation on but three
of the company's bus lines. without
payment of the cents extra charge
These lines were Potomac Park, Zoe
Park, and West end.
BY the change approved today the
2 cent extra charge for holders of the
81 weekly pass has been eliminated fol
use on nine additional bus lines of the
Transit Co.. these are:
The Park road. Woodley road. Wash
ington Interurban-East Washington
Bureau Of Engraving loop. Chevy Chase
loop. Randle Highlands Eastern High
School. Hillcrest-Good Hope road. Ben
ming and the South Washington lines
The dollar pass therefore will be good
for transportation without payment OF
the transfer charge. on all of the bus
lines of the company on which the
regular token fare is charged. 1t will
not include the buses on which a
higher regular fare is charged. includ-
ing the Chevy Chase De Luxe Coach
line and the Hains Point line.
The other type of weekly pass. which
sells for $1.25. entities the bearer to an
unlimited number of rides on either
the street cars or busses of the transit
company.
Evening star., 1933-12-06

A tradition which has existed since
the days when George washington dis
couraged Sunday visitors to his man
sion ON the Potomac, is to be broken.
: Hereafter visitors will be allowed TO
Mount Vernon ON Sundays, after years
of adherence to custom established
by its illustrious former owner.
The Mount Vernon Ladies' Associa-
ton, which has owned the estate Tor
about a half-century, has announced,
through its regent, Mrs. Alice II. Rlcn-
ards, that the hours of 2 to pm.
have been set as Sunday visiting hours
Only once before has the tradition
been broken, and that for Q single
day-last March 5, when the thousands
of visitors to the city for the Inaugural
tion of President Roosevelt were allowed
to enter.
Sunday Opening Favored.
In recent years there has been a
growing desire for the opening OF the
estate on Sundays, 1t was pointed out
by Col. H. H. Dodge, superintendent:
Government workers, It was said. nad
no other time to visit. and thousands
Of visitors to the Capital each Sunday
were disappointed by their inability TO
view the estate.
Only last month this desire was crys-
tallized into resolution by Kfwann
T. r--.'- =, sr,.st.cees, meeting IN CHI
Evening star., 1933-12-06

with the household duties. Her hus-
band has been out of work as long as
mine has. losing their jobs when the
automobile firm where they worked
went bankrupt and they never received
their last pay"
Last Winter, Mrs. r:oakes wrote, the
family went without heat most Of the
time. Payments on the house could
not be continued beyond last Fall.
Hoping, Praying for Job.
MY husband is ahle-bod.ed. hoping
and praying for q job. He has walked
the city over, being to every firm and
plant to get job and they all tell him
they are not taking on anybody. He
and my son-in-law stood in line the
other week and signed at the head
quarters where they were to give jobs
to the jobless, but they have not heard
anything yet.
"All the money we had in the world
we put into this little home, thinking
we would have something in our old
age, but alas we are not to have 1t. ]
heard your speech some time ago say
ing you did not want anyone to lose
their home. Please, please, dear Presi-
dent, help us, to save our home. You
have done and can do wonders for hu-
manity. Don't let us be put out into
the street. We even mortgaged our
furniture to make the last payment We
made. Please help us and you will have
the everlasting gratitude of a destitute
family without job"
Turned down several times in efforts
to have the mortgage holder take the
bonds, Frizzell said he was stood up
on an appointment to discuss the case
with him yesterday. The mortgage
has been unwilling even to consider the
exchange, he said
Evening star., 1933-12-06
MRS. JAMES w. ORME
DIES AT VALLEY VIEW
Funeral Services Will Be Held
Tomorrow Morning at Home
at $50 O'Clock.

Mrs. James William orme. Valley
View. Georgia avenue, this city, died
yesterday at her home after long
illness. She was q daughter of Peter
Becker and the late Mary walsh
Becker of this city. Mrs. Orme was
born and lived all of her life in
Washington.
Surviving are her husband, father.
two sons. James william Orme, Sd, and
Robert Cherry Orme, both of this CITY:
three daughters. Mrs. Louis A. Dent.
Jr. OF Silver Spring, Md: Mrs Ma
thaniel Taylor Kenney of Baltimore
and Miss Kathleen walsh Orme, at
home.
Two sisters, Mrs. william Cough of
New York City and Mrs. John M. Top
ham OF Brooklyn, N Y, and a brother,
Peter Becker. jr., also survive.
Funeral services will be held tomor-
row morning in the home at $3.50
O'Clock, and requiem mass will be held
at o'clock in the Church of the
Nativity. Burial will be tn Oak Hill
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1933-12-06
Mortgage Holder to Take Home
Despite appeal to President
Refuses to Take Chance on 49o Bonds of
Loan Corporation Offered in Exchange
for Note With $500 Interest Due.

please, please. dear President, help
us to save our homei"
This Is the plea that went to the desk
Of the Chief Executive in the White
House from a destitute Washington
family whose home Is facing foreclosure.
But despite this pathetic request, con-
tanned In q fouf-page letter written by
a partially crippled, 6l-year-old mother,
the little home of the Noakes' at 1906
F street northeast today seemed des-
tined for the auction block.
1t will be sold. not because the Gov
eminent is unwilling to help-for it is
but because first mortgage holder says
he cannot take chance" on the per
cent bonds of the Home Owners Loan
Corporation, which must be exchanged
for the mortgage to make Federal aid
possible.
Application Approved.
The application of Alfred Noakes, un-
employed machinist, for Federal re-
financing Of his home was carefully in
vestigated by the Washington ofice of
the Home Owners Loan CORPORATION,
Paul Frizzell. manager, said today. II
was approved in every respect, and the
corporation was ready to make a loan
when the finance company notified the
corporation the holder of the first
mortgage would not accept the bonds
In exchange for the note. The first
mortgage totals $1,000. with $500 in
terest due.
Mrs. Noakes week ago addressed
her appeal to the President. MY hus-
band" she said. has been out of work
IA months. We are getting old and I
am partially an invalid, crippled with
arthritis and rheumatism / am 81
and had to have my daughter with me
to help take care of me and help me
Evening star., 1933-12-06
OLD MOUNT VERNON TRADITION
ON SUNDAY VISITING BROKEN

cago. On q resolution by Edwin F..
Hill of this city. governor of the Cap
ital District, the group, representing
1900 Kiwanis clubs, petitioned the
Ladies' Association for the Sunday
opening.
Besides tradition, another reason was
given for keeping the estate closed on
Sundays, according to Col. Dodge. He
said. the association hoped to keep the
home of the Father Of His Country as
different" and more dignified shrine
than any other, in that 1t is unique IN
many respects, contains the burial place
of Gen. Washington and Martha Wash
ington, and was deserving OF the dig
nifty. 4
Mrs, Richards Statement.
The statement by Mrs. Richards fol-
lows:
I'm keeping with all the known ira
ditions at Mount Vernon In Gen. Wash
ington's time, the Mount Vernon La
dies Association. has heretofore closed
the estate to visitors on Sundays.
"Owing to the public appeal that
there are many whose duties ana occu-
pations prevent them from visiting
Washington's home on week days, the
regents Of the association have directed
that hereafter visitors be admitted to
Mount Vernon on Sunday afternoons
from 2 to 4 o'clock"
Evening star., 1933-12-06
BULLET WOUNDS
PASSENGER AGENT
Charles F. BigeIow in Critical
Condition After BEING
Found Shot.

Charles F. Bigelow, 40. divisional
passenger agent for the Southern Rail-
way. is in a. critical condition at Emer-
gency Hospital after having been found
shot through the left chest this morn
ing in the bed room of his apartment
at 4007 Connecticut avenue.
Bigelow'S wife told police she was in
the kitchen preparing breakfast about
$50 O'Clock when she heard a shot in
the bed room She ran into the corri-
dor of the apartment building to sum-
mon aid
Mrs. William H. Martin, who lives on
the ground floor, hurried to the Bige-
low apartment. Mrs. Martin told po-
lice of No. 8 precinct. who inveSti-
gated. that she found Bigelow lying on
the bed with a revolver still clasped in
his hand.
The .3S-caliber weapon had dis
charged one bullet which entered near
Bigelow's heart. Mrs. Martin sum-
-moned Dr. A. NJ Wheeler. who also
lives in the apartment building, and
an ambulance from Emergency Hos
pital.
Police said that when the amau-
lance arrived the resident manager of
ed man be carried out through the
basement. The woman manager ex-
planned to reporters, however. that the
ambulance could have been driven into
the basement and Bigelow brought al
most to the door Of the vehicle on
the elevator.
Investigators said there was nothing
to indicate Bigelow had contemplated
suicide. They were told Bigelow re-
Gently returned to his home here after
q business trip to the South. Doctors
said Bigelow had a good chance of
recovery.
Evening star., 1933-12-06
POLICE SEEK CLUES
Of SIX BANDITS
I IN MAIL ROBBERY
Francis J. White, Wounded
Guard, Reported in Sc
rious Condition.
vAlUABLES BELIEVED
SAVED BY HIS ALERTNESS
Three 90-Pound Sacks Seized, Con.
tanning Only Revenue
81 Stamps.

All sections of the District were being
searched by police today for clues to
the identity of the six bandits who shot
down a post Office guard during mail
robbery in the Union Station train shed
last night.
Meanwhile, the wounded guard. whose
alertness is believed to have kept the
robbers from escaping with anything
more valuable than three pouches OF
internal revenue stamps, was reported
In a serious condition in Providence
Hospital. He is Francis j. White, 81,
Of I street.
Descriptions Vague.
Descriptions of the bandits were
vague. and virtually the only clues in
the possession of police were five ex-
ploded 45-caliber automatic shells and
eight unused cartridges of smaller
caliber.
Three of the robbers snatched three
e0-pound mail sacks from procession
of small trucks before anybody realized
a bandit raid was in progress. The
trucks were moving through the west
end of the shed. headed toward track
No. 5. where Southern Railway train
was being loaded with baggage, prep
dIhGoiy W AIS hASA1siy AoAA ~
N. c.
IA post office porter was operating
the lead truck. and railway mail
clerk. who had just signed for the
mail. was perched on top. Neither man
saw the bandits drag the pouches from
the last truck and make for the 20
foot wall leading down to First street
northeast, abreast of the terminal yard.
There was a narrow wooden ladder
against the wall. and the robbers went
down it single file
Off in a nearly-dark corner, three
other armed men covered the get
away. 1t was here that police later
found the shells and cartridges. the lat
ter in a neat pile-evidently intended
as a reload for an automatic rife.
White. a guard for the last decade
or more. was the first to notice the raid
on the trucks Standing about 10 feet
sway. he shouted for the robbers TO
halt, at the same time tugging at his
AS ca1iber sutomatic.
"a Bandits Too Quick.
The bandits proved too quick for
him. however One of them. perched
on the wall fired at him five times. two
of the bullets piercing his left leg and
si1attering his thigh-bone.
Terminal employees, working nearby,
we're ordered to get back as the rob-
bers fed to the wall and down the
ladder. They saw the bandits leap
into an automobile. however. and speed
northward on First street northeast,
swinging into H street and heading
toward the cast with the lights on their
car still dark.
Police were of the opinion Whites
action saved more valuable sacks. which
we're on some of the other trucks.
witnesses we're uncertain whether
the robbers were white or colored and
they also were unable to agree in their
descriptions of the machine used by
the bandits to make their escape.
Inspector Frank S. w. Burke, chief
of detectives. and his assistant. Capt:
Bernard w. Thompson. led squad OF
plain -clothesmen to the scene of the
robbery. but a thorough search dis
closed no clues other than the shells
and cartridges.
Evening star., 1933-12-06
POLICEMAN SHOOTS
AUTO TIRE THIEF

An automobile tire thief was shot
when he resisted arrest last night. while
another man who burglarized a drug
store escaped under f,re. police reported
today.
John Smith, 20, colored. 1900 block of
Wyiie street. is In Casualty Hospital
with a serious bullet wound in his
abdomen, received when he is alleged
to have attacked Policeman Joseph II.
johnson after he was caught removing
. tire from the officers automobile.
johnson said Smith came at him with
tire iron.
Policeman r. e. Kenny. fred several
shots at q burglar who took two pints
of liquor and possibly q small quantity
Of narcotics from drug store at 5433
Georgia avenue. The thief outdistanced
the oddcer In q foot chase.
Evening star., 1933-12-06

The plan was worked out as a result
Of persistent complaints that a certain
group of overtime parkers were hog
ging" the parking space in the down.
town business section-motoristS who
parked four and five hours day in
the same place, week after week. Some
of them could never be caught, because
the police department didn't have
enough men to detail to the overtime
parking squad to get around often
enough. These officers had too much
territory to cover to return to the same
spot every hour or so. and when they
did, the driver of the car had ampla
time in the interval to run around
the block and come back.
Blocks Are Checked.
Unknown to these habitual overtime
parkers, the traffic department in the
Spring made a careful block to- block
check in zone and listed the over
time parkers from $50 to 4:30. Thirty
have been parked in the same spo,
between four and five hours. =.
Again in the Fail, the checkers went
over tie same area. and repeated the
procedure. Twenty-one OF, the 80 cars
listed in the Spring check-up, were
found to be still in the same spot. and
still. parking between four and five hours
day.
With this information, the Police De-
partment went to work All 81 of these
persistent violators were tagged and re-
quired to deposit IS collateral
Out OF this roundup developed the
idea for police car checker in a side
car The plan. designed originally to
keep the streets in the business section
clear of overtime and double parkers
during the Christmas shopping season
may be continued indefinitely.
Evening star., 1933-12-06
ROOSEVELT SOON
T0F|LL D. c. Jobs
District Attorney and Utilities
Commissioner May Be
Named This Week.

President Roosevelt hopes before the
end of this week to complete the roster
of local appointments. with the naming
of new United States attorney for
the District of Columbia and a pub
lie utilities commissioner.
1t was learned that pressure of other
business has prevented the President
from taking up the matter of success
sors to Leo a. Rover. retiring United
States attorney. and Gen. Mason NJ.
Patrick, who resigned some time ago
from the District Puolic Utilities Com
mission
These two appointments were de-
ferred pending selection. of the new
District Commissioners. but with this
major problem of patronage settled,
MIR. Roosevelt is desirous of consider
ing the remaining vacancies in the
District requiring presidential action.
Postmaster General Farley Is in Eu-
rope, but it is. understood he left with
the; President list Of qualified .candi-
dates for the two local posts.
The district attorneyship has. at
tracted the greatest field Of candidates,
whose friends are campaigning tire
lessly in their behalf: This is known
to have greatly complicated the sitil-
alton with regard to picking Mr.. Ro-
ver's successor.
The local Democratic organization
unanimously has indorsed Ralph Gu
inty
also has received strong backing from
other influential quarters. There are,
however. other important candidates
with whom to reckon. including Lucien
C. Vandoren, who is indorsed by promi-
nent leaders of the bar here; John p.
Branhall, State Senator Lansdale g.
Sasscer of Maryland, Leslie c. Garnett
and other prominent lawyers.
william A. Roberts is said to be one
of the leading candidates for the pub
lie utilities appointment.
Evening star., 1933-12-06
WOMAN is APPOINTED
TO CIVIL WORKS POST
Miss Mary E. Stocking Will Super
wise Projects for Women
in District. -

Miss Mary E. Stocking. 3840 Fulton
street. has been appointed supervisor
of women civil works projects in the
District. She is native of Washington
and has been engaged in welfare work
for number Of years.
The new appointee was recommended
by District officials and the appoint
ment was made yesterday by the Com
given by Alan Johnstone, field agent
for this area of the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration. -
Her Office will be at the District re-
lief headquarters at John Marshall place
and C street. The womens work pro-
gram will follow the programs spon-
sored by Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward of the
Federal Civil Works Administrator.
Evening star., 1933-12-06
ADDRESSES DEMOCRATS

Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
Tugwell was the principalsspe at a
meeting Of the Young Democrats Club
OF Warrington at the Carlton Hotel last
night. Mr.. Tngwell explained the pro-
visions Of Q bill to be taken up in Con-
factrlre, shipment or sale of adulterated
or unbranded food. drugs and cos
metics.
Victor Russell. head Of the club. pre-
sided. Miss jeanne McSwain was named
{ = .,s-.ss j G. a 50 a. C---,.
Evening star., 1933-12-06
JOHN PHILIP HILL SUED
BY HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL
g.. o. P. Candidate for Maryland
Governorship Claimed to Have
Failed to Pay Tuition.

John Philip Hill, candidate for the
Republican nomination as Governor oi
Maryland, was sued for 50 ,668 in Dis
trict Supreme Court today by the Hol-
ton Arms School. which claims that Hill
has failed to pay tuition for three
daughters who attend the institution.
Hill, a former Representative from
Maryland. announced his candidacy fol-
the gubernatorial nomination several
weeks ago. The suit alleges that he
and Suzanne, IN the school in February
1881. The first two have attended every
term of school to date. according to the
suit. while Suzanne attended until june
of this year.
The suit, filed through Attorney T. L
Bartlett, charges that $2062 represent.
unpaid tuition, and the balance an over.
due note given the school by Hill.
Evening star., 1933-12-06
COMPETITION METHOD.
URGED BY BABC0CK.
Head Of Federal Employees Protests
Use Of Excepted Workers
on Classified Jobs.

Charging that "a continued use of
excepted employees on classified posi-
tions viii result very rapidly In the
complete destruction Of the civil service
system, e. Claude Babcock, president
OF the American Federation of Federal
employees, yesterday wrote the Civil
Service Commission urging against
financing extra employment in that
agency by emergency funds, unless the
workers were selected by competition.
TIE letter followed publication of
statement representing the commission
as being receptive to the employment
Of added personnel with the civil works
funds.
Babcock's letter says experience has
shown that employment In the regular
Government establishment with emer-
gency funds has not, in most instances,
been competitive despite the fact that
these are under civil service.
Evening star., 1933-12-06
Maryland Collects
$4,000 From Early
Levies Upon Liquor
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Nd, December
6.-Maryland's State treasury
was enriched some 81, 900 today
from early liquor licenses and
excise stamps
Although Gov. Albert G. Ritchie
did not sign the State law
until last night. The licenses
and stamps were distributed yes
terday in anticipation Of his sig
nature. The rush for licenses
continued today.
Evening star., 1933-12-06
COMMUNITY CARD PARTY
Proceeds to Cover Deficit in Chill
dren's Shoe, Rubber Fund.

The District Congress of Parents and
Teachers will sponsor a community
card party to be held Friday, at 8 pm,
at the Stuart Junior High School,
Fourth and E streets northeast.
Proceeds from the party will be used
to make up the deficit from last year
IN the shoe and rubber fund of the
Student Aid Committee and for child
welfare work in general.
Mrs. Victor Gauzza Is chairman OF
the Committee on Arrangements.
Evening star., 1933-12-06
Myra Page to Speak.

Miss Myra Page, newspaper woman,
who has just returned from q two-year
stay in Soviet Russia, viii lecture next
Sunday at pm. at the Typographical
Temple, 423 @ street. Her subject will
be, "Who Rules Russia"
Evening star., 1933-12-06
Commissioners Aid Transient.

The District Commissioners yesterday
approved o request from Arthur s.
Rosishan, director of transient relief,
for the use of building at 232 Third
street as an infirmary for transients
under the care of the District.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-27
Poultry And Rabbits
 At Springfield Fair
To Have Important Place Among the Specialized
 Shows at Coming Annual Exposition

Springfield. Mass, July 27-Poul- try and rabbits will have an im- portant place among the special ized shows at the 17th annual Eastern States Exposition from Sept 17 to 23, inclusive, all vari- cities of land and water fowl rccog- nized by the American Poultry Association in its standard of per- lection and varieties recognized by approved specially clubs being in- cluded in the Exposltion'B poultry cIassifications while rabbit entries will include those varieties recog- nized by the America Rabbit and Cavy Breeders Association.
 As means of increasing public interest G court of honor in the center of the poultry and rabbit show building will be established for birds and rabbits winning Ex- position sweepstakes and for win- ncrs of American Poultry Associa- ton specials. In addition there will be cash prizes in every class for poultry, bantams and rabbits.
 Judges who will place the pens have been named as follows: George A. Chapin. East Long, meadow; T. Edward Cordis, Long, meadow; Frederick Q. Groesbeck, Vernon, Conn; John c. Kriner, Sr. Stettlersviilc, Pa; Robert Williams, Bnrre; E. D. Billings. Merlden. Conn, and Samuel Rice, East sau- gus, the two last named being rab- bit judges. All poultry and rabbits will be judged on Monday, Sept 1s.