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Evening star., 1933-10-22
KING PLANS NEW
CENTER FUND PLEA
Senator Will Confer With
Commissioners This Week
to Push First Unit.
Chairman King Of the Senate District

Chairman King Of the Senate District
Committee will confer with the Com
missioners early this week to consider
making a renewed appeal to the Public
Works Administration for funds to en-
able the District to proceed with the
first building in the Municipal Center
project. The Senator said yesterday he
might have an opportunity to talk with
the Commissioners on this subject TO-
morrow.
It was indicated recently that the
public works agency Is deferr1ng 1or
the present the request for a grant To
begin the Municipal Center develop
ment. Senator King believes. however
the project should go forward and an
nounced a few days ago he planned to
see what could be done to revive in
terest in the question.
The first unit, for which the Dis
trict asked for grant of $4,600, 900,
is urgently needed to provide adequate
accommodations for the Police, Juve-
nile and Municipal Courts, the Police
Department and the recorder Of deeds
Office, The District has spent approx
mately S6,OOO,o 900 in acquiring a large
area Of land on the north side of Penn
sylvania avenue between Third and
Sixth streets, and extending to Indiana
avenue.
Evening star., 1933-10-22
PRICE INCREASE FEARED.
Three Cents a Quart Jump for Con-
sumers Held Probable.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, October 2l-Adop-
ton of the proposed milk code may
local consumers for milk in the So
called Washington sales area, it Is be-
lieyed by number of producers.
The code, as interpreted at the meet
ing in washington today, specifies there
shall be but one retail price to con-
sumerS in the entire Washington area.
This will mean. consequently. that
many persons living In the immediate
vicinity of the District of Columbia, in
both Virginia and Maryland. many of
whom pay as low as 10 cents a quart at
the present time, may be forced to
accept an increase in price equivalent
to that charged in Washington, prob
sbly q lump of cents.
As tentatively defined, the so-called
washington sales area embraces all OF
that territory within a boundary line
extending from Chain Bridge to Lang
lev to Mclean, to Tyson's Cross Roads,
to vienna, to Fairfax, thence south to
Fa,rfax Station. to Occoquan and from
there to Woodbridge.
The present price of 10 cents charged
bv many local distributors has been
Considered satisfactory by them in view
Of the fact that in most cases their
overhead is small and they serve a
limited territory.
their objection to this provision of the
code "a said by distributors to be due
TO their ignorance Of It's existence.
Evening star., 1933-10-22
TWO NARROWLY ESCAPE
DROWNING IN CANAL
Machine Overturns Into Water
From Road Woman Is
Treated for Shock,

A woman and a man. both colored,
narrowly escaped drowning last night
when their automobile plunged into
the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal near Po-
tomac street.
The two-Sylvester Grimm, 1927
Twenty-second street, and Florence
Webb. %, Chesterbrook, Va. were
standing in ankle-deep water, on the
side of the overturned car, when police
arrived in response to a telephone call
from paSSerby.
Lieut.. J. j. Burke and Pvts. j. p.
Raetzman and G. H. Russell borrowed
ladder from nearby business estab-
lishment, lowered 1t into the water and
assisted the pair to safety.
The machine, driven by Grimm, was
moving along a narrow dirt roadway
paralleling the canal, when it slipped
over the edge and dropped into the
water, landing on its side.
The woman was treated for shock at
Emergency Hospital. Her companion
required no treatment
Evening star., 1933-10-22
Heirs of Dupes in Riuer Bed
Lot Sale May Get Last Laugh
Proof of Title to Plots Located in Ana.
costa in 1908 You'd Disrupt Plans
to Deve1op Parkway.

dox Christian Cemetery on land on
Benning road Immediately south of
Woodlawn Cemetery.
Under the act of Congress govern
ing these matters, no cemetery can be
established closer than 112 miles to
the original boundaries Of the city. The
nearest boundary to the proposed
cemetery is the bank Of the Anacostia.
and in looking up the map to measure
of the distance, District Surveyor Mel
vim c. HaZen noticed the lots marked
off under the river. There could have
been no doubt at the time that they
we're under water. because the bank of
the river as it then stood is accurately
traced.
Lots" Filled In.
Since that time. however. the bank
has been moved at least a half a mile
east by filling operations of the United
States Engineers Office, so that today
some of the marine lots have actually
come up to the surface and are dry
land, on the margin Of AnacoStia Park
1t might prove an interesting case II
some descendant of one of the original
purchasers Of these lots should now set
up a claim to section Of Anacostia
Park as his private property.
But the immediate question before
the District officials is whether the ceme-
terry law has reference to the banks of
the AnacoStia as they stood in the orig
inal survey, or as they are now. If the
former, then the cemetery is permis-
sible, otherwise, not.
The question has been referred by
the Health Department to the corpora
ton counsel's Office for research and
an opinion.
Evening star., 1933-10-22
ROBBER BEATS WOMAN
TO GET EMPTY PURSE
Mrs. Lulu Carter of Northeast Sec
tion Found Unconscious on Side
walk by Husband.

Attacked at Third street and Florida
avenue northeast last night, Mrs. Lulu
Carter, %, of 1161 Third street north
east, was severely beaten by a young
colored man who ran away with her
empty pocketbook.
Found lying unconscious on the side
walk by her husband, Frank Carter,
she was taken to Homeopathic Hospital
and treated for severe decorations to her
face and q possible nose fracture.
Within q half hour 17-year-old COL
ored youth with blood on his clothing
was arrested in the railroad yards near
by, but Mrs. Carter was unable to iden-
tify him. She told police her assail-
ant struck her a heavy blow in the
mouth with his fist. She offered him
her pocketbook, she said, and begged
not to be hit again. She said he re-
piled that he did not want the purse
and struck her another heavy blow IN
the face which rendered her uncon-
scious. When her husband arrived the
purse was missing.
Evening star., 1933-10-22

speaker of the prologue, one OF the most
important roles. The Christus will be
played again by Alois Lang, who had
ular production. He Is not, however,
relative of his distinguished prede-
ceSsor.
Play Every 10 Years.
Other principals in the cast include
Amy Lutz, who will take the part OF
Mary. Willy Bierling is one of the new
names to appear In the 1884 cast. He
Twink, the son of a former Judas, was
elected to that role.
The election, held this week, was not
so closely contested this year. since the
village householderS, who form the elec-
torate, had opportunities to witness the
work of most of the candidates three
years ago. THE Passion Play" is pre-
sented every 10 years. but last year the
villagers voted an extra production IN
honor of the tercentenary Of the first
play. For this reason 1t will run only
about two months, 1t is expected. in
stead of the usual three or four months.
DR.. Lang. jr., said this Summer THE
Pestilence Play" was presented Tor 80
performances. While few Americans
attended it, people came to Oberan1-
mergeau from all sections Of Europe.
This was a special play written to
commemorate the pestilence and its mi
raculous disappearance three centuries
ago in the little village. 1t was then
the citizens of Oberammergau resolved
to present a Passion Play every 10
years.
Evening star., 1933-10-22

II any descendants of certain un-
known, gullible investors who apparent
ly were tricked into buying some under
water lots in the Anacostia River 130
years ago should come forward now
with proof of ownership, they might
have the satisfaction Of having the last
laugh on those who perpetrated the
deal.
And production of such proof Of title
also might throw money wrench
into plans of the Government for de-
velopment of the Anacostia Parkway,
because the submerged real estate
part of the public park.
These lots were laid out some time
prior to 1903, and they are duly re-
corded in the first official survey plats
of the City of Washington. They were.
for the most part, at the bottom OF the
Anacostia River. 1t is not clear whether
they were ever sold. but their appear
ance on the map hardly could be ex-
planned otherwise.
Maps Drawn by Surveyor.
The survey maps were drawn by
Nicholas King, the first surveyor Of the
District. who was sworn in by the Com
miSsioners appointed by George Wash
ington to lay out the city before it came
into municipal existence. Kings ap-
pointment dates from 1876, and later,
when the city became municipality in
1900, he was the first city surveyor. a
post he held up to his death in 1872.
What has called attention to these
long forgotten lots at the moment Is a
petition to the Health Department for a
permit to establish the Capital Ortho-
Evening star., 1933-10-22
Three Pet Goats,
Feared Kidnapped,
ONLY Lost in Woods
Agnes, Mary and Hortense
Believed Carried Away
by Strangers.

Agnes, Mary and Hortense, pet goats
Of Mike Casey, were not kidnapped after
all, as their owner feared.
Early in the week Casey wrote tc
Supt. of Police Ernest w. Brown from
his home, near Baileys Cross Roads
Va, asking a search for the animals
and saying some suspicious acting
men probably had carried them away
in an automobile. He wrote that he
heard Mary's terrified bleating and
saw a car with the men disappearing
down the road.
Yesterday, however, one Of Casey's
neighbors found Agnes, Mary and Hor.
tense in the woods. He called them
and they followed him, as Casey had
said they would.
1T has all been very mysterious
their sudden DISAPPEARANCE" Casey
wrote. I'm going to put bell on that
little devil Agnes
He inclosed a poem on the virtues OF
goats.
Evening star., 1933-10-22
TAXI DRIVERS GAIN
BY5z0NE SYSTEM
Figures Submitted Keech
Show Jump in Tips With
Higher Rates.

The new five-zone taxi rate system,
in effect for less than a month, already
is having the desired result of produc-
ing more revenue for the drivers, ac-
cording to reports to Richmond B.
Keech, peoples counsel, before the
Public Utilities Commission.
Although Keech has not yet received
the manifests of the drivers since in
PRODUCTION Of the new rate plan, he
said information furnished him by Off
Gals of the larger taxi companies Hd1-
cate rather conclusively the men are
earning larger return than under the
former four zone system.
One surprising development of the
new zone plan, Keech declared, has
been an increase in the amount OF
tips, which has added materially to the
income of the drivers. Five-cent tips,
the usual gratuity under the old plan,
he said, are rare, and taxi riders are
now giving the drivers 10 cents or
more.
Many in 80 Zone.
The taxis may not be carrying any
more fares, Keech said. but the drivers
are getting larger return per haul
under the shorter zones. Many OF the
fares, he explained. go into the 30
cent zone that formerly produced 20
cents for the drivers.
These 3O-cent fares, who formerly
gave the drivers a scent tip when the
rates were 20 cents. are now passing
out 10-cent tips. The only explana-
ton the drivers can advance for the
increased generosity, according to
Keech, Is that 1t was more convenient
for a passenger to hand out a quarter
than to dig around in pocketbook Tor
S cents to make up 10-cent tip. Now,
however most fares going into the
30-cent zone, give the driver half
dollar or a dollar bill, and after re-
ceiving change hand back 10 cents.
Phone Calls Increase.
Keech said the new zone system also
has aided the drivers in cutting down
gasoline and oil expenses formerly run
up in "dead-head" cruising. Many
drivers now, he explained, are parking
on public hack stands outside Of the
business section that formerly spent
most of their time cruising downtown
in quest of fares. The public has dis
covered this, he declared, and more
telephone calls are being made for cabs
than heretofore.
Keech has been particularly inter-
ested In the taxicab situation ever
since he took Office as peoples coun-
sci, and plans to keep a close check on
the effect Of the new zone system. AS
soon as the drivers turn In nnanifests.
he said. he will be In better posi-
zone rates. ..-...
Evening star., 1933-10-22
Fiancee's Passion Play Role
Delays Marriage Of DR.. Lang
SonofFamOus "Christus''
Is No,U Professor at
Georgetown u.
Clara Mayr of Oberan,.
nergau Elected to Repre-
sent "Mary Magdalene."

~ ECAUSE the traditions OF the
l. famous Passion Play" provides
that only an unmarried girl
- may take the part of Mary
Magdalene. the wedding Of Miss
Clara Mayr of Aberammergau and DR..
Anton Lang, jr.. of Georgetown Uni
versity, a son of the former interpreter
of the Christus. must Ee postponed.
They were betrothed June 25. when
DR.. Lang, who is about Is years old.
returned to his native home on a visit.
This week he received cablegram from
Oberammergau announcing his fiancee
had just been elected to take the role
of Mary Magdalene in the special ter
centenary production of the biblical
play which will be presented next Sum-
mer AS a consequence the wedding
ceremony must wait until the season
of The Passion Play" is concluded.
The betrothal ceremony for the young
couple. in keeping with the native Gus
tom. was an interesting and colorful
event that lasted all day. DR.. Lang
returned wearing specially designed
betrothal ring.
Had Been Understudy.
Miss Mayr had been an understudy
in the Mary Magdalene role, and rather
than thwart her ambition to take an
actual part in the performance, DR..
Lang agreed to the postponement In
the event she was a successful can
didate He will return to the little
Bavarian village to witness the produc-
ton next Summer and will bring his
bride back to Washington after the
ceremony. She has been in the United
States before and likes America.
Dr. Lang came to Washington q year
ago to become professor of German at
Georgetown University. He himself has
taken only a minor part in THE Pas
sion Play" His father. Anton Lang.
played the role of the Christus more
often than any other man.
Results of the elections to select the
cast for this special production Of the
famous play were received by Dr. Lang
in the same cablegram.
Anton Lang was selected to be the
Evening star., 1933-10-22

Savings Bank. These were declared
insolvent and placed in the hands OF
receivers in July. Each has declared
Only two banks have been turned
over to receivers since January-the
Commercial National Bank and the
Park Savings Bank. The former has
paid dividend Of 20 per cent, but the
Park Savings Bank, where there is a
shortage estimated at nlore than
100000. is the center of an involved
court battle. which will come to trial
mercial National appears clearly to be
In line for help from the Deposit Liza
bility Board, but the status of the Park
Bank, where so little assets remain,
virtually puts it in a class by itself.
IL in Conservators' Hands.
In the third general class Of closed
banks here are Il now in the hands OF
conservators. This includes seven in
stitutions. whose prime assets were
tional Bank merger but but whose remsin- n
ing assets are in the hands Of con-
SENATORS. Controller of the Currency
O'Connor plans to place these remain
ing assets in the hands of two receivers
shortly.
The new Hamilton National Bank is
moving substantially forward, accord
ing to reports, and is not officially in
volved in any way by the liquidation OF
assets remaining in the hands Of con-
servators. There is one link, however
to the advantage of the Hamilton Bank,
in the right of substitution" clause OF
the contract by which the conservators
sold their prime assets to the Hamilton
Within six months after the execution
of the contract, the Hamilton may SUBJ
stitute any of the assets it bought, for
any OF the assets remaining in the
hands of conservators. So that, although
the controller of the currency may place
these remaining assets in the hands OF
two receivers, in place of the present
conservators, the old tie of that right
of substitution" clause still would hold
It may complicate the business Of at.
tempting to get new R. F. C. loans or
these remaining assets. It Is under.
stood, however, that the controller him.
self Is interested in this subject, here
in the National Capital, and will give
| attention to it, besides the study to be
given by the local committee of the De-
posit Liquidation Board.
An0tncr IN L1tlSat1On.
Another of the banks in the hand,
OF a conservator, the United States
Savings Bank, is in litigation, with trial
in its case scheduled for November 6.
Other consefvatorship banks are the
Mount Vernon Savings Bank, the alb
sorption of which by the Washington
Mechanics Savings Bank, through q
special merger agreement, is expected to
be effected this week: the Franklin Ma
tional Bank. which is trying to reopen
on plan of its own, and the Industrial
Savings Bank, colored institution, which
is working on a plan of reorganization
to become national bank.
Part Of the assets Of the old Chevy
Chase Savings Bank which since has
become a branch of Riggs National
Bank. are still in the hands Of con.
| SerVatQT,
Evening star., 1933-10-22
Halloween Dance Friday.

GREATER CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md,
October 81 (SpeciaD.-A masquerade
Halloween dance will be given Friday
night in the Bradbury Heights School
under the auspices Of its Parent-Teach-
er) Association.
Evening star., 1933-10-22
Annual Supper November %.

BOWIE, Md, October 21 Especially -
The annual supper and dance under
the auspices Of the parishioners Of the
Church Of the Ascension will be held
November IS.
Evening star., 1933-10-22
o. E. S. Plans Card Party.

SILVER SPRING, Md, October 81
(SpeciaD The local, chapter Of the
Eastern Star Will hold a card party at
the Masonic Hall here Thursday night
OF 8 O'Clock, g
Evening star., 1933-10-22
Operations May Broaden.

From national sources. however, there
have been indications there might be
possibility of extending the operations
Of the Deposit Liability Board later
to other groups of banks. What these
possibilities may work out to be remain
to be determined
The closed banks in the District of
Columbia, it was pointed out last night.
naturally fall into at least three diff
ferent groups, those placed In the hands
of receivers prior to January l, those
placed in receivership since, and those
In the hands of conServators.
In the first group fall four banks:
The Ian5 5.o of HTishtTo1d: @ the 1sp1 Tt
change Bank. and the North Capitol
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-02
JAIL FATHER IN
BABY WHIPPING
RavenSWood Man to Face
Trial for Striking
Infant Daughter.

Charged with whipping his g.
months-old daughter, inf1icting
upon the baby a black eye and
badly bruised hip. William Met
lock. 60, Of Ravenswood. will face
Judge John Geckler at 2 next Mon
DAY afternoon in Juvenile court.
Called by neighbors. deputy
sheriffs arrived Sunday at Met
locks home on Seventy-thlrd
street. cast of Sylvia avenue. to find
Mrs. Lorine Metlock. %. wife of
William, holding the child in her
arms.
There was distinct. BLUSH mark
of a hand print on the babys hip.
said deputy sheriffs. and they re-
ported the childs eye blackencd.
Metlock is said 20 have admitted
striking the child. but contended he
used only a folded newspaper in
spanking the infant girl. Pauline
Metlock was arraigned in mu-
nicipal court three Monday. but the
court was informed the charge OF
vagrancy against him had been
dismissed. and that he had been re-
slated in juvenile court on a child
neglect count
Deputy Sheriffs said today that
half OF Ravenswood" can be ex-
pected to appear for the trial.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-02

shoulda known better-Shes al
ways doing that TO some one
A late arrival announces: d" I
heard they're starting new shift
SOon.'
Pandemonium
DO you suppose they'll really
take on more?" Got to. Eight
hour day"
we'll drawled the recruit. "all
know is what my sister told me,
and she said they were starting,
next week They have to 90 on
eight hours. Governmental in
spect EN-"
WTORDS are flung across the
w room. There is raucous
laughter. even the most meek
strike up conversations with their
neighbors. It's good news and
how they like it,
A door is opened. Then there
is silence.
An eagle eye IS passed over the
tense group. and three are called
Turn TO Page Six
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-02
STATE TO Nab
KEG BEER CARS
Feeney Orders ConfiScation
of Trucks Hauling Brew
in Barrels.

Indianas state police force swung
into action against barrel beer i'm
portations today.
Following conference between
AL Feeney, state safety director, and
Captain Matt Leach of the state po-
lice, plans were laid to capture beer
trucks on the state borders.
Trucks caught hauling barrel
beer will be confiscated, since there
is no provision for anything but
bottled beer in the Indiana law, -"
Feeney asserted.
Meanwhile. more spigots began to
flow with draught beer in northern
Indiana cities.
The beer control law again was
declared unconstitutional in Lake
county. Judge Virgil Whitaker of
Hammond city court scored the
measure. and particularly those sec
tions giving the state excise director
czaristic powers.
Suit involved operating without. a
retail beer license and Whitaker
ruled that this can be done.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-02
Give, Folks!
Statehouse Democrats
Plan Campaign Fund
Assessments.

DLANS to collect a huge cam
Il paign fund through 2 per
cent monthly assessment on all
Democrats on public pay rolls
throughout the state were dis
closed at the statehouse today.
The movement is being fostered
in the office of Governor Paul V.
McNutt by his secretaries, Pleas
Greenlee and Wayne Coy.
1t has progressed to the point
Of setting up a collection agency
10 be known as the Hoosier Dem
ocratic Club. Inc.
Bowman Elder is listed as the
treasurer.
DOCKS of membership tickets
ID were available today in the
Office of Dick Heller. secretary to
Lieutenant Governor NJ. Clifford
Townsend.
Heller is to handle the state
house collections, it was said.
He declared that the plan is to
levy 2 per cent on all officials and
employees making more than SIS
monthly.
Incorporation papers have not
yet been filed. but the name has
been reserved. it was reported in
the interpretations department Of
the Office of State Secretary Frank
Mayr Jr.
We intend to put the plan
across in all counties of the
state Heller declared.
Asked what the money was to
be used for he smiled and said !:
Charity"
older also is national treas
II urer of the American Legion.
and forefront McNutt adviser.
He is Secretary-treaSu of the
Indianapolis Office Furniture
Company. which has the contract
for furnishing the state library.
The membership cards carry a
red rooster emblem.
Heller explained that che mat
ter of joining is voluntary"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-02
J0LS0N INCIDENT NOT
ENDED. SAYS WINCHELL
Aftermath To HOLLYWOOD Fight Is
Intimated by Columnist.

KANSAS CITY Mo. Aug a.
Walter Winchell. Broadway column
ist returning from a vacation in
California. intimated between trains
here that there would be an after
math TO the Jolson- Wincllsn main
event" in Hollywood STADIUM
Admitting blows we're struck. he
was asked If the matter were
dropped.
To which he answered 10. add
Ing that he really couldn't say more
He did explain. however. that
Jolson was mistaken in thinking a
certain slluSion referred 10 RUBY
Keeler. who Is Mrs Al JolSon.