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Evening star., 1934-10-09
COMMISSION BANS
CHANGE IN zON|NG
Board Heeds Objections of
Massachusetts Avenue
Property Owners.

Needing pleas Of property owners
along Massachusetts avenue west of
Dupont Circle, the District Zoning
Commission again has rejected pc
tition for changing the classification
of property at Twenty-second and @
streets to permit apartment house
usage there.
The question has been before the
commission four times in recent
years, the last being at the public
hearing last Wednesday. The zoning
change was refused by the commits
sion, meeting late yesterday in execu-
tive session.
The change was urged by the Pat
ten family and was opposed by LarZ
Anderson. the Dupont Circle Citizens
Association and property owners of
the neighborhood.
Classification Changed.
Apartment house proponents. how
ever, won another decision, affecting
property on the east side of New
Hampshire avenue between r and S
streets, when the commission agreed
to change the classification from B
restricted area to residential c area.
This change had been opposed sue
cessfully in the past by Lieut.. Col.
U. S. Grant, Sd, formerly member
of the zoning Commission.
The commission refused to change
from residential to first commercial
the classification of property on both
sides of New Hampshire avenue from
Washington Circle to H street
Row-houSe classification was given
to property along Calvert street, Tun-
law road, Thirty-ninth street extended
and the south line of Davis street ex-
tended. in a change of zoning from
A and A-restricted areas to B re-
stricted.
Rezoned Residential.
Property on Connecticut avenue
near the northeast corner of Macomb
street, was rezoned as residential 40
foot A area. 1t had been residential
40-foot C area. Petitioners sought to
have it zoned as A restricted.
A large plot of land lying east of
Connecticut avenue north of Macomb
street and south of Porter street, which
had been restricted to detached house
development, was changed to residen-
tial 40-foot A area, which permits
apartment construction. The east 100
foot strip of the parcel was not changed
because it borders a restricted resi-
dental area.
Second commercial status, with 90
foot height limit, was granted for
two plots east of Brentwood road and
north of the proposed w street north
east, with the proviso that owners
dedicate land for the road as proposed
on the highway plan.
Walnut Street Change.
The commission approved a change
from A-restricted to residential A
area for property at 200 Walnut
street, and a change from residential
B area to first commercial 6O-foot C
area for property at the rear of 5103
Georgia avenue. In these two cases
the changes were granted provided
owners would dedicate land for alleys.
Property at $40 Third street south
west. formerly having a residential
status, was given a second CONNER
cial, 90-foot D area classification. A
portion of a lot on the north side
Of Maryland avenue, west of Sixth
street southwest, was changed from
residential to first commercial classi-
fication.
Evening star., 1934-10-09
LUNCHEON is CANCELLED
Christian Church Had Planned tc
Honor Briton.

A luncheon planned in honor Of
Thomas Frasier of London, which was
to have been held tomorrow at noon
at the National City Christian Church,
has been Cancelled, 1t was announced
today.
vention Of the Disciples OF Christ,
which Is to be held in Des Moines,
Iowa, this week. An unexpected
change in his itinerary caused the
postponement Of the reception, which
was to have been attended by repre-
sentatives of all the Christian
Churches In Washington.
Evening star., 1934-10-09
Post Receives ColorS.

Clarence Grosner will formally pre-
sent a stand of colors donated by
him to Fort Stevens Post, No. 80,
Drum and Bugle Corps, during a
card party being held by that corps
in Paul Junior High School on the
night of october 10. j. O'Connor
Roberts, department commander Of
the American Legion, will attend.
Evening star., 1934-10-09
CLASS DRAWS MANY

So many persons attended the first
Thursday Morning Cultural Class,
sponsored by the Sisterhood of
the Washington Hebrew Congregation,
held last week at the home of Mrs.
E. I. kaufman, that beginning
Thursday they will be held in the
Wardman Park Hotel at IL am.
e DR.. Abram Simon, who lectured
last week on Robert Browning, will
speak this week on the probable birth
place Of Columbus. The public is in
Vited.
Evening star., 1934-08-02
|. c. c. INVESTIGATES
COST OF AIRMAIL
Contractors Ordered to File State
ments With Commission by
September 10.
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion today ordered an investigation of
the cost OF transporting mail by air
plane over existing routes and di-
rected all contrac actors to file with the
commission their statements OF cost
not later than September 10
The commissions action is taken
under the sirmsil law passed by the
last session of Congress.
Hearings will be held beginning
about September 25.
Postmaster General Farley in a
statement to the commission said the
department believes the temporary
contracts and extensions which have
been granted by the Post Once De-
partment were not under the juris-
oictlon OF the commission.
However said the Postmaster
General, should it be your view that
the commission does have authority
10 inquire into the proper rates over
such routes at this time. then il is
submitted that the commission does
not have authority TO fx and de
termlne any rate over any sirnau
route at an amount respectively
greater than on the amount OF the
respective bids"
The commission asked The air lines
to answer the Postmaster Generals S
statement in full
Evening star., 1934-08-02
FACES GRAND JURY
ON ASSAULT CHARGE
Julian Kay Held Under $500
Bond in Alleged Shooting
Case.

Julian Kay, 400. block Of Illinois
avenue. was ordered held under $500
bond in Police Court today for grand
jury action on charge Of assault
with a deadly weapon.
Kay is alleged to have shot Audley
r. Phillips, 1400 block of Clifton
street, Tuesday in the street before
the home of Mrs. Winifred Phillips,
estranged wife of the wounded man,
who resides at AL Newton place.
Mrs. Phillips had charged her hus-
band with threats to kill her and he
was arrsigned In Police Court this
morning on that charge. Phillips re-
ceived only q minor wound in the
arm.
Judge Robert c. Mattingly, who Is
presiding in United States Division
Of Police Court, dismissed the case
against Phillips when officers and
Phillips testified there had been con-
siderable difflculty among the three
persons involved over a period OF sew
sral years.
Phillips was advised by the judge
20 stay away from his wife, from
whom he has been separated for sew
sral months.
Evening star., 1934-08-02
body Of MISSING
MANFOUND IN BAY
Harry Kaska of Baltimore
Disappeared From
Steamer.
sp~eiai Dispatch 10 The Star.

speeisi Dispatch 10 The Star.
PRINCE FREDERICK Nd. August
2-The body Of Harry Kaska ~, who
sailed from Baltimore last Saturday
for Norfolk and who was missing
when the boat docked. vas found
floating In Chesapeake Bay late yes
terdsy by three Calvert County men
returning from Coopers Island. across
the bay.
KaSka formerly was manager OF
the American Transfer Co OF Balti-
more. The body was taken back 70
Baltimore last night by his brother.
Jacob Kaska, 34I6 Holmes avenue
The body was found in the channel
by Capt. Everett Phillips. Louis Wolf
and Douglas McChesney, who brought
II 10 Kenwood Beach and notified
States Attorney Arthur W. Dowell.
The Official communicated with Balti-
more police. asking II they sought
missing man Of the description. and
was told they believed the body TO
be KsSkaA
JdCOO IhSAd shlu Ac uN INV ONiNNe
an inquest vas necessary. as he was
sure it was a case OF suicide. since his
brother had been in poor health for
about FIVE years and had been de-
spondent over the necessity for an
operation.
The dead man sailed on the Chess-
peake steamer City OF Baltimore. but
was found to be missing when the
boat reached Norfolk.
Evening star., 1934-08-02
TEN-YEAR- OLD GIRL
is SLAIN BY ROBBER
Bernice Hoffman Killed While
Sleeping in Tourist Camp
at Hot Springs.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. August q
Ten year old Bernice Hoffman
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. r. j. Hof-
man of Beaumont, Tex. was shot and
fatally wounded at a tourist camp
near here early today by an unidenti-
fed prowier who attempted to enter
the cabin occupied by the Hoffmans.
The little girl was shot as she lay
asleep on a cot near the bed occupied
by her parents and younger sister
and brother. The bullet fired through
a screen door pierced the child's head.
Police and deputy sheriffs swarmed
the scene soon after the shooting at
lis am. and bloodhounds were put
on the trail.
The shooting occurred during an
attempted robbery of the Hoffmans.
A man occupying an adjoining cabin
said that he was awakened by voices
and heard some one standing between
the cabins command Hoffman to
hand over his trousers The robber
apparently found no money in the
trousers and ordered Hoffman 10
hand him another. pair hanging
nearby. A shot then was fired. The
bullet struck the sleeping child.
Hoffman leaped from his bed and
fired his shotgun into the air to wake
up others at the camp.
The Hoffmans came here about
four days ago.
Evening star., 1934-08-02
TWO C0NVICTS BACK
IN INDIANA PRISON
Search for Other Three in Satur-
day Escape Continues and
Probe Is Planned.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. August 2.
Two of the five convicts who
escaped last Saturday from the State
prison here we're back within the
walls today but the three other felons
continued at large with little pros
pect OF their immediate apprehension.
The two once more in prison cells
are John Burnett, 81, and William G.
Jay. As, both captured Tuesday at
Mexico, Mo.
Wayne Coy, secretary who handles
penal institution affairs for Gov. Paul
v. MeNutt, remained here to question
the two convicts concerning the
escape Coy was sent here by the
Governor soon after the five we're re-
ported missing.
The secretary reiterated that he
will nsake public none OF the informa-
tion gained through his investigation
Of the prison break He will submit
a report to the Governor. he said.
Burnett and Jay reached the prison
early this morning in the custody of
A. J. Funk, assistant deputy warden,
and A. j. Miller, a guard.
Chicago police had furnished an
escort when the prisoners reached
that city late last night. The escort
was requested because OF fear that
friends Of the two convicts might at
tempt to take them from the peni-
tentiary officers
The three prisoners still at large
are Maurice O'Flaherty. IS; Kenneth
Rogers. ~, and Louis Grail, I9.
O'Flaherty and Rogers have been re-
ported in Southern Indiana.
Evening star., 1934-08-02
ROBERTS DISPUTES
TROLLEY REPORT
WITH UTILITY UNIT
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10 and will then be given to the press
and to me. The commission has de-
cided to hold the first hearing i'm
mediately thereafter. on August IS
OF course. it will be impossible for
me or any one else to be familiar with
the content Of the report In so short
a time and the commission has been
so advised.
The meeting will. therefore. afford
an opportunity TO hear the oral state
ment by Mr. Beeler, certain other
commission experts and the plans of
the company. The commission states
that any who desire to ask questions
on that occasion may do so, but it Is
nv intention to withhold questioning
until 1 understand what the report Is
about.
There will be 8 second session Of
the hearing about September 10, at
which the experts will be available
for questioning and at which time
ANYBODY who has information Of value
or objections to the proposals may be
heard.
In order to prevent chaos at this
second hearing. I would like to have
an opportunity to discuss the testi-
mony Of all who intend to appear, so
that sn orderly program Of presenta-
ton may by prepared.
Il will be very much obliged II you
will make the fact known. emphasiz-
ing the value of a written statement
which I may study prior to the hear
ing"
Evening star., 1934-08-02
NAVY TO USE NEW
PROMOTION METHOD
Department to Advance $50 Off,
GERS by Selection Board
After August IL.

About 100 lieutenantS will be recon-
mended for promotion TO the grade OF
lieutenant commander and $50 lieu
tenants Ounior grade) will be chosen
for advancement to the rank OF lieu
tenant by a selection board, now IN
session at the Navy Department.
This group is expected TO reach
decision some time after August IL,
having begun its deliberations yes
terday. This is the first time that
the selection system is being applied
to officers in the junior grades Of
the Navy.
President OF the board Is Rear
Admiral John Greenslade, a member
of the General Board. Serving with
him are Capts. Rufus Z. Zogbaum,
Neil E Nichols, Roscoe F. Dillen, Max
M. Frucht, Bruce l. Canaga, Charles
c. Hartigan. Augustin T. Beauregard
and Randall Jacobs, all naval ofhcers.
Recorder of the board is Comdr. Louis
e. Denfeld. with Lieut.. Edwin D.
Graves as his assistant.
Evening star., 1934-08-02
WAL LMSlEY SENDS
POLICE TO GUARD
OFFICES IN WAR"
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didates walmsley and the anti-Long
cohorts favor.
Text Of Long Telegram.
The Long telegram said:
The ring government of New Or
leans has boasted publicly and ma
tional newspapers and magazines have
printed for many months the report
that the city government Is protect
ing the greatest open and most noto-
rious red light district in the world
and that throughout the city there
are hundreds of gambling dives and
open vice and lottery dens OF every
kind.
1T Is openly admitted that the
fallen women and the illegal dives
are being levied upon for regular col
lection. You are being quoted In the
papers here as favoring this kind OF
lawlessness maintained in New Or
leans when the Governor 20. K.
AIlen) has demanded that the au-
thorities in the city suppress the
same.
They say you criticized me be-
cause I support the stand taken by
the Governor against the red light
district vice.
In connection with repeated warn
ings that have been given and re-
quests to oficers to discontinue open
lawleSsness in New Orleans, which
have become a national disgrace, our
Governor has guarded his State ONCE
of the registrar Of voters in this city
against attack. at the same time
granting to the city hall the right
to place any persons they wish there
to observe all things at all times ana
to insure propriety of proceedings
IF you have any complaint about
the conduct of the Governor and my
backing him up and you think 1t Is
your duty to speak, kindly inform me
lust what is the view you wish known
relative to your approval of red light
district and gambling dives which are
open here.
Please let 1t be known II you wish
your name linked with the open
license given to the red light districts
and gambling dens and dives the
ring government permits to operate.
Since they say you deign to give ad-
vice relative to how you look upon
the conduct of q Senator support
ing the Governor, please advise If you
would recommend that United
States Senator give aid and counsel
to the red light district and vice dens,
and If that is your idea of what you
would do If you we're here.
For your information viii state
that was informed this morning that
when this ring government calls upon
the War Department to help them
maintain their operation of red light
districts and gambling dens, that the
authorities of the War Department
told them the Governor was the man
to handle that situation.
Il hope that you are not trying to
stamp your foot down on decent man
hood and womanhood living respect
ably in this city"
Evening star., 1934-08-02
PARLEY RESUMED
ON RUSSIAN DEBT.
Hull and Troyanovsky Re-
new Sessions With Lump
Sum Offer Reported.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary Hull and Ambassador
Alexander Troyanovsky today resumed
negotiations looking to a settlement
OF the Russian Indebtedness to the
United States.
The conference followed an an
nouncement yesterday by, the Foreign
Policy Association which described
what it termed a reported offer"
from Russia to settle both the Keren-
sky debt and private American claims
by "lump-sum payment"
Debt Issue Primary.
The Secretary of State said yester-
day an agreement over the debt mat
ter took precedence over other queS-
tions involved between the two coun-
tries. Observers took this to mean
there was little likelihood of any url-
derstanding between the two cour-
tries on the deportation OF aliens
until the central issue is out Of the
way.
The Foreign Policy Association re-
port was written by Vera M. Dean Of
the associations research staff. 1t
said in part:
1T is reported that the U. s. s. r.
has offered to pay lump sum, to be
determined by agreement, which
would liquidate the debt of the pro-
visional (Kerensky) government and
the claims of American nationals
This sum, however, would not be paid
outright, but would be gradually col
lected by the Soviet government on
American credits, which the U. S.
S. r. wishes to secure as an integral
part of the debt settlement.
Two Points In Dispute.
''The Washington negotiations are
consequently expected to concentrate
on two points: The amount which
the Soviet government Is willing to
pay and the United States is willing
to accept in liquidation of debts and
claims, and the sum which the Ameri-
can Government is prepared to ad-
vance to the Soviet Union in the form
either of 6 loan or of long-term
credits for Soviet purchases In this
country"
The Soviet has made similar
proffers to other countries during
debt parleys in the past and there
has been widespread speculation-but
no officiaI confirmation-that it had
offered the United States a similar
arrangement.
Secretary Hull said yesterday his
department was devoting its undi-
vided attention, as far as Russia is
concerned, to settlement of the
basically important financial questions.
Evening star., 1934-08-02
LIGHTERAGE CHARGE
EQUALIzING IS WON
Business Groups Lose Fight for
Lower Freight Rates,
However.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Northern New Jersey business or
ganizations today won their conten-
ton for equalization of lighterage
charges between New Jersey points on
New York Harbor and New York City.
but at the same time we're denied
lower freight rates from all sections
of the country than are charged to
New York City.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, settling the 5-year-old case, said
the lighterage limits Of New York
Harbor should either be extended to
New Jersey points now excluded or
that corresponding charges should be
made to all points.
Commissioner McManamy dissented
from the main commission report,
holding that a fat charge of 3 cents
per 100 pounds should be made on all
freight lightered across the harbor ex-
cept grain, for which he would charge
IA cents.
Evening star., 1934-08-02
ADM. RICHARD LEIGH
WILL RETIRE SEPT. |
Chairman of General Board and
Naval Delegate Has Seen
AZ Years Service.

The Navy Department today an
fiounced the retirement on September
/. because OF physical disabilities, Of
Rear Admiral Richard H. Leigh.
chairman of the general board and
representative Of the American Gov
ernment at the recent naval discus
sions in London on the forthcoming
treaty sessions.
Retiring after ~ years OF active
service, Admiral Leigh has served as
commander OF the battle force and
commander in chief of the United
States Fleet His World War servic
on the staff Of the commander of the
United States naval forces in Europe
and later in charge Of the anti-sub-
marine section, brought him the Dis
tinguished Service Medal London
conferred upon him the decoration of
Commander of the Order OF the
British Empire. and Belgium made
him an Ofhcer of the Order of Leo
pold
Last week the admiral returned from
London to Washington. following the
preliminary discussions on the naval
pact,
Evening star., 1934-08-02
DILLINGER, SR., GETS
RIGHT TO LIFT BODY
Acts After Coroner Reveals Sci
entists Are Studying Brain
and Other Organs.
BY the Associated Press.


INDIANAPOLIS, August John
Dillinger, ST., yesterday obtained per-
mission to disinter the body OF his
son.
The 70-year-old father of the slain
desperate went to the State Board
of Health and filled out forms neces-
sary for exhurnation.
He gave no reason for wanting to
disinter the body and, between his
stage appearances at a theater here,
he declined to discuss the matter.
During his stage appearances the
father says: There isn't enough
money in the world to get me to
place my boys body on exhibition"
Shortly after Dillingers body was
brought home the father revealed he
had rejected an offer of $4,000 from
two promoters who desired to place
the body on exhibition.
The application to exhuIne the body
came after Frank J. Walsh. Chicago
coroner, had revealed scientists under
his direction we're studying parts of
the brain and vital organs of the
DaIlOlI.
The coroner said an ounce or two
of the criminals brain and parts of
his lungs. heart and kidneys had been
removed soon after he had been killed
at Chicago. The coroner added
pathologists were examining the or
gsns to determine whether Dillinger' s
anti-social tendencies might be at
tributed to abnormality or disease.
The father declined to say whether
the revelation that his sons body had
been mutilated by the coroner's ply
sicians caused him to make the re-
quest for exhumation.
The father is appearing at the
theater here six times daily with his
daughter. Mrs. Audrey Hancock, and
her husband, Emmett Hancock. and
Hubert Dillinger, half brother of the
desperate.
Evening star., 1934-08-02
A.F.L.LAySSTR|KE
EPIDEMIC TO i. s..
Failure to Obtain Right to
Organize Scored in
Monthly Survey.
~ the Aaoeisisd Press.

sy the Associated Press.
Many OF the strikes hsraSSins in
dustry we're attributed today by the
American Federation Of Labor to what
IL called the administration's failure
10 obtain for workers their legal
right TO organize"
The dificult problem Of labor re-
lations still seems far from q salts
factory solution. the federation said
In its monthly survey of business.
Necessity Is Seen.
since the AdministTat tion has not
vet seeared for workers their legal
right to organize. strikes have become
necessary in very many localities to
enforce the recovery act These can
not help retarding business. but un-
less the Law can be otherwise en-
forced we cannot expect them to cease
until workers have won recognition. ="
The survey said there we're 10, 500
900 unemployed now. compared with
TO- I00, 900 last October.
Nothing In the business picture at
present gives promise of substantial
business improvement In the near fu-
ture." the report continued. Instead,
business observers, who have been
forecasting q gain of fair proportions
this Fall. are now expecting postpone
ment Of the gain until next Spring.
Cooperation Held Need.
THE present situation is a chal-
lenge to the administration to give us
a plan by which industry, labor and
the Government may cooperate to
restore business. When private busi-
ness is not able to resume its func-
tions. then society is forced to take
over the means of production.
An increase in the general wage
level was seen by the federation as the
only solution of the unemployment
problem. 1t said:
One lesson stands out clearly: Our
present efforts to control industry
cannot succeed unless we make the
constant increase of workers in
come a foundation stone in all our
planning"