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Evening star., 1935-12-12
INITIAL CONTRACT 3
LETFOR LANGSTON
HOUSING Project
Work Will Start Soon on
Apartments for CoIored
Families.
BID OF $A,840 WINS
FOUNDATION AWARD
Beats Presidents Deadline on
P. W. A. Low-Cost Jobs
by Three Days.

More than two years after low-cost
housing for Washington was first con-
sidered by p. w. A, a contract was
awarded today by Administrator Ickes
70 start work on the 81 900 900 Lang
ston project in the Northeast section
first and only development of its kind
in the District for which funds are
available.
Foundation excavation work on the
l4-acre site on Benning road, be-
tween Twenty-first and Twenty-fourth
streets, where colored families Of low
income will live eventually under the
most modern conditions, will be done
by the Charles H. Tompkins Co. of
this city. Its low bid of S44,840 was
approved and work will start as soon
as contract documents are executed,
Ickes said.
BY approving the contract at this
time the Housing Division beat py
three days the deadline set by Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
Planned for Months.
The Langston project is the consum-
nation of months of planning to pro-
vide a model experiment in housing
here. Two other similar projects we're
abandoned earlier in the year. One
was killed" by property owners in
Southwest Washington who protested
condemnation proceedings. Another,
planned in Southeast Washington, was
eliminated when the P w. A. housing
program was scaled down by order Of
the President.
The Langston project, however, is
expected to get under way within a
week or So Plans call for % groups
of buildings, providing l9 two-room
units, l61 three-room units, 120 four
room units and 20 fiVe-room units.
The development will contain ample
play areas for children, its buildings
covering only II per cent Of the
l4-acre tract.
Plans Incorporate Innovations.
Ickes said the development will be
an innovation in design and arrange
ment in the District. built according
to Housing Division standards. Plans
being developed by a staff of archi-
tectS working under Hilyard Robinson.
Irving S. Porter and Paul Williams,
incorporate such features as grouping
of plumbing. elimination of corridor
space and economy OF room arrange
ment. For each square foot of floor
space in each room there will be an
equal amount of window space, max
ing sunlight available in each room
during some portion of the day.
The big problem confronting the
housing division-that of finding
tenants and the decision on the rents
to be charged-will be left until last.
Rents will depend upon the final
cost of the project, which may eX-
ceed the S1,600,000 allotted. With
payments extended over q long period
of years, however, it is expected the
rentals will not exceed SIS a month.
Since Government property in
Washington escapes direct taxation,
the housing division faces no such
problem of computing the real estate
tax with the rent, as in other NUM-
cipalitieS, where low-rent homes are
being built.
Evening star., 1935-12-12
THOMAS TO SPEAK
AT CALVERT SPAN
Oklahoma Senator Will De-
liver Address at Opening
Ceremonies.

Further details of plans for dedica-
ton of the new S1.l75,00O Calvert
Street Bridge next Thursday night
have been worked out by the COM
mittee in charge and Chairman
George c. Shinn today announced that
Senator Elmer Thomas Of Oklahoma
will deliver the principal address.
The program will begin with
parade at 7:30 pm. starting on
Eighteenth street. just of Florida
avenue. 1t will move out Eighteenth
street to Calvert street and to the
bridge. where it will halt long enough
for two girls to cut the ribbon across
the entrance. The Commissioners and
a group of guests will be the first to
cross after this formal opening.
The parade will then continue across
the bridge and circle the edge of Rock
Greek Park to a position under the
span. where the formal addresses of
dedication will be delivered. Later
there will be fireworks display and
dance.
The girls chosen to cut the rib
bons and open the bridge to traffic
are Geraldine Clark, daughter of
Capt. Howard F. Clark, assistant En-
gineer Commissioner, and Mrs. Clark,
and Ann Laser, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Elmer c. Laser, 4915 Quarles
street northeast.
L. Gardner Moore and Thomas D.
Carson, members of the committee,
announced today that Calvert Hall,
near the bridge. has been offered the
committee for the dedication cere-
monies and dance in case the weather
proves too bad to hold the program
beneath the bridge.
To take care of the distinguished
guests and officials, L. P. Steuart Co.
has rendered the committee the use
of sufficient number Of automobiles.
Herman F. Carl, chairman of the
Transportation Committee, also an
nounced that a bus will be supplied
to carry children who will participate
to and from the ceremonies.
A series of radio talks is being pre-
sented by the committee.
Evening star., 1935-12-12
EDF0RD |. WALTER
KILLED IN PLANE
Former D. C. Resident Is One of
Two Victims in Crash
Near Buffalo.

Edford L. Walter. 42, of Larchmont
N Y, a former Washington resident
who has two brothers living here, and
Dewey L. Noyes, 36, of Elizabeth, N. j..
pilot, were killed in the crash of their
sirplane at Nunda, N Y, near Buffalo
during rain and sleet storm yester-
day, according to an Associated Press
dispatch.
A Joint investigation Of the crash is
being made today. by officials of the
Department of Commerce and of Liv-
ingston County, N. Y. The plane
was flying east, apparently headed for
Newark or New York, according to the
dispatch. The men we're killed when
the plane plunged through fog, snow
and sleet into a wooded patch near
Nunda.
A. Henry Walter. local attorney, with
Offices in the Southern Building, a
brother of the dead passenger, was
notified last night and left at once for
Buffalo. Another brother, Roscoe F.
Walter, lives at 1706 Summit place
A third brother, Luther M. Walter,
formerly an attorney with the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, now is
head of law firm in Chicago, AM.
recently was appointed a trustee for
the Chicago Great Western Railway.
Evening star., 1935-12-12
CONTESTS TO FEATURE
EASTERN HIGH PROGRAM
Musical and Theatrical Numbers
Also to Be Presented at As
sociation Meeting.

Three contests and a musical and
theatrical program will be presented
tonight at the monthly meeting of
the Home and School Association of
Eastern High School in the school
auditorium. beginning at 8 O'Clock.
A. H. Gregory, president, assisted
by Mrs. Curtis E. McCalip. secretary,
and Mrs. Maude M. Horne, treasurer,
will present the program.
Thirty-two students will participate
in an information contest to be judged
by Henry Flory. Mrs. Moylin NJ. Sans
and Mrs. May E. NORM. The same
number of selected students will take
part in a spelling contest and 80
others will participate in a pronounc-
ing match.
Evening star., 1935-12-12
WINS $40 PRIZE
District woman's Slogan Accord

District Woman's Slogan Accord
ed Honor by Voters League.
Mrs. Mae S. Crawford. 4117 Thirty
seventh street, won $40 for her second
prize slogan, Let Ability, Not Poll
tics. Be the Yardstick," in the ma
tional contest of the National League
of Women Voters for slogan in
tended to improve Government per-
sonnel. an Associated Press dispatch
said today.
The slogan, Find the Man for the
Job, Not the Job for the Man. sub
mitted by Mrs. Thomas Reed Powell,
wife of Harvard University law pro-
fessor won the $25 first prize. The
money was turned over by Mrs. Powell
to the Cambridge League of Women
Voters.
Evening star., 1935-12-12

learned, he served with the Army in
Panama.
Not knowing whether her husband
was dead or alive, Mrs. Jones obtained
q divorce and came here to live with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John G.
Let's, 5000 Ellicott street.
Mrs. Jones viii spend the holiday
with her family here and will place
her daughter in a private school be-
fore returning toathe West.
Evening star., 1935-12-12
Typewriter Dealers Elect.

Paul r. Barnaby, president of Type
writers, Inc, was elected president Of
the District typewriter Dealers Asso-
citation last night at the Hamilton
Hotel. Other officers elected are Paul
@. High, vice president, and Herman
H. Hanpel, secretary.
Evening star., 1935-12-12
TEAR DISCOVERS BODY

Figure in Loring Murder Finds
Patient Hanging From Pipe.
Walter Cross, 20, a patient at st.
Elizabeth's Hospital, was found dead
last night in a wash room at the
institution. hanging from ceiling
pipe.
The body was discovered by Richard
Tear, attendant, who has figured
prominently in the Loring murder
case. Cross was hanging by a sheet
which had been made into moose
at one end.
The coroner's once % inyestigating.
Evening star., 1935-12-12

A. Walsh, S. j.,
vice president OF
Georgetown Uni
verSity and regent
of the School of
Foreign Service.
proposed a two
point program to
create an "en-
lightened capital
ism" to end the
menace of COM
muniSm.
THE time has
come for a decla -
ration of depend
ence. :" the educa-
tor declared in re-
Evening star., 1935-12-12
ON WAY TO ETHIOPIA
Navy Radio Man Will Operate
Adds Ababa Station.

William Lee Pitts, radio man, first
class, U. S. NJ, who was on duty here
in the Ofice of Naval Communica-
tions until a few days ago. is on his
way to Adds Ababa, Ethiopia, to man
the radio station there.
The Navy Department said Pitts
sailed from New York Tuesday He is
to replace John L. Cauthen. who is be-
ing returned to this country because
Of illness. Cauthen was recently OPP
Grated on for appendicitis at Adds
Ababa.
Evening star., 1935-12-12
DR. WALSH FLAYS
new DEAL AND FOE.
IN URGING REFORM
Tells Students Union an
"EnIightened Capitalism"
Would Curb Red Peril.
FAVORS PR0FIT-SHARI
FOR NATIONS WORKERS
Advocates Creation of Economic
Council, With Government
u Standing Aloof.

HAsSailing both the New Deal and its
critics in addressing the newly formed
Students Union of George Washing
ton University last night, DR.. Edmund
Evening star., 1935-12-12
Gorky Library.

Moscow, Russia, is to have E library
to house 100000 books as a me-
mortal to Maxim Gorky.
Evening star., 1935-02-25
Too Many Tournaments,

BVIOUSLY the District Of Co
~ lumbia Golf Association cannot
tell its member clubs whether
they shall hold invitation tournaments.
That right rests within the club itself,
but equally obviously there isn't any
doubt that the fathers Of the game
locally would like to see considerable
diminution in the number of invita-
tion tournaments held around WASH
ington each Spring. There have been
too many of them, and with so many
links affairs in prospect every tourna-
ment suffers.
When you combine a flock Of big
time invitation affairs with the Sec
tional qualification rounds for the ma
tional championships, the District and
Middle Atlantic championship affairs
and other links jamborees there isn't
any doubt that golf tournaments are
like politicians-there are too many
of 'em. Concentrate on few good
ones each year under staggered sys-
TEN which can be made fixture and
you would have more sustained inter-
est and better events.
Evening star., 1935-02-25
IN CHESS CIRCLES
BY FRANK B. WALKER.

TINE late move Of the Capital City
Chess Club to the Hotel Cor
don, 916 Sixteenth street north
west, Is proving beneficial to the club.
New members to the number Of 13
have been elected to the club and
the attendance has increased. Among
the new members is Albert w. Fox,
who has played in national tourna-
ments and in the tournaments United
States VS.. Great Britain and Wash
ington VS.. London. The new rooms
are more commodious and the &C.
commodations much better.
It was announced before the Mexico
City international tournament that
Carlos Tore would stage come
back In that contest. He did not take
part. It appears that before the
tournament he played two games with
Reuben Fine, the excellent young
American player, the first Of which
Fine won, the second being draw
This probably discouraged him. Re
covery of chess ability after i'll health
is known from personal experience to
be slow.
Evening star., 1935-02-25
TO GIVE BLUEBIRD
STANDING WORKOUT
Campbell to Run Engine in Ga.
rage-Hopes to Make Trial
Spin Before Week Is Out.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, February
IL 25.-Sir Malcolm Campbell
planned to run the engine of
his racing car, Bluebird, in the ga
rage today, happy in the belief that
before the week is out he may have
1t roaring again over the sands in
a final warm up for trial against his
own record of 272l08 miles an hour.
Beach conditions were as bad to-
day as they have ever been, the sand
rough. slippery and marred by gullies
and trenches, but the wind was blow
ing at times from the northeast. the
quarter needed to drive the tides high
and smooth the sand.
Bluebird's engine hasn't been started
in more than a week.
Sir Malcolm expects to make test
run Thursday If the beach is at all
better.
Evening star., 1935-02-25
20 Years Ago
IN THE STAR
HERMAN GERMANY scHAE-

HERMAN GERMANY SCHAE-
i i FER has signed a two-year
contract with the Federal
League and has been assigned to
the Newark club.
Organization of the Depart
mental Tennis League has been
effected, with Henry Breckenridge,
Assistant Secretary of War, hon.
orary president; Lester Sisler,
Interstate, president; Horace w.
Barber, Agriculture, vice president,
and Lou Doyle, Interstate, secre-
tary and treasurer. r. c. Tracy,
Justice, and A. j. Gore, War, have
been named to act with the officers
in framing a constitution and by
laws.
Eastern's basketers surprised
somewhat by defeating Business,
24-18. Rice and Baldwin starred
for Eastern and Ray Wise for
Business.
Jimmy Austin has spurned Fed
eral League offers and will play
with the st. Louis Browns.
Bill Rapp will help in training
activities at Cincinnatis camp.
Freddy Welsh. world lightweight
boxing champion, will meet Charley
White, Chicago aspirant, tonight in
Milwaukee.
Evening star., 1935-02-25
Bowling Sns Snapped Life Plan Staggered Golf Schedule Here
SURAgGuDU OEE TuADG TEE
BY w. R. Me CALluM

house which he built last year back
In the woods about three miles from
the first tee at Congressional. Ro-
land is going to have trouble with
his shoulder, according to word he
has sent to friends in Washington.
Temporary green's still are in use at
the Congressional course.
AL Houghton probably will be few
dollars richer this afternoon when
he gets through firing brides at the
boys who gather to play in little
informal tourney at Kenwood, staged
under the auspices of the Middle At
lantic p. G. A. The boys are worried
over the choosing of team to face
the Japanese team in May.
4 LII this good weather following SO
ltA much snow has Harry Graham,
Rock Creek Park manager, on
his toes. Harry is thinking seriously
Of changing the projected date for his
Rock Creek Park open" from late
March to the middle of that month,
provided the weather holds good. It's
a poor month in Spring or Fail that
Harry cannot get up little tourna-
ment for his lands. He is live wire
in the tournament game-this
Graham felloW-and he isn't happy
unless he is promoting a tournament.
In between making plans for the
coming Beaver Dam field day." to be
held either late in May or early in
June, and furnishing up the old golf
game, Russell M. Brown, the big golf
committeeman at Beaver Dam, took
time of yesterday to brush up on his
iron shots, all of which resulted in
holing a pitch shot from threescore
yards for 2 on the par fifth after
he had missed the green from the
tee. Meanwhile, j. M. Palmer waltzed
around the lengthy Beaver Dam
course in 73 strokes, one above par
| for the layout.
Evening star., 1935-02-25

~ GEORGETOWN UN1NEktoII1 Z
Is going out for golf In q big
~ way this year. With the
national intercollegiate in
dividual championship tournament al
ready landed for Congressional. with
Georgetown as host, during the third
week in June, the Hoya linksmen now
are angling for the Eastern intercol-
legiate team title tourney, to which
all the major colleges Of the East send
hopeful club fingers to do or die for
dear old Siwash.
The dates chosen are May 10 and
IL, which fall on Friday and Satur-
day, and 1t looks as If Congressional
again will be the spot where the rah-
rah boys will be doing their divot
digging for the team title.
Last year the Hilltop aggregation,
composed of the same lads who will
be out there this year, finished In
fourth place In the team tourney, but
Joe Lynch, the rotund little Boston
boy who heads the Georgetown out
1lI, llOpcS lOl UCtISl o1iOWAii6 0AAAS
year. Georgetown's opening match OF
the season will be with Rollins Col
lege of Orlando, Fla. early in April,
with Lynch, Kenneth Corcoran, Joe
Calvin, John O'Brien, Bill Byrnes
Jimmie Lee and Curly" Wochner the
probable starters.
n GLAND MACKENZIE, Congres-
II sional pro, is expected back IN
the old home town this week,
prepared to blast the lid of the golt
season at his club with flock OF
subpar scores. No one has heard
from Roland for several days, but he
wrote Claggett Stevens, his assistant,
that he will be on the job on March
/, which means that the young man
may breeze into town tomorrow or
Wednesday, to open up the ranch
Evening star., 1935-02-25
Chevy Chase Carries On.

THE only club that appears def
nitely committed to the annual
invitation tournament around
Washington is the Chevy Chase Club,
whose invitation tournaments have
gone on without break since 1911.
when President Taft and Vice Presi-
dent Sherman presented to the club
the priced trophies which now go
to the winner and runner-up in the
Chevy Chase tournaments. Tourna-
ments have been held by other clubs
at odd intervals, among them Wood
mont, Beaver Dam, Belle Haven,
Army-Navy and Congressional. but
these clubs have not held their events
regularly and would probably fall into
line in staggered schedule, if such
a proposition were put into effect.
Ten clubs scattered in nearby Mary.
land and Virginia within a short dis
tance Of Washington have held or are
holding invitation golf tournaments.
If they were split up into definite
staggered arrangement for their invi-
tation tournaments on a bi-annual
basis it would result in the holding Of
four or five such affairs each year on
a rotating schedule which would be
definite and which would preclude
jockeying for dates and possible con-
flicts through May and June, the
choice tournament months. The clubs
are Chevy Chase, Columbia. Congress
sional, Beaver Dam, Army-Navy, In
dian Spring, Washington, Belle Haven.
Woodmont and Manor. Bannockburn,
for the present at least, is out of the
tournament picture. Here is how the
schedule might work out under such
a set-up: 1886, Washington, Colum-
bia. Chevy Chase, Indian Spring and
Belle Haven: 1887, Woodmont. Army
Navy, Chevy Chase, Manor and Con-
greSsional.
Evening star., 1935-02-25
|B|-yEARLy SCHEME
GROWING IN FAVOR
Four Big Events a Season
Would Avoid Conflict
and Congestion.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

n n ORE and more each year the
M golf clubs around Washing
W. ton, surfeited with an end
less round of invitation tour.
naments, are coming to the scheme
Of staging staggered tournaments,
with about four big affairs to be
held each year on a rotating system
that will overcome the crowded sched-
ule Of past links seasons through O
definite schedule whose main purpose
will be to avoid crowding and con-
fiicting dates for the major events.
With the Manor Club already COM
mitted to the bi-yearly scheme Of
holding an invitation tournament
every other year, on the odd years,
the Washington Golf and Country
Club has joined the parade. and there
are indications that Columbia, a local
leader in golf, may fall in with the
procession Of clubs holding invitation
events every two years instead OF
every year. Washington and Columbia
will not hold invitation links affairs
this year, and Washington has an
nounced its determination to adopt the
bi-yearly schedule. While no intima-
ticn has come from Columbia as to
its future tournament proba abilities, it
is more than likely that the big club
near Chevy Chase Lake also will fall
into line on the bi-yearly tourna-
ment schedule.
Evening star., 1935-02-25
ITALIAN BOOTERS LEAD
Gain Leagues Pinnacle by Beat
ing Virginia Avenue. 80,

italian A. c. hooters today are
heading the race in the Recreation
Soccer League, having defeated Vir-
ginia Avenue, 80, yesterday. Sun
Radio took second place by virtue Of
its forfeit win over the New York
Avenue kickers. Miller Furniture
gained fourth place, downing Sher-
wood, 81. Virginia Avenue stands
third.
Showing superiority at kicking pen
alties, German-American Clubs eleven
defeated the vaunted Bethlehem Club
hooters of Baltimore, AZ, in South
eastern League match on Benning
field.
Evening star., 1935-02-25
Youngster Doing Well.

LILLE BURKE of Belleair, Fla,
II was third at 139, a stroke ahead
Of George Bolesta, 17-year-old
Tampa amateur; Gene Kunes OF
Hollywood, Fla; Clarence Clark.
Bloomfield, N. Y; Jules Huot of Que
bee and Henry Picard Of Hershey, Pa.
KY Laffoon Of Chicago, John Re-
volta of Tripoli, Wis, and Ed Brook
of Barlow, Fla, were next with 141
each. Five players were deadlocked
at 142-Bill Mehlhorn of Louisville
Denny Shute, defending champion;
George Christ Of Rochester, N. Y:
Johnny Golden of Noroton, Conn, and
Jimmy Hines Of Timber Point, N. j.
Shute had won the title here for
the last two years, each time in play
offs.
Evening star., 1935-02-25
TERPS RUN TONIGHT
Eight to Compete in Indoor Track
Meet at Charlotte, N. C..

University Of Maryland will be rep
resented by eight athletes in the in
door games to be held tonight by the
Charlotte IN. c. Junior Chamber of
Commerce at Charlotte
Earl Widmyer, ace sprinter, recent
conqueror of Ralph Metcalfe and Eu-
lace Peacock, heads the Old Line en-
trants. Joe Ryan also will carry the
Old Gold and Black in the sprints.
Bob Boucher will compete in the
high jump, Bob Slye in the hurdles,
Warren Evans in the $50 and Cole
man Headley in the 1,000-yard run.
Maryland also has entered the mile
relay, its team comprising Evans,
Headley, Bob Archer and Milo Sonen
Evening star., 1935-02-25
INVOLVEMENT of the COM
ing tournament for the Dis
\ trict title has created a great

A ENCOURAGEMENT of the COM
~ ing tournament for the Dis
~ trict title has created great
deal of interest. There is
prospect of contest for first place
between the young blood and those
who are veterans, or approaching
that class. In the first class are D. H.
Mugridge, Martin c. Stark, Carl A.
Hesse and H. A. Rousseau. Sournin
and the chess editor are classed as
veterans and c. c. Bettinger and G.
L. Tilleary are near that class.
Carl Hesse was absent from the city
for some time, but always has proved
q good fighter. He was champion
of the Chess Club when it was q
unit OF the City Club.
The tournament will be played at
the Capital City Chess Club rooms in
Hotel Gordon, GIG Sixteenth street.
The public is invited.
A YEAR or so ago the Roosevelt
n Community Center made spe-
cialty of chess at its Monday
evening sessions. There was an en-
rollment of % members. DR.. Joy
Elmer Morgan furnished the chess en-
thusiasm, which kept up until abb
sences from the city and various
duties prevented his being present at
the center. The attendance then fell
off, and finally was reduced to two
members. The boards and men for
those who want to use them are in
the hands of Miss Irving, director OF
the community center.
J. Murray Drysdale, jr., who won
the District junior championship title
here in 1881, used to play chess at
the Roosevelt Community Center. He
now is at Cambridge, Ohio, studying
for the ministry. He expects to grad
uate in another year. He has an at
tractive personality and should sue
ceed.
jackson w. Showalter. former
champion of the United States, died
at his home at Lexington, KY, re-
Gently. He held the title number
of years, and defeated Max Judd,
Lipschutz, Kemeny and Barry for the
title. Pillsbury defeated him. After
Pillsbury's death, Marshall played
Showalter, who was In retirement at
Lexington. for the title and defeated
him. Showalter played on all the
cable matches between the United
States and Great Britain for the
Newnes Trophy. He was well known
in this city IS to As years ago, and
gave several exhibitions here.
James w. Byler, local expert, Is
spending the Winter at st. Peters,
burg, Fla, for the benefit OF his
health. A postal card states that he
Is indulging In chess down there.