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Evening star., 1938-09-08
CONFUSION SEEN
|ND|V|D|NC COURT
Criminal Divisions Duties
to Be Split Between Two
Buildings This Fall.

District Court officials said today
they expected no end of confusion to
arise when the activities of the crimi-
nal division are split between District
Courthouse and the new Police Court
Building with the opening of the Fall
term
Newly-appointed Justice Bolitha J.
Laws. who will be sworn in Saturday
morning at 10 o'clock in Criminal
Court No. l, has been assigned a
courtroom in the Police Court struc-
ture across E street He will sit in
the District Court until the October
term opens and is scheduled to hear
his first case Monday in Criminal
Court No 2.
Oficials said that if the criminal
division is split. many complications
will result from the shutting back and
forth across E street of prisoners
witnesses. attorneys. jurymen, ETC.
The prosecutors expected confusion
when witnesses, ordered to report in
District Court. find they actually are
required in the Police Court Building.
Ideal Set-up Given.
The ideal set-up. according to OBJ
servers In 4 position to know. would
be to have all the criminal court
justices hold court in the District
Court Building. There are three GRIM
lnal courts in that building now and
facilities for handling prisoners, rather
than have them march across the
street in the custody of a deputy mar
shall
When cases are disposed of rapidly
before one criminal court justice. the
practice Is to shift over new cases 70
him from one of the other Judges
who might find his docket crowded.
This can more easily be handled where
the three criminal justices are in the
same building. say observers.
Laws May Be in Criminal Court.
Justice Laws, who begins his career
as Criminal Court Judge on Monday.
is expected to continue through the
October term OF court in that assign
ment. Justice O'Donoghue will cease
Criminal Court activities on Septem-
ber 18 for the current term, as the
schedule calls for Chief Justice Alfred
"A. Wheat and Justice Peyton Gordon
to sit from September 10 to October 3,
but which of these will handle criminal
work has not yet been authoritatively
announced. The likelihood is that JUS
tice Gordon-a former United States
district attorney-will attend to GRIM
inal matters
Assigned to hold Criminal Courts in
the October term are Justice Jesse c.
Adkins, who will be in Criminal Court
No. l. and Justice James NJ Proctor,
who will be in Criminal Court No. O.
Court attaches said today that it is a
foregone conclusion that Justice Laws
will sit in Criminal Court No. 8, al
though no Official announcement has
yet been made Of this.
Evening star., 1938-09-08
RESTAURANTS LOSE
BY SLEIGHT OF HAND
Two Men Hold Up Cashiers of
Cafes by Trick of
Substituting Bills.

Sleight-of- hand performances by
two white men cost two Washington
restaurant cashiers IS each last night,
according to reports to police.
This victims were John Bakales
manager Of a restaurant in the 100
block OF New York avenue NV, and
Janet Nessimer. ITS California street
NV. cashier of a cafe in the 600
block Of Ninth street NV.
In each case. they told police, they
were short changed IS by two white
men who rendered $40 bill to pay
their food checks and then substituted
IS bank note after receiving change
for the larger bill
Albert c. Brock. colored, 1902 Ver-
non street NV. employe of a LIQUOR
store in the 100 block OF u street
NV, was robbed of $50 in change. a
pint of whisky and a small quantity
of tobacco and then beaten about the
head when he made a delivery in the
1900 block Of Florida avenue NV last
night His assailants were two colored
men who met him at the door, ap-
parently after one Of them had tele-
phoned the store to place the order
and request change for $40.
According to thu victim, the men
succeeded in removing his trousers
during the attack but left them on the
floor OF the apartment after taking
the money from pocket.
Evening star., 1938-09-08
IckeS IndOrses
Roosevelt Plea
For Liberals

THE Democratic stand-patter looks
to me exactly like the Republican
stand-patter." Secretary of the Interior
1ckes said today In indorsing Presi-
dent Roosevelt's recent statement in
favor Of the election of liberal candi-
dates.
A veteran Of the old Bull Moose
third party, Secretary Ickes expressed
the opinion that the best chances
for the success Of liberal Democratic
party is under the same leadership
1t has had for the past five years"
Mr.. Ickes was asked at a press con-
ference whether he would favor the
election of liberal Republican over a
conservative Democrat
Yes" he replied quickly What
do you think I've been most of my
life?"
One OF the newspaper men sug-
gested that he had been at least one
liberal Republican around here" dur
ing the past five years.
Yes, me and John Hamilton" he
replied.
Reminded that the primary score
to date stands six to nothing in favor
OF the conservatives, Mr.. Ickes took
page from his own experience in
the third party movement of Theo-
dore Roosevelt and the late Senator
Robert M. La Toilette and said it is
almost impossible for q third party
movement to succeed at the start. 1T
could not be done under Theodore
Roosevelt when he was at the top OF
his power and reputation" he said.
Evening star., 1938-09-08
FOUR RECOVERING
FROM INJURIES
IN BOAT BLAST
Campbell, Freed in Baker
Murder, and 3 Others
Suffer Burns.
CRAFT IGNITES OFF
FL0ODGATE BOATHOUSE
Men Are Showered With Flaming
Gasoline as Blaze Starts
Below Deck.

Herbert NJ Campbell, as, Arlington
real estate agent, once a central fig
ure in the Mary Baker murder case,
and three others were reported re-
covering today from severe burns suf-
fered yesterday afternoon in an ex-
plosion and gasoline fire aboard a
cabin cruiser off Floodgate Boathouse.
Mr.. Campbell suffered first and
second degree burns on the face and
hands, as did his brother, Frank
Campbell, So. a patent attorney Of
1915 Arlington Ridge road. Arlington,
Va. Similarly burned was Junious
Mosby, 81, colored helper. of 1325ls
Neal place NV All three remained
at Emergency Hospital.
Mr.. Campbell's nephew, Loudoun
Campbell, 80. of 1925 Twentieth street,
South Arlington. was less seriously
burned. He was given first aid and
discharged.
The men were preparing the 40-foot
cruiser, Helma, for a trip down the
Potomac when the fire started below
deck with explosive force. The four
men were showered with flaming gaso-
line
With clothing on fire, all leaped
overheard and swan to the dock.
Robert Kellogg, l6, from the yacht
Tech, nearby, was standing on deck
Evening star., 1938-09-08
BUILDINGS LEASED
BY GOVERNMENT
ON 14TH STREET
Stanley Horner Structure
and Quarters at 1920
to Be Occupied.
new AER0NAUT|CS UNIT
GETS 26, 300 SQUARE Fl.
Bureau Of immigration and Wages
and Hours Division Also Get
Office Quarters.

The Federal Government today COM
pleted negotiations for the leasing of
two large buildings in the Fourteenth
street automobile row to meet the de-
mand for additional Office space for
the expanding Federal service.
The two buildings. providing a total
of $4,000 square feet of office space,
are the Stanley Horner Building at
lois Fourteenth street NV. and the
building at 1920 Fourteenth street
NV. In addition, the third floor OF
the Securities Building, 729 Fifteenth
street NV. has been taken over.
The Civil Aeronautics Authority is
to occupy the Horner Building, con-
tanning 26,300 square feet of space, in
addition to the Offices members of the
authority now occupy in the Com
mercs Department.. and Office and
storage space recently rented in the
Gart1nckel Annex at Fourteenth and
G streets N. w.
The Department Of Labor will take
over the entire building at 1920
Fourteenth street NV. containing
II 900 square feet. This will be occu-
pied by part Of the Bureau Of 1mmi-
grafton and Naturalization for files
and clerical force.
The Labor Department also will take
over the third floor in the Securities
Building, totaling 5000 square feet,
for the new Wages and Hours Division,
When it became evident several
months ago that new quarters would
have to be found for the Bureau Of
immigration and Naturalization, en-
ployes OF the division were permitted
to vote on whether they preferred to
be moved into the attic Of the new
Labor Department Building or into
outside rented quarters. The vote was
overwhelmingly in favor of remaining
in the Labor Department Building.
Secretary Of Labor Perkins, however,
expressed doubt whether the attic space
could be adequately ventilated and re-
quested that the Public Health Service
investigate the situation. The report
was adverse and. overriding the vote
Of the employees, Secretary Perkins di-
rected that space be found outside the
building.
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Evening star., 1938-09-08
$40 PUBLIC WORKS
PROJECTS STARTED
81 More Municipal Jobs With
Estimated $S,793,S52 Cost
Given Approval Today.

Public Works Administrator Ickes
announced today that construction
work is under way on 370 projects
representing better than 8 per cent of
the non-Federal portion of the 1888
program. Construction costs of those
projects was estimated at s117,570,42O.
An additional list of 81 municipal
projects was approved today having
all estimated cost of s8,793,852 For
this work the P. w. A. allocated
$3957.229 in grants.
Included in the list was a State
wide school expansion program for
Louisiana to cost $4,671.138 involving
four State colleges. A grant Of $61 ,877
also was approved for alterations in
North Carolina's Capitol building in
Raleigh.
With $196,875,s7l allotted to e54
Federal projects. Mr.. Ickes said the
estimated cost of the P. w. A. pro-
gram to date is $1.367. 1869 .0S9, involv-
ing $500 projects Of all kinds.
Evening star., 1938-09-08
W. P. A. to Assemble Story Of D. C. Government

have kept records in the District
Building-and, before its construc-
ton. in other public places-no ef-
fort has ever been made to compile
q comprehensive set of books that
will show at moments notice the
entire business growth of the Ma
tion's Capital, according to the au-
thorities.
So. sometime next week, about Is
or 80 skilled research workers, un-
der direction of DR.. Evans and sew
eral co-workers, will start at the be-
ginning of city life as it was lived
on the banks of the Potomac to as
semble the story on paper. This,
according to the national director,
will take about six months.
Old wills, birth certificates. mar
riage licenses, death notices, first,
second and third marriages, and
even the records Of great ares viii
Evening star., 1938-09-08
COLORED MAN GETS
9-MONTH'SENTENCE
Convicted of Possession of Deadly
Weapon and Possession of
Sawed-off Shotgun.

A colored man was sentenced by
Police Court Judge Hobart Newman
today to serve Jail sentences totaling
nine months on charges Of possession
Of a dangerous weapon and possession
Of sawed-off shotgun He was ar
rested Monday on suspicion near q
filling station in the 1900 block Of
Thirteenth street
The man, Frank Watson of the 1900
block of Sixth street NV. was ar
rested by Precinct Detective E. P.
Tucker, who told the court he saw the
defendant signal to a car parked in
the filling station when the scout car,
in which the detective was riding,
came into view
Detective Tucker said the man fled.
throwing away brown paper-wrapped
package, but was captured a short
distance away. The car, the witness
testified, hurried from the station.
The package contained the sawed-off
shotgun, it was testified. A length Of
the barrel was found in the defend-
ants room, Mr.. Tucker stated A
knife, with blade longer than is
permitted by law. was found in Wat.
sons possession when he was taken TO
the precinct stftion.
Evening star., 1938-09-08
Luray's Citizen
No. l, ga, Busy
TendingCauerns
sy the Associated Press.

Gy the Associated Press.
LURAY, Va. Sept. 8-Col. Theo-
dore c. Northcott, who has several
distinctions which make him Citizen
No. l of Luray. celebrated his oath
birthday anniversary yesterday by at
tending to business at his Luray
Caverns.
AS wealthy citizen who gave Luray
q carlton. Col. Northcott also is known
to residents of Northern Virginia as:
/. The only Page County man who
was in the Northern Army in the
War Between the States.
2. AS a former minister who quit
the ministry when his orthodoxy was
questioned.
8. As heating and ventilating en-
gineer who incorporated into his home,
Linair, in 1901 certain air-condition-
ing features.
Evening star., 1938-09-08
COOLER WEATHER
DUE AFTER STORM
Streets and Easements in
loW-Lying Sections of
City Are Flooded.

Fair and cooler weather was fore
cast for Washingtonians today follow
ing severe rain and electrical storm
last night which flooded streets and
easements in low-lylng section of
Northwest Washington and set afire a
barn in nearby Maryland.
Weather Bureau officials said clear
and cooler weather will continue to-
night. with slowly rising temperature
scheduled for tomorrow. The mercury
stood at IS degrees at 10 am.
Water Gushes Out of Sewers.
During the height of last nights
storm a localized flood affected the
residential area surrounding Arkansas
avenue and Emerson street NV.
Water, backing up in sewers, forced
of manhole covers and gushed foun-
tain-like into the streets.
The backwash filled the streets.
marooning several automobiles, and
flowed over curbs into easements of
at least a dozen homes. Five cars.
truck and a taxicab stalled
IN several feet Of water at Thirteenth
street and Arkansas avenue NV. and
had to be to~ed out by members of
the fire rescue squad after the occu-
pants were removed to higher ground.
Water at some intersections of the
neighborhood flowed we'll over the
hoods OF automobiles.
The excess water reached a height
z feet in several Easements. One
OF the Victims" Mrs. j. B. Dexter,
1905 Arkansas avenue NV, said her
family was affected more severely bv
last nights deluge than at any time
since the Dexters moved to the pres
ent address almost 20 years ago.
Lightning Starts Fire.
Meanwhile, in nearby Glenmont. Md.
lightning bolt set fire to a barn
belonging to John Sutton. The struc-
ture, filled with grain and hay. burned
to the ground.
The only disruption OF electrical
service occurred in a small area in
Chevy Chase. A short circuit cut the
current for several minutes. Service
at Washington Airport was not affect
ed by the storm, planes arriving and
departing on schedule.
The storm, which lasted from 7::30
to $40 pm, shot the mercury down
9 degrees from temperature of 80
recorded shortly after 7 o'clock.
Weather Bureau officials stated that
.63 Of an inch of rainfall was recorded
at the observatory during the down.
pour. but it was understood the pre-
cipitation in other sections of the city
was somewhat greater.
The wind reached velocity OF "a
miles per hour shortly after the storm
broke. officials said some hail was
reported in nearby areas, but it was
not sufficient to cause any damage.
Yesterdays high temperature Of 81
degrees was recorded at pm. A low
of SO was read at 7 O'Clock this
morning.
Evening star., 1938-09-08
SCHOOL HEADS FIX
TUITION CHARGES.
Public High Courses Will
Cost Nom Resident
Students $110.45,

public high school education dur
ing the coming year is worth sllO.45,
and that's $3.50 less than last year.
Current schooling is worth any,
where from cents to $3.50 more than
last year, however, in the other grades,
according to estimates approved by
the Board of Education at its first
meeting yesterday.
These were drawn up for approval
by the District Commissioners as tut
ton for nonresident pupils not en-
titled to free teaching.
Acting on estimates prepared by
the school finance Office, the board
listed teachers college education
at s259.95-nearly $40 more than last
year.
S8S.26 in Junior High.
A nonresident junior high school
student would pay s88.26 and an ele-
mentary school student $6l.53.
A good vocational education under
an expanded program made possible
by Federal funds is to retail at
S115.62; night school tuition would
cost $40 and that at vacation schools
$441.
The meeting yesterday was marked
by the debut of DR.. Thomas w. Cos
ling, newly appointed assistant su-
perintendent, succeeding DR.. Harvey
A. Smith, and Mrs. Virginia Mcclure,
newly appointed colored board men,
Der, succeeding Mrs. Mary McNeill.
Experiment Interests Ballou.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou superintendent
of schools, expressed considerable in
terest in an experiment approved by
the board relating to adaptation of
the program of instruction for slow
pupils in junior high school. The
experiment may produce results that
can be applied in the other schools,
he said
The superintendent also took under
consideration a plan proposed by Mel
son Hanback,, president of the Alum
nj Association of the Weightman
Langdon School for Crippled Chill
dren, for the extension of equipment
and instruction for handicapped chill
dren into the high school levels.
Temporary plans were approved for
P. w. A. construction projects on
new Bunker Hill School, auditorium
gymnasiums at the Bancroft and
Whittier Schools and an eight-room
addition and auditorium gymnasium
at the Kingsman School.
Evening star., 1938-09-08

when the fire broke out. He also
leaped into the water, escaping un-
injured.
The fire apparently was caused
when gasoline in the bilge water ex-
ploded. 1t broke out when an engine
was started to pump out the bilge.
Several windows in the cruiser were
broken and the boat was considerably
damaged before the gasoline flames
burned themselves out.
Mr.. Campbell was acquitted in
October, 1880, by jury which tried
him for the murder of Mary Baker,
Navy Department clerk. whose bullet
riddled body was found beside high
way in Arlington County in April, 1880.
The Commonwealth failed in an at
tempt to link Mr.. Campbell with the
murder through ballistics testimony.
Mr.. Campbell's efforts to solve the
sensational mystery had involved him
as a suspect in the crime.
Evening star., 1938-09-08

The answer Is. any lawyer or
litigant, any historical research
worker. any writer Of human in
terest articles. any newspaper man,
or anybody who has any question
that demands an answer, II it has
to do with Washington's govern
ment, can 60 to the documents and
Immediately get the reply.
While the first attack will be
made on the District Building, as
such, some of the old records for
this particular spot will have to be
traced through the Library Of Con-
gress, the Archives Building-where
many historical papers are now
housed-and even in the purlieus
Of Alexandra, Va.
Anyway, next week the dust will
begin to fly around the District
Building when q battalion Of
photographer gst down TO business.
Evening star., 1938-09-08
BY JOHN J. DAILY.

On or about SEPTEMBER IS, a bevy
Of busy photographers will move in
on the high command at the Dis
trict Building and look over the
books-to make the records safe
for democracy.
In other words. all Statistics
legal, vital and otherwise-of the
District of Columbia and the mu-
inequalities that preceded it, such as
Georgetown and way stations-will
be compiled and preserved by the
Historical Records Survey, as q
w. P. A. project.
This was learned today from DR..
Luther H. Evans. national director
OF Historial Records Survey, who
met in conference with 4 number
Of Government oficials in the Ma.
tional Archives Auditorium.
Although clerks and assistauts
Evening star., 1938-09-08

be filed according to a standard
method of keeping statistics that
the officials Of the Historical Rec
ords Survey hope will be used
eventually on a national scale.
What Washington does will be a
model for all States, their cities
and counties.
Because of its dual nature
divided somewhat between the
municipality and the Federal Gov
ernment-the work of getting all
the local records together and
mimeographed for publication will
be one OF the most stupendous jobs
undertaken by the Historical
Records Survey. This is the opin-
ion of experts who hope to engage
in the work, but they claim 1t can
be done.
And when 1t is done, then
what?" the national director was
asked.
Evening star., 1938-09-08
INTERIOR. BUILDING
MURALS ARE PLACED
Activities Of the Department. Are
Depicted in Eight Paintings
Installed.

Eight mural paintings depicting
various activities of the Interior De-
partment have just been installed in
the second floor main corridor of the
new Interior Department Building.
Purchased by the Procurement Divi-
sion. Treasury Department, as a part
of the permanent decoration of the
monumental new structure, the paint
ings have been given prominent posi-
tions at both ends of the grand stair
between the first and second floors of
the building.
The paintings are in two main
groups Four of them, to the north
OF the stairs, are the works of Ernest
Flene and depict cattle drive on Fed
eral grazing ranges. various forms of
hydraulic gold mining, the fighting of
forest fire and the replanting of
burned-off forest lands.
To the south Of the stairs are four
paintings by Nicolai Cekowsky repre-
sentative of the irrigation and rec
lamation work of the department.
Two of them are scenes of date and
apple harvesting. one of a typical
desert scene and one of contrasting ir-
rlgated land.
Evening star., 1938-09-08
Assault Case Dropped.

District police today dropped their
search for a man who Miss Edith
Martin. %, waitress, of the 1900 block
OF Rhode Island avenue NV, said had
assaulted and threatened her in the
woods near Berwyn, Md, last night
and forced her to disrobe. Decision
to drop the case was reached after
Capt. Ira Keck Of the Detective Bu-
reau had questioned Miss Martin fur
ther. This action was taken 1T her
request, the captain said,
Evening star., 1938-09-08
SAFETY RULES STRESSED

The importance of obeying traffic
safety rules was emphasized yester-
day before group of 80 boys by Police
man A. S. Miskell of the third pre-
cinct in the third of a series of traffic
safety lectures under auspices of the
Boys Department of the Central
Young Mems Christian Association
held in the building at 1882 G street
NV.
Officer Miskell is in charge of the
Boys Safety Patrol for the third pre-
clnct area. The. lecture series is in
charge of w. T. Fry and E. H. Thacker
OF the boys staff of the "Y." in CO.
operation with R. NJ Ham. director of
safety for the District of Columbia
Division, American Automobile Asso-
citation.
Evening star., 1938-09-08
NATIONAL GALLERY
CURATOR NAMED

John Walker of Pittsburgh, Pa,
associate in charge Of fine arts at
the American Gallery in Rome. has
been appointed chief curator of the
National Gallery of Art here, it was
announced today by the Smithsonian
Institution
The National Gallery will be housed
in an imposing new building on the
Mall. now being constructed as gift
to the Nation of the late Andrew
Mellon, former Secretary of the Treas
ury. The collection of old masters,
included III the gift. has been
estimated to be worth more than
$50,000,000.
Mr.. Walker is expected to assume
his new duties here next summer.