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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1922
Page
12
Washington officials plan a citizens committee to canvass the housing situation and propose solutions. Hoover and Senator King urged community action, while criticism targeted rent profiteers and alley dwellers housing, with officials considering bonds and public housing to address slums.
A memorial to the dead of the first division of the A E F will be erected in Washington soon. Caes Gilbert finished the design resembling the Battle Monument at West Point. It will be a 40 foot granite monolith on a base listing the division leaders with a Victory statue atop. The cost, about 150000 dollars, will be raised entirely by division members. Congress has provided a site at Jayne’s Point and Washington Basin is under consideration.
A 72 year old man, Robert Bowner, was nearly bitten on the legs by a dog near Arkansas Avenue and Himerson Street Northwest. The dog, owned by Sohm Donner of 4909 Arkansas Avenue, is reported to have bitten the boy as he played. The injured youth was taken home by police.
The board of education adopted recommendations from commissioners limiting scenery and infl am mable materials in eleven school auditoriums. Movable scenery requires fire department supervision and limited performances, with total seating capacities set for each hall.
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Hyattsville postponed their parade after citizens objected. The town council, urged by residents, considered revoking the permit and ordered an ordinance to ban parades by masked bodies. The Klan hinted at a ceremonial event soon, vowing not to abandon the parade completely.
Mrs D Hardy explained DC Federation of Women's Clubs activities to Columbia W T C U delegates at Mrs W Morris home. Reports were not given by Mrs McMurphy and Mrs Sidney Phillips. A layette supply report for the Child Welfare society was read.
Funeral services for Gen Frank D Sloat who died yesterday will be held from Speares undertaking tomorrow at 11 oclock. The body will be taken to Croton Fatle N Y for interment. He died from a fractured skull after being struck by an automobile March. He was 86 and a Civil War veteran. He served as finance officer of the Patent Office and adjutant general under three governors. He came to Washington 80 years ago and retired August 24 1920. He leaves no immediate relatives and was active in the Loyal Legion Mason orders and Mystic Shrine. The operator of the machine is named Frank O Har s a professor at Catholic University who was arrested but later released to await inquest.
Difficulties besetting theater managers delay steel curtain installations. A conference before District commissioners at 4 likely next week will seek an extension of time. Engineer Commissioner Hallér favors handling the matter as a whole. Plans for the Mathér building alterations, housing numerous film exchanges, were approved to meet fire regulations.
report notes a motion picture depiction of the Brazilian method of fishing by poisoning water to stupefy fish and breaking their necks with teeth. Mrs Harriet Chalmera Adams described these practices during a National Geographic Society lecture at the New Masonic temple, linking to exotic fishing lore from Brazil and Indiana.
Thieves struck several locations including Paul Marshall’s store at New York Avenue NW escaping with 48 dollars from a cash register after jimmying the front door. A tire and rim valued at 30 dollars were stolen from Mike Goldblatt’s car at Twelfth and Pennsylvania NE. The Collegeman Company on Seventh Street NE reported theft of carpenter tools worth 50 dollars. Silk stockings valued at 2.80 and a 6 dollar bill were taken from Mrs. Kardon’s home on Eleventh Street NW. An 85 dollar coat disappeared from near George Washington University at 4029 G Street NW. Crane reported theft of his automobile on Georgia Avenue NW. Petworth School window break yielded 20 dollars in supplies including lead pencils and erasers.
Miss Alice Buchanan led a school style show at Wilson Normal School with living models from Wilson Normal, Hosa, and Monroe. She urged modest length skirts for grown girls while promoting tasteful necklines and sleeve lengths. Mrs Ida E. Myers displayed outfits for day wear and dress-up occasions.
Benjamin P Bronson 27 of Walter Reed Hospital sustained facial injuries from a brick thrown during an incident attributed to William Price. Price also injured, both treated at Emergency Hospital. Police report no further details available.
Dr J W Chappell denounces weak law enforcement at Northwest Suburban Citizens Association gathering at Tenley school, citing rising bootlegging and calls for stricter action. J J Galvin reports district gas rate hearing, denied right to speak, association opposes plan to raise rates. Rallies also applaud new police chief Sullivan, back memorial for former commissioner Macfarland, and urge speeding crackdown on Wisconsin Avenue.
Brookland Citizens Federation asks the Masonic hall association for three streetcar tokens at 20 cents. A petition targets the Biblic utilities commission for paving items on Twelfth through Sixteenth streets from Michigan Avenue to Upshur. Senator Phipps notes restoration efforts in the District bill.
The City club, led by Thomas Jarrell, promised to bring in dozens of new members and even offered to resign to aid recruitment. Despite this, cooperation varied as other teams pledged to recruit six each, with 305 new applications reported to date. Beginning Thursday, business calisthenics will be held weekly at the City club, with a smoker athletic event planned for Thursday night.
Herbert Kellar was elected president of the Agricultural History Society at the Arts Club. Q. CG. Stine was chosen vice president and Nila A. Olsen secretary-treasurer. The society is planning a permanent exhibit on progress, with a large part arranged and efforts to have the Smithsonian Institution host. KE Holmen and F J Lewton are members. Mary G. Lacy read a paper on Food Control During Forty-six Centuries and Dr. Alexander H. Cance discussed price fixing.
The Board of Trade committee on lane adopts a report urging a new building to house the District Recorder of Deads. It calls for Senate bill creating a district accounting board and seeks cooperation to push securitiy laws known as blue sky. It also notes inadequate salaries for municipal court judges and urges higher pay for district commissioners and committees.
Alraz patrol units will host a Shrine fair tonight at Convention Hall in honor of the Master Star. Ladies committees under Leonard P. Steuart will ensure guest comfort. Idrill team will present a special exhibit. Next Friday will entertain High School cadets with free admission for uniformed students and one guest each. The Shrine club from Alexandria, Virginia, was warmly welcomed last night.
Denver police say 16 year old Harry Singer confessed to attempting to rob the Metropolitan State Bank vaults. He drilled and blasted halfway through walls, fled when frightened, then reentered via skylight to rifle a restaurant’s cash register and steal a waiter’s boat before escaping as officers arrived. Authorities report burglar tools were found.
Police court cleared Jame ene oared of lying about a street confrontation near Seventh and D streets NW. Officer Beam testified seeing an attempted window break and a pursuit ending with shots fired. the defendant claimed no intent to commit a crime and the government failed to prove otherwise.
Government argues that hard labor at Occoquan is not infamous punishment while attorney Foster Wood contends the sentence for a minor offense is unconstitutional. Walter Margland and judge Kathryn Sellers feature in the case now before the United States Supreme Court on appeal.
A fragmentary report notes F. H. Newel, consulting engineer, addressing MIT alumni about prospects for young men owning farms under progressive conditions. It mentions laborers and tenants, underutilized US land, and an accusation of miscomheart in absolut conduct. The excerpt references a couple and two children with attorney Meriman for the husband.
Citizens press for a new home and school for feebleminded persons, arguing it is the top need in welfare. House conferees Davis Evang Johnson must decide, after Senate approval. Budget bureau set 360000 expenditure, with 126000 available July 1. Conference expected early next week.
Mrs Lennon sues Fulton R Gordon and the District of Columbia for 60980 for personal injuries from a collision with a tree stump on Nevade avenue and Morridon street northwest. Attorneys Craighill and Tebbis state the district granted street grading, leaving the stump protruding into the roadway.
Henry Singleton of 107 Fourth Street northwest was knocked from his motorcycle on North Capital Street near WN atrest Rortheart yesterday by an automobile. The driver fled east on N Street. Singleton was taken to his home in pain. Both vehicles were badly damaged. police later moved the car to the Second precinct station.
Fort Wayne Ind March 14 Sylvigs Kloepner a 4 months old baby was given poison by an unidentified person late yesterday and is expected to recover physicians said today A note reading revenge was left on a table and found by the police The mother had left the home and a returned found the baby severely ill on the floor
Col. C. 4ertill argues for reinstating a $1.5 million War Office complex of seven temporary buildings west of Eighteenth Street to Twenty-first Street and north of Broadway. The 696,598 square foot area cost $2,039,559 to erect and would require demolition and return of ground. rent costs would run about $800,000 annually, offsetting the land expense, with some owners holding claims for torn-down structures.
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