Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1930, Page 13

WASHINGTON IMPORTANT BILLS OF D.C. TO RECEIVE AGTION NEXT WEEK Gibson Measure for 2 More D. C. Supreme Court Jus- tices Expected to Pass. ANOTHER HEARING ON LOANS PROPOSAL Committee to Consider Senate Changes to Cramton Me- morial Parkway Plan. The coming week will see action in the House on several important District measures and others given committee consideration. ‘Tomorrow the Gibson bill authorizing the appointment of two additional jus- tices of the Supreme Court in the Dis- trict is expected to be passed. House Leader Tilson said that it will come up either tomorrow or Tuesday and Chair- mut‘fl Simmons of the mfimsmret (:;1 District priations suppo! . ‘The med “small loans bill,” red by the Russell Sage Founda- and seeking to legalize a 42 per cent interest rate on loans up to $300, will be the subject of another hearing before the House District committee to- morrow. Chairman Elliott of the House com- mittee on public buildings and grounds will call his committee together early this week to consider the Senate amend- ments to the Cramton bill providing for the George Washington Memorial Park- ‘way, which safeguards the Great Falis and of the Potomac. These amendments are agreeable to Mr. Cramton and the motion in the House will probably be to concur in the Senate amendments. Hearing for Tuesday. Tuesday the House District com- mittee will give a hearing, principally for the opposition to the Moore bill, which provides for the appointment of a commission of nine to study the fiscal relationship between the Federal and District governments and to report to Congress periodically what share of the costs of maintaining the National Capital should be paid from the Federal ~|a successful private practice in Min- - this m 3 Mr. Moore's ition s methods and amn be at though Mr. Simmons, subcommittee on the District budget and who will lead the opposition, should invite consideration of such matters. Inquiry Favored by Moore, It is clearly indicated by the con- that is rife Teopen ‘Wednesday on the street-railway merger bill which has appointment of two suthorizing additional judges for the District Court of Appeals. STOLEN AUTO RECOVERED BEFORE REPORT OF THEFT Car Taken in When Driver Is Ar- rested for Failure to Have Permit. Recovery of a stolen automobile a full hour before the theft was reported was the unusual record hung up last night P:ueunm ©O. E. Heyne of No. 2 pre- c Heyne arrested Herman Gorham, 49, colored, of 433 O street, on a charge of operating an automobile without a per- mit. It later developed that the car was stolen, and Charles V. Young, 630 Third street northeast, was agreeably surprised ‘when he called police to report the theft, only to learn that his car was awaiting him at the second precinct. An additional charge of joy-riding was lodged against Gorham when police learned that the car had been stolen. [ — WAR ON INSECTS TO BEGIN IN DISTRICT TOMORROW Tree Department to Launch An- nual Summer Campaign. Now that Summer has arrived, bring- ing with it its accompanying hosts of insects, the District Tree Department is preparing its annual bug campaign. Autoists are warned that if they leave their automobiles under the shady trees planted along the roadside in the District they are liable to find them covered with white spray. Clifford Lanham, superintendent of trees and parkings, who will conduct the campaign in person, starting tomor- row morning, said that the spray con- sists of arsenate of lead, and that al- though it is death to insects, it will not hurt the fabric or paint of the cars. It will do noth! to improve their ap- Ppearance, either, said. BURGLAR' USES KEY A key, hidden on the rear porch of Lester Barnett's home, at 537 Twenty- fourth street northeast, afforded a bur- lar entrance to the residence during !ho family’s absence last night, and the theft of $47 in cash was discovered when Barnett returned. Three watches, valued at a total of $100, were reported stolen last night from the home of Mrs. Mary P. Bieber of 2815 Thirteenth street, by some one who jimmied the front door. °€ | architect at that the | gD, Ven | for his 2 CARPENTER KILLED DEAF-SPEECHLESS CLERGYMAN FINDS BEAUTY IN LIFE WORK Rev. Arthur D. Bryant, Here Since Boyhood, Widely Active. Graduate of Gallaudet in 1880, Achieves Note as Artist, Teacher. Beauty has ranked with godliness in the life of Rev. Arthur D. Bryant, deaf | and s less Baptist clergyman, who has been ministering to the spiritual needs of the Capital's deaf at Calvary Baptist Church 20 years or more. Student, artist, teacher, clergyman— Rev. Mr. b it h:l. been ‘themhflul; storing uj experiences of eac use in hfs d;nxlplenxuln sermons at Calvary Baptist Church. His home, at 322 East Capitol street, is a house of memories, for in it are the paintings he executed and the pictorial trophies he has brought back to Was] n from his travels. And in that house he'll tell you his story, if you urge him —and one of his deaf admirers did. Rev. Mr. Bryant's deafness dates back to a severe attack of scarlet fever which 5o ravaged him as a 2-year-old child | that his hearing—and consequently his | men of articulation—were taken fromn for all time. But despite this physical handicap Rev. Mr. Bryant was x g well educated, and in 1911 was ordained | a Baptist minister, the second deaf clergyman of that faith to be named, before a brilliant gathering in Calvary Baptist Church. His fellow deaf min- ister, Rev. Mr. Michaels of Arkansas, himself attended the ceremonies. Came Here in 1864. ‘The minister came to Washington as a boy of 8 years in 1864, strangely enough, the same year which witnessed the founding of Gallaudet College, from which he was to be graduated. He attended Kendall School, which was headed by Amos Kendall, through ‘whose gift of $100,000 the Calvary Bap- tist Church was erected. School days over, Mr. Bryant yearned for college education and was promptly welcomed at Ollhudelt”(gollm, where he was graduated in . He was 80 proficient and industrious in art work that President Edward M. Gallaudet, muhfly fond of him, appointed him ctor in drawing and painting at Kendall Green. For 36 years Mr. Bryant worked in the various media, develop- ing latent talents among his charges to witness several of his students at- tain wide celebrity in art, architecture and sculpture. !nhl}i’gubuh: nlfllmdm teaching for preaching, Te his connaefimplr with Gallaudet College as instructor emeritus. Among the best known former art students of Mr. Bryant are Cadwallader ‘Washburn, whose dry-point sketches have become internationally known; ‘Thomas 8. Marr of Marr & Holman, architects, of Nashville, Tenn,, for years famous as designers of million-dollar State and private buildings in the South, and Dr. Olof Hanson, who, after ‘Washington, is consulting the University of Wash- ‘his ‘own advice to his stud- ents, Mr. t spent many hours in creating pictures. He was best known landscapes, excelling in par- ticular in his cloud effects. Many Paintings in Home. : His East Capitol street house still is filled with oil portraits and diverse drawings. There are separate oil por- traits of his father and mother, and pas- floral and e scenes. Proficlent with camera as well as sketch box, Mr. Bryant succeeded in an exceptional photograph of ce of Robert E. Lee at Washing- nesota and uniform worn by the eral when he surrendered to Gen. U. S. Grant at Appamotax. His interest in the Lee office and his reverence for that early photograph are BYW.R & ECA Motorman Is Held After the Death of Edgar W. Ford, 67. Edgar Woods Ford, 67 years old, a carpenter of 1137 Morse street north- east, was injured fatally yesterday aft- ernoon when he is said to have walked in front of a Washington Railway & Electric street car on Benning road just opposite the Benning power house. John T. Norman of 1669 Rosedale place northeast, motorman on the street car which killed the man, is being held at the ninth precinct. Ford had been working in his garden, allotted to him by the Department of Agriculture in_the community gardens which skirt Behning road near the power plant. He was on his way home when the street car struck him. He was rushed to Casualty Hospital in the ambulance ,and pronounced dead upon arrival by Dr. Louis Jimal, a staff physician. The man’s skull was fractured and he was bruised about the body. ved by his wife, Mrs. daughters and one son. Ford is survi' Edith Ford, two GAMBLING RAIDS NET 4, EQUIPMENT AND 11 WITNESSES 700 Block 14th Street Scene of Smashing of Heavily Barricaded Door. REV. AND MES. ARTHUR D. BRYANT. whetted by his boylsh “service” during the Civil War. Bryant. shouldered no gun for the Union cause, but he did his boyish bit in shipping supplies to the men in action. His duty was executed as “whistle blower” on the military train drawn by the old locomo- tive “Shoemaker” and manned by s friend, Wi Brown. Whea the load- ing was ‘completed Arthur Bryant yanked the whistle cord in signal for another mass of food and munitions to start on its way to Alexandria. Bryant also “served” at the Army Square Hospital at Sixth and B streets southwest where the Fish Commission Building now stand. There the youth fanned the sick and wounded soldiers as they sweated under the heats of fever and Summer. ‘Wife's Ancestors Noted. Like Rev. Mr. Bryant, Mrs. Bryant— Susan Benedict before her marriage, and a hearing woman—also is a de- scendant of the builders and defenders of the American Republic. Her grand- mother used to keep an open house for the Revolutionary War soldiers and be- cause of her patriotic activities the British burned her house. The United States Government later rebuilt it and reimbursed her for her loss. This house has stood as a landmark since 1783 in Stelton, N. J., a town named after Mrs. Bryant’s Huguenot forbears, the Stelles. Mrs. Bryant's paternal grandfather, Col. 8. W. Benedict, was o the Volunteer Regiment of New York and he was chosen on the reception committee which welcomed Gen. La- fayette as the latter disembarked at New York in 1824. Mrs. Bryant's father, Isaac H. Bene- dict, who lived to be 92 years of age, although a deaf man, was an erudite scholar and a brilliant linguist. He read and wrote in seven different lan- guages. For 19 years he was on the faculty of the renowned Fanwood School for the Deaf in New York city before coming to Washington to work for the Government. DONALD BLISH, Son of Mrs. Ida G. Blish, 1650 Harvard | street, who was killed yesterday with another University of Pennsylvania student at Media, Pa., when their auto- mobile was wrecked. POLICE HUNT BOYS Pair in Scout Uniforms Are Be- lieved Hitch-Hiking South. Two youths, attired in Boy Scout SECOND INMATE TAKES LIFE AT LOCAL HOSPITAL William MecKinley Grymes Hangs Belf at Gallinger Six Hours After Arrest. ‘The second suicide at Gallinger Hos- pital within three days 'fik place last night when Willlam McKinley Grymes, 32 years old, colored, of 1523 First street hanged himself with a blanket. Grymes, who had been arrested six hours before by Policeman Nathan T, Imlay of No. 2 precinct for mental ob- servation, was alone in the room, lo- cated in the south wing of the hospi- tal, at the time. Dr. J. Ramsay Neviit, coroner, called an inquest for Monday morning at 11:30 o'clock at the Dis- trict morgue. Merritt 8. Bobo, 29 years old, killed himself Thursday by lea) a_ concrete basement wrenching himself free from of an at- tendant st the hospif mot 0 feet to | of “Harding Hi uniforms, and believed to be hitch- hiking thelr way South, were being searched for by police last night aftec Mrs. Ella McNeil of 3210 Seventeenth street, reported the disappearance of her son, Emmitt, 14 years old. Horace Coberth, 14 years old, also of the Seventeenth street address, and the McNeil boy, left home early yesterday. The McNell youngster is described as being very light eomfi)ux!oned with light brown hair, while Horace Coberth has black hair and eyes. HALL TO BE DEDICATED An address by George T. Berry, pres!- dent of the l.nte{-nnmntl Printing Press- men and Assistants’ Union next Friday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, and an ad- dress by Charles P. Howard, niesident of the International Typographical Union, at 8 o'clockl.n'-;fll Xell:lurdel Loriem t to ti 'ormal dedication mies incident to O aaanon the United States Printing %u. evening ceremony. be by Marine Band at the ALLEGED LIQUOR TAKEN WITH 2 ON L STREET Christopher Middledorf, 41, Sub- dued After Fight and Freed Under Bond. ‘The police vice squad arrested four | persons, booked 11 others as Govern- ment witnesses and confiscated con- siderable gaming paraphernalia in a series of raids late yesterday. Benjamin Franklin Lewis, 29 years old, of the 700 block of Fourteenth street, was charged with permitting gaming and maintaining & nuisance. Five patrons of the alleged gambling es- tablishment were booked as witnesses. Police were forced to break down a heavily-barricaded door to get into the place, An elaborate gambling layout was seized. In a second raid the squad arrested Christopher . Middledorf, 41 years old, and George Romick, 31 years old, both residing in the 500 block of L street, where the raid was made. Both were charged with sale and possession of liquor and maintaining & nuisance. Three quarts of liquor were seized. Po- lice said several quarts of liquor were destroyed before they entered the place. Middledorf attempted to destroy the re) quarts, police said, and was subdued after a fight. Both men were later released on $2,000 bond each. A pint of alleged liquor and 100 bot- tles of beer were seized in a raid on premises in the 500 block of L street southeast. Adeline Tolliver, colored, 35 years old, was arrested and charged with sale and n. T INCENERATOR SITE, NEGOTIATIONS OPEN One Will Be in Georgetown, With Other in Southeast Section on Waterfront. Negotiations are under way for the purchase of two sites in industrial areas for the location of the two trash incinerators provided for the District in the last appro) n bill One of the incinerators will be built in industrial Georgetown, a plot hav- ing been selected at Thirty-first and K streets, and the other in the southeast section of the water front at First and Second streets north of O street south- east. The Georgetown site is a half a block from the river. The southeast site adjoins the sewer department pumping station. The selection of the sites was made by Assistant Engineer Commissioner Donald A. Davison, with the approval of the District Commissioners and the National Capital Park and Planning ‘Commission. Already one lot at the Georgeto site has been bought for $55,000, and negatiations are nearly complete for the purchase of another parcel at southeast site for about $50,000. The appropriation for the two incinerators is $850,000, which includes the cost of the sites. A contract has been award- ed to Metcalfe & Eddy of Boston for the engineering services incidental to | bullding and operating the incinerators. JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE CONFERENCE TO BE HELD Washington Agencies Have Chosen Delegates for National Sessions in Boston Next Month. The National Conference of Jewish Social Service will hold its annual meetings in Boston from June 7 to 11, with social workers from all sections g: this country and Canada participat- 8. Washington Jewish agencies will be represented by Oscar Leonard, execu- tive director, Jewish Welfare Federa- tion, Morris Stein, chairman of the house committee of the Hebrew Home for the Aged: Boris Eisenberg, superin- tendent, Jewish Foster Home, and Miss Gertrude Cone, executive director, Juanita K. Nye Council House. The Jewish Conference, organized 31 years 8go, is now an associate group of the National Conference of Social Work, an organization which also will be In session in Boston at the same . Dr. Boris D. Bogen, who was | elected Fruldem of the conference last year, died in office, -and Samuel A. Goldsmith of New York, director of the Bureau of Jewish Social Research and acting chairman of the executive com- mittee of the Jewish Conference, will preside at the business sessions until a new president is designated. —_— 35 ADVERTISING WOMEN ARRIVE IN 6 PLANES | Miss Amelia Earhart Heads Phila- delphia Party on Efficiency Fly- ing Campaign. As part of a cam to gromou flying for business efficiency, 35 mem- Philadelphia Club of Ad- bers of the vertising Women landed at Bollin Field yesterday afternoon in six air- planes, led by Miss Amelia Earhart, first woman to cross the Atlantic by air, flying her own Lockheed cabin monoplane and carrying four club members. i, The women flew here from Philadel- j phia to attend the national convention ) of the Advertising Federation of Amer- +ica, here this week. Two of the planes | were tri-motored transports, carrying 10 passengers each. The flight was made under the direction of Miss Ruth E. Clair, president of the Philadelphia club, and Miss Beth Townsend, chair- man of its aviation committee. Distriot Sued on Paving Levy. ‘The Argonne Co. has filed suit in the District Supreme Court against the Dis- trict of Columbia to recover $1,363.41. | which it paid as an assessment levied in | 1926 against the &roperty for the resur- facing of Columbia road. The company ys the payment was made under duress while in fear of the sale of its property for failure to pay. Attorneys and Henry A. Schweinhaut for the company. TABLES SHOW HOUSE BILL ANNUITIES Data Are Prepared by Government Experts to Indicate Approximate Amounts to Be Re- ceived Under Varying Ages and Service at Time of Retirement, as Compared With Average Salary During Contributing Period of Federal Employment. The following tables, prepared by Government experts and printed recently in the Congressional Record, show the approximate annuities under the House retirement bill, if enacted into law. The first table relates to 30 or more years of service, and the second table relates to retirement after 15 years of service, Approximate annuities under the House bill after 30 or more years of service—To employes who entered prior to August 1, 1920, Year of retirement. Retired at aj aver: 36 verage salaries’ du; es would, of course, generally exceed the av Approximate Year of retirement. 19351 Existing law . heen in operation years of of servict e retirement age (disability) 38401 865 39001 931 $23s2 SEa 5% BE253 Average salary during contributing period. $1,0801 31,5001 32 1128 1128 EsE =] a3 b B -47.-': B5ERE: e s 32588 g =y 5 3% 33238t 32 588 3 A rart i it 5 53 23 35! SSBEBE FUARUES 353 3 sEaEEs S823 =3 RRS Soiodsns 3888 2izEas 8355 EEEEEH SHZEE FEsanyy astanE 338 38 el 823 ] 52 S33E 58283 §.,u g-—rrrr— 0 ring the ‘five years of service el 16 Xt pre ‘or "3 3 2 annuities after 000 ing retirement are the entire contributing years of service, tELE 28 1 . B somisiririe ponnsnrsss % Lo L 000 40, $900, period. Average salarr during contributing veriod. 3840 415 490 480 496 486 506 $900 4717 493 482 500 $1,080 81,500 483 2 6 8 489 it 497 524 300 15 years on August 1. 1935. 541 360 PLAYGROUND SITE SYSTEM 1S URGED Recreation Body Favors City- wide Development in Report. ‘The National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission was asked yesterday, in a report submitted by the recreation committee, composed of representatives of various interested agencles, to sanc- tion a city-wide program of playground and recreation center development, under which 25 centers, from 10 to 20 acres each, would dot the city, with supplemental smaller playgrounds for smaller children. As contemplated, where possible, recreation centers would cluster around sohools or libraries. The commission turned this re) over to its landscaj architect, L. Wirth, for study of the cost and administrative features, and arranged to it coples to the interested organizations for study and comment. The recreation committee, headed by Maj. L. E. Atkins, Assistant Engineer Commissioner, considered a co-ordi- nated pre m of land acquisition; the method of administrative control over these lands, where more than other au- thority is involved, and a proposed legislative program to carry these rec- ommendations into effect. The report and its accompanying maps, W] were not made public, will be sent to the Board of Education, the Plnyz‘ound Department, the District Commission- WN | ers, the trustees of the Public Library, the United States engineer office, the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks and others for examination and repo! Dr. H. B. Learned of the Board of Education and Dr. George F. Bower- man, representing the trustees of the Public Library, acted as spokesmen iwhen the commission held its third i day's session yesterday. Referring to proposed purchase, the report had this to say: “Much of the land included in the proposed recreation system is already in public ownership. The committee rec- ommends the early acquisition of the remainder of the sites indicated, and suf that the purchases proposed to made by different authorities in the same area be timed together to avpid one agency increasing the price for another agency.” The recreation committee, formed as a result_of a request of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, at its meeting July 26 of last year, and with Maj. Atkins at its head, comprised these members: Dr. Learned, S. E. Kramer and Miss Sibyl Baker, repre- senting the Board of Education: Mrs. Susle t Rhodes and Richard Tenny- son, representing the playground de- partment; Dr. Bowerman and Miss C. ‘W. Herbert, representing the trustees of the Public Library; E. D. Hardy of the United States engineer office; Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr., representing the office of public buildings and public parks, and Charles W. Eliot, 2d, city planner, representing the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. It was organized August 16 of last year, Capt. Chisolm acting as secretary and vice chairman. Representative Simmons, Republican, of Nebraska appeared before the com- mission yesterday and suggested that the commission utilize part if its funds to purchase some of the little triangles formed by the intersections of streets, instead of having the District appro- priation bill carry all the funds for this purpose. Under the present plan, the District appropriation bill carries some $5,000 for the purpose of purchase of these little triangles. The suggestion of Representative Simmons was taken un- der advisement by the commission and & report is expected to be made at the June meeting. STENOGRAPH.ERS TO MEET Banquet of Shorthand Reporters to Be Held Saturday. The semi-annual banquet of the Shorthand Reporters’ Association of the Distriet of Columbia will be held at the Hamilton Hotel Saturday, May 24. Ar- rangements have been made to have the association addressed by a na- tionally known reporter and all are urged to be present. Lloyd L. Harkins has resigned as secretary-treasurer and R. P. Brewer has been appointed to succeed him. pindsbaeth Taken to m ‘Willilam Kidwell, 43 years old, of 3113 Georgia avenue, manager of a laundry near Sherman avenue and Lamont street, was ital last night after he is re| & have swallowed a quantity of poison. Bandits Rob Man. Two armed men held up Menotti Aquilino of 325 Tenth street northeast, Androbhed him of $35, acoording 6 & 3 . Teport to ninth preeinct police, removed to Emergency Hol-' 2,000 $2,500 § oo k: The annuities under the House bill for those retirin Jervice will reach their ultimate level at that time, since all such retired employes will have contributed for their entire period 3,000 000 002 634 g3 34 58 3t m 906 613 208 CONFEREES NEAR FINAL ACTION ON RETIREMENT BILL Report Is Expected to Be Adopted Wednesday at Session. HOUSE AND SENATE RATIFICATION IS SEEN Basic Annuity of $30 Annually for Each Year of Service In Provided in Measure, Having worked out an agreement yes- terday on the civil service retirement plan as framed by the House, with a number of amendment, the conferees will meet at 10:30 o'clock Wednesda; mfel'ene:ore'wfl"ke fl;dhacunb:“on “‘z submitted * the Senate and House for mmmuon.l report, which it is ite proval without delay. The bellef prevalls that both bnnche’l will ratify the agreement, which will send the measure to the President for after 15 RUSSELL BENSON, Nine years old, of 1322 D street south- east, who slipped from the sea wall near the Anacostia Bridge yosterday and was drowned. FALL INTO RIVER DROWNS BOY OF 9 Russell Benson of Southeast Section Loses Life Under Anacostia Bridge While Playing. Russell Benson, 9 years old, of 1322 D street southeast, was drowned yester- day when he fell into the river from the seawall under the Anacostia Bridge. Russell, with his 7-year-old brother, | William, and a cousin, Eugene Long, 9 years old, had been playing on the wall and watching a fisherman. ‘The man called to the boys to get back from the water, but Russell slipped and fell in before he could obey the command. The body was recovered half an hour later by members of the harbor precinct and the Fire Department rescue squad. The boy could not be revived. Adolph Veith of Ballston, Va., & workman on the bridge, dived several times into the river in unsuccessful at- tempts to save the boy. Russell was a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Benson. HARBOR POLICE RESCUE FAMILY FROM LAUNCH Propeller Becomes Disabled and Boat Grounds on Potomac Flats. Mr. and Mrs. Olin rs and their four children, living at 4 8 street south- west, were rescued from their launch by harbor police early last night when the craft, disabled after the propeller struck a hidden pile, groun: on the flats_in Potomac River, just east ‘of the Railroad Bridge. The launch drifted nearly half an hour before Rogers was able to attract the attention of the railroad bridge watchman, who summoned the harbor police boat. ‘The police transferred the family to their launch and towed the disabled craft to the foot of South Capitol street. The rescue was made by Harbor Pa- ! trolmen C. R. Spring and D. O. 5 The sound of an automobile tire blowing out may be fraught with some- thing akin to tragedy to most people, but to Lady Mary Heath, famous British aviatrix, now engaged in commercial tios this country, the noise brings a real shudder. ‘The blowing out of tires is associated by Lady Heath with one of the worst in her lona“fi career in | Europe, Africa and United States, she told members of the Women's City Club at a luncheon here yes- terday afternoon. She explained that when she reached the shores of the Mediterranean Sea on her flight from Cape Town, Africa, ndon, which first brought her fame as a pilot, she was greatly wor- ried about gef across in her land ie. The Italian government sent he#s seaplane to escort her over, but it was forced down and the crew GIVIG LEADERS AID D. C. CLEAN-UP PLAN Dr. Reichelderfer and Darr Boost Special Week Over Radio. Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, president Charles W. Darr, president of the Wash- ington Chamber of Commerce, solicited the co-operation of all District citizens in the “Clean-Up” week to begin to- morrow, in radio speeches last night. The Commissioner spoke from Station WRC and Mr. Darr from WMAL. Dr. Reichelderfer urged Washington to maintain sanitary conditions all the year and to make cial efforts to clean their homes, yards and parks this week. He told of the services rendered by the sewerage and trash and garbags disposal departments, He said: “It always must be kept in mind, however, that the value of these services depends in very large part upon the intelligent co-operation of our citizen body as a whole. Garbage must be kept Separate; placed in proper containers and regularly taken up. If mixed with other materials, difficulties are encoun- tered in disposing of it in the District garbage reduction plant. This plant, by the way, reclaims valuable greases used in making soap and thus yields a considerable income which lessens the disposal cost borne by the taxpayer. “In the case of trash and rubbish of other types, it is only too easy to be- come negl t and to allow such wastes to accumulate, thus creating insanitary “Front and back yard gardens should be regularly raked and cleaned to pre- | | vent the piling up of inflammable ma- | terials and to retard the multiplication of mosquitoes, flies and other possible sources of infection and annoyance.” of year-round cleanliness. He made the additional point that proper main- tenance of public and private property will act as a help to business, since it will increase the value of the property, give more people employment and in- crease trade in houlehold and garden equipment. YOUNG WOMAN IS SHOT Relatives Tell Police Estranged Husband Killed Her After Calling at Apartment. Sadie Elizabeth Bl‘ldltuy. colored, 19 years old, was shot and killed last night by a man police say they have identi- fled as estranged . husband, Leroy Bradley. The man escaped after firing three shots, one of which took effect in the woman’s head. Relatives of the victim told police the man came to their residence at 149 A street northeast where they are em- Elmmqi as caretakers of an apartment use, and asked for his wife. On being admitted, he took a 25 caliber pistol from his pocket and fired the three shots. He is believed to have stolen an automobile in which he escaped. Dr. Showalter to Speak. Dr. W. J. Showalter, associate editor of the National Geographic Magazine, will deliver an address at a luncheon of the Lions Club in the Mayflower Hotel Wednesday afternoon at 12:30 o'clock. Dr. Showalter is an honorary member of the club. LADY MARY HEATH TELLS WOMEN HOW LIFE PRESERVERS BLEW OUT Inflated Inner Tubes She Wore on Flight Over Water Burst at High Altitude. drifted for five days before being res- cued. “I finally decided to cross at the Straits of Gibraltar, though it was 600 miles out of my way, without an escort,” she said. “I knew that my r'h.m wouldn't float for five minutes I had to land in water, so I a number of motor cycle inner ubes and cofled them about my neck, ders I had them in- “The air being much thinner at this height, the tubes began to swell and swell and finally exploded, one after another, with loud . I final landed with shreds of draped over me.” ‘ of the Board of Commissioners, and | pjj woul Mr. Darr also emphasized the need | j BY MAN WHO ESCAPES |tne signature. The bill to be reported by the con- ferees sets up a new system of retire~ ment, under which there would be a basic annuity of $30 a year for each year of service, not to exceed 30 years, making a maximum basic annuity of 4900, to which would be added what- ever additional annuity could be pur- chased with the accumulated contribu- tions of each employe. Equalizes Annuities and Pay. The bill agreed upon means larger annuities for those retired on low an- nual salaries, such as $800 or $900 a year, and also means that those in the high' salary brackets eventually will get annuities in relation to their uhrr:l, whereas under the present retirement system the maximum annuity is $1,000 for all employes regardless of the m&m eunmzunud. new pl contains a vision that no employe shall nee’;:g less under it than he would have received under the Sénate bill. The Senate ld have continued the present retirement system with increased an- nuities, but with a maximum of $1,200 in any case. As time goes on and the contribu- tions of high-paid employes accumu- late, they would be able to purchase annuities greater than $1,200. As the House report on the bill stated, “If will afford to each employe the opportunity to get a retirement an- nuity comparable to the money he has paid in for th.:;urpue. pa; by Government ex- A table perts of the annuities that would be paid in the different salary groups un- der the House bill indicates that during the next five years there would &a very few annuities in excess of $1,3 Substance Is Same, “The conference has agreed to re- port the House bill with certain amend-~ ments perfecting the text, Lut not go- ing to the substance of the bill,” said Representative Lehlbach, Republican, of New Jersey, following the meeting yes- terday, which was the first the con- ferees had in more than a month. Government workers were becoming fearful that the bill might fail in con- ference as the close of the session ng- when Senator Dale, Repub- of Vermont, chairman of the conference, announced a few days ago that another meeting with the House agreed to at the conference yesterday was a provision that the record of each employe be kept in his own office, in- stead of assembling all records in one place. This was one of the changes advocated by Senate conferees, who ob- jected to the assembling of the records on the ground that it would entail un- necessary expense. Another amendment was accepted by the conferees under which, in excep- tional cases, veteran employes could be continued in the service upon recom- mendation of their department heads and with the approval of the Civil Serv- ice Comm . Prior to adoption of this amendment the bill led that after next August no employe could be retained more than four years beyond retirement age. The amendment means that in these exceptional cases an employe could be continued as long as his services were regarded as advan- tageous to the Government. It was pointed out that there are a number of cases in various departments of persons who have reached retirement age, but whose retention in the service would be deemed desirable to the Government. Contribution Under System. Under the new retirement system to be set up by the House bill $1 a month would be deducted from the contribu- tion of each employe to help meet the cost of the $900 basic annuity, the bal- ance required to meet the basic annuity to be paid by the Government. After taking out this $1 a month, the rest of the employe's contribution would be kept to his separate account, where it would accumulate and be used to buy his additional annuity upon re- tirement. It is understood that Senator Mec- Kellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, one of the conferees, sought to eliminate the requirement for the $1 a month deduction from the contributions of the employes, but without success. An amendment was agreed to, under Wwhich employes who have gone out of the service because of disability, but who failed to apply for the retirement benefits within the six months required by existing law, could have their re- tirement status restored by making the necessary application within three months after this bill passes. Another amendment was agreed relating to Navy Yard employes, plac- ing workers known as leading men and quarter men in the 62-year retirement group, and placing master mechanics amd foremen in the 65-year retirement group. Others Could Come In. An amendment also was pted the conferees under which fot:mm::{ employes not under eivil service could come under ing in what ing the last 10 permitted to m%’nfl bill wfi. ouse Py iy T R a e lier than under existing The con the bill are: Sena- tors Dale, Republican, Vermont; Couz- ens, Republican, Michigan mt. ‘Tennessee, and Smith,