Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1930, Page 17

Washington News METHODISTS NAME MINISTERS TODAY, ENDING BUSINESS Appointments for Washing- ton Announced by Presid- ing Bishop. $100,000 ASSESSMENT MADE FOR CONFERENC Depression Cited as Cause for Cut in Budget Group's Recom- mendation. The Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South con- €luded the business of its 146th annual | convention with the announcement of ministerial appointments in the Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church South this afternoon. The appointments, announced by Presiding Bishop Willlam B. Beauchamp, for. u:‘:' City of Washington, are as follows: Calvary M. E. Church South, Rev. Dr. D. Berry of Covington, Va., succeed- ing H. Baker, transferred to_Mount Rainier; Emory M. E. Church, Rev. H. V. Wheeler, reappointed; Epworth, Rev. Dr. J. C. Copenhaver, reappointed, and J. T. Meyers, missionary pastor to Ja- , reappointed; Francis Asbury, Rev. grl.l J. J. Rives, reappointed; Marvin, Rev. Dr. A E. Owens, Teappointed; Mount Vernon Place, Rev. Dr. W. A. Shelton, formerly of Emory University, Georgia, succeeding Rev. Dr. William A. Lambeth, transferred to the North Georgia _Conference, and St. Church, Rev. Dr. W. W. McIntyre, re- "E?'g’: J. H. Balthis was Presiding elder the district. l.ppolngznu in the Washing- 3 m;:‘:en:tflfle Rev. Dr. H. 8. ted; Bethesda, C. C. mind, where even the most strictly regu- . | lated prisons Aged, and Rev. y associate editor of the General Board of Chnistian Education. After much lively discussion, assess- ments totaling $100,000 for annual con- ference work were approved by the eonference today. ‘The emount approved represented a feduction of more than $17,000 in the total sum by the Con- ference Budget Commission earlier in the day. Pleads for Reductions. . H. M. Canter of Staunton, Va., Mm‘}u , who several days budgets recommended by ence Board of Christian Education, was Ilmhdlyinm':u for reductions in budget assessments. _ *We are passing through - period 3! depression,” Dr. Canter asserted. ‘I come from one of the richest sections of the country, agriculturally. The flelds are burned up,” Dr. Canter continued. “Something is taking place in the lay membership of the Baltimore Confer- ence and if we don’t do something to give them relief they are not going to get _relief,” continued Dr. Culneer in his r reduced assessments. ,l.l;r' ocmter further asserted that a in his section had even told him he was afraid they would have to start a bread line. “I am trying to save the people. When the conference and the ministry get away from the people they are swamped,” said Dr. Canter. Much Not Collected. Dr. . G. J. Prettyman, one of the fenders of larger assessments, de- gred, “The laymen of the church are mot as much frightened about our assessments as some of our preachers “:t was brought out during discussion of assessments, however, that less than 40 per cent of assessments last year had n collected. u’el'he Budget Commission also made & recommendation for appropriation of $67,134 for general conference work. Following adoption of the resolution approving assessments for $100,000 for annual conference work, the Budget Commission was ordered to scale down the various items to be covered, to put them within the Jimits. An animated discussion cropped up earlier in the morning over the ques- tion of an appointment to the Board of Missions. Dr. S. K. Cockrell of Arling- ton Church, Baltimore, who, it de- veloped, the Board of Missions had named as a member and then elected president, had his appointment to the board declared void when Presiding Bishop Beauchamp ruled that. the Board of Missions did not begin func- tioning until after this year's Confer- ence had adjourned and, therefore, had no right to name any one to the board or take any action at present. After Dr. Cockrell's appointment had been declared void, Dr. H. S. Coffey of ‘Woodstock, Va., was elected to the Board of Missions after having been nominated by a presiding elder on the Paul | appearan reappointed | higl ct. 40 Drab Years Behind St. Elizabeth’s Prison Section. ! Talented and Terrible Char- acters Among 2,000 Con- fined There. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Sixty-seven murderers under one roof. ‘This strange assembly of demon-rid- den men is now confined at Howard Hall, the Federal walled hospital for the criminal insane at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital here. After approximately 40 years’ serv- ice, during which it has housed some | of the country’s most infamous crim- inals, Howprd Hall soon will be dis- continued under the new Federal pris- on-building program with provisions for psychiatric hospitals under the ad- ministration of the Public Health Serv- ice. Through all these years it has been a pioneer center for scientific study of the criminal and the causes and possible cures of crime. Nearly 2,000 slayers have passed through its gates. About half its population has consisted tontinuously of men whose hands have been stained with the blood of their fellows. All these men have been pronounced insane. For the most part they have been transferred here from Federal mates range from surable and kept locked up most of the time for the safety of the others, to response to hallucinatory heavenly voices and who ordinarily are the most inoffensive of men. Hall never has been a house ially the inmates ht appear an almost normal group of men of all sorts an Many of them were not . The hh':nlm out. There is only one way escape prison— through the ever open gateway of the a phantom world to live in, as beautiful as he desires. It is like escap- into the fourth dim the fellow ends in Howard Hall. It is true insanity, for the time being, as is wholesale denial of But ‘ne’h oy reality. such cases, says Dr. , usually clear up enough when the situation ca them is changed. Many others come to Howard Hall, Dr. Lind says, as addicts. These can be cured—for so long as they can be kept out of the way of temptation— in four or five days so that they act for the rest of their period of imprisonment. They usually go back to their drugs again shortly after they are Teleased—but that ther story. Queer, almost mythical, cases of hu- man abnormalif UT OF HOME i D. COST CUT OBIECT AS NIGHT SCHOOLS { OPEN OCTOBER 6 DR. JOHN E. LIND. —Harris-Ewing Photo. purpose of letting them know that they are in prison. There are no prison uniforms. There are not even any is done to reduce the phere” to a minimum. So far as pos- sible the idea of punishment is elimi- nated, and the man leaving Howard Hall has had no occasion to have in-| creased his grudge against soclety. The inmate of Howard Hall, Dr. Lind emph: is not set aside from the rest of the world as a criminal, con- sidered as a horrible example or any- thing of the sort. If he happens to be an intelligent man, he can talk over his ideas with the doctors on a basis of equality. The system used there has gradually exerted an influence on other prisons and, for the United States, may have provided the corner stone for a new criminology. Some of the fore- most advocates of more scientific treat- ment of criminals in the country are men who served an apprenticeship on the staff of Howard Hall under the d philosophical guidance of Dr. William A. White, superintendent of the hos- pital. ' Pity Attitude Avoided. ‘The “poor, abused fellow” attitude is avoided, Dr. Lind says. as intolerable to the crimini tempt, and in any event is weaken whatever moral fiber he has. When a man is considered cured he is sent back to the Federal penitentiary he came from to serve out his sen- tence. If this has expired he is re- leased at once. If he is still considered ;|insane when his sentence expires ef- forts are made to place him under the care of the State of his residence. But this is not always possible and Howard Hall has a considerable number of “lifers.” Discipline and lement at How- ard Hall is at a um consistent with safety. But so quiet has the pop- ulation been kept that very few in ‘Washington have been aware of the strange prison in their midst and there have very few escapes, The lust were during the World War. For many years there was not even a wall about the place- and at that time escapes were more frequent. Some were clas- sic_examples of cleverness. One man, a clever swindler, feigned illness so suc- cessfully that he was believed on the K:im of death and naturally watch- was relaxed. He escaped, made his way to England, made a lot of money, and now has retired as a country gentleman. But actual attempts to escape are few because the inmates know they have nothing to gain by escaping. If they are caught they are likely to go back to the penitentiaries from which they came, where conditions are less to their liking. Life in Howard Hall is more like life in the dormitory ths name suggests than in a prison. The men adjust themselves to the environ- ment much more quickly than to the environment of a prison, and once they have done this there is not much in- t | centive to change, The real rub comes when the time comes to send them back, as was ex- emplified a few weeks ago when cne . | of the country’s most notorious crim- as subject to epilepsy. ra which preceded the attacks he became one of the most violent human beings imaginable—a man who would kill and mutilate on sight. Afterward he would remember nothing of it. It was like possession by & demon. Talented Artist Escapes. On one wall hangs a life-sized paint- ing of Christ, which has been valued by competent art critics at anywhere from $500 to several thousands, Dr. Lind says. It is not quite finished— for the artist took advantage of a con- venient opportunity to escape just be- fore putting on the last touches. On the outside this fellow, whose nius might have made him one of the oremost American artists, was an ac- complished confidence man. During his confinement at Howard Hall he was allowed the use of a large room as & studio and painted many pictures. Several near geniuses have been con- fined there. One murderer was an ac- complished mathematician and one of the country's best chess The doctors and the most intel it of the other prisoners were helpless before him on the chessboard. Several of the pris- oners have patented practical inven- tions. They are encouraged, so far as possible, to work according to their own interests. ¢ For many years & “human vampire” was confined there. He was a sallor, who developed an uncontrollable im- pulse to feast on human blood. Other- wise he appeared normal. Phantasies take queer forms and often are unex- plainable. Few men have had more experience with murderers and other criminals of all sorts with all degrees of mental de- terforation than Dr. Lind. Out of his| years of contact with them—more as | physician and friend than as jailor—he has developed an essentially practical viewpoint concerning the criminal him- self and the roots of crime. He has no specific for the cure of criminality, no claims of the working of miracles. | Sometimes, he says, an individual can be greatly improved by psychoanalytical methods. Sometimes a reformation can be brought about by physical treat- ment. Sometimes good can be accom- plished even by the old platitudinous “fatherly advice” and talk about home and mother. But this man wi ring the floor of the Conference. Dr. Prettyman’s Address. Rev. Dr. F. J. Prettyman, tor of Wwilson Memorial Methodist iscopal Church South, Baltimore, in an ad- dress before the conference last night the thought that Christ en- deavored to get to do_what is “Christ’s appeal is .| Dr. ; | adolescent in criminal tyman . He been caught in the current of modern sociological movement and have made ihe impression that we can reform the 4 church and the world. Christ was not @& reformer In the merely social sense, He was the world's worst reformer, for Herod and Caesar were still on their ‘thrones at the time of His death. Christ ‘was content to draw, not to drive. He | f ‘et sent anybody to jail. He snatched ‘w of hell '.hye last sinner He touched.” Some Are Hopeless. But for the most part the chronic of- fenders who come to Howard Hall have the roots of a social conduct too deeply buried in their characters and too firm- ly fixed by the years to give much hope of pex;rhnnnent refon& Generally speu‘g = , the younger they are 8 m’!‘!{e Teal > int of attack on criminality. Lind believes, is with the child an¢ the process of becoming a 1. But at Howard Hall every case is dealt with on its merits, and right here is a urmn’ difference between this Federal ital for criminals and most risons. men are not coddled, g.m in some ways is harder at Howard cells are for the purpose of confining inals, & man who had been considered 80 dangerous in prison that he was kept almost continually in irons, left Howard Hall with tears in his eyes, * SPEED AIR SERVICE WITH FASTER PLANES Half-Hour Will Be Saved in New York-Washington Trip by Sched- ule Beginning Today. Service on the Richmond-Washing- ton-New York air passenger line of Eastern Air Transport, operators of the contract air mail line down the At- lantie Coast, was speeded up by a re- arrangement of schedules put into effect anldlgy. 'l;he knew lche’dule, made ploul- le by a faster type of passenger plane, lops approximately 45 minutes off the running schedule, with a time saving of a half hour between this city and New York. Under the new schedule the daily Southbound plane leaves New York at 9 instead of 8 a.m., arriving at the Wash- ington-Hoover Airport at 11:10 instead of 10:40 am, and, finishing its run at Richmond at 12:10 p.m. Flying north, the plane leaves Richmond at 2 pm., ‘Washington at 2:55 p.m. and arrives in New York at 5 p.m. Eighty per cent of the runs are made with a Fokker tri-motored transport plane, a Ford tri-motor being used for the other 20 per cent of the trips, Col. James P. Robinson Field Artillery, of Kansas, recently at Paris, France, on leave; Capt. Hurley O. Richardson, Cav- alry, of Maryland, in this city on leave, and First Lieut. George E. Waldo, Coast Artillery, an Kansas, at Denver, Colo., have been placed on the retired list on account of disabilities incident to the service. Lieut. Col. J. B. W. Corey, Field Ar- tillery, of Wisconsin, instructor of the ‘Washington National Guard, at Seattle, will be retired January 31 on his own application after more than 31 years' service. Col. Jacob M. Coffin, Medical Corps, at Fort Warren, Wyo., has been as- signed to the National Guard of Cali- fornia; Col. Willlam L. Little, Medical Corps, from San Francisco to Fort Warren, Wyo.; Lieut. Col. Daniel P. Card, Medical Corps, from the Philip- pines to San Francisco; Lieut. Ool. Charles F. Severson, Infantry, from the Panama Canal Zone to Buffalo, N. Y.; Col. Frank W. Howell, Infantry, from Vancouver Barracks, Wash., to Boston; Lieut. Col. Henry W. Fleet, General St Corps, from .Governors Island. N. Y., t0 the Panama Canal Zene; Capt. Charles W. Pence, Infantry, from the Philip- pines to Fort Benning, Ga.; Capt. Jo- seph L. Ready, Infantry, from Fort Willlams, Me., to the Philippines; Capt. James L _MclIlhenny, PField Artillery, Neb. %‘:p{’-‘)flbp . Cle mwn, eb.; . James D. Cleary, eers, from Fort Sam Houston, Texas, to Cin- cinnati; and Capt. Edwin H. Haskins, men who are dangerous—not for the Infantry, from Fort Wayne, Wis., to Syracuss University, N. Y. More Efficient Distribution of Funds May Reduce Subjects | or Nights’ Study. CLOSE WATCH PLAN TO DECIDE CHANGES | $95,000 Divided on Basis of Last| Year's Average En- rollment. ‘Washington public night schools, which open Monday, October 6, will be administered this year with a de- termined effort to bring about a more efficient distribution of available funds on the basis of cost per pupil, accord- ing to instructions given the principals by Walter B. Patterson, assistani super- intendent in .charge of special schools. According to Mr. Patterson, only the Business and McKinley Senior High Schools and the Hine Junior High School showed last year that they were entitled to the full amount of the night school appropriation allocated to their use, while the so-called neighborhood night schools, with a -few students in each class, were maintained at an in- finitely higher cost per pupil. Cost to Be Reduced. It is this year's plan, Mr. Patterson declared, to make every effort to reduce the cost per pupil in the neighborhood night schools, either by limiting the number of nights on which they operate cl or by reducing the number of subjects which they teach. Instructions have already gone to the Conduit Road Night Schoo) for classes this year two nights a week, instead of three as for- merly. Under this rule, close watch is to be maintained on the Jefferson, Co- lumbia Junior High Vocational and the Roosevelt School, which is being housed in the Macfarland High School Build- $95,000 for This Year. ‘The total night school appropriation for this year is $95,000. On the basis of last year's average enrollment, the white schools have been allotted 55.5 per cent and the colored schools the re- maining 44.5 of the funds. This provi- sion provides $48925 for the white sshools and $46,075 for the colored schools. The slight difference between the two groups of schools was caused this year by the segregation of the ‘Webster Americanization School enroll- ment, including American illiterates, who seek elementary instruction with the foreigners, which formerly was com- puted in the night school rolls, WOMAN RELEASED IN STORE MURDER Detectives Still Holding Moreland in Probe of Lyons Case at Owings, Md. Mrs. Eulah Marie Carter, 22 years old, of 1017 K street, who was arrested with a companion Saturday night for questioning in connection with the death of Benjamin H. Lyons, Owings, Md., storekeeper, was released by po- | u%emumy‘ tectives, however, are still holding her companion, Lawrence Moreland, at the first precinct. ‘The arrests followed & request Satur- day night by Commonwealth's Attorney Arthur W. Dowell of Prince Frederick County, Md. Moreland had volunteered to rel aring that to fear,” police said. Lyons was found in his store, Sepember 17, with his throat slashed. SHOWS NO .PARTIALITY Man Becomes Involved With Pire- men and Police at Blaze, Showing no partiality, Frederics Bangiter, 60 years old, of the 3800 block of Davenport street, last night en- gaged the attention of the Fire Depart- ment and the police and today was scheduled to IDE“ in Police Court with an explanation. ‘The police alleged that Bangiter be- came disorderly while firemen fought a blaze in his home shortly before 10 o'clock. There was little damage done by the flames. Bangiter was arrested later and released when he put up $5 collateral, BRITISH SHIP COMING H. M. 8. Danae Will Spend Week at Navy Yard. ‘The British light cruiser H. M. 8. Danae is expected in Washington on 8 visit of about a week, beginning Friday. Coming from Bermuda, she will be at the local navy yard from October 3 to 11 and will go from here to Halifax. | The cruiser is under command of Capt. E. R. Bent, D, 8. C,, and was recently at Santa Domingo. “ ngig " ‘ : ‘WASHINGTON, 'RAZING HOWARD HALL TO PUT 67 MURDERERS O 8 HURT IN TRAFFIC | ACCIDENTS IN CITY - AND NEARBY AREA {Army Chaplain Is Felled by Auto While on Way to Deliver Sermon. COASTER WAGON COLLIDES WITH AUTO IN SOUTHEAST Baltimore Machine Crashes Into Pole After Running Off Road Near Riverdale. A series of holiday traffic accidents sent eight persons to hospitals in the District and ne-rbx Maryland yesterday, the most serious of whom is Maj. ‘Thomas Livingston, 60 years old, of the Tilden Gardens, at 3500 Tilden street, who is suffering at the Emergency Hos- pital from a fractured hip, severe shock and & minor laceration above the right eye. Maj. Livingston, Army chaplain, was struck by a machine operated by Dr. William S. Spriggs of 35 Quincy place, Chevy Chase, Md., while standing in the street waiting to board a street car at Connecticut avenue and Macomb street last night. Dr. Spriggs removed the injured man to Emergency Hospital. Maj. Livingston was on his way to the Metropolitan Baptist Church, where he was to have delivered a sermon. Two Baltimoreans received injuries when an automobile in which they were riding ran off the road on the Balti- more-Washington Boulevard near River- dale yesterday and crashed into a tele- phone pole. Woman Taken to Hospital. Mrs. Mary Hill was brought to Provi- dence Hospital with a possible fracture of the skull and other injuries. Her husband, Bernard Hill, who was driving the machine, sustained cuts and bruises and was dismissed after first-aid treat- n;::llt Mrs. Hill remained at the hos- pital, A collision between a coaster wago: and an automobile at Howard road, near Nichols avenue, southeast, yester- day afternoon sent four colored youths to Casualty Hospital for treatment, two :fuwhom are reported in a serious con- lon, Those injured were Arthur Moore, 9 years old, of 1016 Sumner road south- eash; Harry Taylor, 12, of 1027 Sumner road southeast; Moore's twin brother, Leonard Anderson, 14, of ue southeast. Street Car Strikes Woman. eghlflu Copper, 32 years old, of For- ville, Md., who is said to have been driving the car, which struck the boys’ wagon, was held by the eleventh pre- cinct police pending hospital reports. Contusions and lacerations of the face and body were received by Betty Pratt, colored, 38, of 1740 Oregon avenue, when struck by a Capital Traction Co. street car at McKinley street and Con- necticut avenue yesterday. She was sent home after first-aid treatment at the Emergency Hospital. COUNTERFEIT CHARGE HEARING CONTINUED Aaron Trachtenberg Will Seek to Prove Alibi in Alleged Spurious Money Passing. | Hearing of removal proceedings against Aaron Trachtenberg, tire shop on e Gharge of pasing. souniestett on a of counterfe! money, was_continued until October 8, today, by United States Commissioner Needham C. e, when counsel for the accused man stated they needed additional time to secure witnesses to establish an alibi, which Trachtenberg will use as a defense. Trachtenberg was accused of passing & counterfeit $20 bill at Hagerstown on September 13. Bertrand Emerson and E. Russell Kelly, attorneys for the defendant, called a shoemaker from Atlantic City, who testified that Trachtenberg was in his shop at Atlantic City at 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the day the bill Wwas passed. Prosecution witnesses fixed the time that the money was passed at a little after 10 pm. The Government was represented by As- sistant United States Attorney William Gallagher. THROAT BADLY BRUISED Struck by a flying nut from an air- plane, Elizabeth McLaurin, colored, of 2017 Thirteenth street, was attended by a physician today. She was badly bruised on the throat. The woman was standing in her back yard yesterday when an airplane passed above. The small part came loose with such force that it bounced 20 feet after striking the woman. Allegany Resident Dies. OUMBERLAND, Md. September 29 (Special) —Thomas L. Hinkle, one of the oldest native-born residents of Al- legany County, died yesterday at his home, on the Baltimore turnpike, 5% miles east of this city, aged 85. COUPLE, PARTNERS AT HOME, NOW PLAN PAR Federal Employes, Who Have Honors, Pass District Partners at home, byt rivals at col- lege, two of Uncle Sam’s employes are looking forward now to & professional partnership, under the unusual sign, “Mr. end Mrs. Robert V. Stormer, attor- neys-at-law.” Jean Crowley Stormer and Robert V. Stormer came here during the post-war period and obtained Government posi- tions. They met and were married. She was employed in the General Accounting Office and he in the office)| of the allen nmgeny custodian. Instead of spending their evenings at the movies or bridge table, they enrolled in the Law Schdol of Southeastern University of the Y. M. C. A. and spent their evenings over law books. When the list of honor graduates of the university was read at the annual commencement ceremonies last June, the names of Mr. and Mrs. stood high among those receiving special scholastic citation. Only a fraction of a percentage point separated them, the husband’s general average for three years being 9262 per cent and the wife's 92.43. . Both then tackled the District bar TNERSHIP IN LAW and State Bar Tests. two had attracted wide attention at the university and among friends of the couple, and there was much specula- tion as to how one or the other might fare at the hands of the bar examiners. They passed. Mrs, Stormer is from Tennessee, where members of her family long have been distinguished in the realm of juris- prudence. She told her husband she was going to try the Tennessee bar ex- amination and show the folk back hbme how good a lawyer she was. The hus- the same time, just for good luck. Both recently were advised they were luc&eu(ul in g the T tesf o o "t 2 le: 85 ¥ for em| a l-‘: partnership. They are contin el present. They reside in Takomsa Park. Both are about 35 years old. P Beu'.ml.hky d.ld':': do all that ltudylug Just even: away, an one of zfi: days, tl lng." confided to frien g to hang out them partners Stormer | the examination. By this time the friendly rivelry which had develop:d between the hey 8ol a le that will make in business as well as in domestic hap- piness. Been Rivals for Law School | band said he might as well take it at |erty . C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER .29, 1930. When John Carroll, 4470 Reservoir road, ran off the dead end of a road under repair in the construction of the link between the Potomac Speedway and the Rock Creek Valley highway last night, his automobile landed on all ur wheels in the water of Rock Creek. Carroll, unhurt, took a nap while he waited for police to rescue him. Car- roll's photo below. —Star Staff Photo. AUTO DROPS INTO ROCK CREEK < » JELLEFF'S T0 OPEN NEW STORE TONIGHT Reception to Mark Formal! Dedication of Expanded Facilities of Company. ‘The enlarged business home of the firm of Frank R. Jelleff, Inc,, women's wearing apparel and accessories con- cern, located at 1216-1220 F street, will be officially opened to the public at a reception this evening, marking & new step in the advancement of this old ‘Washington establishment. ‘The company has completed the ad- dition and equipment of three stori to the building, which adds approxi- mately 18,000 square feet of space to the quarters of the concern. At the reception this evening guests who have received written invitations will be taken on a tour of inspection of the enlarged quarters and additional equipment in the bullding. Officials and employes of the concern will ex- plain the plan for serving their cus- tomers under the facilities of the new plant. No merchandise sales will be accepted during the evening. Founded in 1898. ‘The store is the outgrowth and suc- cessor to the former concern of Smoot, Coffer & McCalley, which was estab- lished on a comparatively small basis back in October, 1898. It was in Feb- ruary, 1910, when Frank R. Jelleff be- came a part owner of the business, which became known a little over five years leater as Frank R. Jelleff, Inc. In the. years since Mr. Jelleff assumed a directing control .in the business, the concern has made progressive advance- ments, it is pointed out. In the Fall of 1924, the four-floor Jelleff Realty Corporation Building at 1216 F street was completed and in the Em‘lng of 1926 the Strong Estate Build- ing at 1218-1220 was occupied to sup- ply additional space needed for ex- panded business activities. The com- Plellnn of the additional three stories in the bullding at 1216 F street brings this portion of the store quarters to 110 feet with seven stories. The addi- tion was erected by S. J. Prescott Co., Ine, from plans by A, P. Clark, jr., local architect. Elevator Service Increased. While most of the additional floor space in the Jelleff Building will be used for merchandising purposes, in- cluding provision of a fur storage de- g:rtmmt, there also is provided a din- g room for employes and an emer- gency room. Another feature is addi- tional elevator service. The enlargement of the building also made possible a realignment and e: pansion of the provisions of other de partments of the business. UNION MISSION AID FOR JOBLESS RISES John §. Bennett Attributes Condi- tion to Unemployment—Is Un- able to Place Men. More than twice as many men were aided by the Central Union Mission this Summer as last, John 8. Bennett, super- intendent, reported today. He attributed ahe situation to unemployment condi- ons. . less of the hot weather experi- en this month, Bennett said, the mission’s free sleeping quarters have been so overcrowded it has been neces- sary to provide room for some men to sleep sitting up. He added a total of 1,987 men had been given frec shelter each month this year, as compared with an a e of 825 a month last year. nte meals jumped from an average of to 3,227, Bennett rzromd the mission was able to find jobs for but 19 men a month, as compared with the customary average of 35. TOMORROW IS LAST DAY FOR SEMI-ANNUAL TAXES Payments on Real Property Bear- ing Postmarks Before Midnight ‘Will Be Accepted. ‘Tomorrow is the last day for pay- ment of the first half of 1931 real prop- taxes, Collector of Taxes Chatham M. Tow- rs said that any tax payment sent by ‘mail which bore a pos 'k before midnight tomorrow night would be ac- cepted and credited on the books as having been paid in September, Letters postmarked later than that time or not brought to the office tomorrow will bear a ggmlt.y of 1 per cent." he penalty is 1 per cent per month so0 long as the portion of the taxes re- mains unpaid. ‘Tax payers may pay either one-half of the tax now and tke other in March or the entire sum now. ‘The same rules apply to taxes of per- sonal property. Baby Is Strangled As Head Is Wedged | Between Crib Bars William Young, the 20-month- old son of Mr, and Mrs. Leo C. Young of 1810 Douglas street northeast, strangled to death last . night when his head and neck became wedged between the bars of his crib. The child’s father is a well known radio en- gineer of the United States Naval Research Laboratory here. Mr. and Mrs. Young returned home from an automobile ride with William and their two other small children, Leo C, Young, jr., . and Richard Young, xumnx the baby to bed in his erib. Mrs. Young had been absent from the room only about five minutes. = Returning, she found the infant had caught his neck in the narrow opening between the bars, and his' struggles had rendered him unconscious. Mr. Young carried the child to Casualty Hospital, but it was pro- nounced dead on arrival. OBIECTS T0 GRANT LABOR STATEMENT Apology Charged in Hiring of Non-Union Men for White House Work. Vigorous objection to what is char- |acterized as the “apologetic” attitude of Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, toward labor unions in his recent explanation of the award of the White House re- painting job to a non-union contractor was made today in a letter to Col. | Grant from John E. Edgeton, president |of the National Association of Manu- facturers. Union Partiality Charged. Referring to Col. Grant's statement that “this office is not Erone or inclined to give contracts to the employers of non-union labor, except as required by the laws governing administrative of- ficers,” Edgerton charged this indicated partiality toward union labor on the part of the director of public buildings and public parks. In making the letter public, Edgerton announced that Grant's statement would be the subject of ‘“special con- sideration” at the annual meeting in New York next week of the National Assoclation of Manufacturers. The letter to Col. Grant follows in “Public_contracts are paid for from public funds supplied by the taxation | of all citizens alike, and I respectfully submit that neither the law nor a decent sense of American tradition justifies the plain implication of your announcement, that public work is to be given by a public officer to other than employ of one kind of labor, save with grudg- ing regret. Most Labor Non-Union. “It is conservative to estimate that 80 per cent of the production and services performed by and for the American le are rendered by those who are not affiliated with labor organizations. Were other departments to practice the policy which Jour unfortunate language and apologetic comparisons suggest to be yours, the Government would arbi- trarily deny opportunity to obtain con- tracts and employment to an over- whelming proportion of ‘who contribute to the public treasury. * * * “I protest, firmly but sadly, the un- happy apology which you, as a_public officer, have thrust int6 an otherwise appropriate explanation of our Govern- ment's incapacity to discriminate be- tween its citizens. It must impress the public as a regrettable endeavor to con- done the existence of a great principle without which our Government could not endure.” DIES ON WAY HOME ‘W. E. Montgomery Stricken Leaving Benedict, Md. ‘Walter E. Montgomery, 25 years old, of 1257 U street, was taken ill while returning to the District from a party at Benedict, Md., and dled early yester- day before he 'could be taken to a doctor. A certificate of death due to alcoholism was issued by Deputy Cor- oner A. M. McDonald. Police were told that Montgomery had been drinking 8 heavily for several days. DEPRESSION FELT . IN RELIEF COSTS, CATHOLICS HEAR Unemployment as Cause of Rising Expenditure Is Discussed. ILLS NOW T0O MUCH FOR SOCIAL WORKERS Conference Breaks Up Into Com- mittee Meetings Here Today. Industrial unemployment as a factor in the “rising tide” of relief expendi- tures was discussed at today's session of the National Conference of Catholic Charitles, which separated into group meetings at the Willard Hotel for the remaining period of the sixteenth annual meel\l:{. Speakers coincided with the view of Miss Louise McGuire of Washington, representative of the National Catholic School of Special Service, that private agencies have demonstrated they cannot meet needs of social ills on a wholesale e.lw:lau I;henl th:ee needs include urln’ o mployed cases grow! industrial depression. agn bl Unemployed Total Rises. “Our present machine age is such that the lines separating employable from unemployables is shifting so as to daily swell the latter number,” Miss McGuire sald. “We have the chronically unem- ployed to care for even when times are normally good.” “The rising tide of ‘relief expendi- is causing great concern t social workers, especially those in family case Work agencies, public and private; sec- tarian and non-sectarian and in Com- munity Chests,” she pointed out. These increased expenditures, she stressed, have resulted in social work being listed as the third biggest business in the United States and unless some of its probiems are quickly solved, there is a probability that it will become the “big- gest business.” Despite tremendous strides in preven- tion of disease and in building up the health of the community, she lllg. the past year has witnessed chaotic condi- tions in all relief agencies, caused by unemployment. Publicity Causes Rise, “But industrial depressions, however, are not the only factor which have caused relief to sweep upward,” she declared. One of the contributing factors in soaring relief expenditures, she pointed out, was publicity which tended to make many persons feel that it is their duty, not only to contribute to the fund, bat to refer numerous clients to the relief office as well. ‘Touching on the unemployment situa- tion, Very Rev. R. M. Wagner, director of Catholic Charities, Cincinnati, said it was likely that industry itself is add- ing to the “enormous unemployment blll” by refusing to employ men, in many cases, over 45 years of age. He cited cases in which ‘business concerns have declined to employ ablebodied men who have passed that age. Miss McGuire, suggested, however, that the attitude of younger employes. is largely responsible for this ban being placed because of the increased rates it would necessitate in group insurance, Committees Meet. This meeting of the Committee on Families was also addressed by Dr. Henry Schumacher, director Child Guidance Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. He discussed chiefly the influence of relief givu:! on personality and its develop~ ment Other meetings conducted during the mo were those of the Committee on Protective Care, the Committee Children and the Committee on Health. At the general conference meeting to- night Rev. Jones , 8. J., of Boston College and Mrs. E. J. McDonald of Waterbury, Conn., will be the prin~ cipal speakers. Tomorrow evening Sec- retary of Labor James J. Davis will be the chief speaker. Among those who addressed confer- ence meetings early today were Dr. Clifford Shaw of Chicago, Rev, Louis Weitzman, 8. J., of Detroit; Sister Maria of St. Agnes Convent, 3 Dr. Leo H. Bartemeier of the Detroit St. Vincent de Paul So- clety, Dr. Thomas V. Moore of the Catholic University and . Miss Marie Judlg; of the Baltimore Travelers' Ald . . Wilbur Chief Speaker, thDri ?{ Lymnn“wuwr. Secrel e Interior, was the principal speaker last night at the first gennl',:l ml::flnl of the conference, which was held in the gymnasium of the Cathoilc Univer- sity. As chairman of the White House conference on child health and pro- tection, Secretary Wilbur took for his topic last night the latest developments in child care in the United States, As soon as the findings of the White House conference are in the hands of social workers, he sald, they will be able to mnl;e much more rapid progress th their work, Secretary Wilbur pointed out that the present ratio of dependency in this country places upon every worker the burden of caring, directly or indirectly, for almost two persons who are unable provide for themselves. He also cited the changing standards created with the advent of automobiles, moving pictures, radio and other recent inven- tions and explained that the purpose of the White House conference was to see “where we are going with our boys and girls under these new conditions.* Other speakers at the meeting were Right Rev. James H. Ryan, honorary president of the conference and rector of the Catholic University; Thomas F, Farrell, president of the conference, . and Bernard J. Fagan of the New York State Board of Parole. Mr, Fagan, in his address, declared that the so-called criminal type has proven to be mon- existent; that there is no means, ex- ternally, by which criminals may be distinguished from normal citizens, A pontifical high mass was celebrated y morning at St Patrick's Church by Right Rev. John M. Mc- Namara, auxiliary bishop of the arch- diocese of Baltimore, followed by several group meetings. The mass was partici- ‘pated in by & number of clergy in at- tendance at the conference. The Right Rev. T. C. O'Rellly, Bishop of Scranton, Pa, preached the sermon. Bishop 4 tressed :;l:“ at need of to- tary of [ caring for them. He remind- ed his audience ‘that i America, land of plenty though it is, there are oppor- 'fi‘::‘lim for works of charity of every NSS! ‘Women to Give Card Party. MOUNT RAINIER, Md., September 29 (Special).—The Womens Democratic Club of the seventeenth district will give » card party Wednesday night at Star Hall,