Evening Star Newspaper, October 21, 1930, Page 17

. Washi PARLEY ADVISES DOUBLING GAS TAX Full Traffic Council Backs Proposal, However, by Vote of 8 to 6. | $800 to $2,000. HIGH REGISTRATION FEE IS ALSO RECOMMENDED Frame, Battling Against Gross ‘Weight Levy on Trucks, Loses by Count of 14 to 1. Doubling of th: gasoline tax, doubling of the registration fees for passenger cars, enormously increasing the regis- tration fees for trucks, especially solid~ tired trucks, omitting personal property tax on both—these were some of the recommendations made $o the District Commissioners at a ja!at meeting of the Traffic Advisory Council and Traffic Committee last night. These ravenue-boosting measures had & hard road to trav:l in tile committee, particularly the gas tax increases. But R g 90 . ngton News . Legal Ranks Crowded WASHINGTON, D. C, INAVY YARD FORCE Census Survey Reveals First Two Years Are Hardest for Law Graduates—44,510 Studying to Become : " Attorneys; Tuition Costs Low. BY REX COLLIER. The first two years are the hardest | for the young man just out of law| school. All his’ “cramming” between the covers of Blackstone, backed by his diploma and his bar certificate, will net him during his first year or 5o from The prospects after that are brighter n;;- mt.ll\:‘ :verlleh '};oung h:'y.:rl.l r:t n:f a enougl preven portion of law graduates from tomf‘ln‘ the practice of their chosen profession in favor of business pursuits. -Such, at least, are the conclusions drawn by Walter J. Greenleaf, associate soecialist_in higher education of the Interior Department’s office of educa- tion, following & recent survey of con- diticns in the field of legal education. “For the first year or two the young lawyer has a ltfll]?lc to make ends meet,” Mr, Greenleaf announced today. “Surveys show that_during this ogeflod he may earn $800 to $2,000. In a recent study 107 lawyers five years out of college averaged $4,254, while 116 lawyers 10 years out averaged $6,931 annually, Greater rewards vary with reputation, service and clientele. Profession Overcrowded. “The legal profession s overcrowded. In the 1920 census there were listed 122,519 lawyers. judges and justices, of which 1,738 were women. This means there is about one lawyer to every 500 adults. > “Althcugh some 10,000 new students are graduated in Jaw annually, a large they came through, by a vote of 8 to 6, after a bitter fight led by Theodore P. , Noyes. - i The fight on the gas tax was Thottest :( the evening, but an even more forelorn hope was led by C. H Frame of the Merchants’ and Manufac- turers' Association, who :‘n:d to - ition to trucks o e of rated capacity. t instead g:-pr:&zhea elaborate figures tending | 27 © to sbow how unjust such a ition ‘would be to fleet owners los* by a count of 14 to 1. Need Is Denied by Noyes. In his attack on the proposed irf- erease in the gasolne tax, as well as t}u increased reg.stration fees, Mr. Noyes declared th:re had been shown no need for the increcsed fe‘v'eml:'—llfluo.llflo—- which these increases had n esti- mated to yield. The District will come ough the fiscal year with & surplus of $1,800,000, he said. - The streets are condition. is things could icering onto the shou dents of the city the entirs cost of highway | Distriet of extension, paving end improvement. u!""' is next proposal we exact school tax to suj schodls from those whese children go to school, a police tax to.suport the lice from thos: who call on the po- ice, & five tax to support the Fir> De- partment from those whoss houses catch on fire and a prison tox to sup- port the , exacted from {2o0se who 80 to jail. u’;xc‘u ufe"n say that f-hé!“i: cendc :; strargost reports ever deliver m of Washingtonians. What likewise opposed the report, as did Harry M. Bedell of the Chamber of Commerce, who pointed out that in- cluded in the Highway Department's expenses which would pe shouldered onto the automobile users was the cost and repairing sidewalks. He y won his point, and the sidewalk item, amounting to about $60,- 000 a year, was stricken from the re- rt, but the rest of it was adopted y a-vote of 8 to 6. C. P. Clark of the American Automobile Association made & brief speech in favor of the report. Provisions in Report. The report. as adopted, recommends: 1. Motor-fuel tax of 4c per gallon. Establish a mctor-fuel tax of 4 cents per_gallon. . IL Restricted registration of solid- ehicles. strict registration of solid-tired wehicles to those owned and heretofcre registered in the District .of Columbia, thus accomplishing the gradual elimi- nation of this most destructive type of vehicle. III. Registration fees to be based on gross weight. Adopt gross weight as the basis for determining the schedule of registia- tion fees for all vehicles with a gross weleht in excess of 6,000 pounds. 1IV. Formula for determination of registraticn fees. To determine sch:du’e of registre- tion tees for vchicles with gross weight in excess of 6.000 pounds, us> the em- pirical formula: Fee—A plus B (gross weight) where A is a basic fee. V. Basic fee for commercial vehicles. Establish a basic fee of $1 for com- mercial vehicles except that the basic fee for electrically-prcpelied commercial by vehicles shall be $25 mn lieu of motor- fuel tax. VI. Schedule of registration fees for solid-tired vehicles. Apply formula: Fee=1 (gross weight in tons)® plus $1 to determine schedule of registration fees for sclid-tired ve- hicles. For solid-tired vehicles of over 10 tons s weight establish fees suffi- clently high to encourage the owners to equip said vehicles with pneumatic tires. » VII Schedule of egistration fees for pneumstic-tired vehicles with gross weight in excess ¢f 6,000 pounds. Apply o) Fee= 14 (gross weight in tons). plus §1°to determine schedule of registration , For vehicles with welght ' in excess of 10 tons es- ish fees suffiglently high to encour- age the them, when worn out, ‘with iy vehicles. VIII. Registration fees for private vluenfirnmda. Establish a registration fee of $2 for mfimmmmm propos in the city, but { for | Whitehurst, District highway engineer, proportion of them never practice, but enter ‘business, “:merel tdhelr training stands them stead.” The _department's inquiry disclosed the ‘cost of a legal education is R eiica ot ool many iches of |- schools hieh 3504 goes for tultion, 335 ‘Wi goes for n, . $270 for board at & dol'lg day, $135 for room rent at 50 cenis a day and $36 for laundry at one dollar & Tuition Costs Vary. Tuition fess vary_ greatly. ranging from $13 in Oklahoma to § at Har- verd, Yale end Pennsylvania. The av- erage npight . school tuition Is $145. Thirty State universities offer special reduced rates to resident students. The estimate of total expense for one year's study of law does not include miscellaneous essentials such as cloth- ing, amusements and 'travel, “which vary with individual thrift and taste,” Mr. Greenleaf pointed out. “Tuition in the night schools is low.” students work on full- by self-help, scholarships and other student aids.” ‘The National Capital has more night law students than the individual totals of the States, excepiing New York and ‘There are 2,472 stu- night law classes in the Columbia, as compared with 6,231 in New York City and Brookiyn and 3,719 in that citadel of learning, ton. 55 Per Cent Study Law at Night. high | tive positions in | Total enrollment in night schools throughout the country is 24,556. Total day enrollment is 19,954. The day courses are three years in length. “Reading law” in a law office as & means of preparation for admission to the bar has “almost entirely disap- peared,” Mr. Greenleaf discovered. Law Schools in American have supplanted “law office study.” The standard re- quirement set by the American Bar As- sociation for admission to approved law schools, it was stated, is two years of academic college work. The length of “period of study in-a law school is_three years of full-time work or four years of part-time work. Upon completion of such training the degree of bachelor of Jaws -usually is conferred, after which the graduate comes up for bar exami- nation. 3 Ninety-seven Day Law Schools. Law sthools offering daytime class work number 97, most of which are approved by the Council of Legal Edu- cation, ‘Mr. Greenleaf said. “Sixty-six of the day- schools are members of the Asgociation of American Law Schools. not including McGill in Canada and the University of the Philippines. Eighty- eight institutions, including - 17 day schools, schedule class room “work at hours in the late afternoon, evening or night, permitting students on full-time jobs to study law after hours. Only 8ix of these schools are approved by the Council on Legal Educat’on. According to the Carnegie Founda- tion annual review of legal education in 1929, Mr. Greenleaf asserted, 15 States do not require an applicant, before he takes the bar examination, to possess a specific amount of general education and to have studied law during a defi- nite period of years. " These States are Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgla, North Dakota, Utah and Virginia. Nineteen States have specific require- ments both of general education and of \a definite period of study, but not all students need complete their gen- eral education before they begin their law studies. The final group of 15 States requires applicants to have se- cured a specified amount of gercral education and, following this, to study law during a specified number of years. The latter States are Colorado, Con- necticut, Tlinois, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohic. Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessce and Wash- ington. Lists Duties of Attorney. out that an attorney at law “is an offi- theclaws of th WS e Jand relating to high interests of property, liberty and life.” ‘His first duty,” it was explained, “is the sdministration cf justice; his sec- ond is to his client, with whom rela- tionships imply the highest confidence and trust. He is obligated to be true to the court and to his client; to transact his cliert’s business with care, tact and skill; to keep his client’s secrets, and to Feport to his client the status of his af- Like the doctor, an attorney may become & general practitioner or a spe- clalist. . . Legal ethics are such that a lawyer may not advertise or so- licit employment. He may ‘hang out his own shingle,” accept employment in the United States Government as attor- ney, legal examiner, patent expert, specialist or clerk, or may take execu- business, industry, com- merce, banking or insurance; and he may aspire to be called mayor, gov- ernor, representative in State and na- ;‘l::lhu tures, or judge on the the fee for electrically-propelled vehicles of this class shall be $20 in lieu of mo- tor-fusl tax. IX. Registration fees for other classes of _vzhicles. Establish registration fees of (a) 89| for hecks and livery vehicles. (b) 39 for rented cars, (c) £50 for sight-seeing 2s, (d) $35 for intracity common carrier busses and $50 fcr interstate ;muu,u(e) fl“::r mc;wr cfi;elu. ™) 35 or_self-prope! uipment. 3 t.rlr,lone}eu for deajers in motor vehicles. Establish a fee of $25 for the first two sets of license plates issued to dealers, and $2 for each additional set of plates issued. Continue under present law but t administrative measures designed prevent delinquency in renewals. " Eliminate personal property tax on motor vehicles. Credit to the line tax road and street fund all collections from the fol- 3 Al [ees. f i e o 4. Motor vehicle operatogs’ 3 Appropriate from this fund. as needed, for all expenditures of the Highway De- rtment, including salaries| of person- of the director of traffic, including sal- arfes. Use the fund for these expendi- tures only. Auction Motion Adopted.’ ‘The ajgebraic formulae given for cal- culation | of the registration fees for trucks are those worked out by the United Stat:s Bureau of Public Roads, and are designed to make the fees cor- respond to the damage dons to pave- ments by the trucks of the various weights. On motion of Capt. Herbert C. the committee adopted a recommenda- tion that the Police Department cease auctioning cars unless they are me- chanically sound. The “safe a life” campalgn, proposed by Assistant Traffic Director Maurice O. Eldridge, in the course of which automobiles would be examined and approved at a list of 100 garages to be deciared official testing stations by the District Government, was_vigorcusly opposed by C. P. Clark | of the American Automobile Association SUBSTATION VALU QUESTION TAKEN U Cut in Electricity Rates Here Next Year. William_F. Ham, president of the Potomac Electric Power Co., conferred with the Public Utilitles Commission yesterday with reference to the figure at which the company’s office building and power substations are to be retired from its valuation when the company moves to its new building, having sold the old to the Federal Government. No agreement was reached, but the matter will be canvassed again. The commission makes the point that the company is seeking to set up too low a figure, 50 that there will remain in the valuation a balance not represented by any lrropeny‘ ‘The probable out- come will be that & public hearing will be called to decide the whole question, it was said, as this particular retire- ment has been under negotiation for ‘months Mr. Ham told reporters after the meeting that there would probably be & tricity next year, owing to the pros- perity enjoyed by the power company during the present year. Each month thus far it has earned more net revenue than in the same month last year, in spite of its operation on a lower rate | schedule. The rates have been cut | each year since 1924 under a consent decree of District Supreme Court, whereby all excess return over 71; pe cent on the company’s valuation is split, the company taking half in cash, and the consumers half in the way of re- duced rates. The size of the cut will not be defin- itely considered until near the close of | as a proposal whereby automobile parts and accessory dealers would mai a lot of money. The committee adopted instead the | proposal of George W. Offutt that sefety inspection be made constantly by | experts in ths employ of the District. These reports, together with others recently adopted by the committee and council, now go to the Commissioners, who will draft legislation for adopting ch of the ideas in the reports as they approve and send it up to Con- gress at the beginhing of the next ses- son. 4 WILL FIGHT GAS TAX GAIN. ‘The Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association stands ready to resort-to every effort to prevent ths imposition of any additional tax on gasoline, Ed- ward D. Shaw,"secretary of the group, sald today. In a letter being drafted to the District Commissioners the trade group will vxs:mmly reiterate a stand taken more thap & year ago when a tax increase was proposed by Repre- sentative P. L. Zihlman of Maryland. At that time the association went on record by vote of its Board of Gover- nors in absolute ition to additional levies on lu'onomuluel. ““The action of the Traffic Advisory construed .as flmflofmfis zanmfi 2 gmmflyhn‘hfilbmm." . Shaw . sald. “ F, ember, when the amount available "c-n be more accurately determined. BOY'S "SKULL FRACTURED | S |9-Year-0ld Frank Kay Falls From Third-Story Porch. A compound fracture of the skull was suffered by 9-year-old Prank Kay of 1125 Eleventh eet yesterday ernoon when he fell from a third-story porch at the home of a gl-ymntc. ter was helping Robert Adams, " 11, of 1217 Eleventh street, clean some papers off the porch when :2: railing against thch he \v;s lean- . gave away. A large bay of papers broke his fali. The boy was removed to Emergency Hospital in a semi-conscious condition and treated by staff physicians, who re- m:ed his condition slightly improved y. . .. Women Stages Held-Up. Pushing & revolver into the face of Aston Poulos, manager of a lunch room 8t 232 Four-and-a-half street, last night, a colored woman bandit :n'll:!ved him of $14 and made her get- gating the case with & minute descrip- tion of the gunwoman, “subltantial cut” in the price of elec- T the pros-| Tufts. All are eligibie for re-election. GUT 70 BE SLIGHT IN NEXT 6 MONTHS Less Than 100 of 4,087 Civilians Employed Expect- ed to Be Droppeq. OFFICIALS SAY LARGEST SLASH ALREADY MADE Slowing Down of Operations Has Resulted in Discharge of 750 Recently. ‘The Washington Navy Yard's present civilian personnel of- 4,087 members will not be reduced by more than 100 mem- bers in the next six months, it was said today at the Navy Department. ‘The Government’s decision to suspend building a large number of cruisers has resulted in the discharge of about 750 civilians in recent months, but it was lu:d vt.odly that the force would be kept ntact. Inquiry at the yard revealed that on April 30 the roster contained the names of 4,827 persons, representing all the civilian personnel and the force that was built up to care for the 15-cruiser construction program. List Reduced to 4,087. ‘When the decision was made to sus- pend the building of a large number of the new cruisers, it became necessary to release gradually a large number of workmen, so that the civilian personnel list today stands at 4,087. Officials at the navy yard said there is no surplus of work, but that through l i Ham, After Parley, Forecasts | cieed Cups & management it has possible to keep the force pretty well intact, although the industrial de, has been feit here. The Washington wark- men are now engaged on the construc- tion of guns, turret mounts and in- stallation for the cruisers Indianapolis, being built by the New York Ship Build- ing Corporation at Camden, N. J.; the Portland, being bu‘lt at Fall Mass., by the Bethleh:m Ship Building Corporation; the New Orleans. being built at the New York Navy Yard; the Astoria, being built at the Puget Sound Navy Yard; Bremerton, Washington and ‘The department’s statement points|the Minneapolis, under construction at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. In addi- cer the court with both public and | tion-to. this work, construction is going private obligations; a man set apart to | forward in ordnance stores for the Navy, persons who seek him |and work is being done on the relining of the great guns. Most of Reductions Made. Plans are now under way for start- ing on the ordnance work of the new cruiser, to be built at Mare Island, Calif, Navy Yard, which West Ccast folk are making strenuous effoi to | have named the U. S. 8. San Prancisco, and the new aircraft carrier to be con- structed at Newpcrt News, Va, ‘The largest number of reductions m sight, brovght about by the slowing down of the naval building program, have now been made, Navy Yard of COMMERCE BODY TO HOLD ELECTION Chamber to Choose Officers and Award Membership Prizes at . Meeting Tonight. The election of officers for the com- ing year of the Washington Chamber ol Commerce will mark the annual meeting at the Mayflower Hotel to- night. Ten new directors will be elec ed. In addition to a president, first rce president and second vice presi- lent. Awards for the winning teams in membership campaign recently by the chamber will be awarded. will be presented to Team No. 8, captained by A. Ewaldsen of the Wash. ington Gas Light Co:, and to Team No. 11, captained by Mrs. Ada Mills Payne. These two teams acquired 78 and 30 new members respectively of -the more than 400 enlisted in the drive. Individual Awards. Individual prizes will be awarded to George B. Fraser, who obtained 27 new members, and Harry T. Peters, who signed up 21. Souvenirs will be pre- sented to James J. Bennett, H. Bocor- selski, Elsie A. Camion, J. 8. Coleman, James M. Denty, Richard A. Ennis, Fenton M. Fadeley, A. C. Lakeman. Grant Leet, Raymond Lurba, Martin J. McNamara, H. J. Phelps, R. V. Russell, E. T. Stafford, Caroline B. Stephen. J J. Westcott and George M. Whitwell, all active team workers during the drive, Directors at End of Term. The 10 directors whose terms expire tonight are Frederick Buchholz, Travers J. Crocker, Ralph A. Davis, Peter A. Drury, John A. Eckert, G. Manson Foote, R. B. Lyon, M. Pearl McCall, Norman W. Oyster and Willlam O. The president of the chamber is Charles W. Darr. Rudolph Jose is first vice president and Harry King is second vice president. — EX-MARINE IS NAMED CO-RESPONDENT IN SUIT Stephen F. Baltimore Sues Wife on Charge of Desertion—Mar- ried in 1926. Charles George Barr, jr., 26 years old, an ex-Marine, who pleaded withr a Po- lice Court judge that he had stolen food for his wife and children and who later was sent to jail when probation officers learned that the woman and children did not comprise his legal family, was named as co-respondent today in a suit for an ahsolute divorce filed by Stephen F. Baltimore, 510 Second street, against Thelma P. -Baltimore, who was de- scribed as the woman for whom Barr had stolen food. The husband declares his wife deserted him last January. tober 3, 1926, and shortly after the birth of their child, in November, 1928, the wife began to neglect her household duties and accepted the attentions of other men. Following his discovery of Barr at h's home, he states, his wife left him last January ROOF SMASHED BY BLAST ‘The roof of a small building at the rear of the Hip) me Theatcr, 808 K street, was demolished yesterday when a heating plant boller exploded, Damage was estimated at $500. The audience witnessing the picture be in the theater were un- aware of the blast the presentation, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, River, | This “old-fashioned” structure, to be known as “Washington Friends’ Meeting House,” is bei Florida avenue znd Phelps place, to be a national gathering place for “Friends,” including President 1930. It may be finished in time for Christmas. WORK IS SPEEDED ON QUAKER HOUSE Builders Hope President and Wife Will Worship in It | Christmas. On a wooded slope bounded by Phelps place, Plorida avenué and De- catur place, not far from President Hoover’s former home, on S street, a sturdy stone structure of traditional Quaker architecture is being completed for a national “old-fashioned meeting house,” where President and Mrs. Hoo- ver and Friends of all branches in America may worship in the simplicity and silence of that ancient faith. ‘The building is being rushed by con- tractors with the hope that it may be ready for Christmas. The heavy stone walls are complete, the slate roof is on, plasterers are now busy on the in- terior and preliminary grading opera- tions have already started on the gently sloping hillside. Beh.nd th: building of this sturdy structure of modest dimensions there is no great.national organization nor are there any plans for exiensive celebra- tion usually marking the dedication of nationél churches ®f other faiths in the National Capital. Quietly have plans for the “new old-fashioned” WKHM gone forward, and the organization be- hind the movement still is described as . Contributions have come from néted ‘“Priends” of branches throughout the country, it is understood. President Hoover contributed to the building. But no list of contributors or even the group behind the movement has yet come to light. The money has been raised, the “meeting house” is be- ing completed, and when once opened for worship the mention of money in the public meetings for worship will be noticeable by its absence. No collec- tion of money for support of the meeting ever will be taken at a meeting for worship. Many Church Features Lacking. ‘The new “meeting house” no steeple, no bell. It has no chlmh:: nor will there be any organ, as the worshi) of the old-fashioned ‘“Priends,” as it was explained today by one of them, will be carried on without music. Plans for ‘the’ méeting house were drawn by Walter F. Price of Phila- delphia, an authority on Quaker archi- tecture, who has made an extensive study, not only, af old meeting houses in this country, but in England as well. The treasurer of the building co mittee, the only person who has a peared publicly in connection with the meeting house, is Mrs. Charles D. Wal- cott of 1743 Twepty-second street. “We hope that Friends o‘ all belief will come here to worship,”™ said Mrs. ‘Walcott. Most_of the “monthly meetings” of “Friends” throughout the country be- long to one of the two principal branches, known as the “Orthodox” and the “Hicksite” groups of Friends, but the new meeting house is to be identi- fi-1 with neither. It is independent and will welcome members of either of these principal groups or of the other smaller groups of Friends, it was ex- plained. President Hoover, according to the manner of speaking of Priends, was “porn a Friend.” His mother was a Quaker preacher well known in Iowa, where - she traveled extensively, ad- dressing many different meetings. Mrs. Hoover later joined the Friends faith. They have worshiped at both of the Friends’ meeting houses here in Wash- ington, one on I street and the other at Thirteenth and Irving streets, and also in one at Sandy Spring, Md. It is exfitcud that the new meetin house will probably be their principi place of attendance after Christmas. Quaker Architecture Used. Into the structure is b2ing put all the solidity that was the Quaker conribu- tion to architecture. The twin doors of the early congre- gations, with their twin flights of steps, appear on its Eastern exposure, each door bordered in bigger blocks of the hative stone. The twin chimneys are copper-banded, and copper eaves empty into decorative twin copper rain-spouts. In the days of Willlam Penn, the two doors divided the congregatiom, the women entering one door, the men an- other—and a shutter was available to rouee. For women were once too timid to join in discussions with the men, though the Quaker faith always granted them e%:lu:ll‘lm But today the two are merely to expedite entrance, and President and Mrs. Hoover will worship side by side in the unadorned auditorium; white of celling, gray of wall, where the PFriends, foregoing the music and ritual of other religious groups, will sit in the silence as the'r fathers did before tiiem, until one of their number arises to address them. White House Beams Used. Beams that came from tbe White House in the last remodeling, when the third story was added, will be used for the ceiling of the committee room in a ‘basement wing to the main meeting house. Here the business affairs of the congregation will be settled. There will be a huge open fireplace. On the door to the Phelps place en- trance to the meeting .house Will It has been reported that| tha | constructed at d Mrs. Hoover, —Star Staff Photo. GAS DEATH ACCIDENTAL Coroner Issues Certificate in Wil- liam T. Drowns Case. A certificate of accidental death was issued by Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt last night in the case of William Thomas Drowns, 63 years old, who was found dead in his room at 119 Pennsylvania avenue yesterday afternoon, with gas escaping from an unlighted heater. The body, which was lying partially clad on the flcor, was identified by a son. A box of maiches was fcund near Drowns’ body while the room was filled with gas escaping from an unlighted jet. — POWER CONTRACT 15 RULED ILLEGAL ‘Corporatjon Counsel Bride! | ‘Holds Available Funds Can- ‘not Be Diverted. { | Corporation Counsel William W. | Bride yesterday in an opinion forward-, ed to the District Commissioners ruled | ith the tion for furnishing the District Reformatory, and Workhouse at Lorton and Occoqudn, Vi , Va. | There is an appropriation of $55,000 for development of a combined power and heating plant for the two institu- tions now available, and Mr. Bride ruled be diverted 1¢ stantial forfeits to be lost b: trict if it was! not continued for the full period. In matters such as these, Mr. Bride ruled, the Commissioners bad no power to make a contract for more than a single year. { Commissioner Luther-H. Reichelderfer and Engineer Commissioner John C. Gotwals, accompanied by other Dis. trict officials, vis! the plants in ques- tion yesterday on an inspection tour. Besides the $55,000 already appropriated there is an item of $38,500 in the pend- ing budget for the next fiscal year. The Commissioners had planned to let the first item revert to the Treasury and to strike the second out of the estimates. It is not known what their course will now be. The matter is expected to come up at the board meeting next Friday. HYDE CALLS TARIFF GAIN FOR FARMERS Opens Missouri Tour on Behalf of Republican Candidates for Congress. By the Associated Press. CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., October 21. —The new tariff act was termed “a distinct gain for agriculture” by Arthur Hyde, Secretary of iculture and former Missouri Governor, in an ad- dress here last night. The Secretary's address was the first on a tour of Missourl in behalf of Re- publican congressional candidates. “For agriculture the tariff act is a distinct gain,” he said. “Actually and potentially it increases the tariff pro- duction for the American farmer. It will hold the American market for the American farmer. “It gives American agriculture a greater opportunity for wise diversifi- cations and crop planning by stimulat- ing the production of crops of which we_ have been chiefly importess.” Secretary Hyde used the occasion to deny some of the tariff statements of Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Demo- cratic National Committee, whom he called his “favorite fiction writer.” “The farmer pays the increased tariff rates on $140 worth of purchases,” he said. “He collects the tariff rates, to the extent they are effective, on 100 per_cent of his sales. “In the light of these facts the Dem- ocratic claim that the tariff will cost the farmer $10 for.every $1 becomes worse than ridiculous. It is positivelyy ‘mendacious.” Several Killed in Fair Explosion. FARO, Portugal, October 21 (#)— Several persons were killed and some injured in an explosion at an exhibi- tion building of a village fair Sunday. ‘The people were thrown into E\nu: and several were hurt in their flight from the place. | be the hardware from ' discarded door of the old Birmingham Meeting House on the Brandywine, where were taken the wounded of the Battle of Brandywine. Proud oaks already stand in the yard. A wall of native stone will be built. ‘Rhododendrons will be | Brentwood rea: INQUEST IS CALLED INTO CRASH DEATH Mrs. Nettie Sherman Expires After Auto and Street Car Collide. An inquest is being held at the Dis- trict Morgue this afternoon into the death of Mrs. Nettie Sherman, 77 years old, of Corning, N. Y., who died at Sibley Hospital last night from injuries received in a traffic accident at North Capitol and Evart streets northeast Saturday. Mrs. Sherman was rit in an auto- mobile driven by Jacob H. Stout, 52, of 33 - Pranklin street t, ab whose home she had been visiting, when it was in a collision with a street cer ‘sald’ to have bcen' operated by Met rman Willicm Brunner, 36, of 2613 ncriiess. Stcut and\ his wiie, Mrs. Matildza out, 67, eseeped with mincr contus- slons end shock, but Mrs. Shermin was | rushed to Sibley Hosp.tal in a critcal | | condition with a possible skull fracture, | broken ribs, bruises and shock. Police did not learn of the accident until Mrs. Sherman’s death last nigh:. Members of the eighth precinct took Brunner, an employe of the Washington Railway & Electric Co., and Stout into custody when advised of Mrs. Sherman’s death and held the two men in the witness room at No. 8 station for the coroner’s jury summoned for today's 8. : persons, two young boys and a woman, were injured yesterday after- noon when struck down by automobiles in a tro of minor traffic accidents. Mrs. Essie Rosette, 27 years old, of the 200 block Third street was given first-aid treaiment at Emergency Hos- pital for cuts and bru'ses -sustained when _an automobile operated by Wil- Jiam Crowder, 300 block T street, felled her. Eleven-year-old Curtis Harris of 313 Fifteenth street northeast was hurt when an automobile driven by George B. Clum, 320 Fifteenth street northeast, struck him near his home. The boy was carried to Casualty Hospital and treated for minor leg injuries. A fractured arm and possible internal injurles were suffered by Luther Kelly, colored, 7, of the 400 block I street when hit by a machine driven Mrs. Dor- othy E. Cruitt of the 1300 block C street southeast, HAWKS IN 71-MINUTE FLIGHT FROM NEW. YORK Makes Trip in “Mystery” S to Take Luncheon With David S. Ingalls. Despite head winds, which slowed him down 15 or 20 milcs an hour, Capt. Frank M. Hawks flew to the National Capital from New York in 71 minutes today to have lunch with David S. In- galls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics. Capt. Hawks made the trip in the Travelalr “Mystery” S, the plane in which he established the non-stop trans- continental speed record of 12 hours and 25 minutes. Before landing he put on a brief demonstration over the Anacostia naval air station to show the speed of his plane. Pulling out of a dive, he crossed the fleld at a speed estimated at nearly 300 miles per Rour. Capt. Hawks was met at the local air station by Mr. Ingalls, Capt. John H. ‘Towers, ‘assistant chief of the Navy Bu- reau of Aeronautics, and other ranking Navy officials and pilots. Capt. Hawks will fly back to New York-this after- noon. SLEUTH’S CAR STOLEN Detective Wilson Seeks Bureau's Aid to Recover Machine. A plea for help has been made to members of the Detective Bureau by one cf their kind, Detective Sergt. H. K. Wilson. An automobile bearing the Maryland tag numbers 176-739—representing Sergt. Wilson’s means of transportation between police headquarters and his h&xlne at Colmar Manor, Md.—-has been stolen. ‘The car was taken by some daring thief last night from a parking place near headquarters while Sergt. Vxlson was attending the 7 o'clock roll call. SMOKE SCREEN WORKS Two colorcd men, riding in a car| suspected of hauling whisky, escaped | from officers of the second use of a smoke screen when closely at New Jersey avenue and R street early last night. ‘| the alleged attempt to precinct by | af! t00 PAGE B—1- FORMER EMPLOYE INDIGTED FOR HUB FURNITURE FIRES Grand Jury Charges Woman With Murdering Hushand in Grocery Row. BRIBERY ACCUSATION BROUGHT AGAINST ONE Ten Persons Face National Prohibi- tion Law Violation Trials, While Six Are Exonerated. employe of the Hub Furnitute Co. He is alleged to have set fire to two wares houses of the company, which resulted in a total fire loss of nearly $200,000. Investigation by the office of the fire marshal resulted in the arrest of Butler following a fire September 24 at the company’s warehouse, at 80 L street northeast. Police say he admitted that he had started the fire, as well as one at another warehouse of the company at 19-21 M street July 29 last. Charged With Murder. Mrs. Myrtle Lenora Williams, 55 years old, is charged with murder in the sec- ond degree in connection with the death of her husband, Claude Willlams, July 21 last, when she said he refused her money to buy groceries. The couple were residing in an attic at 3541 Tenth street when the - mometer reached 110 degrees and M: Williams is reported to have told police that her husband was spending his money for liquor and that when he re- fused her request for food mon:{mm lost control of herself and shot in the head with a revolver that was in & bureau drawer. T. Ralph Stabler is charged with Jar- ceny after trust in connection with $600 said to have been given to him by Jonathan G. B gelcw, 423 Fourth street northeast, to buy an au'omobile which was to bz sold for their joint profit, Bigelow' is said to have told the grand jury that Stabler drove a custom- automobile up to him and told him he could .buy it for $600 but did not have the money. Stabler is said fo have stated that a profit could be made which he would divide with Bigelow. The prosecuting witness declared that he drew the money out of bank May 1 and gave it to Stabler. He has not since seen the money nor the profit on the sale of the automobile, he said. Stabler admitted to him that the car had been sold, he stated. First Degree Murder. Murder in the first degres is charge in an indietment. ag2inst Henry Butler, colered, He s sald fo have shot ¢eath Theodore Gaither, alto colored, ept-mb°r 25. in Hollidge Court. Burt w'th, coloved, was exonerated by the grapd jury of connection with the hemi-ide. Ten persons were indicted and six were exonerated of charges of violating the national prohibition law. Those ac- cused are Grady C. McGlasson, Beatrice McGlasson, N. H. Smith, Ernest J. Wat- son, Maynard J. Bosman, James F., Saunders, Mary E. Collins, Jesse Jones, John DeNisio, and Eddie Tipton. Those exonerated include James B. Duffy, Charles W. Newman, Louis Rock, Dan=- iel J. Noonan, Paul L. Burrows and ‘Werper Burnes. Grover Cloveland McCaulley, a clerk for 12 years in tite office of Wade H. Coombs, supsrintsndent of licenses, is charged wit) ceny from the District 2 Canil-y is raid to have i~y he roceived from 3 to operate em- 7 s2 cral months. 3 . i3 snid, that Mrs. J. Albert Waters bad received a receipt for $25 for July 89 for a deposit and had never obtained a license. Five other persons are said to have paid money to McCaulley without being given licenses. Man Indicted for Bribery. William E. Dorsey, colored, is in- dicted for bribery. It is claimed that he offered Policeman Irving Rosenberg and Spottswood F. Gravely a bribe of $20. The officers had raided the home of Dorsey in the 900 block Hughes court and found a half gallon of liquor. The money was offered to Rosenberg, who called Gravely into the !go;l‘;eta ‘witness ribe. Others indicted and the charges against them include: Glenn Toombs, alias Glenroy Toombs; Ray Butch, Harry Levin, alias Hyman Levin; John Titmus, Charles Sumner Lee and Maynard Joseph Bowman, smoke screen. For Non-Support of Children. William Winslow, Gerald Edward ‘Tavnner, John F. Duffey and Charles A. Miller, non-support minor children. Cameron D. Troxell and Robert A. Conley, assault with' intent to commit: carnal knowledge. Harry R. Thompson, impersonating an_officer. Joseph W. Taylor, Charles M. Shute, Jesse Johnson, Arthur Johnson, Mor- ris Wight. William L. Osborne, Wil- bur E. Snead and Willlam Scott, assault with a danggrous weapon; George Diggs, Herman Gilmore Con- ard, Jercshh Breen, alias Jeremiah O’Brien, lore Beach, alias Pred erick Hall and Donald Berkley Parker, joyriding; Jesse Andrew Gray, assault with intent to commit robbery; Leon E. Wilson, robbery; Clyde Jones, alias Clarence Jorfes, Willlam Ralph Johne son, Darwin Carso, James Edward Har- ris, Edward D. Hall, John W. Hall, Thomas Willlams, James Marshall, Jesse Carter, alias Jesse Howard, Daniel E. Johnsqn, Theodore Briscoe, Edward Johnson, Lloyd Johnson, John P. Davis, housebreaking and larceny. Roy Huff, Willlam Brown, alias Mil- ton Long; Paul P. Brewington, Armond Macon and Tommy Ballard, allas Tom- mie Ballard, grand larceny. Nicholas Corsillo, violation national motor vehicle theft act. For Embezzlement. Luther Pope, alias James Luther Pope, embezzlement. lon McCullough and Carroll F. Martin (two cases), forgery and utter- rgohll Matthews, receiving stolen prope erty. X ‘Those exonerated in addition to those in connection with liquor mentioned included eresa D. Mc- Clintic, forgery; Richard Epps, narcotic act; housebreaking and 1 1 i the : Th { Augustus Randall, eml B. Riddle, Jarceny after tru: larence A. Wright, abortion; Mary M. Wal grand larceny; George Rogers, larcen ter trust. 3 i Benefit Card Party. Policemen Earl Baker and C. A. Cart- Erctffent's will Wo -l$° Every truly a country meeting house, being to make the ehurch dignified and lultlhll to the faith. 1 car, gave uu-nr brought their smoke screen- into play a few k7 after the chase started. DECATUR HEIGHTS, Md. October ;l (Special) —For the. benefit of the Junior. card mnmmm PNV-IM.IC mdw.m“n.]mhha under the auspices of the Decatur Heights Community