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—2Z * - NAVAL PROMOTIONS CHANGE DEMANDED Britten Bill Urged to Save Younger Officers From Inequalities. BY REX COLLIER. Navy morale and efficiency are drift- ing perilously close to the reefs which beset the present promotion system. Inequalities of the method of ad- wancement now in use, aggravated by the increasing size of graduation classes at the Naval Academy, are about to “squeeze out™ of the line of the Navy the cream of the younger officer per- wonnel. Unless prompt and drastic action is taken by Congress at this session, ap- proximately 60 per cent of surviving members of the Annapolis classes of 1911, 1912 and 1913 will be forced into remature retirement within the next ree years, Navy officials declare. Navy Department Aroused. ‘While the Navy Department is known to be fully aroused to the critical situ- ation confronting commissioned per- sonnel of the lower grades, it is ap- parent that Congress as a whole and the public at large is unaware of the serious effect on naval efficiency that present conditions will have, unless counteracted in time. ‘Within the next few years hundreds of commanders and licutenant com- manders—indispensable vertebrae in the backbone of the line of the Navy— will be shoved out of the service with- out an opportunity for promotion or appeal. The officers over whose head the Damoclean sword of an outworn pro- motion law is suspended have unim- peachable records and invaluable ex- perience, fitting them for higher All of them are veterans of the World War. All have had active service aboard battleships, destroyers and sub- marines, usually as heads of depart- ments or in command of fleet units. All S mmedinte egliaton & necessary to Immedia these manifestly nsored Represen! :!p: of nu:’m‘ which has Senate and is nmow pending in House. 1l the Showdown ¥s Due. Priends of the bill in Congress are | said 1o be ready to force a final show- | e he or more than four hours before the 1 HERBERT J. HAGERMAN DENIES FRAZIER CHARGES Vigorously Defends Record as Special Indian Commis- sioner S.ince 1923. By the Assoclated Press. Herbert, J. Hagerman, former Terri- torial Governor of New Mexioo, testified Senate Indian Committee yesterday in refutation of charges that led the Sen- ate to eliminate salary as_special Indian commissioner from the Interior Department appropriation bill. Hagerman vigorously defended his reeo:se from the time he was appointed cases deserving of promotion. A new and unprecedented condition looms just ‘however. year there will be from 80 to +commanders and leutenant com- manders who will come before the Naval Selection Board for promotion. ©Of this number, due to.inhibitions of of 1907, “the ago that under the present law there ‘was going to be a congestion about the time the class of 1911 came up for pro- motjon of commander. ex- haustive studles of this matter, with the result that the Britten bill was formu- lated and presented three or four years ago. Under this bill there is progres- sive and material weeding out in all mes in order to create an efficient of promotion and retain on the active list of the Navy those best fitted for service.” Under present conditions, it was ex- plained, promotion of officers has been such that only those who had some blot on their records were passed over. ‘There were sufficient vacancies to allow promotion of the great majority of offi. cers eligible. All have come up for pro- motion well in advance of the time limit prescribed by law for automatic ;:gl;!mtnt of officers not regularly pro- Now, however, the upper grades are congested with officers from the large classes beginning with that of 1907, so that officers of the younger classes are effectually blocked from further ad- vancement. During the next three years, when the classes of 1911, 1912 and 1913 come up for promotion, this barrier will operate to send into retire- ment nearly two-thirds of these worthy younger officers, although their services are needed' most urgently by ‘“: Navy. ‘.. These men continued in service “¥1th ke natural expectation that they would have the same fair chances of romotion as others before them havé ad. Ncne dreamed, on entering the gervice, that an inequitable law would rear itself in front of him at the k of his naval career to threaten disil- lusionment. Would Be Corrective for 20 Years. The Britten bill, it is said, would result in a moderate proportion of pro- motions for these classes, and there- after in & normal flow of promotions for the next 20 years, at least. Unless this or some similar bill is assed, the situation that now con- ronts the Navy will be repeated when the Naval Academy classes graduated since 1920 get to the grade of lieu- tenant commander. Those classes were greatly increased in size over prior classes, and their promotion is going to be blocked just as the classes of 1911, nlmlf.u n:;locnkue% The p L) oralizing _one. Tt 5 & sitastion regarded by® Navy officials as extremely critical—affecting as it daur ml:l morale of s0 important up of officer personnel, teness of the lem is recog- RITES FOR MRS. EVANS Private burial services for Mrs. Mar- Evans, 90 years old, widow of M. Evans, were conducted in y. Mrs. She the mother of Mrs. 8. ~this city, ' Was of ‘Thursday after a long ill- Demm; commissioner for the Navajos in 1923; ation, in connection with Indian oil leases. Hagerman was closely questioned by Senators Wheeler, t, Montana. Pine, Republican, Oklahoma, and Pragler. There were several sharp verbal clashes between Hagerman and Wheeler, who ::g most of the ques- ¢ Hearing Resumes Tuesday. ! The was ~ adjourned until Tuesday. Oliver La Parge, novelist and director of the Eastern Association on Indian Mn;lx is expected to speak in lefense. Hagerman's BT onterdays s that ‘he of y's sess! postpone until after the hearing any action on a resolution passed by the New Mexico State Senate request- of his THE SUNDAY REPLIES TO FRAZIER’S CHARGES HAGERMAN, | Former territorial governor of New Mexico and special Indian commissioner for the Navajos, as he appesred yesterday at a Senate hearing to deny charges made against him by Senator Frazier in connection with the leases of Indian oil lands. P. Photo. MORAVIAN BISHO DS ATAGEOF 1 Right Rev. Edward Rond- thaler, Conducted Easter Services 52 Years.. "By the Associated Press. WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. January 31.—Right Rev. Edward Rondthaler, 88, Bishop of the Southern province of thes Moravian Church, died of bronchial pneumonia at his &ome here this afternoon. For 52 years Bishop Rondthaler con- ducted the annual Easter sunrise serv- ices of the Moravian Church, which drew great crowds of visitors from far and near to this city. The venerable bishop's fatal illness began 'Tuesday, when he developed influenza. Faith of Fathers. Love for the simple faith of his fathers carried the Right Rev. Edward Rondthaler of Winston-Salem, N. C., to the bishoprie of the Southern province of the Moravian Church. From the day he was born, July 24, 1842, in the Moravian parsonage at Schoeneck, Pa., his life had been guided and lived with the interest of his denomination and ministry in view. His father, for whom he was named, and his grandfather were both Moravian ministers. The, isterial tradition has been followed Bishop Rondthaler’s only son, the Rev. Howard Rond- thaler, now president of Salem College, an institution his father once headed. Although highly educated, not only in theology, but in classical and academic studies as well, and the recipient of two honorary degrees, his insatiable desire for further know- ledge never left him. Even after he had reached his eighty-eighth birth- day he found the study of foreign languages fascinating and only recently announced his intention of adding other tongues to his linguistical ability. Bishop 40 Years. _For 40 years he served his church as bishop of the Southern province, having been ordained a bishop of Unitas Pra- tum (United Brethren) in 1891, after . serving as a pastor since 1865. n.|areth, Pa, he his | Theological Sought Highest Royalties. Hagerman took up ome by one the statements made by Prazier and by Collier at the hearing Friday. “In reply to Mr. Collier’s innuendo hat I have not properly looksd after the interests of the Indians,” he said, “I want to state that for years I have made evpe‘l:d;ll'lort Yb:lnzet for them the hest e 10! les. Mq‘UD to January 1, 1931, the leases have produced in bonuses and royalties for the Navajo Indians $960,420 68. No one has ever questioned the regularity or honesty or advantage following my handling of these operations, least of all the Navajos themselves.” Hagerman added that “contrary to statements” made by Collier the Nava- jos did not object to his efforts to form a tribal council, but on tie other hand aided him in doing so. ‘Dwelling at length on the case of the Rattlesnake oil lease, which Frazier and Collier have maintained was sold by Hagerman for the Navajos for $1,000 and later re-sold for more than $1,000,- 000, Hagerman said the property at the time was not considered valuable, as geologists had rendered an adverse re- port. Hagerman repeated his positive denial of Collier's allegation yesterday that the Rattlesnake lease was sold by Hagerman “to interests intimately con- nected with” himself. Challenges “Duplication” Charge. He sald purchasers of several of the leases, including the Rattlesnake, were known to him, but declared the very fact that on many properties leased to his acquaintances no ol was found in- dicated that they had not been favored As to Collier's statement that the leases “were thrown on the market at & time of extrem= depression” Hager- man declared that “the Indians got as high a bonus and as high royalties as they would have at any similar time.” Hagerman challenged Frazier's state- ment in the Senate that his position, as supervisor of Indian affairs in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. is a “duplication.” Commissioner Rhoads corroborated Hagerman. Questioning of Hagerman was con- cerned largely with his activity in con- nection with the Indian ofl bill in 1926 and other legislation in which Senator Wheeler contended Hagerman “should have stood on the side of the Indian and did not.” BALL PROGRAM GALA Keystone Quartet to Aid Benefit for Arkansas Needy. Plans for an elaborate of en- tertainment have been made for the charity ball and entertainment to be given the Arkansas State Society, at the Willard Hotel on Tuesday Pro. ceeds will go to the drought sufferers in Arkansas. Keystone Quartet of the Penn- sylvania Railroad will be featured en- tertainers, and a number of local art- ists have been assembled for the occa- sion by Jack Mullane, From the Moravian Preparatory School for Boys, Nazareth Hall, at Naz- entered the Moravian Seminary at Bethlehem, Pa. Completing his studies there, he entered the University of Erlangen, Germeny, for further work, particularly with languages. In 1864 he returned to a United States torn by civil strife to teach at Nazareth Hall. A year later he was ordained a deacon of the Moravian Church and appointed to the pastorate of a congregation in Brooklyn, N. Y. While ministering to the Brooklyn congregation he fell in love with Miss Mary E. Jacobson of Bethlehem, Pa., a daughter of Bishop John Christian Jacobson of the Moravian Church, and in 1867 they were married. After six years in Brooklyn, during which time he rebuilt the church and parsonage, which had been destroyed by fire, he accepted a call to the First Moravian Church in Philadelphia, which he served until 1877, when the call of the South reached him. The young minister accepted the call to the new fleld and went to North Carolina, arriving in Salem October 19, 1877, with Mrs. Rondthaler and their two children, Alice and Howard. His specific work was to succeed the Rev. Albert L. Gerter as pastor of the home church in Salem, but his influ- ence soon extended far beyond the borders of his pastorate and ‘State. One of the features of his ministry was the annual Moravian sunrise serv- ice which the bishop himself conduct- ed each Easter day for the last 52 years, Crowds of from 20,000 to 30,000 persons have attended the services in Tecent years. Winston-Salem voted him its most outstanding citizen in 1930. ESCAPED RUSSIAN PRISONERS SWEAR TO LABOR BY CONVICTS ___(Continued From First Page.) and urge lumber. All of them human interest docu- ments, the affidavits submitted by the Lumber Manufacturers' testified to conditions ranging from ‘“food so bad there was dysentry through- out the camp” to the dying of 1,900 prisoners from typhus i & single group and two death sentences for {.lll;xre to complete an allotted daily ask. Carl W. Bahr, the investigator who thered this testimony, was not al- owed to enter the Russian timber dis- trict. After inquiries in nine coun- tries lying close to the Soviet Republic, he asserted that unless the tariff pro- visions pertaining to convict labor are enforced “within a of Russian lumbe: apon the American market. “It appears,” he said, “that the entire northern region is covered with scatter- ed camps of convicts, largely political, or anti-Soviet exiles, and forced labor- ers, working under various degrees of supervision in lumber mills, wood pulp yards, forest and rivers, but all re- quired to carry out their daily task of cutting, piling, trimming, peeling or fleating so many metres of logs.” Some of the affidavits gathered by Bahr and sworn to before European an embargo on Russlan , master of cere- monies. They include McComber and a, Mildred Chereaux, Dalzell, Dixie St. Clair, and George and “Honey" | 8 notaries _have been submitted by the tate Department to the Treasury, which is charged with the exclusion of convict-made goods. FULL SHALE PROBE Senator Glenn Also Asks In- quiry Into Publication of Keliey Charges. By the Associated Press. A “show down” on Ralph 8. Kelley's | oil shale charges was demanded yes- terday by the administration at th!‘ opening of the Senate's investigation of | statements made by the former land office official. Secretary Wilbur insisted the Lands Committee make a full investigation and give the Interior Department an opportunity to answer every charge. Simultaneously Senator Glenn, Repub- lican, Illinois, demanded the commit- tee inquire into the circumstances sur- rounding publication of the charges. Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, author of the resolution authorizing the Investigation, said the committee was not authorized to make a complete in- quiry. ‘Wilbur Seeks Clearance. Later in the day, however, Wilbur, in a letter to Chairman Nye, sald further authority was not necessary to bring officials and records of his department before the committee. Wilbur_and Solicitor Finney of the Interior Department were the only wit- nesses called yesterday. The Secretary was not questioned, but at the end of the session he said: “We propose to see this through to the| last case.” “Charges have been informally made of a certain character,” he said, “and if the Semste is starting in on them we feel we ought to get clearance from the Senate.” Walsh explained the purpose of the hearings merely was to determine whether a more exhaustive investiga- tion wag necessary. ‘Wants World Contract. - Glenn announced he wanted to in- struct Kelley, when he appears before the committee, to bring all corre d- ence and records in connection with his contract with the New York World for publication of his charges. The Illinois Senator also said he wanted to call whoever made the ar- rangements for that paper with Kelley. Kelley did not appear yesterday be- cause of iliness, but he is expected to be on hand Tuesday. After refusing to give his charges to the Department of Justice, which was ordered by President Hoover to inves. tigate them, Kelley published his story in the New York World. The Justice Department announced after an investigation the charges were unfounded. G. 0. P. TO PUT BLAME ON FOES IF SPECIAL SESSION IS CALLED (Continued From First Page.) * !Dl'l;elle: mlch will ‘xillot be put through, or if put ou will be vetoed b; President. - 7 The Senate Democrats were their ground yesterday. Some of did not relish the fact that their action in conference Friday had been heralded as an ultimatum and that the blame for forcing a special session, if there is any blame, must fall on them rather than on _the Republicans of the House. There remains of the present sessiop of Congress just 261, legislatitve days. This is ample time in which to conclude the passage of the appropriation bills it the differences between the House can be froned out. But these differ- ences at the present time seem insur- mountable, Bonus Bill Yet Looms. ‘There is another matter which looms as a possible obstacle in the path of windig up the business of Congress by March 4. That is the insistence upon a bill to make cash payments on the World War veterans' adjusted compen- sation certificates. Both the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Pinance Committee have been m{:'f hurinf onh the various pro- for such casl ments. The administration is sm:;l’;r opposed to such legislation. However, if a -cash bonus bill is ught before the House and Senate, i may be difficult to side- track. Indeed, there are predictions that it would pass and be sent to the Pr:!lltg:’nt. ugh none of the appropriution bills has finally passed and been sent to the President for his approval, both Houses are well along in their consid- eration. The House last night put through the legislative appropriation bill before it adjourned. There remain only three other supply measures come before the House—the District of Columbia bill, which has been favor- ably reported from the Appropriations Committe; the Navy Department bill, and the second deficiency bill. The Senate has still to pass the independent offices bill, plus the three bills which the House has not yet acted upon. But a number of the bills passed by both houses contain items for relief which are in dispute, and other items over which the two houses are fightin, Representative Will Wood, chzgrmln of the House Appropriations Committee, indicated yesterday that if agreement on the disputed items in the appropria- tion bills could not be worked out by February 15 he would propose a “con- tinuing” resolution. PREMIER ENHANCES MYSTERY OF VISIT BY EVASIVE WORDS (Continued From First Page.) finances were turned aside by the pre- mier with responses such as “Now, that's an interesting point,” and “Your question suggests something to me that I should look into. No Direct Answer Given. ‘The premier gave no direct answer to any of the questions put to him by a group of some 30 Canadian and Ameri- can newspaper men about Canadian- American problems. The only definite answer concerned the program arranged for the part of his visit remaining until he leaves ‘Washington today in his private c: attached to the Washington-Montreal express. After the conference the premier lunched at the legation, the guest of Hume Wrong, Canadian charge d'af- faires, with whom he talked about le- gation business. His other activities during the after- noon included a reception to Canadians in Washington. After it came a dinner in honor of Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Ambassador, given by Eugene Meyer, jr, and Mrs. Meyer at their home here. Arlington Trip Secret. Even a trip by the premier to Arling- ton Cemetery to place a wreath on the Canadian cross there was surrounded Legation officials declined by secrecy. even to confirm that the premier woul lay such a wreath. A photographer who followed the premier was request- ed to refrain from taking pictures. The Premier has declined to pose except for one picture upon his arrival. ‘The presence in Washington in the prime minister's party of Maj. W. D. Herridge of Ottawa caused some discu sion on the prospects of the designation of a new Minister for the Canadian legation. The Premier at his press conference evaded a question about the appolntment, possibility of such an !a million dollars an hour, f STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C WILBUR DEMANDS - |SERVICE MENBACK CASH BONLSPLAN Administrator Hines Asks for Jobs Rather Than Money for Veterans. By the Associated Press. NOT HEON - ABLES AT CHEST LUNC Over a plea by Veterans' Admin-! istrator Hines for unemployed relief in- stead of conversion of bonus certifi- cates, service men's organizations yes- terday raised persistent demands for cash in testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee. Estimating 200,000 to 300,000 veterans are jobless,” Hines said a considerable number were in “dire need.” He urged special efforts to find work for them. He sald only 13,000 jcbs have been found through co-operation of the Veterans' Bureau and the Labor De- partment since Summer. g Advocates of cash payments stressed that acceptable plans might be exe- cuted by the Treasury's raising $1,000.~ 000. This they said was less than one- third of the figure on which Secretary Mellon and others calculated that con- version, even if possible, would shake the securities market. Statements Similar. & Thomas Kirby, legislative chairman of the Disabled American Veterans, argued in a statément for' the com- mittee that at the end of the war the Government was spending “more than and was planning for the ultimate triumph dur- ing the following year.” “The Treasury Department through- out the long campaign leading up to the enactment of the adjusted com- pensation act consistently fought the whole proposition in principle and in detail,” Kirby added, “and a compari- son of the statements just made by the Treasury officials with the statement made by the Treasury officials six years ago shows a striking similarity.” Hines divided the 3,500,000 service men as follows: “Those to whom the service certifi- cate is just another security in the strong box; those who, while working, could use the cash, but would spend it for other than necessities”; and those “especially with familles, who are out of work and in dire need.” Would Involve “Sacrifice.” ‘To give the third class cash, on surrender of their certificates which represent insurance and ‘“their only security,” Hines said, would involve “a crificed.”” To invite the others to give up their bonds, which mature in 1945, he thought “most unwise.” “Wouldn't it be better to help them find jobs” he asked, “and to help them by creating jobs, so they could pay their own way out of this distress?” John Thomas Taylor, representing the American Legion, said he believed the action of the Executive Committee two weeks ago, sponsoring conversion, represented the sentiment throughout the 900,000 membership of the organi- zation. Representative Garner of Texas asked whether this represented senti- ment of ‘seryice men outside the Le- gion, and Taylor sald he could not answer for them. them | REVIVAL SOUGHT FOR HOWELL BILL IN TALK TOMORROW (Continued From First Page.) the need for the proposed measure is being magnified and is preventing Con- gress from considering other matters. Senator Howell said_the section Te- ferred to by Senator Walsh has been the law in the District for 13 years, and is included in the pending bill because this bill repeals the Sheppard act. Senator Blaine opened the debate by declaring that corruption exists in any department of the Government that is called upon to help enforce prohibi- tion. He concluded with the state- ment that Congress is being called upon “to devote days and days to the discussion of a prohibition measure applicable to the District of Columhia, which no doubt will go the same way as all other prohibition laws, with its corrupting influence.” Dry Corruption Denied. Answering these attacks later, Sen- ator Morrison denied prohibition has led to corruption. “Corruption, as re- lated to the liquor traffic, did not com- mence with the eighteenth amendment,” | §. said Senator Morriscn. He added that regulation, prior to prohibition, “was as corrupt as they picture prohibi- tion to be.” Senator Brookhart, Republican, of Jowa, also defended enforcement offi- cers against arguments advanced by Senators Blaine and Tydings. At one point in the debate Senator Tydings said the drys were not willing | $1 to ask for the amount that would be needed to enforce prohibition. The Marylander added that he would vote for $300,000,000 and for 200,000 agents, which, he said, would enable every agent to watch 500 or 1,000 people. ‘When the Senate discontinued con- sideration of the Howell bill early last week, the question under consideration was the additional search warrant au- thority in the bill. Representative Lehlbach, Republican, New Jersey, demanded in the House that Congress consider his resolution to repeal the eighteenth amendment. He based his demand on the Wickersham report. ' Lehlbach, an administration Repub- lcan, predicted that the party which fails now to meet the prohibition issue squarely, “will be overwhelmingly re- pudiated at the next national election.” Pointing out that a majority of the Wickersham Commission believed the eighteenth amendment could never be adequately enforced, Lehlbach con- tended that Congress “must no longer temporize.” COTTON CROP PLA OUTLINED BY SMITH IN FORUM ADDRESS (Continued From First Page.) an indefinite carriage of the surplus. It would release 15 or 20 million acres now devoted to cotton from the pro- duction of cotton and make this much land available for the production of di- versified farming, food crops and live stock. The contracts thus entered into would give the board and the public definite facts as to the reduction of acreage. It also would be an almost irresistible inducement to the producer to enter into the contract.” o Senator Smith said that the reasonk set forth by the Federal Farm Board for not placing his plan in operation were “not convincing to me, more par- ticularly so in the light of the declara- tion of the powers and purposes of the Stabllization Corporation.” The Senator replied to several criti- cisms of his plan and outlined at length the purposes and powers of the Federal d | Farm Board. The full text of his ad- dress appears in the editorial section of today's Star. Three Boys Drowned. NASHVILLE, Tenn., January 31 (®). —Clyde Pugh, Woodrow and Bud Buch- anan, all 16, were dtowned in the Cum- berland River near here today when a small boat in which they were riding waves behind a steamboat caps] A search for the bodies was yesterday. CHEST IS $600,000 SHORT OF GOAL AS FOUR DAYS REMAIN| ___(Continued From First Page.) the opening day, continued to hold it | vesterday. Reports were made by the various| units as follows: Special gifts unit, 11 pledges for a total of $2,639.39; schools unit, $2,384.90; gpvernmental unit, 3,169 pledges for a total of $23,386.31; group solicitation unit, 1,752 pledges for a total of $11,- 977.45; metropolitan unit, 2,284 pledges for a total of $50,613.39. An instance of the largely increased giving was that of the employes of the Capital Traction Co., which reported $4,200 from 714 employes, as against $2,600 from 519 employes last year. Government units are, in many in- stances, far beyond their quota, it was pointed out. The State Department has raised 247 per cent of its quota, the District Supreme Court 289 per cent, the Shipping Board 144 per cent and the Post Office Department more than 100 per cent. Large Contributors Listed. Following is a list of contributors of $100 or more: Bank, $3,567.17; W. B. Hibbs & ; Mr. and Mrs. Co. 145.60; Mrs. Brewster Marwick, $1,100 Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins, $1,000; Mrs. James Curtis, $1,000; Mrs. Avery Coon- ley, $850; Mr. and Mrs. Pred 8. Gich- ner, $£720; E. G. Schafer Co., $600; Wil- bur La Roe, jr. $600; L. E. Brenuinger & Sons, $550; American Security & Trust Co., $500; Prank S. Hight, $500; National Benefit Life Insurance, $500; W. A. Simpson, $500; Mrs. Mary F. Rives, $500; Mr. and Mrs. J. Edgar Murdock, $500; Mr. and Mrs. D. R, Forbes, $500; Mr. and Mrs. Dallas M Grew, $400; L. C. Hamiltor $400; Nicholas Lugquer, $400; Thilman Hend- National Metropolitan | Left to right: Mrs. Mary Raberts Rineharf, Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes and Mrs. Frederick Brooke, guests of the Community Chest at the reporting luncheon —Star_Staff Photo. FUND OF RED GROSS REACHES 381.324.13 Nearly 100 Contributions Made to Drought Relief of District Chapter. Nearly 100 contributions received yes- terday boosted the drought relief fund of the District chapter of the Red Cross to $81324.15. The donations ranged from $1 to $500. The total includes a gift of $50,000 by the Community Chest. The latest subscriptions follow: Previously acknowledged, $78,711.65; Mr. and’ Mrs. J. H. Callahan, $5; Miss Irving C. Benjamin, $4; George Guppy, $10; anonymous, $50; Katherine Lee Jones, $5; Charles Michaels, $2; J. M. S. Kreh, $5; Mrs. B. Bigham, $3 Annie E. Loomis, $10; Mrs. Mary A. E. Hall, $15; Margaret A. Miller, $5; Maury Brown, $5; Mrs. C. Murray Deener, Miss Mena D. Brown, $10; Mrs. M. E. Alles, $25; Mr. and Mrs. Everett Part. ridge, $20; Trilla B. Young Bible Class of Western Presbyterian Church, $5. Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Gansberg, $25; Mrs. Sauter, $1; Mrs. Louise Notter, $2; Sunshine Club, Sherwood Presbyterian Church, $5; Miss Alice Richie, $5; E. H. Ashworth, $10; Themas L. Kane, jr. $50; Grace Harper, $50; John W. Koob, ; Thomas Guilfoy, $5; Prof. and Mrs. A. B. Trowbridge, $300; Miss Lucy Minnegerode, $20; Mrs, Harriet F. Der- rick, $5; Mrs. P. S. P rick, $350; Mr. and Mrs. Allen Pope, $350; Berkeley L. Simmons, $350; Philipsborn’s, $300; Arthur E. Dowell, $300; Mr. and Mrs. Jessie I Miller, $300; Bishop and Mrs. Freeman, $300; Mrs. Carrie Maddox, $300; Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Trowbridge, $300; Mrs. Ed- ward Meigs, $300, Gen. Willard A. Hol- brok, Mi Geol $300; Mr. and Mrs. Milton Nathan, $275; J. Buchbinder, $275; Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Charles G. Treat, $250; Rev. and Mrs. Charles Wood, $250; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brand, $250; Richard P. Whitty, $250; Meyers Shop, $250; American Ice Co., $250. Firemen's Insurance Co. of Wash- ington and Georgetown, $250; National Permanent Building Association, $250; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brand, $250; Frank W. Mandell, $250; Admiral Joseph Strauss, $250; Mrs. Henry Bar- rett, $250; Dr. John Minor, $225; S. A. Reeves, $200; Walter E. Hope, $200 Miss Katharine F. Lenroot, $200; win E. Norwood, $200; Miss Ellen A. King, $200; Cooley Bros., $200; Miss Mary W. Winslow, $200; Schuyler Mer- ritt, $200; Dr. and Mrs. R. T. Holden, $2 Mr. and Mrs. A, C. Mayer, $200; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Burt, $200; Mrs. Charles Trains, $200; Mrs. H. B. Mirick, $200; Mr. and Mrs. William M. Guthrie, $200; E. J. Febrey, $200; Mrs. Archi- bald Hopkins, 3 $188; Mr. and Mrs. James E. Lawrence Gossenheim, Comdr. and Mrs. S, Hempstone, $160° M. S. Abel, $150; Mr. and Mrs. Byron U. Graha $150; Fulton Brylawski, $150; Mrs. Thomas Casey, $150; h Ottenste! $150; 3 Stone’s Mercantile Agency, In Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Conklin, $15 and Mrs. C. G. Van Emon, $150; Mrs. C. W. Wright, $150; Lynch Luguer, 50; Winston Chapin, $150; Dr. Steuart B. Muncaster, $150; Mrs. Helen G. Campbell, $150; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd B. Wight, $150; ‘Walter Radcliffe, $150; Mrs. Christina Somerville, $150; Miss Sarah E. Tingley, $150; C. B. Lee, $135; Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Bran- son, $135; Mrs. Edward R. Alexander, $130; Miss Maris J. Barrett, $125; Dw. John R. Hawkins, $125; Miss Virginia Hollerith, $125; Mr. and Mrs. William Rosendorf, $125; Mrs. William Rohrer, $125; Edward W. Donn, jr., $125; Ad- miral N. P. Huse, $125; Miss Mildréd E. Gibbs, $125; Miss Mabel L. Pills- 125; Miss Georgia B. Pillsbury, Kelly Miller, $125. Maj. D. B. Netherwood, $125; Mrs. W. T. Galliher, $125; Mrs. Harriet B. Netherwood, $125; James Berrall, $120; James F. Pierce, $120; S. H. Boyd, $120; Miss Ruth T. Henderhatt, $110; Rev. W. H. Jernagin, $110; Mr. and Mrs, C. D. Snow, $110; Mrs. Francis Boyce, $105; Henry S. Mathews, $100; Mrs. R. C. Harding, $100; Albert G. Redpath, $100; Dr. N. N. Smiler, $100. Washington Brick & Terra Cotta, $100; Mrs. Mary A. Mason, $100; Miss Isabelle Hopkins,” $100; General Auto Works, $100; Charles R. Ely, $100; L. E. Wil- kinson, $100; Mrs. Henry W. Tyler, $100; Frank P. Morse, $100; Henry Wahl, $100; F. M. McConihe & Co., $100; Joseph Freedman, $100; Miss Louise D. Lockwood, $100; Mr.- and Mrs. W. Parker Jones, $100; Federal Servicés Finance Corporation, $§100; Henry W. So- Dr. and Mrs. Hugh S. Mr. and M Montague Ferry, $100 Miss Agnes K. Hanna, $100; Capt. an Mrs. F. G. Pyne, $100; Col. P. M. Ash- burn, $100; Capt. and Mrs. F. J. Mc- Sherry, $100; Mrs. J. Marvin Wright, $100; Morris Lengrndre, $100; Mrs. Zera L. Tanner, $100; W. B. Chilton, $100; W. P. Van Ness, $100; Ralph W. Payne, $100; Admiral and Mrs. Ben- son, $100; Mr. and Mrs. William P. Campbell, $100; g $100; Mrs. J. E. Wholean, $100; Mr. and Mrs, Willlam H. Linki . and Mrs. U. G. B. Pierce, $100; E. Cullen, $100; Mrs. Helen Compton, $100; Miss Margaret M. Cullen, $100; Miss Charlotte S. Cullen, $100; Cassel Howard Albert, $100; George W. Cook, $100; Dr. Henry W. Crossen, $100; Dr. Sothoron Key/ $100; George W. Cook, $100. ‘Howard Cassell, $100; Mrs. Elizabeth Cooke, $100; Thomas L. Kane, $100; Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, $100; Mrs. Martha A. McAdoo, $100; Jefferson 8. Coage, $100; Garnet C. Wilkinson, $100; John T. Rhines, $100; Mrs. Julia West Hamilton, $100; Rev. E. G. Smith, ized. ~ Brool started H $10; Miss H. son, $2; Alice H. Woodward, $5; J. F. Jameson, $10; F. H. Clark, $5; Mrs. E. J. Smith, $20; Mrs. A. M. Wickersham, 5; Heary G. S| rett, $4 3 and daughter, $25; Florence P. Hill, $2.50; Elizabethi B. Leech, §5; Nina C. Vande- T, $25. George S. King, $10; A. E. S, $5; P. H. Shiner, $2; Norman E. Brooke, $25 Mrs. Josie S. Harrell, $2.5 Charles, $5; Mrs. Frances B. Rayner, $250; E. Boran, $10; Myrtle L. Walker, $1; Mrs. H. S. France, $10; Anne Wolf, $5; Mrs. L. C. il C. Hamilton, $500; Miss son, $10; Anna Y. Beach, $10; Living- ston Chapter, D. A. R, $25; Ella L. Moses, $2; H. C. Maynor, $5; C. Prancis Jenkins, $500; Mrs. Ida E. beth C. Dallas, $5; Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Wait, $10; Cora T. Clements, $2.50, total, $81,324.15. JAMES M. CARRICK DIES AT HOME OF DAUGHTER James Madison Carrick, 80 years old, a resident of Bowie, Md., for 65 years, died Saturday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charlotte K. McCauley, 2915 Thirteenth street northeast, where he had lived since his retirement, 15 years ago. Services will be held at the Washington home at 1:30 tomor- row afternoon, followed by services at the Bowie Methodist Episcopal Church. Interment will be in the family burial ground at Bowie. Seven daughters, Mrs. McCaule; Mrs. Ella V. Hardie, Mrs. Ziba F. Bow- man, Mrs, Harrie G. Haskin and Miss Geraldine Carrick, all of Washington, and Mrs. William P. Phelps of Mitchells» ville, Md., and Mrs. J. Moler Anderson of Linthicum Heights, Md., survive. Rosetta Boston, $100; Mi M. Pearl Adams, $100; Wiliam D. Jarvis, $100; Gary & Risher, Inc., $100; Louis Vough Jones, $100; Perry W. Howard, $1 John H. Miller, $100; Rev. and Mrs. Douglas P. Birnle, $100; E. E. Herrall, $100; William G. Ilich, $10( William A. Taylor, $100; Mrs. . L. Rust, jr, $100; Mr. and Mrs. William 8. Campbell, $100; Dr. Arthur B. Crane, $100; Mrs. George J. May, $100; Miss Ethel McGrath, $100; Mrs. R. Dickin- son Jewett, $100; James L. Bates, $100; Whaley Eaton Corporation, $100; Fred- erick R. Gibbs, $100; J. C. Jenkins, $100; Mr. and Mrs. William S. Camp- bell, $100; Dr. Thomas E. Ogrem, $100; Alvin L. Newmer, $100; Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Walker, $100; William A. Taylor, $100; James E. Rosenthal $100; Schneider Spliedt Co. Edmund L. Jones, Broadc:sting Station, Garrett, $100: Thompson, $100. Income Tax in a Nutshell ‘Who? 8ingle persons who had net income of $1,500 or more or gross income of '$5,000 or more and married coupies who had net income of $3,500 or more or gross income of $5,000 or more must file returns. ‘When? The filing perfod ends March 16, 1931, Where? Collectot of internal mem}e lor] lu:e duhumm ml‘n wm:lh person lives or o pal place of business. Pein How? Instructions on Form 1040-A and 1040; also the law and regulations. What? One and one-half per :‘motw nfrmll hxdo:he the first X n excess personal exemption and credits. Three per cent normal tax on the next 34 Five per cent normal tax - | advertising fences which CIVIC LEADER RAPS MARYLAND'S SIGNS Billboard User “in Bad With Public” in Road War, McFarland Says. “Maryland has sold much of her ru- ral beauty for a mess of billboards,” Dr. J. Horace McFarland, chairman of the Committee on Roadside Development of the American Civic Association, de- clared in a statement made public yes- terday, urging civic forces in the State, as a matter of good business, to line up solidly against the “billboard lobby" that is seeking the defeat of restrictive legislation pending in the Maryland Legislature. A pioneer leader in the Nation-wide fight to eliminate landscape advertisi Dr. McFarland analyzed roadside con- ditions in Maryland as not only “bad business” from the viewpoint of the tourist trade, but also for those who advertise on- billboards in the face of growing public antagonism, As evidence that the “billboard usar” and the billboard industry know they are “in bad with the public,” he di- rected attention to concessions both have made iwnnev?hn with the high- ‘way approaches to m. “Ev day some advertiser m said. i Every One Can Ald. Dr. McFarland, whose statement was sponsored by the Maryland Federation of Civic Clubs, declared that he declared. is to “promote by by letter the legisiation offered Maryland Legislature, structures which have and licetsing only those to tuc:x away from scenc lm imity to parks, scl ‘homes. Pointing out highways and naf vast and profitable State, Dr. McFarland warned cause they constantly hide intersections, dangerous corners and m% glu—." signs, and attempt to from in traffic Bad Business for AllL Maryland will clear away this “mess’ Miss | he predicted, by fostering now pending. “The billboard has ceased to be objectionable merely from sentie mental or aesthetic consideration.” he sald. “It is bad business for Marye land, for America.”* “What home owner have a great billboard ing place?” 3 for the fight for restrictive legislation. He urged public spirited persons to Mrs. T. N. | coards, the be glad to quit,” Maryland, who work Federated Clubs of the of other women of through the “Not. only is it proper patriotism to T EC1 Bave toasted, maieny Do T 3 ve 3 - iness for the State,” he said. High Court Favers Bon. Dr. McFarland, who has conducted billboards dous L™ He declared the pmm no objec- igns to dum'::e and cted on the premises upon which they stand. Referring to legislative measures, he declared that attorneys of the billboard Jaw will prevent illboards because it would be taking private property with- out compensation. “There is no truth in the statement,” he said. New Jersey Declares War. Quite recently the Indiana Supreme Court added to the indictment against the billboard by upholding the right of communities in that State to get rid of them, he pointed out. “You can rest assured that your Maryland Legis- lature can legally clear up the roads, to build and maimtain which you are being taxed, if you so insist.” 3 New Jersey right now is using a civie broom under s law which became ef- fective January 1, he said. Eighty-four large billboards have been taken down, 74 have dbesgn mvedmlny from scenic spots an firms have agreed to_quit outdoor :dvertl.nnf. he_ claimed. l(qa“r‘v than 4,000 signs of all kinds have been swept away in two counties of New Jersey by the “broom of public in- fluence and better business,” he said, and many more are due to come down within a month. Route Here Is Typical. In Pennsylvania last Jyly the high- way. authorities removed more than 25,000 “mgflna" M"}tymy of which were on private property. ‘The term “billboard,” he pointed out, is assumed to include the sky sign which jazzes the night landscape in most American cities, the mvwm steel the it painted or pflm P “oniping" signs “tacked ingstiy e ‘sniping” indiscriminate fashion and other lo{'nu. h‘m Baltimore-Wr landscape adv ing the ‘ashington Boulevard, is example of h erul::. which is d-o;“-:t- rural routes of Maryland. GEORGETOWN ATHLETE CHARGED WITH ASSAULT Emil Bozek, 22-year-old University foot ball and hlkmm street. 5 Policeman F. S. Hathorne of No. 7, who, with Policeman A. J. Loftus, went ggmuu wfiw h‘l’i‘. npwh’d n-; a station, he atf to place Bozek under ar-

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