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AVERY ABENDSCHEIN, 815 C st. s.w. 5* emergency construction, drought loans to farmers for seed, feed and fertilizer, $45,000,000, and drought loans to farmers for rehabilitation, PRESENT CONGRESS SPENDS 10 BILLIONS Vast Sums for Farm Aid, Building and Bonus Helps Set Peace-Time Mark. By the Assoclated Press. One historical distinction belongs to the Congress which today, still full of fire, was winding ug its career with a flourish. The Seventy-first National Assembly holds undisputed the record as the heaviest-spending peacetime Congress, In all it has appropriated about 10 bil- lons of dollars for Government uses, part at its special term and the first regular session, morg than half at the final term now closing. The total covers expenditures for both the current fiscal year and the next. The latter strike the high peacetime mark for any single session of a Con- gress. Besides the nine regular annual sup- ply bills, vast sums have been provided this short session for emergency con- struction to increase employment and for drought and farm relief. In addi- tion, the permanent appropriations, made automatically, exceed $1,200,000,- 000 to pay off the national debt, pay in- terest on outstanding obligations and provide funds for the veterans’ service certificates sinking fund. Cited as “Heavy Spender.” Representative Byrns of Tennessee, the ranking minority member of the House Appropriations Committee, said the Seventy-first Congress would go down in history as a heavy spender. Chairman Wood of the committee also viewed the increasing outlays with con- cern. He has repeatedly warned the House of the growing tendency to augment Government expenditures in the face of falling revenues. Until the World War, the annual ex- penses of the Government seldom reached the $2,000,000,000 figure. With the exception of the second deficiency bill, carrying $105,000,000, all of the big money measures today had been enacted Into law. Final action was expected today on the second deficiency bill, which also carried authorization of $70,000,000 for public building construc- | tion. The Treasury-Post Office Department supply bill was the largest for the fiscal year beginning July 1, totaling $1,083,- 148,923, $100,000,000 to Farm Board. For the first time, the supply bill for the nearly two-score independent Gov- ernment agencies reached nearly as high, with $1,052777.010. Of this about $883,000,000 went to the veter- ans’_administration_and $100,000,000 to the Farm Board. Under a special bill, the Farm Board also received $150.000,- 000, the last its $500,000,000 revolving loan fund. The War Department drew the next highest sum, with $445,765,735, of which $334,655,965 was for military and $111,- 109,770 for non-military activities, in- cluding $60,000,000 for rivers and har- bors and $35000,000 for Mississippi flood control. Next was the Navy, with $358,253,952. Agriculture had $215,578,860; _State, Justice, Labor and Commerce Depart- ments_were given a total of $137,423,- 954; Interior Department, $89,247,606; the’ District of Columbia, $45,672,838: legislative _establishment, $26,973,185: the first deficlency bill, $109,303,822; $116,000,000; $20,000,000. FRIENDS SEEK FUNDS FOR WOMAN’S RITES Landlord and Anonymous Plan Burial of Mother Who Died in Poverty. Priends who ministered to her during the desperate circumstances of the last years of her life today were seeking funds with which to conduct the fu- neral of Mrs. Sarah Prances Beatley, who died yesterday at a rooming house, 1133 Sixth street, of the chronic afii tion which had contributed to the fam- ily’s poverty since the father left the nest six years ago. Mrs. Beatley had been in bed for nine months. Friends, who chose to remain anon; mous, along with Gustav A. Crist, oper- ator of the rcoming house, had started plans for the burial even before the body was removed to the P. J. Saffel fu- neral home at Fifth and H streets. They said this morning that the funeral | will probably be held Thursday, al though definite arrangements have not been made as yet. Six children survive her. They are Edward, 17; Leonard, 22; John, 21; Few | John | Strike Turns Millionaire Into Chef MASTER OF OAK HILL CALLS ON FRIENDS WHEN SERVANTS QUIT. Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va, March 3.— Frank Campbell Littleton, retired New York stock broker and master of Oak Hill, the old James Monroe estate near Middleburg, Loudoun County, has very decisively demonstrated a_resourceful- ness in emergency, and is being ac- claimed by numerous friends in the Virginia “horse country” as unbeatable when it comes to making the best of & situation taxing one’s wits. It became known just today that Mr. Littleton was called upon almost at the eleventh hour to solve a servant prob- lem which for a time threatened to cause him no little embarrassment when he invited a distinguished company of about 300 to be his guests at an elabo- rate hunt breakfast at his home a few days ago, following the annual hunter Hunt Club, attended by people promi- trials of the fashionable Mldd!ebul’li despite a walkout of kitchen servants. nent in society in New York, Philadel- phia, Baltimore, Washington, Chicago and Virginia. ‘While Mr. Littleton was preparing to receive his guests and extend them welcome to the old home of President Monroe word came up from the kitchen that the retinue of servants were hav- ing a serious disagreement with the English butler, who had occasion to criticize some of their work. The serv- ants declared they would take no orders from the butler, and they asked to be given their pay, saying they had de- cided not to work that day. ‘Without much ado Mr. Littleton com- plied with their request, and let them go. Calling a Washington employment agency on the telephone, the master of Oak Hill made his wants known, and in & short time several automobiles were speeding out of Washington, bearing a small army of servants, so badly needed over in Virginia, but at Fairfax, Va, Oak Hill, former home of President James Monroe, where distinguished guests were served a hunt breakfast on schedule the contingent ran afoul of State traf- fic officers, who arrested them on charges of speeding. Explanations that Mr. Littleton wanted them in an emer- gency were of no avail, and the entire outfit was detained until fines were paid for breaking the speed laws. Apprised by telephone of the turn things had taken, Mr. Littleton called a few of his neighbbrs aside and explained the situation to them, resulting in John Hay Whitney, D. C. Sands, Gen. Billy Mitchell and sundry others ordering servants from their own kitchens to Oak Hill for the emergency. Taking the place of the chef, who had left with the others, Mr. Littleton don- ned a large white apron and cap and personally directed the preparation of the hunt breakfast, which was served on schedule and in a style befitting the occasion. Asked how they liked it, many of the guests were quoted as say- ing it “tasted like more.” POLIGE SEEK GOUPE INGORDON SLAYING Mulrooney Accepts Theory Woman Was Killed for Prac- } ticing Blackmail. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 3.—The search for the slayer of Vivian Gordon, black- maller and vice inquiry witness, cen- tered today on a small coupe bearing | the license number N-8819. General nctice was broadcast by po- lice that the coupe was wanted in con- nection with a murder in the fiftieth | precifct. Inspector Henry Bruckman, in charge of the police end of the case, | and District Attgfney Charles B. Mc- | Laughlin of the Bronx refused to di- vu'ge the information they have about | the coupe. Bruckman issued the broad- cast with the warning that the car, when found, was not to be disturbed. “Racket” Theory Accepted. | i ‘The license in question was issued to | Harold Doman, who lived in an apart- ment hotel on the Upper West Side. According to the hotel room clerk, Do- man lived there two weeks last year, checking out without paying one week's rent—$7. The clerk said Doman had many callers, all of them men. He was sure he never had seen Miss Gordon. ‘The theory the woman was slain be- cause she was operating a blackmail ring was tentatively accepted today by Police Commissioner Edward P. Mul- rooney. Miss Gordon, he said, was an “expert racketeer,” who supplied pretty women for gay parties with instructions to de- termine the social position and financial rating of their escorts for future extor- tion. - The names of about 40 men were listed in her diaries, he said. Two Held for Bail. Notations made public by Attorney Charles B. McLa: read before the Bronx Grand Jury ac- cused John A. Radeloff, her lawyer, Samuel Cohen, an ex-convict, of signs on her life as early as two years [ ago. They are held in $50,000 bail each | creased cost and necessary adjustment | as material witnesses and are seeking | Of gas fixtures” have moved the citizens freedom on habeas corpus proceedings. | to the action taken. Miss Gordon’s body, bruised and gar- roted, was discovered in a Van Cort- | landt Park thicket last Thursday—stri] ped of all material identification, in- cluding diamond ring mentioned. She | had previously conferred with vice graft | Clarence, 24; Elsle, 25, who nursed her | investigators. | mother, 'and Mrs. L. R. Pratt. A Cuban masseuse, around whom | District | pressure be reduced “to the best in- hlin and | terests of the consumers,” was passed nd | last night at its meeting - | School. P- | favor of reduced fares for school chil- is in the Army, Leonard is married and A Police threw a cloak of mystery, was | Clarcnce and Edward are out of work. | Picked up yesterday in the belief she | 2_REPUTA 'ROM _CARE- .000 miles. Just phone and we. w. §iagy, giore our Tates ' NATIONAL DELT RY ABSN. INC. 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[ foC0- Orant recently called for bids -vear contract to operate the speedboats, but the only bmdtp: to come forward was the Downtown Parking Garage Co., which offered to take the | concession on a three-year basis. ‘This has given rise to the legal tangle, BEVERLY HILLS, - Calif.—Well lets see what happened over what the Engljsh taught us to pressions, week end, fortnight, plus fours). We are now adopt- ing the street buses that has been our source of amusement over there. We will cop their monocle yet if they dont watch us Bernard Shaw had us right in the papers this morning. “We do things well when somebody shows us how,” but with all our m&n‘key mm&v‘e %'I‘f kll:km‘: :lo‘onl pretty good. r Congress to adjourn this week, then wa m‘hum. flh:e l:l‘n ly pre'w: drought an %‘m conference, WILL might restore order to the chaos of | fact and fancy surrounding the mur- der of Vivian Gordon. Grand Jury Probe Begun. The girl, who appeared voluntarily ¢ Mount Vernon police headquarters, | a | used to give daily massages to the slain | demi-mondaine. On the night of the | murder she was seen entering an au- tomobile in Manhattan, in which two men were already seated. | District Attorney Charles B. Laughlin of the Bronx started a grand jury investigation. John Bischoff, Miss Gordon’s former | husband, went before the grand jury to deny the woman's charges that he and Patrolman Andrew J. McLaughlin, just home from a Bermuda cruise, rail- roaded her to the reformatory on a vice charge in 1923. Al Marks, who was arrested for main- taining a disorderly house at the time of | Miss Gordon’s arrest, presented himself for guestioning. He offered an alibi for the time of the killing. | Plan Rubber Production Cut. AMSTERDAM, Holland, March 3 (#). —The entire Dutch Rubber Committee planned today to proceed to London within a day or so for serious discus- sion with British producers on Testric- tion of productions. IF YOU’RE THINKING about buying coal to carry you through till Spring, get it OFF your mind and IN your fuel bin. Let us send you Marlow’s Famous Reading Anthracite—the finest hard coal nature ever made. Marlow, Coal Co. 811 E St. NW. Mec- | | property in the District, under what has | recommended that he be retained with Sale of Pamphlet On Baker Murder Mystery Stopped| By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 3— Sale of a 30-page pamphlet en- titled “It,” written by Hermann Henrl Barrere, in connection with the Mary Baker murder mystery, has been stopped here until a per- mit for a license is obtained from City Council, Barrere was notified in & letter written him by City Man- ager Wallace Lawrence yesterday. The pamphlet, which sells for 25 cents, has been placed on news- stands here. In it Barrere describes himself as a “veteran soldier and itinerant painter.” The booklet out- lines the Mary Baker case from the finding of her body in a_culvert near Arlington National Cemetery, April 11, 1930, and describes Bar- rere's arrest in connection with the case and subsequent release. In it he quotes the police motice on which he was arrested in Can- ada, describes what is termed a “third degree.” and tells of the trial of Herbert M. Campbell, Virginia real estate dealer, who was ac- quitted. IMPROVED QUALITY OF GAS DEMANDED Reduction of Pressure Also Asked by Manor Park Group in Resolution. A resolution asking the Public Utili- ties Commission to “urge and require” that the quality of the gas being fur- nished in Washington by the Washing- ton Gas Light and Georgetown Gas Light Cos. be increased, and that the by the Manor Park Citizens' Association in Whittier The resolution recounts that “in- Reduced Fares Urged. The assoclation went on record in dren “immediately.” A resolution asked that the reduced fares be put into effect at once, to allow children to ride either by payment of cash or tickets. No spe- cific method was put forward. Another step taken by the n’our last night was the passage of a resolution asking that the Commissioners of the District expedite the reassessment of become known as the “new Borland law,” so that refunds can be made to taxpayers who were overassessed. Condemnations Opposed. A resolution opposing two proposed property condemnation projects in the Manor Park area for street widening was also passed. The projects opposed are the widening of Blair road from Ta- . kema Park to Oglethorpe street and the opening of Kansas avenue from Quack: enbos to Oglethorpe, where condemna- tion is necessary. W. H. Harland, director of traffic, was commended by the members of the as- sociation in a resolution, in which it the adopticn of the new traffic law. Flyers on Silver Anniversary. NOTTINGHAM, England, March 3 () ! —Rev. John Pyddoke, 61, and his wife, 52, celebrated their silver wedding anni- versary today, by passing the final tests for air-pilot certificates, after 18 months of training. One of the tests was to ascend to 2,000 feet, shut off the en- gine and alight within 150 yards of a specified spot. Mr Pyddoke hit the spot. His wife did almost as well. NAtional 0311 Dependable Coal Service Since 1858 VETERANS CONGES JLESS LODGINES Many Are Being Turned Away—Record for One Day at Gospel Mission. The Capital's free lodging houses, al- ready crowded with jobless men, have been overflowing since Washington became the mecca of veterans seek- ing bonus loans. ‘The largest number of men ever to apply in one day were accommodated last night at the Gospel Mission, 214 John Marshal place. Here 336 transients received supper, a place to sleep and breakfast this morning, about four times the average on this date last year. Less ample facilities forced the Mu- nicipal Lodging House, 312 Twelfth street, to turn away aimost as many men as were accepted—50 in all. Special Preparations Made. This lodging_house has been full nightly for the Winter months, although applications have jumped since the for- mer service men began to come to Washington. Special preparations have been made to care for out-of-town veterans at 317 C street and at the District Soldiers’ Home, 921 Pennsylvania avenue south- east. At the former address some 75 visi- tors are being accommodated, akout half |of whom are members of the “box car bri e” of Seattle, Wash., veterans which arrived Sunday after & six-week overland trek. Friends of former service men ob- tained the loan of Army cuts and blankets from the War Department, enough for 50 men. Under sponsorship of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, they leased a 22-room building and obtained enough fuel to keep the furnace going. Expect Checks Shortly. Many free lodgers here and at the District Soldiers’ Home expect to ob- tain Government checks in a few days. Meanwhile, they are dependent for the most part, upon the charity of friends. ing tonight, a hot supper will be providad for those stopping at 317 C street, although coffee and doughnuts have been handed out each morning since. the retreat was established. The men will be fed as long as the.c is need. ‘The District Soldiers’ Home is keep- ing about 50 visitors dally and pro- viding free meals for many more. All bear service credentials and are being assisted to straighten out their affairs with the Government. The District Department, American fon, through its Welfare and Re- lief Committee, with headquarters in the Shoreham Building, Fifteenth and H streets, has set up an emergency service for out-of-town veterans. Many needy visitors are being as- signed to free lodging places here, both in public and private homes. In some cases new "shoes or serviceable over- coats are handed out to replace those worn out on the way to Washington. Under auspices of local chapters, Vet- erans of Foreign Wars, a bread line has been established on Sixth street near Pennsylvania avenue, in one sec- tion of the old National Hotel, now }éead%ulmrs for the District National uard. WASHINGTON’S NEWEST FINE HOME DEVELOPMENT The Forest Sec tion Chevy The quarter of a ence of this organization combining with SALT AGREEMIENT REAGHED BY GANDH Big Step to End Civil Disobe- diance Campaign Foreseen in Today’s Move, By the Associated P: NEW DELHI, March 3.—Mahatma Gandhi and Sir George Schuster, Indian finance minister, conferring today at the Vice-Regal Palace, reached an ! agreement on the salt question, one of | the outstanding problems in the way of abandonment of the civil disobedience ‘ + campaign. Almost exactly a year ago the Indian Nationalists, led by Gandhi, initiated a campaign of violation of the salt laws, which provide for a British monopoly. Throughout current negotiations for calling off the civil campaign Gandhi | has contended that the Indian people be empowered to make their own salt. Gandhi arose at 4 am. and was seen on the balcony of his house with his arms outstretched to heaven praying and reciting the litany of the &u. or Hindu Bible. Beside him, with her face toward the dawn, stood the mystical white-robed figure of Miss Madeline Slade, British-born convert of the Ma- hatm; Parley With Lord Irwin, ‘The agreement between Gandhi and Sir George was reached after a two- hour conference. After taking an hour’s rest Gandhi proceeded to the viceroy's | quarters to resume his talks with Lord Irwin which, it was expected, would lead today to a formal agreement per- mitting abandonment of the civil diso- bedience campaign. It was understood the agreement pro- vides that people living on the seacoast will be allowed to manufacture and sell salt, which will be regarded as nature’s gift to them. Acknowledgment of this principle, it was thought, will not interfere mate- rialy with the government salt monop- oly, which will still supply salt to the major part of India. ‘The text of the formula upon which agreement was reached was not imme- diately available. Satisfaction Is Expressed. Much satisfaction was expressed here at the conclusion of the agreement, which clears the way of one of the most important obstacles to settlement of Nationalist demands and participation of the Congress party in a round table conference to work out & new constitu- tional status for India. It was confidently expected by close observers that Gandhi and Lord Irwin would find formulas or compromises during their conversations today on other points at issue. These include Gandhi's demand for an investigation of alleged police brutality, picketing of shops and the boycott of foreign goods. Although the Mahatma declared this morning that he was determined to close his conversations with Lord Irwin today, it was considered possible that discussion of final details of the settle- meht might be extended until tomorrow. This was indicated when Gandhi this afternoon ordered his special meal of dates, orown bread and goat's milk brought to the viceroy's palace before sunset so that he would not have to in- | terrupt the great volume of work still confronting the two negotiators. MENACE OF FLOODS TO BE ELIMINATED | Bladensburg Work Planned in Con- nection. With Widening of Boulevard. By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 3.—The widening of the Baltimore Boulevard from the bridge at Bladensburg to the District line and the necessary drainage of the Northwest Branch there is on the State roads commission pre for this year, Kent Roberts Mmln. chairman of the Prince Georges County delegation, was informed today in a ference with officials of the State roads commission concerning legislative action necessary for road improvements in Prince Georges. The commission told Mr. Mullikin that no legislation was necessary to :r!ed the correction of the Bladensburg lood situation. Calling attention to their plans for widening the boulevard through Bladensburg and Cottage City to the District line, the commissioners declared “it would be ridiculous to as- sume this work would be done without first caring for the flood situation,” Delegate Mullikin says. The road-wid- | ening work will cost at least $140,000, he was told. Elimination of the flood menace prob- ably will be accomplished through the | dredging of the branch, but how this | will be done and the cost will not be | known until the commission completes a survey and study that has been in progress for some time. THREE HELD AS FORGERS NEW YORK, March 3 (#).—A mar- ried couple and an insurance broker were arraigned yesterday as members of a $1,000,000 international forgery ring, which is believed to have cost one victim $400,000. New York banks sup- plied about $100,000, poiice said. Leo Carr, called the “brains” of the gang, was held without bail. His wife, Jeannette, was held in $15,000 bond. Promising to “make a clean breast of everything” before the grand jury, Wil- liam A. Phillip, insurance broker, was released in $2,500 bail. The arrests were made Saturday, after police said Mrs. Carr presented a $15,000 check to a jeweler bearing the forged signature of Mrs. Ann Pen- fleld of Riverside drive. f Chase century in experi- today's low building costs produces v. ues that will cdmmand your attention. Information Home Furnished by Dulin & Martin Ofen for Inspection Daily and Sunday —TO INSPECT— Drive out Connecticut Avenue to Bradley Lane, then turn LEPT two squaves (along the grounds of the Chevy Chase Club) to Maple Avenue, then follow our direction signs. Ship Sponsor NIECE OF WASHINGTONIAN TO CHRISTEN BOAT. 1SS LEILA DELANO, niece of Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the National Capital Park and Planning ~Commission, who will christen the new mship Florida when it is launched Newport News, Va., Saturday. Miss Delano is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Delano of New York City. Her father is executive vice president of the Atlantic Coast Line and a member of the board of directors of the Peninsular and Occidental Steamship Co. $70,000 POST OFFICE FOR SILVER SPRING Sum Allotted by Treasury for New Structure in Nearby Town. stea at Special Dispatch to The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., March 3.— Announcement was made this morning by Frank L. Hewitt, local Republican leader, that he had been advised by Rey ntative Frederick L. Zihlman that $70,000 had been allocated by the Treasury Department in a report sub- mitted to Congress for the purchase of a site and erection of a new post office building in Stlver Spring. Mr. Hewitt said that construction of the post office would probably be start- ed in the Fall, as the money would be available after July 1. A Greenwich, England, attorney has been appointed his majesf chief stew- ard and bailiff in his district, the office g:sr;ymg the right to act as official ale T, Members of the Amsterdam Diamond Excl INEW ASSESSMENT PLAN IS PROVIDED Bill Changing Montgomery System Offered in House at Annapolis. BY GEORGE PORTER, Staft Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 3.—Seven bills sponsored by the Montgomery | County Democratic leaders were dropped Iln the House hepper last night. Three | of the measures provide for bond issues, | while the others authorize miscellaneous | administrative changes. | One or tne bond issue bills calls for i $200,000 loan to refinance smounts | expended from the emergency fund for | the site for the new court house at | Rockville, another is for $30,000 to care for a deficlengy in the . construction of county buildings at Bethesds and Spring, while the third would - the county commissioners to borrow money against property purchased g:e county treasurer for default xes. ‘The administrative act calling for the most radical change in the present county government was the one to substitute a board of assessment for the present county assessor, and provide for a new system of making assess- ments which, the delegates say, will prove more economical and efficient. Disbursement Committee Proposed. ‘The establishment of a county dis- bursement committee, as provided in another bill, is another move designed to provide more efficient county manage- ment. The committee would act as an advisory board to the county com- missioners as to the legality of any vouchers or accounts submitted for payment. The fire company bill is designed as check on new fire companies and as a safeguard against the organization of companies in areas that cannot support or desire them. The county now pays $500 a year for every piece of apparatus owned by a company in active service. Companies organized after the passage of the bill, however, will be required to file formal application for such an allotment and will not receive any aid unless their request is approved by the county commissioners. ‘The bill introduced last week by Dr. Edmonds, providing that one of the county commissioners could be d nated road suj r, was favorably reported by the Montgomery delegation last night. B am BLENDED GULDENS & Mustard ‘ hange Diamonds AND Other Prec For EASTER ious Stones Remembrances A. Kahn Jnc. 39 Years at . . Jewelers Stati « « 935 F Street ioners Platinumsmiths “I Never Knew it Could Be Done So Easily” —that’s what Washington householders are saying about our vacuum method of furnace cleaning. You'll say it, too, when you see how every quickly we remove particle of soot, dirt or scale from YOUR fur- nace, without even disturbing the fire! Call us for this better service today. 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