Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1931, Page 18

SPREADING OF 10BS | SEEN IMPRACTICAL Head of Postal Clerks’ Fed-| eration Does Not Believe Plan Will Work. lly im- to put & plan into effect postal service and continue to service. He added that he thought would prove more expensive if it & program of recommendations improving conditions throughout country, issued a few days ago by & committes of the Gifford tnemploy- ment relief ization, it was stated that in the ral, State and local service there was a large group had not been called on to share hours of ‘work. The program contained s that Federal, State and municipal officers make an appraisal of the facts on the subject. Fears Difficulties Exist. Luther C. Steward, president of the National FPederation of Pederal Em- (e view that J:r:m would be practical difficulties agal applica- tion of such & plan to the Federal action would be neces- sary to carry out the recommendations made by the committee, it was pointed out yesterday, should such a policy be determined on. Power to suspend the service law, even to meet an emergency situation, is vested solely in Congress, it was sald, and not in the Executive. All discussion of these legislative steps, as well as the carrying out of the , was entirely speculative. It was indicated at the ite House that the President had no mmm?n Jlt plr:ur‘:; of asking Co! to apply the plan the regular mfl civil service here and throughout the country. ‘This spreading of employment in Government bureaus huwbeen lnta:- preted in some quarters mean the placing of the regular civil gervice em- 'on a part-time \)nln'e In order do so0, it was pointed out, Congress ‘would have to :E:'ov: an amendment to the civil servi act permitting the of the mtulelu‘f:f & “speci- % amend- spec provisions for “stagger hours,” of the temporary severance from the service of non lent married or single vo:l\:n,g, what is kl:;lu to b: , could besto! pon, rh:h Pluum?‘m broader powers to into effect new rules and regula- designed to meet the emergency ‘Wisdom May Be Doubted. As to_the practicability of working out a dznnmp program for spreading ployment to meet the indi h; Cengress be applied, gh the ‘wisdom of such a policy appears open to The technical worker would be omit- ted from the operation of the commit- tee's plan, it was said, and the general burden would fal! upon clerks, me- chanics and laborers, should favorable action be obtained. Even with to clerks, advocates of the B ety sk ity ter ntly. ‘The drafting of the civil service em- ployment recommendation by the com- mittee, which s headed by Harry A. Wheeler, 50 _banker, is believed to have been brought about after it had received mflfll from a vast number of m’l" justries which had adopted “spread work” plan. Five Would Share Pay. Officials of the President's Oragniza- tion on Unemployment Relief have in- terpreted the meaning of “‘spreading employment” as to create work for one man Wndncm( the salaries of five regular employes. In other words, the five regular employes would work only five of their six-day schedule and their off-day pay would be used to pay the wages of the tempotary worker. ‘Working hours of Federal clerks are y the act of March 15, 1899, uires “not less than seven hours of labor each day,"” except on Sundays and legal holidays. For me- chanics and laborers the basis of pay is an eight-hour working day, With time and a half for overtime. It would require congressional action to reduce the hours of clerks in the tments. On the other hand, the law applies no maximum, so it is entirely legal to order clerks under «civil service to work ia excess of seven ! hours a day. This is frequently done % in emergencies. In such departments and bureaus_as Office, the ‘Government Prinf Office, Bureau of and the Navy , ds of laborers and mechanics and clerks are employed, mmu( these rules governing working —_— BUDGET SKIRMISH IS WON BY WALKER Board of Estimates Approves $631 - 226,297.97 Fund Over Con- troller's Opposition. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 31.—Overcom- ing the city controller's spirited oppo- | sition. Mayor Walker won the approval tonight of the Board of Estimate and | Apportionment for a 1932 municipal | budget of $631,266.297.97—the largest in | history. | Controller Charles W. Berry, who first { angered the mayor by a statement that | a reduction of $14,000,000 was possible. carried his fight into a ings in which none of tions for budget slash: 2 | On motion of the Mayor indorsed the budget over vote by Berry and directed the Board of Aldermen for 1 adop- tion. The latter board must pass on| it rext month | The board also defeated an amend- | ment sponsored by Aldermanic Pres dent Joseph V. McKee and Berry which would have effected a $8,175.444.30 re- duction. Mayor Walker said he syvmpathized ' with the purpose of the McKee amend- | ment. but declared some one must “take it on the chin” and insist that cur- Tent obligations be met. He attributed | high budgets of the present to “correct- ing mistakes for 40 vears before 1926 WILL PLAY FOR PATIENTS| . Guy Luecas, Church Organist, to| Entertain at Walter Reed. T. Guy Lucas, organist and choir- | =aster St. John's Church, will be afterncon at 4 assisted In the ond T. Piggett, tenor soloist. ‘The monthly concerts are made pos- e St m e talent. For the benefit of those unable the poncerts. earphones and abe provided in the vari- x, | curiosity THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Evidence of Old Splendor On Analostan Isle NATURAL BEAUTY RETAINED IN NEWEST PARK AREA. ‘Two scenes in BY THOMAS R. HENRY N_eerie woodland is Analostan Island, its beeches and tulip trees wearing the solled yellow of this Southern October. An atmosphere peculiar to itself hangs over this deserted tract of shadowy forest and marsh in the middle of the Potomac which has just been offered by the Roosevelt Memorial Association as an addition to the Fed. eral park system of Washington. For a generation it has been aban- doned to nature. Its highland is cov- ered with trees and bushes—the long- leaved sassafras bushes which first turn red in Autumn, blackberry brambles, deep carpets of honeysuckle, sumacs with “their clusters of scarlet berries, thick patches of mnettles, wild grape vines suspended from walnut branches like the ropes of hangmen. Its low- land swamp is a thick mass of brown marsh grasses and cat-of-nine-tails through which a feeble brook trickles. Not Forest Primaeval. But Analostan Island is not the forest primaeval. It is more like a bit of English parkland on a haunted estate. Nature has been unable to de- stroy in half & century the puny order- liness of man. The fast-growing honey- suckle has not succeeded entirely in covering the lichen-covered stone walls of Gen. Mason's cellar—all that re- mains of the “mansion.” The bramble under the ancient trees has not wiped out thd forest colonades under which Jovers strolled in the star-light and the fragrance of honeysuckle in days be- fore the Civil War when the island was the home of wealth and culture. One still can recognize the clear spaces where wild sunflowers now grow shoul- der high which then were “lawns co ered with beautiful verdue.” There used to be dances on those lawns old Gen. Mason's day. A ¥ Englishman named David Baillie W den, who was British consul at George- town in 1810, attended one of them accompanied by a Mrs. Curtis, to who he dedicated a curious book he wrote about Washington Caretaker Has Clearing. All over the island is the atmos- phere of “<ld, unhappy far-off things.” The 98-acre tract, less than 300 yards from the Georgetown shore, is uninhabited except for the and his family, who have a cleared patch of not more than a ha It is known to nearly ever: Washington. Yet those who in a year might be ccunted on The purpose of the Roc Memorial Association is that nd shall be a wil re all the anima! a home safe from the of id trying to accon D outpost of by the Georgeto symbolize th: enemy—civili: But the D land is inescap the little is- The vine- hidden walls breathe the sadness of dead days which the wilderness knows not, but into which time always converis the prattle of children and the laughter of love and which forever follows as a sort of moving, ghostly fog, man's futile fight down the ages. Bit of Wounded Woodland. Such is Analostan Isiand this A tumn—a bit of wounded wildernes left on the field by an enemy that has fled, and now struggling to arise. It is not a captive, shackled woodland, like a city park which temporarily tri- umphant humanity has degraded into a caretaker for its children, or a farm which has been lashed into a docile carrier of burdens. Here it is proposed to erect a mon- | ument to Theodore Rocsevelt, one whose heart was with the wilderness and who would have had men and women make peace with their ancient enemy instead of inviting angry reprisals by uncalled- for atrocities of warfare. One feels that the reviving wilderness knows this and will be kind to the memory of its friend, even when the stately city across the river has forgotten him. Analostan Isiand will be a park for those who love nature for itself the tangled woodland of Analostan Island, bought recently by the Roosevelt Memorial Association and offered to the Government as part of the Federal park system of Washington. —Star Staff Photo. not for the orderly beauty which is hostile to her spirit but which man persists in imposing upon her. It long | has been an occasional resort for na- lovers of this sort. Curiously | enough, considering the purpose to | which ‘it now is proposed to devote the tract, it was here that the first study of animals and birds and flowers ture underneath, of which the rats are very fond. While devouring them they necessarily move one of these sticks, by which the board suddenly falls and crushes him to death. “The deer, wild turkey, canvasback duck and wild goose, which inhabited this place about 50 years ago, have all disappeared. The shooting of deer is prohibited from the first of January to D. C, NLLNG SUSPELT HEARING EXTENDED | of this locality was made, in the days | 1whm the isiend was s gentleman's | the first of August. The penaity is 400 | cco. other acts an: | Finds Curious Book. | master or mistress, o‘ymer of a hmu; | _It was by this same David Baillie| or single taxable person is obliged to | Warden, who wcnt to dances on the| produce yearly, to the justice of the and |lawns accompenicd by the forgotten | | “Mrs. Curtis” A few years ago Dr. | Charles W. Richmond, curator of birds of the Smithsonian Institution, hap-| pened to find a curious book while browsing in a Paris bookstall, “A| Chorographical and Statistical Descrip- | tion of the District of Columbia.” He purchased it and placed it in the Na- tional Museum Tibrary, where it mains with its idyllic picture of An: lostan Island just before the burnin of Washington by the British. Pre sumably this is the only copy in e: istence. | Warden weut there to visit Gen.| Mason, then the occupant of the “man- | sion,” 'in the Springtime, when the hite horenoundg, ~vellow jasmines, Judas. trees and wild cherries were in blossom. He crossed over from George- | town on “a flat boat of rude construc- tion, awkwardly impelled by an oar, | which affords safe conveyance from the | mainland 200 yards away.” The right | to operate this boat, he records, wn:’ “rented by Gen. Mason for $300 a year. Before the erection of the Potomac | Bridge it yield2d nearly double.” was a causeway to the Virginia shore. Then Analostan Island was the pri cipal route across the river into Vir- ginia. Impressed by Gardens. He was impressed by the “gardens, | the sides of which are washed by the river, ornamentsd with a variety of trees and shruos, and in the midst a lawn covered with beautiful verdure.” All over the estate were fragrant ha thorne and cedar hedges. The slaves were anxious for the roots of “orange- flowered ascelpias, called pleurisy roots, which they use to cure all diseases. Gen. Mason was oxperimenting with a field | of cotton, which crop he hoped to in- | troduce this far north He jotted n some curious notes, providing the first catalogue of Wash- ington birds and animals. Some are worth quoting “This island is the resort of various reptiles. We found the nest of the ter- rapin, or concentric tortoise, or fresh water turtle, in t! garden at a distance of about 30 fest from the water, con- taining 19 eggs laid close to each other, and the interstices filled with earth. I saw another nest from which the turtle was taken at the moment when she had placed herself in an erect position to deposit the eggs. which she always performs during the day and, it is said, never returns to the spot. The young are hatched by the heat of the sun and are supposed to remain in the next until the next Spring. The terrapin is very shy and ceases to walk as soon as it sees a person ap- proaching near to it. When endeavor- ing to escape it runs nearly as fast as a duck. Attacked by Trutle. “The snapping turtle is also seen in the waters of this river. some of which | weigh from 40 to 50 pounds and lay from 40 t& 50 eggs. Gen. Mason some years ago caught one of a huge size, which he threw into his canoe and it attacked him so furiously therein that he was obliged to leap into the water. The reptile followed and thus made its escape. “Two species of fresh water tortoise inhabit the island, the painted tortoise and the streaked toricise. The head | of the painted turtle manifests symp- | | toms of life two hours after decapita- | tion. | “The muskrat inhabits the banks of this island. It is killed by the | blacks in a curious manner. A square | board, bearing a considerable weight of | stones or mud, is placed in an inclined | 1 muon and is suj 3 sticks | heads. | posal to make of it. county, three squirrel scalps or erows’ The is three pounds of tobacco. A premium of two pounds was given for every scalp more than three. The reward for a wolf’s head was 200 pounds. Abounds With Birds. “Analostan Island abounds with birds of various kinds. The catbird is almost tame. When its nest is in danger, it makes a loud noise and seems as if it would tear the face of & person who approached it. We saw in the garden &_partridge nest containing 19 eggs. e humming bird frequents this place. ‘When scared it feigns death, like the opossum, and, by this means, escapes from the hand. We saw one thus es- cape from the pretty hand of Mrs. B. “The mocking bird does not frequent the island, although '* is seen on the adjacent borders of the river. Perhaps it has been expelled by the crow black- bird, which swarms in this place. It is & pity that so enchanting a spot is de- prived of the notes of this inimitable songster.” This is the picture that the wilder- ness has striven to erase, the result of which struggle is the Analostan Island of today. About the time of the Civil War it passed out of the hands of the Mason family. The “mansion” fell into decay. Squatters settled on the island. Somebody erected a dance hall there which used to attract large crowds from Georgetown. “But there used to be more fighting than dancing,” says the old boatman who rows to the island from Georgetown. He used to live there when he was a boy. His fa- ther was a squatter and was driven off. Later the island came into the hands of the Washington Gas Light Co., which wisely left it in the mands of nature while waiting to decide on what dis- So it passes into the hands of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, with the feverish recupera- tion of the wildnerness already making good progress. DECORATION WON BY SERVICE HEROISM Col. Sultan to Be Honored at Fort Humphries Tomorrow for Work in Nicaragua. By the Amsciated Pres. For peace-time service in Nicaragua Lieut. Col. Danfel 1. Sultan of the En- gineer Corps is to be decorated tomor- row at Fort Humphreys. Va. by his chief, Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown. Already | hy the possessor of a Distinguished Serv- ice medal, Col. Sultan will receive an oak-leaf cluster in leu of & second medal Saving lives rather than taking them played a part in Col. Sultan’s distin- guished service in Nicaragua, as he and his men aided in the relief work in con- nection with the Managua earthquake of last Spring. Col. Sultan was in charge of an Army unit investiga an interoceanic canal route Across ragua. He and his men returned this Summer after nearly two years in the mn’x"g:' i ters to Col X citation refers 3 services as “exceptionally meritorious . sving, been w:ex canal survey as having u S oo pt of high morale among conditions of unusual hardship and dif- o are put | ficulty, NOVEMBER 1 Prisoner in New York Faces Quiz Before Being Brought Here. ‘William E. Beddell, a suspect in the imurder of Jack Cunningham and the El Salvador legation liquor robbery here last May, is being held in New York for a further hearing November 16 before being brought here in connection with the two cases, it was learned last night. Beddell was taken before the United States commissioner in New York yes- terday on a fugitive from justice war- rant. He was ordered held in $5,000 bond for the later hearing after Detec- tive Sergt. Larry O'Dea of the Wash- ington Police Department appeared against him. Arrested Some Time Ago. He had been arrested in New York several weeks ago in connection with a forgery case, but authorities there de- cided to waive their claim on him so that he might be returned here. Bed- dell denles any knowledge of the crimes here. s The Cunningham killing and the at- tack upon Dr. Don Carlos Leiva, charge d’'affaires, which took place at the time of the legation robbery, were connected some time ago. Lieut. John H. Fow- ler, police ballistics expert, declared the with which Cunningham, a po- lice informer, was slain also was used in the attack on Dr. Leiva. Bullets Resemble. Fowler's statement was based on a comparison of the [;m. Khlci’l has befl} in the possession of police for severa months, with bullets taken from Cun- ningham’s body and one found imbed- ded in the wall of the le(lul)n.et A ‘The liquor robbery was perpetra early in*May and Cunningham was shot several days later. At the time of the slaying, Cunningham is said to have been on his way home from the first precinct police station, where he had given officers information abput the attack on Dr. Leiva. BOUGHT DEAD WOMAN POISON, GIRL ADMITS Servant Held With Victim's Hus- band, Tells Police She Got Ether and Razor. By the Assoclated Press. ST. LOUIS, October 31.—A strange story of how she purchased a razor and & can of ether for Mrs. Reba Maddux, whose almost decapitated body was found near Kirkwood, a suburb, last night, was told by Miss Clara Fish, 22- year-old boarder at the Maddux home, to_police tonight. In her statement to the police, Miss Pish said Mrs. Maddux argued with her over her relations with Mrs, Maddux's husband, Walter, who was also held by police in connection with the slaying. ‘The girl sald Mrs. Maddux had com- plained of {ll health and threatened to commit suicide. After the purchase of the razor and ether, Miss Fish said, she and Mrs. Maddux went to a woods near Kirkwood. Here, the girl said, Mrs. Maddux told her she was loln% to kill herself, and requested the gir to_leave. Miss Fish said she swore not to tell of the trip to the woods and then left for home. The body of Mrs. Maddux, who was 35 years old, was found by & Negro in these woods last night, with the neck bearing violent wounds from a razor which lay nearby. The ether can, which had been cut open, was also found lying near the body. MINISTERS INVITED TO HEAR CHOIR HEAD Dr. John F. Williamson Will Talk on “Music and the Church” Wed- nesday at 3:30 P.M. Ministers of Washihgton and nearby Maryland and Virginia have been in- vited to attend a talk by Dr. John Finley Willlamson of Ithaca, N. Y., Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the First gregational Church on “Music and the Church Today.” The lecture also is open to the general public. Dr. Willlamson is the organizer and conductor of the Westminster Choir, which will sing here Wednesday eve- ning at Constitution Hall. His address will be in a public forum on “Church | Worship Through Music,” during which a number of authorities from Balti- more and Hagerstown will speak. More than 40 church choirs will ap- pear with the Westminster Choir Wed- nesday night with a total of 800 singers. A vested processional of choirs will open the concert in honor of the visit- ing choir and later will join in the singing of *‘Jesus, Lover of My Soul,” under the direction of Dr. Williamson, \ELECTRIC UTILITIES PLAN BIG INCREASE Construction Program Anticipates Double Consumption in Ten Years, Says Survey. T By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 31.—As evi- dence of their faith in future prosper- ity, the electric utilities of the country are shaping their construction programs for a 100 per cent increase in the do- mestic consumption of power in the next 10 years, the New York Stock Ex- change firm of Wood, Struthers & Co, said in a survey issued today. The increase will mean an additional | load of 11,584,000,000 kilowatt hours, | _To bring it about, the electrical in- dustry 1s looking not only to the natu- | ral increase in domestic lighting, but also to sharp increases in the use of utility appliances such as refrigerators, ranges, irons and other devices. i Average consumption of electric cur- rent by domestic users has increased from 426 kilowatt hours in 1926, to 569 kilowatt hours for the 12 m#onths ended September 1, last, the statement says, This_indicates an average annual gain of 25 kilowatt hours, but the survey points out that the gain in 1929 over 1028 was 37 hours, and the gain last year over the previous year was 48 l ours. BIND AND ROB MAN Pair Take ‘2-,—111“2 and Cigarette Case From Home. ., Bound and gagged by identified men, Nathan Davis was robbed of $2 in cash, a knife and cigarette case at his home, 410 O street, was aslee bed room when the men ’3& through a second-floor window, tied him up with towels and then fled after ransacking the house. two un- Larne, Ireland. had a dail &ml!‘ly 3.1 hours of -umhge'&frfi 1931—PART ONE VET CARRIES STAY-AT-HOME | PLEA TO BUDDIES IN 48.STATES | VOIS ILLINOIS - REAPPORTION ACT {Judge Rules Law Passed by _ General Assembly Is Un- ; R - ] | constitutional, Wounded Sergeant Urges Ex-Service Men to Refrain From Aimless Wandering. Saves Hundreds From Dire Plights by Showing Futil- ity of Job Hunting. : By the Associated Press. | BELVIDERE, Ill, October 31.-The | S | Tlinois congrdssional reapportionment E | act passed by the last General Assem- | bly was declared unconstitutional today ' by Circuit Judge Edward D. Shurtlefr. Ruling for two petitioners, who had | agked that the Secretary of State be | enjoined from accepting petitions for | Congress based on the reapportionment, !Judge Shurtlefl declared “the law as Former Sergt. L. B. Loewenstein of the A. E. F, who has traveled all over | cause he must preach it far and wide. Loewenstein is a man with an idea, his own idea—a prophet who himself must keep moving from place to place to bear the message, “Stay at home | He set ou‘t ;xponhglzh n}::—uupmed‘ | pligrimage July 3, on icharge from | a veterans' hospital at Prescott, Ariz., following treatment for shellshock and gas. enacted is not a complete workable | law | The act, passed over the protests of SERGT. L. B. LOEWENSTEIN. ‘Democ;:tmho charged wholesale “ger- Photo, | Tymandering,” cut the State into 27 " | districts. It eliminated the two Con- gressmen: hr*e and gave the metro- politan area of Chicago and nearby counties 14 districts compared to 13 for the rest of the State. Judge Shurtleff pointed out in his ruling, es had the petitioners in their arguments, that the fifth district in Chicago had a population of 541,785 compared with 158,738 for one of the down-State districts—the seventeenth. “Just why the Legislature should dis- franchise over 280,000 persons in Chicago and deny them representation in Congress is not plain to be seen,” the court stated. “The act in question violates the meaning and the llnwlfia of the Constitution. is subversive of the spirit of the republican form of govern- metnc and is unconstitutional and a void act.” Attorney General Oscar E. Carlstrom announced in Springfield that the ruling would be appealed immediately to the State sufr;mz Court. and an early de- asked. Patient Leag Time. : warrant the eternal wandering in search | Mostly since the armistice Loewen- | of mt_which he has encoun- stein has been laid up in service hos- | teréd in every State pitals—Mount Alto, Walter Reed and| “Each community,” Loewenstein went various others. | on, “has its hands full, with institutions | As a student of economics, however, | crowded, with every agency taxed to the he whiled away the tedium of his con- | utmost, just taking care of the needy nmm;nz s ;fi ’on;e lflju‘d‘:;d l:elé of that particular community. enough to for himself, Tmines to preach the “stay-at-home” idea to Fiight Is Pittel. the four corners of the United States. | “The f"xhl of the floater, the man Having his disability service allow- | who drifls in, perhaps with & wife and lnee“plus I.h; lnw:u ::‘vsh a l:.-cy. l;; : Yblog‘fll for work, is a pitiful | was i lent, he said, and free e. . “If he staved at home, if he de- bear his message as he might see fit. o ‘ termined to make the best of things at | Breadcasts Message, home, the result would be better for | He has been addressing service men’s | himself in a personal way and better organizations, he said, in every part of | for the country at large, once the whole the country, being himself a member | result could be fel of the American Legion, the Disabled| “Stay at home,” afirmed American Veterans and the Veterans of | stein, pl Foreign Wars, National Capital Post. 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