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Washington Newr] SCHOOL ESTIMATES EXCLUDE 11 OF 21 BUILDING PROJECTS Only One of 13 Land Items Left in Program Sent to Congress. DENNISON VOCATIONAL STRUCTURE IS REFUSED Appropriation of $225,000 for Roosevelt High Stadium Also Stricken Out. Eleven out of 21 building Drojecm" and 12 out of 13 land items which the Board of Education had included in its $3,467,500 buildings-and-grounds ; budget for 1933 were excluded entirely | from the estimates for next year s they were transmitted to Congress by the Bureau of the Budget This was revealed for the first time | last night by Dr. Frank W. Ballou, | superintendent of schools, when he re- | ported to the delegates of the Capital's organized citizenry attending the joint conference with the school board on the fate of appropriation requests made | by the school authorities. In making public the specific items | stricken from the budget of the school | board, Dr. Ballou represented thel budget bureau as making drastic cuts| on the ground that Washington's school system should be content with its ad- | vances to date and should not, in view | of the depression, seek to reach higher standards of progress. He pointed out further that when Congress last year appropriated an unusually large sum of money for buildings and grounds, its Subcommittee on District Appropria- tions made it plain that its generous action was not to be continued as a “precedent”. Reluctant to Give Funds. “The idea which the Bureau of the| Budget—and others who have to do; with the approval of our requests for appropriations—seems to have ha i Dr. Ballou declared. “was that we should be willing to maintain what we have in the face of this depression without attempting to go forward ta| new high standards of progress. Frankly, we were shown very little sympathy in our efforts to secure funds which would look to the further | advancement of our system at this time. And that goes for the Commis- sioners as well as the Budget Bureau.” Dr. Ballou added, however, that .he estimates as forwarded to Congress contained “very little cut in the main- tenance items” of the schools. The re- ductions which were made, he said, were effected chiefly on the basis of the elimination of new buildings for which most of the increase was to have provided. Even in the face of the re- ductions in the buildings and grounds budget, the superintendent declared, provision was made for more actual pupil accommodations than would be required for the bare estimated in- crease in enrollment. In framing the 1933 school estimates, Dr. Ballou explained, the Bureau of the Budget and the Commissioners fol- lowed the procedure announced a year ago by the Subcommittee on Appro- priations that future school construc- tion should be provided to provide for: First, increased enrollment; second, assembly-gymnasiums not now pro- vided, and third, replacement of old structures. It was in this order, he asserted, that the budget bureau shows the items which were included in the estimates. i Cites $250,000 Cut | The largest single building item| stricken from the school board requests | by the budget bureau was that of| $250,000 requested for a new building to accommodate the Dennison Voca- tional School. Dr. Ballou said this building was to constitute the first step | toward the modernization of the Dis- trict's vocational education system. It was stricken from the budget by the Commissioners and left out as ‘well by the budget bureau. The second largest item was $225,000 for the construction of the Roosevelt High School stadium. This also was left out first by the Commissioners, This reduction was offset-to some ex- tent, however, by the Budget Bureau's raising of the $50,000 item requested by the school peoplé for the completion of the Roosevelt Building to $135,000. This increase, he explained, will pro-| vide for the grading and landscaping of the surrounding grounds. | Excluded Items Listed The items stricken from the esti-| mates entirely included Truesdeil School, eight room addition and assembly-gymnasium, $180,000; Whittier School assembly-gymnasium, $60,000; Brookland School, eight room | addition and assembly-gymnasium, $190,000. Monroe School, = assembly- gymnasium, $60,000; Bates Road School (new), four-room building, $110,000; M. M. Washington Vocational School, room for cleaning and dyeing, $7,500; and Armstrong High School—auto, shop and gymnasium, $70,000; connect- | ing corridor, $45,000; and conservatory, | $3.000. | These total eliminations were offset | in part, however, by the insertion of a | $70,000 item for the construction of a| new four-room building to replace the| Kenilworth School, which was cou- | demned as unsafe at the opening of the current school year, and $100,000 for the new Foxhall Village elementary school. ‘The Budget Bureau also covered some of the loss by adding $25.000 to the *school board’s request for $200,000 to begin the new Anacostia Junior High School. The bureau also added $4,000 to the board’s request for $32,000 for a two-room addition to the Crummell School. While it refused to approve a request for a gymnasium for the M- street Junior High School assembly- Simmons (elementary) School, each at $60,000, the Bureau of the Budget in- serted an item of $90,000 for construc- tion of an assembly-gymnasium which would be used jointly by both schools. ‘The budget bureau also increased the school board’s $30,000 request to cover plans for the proposed senior high school for Reno to $50,000. This, how ever, was $10,000 below the figure sub: mitted by the Commissioners for the same purpose. $200,000 Reduction The budget bureau reduced the school board’s request for $200,000 for an eight-room addition and assembly- gymnasium for the Bancroft School to $105,000. Similarly, it cut $50,000 from the school board's petition for $300,000 for completion of the Taft Junior High School. These reductions were made, Dr. Ballou explained, be- cause the Budget Bureau believes the construction may be done within the new figures in view of the lower build- ing prices. For the same reason, the budget bureau cut the $130,000 request for the eight-room building to replace the Keene School, to $115,000. | i streets southv i Above is pictured a heap of worthless shoes left at committee headquarters, 1514 H street, by needy men, women and children, who called to receive recon- ITH a record of 1,000 recond tioned shoes distributed eac ditioned shoes donated by the public week among_the unemployed during the first month of its operation, “The Old Wom- an Who Lived in a Shoe” Committee was praised for its charitable activity in a radio address by William R. Val- lance, president of the Federal Bar As- sociation. He pledged the support of the association’s membership of 750 lawyers in the movement. A local soft drink bottler gave the committee 1.100 pairs of socks for m: and stockings for children for distrib tion among those wh lled for re BUILDING THEFT SUSPECT S HELD {Wrecking Firm Files Claim Against D. C. for Loss of Property. ‘While a wrecking firm was reported preparing to file a claim against the District government today for missing property, a colored man was remanded to the grand jury in Police Court on a larceny charge in connection with the unauthorized wrecking of several condemned buildings at First and L st. ‘The Hechinger Co. contracted to raze 14 buildings to make way for the Anthony J Bowen Playground at First cets southwest. Several days y overed some one had ready removed most of the property of value from six of tie buildings. Six men were arrested by fourth pre- cinct police as suspects in the theft, but only Edward Penn, 72-year-old col- | ored man, was held in court. Four of the men were found to have been em- ployed by Penn, police said, and &p- parently had no knowledge the mate- rial was the property of the wrecking company, while the fifth had innocent- 1y purchased some of the material which had been hauled away. Sydney L. Hechinger, president of the Hechinger Engineering Corporation, which lost the houses before they had a chance to go to work on them, today took extra precautions to prevent simi- lar thefts on two large blocks of build- | ings which he is soon to tear down in the heart of the Federal triangle. Awarded the contract for wrecking these two blocks, bounded by Thirteenth and Fourteenth, D street, C street and Ohio avenue, Mr. Hechinger said he had placed watchmen there to see that no unauthorized person made away with any of the buildings or any of the prop- erty inside. CABrl;'{IDER FILES SUIT Margaret L. Hutchinson, 2048 N street, has filed suit in District Supreme Court, asking $25,000 damages from Carl Ber- tho, 3109 Nicholas avenue southeast, for alleged personal injuries. She said che was a passenger in a taxicab, when the defendant's auto- mobile collided with the vehicle at St teenth street and Ccnstitution avenue, ! September 4, causing the cab to be overturned. Attorney W. Gwin Gardi- ner appears for the plaintiff. doubt as to the ultimate construction of the new Jefferson Junior High School in Southwest Washington. A recent condemnation jury returned an award of $294,000 for a comparatively small sector of the needed site which raises the total price of the land to nearly $500,000. Whether the school will be constructed in the face of such Charity Replaces Worn Shoes “OLD WOMAN” GROUP GIVES 1,000 SHOES WEEKLY. through a newly organized committee. paired shoes during the wet weather last week. Many who applied for shoes, it was said, either had no socks or their stockinged feet were wet enough to make difficult the fitting of shoe re- placements. The comm ittee, of which P. Regis Noel is chairman and George E. Fleming, treasurer, has appealed to the public for additional contributions of repair- able shoes, particularly 'in the larger sizes for men and children. The de- mand for this type of shoe is 50 per cent greater than the supply. The com- mittee headquarters is at 1514 H street. FLAMES ENDANGER A TANKS AGA |Six Companies Battle Fire at { Eleventh and M*Streets | Southeast for Four Hours. Flames menaced the Washington Gas | Light Co. reserve tanks in Southeast ‘Washington last night for the second time within a few weeks, when a 20-foot pile of old automobile tires in the junk yard of Hyman Viener & Son, Eleventh | and M streets southeast, was partially | destroyed by fire. i Six fire companies laid four lines of | hose for the 4!2-hour battle necessary | to subdue the tlames. The Viener com- pany had not_been able to estimate its oss today. The loss was not covered by_insurance. | High winds were driving a fiery col- | umn of smoke, sparks and flame toward the gas tanks when the fire was dis- | covered shortly after 6 pm. Two em-| ployes—Harry Bond, 648 G street south- | | east, a watchman, and Edgar Putnam, | 1434 Pennsylvania avenue southeast— | turned in an alarm, Similar to Recent Fire. Circumstances surrounding the origin of the blaze were similar to those of one which last October 6 destroyed a |tool shed near the Pennsylvania rail- | road tracks, 300 feet from the scene of last night's blaze. Acetelyne tanks stored in the tool shed exploded, send- ing a shower of sparks dangerouly near the gas tanks at that time | Small boys were seen playing near the shed shortly before it burned. The fire was attributed to their accidental or deliberate activities. Last night a colored woman told police she had seen | several colored boys plaving about the Viener establishment before the fire | and had seen them run away. A member of the Viener firm said he left his office about 10 minutes be- fore the blaze was discovered and there | was no evidnece of fire then. A few | moments later, while in a gasoline fill- | ing_station nearby, an attendant sai to_him, “Look, your place is on fire.” He said the flames were 15 or 20 fect high then. Even dry rubber would notd burn so rapidly unless ignited, he said. Wind Causes Damage. The wind carried the flames off the | end of the rubber pile, helping firemen | in preventing their spread toward the Viener main plant. A filling station, where more than 3,000 gallons of gaso- line were stored, adjoins the junk deal- er’s building. The strong wind caused considerable damage elsewhere in the city. In Rock Creek Park 6ix trees were blown over, blocking traffic on Grant road, Military road, Morrow road, Brandywine road and Bingham drive. The obstructions i were cleared away by park police within | half an hour. | At the National Press Building a Che WASHINGTO. 'Resolution to Amend Consti- | amendment be proposed for ratification | by the State Legislatures and that when and an: ymnasium for the Douglass- | exorbitant land costs, he said, is ex-|large glass sign was destroyed, while a | tremely ‘doubtfyl and problematical.” | window in the Creecy Paper Co., 1306 H | The school board’s request for $375,000 | streei northeast, was shattered. Three to “complete” this school was reduced | trees were felled in the Northeast sec- by the Budget Bureau to $315,000. Land Request Cut. The Board of Education’s request for $828,000 worth of land was cut by the commissioners and the Budget Bureau to $95,000, which sum was to buy ground in the Logan School. The sites eliminated entirely were: Addi- tional land adjorining the Curtis, Ad- dison and Hyde schools; additional land at Oyster School; a junior high school site in the vicinity of Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues; elementary site at 24th and Randolph streets; ad- ditional land at Kingsman School; addj tional land at the Fairbrother School; elementary site in vicinity of Phelps ‘Vocational School; additional land at the Burrville and Ambush Schools: site for new building for the Phelps Voca- tional School in the vicinity of the Dennison Vocational School; additional land in the vicinity of the old Business High School in comtemplation of its use for colored pupils, and “additional school buildings and playground sites”, this being a blanket provision for lands | tion. | Near Rockville, Md, a large tree fell | across the Mount Zion road, blocking | | traffic for 30 minutes. An electric cable was blown down on the Olney Pike, near Olney. . WORLD ARMS CUT URGED Christian Endeavor Plea Presented to President Hoover. Leadership in an international move- ment for reduction of armament was |urged in a petition left with President Hoover today by a committee represent- ' ing young leaders of the Iniernational Eociety of Christian End> | Tha petiticn said the coming disarma- ment conferencs in Geneva presents an | cpportunity for this generation to fur- ther the cause of international good will and peace by bringing about further reduction of armaments. | two years ago as an extension of the The delegation was headed by Daniel A. Poling, president of the international Dr. Ballou expressed considerable ultimately needed for these purposes, socield D. ¢, TUE Foening S WITH SUNDAX MORNING EDITION SDAY, DECEMBER 15, faf ~ Society and General 1931. PP PAGE B—1 VOTE FOR DISTRICT MEASURE IS AGAIN OFFERED BY DYER tution Is Also Reintroduced by Senator Jones. l'UDICIARY COMMITTEE ACTION WILL BE ASKED Joint Proposal Calls for Ratifica- tion by Three-Fourths of Legislatures. Representative L. C. Dyer of Mis- souri, ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, reintro- duced today the joint resolution which he has been sponsoring in the last two Congresses, proposing an amendment to the Constitution giving Congress power to extend the right of suffrage to resi- dents of the District This measure also has been reintro- duced in the Senate by Senator Jones of Washington. Representative Dyer | said today that as soon as the Judiciary | Committee is organized and meets, he! will again urge action upon the joint| resolution. The Jones-Dyer resolution pro- poses that the following constitutional three-fourths of the Legislatures have | ratified it, it shall be valid as a part of the Constitution. The proposed amendment is as follows “The Congress shall have power to admit to the status of citizens of a State the residents of the District constitut- ! ing the seat of Government of the United States, created by article 1, sec-| tion 8, for the purpose of representa- | tion in the Congress and among the | electors of President and Vice Presiden, | Mighty Forces Build Mighty Buildings H THRE RELIEVE CAB PASSENGER OF 530 Man Says He Was Robbed on' Way to Walter Reed—Other and for the purpose of suing and being sued in the courts of the United States under the provisions of article 3, sec- | tion 2. | “When the Congress shall exercise this power, the residents of such dis-| tricts shall be entitled to elect one o:] two Senators as determined by Con gress, Representatives in the House ac- | cording to their numbers as determined | by the decennial enumeration, and presidential electors in number to their | aggregate representation in the House and Senate. | “The Congress shall provide by law the qualifications of voters and the time and manner of choosing the Senator or | Senators, the Representative or Repre- sentatives and the electors herein au- thorized. “The Congress shall have power to| make all l]aws which shall be necessary | and proper for cal g into execution | the foregoing power. JUDGE HALTS TRIAL OF WILLIAM OWENS 71-Year-0ld Dredge Captain Ex-| pected to Plead Insanity in Girl Slaying. ‘The trial of William Owens, 71-year- old dredge boat captain, charged with | murdering his 14-year-old sweetheart ! last July, was postponed yesterday | after Owens’' counsel had indicated the defense would be based on an insanity lea. After a jury had been selected and the defendant had pleaded not guilty, Justice James M. Proctor ordered the postponement so he would have oppor- tunity to consider the request of De- fense Attorney Joseph D. Di Leo that Owens be given a thorough mental ex- amination at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. The judge directed the case be taken off tHe ready calendar and reassigned. Most of the morning yesterday was occupied with selection of a jury to try Owens. Di Leo exercised 18 of the 20 challenges allowed him to prevent the presence of women on the jury. ' The Government, through Assistant United States Attorney Julien I. Richards, challenged three. Richards offered to accept a plea of | guilty to a seccnd-degree murder charge, but Di Leo refused to agree. GLASSFORD PROBING PROPOSED DEMOTIONS Investigates Reasons for Plan to Lower Four Detectives to Ranks. A personal investigation of the ren-’ sons behind the proposed demotion of four headquarters detective sergeants was being made tcday by Brig. Gen Pelham g Giassford, superintendent, of Ppolice. The four detectives recommended for demotion Saturday by Inspector Frank S. W. Burke, chief of detectives, are Charles E. Mansfield, Oscar W. Mans- field, Howard W. Ogle and Chester C. Stepp. Each was called into the office of the police chief this morning for in- dividual hearings. Following the hearings.Gen. Glass- ford left for the Senate Office Building, where he was expected to confer with several members of Congress concern- ing recent police changes. Earlier in the day he had discussed the matter with members of the District attorney’s office. Gen. Glassford said he would take no definite action against the four men i until after he has given “every angle | of the cases due consideration.” Inspector Burke’s reasons for demot- ing the men were given to Gen. Glass- ford in written form last Friday. . BUSSES TO DISCONTINUE Order on Edgemoor-Battery Park Line to Be Effective January 1. Discontinuance of the Edgemoor- Battery Park bus line from Chevy Chase Circle, effective on January 1, was ordered today by the Capital Trac- tion Co. q!'hc bus route was established about { Chevy Chase de luxe service maintained by the same company. While the latter maintains a 25-cent lnrel.ou::ee E‘ggemoon Park fare was . Bnll‘gerryme time the bus line has been a drain on the company and it was decided finally that the patronage was not sufficient to warrant the asking of a renewal of the permit. | by | Hold-ups Reported. ‘ Several hold-ups were reported to police night, including one in vhich a taxicab passenger was relieved of $30 Harry Franklin Kirby of Walter Reed Hospital reported he hired a cab on Virg enue scuthwest to drive to the hcspital. He said a second man sat next to the driver. A third un- identified man. he said. was picked up on the way and the trio assaulted him in the 6900 block of Georgia avenue and took $30 | Josepdi Connell, a cab driver. said two colored men robbed him of $3.50 at Fourth and Ridge strects Two unidentifed colored men were reported to have held up Charles Pol- lard, another cab driver, at New Jersey avenue and N street. Pollard said he lost $1.50 | Two armed men obtained $7 in a| hold-up at a delicatessen store in the 1400 block of L street. Mrs. Helen Scordos, alone behind the counter when ! the men appeared, said she could identify them. Mrs. Alice E. White, Valley Vista rtments, sald she was forced to up a pocketbook containing $15 two yocuths as the walked in the vieinity of Twentleth street and Bel- mont road. | Wearing apparel valued at $135 was said to have been stolen from the home of John W. Cross, 7019 Georgia ave- nue. Entrance was gained by forcing a door. George A. Purcell, 214 Massachusetts avenue northeast, told police he fright- ened away a man who entered his home. He fired one shot at the in- truder with a .22-caliber rifle. The would-be robber apparently was not wounded. EMPLOYE ARRESTED AS SAFE-CRACKER Firestone Tire Company's Strong Box Is Looted of $135 by Man. give Three hours after discovery of a safe | cracking early today in the Firestone | Tire eand Rubber Co. office at Third and B sircets southwest, Willam W.| Dyson, colored, 27, of 5 Crabtree court | southwest, was arrested by Detective | John Dalglish of the homicide squad.| According to police, Dyson confessed to the robbery. He is said to have besn employed at | the tire store since August. He for- merly was an inmate of the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta, police say, hav- ing served six years for robbery. Later he served three years at Lorton for housebreaking and six months in jail here for theft, police records show. Dyson is said to have admitted he concealed himself in the tire company building last night, and when alone ripped open the safe and removed $135. According to Dalglish, the man then opened a window to make it appear the robber had gained entrance by force. The police officer arrested Dyson | when he returned to work this morn- ing. More than $80 of the money was | on his person, Dalglish said. WAR HERO IS ORDERED T0 ECOLE DE GUERRE | Marine Corps Orders Maj. H. L. Larsen, Often Decorated for Paris Study. ‘The Marine Corps is sending one of its most decorated World War heroes, Maj. Henry L. Larsen, now on duty at headquarters here, to Paris, France, for instruction in the Ecole de Guerre. Maj. Larsen expects to leave Wash- ington in February and familiarize him- self more thoroughly with the French language before the War College course ! opens in Paris next Summer. The Marine Corps is already repre- sented at the Ecole de Guerre by Maj. Charles J. Miller, who prepared the Marines during the World War. Brig. Gen. Robert H. Dunlap, who was to take the current year's course, was killed in France early in the year when en- deavoring to save a woman'’s life, Maj. Larsen was attached to the 5th Regiment, Marines, during the war, and won the Croix de Guerre with Palm, the Distinguished Service Medal and the Navy Cross. For his work in Nica- ragua, as brigade inspector, 2nd Brigade, | United States Marine -Corps, he was| awarded the Navy Cross Star. Speaker Is Named. Miss Pherne Miller, niece of Joquin Miller, will speak on “The Life of Joquin Miller” at the Writers' Rendez- vous, a literary forum, January 5 at 8 pm. The lecture will be delivered at the Thompson School ERE is a scene in the Federal building area, where men and machines, dwarfed by the mighty tasks they have undertaken, are putting in the foundations for the Interstate Commerce Commission and other buildings as a part of the Government area development. Great piles are being driven to hold the masses of stone that will constitute the Government's offices in years to come. MACHINES, DWARFED BY THE HOLE THEY HAVE DUG, ARE BEAUTIFYING CAPITAL. —=Star Staff Photo. 14 Telephone Girls On Duty at Capitol Will Be Replaced By the Associated Press. If wrong numbers are given by the Capitol telephone exchange now, politics probably will get the blame. ‘The hello girls are on the pat- | ronage list. Fourteen out of 20 are Republicans, and Democratic ladies will get the jobs. Since no one ever bothers to ask for numbers, the operators, be- sides putting a smile in their voices, must memorize name and number for 435 Representatives, 96 Senators and a host of other cfficials. To avert a breakdown in serv- ice the change will be gradual, one Democrat being trained at a time. WILLIAM J. MURPHY TO BE BURIED HERE Former Commander of Disabled Veterans to Be Paid Military Honors at Arlington, | | William J. Murphy, past national commander of the Disabled American | Veterans, who died suddenly in Los | thousands of Government emploves and An zst week, will b2 buried in because of the feelings of aoprehen- Arlington Nationel { sion which prevail in the minds of the Cemetery tomor- officers and members of the American | Tow moming at Federetion of Labor, I am writing you | 10:30 o'clock regarding suggestions which have been The remains of made in various quarters that a_sub- the veteran will stantial reduction in wages should be reach this city and must be imposed upon Government early tomorrow employes. I know of no action which morning, accom- | :he Government could take which would panied by Mrs. arouse so much disappointment and Murphy and their | dissatisfaction. The laboring pecple son, and will be | employed in private industry in all sec-! met at the station by a delegation of 14 honorary pall- bearers. 211 cfficers of the D A. V. Mr. Murphy was a California hotel owner. His mcther William J. Murphy and seven other members of the family from Boston, will be here for the Services. A full military escort will take charge of the body at Arlington, | where rites will be conducted by Rev. | Fr. J. J. O'Leary, past national chap- lain, assisted Rev. Fr. F. J. Berg, also a member of the organization, who was wounded in the war. It is expected that Col. Campbell Hodges, military alde to the President, will represent the Chief Executive at the funeral, where Representative John E. Rankin, chairman of the| House Veterans' Committee will repre- | seny that body, and Brig. Gen. Frank T. ‘dines will represent the Veterans' Administration, of which he is director. | PULLMAN CO. VETERAN | DIES OF HEART ATTACK | James Kelly, Chief Mechanic, Had Been in Car Service for 44 Years. James Kelly, 61, veteran chief me- chanic of the Pullman Car Co., died suddenly last night after a heart at-| tack at his home. 44 V street. He had been ill during ‘the day, but his con- ditiop had not been regarded as | serious. | Mr. Kelly was found on the floor of Ris_room by members of his fam- ily. They summoned the fire rescue squad, but efforts to revive him failed. He was a native of Wilmingten. Del., and had been employed by the Pullman company for 44 years. | Besides his widow, Mrs. Mary E.| Kelly, he is_survived by three daugh- ters, Mrs. Ruth O'Shea, Grace and Helen Keily, and & son, Edward J. Relly, all of this city. i Married 50 Years | COUPLE CELEBRATED GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY. MR. AND MRS. JESSE W. JONES, ‘Who recently celebrated the fiftieth an- niversary of their marriage at the home of their son and’ daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Rubin N. Jones, 4227 Ingomar street northwesc.l Mr. .:genes l'.se ; gr:{ac- uncle of Bobby Jones, noted -golfer. ¢ f —Harris-Ewing Photo. | attempt to reduce the modest wages GREEN PROTESTS .. PAY CUT BLL A. F. L. Leader Expresses k] Views on Measure of Penn- sylvania Representative. Reiterating its intense interest “in| the economic welfare of fellow workers | employed in the Government service,” the American Federation of Labor, through its president, William Green, | today protested the proposal contained | in two bills recently introduced in Con- | gress to reduce the wages and salanesi of all Government employes. | It is the intent and purpose of the | federation, Green sald in a letter to c an Byrns of the House Appro- priations Committee, to oppose a2ny at- tempt on the part of Congress “to lower the living standarls of Govern- ment employes through the imposition | of reduction in wages.” A bill recently | introduced by Representative Rich of Pennsylvania inspired the letter of pro- test, it was stated. Text of Letter. Green's letter to Representative Byrns states, in part: “Because of my deep solicitude for the economic and social welfare of the tions of the land will join with the| Government employes directly affected | in a vigorous protest egainst a lower- | ing of the standards of living through the imposition of a reduction in wages upon Government empioyes “May I take the liberty of remind- | ing you that during the war period and | following the war. when many workers | were more fortunate than Government | employes in so far as wages and con- ditions of employment were concerned, Government employes were not so for- tunate as to receive increases of pay commensurate with the increase in the cost of living. Makes Vigorous Protest. “I wish to present to you, and through you to the leaders of Congress, a most vigorous protest against any end salaries paid Government em- ployes. The officers and members of | the American Federation of Labor | could not, under any circumstances, | give approval to such a legislative policy nor could they reconciie them- selves to such action on the part of Congress. “I most earnestly request you to op- pose vigorously any attempt to reduce the salary of Government employes. I will be pleased if I may receive from you a favorable response to the request which I have herein submitted.” The reply of Representative Byrns to this communication stated, in part: “Immediately upon returning to Washington I gave an interview to the press in which I stated that I was not in favor of considering the question of reduction of Government salaries until every other means of balancing the budget be resorted to and was found wenting; that I felt the burden should be upon the higher bracket incomes which had received substantial redu tion. I further said that if it finall appeared that salary reductions were absolutely necessary that those with the high salaries be first to receive the reduction.” ARMY MEDICAL OFI;ICER DIES AT WALTER REED Maj. Verner T. Scott. Medical Corps, U. 8. A, of 6537 Piney Branch road, died early today at Walter Reed Hos- | pital, where he had been stationed at the Army Medical Center for several menths. Born in Manchester, Ohio, in 1888, ! he received the degree of M. D. from | the University of Cincinnati in 1913. He was appointed a first lieutenant in the Organized Reserve in June, 1917, end to the same grade in the Medical Corps in December of the same year. He was graduated from the Army | School for Flight Surgeons in 191 from the Army Madical School, Walter I Reed Hospital, in 1927, and from the | Medical Field' Service School, Carlisle Barracks, Pd., the same year. He was appointed to the rank of major in the Medical Corps in August, 1929. Maj. Scott is survived by his widow, | Mrs. Gertrude Seott of the Piney | Branch road address. Funeral services will be announced later. et it — — Quebec Archbishop Named. VATICAN CITY, December 15 (). — Mgr. Jean Marie Rodrigue Villeneuve, Bishop of Gravelbourg, today was named Archbishop of Quebec. 1. was consid- ered probable that Pope Pius would cre- ate him a cardinal at the next con- sistory to succeed the Cardinal Rouleau. ALLIED DRY FORGES WILL EXTEND DRIVE 10967 U. §. CITIES Itinerary of 271 Enlarged as Capital Sessions Near Close. PLANS MADE FOR PLEA TO 2,000,000 VOTERS Leaders Prepare for 1932 Election. Meetings to End Tonight at Calvgry Baptist. The Allied Forces for Prohibition toe day launched on its third and final day of intensive campaigning in the Dis- trict of Columbia in behalf of the eighteenth/amendment, spurred on by the announcement that the itinerary of the campaigners is to include 587 cities instead of 271, the goal originally set. Announcement of the decision to in- crease the scope of activities to the other cities was made by Dr. Daniel A. Poling, a leader of the campaigners for their Nation-wide activities in cham- ploning the cause of prohibiton and apholding it as a part of the Constitution of the United States. Dr. Poling, man- ager of the J. C. Penny Foundation and editor of the Christian Herald, was d to speak at a luncheon of the lied forces group in the Mayflower Hotel this afternoon and later to ad- dress a mass meeting in Calvary Bap- tist Church, Dr. Poling in an interview with rep- resentatives of the press yesterday an- nounced it is expected to reach 2,000, 000 voters by June, when the campaign is scheduled to end, and said more than 101,000 persons have already signed up to support the eighteenth amendment during the course of the campaign. Gird for Party Conventions. Poling explained that one end of the movement behind the campaign is to present a unified dry front to make the prohibitionists’ irfluence felt in next year’s political conventions. They expect also to throw their strength into precinct fights to clect dry delegates to the nominating con- ventions. Poling said that with proper organization they could elect a majority. “We are lining up the Jew and the Protestant, the Al Smith Democrat who believes in prohibition and the likewise independent Republican,” he said. “We believe the cause faces a crisis. We are recognizing moral integrity and sine cerity on the other side.” The additional cities will be added to the itinerary near centers already on the list, so the original schedule will not be_disturbed, Poling explained. . Besides hearing Dr. Poling, the meet- ing in Calvary Baptist Church this aft- ernoon was to be addressed by Dr. Oliver W. Stewart, president of the Flying Squadron Foundation. Dr. E. M. Ellison, local physician, was to pre- side and Rev. Carl Rasmussen to lead in prayer. Drive Here to End Tonight. campaign this th c in t at 8 Foling Wood- will pre= o'clock, with Dr. Stewart and Dr. Jgain speakers. Col. A. W. W. cock, director of prohibition, side at tonight's meeting. _Dr. Ira Landrith, former president of Ward Belmont College, Nashville, Tenn., and president of the National Temper- ance Council, and Miss Norma C. Brown, secretary of the Allied Forces for Prohibition, were speakers at mass meetings in Calvary Baptist Church yesterday, both speaking at a session there last night Daniel C. Roper, chairman fer ‘the committee for the m:n;i gn in this city, presided at the evening session. Miss Brown spok the Mayflower in tha aitemcon’ < °* Dr. Lanrith kept his audience amused and applauding with many catchy phrases with which he took slaps at the “wets” and upheld prohibition. The general theme of his evening ad- dress was “Prohibition is the law, a good law and practicably unrepealable and therefore must be enforced.” Challenges Wet Claims, Referring to the proposal to permit the manufacture of light wines and beer as a means of aiding the de- pression, Dr. Landrith created laugh- ter when he jokingly stated “If they made as much beer as they proposed to make every one would be drunk and would care about nothing.” He re- peatedly referred to revenue which would be derived from the sale of in- toxicants as “infernal revenue.” He asserted practically none of the predictions of the “wets” had come true. In reference to their alleged claim the country would go into finan- cial ruin with prohibition, he said dur- ing the firt nine years of functioning of the eighteenth amendment the Na- tion had enjoyed its greatest prosperity. He condemned the idea of “enrich- ing America by debauching its citizen- ship” through sale of intoxicants. In his afternoon address, Dr. Landrith rep- resented himself as the upholder of the eighteenth amendment as part of the Constitution of the United States, rather than just & “prohibitionist.” Tells History of Dry Law. Outlining briefly the history of the eighteenth amendment, including its enictment and its being upheld by the Supreme Court, Dr. Landrith charac- terized any effort to defeat it or thwart it as “an attempt to induce Congr men to perjure themselves and the President to violate his inaugural oath.” ‘Prohibition would be at least 90 per cent effective if prominent and in- fluential wets had not, in bibulous arro- gance, regarded themselves above the he later said. Miss Brown in her evening address declared prohibition “will not down™ and related, in brfef, the history of pro- hibition and the great interest in it In her afternoon address she ascerted the battle cry of the Allied Forces for Prohibition is: “We stand for the main- tenance of the eighteenth amendment and for liberty with law—on this issue we fight. B Pledge Cards Passed. Cards were passed among the audi- ence, as at the other mas meetings, for pledges of sums to the Allied Forces for Prohibition, with the understanding that each person who subscribed $10 or more that $2.00 of the same shall be used for one year's subscription to Allied News and five issues of the Chris- tian Herald. Mr. Roper of the local committee sald he would have available later the figures on tI PLAN NAVY HEARINGS ‘The Seffete Na ho! 1 Committee decided 207ings immediately 23S 01 a bill to author- ize building the Navy to treaty limits. Secretary Adams w:ll be the first wit ness, followed by high ranking naval officers. Chairman Hale said the bill, which he is sponsoring, would help greatly the American position at the Pel Arms Limitation Conference at Geneva.