Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1931, Page 17

WASHINGTON e WASHING he Sundwy Shae GENERAL NEWS ' DECEMBER, 20, 1931, #x PAGE B—1 500 ADDITIONAL JOBS FOUND FOR 0.C. INENPLOYED Group Is Largest Since Em-! ployment Committee Began to Function. EXPRESS WILLINGNESS TO WORK ON WOODPILE Benjamin Announces Full Organi- zation, With E. C. Graham as Chairman. Another 600 men from the ranks of | this city's unemployed will be given| work tomorrow by the District of Co- lumbia Committee on Employment. This group, the largest since the committee began to function, was se-| lected from the 1,000 or more appli- cations filed at the employment office, according to an announcement made by Paul L. Benjamin, the committee’s executive secretary. The gnajority of those selected have expressed willing- ness to go to work on the municipal woodpile. | During the last few weeks the com-| mittee has found employment for about | 500 men. Committee Completed. i Simultaneously with this announce- | ment, Mr. Benjamin said the full or- ganization of the committee has been| completed and divided into headquar- | ters and field divisions. All executives are volunteers, and the committee is functioning_on a cost of about 112 cents on the dollar expended. Mr. Benjamin’s service has been donated by the Social Hyglene Society The committee is now composed of | E. C. Graham, chairman; E. H. Daniel, vice chawrman; Mr. Benjamin, execu- tive secretary; L. W. De Gast. chairman | of Survey Committee: Col. E. G. BIiss, chairman of Work Creation Committee Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, chair of | Food Conservation Committee; { Pope, chairman of the “Made Work Committee: William J. Plunkett, chair- man of Placement and Distribution | Committee; Maj. D. J. Donovan, chair- man_Finance Committee, and William O. Tuits, chairman Homeless and Transient’ Men Committee. W. C. Cleary has been named chief 1 and deputy superviser in charge of the executive offices, accounting and wood yard Will Sell Wood. 1 Salesmen, it was explained, will en- deavor to scll the wood produced at the wocd vard in order to keep the re-| d used for this service as| Clonts, assignment 3 Placements the woman’s_division | will be handled by Mrs. C. W. Smith, executive secretary. Miss L. Barry has been selected as a stenographer; Ernest Beeutz, watchman, and P. Fuller, clerk “We hope to have every department functioning smoothly by the end of this week,” Mr. Benjamin said. “We are gratified at the progress made dur- ing the past week and feel that we are now equipped to handle this job at a minimum of expense. Within the next 10 days we expect to have established & downtown station, where people can | be sent 24 hours a day and where they ven the aid best suited to their FREE JOBS BUREAU | TO BE OPENED HERE| Salvation Army Decides to Aid Those Who “Want to Work"” in i daughter was not of age. ; Fort Totten, the old Civil War fort that ARCHITECT'S DAUGHTER WEDS CHAUFFEUR IN BUS ROMANCE| Mary Joan Olmsted Elopes With Chevy Chase Line Driver. Couple Thwart Efforts of Bride’s Father to Pre- vent Marriage. A romance which had its inception on a Chevy Chase bus culminated last Saturday in the elopement of the daughter of a prominent Washington architect with a young bus driver, it | was disclosed last night. | The principals were Mary Joan Olm sted, 20-year-old daughter of W. B. Olmsted, 3761 Oliver street. and George | N. Everhart, 22-year-old bus driver of | the Capital Traction Co. They were married in Frederick, Md., after an automobile ride to Leesburg, Va., where they barely evaded detention by the sheriff who had been notified by Miss Olmsted's father. Friends explained the couple met about six months ago. Young Everhart | often drove a Chevy Chase bus on | which Miss Olmsted frequently was a passenger. | Decided to Elope. | Last Saturday they decided to elope and be married at Leesburg, Va., where Everhart's relatives live. | Miss Olmsted’s father learned of their plans. He telephoned Sheriff E. S. Adrian at Leesburg, requesting that | he prevent issuance of a marriage license. Sheriff Adrian said last night Mr. Olmsted informed him that his The sheriff notified the county court clerk, but the young couple got word of the efforts to prevent their marriage and drove | through Leesburg, then turned back to Washington and to Frederick, Md. ' They arrived there at 8:30 p.m. got the county clerk to open his office for a license and were married by Rev. A. R. Snedegar, a retired Methodist min- ister. Take Up Residence. Returning to Washington, they made their temporary home with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Tippett, 3331 N street. Everhart had roomed with the Tip- petts since coming to Washington two or three years ago. They remained there until yesterday, when they were said to have taken over a new home in Brandywine, Md. ‘The bride's father is a member of the firm of Murphy & Olmsted, with offices at 1413 H street. The firm has designed many Washington structures, including the Sacred Heart Catholic Church at Sixteenth street and Park road and the John K. Mullen Library at_Catholic University. Mr. Olmsted declined to discuss the elopement. 1S GIVEN APPROVAL Span of That Type Preferred for Calvert Street Rather Than Masonry. The design for a steel arch bridge for Calvert street, spanning Rock Creek Valley, received the approval of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission yesterday, before it brought its December meeting to a close. The commission advised the District Com- | sioners that it favored this type rather than the masonry arch plan. Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, co-ordinator and chief engineer for the District, laid the plans for the new bridge before the Planning Commission and explained its features and advantages. Later, some modifications may be made in the bridge structure, to permit of ornamen- | tation, Capt. E. N. Chisholm, jr., engi- | neer of the Planning Commission, said yesterday. Gas Tank Planned. The commission took under advise- ment_the program of the Washington Gas Light Co., to erect a new type of gas holder in the form of tanks near Fort Totten in the northeast, near the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks. W. M. Russell, chief engineer of the firm, | cxplained the plans to the commission T extended service to the public and said that the new tank program would make for better appearances, as there s no superstructure as in the present type. The commission’s staff will study the plans of the gas company, which offi- cials of the planning commission said | would violate the zoning limits in lhnl‘ area. Further conferences will be held with officials of the gas company to; harmonize the prospective development. is near the projected expansion, is one of a group of fortresses that is to be Finding Employment. A free employment bureau to assist | Jobless men in Washington who “really | want to work” will be opened tomor- | Tow by the Salvation Army. which has | discovered the streets Washington | are filled with “professional panhand- | lers who ref v i ‘The decis cn the free em- nnounced yes- atement { a carefu ey, the Salva-! has svered that the | Washington are well filled | onal panhandlers and beg- gars who refuse to work. “They impose upon the good peo- ple of the town and embarrass them | on many occasions by asking for dona- tion: of of “After tion r is the desire of the Salvation | Army Social Service Center to relieve this sitnation by acquainting the peo- ple with the work we do here. “Monday we will open a free em- ployment bureau to help take care of the jobless. If these men really want to work they will register. It is be- | lieved, however, that such will not be the case with the professional beggars. But it will at least, in some measure, acquaint Washingtonians that relief can be had if they will seek it out.” DEPRESSION EFFECT ON POOR IS TOPIC Dr. Anderson of Columbia Univer- sity to Address Monday Evening Club. Preblems confronting the homeless | in the business depression will be dis- cussed tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at 8 meeting of the Monday Evening Club in the Willard Hotel. Dr. Nels Anderson of Columbia Uni- versity, staff member of the Welfare Council of New York City, will be thes guest speaker. He has made a de- tailed study of the homeless or non- resident situation in New York and is the author of “The Hobo.” Tracy W. McGregor, former presi- dent of the Detroit Community Chest, wili outline his views. ‘The problem, in its application to ‘Washington, was part of the review of the work of the Family Welfare Agencies of the District, recently made for the Ceuncil of Social Agencies by Francis H. Mclean of the Family Wel- fare Association of America. In the absence of John S. Bennett, ! superintendent of the Central Union Mission and chairman of the Commit- tee on the Care and Treatment of the Homeless of the District Employment Committee, Maj. James Asher, divi- sional commander of the Salvation Army, will tell how the committee is meeting the problem, preserved as a link in the chain of the fort drive under the commission’s pro- gram Officials explained for the gas com- pany that the ground is heavily wooded at present and is considered one of the best sites for its tanks in the District. | They asserted that objecting citizens | live miles away and they challenged the | truth of the statement by im&rpswd‘ citizens' groups that the firm was buy- | ing up so much land there that it proposed to put up a big factory. | May Sink Containers. ‘The new tanks would be about 300 feet in height, under tentative plans. It was said the company has not com- pleted purchase of the land in the Fort Totten area. The present zoning limit, officials said, is below the height neces- sary for the tanks. In the case of the new central heat- ing plant, to be erected in the vicinity of the Bureau of Engraving and Print- ing, the National Capital Park and Planning Commission suggested that it would be possible to sink the plant in the ground, so that the smokestacks will not violate the zoning heights there. Some similar action is foreseen in the case of the gas tanks, if this procedure is found feasible by the en- gineers. The commission listened to an ex- position of the legislative program, presented by Thomas S. Settle, its sec- retary, and examined bills before Con- gress affecting its work. A number of features of land pur- chasing were gone into. FRIENDSHIP PLANS LIGHTING CONTEST Outdoor Christmas Display Under Auspices of Association Decem- ber 24 to January 1. An outdoor electric Christmas display contest will be conducted by the Friend- ship Citizens’ Association from Decem- ber 24 to January 1. ‘The contest, according to Harry Friedman, president of the association, is designed to make the Friendship sec- tion one of the best lighted communi- tles during the holidays. All residents in the territory along Wisconsin avenue from Van Ness street to the District Line have been invited to enter. A silver loving cup will be awarded the resident whose home has the most attractive outdoor electric display. The cup will be presented at the associa- tion’'s New Year celebration in the Janney School January 6. In addition to the outdoor display contest, thelassociation is sponsoring a community Christmas tree which will be lighted Tuesday at 5:30 o'clock on the Janney School lawn. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, mfiflnmdmt of achools, will take part in the ceremonies | peal” ony \through his head, _ STEELARGHBRIDGE FEDERAL PAY CUT PLAN CONDENNED Civil Service League Action Recalls Struggle of Years for Higher Level. Proposals for reduction of the sala- ries of Government employes, proffered by several members of Congress, have been condemned by members of the League of the American Civil Service, who cite the long struggle of the Fed- eral workers before their pay brought up to present levels. The attention of Congress is peing called to the fact that for 50 yea prior to the passage of the Welch a there had been no salary increase ex- cept the $240 bonus during the war, according to Jessie E. Perez, secretary of the league. was Struggle for Increases. Members of the organization, at- ending a league meeting Friday night at the Washington Hotel, also declared that under the Welch act the low- salaried employes received less favored treatment than those in the higher salary brackets, the former Teceiving increases ranging from $60 to $120, glenehl;egl\;inng no pay boosts at all, and creases ranging fr 5 to $1.700. EE Ton B0 ‘The proposed personnel classification bill also was discussed at this meeting, with members joining with the Ameri. can Federation of Labor in opposition to the new bill. The opinion was ex- pressed by one spokesman for the league that the classification act could ! be administered properly slons of the Brookhart “Board of Ap- bill, which would transfer the Personnel Classification Board to the Civil Service Commission, under provi- League’s Consistent Fight. _The organization adopted a resolu- tion stating that the League of the American Civil Service was the only or- ganization of Government employes which consistently fought for the Dale bill and consistently opposed passage of the retirement bill enacted in May of last year. The league emphasized that under this act $1 a month, deducted from each employe's 3.5 per cent contribu- tion to the retirement, is retained by the Government in the Treasury unless the employe dies in the service or is separated from it through no fault of his own. It proposed that the league draft an amendment to the retirement act to rescind the “tontine” feature, to permit optional retirement after 35 years of service without regard to age. and op- tional retirement at the age of 60 after & service of 30 years. L NEW MARCH PERMIT ASKED OF POLICE Former Member of Famous 101st Infantry Prepares for Visit of Ex-Service Group. There is to be another “march on the Capitol,” on February 5—unless Gen. Pelham Glassford, superintendent of the Metropolitan Police Force, and Vice President Curtis turn “thumbs down” on the scheme. John H. Fahey, formerly a member of the famous 101st Infantry, 26th Di- vision, who is chairman of legislation for the Army and Navy Union, U. S, A,. last night wrote to Gen. Glassford for permission for a march of forme: serv- ice men to emphasize to Congress their pleas for payment of the adjusted com- pensation. "He also wrofe to Vice President Curtis for permission for the marchers to enter th> Capitol grounds and present their pleas. Notices regarding the date and the plans for this parade are to be sent, out to the 255 garrisons of the Army and Navy Union, U. 8. A, and invitations to other service organizations to join_ i the demonstration just as soon as word is received from Gen. Glassford and the Vl:: tl;rmdmt'i e e parade is staged it is pI. that the former sertv.x%: men vgifl?mr%? the most part, march in uniform, and will be met in the Capitol grounds by a large group of service men who are now in Congress and who will ca geir petitions to tke legislative cham- TS, Tredesman Killed. CLINTON. N. C., December 19 () — R. B. Herring. 58, produce buyer ang fertilizer distributor of Clinton, was found shot to death in his automobile today on highway 60 about 15 miles from Clinton. A revolver was clutcheq in his hand. 8 bullet had been fired NINTH ORATORICAL CONTEST LAUNCHED N CAPITAL REGION Competition Is Approved Offi- cially by D. C. and Ten Nearby Counties. STRESS WASHINGTON’S ROLE IN CONSTITUTION First Elimination Meets Will Be Held After Opening of Second Semester in February. Approved officially by the District of Columbia Board of Education and the school superintendents of 10 neighbor- ing counties of Maryland and Virginia, the Ninth National Oratorical Contest is being launched in the National Capi- tal contest region under the sponsor- ship of The Evening Star. In giving its approval to the contest, which has for its purpose the pro- motion of interest in and respect for the Constitution of the United States and good government generally, the District School Board waived its usual procedure of referring student com- | petitions to its committee on student | activities. When the Ninth Oratorical Contest was offered to tke board with the recommendation of approval by Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent, i Henry Gilligan, board member, asked if the ninth annual contest was not the same as the contest of previous years. Advised that it was, Mr. Gil- ligan said: “Then let us approve it right now. The oratorical contest is a fine thing and we should give it our commenda- tion without delay.” Vote Is Unanimous. Mr. Gilligan's proposal was accepted by the other members of the board, whn voted unanimously to authorize the contest’s administration in the schools this year The county superintendents who also have authorized the ninth contest for their schools are: Maryland—F. B. Gwynn of Charles County, Edwin W. Broome of Montgomery County, Nich- olas Orem of Prince Georges County and Miss Lettie M. Dent of St. Marys County. Virginia—R. C. Bowton of Alexandria County, Fletcher Kemp of Arlington County, W. T. Woodson of Fairfax County, W. H. Thomas of Fauquier County, O. L. Emerick of Loudoun County and R. C. Haydon of Prince William County. The contest this year, which is an | integral part of the Seventh Interna- | tional Oratorical Contest, will be con- ducted in the same intensive fashion which marked its conduct in previous | years. The big prize of the national | contest for this area will be a two-and- a-half-month tour of Europe with all ! expenses paid. This award will be | made to the boy or girl who is adjudged | the best high school orator in a series of competitions conducted in the Dis- trict of Columbia, the six Virginia counties and the four Maryland coun- ties. The winner also will have the right to enter the national finals, in which the best speakers in other regions of the United States from coast to coast will compete for the right to represent this country in the world finals here next Fall. As a matter of fact, The Star area’s champion must compete in the national finals to clinch his right to the European trip. Contest Requirements. Any secondary school student under 19 years of age who has not previously | won tke national championship f{s 1 eligible for participation in the contest. | Each entrant will be required to pre- | pare an oration which can be delivered in six minutes. During the earlier stages of the contest only this memo- rized speech will be used. but in the higher stages—The Star finals, for in- stance—each contestant must be pre- pared to speak extemporaneously for four minutes on some new topic perti- nent to his initial speech. While the subjects this year will be the same as last year, special emphasis is being placed on George Washington's association with the Constitution and his part in its framing and subsequent ratification. This phase of American governmental history is being stressed in salute to the Waskington Bicenten- nial. However, if a contestant prefer. he may speak on any topic relating to the Constitution, as participants in former contests did. The plan under which the contest will be administered in 1932 is identical with that of last year. The Evening Star’s area is divided into 11 districts, the winner in each of which will receive $100 in cash and the right to compete in The Star area finals. It is in The Star area finals that this newspaper's champion and representative in the national finals will be chosen. Nine Capital Districts. Each public high school in Washing- ton conslz.ituta & contest “district.” All the private and parochial schools in Washington constitute another ‘“dis- trict,” so that in the District of Co- lumbia there will be nine contest dis- tricts. The schools in the six Virginia counties constitute & separate ‘dis- trict,” and those in tke four Maryland counties constitute another district. Many high school students already have begun their research for the prep- aration of their six-minute orations. Heretofore the participants have taken advantage of the Christmas holidays as an excellent opportunity in which to make their initial studies, and indica- tions are that this year's orators will follow the same program. With the beginning of the second semester, in February, the contest par- ticipation will get under way in real carnest. It is in that month that the ifirst elimination meets are held and! the contestants actually launched on their way toward the finals—and Europe, CHRISTMAS BASKETS Volunteers of America to Distribute Food to More Than 500 Poor Families Here. The Volunteers of America this week will distribute more than 500 baskets and bags of Christmas food to the needy of the city. In addition to regular re- lief activities, farilies cf several pris- oners at Lorton Reformatory and in the District Jail are being cared for at Christmas time by the organization, ac- cording to an announcement by the yesterday. grqufifxatmy Vst tinfoil collected by needy people was presented to D. Law- rence Walker, recorcer of ~Almas Temple, yesterday by the Volunteers of America. Ae Christmas party will be held at the headquarters of the relief body Fri- day, when candy, toys and other gifts will' be presented ‘to underprivileged children, e el s Fine Old Elms May Be Lost MAPLES ALSO TO GO IN WIDENING OF LOWER FOURTEENTH STREET. 1 saved, but those necessary to be cut because of disease will be removed. Maples next to the railroad bank a: of the park will not be disturbed. when the bend is taken out of the streef way Bridge will be at right angles to the trees that will stand moving will come out. The soft maples next to the curb on the west side of the street will improvement plan, and this will give “Every tree that can be saved will and Public Parks. with the East Capitol laced in West Potomac Park. re not wanted. The row of sycamores . the elms and sycamores a chance to be,” sa; street HE row of fine old American elms at the extreme left must be either moved or destroyed in the widening of the Fourteenth street approach to the Highway Bridge, which will be undertaken early in the Spring, under the plans of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. All the trees between the present street and the railroad bank will go out and the street will be extended to the railroad bank, between the Outlet Bridge and the Highway Bridge. Trees that are worth saving will be and elms next to the Tidal Basin side A few poplars, described as being not in good condition, will have to be cut down A corner will be cut into the parkway for this and the approach to the High- axis of the White House. Some small pines will have to be cut, but any I be taken out, as they interfere with the street develop. ys A. H. Hanscn, landscape architect in the Office of Public Buildings debacle in mind. Some of the saved trees will be planted near the Con- ;v.enuuon avenue terminal, at the Potomac River; some will go on the south side of Constitution avenue and some will —Star Staff Photo. PEDESTRIAN KILLE BY HLAUN AUTD . Colored Man Is Hit While in Safety Zone—Second Acci- dent Results. | \ | A hit-and-run accident, in which a colored man was fatally hurt as he stood in a street car safety zone last night, caused another automobile to | crash into a taxicab which suddenly slowed down to avoid strixing passers-by who had gone to the aid of the in-| jured man. No one was hurt in the second mishap. The colored man was struck at Pennsylvania avenue and Twenty-sixth street by a car which stopped, backed up, swerved around the injured man and continued on its way. Several witnesses noted the license number of the machine. As a crowd gathered around the ac- cident victim, the taxi driver, Douglas Winters, 23, of 1607 E street southeast, brought his cab to an almost complete stop. The taxi was hit in the rear by an automobile driven by Charles Geis- ling, 43, of 3203 O street. Meanwhile, police had been notified and a scout car was dispatched to the scene. The order, broadcast over the police radio, was picked up by a Casualty Hospital ambulance equipped with a short-wave receiving set, which happened to be in the neighborhood. | The injured man was taken to| Casualty, where he died several hours | later of a crushed skull. His identity remained unxnown. A check-up of the license number of the hit-and-run machine revealed it was listed in the name of a woman liv- ing in Ballston, Va. A lookout was broadcast to all precincts, and Vir- ginia authorities also were asked to stop the automobile on sight. Gelsling, meanwhile, was arrested and taken to the third precinct station. AUTO VICTIM DIES OF HEAD INJURIES G. Milton Thomas, 60, Succumbs. Driver of Car Released Pend- ing Inquest. G. Milton Thomas, 60 years old, of 1427 Chapin street, died last night from injuries suffered when he was knocked down by an automobile as he was walk- ing across Fourteenth street near his home. He was struck, according to police, by a coupe driven by Leonard Messick, 20, of 1237 Tenth street. Mr. Thomas | was taken to Garfield Hospital in an automobile driven by Orzal Carr of | 1446 Fairmont street, where he was treated for head injuries. He died sev- eral hours later. Messick, arrested after | the accident, was released in custody of | his attorney for appearance at an in- | quest which has not yet been sched- uled. ‘Thomas, & florist, with a stand in the New Center Market, Fifth and K streets, had no relatives other than a son living in Seattle, Wash. He lived alone at the Chapin street address for several years. Efforts were being made last might to communicate with the son. SHIPSTEAD COMMENDS FINE ARTS COMMISSION | Praises Manner in Which Sign Regulation Has Been Administered. The Commission of Fine Arts has been highly commended by Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, co-au- thor of the Shipstead-Luce act, for the manner in which the commission has administered this law in co-operation with District of Columbia officials, to regulate buildings and signs adjacent to public property. In a letter to Mr. Moore, Senator Shipstead wrote that he had heard no complaints as to administration of the law, and assumed that the operation of it is “satisfactory.” Furthermore, the Senator said, “I believe that the Fine Arts Commission is entitled to a great deal of credit for this. Administrators of law can always accomplish. in my opinion, good results provided they spice their administra- tive activities with liberal doses of cour- tesy and diplomacy. This, the Fine Arts Commission has evidently done and I grateful”™ 7 7 m'-ufi%’ ' SCHOOL BOARD BILL FILED | Capper Reintroduces Measure Re- questing Body's Election. Chairman Capper of the Senate Dis- trict Committee vesterday reintroduced the Senate the bill he sponsored in the last Congress to provide for elec- tion of the Board of Education in the District. Hearings were held on a similar meas- ure at the last session, but final action | was not taken on the measure. WAGE SCALE LAW RAKEOFF PROBED Government Aims Reported Defeated by Some Con- tractors’ Demands. ‘The Labor Department has begun & Nation-wide investigation of reports that contractors are forcing sub-con- tractors to defeat the purpose of the prevailing wage scale law, Government projects, by taking back from workmen a certain per cent of their wages, Senator Wheeler, Demo- crat of Montana, revealed yesterday. Pending the outcome of this inves- tigation, Senator Wheeler said he would hold up his proposed resolution calling for a congressional inquiry into alleged evasions of the Bacon-Davis act. ‘The Senator said the Labor Depart- ment started its inquiry immediately following his announcement on De- cember 2 that he planned to introduce the resolution. Department officials yesterday said practically every mem- ber of its concilliation bureau was at work on the case. Numerous Protests Filed. ‘The buresu's director, Hugh L. Ker- win, said numerous protests have been filed with the department by various classes of labor during the last two months and there remain but a few cases throughout the country that have not been adjusted. It was explained that in all cases the contractor was forced to abide by Secretary Doak's ruling that wages paid workers on Gov- ernment projects must be based on the prevailing wages existing in community at_the time the contract was awarded. Since the publication of Wheeler's intentions of introducing such a resolution, the protests, it was said at the department, have been re- duced greatly. In fact, officials yes- terday pointed out that only one case was flled with the conciliation bureau during the last seven days. Eight workmen, officials explained, charged the contractor for the Philadelphia Post Office ufi:ojnt refused to pay them the prevailing wage. Mr. Kerwin said conciliators have been sent to Philadelphia and their Teport was being awaited. Senator Wheeler has referred to the alleged scheme of the contractor as an “unholy practice,” which, he said, was being carried on in numerous cities. Department Investigating. Gl ve conferred with the depart- ment and officials are looking into the subject,” he said yesterday. ““The purpose of the Government's national building program,” Senator Wheeler explained recently, “is to give employment to workmen and to relieve distress, and Congress pfovided that the local wage scale in each community must be maintained. “When a subcontractor pays the lo- cal wage scale to workmen and at the end of each week forces them to re- turn part of it in an envelope, the purpose of the Federal statutes is de- feated.” During the last Summer, Secretary Doak ruled that the union scale of wages should be paid on all Govern- | ment contracts here. The terms of the Bacon-Davis act apply to District as well as Federal constructiogs. On | the advice of Corporation Counsel Bride, the District Commissioners re- | cently adopted the union scale of wages for District projects. CAPITOL FOREST ELECTS Tall Cedars of Lebanon Chapter In- stalls Thomas C, Havell. Capitol Forest, No. 104, Tall Cedars of Lebanon, elected and installed new officers Friday night at a meeting in the Raleigh Hotel. Those chosen were: Thomas C. Havell, grand tall cedar; Charles R. Brill, senior deputy grand tall ceder: J. Pred Huber, junior deputy grand tall cedar; Frederick R. Steffans, scribe: John Harvey, treasurer, and John Q. Slye, trustee. Mr. Havell, the new grand tall cedar. is assistant commissioner of the Genera! Land Office an active member of Lebsaon Lodfs, No. 7, and other fra- termad hodieny 5 > FORF Do I 51 covering | Senator | NEW RETIRENENT AGTFORU.S, ASKED Dale Proposal Would Permit Employes to Disregard Age 1 Rule in Quitting. | A Government employe, with 30 years of service to his credit, could retire re- gardless of age under a proposed amendment to the Civil Service retire- ment law introduced vesterday ator Dale, Republican of Vermor chairman of the Civil Service Commit- tee. Under the present retirement law of 1930 cmployes have the limited option | of retiring ‘two years earlier than the | age limits fixed in that law for auto-| | matic retirements. Under existing law the age limit for departmental clerks is 70, and they are permitted optional re- | tirement at 68. “There are two other general age limits for other groups of | workers, namely, 65 and 62, and each group has the two-year optional pro- | vision. The amendment proposed yesterday | reads as follows: “All employes in the civil service to whom the act applies who shall have | rendered at least 30 years vice shall be eligible for retirement on an annuity | as provided i v _employ: n Secticn 4 of said ac having rendered 30 be retired as of a date r such employes: provided 'ment under P! ision shall be at the option of the employe and nothing hersinafter contained in this act providing for automatic retire- ment shall apply to the foregoing eli- | gibles.” Senator Dale also introduced a bill to set up a retirement system for officers and employes in the .egislative branch lof the Government which would in- | clude employes of the House and Sen- |ate_and the secretarial and clerical | staffs of members as well as the Capitol police. | Another bill relating to the Govern- ment service has been introduced by Senator Brookhart, Republican, of Iowa, to give improved civil service | status to temporary employes of the Census Bureau who are veterans, wid- cws of veterans or wivas of disabled vet- erans. nd 'NEW AUTO PARKING RACKET UNCOVERED | Treasury Department Disperses Collectors of Quarters for Park Area Space. Another kind of automobile parking racket was broken up yesterday by the | Treasury ~ Department along lower Thirteenth street. where unauthorized | persons had started to collect 25 cents | for parking cars. The area being used was part of the | Government property which is to be | turned into a park, but which now is in the hands of a contractor for wrecking purposes. A previous con- tract to another party for parking au- tomobiles had been terminated De- cember 15. Late Friday investigators found col- ored men collecting for the parking of cars in this space along Thirteenth street, between C and D streets, be- tween the curbstone and the buildings. Early yesterday officials on the job cornered these unauthorized collec- tors of quarters and ordered them off the lot. : The contractor had nothing to do { with the collection scheme, Treasury officials stated. SEiRir il VISITING RABBI TO SPEAK Rabbi Elias M. Magenzo, chief rabbi of Chile, will lecture on “Life of the Jews in South and Central America” at the Jewish Community Center to- night at 8 o'clock. Although Rabbi Magenzo is a linguist of note, reading and speaking fluently 12 languages, the lecture will be deliv- ered in Yiddish. After making a close study of the living conditions of Jews through Central and South America, Rabbi Magenzo is making a lecture tour of the United States. Vetierrsnx to Get Gifts. FAIRFAX, Va., December 19 (Spe- cial).—The Fairfax Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, held a special meeting at the home of the president, Mrs. Nora Allison, and ar- ranged to send Christmas boxes to the Confederate veterans e 0. BANKING BILL TOINSURE CONTROL 5 ST T0SEMATE Capper Presents Pioposal Urged by Controller of Currency. FOREIGN CORPORATIONS WOULD BE REGULATED Trust Companies, Building and Loan Associations and Banks Included Under Safeguards. A bill to revise and amplify Distric laws relating to banking, trust come panies and building and loan assocle atlons was transmitted to Congress yese terday from the office of the (‘f)n- troller of the currency and introduced in the Senate b Chaj the District Comymlltvl}.rman Pty A memorandum sent to bc:l‘;l{)fr:gw::dh the bill stated th; code of the freniel e District of Senator at “the mean: 1 e eans complete or cl an'v::lnlhe df;s)lre is to correct this IaruT!a{' 15 _believed,” the memorandy continued, ‘“‘that this legislation mud:% in the regulation of banking in the Dis- L:Cl and be for the best interest of the rnks_ and the public. The provisions Of this bill have been recommended by the controller of ol the currency for seve e g 2D Forelen Firms. e accompanying memora, = plained. among other thinge. tam (Ko bill would dothe following: Bronit any new foreign corporation from deio, a banking business in the Distrioy o5 Columbla, would put into effect 1o fame provisions with respect to build. ing and loan associations as is now i eflect Tespecting banks 'commencing pusingss in the District without the aps proval e controller of the cups Explaining & the memoran n stated t holders of national banks aq companies in the District are subject o Present to a double lability require. ment, but that “there exists no pro- Vision of law at the present time placing on sharcholders of foreign corporations dolng a banking business in the Dl trict, or shareholders of District savings banks such double Lability.” The b provides for double liability of shaye- holders of any future bank organizeq in the District for liability on thoce be- coming stock shareholders after enagte ment of the measure, and provides for double liability on shareholders of ex- ISX‘M‘IZ corporations for any contracts, debts and engagements incurred sube sequent to passage of the bill, section of the bill, Control Is Strengthened. There also is a section relating to procedure in !dhe liquidation of financial corporations doing a banking bus: ! in the District. 5 e There are other provisions in the bill as follows: To prohibit the use of the word “bank” or “trust company” by in- stitutions not under supervision of the Controller of the Treasury: to provide for the prosecution of any one spread= ing false rumors against financial ine stitutions; to strengthen the penal Pro= visions of District law with respect to banking by applying to banks and of- ficers of banks in the District certain provisions of existing law with respect to national banks and member banks of the Federal Reserve System Discussing a cection which would give the controller authority by ulation to make applicable i District provisions of the banking act which in may seem necessary, read ‘As stated elsewhere, some of the foreign corporations doing a banking business in the District of Columbia have very broad powers under their charters and while as a general thing such corporations keep within reason- able bonds in their business, it is felt that for the best interests of the pub- lic the controller of currency should have power to further regulate all such banking business if he deems it nec- essary.” Urged as Protection. Referring to building and loan asso- ciations, the memorandum d that “while the controller must pervise building and loan associations which start business in the District of Co- lumbia, under present law there is ro way to prohibit any one forming such an_ association regardless of financial stability. business qualifications or the need for such association.” The memorandum further out that under present law “a foreign building and loan association may establish an office in the District of Columbia and in effect do business in such District and the controller of currency is powerless to reach the main corporations located in another jurisdiction and thus is unable to give any kind of protection to those resi- dents of the District of Columbia doing business with such office.” LIQUOR ARREST MADE IN PADLOCKED HOUSE Officers Declare Pitcher of Whisky and Some Home Brew Found. pointed Padlock injunctions don’t mean much to the occupants of a certain house in the 600 block of C street southeast, ac- cording to a report mad» last nigit by Sergt. A. I. Bullock and Policemen W, C. Wrenn and C. S. Dwyer, all of the second inspection district headquarters, . When the officers went to the house in question to serve an injunction no- tice yesterday, they reported, liquor was still being kept there. They found a pitcher of whisky, they said, and a quantity of home brew. They arrested Thomas Brown, colored, on a possession charge. Recelving a tip some liquor was to be delivered to a house in the 2900 block of Yost street, Bullock secreted himself there last night. After a short wait, he said, Harold V. Daniels, 27, of 1016 Seventeenth place northeast, drove up with a quantity of alleged liquor. Bullock seized both the liquor and the automobile and arrested Daniels on a possession charge. STILL DESTROYS HOUSE Fire Starting from Liquor Plant Razes Frame Structure. Fire said to have started from a small still virtually destroyed a frame house in the 2300 block of Reynolds place southeast, Jast night. re looking for a \ '