Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1932, Page 17

Che WASHINGTON, D, TUESDAY, Foening Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION JANUARY 12 1932. * s PAGE B—1 BUS LINE EXPECTED TORUN N TRIANELE BEBINNMUNUAY' Congressional Action Fore- seen Soon to Put Damages in Hands of Courts. TRACKS NOW HOLDING UP FEDERAL CONSTRUCTION New Service From Arlington to Use Terminal Located at 1013 D Street. ‘With the legislative machinery of both House and Senate set to give early con- sideration and action on bills to solve the question of Government payment to the Mount Vernon, Alexandria & ‘Washington Railway, which now ob- structs the Federal building program in the triangle, prospects today pointed definitely toward abandonment of the railway line between Arlington Junc- tion and Washington Sunday night and the substitution of busses to handle the traffic beginning Monday morning. Fifteen new busses have been pur- chased by Robert L. May, owner of both the railway and the present bus line. Permission has been obtained from the Virginia Corporation Commission to make the shift abandoning the rails, &nd unless some new hitch takes place the long-deferred change will go into effect over the week end. This includes abandonment of the old terminal at ‘Twelfth street and Pennsylvania ave- nue. On Capitol Hill, committees of the Benate and House have agreed to give early consideration to identical meas- ures which would repeal the railway charter and throw the problem of re- imbursement to the railway into local courts. Both the Senate and House District Committees were advised by Becretary of the Treasury Mellon in a wvigorous report supporting the resolu- tion, that the Treasury had no objec- tion to the amendment “to eliminate the District of Columbia from respon- sibility of paying any of the amount of damages, which may be awarded.” “Serious Embarassment.” In his report urging enactment of the resolution, Secretary Mellon said that the presence af the railway was subjecting the Treasury to “serious em- ssment” in the Federal Building has proceeded to the point,” shere presence of the tracks ely prove a serious cause additional expense.” District Committee has re- ing resolution to its sub- ublic Utilities, whose sentative Loring Black ork said today he would try - ‘a meeting tomorrow to take 2e matter, > ate District Committee has [ G @ meeting for Friday, when it is hopsd the railway resolution may be_considered. n the meantime, according to both Gardner L. Boothe and A. K. Barta, attorneys for the railway line, arrange- ments are going forward to set up bus schedules on the route. ‘Will Abandon Tracks. The railway line will be continued between Alexandria and Arlington Junction, and the Arlington-Fairfax line also will continue to run as far as Arlington Junction. The raflway tracks from Arlington Junction into Washington will be abandoned. Some of the new busses will pick up passengers transferring at Arlington Junction and bring them into the Na- tional Capital, while some of the addi- tional busses will run all the way from Alexandria to Washington. The regular Alexandria busses now come into the city and pass by a new terminal at 1013 D street, which is being remodeled. It is expected it will be ready for service by Saturday. In the meantime, Mr. May today filed application with the Public Util- ities Commission for permission to bring in his busses from Arlington Junction over the route being used by the regular busses—north on Four- teenth to E street, east on E street to Pennsylvania avenue, north on Thir- teenth to E street, east on E street to *Tenth street, south on Tenth street to D street and west on D street to the terminal at 1013 D street. Do Not Cross Avenue. 1t is expected, however, that the com- mission will not approve this route, but will make the busses follow the line of the Alexandria express busses, which do not cross Pennsylvania avenue. These, after coming up Fourteenth street, turn east on E streel to Pennsylvania avenue and then follow Pennsylvania avenue east to Tenth street, turning south on Tenth street to Constitution avenue, west on Constitution avenue to Four- teenth street and so back to Alexandria. Reports in Alexandria that the trol- Jey line might continue its operations into the Capital through the Bicenten- nial year were denied by Mr. Boothe. With the car line's service being sup- plemented by busses into Washington from Arlington Junction, and with the two bus lines now operating between Alexandria and Washington, one of which extends to Mount Vernon, Alex- andrians feel that there will be ample transportation for the crowds expected here during the year. Officials of the A. B. & W. Rapid Transit Co., with the busses of which company the car line will connect at Arlington Junction, stated today that busses for thi> service were already here, and that there would be no discontin- uance of service, following the car line's abandonment in Washington. These busses will use a concrete road into the Junction from Columbia pike in making the connection. Removal Blocked. May plans to construct a 50-foot con- crete road over the present roadbed of the railway tracks from Arlington Junc- tion to the south end of Highway Bridge for this service. Removal of the railway long ago was blocked by Controller General McCarl, who held that the Treasury Department had no funds in its public building ap- propriations with which to reimburse the railway for loss of its rights, charter, tracks and terminal in Washington. Petition by the railway for an injunc- tion to prevent the Government from taking its tracks without compensation was denied by Justice Adkins in District Supreme Court, but on appeal to the Court of Appeals, the Government was restrained from removing the tracks for at least 60 days. The appeal is still pending, but it is understood that if and when the new legislation is enacted, throwing the question of damages into the ‘court, the appeal may be with- drawn. h w & for c cz cf t u T Tuskegee Program Tonight. Officers of the Tuskegee Club will en- fertain its members and graduates and former students of the Tuskegee Insti- tute tonight at the National Association | found Colored Women's Clubs, 14 O of SERGEANT PASSE Capt. Eaker Lands Plane, With Jammed Gear, With- out Mishap. |Experience Was Fourth and Craft Was One That Failed With Davison. After his passenger, Master Sergt. Leo Hukill, had refused to take to his para- chute, preferring to stick with the crip- pled plane, Capt. Ira C. Eaker, Army Air Corps, yesterday afternoon landed a fast Army transport monoplane at Bolling Field with the folding landing gear jammed inside the plane. It was the fourth time Capt. Eaker has had to land a transport plane of the plane. All four times he has land- ed the plane on its belly without dam- age other than a bent propeller and scratched paint. With Sergt. Hukill aboard, Capt. Eaker took up the plane for a short fiight around the field yesterday after- noon. As he prepared to come in for a landing, he attempted to lower the anding wheels, but found them jammed. Sergeant Refuses to Jump. Unable to see the wheels from his seat and not knowing whether they | were all the way up or were jammed part way down, Capt. Eaker attempted to turn the plane up on its side 50 as to cast a shadow of the wheels but| could not find enough direct sunlight to cast a recognizable shadow. He re- sorted to this device in a similar wheel- less landing on the Pacific Coast and was able to ascertain the position of the wheels. Unable to determine by the shadow method the position of his wheels, Capt. Eaker dropped a note on the flying field explaining that the wheels were jammed and asking information as to their position. The information was chalked on the fuselage of a plane. which was flown past him close enough to be read. Knowing that the landing would have to be made without wheels, Capt. Eaker scribbled & note to Sergt. Hukill, in- forming him of the fact and asking whether the sergeant wanted to iake 10 his parachute. Sergt. Hukill replied that he was staying aboard. Capt. Eaker then came in for a beautiful landing with no more damage than a twisted propeller, the blades of which dug into the ground as the ship flm along on the bottom of the fuse- ge. Plane Used by Davison. ‘The plane was the same used by F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics, and Lieut. El- wood R. Quesada, now air attache at the United States embassy in Havana, in a flight which ended in a landing without wheels at Mitchel Field, N. Y., last Fall. Lieut. Quesada. finding the wheels jammed, asked Mr. Davison NGER PREFERS TO STAY WITH CRIPPLED SHIP this type with the wheels jammed in | | CAPT. IRA C. EAKER. whether they should abandon the plane. Mr. Davison instructed him to try to save the ship and they rode down to & good landing, the propeller being the only sufferer. Capt. Eaker's second landing with- out wheels was made in Mexico with Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet, recently retired chief of the Army Air Corps, as his passenger. So easily was the Janding made that Gen. Fechet said later that if he ever was called upon to make a forced landing in rough country in that type of plane he would make it with wheels up, believing that the chances for getting away with good landing were better without wheels. Landed at Air Races. Capt. Eaker had his third experi- ence of the sort at the close of the Thompson Trophy race at Cleveland last September. After completing the race Eaker found his wheels jammed. He flew around to exhaust his gaso- line supply and so prevent the possi- bility of a fire, which might have a demoralizing effect on the thousands of spectators, and then came in for a good landing. He was able to fly the plane home the next day with a new propeller installed. Lieut. Stanley Umstead, Bolling Pield, also has made a landing here with jammed wheels in the same type of plane. Aeronautical engineers, in and out of the Army, have been working on re- tractable landing wheels which can- not be jammed, and the newer models are said to have overcome the diffi- culty. There are instances of commer- cial transport landings with jammed landing wheels, where pilots have been able to get away without .any damage to the planes. They have done this by stopping the engine entirely and then setting the propeller in a horixontal position by means of the electrical starter'so that it remained clear of the ground. WOODCOCK BARES HOLIDAY RUM CURB DISTRICT TAX SALE. BELIFVED FAURE U. S. Agents’ Effective Work in Curtailing Amount Shown by Report. Activties of Federal prohibition agents during December substantially curtailed the amount of liquor coming into Wash- ington during the holidays, according to Prohibition Director Amos W. W. ‘Woodcock, who made public his regular monthly report showing & gain in re- | sults over the month of November. | For instance, seizure of “spirits” mounted from 1,325 gallons in No\em-é ber to 1,818 gallons in December, and | confiscated beer rose from 190 gallons | to 362 gallons. Wine, however, showed | & falling off from 650 to 95 gallons in December. More Autos Seized. The number of automobiles and boats seized rose from 29 in November to 70 in December, while judgments of for- feiture increased from 25 to 35. There was a falling off in number of stills from 3 to 1, and in beer fermenters, from 4 to nothing, according to the re- Tt poThe average fine increased here from $119.23 in November to $142.25 for De- cember and the average jail sentence jumped from 49.2 days to 75.7 days, Indictment of 16 persons on charges of conspiracy, following investigation of an alcohol syndicate, was referred to by Col. Woodcock as a favorable de- velopment of the month. Arrests Total 217. Arrests here jumped from 116 in No- vember to 217 in December, and this contributed to loading up the court dockets, which showed a net gain from 124 on November 30 to 162 on the last of December. For the country as a whole arrests showed an increase, as there were 38,018 arrests for prohibition violations in the last six months of 1931, as com- pared with 31,082 for the same period in 1930. TALKS ON FLOWERS Dr. Mark Shoemaker of Maryland ex- hibited slide pictures of various flower species along with the talk he gave be- fore the meeting of the Chevy Chase Garden Club of the District yesterday at the home of Mrs. Charles Abbot, 5207 Thirty-eighth street. Dr. Whit- Three Principal Bidders Fail to Appear, Owing to Busi- ness Depression. ‘The first day of the District’s sale of tax titles to properties on which taxes are delinquent today bore strong indications that the sale will prove a financial failure and that the District’s expectation of receiving $500,000 from | it will not be realized. Three of the principal bidders who ihav(‘ been buying tax title certificates here for years failed to appear. They sent messages to Tax Collector Chat- ham M. Towers saying they would not bid owing to the financial depression. They are Charles H. Wiltsle of Rochester, N. Y.; Manuel Faust of Cleveland, and F. E. Hirshstein of New York. The three bidders, who appear- ed today, were James S. Fraser, J. Sells Wilson,” who buys for the National Mortgage Co., and other clients, and C. L. Rout of San Prancisco, Calif. Mr. Towers said that, judging from the sale, only the choicest bits of prop- erty will be bid in. The properties on which no bid is made are bought in by | the District, and a charge of 8 per | cent per annum is made on the delin- quent tax, plus the accrued penalties, and a 50-cent charge for advertising. GLASSFORD GOING SOUTH TO COMBAT BAD COLD Police Superintendent to Visit Alle en and Charleston for Week or Ten Days. Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, su- | perintendent of police, who has been | suffering from a cold the past few days, iwm leave tomorrow for a few days’ stay in Aiken and Charleston, 8. C., hoping the change will rid him of his cold. He expects to return in a week or 10 days and resume his duties. Inspector Ernest W. Brown, assistant superintend- ent of police, will be in charge of the department during his absence, | Later the chief expects to take a trip | through the Middle West to inspect po- | lice buildings and make the acquaint- ance of police officials. He expects in- formation obtained during his tour will be of assistance in perfecting plans for man Cross addressed the meeting on the new police building to be erected here. fiOBBERS “CLEAN OUT” MERCHANT, IN BUSINESS ONLY THREE MONTHS Jesse Rosenbloom, in Tears, Tells of Robbery in Fourteenth Tears were coursing down the cheeks of Jesse Rosenbloom this morning when he went into the barber shop at 2920 Fourteenth street to change a uarter. q He could scarce restrain them, the barbers said, while he obtained & nickel and plugged it into a pay telephone. “I'm cleaned out,” Rosenbloom told police headquarters & moment later, “cleaned out.” And, but _for several green and blue dresses in the show window of Rosen- bloom'’s shop next door, he had about stated the g&e p s Coming n for business , at M%‘mfil street, he must_close his doors instead. had sawed During the night burgl, and the the fron bers Street Shop. from a rear window, making off with 169 ladies’ silk Spring dresh;s—almm yél;‘e e'nu}rj (WK of the Dorls Dress op, which Rosenbloo; three months ago. onense g “I was just beginning to build up my trade,” Rosenbloom told the sym- i)n(.hetk: barbers. “Customers were earning to come to my shop. Now I've 8ot to close until I can get new stock.” Rosenbloom, his friends said, had sold out a dry goods place in the 1200 block of H street northeast, investing virtual- ly everything he had left the new shop. “When will 1 again?” Rosen- bloom told & reporier. ““Boon, 1 hope :‘:kl h‘g‘-;fln get new stock first. They evel g fi:ex,n;'ekx that little bit glass | In the NAVAL HOSPITAL SITE 15 APPROVED, SMIOOT ANNOUNGES ) PLEDGE 6415 ASCHEST DONDRS SE W RECORD Area Is South of E Street Be- tween Twenty-third and Twenty-fifth Streets. SELECTION IS SUBJECT T0 0. K. OF ART GROUP 0ld Grounds Will Be Cleared. Funds Are Lacking to Begin Construction. ‘The Public Buildings Commission has approved the present site of the Naval Hospital, south of E street, between Twenty-third and Twenty-fifth streets, as the area in which to develop the hospital's new $3,200,000 building pro- gram, it was announced today by Sena- tor Smoot of Utah, commission chair- man. The question of site has been settled subject to approval of the layout by the Fine Arts Commission, which ex- pects to consider revised plans at a meeting January 19, and all indica- tions today were that the arrangement of the program would be worked out satisfactorily. South Slope to Be Terraced. Consideration is being given to & terrace treatment of the south slope of the area, facing the B street side, with the buildings of limestone and moderate in height. ; ‘When the Public Buildings Commis- sion took up- the question yesterday afternoon there was some discussion of the possibility of relocating the new Naval Hospital at some point away from from the area of Government office buildings, such as at Walter Reed 1t was decided, however, to use the present site, and naval officials believe the 17 acres of Government land avail- able there will be ample for a good | many years. While there will be a number of buildings, they will be con- nected in a group formation. Will Clear Old Site. The existing old and temporary struc- tures in the Naval Hospital grounds will be done away with as the program| progresses, thereby improving the ap-| pearance of that area. The only funds actually available are for the drawing of plans. It is not known yet whether the present Congress will make the in- itial appropriation for construction, hence the time of beginning the project | remains to be determined. One of the | old structures that will be razed on| the Naval Hospital site is an observa- tory building erected in 1845. Charles Moore, chairman, and H. P. Caemmerer, executive officer of the Fine Arts Commission, attended the meeting vesterday. For the Navy the plans are in charge of Rear Admiral A. L. Par- sons, chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks. The buildings commission yesterday authorized its executive officer, Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, to allot some of- fice space to the Pine Arts Commission for exhibit purposes in connection with the George Washington Bicentenial program. PHONE PLAN OFFERED FOR TAXICAB CALLS Provides Installation of Boxes for Receipt of Messages by Independents. Assistant Corporation Counsel Wil- liam A. Roberts yesterday suggested to Col. E. Goring Bliss, general commer- cial manager of the Chesapeake & Po- tomac_Telephone Co., a scheme for providing independent taxicab op- erators with telephone call boxes. Ac- \.cording to the Roberts scheme, the company would install the boxes all over the city. When a call was put in for a taxi, and the calied did not specify any particular cab, the tele- phone operator would put the call through to one of these boxes. Tokens would be sold to the inde- pendent operators with which they could open the box and receive the message. Mr. Roberts estimates the cost.of the tokens as low as 3 cents each. If his plan is adopted, Mr. Roberts contended, it would eliminate one of the most undesirable features of inde- pendent taxi operation. 28 STATES EXTEND TIME ON 1931 TAGS Eldridge Gives Police Dates—Some Licenses Good Until May 15. A list of 28 States which have ex- tended the period for use of 1931 auto- mobile tags and the date of expiration was furnished the Police Department today by M. O. Eldridge, assistant traf- fic director. The information was com- piled from the latest report of the American Automobile Association on State motor vehicle registration and license laws. ; Under reciprocity arrangements with the States police have been instructed to recognize the 1931 tags until tie ex- piration date. The States which have granted extension and the time of ex- piration of the 1931 tags follow: January 15—Virginia and South Car- lina. DlJmuary 31—Arizona, California, Col- orado, Missouri and Nevada. February 1—Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, South Dakota, Ten- nessee, Texas and Wisconsin. February 5—Louisiana. March 1—Maine, Michigan, oming. w%’dx.rch 15—Montana. Utah and Minnesota and Countless Increases Shown in Individual Gifts Over Last Year. ONE BACKER DOUBLES MARK TO GIVE $6,200 Plans for 600 Speakers in Six Days Outlined as Campaign Is Pressed for $2,601,000 Goal, With countless increases in individ- ual donations standing out, 81 contri- butions totaling $154,125 were reported yesterday at a meeting of the Com- munity Chest Special Gifts Unit in the Willard Hotel. Numerous pledges represented a gain of 50 per cent over last year, due to the stupendous task faced by the char- itable organization on account of the present emergency. One donor gave $6,200, or 100 per cent more than last year, with understanding that his aid be anonymous. Clarence A. Aspinwall, unit chair- man, urged the workers to seek in- creases of a third or more from every person solicited. He pointed out un- employment and its aftermath, present- ing greatly increased need for cessitated the fixing of the Chest’ this year at $2,601,000, or about a third more than last year. - Points to U. S. Workers, The chairman cited the example of Government workers, Wwho obtained pledges of approximately $1,000,000, a gain of more than 80 per cent over Jast year. He said this should be an inspiration to all non-governmental Washington. Included in the enlarged contribu- tions were Mr. and Mrs. John S. Flan- nery, $1,000, up $250; Rev. and Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes, $800, up $50; Mrs. Charles Walcott, $600, up $100; anony- mous, $1,000, up $250; Miss Mabel T. Boardman, $1,700, up $455: Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Marlatt, $1,000, up $450; Mrs, Fred C. Hicks, $1,200, up_$200; Mrs, Virginia Stuart Mackay-Smith, $1,500, up $300; Charles C. Glover, jr., $1.750, up $250; Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, $800, up $100. Mr. and Mrs. Milton W. King, $1,000, up $200; Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Gold- smith, $1,400, up $100; Erlebacher, Inc., | $1,100, up $100; Mrs. Emile Berliner, $2,000, up $800; Lansburgh & Bro,, Inc., $4,000, up $1,000; Mr. and Mrs, Simon Kann, $2,500, up $1,500; Mr. and Mrs. Giles F. Heilprin, $700, up $100; D. J. Kaufman, Inc., $850, up $100; anony- mous, $2,000, up $1,000; Walter G. Dist- ler, $500, up $350; anonymous, $1,350, up $150; Mr. and Mrs. H, Rozier Du- laney, jr. $500, up $300; C. B. Kefer- stein, $800, up $200. 600 Speeches Planned, Anonymous, $7,500, up $2,500; Beale R. Howard, $500, up $300; John F. Wil- kins, $1,2200, up $200; Mrs. Frank B. Noyes, $800, up $200; Frank R. Jelleff, Inc., $3,000, up $500; Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Everett, $1,250, up $150; Woodward & Lothrop, $12,500, -up $1,500; Max Fischer, $600, up $100; Mr. and Mrs. George N. Everett, $1,000, up $150; Washington Hotel, $800, up $200; Mr. and Mrs, Henry C. Sheridan, $2,000, up $500; anonymous, $3,000, up $1,000; Lieut. Col. and Mrs. Reginald Huide- koper, $750, up $30; Mr. and Mrs. L. Corrin Strong, $2,000, up $1,250; Mrs. Edwin B. Parker, $1,500, up $500, and anonymous, $1,500, up $250. Plans were discussed for 600 speeches in six days last night at a rally of the group-solicitation division of the speak- ers’ unit in the Annanolis Hotel. Speak- ers included W. W. Wheeler, division chairman; Lloyd B. Wilson, unit chair- man; Walter B. Clarkson, unit vice chairman; Joseph D. Kaufman, speak- ers’ unit chairman, and Elwood Street, Chest director. Voluntary contribution of $20 by the enlisted men of the U. S. S. Cormorant, lying at the Navy Yard, was reported by Lieut. H. B. Slocum. Tribute to the Chest was paid by Dr. Z. B. Phillips of the Church of the Epiphany in a sermon broadcast over Radio Station WOL. Sees World Changes. “In recent years,” he said, “the whole outlook of the world has changed. The citadels of orderly government have been threatened as never before. The social, industrial and business world is altered, new conditions prevail every- where and unemployment even in our own America stalks before us. a gaunt specter, and from this pulpit in this blessed Church of the Epiphany your rector appeals to every man, woman and child within range of his voice not only to stand behind, but to enter into as a privilege the great and wondrous 'movement, the only kind of movement that can really bring to fruition the ideals that we today profess—the Com- munity Chest. “Never under former conditions has the united support of eleemosynary in- stitutions been possible, never before has the direction of them been brought to the very highest point of efficiency, and it is not only our hope but our absolutely confident belief that every one of us will regard the Community Chest not only as a challenge, but as a golden opportunity.” D. C. Total Revealed. A total of $138,274.38 was contributed to the Community Chest by employes of the District Government, the final report of District Auditor Daniel J. Donovan, made public today, revealed. The report states that there are 11,150 employes in the service. Of these, 7,546 contributed three days' pay each, ylelding a total of $125,036.68. More than three days' pay each was contributed by 57 other employes, yield- ing $1,611.05, and less than three days' pay by 2,217 other employes, yielding $11,627.13. Of the total subscribed, $3,020.69 was ear-marked for charitable institutions outside of the District of Columbia. Some of the workers at the workhouse at Occoquan earmarked $625.04, for charitable institutions in Prince Wil- liam County, Va. Employes of the Lorton reformatory ear-marked $13.50 for _organizations in King George County, Va. Neither of these is on the March 31—Idaho, Oklahoma. May 15—North Dekota. INJURED BY FALL Trussell, 21, of %}ansulm. tVa.f. ed as painter at the plant o gggslgx{ut Farm Dairy, Pennsylvania avenue and Twenty-sixth street, fell from the first floor to the bottom of Herbert elevator shaft at his place of em- g;zyme‘rln early last night and was ly hurt. Aegg\e‘&eu was at work when the acci- approved list of the Community Chest, but Maj. Donovan recommended that the money be paid as directed if pos- sible, since the workers at those in- stitutions are in large part recruited from the surrounding couniry and are not residents of the District. Relief Society Cancels Meeting. The annual meeting of the United Hebrew Relief Society scheduled for "l‘}‘ltux;sdsy has been postponed indef- initely. 0. E. S. Meeting Called Off. t ened. He fell a distance of ;lgt;eem% Was mcmm when taken to Emergency H 3 He sustained fractures of both legs and other injuries. The meeting of Brightwood Chapter, O. E. 8., scheduled for Thursday, has been Chapt called off because of the Grand |ten g ter session. ‘The players to her right passed, Mrs. | Cahill, Convention visitors to Washington during 1932 will place in circulation here more than $7,000,000, it was esti- mated today by the Greater National Capital Committee of the Washington Board of Trade. ‘The figure does not take into con- sideration the vast number of tourists expected to make the Federal City the objective of pilgrimages during the pe- riod of the George Washington Bicen- tennial Celebration. Nor does it include the many thousands of Masons who will be in and around the city incident to the dedication of the George Washing- ton Masonic. Memorial in Alexandria next May. ‘The estimate is based solely on the approximately 200 conventions which are to be held here this year, with an average of 500 delegates attending each. Spending Estimated. ‘The International Association of Con- vention Bureaus two years ago compiled statistics from actual convention trade in comparative cities, which revealed that delegates to these conclaves spend not less than $100 each. According to this method of figur- ing, conventions would bring $10,000,- 000 to Washington before next January rolls around. But Curtis Hodges, di- rector of the Greater National Capital Committee, which contacted every one of the conventions listed and brought a great many of them on its own in- itiative, does not believe $100 will be spent by each delegate this year. “The figures of the International As- sociation of Convention Bureaus may - | have held true two years ago,” he said, “but there is quite a change of con- dition in the country today, and I 1932 CONVENTIONS TO BRING $7.000000 CASH TO CAPITAL Figure Is Exclusive of Tourists Expected During Bicentennial Program. believe the $100 average is a little high for these times” Hcdges thought $70 would be the average spent by each convention visitor. Boost Capital City. ‘The Greater National Capital Com- mittee, organized by an enterprising group of Washington business and civic leaders last June, was founded to boost Washington as & convention and tour- ist city and as the ideal residential community. It has operated with a $60,000 fund pledged by its sponsors, who believe great advantage will ac- crue to the city through advertising it to the world. Since June, the committee, of which A. C. Case, vice president of Palais Royal, is chairman, has specialized in bringing conventions to Washington and circulating beneficial publicity con- cerning the city through national pub- lications. Among the larger conventions to be held in the Capital this year are those of the National Educational Associa- tion, 10,000 delegates; Knights of Co- lumbus, 10,000; National Safety Coun- cil, 8000; Centennial Legion, 8,000; American Bar Association, 5,000, As- sociation of Childhood Education, 5,000; American Institute of Architects, 3,500; Rotary Clubs, 3,000, and American Public Health Association, 3,000. The District of Columbia Bicenten- nial Commission has estimated that more than 6,000,000 people will visit the Capital during 1932 incident to the Bicentennial celebration. Approximate- ly 300,000 are expected to attend the Masonic dedication, including the many thousands of Masons in the District and nearby Maryland and Virginia. PUPLLS TO STUDY STORYOF CHEST “Syllabus” Will Make Indi- rect Appeals to Children Almost Unconsciously. Washington's school children will be taught the story of the Community Chest in their everyday class-room | work, with indirect appeals being made to them almost unconsciously. This was revealed today when the “school syllabus,” presented by the Community Chest, was dispatched to all school buildings in the city. The syl- labus contains various stories which can be read to or by the children. These tell the history of the Com- munity Chest, as well as its member agencies. Under “suggestions for school and the class operations,” the syllabus con- tains concrete suggestions for the in- corporation of Community Chest pleas in various regular studies. Asked to Make Posters. Under art, the children are requested to make posters using such captions as “He Needs You,” and “Caring Is Shar- ing.” The subject of civics has for its aim, according to the syllabus, “to learn to work with one’s neighbor for what- ever can be done better by joint effort than by individual effort.” ~The sug- gested studies include discussions of the effect of a broken home on the various members of the family, the factors which may break up a home, and the way in which the Community Chest may help. Under mathematics a series of problems are given, for instance: “Ruth saved 25 cents a week from her allowance to give to the Community Chest. How much will she give in a year?” “The Boy Scouts gave this year. How much is that a month? A week?” Stories Interestingly Told. Various “Case Stories” are interest- ingly told from actual happenings of Community Chest administrations. Many of the heroes and heroines of these stories are boys and girls from the schools in which the syllabus is being studied, although, of course, the chil- dren are not identified. The syllabus was prepared by a Spe- cial Committee of teachers in conjunc- tion with Community Chest officials under the direction of Walter B. Pat- terson, retired supervisor of night and Summer schools. The volume is a mimeographed sheaf of papers bound in a bright-colored paper jacket and its delivery to the teacher swas begun this morning. UTILITIES BODY ORDERS CHANGE IN BUS ROUTE Line Must Shift Terminal to 619 Twelfth Street Due to Fed- eral Building Program. ‘The Public Utilities Commission yes- terday ordered the Washington-Vir- ginla-Maryland Coach Co., operating busses from Fort Myer, Falls Church, Fairfax and other points in Virginia to Washington, to change its route so as to abandon its old terminal at Twelfth street and Pennsylvania avenue in favor of a new one at 619 Twelfth street. The move was made necessary by Fed- eral building activities at Twelfth street and Pennsylvania avenue. ‘The busses, traveling east on K street, will continue to Eleventh, instead of Thirteenth street and then go south to Pennsylvania avenue, west to Twelfth and thence north to the terminal. Leesburg Woman Dies. LEESBURG, Va., January 12 (Spe- cial) —Mrs. Mary Haws Dmiel,sgez, wife of John Daniel, died at her home near here after an extended illness. She is survived by her husband and two small children. 5 $32,685.13 for the Community Chest| (AN BUYS S LEAES 01D STORE Deal Involves Two of Wash- ington’s Long-Established Mercantile Businesses. 8. Kann Sons Co., which operates the department store at Eighth street and Market space, just above Pennsyl- vania avenue, has bought the business of Iis neighbor, Saks & Co. and has taken a 10-year lease on its property, at Seventh street and Market space, it was announced today. Both concerns have long been es- tablished on their present locations and the formation of both organizations dates back for more than 65 years. The Saks Building is to be remod- eled throughout and made a part of the merchandising space of Kann’s, to be used for the establishment of new departments of the concern and for expansion of existing phases of its operation. Alterations Planned. The building taken over by Kann's in the transaction has a frontage of 50 feet on Market space and of 115 feet on Seventh street, providing a total area of about 6,800 square feet on each floor. When remodeling and al- terations are completed, in three or four months, Kann'’s property will have ? total area per floor of 37,000 square eet The firm of S. Kann Sons Co. was established in business in Baltimore about 70 years ago and has been lo- cated in Washington for the past 38 years. It was founded by Solomon Kann and his three sons, Louls, Sig- mund and Simon Kann. The Baiti- more store was discontinued in 1902. The firm now employes about 1,000 per- sons. The present officers of Kann's are Si- mon Kann, president; B. Bernei Bur- gunder, vice president and treasurer, and Sol Kann, secretary. Kann's several years ago purchased the Homer Building, on Thirteenth street, F and G streets. This property, it is announced, is being retained by Kann’s as the site for future develop- ment, the con¢ern to remain at its present expanded location overlooking Pennsylvania avenue under the 10- year lease there. The current transaction marks the retirement of Saks & Co. from the local field, its name having been bought by Kann's. Established 65 Years Ago. Sixty-five years ago a small sign was swung across the sidewalk in front of 308 Seventh street bearing the name of Andrew Saks. This was the parent concern of the various establishments of Saks & Co. since organized in New York and other cities. Isadore Saks joined his brother in 1873 in this busi- ness, then removed to 316 Seventh street, and in 1885 the firm returned to 308 Seventh street, where the pres- ent building stands. George C. Hen- ning then associated with the business to retire later to enter the banking business. Joseph I. Saks, a son of Isadore Saks, later was admitted to the merchandising firm. Isaac Gans, treas- urer and general manager of Saks, has llzggxlz associated with the firm since Mr. Gans sald today every President of the United States during the past 65 years has been numbered among patrons of the concern, in addition to members of Congress and the diplo- matic corps. No decision has been made, it was explained this morning, as to future employment of the present staff of Saks & Co., numbering about 125. Saks has the privilege of operating until April 1. It was stated at Kann's store, how- ever, that the increased space of the consolidated store would necessitate a larger force. WOMAN IS DEALT PERFECT HAND FOR GRAND SLAM IN NO TRUMP Mrs. Salkeld Scores 1,395 Points in New Rubber of Contract Bridge Game. Mrs. Margaret C. Salkeld, 3017 Cort- land place, and three friends began a new rubber of contract bridge yesterday afternoon. As she picked up her cards Mrs. Salkeld observed the array strange- ly resembled a picture gallery. She held ace, king, queen, jack of mkm m'rwel gd king :llngeam ace and g of clubs, ace, , queer ack, of diamonds. e Salkeld bid 7 no trump, played out the perfect hand, scored 1,395 points. Asked if she were a disciple of Ely Culbertson or Sidney Lenz, she replied: “When possible, I play the s&.keld (hold the cards) system. At other times, Mr. Culbertson is my prophet.” Other players who witnessed the per- fect hand were Mrs. Brook V. Beyer, Mrs. and Mrs, Victor LABORWILLPRESS FIHT ON SCHOOL 0B CONTRACTDR Trades Council Is Seeking Bannett Company Removal in Wage Dispute. “PREVAILING RATE” CUT CHARGED IN AFFIDAVITS Series From Ironworkers, Brick- layers and Hoisting Engineers Made Public. The Washington Building Trades Council, representing union mechanics, prepared today to wage a “fight to the finish” in the case of the Charles 8. Bannett Co., Inc, of Philadelphia, which is accused of paying its employes less than the “prevailing wage” pre- scribed by law in the building of the Benjamin Stoddart School near Fortieth and Calvert streets. The council, through its secretary, Charles S. Young, declared today it is seeking to have the Bannett concern removed as general contractor on the local project and to be banned from further public contracts here, on the basis of charges filed by its employes that the contractor is evading the pro- visions of the Bacon-Davis wage law. Denial reported to have been made by the Bannett concern that it was paying its carpenters less than the pre- scribed scale, published this morning, drew a retort from the union council that it had no information regarding the carpenters’ pay and therefore had not complained about that phase of the work. Affidavits Made Public. The council, however, made pub- lic a series of affidavits from structural iron workers, brick- layers and hoisting engineers, charg- ing that they had been employed by the Bannett concern on the school project at wages considerably lower than the “prevailing rates” adopted by the District Commisisoners October 1 last, in conformity with provisions of the Bacon-Davis act. Mr. Young revealed also that coples of these affidavits, in addition to being filed with District officials, had been placed before the conciliation officer of the Department of Labor. Under the wage law, the Secretary of Labor is the final judge in a controversy over the prevailing scale of wages for build- ing mechanics. Mr. Young declared his organization did not propose to let this matter be “glossed over” as he asserted was the earlier case involving the W. P. Rose Co. of Goldsborough, N. C., which was accused by local union workers and of- ficials of evading the wage iaw, but which succeeded, however, in gainin recently another Washington ~school building contract, on the promise that he would pay the prevailing wage scale. Mr. Young said he had correspondence to show Contractor Rose had admitted that in the past he paid less than the prevailing scale in this vicinity. Hits Denial on Carpenters. Mr. Young scored the Bannett Co. for denying that he was underpaying carpenters on the Stoddart School job, while no mention was made of the charges by union representatives that bricklayers, engineers and iron work- ers on this job were being paid less than the approved scale. The “prevailing” scale of wages adopted by the District government is substantially the same of the estab- lished union scales in this section. The affidavits filed with District and Federal officials charge that the Ban- nett concern not only is paying less than the legal rate of wages, but that the contractor has had his employes sign pay roll blanks, with the space for the amount of wages being left blank, to be signed by the contractor or an agent after the workman has signed. Mr. Young insisted today that since union building mechanics are established and reputable citizens of Washington, and there is no reason for any one to doubt the authenticity of their sworn statements, contained in the affidavits, of the amounts they have been receiv- for their work. m80ne of the affidavits, made by Ar- thur R. Cannon of 1312 Twelfth street, charges he was employed by the Ban- nett Co. on the Stoddart School job from October 23 to November 23 and received $1 an hour for services as a journeyman bricklayer, Wwhereas the “prevailing” rate would be $1.75 an hour. Other Complaints Filed. Horace G.-Fox, another affiant, resid- ing at 51 R street, charges he was em- ployed as a foreman structural steel worker by the Bannett Co. and became subcontractor on November 12 for the sum of $875; that on November 23 the general contractor complained that the rate of wages paid was too high; that he took over the subcontract himself, hir- ing all_ironworkers, paying the fore- man (Fox) 80 cents per hour. The union rate for structural ironworkers is $1.65 an hour. Fox charges further that Bannett re- quested ironworkers on the job to sign pay-roll slips which bore no amount or rate of wages received by them. Fox states he left the job December 5 be- cause of the wage scale. Similar complaints of payment of less than the legal wage rate are made in affidavits made public by Mr, Young and bearing the names of Earl Smith, 216 C street; Marlin D. Orun, 216 C street; Linster W. Fox, 5 R street; Rus- sell H. Frazier, 1538 Second street southwest; Leslie S. Cowan, 216 C street; Roy Thomason, 207 C street, and Frank Martz, 207 C street, iron workers. O. Simpson, 1125 Seventeenth street, hoisting engineer, was employed by the Bannett company at the rate of 75 cents an hour, the Building Council re- ports. ROSA POLLIO-JARMAN SINGS HERE TONIGHT Mezzo-contralto to Appear in Joint Recital With Miss Octavia Marshall Rosa Pollio-Jarman, mezso-contralto, and Miss Octavia Marshall, pianist, will give a joint recital at 8:30 tonight in the club rooms of the American Associ- ation of University Women. The vocalist is well known in Wash- ington musical circles, having made her debut with the Washington Opera Co. as Siebel in “Faust,” singing with Peo- dor Chaliapin, and has since ap- peared here in other Miss Marshall The program of hath will include numbers from the old classics and lnx i