Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1932, Page 17

Washington News L 4 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION @he Foen ny Star WA SHINGTON, D. C, U ESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1932. PAGE' B—1 HOUSEDUETOACT || Co. Youngs Plane Crashes TODAY ON FEDERAL PERSONNEL ISSUES Promotions, New Employes and Increases in Salary Involved. PASSAGE OF AGRICULTURE | FUND BILL SCHEDULED| Simmons Plans Motion to Recom- mit Providing for 5 Per Cent Reduction in Force. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Late today the House is expected to take definite action on several ques- tions affecting promotion of Govern- ment employes, appointment of new employes in the Government service and the proposed cutting down of the personnel in the Department of Agri- culture, to be followed by similar ac- | tion in other branches of the Federal service. t The agricultural appropriation bill is | expected to be passed late today. In this bill the two final sections concern Government employes, both as regards a prohibition against any incr salary due to promotion, and prohibition against any new ments to the service before July 1933 When action has been completed in the committee of the whole, and the bill is brought into the House itself for final action, Representative Robert G. Simmons, Republican of Nebraska, ranking minority member on the sub- committee that drafted the bill, has served notice that he will offer a mo- tion to recommit providing for a 5 per cent reduction in the force of the de- partment Proposals Bitterly Fought. These proposals for interference with | the Government employes have been | bitterly fought, but it seems probable the two sections in the bill which have been safeguarded by a special rule| making them in order are likely to be approved. The prospects are that the Simmons amendment for a 5 per cent reduction in force will be rejected as it has been opposed strenuously by Chairman Bryns of the Appropriations Committee. The two sections in the bill made in | order by the special rule, provide as| follows No appropriation under the Depart- meni of Agriculture available during the fiscal years 1932 and 1933—which means up to July 1. 1933—shall be used (first) to increase the compensation of any position within the grade to which euch position has been allocated under | the. classification act; (second) to in- | crease compensatiop’ of any posi- tion in the field service, the pay of | which is adjustable to correspond, so far as may be practicable, to the ra established by the classification act; (third) to increase the compensation of any position under the classification | act htrough reallocation: (fourth) to increase the compensation Of &ny per- son in any grade through advancement to another position in the same grade, or to a position in a higher grade, at a appoint 1 ENPLOYES' LEADER OL. CLARENCE M. YOUNG, Assistant Secretary of Com- merce for Aeronautics, was in- jured slightly this morning wWhen & plane in which he was making radio tests near the College Park, Md., Airport, made a forced land- ing about a mile from the field when the motor died. The plane landed in & truck garden nd crashed through a hedge fence be- fore it brought up at a 45-degree angle against a dirt bank. The landing gear was carried away. Col. Young and the pilot, M. S. Boggs, & Department of Commerce inspector, quickly crawled out of the wreckage. Col. Young sus- tained a skinped leg, which did not re- quire treatment. The pilot was unhurt. The wreck of the plane is shown above; Col. Young below. —Star Stafl Photos. AGAINST NEW BILL Miss Gertrude McNally Says Proposals Will Injure Effi- ciency of Workers. Vigorous opposition to the two sec- tions affecting Federal employes in the agricultural appropriation bill, now be- | fore the House, was registered today by Miss Gertrude McNally, Secretary-treas. urer of the National Federation of FPed- eral Employes. She declared that if this legislation is passed administrative offi- cers will be handicapped in not being able to get the work done efficiently. “The policy sought to be adopted by these sections,” said Miss McNally, “is now in effect throughout the Federal service by executive order, and the leg- islation therefore proposes no new thing. This is just an additional contribution rate in excess of the minimum rate of the higher grade, unless such minimum | rate would call for an aetual reduction | in compensation; (fifth) to increase the | compensation of any other position of the Federal Government partment of Agriculture. Treasury Would Get Savings. The bill carries a provision that all of the appropriations saved by such rocedure shall be impounded and re turned to the Treasury and that a re port on this amount shall be submitted to Congress on the first day of the next regular session The other section written Lill directs that no appropriation for the Department of Agriculture, avail- able up to July 1, to pay the compensation of an in- cumbent appointed to a position under the Federal Government which is va- cant on the date the act is passed, or under the De- | McNally continued 1933, shall be used | that the Federal employes are asked to make during the present temporary con- dition of finances, #The Saturday half-holiday law has t been fully complied with,” Miss “Many employes | are being refused the benefits of the | Saturday half-holiday act because of (lack of appropriations, even though | { Saturday half holidays for Federal | workers is now the Jaw of the land. n the opinion of the federation, the option of sections 2 and 3 of the ag- | culture appropriation bill are a greater | | detriment to administration officials than to the individual Federal employes, | not. ad | i into the | jnasmuch as they make difficult, if not | Bicentennial t impossible, the efficient carrying on of | | the activity of the department.” S N AUTOIST STRIKES TREE, AVOIDING PARKED CAR any such position which may become vacant after that date. There is a provision that this inhibi- tion shall not apply to absolutely es- William H. Jennings Injured in Crash on Park Road, Rock sential positions, the filling of Wwhich may be approved in writing by President. The saving in appropria tions under this section would also be returned to the Treasury “Big Business” Accused. Efforts to slash salaries of Govern- ment employes and to order a wholesale reduction in personnel without study as to how such action might cripple the work of the various Federal activities were vigorously fought on the House floor vesterday by Chairman Byrns of the House Appropriatiors Committee. resentative William P. Connery of Massachusetts, ck \ of the Com- mittee on Labor, and Representative James M. Fitzpatrick, Democrat, of New York Representative Conner members of the House the impression President not favor cutting anybod statments by former C of the Appropriations Cc contrary notwithstanding there pay-cut cons) neered by “big business,” which phasized, had already slashed wages $12,000,000,000 and desires the Federal reduction program as an excuse to still further take dollars out of th Pockets of those who do the work ative Fitzpatrick | record & declared the are stil Hoover di salary, Wood mittee to the He charged e he em the L Repre- opposed F replicd he d said that eductio ns, “1 ask anly elimi- nation of personnel not doing essential work that Personnel Cut Move Fails. y repulsed another attempt by Representative Simmons to insert a legislative rider ordering a reduction in personnel throughout the Agricul- ture Department “There is no evidence in this record,” said Mr. Byrns—“not a scintilla, which would justify the gentleman’s reduction in personnel ~T shall support the gentleman,” ex- plaired Chairman Byrns, “in any prop- osition he makes to cut these est‘mates, rovided he has the proof and provided ! e does not in that connection cripple | n of this Government I am a Democrat, but I do not want to see the President of the United States and his departments crippled in the administration of the affairs of the Government, and I say that if we blindly go along and cut the personnel of these departments without the elightest evidence 5 per cent, we are going to cripple many of the bureaus and divisions down there in this de- the administrat the | Creek Park. His automobile was demolished early | last evening when Willlam H. Jen- nings, 35, of the 1100 block of F street northeast struck a tree en Park road, Rock Creek Park, when he swerved ! his car to avoid striking a parked car. The operator of the second car, | George R. Diggs, colored, 40, of the 12700 block of Bruce place southeast, told United States Park Police that his | motor stopped and his lights went out on a curve Diggs told police he parked his car and was trying to fix his lights when Jennings' car crashed into the tree. Jennings, whose condition is reported as being not serious, was taken to Gar- field Hospital and treated for contusion | of the right leg and wrenched back. No | arrests were made. v RETIREMENT ORDERED |Capt. Plemmons Will Leave Service January 31. Capt. Caney L. Plemmons was ordered | retired by the District Commissioners | totiay, effective January 31. The retire- ment was ordered because Capt. Plem- m ns has reached the age of 64, under which retirement is compulsory under the department’s rule He was bern Jenuary 28, 1868, and sppointed to the policz force January 1893, and consequently has more years of continuous service. Plemmcns was granted a pen- | sion of $150 per month. | partment and in others, and for one I am not going to be responsible for it.” His position regarding the amend- ments made in order under the special rule to prevent filling of vacancies or granting pay increases until July 1, 1933, was given by Chairman Byrns in reply to this question by Representative Simmons: “If death or vacancies occur in & bureau, and the gentleman from Ten- nessee is not in a position to anticipate where those are going to occur, if it is required that they be not filled except the Presid-nt finds that the filling of them fs “absolutely essential,” then are we not “blindly” possibly crippling those activities, just as much as my amend- ment would “blindly” cripple them?" In response, Chairman Byrns said “Certainly not, because we are safe- guarding that possibility by giving the President of the United States the au- thority to direct that they be filled, and that is the whole object of that provi- sion in the bill, which gives him au- thority, whenever he thinks they should be filled, to fill them.” § | ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF COMMERCE SLIGHTLY HURT. [, OF . CELEBRATES J5TH ANNIVERSARY Bicentennial Film to Be Shown Tonight at Dinner Attended by Curtis. - 4f With Vice President Curtis as guest of honor and principal speaker, the Washington Chamber of Commerce will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of its founding with a banquet in-the Mayflower Hotel tonight. Final preparations were being made for the event today and a Reception Committee headed by Acting President George A. G. Wood will be on hand at Union Station this afternoon to greet a group of cxccutives of Warner Bros Pictures, Inc., producers of the George Washington Bicontennial film _spon- sored by the chamber, which will have its world premicre at the banquet The executives of {he film company, headed by Harry M. Warner, president of Warner Bros, will be guests at the banquet _tonig group will in- clude Clarence Whitehill, baritome of the Metropolitan Opera Co., who play: the Tole of George Washington in the g picture, gathering of public mbers of the ht A distinguis officials, includi cabinet, Senators and Representatives in Congress, has been invited to be guests of the chamber at the anniver- sary affair, Showing of the Bicentennial film, for which extensive made in the bal flower, will be t the evening. The ington, the Man » cently was completed tings, at & cost 1t will be distributed try during 19 contribution to th itlated by the local ch ceived the indorser States and Dist om of the May- fratured event of entitled “Wash- the Capital with local set- ss of $60,000. T the coun- film company's ennial. In- it has re- of the United umbia George Washington Bicentennial Commissions, | PRIZES ANNOUNCED FOR TEMPLAR DRILL! Cas“ Awards of $300, Medals and Pennants Will Be Distributed Among Winners. Prizes to be awarded petitive grill, inspect of the Washington K 5 Te at the Washington Auditorium - pep ruary 9, were announced last night by Dr. Frank E. Gibson, chairman of the Prize Committec. Cash awards will total $300, and there will be numerous medals and pennants The winning t the competitive drill is to receive gold and & ple pennant will be 54;}_m gol ant he six comma Al et oy for general excelles ,i} .h,,‘ r[;,(:{’: showi#y in tte 1 and in at- tendance at the inspection and at the drill and ball. Attendance at the drill and ball must be in uniform, the com- mittee announced. The first prise. in this class will be $100 in gold. The second-place winner will receive honor. able mention A blue pennant will go to the com- mandery given the best raging ir rhe inspection and in_attendance at the inspection. Second prize will be a red pennant and the commandery placing third will be given honorable mention The winner of the sword contest, one of the features of the affair. will receive a gold medal, with silver and bronze medals to be awarded for sec. ond and third places, respectively Besides Dr. Gibson, members of tre | Prize Committee include Irying Hall, | Charles W. Sherier, George W. Ross Maj. Edwin B. Hesse and Fred E. Blood. : at the com- d grand ball | Will Discuss Candidates. | | The Round Table at t he Jewis = | munity Center tonight will ‘}égé’\?;s “Presidential Possibilities” Allan Fisher, local attorney, is to be guest speaker and will lead the discussion after his address, EGAL PROBLENS OF NEW HEAWAY Joslin Refers Plea to Hoover on Mount Vernon Route to Attorney General. IMPAIRMENT OF FUNDS FOR WORK IS-FEARED Whether Road Is Completed When Paved and Where to Jail Pris- oners Still Undecided. arisen over the prospactive transfer of the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway from the Bureau of Public Roads, De- partment of Agriculture, to the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, may delay the permanent opening of the Arlington Bridge and highway on Feb- ruary 1, as has been planned. The Department of Justice is studying the questions: Included in the problems being pro- ing over of police jurisdiction by Lieut Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director lic Buildings and Public Parks, will impair expenditure of funds by the MAY HALT OPENING Capital a Winter Resort for Ducks A number of legal problems that have pounded are those of whother the tak- | of Pub- | bureau, in the completion of landscap- | ing and grading along the riverside highway, and to what jails the prisoners | arested on the Mount Vernon Highway | will be taken, in Virginia. One of the big points up for decision by Mr Mitchell is just when a road is com- pleted—when the paving of the high- way proper is finished or when ihe project is topped off by landscaping and all the surrounding park land has been acquired? Hoover Asked to Open Road. President Hoover was approached by interested authorities with a view to having an executive order issued, offi- cially transferring the Mount Vernol Memorial Highway from the Bureau ol Public Roads to the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks. at least for the purposes of traffic handling and po- licing. Theodore G. Joslin, one of the secre- taries to the Chief Executive, thought it better to refer the whole question to the Department of Justice, so that there would be no legal hitch in the pro- | ceedings, so the bundle of questions was sent over to Attorney General Mitchell Bridge Could Be Opened. | As a matter of fact, motorists have {been using the Arlington Memorial Bridge and the Mount Vernon Highway for the past two week ends now. and tentative arrangements have been made to throw the highway open permanently on February 1. There is no questicn about the ability to open the Arlington Memorial Bridge, as this is under the jurisdiction of the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission, but the difficulty is that there is no suitable traffic outlet on th> westward side if the Mount Ver- ncn Memorial Highway is not opened. Some time ago the Bureau of Public Roads wanted to refer the legal prob- | lems to Controller General J. R. Mc- was. abandoned. 'LOW BID ON LIBRARY, LATE, WAS DELAYED Chicago Contractor's Airmail Held Up by Bad Weather, Mooney Advises Lynn. ‘The bid of Jacobson Bros. Co. of Chi- cago for erection of an addition to the ibrary of Con which was sent by airmail from Chicago and arrived at the Capitol the morning after the for- mal opening of the bids for the project, was delayed by weather conditions, Postmaster Mooney today advised Ar- chitect of the Capitol Lynn. The Ja- cobson Co. submitted the low bid of $1,123,000. Officials of the architect's office Carl for decision, but this plan laler) FIRST CENSUS BY AIRPLANE A SUCCESS. EVERAL hundreds of ducks (if you want to be accurate, count them your self) are shown in this photograph, taken | from an Army Air Corps piane on the Potomac River near Fort Humphreys, Va. as a part of the first duck | census survey undertaken by air. nd Sergt. Andrew E. Mato The first flight, made under direction o . yesterday, showed thousunds of ducks wintering near Washington. s was aerial cameraman. f F. C. Lincoln, United States Blological | Lieut. David W. Goodrich flew the —Army Air Corps Photo. KEECH WILL FILE PETITION ASKING - LOWER GAS RATES Action Tomorrow Will Be Based on Company’s In- creased Earnings. $500,000 INCREASE CITED DESPITE NEW SCHEDULE Counsel Says Cut Was Not Dis- cussed at Recent Conference in New York. People’s Counsel Richmond B. Keech said today he would file his petition for a reduction in gas rates tomorrow or the next day. Mr. Keech had planned to present such a petition today, but owing to the unexepected length of the hearings for the electric rates for 1932 he has been forced to delay his pro- jected action. The petition will be based on the al- legation it the Washington Gas Light Co. during 1931 increased its net earn- ings by approximately $500.000 instead of reducing them $400,000 by the intro- duction of new rates in October, 1930. Local officials of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Cos. had no com- ment to make this morning. Wilton J. Lambert, counsel for the gas concern, said today he recently had discussed the condition of the Wash- ington gas concerns with New York financial interests, associated with the ownership organization, but that the matter of rate reductions had not been considered. X MEN INRED INAUTO ACCIDENTS One of Victims May Have Fractured Skull—Driver Is Detained. Six persons were injured in automo- bile accidents early today and yesterday. | Haywood Thomas, 48, of 476 F street, received severe injuries to the head when struck by an automobile operated by George Moore, 37, 914 Twelfth street, at Dupont Circle shortly before 8 o'clock today. Thomas was treated at Emer- gency Hospital, where X-rays were to be taken to determine if he recdived a fractured skull. Moore was detained at No, 3 police station. G. T. Smallwood, 33, of 4201 Fessen- ' den street and Lester J. Barrett, 25, of 1014 B street southwest, were slightly | injured when automobiles they were | operating collided at Seventeenth street | and Massachusetts avenue early today. | | Both men went home after being treat- | | ed at Emergency Hospital. | William H. Jennings, 35, 1114 F street | ‘nm’thenst, was treated at Garfield Hos- | pital last’ night for injuiies received when the automobile he was driving ran |into a tree on Park road near Piney | Branch ‘road. Jennings told police he was trying to avoid striking a parked | atitomobile | An unidentified pedestrian was | | knocked down erday, according to | G. W. Stilson, 20, of Takoma Park, | Md., when another ‘automobile ran into | the rear of his car on Seventh street, | forcing his machine into the pedestrian. | | The other motorist and the pedestrian |left the scene, according to Stilson. | Policeman J G. Russell, 46, of 1221 | | Pennsylvania avenue southeast, Wwas | | treated at Providence Hospital for in- | juries to his knee received when struck |by a truck while directing traffic at | Twelfth_and Water streets southwest. pointed out today that the standard | Ernest R. Davis, 40, of Fairfax, Va form for handling bids on Government | Was the driver of the truck, police say. work provides that when bids arrive | 4 late due to delay mn the mails over | RED CROSS fO RECEJVE which the bidder had no control, such bids can be considered. The various bids for the library project are being studied and will be submitted at a later date to the joint commission in charge of the Library bullding program for decision. The | formal opening of the bids was at 3 o'clock last Friday afternoon, January 22. The Jacobson bid was sent by spe- cial delivery airmail and postmarked Chicago, 5:30 p.m. January 21. to Mr. Lynn, “ic was due to arrive in this city at 7:10 am. January 22, and should have reached your office before 3 pm. the same day. Owing to weather conditions, this letter was received by rail instead of airplane, which accounts for the delayed receipt at your office.” Heads Game Association. BERRYVILLE, Va., January 26 (Spe- cial)—Creighton T. Hall was electec president of the Clarke County Game Protective Association at its annual | meeting last night; Ralph Dorsey, vice president, and Grover Carter, secretary- freasurer, The Executive Committee is composed of William D. Garvin from Bat- tletown district; H. A. Clevenger, Long- marsh district; Beverley Mackay, Greenway district, and Jetson Spates, Chapel district It was voted to hold the annual banquet eazly in March. PLANNED ton will have two national cfl:mi:sg trees, instead of only one as eretofore, if plans being discussed in e Ofice of Public Buildings and Pub- 10 parke materialize, for the present VYule tree in Sherman Square, south of the' Treasury Department, is failing. the, Theat of the holiday-colored elec- tric bulbs and the weight of the orna- R te have been too much of a strain for one U ew program, there would be fwo Christmas trees in Sherman Square, but they would be used on al- teihate years. Constant efforts are being made to reduce the weight of the ornaments and the heat from the lights, yet it has been found that, de- spite this. utilizing the same tree year atter year is too much of a shock. he President lights the national According to the postmaster's letter | \TWO NATIONAL CHRISTMAS TREES FOR SHERMAN SQUARE Heat of Colored Electric Bulbs and Weight of Ornaments Too Much for One Tree. BEQUEST OF $10,000 The American Red Cross is to recelve a bequest of $10,000 under the will of Miss Julia V. Simpson, formerly of | Washington, which was filed for pro- bate in the District Supreme Court to- | day. Miss Simpson, who was 74 years old, died last week in Kingsion, N. Y. The will, filed through Attorney An- drew B. Duvall, also leaves $5,000 to the | Salvation Army, $5,000 to the Young Men'’s Christian Association, $5,000 to | the Young Women's Christian Associa- tion, $5,000 Lo Mrs. Sally Hodges of | Takoma Park, Md.; $500 each to Mrs. | Hodges'’ four children, Mrs. Louise Judd, | Mrs. Margaret Ray, Rogers Hodges and Virginia Hodges; $1,000 to Julia Davis Shaw of Montgomery County, Md. $1,000 to Mrs. Lucy Uhler, Alexandria Va.; $1,000 to Jennie Fawcett of Mont gomery County, and $150 to Laura Ma- | son of Washington, a servant. | “‘The Eloist Ministry, Inc.. of Brook- | line, Mass., is given $20,000. The rest of the estate is left in trust to a niece, Marguerite Simpson Claiborne, and & grandniece, Katherine L. Hayward, both of New Orlean Christmas tree, in Sherman Square, and there is a pretentious ceremony in con- junction with it. The result has seemed to be that everybody enjoyed this ex- | cept the Christmas tree, for the tree | shows marked signs of being on the | decline. | Ways and means are now being dis- cussed to secure two entirely new (rees, one of which would be used in Christ- | mas, 1932, the other at the 1933 Yule- | tide celebration and so through alter- | nate years. ‘The present tree is the second to suc- cumb to the burden of bearing the brunt of the Capital's Christmas cele- bration. It was planted in its present position in 1929 and has served for three years. The first community tree also succumbed to the heat of the lights after several years' service, Drowned DEATH OF OFFICER HELD ACCIDENTAL Policeman Robert L. Coffren Drowned in Canoe Upset Near Occoquan. A verdict of accidental death by drowning . was returned by a Princ2 William County coroner’s jury late this afternoon following an inquest at Oc- coquan in the case of Policeman Robert L. Coffren of the TraficdBureau, whose body was recovered from Neabsco Creek this morning some 12 hours after Cof- fren fell into the water while fishing ith two other Washington men near Occoquan Bay. The 24-year-old traffic policeman, who had been stationed for some time pre- ceding his death at Twelfth street and Pennsylvania avenue, failed to win the shore with his companions when the cance from which they were fishing overturned last night. The canoe upset, fellow officers here learned, when one of the men reached for a paddle which had slipped from his hand. The other two officers— Pvts. P. M. Cox and Lester Collins of No. 1 precinct—swam ashore in_the darkness and learned later that Coffren had gone down. A scarching party was organized to bunt for the body as soon as davlight permitted, and it was recovered about | 9 o'clock and brought to a funeral parlor at Occoquan for the inquest Capt. Benjamiin A. Lamb of the Traffic Bureau left Washington _this morning to appear at the inquest. Both Cox and Collins were off duty today and remained in Virginia untll the in- quiry could be_completed. The three policemen drove to the fishing_grounds yesterday, expecting to pend last night and today trying for bass. Coffren, who lived at 1276 Morse street northeast, is_survived by his widow, Mrs. Julla Coffren; two chil- | dren, Robert, 7 years old, and Barbara, | 4 years old, and his mother, who made her home at the Morse street address. He had been on the police force about 10 years. DRIVER IS RELEASED IN ACCIDENTAL DEATH Identification of Man Who Died After Arrest Sought Through Fingerprints. A verdict of accidental death was returned by a coroner’s jury, which to- | day investigated the death at Gallinger Hospital early Monday morning of a man who gave his name as Charles E. Williams, 38, of Pottsville, Pa. Williams | was taken to the hospital after police | had held him 24 hours on a drunk charge. Walter Roland Ellis, Cheltenham, Md., held under $3,000 bond in connection with Williams' death, was exonerated | by the jury. Meanwhile, police were endeavoring fix accurately Willlams' identification through comparison of Police Depart- ment_fingerprint records with those of the War Department. Ellis testified that Williams stepped from a street car loading platform into the side of his machine, and that the CITIZENS PROTEST NEW HIGH SALARIES Federation Calls Special Meeting to Consider Over- lapping Jobs in District. A special meeting to consider what action it should take “looking to the protection of the public from the crea- tion of new high-salaried positions, and also the causing of confused or over- lapping responsibilities in the municipal service of the District” was called by | the Federation of Citizens' Associations | today for next Saturday at 8 p.m. | The meeting was called by Dr. George | C. Havenner, president of the body, fol- Inwing receipt of a letter signed by dele- gates from five member associations re- questing the special session. The subject to be discussed primarily at the meeting was described as follows: “What, if any, action should be taken by the federation looking to the pro- tection of the public, both in the mat- ter of efficiency ard expense, from the creation of new high-salaried positions, | and also the causing of confused or | overlapping responsibilities in the mu- | nicipal service, without giving District citizens any opportunity to know about, or express themselves concerning, such | serious change in advance of the same | being actually adopted and put into | effect by the District Commissioners.” | " Reports of committees also will be heard at the meeting, which will be | held in the board room of the District Building. Signatories to the request for the | special meeting were George E. Sulli- | van of the Citizens' association of Ta- | koma, Henry I. Quinn of the Sixteenth | Street Highlands Assoclation, William McK. Clayton, Brightwood Citizens’ | Association; William J. Neale of the | North Cleveland Park- group, and Thomas E. Lodge, delegate from the American University Park Citizens' As- sociation. NAVY CLOSEé HANGAR TO GUARD NEW PLANES Action to Secrete Details of Fight- ing Ships Is Taken by Officials. Determined to earry out to the letter naval regulations safeguarding the se- | crets of construction of the Navy's new combat airplanes, the Navy has closed | to the public the hangar of the flight | test section at the Anacostia Naval Air | | Station, it was learned today. ‘This hangar is to be kept closed to | all persons except those authorized to enter by the Navy Department. Closing of the hangar is the climax | of a long series of efforts by the Navy to prevent leakage of details of its new fighting planes. Closing of the flight test hangar is the result of the publication recently of a description of the sensational new Navy two-seater fighter, now complet- ing flight tests here. FOUND UNCONSCIOUS Street Car Motorman, Gassed, Is Treated by Rescue Squad. De Witt Brown, 47, of 223 Eighth street northeast, a street car motor- man, was found unconscious in his room this morning, with gas flowing from a tube attached to a wall jet. The end of the tube, according to his wife, Mrs. Stevie Brown, was on the bed where her husband lay when she dis- covered him, shortly after 10:30 Members of the fire rescue squad and a staff physician from Casualty Hos- pital were called and early this after- noon were making efforts to revive the man. | Woman Finds $10 Left by Burglar Who Spurns Loot Any ‘number of burglars like the last one would be greatly wel- comed by Mrs. John Van Dome- len, 537 Ninth street northeast. Her house was broken into and ransacked yesterday, but nothing was taken. Instead, the invader dropped & $10 bill. Mrs. Van Domelen reported to police when she returned home the place had been ransacked, but that nothing was discovered miss- ing. While making a careful check she found the $10 bill under accident was unavoidable. Other wit- nesses mbshgmud his story, a table. CLARK TAKES STAND IN BRUTALITY TRIAL Policeman Charged With Beating Colored Youth Denies All Charges. | Hollis H. Clark, one of two sus- pended policemen on trial in the Dis- trict Supreme Court on third-degree charges, took the stand in his own defense today and made positive de- nials that he and Policeman Charles R. Bremmerman had beaten, struck or abused any colored prisoners last June in the locker room of the old Second | Precinct Station. The accused officer was the first of the two defendants to take the witness stand and was subjected to question- ing ior two hours by defense and Gov- | ernment attorneys in connection with {all the incidents that are alleged to have occurred on the days of June 25, 26 and 27, as charged in the indict- | ment. He' has been under suspension, with Bremmerman, since October 16, when both patrolmen were charged with assaulting Thomas McKeever Wil- liams, 17-year-old colored prisoner, to force confessions of housebreaking. Clark was still under cross-exam- ination when court recessed for the noon period. He will be followed on the stand by Bremmerman and it was expected the case would go to the jury tomorrow. Fourteen witnesses were heard "yesterday in order to expedite the proceedings, which have been con- tinuing for 10 court days. U. S. SALARY REPORTS REACH BUDGET BUREAU Data to Be Used in Agitation for Pay Reductions Virtually Completed. Reports from Government depart- iments and establishments on salaries of Government employes have virtually all arrived at the Bureau of the Bud- get, which requested reports in con= nection with the proposals in Congress to cut Federal pay. The figures are being summarized and analyzed at the present time, it was learned, and a digest of the whole Gov- ernment situation will be made, to show the number of persons in each salary scale. ‘This is the latest and most up-to- date survey attempted with a view to getting accurate information to use in the agitation for pay cuts. The reports will be submitted to President Hoover, who will decide what disposition is to be made of them. CITIZENS’ FEDERATVION FILES MAPES: PROTESTS Recommendations of Two Groups Submitted to House District Committee. The Federation of Citizens’ Associa= tions today laid before the House Dis- trict Committee its recommendations on two subjects. It recorded opposition to the Mapes bill, repealing provisions of the organic act calling for propor- tionate appropriations from the Na- tional Government and the District of Columbia for the expenses of the Na- tional Capital on a 60-40 basis. The federation requested that imme- diate steps be taken to install a traffic light at Rhode Island avenue ~and Twentieth street northeast. The Federation of Civic Associations presented its indorsement of the bill “to refund to the so-called assistant di- rectors of the public schools all that portion of their salaries erroneously and illegally deducted and withheld under the provisions of the act of June 20, 1906.” The Washington Council of Social Agencies, through Miss Grace Abbott, its president, laid before the District Committee a list of more than 25 or- ganizations which indorse the Bowman bill for elimination of alley dwellings. HAWAIIAN’S BILL ASKS WOMAN JURY SERVICE A bill to permit women to serve on juries in Hawaii was introduced in the House yesterday by Delegate Houston, representative of the islands in Con- gress. The same measure was passed by the House at its last session. Houston explained that, in view of the present situation in Hawaii, he felt the time was opportune for the legis~ lation. Belle Sherwin, president of the League of Woman Voters, has called attention to the fact that Mrs. Granville For- tescue, held with three other Americans on charges of slaying a native, would have to face a male jury of varying races and urged the organic act be ’chfled to permit women to serve on ju G 4 -