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WASHINGTON he Sundny Sta WASHING r'o D. < DAY MORNING, FEBRUARY T, 1982 8 =% PAG TAX RATE OF §130 %2 HINGTON ‘GRAFT-PROOF; DAVIDSON TELLS CANADIANS THREMENEDIN [] E 1‘ Deplores Laci( of D. C:Vote and Calls Flood APPROPRIATION BILL Increase *“Inevitahle”” Unless Senate Passes Mapes Meas- ures, Holaday Says. HOUSE GROUP CHAIRMAN DOUBTS DRASTIC CUTS Subcommittee Figures on Basis of $6.500,000 Contribution by Government. W the District Commissioners prepared yesterday to go before a House appropriations subcommittee Tuesday to defend items in the 1933 appropria- tion bill, Representative Holaday of T a member of the subcommittee, indicated a provision probably would be written into the bill for an increase in the District tax rate unless the te in the near futur Mapes bills designed to $4,000,000 a year revenues Holaday e to the ommittee pre on bill o ion of $6.500,000. The Commission- s framed their estimates on a con- tribution of $9,500,000, which, Mr. Hol- decla makes an increase in tax levy inevitable unless addition is forthcoming through the m of the Mapes bil $1.90 Levy igh calcul e of the 1e committee v estim: tax levy likely to support the basis of ition. imate in additional pointed out that in orders of the House would_pre e the » Federal contri Held Necessary n of the tax rate last problems taken Mr. Holaday said revealed that al would be neces- 1933 appropriation a $6,500,000 Fed- The existing tax 3 Missouri s W e Cannon of ¢ subcommitt 1 does not believe there tic cuts in the bill eir intention to be as ssible ee rea it can jon bill man of t Holada ¢ Mr. Can- the Di rtion to ade bills ple reason asure s a of fixed charge r. Holz id he believed the bill | been carefully pruned by the Com- | ioners and the Budget Bureau. “It| b declared. “that the commit- | ¢ ¢ a few minor cuts and | it a further reduction in the | oF tion | rdance with the House policy, | mittce, Mr. Holaday explained, | y 1 climinate items fo ses or the filling of vacant | 1933 fiscal year, with the | aps. of the public schools, al teachers are found to to meet a growing school al | | amounts rangin, of Civic Resolutions Bothersome, But Says Some Are Helpful Special Dispatch to The Star OTTAWA, Ontario, scribing Washington as a “graftpro city,” Maj. D. A. Davison, Engineer February 6.—De- Commissioner of the District of Colum- I bia, today told influential Canadiar business men here that as far as the people of Washington are concerned their chances of suffrage are somewha remote. ‘In my opinion, thing for the next about,” said Ma). Davison., Members of the Canadian ment, including Ha century to of public works, listened Davison described how governed Addresses Annual Session. Maj request of the American Minister, Col. Hanford MacNider, and at the in- vitation of thi to tell the seventy-fifth ing' of that organization operation of the Federal ! Washington There is a strong sentiment in influ- ential quarters to make Canada’s capi- tal into a federal district. and public opinion is stronly in favor of the pro- posal except in regard to the loss of | voting power. Maj. Davison’s address | | was the most informative ever delivered TWO CONVICTED FORILLEGAL LOANS First Court Results Achieved in Drive of Corporation Counsel’s Office. « nual meet- about the district of | The first court convictions in the corporation counsel’s office drive on illegal loans were recorded yesterday when two men were found guilty in Police Court of charging excessive in- rest on automobile loans | te that inter- had been the prosecu- Testimony which showed est as high as 120 per cent | charged was introduced b; tion into the trial of R. L. Sonne, Chevy Chase, and D. J. McGill, 1402 Rhode Island avenue, who were accused of Vio- ating the small loan law Are Seized. owners told of borrowing g from $50 to $200 from Finance Co. of which McGill was the proprietor. In each instance the car of the borrower was seized when he fell behind in making the payments. One man said he had to give a note for $65, to be paid in three months, to secure a loan of $50 Another statpd he wrote out a note for itos Five car the Columbia {5250 to get $200. A third, who said he said the committee also|Wwas charged $25 originally on a $100 may give attention to the recent or-|loan. and whose car was seized, was ganization of the Engineer Department | forced to pay $145. z 1 told. in addition icipal government. He de- [to garage rent to his machine ever, he had studied the new | returned < it will increase effi-| McGill declared he acted only as a ing departments. | broker. He said when he was ap- The hearings begin Tuesday | morning at. 10 o'clock. The Commis- | sioners have been called as the first witnesses. lthough there has been some agita- 1 to have the hearings open to the Mr. Holaday said he believed the | ittee would follow the usual cus- and conduct them in executive n SENATORS HAVE BUSY WEEK. District Committee Has Important Bills on Schedule mbers of the tee begins to- scheduled for s on a variety of insurance, bank- nd street car merger. on Insurance and ! ator Blaine, Re- is chairman, | Comum tings 3 ene at noon tomorrow on these subjects A bill prepared by the controller of the currency to amend and amplify in several respects the existing laws of the District lating to banks, trust com- panies and building and loan associa- tions: & bill to regulate policies of in- weekly payment measures dealing in releasing real ial, monthly or nsurance: two the procedure | | est mortgages and deeds of trust. | Will Confer on Claims | A conference will be held tomorrow Republican, of Ver- ion Counsel Bride the Treasury bill for the the Mount Washington rection with ts tracks from the Fed- south of Pennsyl- District Committee Austin to study the later meeting r t Committee will 30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon the Howell dry en- to supplement na- in Wa on. The considered in the Congr with- hator Austin the n ave in col Distric in offenses, and fur- Ne- of Howell, Republican, of explain the provisions and urge committee action on | it. It is cxpected there will be others ard for and the bill. § tor Howell will e w0 have | taken up in the Se is sessio! man per plans to resume consideration of the street Iway merger resolution when the Senate | committee holds its regular weekly meeting Friday afternoon. The Dis- t Commissioners have asked to pre- sent their views when the merger ques tion comes up again, and William McK Clayton of the Federation of Citizens' Associations, also will be heard at that 1 several In weeks ago the banking bill which is to transmitting to Congress be considered in subcommittee tomor- row, the controller’s office expressed the bel; that the banking code of the Di: t complete and ihat the jct is D i measure proposed would be “for the best enterest of the banks and the pub- lic One provision in the bill would prohibit any new foreign corporation from doing a banking business in the Distric Another section would vro- us2 of the words “bank” or by institutions not supervision of the control- 1t also provides for a num- ler's office. ber of other additions to existing law. proached for a loan he told the bor- rower he would sell the note for him An application blank “authorizing” the sale of the note was given each bor- rower to sign, McGill said. Sonne. both defendants said. bought the notes from the broker. The high rate of n t this will be some- worry govern- y H. Steven, min- ister of trade and commerce: Robert J. | Manion, minister of railways and ca- nals; T. G. Murphy, minister of the interior; Alfred Duranleau, minister of marine. and Hugh A. Stewart, minister Davison came to Ottawa at the Ottawa Board of Trade intently as | Washington is fon the subject in Ottawa and evoked many expressions of admiration. One of the high lights of Maj. Davison's ad- dress was his statement that the 50 citizens' associations “are at times & great nuisance with their many resolu- tions.” He admitted, however, that Lht‘l‘( verbal suggestions at times were helpful Maj. Davison declared that the ad- ministration of the Commission of the District of Columbia is “competent, impersonal and hones The Commissioners are not Wash- ingtonians, and are therefore disinter- sted, he said Sees Discontentment. “One of the unfavorable points is the lack of suffrage” he concluded Citizens are more or less in a state of discontent, having to pay taxes and having no representation. Congress, while sure, is slow to act. Even among | those seeking the vote opinion is divided between national suffrage and local suffrage. Washington is the host of the President and it is inconsistent for a host to be partisan W. Lyle Reid, a former president of the Board of Trade, thanked the speaker, and in regard to Ottawa he remarked a growing movement here to- ward the establishment of Ottawa into a federal district “We all would -be reasonably satis- fied with a tax rate of 17 mills on the dollar.” he said. “As ratepayers we find it is costing us too much to be citizens of the Capital. rate is 35 mills.” HOSPITALS NEEDED FORTUBERCLLOSS Refusal of Institutions Here to Admit Victims of Dis- ease Assailed. the District are not for the care of tuber- cular patients, and the majority of them will not admit the tuberculous under any conditions, it was charged tatement issued yesterday by the ulosis Association from its head- quarters at 1022 Eleventh street Gallinger Hospital alone has a tuber- culosis ward, the statement said, while Emergency and Casualty will accept patients in private rooms only at great cost and for & limited time. ~Although medical associations. authorities and the United States Public Health Serv- ice have advocated the treatment of tuberculosis in general hospitals, Gar- field, George Washington, Georgetown, Providence Sibley and Columbia Hos- pitals will not at present consider ad- mittance of these cases. Lack Is Deplored. Hospitals in equipped properl Lack of tuberculosis wards facilities in these hospitals is deplored by the association, which points out there are many advantages to be obtained through the handling of such cases in the general hospital. In summarizing the reasons for this practice, the surgeon general of the United States Public Health Service, Dr. Hugh S. Cumming, points out that additional facilities for treatment of the disease are needed, and acceptance in general hospitals will remedy this lack: that it will stimulate the build- ing of general hospitals in small cities | where most institutions of the sort are interest was due to the fact that Mc- | Gill's commission as well as the terest rate had to be paid by the rowers, they said Both In Same Office. Taking up the cross-examination where Assistant Corporation Counsel T. F. Cameron left off. Judge John P. McMahon brought out that the tele- phone in McGill's “office” was listed to Sonne, that both of the men ap- parently occupied the same office and that Sonne was involved in each in- stance where McGill “contracted to sell” the notes. It was shown also that in- bor- McGill had attempted to collect on the| papers which he said he had sold to Sonne. The judge characterized as a subterfuge to violate the law” the ap- plication blank which McGill said he had each note-maker sign Judge McMahon continued the case { until next Saturday for sentence to al- low the defense time to file a motion for a new trial DISTRICT HEADS NAME THREE TO WEST POINT Appointment of 6 Alternates Also | p Based on Results of Recent Examinations. The District Commissioners yester- day appointed three Washington youths as cadets in West Point Military Acade- my and six alternates, the appointments based on a recent examination con- ducted by the Board of Education. The cadets are Charles B. Stewart. 1705 Upshur street: Thomas Alexander Terry, jr. 1868 Columbia road. Rodman Nicholas Ordway, 1710 Thirty- fifth street. The first alternates were Eugene Staniszewski, 744 Quebec place; Albert Patton Clark, jr. 1355 Euclid street, and William Grover Hipps, 211 i vote. It extends to | g street policemen the necessary au- The second alternates were Thomas co-operate in enforcement, | j ~ Hayes, 3d, 3518, S street; James warrant _procedure | Ranier Weaver, 1445 Rhode Island ave- nue, and James Wilson Duncan, Underwood street. | come | cure of the disease now run at a loss because of the small number of patients; that the stigma attached to the disease will be reduced by opening the general hospitals; that the trained nurse and general practi- tioner, as well as the specialist, will be- familiar with the diagnosis and that poor persons n unable to afford expensive sanatori treatment will be cared for: that the public will become familiarized with the necessary precautionary measure: and that cases will be diagnosed and | treated in the early stages. | | | Opening Recommended. The American Medical the American Hospital Association, the American Sanatorium Association and the National Tuberculosis Association also have recommended opening of gen- eral hospitals to tuberculers, it is point- >d out, although all agree that proper precautions must be observed for the protection of other patients. | LEHMAN ENDS D. C. WORK | Temporary | on public utilities work. and | { ualty Hospita) | the Special Utilities Aide Joins Finance Corporation. Corporation Counsel William W. ride yesterday accepted the resigna- tion of R. J. Lehman, who had been employed as temporary special assistant Mr. Lehman has left to become general counsel of the new Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration, recently set up by act of Con- gress. His post with the District will not be filled AUTO HITS FIREPLUG Jobn L. Simmons, 33, of 2917 Twen- tieth street northeast, was seriously in- jured last night when thrown to the Street after he had run his automobile into a_ fireplug in the 500 block of Rhose Island avenue northeast. At Cas- the man was reported to have received severe lacerations about head and body. Simmons was | picked up by Garland W. Caudell, 514 715 | Rhode Island avenue northeast, and | taken to the hospital. JANUARY RAINS BREAK TWO-YEAR DROUGHT AND SPEED FARM CROPS | Washington Enjoys April Weather—Maryland Wheat in Danger of Frost—Cattle Graze in Michigan. January’s two-year drought over the major part of the Eastern United States. This is shown by the precipitation records for the month, just compiled at the Weather Burcau. These show rainfall in some localities running as high as 300 per cent above normai Nearly everywhere east of the Missis- sippi the downpour was much above the average, serving to replenish the water ply in the subsoil, which never had recovered from the excessively dry Sum- mer and Autumn of 1930. It removed a dreaded menace which has hung over agriculture. The drenching came during the hot- test January many parts of the East have known for a century, while the Far West suffered from excessive cold. In Philadelphia, the onlv' spot in the heavy rains broke the great | United States where continuous tem- perature records have been kept for 100 years, the heat of last month was 4 | degrees in excess of the hottest previous January. ‘Washington, with an average daily temperature of 46.8, ran 13.4 degrecs above its normal and 2 degrees above its previous high record. The January average for the District was 4 degrees higher” than the average for March since temperature records have been kept at the Weather Bureau, and only 4 degrees below the average for April. 1t practically means, according to J. B. Kincer, chief of the Division of Aeri- cultural Meteorology of the Weather Burcau, that this city has enjoyed nor- mal early April weather during the " (Continued oh Page 2, Column 4.} Ottawa’s tax | Association, | NEW FIGHT OPENED ON BILLBOARDS BY DISTRICT OFFICIALS Company Accused of Failure to Abandon 138 Units Despite Agresment. PARTIAL LIST OF ALLEGED VIOLATIONS IS FILED Committee Makes Suggestions for Steps to Press Removal of “Outlaw” Signs, Charging the General Outdoor Adver- | tising Co. with failure to live up to an| | agrecment to abandon all of its 138 un- jauthorized display units 1n Washington by February 1, District officials claimed yesterday that scores of illegal bill- boards and wall signs are still being maintained in residential as well as n commercial and industrial zones of the city. Partial lists of these alleged viola- tions, together with suggestions from | the Official Sign~Committee for initial steps to “request” the company to re- | move all “ouflaw” boards, were sent yesterday to the office of Maj. Donald A. Davison, acting Engineer Commis- | sioner @uring his absence. Members of the committee believed conditions war- | rant prompt action if the situation is lnI be corrected before the Bicentennial | celebration opens February 22 | Responsibility for those conditions | was laid chiefly at the door of the General Co., which has been char- acterized as Washington's *“billboard | octopus,” because it has reached out | within the past month to gain a virtual monopoly of the. local outdoor advertising business. In addition to its own large number of unauthorized | billboards, the Sign Committee con- tends the General company is respons- ible now for any boards in the list which it may have acquired when it took ovtr the Washington business of the Morton company. It was said there ; are some 40 or 50 of these so-called un- authorized boards which the Morton | | | company had not removed when it got | | out of the local field before the expira- — = o 5 tion of the agrtement made with the Crowded Ceremony. et avea e i Lwit e Rainey in House. avidsol Return Tomorrow. R e rtu- ks ! Davidson o Reuirn Synchronized sight and sound broad- Scarcely is news—except to the fortu AU 108 pex cenl ot Hinkine salaricstof | Capt. Hugh P. Omm.!hu m:u‘u:m‘m;i%\ ing on a regular daily schedule was Date citizen, the company which m Government workers receiving more | e Diniitoieat | icces introduced in Washington | 8ive him the car and perhaps the in- than §2,000 a year, with the stipulation | | said that the Morton company had “come | last night by Station WMAL, with the Surance companies which hope to do | that no one of this group be below] clean” in carrying out its part of the, . of its new television tranmitter business with ham $2,000, would result in a saving of about | ey sk i 3 g s agreement up to .eHHm«- it Tmamec | W2XAP. But when three Patent Office exam- | $55382.465, the Bureau of Efficiency | in business here. e said the Sign; “rpe television station was dedicated | jpe, 1 I ; RER | 5 A X elevision t s sers win automobiles on three succes- | has e 5 Committee had put the situation With | .y, pomp and ceremony. A cur estimated in a report to Rep: respect to the General company up to | Ma). Davidson, who will return tomor- | {Tow. Its suggestion is that the com- | | pany be requested to take down im-| mediately all billboards and wall signs which are not included in the duly authorized list which the industry is permitted to maintain under the regu- lations Among the boards supposed to have been abandoned are some which admit- tedly are used to fence in dump pil and certain unsightly lots. These boards, the committee feels, should be permit- ted to remain unless the conditions d scribed are held to be insanitar the Health Department. In that casc | they would be taken down and the lots | ordered cleaned up i An illuminating survey conducted by | T. H. Roche, assistant building in- | spector, brought the matter to a head | and indicated to the Sign Committee | the General company apparently had | made only a feeble attempt to live up | to its agreement. When the two- month period of grace expired the com- mittee got busy and the results of i vestigations satisfied members that ac- tion of a drastic sort should follow unless the company undertakes to re- | move all 1ts unauthorized boards with- | out further compulsion | Investigated All Locations. | When the agreement was entered in- | to the General company submitted a list of 138 boards and wall signs to be discontinued 60 days after December 1, when the new regulations became ef fective. On January 21 the company transmitted a list of 59 locations re-! ported as discontinued to December 31, 1931. These locations w included in the original list of unauthorized sites Mr. Roche, who has had charge of sign_inspections and is thoroughly ac- quainted with all the problems of en- forcement, investigated each of the 59 locations. Of the total, only about 16 locations had been eliminated. “A summary of the above report discloses the actual elimination of sites | was made compulsory by building proj- | ects and owners painting their build- | ings.” Mr. Roche submitted | No record was available at the Dis- trict Building yesterday as to the status of other locations among the list of | 138 supposed to be abandoned Some of the discontinued boards were | removed by reason of Government and | private building projects. A few of the | billboards that remain standing had | merely been scraped of their advertis- ing matter. Most of the wall signs ri ported discontinued were found to be | still in existence. Some others had| been painted out. | | | | | | Two Regarded as Menace. At 826 Sixth street southwest, Mr.| Roche reported two billboards in “a| very dilapidated condition, which it is believed would be a menace to life and limb in a high wind.” A location at 2000 Bladensburg road, where five boards were reported as dis- continued, were indeed billboardless. These boards, Mr. Roche reported, had ! been removed when they “blew down in | a windstorm a couple of years ago and | were not replaced.” Members of the Sign Committee in- terpret the agreement to abandon cer- tain locations as meaning the removal of the billboard structures and the painting out of wall signs The committee is not concerned, it was said, whether an advertising con- tract had becn canceled, if the billboard structure is allowed to remain standing. A billboard minus its picture poster is | still a billboard, the committez Lolds. In like manner a wall sign that csrries its advertising legend is still a wall sign, even though the contract has been dis- continued. Maj. Davison is understood to hold the same view and it was this interpre- tation of the “agreement,” it was said, that actuated the Morton Co. to re- move what units it did abandon before it relinquished its Washington business. Several Methods Available. ‘While hopeful that the entangled situation can be straightened out in an amicabe manner, District officials have pointed out several methods under the regulations to which they can resort It is possible, it was said, to withhold official permits from the General Co. for its so-called “authorized” boards until it has carried out the abandon- ment program in accordance with the understanding in which it was entered into. ‘The metal lcense tags, ordered from Occoquan, are to arrive about Janu- Grads of inner ’78 Reminisee at D TEN MEMBERS Members of the clas of 1878 of Was! the fifty-fourth successive annual dinne: John B. Espey and Alvin T. Gregory Back roy: Cavour O. Bohrer, Bert George A. Prévost. | IFTY-FOUR years ago the class | of 78 of Washington High $chool 51 strong, pledged themselves to keep alive their class room ties Last night 10 of these—all who could attend—gathered at the Cosmos Club for their fifty-fourth successive annual dinner and indulged in happy remi- | niscences that blotted out the years TELEVISION NOW SCHEDULED HERE WMAL | | Transmitter Dedi- cated with Pomp at s milled about of broadcastin crowd invited guests the g studios. alternatel watching the artists before the tel vision camcra and the pictures repro- duced on the screens of the television Teceivers More than a score of prominent ashington radio artists contributed to The sound por- W the opening program tion of the program went over WMAL, the televised pictures over W2XAP. Four Receivers Used. Four television receivers were in various e WMAL studios, where s watched the artists after res had been hurled thr 'wo of them were commercial sets combining the sound and sight fea hich are soon to | make their appearan on the retail market The televised broadcasts also were seen by scores of persons in_the lobbies of three of the leading Washingto hotels where WMAL has placed tele- vision_receiver: fan in New York City wired WMAL he was listening to the program and watching the artists. Although flickering occasionally like the old time “flicker films” of the nicelodeon days. the televised pictures presented were surprisingly clear ar a distinct outline of the ar Artists who went before the televisor professionally prepared with darkened lips, televised more distinctly than those unfamiliar with the tricks of the tele- vision camera. Experts at WMAL ex- plained that red photographs white— thus the necessity for blackening the lips. New Type Camera Used. A new type Jenkins television camera, which photographs the artist and splits the picture into 60 lines per second with a revolving disc, was used in the transmissions. The artists stood on a raised platform under a flood of light. A regular broadcast microphone Was a few feet away The television receivers projected the televised picture sma! glass screen in a background of pale orange ight. The sound came through a regu- lar_loudspeaker Senator DIill of Washington. formally dedicated the station. The broadcast was closed with a parade of the invited | guests before the television camera. REFUSES TO RELEASE | SEIZED LIQUOR CAR | Hitt Rules Persons Loaning Autos| to Bootleggers Do So at Own Risk. Those who loan automobiles to per- sons whom they know to be bootleggers do so at their own risk, Judge Issac R. | Hitt ruled yesterday in refusing a peti- | tion of a car owner that his machine | be returned to him after police had seized it. While attending a night foot ball game November 7 Henry J. Cheri, 20, | of 7101 Georgia avenue, said Kirby D. | Tucker, 901 M street, approached him and asked for the use of his machine | to get a girl. Cheri loaned him the car. | but admonished him not “to haul liquor | in it.” A short- while later police arrested | Tucker at Seventh street and Florida avenue, where they said he made a Sdelivery” to a police informer. The automobile was seized. When Tucker, convicted of possessing liquor, was sen- tenced to pay $125 fine or serve 60 days in jail, Cheri asked that the car be returned to him. Yesterday Judge Hitt refused to sign an order for its return. He said: “Any one. who loans his automobile to a person who he knows to be a boot- legger does so at his own peril.” - ary 15, it was said. When they are is- sued, each authorized_billboard is sup- posed to display its permit number and date of issuance. Unless the allegedly illegal boards are removed by that time, it was said, the Commissioners are em- powered to instruct the police to se that they are taken down immediatel That is a method, however, cials would wish to avoid, if possible. which offi- | lterminals within the area bounded OF CLASS KEEP PLEDGE MADE 54 YEARS AGO. | hington High School, who gathered last night at the Cosmos Club to celebrate | s r. In the front row, left to right, are: Charles W. Holmes, Frank A. Sebring, is B. Thompson, I. Harry Jones, Arthur E. Middleton, John H. A. Fowler and Star Staff Photo. About 25 of the class still are alive. | Espey, Charles W. Holmes, J. Harry Some, unable to be in Washington last | Jones, Cavour O. Bohrer, Alvin T. Gregory, Bertis B. Thompson, George night, but mindful of the occasion, sent | & Bvevost John . A Fow) letters regretting their absence. ¢ | Arthur These | E. Middleton and Frank A. Sebring were Frank B. Noyes, publisher of The| Mr. Espey retired as president and St Dr. Angier B. Hobbs of New York | was succeeded by Mr. Gregory, who was City and Andrew J. Lamb of Blblxhua«vn by acclamation following the | mingham Those dinner. Mr. Holmes continued as sec- retary. SERIHNG * SEENINULS CUTS at the dinner were: John B.| New Car Winners | For Three Nights From Same Office Patent Examiners Get Big = Estimates on 10 Per Cent Slash to Be Given by ware of Prizes at Auto Show. sive nights, that is the type of coinci- | dence which means work for some re- | porter. Vernon I. Richardson sentative Henry T. Raine leader of the House The report, submitted by Herbert D.| Brown, at the request of Representative | Rainey, will be inserted in the Congres- majority 4811 W street, an examiner at the United States »‘Mgfll Record tomorrow, Mr. Rainey 2 said. He will make no specific rec Patent Office, won a car at t ash- | 10} 81 o aleuOfce hona he Wash- | mengations either for or against a sal- ington Automobile ow_ Wednesday | -t 2t S o add " night. As a news story that was worth | jo i Rle Laldaacdingtha Rhe is presenting the figures mer information of members of Congress who may be interested. no more th, the sir have just rea ngle sentence you On the fo | custer, 6411 F 3 Budget Tables Used. Md., also an at the Patent Gt That was a| The computation was made on basis coincidence whick {1 have been | Of the table prepared by the Budget | S e R D in almost | Bureau, which has been the subject of intensive study not only by men: news of aper But when, on the third night. Sid- | Songress but by employes and leaders ney James, 1724 Taylor street, also an | & STEOYES OrEan zetons filie s Na g examiner in the Patent Office, won a | Lonal Federation of Federal Employes has interpreted the budget figures to| support its claim that there should be | no cut in Federal salaries, as the sav- ings would be so small in_ comparison to t d car, that was the type of coinci- dence which is worth in a newspaper just about as much space as has been required to get you this far The Washington Automobile Show | 'he harm they say would be done to s e e anay | Workers' morale. that it would not be | by the largest att ice) milocal aus (Mo INCEXALUNE damage | E 2 The Bureau of Efficiency estimate | Total attendance f tomobile history the week was estimated at 40.000 was computed as follow an increase of approximately 40 per cent | grecaucuon, of the I inoreasel ol SbDIoR Al group to $2000, saving of $177.574: E | reduction of $2.100 to $2.199 group | . 10 $2,000, a saving of $9.568.924: reduc- | tien of the $2.200 to $2.299 group to $2.000. a saving of §: (as the highest standard salary rate in this | group is $2,200, stimate is based upon a 10 per cent reduction for all| employes in the group); and rdduction of all persons earning $2.300 and over, 10 per cent. a saving of $42,192,394 These four separate totals make up the grand total savings of $55.382.465. | Total Under $2,000 Shown. I} SECOND IN TAXIS R | Kene'pp' Urgmg Court Ac“on’ | table to show the number of employes | Says New York Alone Has | under $2,000 and the number at $2,000 |and over for both the District of Co- lumbia and the field service g | 1u Under $2,000 per annum, 681.892 employes | Larger Number. | receiving _a total compensation of | R $559,756,452.02, and $2.000 and over | — per annum, 341481 employes receiving Only one other city in the United | Compensation amounting to $755.934.- StatesNew York—surpasses the Na- | 01409, making a total of 1,023,373 em- | States—New York—surpasses the Na- | pjoves’ in the civilian, comm sioned | tional Capital in the number of taxis and enlisted personnel of the executive on its streets, George E. Keneipp, | branch of the Federal Government. re- chairman of the Transportation Com- | ¢S & ftotal salary of $1315, mittee of the Washington Chamber of Similar information has been for- Commerce, disclosed yesterday in an warded by the Bureau of Efficiency to Senator Jones, chairman of the ddress over Station WMAL. ‘At the present moment,” Keneipp said, “more than 4,000 1932 licenses | have been granted cab overators, and, | according to the director of vehicles Senate Committee on Appropriations EIGHT TO GET AWARD and traffic, new licenses are being is- | Eight Washingtonians will be pre- e day, | Sented with the “Silver Beaver,” the sued at the rate of about 200 per day.| hijghest award given by a Boy Scout “It is perfectly obvious that we do | council for distinguished service to boy- cabs. They are| hood, February 12, at McKinley High they are pre- | Scheol in connection with the Scout Venting most of the operators from | pageant to be held there. making an adequate living, and they | The award is made through the rec- are conforming fo no standardized | ommendation of the District of Colum- code of operation, * * * | bia Executive Board and with approval “The Washington Chamber of Com-| of the National Council of the Boy merce, in view of these facts, urges the | Scouts of America. District Supreme Court to act upon the | Those to receive the award are Maj legality of the Public Utilities Commis- | William I. Simpson, D. Vernon Bailey, | ion order very promptly, so that in | Francios E. Matthes, Dr. William B justice to both cab operators. as well | Marshall, R. Harvey Sargeant, Fred G. s the people who ride in them. the | Stuart, Frank M. Sherwood and John National Capital will no longer witness | 5. Cole the farce in taxicab operation which Each of the recipients has been s in our city.” ctive in Scouting ten or more years. not need so many congesting our streets INTERSTATE BUSSES MUST CLOSéI DOWNTOWN TERMINALS BY APRIL 1 Operators Notified to Quit Stopping at Curbs to Load or Unload Passengers. | " | Notice was served yesterday by the the east curb of Seventh street, the | Public Utilities Commission on all op- |south curb of H street from Seventh {street to New York avenue, the south erators of interstate busses using Wash- | crb of New York avenue to Fifteenth ington streets that they must get out street, the west curb of Fifteenth stres of the congested downtown section with to Pennsylvania avenue and the south their terminals by April 1, under the |curb of Pennsylvania avenue from Sev- terms of the bus order adopted last |enth to Fifteenth streets. | year by the commission. On August’1 this restriction will be PROMOTION CHANGE 1S DISCUSSED HERE POLICE AND FIRE Authorities Believe Revision Would Strengthen Person- nel in Higher Posts. GLASSFORD TO CONFER AGAIN WITH WATSON Superintendent Holds Seniority Has “Too Much Effect” on Advancement. Police and fire officials ha studying plans to improve by which promotions two departme ernment in the of the regu rengthen the posts. Seniority ing under the An outline is as yet only in te given yesterday afte Police ‘Glassford aft he Civil Service Com e started e method be ang of the in which he other participant Sen 2 ants nator Carey, Republican, of Wyoming. chair- man’ of the Police and Fire Subco mittee of the Senat Commit tee; Commissioner C: in charge of police and £ ] I e ma and President Thomas E. Campbell of the commis- sion, by which any change must I n nar ust b sanctioned S Discuss Entrance Test. Another angle on v e ference touched was that of strengtt ening the entrance tests, in a to improve the caliber of the coming into the fire and police se it was said Supt. Glassford said he was wor n ih co-opera it on with Watson on the propositic F further e Chief conferences would be with Dr L. J. ORourke, director of research in personnel he Civil Service Com- mission At preser t considerations in promotion two g In this ith credit r length of serv was explained. Preposes Three Requirements. lassfor quireme pr ship rank along 1 and giving each a w per cent. Under the leadership is or into account u; per uestion of having board also is being ¢ of Now made by the comma whom the can E It is reviewed b; and sent then for app: and superinter ure is taken th of the fire departmer es. In discussing Glassford e: seniority has “too much promotio “We want to get the best men pro- moted; the men best fitted for the Job,” APARTMENT SALE FOUGHT IN COURT Mintwood Corporation Asks Rul- ing Against Trustees, Charging Lack of Notice. Co- he hou Court yesterda sale of the has been Tuesday Roger J. Wi tr have request of a h $10,000, the court was there are nine other notes « s1ize and other junior notes by the instrument. The charge made that the sale has erly advertise Through Attorneys Charles H. Baker and Benjamin Tepper the plaintiff corporation said it was f d in 1929 Propost adve place of trust was )t been prop- to build the apartm placed a first deed of trus 000, which becomes due 18. 1934. and a second trust secu 10 senior notes of 510000 each > of these notes is held by the shington Loan & Trust Co., as trustee under the will of Ha Bou e benefit of Louise Hayw the tenants in the building, st for foreclosure come: this creditor, it is stated Harry M. Crandal five of the notes, Albert M. Bouic, trustee, and Mildred Sherman the re- maining $10,000 note. and they are joined as defendants with t as well as Louise Hayward ficiary, under the Bouic w It “was claimed that Lo Hay- ward is indebted to the corporation for rent to the extent of $830.50 while the interest in default under the note held for her is only $350. egotia- ticns also are under way looking to an agreement which may avert the sale, the court was informed MAJ. HOLLAND L. ROBB IS ORDERED TO PANAMA Former e trustees, the bene- Engineer Commissioner’s Aide to Go on Duty in July. Holland L. Robb. Engineer s, United States Army, until re- cently Assistant Engineer Commis- sioner of the District, will go on duty in the Panama Canal Zone th Ju This announcement was made yes- terday by the War Department. Fol- lowing his transfer from the District Building, Maj. Robb was attached to the office of Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown, Chief of Army Engineers, in the Muni- tions Building. He is now serving in the operatons and training section of that office. Another Army officer. on_duty in Washington recently. Maj.,Joseph C. Mehaffey, is NOW Servir Pan- ama Canal Zone. Here he was assist- ant executive officer of the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission |7 The operators were notified they |widened to include the territory in a | would not be permitted to stop to load second zone surrounding the first, al- or unload passengers at the curb or on | though the operators will be allowed to public space, or to establish off-street build off-street terminals within the by ) second zone. ed that Mai. Robb Ieaviny t Joseph L engin for the War Department for the Washington area, as has been rumored.