Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1932, Page 17

Washington News CANCER HOSPITAL B0 | FOR WOMEN T0BE ~ STARTED IN CITY Institution to Be Constructed I on Grounds of Garfield Memorial. $300,000 IS AVAILABLE UNDER WARWICK WILL Work to Center on Treatment of Patients, With Little Research. Construction of Washington's first hospital for the treatment and care of women afflicted with cancer will be started soon on the grounds of Gar- field Memorial Hospital with funds pro- wided under the will of R. T. Warwick, #t was announced today by Clarence A. Aspinwall, president of the Washing- ton Home for Foundlings. The Warwick will left more than $300.000 for the institution, to be ad- ministered by the Washington Home for Foundlings. Mr. Aspinwall an- nounced today an arrangement has been made between the trustees of the home and the trustees of Garfield Hos- ital, whereby the new cancer institu- fian will occupy a portion of the ounds of Garfield and have available gr its use much of the hospital equip- ment of the larger institution. Equipment to Be Bought. Considerable of the money, Mr. Aspinwall said, will be spent in ac- quiring equipment necessary for the treatment of cancer alone, since through the arrangement with Garfield much of the hospital equipment which would be necassary if the new institution were placed elsewhere, will be at hand for use by the staff of the cancer hos- ital. pspecmhzed equipment, such as ra- dium, will be bought, and will bring this far South for the first time fa- cilities for modern scientific treatment of cancer in women. Efforts will be made later to extend the facilities of the new hospital by seeking additional funds to enlarge and better equip the hospital. At present, the plans call for treat~ ment and care of cancer patients only, and little or no research work, except that developed in the actual treatment of cases, will be attempted. i Building Group Named. A Building Committee from the board of trustees of the Washington Home for Foundlings has been named, consisting of Mrs. A. C. Oliphant, Victor B. Deyber, Jeseph Fairbanks and Mr. Aspinwall. Members of the hospital's Advisory Ccmmittee are: Dr. William Gerry Morgan, dean of the Georgetown Uni- versity Medical School; Dr. Earl B. Mc- Kinley, dean of the George Washington University Medical School: Dr. E. A. Merritt, Dr. H. H. Kerr and Admiral | Cary T. Grayson. | Arthur B. Heaton has been chosen as the architect for the new building. Plens have not yet been drawn, but it is expected the building will be under | construction within a short time. FLAG DISPLAY ASKED ON FOURTH OF JULY District Commissioners, in Procla- mation, Cite Police Reg- ulations. The District Commissioners, in July 4 proclamation issued today, called upon the residents of the Capital to display the flag on that day in cele- bration of the 156th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. The proclamation pointed out that, under a section of the Washington po- lice regulations, flags on metal stafls may be placed in position on the after- noon of Saturday, July 2, and remain until noon of Tuesday, July 5. “In gratitude to our forefathers, who by their signal act bequeathed to us & sovereign Nation in which we may enjoy the blessings of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and as a tribute to the hosts who have served this Nation in the intervening years, the people of Washington are asked to display the flag of the United States at their homes and at their houses of business on the Fourth of July,” the prociamation reads. It was issued by Commissioners Lu- ther H. Reichelderfer, Herbert B. Cros- by and John C. Gotwals. e COUNCIL RECESSES Buy-in-Washington Group Hears Attack on “Gas” Hucksters. The last meeting of the Buy-in- ‘Washington Council before the Summer recess was held yesterday in the Raleigh Hotel. Brief addresses were made by Marcy Sperry, new president of the Washing- ton Gas Light Co.; Robert J. Cottrell, executive secretary of the Washington Beoard of Trade; Mrs. Grace Hayes Riley. president of the Washington Col- lege of Law, and Miss Helen D. Reed of th~ Soroptomist Club. Mr Cottrell attacked the District Commissioners for not proceeding at cnce to rid the streets of roving gaso- line venders. He said they have ample authority to prosecute. BLOCKS AU'I-'O TAG BILL Representative Collins Objects to Granting Rights to Elective Officers Unless Representative Collins, Demo- crat, of Mississippi withdraws his objec- tion, it is probable Congress will ad- journ without enacting an amendment to the District traffic code whereby elective officers and disbursing clerks in the Senate and House would be given all the privileges that go with con- gressional automobile tags. When the bill came up on the unani- mous consent calendar of the House late yesterday, Mr. Collins succeeded in « blocking it. The measure already has passed the Senate. R PLAN PARACHUTE DROP Despite the lack of an arm and a leg, “Capt. Smiles” O'Timmon, vet- eran parachute jumper and high’ diver, will undertake a delayed parachute drop at Washington-Hoover Airport at %:30 p.m. tomorrow. He will drop from an zirport plane piloted by Roger Scott st an altitude of about 4,000 feet. Night passenger fiying will follow the demonstration. Lad Is Pinned by Arm in Au- tomatic Lift in Apart- ment House. Urges Firemen to “Hurry” So He Can Be on Time for Dinner. Vincent Perley, 17, who exchanged “wisecracks” with firemen working to extricate him from an automatic ele- vator from which he dangled by his crushed left arm yesterday, was re- ported in an improved condition at Stbley Hospital today. Vincent, a second-year student at McKinley High School, was trapped be- tween the third and fourth floors of an apartment house in the 2500 block of Tenth street northeast, his arm pinaed between the floor of the elevator and the wall of the shaft. Delivering newspapers in the apart- ment house, Vincent, who lives at 1C16 Douglas street northeast, started to enter the elevator on the third floor. The outer door slammed behind him. but before he could open the grilled inner door, some one on the floor above pushed the button. The elevator rose, catching Vincent's arms in the door and pulling him up- ward. His feet dangling from the floor of the elevator, he managed to twist his body to safety, at the same time jerking his right arm free. His left arm was tightly wedged. however, and he hung in the shaft, his body held only by his injured arm. An occupant of the apartment house sum- moned the fire rescue squad. Meanwhile, Vincent kicked out the glass of the door on the floor below CAUGHT IN ELEVATOR “KIDS” WITH HIS RESCUERS | and rtested his feet on the frame. While the firemen worked to free him | =it took them more than half an hou? to do the job—he urged them to “hurry p"I! you don't get me out of here pretty ‘soon,” he said, I'll be late for supper—and 1 always “like to be on time for my meals.” Firemen lowered a rope from the | fourth floor, and Vincent made a half- | hitch arcund his waist while the fire- | men on the floor below tied another | rope around his feet. The elevator was started back to- ward the third floor, the firemen draw- ing his body in as the car descended. He was taken to the hospital, where | physicians decided to X-ray his arm oday. | "“I,didn’'t worry much.” he said. “I knew they'd get me out all right.” “GREAT AMERICAN" VIEWED BY THRONG Pageant Depicting Career of Washington to Be Re- peated Two Nights. The Capital laid down another tribute to George Washington last night as part of its year-long cele- bration of the Bicentennial of birth. On the grassy slopes at the base of the tall shaft immortalizing his mem- ory, hundreds of Washingtonians, aug- mented by military contingents from the nearby Army posts of Forts Myer and Washington, presented in pageant form their version of the First Presi- dent’s career. The play will be re- peated tonight and tomorrow night. The pages of history were turned back as Washington the Colonist, Washington the Warrior and Wash- ington the Nation Builder lived again in the natural setting of the Sylvan Theater, speaking again the memora- ble words he spoke at Valley Forge, at Monmouth and at Yorktown. In three impressive actions, com- prising a dozen colorful episodes, the huge cast of “The Great American” told in graphic form the rise of ‘Washington from surveyor to President, depicting in vivid scenes the stirring moments that attended his command of the Army and lending poignant reality to the interpretations of con- tests on the battlefields. “The Surveyor” First Episode. ‘The initial action of the pageant, portraying Washington as the colonist, comprised three episodes. The first of these, “The Surveyor,” showed Wash- ington as part of the surveying party treading upon the sacred ground of the | Indian, where warring tribes in symbol of peace buried their weapons. 2 years later Washington is seen as the | | young ~ Virginia colonel, speaking the | words, “Dust unto dust.” as in the dead lowered into his secret grave. Concluding the first action, the epi- sode “The Marriage of Washington” constitutes one of the impressive scenes of the pageant. In this act Martha Custis appears in her finely quilted gown with silver-threaded satin, flowers in hand, as she becomes the bride of the stately, grave young colonel. The marriage episode was presented ! by proups representing the Henry D. Spengler Post and Unit of the Amer- ican Legion. Immediately following, a minuet was presented by the Capital Society of the Children of the Amer- ican Revolution, directed by Mrs. Henry F. Sawtelle. A dance of bondage by the Marian Chace and Lester Shafer Washington Denishawn group, led By Michael Logan, occupied the interlude. War cries rent the air, drums rolled and the Cambridge Common teemed with troops as Washington took com- mand of the Army opening the second action. Scene two of this action takes place at Valley Forge on Washington's birthday, 1778, as his starving soldiery, rejoicing that Lady Washington comes to lighten the glcom, gather to do him honor. Monmouth Battle Depicted. The third and fourth episodes of the second action are woven about the Bat- tle of Monmouth, showing Washington rallying the broken ranks amid the blare of musketry and turning the tide of defeat into victory, and the surren- der at Yorktown, when, with arms re- versed and flags encased the foe sub- mits. “Washington's Farewell to His Officers” is the concluding episode of this action. ‘Warfare over, the third action depicts the more peaceful days that followed the Revolution and comprises four epi- sodes, “The Signing of the Constitu- tion,” - “The First: Inauguration,” “A Presidential Ball” and “The Planter of Mount Vernon.” The historic re-enactment of the “Signing of the Constitution” consti- tuted one of the outstanding scenes of the pageant. Here were assembled the great men who helped lay the founda- tion for the great Republic, held to- gether in bonds of loyalty to shape a Nation's destiny. Music for, last night's performance was furnished by the United States Army Band, led by Capt. W. H. Stal nard, while the Marine Band and the Army Band will alternate for the per- formances tonight and tomorrow night. Costumes contributed much to the i success of the pageant, which, accord- {ing to the District Bicentennial Com- mission, sponsors of the play, was the outstanding event of its kind ever staged here. They estimated between 10,000 and 15,000 persons turned out to view the pageant. Director and Participants. It was directed by Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest with the following co-operat- ing organizations and groups partici- Gun Troop, 3d Cavalry, Fort Myer, Va.; 3d Battalion, 12th U. 8. Infan s | auditor of the Chastleton Hotel, picked Six | |of night in the forest depths of the | { lonely Monongahela, Gen. Braddock is | pating: United States Signal Corps. Machine | ington SUSPECT IDENTIFIED IN HOTEL ROBBERY Albert K. Johnson Picked From Line-up by Chastle- ton Auditor. | Albert K. Johnson, 28, of the 800 block of Seventeenth street. was being held by police today after Willlam H. Dunn, | him out of a police line-up last night as tte man who last Friday robbed him of $422 of the hotel’s funds after forc- | ing_him into a closet at pistol point. Several other Chastleton employes also have named Johnson as the man! they saw leaving the building at the time of the robbery, according to head- | | quarters detectives. Johnson, it is said, was taken into | custody for questioning in connection with other crimes. He was first point- | | ed out by Dunn when the latter passed | a room where a number of prisoners were being held for questioning: John- son, who denies any connection with | the’ hold-up, wes still booked for in- | vestigation today. | Police also held hopes of solving a | number of other recent hold-ups and | robberies through further questioning | and a check of the activities of otker | prisoners. Among them is William E. Bedell, 35, recently indicted in the Salvadorean | legation liquor robbery. Bedell and three others—Frank C. Courtney, 37, of the first block of Logan circle; | Samuel Glasser, 37, of the 4700 block of De Russey parkway, Chevy Chase, and Benjamin Covell, 38, of the 1400 block of Rhode Island avenue—were to be viewed today by two New York jew- elry salesmen who were robbed of $22,000 worth of jewelry here some weeks ago. They also were to be ques- | tioned in regard to the $300 Western | Union robbery on April 8. _Bedell and the other three were viewed by officials of the Georgia | avenue and East Capitol street branches | of the Washington Mechanics’ Savings | Bank, who failed to identify them as the men who robbed those institutions. Police also were questioning two women in connection with recent hold- ups and robberies, but expected to re- lease them socn. FRIEND ASKS SEARCH FOR ATLANTAN HERE David Greenfield Left Knoxville for Wilkes-Barre on June 13. gton police were asked to aid in a search for David Grcermlsdyj 24, member of a prominent Atlanta, Ga.. family. Tho Tk Kpoxville, Tenn. e or es-Barre, Pa, and !Al_}et:i wl dlrr;‘ve there. S e aid of police here was asked by David R. Simon of the Woodley Park ;Il‘nlvéeu Apartments, a fried of Green- eld. Simon said the ticket purchased b; Greenfleld had been traced by the nfly: road and showed he should have been through Washington. As Greenfield is acquainted here, it was thought he might have stopped in this city. Greenfield is described as 6 feet tall, weighing 175 pounds and having dark hair and light gray eyes. He has a slight scar over the right ear. WOMAN RID.ER INJURED Mrs. Shirley Abrahams Falls From Horse in Rock Creek Park. Mrs. Shirley Abrahams, 29, of 812 | Nineteenth street, suffered a severe back injury today when she fainted and fell from & horse while riding in Rock Creck Park ‘near Massachusetts avenue and Rock Creek drive. Members of the fire rescue squad took Mrs. Abrahams to Emergency Hospital, where physicians said X-rays were nec- essary to determine whether her back is broken. Her conditions was described as “undetermined.” — Washin el * WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, RETAIL MEN TOLD 1932 BUSINESS IS - §1,300,000,000 Ork John Guernsey, Government Expert, Gives $30,000,- 000,000 as Total. CREDIT BALANCE MAY REACH $3,900,000,000 McKee Addresses Association on Uses and Abuses of Credit—Del- egates Call at White House. Retall credit men from all sections of the country, in session here, today were told that the Nation's total retail business for 1932 would reach the. $30,- 000,000,000 mark, a reduction of $7,500,000,000 under that trancacted across store counters last year. The forecast was made by John Guernsey, in charge of retail census of the Commerce Department, one of the speakers during the second dav's ses- sion of the National Retall Credit Asso- ciation’s Twentieth Annual Convention at the Mayflower Hotel. He based his predictions upon the approximate $50,000,000,000 of retail sales in 1929, $44,000.000,000 in 1930 !;l;l the estimated $37,500,000,000 in 1931. The Government expert said slightly more than one-third of the business in 1929 was on credit. The $16,750,000,000 included both open-account credit and installment _credit. Based upon the Commerce Department’s tabulations of all returns from seven test States, he said it was probable that the install- ment propositions was about 39 per cent of $6,500,000,000. Retail Credit Reduction. Guernsey explained that on the basis of such ratio, it is probable the total credit balance outstanding at the be- ginning of 1932, both installment and open accounting, approximated $3.- 900,000,000. He said®that it is likely at the present time this balance has been reduced 10 per cent and by the end of the year the total amount of retail credit outstanding would be $3,000.000,000, compared with a total of $5,200,000,000 at the end of 1929. Harold H. Levi, vice president and general manager of the Hecht Co., said in his address on “Developing Your Store’s Credit Policy” that the credit department has had a good opportunity to be one of the greatest salesmen that a store can have. In his talk on the use and abuse of credit, H H. McKee, president of the Washington Clearing House and presi- dent of the National Capitol Bank, de- clared, “Credit is a good servant, but a harsh task master.” Debts Baffle Imagination. Commenting on this country’s public debts, particularly local public debts, he said they have gone to such stupendous proportions since the World War “as to baffle the imagination.” “Uncle Sam,” he declared. “has acted fairly cautious and with admirable re- straint has paid off the large part of his war debt, but he is having an un- happy time in resisting demands of social service which, if rendered, would increase the naticnal debt and perhaps affect serfously if it did not destroy his power to borrow. “Our political subdivisions have not been s0 careful and among them the rising tide of debt and taxes is alarm- ing thoughtful men. It is estimated that in the next year the people in the United States will pay in national and local taxes 25 cents out of every dollar of income. Other speakers were O. L. Pfau of Youngstown, Ohio, E. G. Graves of Fort Worth, Tex., and Lawrence McDaniel of St. Louis. Shortly after noon the delegates Naval Officer Signs $7,500 Steel Check With Arc-Welder Unusual Bank “Paper” Given as Prize in Essay Contest. ‘The 40-pound ‘check which Lieut. Henry A. Schade signed yesterday, being steel instead of sterling, was gocu for 7,500 American dollars. ‘The naval used an arc- welder to sign the check, a 24x10 inch Bl ot me"u:‘: :x‘fzh ':‘mg( s ck, represen = fiy contest sponsored by & Cleveland electrical manufacturer. Lieut. Schade, attached to the Exseau of Construction and Repair, Navy De- partment, was co-author with Lieut. Comdr. Homer N. Wallin, now on duty at Mare Island, Calif., of an essay en- titled “The Design and Construction of an Arc-welded Naval Auxiliary Vessel.” The steel check, which Schade and Wallin share, was drawn on the Cleve- land Trust Co. and presented for pay- ment through the Union Trust Co. here. The gheck will be canceled. it was said, by Cleveland bank guards shoot- | ing * perforations with machine gun uets. : cAS HOLDERBL MAY €0 THROUGH Company to Spend About $500,000 in Section Near Navy Yard. Under legislation which the Senate and House District Committees are seek- ing to enact before Congress adjourns the Washington Gas Light Co. would be | given the privilege of erecting a huge gas holder in the vicinity of Virginia | avenue southeast near the Navy Yard. | It was estimated the company intended | spending approximately $500,000 The House District Committee today | heard Corporation Counsel W. W. Bride | and William E. Horton, assistant coun- | sel for the gas company, both of whom urged enactment of the legislation. It | was decided to ask for a special rule in the House, ‘The bill would authorize the Commis- sioners to close Virginia avenue be- | tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. The Park and Planning Commission | also has small reservations in the area. In return for the mere use of a part | of the-area for erection of a 5,000,000~ | cublc-foot gas holder, the company | would turn” over to the Government | outright an adjoining tract of land which would insure access in the future to Anacostia Park. Since the gas com- pany already has three holders in the area, there would be no objection to the | erection of another. |~ Chairman Capper of the Senate Dis- | trict Committee introduced lk‘mu for | the same purposes late yesterSiay. |~ On motion of Representative ‘Black 50{ New York, acting chairman in the absence of Mrs. Mary T. Norton, the House Committee adopted a resolution extending a vote of commendation to Mr. Bride, Willlam A. Roberts, special | assistant corporation counsel for the Utilitles Commission, and Vernon A. West. assistant corporation counsel. for | their intelligent and useful co-operation | P! with the committee during the year. HOKE SMITH:S FORMER SECRETARY IS BRIDE Mrs. Bricker, Wed to August Klec- ka, Baltimore Council Official, | on Honeymoon Here. ny Sk called at the White House and were | ciety of Children of the American Rev- olution, Christian Endeavo: Players, Daughters of America, Daughters of American _ Revolution, Daughters of Liberty, District of Columbia Boy Scouts, East Washington Community Players, Priendship House, Henry D. Spengler Post and unit of American Legion, Helen Griffith Studio, Women’s Club of 1. O. O. F. Temple, Improved Order of.Red Men ard Degree of Poca- hontas, Luther Place Memorial Church group, Mount Pleasant itional Church group, McKinley High School Mid-City Citizens’ D, Association, Natiohal Capital Choir, Neighborhood House, Northeast Bicentennial Com- mittee, Salvation Army, Scottish Clan McClellan, The Wi , Wash- Readers Club, Woman’s Relief Corps and Sons of Union Veterans, ‘Women’s City Club, Grace Church, Abraham Lincoln Circle, No. 3; Ladies of the G. A. R. and District of Colum- bia Congress of greeted by President Hoover. CENTRAL POOL TO OPEN FOR SWIMMING CLASSES Free Instruction for Special Groups and Individuals Will Start Tuesday, June 28. Free instruction in swimming and life saving will be given to the public | in the indoor swimming pool of Central High School, which the Welfare and Recreational Association of Public Buildings and Grounds, Inc., will oper- ate this season for the Community Center Department. F. W. Hoover, general manager of the asociation, said today the pool would be open to the public on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of each week from 1 to 5 and from 7 to 10:30 p.m. The mornings will be set apart for special commercial, fraternal and other groups. The customary charge will be made for the service, 10 cents for children and 25 cents for adults. The pool will be opened June 28. GROUPS PLAN OUTINGS Freedom of Amusement Park to Be Given Children. Outings will be held tomorrow at Seaside Park, Chesapeake Beach, by the Northeast Business Men’s Association, the Christ Episcopal, Grace Episcopal, Church of the Good Shepherd and the Second Baptist Church Sunday schools. Members of the Sunday school classes will enjoy the freedom of the facilities of the amusement park. Some 2,000 children are expected to attend. About 3,000 members of the Sunday schools of the Christian churches are expected to visit the beach Saturday. August Klecka, 54, Democratic leader of northeast Baltimore and vice presi- | dent of the Baltimore City Council, i3 | honeymooning in Washington with his bride of yesterday, Mrs. William 8. | Bricker, 37, former secretary of the late | Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, and | more recently a_resident of Baltimore. | The former Mrs. Bricker was the -widow of a lifelong friend of Mr. Klec- ka. The couple was married in Fred- erick, Md., by Rev. G. Ellis Williams, president of the board of directors of | Sibley Hospital. . Mr. and Mrs. Klecka came on to Washington after the ceremcny and will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Raugh, 116 F street southeast, before leaving for Chicago tomorrow to attend the Democratic convention. SENATE GETS D. C. BILL Redrafted Measure Provides Street Change for Gas Holder. A new draft of the bill which would | authorize the closing of Virginia ave- nue southeast, adjacent to the erect there a 5,000,000 cubic foot gas holder, has been sent to the Senate District Committee by the District Commissioners with a recommendation of enactment. ‘The measure was offered as a sub- stitute for a bill already before Con- ‘The measure provides for the for the use of the portion of the street which would be closed. Benefit Dance Postponed. WARRENTON, Va, June 22 (Spe- ‘cial) —On account of other dances in Warrenton, Leesburg and Orange, the dance for the benefit of the Red Cross, scheduled for Friday evening, June 24, in Warrenton High School Auditorium, has been postponed indefinitely. GLASSFORD ARRESTS POLICEMEN AND OTHERS ON TRAFFIC CHARGES Chief Punishes Couple by Making Them Reflect on Need for Obeying Red Lights. ‘Two policemen, who had parked de- partmental cars in front of No. 11 pre- cinct while they attended to official business inside, were among five persons arrested on traffic charges yesterday by Brig. Gen. Pelnam D. Glassford, super- intendent of police. Detective Sheldon R. McKee and Pvt. Milton M. Welch were booked at their own precinct and required to post $2 collateral shortly after Gen. Glassford drove up on his motor cycle from the bonus army camp and noticed the offi- cers’ cars were nearer than 25 feet lolnxd.n. At andther time yesterday Gen. Glass- ford stopped two motorists, 8 man and woman, who had gflvm past & red light on Pennsylvania avenue. The offenders pleaded to be'let off, and as neither had the $5 required for col- lateral the superintendent decided on com] B to sit for half an hour at No. 4 precinct and reflect upon the necessity of obedi- ence to traffic regulations. Neither was booked on the charge and hastened from the precinct on conclusion of their penance. The fifth person arrested was Lewis O. Ryon, 30, of Landover, Md., who collaf charge of plant of the Washington Gas Light) | Co., s0 as to permit the company to! g gress. exchange of certain property in return | 1932. LICENSE FEE BILL 10 RAISE $100,000 EXPECTEDTOPASS Senate District Committee Authorizes Favorable Re- port on Measure. HIGHER SCHEDULE BASED ON COST OF INSPECTIONS Some Businesses Not Heretofore Taxed Also Placed in Proposed Act Increasing Revenue. Legislation increasing most of the license fees in the District of Colum- bia, raising thereby an additional $100,- 000, will be put through Congress fore adjournment unless some unfore- seen obstacle arises. The Senate District Committee late Yesterday authorized Senator Capper of Kansas, its chairman, to report the bill favorably. It has already passed the House. At the same time the | committee ordered a favorable report ! on another House bill. This would per- I mit the sale of ice cream and other frozen foods in containers more con- venient and practical for the dealer than those now required. The license bill, which was unamenc- ed in committee, fixes fees after July sary inspections and also imposes fee: wl .ch are not now taxed. Taxicab Fee Increased. Corporation Counsel W. W. Bride, who recently appeared before the com- mittee in favor of the bill, pointed out that the license provisions with re- spect to public vehicles, considering the difficulties of inspection, are obsolete. The license fee for taxicabs, now $9, is increased to $25, and the character cards, for which drivers now pay onl 50 cents, will cost $5 If the bill be- comes law. Some of the committee members thought this was excessive, but no change was recommended. Hundreds of huge interstate busses operate over the District of Columbia, cccupying space on the public streets. the committee was informed, without paying any substantial license, franchise or property tax. al common car- rier busses operating thousands of miles per month only pay $12 a year, al- though the direct expense of policing and supervising is vastly in excess of that amount, the committee also was informed. The provisions of paragraph 31 in the bill are intended to establish a tax basis in lieu of any other franchise, personal or license tax by a require- ment of 8 mills per bus mile on routed common carrier vehicles, except sight- seeing busses. In view of the fact that the mileage operated by such vehicles curacy and bears a direct relation to the extent of use within the District, sonable method of taxation. that has been almost universally adopted in the States. $100 a Year Proposed. Sightseeing bussses, charter busses and similar vehicles operate irregular distances and irregular routes and the mileage tax is not applicable. There- fore, a fixed tax of $100 a year is roposed. In addition to the $25 fee imposed on taxicabs, the legislation specifically permits the establishment of genera! public hack stands on public space ad- jacent to hotels and in other loca- jtions now pre-empted under private contracts. Some of the businesses which do not now pay fees are apartment houses. which will be required to pay a $15 tax if the bill becomes law. Apart- ment houses with cafes will be taxed $3 additional. Public garages and auto i repair shops, now untaxed, will be re- | quired to pay $5 per year. Solicitors | also would be taxed $5 and public guides | $10 and the Commissioners are author- ized to make regulations for the ex- amination of all who seek to take out permits as guides. Detective agencies, which now escape a tax. would be required to pay $100 | a year. Beauty parlors also are put in the class of taxed businesses, with a fee of $5. Among some of the license fees in- creased in the bill are those for me- diums and clairvoyants, from $25 to $250; employment agencies, from $25 | to $100, and second-hand dealers, from | $40 to $50. Food Establishments Affected. Food establishments, about which Senator Copeland of New York in- Dairies, which do not now pay an an- nual fee, would have to pay $160, the necessary inspections being of the most painstaking sort, it was explained. The same applies to fish dealers, whose |shops must be inspected frequently uring the day. They will be com- or slaughter houses, now untaxed, are slated to pay $100 if the bill becomes w. In other ways the bill seeks to cor- rect inequalities under the present law. Florists, whose business requires no in- spection, are made to pay an $18 fee, for exm;}l:. and are exempf under the roposed law. B 'l?ho: bill affecting frozen-food con- tainers, amended so as to be inserted as a clause in the weights and meas- ures act, would permit the dealex to purchase his supply of ice cream in 21,-gallon containers, which the pres- ent law does not permit. This will enable him to place }:‘"o bconta;ners“ in ce now occup! v a 5-gallon 2;?;\“ keeping one-half the stock sealed while the other half is being sold. LORTON CONTRACT LET Power and Heating Plant Lowest Bid Asks $66,200. s heating. Plant. 8¢ and hea plan mufie(mwry at Lorton, Va. was awarded yesterday by the District Commissioners to W. C. Spratt of Fred- ericksburg, Va., who had submitted the low bid of $66,200. The city heads also awarded a con- tract to Mc(t}uire &t R&H:, Inc., b:f Washington, for resurfacing a number of streets with sheet halt by the replacement method. concern’s bid was for $36,681.25. WILL STUDY AIRSHIP BILL | of a new the Dis- The Crosser merchant airship bill, intended to foster the development of an international airship .mail and transport service, will be considered by the Senate Commerce Committee in executive session at 10:30 o'clock to- MOITOW M It was passed by the House last weel ‘The McNary bill, similar to the Crosser measure, already is pending on BSenate calendar, the 1 on the basis of the costs of the neces- | on certain businesses and occupations |~ can be ascertained with reasonable ac- | it was believed this was the most rea- | It is one | quired, are affected under the bill | pelled to pay a fee of $30. Abattoirs, | Both Graduates MOTHER AND SON GET DIPLOMA! ‘When Uthai Vincent Wilcox, jr., 17, i School, his mother, Mrs. Blanche B. | Wilcox was determined to keep severai {jumps ahead, so she undertook gradu- | ate work at George Washington Univer- sity. Last week the mother received the degree of doctor of philoscphy from George Washington University to add |to the bachelor of arts and the master of arts degrees which she already had earned on the West Coast. This after- {noon the son will receive his diploma from Western High School in its com- mencement exercises. The two students are the wife and son of Uthai Vincent Wilcox, sr., 3207 McKinley street. —Edmonston Photos. WORK CREATORS TO USE SCHOOLS White-Collar Men in Manufacturing. Plans for employment of from 100 *0 200 “white-collar men” in the manu- facture of simple articles for the gar- | den or home are outlined in the latest i Teport of the Work Creation Commit- | tee, sent to members today. | The plan contemplates using the | manual training equipment of the vari- ous city technical high schools during the Summer vacation period and mar- | keting the products through regular | merchandizing agencies. | The basic plans for production are | being furnished by the Department of { Commerce. Favorable response, it is | said, is being received from both the | Board of Education and the business ! houses. | If the scheme is put into effect, it | is stated, it will provide for covering the ‘ overhead expenses of the organization | {and giving dividends to the workers which should be equivalent on a monthly basis to as much or more than {was received last Winter in the “made | work” program in the municipal wood- yard. These plans probably will be formu- lated definitely within the next few days, it was said, and will be pre- sented at the next meeting of the | Steering Committee. The report reviews all the activities of the Work Creation Committee since the last report was made and states the committee’s efforts have created 12,024 jobs. ! 'FRANK B. GIBSON DIES IN CARLSBAD! i Retired Banker, Formerly Resident | of Washington Succumbs at g2. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 22—Frank B. Gibson, retired banker and former vice- | president of the International Trust Co. i of Denver, died last Friday in Carlsbad, Czechoslovakia, a me.sage to the Guar- | anty Trust Co. of New York revealed. Gibson, who at one time was director |of several companies in the Middle West, was 72. He was born in Logans- port, Ind,, on August 13, 1859. He was active during the war in the American Relief Clearing House in Paris. His first wife was Miss Lollie Lyon of Delaware, Ohio, sister of the late Mrs. W. F. McDowell, wife of Bishop W. F. McDowell of Washington, D. C. After her death he married Miss Edith Swan of Washington, who sur- vives him. He also Is survived by two sons, Paul 'and Howard L. Gibson, and a sister, | Miss Aletta Gibson of Hollywood, Calif. Funeral arrangements have not been announced. Mr. Gibson lived in Washington for about 10 years over different periods. He was residing here about two years ago when his health began to fail and he sailed for WEEA He was a mem- ber of the Columbia Country Club. NINE GIVEN AWARDS Garnet-Patterson Junior High Spe- cial Exercises Held. Recipients of special awards at the graduation exercises yesterday of the Garnet-Patterson Junior High School were: William Watts, athletics; Edward Cornick and Nimrod Durbin, boy pa- trol; Lorenz Mills, military training, and Mae Arrington, scholarship. Awards g,r nttegflnn:e were “x':sm né;:.un“: rown, Julian Brown, nnd'g‘m Nickena, » zot into his senior year at Western High | Expect to Employ 100 to 200| PAGE B—1 [APPER PAVES WAY FOR BROAD PROBE OF DISTRICT RENTS Senator Also Aims Inquiry at “Fictitious Values” of Apartments. SUBCOMMITTEE PROPOSED TO ACT THIS SUMMER Move Is Planned to Help U. 8. Employes About to Receive Pay Cuts—$5,000 Asked. Berator Capper of Kansas, chairman of the Senate District Committee, has paved the way for a sweeping investiga- tion into the entire rent situation in Washington and also into what he claims to be the “fictitious values” on many of the large apartment buildings. The proposed investigation would be concducted this Summer, if present plans go through, by a District subcommittee of three members, who will be directed to report their findings to Congress, with recommendations as to what remedies may be.applied. The action of the full committee in requesting the investiga- tion followed a preliminary inquiry last week, when charges and denials were made at a hearing that a combination of real estate dealers exists here to keep up the present high level of rents. Would Benefit U. S. Employes. Senator Capper made it clear, as did other members of the committee, that the inquiry is in the interests of Gov- ernment employes who are about to re- ceive a pay cut. The chairman has introduced a Sen- ate resolution for an authorization of $5,000 with which to conduct the in- estigation, which, he declared, will go to the root of the causes for excessive rents. District residents, he maintains, | are paying higher rents than residents jof any other large city. The resolution directs that the com- mittee “upon discovering in the course of its inquiry evidence of any criminal action shall promptly communicate such evidence to the proper authorities for prosecution.” It further empowers the committee to avail itself of the serv- ices of all Federal and District govern- ment agencies within the District and if necessary to subpoena witnesses and compel the production of books, papers and_documents. “The committee was deeply impressed by the conditions which have been created here by the high financing in | connection with the big apartments.” Capper said. “By these methods fic | tious values have been maintained and | promoters have reaped enormous profits on second and third trusts. All of these practices were severely condemned by the committee members.” Rents Blamed on Methods. Senator Capper said he believed these methods of financing, about which many complaints have been heard, are prob- ably the chief reason for “exorbitant rents in Washington.” Hundreds of Gov- emment employes, tenants in many of the big apartments suffering from high | firancing, are unfortunate victims, he | declared. While the inquiry would be greatly handicapped unless an authorization is | obtained to defray the necessary ex- penses, it is understood the committee intends to hold hearings even if the | authorization is denied. Senator Cap- | per intends to name the three Senators du;lgeg the pi:senl week. committee was largely actuated | into directing an inquiry, it was be- lieved, by the charge made by Oscar Brinkman, one of its former investi- gators, that he had proof of a real | estate combine to maintain the rent level. Brinkman, however, did not ap- pear before the committee yesterday , When it decided to extend its prelim- inary inquiry into local conditions . CUT HITS-LEAVES OF SCHOOL CLERKS Influx of Applications for Time Off Upsets Vacation System. Public school clerks who have had less than two days’ leave since January 1, 1932, will be allowed only enough leave between now and July 1 to make a total of two days for the entire six-~ month period, it was announced today by Dr. Frank W. Ballou, school suner- intendent, following a two-hour con- ference with his official staff. In a formal circular addressed to officers in charge of clerks, Dr. Ballou explained that the limited leave allow- ance was prompted by a sudden Influx of applications for leave. Commenting on the leave situation for the current year, Dr. Ballou said 29 of the 90-odd clerks have not had a day’s leave since January 1 of this year, while others have had from 5 to 11 days off. Since the school system would be crippled if all clerks undertook to crowd in as much leave of that which is due them during the remaining few days of this month, the superintendent explained that a total of two days’ leave will be allowed any person who has not had that much time off. The situation in which the public* school system clerks find themselves to- day with respect to leave is due largely, to the co-operative sgmt which they show their positions by virtue of the peculiar needs of a school organization, it was explained in their behal Franklin Administration Builc Because the clerical personnel already is dangerously small, the clerks are asked each year to refrain from takin their annual leave during the achmi year. —Consequently, virtually every clerk in the school system has more leave than there are days remaining in the current fiscal year. School officers said that to allow them to be off for the remainnig days of the year in an effort to crowd in as much leave as they can would completely cripple the school system. Meawhile, the Summer school organi- zation is being set up “on paper” so that as soon as the District of Columbia appropriation bill is enacted and the school authorities find out what money is coming to them for the operation of vacation schools, these classes will be put into operation. At present, however, no a) tments are being made. Under the present emergency pro- gram concerning leave. the school offi- cers will not undertake to make any changes in the sick leave schedule. 0. E. S. to Hold Fag Ceremony. BETHESDA, Md,, June 22 (Special). —A special flag ceremonial will be held by Naomi Chapter, No. 23, Order of the Eastern Star, in the Masonic Hall here tonight with mbelrs m:!] ntlllhburlug chapters as of" local organi- ntlm The‘“wmthy—murm. Mrs, Ald- rich Moore, will preside. v