Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1932, Page 13

WASH INGTON, D. GENERAL SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 17, '1932. NEWS PAGE B—1 SENATE COMMITTEE 'M'CARL BLOCKS CLERKS' LOSS OF 15 DAYS EXCESS LEAVE % DISTRICT ACTS TO STUDY ECONDMY 1 i v o fr | PASSINCONERESS | BILLSOPERATION Inquiry Will Determine Need for Changes at Next Session. WKELLAR RESOLUTION PROVIDES FOR PROBE Bpecial Subcommittee to Continue to Obtain Information on In- equalities in Law. BY J. A. O'LEARY. A thorough study to determine whether any changes should be made fn December in recently enacted gov- ernmental economy provisions, will go forward during the recess of Congress, as the result of a resolution adopted by | the Senate just before the session wa brought to a close last night The Senate without debate adopted a resolution presented by Senator Mc- Kellar, nocrat, Tennessee, au- thorizing the special Economy Subcom- mittee to continue during th2 rec and to make recommendations, either 85 to possible modifications in the much- discussed economy law, or as to any further measures of economy that may be deemed advisable either by reducing appropriations or through reorganiza- tion That the furlough plan for Govern- ment employes in the economy act will come within the scope of the subcom: mittee’s future deliberations was in- of dicated by Senator McKellar when, inl an interview last night, he said: h plan has worked so itics it was thought this it thoroughly report back to Congre The Tennessean indicated the sub- committee also would be able to con- sider question, raised recently by other Senators, but which could not be acted on by the Senate in the closing hours of the session. These include: The pro- posal of Senator Shipstead, Farmer- Laborite of Minnesota, to reimburse employes of the Government Printing Office for unused leave which they earned during the last fiscal year; the posal of Senator Bingham, Repub- ecticui, to rescind the t relating to dism: of married persons when husband and wife are both in the Gov- service. hator Jones, Republican, of Wash- ington, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, and also chairman of the econcmy subcommittee, said last night he did not expect any meetings in the immediate future, but that Kennedy Rea, clerk to the Appropriations Com- mittee, would gather material during the Summer for use of the economy group when it assembles in the Fall. Economy Groups Renamed. The same members who constituted the special economy group during the session just ended were named in the McKellar resolution to continue the studies that are to be carried on for the Information of the next session. They are Senators Republican, of Washington: Bi ., Repubiican, of Connecticut kinson, Republican, of Towa; McKellar, Democrat, of Tennes. see, and Bratton, Democrat, of New Mexico. 1 Vice President Curtis also appointed tate yesterday the Senate members of a joint congressional committee called for by the economy law to conduct an inquiry during the recess into the oper- ation of laws and regulations dealing with the relief of war veterans and their dependents. He named the fol- lowing Senators _Robinson, fndiana: Brookhart, Republican, Towa: Hatfield, Republican, of West Virginia; Walsh, Democrat, of Massa- chusetts, and George, Democrat, of Georgia. The House, earlier in the day had named the following as its_mem- bers of this joint committee: Repre- sentatives McDuffie of Alabama, Boehne of Indiana, Taber of New York, Milli- gan of Missouri and Chiperfield of Illi- 0is. % When the economy bill was being drafted originally it contained a num- ber of proposed changes in existing Jaws relating to veterans' allowances and compensation, but these were elim- inated, leaving such questions to be studied further by the proposed joint committee. Will Study Reorganization. It was believed likely last night that the special Senate Economy Subcom- mittee would devote considerable atten- tion to the subject of consolidation and reorganizition of governmental bureaus and agencies. Early yesterday Senator Reed, Repub- lcan, of Pennsylvania had a resolution adopted in the Senate to take care of the graduation leave of the cadets who completed their studies at West Point Military Academy this year. He point- ed out that the controller general had ruled that this was annual leave un- der the economy law. He said this is Jeave which they get only once in a lifetime, and that the cadets are now scattered all over the world, those who expect duty in distant posts having al- ready left the United States, and others having gone to their homes. While the resolution was being con- sidered Senator McKellar criticized the furicugh plan in the economy law. TAX LOOPHOLE FOUND "FOR DENTAL PATIENTS Certain Precious Metals Held by Revenue Bureau to Be Ex- empted. Republican, of By the Associated Press. Persons who visit dentists frequently may draw some comfort from a ruling gsterday of the Bureau of Internal evenue. It was that provisions of the new tax bill do not 4pply to certain dental work in which precious metals are used. The dicision that the articles enu- merated did not come under the section of the tax bill which imposes a levy on “articles made of. or ornamented, mounted or fitted with, precious metals or_imitation thereof.” Here are the articles: Removable dental bridges containing gold, gold crowns and crowns containing gold, partial upper palatal bars containing precious metals, full upper and lower plates containing precious metals, fixed dental bridge work containing precious metals and orthodontic appliances con. taining precious metals, of | lough Act Interpretation Brings Out Question of Right A proposal that Government workers woh took more thhn 15 days’ vacation prior to July 1 be deprived of these excess absences by cutting them off the 24 days' compulsory payless furlough required by the economy act has been blocked by Controller General McCarl. The unusual problem was submitted to McCarl by Secretary of State Stim- son, as part of a proposed interpreta- tion of the compulsory furlough provi- sion of the act. The Secretary en- deevored to obtain for employes of his department some leave with pay during this fiscal year, but McCarl, in line with several previous decisions on the same question, said no leave Wwith pay could be taken now. Secretary Stimson’s proposed inter- sting interpretation which McCarl vetoed” was explained by the Secretary in part as follows: “It is believed that an equitable in- terpretation of the act would be to hold that each employe in continuous service between January 1 and June 30, 1932, is entitled, under the law in force between those dates, to 15 days leave of absence with pay. If 15 days leave has been taken prior to July 1, | then under the provisions of Section 101 (b) of the act (cconomy) cited, the employe would, during the fiscal year 1933, be furloughed for one calendar | monti or 24 working | If. on the other han he employe has ihad more than 15 days leave prior to uly 1, such excess over 15 days would Dbe charged against the furlough pro- ided in Section 101. In other words, | in the case of an employe who has had | 30 days’ leave between January 1 and | June 30. 1932, 15 days of such leave would be considered as earned prior ito July 1. The other 15 days’ leave would be considered as unearned and would apply toward the furlough under Section 101. Deduction and Addition. he equivalent of one month's salary j deducted, but would receive only nine nal leave, or the difference 1 days provided under the on and the 15 days excess cen. The employe who ve of absence prior to ould be entitled to receive be- tween July 1 and December 31, 1932, the 15 days leave earned prior to June |30, 1932, and he would, of course. also be subject to the 24-day furlough, as provided in Section 101" (b).” Explaining the “great hardship” on employes who had had no leave of ab- sence this year, the Secretary put for- ward his proposal in the hope of hav- ing it approved, and declared: “If au- thorization to adjust the leave situ- ation as set forth in the paragraph just above is granted, it is believed that { furlou | leave alr has had i | July 1, | days without pay. | to Time With Pay. | the welfare of the department and of | the Government will be greatly bene- fited thereby in that a feeling will be created among all employes that they have been treated fairly and that no discrimination or favoritism has been shown.” McCarl sald that “employes he Department of State m be granted or receive any leave of ab- sence with pay during the fiscal year 1933, notwithstanding that they may not have taken the full amount of leave with pay which could have been granted them during the period Janu- | ary 1 to June 30, 1932.” | Expression of McCarl. But taking up the unusual question raised by Secretary Stimson to cut down the number of furlough days actually off duty this year, despite the fact that the employe is to have his salary reduced to pay for this payless furlough, McCarl went into the matter, in part, as follows: “With respect to employes who were granted and have taken more than 15 days’ leave with pay between January 1 and July 1. 1932, it may be presumed that such leave was duly granted in ac- cordance with laws and regulations in force and effect at that time. In some of the Departments or services the granting of more than 15 days’ leave prior to July 1 of any calendar year was made contingent upon the employe remaining in the service the remainder of the -calendar year, there being a regulation, or a condition in the ap- proved application for such leave with | pay, to the effect that if the entire | amount of leave so granted should not be earned by the employe continuing in service thereafter a sufficient time so that the aggregate of the leave taken would not exceed two and one-half days per month for the period of service dur- ing the leave year, the excess would be regarded as leave without pay and col- of tl not | inhibition in section 103 of the . . . | (economy act) . . . is t the re- ceiving, not the earning of leave during the fiscal year 1933. “I am constrainad to hold, therefore, | that the fact that an employe prior to | July 1, 1932, had taken annual leave with pay in excess of the amount that had accrued at the rate of two and one- half days per month, but not in excess of the amount to which he would have been entitled during the calendar year | ending December 31, 1932, but for the | passage of the act of June 30, 1932, does | not require that the amount of such | excess be regarded as leave without pay, or be charged against the furlough time | to which the employe is entitled as a result of the operation of the provisions of section 101 of the said act.” BUS LINE WOULD REMODEL TENPLE Plans Complete to Build Ter- minal if Masonic Lodge Accepts Bid. The Greyhound Lines bus company is ready to remodel the east half of the Masonic T-mple at Thirteenth street and New York avenue for a Washing- ton terminal, if the Grand Lodge of Masons accepts its proposal. This announcement was made yes- terday by L. C. Major, regional man- | ager of the bus line.” Bids on work in- volved have already been taken from numerous Contractors. ‘At the same time, it developed that the Greyhound Lines filed with the Public Utilities Commission a request for a 0-day extension of the time in which the large bussess must be gotten off the streets of the National Capital, while taking on and discharging pa: sengers at terminals. The present time | limit is scheduled to expire August 1. Mr. Major and his associates say that if the 90-cay extension is granted and the Grand Lodge acts favorably, the Greyhound Lines will be housed in their new terminal here by Novem- ber 1. Under plans as now mapped out, the east half of the Masonic Temple would be used for the bus terminal, equipped with a large waiting room on the first floor and all modern conveniences for passengers. Two lanes of busses ‘would enter the building. tne entrances being either on New York avenue or H street, building. Considerable perienced at presen inconvenience is_ ex- t, Greyhound Lines authorities explained, 8§ the bwc; now load and unload on New Yorl avenue, near Fourteenth street, on the | north side of the street. It is neces- | sary for embarking and disembarking passengers to walk across the New York avenue—a heavily-traveled thor- oughfare—as_the company's Waiting room is on the south side. . CARNIVAL FEE CUT DOWN TO $1 PER DAY District Commissioners Invoke New License Act in Case of Church Function. i The District Commissioners yesterday { for the first time made use of the wide jpowers given them under the new license act by reducing the license fecs for carnivals, set in the act at $35 per day, to $1 per day where the carnival is held by a church for its own profit or for charity. The action was taken in the case of the Church of the As- sumption, 3405 Nichols avenue south- east, which had asked for a reduction in the fee. The powers given the Commission- ers under this act are considered at the District building to be the most sweep- ing to be found in any recent legisla- tion. Not only may they move up or down the scale of fees set by the act, but they may include businesses under the license requirements not included in the act, and also may exempt any of those specifically listed. There is some doubt as to whether this power will be sustained if the Commissioners should seek to impose the requirement of a license on a busi- ness not mentioned in the act or if they should try to increase the license fee for any business above that men- tioned in the act. Camden May Add to Name. Camden, Me., may become Camden- | by-the-Sea to avoid confusion with 16 other Camdens in the United States. with exits at the opposite side of the | NEW U 5. WORKERY' UNION” CONSIDERED Suspended Federation Mem- ber Contemplates Another Employes’ Group. John Arthur Shaw, who recently was suspended, along with 15 others, by the | Federation of Federal Employes, last night indicated he is contemplating forming a new organization of Govern- ment workers. He said he had received | numerous requests that such a move be | undertaken. At the same time, almost the entire | membership of the Tariff Commission Branch of Local No. 2 of the federation submitted their resignation from the | organization as a protest against the | suspension of the officials of the Joint | Conference on Affiliation with the American Federation of Labor, Text of Resignation. Their joint resignation read, in part: “We feel that the suspended members | were working to the best interests of | the Federal employes in their efforts to maintain affiliation with the American Federation of Labor, and that the ma- | jority of members of the . . . union are in complete agreement with the actions of the joint conference.” Mr.” Shaw, who is vice chairman of the Joint Conference on Affiliation with the American Federation of Labor, said “although no extensive attempt has been made to foster 3 new union, 2,500 Federal employes have signed petitions stating their desire that such a union be Immediately organized, and many personal letters have been received.” The suspended member, an_ official in the Labor Department’s Employment Bureau, said he believed the suspension | order has convinced the Federal em- | ployes that “it is impossible to fight | within the Federation for what one | deems right. if one’s opinions do not | coincide with the views of the national officers.” “Internal Reform Impossible™ Shaw_was suspended after activities in an effort to close the breach between the American Federation of Labor and the Federation of Federal employes. CITY’S PICNIC. GROVES DRAWING MORE OUTINGS Many Church Groups Obtain Per- mits at Parks Office for This Week End. | | More organized outings are taking | advantage of picnic groves of the city’s parks, Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, di- rector of Public Buildings and Public Parl;.s, sgnouncedbeyes?rdny. Over this Week end a number o Ups arran to_celebrate. e o This was the schedule for permits, approved by Col. Grant's office: Two hundred families attending the annual outing of the Fifteenth Street Chris- tian Church in Rock Creek Park, south of Pierce Mill, yesterday; the primary | department of St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church for a picnic north of the mill yesterday; the Vienna Presbyterian | Sunday School, at the Sixteenth Street Reservoir_grove; the Langdon M. E. | Sunday School, east of the Joaquin | Miller Cabin; the Metropolitan Baptist | Sunday School, west of the Miller cebin; the Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church and Capitol Court, No. 3, Junior Macabees, in the groves on Beach drive, and the Eckington Presbyterian Sun- day School in the Rock Creek and Po- | tomac Parkway, near the Taft Bridge. Today the outing of the District of Columbia members of the Fleet Naval Reserve group, 400 families strong, is scheduled to be held in the grove east | of the Miller Cabin, in Rock Creek Pl::k. ‘The Ul;;v:;slty Park Church of the Brethren picnie today, using the Plerce Mill grove, 2 | | . DURNG SESSON Nearly $5,000,000 Cut From D. C. Appropriation Bill for Fiscal Year. SENATE FAILED TO ACT ON SEVERAL MEASURES Employment Relief Is Provided in Buzzards Point and Nearby Developments. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. The District fared unusually well in legislation considered by the session of Congress which closed last night. Thirty-six measures were enacted in addition to the annual appropriation bill. This carried $41,245,622 for regu- lar appropriations and $3,252,000 in per- manent and indefinite appropriations. a total of $44,497.622, as compared with $49.416.709, a decrease of $4.919.087 There was a compromise making the lump sum Federal contribution for sup- port of the National Capital $7.775,000 instead of the $9,500,000 for the past | fiscal year. The House sought to cut | the lump sum to $6.500,000 and the Senate endeavored to raise this to $8.- 550,000, which represented a 10 per cent cut in the current figure. In con- ference, however, a compromise was reached. Senate Witholds Action. ‘The work of the Senate was charac- terized by failure to act upon a number of measures of major importance which had been passed by the House. Chief among these were the group of five measures jammed through the House on recommendation of the Special Mapes Committee. Four of these dealt with taxation and the fifth sought to repeal the substantive law for paving the expenses of the National Capital {on a 60-40 besis The Senate also failed to act upon the street railway merger measure, which has been uncer consideration in Congress in various forms for more | than a quarter of a century; the bill | requiring liability insurance of any one convicted of a serious traffic violation; the bill to regulate banking, trust com- panies and similar institutions, and the measure to amend the inheritance laws by giving females equal rights with males under the law of descent and dis- tribution. A number of measures passed by both Houses provide some measure of unem ployment relief, especially the two law opening up the Buzzards Point area be- tween the Navy Yard and War Col- lege for industrial development, with projects totaling $5,500,000. Securities Bill Dies. The most important measures passed by the Senate on which the House fail- ed to act are the Blaine “blue sky" se- curities bill which proposed to regulate the sale of securities, stocks and bonds through the Public Utilities Commis- sion, and the Patterson bill to tighten up on the kidnaping laws. Just before adjournment last night. the Senate passed two bills which had previously been acted upon favorably by the House. One of these authorizes Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant. 3d. director of Public Buildings and Public Parks. to dispose of five small parcels of land no longer needed for public use. The other gives Lieut. Ccl. Grant authority to| employ landscape architects and other ! experts for brief periods without requir- | | ing a civil service status | { _Other bills passed by both House and Senate which are now laws are: To permit the closing of streets with- in a four-square area at Buzzards Point to allow the use of the entire site for 8 new power house for the Potomac Electric Power Co. Authorizing the Philadelphia, Balti- more & Washington Railway Co. to extend a spur track from the Washing- ton Navy Yard into the Buzzards Point area. Firearms Bill Passes. A more stringent law to regulate the sale and possession of fireams. It does not prevent citizens from possessing weapons in their homes, but gives police time to check up on purchases of pistols. A bill authorizing incorporation of credit unions. These are voluntary so- cleties organized for the purpose of making loans to members. ‘A general license law to regulate the fees to be collected by the District. This is one of the major pleces of legisla- tion recommended by the Gibson com- mittee, which several years ago made a comprehensive survey of District gov- ernment. A bill creating a new system of pa- role with indeterminate sentences. This measure had the support of the super- intendent of District penal institutions, the Department of Justice, the Gen- eral Federation of Women's Clubs and other organizations. A resolution naming the Sixteenth street entrance to the National Capital “Montgomery-Blair Portal.” Other bills which became law pro- vide for the following: Protect union lator trade marks and labels. Relieving the District Commisioners of certain minor duties by authorizing the secretary of the board to sign rou- tine TS. lncg:pp:rflte the District George Wask.- ington Bicentennial Commission. ‘Authorize the District assessor to tes- tify as an expert witness in condemna- tion cases. Regulate the admission of pay pa- tients to Gallinger Hospital. Broaden the terms of a law provid- ing for the sal; of water to nearby Jand suburbs. M eide - for ihe widening and straightening of Michigan avenue -be- tween the Soldiers’ Home grounds and the filtraticn p'ant west of First street. Street Closing Authorized. Authorize, the clesing of a portion of upper Water street in the vicinity of Lincoln Memorial to give a proper set- ting for the new building of the Amer- jcan Pharmaceutical Association. Regulate the bonds required from contractors on District work. ‘Authorize a new 2%;-gallon ice cream container under the weights and meas- ures law. Close an old county road in the Oc- coquan reservation to conform with the new Virginia highway plans. ‘Amend the condemnation law so as to enable the District government to use the same procecure recently estab- lished for the Federal Government of obtaining immediate possession of prop- erty needed for public purposes by pay- ing an estimated fair value in advance of condemnation hearings, any bal- ance to be paid at the close of the con- demnation hearings. = ‘Authorize the superintendent of schools to make temporary appoint- thent of employes between meetings of hool board. t"lgfl‘ouur ?;pante bills providing or clos- ing of certain streets and alleys in dif- ferent parts of the were enacted. 1 jand Policemen. Other bills wcnpclfiied the follow- m‘n‘um.mmmemm New Bridge for Benning Road SPAN TC BE CONSTRUCTED THIS YEAR. HE architect’s drawing of the new bridge™to be built over the Anacostia River in the line of Benning road this Fall. 19 feet. * ture will cost $600,000. It will have six plers in the river, 55 feet zpart. The park drives of the new Anacostia par kway are shcwn under the bridge on eaclr side. It will have a maximum clearance at low tide of The struc- FIREMEN OF NATION INVITED T0 PARADE 'Board of Trade Scnds Bids for Labor Day Event Here to 4,000 Groups. Approximately 4,000 firemen's organi- zations throughout the country have been invited to participate in the tenth annual national parade, to take place in the Capital on Labor day, Septem- ber 5, it was announced by the Wash- ington Board of Trade, sponsors of the | event, yesterday. With more than 10,000 marchers e: pected to take part in the procession. the trade body anticipates a throng of 200,000 to come to Wachington to vie it. An innovaticn thic year will be t perticipation in the event by police- men. Heretofore, only firemen have taken part. $2,500 Prizes to Be Given. The Board of Trade announced that $2,500 worth of prizes will be awarded | to outstanding units in the parade and to winners in the band and drum corps contests to follow. Groups expected to take part in these events will come from cities as far south as South Carolina and as distant as Ohio. Many of them will bring units of fire-fighting equip- ment to exhibit in the parade. The creation of a National Firemen's { day, with Washington as the center for the celebration. was the objective of a movemert started last year by the National Retirement Club for Firemen It is understood that efforts will be continued this year to have & bill introduced in the Senate providing for creation of such a day. Trade Board Committee. Members of the Board of Trade Com- mittee in charge of arrangements for the Labor day celebration are Odell S. Smith, general chairman, and Sergt A. J. Bargagni, marshal. Members of the Executive Committee are Joseph A. Burkart, chairman; Battalion Chief E. R. Plerce, secretary: Harry Dean, assistant secretas Harry Allmond. as- sistant_secretary. and Jchn _Bardroff, A. C. Cas>, Charles Clagett, E. F. Col- laday, Robert J. Cottrell, Isaac Gans, Dr. Frank E. Gibson, E. C. Graham Harry H. R. Helwig, Levay Louis, Lowe Louis, Dr. A. Magruder MacDonald, Edward J. Murphy, Charles W. Morris, Theodore P. Noyes, George W. Offutt, George Plitt, Wallace R. Robinson, Fred A. Smith, John Lewis Smith, C. J. Waters, Chief George W. Watson, Ben T. Webster, Fred G. White, Lloyd B. Wilson, Dr. George C. Havenner, Mrs. John Allan Dougherty, Inspector Ogden T. Davis and Gen. Pelham D. Glassford. FIND LIQUOR ON ROOF Hiding Place Nearly O—utwiLs Raid- ing Squad. Discovery of & small quantity of liquor on the roof of a house in East Columbia Park, Md. last night led to the arrest of Franklin White on charges of possession. A raiding squad of Prince Georges led by Chief J. J. County police, Crowley, visited the house armed with search warrants. For over an hour they scoured the premises and were about to Jeave when Constable Howard Slater decided to take a look at the roof of White's bungalow. He claims to have found three half-gallon jars of alleged here. hq;;‘s?r:x:e e‘:::s released under $500 bond furnished by his mother. PRESENTED WITH WATCH |Le Boy R. Grabill Is Remembered Upon Retirement. up of his friends yesterday gave MAR%T;R? Grabill, retired maintenance engineer of the Highway Department, a gold watch as a parting gift. Mr. Grabill had been employed by the Dis- trict for 30 years, but was forced to retire under the terms of the economy Ec;?'. M. Davison, in charge of the maintenance division, made the pres- entation. Highway Engineer H. Whitehurst made a brief address, praising Mr. Grabill's services with the department. " Bullecks Rout Customers. Even bargain hunters fled when four bullocks escaped from a herd and in- vaded a 5 and 10 cent store in South- hampton, England. L in the District on the Potomac River. Establish new plumbing and gas gt- ting regulations with increased fees Tor licensing of master plumbers and au- thority to the Commissioners to revoke licenses for cause. ‘Amend the charter of the Acacla In- surance Co. so as to permit it to enter the general insurance field. Allow the Firemen's Insurance Co. of Washington and Georgetown to increase its capitalization so as to also enter the general insurance business. Amend the insurance code to require companies incorporated under the laws of the District to maintain their prin- cipal office and records in the District of Columbia. Grant broader power to the trial board to compel the attendance of accusers and witnesses. Straighten the building line on a short portion of Georgia avenue. Two bills were enacted granting per- mits for oil pipe lines for the Griffith Consumers Co., and for the Gulf Re- fining Co. Another law increases the Nmit of income for benevolent societies, _ police | |COLORED TRIO GET $125 IN GROCERY HOLD-UP |Man and Wife Robbed and Cus- tomer Relieved of Wallet on Twenty-Third Street. | Three colored men held up the pro- etors of a grocery at 1259 Twenty- third street last night and escaped with $125 in cash, The three men entered the store, op- erated by Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Katz, and while one of them stocd guard, the others covered Mr. and Mrs. Katz with pistols. There was cnly one customer in the store at the time, a colored woman, who fled when the men dis- | playcd their guns. Another customer | entered immediately afterwards, how- ever, Fred Sumpter of Clarendon, Va. ! The third man relieved him of his wal- let containing $50 and a driver’s per- mit and then emptied the cash register, which contained about §75. The trio departed in a large black sedan. Full descripti-ns were given to Policeman A. T. Davis, who responded to an alerm in a radio scout car. POST OFFICE DAY TS ARE LY 2 ;Nation to Cclebrate 157t { Anniversary of Beginning of Coionial System. In tribute to George Washington, champion of intercommunication in America, the Nation will celebrate Post | Office day, July 26, as part of the country-wide observance of the bicen- tennial of the First President's birth. The date is the 157th anniversary of the adoption by the Continental Con- |gress of a resolution establishing the continental post, and naming Benjamin Franklin as the first Postmaster Gen- | eral of the United Colonies. Participation Is Urged. Through the Naticnal Bicentensial Commission, groups throughout the country are being urged to take part with patriotic and civic bodies in the celebration of the birth of the Postal Service. | “In the Capital the day will go prac- tically unmarked, except perhaps for a display of flags from public buildings. This, according to Dr. George C. Haven- ner, executive head of the District Bi- | centennial Commission, is i accord- ance with the wish of Postmaster Gen- eral Brown, who desires to have an appropriate ' postal celebration here in | September in connection with the lay- ing of the corner stone for the new Post Office Building. Parade to Be Feature, | Tt 15 expected, Dr. Havenner said, that this event will be featured by a huge parade depicting the history of the Postal Service from the days of the pony express down to the most modern methods of mail transportation. Throughout the rest of the country, however, July 26 will be marked by public meetings, including speeches out- | lining the history, growth and import- | ance of the Postal Service and stressing the point that the Postal Service sym- | bolizes the great life 7 | mutual understanding through better communication., INAVY YARD MACHINIST RETIRES AFTER 29 YEARS Fellow Employes Present Him With Purse—Worked in Tool Shop Since 1903. John H. Roberts, 64, of 3028 R street was retired yesterday after completing 29 years of service at the Washington Navy Yard. He had been employed at the ‘tool shop at the yard since 1903. | Fellow employes presented him with a C.|burse at a ceremony yesterday. Mr. Roberts is active in Masonic cir- cles, being a member of Lebanon Lodge, No. 7, F. A. A. M., and of Eureka Chap- ter, Royal Arch Masons. He also has Ibeen a member of the Machinists’ , Union for 25 years. | ambition of | | George Washington—the fostering of | NAVY WILL OPEN OBSERVATORY BIDS Novel Designs for Two New Domes to Aid Star Pho- tography. Novel installations will be adopted in construction of the two telescope domes and new astrographic laboratory that will be built shortly to modernize the ! Naval Observatory here and expand naval activity in star photography. Bids for this work will be opened on August 3, the Navy Department said| yesterday. Big Lense Costs $76.000. One of the structures will house the 40-inch Ritchey-Crretien aplanatic photographic telescope, which is now being Luilt by Prof. George W. Ritchey. maker of the 100-inch Mount Wilson | telescope and other famous glasses with | which to search the heavens, at a cost | of $76,000. This dome will be 30 feet in diameter, the base and rotatirg dome being of welded steel, with outer and | inner steel plate shells, to insure com- | plete ventilation and cooling off of the | structure with rapidity. The telescope | will be equipped with an insulating hood, the air inside being cooled to prevent minute expanision and con- | traction of the telescope, giving errors in photographs. As peci | tke spee. ally. A ccllapsible tube will be | in addition to the usual slot, to prevert foggirg of protographic plates ‘Iram adjacent lights. Smaller Dome Planned. The smaller dome will house a 15- inch wide angle photographic telescope, for which a contract has not yet been awarded. The astrographic laboratory buildings will include space for photo- | graphic developing rooms and labora- | tories for examining star photographs | and for astronomical research, the Navy | Department asserted. With the new Ritchey telescope, Capt. J. F. Hellweg. superintendent of the | Naval Observatory, expects that the scientists will be able to view approxi- mately 750,000 stars. “It might b2 possible, with this greater seeing ability, to bring something new into view,” he asserted. LEGION C —— ONVENTION Department Parade Will Be Held on Streets of Northeast | Washington. ‘The annual department convention of the local American Legion will open | Tuesday, July 26, with a parade on | streets of Northeast Washington to the Stuart Junior High School, Fifth and | E streets northeast, scene of the con- | veg'téon. o e line of march for the parade will be from the Union Mnketpl:lrace, Florida avenue and Fifth street, south on Fifth street to K, east on K to Four- teenth street, thence on Florida avenue |to H street, west on this street to | Fourth, thence south to the Stuart School. The parade will begin at 6 o'clock. followed by_the convention at 8. The | Northeast “Business Men's Association is co-operating with the Legion de- partment in planning the event. The line of march will b2 decorated and re- | viewing stands erected. Several cash prizes will be awarded for outstanding entries in the proces- | sion, according to William H. McGrath, chairman of the department’s con- | vention committee, HEAVY CANDY SALES Children Spend $50,000,000 in One-Cent Purchases. More than 5,000,000,000 pieces of 1- cent candy were reported yesterday by the Commerce Department to have | been sold last year, indicating that there is little, it any, hoarding among the children. Sales of penny candies aggregated approximately 195,000,000 pounds with a retail value of more than $50,000,000. \VICTIM PEEVE ROBS HIM They robbed George Grimes again last night, but he got off lightly—com- paratively speaking. It was the third timé that he was beaten by the same gang of four, and it was the third time that he found his way to Casualty Hospital to be patched up. According to the story Grimes told police, he was seized at Seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast by a gang of four men early last night and thrust into a sedan. After a speedy dash through Southeast Wash- ington, Grimes said, he found himself at a Maryland roadhouse, where he was beaten by the quartet and relieved of $27. He then was brought back to the same er from which he was abducted was put out on the street. D WHEN GANG FOR THIRD TIME George Grimes Tells Woes to Police After Quartet Repeats Process of Emptying His Pockets. A taxicab driver drove Grimes to Casu- alty Hospital. Police of the ninth pre- cinct were called, and Grimes was taken to the fourth precinct, where he lodged a complaint against his attackers. Grimes described three of his assail- ants as “Reds,” “Joe” and “Tony.” He said the same gang had robbed him on two previcus Saturday nights—Grimes’ pay day. Two months ago, he told police, they took $75 from him and cut his scalp. A short time before that, he said, they took $57 and gave him a cut over the eye in return. On each of those times he was treated at Casualty Hospital. Grimes, who is of slight build, said he was married, had three dren and is employed by an ice cream manufac- turing company. cial mechanism will rotate the ! i being regulated auto- | WILL OPEN JULY 26 TAXIS GET MORE TIMEAS ONLY 736 BUYNEWLICENSES Applications Reported De- layed Because of Increase From $9 to $25 a Year. CHARACTER PERMITS REQUIRE $5 EXTRA One of Big Companies With Fleet of 700 Cabs Said to Be Totally Delinquent. Although the new District license code prescribing a $25 license fee for taxicab operators went into effect July 1, only 756 cab drivers had procured a new license at the close of business yes- terday, according to a tabulation of Wade H. Coombs, superintendent of licenses. _The deadline on the use of the old licenses, originally fixed for July 15, has been extended until July 20 by the Commissioners, which leaves but three days this week for the remaining 4.000 taxi drivers to procure a new license, As a result a last-minute rush for licenses s inevitable The taxi drivers, it was said, purpose- ly are delaying applying for the new license because of the *materially in- creased fee, which the license code raised from $9 to $25 a year. Some of the independent operators, it is believed, are having difficulty in raising the fee, to which $5 must be added for a char~ acter license, Cab Companies Delay. The large taxicab companies also have put off applying for the licenses, One company, operating a fleet of 300 cabs, has procured about 100 licenses. Another concern, with a fleet of nearly 409 cabs, has taken out but eight licenses. "Acting on the advice of this compan counsel, who promised to produce a check last week for $10.000, the License Bureau prepared the licenses for all of the company's cabs. A third company. with about 700 or more cabs in operation, has not ap- plied for one license. In addition to issuing the new taxi- cab licenses, the License Bureau last week found it necessary to call in 45 licenses given out July 1, a few hours before President Hoover signed the new license code. These licenses were is- sued for the old fee of $9, and the 4% drivers who procured them were noti- fled to call at the Licenss Bureau and put up an additicnal $16. Thus far 15 of the drivers have complied. Few Regulars May Quit. There is considerable sp-culation | among officials of the Public Utilities Commission and traffic authorities as to how many taxi drivers will go out of business because of the higher license fee. The consensus is that very few of the regular operators will quit, since taxi driving is their only means of livelihood. The officials, however, belleve a number of the part-time op- erators will go out of business rather than pay the $25 necessary for the new license, plus $5 for a character license. These part-time drivers are employed during the day in Government depart- ments or private establishments and operate taxicabs at night to augment their income. 'WORKMEN HALTED REPAIRING BRIDGE Highway Director Orders Planks Replaced on Calvert Street Span. A Capital Traction Co. work gang Tepairing joints on the Calvert Street Bridge on Connecticut avenue so weak- ened scme of the planks supporting the floor of the bridge that the highway department ordered the work stopped, Highway Director H. C. Whitehurst sald yesterday. Commenting on a re- port ‘that some of the planks had fallen to the roadway 150 feet below, endangering traffic on the road, he said this might have happened but that it had not been reported to him. He said that the company's road gang had “beveled off” some of the planks necessary to support the floor of the bridge. and that when a high- way department inspector found this out the work was ordered out. All planks that had been disturbed were ordered removed and replaced with new planks. : The Calvert Street Bridge will be the next major bridge to be replaced. Werking drawirgs for the new struc- ture will be completed this year under an appropriation made evailable in the 1933 bill, and actual construction work | will start next year, assuming that Congress appropriates the money in the 1934 bill. Preliminary plans for the new structure have already been approved by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. ARREST OF l-iUCKSTERS TO START TOMORROW Action Ordered as Court Refuses to Grant Injunction Pending Appeal. Arrests of gasoline hucksters for vio- lating the police regulation forbidding the sale of gasoline on the streets will start tomorrow, Acting Corporation Counsel Vernon L. West warned yes= terday. Enforcement of this regulation has been withheld pending a test of the validity of the enactment in the courts. When the hucksters failed yesterday in their effort to secure a temporary in= junction in the District Supreme Court forbidding enforcements pending an ap- peal, however, it was decided that the regulation should be enforced, as it is expected to be several months befors the gppeal is perfected and the case de- cided by the highest court. MILK PROBE DELAYED Couzens Objects to Consideration of King Resolution. The Senate failed to act in the clos- | ing hours of the sessjon last night on the resolution of Senator King, Deme- crat, of Utah, seeking to have th District Committee investigate prices ol milk, cream, ice cream or cther dairy products. Senator King endeavcr=d to have the mz:l%ntlka? dl:x tm'fl um‘x;mau cone sen night, Senal Republitan, of Michigsn, :‘, b