Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1932, Page 14

" B2 = BIG HEATING PLANT WORK T0 SPEED UP Contracts Let for Two More Boilers and Extensive Tunnel System. With two new contracts let for the Government's central heating plant and steam distribution system throughout the downtown area, the huge plan for furnishing heat to more than & score of Federal structures from a big plant in the southwest section is due to make rapid progress soon, according to the| Treasury Department, supervising the project. Contracts have been let for adding two big boilers, making a total of six boilers, and for constructing the ex- tensive system of tunnels which will carry the heating pipes to the south- west. across the Mall, to the several buildings in the Federal triangle and elsewhere. Contracts two botlers went me firm which o tne sa: originally was ordered to construct the first, four boilers—W. R. Wood and Ir- ving Trust Co., receivers of Combustion Engineering Corporation of New York. To the original contract of $426.431 for the first four boilers was added $213,216 for two more. Each of these has a nominal horsepower of 2,500, capable of being operated continuously at 200 per cent above nominal, making a max- imum capacity of 30,000 horsepower. Conduits and Tunnels. The steam distribution system, com- prising extensive concrete tunnels, con- duits and other structures, with piping and associated equipment Will be con- structed by the Northeastern Piping & Construction Corporation of North Tona- wanda, N. Y. which has just been awarded the contract in the sum of $1,194,836.30. This was the lowest of 14 bids. The work is expected to start Within 60 days, and to be finished in, 450 calendar days | From the heating plant in the square bounded by C and D streets, Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets southwest, the tunnels will run east, west and north. The various structures to be served are shown in theeaccompanying diagram. Part of an old heating tunnel ccn- structed prior to the war will be brought into use to carry some of the steam across the Mall, It was originally built to take steam from & site proposed for a central heating plant at that time at the head cf Washington Channel not far from the foot of Fourteenth street. But there was objection to that site for the plant; the war came on and the | project was postponed. The tunnel, however, was built northward along the line of Fifteenth street, across the Mall, and up to the Treasury Department. It turned on D street and went as far as the present Post Office Department. But this segment from Fifteenth street o the Post Office Department had to be abandoned as new structures of the Federal triangle were built on this site. Both Sides of Mall. 1t is planned to serve not only the group of Federal buildings south of the Mall, including the Department of Agri- culture, Bureau of Engraving and Print- 1ng. new Federal Warehouse and Smith- sonian Institution, but also & large num- ! ber to the north cfthe Mall, including, the Federal triangle structures, the new‘ municipal center, the group centering about the Court House, and the the west of the Ellipse the group of buildings, which was to have been served by the projected west central heating plant abandoned in the interest of the econ- omy program. Plans for the new tun- nels soon to be bullt show & tunnel crossing the Ellipse on the line of C street and proceeding as far as Nine- | teenth street, Boilers are now being constructed; the tunnels next will be cut through down- town Washington and then will {cllow the bullding itself, as it is planned by the Treasury Department, which is super- vising the construction, to put up the building last, around the boilers. About November 1 bids will be asked for the building, piping, coal and ash handling equipment and other facilities. The foundation and lower steel structure will be put in, the boilers then will be placed and the rest of the heating plant con- structed around this vital\working unit. Congress has authorized the total 1imit of cost at $5,500,000. The Treas- ury Department designated United | Engineers and Constructors of Phila- | delphia, Pa., as engineers. Paul Cret of Philadelphia, designer of the Pan Amer- ican Building and the new French Em- bassy. is the architect. Plans for the building have been drawn and approved by the Fine Arts Commission and the Treasury Department. | The heating tunnels will be about 5 by 7 feet in size. NOMINATIONS DIE AS SESSION ENDS ‘Wilkinson, Garsaud and MacIn- tosh Eligible, However, for Recess Appointments. for the additional | Nominations to three major positions and a batch of minor ones died last night on Senate adjournment without their confirmation. All are eligible for recess appoint- ments if President Hoover desired to re- name them. One cf the important nominations to expire was that of Judge James H. Wil- kerson of Chicago for promotion to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. His| nomination never had been reported from the Judiciary Committee, where rests also the nomination of Judge Ken- neth MacIntosh of Seattle for a place on the Ninth Circuit Court. In the hands of the Interstate Com- merce Committee is the nomination of Marcel Garsaud of New Orleans for re- appointment to the Power Ccmmission, while the Immigration Committee has the nomination of Ernest A. Burguieres to be commissioner of immigration at New Orleans. RUMANIAN CREDIT HIT French Expert Forbids Granting of Loans. VIENNA, Austria, July 16 (#)—Dis- patches from Bucharest today said the French expert of the Rumanian Na- tional Bank had issued orders prohibit- ing the institution from granting fur- ther credit to the government. At the same time, the dispatch add- ed, the government was asked to repay loans outstanding. It was recalled here that the French expert at the bank ‘brought the fall of the Jorga cabinet in May with his criticisms against Ru- mania’s financial policy. | CHEESE PRODUCTION UP Canadian Butter Output Falls at Same Time. QUEBEC, Quebec, July 16 () —Sta tistics issued today by the Quebec De- partment of Agriculture showed that during June there was an increase of 36 per cent in cheese production over the same month a year ago. Cheese produced amounted to 6,150, | 000 pounds, compared with 4,531,260 in | By the Associated Press. | | ' ter output showed s decline, with 932 figures at 10,560,060 pounds snst 11,441,986 last year. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, New Federal Heating System Progresses CONTRACTS SPEED PLANS TO HEAT MANY BUILDINGS. CEN' - Diagram showing fhe_tunnels whi heating plant in the Southwest to ma built before the war, which will be used. ment; 2, Labor Department and Interstate Commerce Commission, TRAL ATING PLAN. ch are to be cut through the ny Federal structures. The broken line city soon to carry steam from the new central on Fifteenth street marks an old tunnel, The buildings to be heated shown by number, are: One, Commerce Depart- with connecting auditoriums; 3, Post Office Department:; 4, Internal Revenue Bureau; 5, Department of Justice; 6, Archives; 7, Apex Building: 8, proposed build- ing to replace District of Cclumbia Building. postponed to future; 9, Treasury; 10, Treasury Annex: 11, new National Museum; Medical Museum; 12, Smithsonian Institution and miscellaneous: 16, Agriculture Department; 17, Agriculture Extensible B 13, Freer Art Museum; 14, Old National Museum; 15, Army uilding; 18, Lodge: 19, Auditor's Build- ing; 20, Bureau of Engraving and Printing: 21, Liberty Loan; 22, new Federal warehouse; 23, proposed Municipal Center; 24, Court House; 25, Pension Building: 26, old Patent Office; 27, Land Office. NDVEL SCRP D¢ URGEDON OOVER Users Would Affix Stamps. Irving Fisher Backs Frear’s Plea. By the Associated Press. CHIPPEWA FALLS. Wis, July 16— Consideration of a plan to end the de- pression by issuing four billion dollars of legal tender scrip. to be retired in two years by means of a 1 per cent a week stamp tax, was urged in telegrams sent last night to President Hoover and other high Government officials by Representative James A. Frear (Re- publican, Wisconsin). Earl S. Barker of Chippewa Falls was credited with proposing the ; which has been said to have been ap- proved by Prof. Irving Fisher, economist of Yale University. Under Barker's plan, every original recipient of this currency would be re- | quired to attach a 1 per cent stamp before tendering the scrip for pur- chases or obligations. A one dollar bill would thus call for a 1 cent stamp, a five dollar bill a 5 cent stamp, and so on. The scrip would then be permitted to circulate for the remainder of the week without further stamps. The first passer in each succeeding week, up to 104, would place a 1 per cent stamp on the scrip before letting it go. At the end of two years, the entire issue would be redeemed through the fund created by stamp purchases, and the Government would net a 4 per cent Profit on the transaction, Prof. Fisher was said to have de- clared the plan sound and practical, and that it would well be adopted not only now but in future depressed busi- ness periods. The progressive stamp tax, he was quoted as saying, would assure an unusually high velocity of circulation, since the four bilion dollar issue would have to turn over 52 times a year. This would mean a trade vol- ume of 298 billion dollars annually. FISHER PRAISES PLAN. Believes Stamped Money Would Prove “Economically Sound.” PEACEDALE, R. I, July 16.—Prof Irving Fisher, Yale University econo- mist, said tonight he regarded as “eco- | nomically ssund” a proposal that the | Government act to stimulate business recovery through use of stamped money. Commenting on a news report from | Chippewa Falls, Wis., of a proposal sent to President Hoover by Representative James A. Frear of Wisconsin, request- ing the issuance of $4,000,000,000 cf legal tender scrip to be retired in two years by a 1-cent-a-week stamp tax, Prof. Pisher said he believed the plan would avert hoarding of currency. He said it would be the “quickest way to get the machinery started” and that its chief difficulty lies in finding the best method of distribution. Opposes Bonus Feature. Prof. Fisher, however, denied he had suggested, among other possibilities, that the scrip might be placed in cir- culation through soldiers’ bonus pay- ments. “I opposed the soldiers' bonus before the Ways and Means Committee of the House,” Prof. Pisher said, “and would not approve of its revival, whether through the stamped money plan or otherwise,” he said. “Under the stamped money plan, however, every week a man should hold a certificate he would lose a cent. There he has a strong inducement to pass it on as quickly as possible, it being legal tender. The certificate would be re- deemed when all the stamps had been affixed. “I did not express any opinion as to the amount of issue, but I believe that the method would be far superior to that in the Glass bill, giving the circu- lblotlodr; privilege to all Government nds. Spending Stimulated. “What we need is a correction of the recent great and rapid deflation—in {other words what is being called re- flation—as distinct from ordinary in- flation which is just as bad as de. flation. “That has been the object, namely reflation, of the open market opera- tion during the last three or four months of the Federal Reserve Bank. But although they pumped into the banks nearly two billions of money or credit, the banks have not been able to pass it on, partly because of their 'Will to Make Good Fatal to Youth on . Construction Work Determination to “Show ‘ Dad” Leads Student to Labor While Ill. B the Associated Press. LAS VEGAS, Nev., July 16 —The de- termination of Robert D. Creighton, 20, Vanderbilt University student, to “make good for dad,” leading him to work five days with a high fever in the di- version tunnels of Hoover Dam, ended in his death here today of pneumonia. Creighton became ill July 8. but did not seek treatment until five days later, when he was found to have a fever of 105 degrees. In an effort to save his life an air- | plane was chartered and brought a special oxygen tent here from Los Angeles His parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Creighton of Nashville, Tenn, ar- rived by plane Thursday. The youth told physicians he was de- | termined to show his father he coul® | | “make good” and that he was not “a| baby.” The father, member of a promi- nent Nashville ccnstruction firm. had cent his son here to gain practical ex- perience and “see what kind of stuff | you've got in you,” he told friends. own fear to embark on a liberal loan | policy and partly because the public is | afraid to borrow because the merchant Ls not sure that any one is going to uy. | “The stamped money plan would in- | sure the buying. It would begin at the consumer end. Every one who re- ceived these certificates would spend them and every one who got them | would spend them again. It would | start a demand on the retailer who | would immediately order from the | wholesaler, and he of the jobber and | the jobber of the manufacturer. “All these people then would be | wanting to borrow in a normal way from the banks. “It seems to me, except for the diffi- culties I have indicated, to be the quickest way to prime the pump and | get_the machinery started.” EDUCATIONAL. . ADULTS AND CHILDREN Art—Interior Decoration Costume Design Low Tuitions Livingstone Academy [1333 F St. Met. 2883 REDUCED SUMMER R 's easy to learn any modern langua i nl'ur T onversational method. Privi or cl instruction. 84th year. Present this advertisement for free trial lesson. Berlitz School of Languages 1115 Conneeticut Ave., Tel. Sterling 9769 :dited. Prep: e facuity. Sm: es for college or busi- I classes. Supervise pew Fully acer ness. 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Senora Calles recently | underwent an operation at a Boston hospitai D C, JULY LENGTHY SESSION LIVENS CAMPAIGN |Many Issues Fomented by Congress for Use in Presi- dential Battie. By the Associated Press. Warmed by the fires of controversy in Congress, the political thermometer the past week rose to unseasonable heights for mid-July. The long delay in congressional ad- journment not only has provided the | parties with a forum usually lacking after the nominating conventions, but it has given opportunity to drive in a good many legislative pegs on which major_political controversies may be | hung later. | To the general alertness of political speculation and expectancy the organ- | ized drys have contributed materially by their meeting here to draw up | partial plan of campaign. They ar: |cided to work for prohibition candi- | dates for Congress. but to await Presi- Went Hoovers speech of acceptance | next monih before passing ) | the presidential contest. Those who | hoped Senator Borah might become the candidate of a prohibitionist-backed | third party found him steadfastly re- | fusing to do so. | Garnef Hammers G. O. P. | Speaker Garner, . the to stand, until the end. at the center of issue-making on Gapitol Hill. While Gov. Roosevelt was on a vacation cruise up the New England coast, his running mate hammered incessantly at Repub- lican policies in Washington and rx- | pounded by action his conception of the Democratic claim to support from the | masses. Garner's_insistence on a relief bill providing Federal loans to individuals as well as to banks collided with a Hoover veto bristling with charges of “unsound” economic thought. _Gar- ner's deciding vote wrote into another bill a provision allowing for publicity of future Reconstruction Finance Cor- porations loans, sternly opposed by the President er's encouragement lifted the possibility of a sweeping Treasury investigation to a point where administration officials advised it would not be helpful to the busness structure of the country. Thus at three points did the Speaker lay the foundation for possible cam- paign issues. But he was ablv seconded In the Senate Democrats and insurgent or near-insurgent Senators put in taeir oars repeatedly. Senate Follows Lead. Glass of Virginia, long a prohibition- ist. put on the calendar a new amend- ment to replace the eighteenth. Cou- zens of Michigan, a Republican often out of sympathy with administration | fiscal policies, became head of a com- mittee to investigate the reconstruction | loans. Norris of Nebraska, who already has bolted to Roosevelt, put into the ecord an accusation thatl the Presi- ent had sought to choke the Trade Commission’s power inquiry. Perhaps the most intercsting pos- sibilities_of all center about the de- cision of Senator Borah, as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, to held recess hearings on the St. Lawrence waterway treaty. It seems a safe pre- ¢iction that Gov. Roosevelt, whose New York State has a large stake in the St Lawrence negotiations, will be one of the witnesses. To_the accusations of its opponents the Republican campaign organization has launched a reply suggestive more of attack than defense. “Viewing with alarm” was the keynote of two cabinct officers as they took to the stump and auestioned both the effectiveness and the safety of the leadership of Roose- velt and Garner. At Boston, opening the Republican | campaign. Secretary Ogden Mills de- udgment on | ) he Democratic | | nominee for Vice President, continued | 17, 1932—PART ONE. Star’s Ex-Husband Scores Hollywood, Denies Engagement “They Don’t Make Them Like Ann Harding,” Says Bannister, By the Associated Press. DETROIT, July 18.—Harry Bannister, who didn't want to be known as Ann Harding’s husband and has been much in the public eye as her ex-husband for some weeks, reached Detroit this eve- | ning on his fiight from Hollywood. He brought down his single-seater | | plane at the city airport and smilingly answered questions about his rumored | engagement to Nancl Lyon of Los An-i | geles. B Hollywood 1s the champlonship town | when it comes to broadcasting anythiny | for the sake of publicity,” "he said, “That's all there is to it.” “But Hollywood insists you are going | to marry Miss Lyon,” he was reminded. | g he s & lovely girl, but she 1§ 18 |and I am 94 5 “How old did you say you are>" | He whispered enother figure, more than 50 years less. | “It's said Miss Lyon resembles Mis: M | Harding a great deal” suggested. “No; she doesn't” said Bannister. “They don’t make them like Ann Hard- Pfter a visit to his sister, Mrs. James A. Seltz, Bannister said, he will fly to New York, probably in about a week, then to London and a possible stage contract. EUROPEAN AGREEMENT HELD “CROOKED” PLOT Move 'rcwar_d Cancell‘a(ion of War Debts Is Seen by William R. Hearst. the interviewer By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 16.—The “gen- tlemen's agreement” at the Lausanne Reparations Conference was branded | “a crooked conspiracy by European confidence men and their American confederates to rob the American peo- ple” by Willlam Randolph Hearst to- night. The newspaper publisher interpreted the agreement as a move toward can- cellation of the war debts owed the United States “We won the war. We won it for ourselves, We won it for the allies,” Mr. Hearst said in a radio address “We may not have saved the world for democracy, but we saved it for bolshevism, or Fascism, or Hitlerism, or what have vou. Anyhow we did a good American job “Germany has paid to date $8,000.- 000.000 in indemnity and under the Lausanne compromise would pay less than $1.000.000.000 more. The United States, under the proposed debt can- cellation. would pay $11.000,000,000 to the allies. Thus the defeated nation, Germany. would actually pay less in- demnity than the victorious nation, the United States.” clared the Democratic presidential nominee had “no plan” for economic recovery, and no qualifications roaching those of President Hoover. tary Patrick Hurley. speaking at Columbus, ridiculed the Roosevelt prom- ise of “a new ceal” and declared Gar- ner's record as Speaker of the House was one of unsound preachments and wasteful governmental spendin-~. Another thread of this argument is expected to be taken up in Gov. Roose- velt's speech tomorrow at Hampton Beach. N. H. and other orators on both sides will be busy even before the Republicans officially open with the Hoover acceptance ceremony. HOOVER DRY STEP HOPE OF BAPTISTS Northern Convention Expres- sion Added to Stand-Pat Resolution. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, July 16.—Hope that President Hoover “may declare himself afresh” in favor of prohibition y the National Northern Baptist Convention here today as the delegates pledged themselves to battle in behalf of the eighteenth amendment p€nces. and the Volstead act. ’rhle expression cogcerning the Presi- dent’s attitude was added by the con- vention, by unanimous vote, to & reso- lution which called for unswerving sup- port of the present dry laws, President Is Commended. At the same time the convention add- ed to the resolution a “desire to com- mend President Hoover for improvement in the enforcement of the laws made in pursuance of the eighteenth amend- o M “Gratification” was also expressed “that Congress has repcatedly refused to favor the attempts made by her wet members to so change the law as to in- crease the alcoholic content of salable beverages.” Speaks For Itself. Dr. Abraham Legrand of Milwaukee, chairman of the Resolutions Committee, said the committee had not considered indorsing President Hoover directly, nor the Republican platform. He said “the manifesto speaks for itself.’” By its action. the convention joined the Southern Baptist organization in pledging the 6,500,000 Baptists in America in support of prohibition and for strengthened enforcement efforts The jmmediate objective, the resolu- tion said, was election of dry Senators and Representatives in Congress. PUBLISHERS MARK THIRTIETH SESSION Southern Association Gathering at Asheville to Open Tomorrow for Three Days. By the Associated Press. ASHEVILLE, N. C. July 16—The Southern Newspaper Publishers' Asso- ciatlon, composed of members in 15 Southern States, is assembling in Ashe- ville for its annual meeting. ‘The association was organized in At- lanta and this vear will mark its 30th anniversary. Pive years ago, on its silver anniversary. the meeting was held in Atlanta. but the majority of the annual conventions have taken place in Asheville. Clark Howell. jr. business manager of the Atlanta Constitution, is president ' of the 8. N. P. and Cranston Wil- liams is the secretary-manager. The convention begins Monday and continues through Wednesday One of the features is the annual golf tournament Monday afternoon. Mem- bers will contest in one section and all others attending the convention are placed in another section. The prizes will be on exhibition at the Grove Park Inn, where the convention sessions are held. Carries Snake in Pocket. G. E. Matheney. United States Agri- culture Department agent at Morrison. Ill, carries a three-foot fox snake in his coat pocket, They're “pals,” Mathe- ney says. & fot when used on separate power meter Cooting NEW BRITISH OFFER MADE T0 IRELAND |End of Tariff War Proposed for Agreement on Further Conferences. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, July 16.—Great Britain today offered to call off the Anglo- Irish tariff war if an agreement could | be reached with the Free State for a | basis of continued discussion of differ- The British government previ- | ously had offered to arbitrate and President De Valera of the Free State had accepted, but the conditions of arbitration could not be agreed upon. The new British offer also contained the provisi that i would pay the detaulted lana snnoiice due on June 30, and agree on terms for arbitration. Great Britain was will- ing to call off economic hostilities. WELCOME HOME WARM, Dublin Crowds Enthusiastic Over De Valera, Despite Failure, DUBLIN, Irish Free State, July 1 () —Enthusiastic crowds grected Bres) t Eamon De Valera this evening he returned from London, where his discussions with Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald about the Anglo- Irish controversy resulted in deadiock and apparently cleared the way for economic warfare between the two na- tir)’ns t was said authoritatively after Free State president got back that Lh‘:;: were no immediate prospects for re- sumption of the negotiations with Britain. Unless there is a last-minute upset, the Free State government bill authorizing the imposition of tariffs against British goods will go through all stages in parliament next week and will become effective immediately. This bill is in retaliation against 20 per cent duties recently enacted by Britain against the principal imports from the Free State Commenting on the failure of the peace negotiations, the Irish Press, De Valera official organ, said that if Britain has a weapon in restrictions on Irish trade, the Free State has exactly as keen a weapcn, for it can produce | every necessity of life or get from other nations everything that Britain sells here. A government commission will be established, the Irish Press said, to make contact with sources of supply on the continent and elsewhere, thus elimi- g British middlemen. COUNTERFEIT CHARGED LAREDO. Tex., July 16 (#) —Three men were indicted at Monterrey, Mex- ico, today on charges of possessing and selling counterfeit Texas State cigarette tax stamps and possessing and manu- facturing dies with the intention of defrauding the State of Texas. The accused men were Charles B. Craig of Fert Worth, Franz Jacobs of Germany and E. 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