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Washington News he Fp Pa18q1 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g Sfap WASHINGTON, D. €, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1932. ANACOSTIA PARK PLAN MODIFICATION BEING CONSIDERED Number of Islands Woutd Be Built in Lake on -East Side. NATIONAL ARBORETUM IS FACTOR IN CHANGE ‘Wild Rice Area Would Be Laid Out to Encourage Use by Birds as Sanctuary. A modified plan to develop Anacostia Park is n the making. This plan provides creating a number of islands, with different heights, in the Jake on the east side, upstream of Ben- | ning Bridge, instead of one large lake, with one island in the center, and a considerable area devoted to wild rice, | 1o encourage development of a bird eanctuary The Anacostia Park Project Beoard— comprising Licut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3rd, director of Public Buildings and Public | Parks: Maj. John C. Gottwalls, Engi- | neer Commissioner of the District, and Maj. Joseph D. Arthur, jr., District en- | gineer for tho War Department for the vashington Area—is now studving the proposal for altering the park plan. | Arboretum to Be Factor. E. A Schmitt, engineer in Maj. Arthur's office, who represented _the ‘Army officer, who is now at Fort Humphreys, Va., on reserve training ;. at the Tecent board meeting, said that the creation of ‘the national tum is a factor in the modifica- tion program. The naticnal arboretum act, he ex- plained, directs that upon issuance of an executive order by the President cer- tain areas of Anacostia Park would be turned over to the Department of Agri- culture for use as an arboretum. Cer- tain minor changes in channel dimen- sion appear desirable under House Docu- ment 308, dealing with navigation, irri- gation, hvdro-electric development and ficed control. Nine years have elapsed since the last modified project for the park was adopted. H Informal conferences have been he!d' with Department of Agricuiture officials | and the board now proposes to obtain a | formal st ment from them as t> what areas they cCesire to use and how they Wwish them developed. Present indica- ticns, Mr. Schmitt said, are that there 4] be. instead of cne long lake at the side of the Anacostia River, from Potomac Electric Power Co.'s plant Dictrict line, a bird sanctuary will ' d in some of the wild marsh | As wild rice requires a tidal flow for growing. Mr. Schmitt ex- that this food for wild life can- | be s:cured with a constant level In order to present properly the kinds of aquatic growth, s islands and natural shores idered for the smaller east t r T n ¢ nu! w co which is grouped around the Shaw y pond. Acquisition of the Shaw lily | <till being held in abeyance. struction of the new $600,000 Benning Bridge by the District govern- ment will likely be used as a model for other bridges in Anacostia Park, con- sidering bridge clearances and under- passes for park roads. | Pleasure Use Is Seen. As no appreciable commercial navi- | gating is anticipated in that area, ulti- Mmate use of the park locks to pleasure | boating, Mr. Schmitt said, and it now | scems that a clearance 15 feet above | mean high water with changel spans | v least 40 feet wide for use with fixed | bridges (no draw span) is desirable. | The studies under House Document 308 were found to apply only on the! basis of flood control, and in order to| relieve flood conditions at Bladensburg. | and insure the freshet discharge in the District of Columbia, the channel of the Anacostia River is to be widened from 150 to 300 feet, and the top of cach bank of the stream carried at 13 feet above mean low water. Mr. Schmitt said all changes so far indicated show that if the modified plan now being considered is finally adopted there would be no change in the total authorized cost of the project. Congress set the cost of the Anacostia park project at $4,125,000, with an ad- ditional $150,000 to acquire marsh areas, as a result of the Ross tract decision, indicating that the United States did not own these areas. Five years more of work are anticipated in developing the Anacostia Park, which is now 76 or cent completed. So far a total of | $3.276,000 has been spent on it. Minor features, such as form and type of sea | walls and shore treatments, are being | considered by the board. as is also the maintenance required to keep the chan- | nels in proper condition. IS HELD FOR LIQUOR| Bond TIs Set at $1,500 for Scion of | Prominent Family—Jailed After Chase. Epecial Dispatch to The Star Cumberland, Md., July 18—William Himmler, jr., member of a well known Cumberland family, was held in $1,500 bond Saturday by United States Com- missioner Thomas J. Anderson, follow- ing arrest by Federal Prohibition In-, vestigatcrs William R, Harvey, Leon Poore and David H. Walker. Himmler, driving his automobile, led an exciting chase through streets and alleys to the Potomac River where offi- cers say he threw a gallon jug of liquor into the water. The jug was recovered by Officer Walker. The chase ended when Himmler, swerving into a curve, broke a spcke. The car was confiscated. The officers took Himmler to his home in La Vale where they seized a 50-gallon | still, eight barrels of mash and 60 gal- | lons of alleged whisky. Cecil L. Wilson, Westernpost, was held under $1,000 bond. Officers claim | they seized 93 bottles cf beer at his place. He is an alleged second offender, | having been fined $200 for a violation last September. Tony Arnone, cited to appear in con- P mection with raids which followed the State firemen’s convention at Frostburg, was held in $500. His brother, Frank, is also under bond on the same charge Frank Martz, an alleged employe of the pair, was held in $1,000. == | Home Near Completion. HAGERSTOWN, Md.. July 18 (Spe- cial) —The Olk Folks' Home, being es- tablished by the Reformed Synod here. will be ready for occupancy by Septem- ber 1. The synod recently purchased a large private residence in the sub- urbs with money willed it for that purpose. | women pilots, have beén entered. ‘vg Airport on Sunday. August 2 tran: | hopping each hurdie. 95 MARRIAGES TO 1 DIVORCE ‘ OCCUR IN DISTRICT DURING YEAR 5,316 Couples United Here in 1931, 30 Less | Than 1930 Total, According to Survey by Census Bureau. Although showing a small slump, there-are 25 marriages performed in the District to every divorce decrea signed, the Census Bureau announced today in compiling a report on marriages and divorces in the United States. The total marriages performed here during 1931, according to the report. were 30 less than the 5,346 performed during 1930. At the same time, the burcau said the District Supreme Court granted 215 di- vorces, an increase of 123 over 1920. In 1931, for the United States as a whole, 5.8 marriages for each diverce were reported, as against 5.9 in 1930. The District and New York State, each having but cne cause for absolute di- vorce, reported 25 and 22, respectively, while' the rates in other ranged from 12.1 marriages to each divorce in Georgia to 1.5 marriages to each di- vorce in Nevada. _ The number of divorces in the Dis- trict increased, the bureau pointed cut, because of additional court facilities. The percentage rate for divorces was not computed by the bureau, however, as the number repcrted for 1930 was less then 100. The bureau said there were 1,060,095 marriages performed in the United | States during 1931, as compared with 1,128,572 in 1930. These figures repre- sent a decerase of 68,477, or 6.1 per cent. There was a decrease of 8.4 per cent from 1929 to 1930. During 1931 there were 183,695 di- vorces granted throughout the country as compared with 191,591 in 1930, rep- resenting a decrease of 7,896, or 4.1 | per cent, as ageinst a decrease of 4.9 per cent from 1920 to 1930. There | were 4,338 marriages annuled in 1931, as compared with 4,370 in 1930. Only { four of these occurred in the District, | &5 against 21 in 1930. On July 1, 1931, the bureau estimated | the population of the United States at 1 124,070,000, and on July 1, 1930, 123,- | 191,000. On the basis of these esti- | mates, the number of marriages per {1,000 of the population was 8.5 per cent |in 1931, as against 9.2 in 1930, and the | number of divorces per 1,000 was 1.49 | in_1931, as against 1.56 in 1930. The divorce market at Reno caused | | Nevada to show a larger increase than any other State. The bureau found that Nevada likewise had a bigger in- | crease in marriages than any other State. | " Its divorce increase was 101.6 per | cent; the marraiges jumped 25.1 per | cent. TWO AR CONTESTS WL BEGIN HERE Amateur Race and National Derby to Make Start From Hoover Airport. ’ ‘Washington will become the starting point for a secord great air race next month, it was revealed today by the National Aeronautic Association. The National Capital has been selected as the takeoff D for~the second an- nual eamateur air pilot cruise for the Charles Lanicr Lawrance Trophy. The amateur pilots are to take off from Washington-Hoover Airport at 9 am. Saturday, August 2% for the National Air Races. opening the same | day at Cleveland. The race wili be by | way of a Southern route, going by Co- lumbus, Ohio. At least 50 entrants are | expected and among entries already | received are those of two amateur | pilots _of the National Capital—Mrs. | John T. “Peggy” Remey, president of the Betsv Ross Corps and daughter of Beale R. Howard, and Chester War- rington. chairman of the Washington Air Derby Committee. The other great race to start here will be the Atlantic wing of the national sweepstakes air derby for the Cord tro- phy and more than $20.000 in cash prizes. Approximately 70 planes, many piloted by and This Hoo- The scontinental derby route is to Cleveland by wey of Dallas, Tex.. where planes of the Atlantic and Pacific wings will meet, continuing on to Cleveland together. Amateur Pilots Orly. The amateur cruise which is to start from Washington will be restricted to amateur pilots, who will match their skill in fiying a true course between control_points. Among the early entrants, in addi- tion to the two local pilots, are Law- rance Turnure, F. Willilam Zelcer, Jes- world-famous men race will start from Washington-: | samine Goddard, Granville B. Smith, Alan Eustis, winner of the first cruise last year; Robert Buck, youthful speed fiyer; Laura Morgan. Robert Jackson, Charles M. Taylor, 2nd; James Eb A. H. Swett, jr.. Malcolm Whitaker. D1 Harry V. Spaulding and Dr. J. D. Brock, Kansas City physician, who has estab- lished a world record by flying every day for more than two years. The decision to start the amateur pilots from Washington makes this city the starting point for two of the three reat cross-country derby races which will feature the 1932 National Air Races, now an outstanding world aviation | classic. a All three derbies are to finish at Cleveland on Saturday, August 27, the opening day of the National Air Races, and are expected to establish a world record for airport arrivals in one day. For the first time in aviation history, national amateur air pilot champions, both men and women, will be selected by aerial competition in the National Air Races. s The amateur flying competitions, in- cluding the derby starting from Wash- ington, are being sponsored by the United States Amateur Air Pilots’ As- sociation. The events are being arranged under direction of a_Technical Committee which includes Edward P. Warner, for- mer Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics; John S. Reaves, presi= dent of the association; Charles H. Gale, William R. Enyart, secretary of the National Aeronautic Association: Prof. Alexander P. Klemin, F. William Zelcer and a representative of the | Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce. yet to be named. At the National Air Races, the ama- teurs, including several ~Washing- tonians will compete in three sports- men pilot closed course races and a number of special amateur events, one of which will be a contest to select the national emateur air pilot champion for men and women's champion. The selection of these two outstanding pilots, as well as the ranking of the first 10 amateur pilots. both men and wemen, will be decided by an smateur pilots’ precision pentathlon. The pentathlon will consist of a five- lap race, spot landings, barrier land- | ings. bombing of a target and aero- batics. Another amateur event is to be a hurdle race in which the competitors will be required to clear five hurdles, making a three-point landing after They will fly three laps of a course, hopping the five | hurdles on each lap. . Inter-Club Relay Race. Another event for the amateurs is to be an inter-club relay race for mem- bers of recognized flying clubs, each club to be represented by a team of four members. Each member of the team will fly a lap, land and turn the controls over to the next member until all four have flown. To commemorate inauguration of amateur events at the National Air Races, teur events will be presented a gold medal as evidence of participation in the first amateur contests ever held at a national air race in America. In the past all National Air Races have been predominantly professional and military. Beginning this year, however, the races are to be divided into three categories—"‘amateur,” “open” and “professional.” In the open con- tests amateur pilots may meet profes- sionals in contests of aerial skill. every contestant in the ama- | SUSPECT RETURNED N HENRY SLAYING |Alleged Gangster of Philadel- phia Brought Here on Murder Charge. | Charles Harris, alias Frankie Blum, | was brought here from Philadelphia by Deputy Urited States marshals today |to face a charge of first-degree murder in the recent shooting of Milton W. (Milsie) Henry, Washington gambler. Harris, who was arrested in Philadel- phia on a murder warrant issued by | United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage, was taken to the District Jail afier being questioned briefly at police headquarters. He will be ar- raigned before Commissioner Turnage next Monday. Meanwhile, according to Inspector Frank S. W. Burke, chief of detectives, he will be questioned extensively by Detective Sergts. Floyd Truscott, Den- nis J. Murphy and other members of the homicide” squad working on the slaying. Harris was brought here after he had waived extradition, declaring he could produce nine witnesses who would testi- fy he was at home with his wife at the time of the shooting, which occurred | last April. Detective Sergt. John C. | Dalglish and Frank O. Brass testified | against Harris when the suspect ap- | peared before a Philadelphia federal Jjudge, who issued the order for his re- moval here. Henry was slain by two men who waylaid him in the 3400 block of Brown street about a block from his Sixteenth strect apartment. After firicg five| charges into Henry's body from a) sawed-off shotgun, the men fled in an| automobile. Police will attempt to prove Harris| was the “trigger man” in the shooting. | | Anotter alleged Philadelphia gangster, | Henry Davis, was arrested as the driver of the murder car, but subsequently| was released by Turnage. ARLINGTON CRASHES | CAUSE HURTS T0 FIVE Four Women Are Injured in Col- lision—Texan's Car Hits Culvert. | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. | _ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT | HOUSE, Va., July 18.—Two automobile | accidents inArlington County yesterday | resulted in the injury of five persons, | none - seriously A collision between an automobile | operated by Walter J. Reck of the 1200 | block Kearney street northeast, Wash- | ington, and Wirt Grimes, colored, of | | Philadelphia, resulted in the injury or‘ four occupants of the former car. These hia. Al were treated at George- |town Hospital for cuts about the fnwce,, | Thurston B. Price of Marshall, Tex.,| suffered a severe cut on the chin and | an injury to the chest when his auto- | mobile crashed into a culvert on the Washington-Alexandria _ pike near | Four-Mile Run. He is in Alexandria Hospital, where it was said today his injuries are not serious. Price told police he was forced from the road by |a truck that failed to stop. KENSINGTON MAN HURT IN SENECA ROAD CRASH | Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. EENECA, Md., July 18—Ellis Clag- | ett, 24, of Ken.sinewny. suffered n?r:i tured nose, lacerations of the face and {head and a rainful arm injury, when an automobile he was driving collided with another car on the Seneca road, | near here, Saturday night. Members of the rescue squad of the Rockville Volunteer Fire Department took him to the Montgomery County General Hospital, Sandy Spring, where |it was said his condition was not serious. | VETERAN FOUND DEAD | Bert McLaughlin, 45, a crippled war | veteran, was found dead in his apart- | ment in the 2100 block of Pennsylvania avenue yesterday. He was discovered by James Clark. a colored switchboard cperator, who investigated when Mc- { Laughlin failed to answer repeated tele- phone calls. Dr. A, Magruder MacDonald, acting coroner, issued a certificate of death from natural causes. He said McLaugh- lin probably had been dead since Tues- y. 1,000 Attend Picnic. CLAGGETTSVILLE, July 18 (Spe- clal).—Approximately a thousand per- sons from this and nearby counties at- tended the annual picnic of the Sun- day school of Montgomery M. P. Church, held Saturday on the church lawn here, Rev, Bertram M. Osgood of the Rock- ;flh Baptist Church delivered an ad- iress, WASHINGTON BoY AMONG FOUR DEAD FROM DROWNING George " Gaumond Topples From Boat Near Chain Bridge in View of Mother. GLEBE CREEK VICTIM § IS EDMONSTON LAD Charles Abbate, 15, of Bay Ridge, Md., and William T. Wilson of Mill Creek, Md., Also Dead. Feur persons, one a Washingtonian, were drowned in Washington and near- by Maryland yesterday. The Washingtonian was Gecrge Gau: mond, 5, of 415 Fifth street northeast, Wwho lost his life when he fell into the Potomac from a rowboat he was riding with his mother and two of her friends near Chain Bridge yesterday. The boy's father, the only member of the party who could swim, had gone ashore a few minutes before. Falling from a rowboat in which he was riding with his mother and two of her f{riencs near Chain Bridge yester- day, George Gaumond, 5, of 415 Fifth street northeast, drowned in the Poto- mac before his father, the only swim- mer in the party, who had gone ashore a few minutes before, could get back. ‘The parents, Albert and Catherine Gaumond, accompanied by the two friends, Miss Harriet Hoover, 25 street, and Glenn Ohler, 3215 U street, had driven to the Potomac and hired the boat a short time before. Mrs. Gaumond was sittipg in the stern, just ahcad of her son, when he toppled backward into the water. She attempted to pull him back into the boat, but the swift current swept him beyond her reach and he disappeared. Informed of the accident, Gaumond summoned rivermen, but it was not until several hours later that the boy's body was recovered by harbor police. Gaumond is manager of a store in the 800 block of Seventh street, having moved here frcm New York about a year ago. Their son’s body will be sent to New York for burial Body Is Recovered. The body of Bernard Dearstine, 15- year-old son of Charles L. Dearstine of Edmonston. Md., who was drowned yes- terday in Glebe Creek, near Annapolis, was recovered early today and now is | in an undertaking parlor at Hyattsville. He was one of three drowned yester- day in the Annagolis vicinity. The oth- {ers were Charles Abbate, 5. of Bay Ridge, Md,, and William T. Wilson of Mill Creek, Md Young Dearstine lost his life, wit- nesses say, when the boat in which he was a passenger and whieh was being towed by a moter launch overturned when caught in the wake of a second motor boat. George Dearstine, a brother, and his wife and John Powell, owner of the boat, also were in the craft. Powell managed to support George and his wife until the towing boat turned about and rescued them, but Bernard sznk. It was some time before his body was recovered. Fu- neral services will be held Wednesday. Sister Helpless to Aid. Young Atbate was drowned when he stepped into deep watcr at Berger's Shore. His sister, Evangeline, and two boy companions, were unable to rescue him and before their screams could attract help the boy drowned. His y was recovered after two hours. ilson, father-in-law of Jesse Fish- er, Annapolis alderman, and president of the Maryland Volunteer Piremen’s Association, lost his life at Mill Creek, when he apparently suffered a heart attack in 5 feet of water. The body was recovered in three quarters of an hour. Certificates of accidental drowning were issued in all three cases. SANDBERG'S ALERTNESS TRAPS SLAYING SUSPECT Man Arrested in Baltimore Found to Be One Wanted on Murder Charge in New Jersey. ‘Through the alertness of Lieut. Fred Sandberg, fingerprint expert of the Metropolitan Police Department, a man arrested in Baltimore July 10 on a concealed weapon charge was revealed | today to be John Hart, 33, colored, wanted for the murder of Timothy O'Sullivan in New Jersey. O'Sullivan was shot to death while seated in a parked car with a young voman on Neck Lane road, Elizabeth, N. J., on the night of July 8. Two days later Hart was picked up in Baltimore, and his fingerprints sent here to determine whether or not he had a local record. It was then Sand- berg discovered the prints were similar to those of the New Jersey slayer. | yea N | _ The bill becomes effective when the Elizabeth authorities were advised of Hart's whereabouts at once. COURTkTAKEé 10 YEARS OFF ASSAULT SENTENCE Sightseeing Car Operator Must Serve 15 Years on Charge of 18-Year-0ld Girl. District Supreme Court Justice F. D. Letts has changed the 25-year sentence imposed some weeks ago on Harry C. Robertson, operator of a sightseeing ear, who was convicted of criminally assaulting an 18-year-old girl, to 15 years in the penitentiary. Attorney E. Russel Kelly, representing the prisoner, had noted an appeal from the previous sentence, but decided to abandon it when the court reduced the term of imprisonment. Assistant United States Attorney Julian I. Richards rep- resented the Government. —_————— 18,069 PILOTS IN U. S. Comterce Department Statement Shows 10,685 Aircraft. There were approximately two and one-half airplane pilots holding licenses for each licensed atrcraft in the country T Lo Department statement A Commerce ber of aircraft and today glving the mumber & 0 0,060 in the country, Pllots and 7.439 atrcraft holding active wvernment licenses July 1. There %"m, however, in the country 10,635 aircraft, 3,196 of which did not hold epartment licenses. e eport pilots totaled 7,021 and limited commercial licenses numbered licenses, one indus- Miss Minnie Sadle of Washington, Miss Dr. Glen Swiggett, in charge of the group. PAGE B—-1 Oratory Winners Sail for Europe WASHINGTON GIRL AMONG GEOUP WHICH LEFT SATURDAY ABOARD TUSCANIA. This group of winners in the National Oratorical Contest was photographed aboard the liner Tuscania at New | York as they were about to sail for a tour of Europe as their reward for winning in the zone finals of the contest. They are, left to right: Mrs. Glen Swiggett, John H. Jarman of Oklahoma City, John P. Ansley of Birmingham, Ala.; Murial Herzstein of New York, John J. Scanlon of Springfield, Mas: and . P. Photo. HEARING 15 SET ON EXTRADITION Man Wanted in Montgomery on Charges of Contempt and Non-Support. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., July John J. Essex, a veterinarian in the United States Public Health Service, and contempt of court, will be arraigned in Supreme Court at Burrough Hall, | Brooklyn, N. Y., for & removal hear- {ed_here today. | Montgomery County Police force, left today to attend the hearing, at which extradition papers signed by Gov. Albert C. Ritchie will be presented in an effort to have Dr. x -ofdered turned over to authorities of this juris- :irl’chllnn and brought to Rockville for al. |Island, N. Y. is wanted here, police {say, for failing to support his wife and and for obtaining a divorce in Reno lon December 13 after an injunction {handed down in the County Circuit | Court to restrain him from divorcing his wife, is said to have been served on him by a deputy sheriff in the Ne- vada city. Dr. and Mrs. Essex had been mar- ried for 24 years and had made their home in Chevy Chase during that time, ilocal authorities said. Dr. Essex for- merly was connected with the United States Public Health Service at Wash- ington, D. C, while he served as a captain during the war, APPROVAL EXPECTED FOR VETERANS’ BILL Reduces Interest Rate on Loans on Adjusted Service Compensation Certificates. By the Associated Press. Along with other di measures, the bill reducing et Tates on loans of veterans’ adjusted compensa- tion certificates 1s awaiting President Hoover’s signature at the White House. here has been no indication when Mr. Hoover would make it law, though it was believed he would ap- prove it. He has 10 days from Saturday in_which to sign. The bill reduced the interest on the loans from 41; per cent to 3% per cent and applies on loans already made, as well as those which may be made in the future. A provision of the measure also per- mits IOT;“ on certificates less than two rs old. President signs it. e NEW NAVAL AIDE ON DUTY White House Juniors Joined by Lieut. Pound, Kansas Native. Lieut. Harold C. Pound, U. 8. N,, to- day reported at the White House for duty as cne of the several junior naval aldes. Lieut. Pound is a native of Kansas. He was appointed to the Naval Academy from Oklahoma and was graduated in 1925. Three months ago he was de- tailed for duty in the Naval Communi- cations Division in this city, after hav- ing served two years in the Asiatic station. e e Eait FOOD DROPS 152 PCT. Federal Retail Price Summary Cov- ers 51 Cities for Year. ‘What your food cost, the Labor De- rmn& said today, was 151 per cent less . on June 15, 1932, than June 15, 1931, . The retail prices in 51 cities, its sum- mary showed, dropped 1 per cent from May to June this year. FOUND DEAD IN BATH Hugh E. Williams, Pharmacist’s Mate in Navy, Is Victim. ! Hugh E. Williams, 33, pharmacist’s mat2 ‘m the United States Navy, was found dead in a bath tub at the Conti- nental Hotel last night. Dr. Magruder heart Williams . was Annapolis. itives andris were notified. g at iving. g O 18—Dr. | sought here on charges of non-support | { ing tomorrow morning, it was announc- | | Detective Theodore Voliten of the! Dr. Essex, wko is stationed at Salem | | family, who live in Chevy Chase, Md., | Globe Trotter SOCIAL WORKER STUDIES WORLD CONDITIONS. JACK LAVICH. —Star Staff Photo, Jack Lavich, who has been living for the last nine years in Leningrad, Rus- sia, stopped off in Washington today at the outset of a hitch-hiking tour of the world to study social conditions. After | the tour is over he expects to write a book about it. Lavich, whose home is in New York, returned to this country from Russia eight months ago. His hiking tour will take him from Washington to Mexico, down through South America, across to South Africa, up through Russia and back to New York. Although he ex- pects the trip to occupy most of the next five years, be is starting with only a knapsack of provisions and equip- ment. Lavich will leave Washington after trying to get President Hoover and a few Senators to sign their names in a book he is carrying for that purpose. HOME FOR AGED INMATE HELD VICTIM OF ACCIDENT Fred Herman Struck by Automo- bile May 10, Dying of Inju- ries July 14. A verdict of accident was returned by a_coroner's jury today in the death of Fred Herman, an_inmate of the Home for the Aged, 'ho was _struck by an automobile May 10. The car was operated by Joseph Thur of the 1800 block of Potomac avenue. Her- man died July 14. The jury held for the action of the grand jury Ernest Bolden, colored, 25, who is charged with the murder of his wife, Elsie Bolden, and his mother-in- law, Mrs. Janie Plummer. The shoot- ing occurred Priday night in the 1200 block of Thirty-seventh street. OFFICERS ARE INSTALLED Honorary Lile Member Conducts Ceremony by Winchester Rotarians Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘WINCHESTER, Va., July 18.—Officers elected by the Winchester Rotary Club, one of the oldest of the district. were installed by the Rev. Dr. F. T. McFaden, an honorary life member. Charles F. Coffman succeeded W. R. Legge as g:esldmL Other officers are John F. an, jr., vice president, and L. D. Arnold, secretary-treasurer. They and W. R. Legge, A. H. Jackson, Percy D. Miller and Herbert Solenberger con- stitute the board of directors. BABY FOUND IN RIVER Body of Boy 4 Months Old Not Identified. ‘The body of & 4-month-old baby boy was dragged from the Potomac River this morning by a_ colored fisherman. The body tly had been in the water for some time. Willilam Jones, colored, 2633 I street, brought the body to the third precinct :‘;-‘!hn and said he found it while fish. 1, just ite Co:;}pl:x‘k Police had ington Gas y it late today. been unable to iden Aid Plans Lawn Party. WALKERS CHAPEL, Va. July 18 (Special) —The Ladies’ Aid Society of ‘Walkers Chapel Church is completing plans for a benefit lawn party and cold supper to be given at the church to- morrow evening. HOOVER CREDITED WITH LEGISLATION |All Constructive ‘ldeas Orig- | inated With President, De- clares Representative Snell. By the Associated Press. i Fault finding by Democratic leaders with President Hoover's leadership today | brought a reply from Representative | Snell that the Chief Executive sponsored all the constructive legislation enacted irto law this session. | . “His leadership has been pre-eminent | from the very beginning, and if the | work done by Congress this session turns out to be successful, he is entitled to | the credit for originating the ideas,” the | House Republican leader said. | " Snell, who shortly will notify Hoo- | ver formally of his renomination, was | commenting on statements issued by | Senator Robinson and Representative | Rainey, the Democratic leaders, in which they criticized Mr. Hoover, charg- | ing lack of leadership. “I want to say, without fear of suc- cessful contradiction,” Snell told new. papermen, “that on the sixth of Ila: October, at a conference at the White | House_'attended by a delegation of | Democrats and Republicans from the | House and Senate, the President an- nounced practically the entire program | of economic, financial and relief mat- ters just about 2s they passed through Congress. * * * “I appreciate that mone could have been enacted without the co-operation of Democrats in the Scnat> and House, because there is no real Republican majority in either body. For such co- operation as they gave us, I certainly am willing to give credit, but I am not in accord with the statement that the | President furniched no leadership. | “So far as I know, not a single con- structive suggestion coming from the Democratic party has been enacted | into law.” 'EMPLOYE OF NAVY | 33 YEARS TO RETIRE Frank §. Parks Comes Under Econ- omy Act Tomorrow—To Be Given Tribute. Frank S. Parks, 1609 Hobart street, who has been an employe of the Navy Department more than 33 years, will be | retired tomorrow, under provisions of the economy act. In a brief ceremony | at 10 am. Mr. Parks will be presented | with a bilfold by his associates in the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, with | Rear Admiral J. J. Cheatham, pay- of the bureau, acting as master of cere- | monies. Mr. Parks, Navy Department officials <aid today, has “an enivable record for punctuality and devotion to duty.” He is an active member of the District | Council, Royal Arcanum, having served as one of its officers for a number of years. He has devoted much time to study along genealogical lines. and is & member of the District Chapter of the Sons of American Revolution. 4 Mr. Parks was born December 13, 1861 at Charlestown, Mass. In Janu- ary, 1899, he was appointed to & posi- tion with the Bureau of Supolies and Accounts at the Boston Navy Yard, and in November of that year was transfer- | red to V7ashington, where he has been continuously since. |RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE « CHIEF CLERK PROMOTED Former Richmond Division Head Takes Over,Third Region, Including Four States. Gvf(;!(-)l Dispatch to The Star. RDONSVILLE, Va., July 18—T. P. Elam of Gordonsville, former chlef clerk of the railway mail service of the Richmond division, with headquar- ters.in Richmond, has been promoted to superintendent ‘of the third division and is now located in Washington. Elam will have general supervision over the mail service in Virginia, West Vir- ginia, Maryland and North Carolina He succeeds C. G. Goodloe, retired. Mr. Elam entered the railway mail service in 1889 as a clerk on a Chesa- | peake & Ohio Railway train between Washington and West Virginia. He went to Richmond as chief of the Rich- mond division railway mail service in 1900, at which time he had 50 men under him. There are about 275 so employed now. Mr. Elam is succeeded by John M, Lancaster, his former assistant, and Mr. Lancaster is succeeded by A. E. Bowers, who becomes assistant chief clerk. | master general of the Navy and chief | bruises Mr. | shoulders when an automobile in which HOOVER T0 ISSUE SICK LEAVE ORDER | UNDERNEW SET-UP Recommendations in Hands of Roop for Submission to President. UNIFORMITY IS SOUGHT; PROGRAM HELD SECRET Budget Bureau Director Feels En- tire Situation Should Be Fur- ther Straightened Out. Recommendations for revision of sick leave under the economy act so as to make it uniform so far as practicable throughout the Government service soon will be laid before President Hoover for his guidance in issuing an e: ur%t’i:' in the matter. * e € recommendations have been - p?r(d by the Interdepartmental Bg&::u of Slmp]lfied Office Procedure and have been placed in the hands of Director J. Clawson Roop of the Bureau of the Budget for study and consideration be- ffl;'t‘h reference to the President. € nature of the new progra up by the board is kgm mm$:m secret and will no. be made public until the President himself takes action and promulgates a new order on sick leave. The new regulations, howev , er, not expected to make sick leave a&f llql:,ttel}‘(m:}l;g:‘rll} as the present law is or sic] th;b Government, © - +"¢ throughout T instance, it was explained by Col Roop, there are some agencies iy the Government which have no sick leave at all under the law. It would not be possible, he explained, to give sick leave to those who have never had it. Considerable Disparity. Under the economy act, the Presi- dent is authorized to issue regulations “to obtain so far as practicable, uni- formity in the various executive de- partments 4nd independent establish- ments of the Government.” It is pro- vided, however, that “nothing herein £7all be construed as affecting the period during which pay may be al- lowed under existing laws for so called sick leave of absence.” This latter provision. it was pointed out. will still { make for a considerable disparity in the way in which sick leave can be administered v | To make the sick leave absolutely’ { uniferm throughout the whole Govern- ment eervice would require new legis- lation by Congress, according to Col. | Roop. who feels that the whole leave situation should be further straightened lout. As a theoretical proposition, Col. | Roop feels that a fair basis for new legislation might be 15 days’ sick leave { with authority to accumulate it up to { about three or four months. In the meantime, the Government | departments and establishments began | working out their own programs of oper- |ation in the mew fiscal vear under reduced appropriations and furloughs {of the economy act. ‘The Department of Justice, for in- | stance, which has suffered not only | the restriction of the economy act, but {also a 10 per cent cut of its appro- | priations, plans generally to operate now under the legislative furlough, | which provide for 24 days’ compulsory payless days off duty. Many employes | will probably take this furlough during | the Summer months, it was predicted, | during the time when work is lightest in_the department. The question of how the department will take up slack in order to come within its appropriations for the fiscal year will be dealt with through several | ways, it was explained—through not { filling vacancies, through shifting ap- tions where possible under au- t, and finally ‘administrative” | consideration of the | furlough. Postponed Till 1933, It was predicted, however, that opera- tion of this payless administrative fur- lough, designed to spread appropriations over personnel in order to prevent dis- missals, will be postponed until about the first of the year, when the depart- ment will know better how it is coming through the fiscal year with its appro- priations. Already several savings have been in- augurated by the department. All mes- sengers to judges in the United States courts, outside of the District of Colum- bia, wNere appropriations come from the District of Columbia act, have been furloughed indefinitely, and court criers have been abolished everywhere except in this city. The five-day week is considered “im- practicable” for the Department of Jus- tice, it was explained, and will not be put’ into effect for that department. Too many of the activities of this branch of the Government operate on schedules which would prevent inaugu- ration of a iive-day week, or would bring up so many complications as to cause more difficulty, and in some cases more expense, than weuld compensate for the proposed savings. It is now generally understood that President Hoover, having approved the decommendations of the Council of Personnel Administration on a five-day week, will issue no further orders on the matter, but will leave operation of a five-day Week to the discretion of the heads of departments and independent establishments. The council proposed that the five-day week be put into oper- ation where posfible. So far the Gov- ernment Printing Office and the Navy Yard are the only establishments here definitely to go on a five-day week. |CHEVY CHASE WOMAN IS INJURED IN CRASH | Automobiles Collide at Seeks Cor- ner—Both Drivers Are Arrested. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. # SEEKS CORNER, Md. July 18— Mrs. Nellie Gascon, 64 years old, of Chevy Chase, D. C., suffered a fract: right hip and severe of “"E‘Z she was riding was in collision with an- other machine at Carréll avenue and Bl;‘tr road here last night. rs. Gascon, according to police, flmngm-wdmeng;‘mnx aders of 19 Lincoln avenue, Takoma Md., while the operator of the second machine was said to be Carl F. Meyers g éuogh Georg:k avenue, Washington, . C. She was taken to the Washington Sanitarium for treatment. Policeman Lat