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he %b ening ke WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, C. & P. SAVING PUT NEAR 10 PER GENT AT UTILTY PROBE Salary Slash Used as Argu- ment for Lower Telephone Rates Here. HEARING T07RESUME ON VALUATION FIGURE Washington Second City in U. S. in Percentage of Subscribers, Engineer Says. Economies resulting to the Chesa- peake & Potomac Telephone Co. from laying off employes one day a week will be calculated and used in the rate case pending before the Public Utilities Commission as an additional argument for reduction in Washington's tele- phone rates, it was learned today. The public hearing before the com- mission was adjourned yesterday after a day's testimony on valuation figures. It will be resumed at 10 o'clock tomor- Tow. The lay-off plan was described in an Associated Press dispatch New York and was said to involve cut- ting the working week to five days. with an ompanying loss in pay Out of every dollar of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.’s expenses. the dispatch said, 65 cents goes in wages. A cut of one-sixth in wages, therefore, would mean a cut of more than 10 per cent in operating expenses, and the commission. which claims the rates of the local telephone system already pro- duce too much revenue, will use this saving to bolster its case for a rate re- duction. Rate Base Differs. The Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- phone Co. is a part of the A. T. & T. system, all of its capital stock being owned by the A. T. & T. At the hearing yesterday a difference of $9.000,000 developed between the claims of the commission and the com- pany as to what should be considered the rate base of the properties for the purposes of the present hearing. The difference between the figures for the reproduction cost new of the property today was_jmmaterial. the company claiming $31.990.000 (book cost) and the commission claiming $31.332,104 by calculations on a modified “split-in- ventory" basis But the company claimed the com- mission had no right to deduct depre- clation, this being a matter reserved to the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion, while the commission, through its witness, Thomas R. Tate, said that between six and a half and eight and a half million dollars should be de- ducted for depreciation, with an extra half-million-dollar deduction for prop- erty used wholly in interstate com- meree. Many Subscribers Here. These figures, arrived at by Tate from the company’s own inveniories and applying the service lives to the various pieces of property calculated by the company itself, were claimed by him to be conservative, znd the re- sulting valuation figure, less deprecia- tion of $22.926474 (an average of the two depreciation deductions), was said 0 be generous. H. R. Whiiing, a valuation engineer, testified for the commission that Wash- ington Is exceeded only by San Fran- cisco in the density of telephones in proportion to population and that this fact ought to make operating costs per subscriber here relatively low. REZONING FOR DAIRY STRUCTURE IS DENIED Prince Georges Commissioners Up- hold Planning Body, Claiming Interference With Park Plans. By o Staft Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md,, July 20.— After Irvin Owings, chairman of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, had declared that | rezoning of the propertv as commercial would interfere with nlans fcr park de- velopment, the Prince Georges County yesterda: the Tk and planning commission n_de- Alining to 'change the classification of 2 piece of property on Queen Chapel road near Ager road from residential to commercial. as requested by S. H. Harvey. Mr. Harvey planned to build a one-story dairy building on the prop- erty. The commissioners appropriated $1.000 for construction of a bridge cver Rock Creek Branch on the North Keys- Baden road and $300 to repair the Marlboro-Alexandria road. Resignation of Dewey Groves as chairman of the Melwood District Road Committee, was accepted and Reginald Pumphrey was appointed his successor. | FIRE-POLICE PROMOTIONS REQUIRE HOOVER 0. K. Notice by Civil Service Commis- sion Affects Several Under Consideration. The Police and Fire Departments have been notified by the Civil Service | Commission that the operation of the new company act, effective July 1, pro- hibits any promotions within the de- partments without the special permis- sion of President Hoover. Several promotions are under consid- eration in the Police Department now. ‘Vacancies exist for a captain, a lieu- tenant an da sergeant, the latter in the Women’s Bureau. The District Com- missioners, the Police Department has been informed, plans to request Presi- dent Hoover for authority to allow pro- motions to be made by heads of Police and Fire Departments. TWO CONTRACTS LET Infirmary Ward and Street Paving Are Authorized. ‘The Commissioners yesterday awarded a contract for construction of an in- firmary ward at the District Training School near Laurel. Md.. to the Catalano Construction Co. of Baltimore, Md. The bid was $74,500. The Highway Engineering & Con- struction Co. was given a contract at -~ ¥9A 558 for street paving and widening ' §be in various parts of the city. from | ARMY the Army-Navy Country Club. Katheri PUBLIC BUILDINGS MEETING DELAYD Commission to Consider Forming Organization to Care for Archives. The Public Buildings Commission to- | day postponed until a later date, to be announced by Chairman Smoot. the meeting scheduled for this morning to discuss a number of problems relating to allocation of space for several Gov- ernment agencies. Another question awaiting considera- tion by the commission is the formation | of an organization to take charge of the | Government archives that are to be { assembled in the Archives Buildirg | when it is completed. Plans for the { proposed heating plant for the Potomac Park group of buildings is another | problem that was to have been discussed | today. One of the next moves contemplated by the Federal Government is shifting the Federal Trade Commission. now at Eighteenth street and Constitution ave- nue, into another temporary building some two blocks westward. The Pan- American Union contemplates erection of & $1,000,000 office building on the site now occupied by the commission which is scheduled to be housed in ment of Labor units, Allocation of tpace in the new Justice Department Building, under construc- tion at Tenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, is another subject to be dis- cussed by the commission when it meets. 'CAMPAIGN PROBES AWAIT COMPLAINTS Senate Committee Rejects Missouri Senatorial Fight Protest as Insufficient. By the Associated Press. One senatorial investigating committee today is all set up and ready, but with no_place to go. That's the way Senator Howell, Re- publican, of Nebraska, presents the picture of the present status of the special Campaign Expenditures Com- mittee that he heads. Asked if he expected plenty of work after the campaigns get in full stride, Howell smiled and said: “Why. I think so.” He explained the committee couldn't investigate unless there were complaints. So far the committee has been asked to make only one inquiry, and that into the Democratic senatorial campaign in Missouri. ‘This was turned down on the ground that insufficient material to support an investigation was pre- sented. | ot SEEK MATHEW MOORE Philadelphia Mother Dies During Absence of Son. | | | HESE four young women are shown discussing plans for the sale of round- trip tickets to New York on the Eastern Air Transpert Line, to be sold to benefit the Army Relief Show, which will be held Friday afternoon at senting the airline: Fennela Castanedo, 2725 Ccnnecticut avenue; I ine Field, 2818 Cathedral avenue, and Sally Pearson, 2330 Tracy place. quarters recently vacated by Depart- Aid in Relief Show BENEFIT TO BE HELD FRIDAY. Left to right are: Bunny Davis, lepre- Laura | | | POSSE HAS ORDERS | S HOOT ONSIGHT ; emergency legislation under the Recon-| D. . €., IWKELLAR CITES OFFOURBILIONS Tennesseean Takes Issue With Senator Jdnes on Savings by Congress. PLAN FOR FURLOUGHS “UNFAIR AND UNJUST” Abolishment of Some Government Bureaus Advocated as Economy Measure. In a statement giving his view of the record of the recent session of Congress in the making of appropria- tions, Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, last night took issue with the estimated savings as outlined in a similar statement a few days ago by Chairman Jones of the Senate Appro- priations Committee. Government employes, Senator McKel- lar renewed his dpposition to it, de- scribing the plan as “unfair and un- just.” In discussing expenditures generally. Senator McKellar stated: Appropriations Increase. “At the last session of Congress we ppropriated $5,178,524,967.95. At the ession of Congress just closed we ap- propriated $9.156.829. or a differ- ence of $3.978.304.659.27, thowing how much more the Congress appropriated at the session just ended than in the revious session.” In arriving at his total of $9.156.829 - 62 Senator McKellar included the cost of the debt moratorium, and the bonds or debentures provided for in struction Finance Corporation. Attacker of Markham Couple | | Believed in Hiding on Rat- “Of course, it may be argued.” Sen- ator McKellar admitted, “that the Re- construction Finance Corporation’s ex- penditures are investments. and that| the Governmer.t will get back its mone | It may get back some of it, or it ma tlesnake Mountain. ! | By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. MARKHAM, Va., July 20.—The col- | ored man who assaulted Henry L. Bax- | ley. prominent fruit grower, and his 34- | year-old wife in their home here Mon- | day morning was believed still to be in | this vicinity today as police and armed | citizens continued the manhunt begun | two days ago. Ordered to Shoot on Sight, The assailant of the couple was iden- | tified by Mrs. Baxley as Shadrack Thompson, whose wife formerly was employed as cook in the Baxley home. | He is thought to be hiding in one of | the numerous caves on Rattlesnake Mountain and orders have been issued for the posse to shoot him on sight. Thompson is sald to have entered the Baxley home between 3 and 4/ o'clock Mcnday morning and to ha\ei beaten Mr. Baxley into unconsciousn with a club. He then dragged Baxley into the woods a mile away, where she was found three hours later in a serious condition. Mrs. Baxley Improved. Dr. Barton Cocke Hirst of Philadel- phia, uncle of Mrs. Baxley, said toda; that her condition is improving. Crim- inal charges have been placed against | ‘Thompson. The fugitive colored man is b:lieved | to be armed and it is thought he was intoxicated at the time of the assault Police of several counties are co-operat- ing in the search and armed patrols; are scouring Fauquier County. The| use of bloodhounds yesterday proved un-| | successful.. 'COLORED ATTACKER HUNTED BY POSSE| Flees After He Is Reported to | Have Attempted to Drag ‘Woman From Home. | Special Dispatch to The Star. LEONARDTOWN. Md. July 20—A | posse of Southern Maryiand residents. headed by Deputy Sheriff John C. Smith of this placc. is scouring the | vicinity of Abell, about 15 miles north | of here, for an unidentified colored man ,‘ | who is reported to have attempted an | attack at 2:30 o'clock this morning upon Mrs. Webster Owens, 30, of Abell, while she lay sleeping in her home with her young daughter. g The alleged attacker was traced to a school house some distance from Abell, but there was lost and he has been unseen since a short time after the| | attempted attack. Mrs. Owens, according to the report | to authorities, was sleeping with her | a Police today were seeking to locate | young daughter near a window in her Mathew Moore, believed to have come | home, when she was awakened by a here recently with other bonus marchers | colored man, whom she says tried to from Philadelphia, to notify him that his mother died during his absence. Moore's mother died at 4614 Penn street, Philadelphia, police were in- formed by Pennsylvania authorities. | drag her through the window. Her | screams awakened her hushand, sleep- | ing 1n an adjoining room, but before ihe arrived on the scene the colored man made good his escape. IBONUS MARCHER After 12 years of freed Apollo De Belvediere Murphy, 48-year-old bonus marcher, was being held by police to- day as a convict who escaped from the Ohio State Penitentiary at Columbus after serving 14 months of a sentence on a kidnaping charge. Murphy, who was booked for inves- tigation following his arrest yesterday, went to the Navy Department Bureau of Navigation to obtain a duplicate dis- charge certificate. Clerks _checking by Columbus police in 1920 asking his arrest. The circular was attached to Murphy's record as a private in the 6th Regiment of Marines from May, 1918, to September, 1918. One of the clerks informed Fred Moore, floor head of the bureau, who summoned Policeman B. F. Bean. Murphy was taken to @lle third pre- cinct, where he is said to have ad- mitted being wanted by Ohio authori- AS FUGITIVE AFTER 12 YEARS |Says He Escaped Prison Because Promised Parole on Kidnaping Charge Was Not Given Him. over his record found a “fiyer” sent out'| IS ARRESTED ties, explaining he escaped from the penitentiary when a promised parole | failed to materialize. | _ On the advice of a District attorney, he said, according to police, he pleaded guilty to a charge of kidnaping Paul Hopplng, 12-year-old son of a Batavia, Ohio, barber, in November, 1919. The prosecutor, he said, promised to ob- tain his release in 14 months in con- sideration of the guilty plea. Murphy. according to information given police, was arrested in 1920, after having taken the boy to Los Angeles. Murphy's defense, it was said, was that the boy's mother had asked him to take the youngster away, but later changed her mind and de- cided to prosecute him. The boy was returned to his home, however. Shortly after going to the peni- tentiary he became a trusty and when the promised parole failed to ma- terialize he “ismply walked off.” not.” Would Abolish Bureaus. Senitor McKellar agreed there was a saving in the total appropriated for the various Government departments. The only increases in this table ht said, are for interest on the pubiic debt | and the debt retirement fund. Discussing the furlough plan. Senator McKellar said that in his opinion it was taken up by the administration to pre- vent greater reductions. He previously referred to the fact that the Senate, conomy furlough system. Further reductions in | Government expenditures in future, in- cluding abolition of some bureaus, was | advocated by the Tennesseean. Chairman Jones, in his statement at the close of the session, stated that total appropriations. _including regular an- Pual permancnts and indefinites. and | ficiencies. have been reduced 'from 618.546,098.18 10 $4.761.192.479.24, 2 reduction of $857.353.518.94. To this he added estimated savings under (he economy law of $150.000.000. making a total reduction of $1.007.353,618.94. REPORT ON AUDIT SEEN THIS WEEK| State Auditor Confers With Prose-| cutor in Preparing Arling- ton Trials. e $5. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT| HOUSE, Va., July 20—Full reports on the audits of the books of both former Treasurer E. Wade Ball and former County Clerk William H. Duncan will probably be filed in the clerk’s office | here before the week is out, it was announced yesterday by T. Coleman Andrews, State auditor of public ac- counts. Andrews, Assistant Attorney General Collins Denny, jr. and L. McCarthy Downs, who had charge of the clerk’s office audit, all arrived here yesterday and immediately went into conference with Cominonwealth’s Attorney Law- rence W. Douglas on the preparation of data for the trials of Ball and Duncan. The former will go on trial August 15 and the latter August 22. While neither Andrews nor Denny would give any definite information a5 to their reasons for beinz here. other than to offer their assistance to Douglas, Denny said that he would have a statement to make before he left today. AUTOMOBILE OVERTURNS IN CRASH HURTING TRIO Occupants Only Slightly Injured When One Car Is Nearly De- molished in Collision. Three men were slightly injured in an automobile collision at Sixteenth and D #reets northeast at noon today when one automobile overturned and was virtually demolished. James McLean, 40, of 1376 F street northeast, driver of one of the cars, was treated at Casualty Hospital for cuts on the head, bruises and shock. Mc- Lean, an agent for the Marlow Coal Co., was going west on D street when the accident occurred. The driver of the other car, James Brown, colored, of the 1200 block of Second street southeast was going south on Sixteenth street. The latter autmobile overturned. Brown was treated at Casualty Hospital for cuts about the face and body and bruises. Another occupant of Brown's automo- bile, James Carter, 19, colored, of the 800 block of Sixth street northeast Referring to the furlough plan for | ! Committee had advocated a | flat 10 per cent pay cut instead of tne WEDNES JULY INCREASED WATER | DAY, | ADDED EXPENSES | SUPPLY PROGRAM | HERE 15 STUDIED 345,000,000 Gailons Will Be Added by Plans Now Be- ing Considered. $150,000 APPROPRIATED BY CONGRESS FOR WORK Project Calls for Constraction of Dam at West End of Dale- carlia Reservoi. An increase in Washington's water supply by 345,000,000 gallons, for which funds are now available, is provided in | plans being considered by Secretary of { War Hurley and Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown, | chief of Army engineers. Congress already has appropriated | $150.000 for the project. This would en- | tail the construction of a dam at the west end of the Dalecarlia Reservoir. ; | The specifications were drawn up in the office of Maj. Joseph D. Arthur, jr, District engineer for the War Depart- ment and the Washington area. Streets Closed., Under legislation recently enacted, | | the streets in the immediate area have | { been closed. E. D. Hardy, superintend- jent of the Dalecarlia Reservoir, said it | would take nearly a year to complete | the job if the plans are approved. Four sp pumps would be in-| {stalled as reserve feeders. It would | take at least six months to design and | install the new pumps to handle the! | increased amount of water and another | six months to complete the dam and all | | other necessary work. The generation of more electrical | power also will be made possible under | | the plans in adcition to the increased | | supply of water. i Five-Day Supply. Officials said this new supply would insure sufficient water on hand for five | | days instead of one day and & half as at_present Washington never has been seriously threatened with a water famine, it was | said, and the proposed plans, if carried | out, would remove such possibility. | During the severe drought of two vears ago. which furnished a thorough | test of the local water supply. it w pointed out, that the District had suffi- | cient water above normal consumption during that period to_ furnish huge quantities to nearby | Virginia. ORDER SAFETY SIGNS POSTED AT OVERPASS' Maryland and | ; | Takoma Park Council Acts to Pre- vent Traffic Accidents in Northern Section. Special Dispatch to The Star. TAKOMA PARK. Md. July 20—In an effort to prevent traffic accidents at the overpass in North Takoma Park, | warning signs have been ordered by the Town Courcil to be placed at the ap- proaches on both sides of the bridge Some months ago the Takoma Park Community Ieague requested that a walk be constructed. The matter was| referred to the Town Council and im- mediately the juricdiction of the bricge | was questioned, it being found that the | Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and the ! Montgomery County commissicners had supervision over the structure. HUSBAND IS APPOINTED T0 ADMINISTER ESTATE Ira K. Gruver Named by Court to Distribute Property of Wife, Killed in Auto Accident. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., July 20. —Ira K. Gruver of Chillum was ap- pointed administrator of the estate of his wife, Elizabeth D. Gruver, by the | OrpLans’ Court here yesterday. Bond | was set at $3.000. Mrs. Gruver was killed several | months ago in an automobile accident near Fairfax Court House, Va. Alan Gruver, a son. driver of the car, fled | after the accident ard did not reap- pear for several weeks. He said he feared his family blamed him for the | accident. 5 Robert H. McNeill was appointed ancillary administrator of the estate of Henry J. Mulholland with $4,000 bond. | TAX SCRUTINY 0. K.D Hoover Authorizes Review of Re-| turns on Income. i President Hoover today signed the | jeint resolution placing at the disposal of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee income tax returns. The Senate committee is conducting the stock market investigation. It ar- ranged yesterday to continve during the | Summer. A subcommittee was appoint. ed, headed by Senator Norbeck, Repub- lican, of South Dakota. RAID LIMIT DENIED Wocdcock Says Pressure Is Not Put on Dry Unit. Amos W. W. Woodcock, director of prohibition, today denied as “unquali- fiedly false and untrue,” reports that prohibition officers are required to make a definite number of cases each month. “There has never been such require- ment in any part of the United States,” esca) with minor lacerations and pscaped Ml three were discharged fol- lowing treatment. HELD FOR GRAND JURY Two. Colored Men Bound Over in Fatal Shootings. Two colored men, alleged te- have shat 8 colored man and a colored wo- man, were held for the grand jury at inquests at the District Morgue yester- day afternoon. %hey are Dock Maddox, 36, of the first block of Eye street northeast, who is mileged to have killed Bernard Rob- inson, of the 1200 block of Six-and-a< Half street, and gesse Jackson, 21, of Naylors _court, 0, police charged, killed Mary Johnson, 400 block of L street early Sunday morning. Woodcock said. “On the other hand, since I have been the head of this bureau the entire emphasis has been upon the manner of doing the work rather upon the bare results.” DOGS GIVEN' FREE TAGS in District Departments Pay No Tax. Four privileged dogs, mascots in District government departments, yes- terday received their 1932 tags Iree from the District. They were “Al” No. 8 Engine Co.; “Buff,” No. 22 Engine Co. fire de- partment; “Matt,” street cleaning de- partment’s stables, at Fourth and G streets southeast, and ‘“Jack Rags” garbage transfer siation, at New Jersey avenue and B streets southeast. Animals 20, 1932. PAGE B—1 Old Ironsides Under Sail YARDS OF CANVAS UNFURLED IN BIRTHDAY FETE DISPLAY. Above is a view of Old Ircnsides at the Washington Navy Yard ves afternocn, with the sails on the mizzen mast shaken out full to e wind drill put cn by the crew. In the fcreground is the recently constructed Co tuticn Junior, a miniature of Old Ironsides. Below are some of the guests. Left to right: Attornev General Mitchell Rear Admiral Henry V. Butler, commandant of the Washington Navy Yard: Mrs. Mitchell and Comdr. Louis J. Gulliver, commanding officer cf the Con- stituticn, —Star Staff Photos. ECOLLECTIONS of the days of' her glory were brought more sharply into focus yesterday when Old Ironsides proudly dis- played four large sails on her mizzen mast and put on a realistic gun drill at the Washington Navy Yard. More than 60 prominent guests at- tended It was the first time all her safls on any At that ution put to sea under her own canvas Attorney General Mitchell headed the list of guests at the program yesterday, which commemorated the first time the frigate put to sea 134 years ago, on July 20, 1798. A crew of 26 men handled the sails. They had practiced erday n a ned one of the 32-pound cannonades on the spar deck. They went through the same operations &s did their proto- types of a century back, filling the old muzzle loader, ramming in the powder bag. inserting the bell and ramming home the wadding. Half the gun crew, in undershirts and pants. known as the handspike men. were armed with cut- lasses. Of old, this boarding party sought to get control of the spar deck and commandeer the hatches, securely locking the ship's company below decks as prisoners. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Jahncke was unable to be present, but Mrs. Jahncke and their two daughters, Cora and Adele, were on hand. Fol- lowing the hour's program, Comdr. for months. Officers said all sails were Louis J. Gulliver, commanding officer furled in 13 minutes—a record that|of the Constitution, entertained the would have been creditable even in the | visitors at tea in his quarters. heyday of canvas. Lieut. Comdr. Henry Hartley, execu- Lieut. John Y. Dannenberg com- |tive officer of Old Ironsides, supervised manded the gun crew of 12 that man- | the program. ACTION DEFERRED INQUEST T0 OPEN ONGAS REDUCTION N BUS ACCOENT Directors of; Company to Crash in Which T. M. Conn Await Further Data—State- Died to Be Investigated ment Likely in Week. by Coroner. The board of directors of the Wash- | An Inquest was to be begun this | ington Gas Light Co., at its regular | afternoon into the death of T. M. Conn, quarterly meeting today, deferred action | 50, of Zebulon, N. C., who was killed on a voluntary reduction in gas rates | » S until further data on the subject is|JUIY 11 when the automobile in which he was a passenger was in collisfon with available President Marcy Sperry of the com- | a bus on the Highway Bridge. pany said, after the meeting. the board | The inquest was scheduled op the probably would have a communication | release from Emergency Hospltal of ready for the Public Utilities Commis Jesse Beamn_n, 23, of Spring Hope, N. C,, sion on the subject by next Wednesday. | said by police to be the driver of the The board declared the usual quar- | car in which Conn was killed. The terly dividend of 90 cents per share on | driver of the bus, William G. Vair, 26, the capital stock. | of Alexandria, Va., also will appear at The Public Utilities Commission last | the inquest. week served notice on the company that | Another passenger in the automobile a public hearing would be held to con- | Which Beaman was driving, Fentos sider reduction in the company's rates, | Crocker, 46, of Seaboard, N. C., is but in view of the present economic | recovering at Emergency Hospital. situation offered the company an al- | Two children were injured. one seri- ternative of submitting to an interloc- ously, in traffic accidents yesterday aft- utory order, temporarily reducing rates | ernoon, between August 1 and January 1, by | Six-year-old Roland Taylor, 225 F which time the valuation of the com- |street northeast, is in an undetermined pany’s properties will have been com- |condition at Casualty Hospital with a pleted. | possible skull fracture suffered when This action was taken on petitions run down by an autcmobile while cross- by the Federation of Citizens' Associa- |ing Fourth street northeast. tions and People’s Counsel Richmond | The driver of the car. according to B. Keech. Mr. Keech claimed the last | police, was James W. Avery. 24 Bryant rate reduction was designed to reduce |street northeast. A-police test showed the company's income by $231,000 per | his brakes to be in good condition and annum, but that, on the contrary, its | the motorist was not held. offect has been a substantial increase. | Robert Lanham, 8, was cut and The federation claimed that the com- |bruised about the head, when hit by pany is making more than 13 per cent | an automobile while crossing the street return per annum on its valuation. near his home at 1251 W street south- e — east. Herman D. Owens, Oxon Hill, PRINTER DIES AT 78 Md., was the driver of the car, accord- J. T. Herbert, 78, a printer on the ing to police. Investigators were in- formed the child 1an from behind a Washington Post for more than 40 years, died yesterday at his residence, 1708 parked automobile into the path of Good Hope road southeast. andria. Owens’ machine. cod Yiope road southeast. MELLON ON VACATION Va, January 2, 1854. He attended | — public schools there and in Washington | Secretary Stimson said at his press and entered the printing trade as an conference this morning that Ambassa- apprentice 6% the Post. dor Mellon is coming to America for a Funeral arrangements have not been | vacation and was not sent for by the completed. State Department. CONNERCE RADI GRANCH ABOLIHED BY HODVER ORDER Some of 190 Employes Face Dismissal as Duties Shift to Commission. ONLY 31 OF FORCES ARE STATIONED HERE Reorganization to Be Started at Once—$490,600, Recently Al- lotted, Goes to Commission, President Hoover today issued an executive order avolishing the Radio Division of the Commerce Department and transferring the duties of that division to the Federal Radio Commis- slon, There 190 employes in the abolished Commerce Department |branch and some of them are faced with dismissal as a result of the Presi- jdent’s order. Officials, however, said they could not estimate the number lively to be thrown out of work. Only 31 of the employes are stationed in Washington. | President Hoover acted under the authority of the so-called economy act In crdering the transfer of the duties | and officers and employes 6f th= Radio | Division to the Radio Commission, the | President authorized the commission to dismiss officers and other employes not | considered indispensable to the service, | and to make such changes in the titles, | designations and duties of the officers | and employes as may be deemed neces- | sary. are Return Balances Asked. He also directed the commission to Teturn to the Treasury all appropria- tions or unexpended balances because of this transfer not necessary to the maintenance of the commission itself. Director W. D. Terrell of the Ccm- merce radio division. said he could not mate any predicition as to the future status of the 190 employej Who have been working under him. “The matter of retaining these men scattered throughout the United States rests with the Radio Commission.” Terrell explained. He intimated that | the commission would start #t once on | the reorganization of the division and | that those whose positions are at stake would know something definite within a short time The Commerce Department July 1 alloted the division $490,000 for oper- ating during the current ficcal year a reduction of $156.000 under ihe 1932 {fiscal year appropriation. ‘This fund | Terrell’ said, would be turned over to | the Radio Commission. ‘The department’s radio service was | organized in 1911 by Mr. Terrell. who was then connected with the depart- ment's Bureau of Navigation. In later years. with the extension of the | of radio to general communication p poses. the chipping feature of tF ernment's control over radio b relatively less important, and with the | passage of the radio act of 1927 the radio service was separated from the Navigation Bureau and set up as & {separate branch of the department Established in 1927, In 1927 Congress set up the Radio Ccmmission. At the same time au- thority was given the radio diwsion of the Commerca Department to supervise all commercial and privat> racio sta- | tions. requiring them to observe the | time of the licenses issued by the Radio | Commission_relating to wave longths, power and hours of operation | " The division assigned call lctters to | all stations and examined and licensed radio operators, both commercial and amateur It was responsible for the adminis- tration of the laws requiring radio ap- { paratus_and operators on merchant ships. It made investigations and fur- | nished information required by the Radio Commission relating to operating stations, interference between stations, alleged violations of licenses and other similar matters with which the commis- sion is concerned in the performance of its duties There was no indication at the White House today that the President has any one in mind for appotntment to suc- ceed Maj. Gen. Charles McK. Saltzma: whose resignation as chairman of the Radio Commission was accepted by Mr. Hoover yesterday. | ENGRAVING BUREAU T0 COfiI!TINUgE POLICY |Will Retain Five-and-Half-Day Week Under Furlough Plan Used for Years. | ‘The Bureau of Engraving and Print- | ing, pioneer in using the furlough for | Government_employes, will continue to operate as usual on a five-and-a-half~ day week. it was learned officially today. Operations are continuing at the bu- reau much as in the past, except for the compulsory 24-day payless “legisla- i tive” furlough made necessary by the | economy act. This will be administered, according to Alvin W, Hall, director of the bureau, under the McCarl decision, which provides the regulations and ac- counting procedure. The other furlough, which has been in operation in the bureau for years, will continue, Mr. Hall said, with slight changes to meet the fluctuating de- mands upon the bureau. The bureau probably has made more extensive use of the furlough than any other organization in the Government and was pointed to as an example of successful operation of a furlough when the eccromy bill was under considera- tion in Congress. CHILDREN TO DANCE “Garland Plastique” a Feature of Summer Festival Program. A feature of the weekly Summer festival program to be presented in the Sylvan Theater on the Washington Monument grounds tonight will be a “garland plastique,” staged by a group of child dancers. Appearing in addition to the Wash- ington Denishawn Group, headed by Miss Marian Chace and Lester Shafer, the youngsters include the small daugh. ters of the first secretary of the Argen- tine embassy, Mercedes and Celene de Urquiza. Other children in the dance will be Barbara and Betty Beley, Eleanor King, Virginia Elmendord, Joanne Leasure, Jane Phelps and Marian Lester Shafer, In ce of incliment weather tohight, the program will take place at 8:15 P.m. tOmOITOW. 4