Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1932, Page 17

; dent of the American Legion Au’xi?hry' ITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION @he Foening Star | | L Society and General LEGONCANLED | BEST, SAVS HINES | WASHINGTO:! Leave to Study Eclipse SCIENTISTS STAKE MONTH' AT SESSON HERE Acdzd Groups Not Need:d to Promete Americanism, He Declares. ELECTION OF DISTRICT OFFICERS SET TOMORROW Father H. A. Darche and Other Leaders Speak at Opening of 14th Annual Conventien. The American Legion is capable of leading in Americanism and there is o necessity for any new organizaticn along veterans' Hnes, Brig. Gen. Frank 'T. Hines, administrators of veterans' af- fajts, declared last night In addressing | the openmg sescion of the fourteenth annual! convention of the Depnnmenv.l of the District of Columbia, Amer-; ican Legion. The convention is being held in the audityum of the Stuart Junior High| Schocl. #ourth and E streets northea-t, ! and wiu conclude with the clecticn of | officer tomorrow night. Urgng the Legionnaires to pay par- ticular atiention to the welfare of their country, Gen. Hines told of his ob-| servations during the last two years,! not of only -veterans of the World War, but of all wars, and said the Legion could lead better today than ever before in good citizenship. He F“d tribute to its work during the ast year in placing & million unem- ployed In positions throughout the country. National Chaplain Speaks. Father 8. A. Darche, national chap- fain of the American Legion, also ad- dressed the convention, urging loyalty to the organization, which now is grad- ually reaching the million mark in membership. He said care should be | exercised in the election of officers and that they should receive the support of every Legionnaire. Other speakers included Joseph Bailey, secretery of the Northeast Business Men’s Association; J. O'Coi nor Roberts, assistant vete: admin- istrator; Mrs. Joseph H. Mims, ©O. W. Hollingsworth, department com: marder, Veterans of Foreign Wars; P. J. Callan department commander, United Spanish War Veterans; Lee T. Turner, past department commander, Disabled American Veterans of the World War; Frencis F. Miller, Forty end Eicht €ociety; Mre. Willette Pros- s Eght end Forty Soclety, and Ed- d H. Young of the Cent.rl‘ Business M-n's Association. The latter extended e2 invitation to hold the fifteenth en- nua2l ccnrention in the Fourteenth Dr. Peul A. McNaij'v. tory. and Rev. E. J. Koll ington today to ciudy the TAKING a month ef preparations on the possibility cf clear weather the afternoon of August 31, a scientific expedition from George- town University Observatory is leaving Washington today for the vil- lage of Fryeburg, Me., to attempt ob- servations of a total eclipse of the sun on that date, visible for a brief period of 100 seconds. Dr. Paul A. McNally, 8. J., director of the observatory, who heads the ex- pedition, has chosen the vicinity of Pryeburg because it is on the central line of totality. Betwesn Fryeburg and Conway, N. H. a score of tempcrary cr, head of clipce Augus by scientists who ere comirz from -1l scopes and cameras on the darkened bloth of sun for the brief pericd of seconds. “It is all a gamble with the elements,” was the way Dr. McNally characterized these weeks of preparation. “To the average layman, equipped with a smoked glass, it means merely an en- joyable day's outing. With scientists, however, it is different. “If it rains or if the day Is disagree- ably cloudy, all their efforts and ex- penditures will come to naught. When one considers the fact that there will not be another complete eclipse visible | in the United States for 30 years, or | during the lifetime of most living scien- tists, those 100 seconds sre very pre- | cious, indeed.” i Dr. McNally is heading into the zone | of the eclipse the first scientific expedi- tion ever sent out into the field from | street_section, between Thomas Circle and Morida avenue. ‘The first report of the convention was that of the Credentials Committee, presented by Howard S. Fisk, which was unanimously adopted. It showed the voting strength of the convention | to be 141 votes, representing a paid-up membership of 4,758. The report of the Rules Committee was presented by Charles O. Shaw and adopted after being emended to admit the presentaticn of resolutions from the flog~ of the convention after 9 o'clock tenight. Year’s Winners Apnounced. Paul J. McGahan, chairman of the Committez on Trophies and Awaids, announced the winners of the various events of the last year. The trophy ‘winners included the following: Harlan Wood Trophy, won by Tank Corps Post; second Harlan Wood Trophy by the Jane A. Delano Post; Eight and Forty Trophy, donated by Mrs. Dor- Othey B. Harper, won by the Jane A. Delano Pcst and also the Julius I Peyser Tropty. Another Peyser Trophy was won by the Tank Corps Post. The Edward E. Spafford Trophy was won by the Sergt. Jasper Post, which also won the Paul J. McGahan Trophy. One of the Quentin Roosevelt Post Trophies was awarded to the 2d Di- vision Post and the other to the James Reese Europe Post. The Frank L. Peckham Trophy was presented to the Vincent B. Costello Post and the Wat- son B. Miller Trophy to Samuel Rose, for unselfish service to the American Legion. The J. Miller Kenyon Trophy, for the winner in the American Legion Junior Base Ball League will be pre- sented to the winning team when the series concludes next week. The following were awarded prizes in connection with the annual parade, which was the feature of the opening session_of the convention: Best deeo- Tated float, Vanity Beauty Shoppe; sec- ond prize, Florestella Beauty Shoppe; best appearing unit in the parade, | Job's Daughters; best drum corps, Vic- | tory Post: second prize, Vincent B. Costello Drum Corps; _best band. Washington Gas Light Band: second prize, Holy Comforter Band; third prize, Elks Boys' Band. The judges were Lieut. Richard Mansfield of the Metropolitan Police Department, Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, U. S. A, retired, and E. E. Shipley. Election Due Tomorrow. second session tonight the rexrc"::( the Resolutions Committee will be presented by Chairman Robert M. Tolson, together with the annual Teports of the department officers. Officers will be nominated for the en- suing year and the election will take place in the closing hours tomorrow night. the Georgetown Observatory. He is tak- | ing complete eclentific equipment to study and photograph the period of totality and test the Einstein theory | against the shift of the stars. The Georgetown group will be joined by several prominent Jesuits from the United States and Europe at Fryeburg. The William Crocker expedition, from the famous Lick Observatory, is among others which will establish stations nearby. In addition to Dr. McNally, the cbservation ctations will b2 established | parts of th: world to tra'n their tele- | 'S WORK ON 100 SECONDS. S. J., diector of the Georgetown University Observa- the physics depertment, who left Wash- . 31 from Frycburg, Me. | joining the Ceorgetown expedition aft- | er it reaches the field. Father Stein was appointed to his present position following the death two years ago of Father Hagen, the famous Jesuit astronomer. Another Jesuit scientist who will join the expedition later is Father Paul Le Jay, a PFrenchman, of the Zose Ob- servatory in China. Others include Rev. Daniel O'Connell, S. J,, an Irish scien- tist, who is training for astronomical work in Australia, and Rev. Willlam R. | crawford, S. J. ‘rector of the Boston College High School. Thrcugh th» ccurtesy of the Na- tional Gecgraphic Scciaty, Dr. Mc- Nal'y s carrying zlong a sp>cial equip- men. for taking colored pho:ographs of the eciipse during the period of to- teliiy, known as th> Finley process. During this 100-sccond pericd, Father Kolkmeyer will attempt to further the experiment of measuring intensity of light, conducted by Father Wolfe, a Jesuit sclentist, of Valkemburg, Hol- land, at the time of a previous eclipse in 1924. Father Wolfe is forwarding his own special equipment for these experiments and the Georgetown scien- tist will use the same methods ths former originated and employed. A part of the Georgetown equipment consists of & 5-inch telescope with two cameras attached, short and long fozus lenses, for photographing the corona and a spectogravh, which wiil be used to photograph the ultra-violel in the corona. The expedition is also taking along a number of Ross lenses, with a nev Rosj_ curvature and equitorium mounted. In eddition there will be a battery of smaller lens cameras. 7t will take nearly a month to estab- lish the station, for an exhaustive amount of technical details are involved. Then, after wecks of walting, the as- sembled scientists and camera experts will be required to work in a frenzy of accuracy for the brief period of the total eclipse, less than two minutes. ‘Washingtonians who wish to observe the effect of the moon passing between the sun and earth would best equip | Georgetown group comprises Rev. E. J. | Kolkmeyer, S. J., head of the physics | department, and Revs. Thomas D. Barry, | 5. J., and Welter Miller, S. J, assistants in the observatory. | From Rome, the director of the great | Vatican Observatory, Father Stein, i3 themselves with a piece of smoked glass or colored eyeglasses. The eclipse wiil be a little more than half visible in this ares. The first shadow will be observed at 2:24 pm. and at 2:3¢ pm. it will | reach its height, declining until 1t is | over, at 4:41 p.m. ARMY BUILDING PLANS REVEALED $2,275,800 Will Be Spent at Capital, Maryland and Virginia Posts. A total of $2,275,800 is expected to be expended on new construction and im- provement at various military posts in the District, Maryland and Virginia un- der the relief bill recently signed by the President, it was made known today at the War Department. o Hew somsiraction at all the mill- tary posts in the country the economy bill provided $15.000,000, with an ad- ditional $7,436,000 to b2 expended for technical improvements at airports and landing field=. Sketch plans end types for each butlding have been made, and complete plans and specifications are in existence for about one-third of the projects. There is no indication, it was said, when con- tracts would be let for any of the work to be done at the posts around Wash- ington. Policy Set Forth. The policy involved was set forth in the relief bill as follows: “No part of the sum appropriated by this section shall be cxpended if the Secretary of the Treasury certifies to the President that the amount neces- isary for such expenditure is not avail- able and’cannot be obtained upon rea- sonable terms.” “Repeal Ball” Off As Dry Members Of Club Object Blue Cockade Plans for August 12 Included Ritchie Invitation. Plans of the Blue Cockade, Inc., to stage a “repeal ball” at the Congres- sional Country Club August 12 went awry yesterday when dry members of the board of governors of the club ve- toed the idea. More than 3,000 invita- tions had been printed and were being sent out. The organization, which is opposed to | prohibition and which recently estab- | lished a chapter here after staging & successful “repeal ball” in New York, | had obtained the roof garden of the | Willard Hotel for the affair. | Lawrence E. de S. Hoover, local di- | rector of the crganization, airanged to | hold the ball at th2 Congressional sev- | era] weeks ago, and plans for the affair | went forward under chairmanship of William Bowie Clarke. Sponsors of the ball included many prominent residents of this city. Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland was invited as guest of honor. The final decision not to permit the ball at the Congressional Club was made yesterday afternoon at a meeting of its board of governors. HALBERT’S STAFF NAMED TO AID RELIEF HERE D. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 5 1932. PAGE B—1 POLICE QUIZ SCORE |CIVIL SERVICE BODY TODAY IN HENRY BACKS SHORT WEEK MURDER MYSTERY AS ECONOMY PLAN La Fontaine, for Whom Gam- Sixth U. S. Agency Adop'ts bler Is Said to Have Worked, | Five-Day Schedule Start- Among Those Picked Up. BACKGROUND FACTS SOUGHT, SAYS BURKE| Detective Chief Sees Gang Killing of April 21, in Which Two Are Charged, Cleared Up. Members of the police homlcids squad, working under direction of Inspector Frank §. Burke, chief of detectives, planned today to question a score of persons in connection with the recent gangland slaying of Milton W. (Milsie) Henry, Washington gambler. Although he believes his men have solved the murder mystery, Inspector Burke said, a number of events that prececed the killing remain to be cleared up. Some of the persons fo to provide the necessary the inspector szid. Some of the no>ded details were brought out In the questioning of half a 'dgf;% men picked up yesterday, Burke added. backzround, La Fontaine in Roundup. Among thoce taken into custody yes- terday was James (Jimmy) La Fontaine, 62, described by police as the proprietor of a notorious Bladensburg road gam- bling resort. Henry formerly dealt cards in the Maryland establishment, police =aid, but was discharged when it in the hold-up of a bank in Upper Marlboro, Md. Following his discharge, Henry, ac- cording to police, arranged a ceries of | ho'd-ups of local gambling places |many of which were no. Teported through official channeis. Becaure of his activities along this line, police be- lieve, Henry was ‘“put on the spot” by & “pool” of gamblers and racketeers organized for the express purpose of “getting” him. La Fontaine and two of the other men picked up yesterday were released after questioning. The others were to be interrogated further today. They are Bryant McMahon, 37, of the 2000 block of M street northeast; James J. Noonan, 33, of the 200 block of Chan- ning street northeast, and Raymond street northeast. Volunteer Phone Calls. After yesterd2y's round-up, Detective Sergts. John Wise J. Murphy, Inspector Burke said, nu- merous telephone calls were received from persons who volunteered infor: tion about the case. Soms of these were among those scheduled for ques- tioning, the inspector added. Henry was slain April 21 by two men who waylaid him near his Sixteenth street apartment. They fled in an automobile after one of them had fired five charges from a sawed-off shotgun into his body. Charles Harris and Henry Davis, al- leged Philadelphia gangsters, are in the trict Jail, charged with the murder. Both deny having had anything to do with the killing, however. PHONE VALUATION Finished, Says Utilities Commission Head. No valuation of the properties of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. will be taken at this time, Chairman Mason M. Patrick of the Public Utilities Commission said today. A petition for a valuation was filed yesterday by Peo- ple’s Counsel Richmond B. Keech, Gen, Patrick said the rate hearing now in progress would be continued. He said the telephone company had been notified informally two months ago that a valuation of its property would be undertaken, but that the rate case would be concluded first. The rate case before the commission is in recess until next Priday, when it will be taken up at 10 am. COL. GRANT DEPARTS Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of public bulldings and public parks, left foday for a month’s trip to Europe. Col. Grant is scheduled to sail tomor- row aboard the Hamburg-American liner Deutschland. He will join Mrs. Grant and their three daughters in Paris early npext month. The family has been ta:- ing a cruise recently in the Mediter- ranean. ‘The mwf&ut ex&erctlcdl h‘hi: ?’n ‘Washington by Septem . In ab- sence, Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr., his as- sistant, will be acting director. be interrpgated are expected to bz able | was rumored he had been implicated | Price, 32, of the 200 block cf Ninth TO AWAIT HEARING Rate Case Now in Progress to Bc| FOR MONTH ABROAD | ing Saturday. ADDITIONAL FURLOUGHS TO BE DECIDED LATER Workers Paid Less Than $1,500 Will Lose Only 30 Days’ Wages, bnt Others Face Greater Loss. The five-day week got its sixth Fed- eral recruit yesterday afternoon, when | the Civil Service Commission announced ‘that this working schedule would go into effect Saturday in qrder to carry out the legislative, or 24-day, furlough provided under the new economy act. Act Earlier in Day. Earlier in the day, the United States Employes' Compension Commission an- d inauguration of the five-day on Saturday, joining the Labor Department rnd National Advicory | Council for Aeronautics, which a'so make the venture that day. Previously, the field cervice of the Navy Depart- ment and the Government Printing Of- five had adopted the short week, as did the District for per diem workers. | “In "addition to the legisiative fur- | lough, the Civil Service Commission also announced a schedule for the ad- ministrative furloughs that must be taken /up to January 1, to avold dis- missal of personnel and at the samec time keep within appropriations. | "No one whose salary is less than $1,500 will be forced to take any fur- lough of this sort, losing only the 30 days’ pay mancatory under the law. Others will have payless leaves as fol- Ic lary of $1.560, four days; $1,620, eight days; $1,680, 12 dars, end $1,740 2nd over, 15 cays. | Furlcugh Problem Faced. | Such additional administrative fur- loughs as may be necessary will be de- cided upon at the first of the year. On the basis of its present appropria- tion, the commission faces administra- tive furlough of approximately 42 days, which, with the legislative furlough, | means a pay deduction of more than two and one-third months. ‘The commission personnel here on June 30 was 430, and there were 131 employes scattered over the country. The Compensation Commission has | 176 employes here and in th field. M’KELVY INSTALLED BY PHILATELISTS, Society Starts Round of Sight- seeing Tours as Business Sessions Are Ended. | I | Installation of Col. W. N. McKelvy | of Washington as president of the So- | ciety of Philatelic Americans this morn- ing was the final item of business on the three-day program of the society at the Mayflower Hotel. A round of sightseeing trips into Maryland and Virginia has been arranged for dele- gates during the next three days. The convention will be adjourned; tonight at a banquet. Speakers in- clude F. A. Tilton and W. Irving Glover, Assistant Postmasters General: | A. W. Hall, director of the Bureau of | Engraving and Printing; George H.| Carter, public printer; H. S. Chamber- lin, philatelic agent,'and Mrs. M. C. Shaughnessy, assistant_philatelic agent. The feature of the thirty-eighth an- nual convention came last night with auctioning of 848 lots of stamps, bring- ing a total of approximately $3,000, with some individual stamps selling as high as $200. Georges Creed of Phila- delphia was auctioneer. It was decided to hold the convention of the society next year at Fond du Lac, Wis. EXTRA FARE TRAINS ARE UPHELD BY L. C. C. Additional Services Offered Justify Higher Charge, Commission Finds. By the Assoctated Press. The Interstate Commerce Commission today approved extra fare passenger | trains as now operated by railroads | which have them. | This resulted from an investigation | of extra fare trains begun some time ago | by the Commission on its own motion. | There had been complaints, particularly from Chicego business interests, that | | fares in some instances were to high as_compared with rates to other cities. In its report the Commission went fully into the history of extra fare trans, which began operation as long ago as 1881, and said the additional services offered justified a higher charge. EXTRA DAY FURLOUGH GIVEN IN NEW RULING BY McCARL Safe Looted of $1,500 HIS safe, in the Breyer Ice Cream ik Co. plant, 1830 Bladensburg road north- east, wes battered open early today by three robbers, who bound the night watchman with wire. They escaped with $1,500. —=Star Staff Photo. TADOLLARNOW Purchasing Power Has In- creased 6 Cents Since December Here. ‘The purche. Dx J 1914, now i35 77 cenis in 2 ton. the Labor Department's Burcau cf Statistics revealed today in compilinz figures showing the changes in living costs during the last six months. For the country as & whole, the dollar of 1914 will purchase 74 cents’ worth, according to the Bureau. In Washington, the Bureau says, the purchasing power of 1914 dollar has in- creased 6 cents since last December, and has jumped 14 cents since the stock market crashed in 1929. At that time the workingman was getting only 63 cents value for every dollar, using the 1914 index of 100.0 as the base. Varles Among Several Groups. The dollar value here, of course, varied among the several groups of items which the Bureau has listed as absolutely essential for the working- man. Fcod prices today in Washington are only 2 per cent higher than in 1914, clothing is 28 per cent higher, rent is 27 per cent higher. fuel and light, 27 per cent; household furnishing goods are 61 per cent, miscellaneous items are 75 per cent, making a general increase of all items, 29.5 per cent. Since 1929, however, the cost of living here has been sliding, according to the bureau, with the exception of rents. Food prices have decreased 35 per cent; clothing, 21 per cent; rents, only 2 per cent; light and fuel, 9 per cent, and household furnishing goods, 20 per cent. ‘While the living ccst in Washington is higher by 29.5 per cent since 1914, it has declined on an average of 36 per cent since 1920, 19 per cent since June, 1929; 9 per cent since June, 1931, and 7 per cent during the last six months, New York Most Expensive. New York is the most expensive city in the country for the working man, being 45 per cent higher from a cost- of-living standpoint than in 1914. Buf- falo 1s second on the list of 19 cities cited by the bureau. Cleveland is third and Baltimore fourth. Only Savannah, Ga., and Portland, Oreg., are lower on the list than Washington. The bureau said that throughout the country the cost of living decreased 7 per cent as compared with the preced- ing December. The decreases varied as emong the several groups of items. Food decreased 12 per -cant, clothing of decreased 6 per cent, rents went down | 6 per cont, as did fuel and lights, hcuse- furnishing goods decreased 8 per cent and miscellaneous items decreased 2 per cent. During the last 12 months, cost of living as a whole decreased 10 per cent, while since 1930 it slumped 18 1929 figures of 20 per cent. slumped 35 per cent; clothing, 21 per cent; rents, 17 per cent; fuel and lights, 10 per cent, and household furnishing , 23 per cent. sing power of the dollar | Body Sought RAYMOND CRANDALL. BODY STIL SOUGHT ING. & 0. CANAL |Recovery and Identification of Two Others Is An- nounced by Police. Rescuers still searched today for the | body -of one of three men drowned in waters neay the Capital Monday, fol- lowing the recovery and identification of both the others. ‘The body sought is that of Raymond Crandall, 36, of 2501 Queens Chapel road northeast, who was drowned in the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal at Wide- water, lice of the Glen Echo, Be- thesda and Cabin John divisions of the Montgomery County police were con- ducting the search. The body of Robert J. Orndorff, who was drowned in the Potomac about 25 miles south of Leonardtown, near ‘Wynne, Md., was recovered early today in the mouth of Smiths Creek, about a mile from the scene of the drowning. Orndorfl, who lived in Capitol Hzights, Md., was employed in a Capital grocery store. An inquact will be held tomor- oW, Simonds’ Body Identified. Police yesterday identified the man who was drowned while swimming in the Potomac off Gravelly Points as Forest J. Simonds, 28, of the 900 block of O street. Divers recovered his body clinging to & steel cable 20 feet below the surface of Roaches Run, near the Mount Vernon l(le‘moml Highway. ‘Three men, who were arrested on charges of {ntoxication, said to be com- panions of Simonds on the swimming Cost of living as & whole from De- cember, 1917, until today is 5 per cent less. Focd today was practically back | to the 1913 level, it being only 0.1 per | party, were taken to Police Court this morning. They were booked as Frank Kilroy, 42, 100 block of L street north- east, Daniel Kelley, 38, and Do- BANDITS GET §1,20 AND ESCAPE AFTER BINDING WATCHMAN Three Batter Open Safe at Breyer Ice Cream Com- pany Plant. POLICE SEARCH SPREADS INTO NEARBY STATES Freed Captive, 70, Reveals Outlaws All Under 30—Entry Gained by Breaking Window. Three armed robbers, thelr features concealed by handkerchiefs, escaped with approximately $1,500 early today after binding a 70-year-old night watchman who interrupted them while they were battering open & safe in the Breyer Ice Cream Co. plant, 1830 Bladensburg road northeast. The watchman—Herbert Lee, colored, 262 Warren street northeast—was cap- turned by the thieves when. he entered the plant to make his customary rounds about 1 am. As he stepped into the | building, one of the robbars jammed a revolver against his ribs and ordered him to “kesp still.” Left on Runningboard. While the thief kept him covered with the gun, the other men bound his hands and feet with wire and sat him on the runningboard of & truck parked inside the plant. After repeating their warning to re- main silent, the robbers returned to the company’s offices on the second floor and resumed their work on the safe. Lee had heard the hammering when he approached the building, but it did not arouse his suspicions, he said. Leaving Lee sitting on the running board of the truck after they had ran- sacked the offices, the thieves fled in an automobile parked nearby. About four hours later Lee succeeded in attracting the attention of a passing newsboy, George Brinkert, 2515 North Capitol street, who notified fifth pre- cinct police. The watchman was re- leased by Policeman O, K. Stanton. Wide Search Started. Police immediately began a _city- wide search for the robbers, and Mary- land and Virginia authorities also were asked to be on the lookout for them. All three were said to be between 25 and 30. ‘The safe and other office equipment were examined for finger prints by headquarters detectives. A check-up re- vealed the theives entered the building by breaking the glass in a first-floor window and unfastening the lock. Officials of the ice cream concern said the estimate of the loot was ten- | tative and that a more complete check- up would be made later in the day. PO Sk ASPINWALL AGAIN HEADS CHEST UNIT Reappointment for Special Gifts Group Announced as Result of Last Year’s Record. Reappointment of Clarence A. Aspin- wall, president of the Security Trust & Storage Co, as head of the Special Gifts urit of the Community Chest campaign in November, was announced yesterday by Newbold Noyes, chairman of the General Campaign Committee. One of the organizers of the Com- munity Chest in Washington, ~Mr. Aspinwall has been associated with the movement in an official capacity since the first campalign, in 1929. He served with the Special Gifts unit in every campaign, becoming chairman of the unit last year. Despite 2 falling off in all kinds of business, Mr. Aspinwall’s unit last year raised more than $800,000 among the givers of $500 or more. His reappoint- ment to the chairmanship was a result of this record. The plan of campaign of the Special Gifts unit is to be changed this year. Instead of holding the campaign a week or 10 days in advance of the general campaign, all units, including the Spe- cial Gifts' group, will start work simul- taneously and will report with the other units at daily meetings. ADMIRAL JEWELL, ILL FOR YEAR, DIES Retired Officer Who Aided in De- fense of Carital During Civil War Was 87 Years 0ld. Rear Admiral Theodore Frelinghuysen Jewell, U. S. N, retired, who assisted in the defense of the Capital, his native city, during the Civil War, died in his 88th year yesterday at his residence, 2135 R street. He had been ill about & year. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay Jewell. The veteran naval officer will be buried with full military honors in Ar- lington National Cemetery tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. Rev. Dr. Her- bert Scott Smith. rector of St. Mar- garet's Episcpal Church, will officiate. cent higher than at that time. | menio Bronson, 35, addresses unknown. The bureau said the price level of| Norman Grimmell of the 100 block the clothirg group was only 6 per cent | Of Carroll street southwest, a taxicab higher than in December, 1916. Rent | driver who told Beth:sda police he In the Summer of 1863 Admiral Jewell was in command of field howitzers for the defense cf Washington. He was then on specizl duty at the Washington The Wer Department will place the work under advertisement whenever| dirested to o so under the provisions <1 the se-tion »bove quoted. 17 Appointed Under Provision for | $350,000 Unemployment Fund MORE RAINS NEEDED | | Federal Employes Taking Leave in January, March and «! THROUGHOUT NATION High Temperatures and Scant Pre- cipitation Cause General Lack of Moisture. By the Assoclated Press. High temperatures and scant rainfall during the past week were reported to- day by the Weather Bureau to have accentuated the general need for moisture throughout the United States. Temperatures in much of the interior were more moderate during the last few days, but warm weather continued over the greater portion of the country. Rainfall was decidedly of a local character. A small section of the Middle Atlantic area. including New Jersey, At Bolling Fleld the sum of $274,000 is slated to be expended for mew con- struction work in one item znd $721,800 | in a second item, both of which are for real estate. The expenditures at Bolling Field are itemized as follows: Non-ccmmissioned officers’ quarters, $54,000; completion of dispensary, $30,000; completion of post exchange, theater and _gymnasium. $45,000; cfficers’ mess, $50,000, and enlargement of central heating plant to provide for quarters ares, $95,000. Other Work Planned. The expenditues for technical build- ings and instellments at Bolling Fileld are to be as foll #vs: Paved aprons, $22,- 800; heating plant for technical area, completion of. $78,000: completion of field thops, $6,000: improvement of Janding field and building erea, $615,- 00, At Walter Reed Hospital, $120,000 will be expended for new non-commis- Southeastern Pennsylvania and Mary- land had a good rain, and showers were frequent in the Central Gulf States. The last few days also brought good Jocal rains to many places in Western Ohio, the Central Mississippl valleys and the lake regions, but many localities were missed. Elsewhere the precipita- tion was mostly light, with the Western third of the country having virtually a rainless wi sloned officers’ quarters, and $300,000 for the addition to the nurses’ quarters, Ft. Myer, Va. receives allotment of $100,000 for new barracks. At Fort Meade, Md., $150,000 is pro- vided for non-commissioned officers’ quarters and $50,000 for officers’ quarters. Other in Maryland and Virginia will receive allotments as follows: Edge- for District, ‘The District Commissioners yesterday appointed a staff of 17 persons to aild Leroy H. Halbert in administration of the $350,000 fund for unemployment relief appropriated in the current Dis- trict supply bill. They are: Mrs. Florence Huff, as- sistant supervisor, $2,000 per yesr: Katherine C. Burnett, Winifred M. Shepler, social workers, $1,740; Mrs, Florence T. Conlin, Miss Blanche E, Wall, Denton H. Reed and James A. Nolan, social workers, $1,620; Mrs. Edith’ R. Wilson, Mrs. Margaret S. Snead, Miss Elslie Dowling and Lewis x.loyflMBtulré"zlll.a s&c:‘:l ‘workers, $1,320; Miss Matilda B. ter, clerk-: - pher, $1,620; William C. Eenosts $1,620; Miss Betty Thompson, Mrs. Lucille J. Ball end Mrs. Nell M. Spring- cr, stenographer, $1020, and Mrs. ;mda W. Foss, telephone operator, wood Arsenal, Md., $70,000 for non- commissioned officers’ quarters; Hola- bird, Quartermaster Depot, Baltimore, $120,000 for hospital; Fort Howard, Md., $150,000 for hospital; Fort Hoyle, Md., $70,000 for non-commissioned officers’ quarters, and Fort Humphreys, Va., $150,000 for officers’ quarters, g Mead, clerk, |t May to Get Government workers may get an extra day off without having it sub- tracted from their pay if they take all thelr compulsory furlough during the months 'of ‘Augast, October or March, it ‘was estimated today on the basis of a decision sent by Controller General McCarl to Attorney General Mitchell interpreting the economy act’s applica- tion to the 31-day month. January, May, July and December, the other 31-day months, each has a legal holi- day. l’;eCnrl held that if an employe took, or instance, the entire month of Au- gust, which has 25 working days, he would have satisfied the provision of the law which requires deduction of his salary at the rate of 30 days’ pay. In other words, by taking the whole month of August, an employe would 25 days off duty instead of 24, with the duduction of 30 days’ pay. If he takes his compulsory furlough a few days st a time, however, or during a shorter month, he would be deducted for 30 days’ pay and get only 24 days °fl!'n ting the employe's pay, MoBart Tuled that he must be credited Added Time. with the two and one-half days pay, which had been deducted in July, less the retirement deduction for the month of August. “In other words,” McCarl said, “where an employe's first absence on furlough during the fiscal year 1933 is for a straight calendar month, that ab- sence will constitute the full period of his legislative furlough and no pay will | accrue therefor, but there will be credit- ed to him, in computing the deductions for the furlough time actually taken, the amount previously deducted at the rate of two and one-half days' pay per month on account of furlough not taken.” In answer to the Attorney General's question as to whether they should be charged with one day's leave without ruy, as distinguished from the fur- lough leave, for the thirty-first day of a 31-day month, McCarl answered in the negative. He held that, according- 1y, the absence of an employe who took off the whole month of August for his furlough should complete his compul- sory furlough and that no extra charge should be made for the thirty-first, and also fuel and lizht in 1932, com- pared with December, 1919, rent being 2 per cent higher and fuel and light .02 per cent higher than at that time. House furnishing goods was only 2 per cent higher than the price level in December, 1917. The miscellaneous group, because of the nature of the items included in it, does not show price changes as actively as do the other groups. POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN WILL PLAY FOR JOBLESS The annual Firemen vs. Pclicemen base ball game to be played Saturday, September 10, will be for the benefit of the unemployed of the Distriét in- stead of for the relief associations of the departments, it was announced today by Odell S. Smith, chairman of the Police-Firemen Ball Game Committee. The plan to disburse the proceeds of the game through the District Commit- tee on Employment has been agreed to by Fire Chief George S. Watson and concurred in by the Police Department. The District Commissioners also have Wwitnessed the drowning of Crandall at Widewater last night gave the Wash- ington address of the man, whom he had formerly said was a Baltimorean. He said Crandall apparently tired or was seized with cramps. Grimmell, i later developed, was o, M n & cl non-support. :.: bei.ng'he:. Untllhh“slt! nigh:blll‘e had fused to give muc! ormation con- cerning the tragedy. Would Ban Canal Swimming. Montgomery County Commissioners to- day initiated a move to prohibit swim- ming in the canal at Widewater, where Crandall met his death. It was ex- plained, however, that police have no authority to stop swimming withoa! a request from the canal company. The varying temperatures of the canal ‘water, .caused by springs, which feed the canal, are highly conducive to cramps, board members declared, and cause the majority of drownings which occur at Widewater. —— Sylvan Fete Depends on Rain. In the event of rain, the Community Center Department’s Sylvan Theater d the to Mr, ;&P’r&ve :hn, according festival pr%lm, scheduled for 8 o'clock tonight, be postponed until the same hour tomorrow night. Navy Yard. Born August 5, 1844, in Georgetown, he was x:ggglnted an acting midshipman in November, 1861. His first sea service included duty aboard the U. 8. S. Colo- rado. He served at the Naval Observa- tory here and at the Naval Academy, and in 1879 was executive officer of the m%ne U. eg B‘ u("}ondmmgmon. e served with A Det at the battle of Manila Bay and later com- manded the European squadron of the American Fleet in March, 1904, when he was made a rear admiral. He was retired in 1904. CHILD’S DEATH MYSTERY Mother Finds Electric 17 Hand of 17-Month-0ld BEcy. Dean Kirby, 17 months old, died to- day shortly after ‘grasping an_eleciric wire in his home in the 1000 block of Seventeenth place northeast. He was pronounced dead at Casualty Hospital, Where he was rushed in an automobile. e child was found in the front room of his home, with an electric wire clutched in his hand, by his mother, Mrs. Ruby Kirby. However, physicians gave the cause of his death as “un- determined,” in