Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1932, Page 17

Washington N ewsT GRAND JURY TO END BONS ROTS PROBE WTH DATA SEALED No Further Indictments Ex- pected, but Government Could Rsopen Case. PUBLIC REPORT BANNED ON SECRET TESTIMONY Three Men Awaiting Trial Net Re- sult of Inquiry Into Assaults cn Policemen. The District grand jury is ready tol write “finis” across the secret record | of the F-deral investigation to fix re- £ponsibility for the bonus army riots of July 28 i There will be no further indictments growing out of the special incuiry| ordered by President Hoover, according | to reliable reports, and there will be 1o public report of the findings of the grand jury on matters of non-indictable nature X By ignoring further mention of the bonus disturbances when it makes its| final repost to the District Supreme | Court on Friday, the grand jury auto- | matically will relegate the voluminous| record of testimony in the B. E. F. in-| quiry to the category of scaled tour(‘ documents. ! Three Awaiting Trial. “The record of the retiring grand jurv will end with three indictments. all told, 1 these having been handed down neal the outset of the inquiry. The indicted | trio, Bernard McCoy, John O. Olson and ¢ . 'are awaiting trial " They are charged with assaults on lice officers during the clashes that ?Joreceded forcible evacua- tion of the bonus marchers at Third | street and Pennsylvania avenue. er the diresticn of As-| General Nugent Dodds. | Sectimony was_ presented to the grand | Jury to the effcce that explosives nd | fircarms were fecreted at various bon s camps, W tnesses cre understood to have | been unable to identify persens alleg=d to have had the caches. Four former B E. F. members tostified recent they had seen dynamite, rifies and| pistols in billets of their comrades. At| one session the jury was shown rem-| nants of a German Mauser rifle said o Tave been dug up on the site of Camp Marks, Anacostia, after burningi of the cemp. Witnesses were Shown| photcgraphs of some of the rioters, u" is said, but could not identify any ‘of\ them as persons they had seen with | arms cr explosives. | Case Could Be Reopened. i If new evidence shculd be found to| warrant further efforts cn the part of thn Government to seek additional in-| te, however, there {3 nothing to; ent presentaticn of the evidence to| grand jury to be sworn in next| To that extent the Department cf Jutice will hold its inquiry open in- definitely, it was learned. ~There are| indications. however, that the intensive | phase of the Government's inquiry has ended. ; i The only indictments resulting from the grand jury proceedings were re- turned on August 6, about two weeks | after the hearings were launched. Mec- | Coy, Olson and Faulkner were indicted for assaults with dangerous weapons, chiefly bricks. McCoy was charged with “assault with intent to kill” as the result of an attack with a brick made on Policeman James E. Scott.| The three men pleaded not guilty when | arraigned several weeks ago. Aittough unds DISTRICT HOME LOAN BANKS OPEN OCT. 15, President Hoover So Informed by Chairman of Newly Created Board. Home loan district banks will be open for business October 15, President H-over was told today by Franklin Fort, chair- man of the newiy-created Home Loan Bank Board. | Mr. Fort made the announcement | after a conference with the President today, during which he made his first report to the Chief Executive upcn the | progress being made in the organization | of the home loan banks. The President was advised by the Home Loan Bank head that the mora- torium on home mortgage foreclosures will prove very satisfactory. He added | that requests for loans to forestall fore- closures deluged the Home Loan Bank Board at the start and the fact thac| these requests are decreasing now in- dicates, in his opinion, a favorable sign that this provision of the Home Loazn Bank act has served a real pur- pose and that many homes which would have been lost by their owners because of foreclosures will be saved. | VETERAN WHO DISTURBED POST OFFICE RITES FREED| Court Takes Perscnal Bond of Man| Who Cheered Roosevelt in Hoover Ceremony. Edward C. Wells, 33-year-old war | veteran, who disturbed the corner stone | laying ceremonies at the new Post Of- fice Building, in which President Hoo-! ver participated yesterday, by velling, “Hurray for Roosevelt.” was relcased in the custody of his sister in Police Court today. She said she would accompany him on his return to Walter Reed Hospital, where he had been rece:ving treatment. Wells was arrested by Licut. Milton D. Smith for intoxicaton and was said ! to have had & small amount of liquor on his at the time. His sister explained that W:lls left Walter Reed several months ago, when in the midst of receiving treatment for | injuries sustained in the war. She said that if he would not accompany her she would turn him over to police. Judge Ralph Given took his persunal: bond. CITIZENS ELECT SLATE Special Dispatch to The Star. CHEVY CHASE, Md,, September 27— At the first Fall meeting of the Citizens’ ‘Association of section 3, Chevy Chase dent; Dr. M. G. Lloyd, vice presiden Mrs. 1. C. Gardner, secretary-treasurer, and Dr. Lloyd, James Pugh and James Rogers, delegates to the Civic Federation. V. H. Dent, Euj n2> McLachlen and ! ‘.“:mu B. Earlacher were named 2lter- te delegates, VALUE OF RELIEF DOLLAR REVIEWED Whole Range of Business Aided, Says Secretary Chapin. The dollar given for relief work helps : not only the poor but virtually the| whole rank of legitimate business, Sec- | retary of Commerce Chapin declared today. The Secretary's statement followed reports by unit chairmen of the Com- | munity Chest organization yesterday which indicated that plans for the com- | ing chest campaign were practically | completed. In revieving the “business value” of the relief dollar, Mr. Chapin said: Goes Into Circulation. lSF _ “The relief dollar when first paid out | is not wasted, or lost, or hoarded, or even stored in a bank. “The relief dollar goes inta circulation | immediately and it must make a long journey before it has a chance to go into hiding. | “Immediately it is used to buy things | —which is what economists, business | men, manufacturers, agriculturists, ! leading Government officials all know | makes better business and mcre em- | ployment. | “The relief dollar goes chiefly for | food. It follows an ever-widening trail. | “It helps the storekeeper pay rent and taxes and wages and to buy numer- ous kinds of merchandise for his own family. “It helps the printers and the paper men and the jumber men and the twine and bag men. | “It helps the farmers and the fruit | and vegetable growers, the rice and ! sugar growers. the salt producers and | the millers. And whenever one in any of those groups receives a share he puts it to work through wages and tares and purchases of a continually expand- ing range of merchandise and services. | “The relief dollar heips the poor and | it also helps nearly the whole range of legitimate business. It is doing some- thing which needs to be added to all the other efforts of banks and business, industry and Government.” Plans for Campaign. | Plans for the Community Chest cam- | paign weré contained in reports made yesterday to Newbold Noyes, campaign | chairman. | H L. Rust, jr, chairman of the metropolitan unit, said his organization is complete even to the naming of area chairmen and secretarfes. Most of the divisional chairmen also have been ap- pointed. Mr. Rust explained that in | co-operation with Lloyd B. Wilson, chairman of the group solicitation unit, | the city has been divided into areas which will be worked by both these units. John C. Koons, reporting for Mr. ‘Wilson, said the group solicitation unit's area chairmen and secretaries also have been named. To Serve Again. Most of the team captains who worked in the special gifts unit last year will serve again this year, Clarence | A. Aspinwall, chairman, announced. This unit will report daily this year just as other Chest units report. The governmental unit will function this year practicaly with the same per- sonel which made its efforts so Suc- cessful lest year, Thomas E. Campbell, chairman, reported. Arttur Hellen will be chairman of the Meetings Committee, and he will have charge of arrangements for the| report meetings. | BANKS ARE CONSOLIDATED Industrial Savings and Prudential Merger Is Announced. The Industrial Savings Bank, Eleventh and U streets, has consclidated with the Prudential Bank, 717 Florida avenue, and will transact the business of both banks at the Eleventh and U streets office, it was announced today. W.'H. C. Brown, president of the In- dustrial Savings Bank, will continue as president of the combined institutions, which will retain the name of Indus- trial Savings Bank. Jchn R. Hawkins, president of the Prudential Bank, and other officers will become members of the board. The Industrial Savings Bank, organ- ized in 1913, is capitalized for $50.000. The bank taken over was capitalized Zor $100,000. FROST IS REPORTED Mercury Drops to 38 in Hagers- town—No Damage Reported. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., September 27. —A light frost was re) in the outlying _sections yesterday, but was not heavy enough to cause ‘damage to late crops, frnemwdiwflwu. T was the weapon shown above, “iron claw,” which a first precinc prisoner claimed injured his arm disproved. The “claw.” adcpted by scveral hun- | dred local police, but nct issued by the department, clamps cn the wrist of a prisoner and causes no pain while the prisoner is quiet, but beccmes painful nd might even break a_m 'm, oraing to Sergt. W. H. Thomas, who demonstrated it. if a priscner Tesists too violently. Turned about, with the claw end in the policeman’s fist, the handle forms an effective pair of “brass kuncks.” It has the sanction of Police Chief Pelham D. Glassford and other police cfficials. —Star Staff Photo. $250.000R.F.C. LOAN FOR WATER SOUGHT Suburban Commission Would| Build New Station and Auxiliary Line. BY GEORGE PORTER. An application for a $250,000 loan to build a 10,000.000-gallon pumping | station at Burnt Mills and a 2-mile pipe line from the Patuxent River to the headwaters of the Northwest | Branch has been filed with the Recon- struction Finance Corporation by the | Washington Suburban Sanitary Com- mission, officials of the commission an- nounced today. The application requests that the | money be loaned at 41, per cent in-| terest and be repaid in 20 years. If granted, this loan would permit the sanitary commission to carry out a project, that has been studied for years; that is, supplement its present water supply from the Northwest Branch with Patuxent River water. ‘Would Keep D. C. Connection. The 2-mile auxiliary pipe line and | small pumping station required to di- vert water from the Patuxent into the Northwest Branch uld be located near the Ellicott City road in upper | Montgomery County. The new pumping statiop at Bumnt Mills would supply suburban Mont- | gomery and Prince Georges Counties under all normal conditions, .T. Howard Duckett, chairman of the commission, said. Connections would be maintained with the Washington system, however, for use in emergcncies, he said. Having a 10,000,000 gallon-a-day capacity, it would nearly triple the present plant’s capacity of 4,000,000 gallons. The record consumption in | the sanitary district is 17.000,000 gal- | lons in a single day, established during ! the abnormally hot last week of August of this year. Cost Set at $272,000. The cost of the new plant, which would be equipped with the most med- | ern machinery, and of tho Patuxent River “cut off” would be approximately | $272,000, according to_an_engineering ; cstimate by Robert B. Morse, " chief | cngineer of the commission, i The difference between this figure and the amount of the loan, if granted, would be obtained from the commis- sion’s funds. In addition to enabling the commis- sion to carry out at once a project that must eventually be built, a considerable number of men will be given employ- ment if the loan is granted, Mr. Duck- ett pointed out. Further Data Prepared. Further engineering data requested by the Reconstruction Finance Corpo- ration is being. compiled by Mr. Morss and will be filed 2s a supplement to the application for the loan as soon as_available. 2 . The project was given serious con- sideration during the drought of 1930,, but the unfavorable condition ofthe! bond market caused the commission.to indefinitely abandon its plans. Believing the market has recently im- proved the commission applied to the Maryland Public Service Commission last week for permission to float a $200,000 bond issue to meet the more pressing demands for water end sewer extensions. This application will be acted upon next month, | The WASHINGTON, D. C, /| Police Here Adopt New Arm THE “IRON CLAW” USED FOR UNRULY PRISONERS. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION AID FOR ALL NEEDY DESPITE ANY COST CALLED U. 3. DUTY Money as Essential for Relief as for Battleships, Says Rev. R. J. Clinchy. SHARP INCREASE HERE IN CALLS FOR HELP TOLD Plea to Congress for New Fund Declared Imperative by Leroy A. Halbert. The Federal Government should ap- propriate 2s much money as is needed, | no matter what the amount, to feed its destitute, Rev. Russell J. Clinchy, pastor of the Mcunt Pleasant Congre- ! gational Church, told members of the i Monday Evening Club last night as| other speakers predicted greater want ! during the ccming Winter than since | the beginning of the depression. “If “American political philosophy permits the spending of $40,000,000 for a battleship to protect the lives and property of citizens, then that same philosophy must make it possible for the Government to spend as many 40 millions as is necessary to_save its people from starvation,” Rev. Mr. Clinchy declared. “I think I say this as a patrioti American citizen,” he added. “It is the duty of the Gevernment to protect its citizens against every foe, including the foe of hurger.” Urges Creation of Work. Rev. Mr. Clinchy also advocated the creetion of work by public construc- tion and improvements. He partic- ularly stressed the need for impressing Spiritual values on the destitute and especially on the half million young people who are living the life of vaga: bonds ghroughout the country. Others to address the club last night at its meeting held in the Willard Hotel were Leroy A sor. i vision of emerge: ‘Welfare. and Walter S. Ufford, general | secretary of the “Associated Charities. The general subject of the meeting was the Winter's relief needs. Mr. Halbert ssed thus subjcet from the stand- of public charity. Mr. harity secs them and Rev. Mr. from the viewpoint of a private | citizen. Washington will be behind the rest of the country in recovering from its; _ | present economic stress, Mr. indicated. “In considering the prospect for the coming year in Washington. it must be Sunday, but which police say they|porne in mind,” he said, “that Govern- | ment cconomies are steadily decreasing the economic rescurces of Washington's business community, and _therefore | Washington's particular outlock 1is for | thorities, { worse rather than better conditions f0r | coast Guard, Federal agents seeking to | year or two to ccme, even if s conditions improve over the country, because there is a tremendous crganized. propaganda to reduce Gov- ernment expsnditures and reduce taxes. The demand for relief is going to in- crease matcrially during the next year.” Cites Employment Drop. The cause of the increased demand on relief agencies, Mr. Halbert said, is the long and increasing unemployment throughout the Nation. The monthly bulletins cf the Department of Labor show a steady decline in employment in several lines of industry for Wash- ington in May, June and July, he de- clared, and a drop of over 10 per cent per month in c ruction here during the seme months He cited other statistics to show that eight industries in Washington paid al least a es: in April. This dces not include losses in domestic service or Government em- ployment, he explained. Mr. Haibert raid to meet this situa- tion the $350,000 available to the Board of Public Welfare for emergency relief is entliely inadequate and will necessi- tate cutting down the relief budget to $50,000 per month. while a sum far in excess of this amount would be neces- sary to meet the existing need properly. “The emergency relief division,” he declared, “will have spent by the end of September, in a period of two months, about $125.000. It has now introduced a detailed system of budget- ing the field.workers and limiting their expenditures and apportioning their funds to their families that will reduce the rate of expenditure to $50,000 for the menth of October, but the amounts possible under the budgets are admit- tedly inadequate.” There is not a doubt, he continued, that a plea must be made to Congress for more funds. Mr. Ufford gave tke exhaustion of resources as one of the principal causes of the great need which he said the coming Winter will bring. Needy Families Increase. ‘The number of familles under care of the Associated Charities has increased more than 130 per cent since 1928, Mr. Ufford asserted, causing en increase of from $66,000 to $188,000 spent in relief. The last figure named was for 1931 and in the first eight months of 1932 this jumpsd to $280,000, he said. From these and other figures, the speaker concluded that at least $5Q,- 000 per month, and probably as much as 575,000, will be needed by private chari- ties to care for the needy of the city during the Winter. Three resolutions were introduced and referred to the Executive Commit-; . tee. The first requested the Board of Public Welfare to put into effect & por- tion of the act establishing it which empowers it to make & study of social and envircnmental conditions so as to be able to recommend to the District Cmmissioners such remedial measures as may be necessary. The second recommended the devel- opment in the immediate future of a city-wide program for the financing and administzation of relief, both public and private, which will meet with the approval and enlist the participation of public officials, the directors of private welfare work and the community as a whole. A third resolution, introduced by Rev. Mr. Clinchy, recommended that the club sponsor a mass meeting of citi- zens “to‘express their conviction that adequate public relief should be afford- ed by Congress.” Leifur Magnusson, president, presided. PARKING SPACE SOUGHT Accommodations for fishermen who wish to park along Mount Vernon Me- marial Boulevard, while they angle in Roaches Run are being considered by Frank T. Gartside, chief of the parks division of the Office of Public Build- ings and Public Parks. The nearest park- in lace, it has been pointed out, is o g S Capitol Overlook, a_mile and a g south of Railroad Bridge, and quite a distance from Roaches Run. A piece of ground built up on the south side of the highway just east of Railroad Bridge when the road was under con- ! struction, will be set aside for parking if & recommendation now under com- sideration is carried out, Ufferd ni‘ Halbert | 000 less in wages during July than ! cciety Show at the Carlton Hotel, Hotel, with 86 dahlia classes and | 28 for garden flowers scheduled to be | judged. The show will continue until tonight | at 10 pm. and tomorrow’s session will | HE seventh annual dahlia exhibi- tion of the National Capital| | | 1 | hour tomorrow night. Foening St TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1932. Capital Dahlia Show Opens Today PRIZE BLOOMS OF LOCAL GROWERS ON EXHIBITION. Tonight at 8:30 Warren G. Maytrott | of New Jersey, the expert who is judg- for Exhibition and Commercial Pur- poses.” Following the lecture the medals show will be presented. The dahlia exhibition this vear has last from 10 in the morning to the same attracted entries from nearby Maryland | divisions and Virginia, as well as the District, A | Miss Dorothy Pflieger poses with some of the mammoth dahlias entered in the National Capital Dahlia and Iris —Star Staff Photo. novel feature will be a popularity class in which a silver cup will be awarded Dahlia and Iris Sociely opens | ing all classes of the show, will lécture | for the basket of flowers voted most j today at 2 pm. in the Carlten on “Growing and Exhibiting Dahlias | popular by spectators at the show. | E. W. Sheets, president of the Dahlia | Scciety, said today an unusual variety | and cups won by exhibitors in the 1931 | and quality of entries had been received. | The contest will include classes for sin- | gle types, groups exhibited in vases and for baskets exhibited by garden | clubs or civie organizations, 'HI-IACKING PROBE SBEINEPUSHED | State and County Police and Coast Guard Enlisted in Search for Suspects. Aided by State police. county au-| 2ltimore detectives and the | | | apprehend the hi-jackers who seized an | | $18.000 liquor cargo and kidnaped four | | Pederal investigators early Sunday | morning near Prince Frederick, Md. | | expect “definite results shortly,” they | declared today. | The agents plan to return to Drum Point, the 2,300-acre estate at the mouth of the Patuxent River on the| { Chesapeake Bay, to see if they can | find any liquor buried on the beach there, it was reported. It was in the basement of the 25-| ! room Spanish mansion on this estate that the agents captured the valuable liquor cargo, cnly to have it taken |away from them a short time later. | | after three carloads of hi-jackers had | {opened fire with submachife guns. | | Bond Is Set at $30,000. Henry G. Carter, 600 block of Fifth street, the only man arrested in con- | nection with ihe hi-jacking, had his| bond fixed at $30.000 by United States Commissioner J. Frank Supplee follow- ing an arraignment hearing in Balti- more yesterday. In announcing he expected “results” | soon, Deputy Prohibition Administrator | Lowell R. Smith of Baltimore, who is directing the investigation of the case, said he preferred to keep quiet about | what is being done, but admitted he| expected to consult Baltimore detec- | tives “to see if they can help.” Mr. Smith lauded the conduct of the | gents involved in the most sensational ry war” encounter in the State. “I think the investigators behaved themselves very well. We got back the | liquor and no one was hurt. I am pleased with the outcome and the men's conduct,” he said. Agents from Waldorf under Joseph Randolph Brewer, who seized the liquor, but turned it over to investigators from Baltimore and left the truck on which it was loaded before the hi-jacking, were called to Baltimore yesterday to confer with Mr. Smith and the Baltimore agents. State police who assisted in the ar- rest of Carter and helped trail the hi- jackers after they had freed the agenm‘! kidnaped and lost the liquor when the‘ truck overturned on a curve, were also called upon to help. Several valuable | clues, including the license numbers on the hi-jackers’ cars, will give the State | partdlmeh something tangible on which | to work. The Coast_Guard has volunteered to Help'in the 'invéstigation by searching for the yacht which landed the gorbgd gquqr at Drum Point, but the gents have been unable to obtain an adequate description of the ship. Bpltignore dgtectives may be called | pon to “gather up the lose ends” col- lected by the agents so there can be +a foundation for the investigation, offi- cials said. They are also expected to probe a report that two machine guns were missing from a Government reser- vation in Baltimore. Officials directing the investigation believe the hi-jacking was solely the work of Baltimore bootleggers made desperate by the seizure of the liquor consigned to them and discredit theories { that Philadelphia gangsters, local Cal- | vert County bootleggers or rival liquor | operators are involved. . J No Effort to Recover Liquor. They point out that when the first truckload of liquor was captured by Agent Brewer and his men as it was being driven from the Drum Point road Saturday the men in several cars fol- lowing the truck, who were also armed with machine guns, were apparently| so surprised they trailed the agents all the way to Baltimore but made no effort to recover the liquor. Joseph. Russo and Anthony Duerr of Baltimore, who were arrested on this truck on of t tion and possession, will be given a hearing be- and Dorsey Stinnett of Solomons Is- land, who were subsequently seized at the Spanish mansion and charged with posession, will be given a hearing be- fore United States Commiseioner J. Frank Parre: z n at Marlboro October 4. Carter is charged with assault with a deadly weapon, interference Wwith Federal officers and rescuing or causing to be rescued 153 cases of whisky which had been seized by Federal investigators. He pleaded not guilty yesterday sand will be given &. hearing in Baltimore Monday, | | | Dies Here | MRS. RICHARD S. WOLFE. WASHINGTON WOMAN DIES AT HOME HERE Funeral Services for Mrs. R. §. Wolfe to Be Held Thursday at Calvary M. E. Mrs. Richard S. Wolfe, a resident of Washington nearly all her life, died sudden:y yesterday at her home, 1674 Irving street. Funeral services will be held at 10 am. Thursday at Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, followed by burial in Hagerstown, Md, where she was born. Mrs. Wolfe had served as a member of the board of managers of the Metho- dist Home for the Aged, and her activities during her residence here have been identified with local church and charitable interests. She was a member of Calvary Church. Besides her husband, she is survived by three sons, Edmund S. Wolfe, Bridgeport, Conn., and Roy H. and Ralph M. Wolfe of this city: two sisters, Mrs. Edwin C. Dutton, Chevy Chase, Md, and Mrs. Harry E. Brandt, Hagerstown, and a brother, Charles W. Harman, Hagerstown. DR. D. PERCY HICKLING REPORTED IMPROVED District Alienist, Injured in Fall Down Shaft, Better at Emer- gency. Dr. D. Percy Hickling, District alien- ist and noted expert on mental di , who was injured Sunday night when he fell down an elevator shaft in his home, 1304 Rhode Island avenue, was reported greatly improved today at Emergency Hospital. Dr. Hickling’s fall was the result of 2 habit_formed over a period of many years. He opened a door to enter what used to be a medicine closet, forgetting | that he had ordered the closet cut out to install an elevator. As he took a step forward he plunged down the shaft. Dr. Hickling is 69 years old. LITTLE HOPE GIVEN 10.0LD PAY SCALE |Government Employes Not Expected to Be Restored | | | to Former Salaries. Restoration of the Government salary schedules as provided by the classifi- cation act and substantive law is not probable during the next fiscal year, according to Chairman Byrns of the House Appropriations Committee and other congressional leaders, both Demo- crats and Republicans. “1 o not see how it will be possible to restore to Federal employes the salaries that they enjoyed during the past year,” said Representative Byrns in discussing a judicious economy policy in the writing of the appropria- tion bills. Little Hope Given. | _ Chairman McDuffie of the Special Economy Committee which put through the salary slashing program and Rep- resentative Wood, Republican, of Indi- ana, a member of the committee, have | made equivocal pronouncements that | they are in favor of modifying the salary cuts, but there is no real en- couragement when they say “we are in favor of restoring the wages taken from | the Federal employes just as fast as | the* income of the Government will make this possible.” They are united with Chairman Byrns in the belief that “with the Government's revenue re- cuced the employes’ salary cut will be eontinued for another year in all prob- ability.” It has been variously estimated that the reduction in salaries and the fur- lough system prescribed by the last Congress would save from $65.000,000 to $85,000,000 a_vear. Chairman Byrns declared today that every effort will be | made to cut Government expenditures and thereby reduce the Treasury deficit. Committee consideration of appropria- tion bills with the Federal budget recommendations_informally before the Appropriations Committee will not be started until after the election. Will Act in December. In the meantime, Columbia Typo- graphical Union has made a poll of the attitude of the principal members of Congress on the restoration of wage standards in the Government service. The union is waging a Nation-wide campaign to let taxpayers and voters know that Congress determines the in- come and expenditures, and this im- | portant group is opposed to any candi- | date who supported or intended to sup- port wage reductions as the principal means to economy in Government expenditures. Chairman Byrns .said. today that three of the most imporiant appropria- tion bills, in which the wage-cut policy will be determined, will be ready for presentation to the House as soon as Congress meets in December. DROUGHT IS BROKEN | Rain Continues Today to Relieve Cumberland Valley. | Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., September 27. —Heavy rains throughout the Cumber- land Valley last night and today broke a long drought. Most of the smaller streams had dried up and the Potomac River was the lowest in several decades. The rain was continuing this morning. TEACHERS WILL DIRECT CADETS IN PLACE OF ARMY OFFICERSI Those Assigned Have Had Serve Under Teachers who have had military directors five whitz high ding to a plan adopted today at a conference among Dr. Stephen E. Kramer, first t t of schools; assistant superintendent Lieut. Col. Wallace N. Craigie, U. S. A. retired, director of , military. tral in the schools, and the five high school | of principals. ‘The appointment of the teachers to assist Col. Craigie was necessitated by the withdrawl from the school system of the- four officers_ as- Military Training and Will Col. Craigie. military science ration of l. Craigie restored to retired pay status, but he has voluntarily con- tinued on duty in the schools at re- tired pay. The teacher to be chosen in each high school will be selected on the basis his own military experience. At present, his cadet corps duties will be ly extra-curricular. Eventually. to relieve assistant professors of and tactics through the PAGE B—1 'ENGINEER SAVS LS. CAN PRODUCE NOST INPORTS oW SED Speaker Believes 85 Per Cent of Commoditics Bought Abroad Can Be Grown. AMERICA FOR AMERICANS IS SUGGESTED AS SLOGAN Victor Householder, Phoenix, Ariz., Elected President of National Association for Year. The assertion that 85 per cent of the $2,000,000,000 worth of commodities im- ported by this country could be grown and produced in the United States, thereby creating wealth and employ- ment for Americans, was made by Dr. Henry Arnstein, eminent chemical and mechanical engineer of Philadelphia, before the convention of the American Association of Engineers in the Shore- ham Hotel today. Declaring that the American engineer has been “inactive in developing the country’s national resources to create wealth and employment,” while for- elgn engineers are doing everything possible to develop this field, Dr. Arn- stein urged widespread teaching of the use of native-grown and native-pro- duced products for the ‘“development of America’s natural resources and for the benefit of the citizens of this country. The spcaker, who is wall known for his processes of producing alcohol frem waste products and the utilization of it for motor fuel, told the engineers that a cure for the diseased economic condition of the country lay with them. “America for Americans.” “We must teach the American farmer and the American manufacturer to grow and produce such commodities as we are now importing,” the speaker asserted. Urging an “America for Americans” slogan, Dr. Arnstein said. “It should be a patriotic duty to de- mand American-grown and American, produced commodities, and cngineers and technically trained men should point out the benefit of re abling the utilization of surplus agri- cultural and manufactured commodities, and enabling the creation of new stanc- ards of living.” The United States, he continued, is importing a large variety of products. a vast majority of which could be grown or produced in the United Statas or with one or two exceptions satisfac- torily substituted from native minerals through resort to research. E Victor Householder, Phoenix, Ariz, engineer, was elected president cf the national body for the forthcoming year at an executive session last night. Donal L. Chamberlin, president of the Wash- ington Chapter of the orgarization, was elected vice president, while Mrs. M. E. Mclver of Chicago, was re-clected retary. Repcrts of the standing and special committees marked the business ss.on of the convention today. David Lawrence, editos of the United States Daily, was to be the geust of the convention at a luncheon in the hotel this afterncon, following Which the delegates planned an inspection tour through the Navy Yard. Ladies of the convention were scheduled to meet Mrs. Hoover at the White House at 3 o'clock, after which they were to be guests of the Naticnail Woman's Country Cluo at tea. The convention will conclude with the annual banquet of the association to- morrow night. Speakers at tomorro sessions will include V. Bernard Sier of New Ycrk and John Lyle member of the Enginecring Advisory Board of the Reconstruction Firance Corroration. Describing the United States Gov- ernment’s invasion of “the provinces and prerogatives of private business” as the greatest avenue of Government waste today, Chester Leasure. United States Chamber of Commerce executive, told the delegates yesterday afternoon that the cost of government in this country today constitutes a burden on the constructive and productive enter- rises of the Nation, which it cannot ong endure. Scores Encroachment. “The habit of the Government during the past 10 or 15 years,” Leasure as- serted, “has been to encroach steadily upon the realm of private business, and the deficits from Government opera- tion of railroads and steamers have been outsanding factors contributing to the $14,000,000,000 annual tax bill of the American taxpayer.” Predicting that the findings of the Shannon Committee investigating the Government in business “will startle the Nation and the world” when they are made public, Leasure said that among other things the Housz group already has shown that it is possible for any one to purchase automobile tires from the Navy Deptartment and clothing from the Army. “One witness beforc the committce appeared aitired from head to foot in apparel acquired in an Army post store,” the speaker sald. “And, in addition, the shoes he purchased ti bore the inscription inside the soles, ‘Made in Great _Britai Leasure advocated revision of the anti-trust laws to bring them up to date, saying he believed they are now deterring economic recovery. TWO BADLY INJURED IN TRAFFIC MISHAPS Woman Thrown From Car as Skidding Machine Strik Man in Hospital. es 1 Mrs. Clarissa M. Ludlum, 54, of 7 West Bradley lane, Bethesda, Md., was painfully injured today when an auto- mobile driven by Fay_C. Brown, 400 block of Wilson lane, Bethesda, struck her car as she was driving north on Wisconsin avenue at Quebec street. Mrs. Ludlum's car was knocked onto the side- walk and she was thrown out, injuring her back. She was treated at Emer- gency Hospital. Brown told police he was driving south on Wisconsin avenue when he swerved to avold another car. His ma- chine skidded on the wet car tracks and struck Mrs. Ludlum’s car, he said. Hurley E. Baker, 27, of Mo Md., was seriously 1 when the automobile he was driving and a truck operated by Edmund D. Roland of Haymarket, Va., collided at Sixth and O streets. His wife was treat- ed at Garfleld Hospital for minor in- juries received in the accident. Roland was booked at No. 2 police station on a charge of recxiess driving. Baker was taken to Freedman's Hos- pital, where it was reported he had re- ceived head injuries ana coveral broken jbs. X-ray protograpns were to be taken to determine if he has & frac- l