Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1932, Page 17

1 Che p o WASHINGTON, D. €., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1932. Foening Star | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION HUGE CROWDS DUE AT TOY MATINEES FOR POOR CHILDREN Gifts Already Arriving to Bring Cheer Into Des- titute Homes. THEATERS IN READINESS FOR TOMORROW MORNING Public Responds Quickly to Pro- gram Sponsored by Warner Bros. in Co-operation With Star. Fair weather and popular approval promise a_huge turnout tomorrow morning when the 12 “toy matinees” wrow open their doors to a city-wide wdience. The forecast calls for real Christmas weath brisk and cold. and the pub- lic's early response has been hearty. with hampers already filling and . with telephones and letters bearing | eager inquiries. : i A new toy or bit of clothing—a: Christmas gift for some destitute child only admission price to the d by Warner Bros. in with The Star. at 9:30 o'clock at the| itan, and 30 minutes | ador, Apollo, Avalon, Home, open later at the Amba: Avenue Grand. Central. Colony, Savoy, Tivoli and York. Everything in Readiness. readiness for to- Feature is in s to T en boys and g ht for the children he 20.000 unfortunates and institutions, in IO‘tr‘r‘ . tiny offspring of foreign- | fed and clothed by charity, e pair of skates she dreamed mas morning : i already have tele- her address | hed to at- MAN WHO MENACED HOUSE IS EXAMINED Kemmerer Sent to Gallinger shiny new of m!lcr‘ 6 vears old. whose “father | ng.” can come to the toy | vell as their young brother | still younger sister. A letter to Warner Brothers fixed that. Theater officials, impressed by plight of the youngsters. who shared the | t a toy between them, but still wished | day to address the House of Represent- boys would be to swop boys to give to other “poor children.” dug ! into their own pockets to buy for new tovs, and delivered them in person yes- terday afternoon Able o Attend Part i The children now_plan to attend the | s, bringing their contributions. ! ‘But their names are on the “toy matine” list. They won't be forgotten when toys are distributed Christmas morning | The widow of an admiral, who mailed } o contribution to, a_ neighborhood | theater, can be assured her gift will | go straight to some boy or girl other- | wise forgotten i Tloyd, 9 vears old, and Joseph, just her has been unemploved | heir mother can tell them i stockings on Christ- | confident that appropriate will not be lacking. ve.” wroté the mother, “is ce under the Emergency | nittee.” | All these, and countless others, are | ng hands to fill a common need— | need and to receive on | adiness for the “toy| help swell them into one Christmas for thé for-| children of Washington! { juvenile film stars, Jackie; Robert Coogan and Mitzi Green, tured in a number of tomor- ¥ matinee” pictures, have tele- from California. saying they are sorrv they can't attend the Christ- mas benefits, but hope the Washington children will enjoy them Sending Some Toys. One of them. Mitzi Green, said she | s sending “some toys for the poor | and girls of Washington.” t the stars telegraphed: December 15. | matinees™ huge mer “Gee, 1 just think the Warner Bros. Evening Star toy_matinees are a swell idea. Wish that I could be at the show | in person but my new picture will keep | me here. | me here. JACKIE COOPER.” | “Hollywood, Calif.. December 15 ST that those Evening Star er Bros. toy matinees are the swellest this I wish I could be there | with a big bunch of toys for poor boys and girls of Washington but I am so busy I will have to stay here. I am glad my picture has been chosen for showing at toy matinees. ROBERT COOGAN.” “Hollywood, Calif.. December 15. “Than vitation to attend % Evening Star toy Sorry T cannot be there but am sending some toys for poor little boys and girls of Washington, I hope ; the kids enjoy the picture. MITZI GREEN.” COTTON BILL OFFERED Measure Would Give Red Cross Farm Board's Stocks. Senator Bingham of Connecticut yrs-‘ terday in the Senate "the Jones bill to autk the Federal Farm Board to turn over to the Amer- ican Red Cross for relief use the bal- ance of its cotton stocks. Marriage Licenses. Baltimore, Brockway. and Pa.; n, 42, and Irene Beas- Creck. Va.; Rev. Allan . Clarendon, Va., . Waverly Hills, Tth st. 3 th st W. . both of Bent and Va.i | Edw se., B. Edwar 4 ne 1. McDougle. A. Stewart, 4. and Dorothy_Dick- > both of Baltimore; Rev. Eugene 23, and Edith B. Tibbs, 21, Va; Rev. Ccorge E. 24. Chevy Chase. ‘Schmutzer, 22. 6 Sweeney. 1 Temperance ave. . 1911 Temperance V. e, 13, 1 Lovettesvill Norman O. ne Frederick W. Shuth, jr, 55, and Maude M. e 40. both of Baltimore: Rev. n and Eva U. Fle . Vel el Gresham S st 760, pl. 1815 Rev. S Q st. and Fairmont ! 10 Mas B2 2] aymond L. for Tests Before Fate Is Decided. Marlin R. M. Kemmerer, 25, Allen- town, Pa. clerk who atte: ed Tues- atives at the point of a loaded pistol was sent to Gallinger Hospital from Police Court today for 10 days' mental examination The young man was arraigned before Judge Gus A. Schuldt on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. and aft entering a plea of not guilty waived a hearing. Judge Given. upon recommendaticn_ of Assistant United States Attorney Michael F. Keogh, fixed bond at $2.500. Brothers at Conference. The decision to have Kemmerer ob- served before carrying criminal pro- cedure further was reached by Keogh after a_conference terday with the clerk’s two brothers, Lee A. and Ernest M. Kemmerer; Representative Norton L. Lichtenwalner of Allentown and Representative Melvin J. Maas of Min- nesot2, the hero of Tuesday's moment of terror. who peaceably disarmed him. The brothers said that, while they had never noticed anything strange about their brother’s behavior, they agreed that his recent actions have been most unusual and believed it to be for his best interests to have the examination. Kemmerer was composed when led from his cell into the court room and seemed unworried throughout the entire procedure. At the end of his stay at the hospital a report forwarded to Keogh will determine the action to be taken against him. Accused of Assault. The charge against the young man' have made them. Ours is the responsi- | accused him of assaulting E. J. Roche, | president of the Allied Printing Trades Council, with the gun. a fellow spectator, he would “let him have it” when he attempted to mollify the gun carrier as he waved the weapon in the direction of the floor of the Hou: BOX CARS SOUGHT BY BONUS GROU Left Wing Unit Wants Rides Home to Conduct Recruiting Drive for March. Box cars were being sought today by the left wing bonus marchers, who are anxious to return home for & recruit- ing drive in anticipation of a new march on Washington next Spring after the Roosevelt administration comes into power. Committees of bonus marchers were said by Samuel J. Stember, one of the leaders, to be ready to call upon officials of the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio Railroads and request permission for their comrades to ride home in “empties.” At the local offices of both rodds it was said no such authority could be granted here. and that the matter would have to be referred to the general offices—the B. & O. at Balti- more and the Pennsylvania at Phila- delphia. Decision to return home was reached at a meeting of the “commissars” of the army at 1311 G street last night. All but about 50 of the several hundred marchers now here will leave the city, it was said. and a liaison committee will establish offices here, probably at 905 I street, present headquarters, and maintain contact with “recruiting offi- cers” throughout the country. Stember. who, with Emanuel Levin of the Workers Ex-Service Men's League, is one of the leading figures behind the radical bonus march movement, as- serted members of the present army would spread the gospel of a ‘“united front” throughout the land, urging all World War veterans to band together for the common purpose of securing pasasge of bonus payment legislation. “When _ Inauguration day comes around,” he said, “we will make a re- minder to the Roosevelt government. For the present, our next move is to choose the most favorable time for all the veterans in the country.” Rnth-mchols Comes Here. Miss Ruth NicHSls, noted woman pilot, is a visitor in the Capital today, having flown here yesterday evening from New York in a plane piloted by her brother. Lieut. Fricksqq S. Nichol:, Army Air Corps reserve, / Sylvia Froos of radio and stage fame. who is playing an engagement at the | Earle Theater, dipped into her purse today for a $5 toy {row's gift matinees. arranged by Warner Bros. in co-ope .| Miss Froos is shown with her gifts before the lobby display at the Earle, where one of the matinees gets under way at 9 ontribution to tomor- ation with The Star. 30 a.m. tomorrow. —Star Siaff Photo, WANDERING BOYS PLIGHT STUDIED All Religious Faiths Repre- | sented in Conference on Ways to Meet Problem. Declaring that the most effective way of stopping the wanderings of transient from leaving Joseph R. Siz00, pastor Avenue Presby : opened a conference meeting of Washington clergymen and Travelers' Aid directors. The meeting was held for the purpose of demon- strating co-operation between the Prot- est Catholics and Jews of the city in an effort to find a practical way to end the nomadic life thousands of boys | are leading today result of | the depression and unemployment. “We have to find some solution this problem, and that before long erted Dr. Sizoo. “These boys who me cx too young to be responsible for conditions over held which they had no control. Most of them are normal boys. but they become abnormal and perverted by going on the road.” their homes, of the New Yo Church. vester rian Cites Duty of Churches. Dr. Sizoo further declared that it was the duty of every church to take an active stand to keep homes and families together during these times of stress. If poverty and suffering are allowed te break family ties, he said. then the foundaticn of society is crushed. Speaking as a representative of the Jewish congregations in Washington, Rabbi J. T. Loeb stated that the pic- ture of boys traveling about, homeless and friendlers, was “appalling for civilized country to fac And added. “The cilizens of tomorrow are being made today. What they are, we bility for their condition and their op- portunities.” Rabbi Loeb also said that he believed Roche told Keogh that he was' the public, when it once realized the | i threatened by Kemmerer, who told him scrious extent of the wanderings of boys | ing at 15 to 25 degrees below zero in under 21, would rise up “in unison and stop it. = Talk is only valuable in a case like this when it arouses to action,” | he declared. | _Rev. Joseph Amon of St. Patrick's | Church was the spokesman of the Catholics, and he pledged the active support of Catholics here in “a cause s0 worthy of the consecrated eforts of every one of us.” Father Amon said | that thus far many Catholics. both | clergy and laity had proved their con- | cern about transient boys by helping | to care for such boys. | Involves Future Generations. ’ “This matter cannot have too much! attention.” continued Father Amor, “because it involves the morals and habits of future generations. Some of | these boys who have become tramps | and vagabonds will not recover from | the lives they are now leading. | will have become imbued with the free- and-easy tactics of the habitual loafer and be scarcely fit for any worth-while employment. “Our immediate duty.” he went on, “is to save these boys before they be. come shiftless and degenerate. I foel that the Travelers’ Aid is doing a verr valuable work in sending boys back to | their homes, when they have homes to | 8o to, and in finding good foster homes | for boys who have no families or who | are not wanted at home. It is a work | that will bring rich results.” | In thanking the three ministers for { their pledges of co-operation, Mrs. Margaret Ford, director of the Travel- |ers” Aid, said: | _“With the churches and church peo. ple of Washington back of us, we can indeed go far. The churches can lead the way out of this depression and help the innocent victims of it—these thou- sands upon thousands of foot-loose boys | —to be properly readjusted in a whole- some, normal way of living.” DINNER FOR. EDUEATOR |Elmira College Club to Honor Dr. and Mrs. Lent. Dr. Frederick Lent, president of Elmira College, oldest woman’s college in the United States, and Mrs. Lent will be guests of honor at a dinner to be given by the Elmira College Club, of Washington this evening at the club house of the American Association of University Women. Among the other guests will be As- sistant Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. Seymour Lowman, Miss Martha ‘Wood, president of the club, will pre- side at the dinner. Arrangements are being made by a committee composed of Mrs. John Donaldson, vice presi- dent; Mrs. Perey Lantzy, corresponding secrotary, and Mrs. Cherles W. Rippe | of the executive board of the club. . o + Figures for the past 24 hou They | NEW RECORD COLD FOR WASHINGTON 15 FORECAST TONIGHT Temperature of 10 Degrees Expected After Reading of 14 Early Today. SEVERE V~V|NTER BLAST SPREADS OVER COUNTRY Score of D;ath:R;p;rtcd in Na- tion—Floods Threaten South. Air Travel Halted. A new low temperature record for the | {last two years is predicted in the Capi- | tal tonight, with the mercury exm‘cted" | to drop to 10 degrees. | At 7:30 am. today the official ther-| | mometer here registered 14 degrees, the | {lowest this Winter. Not since February, 1930, when degrees above zero was recorded, !lh:- temperature here sunk to the level | it is expected to reach before morning, | | while increasing cloudiness probably | will bring tomorrow night one of the | snows which have been conspicuous by their absence during the past two Win- | ters. | vhile the Capital shivered and| awaitcd the further onslaughts of Win- | ter, the entire Nation suffered one of | the most widespread cold waves of the | current decade. i The temperatures reported in the, | Middle and Northwest sections of the country made Washington weather secm | comparatively balmy. Air service was interrupted and motor traffic slowed down in numerous areas, while steam- | lers on the Great Lakes were driven to {‘ port. | Score of Deaths Reported in U. S. | More than a score of deaths were at- tributed to exposure throughout the} Nation, and relief cfforts were redoubled | to aid the homeless and unemployed. ton's missions, peculiarly encountered no extraordinary | | demand for emergency food and shel- ter, although facilities continued to be taxed almost to the maximum. A rec- ord of 350 emergency calls to the American Automobile Asosciation be- | tween midnight and noon today gave some ‘indication, however, of the state| iof the weather here. Fifteen operators | were required to handle calls at the| A. A. A. switchboard At the Salvation Army shelter here and the Central Union Mission several | cots were left unoccupied, while the Gospel Mission and the Volunteers of America faced only a slight rise in the | number usually applying for food and a bed. ! 43 Fire Alarms. showed the Salvation Army served 707 meals | and housed 328 out of a possible 350 |the Volunteers of America served 1.324 ' meals and sheltered 95, a few more than | usual; the Gospel Mission gave 274 a | place to sleep and served 298 meals, and | the Central Union Mission had 248 of {its 254 beds filled and fed 682 relief | meals, I The local Fire Department found its | work increased more than 100 per cent Iby the cold. Forty-three alarms were | answered within the last 24 hours, in | contrast to the usual average of 20 a day. None of the fires were serious, most of them being in chimney flues or cars overheated from running with | | frozen radiators. | | In Chicago and Milwaukee, fire 1i { wise added to the discomfort caused b: the clements. Fifteen firemen wel overcome by smoke while fighting {storehouse blaze in the stockyards dis- | trict of the Illinois city, while inmates of a home for the aged in Milwaukee | were driven into the streets by flames. | | when the mercury stood at 5 below | zero. ! E The mercury virtually went into hid- | | frigid_spots in Minnesota and Wiscon- lsin. Chicago had a low mark of 3 below anc a maximum of 3 degrees above {zem yesterday, while most of the East- |ern States reported temperatures on a |par with or under the readings in the | | District. Cold Is Widespread. In the Great Lakes, ice floes sank one ship, an icecutter which had been at- tempting to clear the path for other | water traffic. and tied up marine ac- i tivity in general. Continued rains in Mississippi and | Alabama brought small rivers to flood stage and threatened many waterside {homes as the thermometer sank stead- {ily_downward. California and the Far West felt the | cold wave, falling temperatures in the \former State resulting in increased | smudge firing to protect the citrus groves of the Southern regions. The icy blasts dipped into Kentucky to bring_ the coldest weather in four years, with the thermometer at four | labove in Louisville; broke records of | |three years' standing in Indiana, and, dropped the mercury to near-zero and below in Ohio. In Pennsylvania unofficial figures | read from two to 20 degrees above. | Three persons were killed in coasting accidents in that State. Hagerstown, Md., reported seven de- grees above zero, coldest of the Winter, ilast night. Flying Is Halted. Snow halted most of the aviation schedules in Oklahoma, and air mail pilots along the United Air Line's transcontinental route reported strange temperature antics in _various spots. One pilot_radioed that he found it 12 degrees above at Cleveland's airport, 21 degrees above when he flew at 2,300 feet, and only seven above at 7,200 feet. He dropped back to 2300 to warm up, and found it was 60 inside the cabin. The airport thermometer at Omaha, Nebr., read 15 below zero, but at 5000 feet a pilot found it was relatively hot—20 degrees above. He stayed there. Freezing temperatures came down the Atlantic Coast almost to Wilmington, N. C, where the minimum was 34; ex- tended well into Georgia, and were car- ried by east and northeast winds far down into Alabama, below Meridian, Miss., and South of San’ Antonio, Tex. Most points more than a few miles back from the South Atlantic and Gulf Coasts reported their precipitation was in the form of either snow or sleet. Snow cortinued to fall this morning in Dallas, Tex,, where the minimum tem- perature was 18; in Little Rock, Ark., Where the low was 16; in Shreveport, La., where the mercury dropped to 22, and extreme North Georgia, and in! Chattanooga, Teny., where the temper- ature was 25 degrees. lot T | house in the | it | is necessary, the noted B | of Great B A Society and General FEF Three Companies Abandon Historic Fire House STATION “C” AT FOURTEENTH STREET AND OHIO AVENUE DESERTED, App IRE_STATION “C” for nearly half a century a place of duty for firemen young and old, this afternoon stands descrted. At high noon the age-old red brick structure at Fourteenth street and Ohio avenue. condemned to de- struction in the advance of the Federal triangle project, heard its death-knell As the old walls resounded for the last time to the rhythmic clanging of an antiquated fire b out the hour of 12, there was a roar of motors, a_whining of sirens, and Fire Station "C” was abandoned for all time. Without ceremony was the transfer Company No. 3, which oc- the building back in 1891 as Company C": of Water Tower Com- pany No. 1. and Engine Compapy No 16, late of the recently demolished fire 0 block of D street, to new and modern quarters on Thirteenth strect between K and L streets. Brass Bell Gives Signal. The first of a dozen strokes on the old brass bell was the signal for the inal “run” from historic Fire Station The half dozen huge fir-fig units and their full complement of men were out of service in less time than would have required for them to ansver a false alarm & block away. If an alarm had been turned in five min- utes after been ready to respond from the bright, cup! { new building on the other side of the downtown section. JOURNALIST URGES AR DEBT REVISON {Britain Can Pay No More on Same Terms, Says Sir Willmott Lewis. Serious doubt that Great Britain could make ancther war debt payment to the United States on the same terms as that remitted yesterday was voiced by Sir Willmott Lewis, Washington cor- respondent of the London Times, in an address last night before the December meeting of the Board of Trade. Revision of the schedule of indebted- ness before the June payment falls due ritish journalist declared in a plea for a s understanding of the economic troubles of the rest of the world as well as those tain. Sir Willmott denounced as “stupid” the policy which he said the nations of the world are following in building up an acute form of economic nationalism to a point “dangerous” to civilization. He urged freer world trade policies. The large gathering of members of the trade body was addressed also by Albert W. Whitney. associate general manager of the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters of New York, who defended as justified the heavy increase in workmen's compen- sation insurance rates placed in effect for Washington some months ago. Police Paid Tribute, Praise for local authorities in their handling of the recent invasion of the National Capital the army of “hun- ger marchers” was recorded in a resolu- tion presented by Odell S. Smith, head of the Public Order Committee. Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police. received a special tribute. Sir Willmott based his plea for debt revision for his and other nations on the claim that present trade barriers on national lines had precipitated a threat of chaos. The world, he declared, is at one of the crossroads of history. He contended the capitalist—competitive—system had developed very serious defects which demanded that automatic adjustment be supplemented by organized planning. Nations cannot consider either the extreme of entirgly closed national economic units or of entirely organized World trade because of practical con- siderations, he said. There is need, he asserted, for greater and freer economic intercourse as opposed to a further in- tensification of a policy of economic nationalism. Sees Continued Unemployment. Describing progress in the mechani- zation of work, the speaker ceclared experience in recent years indicates that unemployment in this country for any predictable future has become a permanent political factor. The power of mocern industry to produce beyond the capacity of con- sumption, he said, has assumed an aspect of prodigious importance. ~The world's greatest problem is one of dis- tribution. he contended. “If this be true,” he concluded, “it is incredible and amazing that the in- telligence of civilized nations should permit the extension of the stupid national policies based on a concept that a nation can be self-sufficient.” Appealing for an attitude of friend- | liness and an awareness of the serious world situation in settlement of the international debt problem, Sir Will- mott declared: “It Is tragic and de- plorable beyond power of description that while the world is moving toward chaos three great nations should be | wrangling about money.” He referred specifically to the United States, France and Great Britain. Debt Payment Contest. As to the controversy over the De- cembor 15 debt payments to the United Sta the London writer declared: “It is not simply a question between 2, the apparatus would have a | A sole survivor among the man: ancient structures which :tood in t path of the Government's mammoth public buildings project, the lonely building now awaiting the arrival of a wrecking crew is a mute reminder of another cra a generation £go when fire- fighting was a far cry from what it is today. It was in 1890 that Congres: priated $22.000 for the cons this fire house. then modern in every detail with a fine array of stables in the rear. It was a proud company C that Chief Engineer Joseph Parris placed in service there on September 6, 1891. All companies in thcse days were known by letters instead of num- bers, and it was not until July of 1906 name was changed to truck Originally a Chemical Company. The station originally was equij with a chemiczl company. whese duty it was to attempt to extinguish fires by use of chemic and this failing, the main company wculd respond. June 10. 1913, was a day of gloom for all at fire station “C.” It was on that date that it became “motorized,” and the men had to bid farewell to the horses who had served them so long well ine was b 3 in when Washington's June last y right and wrong. but a conflict between right and right—as is the case in most international questions. This conflict is what makes the situation so tragic.” He said his country cannot recover from the d:pression unless the rest of the world shows improvement. and add- ed the warning that “unless we improve, the United States cannot either.” | sir Willmott explained that he was | speaking only as an individual English citizen. Holds | Mr. Whitney. dis workmen's compensation _insurance | the District, said the experience reco !hrre for 1931 “not only indicates your | increase in rates was justified but that | it was probably somcwhat inadequate.” This statement, he added. does not mean there will be another increase in local insurance rates. He said the rates for the District were predicated upon the payment from every dollar of premiums received of 63 cents for compensation losses result- ing from accidents and 37 cents for expense of handling the insurance. Any profits to the carriers, he said. must come from the handling of the money received from the assured. He cxplained that rates are based fundamentally on the pay roll of an employtr, and added: “1f the insurance companies had been clever enough to base their rates upon goods produced instead of upon man power used in producing the goods. the workmen's | compensation rates would for the la: 10 years have been falling steadily 1 | stead of rising.” He contended, how- ever, the situation would be the same regardless of the rate system employed. Tells of Liberalization. Mr. Whitney said interpretation of the law as to payment of compensa- | tion had been more and more liberal- | ized, which tended to increase the | rates. Another element. he asserted, | was the tendency of the worker to make | the most of any opportunity to claim | compensation, and in some cases actu- | ally to use fraud, “so that workmen’s | compensation is serving in effect to a | considerable extent as a kind of bootleg | unemployment insurance.” He reported records of compensation insurance companies show their costs | have been exceeding premium payments | despite increase in rates. He said the insurance companies propose to initiate | a safety movement in the District. with the hope of producing better conditions and lower rates. Ben T. Webster, president of the trade body. presided. George O'Connor and Matt Horn provided musical enter- tainment. |POOR HEALTH BLAMED Rates Justified. ssing operation of mn d | Mrs. Elizabeth Licarione Victim of Gas—Pet Dog Found Dead in Bed Room. | Believed to have been despondent | over poor health, Mrs. Elizabeth C. | Licarione, 51, committeed suicide yes- | terday by inhaling gas in her home A white fox terrier, the family pet, lay dead at the foot of the bed upon which the woman was discovered by her husband, Thomas Licarione, a real estate operator. The gas fixtures in the bed room had been turned on. “The fire rescue squad and a physician from Emergency Hospital made futile efforts to revive Mrs. Licarione. A certificate of suicide was issued by the coroner. Licarione explained his wife had been ill for some time. | HOGAN WILL TAKE REST Lawyer, Suffering From Ear Trou- ble, Goes to Tucson. | Frank J. Hogan, prominent lawyer, | left Washington today for a rest at Tucson, Ariz, at the direction of his physician. Mr. Hogan is suffering from ear trouble due to a catatrhal condition. | | | | | 1 by a dry, wara ciimate. AS WOMAN ENDS LIFE | |in the 1000 block of Eleventh street. ! tus and men at the old fire house at Fourteenth street and Ohio avenue just before the building was aban- oned at noon today. Inset, Capt. Millard Sutton, head of the compan —Star Staff Photos. ! oldest fe before house- hammers a history which dates back to Dccember, 1814 was known as the Alert Voiunteer Fire Co.. and oceu of the Troas 5. it was moved fire house vania a renamed the Fr Compat and occupied premises D street in 1857. Company The Franklin Volu as disbanded in May, was Fire Name Changed. 1864, and wh-n it/ south | fun | |c er Fire Com-! Wood, of the same year organized as | a paid company under the ne trict of Columbia Fire Department name was changed to Engine Company 16 in 1904, and it was motorized in 1914, The building Department whi Company 16, th D ion for v was authorized in 1. alion Chief ief officer of the fire abandoned today. and Sutton is in charge Woolard C Cap of the com BALLANTINE URGES - MANUFACTURE TAX Mining Congress Told Ad- vantage in Business Fluctuations. Adoption of the manufac tax as “the best available m 2 broadly based addition to the ri of the Government ikely unduly affected by ness activities” American Mining C here today, by Ar secretar: He urged support the administration ducad Federa! ex, new tax manufacit rate, be said, would produced or’ seld. wi tions confined largely products and basi Not Substitute Tax. “TLis tax.” he s “would be in no sense a substitute for an income tax. It | would serve to supplement income and | cther 1z during the period when ure f evenues meeting A. Ballantine, a low certain excep- to agricultural focds. such taxes have been demonstrated to | Francis, Oli be inadequate | _“The reduction of expenditures ctior s and the broadening of the tax base so | vitally needed will not come without wide ' public support. Such support should be forthcoming. as these meas- | ures guaranteeing the financial integrity Its | is | i | | i \ | | articles | | i g PAGE B—1 HEARING ON LOCAL RELEF FIPECTED T0START TUESDAY City and Welfare Heads to Be First Called Before House Group. SOCIAL WORKERS SEEK AID FUNDS'FROM R. F. C. Adopted Also Asks Broadening of Base to Include Homeless and Transients. Resolution Hearings are to start Mon: a subcommittes of the Hou priaticns Committee on the $42570.000 deficiency and supplemen, which include $1,250,000 for the elfere Bureau to meet unemploym needs here in civic welfare work well as District cffi Commissioners, the Board We the director of to the $40.0¢ 'm for re- taxes illegally collected, the District welfare re { item of $1.250,000 largest batch deficiency h duct these he 1204 | Representatives Byrns, * Te Kansas; , Mississ chanan, 5 Tayl Ayres, Arnold reliet and Millard | endar 3 ny. | necessary for Forty men comprise the complement. ! provision. sa $60.000 in made for public rel and homeless ind: the District. The resc attenticn to th for relief to f | have been made av of the States th tion Fi oration. jation consicts of 6.000 social of whcm 80 or 90 belong to the hington Ch The local pr v Huff, case supervisor 1 of emergency relief. The hefge of W, d of the ). F. DIGGES DIES OF AUTO INJURIES i. Anacostia Civic Leader, 74, Had Been in Sea Food and Produce Business 45 Years. of an automobile accident on the Brand; g mber in_Casualty Hc 3 ia Mr. Digges was an early resident of Anacostia, living 229 V street south- east. For the past 45 vears he had been engaged in the sea food and produce business. An ardent Democrat, Mr. Digges took an active interest in civic affairs. He is sur av ed by five sons. James, r, William and Leo, and three daughters, Mrs. V. J. Cady, Mrs Amy L. Donovan and Mrs. Gertrude Liteky, all of this city. Funeral services will be hel Tow morning at 8:30 o'cloc residence. Requiem mass wil in St. Teresa’s Church. d tomor- at the be said Interment will of the Government are indispensable | P® in Mount Olivet Cemetery requisites of recovery.” Following Mr. Ballantine's address | there was a symposium of 10-minute talks by representatives of the various mining industries on the major prob- taxation standpoint. ~This was fol- lowed by a round table luncheon for | delegates. | Coal Stabilization Told. At the afternoon session. there was an address by Representative David J. | Lewis of Maryland on activities for the | stabilization of coal. Discussion was led by the following representatives of mining companies: J. P. Williams, Paul Weir, R. E. Tageart, A. J. Musser, R. H. Sherwood, Arthur B. Stewart, J. G. ! Bradley, F. R. Lyon and J. B. War- | riner. This discussion was followed by an | address on_copper standardization by Robert E. Tally. vice president of the United Verde Copper Co. This was followed by a discussion of the problems of the anthracite coal, lead and zinc industries. The Mining Congress, with represent- | atives from all the major mining in- | dustries, will end its two-day session |at the Mayflower this afterncon with |the annual mecting of the Loard of directors. |MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING PROBED BY POLICE Man Says Bandit Wounded Him, but Blood Is Found in Dis- ordered Apartment. | vestigating the ~shooting of ~Arthur Biezzi, 28, of 1212 M street, who walked into Emergency Hospital last night and reported he had been wounded in an attempted hold-up at Thirteenth and N streets. After receiving treatment for head cuts and a bullet wound in the left side of his back, Biezzi was trans- ferred to Gallinger Hospital, where his condition was termed “good” this morning. According to Capt. Joseph W. Pierson, second precinct commander, a prelimi- shot in his apartmefit. The furnitu | the floor was stained with blood, {lems facing the mine owners from a| | whish the dpctor thinks will be aided was in disorder. the captain s.id, and - GLASSFORD OUTLINES PROGRAM FOR JOBLESS Former Police Chief Tells Business Men of Plan in Which Forestay Work Has Important Place. Brig. Gen. Pelham D. G former superintendent of polic speaker at a meeting of the Fe of Business Men's Associations night. After he outlined for sclution of the unemployment problem, in which reforestaticn would play an important part, the organiza- tion indorsed the an 2 Other speakers zat the meeting were George Offutt, former president of the Board of Trade, and Arthur Heaton, local architect. The pan of District architects for an educational campaizn of home improvement to I:ssen un- employment in building trades a'sy re- ceived the support of the bu-iness men. Herman Carl was elected tecrctiry to succeed Hubert Newsom, who dicd re- cently. FUGITIVE IN SLAYING HELD IN HARRISBURG Nick Alexopolus, 38, Wanted Here in Connection With Death of Christos Haralampidis. Nick Alexopolus, 38, who had been | second precinct police today were in- | sought since January, 1930, in connec- tion with the murder of Christos Hara- lampidis, 55, lunch room proprietor, was arrested today in Harrisburg, Pa. and will be brought here. Haralampidis was beaten to death in a room over his place of business in the 500 block of Ninth street on the night of January 13, 1930. He was robbed of several hundred dollars in cash and a quantity of jewelry. Another man, who is said to have been a companion of Alexopolus, is being sought in connec- tion with the murder. Alexopolus was picked up in Harris- nary investigation indicated Biezzi was|burg through informaticn furnished by olic> here. De'e-tive Serat. J J. cherty was to leave for Harri-bus today to bring Alexopoius Lack.