Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1933, Page 12

A—12 ==x SATURDAY TARUARY - ’Ij{IF‘ EVENING STAR, \’\'AQHI\GTO\ i 3400 0 GO-OPERATION SEEN?WILK INS, FLYING HERE, TELLS OF ANTARCTIC TRIP PLANS AMONG REALTORS e s pesener 0 REDUCE RENTS! Inauguration of New Plane Service. Counsel for Real Estate Board| 'Expects to Make Aerial Map- | Speaks to Apartment Own- ers and Agents. CAPPER AND COPELAND GIVE THEM WARNINGS Reductions of 1.1 Per Cent Since| October 1 Are Cited—Commis- sion Prospect Still Held. Belief that apartments 1 effort to r possible without interest or ta owners agents of co-operate in an s further, where s of properties for , was voiced last night by a spokesman for the Washington Real E: Board, at a mass meet- ing in the United States Chamber of Commerce B: ng statement was made by J. Whiteford, counsel for the boa fore a gathering of more than 200 owners and agen| rties and | others, who crowded the meeting hall. | His brief brought to a cl occupied tor Capps Copeland of the rent Senate Distric clared they ed that the rent level here still was too high and must come down more. Both urged | Pproperty owners act rather than force official action by Congress. Agrees With Realtors’ Position. ‘The response by Mr. Whiteford was in accord with a position taken prior | to the meeting by a number of leading Tealtors, it was explained =after the meeting. At the opening of the meeting, M: Whiteford, who presided, announced that a study just completed showed thai rent reductions amcunting to 1.1 per cent had been made since O:- tober 1, making the total for the past year 6.7 per cent. It revealed also, he | reported, that rents in more than 28 | per cent of the apartment buildings | here have been lowered since Octobar 1 1o the extent of $250,000 Senator Capper and land voiced sclemn warnings of ihe current economic situation in Wash- | ington, describing conditions of wide- spread unemployment. the cut in Gov- emment pay, and the crowding of | families into inadequate housing. Both held out the possibility of Government | regulation of rents unless owners are willing to sacrifice. Will Report Tuesday. Senator Capper reported tie Inves- tigating Subcommittee of the Senate would make its report next Tuesday, but said it was his personal conviction that the investigation showed clearly that further rent reduciions must bz made, particularly in some secticns of the city. “I think we have grounds to declare that rents in general are till too high,” he said. They have 2ot been reduced to the extent as they have in other cities, he contended, nor | as much as the other living costs, or wage levels. He praised the statistical arguments | submitted at the hearings by M. | Whiteford, J. F. M. Bowie and Rufus S. | Lusk, but declared he still could nor | understand why rents should not fall | when there is a 17 per cent vacancy in | apartments. if there is free competition. | “I appreciate the fact that many | apartment owners are having difficuity in meeting their expenses- and keeping | out of foreclosures and receivershups,” he continued. “I realize that not every landlord is_able to show a substéntial profit, and I know, too, that some land- Iords have simply the facts and have made gemerous reductions and | other concessions to tenants. Bui from a painstaking and entirely impartial survey of facts, I feel stron have not been sufficiently reduced. am surc that in most instances they | can be brought down without actua hardship to owners.” Referring to reductions already made, he told the realtors and property ow ers fhey had made “a good stait Senator Capper also denounced “out- Tages” of promoters of “wildcat financ- ing,” adding that he belicved them to be the exception rather than the iule here. In this conneciion, however, he bespoke a reduction in the interest rate on mortgage loans, and cited a cut in interest rates just reported in New York. Mr. Whiteford of the ator Cope- then declared the preperty owners and realtors of Wash- ington would be glad to see a 1leduc- tion in the interest charges, but that they were subject to contracts already made in connection with mortgaged properties. That i8 a problem tf property owners cannot do anything about, he said, adding that taxes also have not come down Senator Copeland Senator Capper had Holding out lishment of a rer he declared “there Congress has ¢ Tents in the Di: wants to. We ca or in Kansas our Governme constitutional right diction over the sound reason ble that tl.c here could by developed could not p indorsed all that i ' prospects of e commission is no doubt that olute power to regulate rict, of Columbia if it t do it in New York but the, wise founders of e to Congre: to compl District. The for that, for it appe Government mach f “Don't Have to Live Here.” nator owners an landlord in investment: time If yo today too mu you are fice Discu remark that “That line be flattened out.” posal creation o “We do : we want p oblem. You we have.” FOR REAPPOINTMENT Benate District Committee Votes in Favor of Dismissed Policeman, of As to the yent commiss avant to use %o help us have more at steke than The Senate District Committee yes- | terday afternoon voted a favorable re- port on the bill authorizing the Com- mnissioners to reappoint George N. Nicholson to the police force. Nichol- son was dismissed on charges which, the committee was told by District offi- | Wi'lard Hotel, has been postponed be- | clals, were shown later to have been un:cunded. T missioners recommendeg la-l on the measure,” | arctic REACH NEW MARK | of | net frell | ping Flight Across Polar Regions. Sir Hubert Wilkins, noted explorer, paused in Washington today of an air | flight to Florida long enough to reveal his plans for another Antarctic explora- | tion next Summer, He will return to the land of ice as member of the Ellsworth-Belchen Ex- pedition, with a view to making a more | thorough exploraticn of the great Ant- continent from the air and nd than has yet been undertaken. | Sir Hubert made a brief stop at shington-Hoover AIrport as a_pas- senger on the inzugural trip of East- era Air Transpori's new through serv- ic> between New York and Miami. The new line will provide 13-hour service between New York and Miami and 11 hours between Washington and Miami. €ir Huber: said he r s to leave the United Sta in April for Norway. The | expedition will leave Nerway for the | Antarctic in August. One of its ‘pur- poses will be an aerial mapping flight 810 SIR HUBERT WILKINS, —35tar Staff Photo. ti ign, and which will be thoroughly _xm,)pxd tor the mapping expedition. across the Antarctic continent and| The plane will be fiown by Bernt Bal- back. This will give a complete photo-!l cen and Lincoln Ellsworth will do the graphic record of the territory covered tographic work and make the neces- and an accurate map of a wide strip of | sry observations the continent from coast to coast. Sir Hubert will act as correspondent The airplane to be used by the ex-for the expedition, sending back regular pedition has been completed and in it npum of the findings. The expedi- | Sir Hubert has crossed the United | ftion will number less than a score of es cn a trial flight. He exressed j/men 3 Sm Szas thoroughly b s trip through the Capital ence of the preliminary to his first visit EATHER coider tonight and tomorrow, lowest | temperature tonight about 32 degrees; ‘(rrsh West and Northwest winds. Maryland—Generally fair and much tonight and tomorrow, except es In the mountains to- (crur‘(r President Grcen ofA F.of L. Puts December Total at 11,599,000. Virginia—Generally fair and colder, ch colder in West and North por- tonight; tomorrow fair and much West Virginia—Generally fair and much colder except probably snow flurries in the mountains tonight; to- ow fair and colder. ccast for January 9 to January 14. Nerth and Middle Atlantiz State: Generally fair, except rain Tuesday or Wednesd: from Western Maryland to Maine Cold Sunday night, followed by rising temperature until Wednesday; colder | Thursday and Friday. Unemployment in this country has reached an “all-time peak"—11,590),000 workers, President Willlam Greeja of the American Federation of Labor, said today. This estimate was based ol fig ures supplied the federation by y-ades unions on employment conditicdis as of December 15 Grezn said, however, that uneyploy- | ment was increasing less rapidlyfat this time, than in any other deps ession year. Even in the Fall of 1920.” her added, “the increase in unemploymedit was greater than it has been this year.” He explained that in the thrée years pricr to 1932, industrial and fa1m lay- offs threw nearly 1,000,000 persons cut work from. October to Ngvember. that eapproxi- River Report. Potcmac and Shenandoah Rivers clear today Report for Last 24 Hours. re. Barometer. Yesterday— 4 pm 8 pm Midnight, .. This season he estimate: 700,000 lost their jobs he asserted, “300.000 men and women who might have heen laid off have been kept at work.” Passes Previous Peak. The federation chief’s estir] ate shows the November figures topped those August, when the organizatiga reported | the previous peak in ungmnplayment 11.460,000. | The figures show that the itrend during 1932, through Noveyiber, bezan with an unemployment totz{ of 10, 304 000 in January, rose slightli i ary, receded in March, cli thereafter to the August E ak, drcppcd below 11,000,000 in ember and Octcber. and then rcse 732,000 in Oc- tober and November. | Noting that the total fizures for No- vember were greater by! 130,000 than in_August, Green said t71t word from affiliated trade unions ’indicated the total for early Decemler was even | larger than those Tor/ the previous month. He added: “Those out of work fare in greater | need now than ever H>fore, for after three years of depredsion their re- sources are exhausteg. Mental and physical wreckage cafised by depres- sion is driving familis to seek relief | in constantly growing faumbers. In the | year ended October 1932 unemploy- | ment increased 60 f number of families aj per cent and the amo 28.6 per cent.” Confirmed Yy Report. Green's estimate | was substantiated in a report made {iblic today by the Labor Department's’ statistical bureau, which showed empl; yment decreased 1| per cent in Noverj:ber and pay roll | earnings were down, 2.1 per cent | For the District d? Columbia, this re- | port shows, employment decreased 2.1 per cent and pay roll earnings were down eight-tenths ¢f 1 per cent in com- paricon with Octobs:r figures. The data were based on, rdports received from 643 firms, employif:g 31,903 and having weekly pay roll efrnings of $781,590. Declines were #nted here in all in- dustries, with th> exception of the building trade, whiich, due to the Fed- eral constructiony program, showed an incregse of 7.7 pér cent in employment and 79 per ceat in pay roll carnings CITIZENS: PRAISED IN TRACTION MERGER Work of Joint Transportation Com- mittee in Backing Bill's Passage Cited b) Chamber Directors. work of the Citizens’ rtatf>n Committee in pushing ilway merger bill, which d both houses of Con- hly ccmmended by the oard of Tjirectors of the Washington d: Commerce in a resolution ; Year ago, 61 44 12:30 am. today. Year Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) ‘Taday. 4:43am - ld5am Tomorrow. High 5:32a.m. Low | High | Low 5352 pm. 2 12:06 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Sets. 5:01 5:02 Sun, Sun, Mocn, 1:23pm 4:00am. Autcmobile lights” must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month. 1933. A\(’xag‘ Rfl‘ord January . £ 7.09 February 6.84 March 884 April 9.13 5 | May 10.69 June 10.94 July 10.63 ‘gugtu i 14.41 | Septe:nber 10.81 Octoter 857 November 8.69 December 7.56 & “Lr:llher in Various Cities. today ByeRena3saseg P O T TR €563 b0 O m1 L1 b2 3 2 Stations. Weather. Abilene. Te 1 . y Cloudy . Foggy Cloudy ; 06 Cloudy Cloudy . Ciear Cloudy Miami, N Otleans, La, | New York.'N The Joint Cl ) 0104 i c 18 000d ctors coupled their tribute to Thomsd; P. Littlepage, chairman of the commfttee, with felicitations on his birthday ‘annivessary. Mr. Littlepage who alsois president of the chamber. received 7. basket of flowers. The board voted to Tecommend an admuu:jx appropriation of $#8.000 for Tampa, WASH Gioudy ‘emperature. Weather. Greenwich time, today.) Part cloudy Foggy Stations. m Engian ance Austria Germany London. the PubY.c Utilities Commission to cover detail Work of completing street rail- way consolidation. A referendum submitted by the United = States Chamber of Commerce opposing debt cancellation was indorsed by the board. Committee investiga- tions into the dance hall problem here and th» advisability of the King bill to ofe bonding in the District were derdi. The board decided to sponsor | ayinual industrial exposition again Horta Clear Bart cloudy | Cles servations Bermuda. . 60 Puerto Rico Havara, Cuba Colon. Canal Zone PARLEY PLANS LAID St. Georges San g Fart cloudy | HOLIDAY BALL PUT OFF Girl Scouts to Confer in May in Uniontown, Pa. Plans for the annual conference in | Soulthern Society Postpones Dance | Uniontown, Pa, next May of Region 111, Girl Scouts of America, were dis- in Basgest f0r Poolijigs. cusied yesterday at 1750 New York "nxe New Year ball of the Southern | avenue. The meeting was attended by Sof iety, scheduled for tonight at the | Mrs. Stuart McGuire of Richmond, Va., of Region 111, and her committee. This region covers Pennsylvania, are, resentative Menalcus Lankford, | Maryland, Virginia and the District of | ident, announced today. January | Columbia. The conference sched- Wwas set a3 the-new date for the ball. | uled for May 15, 16 and 12. E se of the death of Calvin Ccolidge, District of Columbia—Fair and much | probably beginning as snow | SENATORS PREPARE GAS MERGER PLANS FOR FLOOR BATTLE | |Draft” Exnected Next Week, Vith Howell Opposing Present Form. ‘NEBHASl’AN TO INSIST | ON VALUATION SLASH | Advccates Excluding “Going Con-‘ | cern” Items and Companies Pro- test Proposed “Imposition.” ca, waiting to oppose the bill au- g a merger of the Washington | and Georgetown Cas Light Companies {if the legislation reaches the Senate floor in it; present form, the Senate Dis- trict Committee prepared today to draft its recomriendations on the measure. Chairman Capper said the report would be made some time next week. Public hearings, at which Senator Howell, former executive of the munici- | pally-owned gas company in Omaha, | told the committee he intended to in- {sist on a clause excluding “going con- cern” estimates from valuations for rate-making purposes, closed late yes- ‘lerday. The Nebraskan's proposal was vigor- ously contested by Attorney Wilton J Lembert, representing the gas interests, who said he “did not s2e how the com- p‘amf‘s could agree to such an imposi tion.” While the Senate District Committee was debating the bill the Public Util- ities Commission announced it had au- | thorized the Washington Gas Light Co. to issue and sell $8,500.000 in refund- | ing mortgage gold bonds at 5 per cent | interest, ‘maturing in 1958. Although | the utility, in applying for permission to issue the bonds, specified a mini- mum of 89, the commission ordered lhe | bonds to be sold at not less than 90% plus accrued interest. Howell to Get Data. Senator Howell. principal opponent of previous legislation to consolidate the | two companies, was to be furnished | today with an itemized list of the ap- proximately $50,000 saving which Gen, Mason M. Patrick, chairman of the | Utilities Commission, told the commit- tee he believes will result from the | physical merger. In requesting this | estimate Senator Howell announced he planned a personal inspection today of | | the gas company properties. Taking the stand that the gas com | pany interests would reap greaier bene- | fits from the merger than would the public under the p:nding legislation, the | | Nebraska Senator asserted the profits | | of the company “have been enormous.” As an alternative for his proposal | to exclude “going-concern” value from | the utility's valuation, Senator Howell przpesed the bill be amended so 2s to | | exclude that portion permitting the | | merged companies to increase the | | amount of capitelization by issuance of | capital stock Lambert pointed out that the greatest | real savings the companies would de- rive under the legislation—which sa ing, he said, would ultimately be handed | down to the consumer—would be from | the opportunity provided them to re- organize their financial structure, and not from mere consolidation of the | two companies. The attorney added | Howell's “going concern” proposal was “unconstitutional.” Regarded as “Top-Heavy.” He pointed out the corporation's | finances were at present “top-heavy” | with bonded indebtedness, 83 per cent |of the capital being represented in | bonds, with only 17 per cent stock. He | | said it was the only corporation in the country where a charter created in 1848 remains the same and pointed out that no new stock issues had been author- ized during the last 40 years. Senator Howell commented that he “cculd not see how, without manipula- tion of some kind in stock, the com- | pany can derive any benefits from this provision.” Testimony that the merger, as pro- posed in the bill, would be in the public | interest was given the committee by Gen. Patrick, Assistant Corporation Counsel William A. Roberts and Public Utilities Commissioner R. E. Elgin. People’s Counsel Richmond B. Keech, however, sided with Senator Howell Ior cxclusion of the “going concern” value in establishing valuations as a basis for rate making. He said he did not believe additional stock could be marketed at this time even if it were authorized. _Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New Yorl “Senator Howell is a good mentarian. If we cannot have him satisfied, we certainly cannct pass | the bill anyhow. Gen. Patrick and Mr. | RobflrLs have said that the public would | be better off with the measure enacted | into law than we are at present. If we | can't get it, we may as well go along | as we are now." Gore Scores “Outrage.” During the course of the discussion, | Senator Gore, Democrat, of Oklahoma, | questioned Gen. Patrick ‘concerning the | 10k regulation which allows the gas com- panies to levy a fine of 10 per cent on accounts which are not paid within 20 | days. Upon being informed that it was | authorized by an act of Congress, Sen- aior Gore said he thought it was “an | outrage.” “Why, that's a greater rate of in-| | terest than the United States has to | pay for loans for three years,” he said. Proceeds from the sale of bonds au- | thorized by the Public Utilities Com- mission to be issued by the gas com- | pany will be used for the following, according to the company’s application | “To pay $4,000,000 series A, 10-yea | 6 per cent mortgage gold bonds, dated | April 2, 1923, and due April 1, 1933. “To pay $3,000.000 4’4 per cent notes dal]egdaJDeccmbcr 1,120, and due April | | “To partially reimburse the gas com- | pany for expenditures for the acquisi- tions of new property, extensions, im- vements. etc., made prior to Decem- er 1. 1932, properly chargeable to it h | | capital account and for the repay of part of bank loans incurred for s expenses.”” The new bonds are to be secured by an open-end deed of trust on the com- | pany’'s properties. i FORWARDrLOOK” | Tomorow morning at the Church of the Brethren Dr. F. F. Holsopple, the | pastor, will use for his theme “A For- | ward Look.” Th: department of men’s work will | take charge of the evening service and n\m render a program of a miscellanc- ous character consisting of songs and | addresses. Dr. Resser will be the leader of the service. Christian Endeavor will meet at 7| o'clock. ‘This church will observe Book week, All who have books to donate to the Merchant Marine Library Asso- ciation for the use of American seamen | will bring them to t.he church. l{unonnry to Speak. Rev. Arthur J. Bowen of the South African General Mission will preach | P during the 11 o'clock morning wor- ship period of the Wisconsin Avenue Fran »! | Baptist Church. Clarence Ray Ferguson, pastor, will preach at the 8 oc.ock Sunday fvening evmulmh service on “A Shield I« | the GRAYSON PETITIONS WHOLE PARTY'S AID Calls on State Leaders to Co-onerate in Plans for Roosevelt Inaugural. Nation-wide co-operation of Demo- crats in the inauguration cf Pre:ident- elect Roosevelt on March 4 was urged today by Inaugural Chairman Cary T. Grayson, as he departed for a week end conference on inaugural plans with Mr Roosevelt at his Hyde Park, N. Y., | estate. Admiral Grayson today urged Demo- cratic national committeemen in each | state to appcint committees of 10 prominent Democrats to co-operate with the general committee and to handle all inaugural plans of Democrats in their States. Admiral Grayson said that in taking this step he hoped not only to stimu- late Interest throughout the countr; in the inaugural, but also to co-ordinate any plan mocrats in other sections v have with the general outline of the inaugural ceremony and its attend- | ant festivities. In his request, Admiral Grayson pointed out to th> Democratic, lead | that the inaugural celebration this yea is a national, not a local, affair, and m. participation of the States, remote near, is expected and will be en- couraged. He urged participation of the States with the .general committee so | that there would be no conflict of ac- tivities and that a well-rounded pro- | gram be mapped Catholic Unive 2nd other scient. them. It started. while belov data being sa om, rba ly paintings on the LS ASKED TO AD PUBLIC EDUCATION ged Costly Collection Ruined in University Fire Above is pictured McMahon Hall, scene of today's early morning blaze at are shown some of the valuable plant specimens frem ihe charred reom which contained ium, that the blaze is believed to have walls of the building were saved. —Star Stafl Photo BANDITS GET $250 INHOLD-UPS HERE ATOMS WILL BE SUBJECT Federal Help in States Un- Two Men Arrested by Police. | |Henry D. Hubbnrd of Standards Bureau to Speak Tomorrow. “Atoms, the Wonder Workers,” will | be the subject of a lecture by Henry D. Hubberd, assistant to the director of Bureau cf Standards, at 8 pm. tomorrow in Theosophical Hall, 121 H street Mr. Hubbard, recognized authority on laws of chembtr} and physics, is au- thor of the “Primer of the Atoms,” “Periodic Chart of the Atcms” and other scientific works. trate his lecture with opticon slide: blackboard dizgrams and experiments. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Dinner, Federal Schoolmen's Club, Raleigh Hotel, 6:30 p.m. Dinner meeting, District of Columbia Shorthand Reporters, Hamilton Hotel, 7 pm. Banquet. High Priests’ Association of 1932, Hamilton Hotel, 7 p.m. Meeting, Biological Society of Wash- ington, Cosmos Club, 8 p.m. Meeting and dance, Southern Society, Willard Hotel, 8 pm. Address, “The WBY Out of the Do- pression,” James A. Edgerton, League for the Larger Life, Gordon Hotel, 8 p.m. Marriage Licenses. Lewis L. Posey. 915 20th st. Evelyn Pier, 2! st st Rev. H i e s 8t st Rev. R and M. Cyrus Watkins. EllaMorris, 29, 1 Grymes. Rufus_Djamond, Gladdie Williams, st.; Rev liam E. Lee. g **Robert L. Cardwell, d Ollie G Mar. both of Rlchmnnd Rev. Allan tin, 21, Poore Albert W. Johnson. 24, 1620 Corcoran st., and Bernice E. Roval 3841 Jasper se.. Judee Robe: Mattingly. ks, 2 07 N rt._and Grace . Va Rev. H. W. Wilber M. Anderson. 7. and Emma M _Posner, w.: ‘Rev. John E. Brig William ‘A Manion, and Florence V. Casw ;. Edward Gabler d W, and Alzina 1. John E. Brigs: aron W Kercher. 45, and Matilda R Rosenberger. 38. bath of Lebanon, Pa.; Rev | J. Harvey Dunham. Blrths Reported. n F. and and D. and wil- 1718 6th st N. 3. ave se. 3, 1015 E st 1624 30th st . 405 6th st Eva M. Stansbury, girl. Joseph and Jane Olink, Manuel C. and Eleanor Garrett, boy. Anthon L and Mary G. Cinotti, boy. Le Roy ¥ and Mildred Peter. boy Geori a L. Gunnelu, boy. Grtee £ ang Bicanor Beott: Dewer - Ahd Tottle Chasiath boy . and Alice Martini, boy. 3r. Yuhd Lillian Randa and Verna Harrison. girl. Francis and Edna Simms. boy. William and Joe Holland, irl Harold G. and Ordee Eaton. boy. Charles and Florence Thomas. girl, 06 Otited Biater Sol- 1. Garfleld Hospital 60, Home for Aged | 28 Rhode Is- | Home for Aged and and Infirm Timot h/ J. Casey, sr.. 04, Iand Mlchlel "Whalen, 62, Emma 8. Bur{’owx mfim::rnynic (:“:nnnlm. Chl)dl’!:\l ‘Hos- " ¢ Rosa L. MecNeill, 65, Delaware ave. v fe Campbell, 61, 67 O st. n.w. Bertie Campbel 0 B oRuttas Tiospital. Rovert R ‘Doléman, 18, Freedmen's Hos- ks ct. 05 L >H Psncuson, 36, Walter Reed Hos- st Ware. 4. Walter Resd Horpital. Birdie i , 500 N. J. ai e He will illus- | able to Maintain Schools Sought by Conference. Federal aid to public 1n States m.\ho to mal. hool systems ason- use of irged by President ence on the adjourned a erday at the fonal Academy of Sciences Looking beyond the pres cy. the conference urged all govern | ments—National, State and community | —to direct their attention to the i mediate revision of their taxation sys- | tems. | The recommendations which the con- ference made were contained in resolu- {tlons adopted-at the closing sescion. | Consider Price Leveis. | Particularly active discussion marked the adoption of the resolution calling | for the raising of the level of prices, | some cf the delegates contending that a conference called to consider educa- | tion should not address itself to such | “fundamental” end strictly “economic” | issues. Finally, however, the resolution | passed | After adopting this resolution the | delegates approved a_recommendation | by Prof. Harley Lutz of Princeton, N. J., that the problem be given “careful con- | sideration by another conference or | otherwise” and that the attention of President Hoover and Congress be | called to the condition of education in the United States. Among the other proposals approved were: “The educational service should be ac- corded a high degree of priority in de- termining purposes and services which shall be supported by the States during a depression. “The major wastes should be elim- inated through the elimina of con- trol and interference by poiiticians, of | political appointments and of political | corruption. Reorganization Urged. | “Local governments and local school districts should be reorganized and con solidated. “Administrative control of the schools | must be centralized in the superin- | tendent. “State administrative organization of | education must be reorganized through | the creation of a non-political and pro- e ey o e | of the educational policies of the State. | “The State must assume the responsi- | | bitity within its means of assuring ade- | | quate public education to all local com- | | munities, irrespective of their financial | lcondmon 3 . Meet at St. Andrew’s Parish. The Woman's Auxiliary of St. An- drew’s Parish will hold an all-day meeting Tuesday in the guild room at! llo 20 am, with hot luncheon at noon. Fireman’s Garb Saves Him From Loss. Approximately $250 was obtained in several swiftly executed hold-ups early | today and last night while two at- tempted hold-ups were frustrated. In one of these the hold-up man became | frightened and ran when he recognized the uniform of his intended victim, a District fireman. Early today police placed two under arrest, one for an alleged attempted hold-up of a man at Twelfth and L streets and the cther for breaking into a store in the 1600 block of Connecti- | cut avenue, where he was caught. Two attendants of a gasoline station at Fouriecnth and Water streets south- | west were held up at pistol point early | today by two colored men who robbed the cash register of between $175 and $209 after forcing the men into a rear room and locking the doar. ‘The attendants were Harry Suit, 745 Second street, and Leroy Little, 71 L | | street ncrtheast. Driver Reports Loss. Fleetwood W. Carson, driver for a cleaning company, told police he was | Tobbed of an undetermined sum he had | collected by two colored men who stop- | ped his truck on New Hampshire ave- nue between Seventeenth and Eight- colored taxicab eenth streets. George McDonald, driver, was robbed of $330 by a col- | ored “fare” at Twenty-fifth street and Good Hope road southeast. The fireman whom the man tried to rob was John E. Palsgrave of No. 1 truck company. Palsgrave taid the man forced his machine to the curb while he | was on his way to work ai Georgia ave- | nue and Howard street. Then he recog- | nized the fireman’s uniform, jumped | ack into his automobile and drove hur- iedly down a side street. The man arrested early today in s CATHOLIC U FRE DANAGES COGTLY PLANT COLLECTON Loss in Early Morning Mc- Mahen Hall Blaze Placed at $25,000. RARE REFEAENCE BOOKS ALSO PARTLY DESTROYED Stranger Held by Police for Inves- tigation Not Believed Responsi- ble for Flames. Valuable plant spec.aens gathered from all perts of the world and rare sclentific reference Locks were badly damagsd by fire which broke out shortly before 2 am. today in McMahon Hall at Catholic Univers | No lives were endangered, as the | building is devoted entirely to lecture rooms and laboratories, but the heat and smoke played havoc with mounted plants and scientific data in the herba- | rium on the third floor, near which the | fire is believed to have started. | Three-Alarm Fire. | Piremen, responding from all parts | of the city to three alarms, succeeded in holding the fire to the central por- tion of the lavge gray stons structure, which occupies a prominent location in the center of the campus. The fire got into the spaces between the flooring of the top story and the ceilings below. The firefighters, under Acting Chief Engincer Charles E. Schrom, had the blaze quickly under control and in & little more than an hour had it ex- | tinguished. Their efforts were highly praised to- day by Harvcy Cain, treasurer at the University. Students and priests were aroused by the fire and offered aid. ‘The walls of the herbarium, where most of the camage was done, were | lined with cabinets containing the col- ection of mounted plants, many of hich were damaged. Prof. J. B. Parker, head of the department of bi- ology, said a hasty examination indi- cated that a valuable collection of books, known as La Cellule, also had been damaged. It consisted of many | volumes dealing with plant and animal | cell strusture and vas being added to all the time. Lauber had not com- tigation of the damage y this morning. At the universny the damage was estimated at | $25.000, which is covered by insurance. Although a man who was seen by & nl‘ht watchman in the hallway of an- other butlding on the university grounds was taken to a police station and de- tained for investigation, police said to- day they do not believe he had any- | thing to do with the fire. Police said th"y learned that the man had asked priest at the university last night bt sleeping there. Old Specimens Destroyed. Many of the plant specimens in the buraed laboratory in McMahon Hall had been collected by Rev. Hugh O'Neill of the Benedictine Order, who, Prof. Parker said, had worked on the problem of exterminating the Florida fruit fly. He also had many specimens which were gathered from various parts of the world through Catholic missions. Only a more complete survey will show how many of thesa specimens werg damaged. Some of them had been pre- served since the early days of the | university, and were used by students in research work. | Across the corridor from the her- | barium on the third floor is an exten- sive anthropological museum, but this | was saved from damage. A few boards were removed from the floor ‘at the door of the museum to get at the fire. The fire was discovered by Harry Grove, a night watchman, making his | rounds. Another watchman, Chnrles | H. Grove, who was nearby at the time, turned in the alarm. WILL ADDRESS COUNCIL Chevy Chase Woman Was For- merly Missionary in China. ‘The Women's Council of Columbia Heights Christian Church, meeting at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday, will have as their | principal speaker Mrs. Charles L. Car- | hart of the Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church, who, with her husband, was | formerly associated with the English- speaking church of Hankow, China. ,The devotional period will be led by Mrs. Huff, the newly elected “World | Call” secretary; Mrs. E. V. Pugh will sing and Mrs. Burnett will speak on current events. At the luncheon pe- riod Mrs. O. B. Atwood and Mrs. Reese, \Dresldent and secretary, respectively, of the State Missionary Board, will enter- tain the officers. ! “SKIDDING” TO BE TOPIC | Dr. Johnson to Preach at National Baptist Church. nection with the alleged attempted | hold-up was picked up by Policeman | | A. S. Douglas of No. 1 precinct after | Larime La Marr of the 2100 block of New York avenue had reported two men | attempted to hold him up at Twelfih | |and L streets and became frightened | and ran. La Marr identified the man as one of the hold-up men, police say. The arrested man identified himself as Claude M. Summers, 26, when booked for investigation. Capture Colored Man. Policemen R. B. Rector and L. T. Mahoney of No. 3 precinct scout car captured James O'Connor, alias Ru- dolph Robinson, colored, 19, in a store | at 1631 Connecticut avenue, where he was said to have broken in. Police also connected O'Connor with the looting of a store at Twenty-second and P streets. He was booked for investigation at No. 3 station house bor Department Shows 4 The average weekly earnings of the | | American laborer and skilled worker in 15 major industrial groups is $18.86, | the Labor Department’s Bureau of Sta- | tistics said tod2y in its first report on man_hours worked and average hourly | earnings. The bureau said the average man worked 414 hours each week in No- vember, which was slightly below the number of hours worked per week in October. He averaged 46 cents an hour, the bureau said, for his hours of toil in November. During the previous month his earnings were 46.3 cents an hour for an average of 41.9 hours worked. ‘The anthracite miner tops the list with an average of 83 cents an hour for 29 hours of toil per week in No- vember, according to the report, while his fellow worker, the bituminous coe! miner, received only 49 cents for each 30 hours he worked per week. employe in the manufac~ $18.86 AVERAGE WEEKLY PAY OF WORKERS IN UNITED STATES 1.4 Hours Week’s Average and Anthracite Miner Biggest Collector. turing trades earned 44 cents for each | of the 38 hours he worked, while the | workers cngaged in metalliferous min- ing earnad 48 cents for each hour of the 40 he worked per week. The stonecutter in the g | the men who picks into the earth ot | non-metallics averaged only 36 hours a week and for each of these hours he earned 42 cents, The crude petroleum worker averages 47 hours a week and is paid 62 cents per hour for his labor. In the utilities, the telephone and telegraph worker averages 69 cents an hour for 38 hours per week. The power and light man gets 65 cents for each hour of 44 he averages a week and the street car and bus operators average 59 cents an hour for 45 hours a week. ‘The wholesale trade worker earns more than the retailer, the former re- celving 55 cents for each of the 47 hours he avergges per week, while the latter is paid ‘42 cents per averages 44 hougs a ' week. “Skidding” will be the subject of Dr. Gove G. Johnscn's sermon at the Na- tional Baptist Memorial Church tomor- row morning. In the evening he will | continue his series on *“Messages of Books of the Blble for Men of Today,” speaking on “Esther — the Book of | Divine Providence.” The Bible school will meet at 9:30 am. and the Young ‘People at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday afterncon at 2 o'clock the | Prayer League will meet in the church parior. The pastor and deacons will | meet at the church at 8 p.m., and at the same hour the Egbert Class will meet at the home of Mrs. Eunice Seit- zinger, 1860 Ingleside Terrace, with |Mrs. H. L. Adams and Mrs. Louisa Crane as assistant hostesses. SUED FOR DAMAGES | Fred D. Rollins Defendant in Two | Suits, Totailng $25,000. | Pred D. Rollins, 400 Connecticut ave- nue, was named defendant yesterday in | two suits asking a total of $25,000 dam- ages as a result of an automobile acei- dent January 5, 1932, on the Kensing- ton-Garrett Park highway. Robert Het- zer, jr., & minor, was struck by the car of the defendant, it is said, as he stood ?n the ‘hlghv;;yl Ango sustained serious njries for which $20,000 damages are asked. Robert Hetzer, the father, | Garrett Park, Md., wants an additionai $5,000 for the expenses incident to the boy's injuries. Attorneys Harold S. Blackman and Paul Tomasello appear for the plaintiff, D. C. DAY PUT OFF Monday will not be District day in the House. It is one of the District Mondays which are scheduled for the second and fourth Mondays of each month, but is to be set aside in order that the House may continue its work on the farm relief Bill There are 11 District bills awaiting action on the House calendar, none of of major the majority of nm.n Meuu measures. For this reason, the House leadership decided to wait until more pressing Diztrict measures wers awe. hour and | ing