Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1933, Page 14

PRONTIONS PLA CUTING FEDERAL PAY ROLL EVSED Interdepartmental Transfers to Fill Vacancies Would Be Encouraged. CIVIL SERVICE RECEIVES 0’ROURKE’S PROPOSAL Buggests Advancing Several Work- ers Instead of Single Appoint- ment to Key Position. .VD“' S B PR THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, FILLING STATIONS FALL UNDER BAN OF FINE ARTS BOARD Moore Suggests Move to Confine Them to Certain Designated Areas. Special Dispatch to The Star. | BALTIMORE, January 14—In a statement read to the jury in United | States District Court yesterday in the income tax trial of Samuel R. Beard, confessed Washington bookmaker, it was brought‘out that for several years Beard kept as much as $450,000 in cash in a trunk in his father's home at 132 Eleventh street southeast, Wuh-‘ ington. | Beard is being tried before Judge | | W. Calvin Chestnut on charges of mak- | | ing fraudulent income tax returns for | CAMPAIGN PRESSED ON PARKING PROBLEM | "sisiant ‘Distrct Attormey _charies G. Page read a report by Otto R. Freed, | special agent of the Internal Revenue | { Department, who investigated the case. According to the report he became a bookmaker in 1924, and in that capac- ity became widely known in the sport- ing centers of the District of Columbia. Beard said he was born in Baltimore in 1887 and moved to Washington as a | Commission Seeks to Have Truck- ing Excluded in Region South of White House. BEARD TELLS OF KEEPING $450,000 IN CASH IN OLD TIN BOX HERE| Bookméker, on Trial in Income Tax Case, Says He Spent $20,000 in Six Months He Was in Army. D. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1933. CANPBELL DENES REQUEST 10 DROP * PERSDNNEL FLES as much as $450,000 in cash at vari- ous times. | “Where did you keep this money?” he was asked. “I kept most of it in big notes in a tin box in a trunk at my father's| house,” Beard said. | “How much did you have in the box?" | “I think I had as much as $450,000 at one time.” “Was there any insurance on lhei house or the money?” “I carried no insurance of any kind.” It was further brought out that this box with its precious contents was moved with the rest of the household effects to a W street address later on. Beard said he began putting his money in safe deposit boxes and in in- vestments in 1921, but that he made no money from 1913 to 1921, which in- cluded six months in the United States Army in 1918. He said he spent $20,000, however, while in the Army. He had bet on plenty of horses, he Civil Service Head Replies to Statements of Senator Bingham. CENTRALIZED RECORDS DECLARED NECESSARY Keeping of Departmental Cards at Headquarters Suggested as 1 Economy Move. | ster the pay ch the s2me time save mol | ernment has_been submitted to | Civil Service Commission by the direc- | tor of Personnel Research, Dr. L. J.| O'Rourke, | This paradoxical proposal entails | modification of the economy law to| encourage filling of vacancies by inter- | departmental transfers, a procedure that Dr. O'Rourke says now is handi- | capped by the provico for impounding | wherever a vacancy occurs, and residential approval may be filled. would be effeciive wherever the agency in which the vacancy occurred le to fill it from its own ranks. | rictions jmposed in_connec- | me o service could be men or women alread, posts, Table Cited by Dr. O'Rourke. The ba: sees it, lies i their performing duties | which would be halted were they tran: ferred, pending presidential authority for filling their places, and, as a mat- ter of fact, would create vacancies with- out any guarantee that the authority | for filling them would be granted. | With essential work involved, a de- | partmental head might be unable to| sanction a trensfer under such circum- . Dr. O'Rourke says. Formerly y could be filled rom the reg ter without question, he cxplains. | As an example of what this promo- tional plan would accomplish, Dr. O'Rourke cites a table to chow that| should there be a vacancy in a $7,000 | pesition, it could be used as a vehicle | for promoting nine workers, who would | places at salary | positions * by promoting holding lesser end. that the ultimate vacancyi at the foot of the list could be filled by | INAUEURAL TO HAVE | velt | e promoting these, as he | UNUSUAL SOUVENIR - : i Program Will Be as Colorful‘ as Ceremonies, Chair- man Announces. The souvenir program of the Roose- inaugural, while conformi he general form of such publicatior will be as distinctive and colorful as it is planned to make other activities in connection with the coming mauguraL‘ it was announced today by J. Fred| , chairman of the program sub- ttee of the General Inaugural| Committee. Mr. Essary today announced the per- sonnel of his subcommittee which is to prepare and publish the program. The | subcommittee is as follows: Merle | Thorpe, Ernest G. Walker, F. M. Rus- | sell, Marshall Morgan, Howard M. Berry, | great driveways of the city | ezectio: | them,” Mr. Mocre asserted. Representative Sol Bloom, Mrs. C. G. | Lee, jr.; Miss Eleanor Connelly, James | D. Preston, Charles P. Light, Lawrence | B. Campbell, C. K. Berryman, Charles | H. Tompkins, J. R. Hildebrand and | John D. Erwin, Mr. Essary, Washington correspond- | ent of the Baltimore Sun, will call a | meeting of his subcommittee early next | week to lay plans for the program. Parade Requests Many. TLe Inaugural Committee, it was re- vealed today, is being deluged with re- | | | | quests of organizations which wish to | teenth street to New 3 take part in the parade that is to wend | Moore said that this will open up Fif- | Gasoline filling stations are becoming such a serious problem in the National Capital that the Zoning Commission | should take,immediate steps to confine | them to certain designated areas of the city, Charles Moore, chairman of the Arts Commission, declared today. ow we are getting applications for | gasoline stations all along the park- ways," the chairman asserted, adding | that the Zoning Commission regulates n which gasoline stations are | He pointed out there are areas with permited. | no gasoline stations in the center of New York City. | Connecticut avenue, one of the most mportant arteries of the city, he said s becoming lined with gas stations now. | “We have been trying to protect the | built at | encrmcus expense, and encourage the of sizhtly buildings along | 1 it Memorials Photographed. i The Fine Arts Commission recently | had photographs taken of some of the | prominent memorials in the city and; captioned them, “The Washington | | Monument, as seen through parked au- | tomobiles,” and likewise with the Lin- coln Memorial, Mr. Moore asserted. Speaking of Washington's growing parking problem, the chairman of the | Fine Arts Commission said: “We are | trying to maintain the integrity of the | President’s Park, frcm Pennsylvania | avenue to the Potomac River. We want to have trucking exeluded immediately | south of the White Hovse, as this does not conduce to the duty or dignity of | | the city.’ | Pennsylvania and Constitution ave- | nues, he asserted, should be utilized fct | these purposes. rather than the area | immediate south of the Executive Man-l\ sion. When the street car tracks are taken | off Fifteenth street and the cars placed | where they properly belong, on Fous York avenue, M . its way along Pennsylvania avenue after | teenth street s a suitable trafiic artery | boy. He left school after completing the sixth or seventh grade, and since he was 18 or 19 years old has earned his living by gambling, he admitted. From 1910 to 1913, he said, he had! #aid, but never made any money from this'source. He had never owned any | horses. He had owned real estate in Maryland and had an interest in the Marlboro Hotel. BLESS WL GFT INCREASED RELIEF |Committee Decides to Raise| Scale to $25,000 Weekly | When Bill Passes. Raps Gas Stations The Relief Committee of the Board | of Public Welfare. on recommendation | | of Leroy A. Halbert, director of unem- | | ployment relief, decided late yesterday to increase the scale of relief to un- employed persons to $25000 a week s soon as the deficiency bill, carrying $625,000 for un€mployment relief, is signed by the President. This scale will be maintained until the middle of April when the coming | of warm weather is expected to reduce | the demands on the funds enough to | allow the scale to be cut down to about | 620,000 per: week, which is the present | normal scale. With the present number of per- | sons on _the roll, this will mean an in- | | crease from about — $ | family of four to $3.65. Last Fall the | scale “started at $4, but depletion of | | funds made successive cuts necessary. | Toll of approximately $7,000 CHARLES MOORE. A pay was being distributed tocay. The nor- mal pay roll is $18,000 to $20,000, but work was stopped earlier this week when Thomas E. Campbell, president of the Civil Service Commission, yesterday wrote Chairman Bingham of the Senate Economy Committee taking sharp issue with a published statement quoting Senator Bingham as saying that the ccmmisslon hes recommended decen- tralization of its personnel files. This proposal, which appears in the new economy program, had previously drawn protest from the commission. In a detailed explanation of the atti- | tude on this matter by the commission, which has proposed that all personnel records be centered in its own files, | Chairman Campbell says that this sug- | gestion was made to the Senate at the | instance of the late Senator Jones of | Washington. Souzht for Economies. | Chairman Campbell says at the outset of his letter that when Senator Jones was chairman of the Economy Subcom- mittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee he wrote the commission asking for any recommendation as to changes in the current economy act, and particularly how additional sav- ings might be effected. In consequence, Campbell added, the commission surveyed the field and dis- covered that throughout the depart- ments there are 563 employes, whose salary totals $1,484,100, engaged on per- sonnel work. . “After this short survey,” President Campbell wrote, “majority of the com- mission was of the opinion that appre- ciable economies could be effectuated by consolidating the departmental per- sonnel with the personnel work of the Civil Service Commission. Recommen- dation to bring this about was forward- ed to your committee with other recom- | mendations of the committee.” Then follows the text of this recom- mendzation, which shows that the com- mission proposed that it be given d partmental records except those cove: ing administrative matters in connec- tion with the appointment, separation retirement and ervices of employes, as & $2,000 eppointment. Under this pro- | the inaugural ceremony. Requests have posel, he shows, the Government would | been reccived from more than 30 or- pay sz.:x(}o n promotions, s‘hogotfgzrr:g; | ganizations, and more are coming into Seil s et sy of R0, 4a the | te éfi'&fi?fifl?‘“ s Iy $7,000 post would of necessity be filled | So heavy has been the parade work by a $6,500 appointment, this pay being | that, although the grand marshal has Lhe‘mim. um for :ha} sl:nde, | not yet bzen chosen, Col. Henry Roose- If the appointment was filled from | velt, retired Marine Corps officer and the ouiside, the entire $5,500 would g0 a cousin of the President-elect, has to the individual cacse | been drafted for the work and is main- Statement Is Issued. | taining offices in the suite occupied by A statement in explanation of Dr.|th? Iniugural Committee. O'Rourke's plen says { “It is therefore cuggested that when filling a vacancy in a key position shall have been approved, and when it is as| economical, or more the | Government to fill thi within the service by either promotions end changes of grade of one or more emplcyes, the rastrictions, including the impounding of funds as to prometions end transfers and the | filling of vacancies in succzeding lower | grades made vacant by such promotions, transfers or changes of grades, shall | not apply.” | Dr. O'Rourk> points out that in the| pasi the building of careers in the Gov- | ernment has been greatly hampered by the fact that when a vacancy occurred there was no procedurz for bringing to the attention cf appointing officers the | relative qualificetions cf employes in | the various departments. Thus, it is explained, through no fault of the sp- inting officcr, those employes definite- y preparing themselves through edu: cation and experience for cortain specific work often fail to receive con- sidexaticn_for vac: Dr. D plan would not only lower the personnel cost of the Government, but would build a definite career system, the ad- vantages of which w times as well a3 at present The n dees not necessarily affect the number cf appointments to the Fed- rvice. it is added, for, although it wculd decr-as> the number of new appointments he higher salaried po- sitions, there would be a corresponding increase in the number of vacancies in scientific_and professional positions in the $2,000 grade, or in subprofessional or lower grad YOUNG WIDOW SEEKS | MARINE CORPS AID Will Ask Milit: Funeral for | for autcmobiles. This will solve the | | present traffic problem at the south- | | east corner of the Treasury Depart- | ment, he satd. | | Completion of the public buildings | development in the triangle will force | the ovening of the bronze gates on the | new Department of Commerce struc- | ture, Mr. Mcore asserted. At present, | they are kept shut, but the commission | | chairman would have them drawn aside | to permit through traffic to and from | Fifteénth street. The arches in the | Col. Rogsevelt is expecting more than | Departmert of Commerce, Mr. Moore 100 additional requests for permission to appear in the parade, from organiza- tions not only in Washington, but in other sections of the country. Places in the line of march will not | trefrie. be assigned these groups until the grand marshal is appointed and the general outline of the parade is mapped out by the marshal and his aides. Trzaitional Parade Osder. The traditicnal order of inaugurel | parades is cxpected to be followed ia | the coming parzde, with the Army, | Navy, Marines and Coast Guards at the head of the column with National Guard units following. Thé service | units will be drawn from Army, Neovy and Marine posts in and near Wash- ington. units that can be brought into | the city for the affair at no expense to the Government. Participation of the Annapolis Midshipmen and the West Point Cadets is not expected due to the expense of trensporting the fu- ture cfficers to and from the Capital. Requests for racervations in the ctands, and accemmedations for large the inaugural week said. were designed to permit traffiz to proce=d through the building, just as it does at the Lcuvre, in Paris, so that the enormcus e e shall not cut off Criticizes Parking. Mr. Moore thinks th» Government should put pressure on getting parked automobiles off the streets. The com- | mission has urged this before. | The present cystem, Mr. Moore holds, is a direct detriment to the merchants in the downtown section of the city, bacause it is now practically impossible to find a convenient parking place. Parking has practically ruined Hains | | Point, in East Potomac Park, he point- | | ed out, through permitting cars to park on the river side. The Mount Vernon | Memorial Highway is a delightful refuge from parked automobiles, he said. Between Washington end Baltimore | there should be ansther highway, such as the Mount Vernon drive, the com- | mission chairman holds. “There is an opportunity to connect Sixteenth street extended with Balti- 2 is | groups that will visit the city during | more, through the open country.” Mr sxlace Thaks e end continue to | Mcore says. " “The present four-'ane flow into the Washington Building |traffic highway is encumbered by hot- headguarters. . proximately 15 of of Chicago will a‘iend the inaugural ir a body, coming to Washington on a special train. Hun cf small groups have notified the committee they will attend. | SUICIDE INTRUSTS | HIS BODY TO BOY. Notes Found With Dead Marine| Corps Sergeant, 33, Victim of Gas. | Monday Shoreham Hotel. One came today from | dog stands, P - Emmett Whealen of the Cook Ccunty, | camps. There Rt o Commission, who staiod th-t ep- | way, the gas stations and tourist| ould be another high- | fringes of which would be cials of the City | properly protected. 'MEETINGS OF OXFORD GROUP ANNOUNCED| Forcign Notables Will Speak at Shoreham Hotel Monday and Tuesday Nights. Members of the Oxford Group, re- icus movement, will hold meetings and Tuesday night at the T0 OFFET LEISURE Dr. Theodore T. Martin Be- lieves Schools Will Combat Menace of Growing Crime. a measure of saving, and also o im- prove administration. Gives Additional Data. The letter to Senator Bingham also | outlines additional data, which was | furnished the committee in connection with it, and l2id emphasis on the ne- cessity of maintaining personnel rec- ords in its files. In this connection the commission said: “The maintenance by the commission of a complete service record of each in- | it appeared the deficiency bill might be held up indefinitely. When it was | passed by both Houses of Congress, work was resumed. | __The bill must still go to conference because of differences between the | House and Senate, but the differences do not relate to the $625,000 relief item. KEECH SAYS CAPITAL | creased in the past few Present social trends in America de-| ot . Americnde- WILL LEAD RECOVERY facilities to combat the dange: of in- 3 TR R | creased crime Tesulting from mis- People's Counsel, in Radio Talk,| directed Jeisure, according to Dr. Theo- dore T. Martin, director of membership | Believes End of Depression Is Near. of the National Education Association Addressing a group of educators, stu- | dents end men seeking vccat'onal | counsel at an ‘“occupational adjust- | ment” forum at the Y. M. C. A. last ! night, Dr. Martin declared the current cconomic system, with its shorter work day end work weck end its increased leisure for the laboring man is a chal- lenge to educators. Washington should be the first city | to throw off the effects of the depres- sion, Richmond B. Keecn, people's | | counsel, declared last night in a “pros- perity hour” radio address over Sta- ticn WOL. | Opposes Retrenchment. | He pointed out that Washington was | “There must be greater expenditures | for "education or greater expenditures for epprchension and punishment of ! criminals, Dr. Martin ascerte - Plained that. schoots “sre eeime pex. | institutions, he said, are in a partic- | ventives, while polics departments and | Uarly strong position, with bank de- | jails are confronted with th> problem | POSILS exceptionally large. i of dealing with the person already turned eriminal. Instead of retrenchment, there should be a marked increase in the country’s educational facilities, the speaker said. He describzd the profession ing | M€ e om0t the Batieesion of teaching | 1 am equally sure conditions will Desses," the governmental expenditures | $tUrD to normal only when the peo- | for which ate exceeded. only by thace | 2Ie a8 & whole have confidence in thelr | for ARh are ex : | Government, their banks, their mer- | | chants and their public institutions. It | Not Easy Berth, He Says. }seems to me that what we need most | Deploring what he sald was a pepu- | °f 8l 8t the moment is optimism.” lar belief that teaching was an “casy | t r. Martin said a good teacher | requires “brajns, personality, an innerd urge and adequate preparation.” While there is some oversupply of | teachers at present, he expressed the | opinion that the profecsion is at the threshold of an era of great expansion. Selaries of teachers have been in- years, so the profession today provides “a reasonable | living,” he said. “It is not yet a profession of wealth, | howeter,” he edded The lecture was under auspices of | the Y. M. C. A. Committee on Vocation- | the last big city to feel the industrial slump and that there is no reason | why it should not be the first to usher in better times. The Capital’s financial Recent surveys show that the trend | of business throughout the country is on the upgrade” he continued. *I| | don’t pretend to be an oracle. Cer- | tainly, though, we have reached at least | the beginning of the end. Sit Jointly, Beginning February 27. HEARINGS SCHEDULED ON GAS VALUATION L Maryland and D. C. Commission to]im dividual employe is essential, therefore, in order that it may administer the civil service law and regulations with respect to the retirement, promotion, transfer, —reinstatement and other changes in personnel. The commission deals with an army of employes in the competitive classified service whose ad- vancements, retentions, or retirements depend upon their records. Without these records, the commission could not function.” 1 Campbell says in this connection that he does mot see “how you could have drawn the conclusion as stated in your newspaper interview, that the com- mission recommended the abolition of its records.” Concludirg, he says: “The commis- sion has made every effort to give its best advice to your committee. It has made proposals according to its best judgment and is sincerely disappointed | that such proposals invited by your committee are used as th= reson and basis for official and newspaper ridi- cule.” E e T Plan Turkey Dinner. GAITHERSBURG, Md., January 14 | (Special).—The Ladies’ Aid Society of | Grace M. E. Church will hold its an-| nual turkey dinner in the church hall | Friday evening from 5 to 8 o'clock. Marriage Licenses. Edgar W. Winner, Frostburg, Md., and Tarbara D. Lange, 014 East Capitol Edward J ‘Pairmont st., and 346 Fairmont st.; | Kees Rock, Pa., . Carnegie, Pa | oth st. ne. and | : Rev. | A Bryant. 31, and Mattle Blaxton, ot of Falmouth, Ve Kev. H. M. | 1314 Columbia st.. | 1514 Columbia st} Va, and t st 5w Abernethy, Henni tiel McColucl a o lia Hill. Arlinston. 1 404 T3 Charles D. Tyson. | certifying an application for an auto- | cessily for mechanical inspection of au- Head O. E. S. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Plitt, newly elected grand matron for the District, Order of the Eastern Star, and F. Frank Kim- mel, chosen grand patron. OFFICERS ELECTED BY EASTERN STAR Mrs. Elizabeth Plitt Chosen Grand Matron and Kimmel as Patron. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Plitt was seected grand matron and F. Prank Kimmel | grand patron of the Grand Chapter of the District of Columbia, Order of Eastern Star at its thirty-seventh an- nual meeting last night in the May- flower Hotel. Mrs. Plitt, formerly associate grand matron, succeeds Miss Edith A. Wil- The new grand matron served as matron of Ruth Chapter during 1916 and was elected to the Grand Chapter line as associate grand conductress in January, 1930. Mr. Kimmel was associate grand patron and is a member and past patron | of Martha Chapter, serving as such in 1913. He was elected to the Grand Chapter line in Januery, 1932. He was ‘master of Pentalpha Lodge, No. 23, F. A. A. M, in 1917, and is past high priest and past secretary of Mount Horeb Chapter, No. 7. Both new heads of the order will serve for one year. Other officers elected last night in- clude Mamie L. Greenstreet; associate grand matron; Edward N. Riley, asso- ciate grand patron; Rose A. Yost, re- elected grand secretary; Lillie McKen- zie, re-elected grand treasurer; Helen L. Brashears, grand ccnductress, and Louise Krelow, assoclate grand con- ductress. Reports were heard from committee heads reviewing the year's work, and routine business matters were trans- acted. ‘The new officers will be installed to- night. NOTARY PUBLIC HELD Charged With Falsely Certifying Auto Title Application. S. H. Blumenthal, a notary public, 1800 block of Seventh street, was bound | over to the grand jury from Police | Court yesterday on a charge of falsely liams. mobile title. Police charged that Blumenthal cer- tifled the application as a date several | months ago, when in reality it was not | executed until after the first of this year. This change was made, the Drosecution charges, to avoid the ne- tomobiles, regnired under the new reg- | ulations which became effective this | PICCARD DECLARES STRATOSPHERE AIR TRAVEL 1S SAFER No Air Pockets in Realm of Perpetual Day, Geographic Society Told. COSMIC RAY LIKENED TO SPARK FROM ANVIL | Brussels Scientist Declares Source of Heat and Energy for World Limitless in Water, Six-hour flights across the Atlantic through the eternal calm and deep purple darkness of the stratosphere, 10 miles above the ecarth's surface, were visualized by Prof. Auguste Piceard, the Brussels college prifessor, who last Summer broke all recortls fonthe height of & balloon ascension, in a lecture be- fore the National Geographic Society iast night. This was Prof. Piccard's first public appearance in the United States, Pic- card and his assistant are the only mortals who have actually been in the stratosphcre, that zone of the earth’s atmospheye which lies just above the range where cold increases with height, His experiences there convince him, he said, that this stormless, windless region of intence cold, where the stars shine at midday, is the ideal superhighway for mankind. Once in the stratosphere, | he said, the dangers incident to almost any other form of travel are absent. There are no storms such as buffet ships at sea. There are no winds or air pockets such as cause airplane acci- dents. Air resistance is at a minimum, less than one-tenth of what it is at the surface of the earth. Hence, enor- mous speeds can be attained and kept up with safety, such as 500 miles an hour across the Atlantic. Cosmic Rays Discussed. Much of Prof. Piccard's address was devoted to cosmic rays, to study which he made his own historic ascent into the stratosphere. He referred to them as “like sparks of a Creator's anvil thrown out into "1t is not yet known, he said, whether they come from far-off nebulae, from the stars, from the mysterious depths of limit- less space, from the upper layers of the atmogphere or from the sun. “The energy contained in an indi- vidual ra he continued, “is much greater than that of any other ray. The most penetrating radiation known, besides the cosmic rays are the ultra- gamma rays of radium, but a cosmic rey is more than a million times more penetrating still. “Cosmic rays are produced by the modification of atoms, but what these modifications are and under what con- dition they take place we do not know. Theoretical conclusions show that when these modifications or patterns are pro- duced a great quantity of energy must be liberated, and when we are able to manufacture these rays artificially on earth we will be able to utilize “iat vast energy and can snatch out of a handful of air, from a source now invisible, sufficient energy to overate hundreds of high-powered machines. Power in Three Drops ef Water. “Scme idea of the potential power of these rays will be grasped when I tell you that I have by precise calculation shown that the transformation of the atoms of three drops cf water would produce enough cosmic rays and eacugh energies to light the whole city of ‘Washington through a whole night. “Cosmic rays are the energy of the future and when this source of power is made available, producing limitless energy almost free, the coal that re- mains in the earth’s veins will sudden- 1y become valueless, The raw materials for manufacturing cosmic rays would cost nothing, water being the chief one I have in mind. It is conceivable that somewhere along the milky way in the celestial laboratories these rays are fly- ing off from the very process of crea= tion while new worlds are being fash- ioned. “Coal daily is drawing toward its in- evitable, ultimate exhaustion, and when it is gone by what means will our civil- ization be saved? It is high time we were preparing a fuel supply and I cnvisage the cosmic ray as the solution of this ponderous problem.” 'WOMEN’S SESSION IN CAPITAL ENDED | National Federation Directors Close Annual Winter Meeting at Headquarters Here. The annual Winter meeting of na- tional directors of the General Fed- eration of Women's Clubs, held here | . and | An imposing array of foreign not- |al Guidance. Dr. J. Orin Powers of | , FEOTUATY 27 has been set as the date | Evelyn Brooks. 15, 1242 Rev. K Estranged Husband Who | Leaving several notes entrusting his /n Life. effects and disposition of his boc S 15-year-old boy who had becn taken . g ; 'from his custody a court order, d in her insurance pobert B. Halvick, 33-year-old Marine argaret Harmon, 22- | corps sergeant, committed cuicide early of two children, ‘'Was| {o4ey by inhaling gas in the kitchen to ask the Marine CorPs | ¢ his apartment, in the 100 block of ary funcral for her|gecond street northeast. 27. who shot | ““rhe body was found by police, h Thursday night in|gumpeq in a chair before the gas e, 1246 T street south- range from which gas was flowing from five open jets. In notes addressed to the coronér and the commandant of d mothe: g toda which lay un- Morgue for 24 the Marine Corps, Halvick ssked that was being held | nothing be moved from the apartment S under- | ynti} the boy, 8 ward of the rd of Pt of | public Welfare, had been notified. offi- | " Halvick, said to have been a native of Seattle, had gone to Juvenile Court awaited from the | t5 fight for custody of the child after ohn A. Harmon, | the boy’s grandmother had charged in- gh he told Detec- | corrigibility against him. i Murphy he was| He was employed in the Department to provide a funeral | of Operations and Training of the s thought he would | United States Marine Ccrp$ with the ange the rites, rank of a “prabationary technical ser- d six years in the | geant.” d himself on the side- | ™ A certificate of suicide was issued by of the 1 street houte, | Acting Coroner A. Magruder Mac- e lives with her parents, | Donald ' “DRAKE ESTATE” hmer frem fused to effect a d taken the chil- | Betty, 10 months, | abcut a month ago, she | s pocket, police found & ctter in which he declared he | ng his life because he could | out the children and “to e happy.” GUILTY UNDER ARMS LAW | Government Activities for Flood of Storekeeper Offered for Sale Guns| Wit o et | n breaking up projects the department In the first successful prosecution | doesn’t- like, 2 under this phase of the new weapon | wonder if it's worth while. law, James L. Deans, colored, operator | Intermittently, for several years, the of & store in the 1800 block of Four- | department has been warring on the teenth street, yesterday, entered a plea | celebrated “Drake estate” operation and of guilty in Police Court to a charge|on Wednesday issued a fraud orcer ©of having in possession and offering | barring the use of the mails to thyse for sale guns without a-permit. identified with it. - The case, however, was referred to| Today the solicitor's office was flooded the probation officer on recommenda- | with letters, sent by registered maii tion of Assistant United States Attor- | from Southern Texas, Prmsun( against ney Milford L. Schwartz, and Deans |the department's activities, which, it wnphcedonnmmuon’{ulrm. was declared, were preventing a happy ! Solicitor Horace J. Donnelly: of the ables, who have been touring the world in the interest of the movement, will | be on hand for the meetings and a large audience of Washingtonians is ex- pected to attend to receive news as to the reception of the new religious idea in _other countries. Dr. Prank N. D. Buchman, founder | of the Oxford group, heads the list of those speakers who will address the githerings. Others include Vice Ad- miral Sidney Drury-Lowe, London; | Comdr. Sir Walter George Windham, London: Baroness Lillian van Heeck- eren van Kell, de Steeg, Holland; Francis Goulding, St. John's College, Oxford; William H. Browne, Jesus C: lege, Oxford; Ronald Thompson, Hart- | ford College, Oxford; Lionel Ford, St John’s College, Oxford; Miss Eleanor Gairdner, Cairo and Somerville Col- lege. Oxford; and a host of other O: ford professors and notzsbles from Eng- |land, Scotland, Germany and the | United States, | The meetings will open at 9 pm,, | instezd of 8:15, as originally announced. | nal revenue attorney, is vice chairman, | and Ralph G. Cornell, attorney in the | Many Washington clergymen are ex- pected to attend and tomorrow a num- ber of ministers associated with the Oxford group will preach in local , pulpits. | FRAUD ORDER George Washington University presided. FEDERAL BAR SETS DINNER FOR FEB. 17 Preliminary Plans for Annual Event at Mayflower Completed by Committee. Preliminary plans for the annual din- ner of the Federal Bar Association, tentatively set for February 17 in the Mayflower Hotel, have been completed by the Committee on Arrangements, it was announced today. Monte Appel, Assistant Attorney Gen- eral, has been selected chairman of the commiitee. Rowland S. H. Dyer, inter- General Accounting Office, secretary. The following additional committee chairmen have been selected: Corporation Counsel William _ W. Bride, Committee on Speakers; Ken- neth H. Bruner, attorney in the General Accounting Office, Committee on Tickets; Assistant United States Attorney Pearl McCall, Committee on Decorations; Duke M. Patrick, Committee op Seat- | for public hearings on the valuation of | | the Waskington and Georgetown Gas | | Light Companies. The hearings will be held in the Dis- | trict Building, but members of the | Maryland Public Service Commission | | and the District Public Utilities Com- mission will sit jointly, as the valuation covers also property’ in Montgomery | two District concerns, | . The Maryland commission s before |it a petition from residents of the Bethesda section for reduction in gas | rates. There is no petition pending in | the District where an 815 per cent dis- | count on all bills was recéntly arranged. | ‘This arrangement, however, expires Feb- ruary 1, and before that time the Dis- trict commission is expected to extend | it until after the valuation proceedings. | Arm{Sgndsi Ohly Woman Soldier to Philippines Again Warrant Officer Hoskins | Has' Spent 23 Years in Service. | County owned by subsidiaries of the | B! W._Ro | Edward_J. Neumeser, Georgia and Dorothy M v ouise L. Livingsion. e v whilam D: Jarv Gordon Tuck. 33, and . both of Alexandria Poore D. Thomas Collins. 21 . and Rhodis Procter, ev. J. Maurice King Robert P. Wortman, Lena T. Hopfer. o nolas. Catherine 8. Dove. | Va. Rev. Allan F 1460 Morris rd I8, 1434 C st. s.e. 1st st i Rev. W Jernagin. Georze Reinburg. 4 1 and Moo . Spokane, Wash.: Judge Births Reported. Arthur W. and Caroline A. Queen, girl. fthr I opd cargine ) J. and Catherine J. Crowley, girl. E L. and Edith Gusack. girl. Huber E and Pauline V. Garrett. girl. Solomon and Esther N. Malkin. gir] George C. and Rachel A. Paffenbarger, girl. Earl A. and Martelle Trager. girl. Be: d J. and_Elizabeth M Burns. girl. C. and Mary E. Stapl eirl Altey B Saplee o se D. Robinson. boy. McCarthy. boy. 20 Lanine D. and James and Lont ‘Thomas J. and Ju John and Katina 0y Ralph A_and t L. Dommel, boy. Franc's H. and Ruth J. Thompson. boy. Grace Ad: b and = Doy, e hd Riddle. bov. | les H. Weaver, boy. Clay 8 and Mary E. Coss, hov. Clarence A. and Mary H. Gates. boy. Harry C. and Catherine Kepner. boy. Pani C. and Muriel M. Maxwell, boy. Richard and S Franklin C. Harrison L. an: ' | Payne. w IS UNWELCOME TO TEXANS| | Post, Office Department, who specializes | k- time out today to| ing; William E. Reese, Committee on | Printing; Albert E. Stephan, Publicity, *|and Maj. Gen. Blanton Winship, Dinner | Protectiqn of Public Bring Committee, | Protests. | WILL WATCH “HOLD-UP” | Headed by Supt. of Police Ernest W. settlement—namely, distribution of “the | Brown, high ranking police officials and | estate” of Sir Francis Drake to “heirs” | experts in the use of tear gas left here | Wwho have been contributing freely to a | today for Wilmington, Del,, to observe | fund reputedly used to push the matter | the use of teer gas and other police | in_British courts. | technique to I used in a demonstration | | _The letters apparently were sent out | “hold-up” at ding Wilmington bank | about the time the fraud order was ! &iter closing s this aflernoon. issued, but there were indications at| Besides Maj. = own, among those who the solicitor's office that, even had they |left for Wilmingion were Assistant Supt. | come prior to the order, they wouldn't | of Police L. 1. H. Edwards, Licut. H. G. have made much difference. Callahan, head of the police school | The department acted after a lengthy | here; Pvt. Arthur Poulsen, member of | investigation, during the course of |the police gas squad; H. E. Crawford, which advice was received from British | chief clerk of the Police Department, and authorities that there is no Drake | Robert Jones of the Federal tear gas estate. 4 : 3 | i | for her second “hitch” in the Pmnpfl Deaths Reported. Norman and Mary Jarvis. eir Boolser T and Esther Jones. girl. The “Army's Bogene and Mary Coleman. boy. Warrant only woman soldier, Officer Olive L. Hoskins, & o sailing from New York next Thursda Ppines i Howe. §2. 3217 13th st. With 23 years of service to her credit, | Sands, 78 1750 Q st " Miss Hoskins, or Warrant Officer Hos- | . eI Prashrt | kins, as she is officially known, tired of | Mare® Barn E - - | the inactivity of routine .duties at LN Omaha, Nebr., and applied for another G pallen, ! 't | i tour of duty in the Pt?lhpmnes. She Gl Gllineer Hosoital. had been at the Omaha headquarters ell, 54, Sibley Hosbita | of the Tth Corps Area since 1933, b b g | For several weeks the Army’s woman soldier has been on leave visiting friends at Summit, N. J., prior to her depar- ture. Her previous tour in the Philip- pines began in 1919 and lasted nearly four years. Miss Hoskins got into the Army cler- ical forces through a civil service exam- ination. In 1916, however, the clerks were made fleld clerks, with Regular Army status Gillman B. Hogpitel. i riffith. 48. GeorgetownsHospital Hoey O oitand, A Walter Keed Hos- . Emergency Hospital. L Providence Hosnital. Guilia Lilli, found near Forest Glen, Md, John Curry. 12, Siblev Hospital. George Lusby._11. Casualtv Hospital. Lizzi Dorsey, 70, Home for Aged and In- r?i"muhu Shepphard. 45, Gallinger Fos- pital. Wil wkins, 45, ser Hospita Pty e T o g < | last Saturday of a fractured skull. RED CROSS LIST DROPS | et i 115 5 “Shent-ads s President Told of Diminishing De- | mands From Poor. | Calls cn the American Red Cross for | food and_ clothing are diminishing, | President Hoover was advised late yes- | terday by Chairman John Barton | Judge Payne attributed this trend partly to the funds distributed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and partly to the large store of flour | and cotton already distributed. | Mothrérrltrn[’)roving, But Will Not See i Funeral for Son Rites for Boy Victim of Hit-and-Run Driver i Set Next Week. ‘ SRR | PFighting to throw off the effects of pneumonia so she can attend the fu- neral of her son, Mrs. Mary Curry was slightly better today, physicians at Gallinger Hospital said. She has many days in bed before her, however, and there was €oubt whether the funeral of the boy, killed in an automobile accident, could be delayed until her recovery, John Curry, 12, who had been stay- ing with an uncle at 510 Second street, was struck by a hit-and-run driver on January 3. He died in Sibley Hospital | Although suffering from a cold i St. Louis, Mrs. Curry started for Wash- ington when she learned of her son’s grave condition. When she arrived, he was dead and her cold had de- veloped into pneumonia. The boy’s body is at the morgue and officials there saii he would be buried some time next week. It appeared certain, therefore, that Mrc. Curry would be disappointed both in her de- sire to be with the boy before his death luded this morning in a session de- voted principally to federation business. Warren E. Emley, chief of the divi- sion of organic and fubrous niaterials of the United States Bureau of Stand- ards, guest speaker, discussed various matters in connection with merchan- dise products being offered today to the buving public. He offered the service of the bureau in a co-operative effort to set up speci- fications for staple products of mer- chandise from the point of view of the public. Mrs. Grace Morrison Poole, president of the federation, in her an- nual report, had urged the need of maintenance of standards of products during the current period of economic stress. Reports were presented this morning by Mrs. Mary A. Wall and Mrs, Ear B. Padgett. . Wallace Murray, chief of the divi- sion of Near Eastern affairs of the State Department, in an address last night, uf\t;med tl’ae"goved:g{nenul development of Iraq and its a ssion to the Leagus of Nations. " PRESIDENT NAMES THREE TO ARTS COMMISSION Three new members of the Pine Arts Commission were named yesterday by President Hoover. Senste confirmation is not required. The new members are John Mead Howells, architect; Lee Law- rie, sculptor, and Eugene Francis Sav- age, painter, all of New York. The retiring members of the com- mission are Ezra Winter, painter; John Walter Cross, architect, and Adolph A. Weinman, sculptor. Serving on the commission, with Charles Moore as chairman, are john L. Mauran, Edger- ton Swarthout and Giimore. Clarke. R s FEARS ISLAND REVOLT _Fernando T. Amis, president of the Philippine Education and Relief Society of America, declared today he hofid the o e %, S veto o pp! bill. He said he fcared that if the Sen- ate does not o Mr. Hoover's veto there might occur on the islands & po- litical or economic revolution, *