Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1933, Page 13

BANDIT SUSPECTS WILL BE PLAGED IN'POLIGE LINE-UP Six Held in Pay Roll Robbery Plot to Be Quizzed in Berman Shooting. FIVE 81GN CONFESSIONS IN HOLD-UP, POLICE SAY Ecklund Inquest Expected Tuesday. Stumm in Serious Condition. Guns Still Sought. . _The six men accused of plotting the attempted $2,000 Browning Painting Co. pay roll robbery, in which a paymaster of the company was shot to death and his assistant seriously wounded, will be viewed today by witnesses in other re- cent hold-ups and shooting, it was said at police headquarters last night. At the same time, it was said, the prisoners—five of whom are reported to | have confessed participation in the plot —will be questioned extensively regard- Ing the shooting of Arthur A. Berman, proprietor of a delicatessen at 4328 Georgia avenue. Berman, 48-year-old father of four children, was wounded in a gun battle with two bandits who attempted to hold him up in his delicatessen early Thurs- day. He still is in a serious condition In Garfield Hospital, but, according to Inspector Frank S. W. Burke, chief of detectives, will scrutinize the four white men under arrest in the attempted pay roll robbery as soon as he is sufficient- ly strong. Confessions Signed. ‘The men held are: Claude Myers, 28, colored, and Fewell ‘Workman, 23, colgred, who are said to have signed confessions that they shot the painting company officials; Albert E Cash, 20, said to have admitted driving the taxicab in which the gun- men escaped after the shooting; Everett Blackwell, 22, said to have acted as “tip-off” man in the attempted hold- up; Clyde E. Templeton, 30, said to have confesséd disposing of one of the guns used in the shooting, and Oscar M. Cash, 21, alleged to have disposed of the other gun. All the men except Oscar Cash signed confessions describing their parts in the robbery scheme, according to Capt. Bernard W. Thompson, assistant chief of detectives. Oscar Cash, brother of the taxicab driver and brother-in-law of Templeton, refused to make any satement. At the request of Capt. Thompson, Acting Coroner A. Magruder MacDon- ald refrained from setting a date for an inquest into the death of the slain man, Edward Ecklund, 50, in order to give detectives ample opportunity to in- vestigate the prisoners’ connection, if any, with other hold-ups and shootings. It is expected, however, that the in- quest will be held Tuesday. Slugs to Be Compared. A jury was sworn in over Ecklund’s body yesterday by Deputy Coroner Christopher J. Murphy. The 32-caliber bullet that killed Ecklund, piercing his heart and liver and imbedding itself in his backbone, was removed by Murphy during an autopsy. The slug, sald to have been fired by Myers, was turned over to Lieut. John H. Fowler, police ballistics expert, for comparison with the bullet removed from Berman. It also will be compared with slugs taken from the bodies of ¥ictims of other recent shootings. The other wounded man, Harry Stumm, 48, still is in a critical condi- tlon in Providence Hospital. Shot in the abdomen, he underwent an emer- gency operation immediately after his arrival at the hospital, but the bullet was not recovered. Hence the police have no way of definitely establishing which of the colored men shot him. Stumm was to have succeeded Ecklund 8s paymaster as the latter had re- signed. _ Both Myers and Workman, in the - @onfessions outlined by Capt. Thomp- son, admitted firing at the two men, but insisted they did not know which of the two men’ they shot. Detectives «Delteve, however, that Workman fired ‘She shot that wounded Stumm. Fail to Find Guns. ‘Thus far the guns used in the shoot- $g have not been found, but detectives r the direction of Bergt. H. K. n, chief of the Homicide Squad, @re continuing their search for them. Workman, according to the confessions given out by Capt. Thompson, used a -25-caliber automaiic and Myers the «32-caliber revolver. Work of the detectives who handled the case was praised last night by xnx:mar Burke, who termed it “the Bl clean-up I've seen in 30 years on the police force.” Among the de- tectives who worked on the case, be- sides Thompson, Fowler and Wilson, Sergts. John C. Dalglish, Jerry Fla- y, George Darnall, Elmer Lewis, alter 8. Beck and Dennis J. Murphy. Ecklund and Stumm, both residents ©f Brooklyn, headquarters of the paint- ing company, were shot about noon Thursday as they walked from their Tooming house at 309 New Jersey ave- nue southeast to the new House Office Building, wiiere the pay envelopes were to_have been distributed. Near the corner of New Jersey ave- nue and C street southeast two col- ored men ordered them to “stick “em up.” Thinking the ccmmand a joke, Stumm and Ecklund walked on. Then the gunmen opened fire and, leaving Ecklund and Stumm lying wounded on the sidewalk, ran down New Jersey avenue, leaped into a cab and were driven away. 2 ume&fl?:gflby police gave the ol 5 Albert and Oscar Cash, 4500 block of Ninth street; Workman, 100 block of D street southeast; Templeton, 4500 block of Ninth street; Myers, 1900 block of Fourteenth street, and Blackwell, 100 block of Fourth street southeast. DEMAND PROTECTION IN GAS FIRMS’ MERGER Pakoma Park Citizens’ Association Insists on Special Clauses in Consolidation Agreement. tion to the proposed merger o e, Washington and Georgetown Gas Lig )t Companies unless there are certain protective clauses is expressed In & resolution adopted by the Takoma Park Citizens’ Association and trans- mitted to the House District Committee. The citizens’ association adopted the resolution against the gas companies’ merger without express stipulation, ac- cepted by the companies, altogether ex- cluding from consideration in the rate bage either franchise or going-concern value |Plea for Old Shoes | For Needy Is Made | By Relief Agency “0Old Woman in a Shoe” Is Unable to Meet equests, The Old Woman Who Lives in & Shoe and Old Mother Hubbard of nur- sery rhyme fame are in the same fix— the cupboard is bare. The Old Woman Who Lives in s Wear' &0 ey perseos, 1o belng ovet- wear to needy persons, over- Wwhelmed with requests for shoes and is unable to fill all the orders. An appeal for contributions of old shoes has been made. Since its inception December 15, 1932, the organization has had 10,000 appiications, one-half of which were taken care of. Men and children are turned away empty-handed in most of the unfilled applications, Thus far in the cam- paign, the donors of shoes have been 80 per cent women, with only 20 per cent of the shoes for men and children. Headquarters announced yesterday that 144 pairs of large men’s shoes were sent up from Lorton, Va. Hahn's Shoe Store also reported they are re- pairing_on the average of 60 pairs daily. Carroll's Laundry says its trucks will call for ang deliver shoes to the ncy for any donor. .sgo great is the demand and so in- lndequlte is the supply, the agency {hardly has time to unpack the shoes before they are being fitted to some | man, woman or child. ECONOMY DEBATE 1S DUE THS WEEK Senate Fight Is Probable Over 1 2-3 Per Cent Pay Cut Additign. BY J. A. O'LEARY. With a fight looming over the rec- ommendation for an additional pay cut of 12-3 per cent on Government sal- aries, the general economy program at- tached to the Treasury-Post Office ap- propriation bill may be taken up for debate in the Senate this week, pos- sibly by Wednesday. ‘The decision on the new salary pro- posal is expected to be close. It was reported from reliable sources at the Capitol yesterday that, as the situation now stands, the additional pay cut may not get through the Senate, but the final outcome cannot be predicted defl- nitely in advance of consideration of the bill. But if it should muster a majority in the Senate it would still have to go to conference, since it was not in the House bill. Continues Existing Plan. ‘The House, in passing the economy measure, voted to continue the existing furlough plan, which amounts to an 81-3 per cent cut, for another fiscal year. The Senate Economy Committee added to this furlough reduction the flat percentage cut, which would make a total slash of 10 cent. The Ap- propriations Committee concurred in this recommendation of the economy I group. If the Senate should turn down Dr.|the new cut the Government salary situation would remain as it is for an- other year. The prediction of Senators yester- day that consideration of the economy program would start before the end of this week was based on the assumption that the Glass banking bill would be disposed of within a few more days. While the economy measure has been on a sidetrack waiting for a chance to come before the Senate, representatives of various groups of Federal workers, supported by organized labor generally, have been urging the Senate not to make another pay cut in the Govern- | ment service. They have argued that 1 further curtailment of the purchasing | power of wage earners would be a step away from economic recovery. The pay cut proposal has claimed most of the attention in advance dis- cussions of the economy measure, but it is by no means the only provision that is expected to lead to debate in the Senate. Record Change Urged. Another provision which has led to considerable discussion is the recom- mendation of the committee for repeal of laws and regulations under which the Civil Service Commission keeps el records of the employes of the executive departments and inde- pendent establishments. The commit- tee recommends that these records be kept by the departments, and made available there-to the Civil Service Commission and to the Veterans' Ad- ministration in handling retirement matters. Consideration of the economy bill also may open up debate on the trou- blesome question of reorganization of the Government departments, since the measure Tecommends broadening the reorganization powers of the President in two essential particulars. Under existing law, the President may issue executive orders for the transfer and consolidation of bureaus, such or- ders to be reported to Congress, where disapproval by one branch—either House or Senate, within 60 days—is sufficient to veto the order. The pend- ing economy bill would enable the President to issue orders to abolish as well as to transfer bureaus, and a reso- lution of disapproval would have to pass both branches of Congress, instead of one, within 60 days. Pension Cut Proposed. | Another recommendation in the pend- ling bill is that a 10 per cent cut be (made in pensions on the rolls of the Veterans’ Administration and in com- pensation payments under the war risk insurance act, the World War veterans’ act or any special act of Congress, if such pension or compensation is at a rate in excess of $1,000 a year. It is further provided, however, that this section shall not operate to reduce any such pension or compensation to less than $1,000 a year. This recommenda- ment $8,570,000. The proposed new pay cut on Gov- ernment salaries it is estimated would moun:mw us‘mm. in addition to saving accruing to the Government from the 8Y; per cent payless furloughs. There are various other economies the pending bill 1y is estimated, would save between $35,000,000 and $40,000,000, over and above the present economy law. Tydings Awaits Chance. 4 vi’:“hwm Senate lnku; an unity bw work on ‘Treasury- Post Office bill, Senator Tydings, Demo- crat, of Maryland, also is waiting for & chance to bring to the attention of the Senate the drastic resolution he introduced a week ago, by which he secks to direct the Appropriations Com- mittee to cut the total of all the su ply bills to $2,949,100,000, which, says, is the estimated Federal revenue for next year. According to the Mary- nator’s figures, this would mean itting approximately $493,000,000 be- Oppor- tion is estimated to save the Govern- | ingto UTILITIES BOARD TO RENEW POWER RATE SLASH FIGHT Efforts to Be Made This Week to Get Reduction Effective February 1. PATRICK MAY RETURN FROM GOTHAM TOMORROW Compromise Previously Blocked by Keech Objection Fearing Loss of Gain Already Made. Renewed efforts are expected to be made by the Public Utilities Commis- sion this week to secure a rate reduc- tion in electric service for 1933, despite the collapse of the original negotiations with the Potomac Electric Power Co. tion Counsel William W. Bride, general counsel for the commis- sion, declared last night the commis- sion would use every element in its power to give the District lower elec- tric rates, while at the same time pre- serving the victory involved in Justice Luhring’s decision that the commis- sion was within its rights in abolishing the consent decree of 1924 by which the rates have since been regulated. “Entitled to Reduction.” “Electric consumers in the District are entitled to a reduction,” Mr. Bride said, “and the commission hopes to get it for them.” Failure of the original nggotiations arose from a difference among lawyers as to the correct legal interpretation of a document designed to end the electric rate litigation now in the Court of Ap- peals. People's Counsel Richmond B. Keech thought the phraseology would forfeit the victory won by the commis- sion in Justice Luhring’s opinion. He was supported by Corporation Counsel iflde and his senior assistant, Vernon Objections Halt Action. ‘The compromise could not be effected unless Mr. Keech consented, since he was a party to the case in court. As a result of his objections the commis- sion abruptly cut off the negotiations, and charged the failure to the people's counsel. No further action will be taken by the commission, however, until Chairman Mason M. Patrick returns from New York, where he attended the Institute of Public Engineering. Riley E. El- gen, vice chairman of the commission, and Willlam A. Roberts, special coun- sel for the commission, also attended the institute, but the former is the only one who has returned. Chairman Patrick is expected back tomorrow. The reduction the commission will seek would be effective for the months beginning February 1. LIFE INSURANCE MEN WILL MEET THURSDAY D. C. and Maryland Congress to Hold One-Day Session Here. Virginians Invited. A one-day session of the fifteenth annual District of Columbia and Mary- land Congress of Life Underwriters will be held Thursday at the Shoreham Hotel. An invitation has been extended to members of the Virginia Association of Life Underwriters to attend by Thomas P. Morgan, jr., general chair- man of the congress. Prominent men in the insurance business who will address the educa- tional meeting are Griffin M. Lovelace, vice president, New York Life Insurance Co_and former dean of the Life Insur- ance School at New York University; Robert B. Coolidge of Cleveland, Ohio, president of the Cleveland Life Under- writers® Association; Frank J. Donnelly of Newcastle, Pa.; Holgar J. Johnson of Pt by Touis G, Roth of Buffalo, N. Y. Another S-minute Baltimore ce silesmen: ‘Thomas W. Harrison, jr.; Carl E. Hecht and Abram N. Sel of Baltimore, and J h B. Cleland and Paul H. Prim of Washington. Local men, chairmen of the commit- tees in charge of arrangements for the congress are Thomas P. Morgan, jr., Executive Committee; H. Lawrence Choate, Speakers’ Committee; Herbert O. McLean, Registration Committee; Paul H. Prim, Music Committee; J. E. McCombs, Lunch Committee; Paul D. Sleeper, Publicity Comittee; George B. Farquhar, Finance Committee, and Dan Harrison, nsportation Committee. HARVARD CLUB ELECTS Frederic A. Delano Chosen Presi- dent of Washington Branch. Frederic A. Delano has been elected lent of the Harvard Club of Wash- n. Mr. Delano was a member of the class of 1885. Walter I. McCoy, former Chief Justice of District Su- preme Court, of the class of 1882, was named president emeritus for life. Other officers of the club are: First Vvice president, Undersecretary of State ‘William R. Castle, jr., 1900; second vice president, George Warren, ’89; third vice president, T. Weitzel, '94; fourth vice president, John H. Gray, '87; Ralph H. Hallett, ‘04, Dr. Percival Hall, '92, NAMED BY HOOVER Son of Navy Commander to Take ‘West Point Examinations. Philip Gatch Lauman, jr., of Wash- and treasurer, n, son of Comdr. Lauman of the Navy, was one of the young men ap- pointed by President Hoover yesterday to take examinations with a view to admission to the United States Military in The bill as & whole, | ginis district Toothache Brings Four Fire Engines; Culprit Arrested Four fire engines and a bat- talion chief roared from their stations yesterday afternoon and headed toward the fire box at ;fihh’d and g ithy response an alarm. When they reached the spot they could find no fire or excite- ment. A man was standing near the alarm box. “Where’s the fire?” asked & fireman. “No fire,” sald the man. “But & friend of mine is sick in here. He ought to go to the i Firemen followed him into & nearby house, where they found the “friend” sitting in a chair lookin; la! “What's the mater?” they . e I nattecse asked. “I got & toothache,” said the man. Police arrested Albert Lee Barnes, colored, of the 300 block of Third street southwest on a charge of turning in a false SEEKS PERMANENT CUT IN GAS RATES Montgomery Group to Take Steps at Valuation Hear- ing February 27. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, Md., January 21.—A de- termined bid for a permanent reduction in gas rates charged in Montgomery County will be made by the Public Util- ities Committee of the Montgomery County Civic Federation at the valua- tion hearing on the properties of the | Washington Gas Light Co. and its sub- sidiaries which is to be held in the Capital February 27. J. Harry Welch, committee chairman, sald tonight that his group will attend the hearing, to be staged jointly by the Public Utilities Commission of the Dis- trict of Columbia and the Public Serv- ice Commission of Maryland, and press the federation's plea for a rate uniform with that being charged consumers of the firm in Washington. Plans to Be Laid. Plans for its appearance before the joint session will be formulated by the committes at a special meeting which has been called for the County Building here Monday night at 8 o'clock, Welch declared. ‘The fight for a slash in gas rates had its inception last Summer when the civic federation and the Bethesda Chamber of Commerce, irked by the company's failure to reduce the county rates of the Georgetown Gas Light Co., its subsidiary here, when it lowered those charged its consumers in the Capital, appealed to the Public Service Commission of Maryland. Although that body did not act to permanently reduce the rates, it issued 8 temporary order lowering them to a level comparable with the new scale in the District of Columbia until January 31, when it was expected that the work of evaluating the gas company's prop- erties could be completed and the ap- peal for the permanent cut considered. Resolution Forwarded. A second resolution asking that the temporary order be continued until the request for the permanent reduction is dis) of has Public Service Commission, and favor- able action on the measure is pated here. Individuals and civic bodies support- ing the move for the rate slash con. tend that the county consumers are served over the same lines as residents of Washington and declare there is no reason why there chould be a differen- tiation in the rates charged in the two communities. BROKEN STREET LIGHTS START AIR RIFLE DRIVE Police Declare War on Youshéul Sharpshooters, Placing Ban on Weapons. An unusually large number of street lights in the outlying districts has prompted police of No. 8 precinct to declare a closed season on youthful sharpshooters armed with Christmas- gift air rifles. First offenders are escorted home to their parents when found on the streets with air rifies, and second of- fenders must surrender their rifies to police and go to Juvenile Court. The regulation banning air rifies from the streets or other public m— erty also includes firearms of all 3 bean shooters and sling shots. DISTRICT DAY DELAYED Rainey Promises 14 Bills Will Have Ample Consideration. Necessity for immediate consideration of appropriation bills led House Leader Rainey yesterday to tomor- rom’s regular District day. He promised Chairman Norton of the District Com- mittee, however, that ample time would be given for consideration of the 14 calendar and any other meritorious measures that her committee might report. The next regular District day is February 13. Memorial Aid to Meet. The Army and Navy Memorial Ald, formerly the National Memorial Foun- dation, will hold a Thursday at 3 p.m. at the aj othrs. Frank Anderson in ming. it ‘Wyo- been forwarded to the | int antici- | the INAUGURAL ROOMS GROUP SEEKS AID OF D. C. RESIDENTS All Having Accommodations Available for Visitors Urged to List Rooms. MANY DELAYING PLANS TO MAKE SURE OF PLACES Mrs. Blair Banister Says Most of Her Committee’s Work Will Be Finished in Three Weeks. An appeal for all Washingtonians with accommodations available for vis- itors to the inaugural to list these with 1 Committee on Housing and Hospitality was issued yesterday by Mrs. Blair Banister, chairman of the Mrs, ister has taken up headquar- ters in Room 126 of the Willard Hotel, -and is working out with her committee the tremendous task of listing all avail- able furnished rooms, apartments houses, so that no visitors to the inaug- ural ceremony and celebration may have reason to criticize the courtesy of the Capital. Mrs. Banister yesterday emphasized that most of the work of her commit- tee must be done in the next three weeks, 50 that all accommodations may be inspected, classified and listed for the greatest convenience of both those who have space for rent and those who will rent it. Many Write for Rooms. ‘The committee already is handling a great deal of correspondence from all over the country from persons interest- ed in accommodations other than hotel rooms, according to Mrs. Banister. Many persons, she said, who have ex- pressed a desire to come to the inaugu- ral are delaying their plans until they make sure of their accommodations, and it is vital that the listings be made with Mrs. Banister's committee better opportunity of being satisfac- torily filled. Mrs. Banister urged that all who have rooms to list do so as soon as possible, so that in the peak rush there will not be confusion between the com- mittee and the prospective renter. Mrs. Banister hag working with her a large corps of volunteers who are ex- amining and classifying all accommo- dations, as to price, location and num- ber of persons they will a te. = HEARING ON CUPOLA the commif will be carried on the cars of both lines beginning early next ‘The co-operation of the Rotary, Ki- wanis and other luncheon clubs either already has been obtained or is being sought by Mrs. Banister. Another contact between the com- mittee and the public for which p: vision is being made is through the re- sources of American Automobile Association. The association contem- plates erection of information booths on all of the arterial highways leading to W These will be con- with the city and 'Housing ittee hopes to ob- viate some of the last-minute rush by routing visitors to the accommodat nected by tel directly from the booths tions which are then PRISONER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE IN STATION Taken to Gallinger With Wrists Cut After Trying to Choke Self ‘With Shoestring. SRS amnar called . The man refused medicine, how- ever, it was said. About an hour later he was discov- ered on the floor of his cell with blood flowing from cuts on his wrists and & shoelace knotted around his neck. LECTURES WEDNESDAY Dr. E. W. Brown of Yale U. to De- liver Second in Arthur Beries. The second Arthur lecture of the -| Board of Commissioners, informing of the great cosmic machine consisting of ltlh';nm, its planets, and their satel- LOSS OF TEETH BY PRISONERS FOUND MERE MATTER OF RECO ~88 EAEYEA gil soon | were being raised to Be Meets Ex-Justice Holmes ¢ MME. SCHWIMMER WAS SUBJECT OF FAMOUS DISSENT, By the Associated Press. Mme. Rosika Schwimmer, subject of one of the most famous “dissenting opinions” of the former Supreme Court Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes, today made his personal acquaintance, and asked him if he wouldn't like to meet her friend, Einstein. “Justice Holmes said he would be de- lighted to know him,” Mme. mer beamed, —perhaps at inai ion_time.’ Only by some great honor in the Na- tional Capital, Mme. can '8 she terms Department’ blunder” in quizzing the scientist before granting him a passport. She thinks a special invitation to the would be the appropriate thing. Felt to Be Duty. Bhe feels it her duty to further such a course, because her own case was cited as an argument against Einstein in the petition of the Woman Patriot Organization 3 In a book that Einstein wrote, he sald Mme. Schwimmer should not have been denied citizenship because of her refusal in repeating the oath of allegiance, to promise to take up arms. Justice Holmes, on the supreme bench, handed down the same sort of opinion, written into a masterly plece of litera- ture. Mme. Schwimmer wants her two “favorite authors” to meet. “I have had the time of my life!” exclaimed Mme. Schwimmer, when she returned to her hotel from visiting Holmes. “I had seen him, of course, in_court, but dil not know how de- lightful he would be in conversation. “A private lift led to his floor in that ‘charming home of his, everywherz expressive of culture. He was sitting in a deep armchair in his own little study, off a larger study where his sec- retary sat. “His complexion was ruddy and healthy-looking. He talked much of being 92. “‘Now that I am retired, I take things leisurely,’ he told me. ‘My sec- retary reads to me. We take little drives. He is reading to me now this book, ‘Microbe Hunters,’ ‘Biographies of Pasteur and Other Scientists.’ “‘You enjoy it?’ I asked. Fonder of Murder tSories. “His blue eyes twinkled, oh, so mer- | rily. ‘I blush to say that nowadays I don't care to read improving matter,’ he answered. ‘I'd rather read murder storfes.” “He laughed until he shook when I told him the same kind of objections coming into this country as had been raised about Einstein. He would not believe it. He called the attempt to exclude Einstein an ‘abominable affair’ and said I should be proud to know so great a scientist. “‘I don’t know much about mathe- matics, but I know he is a great man,’ he said, his eyes shining. “When I went to-go I said I hoped to visit him again. “‘If T live' was his answer. “‘Oh, do not speak that way., you are younger than 99 per cent of others, | I said to him. “‘Well, I am 92 per eent’ he laughed.” SOUGHT BY CITIZENS Burroughs Association Also Calls on Commissioners to Discharge “Duty.” The Burroughs Citizens’ Association sought yesterday to obtain a hearing before the District Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee on | the cupola for the Willlam Howard | Taft Junior High School. At the same | time the group called on the District | Commissioners to discharge their “plain | duty understhe law” and order con- | struction of this much discussed item of the original design approved by the PFine Arts Commission. The citisens had thought they had won their battle for retention of the ‘The subcommittee decided the cupola was “entirely unwarranted,” and as a Tesult the District Commissioners changed their minds and decided to drop it from plans for the school. Last year the Commissioners had decided to eliminate the cupola, a feature ap- proved by the Fine Arts Commission, and then had reversed this decision following vigorous protests by the Bur- roughs and Rhode Island Avenue Citi- zens' tions and other civic groups. The plea for a Congressional hearing was received yesterday by Chairman Cannon of the District Subcommittee. 1t stated the request was made “in view of the broad principles involved and of the important bearing which it hzg u] the lmmuctun{ appearance lfi’.o‘;ublh: buildings in the District of Columbia in the future.” The letter to the Commissioners re- fers to a letter received by the citizens from Daniel Garges, secretary to the FORMER JUSTICE HOLMES. GLASSFORD TO GIVE VIEWS ON JOBLESS Former Police Head Will Tes- tify at Senate Hearing on Cutting Bill. Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, former superintendent of police in the District, will be one of several wit- nesses heard tomorrow by a subcommit- tee of the Senate Manufacturers’ Com- mittee, considering the Cutting bill. to aid the States in caring for the transi- ent unemployes. Since leaving the post of police chief, Gen. Glassford has been making a study of this problem. Others scheduled to be heard on the Building. The Dbill, introduced by Senator Cut- ting, Republican, of New Mexico, would authorize the Reconstruction Corporation to make available $15,000,- 000 to the States and Territories “in which the number of unemployed and |and needy transients is excessive, to be used in furnishing relief and in maintaining work and training programs for indi- viduals who have no legal claim on the State or local community for such as- sistance.” The bill sets forth in detail the con- ditions under which the funds would be _ad The term “territory” as used in the bill is defined as including the District of Columbia within its provisions. POLICE SALE FIGURES GIVEN FOR 3 YEARS the change of plans. Letter Reads in Part. It reads in part: “The reasons stated in your letter do not, in our opinion, present any new considerations which $4,149 in 1930, $1,652 in 1931 and $2,360 in 1932 Shown for Relief Fund From Property Disposal. which would authorize the property clerk to dispose of this property after three months instead of six months, thus avoiding an accumulation in lim- ited quarters, Representative Patman, Democrat of Texas, asked for a report on Tf'.:e amount of such y. $3, $432.24; total, $1,652.26. $498.83; & $1,861.74; total, $2,360.57. WOMEN’S CLUBS TO MEET Mrs. Ellis Logan in Charge of January Program. Mrs. Ellis Logan, chairman of fine tion of ‘Women’s Clubs, to be held at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow in Barker | prominently mentioned for a PAGE B—1 DEMOCRATS READY 10 FILL PATRONAGE SLATE IN DISTRICT Selection of Reichelderfer and Crosby Successors Noids First Plaoe. ASPIRANTS ON MAND FOR ROVER'S BERTN Party Leadership Will Present Roosevelt With Partial Eist Rarly in March, BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. ‘The Democratic leadership in the District of Columbia, which is expected to have the privilege of dealing out the so-called local Federal patronage, has not yet made any decisions, but will be ready to present a partial slate of ap- pointments when Franklin D. Roosevelt takes over the reins of government and is ready for recommendations as to the District plums. Of first imj ce, according to John F. Costello, Democratic national committeeman for the District, who, with the assistance of John B. Colpoys, chairman of the Democratic State Cen- tronage 3 e select! to succeed Luther H. persons Dr. Reichelderfer and Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby as the two civilian Commis sioners of the District. ‘The of the two present Com- missioners, both of whom were a&- pointed by President Hoover in 1930, will expire April 9 next. Mr. Costello expects as many aspirants for these two posts as for any other places in- cluded in this local patronage list. The Field is Open. According to Mr. Costello, the field is open so far as he and his c . made it very plain, however, that great care will be taken in making the Com- missionership selections. In selecting them, the aitn will be to avold those individuals who are merely looking for a job or for the honor that might go with such positions. ‘This early patronage slate also will contain the names of persons recom- mended to succeed Leo A. Rover as United States attorney for the District, Miss Kathryn Sellers as judge of the Juvenile Court, Jefferson S. Coage as Recorder of Deeds, and Theodore Cogswell as Register of Wills and Clerk of the Probate Court. The posts of Recorder of Deeds, which carries a salary of $5,600, and of Wills and Clerk of the Probate Court, & salary of $6,400, are Fed- no specified term. eral” pl with United States Attorney Rover's term expired January 14, and Judge Sellers’ term on the Juvenile Court bench ex- pired March 1, 1931. President Hoover nominated Miss M. Pearl McCall, an assistant United States attorney in the office of United States Attorney Rover, some months ago to succeed Judge Sellers, but the nomina- tion bas never been confirmed. Mr. Rover is “holding over” as United States Attorney without any prospects of his being renominated by President Hoover, because efforts for tion known to be futile now. unanimous choice. Mr. Col ever, has made it plain that he has no such aspirations. It is understood he may be tempted with some other local plum. The name of Mrs. J. Borden Harri- man, Democratic national committee- woman for the District, 2lso has been place on the Board of District Commissioners, and her friends are of the opinion she might be prevailed upon to serve. Mrs. Mary T. Norton, chairman of the House District Committee, g known to be mmmfimmwmm sioners, as have those of John E. Laskey, former United States attorney, George C. Havenner, chairman of the District Bicentennial Commission. Mr. Costello said yesterday he has re- ceived the names of a dozen others and that he expected many more before the appointments are actually made. Seek Rover’s Post. Several names of aspirants to States Attorney Rover'? place hlv‘emhcenm“l received. ~Among these are South Trimble, jr., son if the House sergeant- at arms; John P. Bramhall, formerly associated with the Department of Jus- tice and now serving as general secre- National Convention. e ere are a number of other impore tant posts to be filled which will no‘tm;e vacant immediately. In this latter group are: United States marsha! with a salary of $7,500, held since 1931 by Edgar C. Snyder, whose terms runs until April, 1934; postmaster, occupied by William M. Mooney, who is serving Yot 15353 sy ivilion ooy 3 two cf i members. of the Public Utilitles Commission, vacancy June 30, 1934, othee June 30, 1935; peoples’ Public Utilities Commissi Fel , 1934; four Court Judges, one vacant in 1934, one in 1936 ;‘n:n 1";8.1 in 1937, and five judges of the c Court, two vacant E tWo in 1935, and one In 1036, " o $9,000 PAID GARSSON BRINGS HOUSE INQUIRY Labor Department Investigator’s Btatus to Be Discussed With Doak. By the Associated Press. The $9,000-a-year salary of wdmuu’l-bor b of the tal