Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1933, Page 5

NEWWE_ SRIZED ON U. 3. BUILDING Corners Ripped Out of Exten- sible Structure to Make Them Conform. uiries to flow into the office o(lngw lu:mrvhmg architect of the ‘Treasury today as workmen made progress in tearing out the end walls of the connecting units of the two newly completed wings of the large extensible Building of the Department of Agri- culture. The walls at the four corners of the brick structure constituting the com- pleted first two units of the extensible Building are being ripped open at an estimated cost of $50,000. Since this portion of the building ‘was completed just as recently as early last Spring. Treasury architects were besieged today by interested observers to learn “How come?” and “What in the world?” and so forth. Officials Explain. Officials of the supervising architect’s office today were being very philosophi- cal about the matter and patiently a swered all questions, since there was an | explanation and also some precedents for the situation. First of all, it is explained, the Ex- tensible Building was subject of two! different major construction contracts. | Under an authorization of May, 1930, ! the first two units of the structure were placed under construction. The expec- tation was that it might be at least a number of years before appropriations were made for the remaining four wings of the great structure. For this reason the corners of the two-winged unit were built in a style corresponding to that of the main por- tion of the structure. The architects had in mind, it was reported today, the experience with the wings of the main administration build- ing for the department, the ends of which were built of “temporary” brick, only to stay there for 30 years while awaiting completion of the center unit. Cite “Considerable Stir.” Also, the press was reminded, 4a con- siderable stir” was caused by the fact that the northern ends of the new home of the Bureau of Internal Revenue were built of rough brick, awaiting con- struction of the new building that eventually will replace the old Post Office Department Building. But a complication arose in the plans for the Extensible Building when Con- gress, motivated by a desire to increase employment by speeding up the Federal building program, made authorization in March, 1931, of $7,050,000 for the construction of the four remaining wings of the Extensible Building. Construction of these units now has progressed to a point where it is neces- sary to tear out the corner walls of the completed first two units to = pare for the work of connecting them with the new four units, it was ex- LOGAN WILL URGE REGROUPING BOARD! President, House and Senate Would Be Represented on Com- mittee. When the economy program comes up in the Senate within the next few days, Senator Logan, Democrat, of Kentucky, will advocate having Government re- organization carried out by a committee ; on which the President, the House and ! Senate would be represented, instead of | conferring broad reorganization powers | on the Chief Executive. ‘The recommendation of the Economy | 1 Committee program was in reporting the gener: that the Presiden! existing authority be broadened to en- able im to abolish bureaus and agencies as well as to consolidate them. ‘The committee further recommended that in order to stop any reorganization order of the President both branches of Congress would have to pass a resolu- tion of disapproval. instead of only one branch, as at present. Senator Logan today filed a substi- tute plan under which the President, the Speaker of the House, the minority leader of the Senate, the controller general and the director of the Bud- get Bureau, would constitute a com- mittee to transfer and consolidate bureaus and agencies and to suspend uncil otherwise provided by law, any useless or unnecessary activities. His plan would prohibit consolidation or diminution of the powers of the Inter- state Commerce Commission, the Gen- eral Accounting Office or the Federal Trade Commission. His amendment also would reserve to Congress the right to disapprove by law whatever the committee may do. The economy bill, question of Government salaries as well as reorgenization, will come up as soon as the pending banking legisla- tion is disposed of. NEW RATION FOR NAVY REQUESTED BY ADAMS Secretary Asks Congress to Ap- New Walls Being Razed culture Extensible Building, the walls of o] ‘View of one of the four corners of the finished first two units of the Agri- which are being razed so as to provide connections with the four additional units now in progress of construction. —Star Staff Photo. JBLESSRELEF - | GROLP APPONTED Commissioners Name Men to ! Have Charge of Work Plan for District. ‘The District Commissioners today set up a committee of District officials and others to have charge of the work to| be done by persons given employment | with public employment relief funds. The committee is directed to prepare | a work plan for the present calendar | vear on which persons certified for work Telief by the Emergency Relief Bureau | will be emploved. It will assign the | persons certified to jobs under this | plan, co-operate with the Emergency | Relief Bureau and the District Com- | mittee on Employment and have super- | vision of the paid rsonnel of the | latter committee, which deals with work ! assignments. It-also will perform any other duties in connection with an ef- | fective administration on public ap- propriated relief funds, Assistant Engineer Commissioner Howard F. Clark was named chairman. | The following also are on the commit- itee: J. B. Gordon, director of sanitary | engineering, vice chairman; District Auditor Daniel J. Donovan: H. C.| Whitehurst, director of highways: Harold Baker, director of construction: Lieut. F. B. Butler, assistant to the director of public byildings and public parks, and George S. Wilson, director of public welfare. Willlam C. Cleary. chief clerk of the Committee on Em- ployment, was named secretary to the | CHARGES INFLATION IN'NEW RIVER CASE Attorney Holds Federal ReguJ lation Necessary to Pre- vent Security Write-up. By the Associated Press. ALEXANDRIA, Va. January 24— The claim that Government regulation is necessary to prevent security inflation by power companies was made yesterday by Huston Thompson, Government at- torney. in the reargument of the so- called new river case in Federal court. ‘Thompson is a special attorney repre- senting the Power Commission in its argument for dismissal of a complaint by the Appalachian Electric Power Co. that the commission is wrongfully seek- ing to impose restrictions upon its pro- posed power dam on New River, in Pu- laski County, Va. Cites Increase in Book Value. ‘Thompson asserted that in the case of the Appalachian Co. there had been a write-up overnight of the book value of the company property from $72,000, 000 to $139.000,000. Quoting a 1930 Federal Trade Com- mission report, he said the lower figure was shown to be the book value of the various properties of the predecessor companies to Appalachian on March 31, 1926, and that on April 1 the same prop- | erties were listed on the Appalachian Co.’s book at $139,000.000. Nine companies consolidated to form ' the Appalachian company. Urging the necessity for Federal reg- | new committee. ‘The appointment of such a committee was recommended to the Commissioners by a group of interested persons, in-| ulation, he queried: “Have we not got the Insull situation before us?” Baker to Act for Company. D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1 PICCARD MEETS HOLADAY OPPOSES REDUCTION IN TAXIS Also Hits Airport Purchase Project at North Capitol Citizens’ Meeting. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, January 24 (NANA). —Two of the world’s most famous fig- ures in aeronautics—Col. Charles Lind- | bergh and Prof. Auguste Piccard, who | in his ascents into the stratosphere in his balloon attained the greatest alti- | tude ever by man—have just | met and compared notes. ‘Their meeting was at a home of another dis Opposition to the proposed reduction in taxicabs and the purchase of the air- port was voiced last night by Represen- tative Willlam P. Holaday, Republican, of Illinois, in addressing the North Capitol Citizens’ Association. He sald the restriction of taxicabs would establish a monopoly for two or | three big companies and would put two-thirds of the present drivers out of work besides increasing charges for taxicab patrons. He charged an effort to “unload an unprofitable private enterprise at an extortionate price” on the taxpayers of the District in the air- Pproposal. The Dit:ict apropriation bill, on which hearings were completed late yesterday, for the fiscal year beginning July 1 next, will carry approximately $40.000.000, which is $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 less than current appropria- tions, Mr. Holaday said. The item for starting on the new Calvert Street Bridge is included as the only important new construction job, and much per- manent public building has been cur- | talled until better times. The District bill, however. will care for current needs | of the District, he said. Gets Most for Money. “The taxpayers of Washington get more in efficient Service for their money than any other city in the entire country,” Mr. Holaday told the gather- ing of citizens, “because we have able, efficient, honest officials who attend to their jobs.” He paid high tripute to the three District Commissioners and to Daniel J. Donovan, the District audi- tor. who was present. Mr. Holaday said the next important permanent public improvement the tax- | payers have to look forward to is an | air ad- | bergh and Miss Earhart are the pro- fessor's American heroes, and before he left his home in Belgium he said they | were two good reasons why he wished to 20 to America. | “You are aeronaut,” Prof. | ' penctrating radiations. loonist, studying pen 8 jons. | Our territories almost touch, but they are not the same.” Planped Sea Balloon. Col. Lindbergh ‘when overhauling and rebuilding of the en- tire sewer system. Advises Careful Study. While giving every assurance that the second half of the $1,250.000 re- quested for emergency relief work for the current calendar year will be car- ried in the District appropriation bill, Representative Holaday advised the citizens that “‘very careful study should should be given to the subject that this may not grow year after year as a permanent fixture in the District budget.” District Auditor Donovan paid tribute to the valuable services that Repre- sentative Holaday “as a true and sin- cere friend of the District has given on the Appropriations Subcommittee for the past six years.” He said that Mr. Holaday “has a broad, sympathetic, progressive, sensible attitude on appro- priations for maintenance and develop- ment of the Capital City to express the ideals, power, dignity and culture of Amerncan citizens.” WMAL TRANSFER TON. B. C. DELAYED Radio Commission Sets February 15 for Hearing on Lease of Station. ‘Transfer of WMAL to the National Broadcasting Co., originally scheduled for February 1, will be delayed for sev- eral weeks as a result of the action of the Federal Radio Commisison today in ;m:‘nn‘ Pebr‘ullry 15 as a date for a earing on the proposed cl . ‘The contract under which M. A. AT AMELIA EARHART'S DINNER | Noted Figures of Aeronautics Compare Notes in Presence of Other Distinguished Guests. | been dinner at the | gen, tinguished venturer, Amelia Earhart. Col. Lind- | to lift was amazed Prof. Piccard said that before the war ! including the | cluding Newbold Noyes, Rev. John| O'Grady, John P. Colpoys and others. MARINE COMMAND | SHIFT IMMINENT Maj. Gen. John T. Myers to Go to West Coast February 1. Russell Succeessor. A shift in the high command of the | Marine Corps is imminent. | Maj. Gen. John T. Myers. assistant | | commandant at headquarters in the | | Navy Department, is to be detached i about February 1 and will go to the | West Coast in command of the De- partment of the Pacific. His place in | Washington will be taken by Brig. Gen. John H. Russell, now commanding the Marine Barracks at Quantico, Va., who is expected to assume his new post about the first of the month. Gen. Myers will relieve Maj. Gen. Logan Feland, now commanding the De- | partment of the Pacific, who is to come | | on duty at Marine Corps headquarters. Gen. Feland will be 64 years old on August 18 and consequently will be retired for age on September 1. Gen. Russell's place at Quantico will be taken by a native Washingtonian, Brig. Gen. Harry Lee, now command- ing the Marine Barracks at Parris Is- land, 8. C. Gen. Lee is expected to as- sume the Quantico command about February 8. Today Newton D. Baker, former Sec- retary of War, and his associate from Cleveland, Raymond T. Jackson, will present the company's case. - Vir%leneil's Chh;l b;h:}t‘ State’s rights ave been usurpe e proposed gov- ;‘mmentll regulation will .nkd ter. ‘Thompson referred to Baker's con- nection with enactment of the Federal ‘water power act of 1920, which the Ap- be present palachian company and Virginia claim is unconstitutional if it has been prop- erly constructed by the Power Commis- sion. He recalled that at the time the act was passed Baker, as Secretary of War, and the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior, endorsed the measure. Baker was the original commission chairman. QUESTIONS LEGALITY OF 5-DAY-WEEK BILL Counsel for Rail Association Claims Matter Is Beyond Jurisdiction of Congress. By the Associated Press. The constitutionality of the Black | five-day week, six-hour @ay bill was questioned before a Senate Judiciay Subcommittee today by Clarence A. Mil- ler, counsel for the American Short- Line Railroad Association. Citing numerous Supreme Court de- cisions interpreting the commerce clause | Leese, owner of WMAL, would lease the | station to N. B. C. for five years will be considered by the full commission. All persons desiring to indorse or op- pose the change are asked by the com- mission to file a notice of intention to | testify not later than February 3. N. B. C. cannot take over and oper- | ate WMAL without the Radio Commis- sions approval. In view of the date set for the hearing, the change cannot be- | come effective until after February 15. The Radio Commission also fixed February 16 as the date for a hearing | on the application of the Old Dominion Broadcasting Co., for a license to oper- ate WJSV. This station is now being | operated under a temporary license, which was granted pending a check up | by commission_engineers of the com- | plaint of the Naval Research Labora- |wnes at Bellevue, D. C., that signals of WISV interferred with the | across the Potomac from the transmitter. IS e ISAVING OF AIR TERMINAL |FOR D. C. WILL BE URGED | Witnesses Before House Group To- morrow Will Stress Need for Immediate Action. The necessity for immediate action ‘hy Congress to save the National Capi- | tal's air transport terminal, threatened ‘by financial failure, will be stressed by | witnesses who will appear before the !House Committee on Public Buildings located | station’s radio activities at the laboratories. which are approximating normal conditions while on the bottom of the ocean or in the skies, At the dinner table Prof. answering questions from bergh and others, made calculations with scientific precision, and a_ripple of laughter went around when he put down knife and fork and took an | mense rule from his white waistcoat pocket and started to translate kilo- meters into miles, centimeters into inches, and centigrade tempcratures into Fahrenheit. For the rest of the dinner the fork and rule were manipulated with equal frequency, and the long meined stretched out on the table be Prof. Piccard and Col. LINDBERGH | Piccard. in Col. Lind- During the dinner the talk turned to China. Col. Lidbergh gave a touch- ing picture of conditions in China as he and Mrs. Lindbergh had secn them on thelr flight in that country. “Why, the wtole time we were there we did not see one child smiling,” re- marked Col. Lindbergh. 49 Next Saturday. But if a Chinese child smiled, would cu kncw 1i?” inquired the professor. I ngver was sble to tell from his ex- pression whether an adult Chinese was in joy or distress. They are adept at masking their emotions.” Among those at the dinner with Col. Lindbergh and Prof. Piccard were the | husband of the hostess. George Palmor Putnam, and Roy Chapman Andrews “would have one 1 sphere, helfum lighter than water, us and ballast just as loons. “If 1 subsequently decided to go up rather than down in a balloon, it was because observations of cosmic rays were to be made best in the upper more numerous. I really have quite a: much in common with submarine navi. gation as with aeronautical navigation.” | ‘ and Sylvestre Dorian. Had Rule in Pocket. Next Saturday will be Prof. Piccard's Prof. Piccard talked of pressures and 49th birthday anniversary. There will of means of artificial respiration that be a luncheon at a Central Park ho- would enable men to work in something Plans are being made for a diri gible to drop close to the roof of the hotel after the luncheon, and while 30 men hold the ropes of the blimp, for the professor and his guests to climb aboard - the gondola by a rope ladder and fly over Manhatta: (Copyright, 19:33. by North American Newse pa Alliance. Ine.) GERMANY PLANS NOTES SIMILAR TO GREENBACKS Meeting Pay Rolls With Silver Money, Factories Require Re- inforced Trucks. B2 the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, January 24.—In an effort to take some of the weight of silver coin out of the trouser pockets of the nation, industrialists have proposed a silver note similar to the American greenbacks circulated under the act of | February 28, 1878. Faced by the paying of wages in | silver, the factory owners were forced, in many instances to build especially reinforced trucks to carry the money. 1t was pointed out that 1,000 marks in silver weighs rouzhly 11 pounds. Pay rolls of 100,000 marks are common. Under the plan the government would print notes backed by silver to circu- late alongside gold-back money. The | silver notes would be payable in silver coin at banks, which in turn would cash them for silver on the Reichsbank. To prevent the printing of large amounts of silver notes. no reduction of dsflver coin circulation would be made. For 2 Days Ounly! WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY 26 Finely Made Karpen Living Room Suites regularly selling from $129.50 to #2285 prove Revision for More Brig. Gen. Randolph C. Berkeley, of the Constitution, Miller said it collld‘md Grounds when h'enln(s are re- whp has just returned from Nicaragua, | hardly be conceived that even with a! Fruits and Vegetables. By the Associated Press. Secretary Adams today asked Con- gress to approve a mew ration for the| Navy, one balanced with more fruits and vegetables and less bread and meat | for the sailors. “The principles of scientific feeding are accepted today as being of prime importance in the maintenance of health—a fact not universally recognized 25 years ago,” Adams wrote Speaker Garner. Adams said that less manual labor | than that occasioned on ooal-burning ships and other changes in modern ser- vice had resulted in: “Less issues in bread and meat com- Pponents. “Greater issues in fruits and vege- | tables (with possible exception of | ). potatoes). “Greater demand for milk with in- cereals Tecogn! conservation of health.” i THANKS U. S. EMPLOYES | Olvil Service Head Acknowledges Anniversary Felicitations. ‘The District Department of the Amer- ican Federation of Government Em- ployes today made public an acknowl- edgement ‘Thomas E. Campbell, president of the Civil Service Commis- | of felicitations sent the commis-; “It is very pleasant to the commis- ers to see that an organization of ent employes, such as yours, appreciates the genuine value to the| employes and to the country of the merit system,” President Planes Sent for Surgeons. SYRACUSE, Sicily, January 24 m—‘l Italian surgeons were rushed Mediterranean fleet, who was to have suddenly been taken gravely in | local where he commanded the 2d Brigade full consideration of present economic of Marines at Managua, will be the new | conditions the court would hold Con- commanding officer at Parris Island. | 8Tess could legislate upon a matter of Gen. Berkeley has secured a delay in Which he said it had no jurisdiction— his orders for reporting so that he may hamely, the manufacturing, mining, arrange his affairs before taking over Production, etc., of commodities. his new duty, about February 3. | “This is a police power completely Gen. Myers has been assistant, to reserved to the States.” he sald. “If Maj Gen. Ben H. Fuller, commandant | it _be desirable that Congress legislate of the Marine Corps, since August 9, | With reference to hours of labor in in- 1930. Gen. Feland has been on duty | Ustry, the better procedure would seem on the West Coast in his present ca. | tO be to set the machinery in motion to pacity since July, 1929, while Gen. Rus- | 9Dtain the necessary amendment to the sell has been at Quantico since De- | CODStitution, and thus determine cember 1, 1931. Gen. Berkeley com- whether Lhe" people desire that it have manded the Nicaragua brigade since | SUCh power. November, 1931. Gen. Lee has been at | 929. Parris Island since October, SCOUT COURSES PLANNED| WHITE HOUSE INTERIOR Special Activities to Be Taught at i Bt A| “With the aid of Government pho- Headquarters. ':s:‘npr‘m'm Mrs. Herbert Hoover has ad pictures made of virtually every A special activities course for Girl | nook and corher of the White House to Scout leaders, to include handcrafts,|take with her into retirement. folk dancing and dramatics, will be one l’ho:?sn&hs of the interior of :Re - . | Executive Mansion are rare, ly Quarins, 1025 30 srect. (i ek, T | e aker of Teurmangerints made opens at 8 pm. tomorrow. A troop it iand Boovex f course, started Monday evening, | istrations, and those taken recently will continue Priday at headquarters, ]mbly Pk e Tuafe pRbite ge and & course open at the . W. L. New, Chevy Chase, |" uraday night. 'A Red Cross mn-nm.mmwmm-eme'n- koma Park School y afternoon, February 3, under instruction of Ira " | FIRST LADY PHOTOS written one magazine article on antique “hunting” in the Executive Mansion. Mrs. McMullen may publish a book on the same subject, and some of the pictures taken under Mrs. Hoover’s di- Tection may be loaned as illustrations. MAKES NOT éUILTY PLEA January 24 (#)—Har- vey Parry, warrant officer of the Lee Law. HORSE TRAINER HELD Accused of Failing to Pay Hotel Bill in Baltimore. ing to Detecti arrested him, said he did not fictent funds to make & the bill, but intended |sumed at 10 a.m. tomorrow on the | McMillan airport leasing bill. |, The local airport situation is to be laid before the committee as an emer- gency which can be met only by con- | gressional action. it was indicated by | those active in the efforts to save the airport, Among the witnesses who will appear before the committee are Thomas P. Littlepage, president of the Washington Chamber of Commerce; John 8. Wynne, chairman of the chamber’s Aviation Committee; Clarence A. Miller, chair- man of the Airport Subcommittee of the Washington Board of Trade: Edwin S. Hege, of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations; Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, di- rector of Public Buildings and Public Parks, and A. Pendleton Taliaferro, chief of the airports section of the De- partment of Commerce aeronautics branch, CHURCH TO RAISE FUND HARRISBURG, Pa. 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