Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1933, Page 25

SEEK FURTHER CU IN STATE BUDGE Effort Gains Ground in Mary- land House as Senate Takes Fight to Committee. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., January 27.—Ef- forts to reduce the estimates contained in Gov. Ritchie’s budget gained ground among the members of the House of Delegates yesterday, while the cham- pions of governmental economies in the Senate carried their fight into the sec- ond budget meeting of the, Finance Committee. Delegate Francis A. Michel, former Speaker of the House, was devoting con- siderable time to a detailed study of that document and said he might be able to “suggest improvements.” Ever since he has been relegated to the floor, Delegate Michel has let no opportunity pass to challenge any measure which appeared to involve an increase in taxes. Yesterday, for ex- ample, he had a Washington County bill recommitted to the Ways and Means Committee after receiving a fa- vorable county delegation report, be- cause he feared it would provide for creation of new jobs. ] Pleased by Legislative Cut. One item in the budget is particu- larly gratifying to the former Speaker. It is an aliowance of only $209,000 for expenses of the 1935 Legislature, as compared with the $233,000 appropriat- ed for this session. Mr. Michel at- tempted to put through economies which would have cut the current Leg- islature’s cost to approximately the 1935 allowance figure. “Anyhow, they can't raise the Gover- nor’s estimate” he remarked- A proposal to reduce the pay of State employes on a scaled basis in ratio to their salaries instead of applying the straight 10 per cent cut recommended by Gov. Ritchie led to a prolonged dis- cussion 2t the Senate Finance Commi tee's second budget mecting vesterday. The plan is understood to have the backing of a triumvirate of champions of further budget reductions—Senators Melntosh of Baltimore County, Roe of Queen Anne County and Coad of St. Marys County—and appeared to be drawing support from other quarters. Sees $500,000 Salary Saving. Senator Coad estimated that the pro- posed scale, calling for cuts as grest as 35 per cent in the gugher salary brackets, would add a quarter of a million dol- Jars to the savings under the budget figures, making a total of proposed sav- ings of approximately $500,000 in pay reductions. This method of approach to the| economy program was held by the sup- porters of the plan to be more equitable than a flat cut and would protect the small wage eirners from uhdue hard- ships. Gov. Ritchie gave this plan some con- sideration in framing his budget, but found it impracticable. He said in his message: “An exhaustive study has been made by the State employment commissioner of various alternative methods for mak- ing salary contributions, in the hope that employes in the lower brackets could be exempted, or some graduated scale adopted. Unfortunately, no method will realize the necessary funds except & straight 10 per cent contribution, and, subject to certain advisable exceptions, ill begin with the month of April, Budget Studies to Continue. State Purchasing Agent Walter Kirk- man, who helps draft the budget, met with the Finance Committee to explain its provisions. Senator Lansdale G. Sasscer, chairman of the committe said it would renew its budget studies premptly next week. At that time the Ways and Means Committee of the House plans to initiate its budget meet- ings. ;‘&sjolm committee, consisting of rep- resentatives of the two groups, will later attempt to agree on a uniform program, Hearing will be held, at which heads of the various departments will be asked to explain the appropriations requested and be asked if further maintenance and operation economies are not possible. TW0 WHO ESCAPED COUNTY JAIL HELD Return to Leonardtown or Trial on Charges in La Plata Undecided. By tho Assoclated Press. LA PLATA, Md., January 27.—Two men who escaped from the St. Marys County jail were held here today while authorities were deciding whether they should be returned to the jail at Leonardtown or face new charges here. | Leonard Rapp. 26, and Freddy Web- ster, 30, were captured by State police | near Lothair after a short chase on! the highway toward La Plata. They | tried to escape from Webster's car, which his wife had told Leonardtown police had disappeared. Local police said Rapp and Webster early yesterday had entered the garage of Harry Bowie, 5 miles from Lothar, and stolen $200 worth of automobile accessories. The two men were said by police to have remained in hiding dur- ing the day and were seen as they started toward Washington. ! Rapp. a trusty, who had returned to the Leonardtown jail last Fall after being unable to find work in Baltimore, and Wcbster, against whom there were several charges, escaped early vester- da; Jail officials believed Rapp aided Webster in breaking the lock on the | latter's cell. | ‘Webster was in the jail on a charge of attacking his father-in-law with a! knife. Previously he had been con- victed of wife-beating, given a two-year | sentence, but had appealed. He also| was accused of robbing a store. Bond had been provided for the latter two Charges. Rapp had returned to the jail, after requesting his bondsman to decline to continue the bail, to await trial in a robbery case. TURNING POINT IS SEEW IN THREATS OF PAY CUTS Dorsey W. Hyde, Jr.,, Says Fe of Unemployment Will Pass After March 4. Dorsey W. Hyde, jr., secretary of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, told a radio audience last night “the threat of excessive Government pay cuts has reached a turning point end the stabilization which will come after March 4 will remove employment fears thst have held down normal buying.” | Speaking in Stition WOL's ridio hour, Mr. Hyde pointed out that “due to soundly applied banking principles Washington has not gone through the 10-year period of excessive inflation which occurred in other cities and our financial institutions are in splendid condition. “Increasing attention to the ‘buy-in- ‘Washington’ movement is helping local industries with resulting and con-' tinuing benefits which are bein on down the line to the good |SOUTH BEND HAS LOWEST DEATH RATE FOR WEEK By the Associated Press. The lowest mortality rate for the week ending January 21 among 85 cities reporting to the Department of Com- merce Division of Vital Statistics was South Bend. Ind., with a rate of 55 per 1,000. The highest was 23.1, in Fall River, Mass. South Bend and Fort Wayne, Ind.: Canton, Ohio, and Spokane, Wash., re- ported the lowest infant mortality rate, with no deaths in that division. The mortality rate in Evansville, Ind,, was 12.6; Indianapolis, 15; Fort Wayne, 10.1; Detroit, Mich., 8.2; Flint, Mich., 11.2, and Grand Rapids, 8 FARMER IS KILLED IN ROAD COLLISION Three Also Are Injured as Truck and Auto Crash Near Contee. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. LAUREL, Md,, January 27.—One man was killed and three injured in a head-on collision between a truck and an automobile on the Baltimore Boule- vard, near Contee, early today. Willlam H. Franke, 50 years old, a Riggs road truck farmer, was almost instantly killed in the crash. His son, ,Carl PFranke, 21, sustained lacerations of the head. Others in- jured were Salvador Navarra, 29, who sustained a fractured pelvis, and Pedro | Vincenti, 21, who suffered a fractured jaw. All of the injured were removed to St. Agnes’ Hospital, Baltimore, by William Dryden, Baltimore taxi driver. Another passing motorist took Franke to Casualty Hospital, Washington, where he was pronounced dead of a fractured skull. Ta and Vincenti, Philippine em- ployes of the Washirgion Navy Yard, were accompanied by Vitalliano Corero, also employed at the Navy Yard, who escaped injury. State Policeman E. R. Quandt, who investigated the crash, reported the elder Pranke was driving the truck, which was loaded with produce destined for the Baltimore market, while Vin- centi was operating the other car. Justice of Peace H. M. Scott im- paneled a jury and will conduct an in- quest at Laurel Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock. Frarke is survived by a widow and several children. His farm was near the intersection of Riggs road and Uni- | versity lane, back of College Park. Silhouette and fastener styles. High and heels. All rubber. MAIN FLOOR. automatic All sizes. THE HECHT CO- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1933 ACCORD IS REACHED ON SPAN APPROACH War Department, Arlington and Park Board Officials Plan Right of Way. BY LESTER N. INSKEEP, SBtaff Correspondent of The 8t ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va. January 27.—Through an agrcement reached after a three-hour conference between officials of the War Department, National Capital Park and Planning Commission and Arlington County, the State of Virginia will probably acquire a right of way for the southern ap- proach to the Arlingion Memcrial Bridge at this session of Congress, it Was re- vealed today by Chairm: Harry A Fellows of the county toagy. During_the conference beiween the officials, Fellows said, a bill was drawn which overcomes all objections hereto- fore offered by the War Department. | and, since it carries no approgr.ation by the Federal Government, is expected to receive no opposition when it reaches Congress. 100-Foot Right of Way. The bill provides for a 130-foot right of way over Government property that must be crossed in order to reach the southwest corner of Arlington National Cemetery and a 60-foot right of y from that point to Mount Vernon ave- |nue. The State has already been given a 100-foot right of way from the pr ent terminus of the Lee Boulevard in Lyon Park to the Federal Government property. Passage of this bill would permit the State to connect the Lee Boulevard with the old Georgetown-Alexandria Pike, which skirts the eastern boundary of the Arlington National Cemetery, and Chairman Fellows said he had been in- formed that the National Capital Park and Planning Commission would seek an emergency appropriation of between $25,000 and $37,000 to widen and im- prove this road from the southeast cor ner of the cemetery to the new bridge connection that is now nearing com- pletion. Letters from Chairman H. G. Shir- ley of the Virginia State Highway Commission, approving the bill, have been received by Senator Claude A. ! Swanson, by whom it will be piloted in ARCTICS For Women and Misses low $1.95 High-Tied Scarfs and Graceful Capes on Mannishly Tailored Flannel SPORTS SUITS Colors Sailor Blue Cadet Blue Brown Beige Grey Green Sketched at right: Ascot tie button front five-eighth jacket and kick-pleated skirt of Spring gray. 14 to 20. N A NS QLINN N g NN \\ \ Cadet blue flan- nel skirt and swagger finger- tip-length jack- et with inset pockets. Sizes 14 to 20. $5.95 $ 5.95 (Sportswear, Third Floor) THE HECHT CO A4 Il Charge Account the Genate, and tative Howard W. Smith,’ who m‘fle it on the House side. Board Holds Appropriation. After seven years of fruitless effort to reach the new bridge, Chairman Fellows said he believes it is about to be accomplished. . The Lee Boulevard is already graded from Lyon Park to Falls Church and the State Highway Commission is holding an appropria- tion with which the paving is to be done until it can reach the bridge. Since the present plans of the State contemplate a 40-foot pavement. the rights of way provided in the bill will be ample to carry out the present pav- ing plans. Between Lyon Park and Falls Church there is a 200-foot right of way. . MARYLANDERS MEET Society Hears Satirical Address on Technocracy. The Maryland Society of Washington met last night at the Washington Club, Seventeenth and K streets, and heard William B. Gross, Frederick County, deliver a satirical address on “Tech- nocracy in Democracy.” George H. Calvert, jr., Washington attorney, presided over the meeting, which ended with songs by Mrs. Joseph Payne, Mrs. Julia Conway and Gross and readings by Katherine Manor. As the result of an insect sting Rear Admiral Murray F. Seuter, M. P., is serjously 1l in a London hospital. ANNIVERSARY OBSERVED BY CHEVY CHASE CHURCH Program Includes Short Sketches and Address by Represent- ative Clyde Kelly. Short dramatic sketches depicting important milestones in the life of the church, reading of letters, cablegrams and telegrams from former members and pastors and an address by Repre- sentative Clyde Kelly of Pennsylvania were part of the program at the dinner and get-together marking the twenty- fifth anniversary of the founding of the Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church held last night. Events dramatized by church mem- bers included the call to the first meet- ing, the first Sunday school session and the first meeting in the present church edifice. Charter members of the church present at the meeting were Harry Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Lee D. Latimer, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis F. Feeser, Miss Georgia Redway, Miss Louise Eiker, Mrs. John Sheiry, Grant Leet, Mr. and Mrs. P. K. Thurston and Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Pienkowsky. . = Former Executive Dies. 'YONKERS, N. Y. January 27 (P).— Evan Perkins. 63, former traffic man- ager for the National Biscuit Co., died yesterday. He was born in Waupaga, Wis., and later moved to Chicago, com= ing to Yonkers 10 years ago. The Hecht Co. Launches— “SWAGGER"” Another man-tailored masterpiece of @ hat! $ 3.50 You can drag it down on your head, sleep in it, crumple it up and straighten it again, without having it lose one mite of its smartness. Head sizes 2114 to 23. (Third Floor, The Hecht Co.) "THE HECHT CoO. Clock b Sleeves “Make” These Women's Dresses $|6.50 All trimming detail is concentrated above the waist—and _specifically on the sleeves...for that is where button, embroidery and fag- gotting trimmings are placed. Sizes .for women, 38 to 44. (Third Floor, The Hecnt 05.) ATRERRER NN NASNNYASS R DUCKS AID CATTLE Raised in Queensland and New South Wales to Eat Ticks. SYDNEY, Australis (#).—In Queens- land and in the north of New South ‘Wales ducks have assumed a new im- portance and are being bred in thou- sands. It has been discovered they have a keen appetite for cattle ticks, vermin finish. . .offset with black trimmings. has a hanging mirror. ‘which cost ranchers millions of dollars annually. Flocks of trained ducks now mingle with the cattle. Every time a beast lies down the ducks swarm over it and make short work of the ticks. Plan School Benefit. SEAT PLEASANT, Md. January 27 (Special) —A card party will be given in the District Line School February 3 + B9 L. J. SELZNICK BURIED HOLLYWOOD, January 27 (#) —Last rites for Lewis J. Selznick, 62-year-old Russian-born film industry pioneer, who died Wednesday, were observed yester- day at a funeral chapel. Services were conducted by Rabbl Edgar P. Magnin and interment was in | the Home of Peace Cemetery Selznick had been out of the movie at 8 oclock under the auspices of the | business since 1924 after having been Home Demonstration Club for the bene- | organiz>r and executive of producing fit of the school companies. JANUARY FURNITURE SALE R ” Beautiful Matching Modern Bedroom Pieces .. . each piece priced separately at Top-quality maple veneers, in a lovely honey-color The dresser . Roomy chest with a built-in space for hats. Double size bed and a vanity with large mirror. Other matching pieces . . . Night Table, $9.95. Chair, $7.95. Bench, $7.95. o $5 $ 29.95 810 Delivers Complete Suite (Pourth Floor, The Hecht Co.) Delivers This Complete 8-Pc. Bed Group 2 Poster Beds Maple, mahogany walnut finishes. 2 Coil Springs Finely resilient. tempered and 2 Mattresses Filled with soft layer felt. or 2 Pillows Filled with feathers. Gocd ticking. (Fourth Floor. $3 7.85 The Hecht Co.) Furniture and Homewares left from today's CLEAN SWEEP, on sale tomorrow ECHT CO- Purchases Made Torr:orrow Will Appear on February Bills Payable in March ALL REMAINING ITEMS FROM CLEAN SWEEP ON SALE SATURDAY