Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1933, Page 13

TRADE COMMISSION MAY HAVE T0 DROP 291 FROM PAY ROLL Virtual Junking of Agency Is Seen as Result of Drastic Fund Cut. 150 LET OUT IN YEAR; 50 TO GO BEFORE JULY 1 Report to House Recommends $510,000, Slash of $956,500 Un- der Current Appropriation. ‘The Pederal Trade Commission will be required to dismiss nearly 300 em- ployes, bringing its force to little more than 100 persons, on the basis of the appropriation of $510,000 recommended for the next fiscal year, in the In- dependent Offices funds bill, reported to the House Friday, it was said at the commission yesterday. ‘While there was an unwillingness on the part of any one in authority to be quoted at this timre, it was made plain that it is felt the appropriations slash of $956,500 under the appropria- tion this year virtually would amount to junking the commission. Alrcady during the present financial year 150 commission employes have been dismissed and 50 more will go before July 1. these reductions being necessitated. it was explained, even after administrative furloughs ranging frcm two to nine months had been en- forced among various groups of em- ployes. Under the budget estimate of $1.- 109,550 for the commission, it would have been necessary to dismiss 91 workers starting July 1 and the added cut proposed by the House Appropria- tions Committee would mean that 200 more must go, it was said. Had Scught $1,300,000. ‘The commission had sought $1,300.- 000 for the forthcoming fiscal year, in comparison to the appropriation of $1,466,500 this year, which had made its available funds about & million and a half dollars. Two notable inquiries—chain stores and Eowe:—\\‘hlch the commission has een conducting for a long period, will be completed at the end of June. and three others were contemplated to de- termine if new legislation was neces- sary. One of these was designed to go into the cffccts of the anti-trust acts with relation to the industries engaged in the exploitation of petroleum, natural gas, coal and lumber, and the advan- tages or disadvantages to business and the public of agreements by the indus- tries affecting competition. Another was designed to cover the financial practices of corporations en- gaged in interstate commerce, but ex- cluding banks, common carriers and public utilitics. for the period prior to and following the market crash of 1929. The third study proposed was that covering quantity discounts, selling be- low cost, reciprocity in dealing, brand advertising, and wholesale and retail price stabilization. Chairman Humphrey Dissents. ‘This is in addition to the routine duties of the commission. Commissioner William E. Humphrey, | who has just wound up a year’s term as chairman of the commission, had dissented from the proposal of the commission to initiate these investi- gations which were estimated to cost $333,134, and for which the budget had allowed $288,134. Commissioner Humphrey took the stand that in de- termining cost, time, scope and neces- sity for these probes, the tommission was assuming a responsibility he did not_think it should shoulder. The committee also vetoed the pro- posal, and added: “The committee is also of the opinion that the remaining activities of the commission can be substantially curtailed without injury to the public interest and has further cut the budget estimate to the figure indicated.” The House committee only cut the budget estimate for independent estab- lishments by $1.657,522. out of a total for all of more than $1,004,000,000. The commission cut amounted to approxi- mately one-third of the slash, while the rest, $1,000,000, came from the al- lowance for the Supreme Court Build- ing, which it was said would not re- quire this amount. ‘The Federal Trade Commission had trouble last year in the House, where its appropriation was severely cut, but got some heip in the Senate, when $200,000 was added for power and chain stores inquiries. ~ANTR BACKS TAX NOTICES -FOR REALTY OWNERS Dean of Columbus U. Law School Is Witness at Hearing on Norton Bill. ) John R. Fitzpatrick, dean of Colum- bus University Law School. told the Subcommittee on Fiscal Affairs of the House District Committee yesterday he is in favor of any change in the law which will let the owners of real estate have notice that taxes are due. He spoke in support of the Norton bill, which proposes quarterly payment of taxes with advance notice. Mr. Fitz patrick said he receives notice regard- ing personal taxes, but not in regard to real estate taxes. If a new system will give the property owner such notice. he said, he himself and the property own- ers generally would be delighted. Representative Pehr G. Holmes, Re- publican, of Massachusetts, was the only member of the subcommittee pres- ent, but other witnesses heard included William F. Goddard, representing the Home Owners’ Protective Enterprise; Dr. Charles P. Neill, economist; Dr. George Otis Smith, chairman of the Federal Power Commission; Dr. Boyd Carpenter of Georgetown University; M. A. Rattigan, attorney; Miss Marie Obenauer, Mrs, Harvey Wiley, president of the District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs, and Mrs. John D. Sherman, former president. ——————— FOUR WOMEN ARRESTED Maintaining Disorderly House Charged by Vice Squad. Four women were arrested yesterday when the police vice squad raided an alleged disorderly house in the 1700 block of Eighteenth street. The women identified themselves as Kate Brown, 23; Marion Gordon, 25: Helen Miller, 26, and Lillian E. Neal, 27. All were Iccked up at the Women's Bureau on charges of maintaining a disorderly house. RODSEVELT ASKS WILSON'S CABINET . TOINAUGURATION Survivors of Last Democrat Regime Will Be His Per- sonal Guests. FETE AT WHITE HOUSE ALSO PLANNED FOR DAY tation and Assemble for First Time in Many Years. The 12 surviving members of the last PDemocratic cabinet, men who served during the two terms of the administra- tion of Woodrow Wilson, are to re- {assemble in Washington on March as the revivified forces of Democracy unite in the inaugural ceremonies for President-elect Franklin D. Rcosevelt and Vice President-elect John Nance Garner. ‘These survivors of the 19 men who held cabinet posts will be the personal tivities of inauguration day, it wa: announced yesterday by Admiral Car: T, Grayson, chairman of the Roosevelt Ifiaugural Commiitee. Personal invita- tions from the President-elect, who served with them as a member of the “little cabinet” in those days. will be sent to each one of them, asking them to reassemble here for the induction into office of another Democratic ad- ministration. Expected to Accept. If they come—and it was said it is most likely they all will—it would be the first time that this interesting group of Democratic chieftains has assembled together during the long intervening years. Several of them still are in pub- lic life, but the others are either retired o engaged in their own private pur- suits. Their homes are far scattered. Some of them are being prominently mentioned for posts in the new cabinet. ‘The surviving members of the Wilson cabinet with the offices they then oc- cupied are: Joshua W. Alexander, Secretary of Commerce; Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War; Alberi S. Burleson, Postmaster General; Bainbridge Cclby, Secretary of State; Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy; Carter Glass, Secretary cf the Treasury; Thomas W. Gregory, At- torney General: William G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury; James C. McReynolds, _ Attorney General; A. Mitchell Palmer, Attorney General; John Barton Payne, Secretary of the Interior; Willlam B. Wilson, Secretary of Labor. Remain in Public Life. The Wilson cabinet members who still are in public life are Justice Mc- Reynolds of the United States Supreme Court; Senator Carter Glass of Vir- ginia, prominently mentioned as the next Secretary of the Treasury: Sen- ator-elect McAdoo of California, and John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross. Another, Mr. Baker, who is also another cabinet possibility, is active in national emer- gency relief work. ‘The members of this former cabinet group, who, like their great leader, Woodrow Wilson, have died, are Wil- !liam Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State; Lindley M. ison, Secretary of War; David F. Houston, Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of the Treasury: Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior; Edwin T. Meredith, Secretary of Agriculture, and William D. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce. Vice President Thomas R. Marshall also is dead. President-elect Roosevelt plans to have the men who were in the cabinet while he himself was a member of the “little_cabinet” as his personal guests for all the activities of inauguration | day. Special seats will be provided for | them at the Capitol and in the Cnuni of Honor. They are to be guests, also, according to present plans, either for | tea or dinner at the White House on ! that triumphant day. | AL Lamé Ducks to Vote,| On Salary Measure; For Next Congress Whittington Will Offer Amendment to Fix Pay at $7,500. By the Associated Press. Lame duck Representatives and their politically more fortunate . colleagues will have a chance to vote shortly on how much the Government should pay members of the next Congress. When the legislative appropriation bill comes up—and it is next in line after the independent offices supply measures—Representative Whittington, Democrat, of Mississippi plans to offer | an amendment making salaries in the next fiscal year $7,500. Just now the law fixes salaries for both Senators and Representatives at $10,000. But under last year’s economy act they were cut 10 per cent to $9,000, and this provision was renewed by the House in the Treasury-Post Office sup- ply bill now before the Senate. Whittington plans to seek a further | propriations bill comes along. Twelve Expected to Accept Invi-| guests of Mr. Roosevelt for all the ac-| |grand jury action the six men under cut to $7.500 when the legislative ap-|A “follow-up” investigation showed he grouping of building units for War Department and Navy De- ‘partment, to determine the suit- | ability of sites under consideration.” | _As shown here the buildings are placed in the top picture of a model, on a site between Eighteenth and Twenty- third streets, Constituticn avenue and | E street in the form of a giant cross vith ccllonaded circle in the center. he War Department is tentatively given the group of buildings to the | | right; an Eastern. location, while the | | Navy Department is given the left Or‘ | Western location. This is the site approved by the | Public Buildings Commission for these | | structures, but it is understood the | same studies could be adapted for placement in another position in South- west Washington, which at one time was favored by certain officials, but rejected by the Public Buildings Com- | mission. In the left foreground of the top pic- | ture can be seen the Lincoln Memo- | | rial and reflecting pool, with part of | the mall in the center, shown vacant, | but now actually occvpied by the Navy | and Munitions Building. The one | square on Constitution avenue, leading up to the group lies between Twentieth | |and Twenty-first streets, with the new | marble Public Health Service head- | | quarters to the right, and the Academy | |of Arts and Sciences to the left. The | | whele study is said to have been de- veloped with-a view to harmonizing | with and to enhance the classic beauty | | of the Lincaln Memorial | In the middle is shown a study of | | the south side of the west building with view of the circular central develop- | ment accorded a slightly different | | treatment than that shovn in the top | | model HE three views above are de-| scribed officially as “studies of | Below is seen a view of the entrance |to the War Department, with playing | fountain of the central court in the foreground The studies were prepared by Archi- tects Holabird and Root of Chicago. and Corbett, Harrison and McMurray of New York, for the Treasury Depart- ment. which has been supervising and directing the construction of public | buildings for the executive branch of the Government in the National | Capital. under direction of Congress. and in co-operation with many agencies and departments. Whether the monumental develop- | ment sugzested by th studies shown | above will be: constructed anv time | soon depends on policies of the incem- ing Democratic administration. Pre- Jiminary consideration for housing the War and Navy Departments bezan long ago. and these studies constitute en= of the early steps in the Jono process of olanning. Funds were available for making” the studies, but Congress has no* vet authorized construction of the buildings, nor appropriated funds for their erection. CORONER’S JURY ACTS IN PAY ROLL SLAYING Holds Six for Giand Jury Despite Fact That Four Already Face Indictments. A coroner’s jury yesterday held for arrest in the death of Einer R. Ecklund, despite the fact four of the men al- ready had been indicted for first-degree murder and the two others as acces- | sories. All pleaded noi guilty when ar- raigned Friday in District Supreme Court. Ecklund was killed during the | Browning Painting Co. pay roll hold-up attempt on January 20. The inquest was begun last Wednes- day, just before. the indictments were returned. It was continued until yes- terday, however, because several wit- nesses failed to appear. The men indicted for first-degree murder are: Claude Myers, 28, and Fe- wel Workman, 23, both colored; Albert E. Cash, 20, and Everett Blackwell, 22. Cash’s brother, Oscar, 25, and their brother-in-law, Clyde Templeton, 30, are under indictment as accessories after the fact. . CONVIGTED OF FRAUD William Howard, - 200 block Second street southwest, will be sentenced in Police Court February 4 on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses from the District Employment ReHef Administration. He was found guilty yesterday. ‘According to testimony of Miss May- brey Evans, an investigator on the staff of the relief agency, Howard at various times since September 23 had received upward of $100 in relief money and clothes for a wife and three children. had neither. OF MARRIAGE Maybe it's the depression. But within a few hours after officials of the coming United Food Stores Ex- position made the announcement they wanted a couple to be married at a public wedding ceremony at the Wash- ington Auditorium during the week of February 11, they were deluged with applications by telephone, meil and by personal visits. Up to last night, more than a score of willing brides and grooms had ap- plied at the office of Morris L. Kraft, president of the organization, to take part in the ceremony. From these and other applications, the exposition’s sponsors will select a couple for the wedding, with the merchants providing the license, wedding ring, bride’s outfit, wedding cake, transportation expenses ur!ih- free honeymoon trip to Niagara F: . The letters of application set forth { i MANY COUPLES SEEK BEMEFITS Offer of Free Ceremony, License, Ring and Honeymoon Brings Flood of Applicants. AT FOOD SHOW varied reasons why the applicants wished to be selected for the ceremony. One young couple wrote they had been “planning and saving for the last two years, but cwing to the cruel treatment of the depression, we have as yet a good long wait.” Another couple proved themselves ineligible when they unwit- tingly divulged the fact they already were married. The young woman who penned this letter signed her own Christian name and the surname of the “prospective” husband. The larder of the newlyweds' home will be fully stocked by the grocers, according to the Show Committee, of which Mr. Kraft ‘is chairman, and Morris Vigderhouse vice chairman. Other members of the committee are George C. Heider, David Hornstein and Sam Goldstein. Applications are being received by Alfred L: Stern at the head- quarters of the United Food Stores, Twelfth and Water_ streets southwest. | tion D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY Plans for New War and Navy 29, 1933. INCOMING ADMINISTRATION HOLDS FATE OF PROPOSED NEW BUILDING PROJECT. NEW INQUIRY DUE INTO PHONE RATES Cemmission Confirms Plan| for Making Additional Probe Soon.. Another investigation of the property and accounts of the Chesapeake & Po- tomac Telephone Co. will be under- taken soon by the Public Utilities Com- mission, it was learned vesterday. ‘The last inquiry of this kind, under- taken last Summer, resulted in a rate hearing at which the commission or- dered a cut of 10 per cent in all the company’s bills for residential service. The company, howcver, declined to comply, and took the matter to court, where it is now pending. News Leaks Out. News of the commission's action, which leaked out yesterday, was con- firmed later by a brief written state- ment, but the specific reason for the new investigation could not be learned. Vice Chairman Riley E. Elgen of the commission, would not admit that the commission plans a valuation of the company, and valuation is not men- tioned in the statement. The commis- sion’s Valuation Bureau is now at work on the valuation of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Companies, which will go into public hearings next | month. Funds Requested. ‘The statement said: “We have asked the telephone com- pany for funds under section 42a of the law (public utilities act) for the purpose of making a further investiga- tion of iis property and accounts, the information sought to be-collected will be useful apd necessary, both in any tubsequent inventory and for guidance of the commission in pending matters.” $600,000 TO BE SPENT ON DISTRICT HIGHWAYS Whitehurst Announces Readiness to Receive Bids for Street, Alley and Sidewalk Work. Bids for about $600,000 worth of road- way work will be invited February 25, Herbert C., Whitehurst, director__of highways, announced yesterday. This work comprises part of the District’s Spring program of construction. All of it will be undertaken with money al- ready appropriated for use in the 1933 fiscal year. The bids will be opened in groups during the week of March 13. E ‘The schedule for opening the bids (ol llows: March 13, 16,000 square yards side- walk and 20,000 square yards alley con- struction; March 14, 50,000 square of replicement work on worn-out streets; March 15, 65,000 square yards of new concrete roadway construction; March 16, 100,000 square yards of 8s- phaltic covering for worn concrete streets and 15,000 square yards of strip mxdn&mnnmian: March 17, 22,000 linear feet of curb and gutter construc- yards | Chairman Black announced on old macadam roadways. « 3 Colored Man, Refused Pants Pressing Job, Robs Two Customers Dick Richardsen didn’t know it when he paid the tailor 75 cents last night, but he was having his best suit cleaned and pressed for a colored bandit. Richardson, who lives at 1212 Sixteenth street, was robbed of the suit and $2 a few minutes after leaving a tailer shop con- dueted by Mrs. Anna Thompscn, 614 N street. He wasn't the only contributor to the hold-up man’s wardrobe, however, anscther patron of Mrs. ‘Thompson’s establishment having been robbed of his newly-pressed suit about half an hour before. A few minutes before the first hold-up, Mrs. Thompson said, the bandit asked her for wi as a presser. ‘Turned down, she said, he stood on the sidewalk nearby, jamming his gun into her two customer’s ribs as they headed for home with their suits over their arms. WORKER’S FATAL FALL IS HELD ACCIDENTAL Carpenter Working on Labor Build- ing Had Been Warned Against Plank, Inquest Told. On Chritsmas morning Henry Bower, 46, was found sitting in a drunken stupor beside the dead body of his wife, Mrs. Venira Bower, 47, who had lost consciousness during a Yuletide cele- bration the night before. Yesterday— just a month and a day later—he, too, lay dead in the District morgue. Bower, a carpenter employed by the United States Fireproofing Co., was fatally injured Friday when he fell from the seventh to the sixth floor of the new Labor Depertment Bulding, under construction at Fourteenth street and Constitution avenue. . At an inquest conducted yesterday by Acting Coroners A. Magruder Mac- Donald and Christopher J. Murphy, fellow employes told of seeing him take the one-story plunge Whu\n- plank across which he was walking broke. Only a short time before, they testi- fled, they had warned him against walking on’the board, which not yet. been placed in proper gflfi lon. An autopsy performed by Dr. Murphy revealed Bower had died of a frac- tured skull. The jury held his death accidental. —_ GAS MERGER UP TUESDAY Hearings Will Be Resumed by House Subcommittee. Hearings will be resumed Tuesday on the proposed merger of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light companies before the Public Utilities Subcommit- tee of the House District Committee, yeste! At the same session, the subcommittee will consider the bill of Representative Smith, Democrat, of Virginia, to confer on the Court of Claims jurisdiction to hear the claim of the Wash 3 Mount Vernon & Alexandria way Co. against the District for removal of terminal tracks from District . | grocer, of stree TAX SALES FINDS {Yield of $270,096 Is Lowest "in Recent Years—Many Properties Unsold. The 1933 sale of tax titles to prop- | erties delinquent in real estate tax pay- ments netted the District $270,096.49, cne of the smallest sums in recent years, according to a report compiled by Tax Collector Chatham M. Towers | vesterday. | _The 1932 sale yielded $379,753.94. The highest sum recovered by a tax sale was in 1930, when the total re- ceived was $887,144.32. _Mr. Towers’ report showed 49 buyers bid in 2,089 lots. Approximately 22,000 were offered for sale. Those on which no bid was made were bid in by the District. Of the buyers, C. B. Rout took 640 lots for $112,252.24; the National Mort- gage Investment Corporation tock in 284 lots for $38,359.37; Fred Genau bought 71 lots for $25,391.62 and the Real " Estate Mortgage and Guarantee Co. bought 62 lots for $23,678.99. In- vestments made by the other buyers were smaller. Owners of properties whose taxes have been sold are given two years from the last day of the sale in which to redeem them by paying the collec- tor of taxes the delinquent tax plus 1 per cent per month penalty up to the date of the sale and 8 per cent per annum thereafter. At the end of the two years, the tax deed buyer may have his deed recorded. ROOMER FOUND DEAD Body Lying on Cot—Gas*Poisoning Declared Cause. James Thomas Fairfax, 53, & roomer &t 1406 Twenty-eighth street, was found dead from gas poisoning in his room yesterday. His body was lying on a cot on the second floor of the house. A gas jet in the hallway had been turned on, filling the room with fumes. Mrs. Anna Lohr, owner of the resi- turned home. dence, discovered Fairfax when she re- | of Departments Made Public PAGE B—1 HOUSE D. C. GROUP 10 BEGIN WORK ON lBlll FOR $40,00,000 |ARLINGTON VIGTOR IN AIRPORT FIGHT Wins Agreement to Abandon Plan for Purchase of Hoover Field. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va., January 28.—Throush egreement with Representative Thomas S. McMillan, patron of the bill for acquisition of the ‘Washington-Hoover Airport as a muni- cipal airport for the District of Colum- bia, the provisicns objectionable to Ar- lington County are to be eliminated, it was stated today by Chairman Harry A. Fellows of the County Board. In accordance with a request that the desires of the County Board be clearly stated so they may be placed before the committee considering the bill, the County Board, at a special meeting to- day. adopted a resolution expressing op- position to the bill in its present form, but approving it if amended to elimi- nate the purchase provision and to in- sure the construction by the Federal Government of a Toad to replace the present Military road running between the two airports. Writes to McMillan. In addition to the resolution Chair- man Fellows has written a letter to Representative McMillan setting out in detail the objections of the board to any purchase of the airport by the Fed- eral Government. This letter, Fellows states, was written at the request of Representative McMillan after a con- ference at which he agreed that Arling- ton County's requests are well founded of the county is the prov option to purchase, the letter points out. Purchase of these properties would mean an immediate annual loss to Arlington of $9,692.64 in taxes, Fel- lows states, with a gradual increase as the value of the property increases. He further points to the fact that the county has lost to the Federal Govern- ment in the last three years annual | over for the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway and $2976.75 for 75 acres of the Norton tract taken by the Federal Government in condemnation proceed- ings. Claiming that the State of Virginia and the people of the county would never consent to the return of Arling- ton County to the District of »Columbia, Fellows claims in the letter that the gradual acquisition of various properties by the Federal Government is accom- “I would not willingly interpose any objection to the acquisition by the Fed- | eral Government of any part of Arling- | ton County which is necessary for the Government to have. I do not believe, however, that it is necessary in the proper operation of the airport prop- erty that the Government should ac- qtul:e a fee simple title to it,” the letter | states. “Deprivation of Rights.” Referring to the proposed closing of the road running between the two prop- erties, Fellows points to the fact that this road has been in use for many | viding another road to take its place | would be to deprive the people of Ar- | lington County “of certain prescriptive rights which long continued usage of the present Military road has conferred upon them.” The county has no objection to the proposed lease of the property by the Federal Government and with the bill amended to care for this situation and the construction of a substitute road will offer no further opposition, the let- ter asserts. . IRISH TO CELEBRATE Local Group Will Mark Victory of De Valera. Local sympathizers will celebrate the victory of President de Valera in the Irish election at a meeting tonight at 8 o'clock in the Playhouse, 1814 N street. The principal speakers Wwill be Repre- sentatives Douglas of Massachusetts and La Guardia of New York. Charles Edward Russell, lecturer and author, is chairman of the Committee on Arrangements for the meeting, as- sisted by Anthony J. Barrett, P. T. McDermott, John F. Finerty, Aeneas Collins, Ggattan Kerans, Daniel Cal- laghan, Andrew I. Hickey and Thomas W. Lyons. The celebration will be one f many planned throughout the United States. : Practitioner Who An eye for an eye or a bite for a bite—it’s all the same to Harvert Phifer, colored, 32, who said in Police Court yesterday that he bit Mike Deep, the 1700 block of Seventeenth , because Mike’s deg invarial bit him. Every time he entered the store, Phifer told Judge Gus A. Schuldt, the dog would stroll up to him, growl and then sink his teeth into him. Yester- day when he went in the dog was not around, so Phifer started after the owner. He bit Mike twice on the left GROCER’'S DOG BITES MAN, SO THE MAN BITES DOG’S GROCER But Judge Schuldt Isn’t Impressed by “Eye for Eye” “Bit Mike Deep.” hand and side and kept right on biting when Policeman H. A. Lord tried to uell him. Some skin was removed rom the officer’s side. Deep, admitting they had “some diffi- culty about the dog,” told Judge Schuldt bly | that the colored man tried to smash a show case in addition to the biting. Phifer at first claiming that Deep , then the story of the «'m’gm Judge Schuldt, however, was little impressed by either story, orderin, tence for assault -ll;d s $15 drunk and | taxes of $4.961.25 on the land taken | ONLY 43 BUYERS plishing this very purpos» piece-meal. | years and that to close it without pro-| g & 60-day sen- | the fine f Proposal to Increase Tax on Intangibles for Relief Included. DEFICIENCY BILL READY TO GO TO WHITE HOUSE $625,000 Fund Is Provided for Aid First Six Months This Year. Signatures Awaited. With a deficiency bill carrying $625,« 000 for immediate unemployment re- lief in the District ready to go to the White House, the House Subcommittee on_ District Appropriations tomorrow will takeup the $40,000,000 District ap- propriation bill and with it a proposal that the tax on intangibles be in- creased to provide for future relief needs. The deficiency measure, which pro- vides $625,000 for relief work during the first six months of this year, was passed by the Senate yesterday after- noon. The House had acted favorably on it Friday. Since there are no amendments, the bill will be sent to President Hoover after it is signed to- morrow by Speaker Garner and Vice President Curtis. It was understood an attempt will be made during consideration of the $40,900,000 appropriation measure to write in $6.500,000 as the Federal con= tribution to support of the National Capital instead of the $7,775,000 com- promise figure accepted in the 1933 ap- propriation act. The $6,500,000 cone tribution was recommended by the Mapes Committee. Suggested Realty Tax. Chairman Cannon of the subcome mittee declared last night that several District residents who appeared asking for the relief funds had suggested a separate tax on real estate to meet the Telief needs. He it was then emphasized that unemployment relief | was strictly a District problem and that 1it should be made clear that none of the funds come from the Federal con= | tribution. ~ Consequently, it was exe plained that it will be an aim of the subcommittee to provide some distinct way of raising the relief money by District revenues so that it will be ap- {parent that none of the fund comes | from Federal revenues. Cannon pointed out last night that the proposed increase in tax on in- tangibles is thought by some members of the subcommittee to be more fair than a raise in real estate taxes, which might be a burden to small home owners, Last year it was estimated that there was a total of $510,000,000 intangibles in the District, and this year the amount is estimated at approximately $400,000.000. The tax. now is $5 per {$1.00. The proposal considered by the subcommittee is to increase this 50 cents or $1 per thousand dollars. It was pointed out, however, that such an increase would yield only a part of the funds necessary for relief work, and that the intangible tax would have to be increased to $8.13 per $1,000 in order to meet the $1,250.000 esti- mated for unemployment relief this year, Tided Over By $25,000. The emergency in the District, howe ever, has becn tided over by the pay=- | ment of nearly $25.000 in borrowed money for the pay roll of 3,367 persons | yesterday. The District still owes about 1 570,000 to be met from the emergency relief fund of $625,000 in the deficiency bill. This includes approximately $45.000 grocery bill, and the $25,000 payroll which was met by borrowing money yesterday. Bill Passed Quickly. Passage of the bill in the Senate fol- lowed promptly when Senator Bingham, Republican, of Connecticut, took the floor at noon and withdrew the amend- ment he offered late yesterday, seel to restore to the bill the $28,000.00 item for Federal tax refunds. The Senator explained that he thought it would be possible for the District gove emment to borrow money to meet ur= gent relief needs until the deficiency bill becomes law, but he found this morning this would be against the law. In taking this action, Senator Bing= ham said he hoped Congress would provide without undue delay in a later bill for money due taxpayers as Fed= eral refunds. Helps Clear Way. Senator Bingham had been under the impression the District Government would be able to get along for a few more days by borrowing funds, but following a conference this morning with Commissioner Reichelderfer and District Auditor Donovan, he said that he would not press for action on the tax refund item in order to let the District relief money go through today. Bingham said he learned the city Government is prevented by law from borrowing. ‘Would Liberalize Rule. The Relief Committee of the Board of Public Welfare, at its meeting nexi Thursday, will have before it a recom- mendation from Leroy ‘A. Halbert, di- rector of emergency relief, that the residence rule for those applying for ) unemployment aid be liberalized. As adopted last August, the rule limits aid to those who could prove one year's residence in the District prior to July 1, 1932, Mr. Halbert will suggest a change so that the one year is to count only from the date of the application. The question of aid to unattached single persons, who have been denied relief so far in an effort to afford relief primarily to destitute families, will also be brought up. The board expects to extend its aid to single persons when the $625,000 appropriation for the first six months of the present year is available. FARM MORTGAGE ACTION URGED IN RADIO PLEA Nils Olsen, Agricultural Economics Chief, Favors Nation-Wide Committee System. Adjustment of farm mortgage debts through a national system of local com: mittees sponsored by the Federal Go ernment was advocated in a radio ad- dress last night by Nils Olsen, chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the Agriculture Department. This radio presentation was the tenth in a series of the Brookings Institution sponsored by the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education. Other participants in the broadcast, , | all of whom agree on the necessity for immediate ac on the problem of farm debt,’ were Edwin G. Nourse, di- rector. of the Institute of Economics of Institution, and Be‘na - secretary of the & v e min C. Marsh, .