Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1933, Page 17

DEATH OF WALSH DELAYS ACTION ON D.C. SUPPLY BILL Senate Leaders Still Hope to Pass Measure Before Session Adjourns. DEBATFE. ON TAXI METERS RESUMES TOMORROW Failure to Enact Legislation by Saturday Would Throw It Back Into House. Enactment of the District appropria- tion bill at this session still was hoped for at the Capitol today, although ad- journment of the Senate because of the death of Senator Walsh of Montana postponed final action on the measure by the Senate and its consideration in conference until tcmorrow. Vhen the Senate reconvenes at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow, it will resume considera- tion of the taxicab meter question, the‘ only amendment remaining to be acted upon before a vote is taken on the bill. ] Senator Bingham, Republican, of Con- | necticut, in charge of the measure, will ask for appointment of conferees as soon as the bill passes. Its chances for| enactment then will depend on whether House and Senate conferees succeed in adjusting differences without delay. If the bill is not acted on and signed by the President by noon Saturday, it will e B iy S WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION farf WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1933. - School Gets New Flag CHILDREN OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAKES PRESENTATION. go over untik the special session, in which it would have to start over again | in the House. Approves Lump Sum. ‘The Senate yesterday approved the increase in the Federal contribution from $6,500,000 to $9,500,000, and all other committee amendments, except the proposal to require meters on taxi- cabs, provided the rates do not exceed 25 cents for the first 2 miles and 10 cents for each additional or fraction therecf. The House wrote into the bill a pro- vision to prevent the Utilities Commis- sion from requiring meters. Debate on the meter question began with Senators Black, Democrat, of Ala- bama; McKeller, Democrat, of Ten- nessee; Borah, Republican, of Idaho, and Capper, Republican, of Kansas, op- posing the meter system, as advocated by the Senate committee. It was argued that the meter requirement would be a hardship on individual taxi- cab drivers and a considerable num- ber of them would be forced out of business. Copeland Defends Meters. Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, defended the committee recom- mendation for the meter system with a restriction on rates. Senators on op- pesite sides of the question disagreed as to whether the taxicab drivers favor the flat-rate zone system or the meters. After gllowing for a few changes on the Senate floor, the bill in its present form carries a total of approximately $36,980,000. $9,500,000 Sum Approved. The committee amendment raising the Federal contribution was approved late yesterday. Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, ex- pressed his opposition to raising the House figure, following which the com- mittee recommendation was adopted without a record vote. The various other Senate amend- ments, rTestoring budget figures which had been scaled down in the House, were passed quickly, and it seemed the bill would be put to a final vote last night, when the fight against ordering meters on taxicabs broke out anew. When the taxicab amendment was reached first, it was adopted with little discussion, but later Senator Black, Democrat, of Alabama, opposing meters, obtained a reconsideration and then followed a general debate in which a dozen or more Senators took part. On motion of Senator Bingham the Senate adopted a committee amend- lment inserting the clause which has been in the District bills for the past [few years forbidding a decrease in the [tax rate on real estate and tangible ersonal property during the next fiscal rear. Senator King asked for an explana- jon, calling attention to changes in [property valuations. He said it may be wise, but tnat he could “conceive of contingencies that might necessi- jate some rearrangement of the fiscal gystem and a refinancing.” Senator Bingham said he did not{ ow why the House left the provision put this year, and that the Senate ommittee deemed it wise to restore He said the committee felt the ay to reduce taxes “in the District is to make the assessment come a ttle nearer the value of the property ather than to reduce the tax rate.” During debate on the bill Senator King, who will be chalrman of the District Legislative Committee of the enate after March 4, renewed his belief at the District Commissioners should given broader general powers to elieve Congress of some of the local huestions that require congressional tion at present. Another amendment adopted on the floor added $8,000 to the item for arrying out the workmen’s compensa- on law. In connection with the item for pav-| Conduit road, Reservoir road to the District line, the Senate added authority or grading, culverts and retaining| alls. Another School Item. Besides the additions the committee ad made to the school building ‘pro- bram, the Senate, cn motion of Chalr- nan Bingham, included another item, s follow: For completing the erection of & unior high school building on & site ready purchased for that purpose at ineteenth street and Minnesota avenue outheast, in Anacostia. $175,000. Not to exceed $45,000 of the unex- bended balance of the reappropriation or rehabilitation of the Wilson Teach- rs' College, contained in the Dictrict f Columbia appropriation act, fiscal fear 1933, is hereby made immediately vailable and shall continue available ntil June 30, 1934, for the improvement bt the -central heating plant for the i Street Junior High and Douglass- pimmons Schools. The Senate next adopted the neces- ary amendment to enable the indus- ies at Occoquan and Lorton to continue o operate to avoid leaving the priscners idleness. The House had knocked out he revolving fund under which these ndustries function. The brick and ther materials made at the Workhouse nd Reformatory are used by the Fed- ral and Districi governments. On moticn of Senator King, the Sen- te struck out the committee amend- M school, who received the banner. EMBERS of Gov. Thomas Wells Society, Children of the American Revo- lution, presented the students of Roosevelt High School with a large new platform flag at céremonies this morning at the school. In the picture, left to right: Virginia Jenkins, color guard; Richard Holbrook, who pre- sented the flag; Harry Ragland, color bearer, and John Kendrick of the —Star Staff Photo. ARREST FOLLOWED BY RECOVERY OF §6,000 N BOOKS Police Say Man Confessed Taking Volumes From Catholic U. Library. PORTION OF -$30,000 LOSS SOLD FOR $32.50 Jack Slater, 28, Alleged to Have Taken Property Concealed Under Coat on Many Visits. ‘Through the efforts of detectives, some $6,000 worth of rare books, s2id to be a part of approximately $30,000 worth missing from the library at Catholic University, have been re- covered and a man identifying himself as Jack Slater, 28, arrested in connec- tion with the theft. The books, bearing dates of the seventeenth century, are said to have disappeared from the Cardinal O'Con- nell collection, and among them are extremely rare volumes. The books deal with early American history, philosophy and religious matters of many years ago. Slater was taken into custedy several days ago and booked for investigation in connection with the alleged theft. Today detectives said they had obtained a signed confession from him that he had taken the books. Slater, said to be a former soldier at Walter Reed Hospital, is s2id to have received only $32.50 for several thou- sand of dollars worth of the books he is said to have stolen. Slater, Detective Sergt. N. S. Hod- kinson said, had obtained permission at the university to visit the library and then took the volumes, usually one at a time concealed under his coat. SEEK OLD BUILDING FOR “RENOVIZING” D. C. Realty Board Searching for Dwelling for Demonstration. The Washingtor: Real Estate Board today began a search for an old dwell- ing suitable for transporting to the tri- angular park at Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue for a public “renovizing” demonstration, planned as an outstanding feature of the Renovize ‘Washington campaign. A number of dilapidated houses have been offered for this purpose but, for one reason or another, they have not been accepted. Aid of the Real Estate Board was sought by Francis P. Sulli- van, president of the District of Co- lumbia Chapter, American Institute of Architects, who is chairman of a com- mittee arranging the demonstration. The campaign leaders are looking for a one-story frame structure that may be moved without too much expense to the prominent downtown site in front of the new Department of Commerce Building. The site has been donated by the Treasury Department. Subject of Remodeling. ‘The house will be the subject of a remodeling design contest by local architects. With the design chosen, work will proceed toward modernizing the building inside and out. The public will be invited to watch the proceed- ings and keep tab on the cost of the operation, as an object lesson for gen- eral renovizing enterprises throughout the community. A date for launching the campaign, which is intended to revive employment and business, will be set at a meeting of the General Campaign Committee next Tuesday in the Board of Trade rooms, according to Arthur B. Heaton, general chairman. |, Meanwhile the renovizing movement is gaining ground in other communities. Arlington Seeks Program. The proposed inauguration of a reno- vizing campaign in Arlington County, either as a separate program or through extension of the Washington campaign, has received the approval of both the County Board and the board of direc- tors of the Arlington County Chamber of Commerce. Action by the County Board was taken Tuesday night on motion of board member Fred A. Gosnell, who declared that the renovating campaign offers a great opportunity not only for the aid of the unemployed, but also for the repair and beautification of the homes and business houses the county. Board Member John C. Gall said that he believed the District of Co- lumbia campaign could be extended to Arlington County and the pool there made available to the residents of the county, so Gosnell moved the appoint- ment of a citizen committee to handle the matter. The personnel of the com- mittee will be announced later by Chairman Harry A. Fellows. The board was addressed on the subject by Thomas R. Mechem of the Ashton Heights Citizens' Association, which organization has already gone on record as favoring the campaign and sought the official approval of the gov- erning body. ‘The board of directors of the Arling- ton County Chamber of Commerce named a committee to consult banks and prominent citizens regarding a renovizing program in the county. WHEAT PRICE REPORT IS BEING PREPARED Effort of Suspension on Chicago Trade Board Asked by Senate. By the Associated Press. The Agriculture Department at the request of the Senate, is preparing a report on the effect on wheat prices of the suspension, last October, of scme restrictions on the Chicago Board of Trade, The request was made yesterday in a resolution by Senator Wheeler, Demo- crat, of Montana, agreed to without discussion on an oral vote earlier in the day. Secretary Hyde wes absent from his office, but his assistants said the | id; report will not be available until his successor, Henry A. Wallace of Iowa, assumes office. The resolution asked the pi of suspending reports from Board of Trade entt providing for paving'of Sixteenth reel pridge, to cost $105000. A long list o er streets added to the House ill by the committee were approved, from Columbia road to Tiger |short members on accounts of speculators and | Objects to AMBULANGE SPEED . LIMIT CONSIDERED Commissioners to Take Up Ban for Various City Apparatus. Proposed drastic new regulations limiting the speed of ambulances, police cers and the apparatus of the fire rescue squads will be considered by the board of District Commissioners in | their bi-weekly session tomorrow. At that time the city heads expect to act on the draft of an amendment to the traffic code, prepared for them by Corporation Counsel W. W. Bride. Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, president of the board, and Gen. Herbert B, Crosby, police commissioner, called for a more stringent regulation as an out- crash between an Emergency Hospital ambulance and a| private automobile at Fourteenth and E streets, in which Qren Lentz, jr., 3 years old, was killed and several growth of the others seriously injured. The two Commissioners now have in mind an amendment to the traffic code under which ambulances, police cars and the fire rescue apparatus would be limited to a speed of 30 miles per hour and also would be required to come to a stop or approximately so, at all red stop lights on automatic traffic sig- They would be permitted to cross such intersections then against the stop lights, when possible, without nals. hazard of accident, under the proposed new regulation as now under consid- eration. Dr. Reichelderfer, a surgeon, familiar with the need of quick action in emergency cases, takes the position that it is likely more lives are lost|:,s through the use of excessive speed by drivers of emrgency cars than are saved by the fact that a minute or two faster trip is made to the scene of a call for help. Commissioner Reichelderfer has asked officials of Emergency Hospital for a memorandum on the accident at Fourteenth and E streets. While the hospital is a private corporation, the District is directly interested since the hospital receives sums from the District for care of indigent emergency cases. 12 WORKMEN STRIKE ON FEDERAL BUILDING Dispute Over Laying of Tile Floors Delays New Rublic Health Structure. A dispute over laying of tile floors in the new Public Health Service Building, Constitution avenue, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets, came to a head today when 12 men went on strike. The strike, it was said will delay construction work, but will not make it necessary to close down the job. The Leitch Manufacturing Co., in charge of laying the tile flooring, had carpenters affiliated with the Master Tile Floor Layers' Union to do this work, This selection, it was said, re- sulted in dissatisfaction among the ce- ment finishers, who felt the work should be given their men. The strike re- sulted. The same dispute, it was said, has arisen between the two groups on other jobs, resulting in two or three earlier walkouts. BLANTON BLOCKS FREE MAIL FOR MRS. COOLIDGE Extending Franking Privilege to Former Presi- dent’s Widow. Representative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas, blocked in the House last night a bill to grant Mrs. Grace Cool- ge, widow of the late President Cool- idge, the franking privilege on all mail matter under her written autograph signature. Blanton explained he always had rs, and whether the reports ded on recommendation of the Federal grain futures chief or re-|lican, of quested by Board of Trade mapmbers, Due to the fact that the books miss- ing were but seldom called for, their loss had not been discovered by the university until detectives traced them there. The books subsequently were identified by university authorities, and Slater, detectives say, was identified there as a man who had visited the university library. books were not found there. Among the rare volumes is one en- titled “A Discourse Concerning Uncer- tainty of Times and Men,” which dealt with a sermon delivered in Cambridge December 6, 1696. Another is “Faith- ful Narrative of the Proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Council,” which convened in Salem in the early part of the eight- eenth century. Titles of Other Books. ‘Titles of some of the other books are “The Life and Death of Mr. John Eliot,” “Historical Account of All the British Colonies in North America,” “History of the Late War in the West- ern Country,” “Chronicles of Border Warfare, “A New Discovery in Amer- ica,” “An Account the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson,” “Profane and Pro- miscuous Dancing,” “Result of the Con- vention of [r)‘elegam," ong those working on the case resulting in Slater's arrest were . go’gm ¢i CE.PM&AMM& Michael , Lieut. C. P. Cox and Precin Detective Waters of No. 3. 2 Detectives announced they would con- tinue a search for other books said to have been taken from the university. There were approximately 25 volumes in :'lal" et‘;.t.ken. One k:&ngleh volume in the on was said to have been about $5,000. sl BONDING MEASURE PASSED BY HOUSE Bill Expected to Add Greatly to Protection of Defendants in Criminal Cases. and Without a dissenting voice, the House lay passed a bill to regulate the business of executing bonds in criminal cases in the District of Columbia. The bill, which passed the Senate January 5, had passed the House twice in pre- vious sessions. It now goes to the President for his signature. The measure is considered by the legal profession to be an extremely im- portant piece of legislation toward per- fecting the, administration of justice in the Capifal. It was called up today Representative Gilbert, Democrat, of Kentucky, who has sponsored the measure for the past eight years. Specifically, the measure gives the courts of the District power to weed out undesirable persons engaged in the business of executing criminal bonds; to punish unethical collusion between bor en, attorneys and the police, and in general, to promulgate rules and regulations for protecting the public and the courts against unscrupulous bondsmen. U. S. WORKERS TO ELECT Officers for the coming year will be chosen at a meeting of the Veterans’ Administration branch, Federal Em- ployes Union, No. 2, tomorrow night at suite 604, 710 Fourteenth street. . The Nominating Committee of the branch is headed by W. Burton Upper- cue of the Pension Service. Miss Matilda Redeker, vice president, announced the branch now has a membership of 1,062. Slater, police say, formerly ran a book | shop on Ninth street, but the stolen | Saturday. Big Staff Aiding Inaugu GREATER NATIONAL CAPITAL COMMITTEE GIVES INFORMATION AT UNION STATION. T least a dozen employes of the Greater National Capital Committee, Washington Board of Trade, went on duty this morning at the committee's information booth at Union Station, helping inaugural visitors to find suitable housing. The committee is handling all inaugural housing from this headquarters, which will function through ral Visitors —=Star Staff Photo. FAVORS NEW TERM BY REICHELDERFER Senator Copeland Says He| Hopes Commissioner Will Be Continued. Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New | York, a member of the District Com- | mittee, indicated today that he would look with favor upon the continuation | of Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer as a | member of the Board of District Com- | missioners if he should be reappointed | at the expiration of his term this| Spring. “Dr. Reichelderfer has made an out- | standing an able Commissioner,” Sen- | ator Copeland said. “‘While I am a Democrat and know nothing about local | conditions, I hope he may be con- tinued.” | The District commissionerships are among the local appointments that will | have to be made by President-elect | Roosevelt shortly after he enters the | White House. | Senator Copeland has received a let- | ter from Kendall Emerson praising the record of Dr. Reichelderfer since he became District Commissioner and urg- ing his reappointment. The letter read as follows: “While in Washington last week, I | learned of the very splendid service which Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer has given as president of the Board of Com- missioners for the District. I believe it is the first time that a physician has occupied that appointment, and the wisdom of his choice has been reflected in his interest in the health affairs of the District, from which the local tuberculosis assocfation, in which I am especially interested, has profited sub- stantially. “If you agree with me, as I feel you will, Dr.Reichelderfer has shown spe- cial capacity in this responsible position and I hope very much you will be will- ing to say a word in favor of continuing hh-nuin office if the opportunity presents itself.” JUDGE HUES'I:ON RESIGNS POST OFFICE POSITION Assistant Solicitor to Give Time to Life Insurance and Col- ored Elks. Judge W. C. Hueston of Gary, Ind, yesterday resigned as_assistant solicitor of the Post Office Department, after three years' service. He will devote his time hereafter to a proposed reorgani- zation of the National Benefit Life In- surance Co. and to the educational de- partment of the Grand Lodge of Col- ored Elks, of which he is commissioner in charge. The post which Judge Hueston re- linquishes was the first of its kind to be held by his race. Judge Hueston was formerly a mu- nicipal judge in Gary. He has opened his Grand Lodge office at 1216 U street. HURLEY SAY‘S FAREWELL Secretary Holds Reception for Of- ficers and Chiefs. Work was suspended in the War De- partment for a brief period this morn- ing while Secretary Patrick J. Hurley held a farewell reception for the Army. Mr. Hurley, who is retiring after March 4 to return to Oklahoma City, received Gen. Douglas MacArthur and other of- ficers of the general staff, heads of va- rious other bureaus and branches of the service and all officers on duty in the War Department. They bid the de- parting Secretary farewell. BRINGS DEBATE Members’ The order of Secretary of Navy Adams | prohibiting the United States Navy and Marine Bands from giving special radio concerts was both condemned and ap- luring m&d‘ “‘l:" o’ofmtj:e eon!emg jon i on t.h:?”t Navy appropriation bill. The debate was precipitated by resentative Britten, Republican, of Il nois, former chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, who criticized Adams’ order and urged members of the House to make an individual pro- test to him in an effort to have the order rescinded. “The idea of allowing the bands to cl “is to give the the same opportunity to RADIO BAN FOR SERVICE BANDS Adams’ Action Draws Sharp Condemnation as ‘Well as ON HOUSE FLOOR Approval. Texas, supported Britten’s stand and pointed out the order was issued as a Secretary of the Navy he would tell the Musicians’ Union “to go to hell.” “Most of this canned music you over the air comes from musicians who are not musicians,” said Blanton. Re tatives La Inde- pendent Republican, of Stafford, Republican, of Wisconsin, both indorsed the order of the Secretary of the Navy. service bands were on the air 14 hours a week, playing without compensation, while thousands of unemployed musi- La Guardia declared the | Pr Tired Hitch.Hiking Youth Confesses to False Crime Guilt Police Here Find Boy Only Wanted to Get Back Home. Tired of hitch-hiking, Austin Wild, 20, yesterday strolled into the office of Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police. and announced he was wanted by Flusking, Long Island, authorities on a theft charge. Maj. Brown communicated with New York authorities and with the youth's father, and learned that the youth's motive in “confessing” was his desire to get back to his home in New York. He was not wanted on any charge, the police chief was told. His father drove to Washington yes- terday, and, meeting Austin at police headquarters this morning, took him back to New York with him. Austin, who was married a little more than a year ago, had been away about a month, his father said, leaving sud- denly and for no apparent reason. The youth said he had been as far South as New Orleans and was hitch-hiking home when he became bored with hitch- hiking and decided on his “confession.” INAUGURAL STANDS INJUNCTION DENIED Court Declines to Prevent Sale of Tickets for Hotel Seats. District Supreme Court Justice Joseph W. Cox today declined to enjoin the Hechinger Engineering Co., and it§ president, Sidney L. Hechinger, from continuing the sale of tickets for inau- gural parade seats on a reviewing stand on the second floor of the Metropolitan Hotel on Pennsylvania avenue between Sixth and Seventh streets. The court said the interest of persons who had purchased tickets entered into the controversy between counsel for the United Motor Terminals, Inc., and the Hechinger firm, which has a con- tract to wreck the building. ‘The court ruled the suit might re- main on the docket as one for damages. If a final hearing should show the Hechinger firm had acted illegally in the matter, the firm was amply re- sponsible to respond in damages, the justice said. ‘Through _Attorney Milton Stras- burger, the Hechinger Co. and its presi- dent said the stands were erected with knowledge of the corporation, and pointed out that the application for an injunction, although made in the name of the corporation, was signed only by counsel and did not show any action by the corporation authorizing the suit. The Hechinger firm said it was un- able to complete the contract to wreck the building within the 30 days and had a right to build the stands, for which a large number of seats have been sold. No effort to obtain an in- Junction was made until yesterday, it ‘was pointed out. ACTION ON JUSTICES AWAITS NEW SESSION Time Held Too Short for Im- peachment Consideration Now. The House Judiciary Committee, it was learned today, does not plan take any action before the adjournment of Congress on the petition of Attorney W. Bissell Thomas, for the impeachment of Associate Justices F. Dickinson Letts and Jesse C. Adkins of the District Su- preme Court. The petition charging Justices Letts and Adkins with malfeasance in con- nection with the Wardman properties receivership case, is before the Judiciary Committee for investigation. The com- mittee, however, is understood to have taken the position that the time is too short to make an inquiry at this session of Congress. Thomas had been attorney for Leslie B ting to w York, and | Put the Co. of New York began its foreclosure oceedings which resulted in the ap- pointment of receivers. Children in Program. A, Md.,, March 2 (Special). ptist Children’s Home of Alta Vista will conduct the at the services of the Baptist Congre- gal in the State Theater Sunday ASKLOWER SEWER MAINTENANCE COST | Commissioners to Get Pro- posals in Near Future. | Proposals for relieving property own- | ers of at least some of the cost of main- tenance of the “service” connections between the District water mains and houses are expected to come before the District Commissionrs for action in the near future. | Several suggestions along this line are contained in proposals now in the hands of D. W. Holton, superintendent | of the District water division, and in | the next few days the matter is ex- " ted to be placed before Maj. Joha | C. Gotwals, Engineer Commissioner, for study. Considered for Year. ‘The proposals, in general form, have been subject of thought for at least a year, and though now in but tentative shape are to be transformed into rec- ommendations soon, Mr. Holton said y. The principal matter for de- cision is how the cost of such mainte- nance work, now borne by property owners, would be financed. of the tentative proposals suggests that the District take over the cost of the original installation of the service water connections from the mains in the streets either to the curb line or the bullding line, but no decision has been reached on this point. The service connections have been maintained largely by the Water De- partment, though only after property owners have failed to make necessary repairs. In such cases the District has bulekd the property owners for such work. Copper Pipes Urged. Maj. Gotwals soon also will consider proposals that copper service connec- tion pipes, as well as brass and lead It was revealed also today that one; PAGE B—1 PAYMENTS BEGUN OF DISTRICT TAXES FALLING DUE TODAY Quick Response Is Made in Meeting Realty and Per- sonal Levies. QUARTER INSTALLMENTS PERMITTED BY NEW LAW Provision Also Is Made for Exten- sion of Time for Not More Than 90 Days. Property owners of the District have begun their semi-annual trek to the District Building to pay the second half of their real and personal property taxes, due during March. Under authority of the recent act of Congress, signed this week by Presi- dent Hoover, however, home owners are given the option, upon written re- quest, to elect to pay the March in- stallments either in one payment in April, or in two installments in April and June of this year. ‘The second half of the 1933 real and personal taxes normally would be due this month, if property owners were to escape the penalty of 1 per cent per month for delinquent payments. Those first installment payments, due last Sep- tember, now are subject to a 6 per cent penalty. Many Meet Payments. The March payments have starte off well enough, Chatham Towers, col lector of taxes, indicated today after a look at a pile of checks which have been received and after a glance at a line of taxpayers before the cashier’s window. Under the new law, if District resi- dents occupying their own homes make written application for itemized tax bills for the second half of the 1933 taxes, they may elect either to make the payment this month or may elect to dgler the payment in April or at the election of the taxpayer in two equal installments in April and June. Quarterly payments during the next fiscal year may be permitted on written application from the home owners, not later than 30 days prior to the time when the first installments for real estate taxes are due. The assessor of the District, in such cases, is directed by the new law to send to each such applicant an itemized statement of all real estate taxes due. Time Extension Allowed. The new l.w also provides for an extension of time for the payment of realty taxes and special assessments, payable after January 1, for not more than 90 days, if written application for such extension is filed with the assessor. Such extensions are to be granted only if, in the judgment of the collector of taxes, satsfactory evidence shows the owner, through unemployment or other emergency, is unable to make such pay- ments. Such applications must be accompanied by payment of 6 per cent interest on the amount of tax pay- ments so extended. Under the new law also, no family residence occupied by the own be sold for non-payment of ta less notice has been personally or sent by registered mail 30 days prior to the scheduled sale. SENATE MAY CONFIRM CABINET SATURDAY Names Expected to Be Acted Upon Immediately After Roosevelt Takes Oath. pipes, be permitted in private systems connected with the District mains. An argument in favor of this change is that the cost of copper pipe is now cheap. Property owners may benefit by a re- duction in water rents if a provision in the 1934 appropriation act is finally approved. This provides for a 10 per cent cut in all water bills if paid within 15 days. If all bills were paid on time this would result in a saving esti- mated to run to about $170,000, it is believed. District officials believe also such a change would stimuluate the paying of water bills during the period of the possible reduction in bills. COTTON RELIEF BILL SIGNING EXPECTED Senator Smith “More Confident” After Visit to White House, He Says. By the Assoclated Press. Senator Smith, Democrat, of South Carolina, author of the emergency cot- ton relief bill, told newspaper men after a conference with President Hoo- ver on the measure he felt “‘more con- fident” that it would be signed than before he came to the White House. The bill is awaiting presidential action. Asked specifically what Mr. Hoover had told him, the South Carolinian said the President had asserted it was “under consideration.” “I feel more confident that it will be signed, however,” Smith sai “than I did before I talked to him.” The measure would provide that cot- ton owned by the co-operatives and by the De of Agriculture would be placed in a huge pool, and that cotton growers agreeing to de- to | crease their production by 30 per cent or more, would be given shares in the pool equivalent to the percentage of their reduction. Smith said he had been trying to impress the President and others that “the Smith bill may be the key to the turning point of the entire economic situation.” He said that in virtually every other major depression, cotton had “led the way out.” " T. W. KUHN APPOINTED Namell Intermediary for Local Rosicrucian Order. Thomas W. Kuhn, 1619 R street, has been appointed an intermediary be- tween local members of the Rosicrucian Order and national headquarters of the order at San Jose, Calif. Mr. Kuhn will assist in making plans for the attendance of local delegates at the national convention of Rosicru- cians in San Jose during July. ‘The non-religious order is represented in many of the world and oper- ity for the promotion of By the Associated Press ‘The Roosevelt cabinet probably will be confirmed by the Senate Saturday, shortly after the inaugural ceremonies in front of the Capitol are over, it has been indicated by Democratic leaders. It first was planned to defer this formality until Monday, but it was in- dicated yesterday if the new program is adhered to, the special session of the Senate Monday will be devoted to what- ever additional presidential appointe ments are ready. To obtain confirmation of the cabi- net March 4, Mr. Roosevelt would have to leave the cabinet nominations with the White House messenger for sub- mission to the Senate immediately after he takes the oath. It is not unusual to confirm the cabinet on March 4, but often these nominations go over until the next leg- islative day. MONTGOMERY TEACHERS’ PAY CHECKS ARE DELAYED Supt. Broome Awaits Legislative Action Affecting Banks in Maryland. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., March 2.—The bank holiday in Maryland has had the effect of holding up the pay checks of the several hundred public school teachers and other school employes in this county. The checks have been signed by Supt. Edwin W. Broome, but will not go out, it is stated, until the exact nature of the legislation affecting the banks of the State is known. There is no cause for uneasiness, however, Dr. Broome stated. FREIGHTE.R IS SAFE Gladys L., Reported Missing, De- layed by Winds, Captain Reports. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, March 2.—The Poto- mac River Line power freighter Gladys L., reported missing in the bay with a crew of nine men aboard, dock: at its pier here yesterday, 48 hours late) The little vessel, loaded with 100 tons of cargo, picked up at Potomac River points, was forced into the Patuxent by high winds on the bay Mcnday, her captain, Arthur Davis, told officials on his arrival. All small bay craft, both cail and power, were driven to shelter by the winds, according to shipping agents, ::c normal traffic was resumed yester- y. Sl o Community League to Meet. ROUND HILL, Va, March 2 (Spe- cial).—The Road Hill Community League will meet tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the school. A special g:wu.m will be given and plans will made for entertaining the Loudoun County Educational Association March 25, here,