Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1933, Page 17

< pening Staf WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Society and General ROOSEVELT 10 ASK BROADEST POSSIBLE REGROUP POWERS Washington News WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1933. UTILITIES GROU [ Tighte Blaze AN Nightm Engraving Burea SEEASL .. RULNG ONAUTHORTYPONT Home First With Mrs. Dern INTERESTS CENTERED ON HUSBAND’S CAREER. cabinet wives. For eight years | she was the first lady of the State of Utah, and she is schooled in the busi- | ness of meeting people and talking to| DEMOCRATS DELAY ONTWO VAGANCIES IND.C. COMMITTEE RS. GEORGE H. DERN, wife of the new Secretary of War, | comes to Washington with a| certain edge on the other| Robinson Discloses Senate Assignments Leaving Posts Unsettled. CHANGE MADE IN LIST OF NEW CHAIRMEN Bulow Heads Civil Service Group, While Logan Gets Mines and Mining Leadership. Appointment of two more Demo- erats to complete the roster of the Sen- ate District Committee will be delayed for several days. This became known today when Majority Leader Robinson made public Democratic committee as- signments thus far decided upon, showing the two new places on the Dis- trict Committee still unsettled. Senator William H. King of Utah was appointed yesterday by the Demo- cratic Steering Committee to be chair- man of the District group, succeeding Senator Capper of Kansas, who headed the committee while the Republicans were in control of the Senate. The | Democratic assignment list available to- day shows that the following Demo- crats who are already members of the District Committee will continue to serve: Glass, Virginia; Copeland, New York; Tydings, Maryland; Bankhead, Al bama; Gore, Oklahoma, and Lewis, Illi- nois. With Chairman King, these make a total of seven Democrats definitely appointed, ‘and two places to be filled later. Republicans Named. ‘The Republican membership of the committee has been completed as fol- Jows: Capper, Kansas; Kean, New Jer- sey; Carey, Wyoming; Austin, Vermont; Davis, Pennsylvania, and Couzens, Michigan. 2 One change in the list of Democratic chairmanships announced yesterday was made today, in which Senator William J. Bulow of South Dakota becomes chairman of the Civil Service Com- mittee, and Senator Logan of Kentucky ‘becomes chairman of Mines and Mining. New Democratic Senators were given the following committee assignments ay: Nl};h&n L. Bachman, Tennessee, Foreign Relations, Military Affairs and Privileges and Elections; Homer T. Bone, | Washington, Agriculture, Naval Affairs and Territories; Fred H. Brown, New Hampshire, Interstate Commerce, Manu- factures, Post Offices and Post Roads and Privileges and Elections; Harry F. Byrd, Virginia, Finance, Naval Affairs and Rules; William H. Dieterich, Illinois, Civil Service, Interstate Commerce and‘ Naval Affairs; F. Ryan Duffy, Wisconsin, Foreign Relations, Military Affairs and Privileges and Elections; Augustine Lonergan, Connecticut, Enrolled Bills, Finance, Interstate Commerce and Pen- sions; William G. McAdoo, California, Banking and Currency, Finance and Public Buildings. Included on List. Patrick MeCarran, Nevada—Appro- riations, Irrigation and Judiciary; uis Murphy, Towa—Agriculture, Com- merce, Education and Labor; John H. Overton, Louisiana—Appropriations, Commerce, Irrigation and Manufac- tures; James P. Pope, Idaho—Agri- culture, Foreign Relations, Irrigation, Mines and Mining; Elbert D. Thoma: Utah—Education and Labor, Foreign Relations, Military Affairs, Mines de Mining and Pensions; Frederick Van| Nuys, Indiana—Foreign Relations, Judi- clary and Expenditures in Executive Departments. OPENS NEW DRIVE | ON TUBERCULOSIS! | Commissioner Reichelderfer Inau-! gurates Early Diagnosis Campaign. Announcement of the sixth annual Early Diagnosis campaign of the local| Association for the Prevention of Tu-| berculosis was made by Commissioner | Luther H. Reichelderfer in a rndio‘ address broadcast from WRC today. The campaign will be carried on during April, as a part of a Nation-wide edu- cational ‘movement sponsored by the National Tuberculosis Association, Dr. Reichelderfer said. : ‘While the efl:nbeisc\tfi b& dé;lec',ed pxri- marily against tuberculosis, the speaker prlnly:ned. it will in effect be a public health campaign tending to lessen all forms of disease. The purpose of the campaign, he said, will be to discover every possible source of tuberculosis infection and to provide for examina- tion by a competent physician or at a public clinic of all who have been ex- posed to the disease. Special efforts will be made, the Com- missioner declared, to provide medical examination and care for children, in- cluding the tuberculin test and X-ray of the chest. Records of the District Health De- artment, Dr. Reichelderfer said, show he number of deaths from tuberculosis has risen in Washington each year since 1929 and “the number of such deaths has _increased from 570 in 1930 to 599 in 1932." He said we are likely to feel the after effects of the economic depression this year and during the ensuing years. He declared it is false economy to cut the provision for our various public health services at such a time as this. Special stress is to be laid on the ex- amination ‘;nnd c‘;e of childrenuduflng the campal and a message is espe- clally to be directed to the children of the high schools. DEMOCRATIC VETERANS WILL SEEK MEMBERS | may be them and engaging in the formal aspects of official entertaining. She is a tall, clear eyed, extremely re- served woman, as definitely a product ‘of the West as a Willa Cather char- acter. She was born in Nebraska and lived there until she married the young mining engineer, and together they moved to Salt Lake City. They set up housekeeping and with the exception of a few hard years spent in the min- ing camp of Mercur they have lived there steadily, moving into larger houses as the family increased in size and i finally occupying the-executive mansion. Mrs. Dern’s interests are centered on her children. There are five of them, John, a lawyer in Chicago, Who is mar- ried and an 8-month-old son; william, who is working in Washington in the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion; Mrs. Harry Baxter, who has two children, Johnny, 5, and Joanna, 3, and who is going to live in Washington with her parents; Betsy, a sophomore in the University of Nebraska, and Jimmy, a freshman at Dartmouth. Mr. Dern's energetic and varied { career has kept her on the jump. Be- fore he became Governor of Utah he worked in gold mines, in the banking | business, in canning and in dairying. She has been with him constantly. She looks upon the years spent in the min- ing camp as the hardest, not only be- cause of .the pioneer quality of the life, but because some of her children were born there. She said she has never been conscious of seeking any outside interest for the sake of occupation. Encouraging her husband and creating a home for him and keeping an eye on the five vigorous boys and girls who followed each other in fairly rapid suc- cession have kept her busy and con- tent. She likes to read and tries to reserve enough time to do so. She is fond of music, but the impression remains that hobbies are not her bent. First comes the family, with all its ramifications, and if there is enough time left over then social activities and charities and all unofficial pursuits may make their claim. her husband’s career and the future of | | | | Mrs. George H. Dern and her daugh- | ter, Mrs. Harry Baxter. ROVER T0 DECIDE ON ENFORGEMENT D. C. Policy Toward Liquor Resorts Rests With U. S. Attorney. After spending several hours in dis- cussions of how to enforce the liquor laws against Capital speakeasles, now that Federal funds have been with- drawn from this activity, District offi- cials finally decided today to do nothing for the moment, except to refer the problem to United States Attorney Leo A. Rover. After a long conference be- tween Commissioners Luther H. Reich- elderfer and Herbert B. Crosby, with department heads involved, it was said Ly whatever the United States attorney wanted done. Brings Up Question. Maj. Ernest W. rown, superintendent | of police, brought the problem up by asking District Auditor Daniel J. Dono- van whether it would be possible to hire informers for working up speak- easy cases out of District funds. He discussed the pessibility of getting the money from an appropriation for the “prevention and detection of crime.” ‘This apg opriation for the entire year is $11,700, of which. not ta exceed $2,000 spent on certificate of the major and superintendent, who need not specify in detail what the money is to be used for. Of the $2,000 fund, which is the one that would probably be used for liquor buys, mained unexpended today. This and other problems, however, have not been definitely settled. Many other questions came up, it is under- stood, and it was decided to let them all remain open until Rover had spoken. A conference with Mr. Rover will be arranged later. g Wishes to Be Followed. ‘The decision to put the matter up to Rover, it was sald, was made because all liquor cases must be prosecuted by the United States attcrney'’s office. His wishes, it was indicated, will be followed as far as funds permit. The District has no appropriation act for the fiscal year which begins July 1 next, and there was some talk of in- serting an item in the bill which the last Congress failed to enact for money with which to pay informers. On ac- count of wet sentiment in the present Ccngress, however, District officials re- gard it as very doubtful if such funds would be appropriated. Corporation Counsel William W. Bride and Assistant Corporation Counsel Ver- non E. West were summoned by the Commissioners during the conference tcday and it was believed that Bride offered the suggestion to leave the de- cision to the United States attorney. V. F. W. to Hold Dance. SEAT PLEASANT, Md., March 9 (Special) —A dance will be given to- morrow night in the Odd Fellows’ Hall, Forestville, Md., under the auspices of Strawn-Turner Post, No. 1627, Veterans of Foreign Wars. that the Commissioners would abide | $1,403 re- | WORD ENERGENCY WOELY FIELRE | Difference of Opinion Exists as Bank Depositors Seek Funds. Among the few depositors Who ap- | plied for emergency monmey at Dis- | trict banks today, however, there was | 8 wide difference of opinion as to what | constituted an “emergency.” | There were at least half a dozen re- quests for funds at one bank to repay | personal loans—all made with the ex- planation, “I've got to pay So-and-so | the five bucks I borrowed from him." So-and-so had to continue to strug- gle along without the money due him, however, and so did the insurance agent, the landlord, the doctor, the dentist, the mortgage holder, the tax | collector—virtually everybody, n fact, | except the grocer, the druggist and the | coal dealer. | _“Just what is the emergency?” was | the question the tellers put to their customers. ' Taxes Must Wait. “The taxes on my home are due, and I have to meet them,” said a woman who wanted to make a withdrawal at the northeast branch of cne of Wash- ington’s largest banks. “I'm sorry, medam,” was the reply, “but that isn't an emergency. If you needed it for food, or fuel or medicine we could give it to you. But taxes will have to wait.” And so it went. Food, fuel and medicine—they were the real emer- gencies. Everything else could wait. “The situation soon will be cleared up.” said one bank official, and many of the others concurred. “Everything is moving along satisfactorily; the President is giving us action—real, swift, satisfying action—and, until his program is completed—maybe today, maybe tomorrow—all we can do is see that nobody starves, freezes or goes without necessary medicine.” A death in the family? Let the un- dertaker wait. He knows what the situ- ation is. Go ahead with the funeral and pay for it later. $5-$25° Paid Out. Under Clearing House Association orders, banks were permitted to pay out emergency money in amounts from $5 to $25. Some of the banks stuck to the minimum; others were willing to allow the maximum. Al however, required conclusive evidence the funds really were required to meet an emergency, and not merely to pay So-and-So his five-spot. But requests for emergency money were few. Some banks had none, some had only one or two, none had enough to keep them busy. “And most of the people who have "| asked for money,” said one bank offi- cial, “have been extremely reasonable. They seemed just as well satisfied with the small amounts we were able to give them as they would have been if we'd come across with all they asked for. I tell you, it’s & healthy signl” Plans for a national membership drive will be made tonight at a meet- ing of the War Veterans' Democratic Club at 1320 G street. The club now has a membership of 1,000, of whom 450 are active. ~All veterans are invited to attend tonight's meeting and join the club. ‘The organization maintained an in- formation booth at Union Station dur- Presidential proclamation or no presi- dential proclamation, six Washington banks are doing business today and have done it throughout the week. They are the school banks run by pupils Eastern, Roosevelt, McKinley, Dunbar and Armstrong High Schools. But while these banks are operating, ing the insugural week end, at which nfmy 5,ooo'smt1nl veterans applied for information about hotel accommo- dations and inaugural plans. Ralph Cusick is president of the club, Whose other officers include: John J. McKinnis, Cedric Johnson and Craw- ford Sloan, vice presidents; William J. Crane, treasurer; Martin Beehan, exe- cutive secretary; Kenneth McRea, mem- bership afficer,” snd Walter J. Cahil, publiclty offcer. business is mighty slim, mately $52,000 of their aggregate de- posits are tied up, like everybody else’s money, in the commercial banks of under faculty direction at the Central; -y counts total $15,000. SIX SCHOOL BANKS REMAIN OPEN THROUGHOUT HOLIDAY !About $52,000 Tied Up in Commercial Deposits, but Cash Left for Operation. appeared when he learned that 10 &: cent or less of the total deposits in school banks represent individual pupils’ * The ‘majorlty of the fund ts e majority o represen school activities deposits, such as ath- letic and dramatic funds, and 'school cafeteria accounts. The largest bank total of deposits in the city is at Central High School where ac- Among the smaller account totals is that of $600 at the School. Al the school banks the city. Only a few dollars deposited | deposi in the school banks this week are still on hand for “banking business” in these practice institutions. Discussing the school bank situation today, Dr. Stephen Kramer, first assistany dec] any concern he might have had Meeting, Abigail th | England Women, Willard Jurisdiction "Over Deprecia- tion Charges of Interstate Concerns May Be Settled. HEARING IS EXPECTED LATER THIS MONTH Matter Involved in D. C. Supreme Court Case of Telephone Com- pany Against Commission. ‘The District Public Utilities Commis- sion soon will ask the Interstate Com- merce Commission to establish for- mally and clearly the authority of the local body over the local aspects of de- preciation charges of interstate firms doing business here. This is & move of importance to the customers of the utility firms and the companies themselves, since deprecia- tion reserves are created out of charges against operating costs of the utilities and therefore have an influence on rates charged the public for services. The move of the local commission will come in a hearing on telephone accounting procedure which is to be opened, probably late this month, before the Interstate Commerce Commission. 'l'ltae date for the hearing has not been set. In arnouncing today the local com- mission would participate in the hear- ing, Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chair- man, said the local body would be rep- resented by Riley E. Elgen, vice chair- man. In its move for a clear definition of its authority in this matter, the local commission is expected to be joined by spokesmen for a number of State com- missions, all seeking the same objective. Question of Jurisdiction. The local utility commissioners re- gard the matter as one of great im- portance. since in valuation and rate cases utility concerns engaged in inter- state as well as local business have claimed the local commission has no Jurisdiction over depreciation rules. They contend only the Interstate Com- merce Commission rules apply. This matter now is involved in the case now pending in the District Su- preme Court in the litigation brought by the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- phone Co.-against the commission in opposing the order of the commission last September, calling for a 10 per cent discount in rates for domestic consum- ers. The point has been raised numerous times during the history of the local commission. Members of the presept commission contend that Congress has given it au- thority over depreciation charges as ap- plied locally. The act of Congress cre- ating the commission states in this con- nection: “The commission shall also prescribe rules, regulations and forms of | accounts regarding such depreciation which the public utility is required to carry into effect.” The issue was raised definitely in the order of the commission in the tele- phone company case, this directing that the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone | Co. credit to its depreciation reserve at the end of each month a sum equal to interest at the rate of 5 per cent per year upon the amount of the deprecia- tion reserve carried in its accounts. Fund Invested in Plant. The reason for requiring this interest to be credited to the depreciation re- serve was that the depreciation fund itself was invested in the plant of the telephone company. The commission held that the company had earned a return of no less than 5 per cent in any recent year on its depreciation reserve available for investment in plant. The depreciation fund, of course, is created out of the revenues from the company'’s customers. In the same order the commission directed that the amount accruing monthly for the depreciation reserve should ¥ diminished by the amounts of the SI;m:h udlded to the reserve by rea- son of the interest charges it directed be_credited to.the fund. The commission reported in the tele- phone case that from 1920 through 1931 the subscribers of the telephone com- pany had contributed $12,028,710 to the depreciation reserve for use in retir- ing properties. A further study showed, however, the commission added, that less than half of this reserve was actu- ally used for retiring outworn utilities, there being a balance in the fund as of December 31, 1931, totaling $6,761,000. This, the commission held, was suf- ficient to provide for retirements for the next 10 years, on the basis of the experience of the last 12 years. On the same basis, it was estimated the balance in the depreciation reserve un- used would \mount to more than $12,- 000,000 at the end of another 12 These and other facts led the “com- mission to state it was satisfied the com- wou!d be amply protected if dur- ensuing 12 months, at least, it !gl;ol.nu‘min:).th i drmmtl:h chn‘e;e g e fun operating expenses. o —_— CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Meeting, Washington Chapter, Ameri- Hotel, 8 pm. ors Ehioce Meeting, Washington section, Institute of Radio Engineers, Kennedy-Varre p.m. Dinner, 6:30 p.m. i ey Meeting, Club of “George x’;;h‘i’nxwu Uni A ‘éon?;\n Hall, i .m. Meeting, Chemical Society of “Wash- Cosmos Club, 8:15 py.m. carnation, Fou streets, 5 to 7:30 p.m. Meeting, Knights of Col Fourth Degree, Mayflower Bolel.“lém :I:‘ Dinner, Thirteen Club, Willard Hotel, 6:30 p.m. Ball, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Camp No. 305, Willard Hotel, 9 p.m. Dinner, W an Alumni, University Club, 7 pm. e Luncheon, Round Table, University Club, 12:30 p.m. . Advertising Club, Raleigh Luncheon, Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Adams Colony, New Hotel, 2 pm. Fire Auxiliary Plans Benefit. years, | delegal near the bureau. ITH the Bureau of Engraving and Printing running three shifts of workers to turn out Federal Reserve notes, the output now is mostly bills from $5 to $50. immediately on the higher denomina- tions frcm $500 to $10,000 bills, but now the presses are working on smaller bills. the workers’ desks as the contant flow ! of visitors, more than ever curious about the plant, file across the spectators’ ramps hung above the working floors. ‘Women counterg run through piles, to supply new Federal Reserve currency. In | rubber “fingers” on their hands, count- | ing, checking for misprints, tieing m-[ | tions of uncut bills together ready for | | the cutting machines. | | On another side of the room sheets | i easily as they are handled, because | they are taken to the presses after days | { of dampening to the point where they | ‘Then, sheet by sheet, they slip rapidly | | under a heavy roller, face down to the | plate that will mark them as the public | finally sees them. Again they go| through a process of drying and damp- | A view of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing photographed early today. The bureau is working day and night e the foreground are the derricks employed on new Government buildings enln"édlnd then the other side is Each movement of the workers has been so carefully planned that the money stacks rise rapidly. Back in the recesses of the building The order for the speed-up came |of paper, large enough to hold the faces | where the ordinary visitor does not go, from the Federal Reserve Board March | of six bills, are placed in stacks by the |is a huge vault surrounded by thick | requested, the President would be-em- 4, bureau officials say. Printing begam | printers. The sheets are soft, bend |steel, and secured behind three sets of locks. There, the bills finally get a breathing space. Shelves rise to the ceiling holding Now high stacks of bills pile up on Wwill pick up ink from the plates easily. | cvery denomination from the plebeian $1 to the aristocratic $10,000 variety— shelves these days that are rapidly fill- ing up their empty stretches as the hum of the printing presses fills the build- ing the whole 24 hours of the day. SIPERIRY GRIP T0FIRAT REPEAL [Will Center Efforts in States That Are Expected to Favor Prohibition. | Their ranks united for a country-wide campaign against the prohibition repeal amendment, the country's dry leaders today were perfecting the organizatien | of the new super group which, like the | Executive Committee of a national po- litical organization, will direct the drys in the coming battle with the wets in the States. The new organization was agreed | upon in a somewhat stormy session of representatives of all the prohibition groups in the country at Calvary Bap- | tist Church yesterday. A plan of action and statement of policy were adopted as dry leaders welded together the | churchmen and temperance organiza- | tion to present a united front in the battle to gain strength in the constitu- tional conventions in the States. Pickett Outlines Plans. Deets Pickett of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, a pioneer in the move- ment to weld together all the dry or- | ganizations, explained the new super- dry organization yesterday as follows: “We are planning to go at this thing in just the same way as a major politi- cal party would map its plans for a presidential election. We should get our organization perfected down to every possible group in every town and ham- let, as well as in the large cities. | “If I were making the plans at this | time I'd look over the map of the United States, just as the Democrats and Republicans do, and concentrate on the States where we are known to have functory campaign in those States where our chances are practically nil.” Nine Leaders to Be Named. . The immediate objective of the new organization is the naming of an Execu- tive Committie of nine dry leaders, who will be charged with raising a cam- aign fund. No figure has been set paign which the drys plan to wage is expected to cost considerable. ‘The new organization will supersede, for the time being, the individual ef- forts of the various dry organizations, and will have a complete program, in which all the separate organizations will act as a unit. ‘The drys will direct their efforts par- ticularly at the manner in which tes to constitutional conventions are chosen—placing their reliance on the residents of the rural sections to carry their cause for them. Therefore, they will seek to have the delegates chosen, not according to population, which would give added strength to the wets (for most of the delegates from the urban centers are expected be wet), but rather from the existing districts from which members of the State Legislatures are chosen. Governing Group Formed. Another of the governing committees, the “Continuation” Committee, which will number about 100 and include all the old-line dry leaders, such as Bishop JamesCannon, jr.; F. Scott McBride, gen- le; Mrs. e, pI nf e . T. l.!fi and «;ithm. d vice chairman, and Dr. J. Peale of New York, secretary. This “Continuation” Committee is ex- pected today to compleze the list of the members of the Executive Committee, which will include z_,nsinu and church leaders of the country. The conference made public & resolu- in the cl ‘hours, call- JOHN KEEFE EXPIRES ‘Was Connected With Newspapers | He Here for 25 Years. QLTS Lt e at Mounf an {llness of 21 months. Funeral a good chance, and make only a per- | oy ror this fund, but the tremendous cam-¢ ment, from 1920 to 1924, and was in the | Subsequently he was aboard the U. S. to | will be Lieut. Scott E. Peck, who has LIGHTING TO BE ASKED | ON BRANDYWINE STREET American University Park cm-E zens Will Make Plea to D. C. ; Government. The American University Park Citi- zens'. Association last night laid plans| to ask the District government to install street lights on Brandywine street in the community. Arthur Carr, president of the asso- clation, announced that work on_the | sewer along Forty-ninth street, which | has now reached Albemarle street, will be continued, and the project probably | will be finished in about a month. An entertainment presented by Mrs. ‘Walter C. Doe, chairman of the Enter- | tainment Committee, included a pro- gram of songs and dances in which the | participants were Walter Doe and three daughters of Mr. and Mrs. David | E. Barry—Mary Virginia, Dorothy and Mercedes. D.C. MANINCLUDED IN MACON'S STAFF Lieut. A. L. Danis to Serve as | Aerological Officer on New Rigid Aicship. One Washington man was included in the officer personnel of the new rigid airship Macon, as announced today by the Navy Department. He is Lieut. | Anthony L. Danis, 1540 Forty-fourth street, who will serve as aerological officer. | Comdr. Alger H. Dresel will com- mand the craft, which will be christened at Akron, Ohio, at 2:30 p.m. Saturday Mrs. William A. Moffett, wife of the | chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics. Comdr. Dresel is a native of Annapo- lis, Md., and was appointed to the Naval Academy in 1905. He received the Navy Cross for his World War service as aide to the commander of the Azores de- tachment and for &ommanding a de- stroyer. He served in Washington in the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Depart- command of the dirigible U. S. S. Los Angeles from April, 1931, to February, 1932. He commanded the U. S. 8. Akron from June, 1932, until last month, when he reported for duty in connec- tion with the fitting out of the Macon. ‘The airship’s executive officer will be Lieut. Comdr. Joseph C. Arnold, who, during the war, served in submarines. 8. Shenandoah, the ill-fated airship that met disaster in the Middle Wfih long been in the lighter-than-air craft. He has been in since 'W. Roland. and communi- cation officer will be Lieut. Howard N. Coulter. 5 The craft’s first leutenant is Lieut. ‘Walter E. Zimmerman, & former Navy ;‘nufiad man, who later went to the av: Mrs. Roosevelt tried to get into the for the SHARSON WEEH MU BROADCASTS Receives Protest's Against Taking Marine and Navy Bands Off Air. Becretary of the Navy Swanson today had before him for consideration sharply conflicting statements on the halting of radio broadcasting by the Navy and Marine Bands While Jo- seph N. Weber, president of the Amer- ican Federation of Musicians, urged the new cabinet officer in a vigorous pro- test to keep the service bands out of competition with unemployed musicians, about 100 letters from various sections of the country asked Mr Swanson to restore the bands to the air. The naval authorities saild complaints are still Mr. Weber wrote: “We are confident that to put these bands into the serv- ice of commercial corporations operat- ing for profit or of private individuals is in direct violation of Federal statutes designed to protect the right of private citizens to earn their livelihood free from competition with those ap the Government pay roll whose liveli- 0od is aranteed by the public treasury. SEC Calls Navy Worst Offender. “The question is broader than that which affects the use of the Navy and Marine Bands. These are but two of the 56 bands under your jurisdiction, and there are 89 more in the Army. The Navy has been the far more flagrant offender. * * * ‘We reiterate our objection to the pol- | coming in. icy of hiring out these bands to private lic booking agencies, or permitting them 1o play for the profit, direct or indirect, of the big broadcasting companies, and of ordering them to furnish music at every conceivable kind of social func- tions given by those who have suffi- clent influence to impress naval com- mandants and who, of course, have am- glem-mnnd;hnuldbemxumdw ance their own entertainments.” On the other hand, from the steam- ship Morro Castle, at sea, came this: ‘Why discontinue worthwhile music of the Marine Corps and Navy Bapds in favor of ‘canned music’ under the aus- Ppices of so-called Musicians’ Union?’ Upham Receives Protest. The office of Rear Admiral Frank B. Upham, chief of the Bureal of Naviga- | H- B tion, Navy Dej hag vy Department, announced it ved York Musical Association saying that it highly appreciated the type of 'concem given by the service bands and requested Newburgh, N. Y., came this one: “This is to protest loudly against the fact that you are depriving ‘all of us common folk’ of the pleasure of hearing the bands. ‘Have a heart’ There are still a few radio owners who prefer music to noise.” BOY STRUCK BY AUTO Joseph Cohen, 13, of 600 Tennessee avenue ‘was severely injured about the head yesterday when struck by an automobile at Trinidad avenue MRS. ROOSEVELT KEPT WAITING BY CAPITOL ELEVATOR OPERATOR House Attendant Enraged at Delay on ‘Way to Gallery, but She Says She Didn’t Mind. & telegram from the New | Re; President Probably to Seek Immediate Action in Con- gress Tomorrow. TREASURY SITUATION HELD KEY TO CRISIS Executive Would Be Empowered to Cut Veterans’ Compensation and Expenditures. By the Associated Press. President Rooseyelt plans to ask the new Congress, probably tomorrow, for the broadest powers possible under the Constitution to permit him to slash Government costs. Immediate action by Congress is understood to be desired o s e o high offi vulging this proposal, - cials said Mr. Roosevelt views the situa- tion confronting the Federal Treasury as the key to the credit structure of the Nation. He was represented as determined to reduce expenditures to within income. Seeks Veterans’ Fund Power. Under the sweeping authority to be powered to reduce veterans' compensa- tion and expenditures, which run nearly $1,000,000.000 a year and constitute one-fourth of the annual budget. All cases under the Veterans’ Administra- ticn would be subject to review and revision downward. In addition, the President’s request !is understood to encompass reductions in salaries, cutting statutory appropria- tions, subsidies, the suspension of cer- tain works and further power to abolish or merge Government departments. Mr. Roosevelt was represented as willing to accept all responsibility the Congress will give him in effecting economies. It is understood he expects $200,000,000 to be saved annually through the reorganization plan alre drafted by Lewis W. Douglas of Ari- zona, the new director of the budget, under the economy provisions of the Treasury-Post Office Department sup=- ply bill enacted by the last Congress. These nvlurgs. though substantial, are not only insufficient to fulfill the party’s pledge to cut Government costs 25 per cent, but inadequate to reduce ex- penditure to within revenue. Reorganization Already Begun. Although burdened by the problems of the financial crisis, President Roose- velt already has instituted reorganiza- tion and curtailment of Government ac- tivifies. Abolition of many independent commissions and bureaus, set up under the Hoover administration, appears on the program. Liquidation of the Farm Board's sta- bilization activities, abolition of the Shipping Board by combining it with *.the Navigation and Steamboat Service, the Lighthouse Service, and the Coast |and Geodetic Survey, appear jmminent, | Other activities understood to be | slated for curtailment, merger or aboli- tion include the International Boundary Commission, the American Marine | Standard Committee, the Inter-Ame: |ican Highway Commission, the Inte: | national Screw Thread Committee, Fed-. | eral Stabilization Board and the Wood | Utilization Committee. HEALTH TALK PLANNED Care of the skin and scalp will be discussed by Dr. F. J. Eichenlaub in the Health Education Forum of the Young Men's Christian Association to- night at 7:45 o'clock, it was announced today by Ralph W. Foster, director of physical education of the Y. M. C. A. The talk is one of a series sponsored by the Health Education Council of the Y. M. C. A, with the co-operation of the District Medical Society. The pube is invited to attend, free of charge. Marriage Licenses. 5. 1020 10th st.. and G Josen slll)flo 1104 M st.; Rev. Harry D, McKee, 25, 725% Sixth s Anna Mae Moore, 28, Phjladelphia; MlP‘l"‘l’;‘A‘k}’J Clayts B54. 512 . Clayton. 54. 5127 I 3 i ST, 127 o e necticut_ave.; Rev. Johi ueally. Carl Haston Haines, 2 Re\‘nuw‘.mmnes?zn;mlw 1 V. am 8. rnethy. Le Roy The Jw. 21, 632 G st. e Ra 1 . and Judge igey, 26, 3837 Garrison st., Howlett, 21, 1000 P st Rev, Len Bavt B 210 8th d Elizabetn Wilkerson, 2%, 10 Sth o, wog v H s or 0 8th st. se; William M. Mason, 28. Predericksburg, Va and Marguerite A. Hasiop, 2 onax, Va. 'v. John E. 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