Evening Star Newspaper, April 4, 1933, Page 2

. e L | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1933, RS. GANN DEPICTS DEN WASHINGTON ES S T At Bleek Horses Made Her _Homesick for Kansas, =“%* She Recalls. 'This is ‘the third of -a series of ftidaily” articles in which Mrs. Dolly , sister of Charles Curtis, Vice .President in the Hoover administra- 5 , is giviny reminiscences of her . dliteresting. experiences in polftics 3 society in Washington, BY &11 doi'ngt long foriall the old ways, it I like to recall fashions and doings noW ‘seem ‘50 remoter There may we shéuld -have retained from gotten manners and customs of our youth; yét I am sure improved _conditions in the present era of sophis- j tication outweigh the lcss of the sim- TSR | When T 2 ypungster in Kansas i we ha s* lights, and” used vood or tcoal in our cook stoves—on which I | learned endugh' about cooking to know imy family will never have to live on !unp.mibi'e food, even if the market {in domestic service falls to zero.” We ‘daid rot think 'of having a telephone until thdt mervel had passed through its expehsive testing’ stage. It we iylmfiffl 1? or_ 20 mlle; lwlfi rom _ honjs, . Journey _required_ a! 2 b";mnfi‘ b! ~“In, the ‘e gs, 1. e Had 0. com] "nndd no | , we couldread or I Or AT bt the- home. heside wes iquiet by contrast with its gayety in ! this age of motor and radio. We were, I ‘have no-‘doubt, as happy then as the \young people today. We played, rode iand danced, at a slower pace perhaps, t none the less joycusly. The girls id not stay out until the small hours. They started earlier in the evening, and they-were expected to be up and doing earlier the next morning. If T had a daughter today I @on't think I should wish to curb her, The new generation behaves itself, on the whole, to my liking. I envy its inde- pendence, self-confidence and poise. If it has lost anything by casting off re- straint or abandoning the pious inhibi- tions of its predecessors, the loss is overbalanced by its conquest of fear. Our boys and girls taink for them- selves. Nemfi marks the difference be. tween old times and tl e new so stri ingly as our clothes. Show me a wom- an’s photograph, and I can tell when it was taken by the neck or sleeves, or in recent years by the length of the sKir:. The rebellion against unhealthful clothes Jhas reformed fashions. In the process of Hberation the larger cities | used to be months or. years ahead of the inland fowns and rural regions, where inherited prejudices hung on. since the World War hes news of style changes been flashed immediately to remete places. Drove “Snappiest” Horses. I have never been able to decide whether the French mentality was really supericr to ours in creating styles, or whethzrmour mlnu(lctutrk::: ‘were. 50 blisy. aloig otlier lnes they mer ‘awaiting the psycho- logical ‘moment to take over the busi- ness. If- the unpleasantness between us and the French over the debt re- sults in our originating styles for-our- selves, at least one g thing will have come out of the quarrel. «_I have wandered away from my rec- ections of the old times—from girl- 4 in.Kansas to fashion along the GANN. | tary. My .return. trips to Kansas, between ,. of ‘Congress, ~were. vacations e d e L ehicle with’ two seats back to back. I firove none but the snappiest horses. My trap made its.daily.rounds of the X was a regular exhibitor, often a win- ber. A trap was. in my :&l'mon. the }.(munq!w ashington my t g my early, lonely weeks, befare | 0, I e ope end to Court _in heard much talk of the tribunal of ‘which & member of our family on my mother’s side, John 'Jay, was first Chief ustice. Imagine -my disappointment entering the small room of the court, formarly .the Senate Chamber. ears passed before the mo ct a° Supreme Court tiding, y. N A Mrs, is Flynn of Okla- fln_'l‘lmi_lxgose husband arrived in Con- T the same year as Charles, I once Hgot Jost explaring the Capitol. I remem- 's, Yoorn, where the President signs,| bills in ‘the ¢losing hours of “‘Congress, & nearby the 'Wice President’s Toom. one lingering boast, as a Kansan, ailure to discover any such, as we had in the Topeka State { House. 3 i ‘Washington of OM Days. # The Washington of old was as differ- 1 enc from the Capital today as my na- i tive city in Kansas was different from ; the present Topeka. The two were not 1 then as far apart as might be imagined. : Washington was stilk like an overgrown { village in 1893 & Trees lined . all the istreets radiating from the Capitol and-beyond. Most of ghem-haye been felled in widening and Yepaving operations. Horse cars tra- versed F street. A cable line ran.along Pennsylvania avenue. The Herdic—a | Jow-set bus with its entrance at the ‘back and seats along the sides, named after the Penmsylvanian, Peter Herdic, who invented it—was the means of transit on Sixteenth street. Open victorias served as cabs. We did pot have many of the hansoms which were the vogue in New York. For making calls, if one owned no carriage. $one hired a closed coupe, very stuffy, drawn by one or two horses too old or fecble for fast movement The grand rsons riding in their own carriages, ehind horses in glittering harness, aroused envy in the Kansas girl who had left her smart trap and spirited bay home. I di¢ ot care especially for the pohderous carriage, but the sleek i horses made me homesick. i Basement kitchens were the rule in ©ld Washington; they are rarer today. Houses then looked upon as model in’ the e was & long mhomf- lze?‘m\lpi:d ‘when N weré young, ,¥ook: thetn often ‘spent the part’ of ‘an umflugnm:of the v w Whe 5o remote-that only an ‘r- aiker explored its I Writes of Capital A favorite photograph of Mrs. Gann. only begun. There was no vista from Washington's Monument to the Lincoln Memc:ial, no Speedway winding around the Basin through Potomac Park, no wall of cheery blossoms to mark the coming of Spring, no enormous Gov- ernment structures, save the Capitol, ‘Treasury and the State, War and Navy Building: no high office buildings, no Pan-American Union or Red Cross Building and no hotels which would seem to us worthy of the name, though they were considered fine in their day. Our family spent an occasional sea- son in one hotel or another. The Dewey, on L street, was famous. Some of iis rooms were. named for distinguished public men, and on each piece of furni- ture was the portrait of the person thus commemorated. In the Grosvenor room, for example, the face of the venerable Ohloan gazed from the back of every chair, from head and foot boards of the bed, from the bureau drawers. The portraits were caricatures, though the originator of the idea probably thought them excellent likenesses and high art. More than once a patron of the hotel departed in high dudgeon when he was assigned to a room decorated with the face of some statesman he disliked or thize. The Dewey has been turned into a Salvation Army headquarters. Then there weré the Hamilton, the high-toned hostelry of the town; the Ebbett House, on Fourteenth street, where famous men of three generations lived; the Metropolitan, which special- ized in entertaining Scutherners; Wil- lard's, later the Willard, on the same site as the new hotel of the same name; the Raleigh and the Gordon, which are still open; the National, Riggs, Cockran, the old Shoreham and many another, At the Normandie, James Sherman lived for years, 2nd it was the dignified home of many old-times. “It was not like this in the olden days,” is a truism in every decade. Yet there are some things about us that do not change. I, for instapce, have not forgotten all of my grandmother’s or my mother’s teaching. I can still | get excited over a political fight or a good horse—and I can still sew. Only a few months ago I asked a profes- sional carpet mender how much he would charge to dazn a hole in a Prin- cess Bokhara rug. When he said $50 I took my needle and did it for myself. (Tomorrow, Washington in Wartime.) \Copytight, 1733, by North American News- paper Alliance. Inc.) oewile el saide MICHIGAN VOTES .. FOR REPEAL BY 86 « PER CENT MAIORITY (Continued Prom First Pnge.; ‘State g’xflh@nflm was cartied by a heavy ‘majority. Gov. Willilam A Comistock, ardent supporter of repeal, had ready for in- troduction in the Legislature today a measure to permit the manufacture and sale of 3.2 becr in Michigan. By the quickest parliamentary procedure the measure can be enacted to make béer available by April 17. As the Legisla- ture is definitely wet, the administration anticipates quick passage of the bill, the only delay that might occur being due to a pcsible disagreement regard- Dg licensing provisions. ring interest with the repeal vote was the indicated victory of Democratic candidates for minor State offices. On the face of returns from a little more than one-third of the State, the Demc- crats held a lead of around 50,000 for all these offices, now held by Republi- cans. They included a State highway oner, two justices of the Su- preme Court, regents of the university, superintendent of public instruction and iembers cf several State boards. The Democratic victory would leave only one Republican State officeholder, the secretary of State, Frank D. Fitz- gerald, who survived the November Democratic whirlwind. WISCONSIN VOTING TODAY. i MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 4 (#).—A decisive vote was hoped for, anti-prohi- bitfonist said in today’s voting to pass judgment on the eighteenth amendment, “The eyes of the Nation are on Wis- consin,” said Dr. J. J. Seelman, Mil- waukee, State director of the Associa- 4lon Against the Prohibition Amenc- ment. “A close vote will have a bad psychological effect in States where wetesx; dry sentiment is almost bal- anced.” DISTRICT ESTIMATES SLASHED AT RATE OF $1,000,000 AN HOUR (Continued Prom First Page.) Missouri, .who served as chairman of the House Subcommittee on Appropria- tions which conducted hearings on the original 1934 District estimates, asked Maj. Donovan, if, in making the re- ductions, the Commissioners adopted a general rule, whether a certain per- centage was applied or a standard blanket reduction applied to each item. In reply, Maj. Donovan said: “No, sir. What we did was to use our best judgement in the hurried time we had in which to make the changes. ‘We were told that the bill was to be | submitted to the committee on Monday. | On Saturday afternoon, working con- tinually between 2 o'clock in the after- noon and 8 o'clock Saturday night, all of the changes were made. We had not the opportunity or the time to go back and spend several days on the work, which I believe is the time that would | probably have been required for the purpose of analyzing more carefully just what cuts to make in the estimates, and in distributing and allocating the amount of the reductions. “It was just about six hours which we had to meet the situation, and we met it, according to our judgment at the moment, figuring on each and every item in the. bill as they came up for consideration.” Mr. Cannon said he thought the sim- plest plan would have been for the Commissicners to adopt a certain per- centage as a standard and then make & blanket reduction of that percentage throughout the bill. He declared that apparently no uniform plan was fol- lowed, pointing out that sgme items had been decreased by a much larger percentage than others. 1 ‘we used cur best judgment at the mo- ment, knowing exactly the conditions with respect to each department and service of the District government. Knowing that, we knew where this money could best come from. The work Wwas done according to our best judg- iment _at the moment.” with whose politics;he did not sympa- | “As I stated,” replied Maj. Donovan, | him, ! ’PRUMINENT WOMAN WETS GATHER HERE Fourth Annual Conference of Dry Reform Group to Be Held Tomorrow. Prominent woman wets from all over the country are gathering in Wash- | ington for the fourth annual confer- | ence of the Women's Organization for | National Prohibition Reform, which, meeting at the Mayflower Hotel tomor- row, will map out the women's cam- paign to erase prohibition from the country’s national life. ‘The meeting will cpen at 2 pm. to- morrow with the annual report of Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, national chairman. At the same time there will be an ad- dress by Miss Sarah Schuyler Butler, daughter of Dr. Nicholas Murray But- ler, president of Columbia University. Banquet Tomorrow Night. ‘There will be a banquet at the May- flower tomorrow night, with addresses by Representative James W. Wads- worth, Republican, of New York and Representative John McDuffle, Demo- crat, of Alabama. Between 800 and 1,000 prominent women are expected to come to Wash- ington for the gathering. The early arrivals included Mrs. Plerre S. du Pont of Wilmington, chairman of the Dela- ware division; Mrs. Solon Jacobs, chair- man of the Alabama division; Mrs. D. H. Foresman of Mississippl, former president of the Mississippi Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs. John B. Cas- serly of San Francisco; Mrs, Willlam T. Healy of Atlanta, Ga. chairman; Mrs, Nicholas G. Roosevelt of Philadel- phia; Mrs. William Proctor of Bar Har- bor, Me.; Mrs. Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Omaha, Nebr., Mrs. Willlam Cabell Bruce of Ruxton, Md.; Mrs, Sabin, Mrs. Courtlandt Nicoll of New York City; Mrs. E. Roland Harriman of New York City; Mrs. Edward S. Moore of New York City; Mrs. John W. Cross of New York City and Mrs. Wilmarth Lewis of Farmington, Conn. Washington Delegates. Several women in Washington con- gressional circles will be delegates to the conference, including: Mrs. Robert R. Reynolds, wife of the Senator from North Carolina; Mrs. Warren R. Austin, wife of the Senator from Vermont; Mrs. Wadsworth, Mrs. McDuffle, Mrs. Fred Britten, wife of the Representative from Illinois and Mrs. Edward Pou, wife of the Repre- sentative from North Carolina. ‘The lquor control problem will be taken up at Thursday's morning ses- sion, with a round-table discussion un- der the direction of Mrs. Edward Wales Root of Clinton, N. Y. daughter-in- law of Elihu Root. BANK GROUPTOGET MORTGAGE PLANG Morgenthau to Explain Pro- visions of Relief Meas- ure. By the Associated Press. Chairman Wagner summoned mem- bers of the Senate Banking Subcom- mittee to an afternoon session today to hear the administration’s explanation of the farm mortgage relief bill. Wagner said the subcommittee would hear Henry Morgenthau, jr., chairman of the Farm Board, and his adminis- trative assistant, W. I. Myers. The Senate Agriculture Committee, meanwhile, consicered the mortgage bill in executive session this morning. A rough but certain path through th> Senate was forecast for the broad price-lifting and mortgage- Tt o g -~ gage-easing farm Will Speed Action. Approval of the plan to give Secre- tary Wallace wide latitude in employ- ing price-lifting machinery was voted yesterday by the Agriculture Commit- tee after writing in an optional pro- duction cost guaranty proposal. Almost immediately the committee went to work on the mortgage legisla- tion sent to Capitol Hill by President Roosevelt at noon. The idea is to combine the two measures, speed them through the Senate and back to the House, which already has given overwhelming indorse- ment to the farm relief bill. Leaders predicted final congressional action early next week. The Banking Subcommittee also probably will complete work today on the mortgage bill. Then the full com- mittee will act. Any changes made by this committee will be made on the floor of the Senate. Gives Several Plans. The farm bill is intended to restore the farmer's purchasing power to the 1909-1914 levels and gives the admin- istration a choice of several plans for achieving this, including land leasing &nd marketing agreements. The mortgage bill is designated to take the debt burden off farmers by providing means through the Federal land banks for refinancing at lower rates of interest. Punds also are pro- vided for refinancing debts other than mortgages. GLASSFORD SEEKS TO HEAD U. S. AID Telegraphs Roosevelt Asking Ap- pointment as Relief Ad- ministrator. Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, for- mer superintendent of Metropolitan Police, wants to be PFederal relief ad- ministrator and has telegraphed Pres- ident Roosevelt to that effect. News that the retired Army officer is actively campaigning for the post, which is created in the La Follette-Costigan- Wagner $500,000,000 emergency relief bill already passed by the Senate, be- came known today on Capitol Hill. He has written a number of Senators asking indorsement of his candidacy and in the letters revealed he had wired the White House applying for the post. Among those in the Senate who have recelved letters are the three co-authors of the pending relief bill—Senators La Follette of Wisconsin, Costigan of Colo- er of New York—and Couzens, Michigan; Cutting, New Mex- ico; Capper, Kansas; Tydings, Maryland; Trammell, Plorida; Walsh, Massachu- setts. and Walcott, Connecticut. Some of them privately expressed opposition to , because of his handling of the bonus army. In one of the letters, Glassford wrote: “I am convinced it would be a mistake to appoint a Lgmwulonll welfare worker, or to make the appointment upon political patronage. The opportunity of , this position for constructive work ap- peals to me immensely,” w R, ISENATE APPROVES D. . BEER REPORT Votes 42 to 34 Without De- bate—Bill Goes Back to House. By a vote of 42 to 34 the Senate this ! afternoon adopted the conference re- ! port on the District beer and wine bill. The report now goes to the House, and if that body ratifies it, the measure | will be ready for signature by President | Roosevelt. i The Senate agreed to the report with- out a word of debate beyond the re- quest of Senator Sheppard, Democrat, Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland, called up the report Senator Sheppard first suggested the absence of a quorum. As soon as a quorum was obtained, the Senate proceeded to vote on whether it would accept the measure as agreed to in conference or send it back for further conference. As ironed out in conference late yes- terday the bill was changed in only a few particulars from the form in which it passed the Senate. Commissioners Given Power, The principal change made by the conferees was in rewriting the Gore amendment to give the District Com- missioners discretionary power in de- ciding whether licenses should be is- sued to serve beer in restaurants at the Capitol end other Government build- ings. As passed by the Senate last week, the Gore amendment read as fol- lows: “Provided, That no license shall be issued for the sale of any such beverage in any building owned or leased by the United States and used for the trans- action of public business” ‘The other change made by the cone ferees was to reduce from six months to two months the length of time a restaurant must have been in opera- tion in order to obtain an “on sale” license to serve beer. May Go to President Tomorrow. If there is no delay in ratifying the conference report the bill probably will go to President Roosevelt to be signed by tomorrow evening. ‘With the exception of the changes mentioned above, the final draft of the measure follows the revised form in which the Senate passed it. A Senate subcommittee headed by Senator Tyd- ings, and including Senators Carey of Wyoming and Lewis of Illinois, rewrote the House bill to throw every possible safeguard around the licensing and regulation of these beverages and to perfect the legal phraseology of the measure. The essential features of this revision are preserved in the final re- port. For instance, there are five kinds of licenses Instead of three as in the House bill. The House provides for a manufacturer's permit, an “on sale” license and an “off sale” license. The Senate added a permit for -wholesale distributors and a license requirement for sclicifors sent out to canvass for orders. The “on sale” license would be issued only to bona fide restaurants that have been in operation for two months, incorporated clubs having membership dues of $6 a year and to hctels. This license would cast $100 a year and would permit beer to be consumed on the premises under cer- tain restrictions. Barbecue Stands Eliminated. As ceported from the Senate com- mittee the bill would have allowed bar- becue stands to servem b:'et ';: custnhr;s;n in automobiles prov: . machines were parked on the premises of the stablishments, but the Senate knocked this out and, since it was not in the House bill, the conferees could not consider the question. The “off sale” licenses would cost $50 a year and would allow sale of beer in the original ccntainers to be taken away, but not consumed on the premises. The manufacturer'’s license would cost $1,000 a year, the whole- saler’s license $250 a year and the so- lcitor’s permit $1 a year. The bill prohibits sale of the bever- ages to persons under 18. SWEAT SHOPS HIT BY MRS. ROOSEVELT { Urges Easter Buyers Know Condi-| tions Under Which Clothes Are Made. Mrs. Roosevelt objects to sweatshops and sweatshop productions. She admits that prices are higher if dresses are not made in sweatshops and to secure a list of sweatshops and in- quire into the conditions under which garments are produced. Buy reason- obly, but avoid sweatshops. She will at- tend a luncheon April 11 in New York, when the wage and conditions of liv- ing of the workers will be discussed. Mrs. Roosevelt is a member of the New York Trades Union League and rec- ommends that people do not feel that they have to buy new clothes for Easter, but if they do buy, be as careful as possible to know of the conditions under which the clothes are produced. No, Mrs, Roosevelt will not get any- thing new for Easter, but instead will wear one of her inauguration gowns, one she has not yet worn, fashioned of dark blue, and, of course, her hat will correspond. Asked if she made a budget for her wardrobe, she replied most assuredly that she’ did. BLANTON T0.0PPOSE RAZING OF BUILDINGS Representative Blanton, Democrat, of ‘Texas, served notice on the House De- ficlency Committee during recent hear- ings on the 1934 District budget that he would oppose vigorously plans for razing the present District Building, the old Southern- Raillway Building at Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, and the Post Office Depart- ment Building at Eleventh street and Pennsylvania avenue. For Blanton's benefit, Maj. Danie! J. Donovan, District auditor and budget officer, explained that a provision n the deficiency appropriation bill for the current fiscal year prevented tie abolition of these buildings. “But it is only a temporary inhibi- tion in an appropriation bill which dies with that Congress,” Blanton re- sponded. | PLANES BOI.JB DOLONOR Chinese Garrison Scattered by Jap- anese Attack West of Jehol. PEIPING, China, April 4 (#).—Japa- nese planes bombed Dolonor (Tolun), in Chahar Province west of the Jehol border, Sunday, Chinese re| reach- ing here today sald. The Chinese gar- rison was scattered. ‘The advices caused speculation as to whether the Japanese, their conquest of Jehol concluded, planned to extend the drive into Chahar. The Japanese pursued Chinese troops from Jehol City, capital of that province, to Dolonor, which is 120 miles northwestward. Gen. Tang Yu- ; Lin, ousted Governor of .Jehol, was re- ported to have fled into Chahax, of Texas, for a roll call. When Senator | advises purchasers, whenever possible, | Thi i INT. EVEREST PLANE FALLS NGAR PEAK Shortage of Fuel Reported to Have Forced Land- ing. _(Continued From First Page.) and the hope that the haze would sub- side led to the decision to make the at- tempt at once, ! Climb 30,000 Feet. The planes climbed steeply, and 1n a | few minutes were lost. o sight in the jhaze. Thereafter no word was heard lof them for three hours. During this period they climbed through 3 miles {of haze. traveled a double journey of LIGHT LIEUT. D. F. McINTYRE (left) and the Marquis of Clydesdale (right), who yesterday, with Col. L. V. . Stewart Blacker, three daring Englishmen, flew in two planes over Mount Everest in the Himalayas, world’s highest mountain, for the first time in history. They are shown with Air Commodore P. F. M. Fellowes, leader —A. P. Photo. COMMITTEE0.K.3 D. C. SUPPLY BILL It House Group Reports Favorably, With Only Slight Change. (Continued Prom First Page.) annually without special congressional action, is $32,989,942. ‘The legislative rider which has ap- | peared in all appropriation acts since 1930 prohibiting the Commissione: from lowering the tax rate below $1.70 has been removed from the bill, leav- ing it discretionary with the Commis- sioners what the tax rate for 1934 shail be. The committee report, how- ever, says that “if there is not a falle !ing off of tax collections the surplus in the general revenue estimated to accrue as the result of the decreased propriations in this bill will permit reduction in the tax rate from $1.70 to $1.50.” ‘The bill carries $1,250,000 for emer- gency relief of the unemployed. Rep: resentative Canncn in the report which accompanied the bill, explained that “the original estimates provided $625,- 000 for the emergency relicf of the un employed of the District which was intended to supply funds for this pur- pose until December 31, 1933, and the conference bill which failed of passage contained this amount. The bill con- tains a total appropriation for this pur- pose of $1,250,000, as recommended by the budget, which it is believed will be adequate to provide emergency relief in the District during the entire fiscal year 1934. For the current fiscal year Congress has appropriated a total of $1,150,000 for this purpose and in addi- tion thereto $100,000 was secured from the Community Chest making a total ot $1,350,000 available for the fiscal year 1933." Loan Power Eliminated. ‘The bill, however, eliminated the au- thority fcr granting loans, The budget recommendation authorized the ex- penditure of $1,250,000 by the. Board of Public Welfare by “loans, employ- ment and direct relief in the discretion of the Board of Commissioners.” In the bill as reported to the House the words “by loan” are omitted. Regarding salary reductions the re- port to the House said that “it is esti- mated that during the fiscal year 1933 the savings under the economy act will amount to $2,235,461. Original es- timates for 1934 contemplated a total saving of $2,200,000. Under the act of March 20, 1933, additional reduc- tions amounting to 625 per cent have been applied resulting in a total esti- mated saving because of salary reduc- tions and other economy act savings of approximately $3,879,367 for the next fiscal vear.” In discussing the financial condition of the District government Representa- tive Cannon’s report says: “The committee was advised that the revised estimates for 1934 as submitted in this bill would result in a surplus in the general fund at the end of the fiscal year 1934 of approximately $6,100,000. is figure does not include surpluses which are expected to occur in the gas tax fund and the water fund, such sur- Ppluses not being aveilable for expendi- ture for general purposes. Although the committee has recommended a 10 per cent reduction in water rates in the pending bill, it is estimated that a surplus will accumulate in the water fund which will justify a substantial and permenent reduction in the water rates and a study is being made of the financial and physical needs of the water service with a view to adjusting such rates when the 1935 bill is taken up for consideration, No Readjustment Urged. “When appearing before the com- mittee, the District Commissioners testi- fied that they had no readjustments to recommend in the various items within the total budget figures. The committee has taken this indorsement of the rela- tive importance of the items compared with other needs of the District in con- sideration in approving the estimates submitted by the President without material change.” Several limitations and legislative pro- visions included by the District sub- committee in the bill that failed of passage in the last session have been re-included in the bill reported to the House today. One of these is that “no part of the appropriation herein con- tained shall be used for the operation of a testing laboratory of the Highway Department in which the tests are made of materials in connection with y activity of the District, govern- ment.” Another provides that no part of the funds appropriated shall be used for the operation of high-temperature in- cinerators for combustible refuse in the District of Columblia. Pay Increases Banned. Another limitation is that no part of the appropriation shall be used to pay any increase of the salary of any officer by reallocation of his position to a higher grade since June 30, 1932, by the Personnel Classification Board ‘or the Civil Service Commission. A fourth legislative provision provides that the budget balancing act of March 20, 1933, “to the extent that it pro- vides for the impoundment of appro- priations on account of reductions in compensation of officers, shall not operate to require such impoundment T appropriation contained in this un act.” The reason for this special provision is because that section of the budget balancing act refers to the appropri- ation bills for the coming fiscal year which had been passed in the last Con- gress or prior to the passage of the budget balancing act, while the District appropriation act takes care of those reductions without has them fm- pounded. 2 BY MARQUESS OF CLYDESDALE, Chief Pilot, Houston Mt. Everest Expedition. By Cdble to The Star. PURNEA, India, April 4—Mount Ev- erest, world’s loftiest peak, has been conquered. Yesterday the two planes of the Houston expedition flashed over |its white summit, which reaches more | than 29,000 feet into the skies and had | hitherto resisted every assault by man. | Yesterday morning the Indian me- | teorological officer at Purnea, S. N. | Gupta, whose information and advice |have been of very great value to our expedition, reported after balloon ob- | servations that the wind, previously un- suitable, had dropped to 57 miles an | hour at 33,000 feet. We had decided this altitude would be the best working | height for photographic survey. Air Calm at Take-off. | Our machines tock off at 8:25 from Lalbalu airdrome in still air. The Houston-Westland plane was manned | by Col. L. V. S. Blacker, chief observer of the expedition, and myself. The Westland-Wallace was piloted b{ Flight | Lieut. D. F. McIntyre, with S. R. Bon- | nett, chief cinematographer of the ex- | pedition, as observer. Our direct route to the summit meant | flying on a track of 342 degrees (18 de- | grees west of north). This necessi- | tated changing the compass course at | intervals more to the west because of the increase of wind velocity with the increase in height. | We had relied on overcoming to some | extent the difficulty of accurate com- pass navigition, caused by frequent | change of wind speed, by good land. | marks near and along our track. But | heavy dust haze rising to a considerable height almost obscured thz ground from Forl to the mountain w made ael survey work We climbed slowly at low engine revo- lutions to 10,000 feet. At this height the crews of both machines had tested '| Clear Everest by 100 Feet | | Much Altitude Lost by Flyers in Crossing Highest Mountain Peak Through Strong Down Currents. Magnificent Spectacle Is Disclosed. their electrical heating sets, and Lieut. | McIntyre and I signaled each other that everything was satisfactory. After 30 minutes flying we passed | over Forbesganj, our forward emergency |landing ground 40 miles from Purnea, |and we were 19,000 feet up when Everest | became visible above the haze. We flew lower than our intended working height in order to make every endeavor to pass over Komaltar. Close to this is the ground control from whi¢ch we had planned to begin our aerial survey. It proved impossible to iden- tify any landmarks at all until we were approximately 20 miles of the summit. At 9 o'clock we passed over Eham- lang at an altitude of 31,000 feet. On the approach to Lothi, southern peak of the Everest. group, the ground rises at a steep gradient. Both machines en- countered a steady down current due to the deflection of the west wind over the mountain. This caused a loss in alti- | tude of 1,500 feet despite all our efforts to climb. Clear Summit. Both of Mount Everest at 10:05 o'clock. We feet,. cleared the guk by 100 The wind velocity was noticeably high near the summit, but no bumps were felt by either aircraft. Fifteen minutes were spent in flying in the neighborhood of the summit, and Eg-u‘:e of mte mom flying_conditions king of close range photograj was possible. 5 ¥ The visibility of distant high peaks was very . The great Himalaya range could be seen extending a vast cle and providing & magnificent e. The return journey was carried. out at a slightly lower altitude so we might bave better conditiens for obliqué pho- Both machines at 4t 11:257 The pilots pay" the highest tributes to the per- formance of engines and ai t. (Copyright. 1933. by North American News- paper Alliance. Inc.) COMMERGIAL BANK PLANS DISCUSSED Committee of Five to Work With Cooper in Perfect- ing Program. (Prom the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) ‘Three plans for the Commercial Na- tional Bank, now in receivership, were discussed this afternoon at a meeting of a committee of 20 depositors with Col, Wade H. Cooper, president of the institution. Col. Cooper was authorized to appoint a committee of five to work with him in perfecting a program. Meanwhile, suit was flled in District Supreme Court to test the right of the Park Sdvings Bank, ncw in the hands of a conservator, to levy on a special bailee account in tettlement of a claim against a depositor. After the meeting of Commercial de- positors at the National Press Club Col. Ccoper said the committee would :.:n‘pmmb;sdx smtxn u:: I‘muld seek to ve speedily at a single definite for the bank. % Bz Three-Point Plan Discussed. The plans diccussed this a included: e 1. Reopening of the present Com- mercial National Bank, Fourteenth and sttg*t.s. . Organization of a new national bank, which would liquidate the affairs ©of the present bank. 3. Possible consolidation with other banks, The names of the other banks with which consolidation would be con- sidered were not made public. Col. Cooper emphasized that what- ever plan is arrived at will have to be approved by the Federal Reserve Board, controller of the currency, the Re- construction Pinance Corporation, the stockholders and depositors. When the committee arrives at a plan, he said, it will be fully explained in a statement, which will be printed and sent to all depositors of the bank for approval. Hearing Date Set. . The suit concerning the Park Sav- ings Bank was filed by Harris Shapero, 1477 Girard street, a depositor. The suit says Shapero owed the bank $301.50 on a promisory note and that he had on deposit there $1,335.05. The deposits were in three accounts, checking, $600; savings, $200, and special bailee account, $535.05. Through Attorney Lewis H. Shapiro the plaintiff says Richard L. Har- graves, conservator of the bank, has selzed the money in the special ac- count to satisfy the note. He contends the note should have been set off against either the checking or savings account. Justice F. D. Letts set April 14 as the date for a hearing on the petition for an injunction to compel the bank to pay the money in the special ac- count to Shapero without deducting the amount of the note. —_— Colorado Takes Beer Step. DENVER, April 4 (#).—Beer for Colo- radoans Friday, in harmony with the Federal act, was an indefinite step nearer realization last night after the House passed a measure for legalization of sale of the beverage. The House re- jected an amendment sponsored by C. Johnson for & local op- Qov. Edwin tion provision. OHIO BANKS SEEK R.F. C. ASSISTANGE |Guardian Trust Co. of Cleve- land and First-Central Trust of Akron Ask Aid. BY the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, April 4—Two of Ohio’s largest unlicensed banks—the Guardian Trust Co. of Cleveland and the First- Cantral Trust Co. of Akron—today car- ried their cases before Reconstruction Finance Corporation officials in Wash- ington. Would Aid Depositors. They hoped td obtain financial as- sistance which would enable them to reorganize under national bank ehar- Iters and pay to their scores of deposi- tors a percentage of the approximately $100,000,000 they have had tied up since the banking holiday. Harold H. Burton, recently elected president of the Guardian, headed the Cleveland group, and Sterling B. Cra- mer, First-Central president, led the Akron delegation. A. V. Cannon, who has been chosen as chairman of the First National Bank of Cleveland, successor bank to the un- licensed Union Trust Co. was reported to have gone to Washington aboard the same train as the Akron group The reason for lis mission was un- divulged here. J. R. Kraus, president of the First National, declined to discuss. Cannon's trip, but announced postponement be- cause of legal ‘questions of the start of a campaign to sell $5,000,000 of First National common stock here. That sum would be matched by the R. F. C. in capitalization of the First National. Guardian Delegation. airplanes flew over the summit | 160 miles and reached a maximum ‘height approximating 30,000 feet di- jrectly over the crest of Everest itself. | “I was particularly impressed by the jenormous size of the glaciers,” said Bonnett. “They are vastly bigger than any I ever saw in Switzerland. There are many tremendous precipices aj from fhe north ridge. psompe of Lg:; are absolutely perpendicular for thou- sands of feet.” ‘The scenery was m: ficent almost beyond description, all part were impressed by the enormous size of the mountains and by the ex- traordinary visibility which permitted the whole range to be seen to the west- ern horizon. Col. Blacker said on his return thas the only limit to the view along the mountains was due to the curvature of the earth surface. The stupendous scale of the scenery and the clear gir upset the estimated ‘size of the distancs. 1 Bonnett confessed that he could not tell how far or near things were. Planes Drawn Down. The flight proceeded without ineident until the great massive Chamlang was approached. Climbing over the huge edge both machines received the full force of the down-draught caused by the wind from the west striking the steep side of Mount Everest, being shot upward over the summit and recovering in a steady downward sweep some 12 miles beyond. Caught in this, some- thing like 2,000 feet in height was lost in a very few seconds. The machines at this time were quite close to the mountain side and the pilots were ready to turn away if necessary, but they found they were getting across down the current, and, estimating they had just enough héight to get safely over, they continued and crept over the ridge with little room to re. is was the last serious air disturb- ance they encountered on the way up. Over the summit of Mount Everest there was a strong wind blowing, though less than earlier in the morning, when violent gusts could be seen driving a :novtr plume high into the air off the rest. Summit Circled Twice. The machines made two complete circuits of the summit, ‘occasionally steeply to give the photo- graphers good chances to-take oblique . _After 15 minutes both turmed taway. It was at this point that Lieut. MclIntyre missed Bonnett, who pre- vicusly had been standing “with his head and shoulders above the cockpit using the camera. Bonnett says-he had been_feelin| until the mathine had available, This Nebi ot % sesona or & segon will be made. Capt. the country flown over, “th fastened for a short perfod while he was flying over the summit and that he had replaced it with Col. L. V. S. Blacker, w] server in the plane piloted by Clydesdale, was pale and tired after the but not suffering from ex- the summit in Lieut. McInf plane. cancel tyre's lation by airmail. Included - are letters King George, the Prince of Wales and Lady Houston, the backer of the flight. ight, 1933, bv North American News- (CopyHiRt, JoeE Nliancer 18e) NITRATE ROYALTIES END IS HELD FAIR Chilean Government Tells Envoys of Four Nations Stand Unchanged. By the Asdociated Press. SANTIAGO, Chile, April 4.—The Chilean government last'night told en= voys of four nations that recent elimi- nation of bondholders’ royalties on | nitrate was just and fair. Finance Minister Gustavo Ross, fol- lowing upon the dissolution last January of the large Cosach Nitrate Combine, ordered the cancellation of collsetions emounting to about $3.60 on each ton of nitrate which were paid Cosach bond- holders, and re-established the former export tax. ardi legation included e rw Representatives of the United States, Auxiliary Bishop James A. McFadden of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland | Greit Britain, Germany and ‘the and A. F. Whitney, president of tbe}Netherhndx charged that this was a Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, SLV:rzlroex& t‘g funds legally and morally b f the bank’s Reorgan- s, g‘t’!‘mfi“ E'{.'nf;x’m"ee. . The Chilean government, in declining Sidney B. Congdon, Cleveland R. F.|to change its stand, held that it had C. manager, and State Commerce Di- | t0 Testore to taxing foreigners in order rector Theodore H. Tangeman also ac- t0 belp balance the budget, and that the companied Burton. | country needed the money from export With Cramer on the other train were taxes. Mayor C. Nelson Sparks of Akron;| While prepared for a rejection of John S. McKnight, managing editor of | their written protests, the envoys in- the Akron Beacon-Journal; Walter | timated their belief that the answer Morrow, managing editor of the Akron ;ll'oosl;dh ethe door to any possible gom- Times-Press, and Stanley Harris, presi- - dent of the National Rubber Machinery | Willlam & Culbertson, -the United Co. They represented depositors of the | States Ambassador, 1s sending a stm- First-Central Trust Co. The forelgn office here daid M“m - BAND CONCERT. the text of its answer public. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band, this evening at Stanley Hall, at 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistan March, “Our Sammies’ Overture, “Innesfallen’ . Entracte, “Last Dream of the Vi Lenten Service Each Wednesday From 1:30 to 5:30 O’Clock Continuously —in Epiphan Church, pul:\der ymeE:lsco’g:l’ of the W gton Federa- tion of Churches. Eight Koppitz rgin.” | ministers * particip: at each service. The public is - cordially invited. Waltz, “Lovely Lucerne”. Finale, “Put on Your Old "l‘he;flr Spangled m.}’fi“"