Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1933, Page 17

Washington News TWO PERSONS D OVER SCORE HURT INEASTER MISHAPS Woman Is Electrocuted After Escaping Injury in Auto Crash. MAN OF HUGHESVILLE KILLED ON HIGHWAY Collision of Two Machines Near Beltsville Sends Seven to Wash- ington Hospitals. Escaping serious injury when the eutomobile in which she and another ‘Washington woman were riding crashed into an electirc pole near Baltimore Jast midnight, Miss Louise Grubb, 29, of 1451 Park road, was electrocuted when she touched the car, across which 8 high-tension wire had fallen a few minutes after the accident. Unusually heavy Easter traffic, com- bined with slippery, rain-soaked streets and highways, claimed one other life and resulted in injuries to more than a score of persons in or near the Capital. ‘The other death was that of Horace Buckley, 35, of Hughesville, Md., who was struck by a machine while walking along the road near Bryantown, Md. He died in Casualty Hospital a short time after the mishap. Driver Is Arrested. Hamilten R. Burch, 23, of Bryantown, driver of the car that hit Buckley was arrested by Maryland State police, pending an inquest this afternoon. He had no operator's permit, according to the police, who also charged him with reckless driving. Miss Grubb, an employe of the Chesa- peake & Potomac Telephone Co., was riding in an automobile driven by Mrs. Estelle Glyco, 27, with whom she made her home. The machine, acording to dispatches from Baltimore, skidded into the pole and then overturned. Following the crash, which occurred on the Wash- ington-Baltimore Boulevard, about a mile from Baltimore, Miss Grubb and Mrs. Glyco crawled from the wreckage and sarted walking aleng the highway, in quest of aid. They had gone only a short distance, however, when Miss Grubb discovered she had left her pocketbook in the au- tomobile. Returning to the car to re- trieve the purse, she reached through one of the windows. Mrs. Glyco, standing nearby, saw her stiffen, then drop to the ground. Pass- ing motorists, hailed by Mrs. Glyco, dis- covered the wire, which had been knocked loose when the car crashed into the pole. Pronounced Dead at Hospital. Miss Grubb was taken to St. Agnes Hospital, on the outskirts of Baltimore, ‘where she was pronounced dead. MTrs. Glyco, wife of Dr. Ellis Glyco, vice president of the Earle Drug Co., was treated there for a cut on her head. The women, according to informa- tion given Baltimore police, were re- turning to Washington from an Easter trip to New York. Several years ago, one of Miss Grubb's two sisters, Mrs. Maude Butler, a bride of 10 weeks, was killed in an automo- bile accident at Seventeenth and K streets. She was the wife of Dr. Homer XK. Butler, 1241 Pennsylvania avenue southeast. Miss Grubb is survived by her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Grubb, and a sister, Mrs. Aline Plerce, all of ‘whom live at 150 Thirteenth street southeast. Another accident on thé Washing- ton-Baltimore Boulevard, near Belts-| ville, Md,, sent seven persons to Cas- ualty and Sibley Hospitals. TrLe two cars involved, Maryland State police reported, were operated by Norman Harrison, 22, of the 3700 block of Tenth street northeast, and Dr. Kenneth Crothers, 28, bf Chester, Pa. Harrison, after receiving treat- ment for minor hurts, was arrested on & reckless driving charge. Mrs. Margaret Harrison, 37, of the 3700 block of Twelfth street northeast ‘wes the most seriously injured, suffer- ing a fractured skull and cuts about the body. The others hurt were her husband, Frank, 38; their son, Edward, 6, and daughter, Helen, 8; Dr. Crota- ers and Miss Dorothy Hawkins, 26, of Philadelphia, who was riding with the physician. Woman, 73, Hurt in Crash. Miss D. L. Patterson, 73, of 32 West XKirk Street, Chevy Chase, Md., was critically injured when the machine in which she was riding with Lay Bryan, 63, of the 1300 block of Otis place collided with another automobile near Burnt Springs, Md. Because of her age, physicians at Walter Reed Hospital, where she was taken imme- diately after the crash, said she had only a slight chance to recover. Mrs. Emma Bryan and Miss M. J. Bryan, who also were passengers in the Bryan car, escaped with minor hurts. The two colored occupants of the other machine fled, but one of them was captured by J. F. Patton, sixth precinct policeman, who was driving along behind their automobile at the time of the mishap. The prisoner, Clarence Ash, 1700 block of Seaton street, was turned over to Silver Spring, Md., police after smoke-screen equip- t was found on his car. He was charged with possession of a smoke screen. Other Easter accident victims in- eluded: Miss Mary Rudisall, 19, of Capitol Heights, Md., seriously injured when a machine parked near Benning road and Central avenue northeast, in which she ‘was sitting, was struck by an automo- bile driven by John Hiley, 4000 block of Gault place northeast. Traffic Policeman Roger Randall, se- riously injured when knocked from his motor cycle by a taxicab at Twenty- fifth street and Pennsylvania avenue. Raymond Garner, colored, driver of the ¢ab, was arrested. Three Hurt in Crash. Misses Edna Rogan, Dorothy Knoot and Ember Ottc, all 17 and residents of Baltimore, hurt when the car in which they, were riding collided with one operated by Herbert Matthews of Muirkirk, Md., who also was hurt. Miss Knoot was the most seriously injured in the crash, which occurred at Holly- wood, Md. Mrs. Sally Magnus, 50, of the 600 black of Fifth street, serious injured when hit, at Third and D streets northeast by a machine operated by Raymond Woodyard, 400 block of street northeast Mrs. Abbey Turner, 30, and her daughter, Thelma, 14, knocked down by a hit-and-run automobile near their home in Takoma Park, Md. Not| W: serious. Policeman William E. Bricker, struck by a car while directing traffic at ‘Twelfth street and Pennsylvania ave- nue. Not us. Policeman Homer H. Hartman, hit Py a taxicab and knocked against D|fic semaphore at Electrocuted MISS LOUISE GRUBB, Killed by a high-tension wire that fell across the automobile in which she was riding after the car crashed into an electric pole near Baltimore. 200 0FF TO CAMP Unit of Unemployed First From District in National Reforestation Program. | © The first organized unit of the Ci- vilian Conservation Corps, consisting of 206 unemployed youths from the Dis- trict of Columbia, left Fort Washing- ton, Md., early today to establish a model camp in the George Washington National Forest on Passage Creek, nefir Luray, Va. 1" "The men were loaded on commercial busses immediately after breakfast and {expect to reach the camp site some- time this afternoon. They carried with them tents, blankets and staple rations for 10 days. ‘The company, which is expected to serve as a model for other organiza- tions which will be pouring into the Eastern national forests in a steady stream from now on, is commanded by Capt. Leo Donovan and Lieuts. Richard B. Carhart and Willilam F. Train of the 12th Infantry stationed at Fort Washington. It was accom- panied to Luray by some enlisted men. The regular personnel may be with- drawn later for replacements by re- serve officers. The first work of the men will be to build their own camp and this may require three or four days. DOG’S HURT X-RAYED AS SMALL BOY WAITS Doctors Hope to Find Mystery Bullet in Teddy Cash's Pet. An X-ray examination today was to reveal life or death for Fritz, the 8- year-old water spaniel which was felled by a mysterious bullet Friday while trotting behind the tricycle of his young master. Meanwhile 2-year-old Teddy Cash, jr., of 4530 Ninth street was encour- aged by the fact that Pritz feebly lapped up two bottles of milk yester- day. It was the first nourishment the dog had taken. The X-ray examination was arranged by Mrs. Herbert W. Elmore, president of the Washington Humane Society, one of the many who offered assistance to_Fritz. Doctors expect to determine if the spine was injured and to locate the | bullet, which entered under a shoul- {der. The police have been unable to trace the source of the bullet. Some eight years ago Fritz was brought home to the Cash residence in the pocket of a member of the fam- 1ly, so young his eyes were still closed. Since that time he made many friends in the community. ANACOSTIA AIR STATION PERSONNEL IS CHANGED Flight Surgeon and Two Flying Officers Are Transferred to Other Posts. Change of flight surgeons at the An- acostia Naval Air Station and assign- ment of two of the station’s flying of- ficers to the fleet for sea duty has been ordered by the Navy Department. Lieut. Comdr. Carl J. Robertson, | Medical Corps, station flight surgeon, was detached from duty at the station Saturday and assigned to service at the Naval Hospital, Annapolis, Md. He is to be succeeded by Lieut. Comdr. Ber- tram Groesbeck, jr., Medical Corps, who previously had been ordered to the Bu- reau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, frcm duty with the Asiatic Fleet. Lieut. Robert B. Pirie, recently com- mended for landing a fast Navy plane at a Midwestern Army post after the retractable landing gear had jammed, has been ordered detached from duty at the local station in July. He will go to sea for duty aboard the U. S. 8. Cali- fornia. Lieut. Eugene W. Kiefer will leave the Anacostia station next month for duty aboard the U. S. S. Pennsylvania. SCALDING KILLS CHILD Girl Dies After Overturning Pan of Boiling Water. Scalded last*Tuesday, when she over- turned a pan of boiling water while playing in the kitchen of her home, Dozolhy Elizabeth Miller 3, died yes- terday. After being confined to Georgetown University Hospital for two days, the child was sent to her home, 3807 M street, where she remained under the care of a physician until she died. A Certificate of accidental death was issued by Acting Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald. another machine while placing a traf- Fourteenth and P streets. Not serious. - Lee Kerns, 18; David Crumbaugh, 17, and William Robertson, occupants of an automobile that collided with a & Old Dominion electric car at Vanderwerken Station, Va. Not serious. Edward Stevens, 52, colored, 700 block of Twelve-and-a-Half street southeast, struck by two automobiles at First and K streets. Believed not serious. INVIRGINIA FOREST e bening Sfar WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1933. ROOSEVELT PARLE ONWAR UNIT CUTS T0 BE HELD TODAY Secretary Dern and Director of Budget Douglas Have Conference on Plans. SAVINGS OF $90,000,000 NEXT YEAR PROJECTED Elimination of C. M. T. C. Is One of Reductions Planned—National Guard Also Would’ Suffer. President Rooseveit late this after- noon will hold an important conference with Secretary of War Dern and Louls Douglas, director of the budget, during which time it is understcod plans for drastic reducticn in the War Depart- ment's expense will be discussed. It is kncwn from well-founded sources the War Department head and the budget director have already worked out & plan which will bring about a cut in Army costs of about $90,000,000 for uext year. All this is in line with the President’s program of reducing ex- penses 25 per cent in order to balance the budget and to get the operating cost of the Federal Government down to & normal basis. The conference this afternoon is one of a series which the President has been holding with the department heads in rounding cut his program for reorganization and for econcmizing. In each instance the pruning knife is known to have been Jiberally used and according to reports from substantial circles the President will succeed in making good his cam- paign promiss of trimming Govern- ment costs 25 per cent. As & matter of fact he will in all probability suc- ceed in going beyond the 25 per cent limit. There is some likelihood that his reduction may run as high as 31 per cent. Secretary Dern and Budget Director | Douglas are understood to have worked out a plan of curtailment for the War Department which will effect a $90,000,- 000 saving, principally by eliminating for one year citizens’ military tfaining camps, reduction of National Guard drill periods by 50 per cent and by dispensing with field training; dis- camps; eliminaticn and consolidatioi of posts and stations, amounting to about a 50 per cent reduction, with- drawal of all support from the R. O. T. C.; retirement of about 4,000 Army officers by means of qualification tests and according to age limit require- ments. The plan calls for weeding out all non-essential *activities among the ductions in field equipment and reserve supplies. . CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Meeting, Fellowship Club, Hamilton Hotel, 6 p.m. Dance, Emerald Club, Hamilton Hotel, 9 pm. Dinner, Employing Plasterers’ Asso- ciation, Hamilton Hotel, 8 p.m. Meeting, Xi Psi Phi Fraternity, Ham- ilton Hotel, 8 pm. Meeting, Monday Eventg Club, ‘Willard Hotel, 8 p.m. Dance and cards, Delaware State So- clety, Thomas Circle Club, 8:30 p.m. Easter _reception, St. Augustine’s Church, Fiiteenth between R and § streets, 8 pm. Meeting, Jefferson Davis Chapter, U. D. C., Willard Hotel, 4 p.m. Board meeting, Business and Profes- sional Women, Willard Hotel, 8 p.m. Charity ball, Bicentennial Chapter, American War Mothers, Willard Hotel, 9 pm. Charity ball, Washington General As- sembly, Fourth Degree Knights of Co- lumbus, Willard Hotel, 9 p.m. Meeting, Oxford Group, Shoreham Hotel, 9 pm. Dinner, Catholic Association for In- ternational Peace, Mayflower Hotel. Dinner dance, Sigma Epsilon Sorority, Mayflower Hotel. Meeting, Washington Retall Hardware Association, Mayflower Hotel, 8 p.m. Meeting, Lincoln Park Citizens’ Asso- ciation, Bryan School, 8 p.m. Dance, Hotel and Restaurant Em- ployes’ Alliance, Community Center, Sixteenth and Q streets, 9:30 p.m. ‘TOMORROW. Meeting, Women’s Democratic Coun- cil, Mayflower Hotel, 7:45 p.m. Meeting and dance, North Carolina State Society, Shoreham Hotel, 8:30 p.m. Meeting, U. S. Coast Guard, Shore- ham Hotel, 8 pm. Buffet luncheon, Women’s National Press Club, Willard Hotel, 1 pm. Play, “Old Fashioned Mother,” Chris- tian Church, Sixth and H streets south- west, 7:30 p.m. Luncheon, Washington Association of Credit Men, Hamilton Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Civitan Club, Hamilton Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Dinner meeting, town Clinical , George! Society, Hamilton Hotel, 6:30 p.m. Dance, St. Mary’s Seminary, Hamil- ton Hotel. 10 p.m. Meeting, National Hod Carriers’ Un- ion, Hamilton Hotel, 10 p.m. Annual banquet and installation, Old- est Inhabitants’ Association, colored, Calvary Hall, Eleventh and G streets northeast, 8 p.m. Dance and card party, Federal Chap- ter, No. 38, O. E. S, Kennedy-Warren, 9 pm. Meeting, Mount Pleasant W. C. T. U, 3613 Eleventh street, 2 p.m. Meeting, Columbia Historical Society, Cosmos Club, 8:15 p.m. Card party, War szlnment, Local 261, NluanZl Federation of Federal Employes, Carltcn Hotel, 8 pm. Concert, Felian and Francis Garzis, University Club, 8:30 pm. Luncheon, Columbia Heights Busi- ness Men's Association, 2825 Fourteenth street, 12:15 pam. Dinner and meeting, cultural His- tory Society, Cosmos Club, 6:30 p.m. FUTURE. Meeting, Northwest Union, W. C. T.|A. oy ursday, U., 1309 Seventeenth street, Thi 2 pm, pensing with reserve officer training | civilian personnel and substantial re- | | BOLLING FIELD FLOODED, MONOPOLIZED BY GULLS Deep Pools and Soft Ground Pre- vent Landing at Fed- eral Airport. Flying at Bolling Field today is con- fined almost exclusively to seagulls, who are monopolizing the landing area, part- ly flooded by heavy rains. At the operations office, Naval Afr Station, on the river side of the land- ing fleld, it was reported there are far more seagulls swimming on the landing fleld than in the river. Because of the deep pools and soft condition of the fleld, flying at the post has been at a standstill since Satur- m. High water in the Potomac, which flooded a part of the air station grounds, has aided the rain in saturat- ing the ground beyond the power of any dflw system to handle the over- low. RETIREMENT FAGES BROUP OF POLICE Board Finds Fitness of “Sub- stantial Proportion” of 96 Men Falls Short. A “substantial” proportion of the 96 policemen who were given medical and physical examinations by the Board of Police and Fire Surgeons failed to measure up to requirements and will be recommended for retire- ment by the board, it was learned to- day. The board will turn over its offi- cial report to Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police, tomorrow or ‘Wednesday. The Police Department during the next fiscal year will be compelled to absorb the salaries of 47 policemen to meet budget cuts made by the House and expected to be approved by the | Senate in the 1934 appropriation bill. | The physical test was ordered by Maj. Brown, the first to be held in two years, in order to eliminate those officers past | 55 years of age who may be retired | by the Commissioners as incapacitated | for further duties. It is not believed the number to be recommended for retirement will be as great as 47, and the department must | find some other means of making up | the balance. No vacancies are being filled between now and the close of the fiscal year, although several already exist. | One of the schemes now being con- | sidered by the department is to trans- fer to the regular salary item the $7,000 now used for the payment of extra| compensation to officers responsible for outstanding police work. They are now paid $5 per month extra compensation for such work. Maj. Brown said today that there was some doubt whether such a step would be legal, and that he would sub fice for a legal opinion before attempt- ing to put it into effect. THREE EPISCOPAL CHURCHES ELECT Officers and Vestrymen Chosen; Other Meetings Scheduled. Three of the Capital's 30-odd Episco- palian Churches elected officers and vestrymen today, with others scheduled for ht. Results of the three elec- tions follow: St. Thomas’ Church—Senior warden, Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat, District Supreme Court; junior warden, Comdr. Needham L. Jones; vestrymen, Theo- dore W. Noyes, Comdr, Jones, Maj. Ennalls Waggaman, Ambassador Walter E. Edge, Chief Justice Wheat, C. Leslie | McCrea, Willlam L. Beale, Cmdr. Nor- man B. Hall, John H. Edwards, Repre- sentative Bertrand H. Snell. Chief Justice Wheat and Gilbert P. Ritter were elected delegates to the next dio- cesan convention. St. John's Church, Sixteenth and H streets—Senior warden, Judge J. Harry Covington; junior warden, Col. George B. McClellan; vestrymen, Judge Coving- ton, Col, McClellan, Maj. Gen. Clarence C. Williams, Maj. Gen. William M. Black, Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Maj. Hayes A. Kroner, Col. Harry N. cm"g :lnd ian"re‘?xgtnr dor‘ A(I}nu- son B. Houghton; , Maj. Gen. Williams. Delegates to the diocesan convention, Rear Admiral H. G. Gilmor and C. Phillips Hill, alternates, Edmund Rogers and Edward Hull. Grace Episcopal, Southwest Wash- ington—Senior warden, James B. Price; junior warden, William W. Carney; vestrymen, Rashleigh B. Chalmers, Samuei C. Wise, Carl A. Cheseldine, Francis W. Hart, Paul C. Allen and Harry Kendrick; treasurer, B. Price; registrar, Merrill Sickles. e WILL HOLD BANQUET Arlington Young Peoples Union to Meet at Aurora Heights. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va., April 17.— The Arlington Young People’s Union, com- posed of Epworth Leagues from Meth- odist churches in Arlington and Fair- fax Counties and Alexandria, will hold its annual banquet tomorrow night at the Aurora Heights Methodist Church. A trophy will be awarded to the league that put on the best play in a con- test sponsored by the union. Dance at Forestville. | GREATER CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md., April 17 (Special) —A dance will be given by the Merry Makers Club in Woodman Hall, Forestville, Md., next Saturday night. CATHOLICS DISCUSS WORLD PROBLEMS | INGROUP SESSIONS Conference Delegates Hear Talks by Leaders of Peace Movement. INTERNATIONAL DINNER TO BE HELD TONIGHT Meeting Will Be Brought to Close Tomorrow, With Election of Officers on Program. Here for the seventh annual confer- ence of the Catholic Association for In- ternational Peace, delegates were hear- ing lay and clerical leaders of the movement discuss “International Co- operation” in & symposium in the mu- sic hall of Catholic University this aft- ernoon. The conference opened this morn- ing with round-table discussions by 10 groups, meeting in various parts of the music hall. The subjects under disclission* by as many groups were: International ethics, international law and organization, economic relations, agriculture, history, national attitudes, United States dependencies, Latin America, Europe and Asia. International Dinner Tonight. ‘Tonight there will be an interna- tional dinner at 7 o'clock in the grand ball room of the*Mayflower Hotel, with speeches to be made by Rev. John A. Ryan, professor of moral theology at Catholic University; Parker T. Moon of Columbia University and Most Rev. John M. McNamara, Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore. Michael Francis Doyle, mtmumnul lawyer, will preside. Five hundred per- sons are expected to attend the dinner. The gathering is sponsored by Arch- bishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore, Mrs. Robert Whitney Imbrie, Postmas- ter General and Mrs. James A. Farley, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Michael J. Leni- han, Rt. Rev. Msgr. James H. Ryln‘l Rev. Coleman Nevils, 8. J., and others. Sessions End Tomorrow. ‘This afternoon’s session was presided over by Rev. Francis J. Haas, and pa- pers on phases of the general subject of }g]hxeal;mnonll co-operation were read as s “The Tradition,” by William F. Roe- | mer; “The Principles,” by Rev. John A. Ryan; “The Attitude of Nations,” by Carlton J. H. Hayes; “lntemldflnlyl Law and Organization,” by Charles G. Fenwick; “Economic Relations,” by Parker T. Moon; “Agricultural Rela- tions,” ‘by Rev. Edgar Schmiedeler, O. S. “Co-operation With Europe,” by Rev. Joseph F. Thorning, S. J.; “United States Dependencies,” by William F. Montavon; ‘“Co-operation With Asia,” by Elizabeth M. Lynskey, and “Present Obligations,” by Rev. John A. Ryan. The sessions will close with m and afternoon sessions tomorrow, fol- lowed by a business session and election of officers. FATAL FIGHT PROBE LIKELY TOMORROW Coroner to Set-Story of Shooting of Colored Man By Policeman Struder. A coroner’s inquest will be held, probably tomorrow, into the killing yes. terday of Richard Robinson, colored, 23, of 30 G street, by Policeman George M. Struder, fourth precinct, after the col- ored man is said to have taken the officer's nightstick from him and beaten him on the head. Struder said he was walking his beat in the 1500 block of Massachusetts avenue southeast when Robella Taylor, colored, ran out of her house and said a man was threatening her with a gun. The officer entered and said he found Garfleld Selvy, colored, with a revolver in his hand. Struder took the gun from the man, he said, but was set upon by several other colored men. Robinson is sdid to have seized his baton and belabored him over the head and shoulders with it. By Struder reported he drew his gun and fired three times at Robinson, who ran up the steps to the second floor and jumped out of a window. He hailed a taxicab and was taken to Casualty Hos- pital, where he died less than two hours later. Struder also was treated at Casualty Hospital for bruises to his head and shoulders. Selvy later was arrested. He gave an address in the 700 block of Ninth street southwest and was booked for investi- gation. HOME BREW SEIZED Raiders Find 190 Bottles in Place on Avenue. Bearing labels soaked from _soft- drink bottles, 190 bottles of alleged home brew were seized yesterday, when lice raided an establishment said to ve been operated by Paul Sovrito, 40, of the 2500 block of Pensylvania avenue. Sovrito also accepted “numbers” bets, the police charged. He was released on nd, pending arraignment in Police Court. Plan Benefit SUITLAND, Md., April 17 (Special). —For the benefit of Mount Calvary Church, a card party will be given in the home of Mrs. Nannie Purdy Pri evening. R at Suitlad®: 'HOLY TRINITY PASTOR SUPPORTS APPLICANT FOR BEER LICENSE | o Restaurant Keeper’s Suit Against D. C. Heads Includes Letter Written by Priest. Society and General Children Given Easter Party PENNY CAFETERIA DISTRIBUTES FREE BASKETS. LIVER L. HARR, manager of where hundreds of jcbless are fed daily, held a special Easter party yesterday for the children of the unemploved. In the photo above are | shown (left to right) Mrs. Ada M. Minnix, social worker; Pclice Supt. | Ernest W. Brown, Inspector James F. Beckett and Harr serving the 355 youngsters who attended. the Penny Cafeteria at 638 D street, —Star Staff Photo. CAPITOL BEER SALE FIRST IN 30 YEARS House Restaurant Places Beverage on Sale After Week’s Probe. Beer went on sale in the Capitol today for the first time in 30 years as members of the Beverage Permits Board went ahead with plans for in- spection of establishments where the beverage is sold for consumption on the premises, prior to issuance of an- nual permits. Vernon E. West, chairman of the Permits Board, said the inspections are to be made to satisfy the board the places meet all requirements of the beer act and the Commissioners’ reg- ulations. Sold in House Restaurant. The House restaurant, in charge of the Accounts Committee, placed beer on sale after a week's investigation by a special committee to determine whether the Federal Government should ellow itself to be taxed for a license by the municipal government. It was de- cided no license would be necessary to sell beer in the Capitol. The new manager of the House restaurant, Patrick Henry Johnson, a newcomer to the Capital from North Carolina, took charge of the restaurant | today, succeeding Frank Verdi. West estimated it would be at least & week before annual licenses could be issued to replace the temporary permits under which beer is being dispensed. The temporary permits are subject to recall on notice of five days. Qualifications to Be Checked. Procedure of investigation for the'an- nual permits calls first for a recheck of zoning qualifications and occupancy permits by zoning officials. The appli- cations then are to be checked by the superintendent of licenses to make sure places have proper restaurant licenses. The assessor and superintendent of the Water Department then will check for unpaid taxes and water rents. The Police Department then will check loca- tions of beer-selling places, as to loca- tion in relation to schools and churches, and the moral character of applicants. ‘The last step prior to board considera- tion will be the sending of letters to references given by applicants as to moral and financial responsibility. MOVE TO NAME CITY HEADS IS IMMINENT Farley Plans to Go Over Recom- mendations With Roosevelt Within Few Days. A move toward appointment of two District Commissicners is imminent, it became known today. Postmaster General Farley said he planned to see the President “in a day or two” and go over with him the recommendations that have been made to fill the places now held by Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer and Gen. Herbert B. c'%:i’f ber of possible intee: le & number o e appointees have been advanced, there was nothing to indicate that the fleld is anythin but open at the present. ‘The commiissionerships are the only local appointments being considered right now. HOME OF LITTLE SISTERS GETS GIFT OF NEW LIGHTS Donation of Knights of Columbus Is Turned On For First Time by Bishop McNamara. New electric_ lights, the gift of the Knights of Columbus, were turned on for the first time yesterday at the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor by Right Rev. John M. McNamara, Aux- iliary Bishoggol Baltimore. The cere- mony was held in the chapel- of the home. In his address Bishop McNamara compared the ligh of the home on Easter Sunday with resurrection of Christ. While the Knights of Colum- bus gift gave light to the peor in the , the resurrection of the Savior gave light to the whole world, he said. He expressed the a) iation of the Little Sisters and detl' iy u:‘)f Archbishop Curley and himsel e Knights for their generosity. Bishop McNamara also thanked Mrs. Pranklin D. Roosevelt for her thought- home flowers the lemn benediction Church Dance Saturdsy. OXON HILL, Md., April 17 (Special). ~—The Loyola Club of St. Ignatius Par- ish will give s dance in the church hall Saf for the benefit of the parish, DESPONDENCY HELD - CAUSE OF DEATHS [John Helmus, Clarence S.| Cates Believed Suicides, Woman Fails in Attempt. | Despondent because of deafness, John Helmus, 54, 710 A street southeast, | former secretary to two members of | Congress from Massachusetts and close | friend of William Tyler Page, former clerk of the House, fired a bullet | through his brain yesterday. Dr. A. Magruder MacDonald, acting coroner, | issued a certificate of suicide. | A second death, that of Clarence S. | Cates, 50, of 1335 Columbia rozd, who was found Saturday night by his wife apparently suffering from the effects of poiscn, is being investigated by Dr. Mac- Donald. The corcner said two notes indicating despondency were found in Cates’ bed room. Barricaded in Room. Helmus barricade himself in his rcom, spread a rubber coat on the bed to| protect it from his blood, lay down and | shot himself through the head with & revolver. The report of the gun was heard by Mrs, Alice Ellis, who conducts the room- ing house where Helmus lived. She could not cpen the door, but with the ald of several tenants succeeded in breaking it in. She fcund two notes lying beside the dead man. One was addressed to her ‘and contained an apology for his act a dollar bill to pay for a breakfast he; had eaten several days ago. The other note was addressed to Dr. Samuel E. ‘Watkins, 1448 Harvard street. It ccn- tained the key to his safe deposit box and stated that he had paid all his debts, owned no cne and was killing 1f because of ill health. Dr. Watkins said Helmus had been deaf since an attack of scarlet fever two years ago. Lately he had been troubled with a buzzing in his ears which grew steadily worse. Helmus formerly was secretary to Representative George Edmunds of Massachusetts, and also to Edmunds’ successor, Charles L. Underhill. He was forced to retire because of failure of his hearing. Cates, a former Census Bureau clerk, |died in Garfleld Hospital yesterday morning. He was taken there Satur- day night after his wife, Mrs. Kath- erine Cates, found him unconscious in | An envelope which appeared to have contained a white powder was beside his bed. Results Unsatisfactory. An autopsy was performed yesterday, but, according to Dr. MacDonald, thye results were unsatisfactory and the to_the District chemist for analysis. Notes were found, Dr. MacDonald said, indicating despondency because of inability to obtain work. One of the notes contained $200 and expressed the wish that his body be c;:mlted. Mrs, Cecelia Martin, 28, of the 300 block of E street, fired a .32 caliber bullet through her left arm yesterday, according to police, whe said she had been prevented from shooting herself 1;1. .d vital spot by a friend of her hus- N Thomas Martin, the woman's hus- band, told police his wife had been in constant pain from sinus trouble for a contents of Cates’ stomach were sent | in PAGE B—1 91 POLICE, PAID IN PRIVATE FUNDS, SUBJEGTED T0 CUT 51 Traffic Officers’ Salaries Affected by Ruling of McCarl. COMPENSATION RECEIVED FROM TRANSIT CONCERNS Other Groups Who Were Exempt Under Old Economy Act Must Take Reduction. ‘The wages of ‘the 51 traffic officers of the Police Department which are paid by the street car companies have been slashed 15 per cent, in keeping with the cut in pay of Government em- ployes, under an interpretation of the new economy law, it developed today. These traffic policemen, although under the control of the District Gov- ernment, receive their entire salaries from the car companies. The first cut in their pay went into effect last Saturday, when the District placed in trust approximately $690 of the total of about $3,928 due the police- men for two-weeks’ service. District officials were uncertain as to just what should be done with the money deducted from the officers’ salaries and planned to ask for a ruling from Controller General McCarl. Under the economy program the sav- ings in Government salaries revert to the Treasury. Since the policgmen’s wages, however, come exclusively from the car companies, the question was raised as to whether the car companies, rather than the Federal Government, should receive the benefit of the cut. 1932 Procedure Reversed. ‘The slash in the salaries of the traffic officers is a reversal of the procedure of last year, when they escaped from the 1932 economy program, when Gov- ernment employes received a wage cut amounting to 8!3 per cent. The new economy program went into effect April 1, resulting in a cut of 15 per cent in the basic salaries of Gov- ernment employes, or an additicnal cut of 625 over what they received last year. The new economy move was made to apply specifically to the Dis- trict as well as the Federal establish- ment. The cut was applied last Sat- urday to the 51 traffic policemen under a ruling by Controller General McCarl He found that if the duties of an offi- cer were performed for or under the supervision of the Federal Government, and if the basic rate of compensation was fixed under any Federal law, order or regulation, the employe was a Fed- eral officer within the meaning of the new economy law, regardless of the source of the compensation. Many groups of Government em- ployes who were exempt from the pay cut under the old economy act appar- ently are due for a full 15 per cent cut under the new act, based on the decision by Controller McCarl. Groups to Take Cut. Among the groups in the Treasury Department itself who will now take the pay cut are the bank examiners, the national bank redemption agency, the Federal Reserve Board, the in- :oé\;m bank division of the controller's It had previously been announced that the salaries of conservators in the closed banks and their assistants were sub- Ject to a 15 per cent cut. It was also considered likely that there were other groups of employes in other departments whose pay had come from outside the Government, who pre- viously had been exempt from the pay cut, but must now take their 15 per cent cut. McCarl in his decision to the Secre- tary of the Treasury explained that un- der definition of section 1 of the new economy act of March 20, 1933, “any person rendering services in or under any branch or service of the United States government or the government of the District of Columbia with the five exceptions thérein are officers or employes whose total compensation, re- gardless of the source from which paid, is subject to the 15 per cent recuction accordance with the terms of the executive order of March 28, 1933, issued pursuant {o section 3 of the act.” McCarl explained that the saving of 15 per cent would not be taken away {from outside sources and impounded in the Treasury, but would be a saving of 15 per cent for the source from which the funds came, either private or State interests. . HOLIDAY LIQUOR RAIDS LAND THREE IN JAIL long time and had previously attempted to take her life. TRADE FIGHT SEEN AS TOPIC AT PARLEY Long Attacks Alleged Effort to Keep U. S. From Building Strong Money System. By the Associated Press. A fight by foreign powers to keep America on the gold standard so that they may continue the capture of American foreign markets with the aid of their own depreciated currencies was seen in preparations for the forthcom- ing international economic parleys yes- my by Senator Long, Democrat of Although adding in a formal state- ment that he “welcomed” the economic conversations for some reasons, the outspoken n asserted that in them “America is about to be shown the broad knowledge and experience of our European neighbors in the affairs of this country for their own interest.” As he bustled about in preparation for opening a drive in the Senate to attach a monetary expansion proviso to the administration farm relief bill, d mlgn nations. AUTO BILL INTRODUCED an Norton of the House Dis- trict Committee today Prince Georges Man and 2 Worden Required to Post Bond of $500 for Trials. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., April 17— Prince Georges County’s liquor law is still in effect, as three residents learned yesterday, when county police inaugu- rated a series of holiday raids. The victims were John Brooks and Hattie Adams of Lakeland and Alice Richardson of Brentwood, all colored. The trio was charged with illegal pos- session of liquor and required to post $500 bond for Police Court trial. County Policemen Ralph Brown and Claude Reese and Constable Howard Slater, who made the raids, said they had to - break down two barricaded doors when they raided the Richardson woman’s house, where nine other col- ored persons were arrested on disor- derly conduct charges. SRS, VETERAN ROLLS OPEN Jewish Ex-Service Men Get Chance to Join Post. Jewish veterans of American wars who desire to become charter members of the Washington Post of Jewish War Veterans of the United States may en- roll at the new organization's second meeting, at 8 p.m. tomorrow, at the Jewish Community Center, Post Comdr. Dr. I. A, Pelzman announced today. The charter roll, Dr. Pelzman ex- plained, has been kept open to afford veterans & chance to become charter members. The organization is national and any Jew who was a member of the United States Army in any war in which this Nation engaged is eligible. Sorority Ditner Tomorrew. CLARENDON, Va. April 17 (Spe- cial).—Mu Chapter, Tau Phi National Sorority, will hold & progressive dinner in the form of a “trip around the world,” tomorrow evening. The din- ner will start ab the home of Miss Louis Carl, 15 Granada terrace, Lyon Village, and end at the home of Mrs. Sasher, 219 Key fl!fi