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Washington News THOMAS TOFAVOR LIBERALIZING 1934 0. C. SUPPLY BIL Amendments Drafted by Com- | missioners Allow More Lee- way in Expending Funds. SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE WILL MEET ON FRIDAY Appropriations Group May Get Measure on Fri- day. | The amendments drafted yesterday by the Commissioners to give them more | Jeeway in expending many of the appro- priations in the 1934 District supply bill, will be supported by Chairman Thomas of the Senate Subcommittee handling the bill when the subcommit- tee meets Friday morning to decide wwhat changes it will make in the meas- ure as passed by the House. # “I am in favor of granting authority to the city officials to transfer funds from one appropriation item to another, Wwithin the limits laid down in the amendment, so that they can make the Dest possible use of the funds avail- | able,” Senator Thomas said today. Voices Personal View. He emphasized that he was voicing | his personal view and not speaking for | the cubcommittee. If the subcommit- tee finishes marking up the bill Fri- day. Senator Thomas said it probably wculd be ready for acticn by the Senate Appropriations Committee Monday. Senator King of Utah, a member of | the subcommittee, announced today | that he favored the Totten plan for | & masénry type bridge over Rock Creek | at Calvert street. George Oakley Tot- | ten, jr, a local architect, who was re- quested by the District government to design a masonry bridge for Calvert street in 1917, protested to the sub- committee yesterday against the action of the Commissioners in having new lans. prepared recently for a steel arch gr]dge. One of the questions before the subcommittee is whether to author- ize funds in the 1934 bill to begin a new Calvert Street Bridge. D. C. Heads Prepare List. The subcommittee has before it for| consideration a list of amendments pre- pared by the Commissioners and Dis- | trict Auditor Donovan which would provide definitely for certain construc- tion projects without adding to the total of the House bill. One of these amendments would make available for school buildings ap-| proximately $1.000,000 unspent from prior appropriations for the Municipal { Center development. Taree other proposed nmendments‘ call for srecific projects to be financed | from the $1,040,000 lump sum of gas- oline tax money which the House pro- | vided could be spent for projects ap- proved by the President. The Senate amendments wculd assign this money as follows: For beginning the new Calvert street bridge, $575,000; for building a new bridge across Rock Creek at P street, $250,000, and for widening and repaving Constituticn _evenue between North Capitol and Second streets northwest, 845.741. The total cost of this street widening project would be $76,235, the remainder of which would come irom the feceral appropriation for the Arlington Me- morial Bridge. The widening and im- provement of Constitution avenue has been regarded as a part of the bridge; project. Aid for Welfare Sought. Another important amendment sub- mitted by the Commissioners and await- ing subcommittee action would make immediately available the $1.250.000 mlready in the bill for emergency relief activities of the Board of Public Wel- fare. and would enable_the Commis- lonérs to spend the rélief money as ccnditions require without regard to monthly or other apportionment. In order to ease the effect of cuts made by the Budget Bureau and the Hcuse in a number of appropriations throughout the bill, the Commissioners bhave submitted a proposed general amendment to allow transfer of funds from one appropriation subhead to an- other within departments. This amend- ment would applv to the free public library system, the playgrounds, the public schools (except buildings and grounds), Health Department and pub- lic_welfare. The Commissioners suggested” a fur- ther amendment, to be attached to the $260,000 item for personal services in the library system. as follows: “Pro- vided. that during the fiscal year 1934 existing branch and subbranch libraries shall be continued in normal opera- tior.” Th~ fund for personal services for the libraries is one of the items reduced in the rewriting of the District budget and at the hearings recently Dr. George F. Bowerman, librarian, suggested that. if the item cannot be increased, that autherity be given for the transfer of sufficient money from the book fund to meet the personnel requirements. To Consider Tuberculosis Aid. In addition to these various amend- ments submitted by local officials, it is expected the subcommittee will give serious ccnsideration to increasing some other items, particularly for the treat- ment of tuberculosis patients. Two of the amendments submitted yesterday by District officlals related to the school teaching force. One would authcrize the filling of teacher vacancies by transferring special teach- ers to class room duty and the other would allow the appointment of qunl-] ified temporary teachers notwithstand- ing existence of an eligible list estab-i lished by examinaticns. MRS. MAYME A. KUECHLE | DIES AT HOME HERE False Alarm Calls Out Doctors, Police And Rescue Squad “Every One Overcome by Gas,” Exclaims Patient in Private Hospital. Three ambulances, two detachments of police and two rescue squads re- sponded early today to a false alarm said to have been turned in by & pa- tient in a private hospital in the 1600 block of Columbia road. The patient, according to police, re- orted that every one in the hospital ad been overcome by gas and asked that “all available apparatus” be dis- patched there immediately. Hospital officials reported the patient slipped away from a nurse and put in . RENE BACHE ENLS FEATAGE F T Note Says Author, Kin of Benjamin Franklin, Feared Loss of Sight. Explaining in a note that he was un- able to endure the pain of a serious ill- ness and the prospect of blindness, Rene Bache, 72, of 1823 Q street, noted scien- tific writer and great-great-great-grand- son of Benjamin Franklin, took an over- dose of sleeping powder Saturday and died last night. For more than 40 years he had lived in Washington, writing on scientific subjects and contributing to publica- tions dealing with science. He had been seriously ill for two years, was almost totaliy deaf and was fast losing his eyesight. He left two notes, one to his publisher and the other to his sister, Miss Edith Bache of Phila- delphia. In the latter note he explained the motive for his act. Acting Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald issued a cer- tificate of suicide. Mr. Bache was found unconscious in his home Saturday by his sister-in-law, Miss Violet Biddle, who kept house for him since the death of his wife four years ago. The family physician, Dr. Louis Castell, 1801 I street, was sum- moned., and the writer rallied. He later slumped into a coma and died last night without regaining conscious- ness. The funeral will be in Philadelphia tomorrow. Miss Bache was his only surviving close relative. Mr, Bache was born in Philadelphia March 16, 1861, the son of Richard | Meade Bache and Elizabeth Tyndale Bache. He was graduated from Yale University in 1881 and later attended Harvard. He had been a writer on scientific subjects since 1889. In 1884 he married Miss Beatrice Biddle of Philadelphia. CRAWFORD HEARING SET NEXT MONDAY Suspect in Ilsley Murder Seeks Habeas Corpus in U. S. Court at Boston. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, April 19.—A petition for a writ of habeas corpus to prevent the return of George Crawford, colored, to Virginia to be tried for murder will in Boston next Monday. Gov. Joseph B. Ely, has honored the request of the Governor of Virginia for Crawford’s rendition to face a charge of murder in connection with the deaths of Mrs. Agnes Boeing Ilsley, wealthy sportswoman, and her maid. Mrs. Nina Buckner. Mrs. Ilsley and Mrs. Buckner were found slain in a lodge on Mrs. Iisley's estate in Middle- burg, Va., January 13, 1932. After Gov. Ely signed the rendition papers, counsel for Crawford went to the Federal Court, asking for his re- lease on a writ of habeas corpus. Craw- ford’s counsel contended he would be denied jury rights under the United States Constitution because in Virginia colored citizens would not be permitted to sit on his jury. They argued he would not receive & fair trial and al- leged that Crawford was not the man named in the Virginia indictment. The hearing has been delayed in part at the request of defense counsel who sought time to obtain depositions from persons in Virginia. SUES FOR BONDS Daly Bros., Inc., Seeks $25,000 in Franklin National Bank. A suit to establish ownership 6f $25,- 000 of Liberty loan bonds in the Frank- lin National Bank was filed yesterday in District Supreme Court by Daly Bros., Inc., 935 Hughes court. The bank and Thomas P. Hickman, con- servator, were named defendants. The plaintiff, through Attorneys Paul V. Rogers and William E. Furey, says the bank bought the bonds for him at his request, but the conservator re- fuses to release them. Wed 50 Years ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATED BY SOUTHEAST COUPLE. Native of Baltimore Was Promi-| nent in Fraternal Life in | Naticnal Capital. Mrs. Mayme A. Kuechle, 51, promi nent in fraternal life here, died yester- day at her home, 2620 L street, after a short fillness. Mrs. Kuechle was a native of Baltimore, but had lived here for 30 years. Among the offices she has held are matron of the Eastern Star, past high priestess of the Ladies’ Oriental Shrine, Zuzu Court, 21. and past grand presi- | dent of the Ladies’ Council of Universa: | Craftsmen of Masonic Engineers. Mrs. Kuechle is survived by her hus- band. Charles F. Kuechle, engineer at the Y. W. C. A, and two sons, William C. and Fred E. Kuechle, all of Wash- ington. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the S.-H. Hines Funeral Home. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Gemetery. B MR. AND MRS. CHARLES E. JOHNSON, Who yesterday celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary at their home, 1606 U street southeast. They were married here at the Union Methodist Episcopal Chapel by Rev. W. E. Weech. There were four children, three of whom are living. They are Mrs. J. A. , Mrs. E. J. Samoyden and Paul D. Johnson. —Harris-Ewing Photo. come up for hearing in Federal Court | - Che Ty WITE SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening Sfaf WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1933. BLACK 0 PROPOSE PUBLIC GARAGES UNDER D. C. PARKS Would Use District Funds and Let Commissioners Fix Charges. CITES SENATE BUILDING AS EXAMPLE OF PLAN Civic Beauty Would Not Be Marred by Arrangement, Demo- crat Says. Representative Black, Democrat, of New York, announced today his inten- tion of sponsoring legislation to provide for construction of underground park- ing garages in the congested section of ‘Washington. Black said his plan contemplated constructing the garages under public parks. He will propose that the ga- rages be financed out of District reve- nues and placed under jurisdiction of the Commissioners, who would be au- thorized to fix a fee for the privilege of rarking. Under this arrangement, he pointed out, the garages would be self- }liquidating. Sees Jobs Provided. “I do not know of any reason why the space under the public parks should not be used for automobile parking,” said Black. “The underground garages would not detract from the beauty of the parks, that has been demonstrated by the garage for members of the Senate under the park adjoining the Senate Office Building. “The underground garages also would create additional parking facilities and afford protection from the weather to cars now parked all day on the streets. If constructed now, work would be pro- vided for a number of men.” Black said he proposed to discuss his plan with other members of the House District Committee preliminary to drafting a bill to authorize construction of the underground garages. Would ‘Extend Privilege. Black also revealed that a group of members of Congress is planning to appeal to the District Commissioners to reserve a parking space in front of their homes for their own vehicles. “I have heard a number of complaints from members of the House.” he said, “who have been unable to find park- ing space in the vicinity of their homes. Special parking reservations have been created in the vicinity of Government buildings for the cars of members of Congress and Federal officials, and these members feel the privilege should be extended to the street in front of their homes.” PLANS ELECTION Naticnal Symphony Orchestra As- sociation to Choose Officers. The newly-formed National Sym- phony Orchestra Association will elect officers for the coming year at its first meeting tomorrow at 5 pm. in the United States Chamber of Commerce Building. The association will take charge of | the symphony's affairs, supplanting the present Executive Committee. URGES ROAD BUILDING Senator Trammell, Democrat of Flor- !ida. yesterday introduced a bill askifig !an appropriation of $200,000,000 for | highway construction as a means of unemployment relief. He said action of this character is { necessary “since highway work has been checked on account of funds hereto- fore appropriated and not obligated, having been held for the reforestation expense under the reforestation act.” _————— CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Card party, Past Matrons and Pa- trons’ Assoclation, La Fayette Lodge Chapter; No. 37, O. E. S, 3009 Four- teenth st., 8 pm. Community dance, John Burroughs School, Eighteenth and Monroe streets northeast, 8:30 p.m. G Comedy, “Mystery Island.” Dramatic Club of Bethany Baptist Church, Sec- ond street and Rhode Island avenue, | 8:15 p.m. Meeting, Brotherhood, Grace Luther- an Church, Sixteenth and Varnum | streets, 8 pm. Card party, Congress Lodge Chapter, 0. E. s‘.’, 60 M street northeast, 8:30 pm. g Dutch dinner, George Dewey Naval Auxiliary, No. 3, United §) ‘War Veterans, Northeast Masonic Temple, Eighth and F streets northeast, 5 to pm. Dance and card party, Lebanon Chapter, No. 25, O. E. S, Kennedy- ‘Warren, 9:30 p.m. Meeting, Hotel and Restaurant Em- ployes’ Alliance, Local No. 781, 1412 1 street, 3 p.m. Meeting, Washington Society of En- gineers, Cosmos Club, 8:15 p.m. Dance, Massachusetts State Soclety, Shoreham Hotel, 9 p.m. Supper_dance, South Carolina State Society, Shoreham Hotel, 9 p.m. Party, Polish Club of Washington, Thomas Circle Club, 1326 Massachu- setts avenue, 8:30 p.m. Meeting, Sons of the American Revo- lution, Mayflower Hotel, 8 p.m. Meeting, Washington State Soclety, Mayflower Hotel, 8 p.m. Card party and dance, Cedarhurst Citizens’ Association, Y. W. C. A, 614 E street, 8:30 p.m, i Silver tea and quilt exhibit, Mis- slonary Societies, Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, Columbia road, near Fifteenth street, 2 to 5 p.m. and 7:30 to 10 pm. I TOMORROW. Luncheon, ~ Transportation Club, Raleigh Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, D. C. Bankers’ Association, ‘Willard Hotel, 12:45 p.m. Luncheon, Cornell Club, University Ciub, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Phi Gamma Delta Fra- ternity, University Club, 12:30 p.m. { __Luncheon, State Department officials, University Club, 12:30 p.m. . Luncheon, “Y” Club, University Club, 12:30 p.m. Meeting, Northwest Union, W. C. T. U, 1309 Seventeenth street, 2 p.m. Capital Forestry PAGE B—1 Army Preparing Blue Ridge Camp YOUTHS GET THEIR FIRST TASTE OF WORK THEY ARE EXPECTED TO ACCOMPLISH IN MOUNTAINS. The Washington contingent of President Rocseveltls forestry army is shown fixing up the camp in the George Washington National Forest, which they named for the Chief Executive. “privates.” It is in the heart of the Blue Ridge, east cf Luray, Va shown conferring with Lieut. W. F. Train (left) and Sergt. R. H. Nesbit about camp plans. officers in charge are explaining to the assembled recruits their duties. Upper left: Upper right: The boys are BY THOMAS R. HENRY. AMP ROOSEVELT, GEORGE WASHINGTON NATIONAL FOREST, Va. April 19—In this high, cup-like hollow in the heart of a wrecked moun- tain forest, President Rooseveit's great sociological experiment is under way. Here, early Monday evening, 200 in- digent boys and men from the District of Cdlumbia—some of them away from the city lights for the first time in their lives—were unlcaded from busses to make their home for the next six months. For many it was such a weird, strange world as an explorer might find when he stepped on the shore of a new con- tinent. Far below them. as inaccessible to eyes and ears as if it had beeu | blotted cut forever, was the old world in which they had grown to manhood. Foer hours they had been moving through mountains, around hairpin curves in a narrow dirt road. across rain-swollen brooks falling from the crags above, along the edges of preci- pices with sheer drops of 500 feet or more to the church steeples of the picturesque Luray Valley and the flooded fields where the brown waters of the Shenandoah had overflown. Then the busses had crossed the crest of the hills and stopped at this little clearing beside the foaming waters of a mountain branch. Like Pattern of Color. For these men it was the beginning of a new life. In every direction they saw only mountain crests and slopes of gray rock covered with a purpie-green plaid vesture, the warp of oak and ash trees not yet touched with the magic | being drilled and the brock water was | of Spring, and the woof of pines and hemlocks. The first contingent of the forestry army—city men and boys—was now face to face with nature. They were alone in the woods and starting the life which is calculated to clear away the scars inflicted upon them by an un- weildy civilization which has gone wrong. They passed an uncomfortable night. Their camping equipment was behind them on an Army van which ne- gotiated with difficulty the narrow, mountain road. It did not arrive until 1 a.m.—too late to be set up. The men slept under the open sky—or lay down and were quiet for a time. They were a pretty drowsy lot yesterday, for few really slept. They were up and about at the break of dawn and as soon as breakfast was served started on a busy day calculated to make them forget their troubles. The job was to set up a model tent eolony. 1t consisted of four rcws, each 10 deep. of Army pyramidal tents, with a broad company street in the center. Trees must be felled to provide timber for fire- wood and for tent floors. The forest floor was cleared cf leaves and moss. This was far from & hard job fof 200 men under the direction of Army sergeants skilled in establishing camps unrger all sorts of conditions. Before noon the camp was taking shape rapidly and when the slender crescent moon came out over the mountain tops the men were assured of comfortable sleep- ing quarters for the night. But muscles were sore and hands blistered with axes and brush hooks. Morale Appears Good. The morale was unexpectedly good, partially as the result of the week’s training at Fort Washington, partly due to the fine caliber of many of the men and quite largely due to the excellent leadership of Capt. Leo Donovan and his two assistants, Lieuts. Richard R. Carhart and William F. Train, the Reg- ular Army officers who are in charge of getting the camp underway. Capt. Donovan, especially, is proving a real leader of these men, shows deep under- standing of their problems and of the whole purpose of the sociological ex- periment President Roosevelt has in mind. Discipline is good and very lenient and every man is sute of a sym- pathetic hearing. Probably no actual work in the for- ests will get under way before the end of the week. Forestry service agents were at the camp yesterday. The pro- jects are pretty well laid out. First the road itself must be fixed up. It is about all an automobile can do to make the grade from Luray. It is partly a county road and partly a forest service road. One advantage is that it renders the camp reasonably safe from curious visitors. The easiest way to get there is to walk and an automobile along this narrow trail along the edges of steep declines is safe only in the hands of a skilled driver. ‘The transportation dif- ficulty will make it harder for the boys to get out of camp, and the leaders feel the less contact they have with the old world below, the better. Fire breaks are to be laid down. But the chief job will be in improving the con- dition of the forest itself. It is a wrecked woodland. Within the last 25 years all the good timber was cut off by lumbering interests. Only worthless trees were left. Rot- ting logs cover the fcrest floor. There is thick underbrush. The good trees are just beginning to gain a foothold White and red oak. white pine, black | walnut, yellow poplar and white ash trees are fighting for their existence | with almost worthless black gum, scrub | | pine and scarlet and black oak trees. | Under the direction of skilled foresters, the men will clear out these latter, the weeds of the forest garden, and give | the former a chance to grow. | ‘The second objective is with the men | themselves. Embittered with the world, | they are to be given a bapticm in the | waters of nature. Their ideals have | been destroyed, their lives wrecked. Here everything can be built up again as Spring with its red dress of blos- | coming Judas trees and its white coro- net of wild cherry flowers comes slowly up the mountasinside out of the val-| |leys. The spirits are to be remade with | contact with nature, fresh air and | plenty of wholesome food. The Army | hardly could have sent into the fleld | & man more adapted to the job before | him than the sympathetic, thoroughly | human, Capt. Denovan. The camp is remote from human habitation. Few mountaineers linger | in this wrecked forest, almosi destitute | even of game. Luray is 6 miles away | Edinburgh 10 miles. For years, eve: hardly has felt the touch of man. Even Brooks “Clean.” Consequently the whole environment is so “clean” that even the water of the mcuntain brook probably cen be drunk with perfect safety. A well is chlorinated yesterday, but this was just a customary Army precaution. There is no source of contamination between the camp and the high spring from which the stream originates. This pioneer company divides, both in appearance and attitude, into two groups. First are the men, those in their middle twenties. They are old enough to have known better days. Some have had good jobs and some of the luxury of life. But for months now they have been jobless and sometimes hungry. More important still, they have suffered from the monotony of tramping the streets in hopeless search for work that did not exist. Their pride has been hurt by the necessary acceptance of charity.. They have not come to the age of resignation. Rather, there has been developing in their hearts bitter- ness and disgust with things in general. It shows on their faces and in their conversation. Second are the boys, under 20. Even in adversity they have been sheltered, after a fashion. Some show unmistak- able signs of malnutrition. They never have had jobs of any kind, except after school and during Summer vocations. They made the great transition of late adolescense and early manhood in the midst of the great hopelessness. They have not experienced blighted aspira- tions and enthusiasms, because the days in which they reached manhood were days which did not beget aspira- tions and enthusiasms. Older Men Philosophical. The diverse attitudes show clearly in the reactions of the men to a critical test—the first night under the open stars in the chill of the mountain hollow as an abrupt transition from the comfortable quarters at Fort Washing- ton. The older men accepted it philosophically. For example: An X-ray technician, formerly em- ployed at one of the foremost medical clinies in Washington but laid off two years ago: “This is & break and the first one I've had for a long time. Everything’s going to be swell here and I'm asking nothing better than this chance to cut away from the past and breath some fresh air.” A clothing salesman, formerly em- : “Look at the beautiful 1 around. I didn’t sleep last night and just lay looking at them with the stars over them and the mists -breaking away in 1It's like Heaven here. something they quote out of the Bible. I used to belong to the National Guard in Washington and we went into camp in the mountains of Pennsylvania one Summer. There the mountain tops were black and here they are blue— one just as beautiful as the Hell for Two Years. “It's been hell for the last two years. I just walked and walked and walked the streets of Washington— nothing to do, no hopes of anything to do, no money for anything, everybody locking down one me, no hopes for tomorrow. All I could hope for was to be tired enough to sleep all night and not to know about it. And all of a sudden I'm lifted out of that horrible old world and set up here in since the first ruthless wrecking of the | wocdlands, nature in this high hollow | | | this new one where everything is clean. Thank God for those hills. They are higih cnough so you can't see the 4 woi r them. Thank God it to_the nearest town s: not be any temptation to cd w !a long | there w. go_there, A meat salesman, formerly employed st a Washington packing house: “It | takes mcre than just_a night in the |cpen to phase me. I was raised in | the mountains of South Carolina, so this sort of life isn't new to me. The | way I look at it—it's the new deal and | | a mghty swell une.” But | picture, the striplings with thin blood ‘who had the spunk all taken cut of |them by that one night in the cold. | Some of them were rather resentful | They can’t appreciate the brusqueness | of the veteran top sergeant. Said one: “Twelve quit and went home this morning. (None actually quit, al- though some threatened to do so.) I'm going to quit, too. They can't hold a fellow here against his will. It's against | the law Six months in this dump—not | me. They didn't even have the sense to put this camp near a town where a fel- low could go to have some fun. Nothing to do all night long. The people in Washington ought to know about this. They wouldn't stand for it.” | Raw Deal, Youth Says. | Said another: “They've'got four guys | locked up fer trying to get away frem { here. (He didn't know whero they were lccked up) And there’s no way for the to get a lawyer. 1 | Why, they just dumped us cow . | this hole without putting up any ten | for us. And it's 12 miles to the nearest | town.” Said another: there was plenty of liquor up here. ‘This is where they make it. But where are all the bootleggers? Not one of them has shown up around here yet.” (Effec- by the Army and by the forestry service to keep away the mountaineer moo shiners with their cheay “applejack.”) Capt. Donovan lookea sadly at some of the boys in whom he has taken a parental interest. “Poor kids,” he said, “we've got to go easy cn them, until they're hardened. They don't look as if they can stand very much, But it will be a Godsend to them.” Already he has taken steps to ameli- orate their lot. When the contingent arrived it was greeted with the infor- mation that forest service regulations prohibited smoking for fear of fires in the national forest. He realized it would be impossible to enforce such an order and one of his first concerns was to make arrangements so the men could smoke in peace in the camp area, with the understanding that they would leave cigarettes behind when they went out on work details. And he is going to put up a big recreation tent and is tak- ing steps to get athletic equipment for the boys. Can’t Get Away Easily. Such is the material of which the first company of the civilian conserva- tion corps is made. Of course, the two groups shade into each other. There are boys of 18 who are enthusiastic and there are men of 25 who are disheart- ened. There are men of all ages in be- tween. But they seem to bunch around the extremes. Some will fit in from the first. They don’t need discipline. Some will require a good deal of conditioning. One thing is being made clear to the men—they can’t get out of it without discharges and a man will not be given a discharge just because he doesn't like Capt. Leo Donovan (center) there is another side to the | “I always supposed | tive precautions have been taken both | in charge of the group, is shown pitching tents. Lower left: the Lower right: The felling of this tree seems to be very well taken care of by a swarm of ° —Star Staff Photo. it. He must have a good reason. In 5 must be abe to give evi- he can support himself. en are not to be sent back rburdened community. And to understand why any ss man weuld want a discharge, once he is conditioned to life close to nature. The work will not be hard nor the discipline strict. There will be ex- cellent food, and plenty of it. Health will be a primary consideration. The men will be taught regular habits. The first day was the hardest. The | long, jolting ride in busses from Fort Washington and the cold night in the hcllow might have shaken a veteran. But, curiously enough, the only casualty was the Army doctor. who was taken sick and sent back to Wa'ter Reed Hos- pital. for minor ailments which the Medical Corps enlisted men attended to in the field dispensary which was ore of the first tents to be set up. There will soon | be a tent hospital where any sick men can be made comfortable. 1mmmmm N RESIDENCE AREA District Officials Move to Stop Professional Teach- ing at Studio. The District government, acting on an opinion by Corporation Counsel Bride, moved today to halt the pro- fessional teaching of music lessons in dwellings restricted to residential pur- poses. The Commissioners have approved a finding by the city’s Law Department holding that teaching piano in a pri- vate residence is not a “home occu- pation” permitted in residential zones. The case arose over protests of neighbors against the “almost continu- ous” use of a piano in the music studio of La Salle Spier at 2235 Bancroft place, from 9 am. to 10 pm. “and sometimes later.” ‘The leading complainants were Comdr. A. G. Stirling, U. S. N, 2237 Bancroft place; George G. Scriven, 2241 Bancroft place, and Mrs. Marshall Exnicios, owner, and C. V. Wheeler, tenant, of 2233 Bancroft place. | Acting on authority of the Bride rul- |ing and the Commissioners’ indorse- ment, Daniel E. Garges, secretary to the city heads, today is sending a notice of the finding to Spiers and asking him to show cause why he should not be stopped. Should he refuse to abandon the studio, officials said the case will be taken to court. This is said to be the first ruling by the city on the question. EDITOR SPE;\KS TONIGHT Dr. Edwin Reeder Errett, editor and Bible commentator of Cincinnati, will address the Disciples Union at the Ver- mont Avenue (Christian Church tonight. The meeting will begin with a dinner at 6 o'clock. H. F. Harmon, president of the group, will preside. Harold E. Key, editor of The World Call, also will speak. Sympathy and assistance were lav- ished upon Raymond yesterday, when he inadvertently tumbled over the Poto- mas sea wall, but, in the end, the old horse found he had to make his own way out of the difficulty. Raymond fell overboard while mow- ing grass in Potomac Park. Police and mechanics with two motor cranes failed in their efforts to hoist Raymond over sea wall which lines the Potomac on the Washington side. 1t presently became apparent that if was to regain dry ground he must swim the mile-wide Virginia shore, where the banks offered a footing. Although Raymond is 11 years old, he had never learned to swim. Nothing daunted, he struck out, led by a rope tralling from & police patrol boat. Ray- HORSE SWIMS TO VIRGINIA SIDE AFTER TUMBLING INTO POTOMAC Raymond, Unable to Climb District Seawall, Valiantly Makes River Trip. mond'’s master, Washington Towell, col- ored, held the rope and kept saying: “Come on, Raymond—come on, Ray- mond!” Already exhausted by a two-hour struggle to get over the sea wall, Ray- mond was shoved about by tidal cur- rents and half-strangled by waves. ‘Within a stone’s throw of safety, Ray- mond went under, for the last time, his friends thought. But the horse bobbed up again, swung his head wildly and caught a glimpse of the green pastures on the Virginia shore. After that it was just a matter of holding out. When Raymond got on dry land, his master hustled him off to a warm stable and blankets. But not until Raymond had thrust a grateful muzzle into the high grass' he was almost too weak to chew. The only other complaints were | FINANCIAL CONTROL OF GAS COMPANY Roberts Traces Ownership of Stock Through Maze of Corporations. CHASE NATIONAL BANK TOOK PART IN PURCHASE Utilities Groups, Holding Concerns and Trust Companies Involved. The story of the acquisition and Present ownership of a majority of the stock of the Washington Gas Light Co. was spread on the records of the Fed- eral Trade Commission yesterday through testimony of William A. Roberts, counsel for the Public Utilities Co!l;nlgzsslon, nder questioning by Judge Robert E. Healy, Roberts saldyB-l pgl' cent of the stock is now owned by the Wash- ington & Suburban Cos, a Massa- chusetts common law trust, successor to the Seaboard Investment Trust. There are 6,000 common shares of beneficial interest (common stock) in this trust, owned as follows: _Chase National Bank, 1,300; Public Utllity Associates, Inc, 600, Public Utility Holding Corporation of Amerira, 900; United Founders Corporation, 48" American & General Securities Co ration, 180; Second International curities Corporation, 120; United States & British International Co., Ltd., 120; American _Equities Corporation, 100; Ctility & Industrial Corporation, 1.200, and Continental Illinois Bank & Tiust Co., 1,000. Other Holdings Show Roberts testified that Pul scociate aulity < s, Inc, is owned half by the Investors’ Corporation and half by Chase-Ha Forbes Corporation, tahc latter an af’.".\hfllfi (or until recently n affiliate) of the C ional s ‘hase National Public Utility Holding Corporation of America stock is widely held by the public and part of it is owned by Public Ctility Associates, Inc. The latter cor- | peration owns a’ small block of stock iin the United Founders Corporation, i\'htch in turn owns a large biock of | the Public Utility Holding Corporation jof America. Public Utility Associates, ;Inc..‘ owns stock in the Central Public ’Sernce Co. and stock and bonds of the Consolidated Electric & Gas Corpora= | tion and 153,024 out of 9,000,000 shares | of United Founders. American & General Securities is con- trelled by United Founders Corporation | Second International Securities Cor- poraticn, United States & British Inter- national Company, Ltd., are both owned by American Founders, which is con- trolled by Unitea Founders. The American Equities Corporation (now in receivership) is the relic of an organization built up by William Wildes, at one time vice president of the Central Public Service Corporation. Utility & Industrial Corporation is j owned by H. M. Byllesby & Co. C(;I‘he Continental Illinois Bank & Trust | Co. (now a national bank) is trustee |under an indenture of trust executed by _the Washington & Suburban Cos. Trustees of the Washington & Sub- urban Cos., according to Roberts, are Sherman Damon, vice president of the | Chase-Harris Forbes Corporation of Massachusetts; Henry B. Rising, treas- urer of the same corporation, and Wil- liam W. Howard, connected with that corporation, but holding no office. $10,000,000 Stock Pledged. Roberts said these men had been trustees continuously since the founda- tion of the Seaboard Investment Trust, except that Howard resigned for three days, during which time his substitute pledged $10,000,000 worth of stock in the Washington Gas Light Co. as col- lateral for a loan by the Riggs National Bank of $1.000,000, with part of which the Alexandria municipal gas works was acquired. The stock, however, was at ;l;zes:lxngslaronoeosloetzge? as security for a 000, ave = ne}g el or of the West. le said the obligations of the Wash- ington & Suburban Cos included $6,500,000 in 6 per cent bonds, 70,000 shares of 6 per cent cumulative prefer- red stock, and 6,000 common shares of. beneficial interest. The dividends on the preferred stock have been passed for the last three pay days, he said, and there was no prospect of any phe- nomenal increase in the net income of the Washington Gas Light Co., which is the Washington & Suburban Co.'s principal source of income. Relating how the Chase National Bank came to own its shares, Roberts said the bank participated in the pur- 1 chase of the Washington Gas Light Co. stock from the beginning. They and others advanced the $6,000,000 used in making the initial purchases in 1929. "he Westfield Trust, owned by Albert E. Peiice, president of the Central Pub- lic Service Corporation, executed a note for this $6,000,000, and turned over to the bank the stock in the Washington & Suburban Cos as collateral. When this note remained unpaid, the Chase National Bank sold the collateral (stock in the Washington & Suburban Co.s) at public auction, and at that auction the bidders were the same persons whe had first put up the money, and they bid it in in the same proportions as theii respective contributions to the fun 'BURIAL OF LANMAN SET FOR TOMORROW President of Engraving Company Died Suddenly at Home Monday. Charles F. Lanman, 59, president of the Lanman Engraving Co., died sud- denly Monday at his home, 1310 Far- ragut street. Funeral services will be held at 10 am. tomorrow at St. Gab- riel's Church, followed by burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery. A native of this city, Mr. Lanman was a pioneer in the photo-engraving business here. He formerly was em- ployed by the old National Tribune, but organized th~ plant bearing his namec more than 3" vears ago, and had head- ed it since. Before that he organized a photoengraving plant in the Philip- pines for the Government Printing Office and remainded as superintend- ent for three years. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus and of the Washington Board of Trade. Survivers include his widow, Mary Keeler Lanman; two daughters, Mary Alice and Frances Rita; a son, Louis; four sisters, Mary E. Lanman, Caro- line L. Lanm=n (cccretary and treas- urer of the company), Lulu E. Lan- man and Mrs. J. Paul Ward, all of this city, and three brotiers, A. Leo of At- lanta, Ga., and Frank E. and Maurice H. Lanman, both of Washington, h HEARING REVEALS _