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RELIEF AGTIVITIES A. F. of L. Will Ask “Prompt and Constructive Action,” Declares Green. CO-ORDINATION PLAN IS CALLED ESSENTIAL Letter From Commissioners to Ed- win C. Graham Reviews Pleas to Congress. he American Federation of Labor will urge on the District Commissiol WASHINGTON, D. C, Tests for Autoists Psychological Questionnaire May Be Adopted by Traffic Bureau to Examine Per- mit Applications. a fire engine is approach- ing. what would you do? 1. Follow the engine to see if you can help? 2. Precede the engine, clearing a way for it? 3. Turn off at the next intersection? 4. Pull over to the curb until the engine passes? The questions are not frivolous. Rather. they are a sample of what a! motorist may be up against in the future when he submits to an exami- nation: for his driver's permit. Woe be unto him who elects to precede the fire | engine, clearing a way for it. The psy- chologists would tell him that he suf- fers from delusions of grandeur, totally unfitting him for association with the meeker motorists content to obey the traffic regulations. | ‘The examination is divided into three parts. In the first, there is typed & series of statements and the victim is | Tequired to indicate by a check whether the statements are correet or false. Some of the statements are: | Passenger vehicles may lawfully park abreast of other vehicles for 20 minutes. | | ""A motor vehicle may lawfully pass | through an unoccupied safety zone. Amber light with green means clear the intersection. The questions in part two require the examinee to fill in blanks with fig- ures. Typical questions are: The distance to park from & fire plug is — feet. ‘The speed limit in alleys is — miles an_hour. Rear light of automobile should be visible a distance of — feet. In the last part four answers are Traffic Director William A. VanDuzer | suggested to each question, and the ap- is contemplating the institution of a | plicant must check the one and only psychological questionnaire to test out | correct answer. Some of them seem the mental quirks of automobile drivers. | destined to lead to argument as to | Such a questionnaire has been devised | whether more than one answer will For instance: LIGHTER D. C. CUTS WILL BE-WEIGHED BY SENATE GROUP Subcommittee Called Tues- day for Executive Session on Vital Projects. WIDER LEEWAY LIKELY FORDISTRICT OFFICIALS Members Believed Favorable for Broader Power in Administration of Reduced Approprinfiofl. The Senate subcommittee in charge of the 1934 District appropriation bill STUDY OF REVISED REGROUPING PLANS !Inflation Problem and Talks With MacDonald Keeping Him Busy. MINOR CHANGES MADE IN SET-UP BY ROPER Alterations as Result of Pressure From Trade and Rail Asso- ciations Denied. President Roosevelt has .side tracked iplans for reorganization of the Gov- | emment to devote full time to his cur- SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 23, 1933. =* PAGE B—1 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OPENS PARLEY TOMORROW Research Results From All Fields to Be Presented at Annual Meeting. LEADING INVESTIGATORS SCHEDULED IN PROGRAM Physicists and Astronomers and Biologists to Form Separate Groups on First Day. ‘The annual meetings of the National Academy of Sclences, the so-called by Prof. F. A, Moss of George Wash- | fil] the bill. It has been used‘ ° “Senate of American Science,” will will meet in executive session Tuesday rency inflation program and conver- ‘The flooded Potomac last night topped the wall about the Tidal Basin, but “prompt and constructive action” to avert a threatened breakdown in the re- lief of unemployed and destitute persons in Washington through shortage of funds, according to a letter vesterday from President William F. Green to Newbold Noyes, head of the latest Community Chest fund campaign. Pointing out that the present out- look for Washington is that of throw- ing Government employes out of work and reduction of wages, Mr. Green commented on the seeming inconsist- ency of making it obligatory on the Government to collect money to take care of those the Government has thrown out of employment. But this responsibility, as regards the District, falls on the Commissioners, he con- cluded. and he said “it is expected that the Commissioners will formulate a plan, will announce it, and will call tpon the people of the District to sup- port it.” Co-ordination Urged. Some plan of co-ordinating private and public relief agencies under the generalship of the Commissioners in a vigorous push to end uncertainty as to the relief funds and to secure the neces- sary money for saving thousands of Washingtonians from the tragedies of hunger and homelessness, has been urged on the city heads insistently of late by associations having to do with | public welfare problems, notably by the Associated Charities and the Commu- nity Chest. The Commissioners yester- day made public the text of a letter on the general subject to Edwin C. Grahem, president of the Chest, but | ond a statement of their_efforts to| ure the good offices of the appro- | P ions committecs of Congress in urging appropriation of the necessary | funds. and cf the prospect of increased ons for District relief direct- hrough the Wagner-La Fol- ostigan bill. the four-page com- cation had little to say. opigion.” Mr. Green's letter said, “the nced for Telief will increase, and thus an already serious situation become more ous. Tt seems evident that there will be heavy dismissals of Government employes in many of the Government departments in Washington. The Government has wced its intention of reducing enses through the con- solidation Sovernment departments, the merging of many and perhaps the discontinuation of others. In my opin- jon. Washington approaching _the period when i will feel the full effect of the distressing economic _situation which has prevailed in the Nation for ore than three years. Relief Resources Taxed. “Wage cuts, reduction of buying power, the dismissal of thousands of workers, have been going on, and as a result the relief resources of the District of Columbia will be taxed to the limit of their capacity. “The American Federation of Labor protested the wage cuts. It has pro-| tested wage deflation in ev way. In he District of Columbia 1t agrinst the dismissal emplo: i 1 1e: of Govern- indeed, seem inconsistent create a cause for additionsl relief jismissing thousands of Government | by deflating labor, and igatory upon the Dis- trict to collect sums of money to be used for providing relief to those who have been dismissed from service. “The responsibility for the collection and distribution of funds in order to take care of human suffering and hu- man distress rests with the Commis- sioners. It is expected that the Com- missioners of the District will formu- n nounce it and will the peovle of it T will gladly urge upon | lissioners to take prompt and tive action | ¢ Washington Monarch Club also v adopted a resolution holding that “it is the duty of the Commission- ers of the District to take the initiative | in meeting the situation and that they | should forthwith set in motion the proper measures to provide necessary funds and to awaken Congress to the necessity of co-operation by suitable | Federal appropriation. before the ad-| journment of that body.” ; The question is also under consider- ation by the Merchants and Manu- facturers’ Association. being on the agenda for the Executive Committee at its next meetin Commissioners’ Letter. The text of the Commissioners' letter | follows: H “My dear Mr. Graham: “The Commissioners of the District of Columbia have considered your letter of ! April 15, 1933, concerning the question as to the sufficiency of welfare funds for the relief of the needy of the Dis- trict of Co k> r statement that relief funds of private family welfare organizations. members of the Community Chest, will be ex- hausted by the middle of Summer, and that this shortage is due to the in- ability of the emergency relief division of the Board of Public Welfare to take over families and individuals for whose cate you claim that division is respon- Sible, with the result that private funds. which should have lasted the whole vear | on the basis of the legal obligation of | the Board of Public Welfare, will not Jast beyond the end of Summer. ington University. for questioning a handful of applicants, but the results have not been tabulated. It is not proposed to use this question- naire except in the cases of drivers against .whom there are frequent com- lations. The present oral examination will remain in effect for all applying for | their permits the first time. plaints of accidents or violation of regu- | ‘The chief reason for not parking | abreast is: | To avoid congestion in the center of | the_street. | To allow the cars parked at the | curb to be driven away. To allow pedestrians a clear view of the street to avoid being hit. ‘To make business for those owning garages and parking lots. RELIEF BILL ACTION {Wagner-Lewis Measure Sent to Senate Banking and Currency Group. Congress is expected to take final | action this week on the Wagner-Lewis ‘relief bill. carrving $500.000,000 of 15 DUE THIS WEEK Is| ‘Huge Stuffed Bear | Destroyed by Fire At Furrier Store |Six-Foot Figure Stood for Many Years on Capital Street. s All that remains of the 6-foot Alaskan polar bear that has stood so patiently for yvears before the entrance of the Zlotnick furrier establishment. Twelfth and G streets, is a charred head and a small piece of burned hide. The huge stuffed bear skin. famuliar Federal aid to the States. Territories to so many Washingtonians. had been and District of Columbia in relieving | taken into the shop before closing time | “State” ! Columbia. shall include the Commissioners of the | last night and thus became the hapless distress and suffering due to Unem- yictim of a fire that practically wiped out the fur shop in the first floor of | the three-story building. Along with {the polar bear, most of the stock of furs was destroved or damaged. The fire attracted a large crowd in the busy downtown section, but was confined to the fur shop. The cause of the fire was unknown. Trafic was tied up only for a short ! while. The second floor of the building. occupied by the offices of Dr. Eliz N. Smith and Dr. D. Dee Brown, was flooded with water, but otherwise was undamaged. Most of the third floor of the building is vacant. PROBE HOLDS TWO N DAVIS KILLING |Coroner’s Jury Lays Shooting to Harding—Olewack Held Accessory. ployment. The District of Columbia would be entitled to an initial Federal grant of somewhere between $125,000 and $150.- 000 immediately of the measure, and it would come at an opportune time to help meet the heavy burden being placed cn the ex- isting relief arpropriation of the Board of Public Welfare. ‘The relief bill, as it passed the House Friday, differs in only two or three respects {rom the measure adopted originally by the Senate a few weeks ago. but the Senate must act on it again because the Hcuse passed a different bill. Committee Gets Bill. When the House bill arrived in the Senate yesterday it was referred at once to the Banking and Currency Commit- tee. Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New York, said he hoped to have it passed on by the committee Tuesday morning Since the Senate already has approved the general principles involved in the measure, no delay is anticipated when the parliamentary situation is such that the House bill can be called up. How soon this will be depends on the progress of the inflation amendment to the pending farm bill. In the original Senate bill, $200.000,- 000 of the total relief fund would have been allocated to the States on a ratio basis, in proportion to the public funds | spent by each State or the District. The remaining $300.000,000, after al- lowing for necessary administrative ex- penses, would have been distributed upon applications to States where the Federal administrator finds that the combined moneys from all sources with- in the States, supplementcd by the Fed- eral grant on the ratio basis, would still fall short estimated needs. ‘The House bl hich now awaits Senate action allows $250.000.000 for distribution on the ratio basis, and a similar amount in the discretionary fund. Other changes in the Hous plan relate to the method of appoint- ing employes nceded to administer the measure, and a restriction of $8.500 a year on the salary to be paid the Fed- eral relief administrator. It is under- stood the Senate may seek to remove this limitation from the salary of the administrator, but probably will not ob- ject to the other House changes. Allottment of $250,00,000. ‘The $250,000.000 to be distributed on a ration basis would be allotted as fol- the District | lows: Each State and the District would be entitled to grants equal to one-third of the public relief money expended locally. These grants would be made | quarterly, brginning with the recond quarter of the present calendar year, and would be mace during any quarter on the basis of the amount spent by each State during the preceding quar- ter. The bill provides that the term shall include the District of and the term “Governor™ District. If the bill can be completed and sent to the President this week, the first step would be for the Chief Executive to appoint the Federal relief administra- tor. who is to handle the distribution of the Federal aid. The appointee will have to be confirmed by the Senate. The relief funds are to be made available to the administrator through the Recon- struction Finance Corporation. 'FREIGHT CAR LOADIN UP DURING WEEK | American Railway Association Fig- ‘ CRAS ures Disclose Decrease From 1932. The American Railway Association announced yesterday that car loadings of revenue freight for the week ended April 15 were 494,215 cars, an increase of 6,919 over the preceding week, but following _enactment | | | George P. Harding and Bennie Olewack, | both 23, held for grand jury action in | the fatal shooting of Harry (Doc) | Davis. brother of Police Inspector Og- den T. Davis. Harding was charged with murder and Olewack with being | an accessory after the fact. The accused men's wives burst into! tears when the verdict was read by Acting Coroner A. Magruder MacDon ald, who, with Acting Coroner Chris- topher J. Murphy, presided at the in- quest. | _Statements signed by Harding and | Olewack were read to the jury by De- | tective Sergt. John C. Dalglish. Hard- | ing, in his statement, admitted having | shot Davis, but insisted his pistol was | discharged accidentally. | The shooting occurred. Harding said, when Davis attempted to stop a fight between him and Gus Lewis, 800 block of K street. He drew the gun, he de- clared, because Lewis rushed at him with a knife. | While bystanders were placing Davis a taxicab, Harling said he and Ole- wack drove away. He said they went into hiding in an apartment ‘“some- where on Columbia road,” surrendering at police headquarters about 3 p.m. | Friday, about an hour and a half after Davis died in Sibley Hospital. | Before Harding surrendered, one of the police broadcasts for him described him as colored. On the basis of this broadcast, The Star also referred to him as colored. | Harding’s statement was corroborated by that of Olewack, but Lewis, called to the stand later, denied having drawn a knife. Lewis. who acknowledged be- ing a bootlegger, testified Harding slapped his face when he objected to remarks about ‘“‘certain friends of mine.” |" A moment before the shooting, Lewis ;declnred. Davis reprimanded Harding for fighting, saying: “I've been to you like a father.” |" “The shooting occurred early Thurs- day in front of a restaurant in the 900 | block of Ninth street. | Davis will be buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery tomorrow, following a requiem high mass in Aloysius’ | Church at 10 am. Davis, who was 46, |lived at 423 Ingraham street. H OF BEER TRUCK TRAILER JAMS TRAFFIC ! Bottles Roll About Street After | Collision With Trolley, At- tracting Crowd. ic was tied up for more thag ‘Traffic “You undoubtedly are aware of the|72611 under the same week in 1932.| half an hour last night, when the fact that the Commissioners have en- Miscellaneous freight loaded during trailer of a beer truck overturned and deavored to fully present the emergency | the week of April 15 was 183463 cars, | fell against a street car at North Capi- relief conditions existing in the District of Columbia before the subcommittee of the House Committee on_Appropriations in its consideration of the District ap- propriation bill for the next fiscal year, | an increase of 7,859 over the preceding week but 21,663 under the correspond- ing week in 1932: less than car-lot merchandise, 160,523, decrease 127 cars and 26,422; grain and grain products, | tol and L streets. The truck, driven by George H. Wolfe of Curtis Bay, a suburb of Baltimore, was turning into North Capitol street | when the trailer pins snapped. lotorman and again before the subcommittee of | 33,857, increase 778 and 2,003; forest street car, operated by M the Senate Committee on Appropria- | products, 16,765, an increase of 110 over ert School, whose address was given as tions. that it was anticipated that the relief agencies operating through the Com- munity Chest would be unable, through exhaustion of funds, to carry on their usual work beyond next July or August. and that the Commissioners felt that should this happen the responsibility for relieving destitution would in large "~ (Continued on Page 3, Columa 3.) 1932; ore, 2,536, an increase of 804 over the week before but 1,785 under last year: coal, 78792, decrease 2,002 and 15.564; coke. 3.166 decrease 285 and 899; live stock, 15113, decrease 218 and 5.032. Shgnl‘m“ fi beer from huwerlu' are included miscellaneous ireigh! loadinga, Both committees were informed the preceding week but 3249 under | Second and T streets northeast, was damaged, and the dozen or so passen- gers were shaken up. Bottles rolled about the street, and a large crowd soon gathered. Traffic was virtually at a standstill until a ‘Washington Railway & Electric Co. | wrecking truck pulled the trailer off of cases and bottl A e A coroner's jury vesterday ordered | merning to determine to what extent it j will change the measure, with indica- tions that steps probably will be taken to save important municipal functions from some of the hardships to which attention was called during the Senate hearings. How far the subcommittee will go in liberalizing the House provisions will not be known until after the members have finished their deliberations. There are signs, however, of a sympathetic desire to give District officials as much lee- way as possible in administering the drastically reduced funds carried in the House bill, aside from any increases | that may be considered. $31,967,442 Provided. As it came from the House. the bill contained a total of only $31.967.442, as compared with $36.291.647 in the orginal bill, which died in conference as the cld Congress ended March 4. In mak- ing this slash in the revised measure, the Budget Bureau and the House also reduced the Federal share down to $5.- 700.000. During the recent Senate hear- ings _Capital civic leaders appealed to | the Senate to reocmmend & fairer Fed- eral contribution. They pointed out that drastic economy was applied to the Federal share of the expenses of the National Capital in the current appro- priation act, which reduced Uncle Sam's liability from $9.500,000 to $7.775,000, and that it should not be further re- duced, as provided in the House bill. In the conference report on the original 1934 bill, which falled on March 4, a ompromise figure of $7.600,000 had been agreed upon. Then came the Budget Bureau revision, which further reduced both the Federal share and the total cf the bill. ‘The Senate subcommittee, headed by Senator Thomas, Democrat of Okla- homa, had expected to meet yesterday. but the pressure of emergency national | problems necessitated a_postponement. The change of date will not slow up consideration of the bill, however, as the Senate probably will not be ready to consider the measure in any event before the end of this week or early next week. Welfare Needs Stressed. As soon as the subcommittee decide on its recommendations the measure will go before the Senate Appropria- tions Committee, presided over by Sena- tor Glass, Democrat of Virginia, be- fore being reported to the Senate. During the recent hearings the Sen- ate subcommittee was advised of the large volume of relief work the District is facing to ald families in distress due to unemployment. In this connection the subcommittee has before it for con- sideration a proposed amendment which would make immediately available the $1.250,000 emergency relief fund in the House bill, with a further proviso that the Commissioners could expend the fund as conditions require, without re- gard to monthly or other apportionment. ESTATE BEQUEATHED PEARSALL CHAUFFEUR Had Served Washington Society Leader's Family for More Than Dozen Years. Mrs. Martha H. Pearsall, prominent in Washington society for many years, who died Thursday, left all of her per- sonal property to her chauffeur under the terms of her will—filed yesterday in District Supreme Court. In leaving the property to the chauf- feur, Winter B. Simpson, 2014 F street, the will said she had made no provi- sion for her adopted son, Philip Hich- born, because he had been otherwise sufficiently provided for. Simpson 1ad teen chauffeur for the Pearsall family for more than a dozen years. The will, drawn by Mrs. Pearsall cn October 21, 1926, was filed by Attornev M. F. Foote. It was not accompanied by a petition for probate and no infor- mation was available as to the value of the bequest. One of Washington society’s most popular beauties of the early part of this century, Mrs. Pearsall was the daughter of the late Admiral Philip Hichborn. She was born in Philacel- phia 57 years ago and had lived in ‘Washington 45 years. She lived at 1016 Sixteenth street. Funeral services and burial for Mrs. Pearsall were held at Cambridge, Mass., yesterday. POLICE SEEk. MOTHER WHO LEFT TINY BABY Salvation Army Home Officials Notify Them, She Failed to Return. Police last night were seeking the mother of a 15-day-old baby, left at the Salvation Army Emergency Home about 10 o'clock in the morning. ‘The mother was thought to have gone in quest of work, but officials of the home became anxious when she failed to return after what they considered a reasonable length of time. They noti- fied the police, and a lookout was broad- cast to all precincts. At a late hour last night, however, no trace of her had been found. G. 0. P. PLANS MEETING Montgomery Group to Hear Daw- son at Takoma Park. Special Dispatch to The Star. TAKOMA PARK, Md., April 22.—The ‘Young Republican Club of Montgomery County will hold a llond:{ night at 8 o'clock in the Takoma Pari Presbyterian Church. President Walter ‘W. Dawson of Rockville, who is a mem- ber of the House of Delegates at An- napolis, will address the .club on the les | legislation 8% the recent Legis- maammm sations with Premier Ramsey Mac- Denald on world economic affairs, ‘The President let it be known yes- terday that he had before him part of the reorganization plans as drafted by his advisers, but he would have to forego attention to them because of more pressing matters. He said the plans had been sub- mitted to him by Secretary cf Com- merce Roper, his ranking economy adviser, but during the past week Roper recalled them. On Friday they were submitted again to the White House and are now on Mr. Roosevelt's desk awaiting the Chief Executive's personal attention. From sources close to the adminis- tration it was learned yesterday Secre- tary Roper had made what were termed as “minor revisions” in the re- organization plans he had resubmitted to the President. The plans deal ex- clusively with the proposed new struc- ture of the Commerce Department. General Structure Kept. It was explained that drafting of reorganizaticn plans called for many revisions, similarly to “a man writing a speech, However, it was amplified that the plans for the department’s new structure now stand almost identi- cal with the proposed set-up published a fortnight ago in The Star. Changes have been made, it was learned, but the general structure re- mained the same. It was stated that in all probability the transfer of six bureaus from the Interstate Commerce Commission to the land section of the i transportation agency to be created in the department would not take place until after enactment of the proposed railroad co-ordination measure now being considered by the President. It was denied in administration circles !that pressure brought by various trade |and rail associations throughout the | country had resulted in the advisers revising their plans. It was intimated they had received certain instructions in_full detail. These instructions. it was reliably re- ported, centered around the agencies within' the department which could be suspended until the return of normal times; abolition of those no longer necessary under present-day conditions and those which can be curtailed. Only the bureaus which the advisers believe are necessary to the functioning of Government will remain l.n!lct’ it was stated. Get Data on 1934 Costs. It was pointed out that all depart- ment officials have received explicit in- structions as to their operating costs for 1934. It was stated they have been informed these instructions must be carried out. The Commerce Depart- ment, now operating at a cost of $39,- 000,000, has been allotted only $26,000,- 000 for 1934. It was explained that this allotment applies only to the bureaus now com- posing the structure of this trade pro- motion agency. In the event other agencies are transferred into the de- partment their allotted operating costs will be transferred from the depart- ments to which they are now attached. " The advisers’ plans call for the trans- fer of the Bureau of Mines from the Commerce to the Interior Department. When the reorganization is placed in effect this bureau’s funds will he turned over to the Interior Department for disbursement. ‘GREEN SHIRT’ MOVE IS LAUNCHED HERE Plans Made for Worldwide Union of Conscientious Objectors at Meeting. Plans for the dramatization of a world-wide union of conscientious oh- jectors to the bearing of arms under the symbol of the green shirt, were laid at the closing session of the Con- ference on_ Military Pacifism, at the Hamilton Hotel last night. Pledged themselves against the bear- ing of arms in war or peace the younger delegates to the gathering formed the nucleus of what is hoped to develop into a youth movement of “‘green shirts” like the “black shirt” Fascism of Italy and the “brown shirt” Hit- lerism of Germany in appearance, hut combatting all that both of those move- ments are generally understood to stand for. Under the “youth movement” as for- mulated, the youth of this country and of other countries would be banded to- gether and pledged to refuse, at any cost, conscription in case of war and would work toward the end of univer- sal disarmament and a “united states of the world.” Throughout the sessions which were held all day yesterday at the Hamilton, the young people of the conference, about half of the approximately 100 radical peace leaders, were exhorted by speakers to sponsor the green chirt movement, and green predom- inated among the delegates, both men and women, and were on sale at $1.25 each at the conference registration desk. ‘The session was addressed by Sena- tor Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota, author of Constitutional amendmen: which would outlaw war by it unlawtul to bear arms. e 150 TO ATTEND MEETING ‘Wholesale Lumber Association Will Convene Wednesday. Amxlm:uly 150 members of the Nati -American Wholesale Lumber Association will attend the annual meeting of that organization Wednes- ber industry will be A Max Myers, of Cleveland, president of the association, and W. W. Schupner, of New York City, secretary, are the river began to recede soon after it reached a new stage for this Spring. [} POTOMAC RECEDING FROM FLOOD LEVEL Waters Going Down Rapidly as Rains End and Wind Shifts. Receding waters of the Potomac River and an absence of rain vesterday gave assurance that the freshets that have been flooding the river banks in |this region have passed the danger | point. The angry waters yesterday { morning towered 24 feet above normal | at Chain Bridge, with a reading of 7.1 | feet above low water at Key Bridge, but last night. the word was that they | were falling rapidly. | forecast for this region was for fair and somewhat cooler today, assuring that | the river would not be fed additional The United States Weather Bureau | o —Star Staff Photo. 832 BEER DEALERS SHY U. 5. STAMPS, Penalties Threaten More Than Half of D. C. License Owners After May 1. About 832 of the 1450 licensed beer dealers in the District of Columl have failed to take out Federal license stamps, Galen L. Tait. collector of in- ternal revenue, declared last night, and are subject to severe penalties unless they do so before May 1. Asserting that the “beer dealers in the District seem to be strangely ig- norant of Federal law and are due for n awakening.” the internal revenue collector warned that those who do not take out the Federal stamp face prose- cution and a penalty not to exceed $10,- as to the reorganization of the Gov-| ernment and were carrying them out ! 000 or two years in prison or both. Last night. the United States park | Rush Is Expected. police, watching the waters from stra-| Mr. Tait's curt warning is expectedl tegic points along the city's park system. | to result in a rush of delinquents to| reported that “the water is receding Room 1002 of the Internal Revenut very rapidly.” Yesterday, the river was Building this week, where the Federal over the seawall in East Potcmac Park stamps may be obtained at a cost of {and flooding the walks in that section.| $6 for retailers and $12.50 for whole- | Similar conditions existed along the ' salers. Dealers in nearby Maryland | Georgetown Channel and the Tidal Ba- ' counties, he said, can secure their li- sin and upstream of Key Bridge. the cense stamps there. | floors of Summer cottages were inun- = “It seems to be assumed by very dated by the flood, lying along the Vir-| many of them (beer dealers) that when ginia lowlands. i | they can take out the local District of Police of the harbor precinct ex-' Columbia license at the District Build- plained the high water was due to|ing that they have fully complied with waters from the clouds. freshets from the Potomac River basin { mountains; the northeast wind, which | tends to keep the waters from flowing out to sea and the flood tides of the | Spring. They asserted that there was { never anything unusual or alarming | about the river overflowing its banks here. Last night's northwest wind, the harbor police said. was alding in blow- | ing the waters out to sea. The Weather Bureau lacked reports last night from the stations up the river, | concerning flood conditions. Officials | took this as a favorable omen, explain- | ing that if alarm was felt, authorities | in the Potomac River basin would com- municate with Washington. CHARGES D. C. BUILDING Representative Patman of Texas | Also Complains of Elevator Serv- ice to House Group. Complaints alleging inefficient ele- | vator service and insanitary conditions |in the District Building have been made | to the House District Committee by Representative Patman, Democrat, Te: a member of the committee. henever members of our commit- tee seek information from officials in the District Building,” Patman said, time because there is the most in- efficient elevator service of any build- ing in the Capital. “Also when you visit the District Building, you mustn't mind being in a dirty and insanitary atmosphere be- cause I have found that building very much in that condition.” USES CLEAVER ON SELF AFTER ORDERING MEAT G. P. 0. Employe, Who Feared Loss of Job, in Grave Condition at Gallinger. Phillip Ernest Baker, 52, 200 block of K street northeast, who according to police, entered a grocery at Third and K streets northeast, yesterday and hacked himself over the head with a meat cleaver several times, was in a seri- nushcondmon at Gallinger Hospital last night. Phillip Menick, proprietor of the store, told police that Baker had ordered a chicken, and used the cleaver on him- self as he went to a rear room to fill the order. Menick took the cleaver from Baker only after he had dashed it into his own head a number of times. Baker was removed to Sibley Hospital by a passing motorist, and after re- ceiving emergency treatment transferred to Gallinger. Ninth precinct police, who attribute the act to worry over possible loss of his position at the Government Printing Office, held him for mental observation. CONDITION UNSANITARY| of | “they must allow themselves plenty of | | the law,” Tait's statement said. “The District of Columbia Beer License Board has issued 1450 beer licenses, but only 618 have taken out | Federal license stamps. Therefore about | 832 will be subject to severe penalties on and after May 1 unless they mean- time secure these license stamps. Cost to Dealers. “As a matter of fact, all dealers in beer in the District of Columbia, in Maryland and in every State, in addi- tion, have a Federal license stamp for the balance of the fiscal year, {rom the time & dealer commences business until | June 30. This stamp for retailers costs 86 and for wholesalers, that is those Selling over about two cases of beer at | a sale, the amount is $12.50. | “All dealers, therefore, who have not taken out the Federal license should at once secure the same at Room 1002, | Internal Revenue Building, Washingtor, | Dealers in nearby Maryland counties |can also secure their license stamps there, “Any_dealer who has sold beer or other 32 fermented liquor any time during the month of April who has not taken out his Federal license stamp be- | fore May 1 will be subject for eich | separate violation to prosecution, with | a penalty of not to exceed $10,000 fine or two years in prison, or both.” CHAIN STORE HELD UP Two Escape in Stolen Auto After Getting $35 From Till. . Two unidentified bandits yesterday afternoon held up the manager of a chain grocery at Twenty-second and G streets, removed about $35 from the cash register and escaped in a stolen automobile. Police later found the abandoned machine in front of 1826 H street. It had been stolen from Russell Lowe of Fairfax, Va., who had parked it at! Seventeenth street and Constitution avenue, an hour bzfore the hold-up. Benjamin S. Carrio, 5000 Eighth street, the manager, was alone, he told police, when two well-dressed men en- tered the store. He said both brandished guns. One covered him while the other removed the contents of the till. Police could fine no trace of the men, AUTO INJURES CHILD {East Capitol Street Victim Feared Suffering Skull Fracture. Struck by an automobile as he was | playing in the street near his home late yesterday afternoon, 3-year-old Carl | Hanes, jr., 1007 East Capitol street, was | seriously injured. Preliminary examination at Casualty | Hospital showed that the child received brain concussion and possible fracture of the skull. Te car was operated by !cmwn T. Lyles, colored, 29, 900 block | of Westminster street, police said. Lyles was taken into custody by po- lice after he took Carl to the hospitdl, but later was-released. HIGH BROW IS NO INDICATION OF BRAINS, SAYS DR. HRDLICKA Scientist Declares Eskimos Would Be World’s Supreme Intellects Under Popular Belief. By the Associated Press. People with high brows shouldn't go around thinking they are smarter than people with low or just average brows. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physical anthropology of the Smithsonian In- gence. For more than 30 years Dr. Hrdlicka has been taking measurements of fore- head heights. his subjects including Tennessee mauntaineers Hational and members af Seleuces, described by the Smithsonian Institu- tion as “probably the most intellectual group in the country. “This permits but one conclusion,” Dr. Hrdlicka said, “which is that the mneu or height hu‘f the forehead does express, nor have relation to, the kind of brain it h&!;‘yw ‘harbor.” If the intellect was actually correl ted with height of brow, he added, the Alaskan Eskimos would rate as the world's supreme_intellects, with mem- of the National of | home, 145 Bmaots are start at the academy building here to- morrow with the presentation of re- search results ranging over the whole field of science from hyperdimen- sional mathematics to the teaching of children. Some of the foremost figures in the scientific world will take part in the two-day program. ‘Tomorrow the meeting will be divided between two groups, the physicists and astronomers and the biologists. Among the former Dr. Charles G. Abbott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, will present the most re- cent advances in the direction of long- range weather forecasting from the study of solar radiation, and Dr. Har- low Shapley, professor of astronomy at Harvard, will present conclusions on the density of matter in the great star galaxies that make up the uni- verse, ‘Will Tell of “Ether” Work. Dr. Dayton C. Miller of the Case School of Cleveland will tell of his recent work to demonstrate the ex- istence of an hypothetical “ether” pervading creation through which the solar system moves. Dr, Miller's paper on “the absolute motion of the solar system and the orbital motion of the earth determined by the ether drift experiment” is expected to prove the latest chapter on the old controversy which started with the famous Michel- son-Morley experiment 30 years ago, ameng the results of which have been the Einstein, De Sitter and Le Maitre concepts of a hyperdimensional uni- verse. Although the late Dr. A. A. Michelson witn the utmost refinements of his technique in repeated experiments never was able to demonstrate an ether drift, Dr. Miller for some time has insisted that such a drift. determined by the retardation of light, can be demon= strated. A contribution to the cancer problem will be announced for the first time by Dr. Carl Voegtlin, head of the de- partment of pharmacology of the National Institute of Health, in a paper on the action of the parenteral admin- istration of sugars on the hydrogenion concentration of normal and malignant tissues in living animals. At the same session there will be papers on the strange effects on the animal body of a t entirely free of magnesium and significant effects of some recently dis- covered hormone products. At the afternoon session, Dr. Edward ‘W. Washburn, chief of the division of chemistry of the Bureau of Standards, will tell about new kinds of water pro- duced in his laboratory. These waters in their pure state differ in weight from ordinary pure water and probadly in their biological effects. Herbert E. Ives, one of the inventors of television, will describe recent researches on the production of pure colors. Another afternoon meeting will be devoted to botany and paleontology with Dr. ‘Walter T. Swingle of the Department of Agriculture presenting a recently dis- covered factor of great importance in plant life. Dr. T. H. Morgan to Lecture. ‘There will be a public lecture tomor- row evening by Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan of the California Institute of Technology, on the bearing of genetics on the theory of evolution. Dr. Morgan is considered the foremost American authority on genctics. Tuesday morning there will be & sym- posium on cosmic rays, concernirg which much new information has been 2ccumulated during the past year by expeditions all over the world. Phe- nomena associated with cosmic rays will be described by Dr. W. F. G. Swann of the Bartol Research Laboratories. Dr. Robert L. Millikan, California In- stitue of Technology, who has been the most prominent figure in cosmic ray research in America, will present papers on the intensities of these rays in the stratosphere, the region of the atmosphere about 10 miles above the surface of the earth, where tempera- ture becomes stable with altitude, and on the penetrating power of the rays as_a function of altitude. Dr. Fred Aflison of Alabama will de- scribe his latest work with the magneto- optical method of analysis by which, he claims, it is possible to detect substances which constitute a billionth part of the material being tested and which may have led to the discovery of two new elements. The afternoon session Tuesday will deal with recent biological discoveries. Among the papers will be one by Prof. Yandell Henderson of Yale University relegating to the class of fallacies the idea, shared by both the public and the medical profession, that the so- called “acidosis” condition blamed for so many human ills is due to “acids™ in the system. Further light will be shed on the problem of nerve impulses by Prof. Walter B. Cannon of Harvard University. ‘The afternoon sessions will be given over to psychology and anthropology, with recent discoveries on the phenom- enon of learning described by Dr. Ed- ward L. Thorndike of Columbia Univer- sity and new material on the mechan- ism of evolution by Prof. Henry Fair- child Osborne of the New York Museum of Natural History. ‘The meeting of the National Acad- emy will be followed Thursday and Fri- day by the annual meetings of the American Geophysical Union and the American Physical Society. These will be followed by the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Socfety. ALL SPADES IN HAND Auction Thrill Biggest for Mrs, Albritton, Who Scores 877. heen playing Bridge 13 gears, o 1yl . 8 er ngestchlrflfoutn(tmnme last night when she was dealt 13 spades Smoot, Mrs. Albritton made 877 points on the hand, the bid being five spades, doubled and redoubled. Mrs. Smoot was dealer and partner of Mr. Albritton. The game was played at the Aloritton 4 Spring 'her,\th