Evening Star Newspaper, May 3, 1933, Page 3

FORESTERS GIVE UP PAY T0 CHARITIES Many, With Needy Families of Their Own, Donate to Some One Else. This is the third of a series of articles on the first reforestation camp in Page County, Va.. where the District tingent s quartered. i BY WILLIAM W. CHANCE. ' Staff Correspondent of The Star. CAMP ROOSEVELT, George Wash- ington National Forest, Page County, Va., May 3.—So anxious Were many oI the youths in this forestry camp to get Jjobs that they are donating large por- tions of their $30 monthly salary to families and charities in which they have no real interest. One of these “Good Samaritans” is W. H. Remkin, a Pittsburgh man, who claims he is under the age limit of 25, tut looks 30. Remkin, who is the camp funny man, enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps in_ Washington. Here's the way he tells the story: “They told me I'd have to give at Jeast $20 of my pay to_a needy Wash- ington family when I applied &t a charity organization for an applica- tion for this man's army. ““Well” T said to the man, ‘if I give $20 to s:mebody, I'd still be making $10 a month more than I am now, so sign me up.’ “The charity people picked out a family with 11 kids. The father is & painter, but can’t find anything to paint. 1 OK.d the donation to them, figuring that any man who can raise 11 kids ought to get a reward. “So here I am, paying $20 a month for the privilege of working, and my own family jn Pittsburgh needing the money. “By the way, you can't find a job for that painter, can you?” Other Similar Cases. The company clerk, who keeps the files on who's who and where the money goes, said Remkin's case is duplicated many times. “Most, of these fellows have been out of work so long that $5 or $10 a month and their keep is like a godsend,” said the clerk. “Any number of them wrote off their money to charities in cases where families could not be picked im- mediately.” A North Carolina youth is representa- tive of the latter class. Although he is one of 13 children and his family, farm folk, is in straightened circumstances back home, he cheerfully gave his money to a Washington charity. “I been out of steady work for more than a vear,” he drawled, “and heard about this here C. C. C. back in Rich- mond, where I was hunting a job. con- “Three years ago I was married and | happy, had a good job in Atlanta, Ga., and was buying a home and had a car. ‘Then my boss was replaced and I got fired. My trouble started. “I sent my wife back to her folks in Petersburg, Va., and started looking for 8 job. Man, I hunted all over the South, riding freights and hitching rides in autos. Finally I got me a job in a soldiers’ hospital in Roanoke, Va. That just suited me fine, 'cause it was close enqugh to Petersburg so I could go over and visit my wife.” Divorce Follows. But when he went to visit his wife he found out she had been “running around with a lawyer.” “One day,” he continued, “I got off for the week end and went over to see her. About half a block from her house I saw the lawyer come out and drive away. So, when I went in I asked when she had seen him last. She said, ‘not for over a month.’ I told her she was lying. I told her I never wanted to see her again, I wanted a divorce. “She said she never would have done me that way, but I never sent her money, and she wanted to dress up. I couldn't send her money, I didn’t have it to send. But we split up, any- way, and she got the divorce.” He said after the break-up he had drifted from place to place, finally ending up in jail, “doing time for some- thing somebody else should have been caught for.” It was after he had been released from the jail, in Alabama, that he went to Richmond and then into Washington. Two South Carolina boys also are giv- ing their money to charities they prob- ably never heard of before. The boys, each about 19, joined the C. C. C. after a wild ride on freights from their home at Lotta, during which they were shot at twice by railroad police and finally arrested in Alexandria. “The police in Alexandria are the ones who suggested this forestry busi- ness,” said one of them. “Lloyd and I Jjust got a motion to go up North and ook for a job. So we hopped a freight going through town, along with a col- ored fellow we both knew. “Down in North Carolina, we switched trains. Just as I was getting on last, I saw Mose hop off and start running. I thought maybe we was on the wrong train, then I saw Lloyd leaving in a hurry. Dodges the Officer® “The reason was & big railroad offi- cer. I looked up and he was standing over me, pointing a gun into the bushes where the other two were running. I knew it wouldn't do me any good to run, so I jest sidled over out of his sight, then ducked behind a bush. The police started firing. I don’t know whether it was at me or at the others. Anyhow, he didn’t hit any of us. “The same thing happened in Alex- andria, only there we got caught. And maybe it's a good thing, 'cause here we are now, both in the same tent, and both of us with jobs.” A New York college man, who spent four years studying for a job only to learn he couldn’t find one, donated $20 of his $30 a month to a church char- ity in the Capital. But, on the other hand, there is an- other college man, a Washingtonian, who is enlisted in the conservation corps simply to “get in condition to be & wrestler.” “Ever since I finished up at George- town I've been sleeping in the mornings until 10 or 11 o'clock. That softens you up, you know,” he added, glancing critically at his hefty body. “Then my sister found out about this reforestation army and here I am.” He swung a sledge hammer at a pile of rock, then added: “Six months of this ought to put me in fine trim; maybe I could get in good enough condition to be a wrestler.” SPECIAL WARNING—NOTICE HAS COME TO THE District of Columbia Board of Examiners in Optometry that certain persons are solicit- ing from door to door, representing them- selves ae being sent from the “Health De- partment,” to examine eves and dispense sses. ' Any person being approached by icitors, for the purpose of having their eyes examined. or the sale of glasses, will Betetar | YHE DisTRICT O ROLUMSIA ary. OF "OPTOMETRY, M. DICUS, Secretary. WE WILL SELL AT EICHEERG'S A N, 7 13.1033, to cover storage and ofner charges. Keystone Garage, 1615 O st. n. OR PART LOAD TO ton, Pitt 7 | just as warm as at the surface of the . | earth. since 1896 . Pa- rage Co, 1117 H 4 pressiveness of the unusual! E. Hez Pastor. Su p.m. Centennial h and Ey Free easy chairs. at this modern, luncheonette. ' PFre: delightful i e popular ; McCarty’s, $317 E St. o0 MORE JOBLESS | WORKIN GARDENS Sector of Glover Tract Opened for Needy to Raise Own Vegetables. Fifty more unemployed men of Wash- ington went to work in District soil yes- terday when they began preparing a sector of the Glover tract on Tunlaw road, as garden land on which the needy will raise their own vegetables. The land, loaned by the Glover estate | through Mrs. Sidney Taliaferro to the Garden Club of Georgetown and the District of Columbia Unemployment | Committee, will be allocated in plots 50 feet by 150 feet to individuals. whoj will have to supply only the labor in| cultivating the crops. The Glover tract |1s one of several “subsistence gardens” | being maintained in all sections of Lhel city. Other Tracts to Be Opened. | Next week will witness the opening of the Gore tract on Conduit road. The Southwest subsistence garden project for colored men will be formally launched at the Smallwood School to- night. A committee of 100 men will be organized and assigned to plots on the tract at Half street. This land already has been plowed and the men will lose no time in planting their crops. The tract is large enough for 150 to 200 men, so that® additional gardeners may be assigned plots. This garden is being financed by both colored and white citizens’ associations. Provide Employment. g ‘Two other tracts are being worked. The Northeast gardens, at Benning road and the Anacostia River, and the Southeast gardens, at the foot of A street, are providing employment for 190 colored men and 75 white men. The District of Columbia Unemploy- ment Committee is financing these tracts. The Glover tract gardens are beingi financed by the Garden Club of George- town, of which Mrs. Henry Flather is chairman. Mrs. Frederick Brooke is| chairman of the City-Wide Subsistence | Gardens Committee. When all the subsistence gardens are functioning. at least 500 men will be “raising their own.” Last year, the first in which any effort was made in this direction, 134 men received em- ployment and foodstuffs through the garden plan. MEMORIAL FOR W00D PLANNED IN INDIANA Colonial Bungalow to Overlook Lake Where Late House Mem- ber Liked to Fish. By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Md., May 3,—The spot near here where Representative Will R. Wood of Indiana used to fish as a recreation from his duties as chair- man of the House Appropriations Com- mittee, is being turned into a memorial to the late statesman. The site is at Higgins Mill Pond, and | the memorial is being constructsd at the instance of the Will R. Wood Memorial Association, composed of & group of senators, representatives acd prominent Washington residents. The memorial will take the Sorm of a_bungalow, colonial in architq#ure and located on a knoll overldokin: the pond, the name of which will be changed to Lake Will Wood. The cornerstone of the building will be laid May 7, with services sponsored by the Cambridge Lodge of Masons. e Farmers to Be Debaters. To encourage public speaking among farmers of Ulster, the Young Farmers’ Movement is planning a debating com- petition in the Faculty of Agriculture in Belfast, Ireland. Competitors must be under 25 years of age. Already a number of future orators have been en- Rains and mud speeded up work in flocring the tents in the reforestation camp in Page County, Va. In the top photo the men are carrying a tent floor they have just completed. Below, washing in a mountain stream. —Star Staff Photos. CTIZENS PROTEST |NPHEE RENOUNCES BEER NEAR SCHOOL, NEW YORK POLITICS Columbia Heights Group Ob- Leader of Tammany Foes, jects to Central High Who Succeeded Walker, Students Drinking. to Head Bank. The sale of beer near Central High | By the Associated Press. School was decried last night by the | & Columbia_ Heights Citizens' Assoclation | ke who seecemint Jamocehl Wanic: and a resolution was adopted asKing | for 'a brief period as mayor of New that a permanent license be withheld | york and who was the chief hope of from one storekeeper in the vicinity of | rolied. the school. The manner of operation of another establishment, which was said to cater to students, was objected to, but it was not included in the resolution sent to the District Commissioners. ‘The operator of the place about which complaint was made was said to have turned his establishment into a “hang- out” of “unwholesome nature,” fre- quented by the younger element, and to be operating late at night to the an- noyance of residents. Urges Representation. ‘The District will get a fair break from Congress only when it is represented on Capitol Hill, Thomas P. Littlepage, president of the Washington Chambe: of Commerce, declared in an address on “Civic Conditions in Washington.” He installed the officers all of whom had been re-elected. Speaking of the economic crisis, Mr. Littlepage attacked the “cheese paring” of Federal salaries, only to spend mil- lions of dollars on a project like Boulder He also disapproved of the atti- tude Congress takes toward the District of Columbia and its financial affairs. Hees City Free of Debt. ‘The world today is entering a new era, hy declared, and Washington is bound M be affected. He pointed out ‘Washimgl on is about the only city of its size 11 the country free of debt. A resolution proposing a national planni board of human welfare, set- ting forth seven points for the better- ment of society, which was sent to the association by the National Conference of Jews and Christians, was adopted. ¥3cers installed by Mr. Littlepage led Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Wor- e}, president; Seneca B. Bain, vice president; Marie F. Maddux, vice president; W. H. Coneby, vice president; Charles K. Stott, re- cording secretary; Walter I. Swanton, corresponding secretary; William C. Strauss, treasurer, and Albert E. Ste- phan and Albert E. Westrater, dele- gates to the Federation of Citizens’ As- sociations. EXPLAINABLE, MYSTERIOUS NOISES IN NATURE SCIENTIST FINDS Acoustical Society Hears Member of Weather Bureau Staff, Who Cites Popular Superstitions. Strange sounds in nature were de- scribed before the Acoustical Soclety of America, meeting at the Bureau of Standards Monday night, by Dr. Wil- liam J. Humphreys of the Weather Bureau. ‘These have given rise to many pop- ular superstitions, he said, but for the most part are susceptible to scientific explanation, although this is sometimes very complicated. Among the weird sound phenomena, he said, are the so- called “zones of silence” occasionally cncoun':e;ed 1]:1“ war time Ivlheln cannon- ading takes place over a level prairie or over the sear “The sound will be heard for 20 or 30 miles, after which it is in- audible for an equal distance. Then it is heard again, just about as loud as at_first. This can only be explained, he said, as the result of the sound rising and angl upper atmosphere. could only occur on rare occasions when the atmosphere about 30 miles high is | i ‘Thunder, Dr. Humphreys said, some- times actually “sings,” producing a dis- tinct, soft musical note. This is due, h;. said, to a series of lightning dis- c sort of music, said Dr, Humphreys, attends on rare occasions the passage of a steel-tired vehicle through fine, dry snow. It is due to the vibrations set up in the snow crystals which com- in an extremely complicated pat- tern. ‘The so-called “song of the North- ern lights,” which has been reliably re- remains difficult to explain, Dr. Humphreys said. It is difficult to be- lieve, he pointed out, that any sound actually can be heard from the lights themselves, several hundred kilometers earth’s surface. The most probable explanation is that it results the sudden f: of the mois- ture in the breath of observers which is lmdel; by a faint no‘u‘;.“n 13 h,:; about the same rhythm as human breathing. 2 ‘The little air sacs between the vocal cords are largely ible for the of the human voice, Dr. the anti-Tammany forces in the No- vember election, renounced his political career today. He accepted the presidency of the Title Guarantee & Trust Co. Bank Reveals Plan. A statement was issued at noon from the bank in behalf of McKee in which he emphasized “the complete elimina- tion of myself from politics and gov- ernmental office.” He added that he felt his new posi- tion would give him his greatest oppor- tunity for public service in view of the plight of the small-home owner under existing economic conditions. The Title Guarantee & Trust specializes in insur- ance and mortgage loans. In the statement McKee, who was given a write-in vote of almost a quar- ter of a million at last Fall's special mayoralty election in which John P. O'Brien, the Tammany candidate, was elected, reaffirmed his belief in the party system of government, but added that leadership in politics under that system “is hemmed in by party limita- tions.” Spends Day in Capital. McKee himself was in Washington today as the directors of the trust com- pany were electing him to fill the va- cancy left by the death of Clinton D. Burdick. The statement said that McKee will take over his new duties on May 15, and quoted him as saying that he hoped that “hi made my decision I will have the public's uupgorc and the sup- rt of the friends I hope I have made public life.” BILL WOULD ;AAKE ICKES OIL INDUSTRY DICTATOR Measure Drafted by Group of Petroleum Men Submitted to President Roosevelt. By the Associated Press. A bill drafted by a group of oil men which would make Secretary Ickes a virtual dictator of the oil industry was submitted to President Roosevelt yester- day by the Secretary of the Interior. ‘The measure was not drawn at the instance of Secretary Ickes, and he said he had not given it his approval. He added, however, that with the present demoralization in the oil industry, and with petroleum selling at 10 cents a barrel in the East Texas field, “some- thing should be done.” The President, Secretary Ickes said, has not had time to study the measure, and has not expressed himself on it. Among those who framed the bill, based along the line of a measure pre- viously introduced by Senator Capper (Republican, Kansas), were Joseph Guf- fey, former Pennsylvania oil man; Amon G. Carter of Fort Worth, M. L. Benedum of Pittsburgh and James Moffett of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. e JACKSONVILLE CHOOSES MAYOR FOR FOUR YEARS John T. Alsop Wins Primary ‘Which Is Equivalent to Elec- tion in Florida City. By the Associated Press. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1933 1 Reforestation Recruits Working in Mud U S. AGENTS OPEN GANGSTER DRIVE Murray Humphries, Former Capone Aide, Among Those Facing Charges. BY REX COLLIER. Uncle Sam’s “untouchables” of the Internal Revenue Bureau's intelligence unit are continuing to make most un- comfortable the racketeering throne from which they led the Capone broth- ers to Federal prison. The latest occupant of the gangdom throne to be put “on the spot” by in- come tax- investigators, it has been learned, is Murray Humphries, reputed Capone lleutenant, recently listed by Chicago police as successor to Al Ca- pone’s title of “Public Enemy No. 1.” Aroused to greater diligence by an apparcnt revival of gang “rides,” bombings and other forms of violence typical of the racketecr, the Govern- ment is known to be conducting a wide and intensive drive on gang leaders in Chicago, New York and other large cities afflicted with industrial terrorism. Supervised by Madden. The investigation of the financial affairs of Humphries and of several otlgzr persons high on the list of Chi- caxo's reputed “public enemies”—39 in | pumber—is being supervised by A. P. Madden, special agent in charge of the Chicago office of the intelligence unit, who won fame for his success in “get- iting” Alfonse Capone on income tax evasion charges. Madden is operating under direction of Elmer L. Irey, chief {of the intelligence unit, who refused jto discuss reports of the Chicago in- quiry for publication. ‘" Frank Wilson, who shared honors ~‘with Madden in the Capone expose ‘s unable to assist in the present in- vestigation because of an important as- signment in the East—the Lindbergh kidnaping case. Madden was work- ing with Wilson on the Lindbergh case until several months ago, but returned to Chicago to take charge of the gang- land inquiries there. Humphries, long known as a Capone gang leader, is said to have been ele- vated to Al Capone's vacant seat by mutual agreement of racketeering ele- ments in Chicago. His name headed a list of “public enemies” issued by the Chicago Police Department last Janu- ary. At that time he denied gang affiliations, saying he was given “a bad name” by employers because of his union_activities. He is connected with the Cleaners and Dyers Union. Under Year's Sentence. Humphries is under a sentence of one year for pistol toting, but has de- layed serving time through court ap- peals. He was arrested last November with William (Three-fingered Jack) White and Charles Pischettl, repi‘ed | members of the Capone crowd., when police raided rooms in a downtown Chicago building Irey's agents meanwhile are waging | a vigorous income tax inquiry in the | New York area under direction cf Hugh | McQuillan. They have obtained an in- dictment against Irving Wexler, alias| Waxie Gordon, alleged beer racketeer, | for whom a mide search is being made. The Government investigators declare | Gordon’s income from wildcat breweries | in New Jersey in 1930 was in excess cf | $1,427.000, whereas he paid a Feceral tax of only $10.76. The income tax agents today are! opening a number of safe deposit boxes | in Reading, Pa., listed in the name of Max Hassell, beer runner. Joe Greenburg, beer syndicate leader, | were found shot to death in a hotel | { room at Elizabeth, N. J., April 12. In one box alrcady opened the agents are | said to have found more than $200.000 | cash and a note for $50,000, indorsed by two prominent business men. ‘The death of Greenburg resulted in | an inquiry by the Department of Jus- tice into the granting of permits by the Prohibition Bureau to several New Jersey wildcat breweries. The probe! was precipitated by the finding on Greenburg of a brewery permit issued under the new beer law. . INUTE YSTERY Sotests. Dr. Fordney is professor of criminology at a famous university. His advice is often sought by the police of many cities Hassell and | ren confronted with particularly bat- ling cases. This problem has been taken from bis casebook covering hundreds of criminal investigations. Iy Jour wits on it! 1t takes but ONE to read! Every fact and every clue necessary to its solution are in the story itself—and there is only one answer. ow §00d & detective are you? The Stolen Package. BY H. A. RIPLEY. 114 OHN BUTLER, the fellow who called for Don Burns, is down- stairs,” explained Charles Igy- arto as he excitedly opened the door of Burns' room on the sixth floor and ushered in the pro- fessor. ~Fordney raised the window, noted the nearby drain pipe and the paved courtyard below. “I told him to wailt,” continued the tenement house owner, “thought you'd want to ques- tion him.” “Quite Tight, Igy- arto. Now, from our previous con- = versation I gather- ed that when > Burns left earlier in the day he told you to give a val- uable package M\ which he left in his dresser to a it.’ “That’s right.” “Well, how did this other fellow, key to Burns’ room! Butler, get the had instructions to give it to him opened Burns’ door he said he saw a man escape through the window and slide down the drain pij " “Yes, si;.m'l‘hen called m':ly I thought of the package immediately— it was gone! I hoped the police might recover it before Burns returned.” ir< Fordnty pulling open the draw- grw{hlt had cmm the package. othing—Butler swore he didn't— “Bring Butler here at once, “H'mmm . . . tained narcotics!” WHY DID THE PROFESSOR BELIEVE BUTLER INVOLVED? have a story or to submit to Real Daughter, 91, Of U. S. Revolution Suecumbs in Ohio By the Associated Press. NEW LEXINGTON, Ohio, May 3.—Ohio's last “real daughter of the American Revolution,” Mrs. Marie Storts Allen, 91, died yes- terday. She was the daughter of John Jacob Storts, who joined George Washi, 's Colonial Army when he was 11 years old. Her husband served in the Civil Wdr. Her father was 82 when she was born here, the fifth child of Stort’s second wife. He died when Marie was 7. COLONIAL DAMES OPEN CONVENTION - State Reports Submitted at Morning Session of Na- tional Council. Reports on activities of State units in various sections of the country were presented this morning by State presi- dents at the second-day session of the twenty-first biennial Council of the Na- tional Society, Colonial Dames of Amer- ica, being held at the Carlton Hotel. ‘The reports covered historical re- search, preservation of historic records and celebration of the George Washing- ton Bicentennial. ‘This evening members of the Council will be entertained at a reception in the Club of Colonial Dames, on New Hampshire avenue near Dupont Circle, by the Washington unit of the society. Yesterday afternoon the delegates were received at tea at the White House by Mrs. Roosevelt, and last night there was a banquet at the Carlton. Friday afternoon the delegates will Jjourney to Gunston Hall, the home of George Mason, author of the Virginia bill of rights. The old house has been deeded to the State of Virginia, in custody of the Colonial Dames, by éts present owner, Louis Hertle, who will conduct the women over the estate, —e SCHOOL FUNDS URGED BY ALUMNI BOARD {Impairment of Service Would Men- ace Health of Children, Says Central Group. ‘The advisory board of Central High School Alumni Association yesterday petitioned Congress for “ample funds, within the means of the taxpayers of our city,” to insure “that there shall be no impairment of the instrumentalities for instruction in all the graded and | high schools of Washington.” Such impaired service, it was pointed out, would menace the health of school children through overcrowding and lack of sznitary conveniences. The petition further requested that_there be no cut in the salaries of teachers or adminis- trative officers. ‘The petition concluded by saying that “we have every confidence that these matters may be safely left to the good, common sense of our Congress, and we speak of them at this time only in the { fear that, in the worries of the moment, these needs, which we deem among our city’s most essential ones, may receive the most careful consideration.” The statement was signed by Charles N. Bates, president of the alumni as-| sociation. FAIL TO SOLVE MURDER OF NORTH ADAMS GIRL Seek TUnidentified Man After Former Suitor Is Cleared of Suspicion. By the Associated Press. NORTH ADAMS, Mass., May 2.—Po- lice today admitted their investigation of the slaying of Leah L. Johnson, 18- year-old domestic, had reached an im- passe. A former suitor of the girl, whose strangled and stabbed body was found in a clump of thorn apple bushes Sat- urday, satisfied officers that he had no connection with the affair. Investiga- tors again turned their attention toward a stockily built unidentified man with whom Miss Johnson was seen walking near the scene of the murder. The man was reported to have been carrying & brown paper parcel and pieces of brown paper near the spot where Miss Johnson's purse was found last night, about 700 yards from the point where the body was found. CHURCHES’ REOPENING SOUGHT IN VERA CRUZ Catholic Bishop of Mexican State Confers vymx Governor—More Priests Planned. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, May 3.—A move to reopen Catholic churches in the State of Vera Cruz was understood yesterday to_be under way. Reports current here said Bishop Gui- zar Valencia of Vera Cruz had departed for Jalapa, capital of the state, for a secret conference with Gov. Vazques Vela. Church officials withdrew from the state nearly two years ago when a law was passed limiting the church to one priest for each 100,000 population. 'he understanding here is that the Legislature plans to amend the law to permit one priest to each 25,000 persans. PLAY TO BE. PRESENTED ‘Will Be Given Friday and Satur- day at Langdon School. ‘The Langdon School Dramatic Club will present its Spring play, “Snow White and Seven Dwarfs,” Friday and Saturday in the school auditorium, Twentieth and Evarts streets northeast. Friday's performance will be at 3:15 p.m. n:dmtmrg.;z'da ;t 8 pm.nmdlu parts y Doris Thompson and Billy z:fi STATE SOCIETY TO MEET bo'll;h:"wm Virginia State Soclety vl.l: 8 o'clock at 2% ith street. A ‘West Virginia . The will be honor Police lers. p effort to at- tain the lai enrollment of any State District. society in REDUCED BRIEF PRICES' g b X INRMAL AWARDS ON MARGH 2 SCORED “Proper Ones to Be Consid- ered for Cancellation,” Howes Tells Legislators. By the Associated Press. ‘Two airmail contracts let by Post-| master General Brown on March 2 were named by W. W. Howes, Second Assist- ant Postmaster General, as “proper ones to be considered for cancellation” in testimony on the independent offices appropriations bill reported to the| House yesterday by its Appropriations ommittee. “I do not claim there was anything wrong about those contracts,” he said, “but I do claim that it was a mighty poor time to make them when we were spending at a rate in excess of the amount appropriated and when those contracts added about $154,000 of ex- pense.” He said one of the contracts, amount- | ing to $145,000, was “for service from “It was given to the Nurthwg&t Alr- ways Corporation and afterward was sub-let by them to Kohler Brothers,” Howes testified. Second Amounts to $105,000. He named as the other contract let on March 2 “an extension from Man- |dan. N. Dak., to Billings, Mont.” “How much was that?” asked Chair- man Buchanan. “About $105,000,” Howes replied. “Then on the same day they took off a line that ran from Green Bay, Wis., and a line from Rockford to Chi- | cago, costing $48,000 apiece, or about I $96,000 for the two.” | _The committee recommended that President Roosevelt be granted author- ity to modify or cancel any air or ocean mail contracts. Representative Taylor, Democrat, of Colorado, asked Howes if any other contracts were let in 1933. Howes re- plied there was “a large contract” let | February 10 which he wanted to “get rid of.” Duplicated Line. He said: “That was a line from Los Angeles to San Francisco duplicating | the ine already out there. The com- pany that got the extension gave up their existing contract for the route| from New York to Los Angeles that they had at certain rates and accepted | a certificate. | “The cost is not any more than what | the company was formally receiving, although they have increased the mile- | age; but the actual expenditure on| that duplication out there on the West Coast would be about $140,000 a year.” | Howes said the Postmaster General | had the authority to adjust schedules | and rates and replied affirmatively when Arnold, Democrat, of Illinois, asked if “in that way you could strangle the contracts?” 1 He said the department faced the| necessity of “effecting a cut for the next fiscal year of over $5,000,000” on airmail. “We are now spending $20,000,000 and we will have to cut down to $15,- | 000,000, which is the appropriation,” Howes said. TWO FOREST CAMPS TO OPEN IN VIRGINIA| First Units in National Parks Will | Be Located in Vicinity of Luray. | ‘Two new forestry camps will be established near Luray, in Virginia, this week, Robert Fechner, director of the Emergency Conservation Board, an- nounced yesterday. The camps, the first to be placed in national parks, are to be at Skylan and Big Meadows, in the Shenandoa! National Park, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, east of Luray. Rookie woods- men are expected to be shipped into the two camps the latter part of this week. The first Virginia camp, in the Mas- sanuttens west of Luray, was the first to be established in the national forests. It was visited Monday by Secretary of ‘War Dern, who sai down to a meal of camp chow and liked it so well he called for “second: | Accompanied by Assistant Secretary | Woodring, Maj. Gen. Paw B. Malone, | 3d Army Corps commander, and Maj. R. Y. Stuart, chief forester, the new | Secretary made a tour of inspection of the camp. IMPRESSIVE .RITES HELD FOR PILOT BERT HINKLER | Military, Civil and Fascist Au- thorities Take Part in Cere- mony for Australian. By the Associated Press. FLORENCE, Italy, May 3.—Impress- ive funeral services were accorded here to Bert Hinkler, Australian speed pllot who was killed in January near Castel San Nicolo, Italy, while on & flight from England to Australia. Military, civil and Fascist authorities, British consular and embassay repre- sentatives, and thousands of other per- sons participated in the ceremony. A mixed battalion of troops and black-shirt militia escorted the fune: coach to San Felice Square, while a military plane flew low overhead as a tribute from Italian aviators. A British military attache pronounced Hinkler’s name as the procession halted at the square. The crowd, on behalf of the dead airman, shouted “Present!” in_reply. Temporary burial was to be in Allori Cemetery. He Gave Orders to Mussolini. 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