Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1933, Page 12

MILK PRIE CUT - | AGTION PROMISED * WITHIN TEN DAYS Agricultural Adjustment Ad- ministration Officials See Reduction Possibility. NEW ADMINISTRATORS WILL BE APPOINTED| General Parley to Be Called ol‘i Farmers, Wholesalers, Retail- ers and Consumers, Action looking toward the possibility of reducing retail milk prices in Wash- ington will be taken within 10 days, of- ficials of the newly created Agricultural Adjustment Administration promised today. Will Explore NATIVE OF WASHINGTON ‘The first step in the move to anK‘ the consumer’s price here down to a | level more nearly equal to that paid | in other metropolitan centers through- out the country will be the appoint- ment of a national milk administrator. This appointment probably will be an- nounced Monday. after which a re- gional milk administrator for the Wash- | ington area will be named. Will Call Conference. | A general conference of dairy farm- | ers, wholesalers, retailers and con- | sumers will be called by the Agricul- tural Adjustment Administration as | soon as the Washington milk adminis- trator has been chosen, according to the officials., This move was decided upon as the result of discussions whick Charles J. Brand, co-administrator of the Adjustment Administration, had | with William H. King of the Senate Distri®t Committee and George Peek, the other administrator. With the price of milk in Washington | the Highest in the country, Agriculture Department officials and leaders of the ¥wo congressional committees have been | besieged by consumers for relief. Sta- tistics compiled by the Agriculture Bureau of Economics disclosed the | prices here range between 12 and 13| cents, with the average about 11 or| 12, whereas in other principal centers | the price generally is 10 cents or les: Correspondingly, the producers’ price in the Capital area is approximately $2.70 per hundredweight—46.5 quarts— as compared with $2 or less in most other big centers. The only cities hav- ing a price per hundredweight of more than $2 are Boston, New York, Rich- mond and Cumberland. However, officials said, it is not the desire of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration to beat gown the pro- ducers’ price, but rather to lessen the | spread between the price the farmer gets for the milk and the price the consumers pay. At present the dairy farmer is get- ting only 40 per cent, or 5'. cents per qulntr!, ofi !gle (i?nsumcrs price. ill be the task of the national milk administrator to review n:ll: prices throughout the country. and, through trade agreements, attempt to boost the farmers' price in line with prices being received by farmers in this area. Under the agricultural adjustment act, the function of the milk adminis- trator will be to “help the various in- terests in the business, stabilize the market, prevent ruinous price cutting, protect the interests particuiarly of the producer and the consumer, and protect the integrity of the market (from the standpoint of health and the producers’ assyrance of a continuation of a fair market),” it was said. Holds Licensing Clause. In the effort to stabilize dairy prices, | the Agricultural Adjustment Adminis- tration holds over the industry’s head 2 powertul club in the .form of the li- | censing clause of the agricultural ad. Jjustment act. This clause would permit the licensing only of those dairy inter- ests which agreed to a stabilized price, thus eliminating any minority which failed to fall in line. It is not the in tention of the acministration, however, it was said, to make use of this licen sing clause unless absolutely necessary Officials would rather set prices by mutual agreement in the industry in- stead of actually forcing a price-fixing. In addition to the Washington mar- ket, dairy ex| at the Agriculture Department estimated today that about 1,500 centers throughout the country eventually would ask for assistance. Six leading milk markets — Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Los An- geles, Washington — already have ap- plied fcr heip in meeting milk price and trade problems in their respaetive re- gions. Dr. Clyde-L. King of Philadel- phia, naticnally known milk price ar- bitrator, has offered to assist the Agri- culture Adjustment Administration in | stabilizing the milk prices. SEVEN ARE ARRESTED IN LIQUOR SQUAD RAID 200-Gallen Still Reported Discov- ered in 3800 Block of MM sachusetts Avenue. s ‘Three v n and four men under arrest on_ liquor charges after a raid in which prohibiticn and members of the rted they s : 150 galions of whisky an e than 1,000 gailons of mash in a house in the 3800 block of Ma: husetts avenue. Twenty-four prc viola- tions—including sion and transg against thcse them: were today who identified Frederick Clar- ngham, Ala.; Paul | be made dusing the late afternoon and e and Jim R 26;-Eth som. 28 address The house was raided late yesterday after Prohibiiion Aeents W. R. Bland- ford and J. E. Beckett and Detecti George C, Deyoe and Wil had trailed Godfrey znd R a garage in the rear Twenty-ninth drive. There Ransom drop two pack of bushes PARTY WORKERS OPEN TWO-DAY CONFERENCE Beries of Business Sessions and Jobnson, 24 a Rooke, 2 I of the Massachusetis av s into a clump F URTHER details of plans for a stratosphere flight whichmay take him to an altitude of more than 63,000 feet, nearly 2 miles higher than any human ever has gone, | have been announced here by Lieut. | Comdr. Thomas G. W. Settle, U. S. N., | native of the Capital and holder of a | number of balloon trophies and world | Settle, who has been serving as naval inspector at the Goodyear Zeppelin Co. plant, which has just com- pleted construction of the U. S. S. Ma- con, announced his plans for the flight following his appearance before the oint Congressional Committee appoint- ed to investigate the Akron crash. His attempt to penetrate the mys- teries of the atmospheric strata out- 21de that in which man lives will be made during July. His take-off point will be Soldier Field, Chicago, and he will be accompanied either by Prof. Auguste Piccard, Belgian physicist, whose 10-mile-high balloon ascensions in Europe now are world records, or by one of the students of cosmic rays of the University of Chicago. Measure- ments of the cosmic rays will be one | of the chief scientific objectives of the | flight. Balloon Under Construction. | Comd:. Settle has been assigned by | the Navy Department to duty under | the commandant of the 9th Naval Dis- | trict, Chicago, in connection with the | undertaking. Leaving the Capital to- | day or tomorrow, he probably will ro- tate between Akron, where his balloon { is being built; Detroit, where the seven- | { foo, globular’ car is being constructed, | and Chicago, where flight headquar- | texs have been established, until he is | ready for his adventure. |""“The balloon which is being built | for me at Akron will be vecy much |larger than that of Prof. Piccard, and | | the ca1, through the use of a new type of magnestum alloy known as dow- | metal, will be much lighter than Plc- card’s,” Comdr. Settle said. “With this | combination, if conditions are at all | favorable, it'should be possible to reach | an altitude far in excess of that at- tained by Piccard’s balloon. The bag of Settle's balloon will con- tain 600,000 cubic feet of gas when fully inflated. The glob: in which | Settle and his companion will live will | | be the same size as that used by Pic- | card, but will incorporate a number of improvements. It will be tremen- | dously strong in_spite of its Lght ‘ght, and will be sealed to prevent | leakage of its life-giving air into the | thin void into which it is expected to | rise. Oxygen will be carried in tanks | i and released as needed into the gondola. { > problem of passing the balloon valve-contro! rope through the shell | |of the gondola without permitting air | leakage is expected to be solved by ssing it through the tube of a U- | shaped barometer tube sealed to the { shell at one end and filled with mer- cury. The mercury will be free to rise |and fall with changes in atmospheric | pressure, but will constantly maintain | an air-tight seal. Heating Unnecessary. Temperatures below 6) degrees be- low zero will be ercountered above the 10-mile level. Heating of the gondola | will not be necessary, however, because ‘n! the power of the metal shell to | absorb the exceedingly hot rays of the |sun in tkhe thin air of upper space.| | Half of th= shell will be painted black | | outside to absorb the heat rays. the | other half polished to reflect them. By presenting elther the black or polished surface to the sun through an | | arrangement provided to rotate the| | globe, the crew’s quarters can be_elther | heated or permitted to cool. It was | recalled that when Piccard’s rotating mechanism failed, exposing the black | half of the sphere to the sun, the | temnerature inside the gondola climbed to 106 degrees while it wes 60 cegrees be'ow outside, | Settle plans to take off at about 10| or 11 pm. to take advantage of the 00l night temperature during the early | hours of the flight As the sun rises and the ballcon climbs higher, the heat | of the sun aids in expanding the gas. The greatest altitude is expected to be‘ about mid-afternoon, when the | s will be hottest. Deszent will | | | | | | evening, with landing during the early part of the night. The globe, being air-tight, also will | be water-tight and will remain afloat | for an indefinite period if the landing TREASURY SALE ACTIVE $100,352,000 Accepted on Bills Four Times Oversubscribed. The latest issue of 91-day Treasury bills was more than four times over- subscribed, it was announced today by Secretary of the Treasury Woodin. | Applications totaled $407,552,000 for | the offering and a total of $100,352,000 | was accepted at an average rate of | about 0.32 per annum on a bank dis- | ENING STA Stratosphere PLANS FLIGHT IN JULY. Above: Dr. Jean Piccard examining the construction of the metal gondola being built at Midland, Mich., for the } Piccard-Settle flight at the Chicago ex- position. Below: Lieut. Comdr. Thomas G. W. Settle, Washington man, who is expected to make the flight with Dr.| Auguste Piccard, or a University of Chicago studen . P. and Wide World Photos. has to be made in the waters of one of the Great Lakes. In addition to full cosmic ray equip- ment for recording the effects of this vitally important but little-known force, the balloon will carry the most com- plete radio equipment. A running ac- count of the experiences of the aero- nauts will be broadcast from the balloon and will be picked up by ground stations at Chicago and re- broadcast to the Nation. A barograph will be carried to make a constant record of the altitude at- tained and this will be turned over to the Bureau of Standards for check- ing and homologation so that any record made may become official. Comdr. Settle is one of the few men in the world licensed to fly any kind of aircraft. He has a rating as pilot of the greatest airships, up to the ize of the Macon, pilot of free balloons, airplanes and gliders. He was winner of the last Gordon Bennett international balloon race, starting from Basle, Switzerland, last Fall, giving the United States perma- nent possession of the trophy, which is the most coveted of the world's balloon trophies. Born here on November 4, 1895, Comdr. Settle was educated in the District schools and was appointed to the Naval Academy September 16, 1915. e was commissioned an ensign June 1918, and saw war duty as a de- stroyer officer in' European waters. Later he was in the destroyer service and on shore duty as an instructor in electrical engineering at the Naval Academy. He took a post-graduate course in engineering at Harvard Uni- versity. Started Fiying in 1924. His aviation experience began in 1924, when he was assigned to duty aboard the Shenandoah at Lakehurst, N. J. He became a naval aviator that year and was detailed to duty involving fly- ing in dirigibles, balloons and airplanes. He was attached to the Shenandoah until her loss in 1925 but was not aboard on her last flight. Later he served aboard the U. 8. S. Los Angeles in various capacities, in- cluding communication engjneering and as executive officer. He qualified as an airship pilot in 1927 and in that year made an official distance record for balloons of the 19,000-cubic-foot class by flying 478 miles from Lake- hurst to Lisbon Falls, Me. During the four years ending in 1930, he was a member of the Navy team in the national balloon races and in 1929 placed third in the in- ternational Gordon Bennett race from St. Louis Detailed to Akron in 1929, He was naval observer aboard the Graf Zeppelin during her first east- ward Atlantic crossing in 1928. The next year he again smashed the world distance and duration records for free balloons by flying in the national balloon race from Pittsburgh to Prince | Edward Island, Canada, covering 952 miles in 43 hours and 2 minutes. After serving for several months in the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics here in 1929 he was detailed to duty as inspector of naval aircraft at the Good- year plant in Akron. Settle qualified as a glider pilot in 1930 when, during the Curtiss marine trophy race, made a glider flight from the Los Angeles to the Anacostia Naval Air Station, the second man in history to make such a flight. Marriage Licenses. Jose R Brooklyn. N. Y. and Pass qua. . Coamo, Puerto Rico Andrew N. DeMuth L Rev Horace L. Huntt. ne. and Violet 0. Amorosi, st. n.e.: Rev. P. E Francis A. Baker, * and Rebecca V. Heffner, road: Rev. D A. Beery. Milton E. Diehl. 26. Jeanette E. Harmon, Rev. A. F. Poore Mose's Fairill. 20, and Cora Noel. {1, both 1638 4th st Judge James A Cobb. Joseph E Washington. and Louise 920 Maryland ave. 20, 528 10th 31 Peabody st. 1K. 3406 Reservoir se. and of WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY. MAY 27, 1933 BAPTISTS PRAISE REFORESTING PLAN, IGNORING PROTEST 0qnvention Takes Vigorous Stand Against Repeal of Dry Law. UPSHAW IS SPEAKER AGAINST LEGAL LIQUOR Cities Cited as Pagan Influence cn ‘Whole Country in Another Address at Meeting. Ignoring the frequent protests that the Civilian Conservation Corps would create a_new type of bonus marchers, the Northern Baptist Convention today voted to extend to President Roosevelt appreciation of his reforestation pro- gram and the co-operation of Baptists in supplying chaplains for the men. Former Representative Grant M. Hud- son of Michigan warned the convention that they were voting to indorse an administration program that was being carried out “under a military system.” In warning the convention to “go slow in considering such a responsible ac- tion,” he declared this system would “build up another group of men who will be just as troublesome to us as the benus marchers.” Cites Military Phase. Because of the military phase of the program, Hudson told the Baptist Con- vention, there are phases of this social welfare work to which the church should not subscribe. “No one knows a year from now if this program will be a wise one on the part of the Government. Preparing to close its business ses- sions tonight, the convention took a vigorous stand against repeal of the eighteenth amendment. “The battle is on” a resolution adopted amid applause, stated, “We dare not let up in this contest with the forces of evil and corruption.” After overwhelmingly defeating late yesterday a move of fundamentalists to divorce the Baptist Convention from the Council of Churches of Christ in America because of its internationalist attitude, the convention today re- affirmed “as guiding principles” the broad platform of the department of the church and social service of the| council. Former Representative William B. Upshaw of Georgia, who was allowed two minutes to make a prohibition speech, stated the position of Northern Baptists as outlined to the convention president, Dr. C. Oscar Johnson of St. Louis, when he called at the White House earlier in the week. “Mr. President.” the Georgia prohi- bition leader quoted Dr. Johnson as saying, “the Ncrthern Baptists support the Administration 96.8 per cent, but we cannot go with you on the other 3.2 This brought a shout of ap- plause. Upshaw was a candidate for President on the prohibition ticket in the last campaign. ‘The convention deferred action un- til later today on the remainder of the report of the Resolutions Committee. Under its social service platform .it en- dorsed such proposals as a fairer dis- tribution of wealth, the payment of a living wage, social insurance against sickness or old age, the right of col- lective bargaining, abolition of child labor, the application of Christian principals generally in industry. Sees Pagan Influence. Declaring “the city is paganizing the home and business life of America,” D. R. Sharpe of Cleveland, Ohio, urged the convention to make a “co-operative al tack on the city through evangelism.” Mr. Sharp conducted a forum on “Christ and the City Streets” and was author of the report submitted to the convention dealing with city missions. | “The city is developing a crime cul- ture with its roots in the underworld of the dope peddler, the bootlegger, the gunman and the racketeer,” he said. “The city is producing a new type of civilization with an urban psychology, a standardized mechanical technique, and a pagan philosophy.” The Nation is strongest in its city, Sharpe reminded the convention, where ! “Protestanism is relatively weak.” Sharpe declared that “city folks are hungry for the living Gotd.” The complex city problems, Sharpe explained, demand a thoroughly trained leadership and up-to-date methods and technique to match the ever-changing and challenging situation. “With unparalleled unemployment, economic insecurity and suffering, the church must have a living message, a vital program and a Christ-like min- istry,” he said. “The great cry of the city is the cry for bread and work. The church must have fome great word in the face of entrenched privilege on the one hand and terrific human need and suffering on the other.” Northern Baptists have 15 class A Standard City Mission Societies in cities of 500,000 or more population. With few exceptions, he said, these are the cities in which other denominations have smilar set-ups. With Presbyterians there are corresponding organizations in 23 cities, with Methodists 27, with Congregationalists 14. Abernethy President. Dr. W. S. Abernethy, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church of Washing- ton, was elected president to succeed Dr. C. Oscar Johnson of St. Louis, Mo. This is the first time a Washington pastor 'has headed the convention. The cther officers nominated yesterday also were elected. Rochester, N. Y., which will be cele- brating its 100th anniversary in 1934.} was chosen as the next convention city in recognition of its rank as “an im- portant Babtist center.” Fundamentalist representatives at the convention failed in an attempt to put that body on record as repudi- ating the theology expressed in the book, “The Thinking Nations,” which represented the findings of a study, financed by John D. Rockefeller, jr. Rev. W. H. Rogers of Portland, Oreg., said the book has challenged nations and has presented an unfair picture of missionary workers in the field. He! moved repudiation. William Travers Jerome, jr., of New, York, member of the Laymen’s Foreign | ission Inquiry, which produced the rose to its defense. do not give way for anybody in my love for Christ.” he asserted. De- | bate was long and heated, ending in! acceptance of a substitute motion com- mending the board. Deaths Reported. Mary E._ Bool. !rrmi E. Gladfel! las sts. n.e Nannie Henry. Fairmonb st 2, 14 ter, 18th and Doug- 2001 T s New Chevy Chase Fountain Tested MEMORIAL TO SENATOR NEWLANDS NEARING COMPLETION. \ESTS are being made of the fountain which has been erected at Chevy Chase Circle as a memorial to the late ‘Workmen now are engaged in laying flagstone walks to completé the beautification Senator Newlands of Nevada. of the circle. —Star Staff Photo. OFFICIALS PROBE GAS OWNERSHP Commission Checks Changes Made Since Chase Na- tional’s New Set-up. ‘The Public Utilities Commission today served notice on counsel for the Wash- ington Gas Light Co. to inform the commission and District Supreme Court if any changes in the intricate owner- ship set-up of the gas company have resulted from the repcrted separation or the Chase Securities' Corporation from the Chase National Bank. In a letter to Wilton J. Lambert, gen- eral counsel for the gas company, Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, commission chairman, stated: “The commission has been advised CAPPER PRESENTS GRANT OFFERS NEW §120000 PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAM Supplemental List of Work Projects to Be Given Federal Board. ELIMINATION OF SLUMS WOULD GIVE 500 JOBS Construction of Five Proposed Bridges, Estimated at $6,550,000, Would Employ 2,425. A suppiemental list of proposed pub- lic works projects in this region, which the District, Maryland and Vir- ginla are interested, will be sent to the Federal Employment Stabilization Board by Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d., director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, covering a program that will cost up- ward of $12,000.000. Elimination of alley slums here is es- timated to cost $1,500,000 and this, Col. Grant said, will be co-ordinated NEW ALLEY BiLL Revised Measure Proposes to Gradually Rebuild Dwellings in Areas. A new draft of the alley improvement bill, which it is believed the Senate Dis- trict Committee will approve, was in-, troduced late yesterday by Senator Cap- per, Republican, of Kansas. Senator Capper and Senator Austin of Vermont, were named a subcommittee on the subject, and the rewritten measure is with District of Columbia authorities. Legislation designed to eliminate alley dwellings now is pending in Congress. Col. Grant estimated that $750,000 would be necessary to acquire the sites of the slums and that a daily average of 500 men would be employed on a 30-hour week. Construction of a road from the Ar- lington Memorial bridge’ to Rosslyn, Va., would cost $200,000 and employ a daily average of 100 men. This project is to b2 co-ordinated with the Virginia authorities. Col. Grant said land for this highway is about 90 per cent owned by the Federal Government. He es- timated it would cost $75,000 to ac- quire the necessary ground for this project. $1,300,000 Bridge Project. A Virginia bridge, between Chain the result of conferences with Chairman | Bridge and Great ralls, as an injtial King of the District Committee, officials | 5tep 1n the George Washingion Memo- of the Park and Planning Commission | Fial parkway project in that area would that a material alteration in the rela- tionship of the Chase National Bank and the Chase Securities Corporation has been effected within the last few weeks. It would appear from the rec- ord of former proceedings that this | “Will you please advise the commission | as promptly as possible of the full effect | court.” | Eighty-four per cent of the common stock of the Washington Gas Lignt Co. | FOrmer Secretary of Mrs. The Chase National Bank headed a list of institutions, among which the 6.000 common shares of beneficial inter- 1 time of the ownership of the Gas Light | When a taxicab in which they were pas- Co. The decree resulted from an ear- |sengers was in collision with an auto- lier move by the Utilities Commission lmeblle at Dupont Circle and Massa of the change to which reference is | according to a recent Commission re- | Coolidge Sustains Shoulder est (commcn stock) were divided, The | MisS Mary Randolph, who was secre- to force cutside interests to divest chusetts avenue, late yesterday after- |IMPROVED RATING | MISS MARY RANDOLPH. —Harris-Ewing Photo. change would affect the securities of the Washington and suburban com- made? We aiso desire to be advised if you intend to file statements of this or other changes as is required by the pro- visions of the orders entered by the port, was owned by the Washington | agd Suburban Companies, a Massa- | chusetts common law trust, the succes- - s sor to the Seaboard Invesiment Trust. Fracture in Taxi. Chase National Bank held 1,300 of the |t8ry to Mrs. Coolidge at the White shares of beneficial interest. | House, suffered a fractured right shoul- | The court decree of last December, |der, and her sister, Miss Ann Randolph, in cffect, accepted the set-up at that |had her nose broken and face lacerated, themselves from centrol of the com- | pany here, the previous ownership be- | ing declared in viclation of the La Fol- lette anti-trust law IN EFFICIENCY ASKED Federal Employes’ Federation Called Upon by Educational Forum, Local No. 2. The National Federation of Federal Employes was called upon to work for an improvement in the efficiency rat- ing system used in Goverrment estab- lishments, in a recommendation com- ing last night from the Educational Forum of Local No. 2 of the federation. A study of the system, employing ex- pert assistance is necessary, and co- operation with the Federal authorities charged with its administration was | urged. The forum also discussed the pro- posal. recently revived by Representa- tive Sirovich, Democrat, of New York, | for esteblishment of an cppeals agency where Government workers could_take complaints arising out of the workings | of the economy program. It said | the United States is the only govern- | ment of consequence that does not have such a tribunal, the powers of the Civil Service Commission in this re- spect being limited. The forum also went on record in favor of preference in re-employment for workers with civil service status losing out under reorganization. | MORE AID FOR STATES l 70 BE ANNOUNCED' | Emergency Relicf Administrator \ Gets Reports cn Totals Sp:nt to Date. By the Associated Press. Harry L. Hopkins, emergency relief administrator, expects to announce al- lotment of relief funds for 18 or 20 | States within two or three days. | Hopkins has received reports from | the Governors of these States on the | totals spent for relief by States and cities. He promised liberal rulings in allocations from the $250,000,000 which is to be distributed on the basis of $1 for each $3 spent locally, but has not settled whether a:ministrative ex- penses may be included in ccmputing the local expenditures. SUED FOR NOTES i Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Seeks to Recover From Wardman Co. | The Wardman Corporation, 1500 | | 12. | block of Twenty-second street, police noon. The sisters, who reside at 1317 Nine- teenth street, are in Emergency Hos- pital. Police reported that the taxi was driven by Manual Glick, 28 years old, of the 1600 block of Isherwood street. and the automobile by Raymond ‘Wheeler, 40, of Cherrydale. The crash threw the occupants heavily against the sides of the taxi. No arrests were made. Sperry Inquest Today. An inguest was to be held at the| District Morgue today in the death yes- terday of Harry Sperry, 55, said to have | been struck by a backing truck at North Capitol and G place northeast on May The truck was operated by Charles Fillah, 20 of the 100 block of Tenth street, police say. Mrs. Josephine Mosheuvel, 58, of 630 New York avenue, and Mrs. Catherine Sandwick, 33, of 1216 Tenth street, were severely injured when the automo- bile in which they were riding over- turned after it and another machine collided at Twenty-fourth and Monroe streets northeast. The car was being driven by Mrs. Ida K. Cox of the 500 said The other automobile was oper- ated by Seldon Tinsley, 21, of the 3500 block of Seventeenth street northeast. Both Taken to Hospital. Both women were taken to Sibley Hospital, where Mrs Mosheuvel was| treated for bruises and possible internal injuries, and Mrs. Sandwick for a broken pelvis and possible internal injuries. Nelson Paine, 2, was treated at Walter Reed Hospital for cuts and bruises re- ceived when an automobile operated by Mrs Frances A. Paine, 30, of Sil-| ver Spring, Md., crashed into a tele-| phone pole on Georgia avenue near| Walter Reed Hospital. Police are seeking a hit-and-run driver whose automobile yesterday knocked down and injured Isom | Mitcheil, 60, colored., while he was| walking ‘in the 400 block of L strest.| He was taken to Freedmen's Hospital. | | Rheem Offers Rare! Book Collection to Pay Off Creditors‘ Tells Court His Library,‘; Now Stored, Is Worth $20,000. Edmund D. Rheem. former head of | the hankrupt Swartzell, Rheem & Hen ey Co. told a group of his creditors in’ District Supreme Court today that he had a library of rare books, worth | $20.000. which could be used in pay- ment of their claims against him. Rheem, who is serving a seven-year and the District government. Plan Rebuilding Program. The revised bill proposes to make a start on the gradual elimination of alley dwellings by rebuilding alley areas, or opening them up as minor streets. The appropriation is confined to an unex- \pended balance of $600,000 remaining rom the war-time activities of the United States Housing Corporation. The measure also would allow the agency selected by the President to carry out the alley program to borrow from the Reconstruction Pinance Cor- poration, or from any other Govern- ment source authorized to make loans for this purpose. ‘The Senate District Committee prob- ably will act on the bill at a meeting called by Chairinan King for Monday afternoon. President to Name Agency. ‘The President could designate any branch of the Federal or District gov- ernment to administer the plan. This agency could acquire alley property, replat such areas and provide fcr erec- ticn of more suitable buildings. In some cases the blind ends of alleys would be cut through to make them minor streets. The agency selected could either de- velop the areas itself, or could make loans to limited dividend ccrporations or to home owners to develop the property. The original bill contemplated addi- tional appropriations annually over a period cf years until the program is complete. It is believed that confin- ing the bill to the unexpended funds of the Housing Corporation, together with the right to borrow, will facilitate pas- sage of the measure. The bill seeks to eliminate alley dwellings by 1944. PUT POSTAL SAVINGS IN U. S. SECURITIES Trustees Get Roosevelt's Permis- mission to Purchase $100,000,- 000 in Bonds. President Rocsevelt has granted au- thority to the Board of Trustees of the Postal Savings System for authority ta purchase bonds or other securities of the United States to the amcunt of $100,000,000. In @;\king this known at the White House' today, it was stated that pre- viously the request of the board had been approved by Postmaster General Farley, Secretary of the Treasury Woo- din and J. Crawford Biggs, acting At- torney General, as well as all members of the Pcstal Savings System Board of Trustees. The $100,000,000 purchase would be 11;11 lxfldétlotn to securitie; already au- orized for purchase by the Board of Trustees. > It was pointed out at the White House that power to grant the authority is conferred up:n the President by of May 18, 1916, whjch provides: hen, in the judgment of the President, the general welfare and interests of the United States so require, the Board of Trustees may invest all or any part of the postal savings funds, except a reserve fund of 5 per centum, herin provded for, in bonds or cther securi- ties of the United States.” TEMPORARY ;’ERMITS FOR BEER END JUNE 10 Beverage Board Now Engaged in Study of Eligibility of Pres- ent Holders. Issuance of temporary permits for (he sale of beer in the District will cease after June 10 by order of the! District Commissioners. The Beverage Permits Board now is engaged in study of the eligibility of present holders of temporary permits;”® in preparation for the granting of per- manent or annual licenses to replace the temporary permits. After June’ 10 applicants will have to pass muster under the mcre stringent inspections being mad-= for the permanent licenses. There now are approximately 2,000 temporary permits in effect. cost $500,000. This would be co-ordi- I nated with the Virginia authorities and District resicents as to co-operative financing and donations of land for the project. It is estimated that a aily average of 300 men would be di- rectly. employed in this enterprice. Construction of a bridge at Great Falls would entail - $1,300,000, Col. Grant estimates, and of this about $40.- 000 would be spert to acquire the site for this bridge linking Virginia and Maryland. An estimated’ daily average . of 425 men would bs employed in this enterprise, which would be co-ordinated with Virginia and Maryland authorities with reference to the approaches. A bridge at South Capitol street would cost $1,500,000, with $50,000 of this estimated as the cost of the site. This would be co-ordinated with the District authorities, and the daily aver- age of men directly émployed on it would be 650. A bridge from South Capitol strect to Boiling Field would enteil expendi- ture of $250,000 and would employ & daily average of 200 men. The District Commissioners: would be likewise con= cerned with this project. Job Would Employ 140. For improvement of the Fort Foote parkway, the cost is placed at $500,000 and the District and Maryland®would be concerred. The report estimates the ground needed would cost $15J,000. One hundred and forty men would be di- rectly employed daily. For a high-level bridge along Tilden street, spanning° Rock Creek Valley, the report estimates a cost of $2,000,000. The estimated cost of the site is $85,000 and the report places the average daily number of men to be directly employed at 650. This would be co-ordinated with the District authorities. A new high-level chain bridge across the Potomac River would cost $1,500,- 000. The report places the estimated cost of the site at $10,000 and this en- terprise would be ce-ordinated with District and Virginia authorities. An estimated daily -average of 500 men would be employed. For Wilson Memorial drive, northern approach, Lee boulevard, in Arlington County, Va., the report estimates a cost of $1,000,000. Of this, $200,000 would | be spent to acquire the site and this project would be co-ordinated with Vir- ginia authorities. An estimated daily average of 330 men would be employed. Four Highways Planned. For grade separations at Fourteenth street and the Mall, the report estimates a cost of $1,100,000. This would carry forward the Mall project, as approved by the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission, underpassing Four- teenth street beneath the overhcad Mall highway. Present plans call for four highways down the Mall from the pro- jected Union Square near the Capitol to the vicinity of the Washington Mon- ument. This project, likewise, would be co-ordinated with the District au- thorities and a daily average of 350 l':’nen would be employed in its realiza- on. For similar grade separations at Twelfth street and the Mall, the report estimates expenditure of $1,100,000 and this program would also be co-ordi- nated with the Dist-ict authorities. It is estimated that a daily average of 325 men would be employed on this project. FARM APPOINTMENT GIVEN MISSISSIPPIAN Oscar G. Johnston, World's Largest Cotton Grower, Adjustment Finance Director. By the Associated Press. Oscar Goodbar Johnston of Mississippi. caid to be the world’s largest grower of staple cotton, yesterday was appointed finance director of the Agricultural Adjustment Admidistration. Mr. Johnston- was for some years engaged in Mississippi State politics and became & candidate for Governor, but | cbruptly severed all his political ac- tivities the business. At intermediate stages in his career, he was a lawyer, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, banker, and lieutenant in the Tank Corps during the World War. His family lived in Jackson, Miss., when Mr. Johnston was born in 1880, but soon afterward moved to Friars Point, Miss. and turned to cotton block of K street. has been sued for|sentence in the District Reformatory | $126,500 of unpaid promissory notes|in connection with the failure of his n District Supreme Court yesterday by | firm, was brought to the court house | the trustees of the bankrupt Swartzell, | to testify at the instance of counsel for | st | Gecrgia Duvall, 70, St. Elizabeth’s Hos- | pital | William D. Pitzgerald, 70. 430 Buchanan | ¢ Ella F_Blandford. 68, §20 K st count basis. 19. both of Highland Park v Montgomerw John_Bowen. 21. Charlottesville. Va.. and Mary E. Lew ivy. Va Herbert 5. Smith Entertainment Features Listed LEGION SERVICE PLANNED ey ASKS $12,000 DAMAGES ille, on Program. Rev A two-day conference of National Woman's Party workers opened here today at the Alva Belmont House and the Dodge Hotel with a series of busi- ness sessions and entertainment fea- tures listed on the program At a meeting this afternoon, the workers were to consider the party’s campaign opposing _discrimination against women in the Government serv- ice Miss Julia D. Connor spoke on “Bet- ter Homes” at a luncheon meeting to- day, and Mrs. Virginia Jenckes, Repre. sentative from Indiana, will be the principal speaker at a luncheon tomor- TowW, & e e | Burned When Hot Plaster Falle Into Boots at Small Blaze. Lieut. J. R. Moore, 45, of No. 23 En- gine Co., was burned on the fect yes- terdsy when hot plastering from a ceiling fell down his bocts while he was fighting a small fire at 1421 Twen- tieth street. He was treated on the scene by a| physician and returned home. Fxremcn" | were trying to get a8l the source of a ! part of the blaze as the hot plastering | fell around them. The fire was said to have started by a short circuit. and R ev. Samuel Gordon, Werber. 3 _Kenyon Lily A n Morris Goldman. st 1'H st. ne: sl Births Reported Floris A, and Salome Ferzuson, boy. se ryUnknown." about 60, found i Potomac iver. George V. Horgan. 56. Shoreham Hotel Sibley Hospital infant, Children’s Hos- pita! L 5 Infant of Dean and Viola Beall, Gallinger Hospital Iafant of John and Elnore Shields, Provi- dence Hospital Charles T. and Jeanette Seibel. boy James T. and_Florence Thompson. . ‘and Helen Boyd. boy. and Aenes Fink. boy. Allan J. Samuel 0. and Gertrude M T d Ger@gude West, Eioen 5. Ane e o-%n, . Infant of Alfred and Evelyn Newberry. Sibles Hopital 5204y . Home for Aged and . St. Elizabeth’s Hos- Kate Matthew: 714 1st st Rosa Stribling. 54, Emergency Hospital. Otis Gee. 40. Home for Aged and Infim. Bertha Williams, 28, 1915 Sth st pylgtePh Nicholson,” 28. “Tuberculosia Mos- i ‘John Gray, intant, Preedmen’s Hospital. nfirm. Herman P. Green. pital 5w, Rheem & Hensey Co. It is alleged the unpaid notes date | back to July, 1931. The trustees, Henry P. Blair, Julius 1. Peyser and Michael M. Doyle, filed_the suit through At- torney Joseph D. Sullivan. . CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Dance, Fort Stevens Post, American Legion, Indian Spring Country Club, 9 pm. “Bargain hop,” benefit St. Stephen's | pose of further examining Rheem woul Immaculate 1 School, Bradshaw, Md., Conception Hall, 8:30 p.m. v | George "C. shinn, trustee of Rheem's personal estate Under questioning by Attorney Wil- llam E. Richardson, representing the trustee, Rheem said he thought the| bocks were stored. but that he did not | | know their exact location. ~Richard- | | son indicated a search would be insti- | | tuted for the library. Rheem also was | asked several other questions on mat- ters involving his_ personal estate, but no_information of value was elicited. | Fries to Address Annual| Gathering at Arlington. Jane A. Delano Post, No. 6. Ameri- can Legion, will sponsor a twilight me- morial service at 6 o'clock tomorrow | night in the nurses’ section at Arling- ton National Cemetery, as a tribute to their former comrades. The program includes selections by Gen. Woman Sues District and Cab Driver ‘for Injurles. Suit for $12,000 damages from the District of Columbia and A, L. Livsie, a cab driver of 713 Van Buren street, was | filed in District Supreme Court yester- day by Janet.C. Crump, 332§ esada et roe S Through Attorneys Ralph Fichter and an instrumental quartet from the Army ‘Thomas G. Willis, she said the District | Mr. Shinn said he thought several | Band and an address by Ge:. Amos | negligently permitted an excavation to other creditors’ meetings for the pur: | Pries Chaplain Dybert of Fort Myer |develop on Broad Branch road near be held before the referee in ruptcy, Fred J. Eden. d | will gssist with the ceremony, which is McKinlcy street and that bank- | held annually in connection with Me- jured when Livsie drove morial day. was in- taxi, in which she was a passenger, across it.