Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1933, Page 17

* WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION The Zoen WATER CONSUMERS MAKE NEW RECORD INBILL COMPLAINTS Registrar Grove Reports Sevenfold Increase Over Normal Run. LESS THAN 1 PER CENT HELD TO BE JUSTIFIED Work of Investigation Causes De- | partment to Drop Maintenance | and Replacements. ‘Thirty-five per cent of Washing{an‘sl ‘water consumers have complained that their bills. were too high this fiscal year, a seven-fold increase over the normal Tun of complaints from about 5 per cent | of the customers per annum, Water Registrar E. H. Grove sald today. Mr. Grove said that of the complaints, something less than 1 per cent turned out on investigation to be justified. The office does not keep statistics on complaints, but Mr. Grove said that the task of invest'gating complaints has now reached such large proportions that with the present force, it will be necessary to abandon most maintenance work and all replacements on meters for 1934. | $75,000 Pending. ‘There is pending before the director | of the budget a request for $75,000 of the funds received from water con- sumers for maintenance of water meters. If the director of the budget should turn this reguest down, Mr. Grove said, he would be compelled to reduce his maintenance and installation division from 40 men to 5. This would allow him to use the divisicn only for complaint work, with enough over to attend to about half of the leaks that will develop during the next year, ‘The program, started in 1931, which was intended to put all water services In the District on a meter basis by 1936, | struck a bad snag when the Congress | cut the regular appropriation from | $130,000, its level since 1931, to $10,- 000 for 1934. | There are at present 99,792 custcmers of the Water Department, of whom 88,422 are on meters. Of these, how- ever, 9,770 meters are not registering. ‘Where meters go out of order and stop | Tregistering, the customer is put on the minimum meter rate of $8.75, which in practically al! cases is an advantage to the individual customer, although a | disadventage to the water revenues in | general. Non-registering meters enter into the | complaints because persons with meters working properly object to paying more for their water than neighbors with non-registering meters paying the min- imum bill. Dr. Grove tock from the fileg a specific complaint where a bill had risen from $11.55 fn one year to $16.85 in the next, while the com- plainant’s next-door neighbor, said to use about the same amcunt of water, paid $8.75 beth years. In this case, he pointed oyt, the meter charge was cor- rect, but %the next-door neighbor was probably getting a lot of free water be- cause the department had not yet got around to replacing his dead meter. May Change Meters. If the director of the budget should grant the $75,000 item, it will then be possible to reduce slightly the number of non-registering meters, but it will be impossible to put in any new meters ‘where the customers are now charged = flat rate. ‘When the meter program got under way -in' 1931, there were 97.792 cus- tomers, of whom 81,381 were on meters, but of those meters 14,725 were not registering. The service was then 85.4 per cent metered, and the metering has now risen to 88.6 per cent. This lat- ter figure, however, is about 2.1 per cent behind the program, due largely | %o the amount of work necessary on ! complaints this year. Mr. Grove said many customers could be saved their large bills if the meter- Teading division could be increased sufficiently to allow readings four to six ®mes a year. At present the 23 ‘men in this division have difficulty amaking readings as often as once a year. Thus a leak can go unnoticed dor a long time before the customer's Ittelgtfion is called to it by the size of ill. The enormous increase in the com- plaints Mr. Grove attributed to the depression, which has caused water “Miss Dorothy Mitchell,” Found Wandering, I Only Three. MAGINE the surprise of police when they were informed a young blcnd | was wandering about in Garfleld Park early ths morning—clad only | in a red bathing suit. The boys, who had been lolling about in the fourth precinct playing checkers | and what not, snapped to attention and | suddenly became quite desirous of re- | ceiving an assignment. Then came the | word of enlightenment—the blond was | 3 years old. | She told the officers her name was “Miss Dorothy Mitchell,” but she was | | completely in the dark about her street | address or telephone number. Daddy was “daddy” to her and that was sufficient anyway. Police said she was | “very well satisfied” and did not express the slightest concern about being lost. Dorothy said she went out for & dip | in the park pool, but apparently becam- | all turned around and could find neither | pool nor home when two little colored glrls found her. They escorted her o police. The officers, unable to locate the parents, took Dorothy to the receiving home at 816 Potomac avenue southeast. | About ncon, the child’s mother, Mrs. Esther Mitchell, 411 G street southeast, | called for her after learning of her Cannot Give Address to Police WASHINGTON, Blond Clad in Bathing Suit BANSFORRENT 200 Newspaper Men Camp on Heels Of Gen. Johnson for “New Deal” News! - NLASTZNONTHS | | 1 \ “MISS DOROTHY MITCHELL.” whereabouts from a neighbor. Mrs. Mitchel! said Dorothy had gone to a playground to play and had become ; separated frcm her companions. HAMILTON NEARS | SCHOOL FUND SHIFT STOCK ISSUE GOAL TO SPARE TUTORS Eugene Meyer and E. I. Kauf- Board Will Avail Itself of New | man Latest Subscribers | for Large Amounts. The Hamilten National Bank Sub- scription Committee announced today that Eugene Meyer, publisher of the Washington Post, had subscribed $10,000 in stock with a promise to take $10,000 more if necessary. The Evening Star | Newspaper Co., which has been a regular depositor at the Federal-American | National Bank, subscribed to $20,000 in | stock during the early part of the campaign. \Y The committee also announced that | E. L. Kaufman, principal owner of E. M. | Rosenthal Co., which operates the Kay, Marx, Ross and Franc jewelry stores, had subscribed to $5,000, with & promise | of $5,000 more if needed. ! On'y $50,000 Lacking. Today’s reports brought the subscrip- | tion total to within $50,000 of the | amount set, but the committee announc- ed that it would be necessary to raise more than this because of the off-set | regulations of the Treasury Department, which released some of the funds other- | wise intended for application to stock. | Edwin C. Graham, president of the | Hamilton National, called his organiz- ing board into session this afternoon at headquarters, the Federal-American Na- tional Bank & Trust Co. to push for- ward the work necessary in preparing to open the bank. Several committees were ready to re- port progress on their several responsi- bilities, such as by-laws, assets of mem- ber ba.nk.s] , branches and proposed per- sonnel. Gratification Is Expressed. | Mr. Graham today expressed gratifi- | cation over the progress made so far, | but explaired that a great amount of detail work will be necessary before the bank can cpen to the public. Conservators of the seven member banks in the merger were pushing for- ward teday with the big job of pre- paring data for the contract which is to be drawn up between each member bank conservator and officials of the new Hamilton merger. i ‘While there were some prospects that | the seven-bank merger might be in- | creased by another member, the | Seventh Street Savings Bank, the final | decision had not been made today by the Seventh street institution. GIBBS CLUE FAILS | IN DROWNING CASE ( users to complain of increases in their bills of as little as 7 cents. Probes Held Expensive. The work involved in investigating complaints, Mr. Grove said, is the most | expensive his department is called on to do. Where a complaint is received, an | effort is made to inspect the meter the same day. This results in sending readers to widely-scattered sections of the city, at added costs in time and Eansportation | The preliminary meter readings are done by localities, and it is possible for one man to make 200 readings a day ‘The same man, however, could only in vestigate a small handful of complaints in one day unless they happened to come from the same neighborhood Assuming that the budget director authcrizes the $75,000 item, Mr. Grove estimated, it would be possible to re- duce the number of dead meters to about 4000 by the close of 1934 and to complete this part of the meter pro- gram on such schedule in 1936. The program of placing meters where there are now no meters, however, has been definitely disrupted and it is impossible to forcrcast when this will be carried If the budget director de- en both parts of the program will go by the board. Tre money requested to be spent is the District’s own money. paid in by water users and kept in a separate fund. Congress, however, arbitrarily limited the amounts to be spent above the greatly reduced appropriations to $635.000 and made the budget director the judge of whether the District should be allowed to spend it or not. UNHURT IN ACCIDENT Two Escape When Tire Blows and Auto Overturns. Although an automobile almost was demolished yesterday afternoon, when it overturned in Rock Creek, near the bridge at Broad Branch road, neither of its two occupants was injured. Officer F. D. Lewis of the United States Park Police today reported that Morton J. Kind, 18, of the 5400 block of ‘Thirtieth place, was driving south in the park yesterday afternoon when the left front tire blew out. This occurred as the machine was approaching the Broad Branch road bridge. and it was catapulted onto rocks in the creek beside the bridge. Neither Kind nor his companion Horace Enselman, 19. also of the 5400 block of Thirtieth place, received any \njury, Officer Lewis said, Body Thought to Be Missing D. C. Student Identified as Canadian. All doubt as to the identity of a body believed previously to have been that of Henry Huntington Gibbs, missing Washington student, was _definitely eliminated, it was learned today, when it was identified as that of John Mur- phy, Winnipeg, Canada. The body, taken from the Assiniboine River at Winnipeg on June 2, had been *tentatively identified as that of Gibbs, | 20-year-old University of Pennsylvania student, who has been missing since ! last January. The youth's father, Henry C. Gibbs, 1821 Newton street, went to Winnipeg and, after viewing the body, declared it was not that of his son. He reached this decision, he explained, after an examination of dental werk in the mouth of the corpse. After Gibbs viewed the body. Associ- ated Press dispatches from Winnipeg stated, it was positively identified Young Gibbs, an honor student at the University of Pennsylvania, disap- peared from his dormitory after writing notes to his parents and to school offi- cials declaring he was going to commit suicide. His parents, however, have Steadfastly refused to believe ‘he is ead. D. C. TRAFFIC WORKERS | FACE CUT IN PERSONNEL Furlough Plan May Be Instituted. | | Van Duzen to See Com- missioners. ‘With an appropriation of $60,000 for | salaries in the coming fiscal year and | an annual pay roll of $66,000, the traffic department of the District faced the | the school board will | ence between the cost of the present Legislation in 1934 Sal- ary Arrangement. The Board of Education will under- take to avail itself of the leglslali\el provision in the 1934 appropriation act which allows the transfer of funds from one item to another within a de- partmental appropriation in an effort to save drastic reductions in the staff of the officers of the school system. Approving the recommendation of Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent, apply to the Budget Bureau for authority to trans- fer $20,000—if necessary—from the contingent fund to officers’ salaries. This fund, Dr. Ballou has advised the board, “will cover entirely the differ- olsfial:lsl staff and the appropriation for 1934. “For Teaching Service.” In proposing the transfer of this sum, the superintendent also pointed out that heads of departments in the school system will be required to teach the equivalent of the programs of six or seven full-time high school teachers, and that, therefore, the transfer of a! part of this §: “as money for teaching service.” It was further pointed out by Dr. Ballou that if the usual number of vacancies occur in the official staff over and above the five school princi- pals already known to be eligible for retirement by September 1, “part of this money and perhaps all of it” may be| : paid. | 000 mey be considered | ™y, mer geclared their salaries should B @ NDURY, OPENN NONDAY, TARTED Newly plaint Forms. ALL NEEDED FACTS TO BE CALLED FOR Apartment Inspections May Be| Made by Persons Now on D. C. Unemployed Relief Rolls. Preparations were being completed today for investigation of rental condfl-‘ ! tions in Washington, which will be begun Monday, when James Ring, newly-appointed special agent of the take office. Forms on which complaints may be filed with the commission now are being drafted in final form by Mr. Ring, who has outlined this phase of his plans to ccmmission officials. The printed forms will call for all needed pertinent data, including rent charges, how long present levels have existed and the name of the landlord or owner. A tentative plan in mind today pro- posed use of & number of persons now on the District's unemployed relief rolls as agents of the rent bureau of the commission to make personal inspec- tions of apartments, where deemed ad- visable. Public hearings on some cases may be held, it was said by commission offi- cials, since it is realized publication of facts rcgarding rents may prove strong support of any order for a change in rents which the commission may issue. Search is being made for a private office for the rent investigator so that study of individual cases on rents may be conducted most effectively. FILM PLAYERS TO FACE ATTEMPTED PAY CUT iCanlerence Called for Wednesday in Los Angeles on Plea Stars Are Overpaid. By the Assoctated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 23—Film play- | ers affiliated with the Academy of Mo- tion Picture Arts and Sciences were notified yesterday to meet next Wednes- day night to discuss threatened at- tempts to lower salaries. The conference was called after offi- cers of the actors’ branch of the acad- emy rekeived from New York quota- tions credited to Harry M. Warner, motion picture company president, say- | ing screen stars are exorbitantly over- be subjected to drastic cuts and the money passed on to those whose sal- | aries are smaller, the officers said. The statement was made, they said, following a series of conferences film leaders held in New York for the pur- pose of formulating a new code under the industries control act. transfered back to the contingent fund. In the event the Budget Bureau re- fuses to authorize the transfer of the $20,000, the board will order adminis- trative furloughs without pay to make | up the difference. | Enforce Economies. ! The school board to date has effected enforced economies which embrace total savings of $36,380. This sum in- | cludes $3,570 for three positions which | were abolished; $2,720 for two positions which will remain vacant; $3.400 for two leaves of absence; $18,020 by es- | tablishing 13 temporary positions; $6,800 through the dismissal of five “unsatisfactory probationary teachers,” and $1,870 through a retirement. A total of $14,025 already has been saved through economies in the cus todial force. Of this $918 was save through retirement; $2,142 through transfers within the service; $2.745 through promotions; $5,100 through resignations, and $3,111 through fail- ure to fill positions. WOMEN PLAN SUMMER EQUAL RIGHTS CAMPAIGN T, | Will Approach Members of Con- | gress at Their Homes in Drive for Legislative Measures. Members of Congress will be ap- proached at their homes during the Summer recess in a campaign to be conducted by the National Woman's Party to gain support for equal rights measures, it was announced here yes- terday. The campaign will be directed by Anita Pollitzer of New York, party vice president, who has been called to Washington to work for the legislation. Among the bills for which support will be sought are: | The nationality bill introduced by Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, and Representative Dickstein, Democrat, of New York, removing dis- | crimination against women in the nationality law; an equal rights amend- ment; a_proposed reservation to the World Court protocol of adherence, and action by the administration to prevent discrimination against married women under the economy act. SRR A (CHAIN GROUP CONFERS | ON COMPETITIVE EVILS Farm Act Officials Asked to Con- | | sider Draft of Agreement That Will Uphold Farm Prices. | By the Associated Press. | Representatives of chain_stores dis- | tributing food_ products conferred today | with Charles J. Brand, co-administrator | of the farm act, to consider possibilities | of drafting a trade agreement to elim- | nate competitive practices which Brand contends have a depressing effect on rm prices. | problem today of deciding whether to | & Brand and George N. Peek, chief ad- dismiss several employes or institute a | furlough plan. i Traffic Director Van Duzer said he | would discuss the problem with the | Commissioners and adopt any policy they recommend. The dismissal of three or four em- ployes, Van Duzer indicated, would automatically solve the problem. He | : 2 satd he did not propose to recommend |throat competition” leading to price such action, however, unless it fits in | cutting practices which ultimately are with the plans of the Commisisoners | reflected in the return to producers. for handling similar conditions in other Representatives of the Natlonal Chain departments of the municipal govern- | Store Association attended the confer- ence: ministrator, hope to curb the trade practice, which they said is extensive among chain stores, of cffering certain food products at low cost, sometimes be- low the wholesale price, as “leaders” to attract customers. stimulating what they cailed “cut- | They blame the use of leaders for | Proposed {ENGINEERS APPROVE [ PAY CUT EXTENSION | ' Brotherhood, in Convention, Ac- cepts Agreement Reached at Washington Meeting. | By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, June 23.—The trien- nial convention of the Brotherhood of Locemotive Engineers unanimously adopted a resolution yesterday approv- ing the extension to June 30, 1934, of !the present 10 per cent reduction in the asic wage scale of engineers. The action came after Alvanley Johnston, grand chief, had reported ithe outcome of a Washington confer- |ence on railway wages, during which the railroads suggested another 121% | per cent reduction, and then withdrew the plan at the suggestion of the ad- ministration. The approval of the Washington agreement by the convention will elimi- nate the necessity of approval by local divisions of the brotherhood. DERN CAN CELS TOUR Inspection in South Called OF by Secretary. Secretary Dern informed the War Department today that he had decided to postpone a contemplated tour of inspection in the South. Originally he had planned the tour before returning to Washington from Chicago, where he delivered an address last night. He now plans to be back in Washington Sunday after a brief visit with his son at Lake Forest, Tll. Grasshoppers Threaten West. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, June 23 (). —Nearly 2,000,000 acres of Manitoba wheat flelds, extending through the Red River Valley and over 100 miles across the southern part of the prov- ince, are threatened with destruction by ‘grasshopper swarms, government officials said yesterday. FRIDAY, Appointed Special‘ Agent, Ring, Prepares Com- | 2 23, JUNE | District Public Utilities Commission, will WO HUNDRED Washington news- | boiled,” and he wants the correspond- | the recovery program. He is beseiged | paper men have drawn assign- ments to keep tab on the ad- | ny Star 1933. Society and General k% PAGE B—1 ents to stand toe-to-toe and slug words him. “General, how about the railroads | Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, industrial administrator, holding one of his forceful conferences with newspaper x!r’\en.h 5 —A. P. Photo. | at all hours by correspondents. | “Now, fellows, let me see,” is the preamble of his discussion on any sub- ministration’s “new deal” for | proposing to cut wages?” questions a | ject with newspaper men. | national recovery. [ They are camping daily on the trail | of Brig. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, ad- member of the newspaper corps. “Well, what about it?” snaps back Johnson. “Isn’t that up your alley, and what | 1 1 are you going to do about it?” | ministrator for the industrial control are you going to do about k7' | section of the recovery act. They seek | po¢ for g wise-crack, either,” Johnson | to get some news from the tight 1ips of | retorts. | Col. Donald H. Sawyer, administrator | Miss Perkins Favorite. H |” “As you boys know,” he continues, “the President has selected members of | his cabinet to advise with officials in | charge of the recovery p: , and we will prepare a statement on the general situation shortly.” No matter how many questions are fired at him Roper sticks to this state- ment. | for "the public works section, and they | beseige members of the cabinet Ad- | visory Committee. The Government has turned loose a battery fo about 40 high-powered press agents to keep the correspondents well supplied with officials statements and | the like. “Hand-outs,” as these press statements are called by the fraternity, | | fiy thick and fast. As they skim only | | the surface of the recovery story, little | attention is paid them by the corre- | | spondents, who are seeking to get their | information direct. | | Greek Meets Greek. | “Gen. Johnson has for the last three | weeks held the center of the news stage. | | Very few men in public life here, out- | | side the White House, can boast of | | having 200 correspondents attend their press conferences three times in suc- | cession. Johnson holds this record. | | And when the “general” and the news- ' paper men get together, it is like the well known Greek meeting the other well known Greek. “I'm not putting out any hooey. shouts Johnson as _correspondents | gather around him. “You birds know | too _much already.” The retired Army officer is “hard- | \ Secretary of Labor Perkins is an- other favorite of the corps. The con- sensus among the correspondents is that this mild-mannered little woman, who is always in a hurry, “knows what she is talking about.” She never resorts to hedging when ques- tioned. She fires straight from the shoulder, and she has a ready answer for every question. After attending a meeting of the La- bor Advisory Board of the Recovery Ad- ministration, she was surrounded by correspondents who had waited for hours in a hot corridor of the Com- merce Department Building for her. The size of the crowd failed to dismay hat happened, madame secretary.” “Lots of things happened,” she re- plied as she attempted to push her way through the crowd. “‘We obtained excellent results in the way of perfecting an organization,” she continued as she headed for her own office building with the pack at her heels asking question after question. Roper Important Figure. Secretary of Commerce Roper, as chairman of the cabinet Advisory Committee, is an important figure in‘| The recovery program is also being employed by jobless newspaper men to recover their luck. They have formu- lated many schemes in the hopes of | aiding them to eke out a living. One | plan revealed calls for the establish- | ment of a daily information service on recovery developments for the. con- | venience of the general public. For a | small fee all press bulletins compiled | by the Government will be delivered promptly at the offices of those in- terested. The formulators ol this plan, how- ever, underestimated the Government's | capacity to dish out “hand-outs.” All they are shy of now is a one-ton truck department buildings. Most of the correspondents assigned to the recovery story are either mem- | bers of the staff of press associations, | ticker services, trade journals or con- | nected with the hundreds of bureaus | papers. Telegraph companies estimated today that they are handling approximately 40,000 words daily on the recovery sub- Sans of worda thay move on the spechl sands of wi move on the s leased wires of the press association. ACTIONEXPECTED ON S PETTON Utilities Commission to De- cide Alexandria Line Dis- crimination Charge. The Public Utilities Commission prob- | ably will act next Monday on the peti- tion of the Alexandria, Barcroft & | Washington Rapid Transit Co. that it be allowed to pick up passengers in the | District between Water street and its terminal on D street near Eleventh street. The commission last week served notice on the bus company that it must obey the commission order forbidding the practice, except for one stop near the Washington Tourist Camp. The commission also threatened prosecution unless the company charged the same local fare as that of the Washington | street railway companies, 10 cents cash or four tokens for 30 cents. The suburban bus company had | been charging 5 cents for the short haul between Fourteenth and Water | streets and its terminal, | The petition was filed with the com- | mission late yesterday by R. L. May, | operator of the bus line, who charged the order against serving passengers | along his route in the District was | discriminating, since his company has | | to pay a license tax and a bus mileage | tax. | He pointed out that the Mount Ver- non, Alexandria & Washington Railway [Co., of which he was a former owner, | was permitted for 30 years to serve passengers within the District. This line was abandoned when the Federal Government took over the Federal tri- angle for Government buildings. | | MAN FALLS 35 FEET | | Regis Bringer, 21, of 1204 Delafield place northeast, escaped serious injury today in a 35-foot fall from a roof, | when he landed on his feet. | Brinker was repairing slate on the | | roof of the home of Rev. Dr. Peter Guil- | day, professor at Catholic University, at 1234 Monroe street northeast, when he slipped. He was taken to Emergency Hospital, where it was reported his leg was injured. X-rays were to be taken i to determine if he had a fracture. DENIES MAN ARRESTED AS DRUNK IS HOUSE SERGEANT AT ARMS Son Claims Defendant Is an Romney Is in New York. A man who identified himself as Kenneth Romney, sergeant at arms of | the House of Representatives, when he was arrested on a charge of being drunk and disorderly late yesterday, was characterized as an “imposter” to- day by Romney's son, Kenneth, jr. “The man just ll.n:‘fl}' couldn't have been my father,” said young Romney. “In the first place, father’s in New York—and has been for the past three or four days. “Not only that, but the man who was arrested gave address in the 4700 block of Connecticut avenue, and we moved away from there about three months ago. He also gave his age as 37, and father's quite a bit older than that—about 48, I think.” ‘The man :h‘mm‘% Romney was arrested by Traffic ceman H. P.J booked. | Imposter and That Kenneth | Elliott, who said he was acting on com- plaint of officials of the Pennsylvania Hotel, 20 F street. The officer was told, he said, that the man had been creating a disturbance in the hostelry. Ignoring his prisoner’s claims of “im- munity,” Elliott placed the self-styled FOUR POLICEMEN RETIRED FOR PHYSICAL DISABILITY Sergt. Gray and Pvts. Jenkins, Hinton and Porter Leave Force. Four policemen were retired for phys- ical disability today by order of the District Commissioners. They are Sergt. J. O. B. Gray, 54, who had been in the service for 32 years; Pvt. Jerome Jenkins, 59, who had 33 years of service; Pvt. Henry C. Hinton, 42, who had 12 years’ service, and Pvt. E. E. Porter, 54, who had 28 years’ service. The Commissioners also ordered re- tirement of Pvt. E. E. Padgett of the Fire Department. Mrs. Alice E. McNamara, widow of Sergt. Thomas L. McNamara, was granted a pension of $60 a month from the Police and Firemen's Relief Pund. ONE-WAY STREETS FOUND SPEEDIER Van Duzer Announces Result of Extensive Traffic Investigation. An extensive study of traffic condi- tions on one and two way streets has revealed that the one-way street can accomodate approximately the same volume of traffic at a greater speed and | safety, Willlam A. Van Duzer, director of traffic, announced yesterday. The study was made with a view to making Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets from Pennsylvania to Virgina avenue one- way. In making the investigation, Mr. Van Duzer said, Q and R streets, which were made one-way from Florida to Massa- chusetts avenue more than a year ago, were compared with S and T streets between the same points. It showed that accidents decreased on the first two streets as soon as they were closed to two-way traffic, and occur less fre- quently than on S and T during the same period of time. ‘The primary reason for the proposal to make Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets below Pennsylvania avenue one- way, the traffic director pointed out, is because of the single track car lines on the streets. He has received numer- ous complaints of traffic congestion re- sulting from the street cars proceeding in the center of the streets against traffic. Greater safety, Mr. Van Duzer said, is obtained on one-way streets partic- ularly at night when there is no glare from headlights coming from the oppo- site direction. Also the turns at inter- sections are much less complicated. .On the other hand, he called attention to the one hazard created by the one-way street—a person parked on the left side of the street has no means of warning roaching cars of his intention to 1 out from the curb. Two in 146 Fatal “sergeant at arms” in a police patrol and sent him to the first precinct. ‘There he was locked in a cell, despite his protests that he was being subjected to a “terrible indignity.” After several hours in the cell, he posted $15 collateral and was released, telling officers on duty in the station that he would forfeit the money. Young Romney said his father was not expected to return to his home, 1026 Sixteenth street, for several days. A year's study of the four uptown streets showed 146 accidents on S and T street, two of which were fatal, com- pared with 133 on the neighboring one- way thoroughfares, with no fatalities. Mr. Van Duzer also announced that traffic light will be installed on Penn- sylvania avenue from Four-and-a-half to Fourteenth streefs inclusive, with the exception of Thir, senth and Eighth streets, within the né .t three weeks. The URGE RELIEF FUNDS Veterans of Foreign Wars Advocate Buildings to Aid Unemployed. Immediate use of Federal Relief Ad- ministration funds to ccnstruct school | buildings here as a means of relieving | unemployment and at the same time | alleviating overcrowded school condi- tlons was advocated in one of a num- ber of resolutions dealing with local and national problems adopted last night at the fourteenth annual encampment of the District Department of theyet- erans of Forelgn Wars at Stuart Junior High School. The school construction resolution requested that the District Commission- ers apply $325,000 from the Distrigt re- lief fund allocation to the construction of sorely needed local school projects. The department condemned the em- ployment by .the Federal Government of persons on the Morgan ‘“preferred lists,” naming Secretary of the Treas- ury Woodin in this connection. The department also demanded that there be no compromising of the interests of the United States in the World Eco- nomic Conference at London. Enactment of uniform military serv- ice pension laws, which would provide equal compensation for equal disability to veterans of all wars, placing all vet- erans, regardless of time or place of service, on an equal footing, was rec- | ommended in another resolution. | The department charged that the ad- ministration is building up sentiment for cancellation of war debts and de- | manded that before any steps were | taken toward cancellation the bonus | should be paid to World War veterans. In other resolutions the department | recommended that recognition of Soviet Russia be refused; that the United | States should refuse its participation in | the League of Nations and World Court; that Louis McHenry Howe, secretary to | the President, be censured for his rec- | ognition of the alleged Communist wing of the bonus marchers and for what the department termed his “unethical” radio talks; that Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines be censured for his administra- tion of benefits for veterans of the Spanish-American War; that Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police, reconsider his proposed retire- ment from the Metropolitan Police De- partment; that District policemen Qnd firemen be permitted to live outside the District; that the park area at Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue be set aside for a Spanish War memorial; that Congress enact legislation making it possible for veterans to receive credit | for their adjusted service certificates | against premiums for their war risk in- surance; that a system of equitable na- tional taxation be arrived at, and that the national office of the Veterans of Foreign Wars be moved from City to Washington. The Resolutions Committee in charge is composed of William McGrath, chair- man; Dr. A. V. Cercell, vice chairman Ernest Wichstrand, 8. J. Bacon, Fred- erick Livingston, R. W. Boettler, L. E.. Brandon and H. H. Jameson. Gets License to Wed. ROCKVILLE, Md., June 23 (Special). —Prederick Byrne Austin, clerk to the supervisors of elections for Montgomery County, whose home is at 201 Willow avenue, Takoma Park, obtained a license here yesterday to marry Miss Myra W. Hirst, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Wil- lLam Hirst of 520 Dorsett avenue, Som- | | | ‘The man who claimed to be Romney ve his occupation as “salesman” when contract for ion has been let. Word that this, i be done at some time was released in, past. erset. ‘The marriage, he stated, will take place in the Takoma Park Presby- terian Church the evening of June 328. to haul the bulletins away from the | | established here by out-of-town news- | . FOR SCHOOL USAGE. DECLINE IS SHOWN IN FRAUD VICTIMS Better Business Bureau Told by Director Effect of Drive and Depression. 2,000 INVESTMENT INQUIRIES RECORDED $100,000 Lost by Washingtonians and Schemes Numerous, Declares Rothschild. Washington's “sucker list” decreased in size considerably during the last 12 months, Louis Rothschild, director of the Better Business Bureau, told direc- tors of the organization at their annual meeting in the Raleigh Hotel today, in | reporting a decline in the number of victims of so-called “fly-by-night” stock promoters and other frauds. Largely due to the depression, which | found potential investors in these frauds without sufficient funds to invest, Rothschild pointed out that both the number of victims and the amount ob- tained in each case registered an ap- preciable decline. Nearly 2,000 inquiries regarding in- vestment matters were handled by the bureau during the last year, the director said. This was a decrease as compared with the previous year. Schemes More Abundant. Despite the decrease in the number of victims, Rothschild asserted, the schemes themselves have become more | abundant, and fake promotions have ; succeeded in victimizing Washingtonia: to the extent of upward of $100,000. Outstanding examples of fraudulent promotions have brewery and gold mine stock selling. Other forms of fraud which have come to the attention of the bureau, Rothschild said in his report, include rooming house investments, oil royai- ties, job selling schemes, questionable | charity drives, and others. Organization Held Need. ‘Taking an optimistic outlook for the | immediate future of business in Wash- ington, Rothschild stressed the need for | business organization and co-operation | to bring about mutual benefits and pro- | tection for the public. This need, he said, will be intensified in the next few mont . The bureau director paid tribute to the newspapers, radio stations, police and District attorney’s office, as well as the reputable merchants of Wash- for assistance in exposing lr‘llh today was ing presided over by B. B, Burgunder, vice chaimman. 1$22,200 TO BE SAVED IN FEDERAL RENTS Rizik Building, on L Street, Among Properties Soon to Be Vacated. The Government anticipates a uv‘la of $22,200 by moving certain files the Treasury Department garage from rented property, Harold A. Candland, | executive secretary of the Public Build- ings Commission, announced toda The Rizik Building, 1737 L y. street, where files of the Finance Office of the War Department and the Deg:.nmc of Justice have been stored, been costing the Government $7,200 annu- ally for 12,760 square feet. This is be- ing vacated and the materials moved to ?"o;{nmenbomfl space at 1818 E The Treasury Department garage at ‘Twenty-fourth and M streets, housing the automobiles of the Treasury De- partment and some storage of the alien property custodian and the United States Railroad has cost the Government $15,000 annu- ally for rental of 52,000 square feet. ‘The garage is being moved to the building at Third and Canal streets southwest, which was recently pur- chased by the Treasury Department. {MALONE TO BROADCAST MESSAGE TO CAMPS Third Corps Area Commander to Give Forestry Address by Radio Tuesday. ‘With forest camps being equipped with radios, a new feature in Army administration . will be demonstrated !in the 3d Corps Area Tuesday, when Maj. Gen. Paul B. Malone, corps area commander, will address by radio the far-flung units of the reforestation army under his jurisdiction. Gen. Malone’s address will be broad- cast at 5:30 pm. to the 150 or more camps scattered over Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. He will speak for 15 minutes. Gen. Malone will have & special mes- sage for the officers and men in the forestry camps on the next phase of their activities and will likewise ac- knowledge the co-operative efforts of all concerned in the successful com- ¥leclon of the first phase of the re- orestation program. ARMY MEDICAL CENTER AGAIN RECRUITING MEN Activity Follows Suspension of Several Months and Is for General Service. After a suspension of several months, the Army Medical Center in Washing- ton announced today it is recrui suitable men between 18 and 35 for service in its medical department. This includes Walter Reed Hospital and the Army Medical School. All enlistments are being made, it Wwas said, for the general service of the Medical Department. However, intelli- gent and industrious young men wl be given every opportunity for special training in laboratory work, X-ray, dental mechanics, etc. This offers op- portunities for secur a worth-while education while ving pay and maintenance. Applicants for enlistment should re- Wn at tbe‘zccrum Office, Army