Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1933, Page 15

Washington Nev_vs FCONOMY ACT ENDS | | | | 106 DISTRICT JOBS, o7 ALREADY VACANT Only 39 Now on Pay Roll Will Be Affected as Fis- cal Year Ends. FURLOUGH PLAN HELPS TO SOFTEN CUTS BLOW Wholesale Dismissals Avoided by' Decision of Commissioners After Hearing Donovan Report. The economy act today lopped off 106 positions on: the District government Tolls in crder to bring expenses for per- sonnel within appropriations for the! new fiscal year beginning Saturday. | Of this number, 67 positions were vacant and have been abolshed so that funds would be available to the offices; affected. Only 39 persons now emploved | by the District are separated from the pay rolls. Four of these were under | the marriage law clause in the inde-| pendent offices bill, 8 under the 30-year service prcvisions for retirements when | necessary and 27 for other reasons | There are today about 3.500 positions in the District government under the! classifieation act. In addition to this| figure there are about 1.250 employes | in the Police Departm:nt, 830 in the Fire ‘Department, 2800 teachers and about 3,300 per diem emplyes. The! total number thus would run about 11,000. Most, of the District employes affected by the reductions in force were tho: of the lower salary brackets. rangiug from about $1,400 to about $2.400. De- partment heads escaped dismissal, al- though they will be affected by what- ever furloughs are necessary. Blow Is Softened. By adoption of the furlough system in Jepsnmem.s which otherwise would be short of sufficient funds, the blow was softened and prevented a larger number of dismissals, it was explained. These decisions were reached at a gpecial meeting of the Commissioners today, in pasing upen a report by Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, head of the Dis- trict Personnel Board, to which were attached recommendations from the head of each department. Maj. Donovan pointed out that in certain of the coffices reductions in sal- appropriations were made by Con- gross with the deliberate purpose in view of accomplishing a reduction in rking forces of those offices. This statement applies specifically to cfices of the inspector of buildings, munic’pal architect and the testing Jo-oratory of the Highway Department. The number of employes dismissed, Donovan said, would have been r had it not been for the policy tcd by the Commissioners i-ns of employes should be re- 2d to only in extreme cases and > the circumstances absolutely de- such action. n practically all the offices of the ct. even those where savings were e tarough abolishing vacant posi- ticns. he said, the rotative furlough will have to be used in varying extents. This will be determined by the amount of the shortage with which the offices will be confronted in order to meet pay rolls. In no case, it was announced, would the furlough extend to as much as 30 days, according to present indications. The three departments hardest hit by the various steps taken were the build- ing inspector’s office, the municipal architect’s cffice and the Highway De- partment. Eleven employes of the Wuilding inspector’s office were dismissed and their positions abolished. —These were an associate engincer at $3.200 a vear, three associate engineers at $2.600 a year, one principal engincering in- spector at $2,500, three principal engi- Teering inspectors at $2,300. one senior engineering inspector at $2.000, cne assistant clerk at $1,740 and one junior rk at $1,500. de'l'hese ‘d:sm:ssnls were dictated, the board said, by the deliberate act of Congress in reducing personnel appro- priations for this department, due to the slump in building construction in Washington. The positicn of municipal architect at $7,500 a year, left vacant | by the recent death of Albert Harris, will remain unfilled. Three engineering positions there were that | Hamilton Officers ARTHUR J. LINN., i i ERSKINE GORDON. POLICE INSTITUTE iAlso to Act Against Beggars Under Orders From Maj. Brown. Superintendent of Police Brown to- | day ordered a campaign against vice {and professional panhandling | Four officers, in plain clothes, have instructions to concentrate on these two forms of offenses. Particular at- tention will be paid, however, to vice conditions, which are reported to have invasion of Washington by a number of women from other cities. Ask Maximum Collateral. The department, in its effort to sup- press vice, Maj. Brown said, is requir- ing all persons arrested for violation of the moral code, to deposit the maxi- mum collateral. The courts also are co-operating, he declared, by demand- The nhandling situation, though not as serious, Maj. Brown said, is caus- ing the department tome concern be- cause of the number of professional beggars in Warchington Maj. Brown has given the force in- | structions to do its utmost to run the professionals out of the District. He has cautioned the officers, however, to be lenient with the unfortunate man, who is out of work, and resorts to begging for focd and clothing. Make Thorough Inquiry. When panhandlers are arrested, Maj. | Brown said, he has ordered the offi- cers to make a careful and thorough ANTRVICE DRVE been assigned ¢o a special squad with | | increased in seriousness by the recent ing the®maximum fine upon conviction. | The Fi WASHINGTON, D. C, Plane Life-Séver Tested DEVICE THROWS PASSENGERS OUT AUTOMATICALLY. HAMILTON BANK OFFERS NANED BY NEW PRESENT Erskine Gordon [s Appointed Trust Officer and A. J. Linn Controller. CHARTER APPLICATION IS PUSHED BY COUNSEL :Capt. Wells Reports Cash Rolling in Through Stock Sub- scriptions. Erskine Gordon today was named trust officer and Arthur J. Linn con- troller of the proposed new Hamilton National Bank. Mr. Gordon is trust officer and Mr. Linn controller of the Federal Ameri- can National Bank & Trust Co, whose building at Fourteenth and G streets is to be headquarters for the merger. Push Charter Plans. ‘While these appointments were being announced by Edwin C. Graham, it was understood that preliminary work on application for the charter of the new Hamilton was being done by the bank’s counsel, Roger J. Whiteford, in consul- tation with Wharton E. Lester, who is counsel for the District National Bank and has been prominent in activities of forming the new merger. CathE was rolling in today, according to Capt. Chester Wells, chairman of the General Subscriptions Committee for the Hamilton. . This cash is being ac- cumulated on stock subscriptions in order to be ready to present a certified check to the Treasury Department for $1,250,000, the capital structure of the Hamilton, Payment for shares which were purchased by persons other than depositors was coming in_very satisfac- torily today, Capt. Wells announced. He had just received personally a check | for $10,000 from a large subscriber. Native of Washington. | The new trust officer is 8 nm\: for | Washingtonian, the son of William Gordon.g": practicing attorney here | many years. Mr Linn, who is to be the new con- | r, came to Washington from his l:lo:ll\ge State of New Mexico in 1919 and was first with the Munsey Trust Co. He later became auditor for the old American National Bank. He prac- ticed as a public accountant for three years and then became controller of the merged Federal-American National . 'ANACOSTIA RIVER DUMP SITE URGED Recommends Sanitary Engineer Tract Below Old Benning Race Track. | Selection of a dump on the inside of | the Anacostia River, below the old Ben- ning race track, ‘wWhere trash may be burned when it cannot be taken care of after July 1 by the District in- cinerators, was recommended today by John Blake Gordon, sanitary engineer. If the Commissioners approve, the | formal approval of Mz!. Joseph D. Ar- thur, War Department district engineer, will be asked. Provision of a trash burning dump is made necessary by the closing to- morrow of the high-pressure incinerator at First and O streets southeast. opera- tion of which was banned during the next year by Congress. District and Federal Government trash may be burned at the proposed District dump. but the city will not be able to take care of trash collec- | tions from commercial concerns, as | heretofore, and this will have to be | carted away to private dumps where it | Will be burned at cost to commercial | concerns. | " Mr. Gordon said it would be necessary | to improve a gravel road to the Ana- | costia site with cinders and ashes be- fore that location could be used. transferred to the construction roll | investigation to separate the profes- | One position in the District repair shop was abolished, due to retirement, and a | vacant positicn at the shop was abol- ished. Highway Posts Ended. In the Highway Department six posi- | these cases the policemen have given | tions were abolished as a result of the, decree by Congress that the testing laboratory be closed during the 1934 fiscal year. Of these six employes, two have had 30 years of service. The salaries of the six ranged from $1, to_$3,400 A% Three positions in the street division of the Highway Department also were abolished. The salaries there ranged from $1,620 to $2500. Five positions in the Department of Vehicles and Traffic, three of which have been vacant for several months, were abolished. The salaries ranged from $1,260 to $1,620. Six positions in the Electrical Depart- ment, two of which have been vacant, were abolished, effecting a saving in salaries ranging from $520, for part- time work, to $2,000. : Savings in salary costs in the Police Department were effected by abolishing the following positions now vacant: Four sergeants, 21 privates, 2 detective sergeants, 3 janitors and 1 laundress. In the Fire Department, vacant po- sitions abolished include those of 15 privates. Two vacant positions in the Health Department were abolished, one $2,000 position at the District Reformatory, three positions in the Water Depart- ment and five positions in the water waste survey work of the Water De- partment. In the surveyor's office three em- ployes were discharged and their posi- tions abolished, the salaries ranging from $1.260 to $1.920: two vacant posi- tions in the city refuse divicion were abolished and two employes of the, plumbing inspection division were dis- missed, effecting & total saving of | $3.240. The board announced that 27 of the | 39 employes being let out were being dropped without prejudice, due to defi- nite cuts in appropriations, and might at some later date be reinstated. STRUCK BY STREET CAR Struck by a strect car as he was crossing the tracks near Sixth and Pennsylvania avenue southeast. W. Ron, 62, 1134 Tweni was injured seriously skor today. Ron was struck by a westbound car, said by police to have been operated’ by James R. Compton, 58, Clarendon, Va. At Casualty Hospital it was said he received severe cuts and bruises of the scalp, face, right shoulder and both nds, and & possible fracture of the sull. street, tly bef o noon F.ank ¢ | “indiscriminate Isiar‘sl from the man who is in dire |need. Those in the latter class are | to be released after instructions as to | where to procure food. In many of these unfortunates funds for focd. | In view of the unemployment situ- | ation, Maj. Brown said he did not 1 want | boiled” attitude toward the street beg- | panhandler to be driven out of Wash- | ington. The professionals, when caught, | he pointed out, usually are found to | have large sums of money secreted in | their clothes. « the department to adopt & “hard- | WINS $500 WITH ESSAY Vermont Girl Honored by National Woman's Party. | The National Woman's Party an- nounced today that Elizabeth W. Hig- gins, student at Middlebury College, Midclebury, Vt, had won the $500 260 | gar, but he did want the professional prize offered by the late Mrs. O. H. P. | Belmont for an essay on equal rights | for women. | Miss Thyra Smith, of MacMurray | College, Jacksonville, Ill, was awarded ! second prize of $200. Y. M. C. A. BREAKS Drops Time-Honored Rule Shattering an 80-yegr-old tradition against use of Y. M. O A. buildings on Sunday for any purpose not strictly of religious character, the board of man- agers of the Washington Y. M. C. has voted to throw open the swimming pool in the Central “Y” Building on Sunday afternoons to all members and their guests. Morgea\f'\'. the board, headed by Arthur C. Christie. president of the Y. M. C. A. gave consideration to a reccmmendaticn by the staff that wives and daughters of “Y” members be ad- mitted, too, on Sundays. but no action was taken to include the women be; | cause of lack of locker and shower fa" cilities for the feminine sex. The local association is said to be one of the first in this country to break away from the time-honored rule that only prayer meetings, song services or similar activities should be permitted in Y. M. C. A. buildings on the Sabbath. Before taking the drastic step, ¥. M.C. A officials ccnsulted a number of promi- nent clergymen and laymen, all of whom saw no objection to the plan Some were said to be enthusiastic in ort of the innovation, holding that a swm on Sunday in a supervised Y. M. C. A. pool was preferalile to bathing” in public places. Leonard W. De Gast, general secre- tary of the Y. M. C. A, placed the proposal informally before a meeting of the Methodist Protestant Preachers’ Association this week, and members of that group voiced their. approval. Rev. H. A. Kester, president of the A. | going and because “I would rather have OLD TRADITION TO ALLOW SWIMMING ON SUNDAY and Permits Recreation on Sabbath—Mixed Parties Considered. preachers’ body and pastor of the Con- gress Street M. P. Church in Georg town, said he favored the plan, cause it would not conflict with church- | young men spend their Sunday after- | noons in the Y. M. C. A. pool Lthan a} lot of other places.” Rev. Dr. Allen | A. Stockdale, pastor of the First Con- gregational Church, also indorsed the plan, saying: “It's better for men to | be clean and cool than critical and | cussing.” | The new policy will go into effect | next ‘Sunday, it was stated. Members |of the boys’ department as well as the | men’s divislon are eligible to make use of the men’s pool in thesmain building at 1736 G street. Boys must be accom- panied by their fathers or other adult relatives, however. Y. M. C. A. mem- bers may bring non-members as guests, under usual regulations governing week- day swimming. ‘The further step to pe: mixed | bathing on Sundays so that the entire | families of Y. M.'C. A. members may ;erjoy a swim has been agitated for some time. The Y. M. C. A. is disposed | to lock upon this plan with some favor, | but the chief cbstacle is Jack of dress- ing rooms for women. The Philadel- | phia Y. M. C. A. already permits mixed bathing in its pool. The Sunday swimming hours will be from 2 to 5 o'clock. These limits will be rigidly preserved so as not to en- croach on hours for church services, it was ted out by Ralph ‘W. Foster, flincgno! physical - education, S H was invented by Harry P. Trusty. bend SUNDAY MORNING EDITION IGH government aeronautic officials yesterday watched tests at Hoover Fleld of a new automatic device by which the pilot of a transport plane can throw his passengers into space when in danger of crashing. The photo above shows a passenger, seat and all, floating to safety after being hurled from a plane flying at an altitude of 1,500 feet. n St THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1933, ICKES DEIES PLAN 10 DISMISS MANY IN PARKS OFFICES Declares He Will Not Build Interior Department on Political Basis. FEW MAY BE OUSTED FOR ECONOMY REASONS | | Equipment of Three Agencies,| Shifted Under Reorganization, to Be Moved by August 10, Secretary of the Interfor Ickes told The Star today that there is no likeli- | hood of “wholesale dismissals” when the Office of Public Buildings and Pub- lic Parks, the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission and the Public Buildings Commission are transferred to his jurisdiction, as part of the re- organization program. Informed that the 3,000 employes of the Office cf Public Buildings and Pub- lic Parks, the largest of the three groups dealing with local affairs and | The device —Underwood Photo. BENEDT L DENES CHARCES |Defendant ingPark Savings Case Calls Dealings Legal and Proper. Benedict McNell, former assistant cashier of the Park Savings Bank, who was indicted yesterday with three others for conspiracy to commit larceny and embezzlement from the bank, today | said that all of his dealifigs with the | bank had been “legitimate and proper.” In a statement issued through his {lawyer, James J. Slattery, he said: “At the proper time it will be shown that my client’s dealings with the bank were legitimate and proper. All loans made by him are covered by ample security. The depositors and the public generally are asked to reserve judgment until the accused has his day in court.” McNeil today appeared voluntarily and put up $5,000 for his appearance in District Supreme Court. The same amount has been set for Alexander McNeil, Benedict's father, who was the son. The elder McNeil now is on a vacation_in Nova Scotia and is ex- pected back in the city next week. | Headed Brokerage Firm. Up to two years ago the elder McNeil operated a real estate brokerage busi- ness under the name of Alexander Mc- Neil & Co. The brokerage house was the depositor at the Park Savings Bank. The younger McNeil was as- sistant cashier at the bank up to Au- gust, 1929, and the conspiracy charges revolve around the McNeil account at the bank. ‘The total of the McNeil dealings sct out in the indictment is said to be some $50,000. The McNeils live in a modest two- story frame house, 1355 Monroe street northeast. Inside there are hundreds of books revealing the scholarly tastes of the elder McNeil. Since his days at the bank, the younz McNeil has been an insurznce sales- man and now is a salesman for an oil furnace concern here. The indictments against the two charge conspiracy with Robert Stunz, then vice president of the bank, to mis- use the bank’s funds. Stunz committed suicide last March. Robert B. Speich, indicted for lar- ceny and embezzlement from the Mount Vernon Savings Bank, appeared in court and put up $1,000 bond. David P. Smith, indicted for conspiracy to em- bezzle the funds of the Park Savings Bank, also appeared and posted a bond of $2,000. Controversy Continues. Meantime, controversy continued at the Park Savings Bank between two major groups who are endeavoring to salvage what they can from the insti- tution. A ccmmittee headed by Dr. Wade H. Atkinson, chairman of the Directors’ Committee of the bank, planned to call at the Treasury today with a petiticn asking the controller of the currency to throw the bank into receivership under the direction of the/ Treasury Depart- ment. Dr. Atkinson planned to do this last night following a meeting of his committee at the bank with two other committees, headed by Frank J. Sobotka and Eugene Casey. These three com- mittees, Dr. Atkinson said, are united in their demand for a receivership to be controlled by the Treasury Depart- ment. They plan to call a mass meet- ing soon of depositors to present their plans. The time and place for this meeting have not been decided. Dr. Atkinson says his group of three committees is very strongly opposed to a plan which he understands a De- positors’ Committee, headed by J. W. Thompson, has in mind to attempt to throw the bank into the hands of a re- ceiver to be appointed by the court. Representatives of the Thompson Committee were in conference today concerning their program, but declined to make any statement concerning what they will do. ONE-LEGGED MAN HELD ON JOY-RIDING CHARGE A one-legged man who is said to have admitted he drove a stolen car 80 miles an hour between here and Baltimore, was arraigned before Judge John P. Mc- Mahon today on a charge of joy-riding. The man, William Holmes, 27, coi- ored, was held under $2,000 bond for the action of the grand jury. Detective Sergt. Frank Alligood of the automobile squad, said Holmes ad- mitted he had taken the car from & ‘Washington motor concern and driven it to Baltimore, where the joy-ride (ended in a -smash-up with an ice truck. Alligood said Holmes is the man who lost his leg when shot by Officer H. G. Bauer of the liquor squad, during a chase. GULLIVER GETS LEAVE The Navy Department said today that Comdr. Louis J. Gulliver, now in com- mand of the frigate Constitution at Olympia, Wash., had requested and been granted 60 days’ leave of absence. ‘The Department said he would re- sume command of the vessel at the ex- piration of his l!lV’!. directly affected by President Roose- velt's Executive order, are fearful lest | they lose their jobs and that their places will be filled by new appointees, | the cabinet officer observed that he has | not built up his department on political | considerations. He invited attention to | his record since he has been in office. | SEAT SALE STARTS H. FREEMAN MATTHEWS. —Underwood Photo. MATTHEWS HURT INAUTO MISHAP State Department Official Has Fractured Skull and Other Injuries. H. Freeman Matthews, 34, assistant | charged in the same indictment with ! - HERE FOR FOURTH ‘Only 6,000 Tickets Offered for Monument Grounds Fireworks. Six thousand seats for the gigantie municipal fireworks display July 4 on the Monument Grounds were placed on sale today in the leading downtown hotels. at the American Automobile As- sociation and the Y. M. C. A . The price has been fixed at 25 cents per seat, calculated to be enough to cover the expenses of the celebration, for which no funds are available this year. Claude W. Owen, chairman of the Citizens' Committee, appointed by the District Commissioners to take charge of the affair, said yesterday the seats had been decided upon for the greater | convenience of spectators who did not wish to stand or sit upon the grassy Monument slopes. The chairs are to be placed in position Monday. Should Buy Early. The committee warned that Wash- ingtonians desiring the chairs should buy tickets early, as there usually is | a crowd of from 80,000 to 100,000 spec- tators. This year, with the fireworks display combined with the official Fourth of July celebration, including a Marine Band ccncert, massing of the colors and an oration, the committee believes even a larger attendance will be on hand. | _ Harry H. R. Helwig, chairman of the | Pireworks Committee, promised one of the finest displays ever staged here. | President Roosevelt's celebrated “New | Deal” will be portrayed in the opening | fireworks display, with a portrait of the Chief Executive featured. There also will be other aerial and set pieces of | unusual attraction. | _The ceremonies on the Monument | Grounds will climax a successicn of | lesser celebrations throughout the city during the day. There will be speed- boat races on the Tidal Basin in the afternoon, a polo game between teams from the War Department and Middle- |burg, Va. at 3:30, and a swimming | meet for the colored at Francis Junior High School. Sponsors 10-Mile Run. The District of Columbia A. A. U. championship 10-mile run will be held under the auspices of the Takoma Park Business Men’s Association. Dedication of the Takoma Park Recreation Park will be a feature of the Fourth of July in that section of the city. At Chevy Chase Playground the Chevy Chase Citizens' Association will hold a celebration. Winfree E. Johnson, chairman of con- tests and carnivals for the Fourth of July, has 'assisted all citizens' groups in arranging for their Independence day programs, and among the groups hold- ing exercises will be the Progressive | Citizens’ Association in Montrose Park, | Georgetown; American University Park | Citizens’ Association in Fort Bayard | Park, Burroughs Citizens' Association in Taft Park, East Washington Citizens’ | Association in Eastern High School ath- | letic field and Wesley Heights Com- | munity Club. {CAMPAIGN IS STARTED TO BUY IN WASHINGTON W. H. Group, Heads Drive to Increase Trade in Capital Area. With the establishment of Buy In | Washington, Inc., sponsored by the Buy 'Xn Washington Council, an intensive drive to stimulate home trade was be- gun_yesterday under direction of W. | H. Brown, newly appointed director of | the group. With offices in the Munsey Building, Brown, Director of New hief of the division of Latin American Expects to Cat Force. & The Seéretary admitted some of the | #AIrs Of the State Department, suf- present _employes will likely find them- | fered a fractured skull and other in- selves without a job. Economies will be | juries in an automobile crash near effected where possible, he asserted. The three offices concerned in the reorganization may be moved physically from the Navy building to the Interior | North Tarrytown, N. Y., last night, ac- | cording to an Associated Press dispatch. Mr. Matthews, whose home is at 2927 Department building before August 10, - i w_“glnz gu | Forty-fourth street, is in an Ossining, expiration of the time the executive order was tched ta Congress, is up. Officials of Public Buildings Com- mission are scurrying sbout in an ef- {fort to get the Government agencies i that do not properly belong in the In- terior Department building out of it, and those slated to go into it moved into their new quarters. Into the Interior Department, under the rearrangement program, will go, in addition to the agencies named, the Bureau of Mines, from the Department of Commerce, and the Federal Board for Vocational Education. Out of th&® Interior Department will move the Federal Radio Commission and the Veterans’ Administration, which now is being moved to the Arlington Build- ing, at Vermont avenue and H street, and the Federal Co-ordinating Service, understands is going out of existence. Ihlsd is abolished by the reorganization order. | Craven Is Detached. The Navy Department today an- nounced that Rear Admiral Thomas T. | Craven is being detached as chief co- ordinator here and sent to duty as com- Battle Force. ‘The obstacle that is holding up the moving of these various units in and out of the Interior Department is the problem of where to put the Federal Radio Commission. Because of the expansion of the in- dustrial control and public works agencies, officials of the Public Build- ings Commission are hard-put to pro- vide immediately the necessary space and fit the jigsaw puzzles of space and reorganization into theft proper settings. Officials of the present national parks service expect that they, as well as the employes of the merging agencies, will | be discharged on one day and rehired | the next, under the new group, when ! the reorganization finally is effected. PHONE EMPLOYES WIN LONG-SERVICE EMBLEMS I;th-l-'ollr Have Worked for Total of 450 Years—Two Have 20-Year Records. Fifty-four employes of the Chesa- Ft.kle 3 Pown;w Te}ephone Co., whose otal terms of employment aggregate 450 years, have been awarded emblems in token of their service, General Man- ager John A. Remon announced today. Robert H. Davidson, commercial rep- resentative, and H. C. Vaden, plant department, head the list, having been awarded four-star gold emblems in recognition of 20 years' service. Pif- teen-year employes include Harry M. Fox, Avin W. Luckett, Helen Ricketts, Beulah A. Loving, C. H. Warren, F.X. Breen and.M. V. Perkins. Gold two-star emblems for 10 years were given to H. R. Peddicord, Ralph P. Aten, F. B. Allen, Gordon M. Baden, Audrey U. Trussell, Mary F. Letts, Margaret P. O’Connor, Frances Lud- lam, Martha B. Preston, Inez V. Bell- man, Irene R. Sullivan, B. B. Pearson, R. F. Bartley, W. B. Hoofnagle, L. G. Howell and E. S. Downs. ATHLETES GET LETTERS Awards Given Boys’ Club Groups at Banquet at Carlton. Sixty young athletes of the North- east Boys' Club were presented with letters and awards at the meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club at the Carlton which the Public Buildings Commission | mander of Battleship Division 1 of the | | the organization will co-operate with-all | Hotel today. The presentations were civic organizations in retaining Wash- | made by Robert W. McChesney, presi- ington capital and inviting outsiders to | dent of the club, at the annual father come to Washington. A campaign util- 8nd son banquet. izing the radio, newspapers and personal contacts, is planned as a means of add- ing $20,000,000 to the annual trade of | | the Capital. H E. J. Murphy is chairman of the ad- | visory board of the Buy In Washington Council. Other members are C. W. Hill, | secretary; J. B. Colpoys, E. H. Rosen- galrlten, L. A. Spiess and M. E. Con- | nelly. D. C. DEPARTMENT HEADS TO PREPARE REPORTS Department heads of the District golveénngnc today wer;rx;otmed by Dan- le] E. Garges, secref to the Com- i missioners, to prepare their annual re- | check and kept the change, sen- ports on activities during the fiscal ' tenced by Police Court Judge John P. year which ends tomorrow. | McMahon to serve 360 days in jail Some of these reports will not be when arraigned on four bad printed and cthers will be reduced in ' charges this morning. length and detail, in keeping with Sherron, who has the aliases of S. H. | move started a year or two ago to King and B. F. Parker, only made one | economize on printing costs. The no- | excursion into the field of charity dur- | tice will request employment of all pos- | ing his career as a check artist in sible brevity. ‘Washin On other occasions he For this reason, it is expected; many | specialized lumber com) of the general recommendations con- | gol tained in reports of former years, again will be missing, since the Commission- ers are more concerned with facts &s developed during the past year, Hubert 8. Sherron, 28, who ‘“con- tributed” $3 to the St. Paul Lutheran Church here in the form of 8 $19 bad period, marking the |y y hogpital. His car struck a pole when he tried to avert a collision with another machine, | the dispatch said. Mr. Matthews has been with the | State Department’s foreign service sirice 1923, and bas held secretarial posts at Budapest, Hungary, and Bogota, Co- lombia. He has been assistant chief of * the division since 1930, and in 1931 was sent on a special mission to El Salvador, after the revolution in that country. He is a native of Baltimore, and was educated at Princeton and in Paris. 'SUICIDE IS VERDICT IN DEATH OF WOMAN Despondency Over Loss of Govern- ment Job Blamed for Act of Mrs. Helen Warfleld. A certificate of suicide has been is- sued by Acting Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald in the death of Mrs. Helen ‘Warfield, 37, 500 Hlock of Randolph | street, who, according to police, took her own life because she was despondent over the loss of her Government job. Mrs. Warfield was asphyxiated late yesterday. Her husband, Richard War- | field, returned home and found the body | of his wife lying on a clothes chest in the kitchen. The windows and doors | were closed and gas was flowing from | oben jets of the stove. The rescue | squad administered first aid, but the woman was pronounced dead on arrival at Emergency Hospital. Police were told that Mrs. Warfield recently lost a Government position. Her husband, police said, is also employed by the Gov- ernment. John C. Perkins, 62-year-old former enrolling clerk of the Senate, was still in a critical condition at Casualty Hos- pital as a result of loss of blood from severe cuts about the neck, which police said were self-inflicted yesterday. Per- kins, they said, was despondent because he lost his job when the Democrats or+ ganized the Senate in March. He was also treated for poisoning. TWO WANTED IN OTHER CITIES ARRESTED HERE | Former Bank Employes Accused of Conversion of $2,100 in Philadelphia. ‘Two arrests of persons wanted in | other jurisdictions were made in this city this morning by members of the | police fugitive squad. One was booked | as George Washington Weldy, 49, of the 1700 block of P street, who is sald |to be wanted in Philadelphia on a | charge of 40 conversions of approxi- mately $2,100 while serving as a trust | officer in a bank. Weldy, who has | been in Washington for the past sev- eral months, was employed in a local mercantile establishment and is said to have been organist in a local church. The other man arrested is Daniel ‘Webster Spry, 39, a barber, of Winston- Salem, N. C. He is said to be wanted in the North Carolina city on a charge | growing out of a deal concerning a barber shop, the amount involved, ac- “:Plgglnx to police information, being — . { Two Banks to Reopen. | _The Treasury announced today the | First National Bank of Marion, Indiana, | and the First National Bank of Galena, IIl, have been granted licenses to re- sume business. “CONTRIBUTOR” OF BAD CHECK TO CHURCH SENTENCED 360 DAYS {Hubert S. Sherron Is Convicted in Police Court Today ! the on Three Other Fraud Charges. : ger ‘and Walker Lumber OCompanies, which were victimized by the trick, tes- tified this morning thev had accepted Sherron’s check, given him the change and sent the lumber to an address in the 4600 block of Pifteenth street. Each time when delivery was made, the peo- ple at that address telephoned to say | they had never heard of Sherron and |had not ordered the lumber. |, Leaving the trail of checks behind him, Sherron went to Maryland, where he was soon arrested on similar charges and served 24 months in the Maryland House of Correction before being re- turned here for trial today. Judge Mc- sentence of 90 days on Mahon imposed escheounén?rmudwthemrtw MA-?:NJG ited States Attorney Roger PAGE B—1 CAMPAIGN PRESSED ' FORCOLLECTION OF TAXES IN DISTRICT Assessor’s Office Threatens Court Action Where Re- turns Are Lacking. $27,230 PENALTIES PAID i DURING THIS FISCAL YEAR Filing Must Take Place in July on Tangible or Intangible Per- sonal Property. In keeping with a determined drive to levy assessments against all and any local residents who have taxable prop |erty, the District tax assessor’s office today served notice it would resort to court proceedings where there is failure to make personal property tax returns during July. The statement contained the warning that during the fiscal year ending t morrow local residents have paid §2 230 in penalties for failure to file re- turns for this fiscal year. Penalty Threatened. “Persons owning ary taxabl or in tangible personal property m file a return during the month of July the warning reads, “or be subject to the penalty of 20 per cent for failure to file a return, and are also liable to be served with mandamus proceedings by the Commissioners if they fail to | file such returns. “It is the intention of the personal tax office to use to the fullest extent the above provision of the law to re- quire the filing of personal tax returns. Prior to 1931 perscns could -accept tentative assessments with the penalties provided by law and were not required to file returns. The law is so worded now, however, that the Commissioners may force any one to file a personal tax return.” Tax cfficials revealed that a drive has been under way for some time to force the filing pf returns. Agents of the assessor have left many return blanks at residences of persons who heretofore have made no return. The names of new residents of Washingt'n also have been carefully listed, it is reported. Taxable Property. The statement points out that the following classes of tangible personal property are taxable: Household fur nishings in excess of $1,000 in value, boats owned by residents of the Dis- trict, all jewelry, the stock in trade and the fixtures of merchants, or per- sons engaged in the practice of a pro- fession in the District. Under the heading of intangible prop- erty subject to the tax are moneys, both in the possession of a person or in bank, moneys owing to a person, mortgagesy notes, stocks and bonds. The valuations on stocks and bonds should be taken as of July 1, opening bid price. and bank accounts should be returned in the amount shown at the opening of bus- iness on July 1. U. S. WORKERS T0 GIVE DATA FOR RENT PROBE Federation of Government Em ployes Will Make Survey of Situation. l James Ring. rent survey assistant te the Public Utilitles Commission, today was_informed the District Department of the American Federation of Govern- | ment Employes will compile a great volume of data concerning rental con- | ditions facing Government employ | here. This survey material will be turned 1 over to Ring for use in his work seeking adjustments of rents where the facts show need of changes, John P. Simpson, chairman of the Civic Affairs Committee of the federation’s local body, told Ring at a conference this morning. Simpson said a questionnaire on house ing conditions would be sent to the thousands of Government employes lving in Washington. The federation, he said, has been actively concerned about the rent problems of Government workers during the past several months. It has sponsored two mass meetings on rent matters which were attended by members of Congress and Iabor leaders, Simpsor, said. Meanwhile, Ring completed today preparations for blanks to be issued by the commission to tendnts of local buildings who wish to file complaints with his office. These will be ready for distribution by tomorrow. NEW REALTY RACKET IS FOUND IN CAPITAL Better Business Bureau Warns Property Owners Against Paying “Listing” Fees. The “front money” racket is being applied to real estate, the Better Busi- ness Bureau warned today. Louis Rothschild, director of the bu- reau, said an organization which for- merly fleeced Washingtonians through a room listing service, with a $2 listing fee, is now engaged in contacting Vir- ginia property owners with propositions for marketing their holdings. , The plan, Rothschild said, requires an initial $20 listing fee, the promoters promising that on payment of this sum the property can be immediately sold to & prospect already lined up, and the fee is deducted from the agent's com- | mission. ! " Circular post cards have been received by many property owners in nearby Virginia stating that prospects have found for their properties, and “if interested,” these owners may dispose of their property at handsome profit through the organization. The Better Business Bureau states that its investigation showed that there are ac- tually no prospects lined up by this group, and that after securing the “list- ing fee,” they make no further effort to sell the property. PLAN FIREMEN’S PARADE ‘Fire and Police Chiefs Labor Day Program. Plans for the annual firemen's Labor day parade were discussed today at a conference between Pire Chief George S. Watson and Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police. Chief Watson asked for support of the Police Depariment. He also urged the police to enter a number of floats in the parade as in past years. 1 Discuss