Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1933, Page 14

QUINNANDHOUSTON NAMED TO SCHOOL BOARD BY JUSTIGES Two Lawyers Appointed Yes- terday Are Both Natives of District. MRS. SMITH REAPPOINTED FOR THREE MORE YEARS Educational Group Now Has Four| Members of the Legal Profession. Two lawyers, Henry I. Quinn and | Charles H. Houston, have been appoint- | ed to the District of Columbia Board | of Education by the justices of the Dis- trict of Columbia Supreme Court and ‘were eligible to take the oath of office at the annual recrganization meeting of the board this morning. These appoint- ments, announced late yesterday, bring the total number of members of the legal profession on the School Board to four. Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith, who has served on the board since 1928, was re- | appointed for another three-year term. | Johnson Re-elected. The reorganization meeting was | marked by the re-election of Dr. Hay- | den Johnson, chancellor of National | University, as president, and Mrs. Henry | Grattan Doyle as vice president. Harry O. Hines, secretary of the board, announced that the oath of office had been mailed to Mrs. Smith at her Summer home in Massachusetts, and that Mr. Houston would take the ©ath on July 11. In the business session following the reorganization the School Board adopted a definite policy on married school system employes. The policy is in two phases: 1. A person in the schools whose husband or wife is employed in the government, who has the lowest rating in that particular group cf employes, will be terminated in case it becomes necessary to reduce the number of em- | ployes, in any personnel group beyond the reductions which have taken place up to and including June 30, 1933. 2. A person whose name stands No. 1 on an appropriate eligible list of can- | didates fcr positions whose husband or | wife is employed in the government and | who continues to be so employed will b passed over in making appointments to the service. i At the suggestion of Henry Gilligan, | chairman of the Legislative Commuttee | of the board, these two divisions of | the policy were acted on separately | and he voted against the second pro- | vision, Mr. Gilligan contended that | the law governing employed spouses in ! Government service “has nothing what- ever to do with our appointing of per- sons to the service.” i The board also agreed today to open ' three sight conservation classes in Sep- tember. Two of these classes would be located in white schools and one ' would be established in the colored | schools. Pupils whose eyesight is in need of particular care will be assigned to those classes on recommendation of the health officer just as now certain | crippled children are assigned to the two schools for crippled in the public school system. Succeeds Rabbi Simon. Mr. Quinn, who came to Washington | from Bay Ridge, Md., this morning to | be sworn in as a member of the board, succeeds Rabbi Abram Simon, veteran ! board member, who a month ago noti- fied Justice Alfred A. Wheat of the Dis- trict of Columbia Supreme Court that ill health demanded his withdrawal | from the board. Mr. Houston, promi- | nent in the colored race here, succeeds | Rev. F. I A. Bennett, Episcopal clergy- | man, who had completed three suc-| cessive three-year terms. By coinci-| dence, it was Rev. Dr. Bennett who| succeeded William Houston, the father of the new nppointlsgez.‘at the termina- jon of his term in b | “o(r;(her School Board members who remain on the board are Dr. Hayden Johnson, chanceller of National Univer- Sity and a lawyer who was elected pres- ident last Fall, although he was made a member of the board only last July; Dr. J. Hayden Johnscn, colored physician, Who is the dean, in point of service of all School Board members; Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, vice president of the; board: Henry Gilligan, also_an attor- ney; George Whitwell, and Mrs. Mary A. McNeil. | Native of District. | Mr. Quinn is a native of Washington. He was schooled at Gonzaga College and | at Georgetown University. He holds the degrees of bachelor of laws, master of laws and master of erts, and is & member of the District Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the ‘Washington Board of Trade, the Piney Branch Citizens' Association, and the Congresisonal Country Club. He has been active in civic affairs of the Dis- trict for a number of years and has been a prominent delegate to the Fed- | eration of Citizens’ Associations. He is married and has two children. i Mr. Houston, also a native Washing-| Henry I. Quinn (left) and Charles Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith (center), who H. Houston (right), new members, and was reappointed. , BLIND,VETERAN, 63, ENDS LIFE AT HOME Louis E. Hodges Found Dead in Bed—Faced Indict- ment for Arson. | While his three children slept, Louis E. Hodges. 63-year-old retired blind veteran of 30 years’ Army service, shot and killed himself in his bed at home, 476 H street southwest, about 6:30 o'clock this morning. Hodges had been a patient at the Soldiers’ Home Hospital. The tragic story was told in a halting voice shortly afterward by his oldest daughter, Ellen, 13. Ellen, who had been keeping house for the family in the absence of her mother, who is di- | vorced, said she was awakened by the | noise of a shot, but suspecting nothing i turned over and went to sleep. She said the other children also did the same thing, and were not awakened until a representative of an insurance company called at the home to see about payment for their home in Alcova Heights, Va., which had recently burned. Found Father Dead. “I went to see my father,” said Ellen, and he was quiet. There was a gun in his hand. I couldn't do anything but scream and run to see the insurance man. Then lgter the police came to see about it.” Hodges, according to records in Ar- | lington County, was indicted by the ! | grand jury 2t the opening of the June | term of the Circuit Court on a charge of arson, a result of the burning of the Alcova Heights home. It was said to be the seccnd time a house at this loca- tion has burned since Hodges has owned the property. Records in the clerk’s office at the | Arlington Ccurt House show that Hodges was divorced from his wife in January of Jast year and has since had his three children with him. Recently, it was said at the office of | the Department of Public Welfare, Mrs. Mae E. Jacobs, superintendent, threat. ened to take the children away from Hodges and he immediately moved with them to Washington. Police claim that | it was after he moved from the county | that the house was burned and they accused him of returning and setting it on fire. Ellen said a neighbor next door ex- plained that she heard a noise that sourded like a shot about 6:30. i Ellen, with her two little brothers, Louis, 9, and Robert, 8, was taken to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ogle, | 312 N street southwest. Mrs. Ogle, who | was a life-long friend of the children’s | mother, called up the mother at Ward- | man Park Hotel, where she is employed | in the service of a family living in an | Al apartment there. | Mrs. Ogle said apparently the mother | Ju fainted when told of the tragedy. Veteran of 30 Years. Mr. Ogle, who is an old friend of | Hodges, said Hodges had served 30 years in the Army, including the Worid War, the Philippines and the Cuban Pacification. Ogle said he and Hodges were in Company F, 2d Battalion of Engineers, in the Cuban Pacification, under the ccmmand of Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, now chairman of the Pub- lic Utilitles Commission here, who was then a major and chief Engineer officer of the expedition. The children’s mother, who was for- merly Miss Annie Bradigan, arrived at the Ogle home by taxicab about 9:40 in a hysterical condition. COLORFUL CAREER OF FIREMAN ENDE E. E. Padget, With Heroic Record in 83 Years, Retires From Department. tonian, was schooled at the old M Street | High School, the forerunner of the| present Dunbar High School. He sub- sequently attended Amberst College | from which he was graduated at the ' the most decorated and most frequently | age of 19. Later he took his law Work | injurd men on the force, voluntarily | at the Harvard Law School. associated with his father in the 1aw | cause he was tired.” firm of Houston & Houston. He now is| At midnight Padgett finished his last in Chicago and the oath of the School | watch at No. 25 Engine Company, laid Board will be administered to him on | down the blue regalia he had worn since his return. | the days of horse-drawn fire apparatus, | and returned to his home at 1006 Tenth street southeast. With him he took decorations days. ‘The District Fire Department lost one | of its heroes by retirement Jlast night. POLICE SEIZE TWO CASES OF ALLEGED WHISKY | ““Te man of whom Fire Chtef ceorse S. Watson says “he was an old-time { fireman—one who knew no danger,” Ernest E. Padgett, who was one of | Omane He iS|ended a spectacular 33-year career, be- | po, THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Local thunder- showers tonight or tomorrow; not quite 50 warm tomorrow; moderate southwest, shifting to northwest or north, winds. Maryland—Local thundershowers to- night or tomorrow; not quite so warm tomorroy. Virginia—Local thundershowers to- night or tomorrow, except generally fair in south portion tonight; not quite sd warm tomorrow in north and central portions. West Virginia—Local thundershowers tonight and tomorrow, except generally fair in south portion tonight; not much change in temperature. Outlook for July 3 to July 9. North and Middle Atlantic States— Showers Monday or Monday night or on Tuesday, then generally fair, except showers probably about Saturday. Cool in North Atlantic States Monday; other- wise temperature above normal until Wednesday or Wednesday night, when weather will become cooler. River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear today. Report for Last 24 Hours. Temperature. Barometer. Dogrees. Inches. Noon .. | Record for Last 24 Hours. (From noon_yesterday to noon today). | Highest, 95, 4:30 p.m, yesterday; | year ago, 95. A Lowest, 78, 5:00 a.m. today; year | ago. 74. Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 100, on June 9. Lowest, 14, on February 9. Humidity for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today). | " Highest, 92 per cent, at 5:00 am. | today. ) | m‘west, 52 per cent, at 5:00 p.m. | yesterday. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today. 1:49am. 8:26a.m. 2:00 p.m. 8:15pm. The Sun and Moon. | Ruses. | Sun, today.... 4:45 Sun, tcmorrow 4:46 Moon, today.. 1:19p.m. Automobile lights must be turned on one-nalf hour after sunset. Precipitation. TOmOITOw. 2:45am. | Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month. 1933. Average. Record. January. 3.25 3.55 7.09 82 3. . e 4.67 9.13 '89 6.26 1069 89 3.84 10.94 1063 '86 - '28 16 '85 '89 01 pril ... May. June . December . Weather per: A5IUS(H eoqupma gevp € 2samoT Stations. **rAwpaNsIk . Clear Clear Pt cloudy 3 Pt.cloudy Abilene, Tex. Alb: i 537 ERE Atlanta. Ga. Atlantic City F290apz2 FeE Buffalo, N. Y Charleston. S.C. Chicago. Il . Cincinnati, Ohio Gleveland. ‘Ohio. t Ra Clo Clear Pt.cloudy Clear Pt.cloudy Cloudy 2 cloudy in udy 2. El Paso. Tex Galveston, ont. Ciear Pt cloudy Pt cloudy ear Pt.cloudy oudy Bt.cloudy ear Pt.cloudy Clear Clear Pt cloudy Clear Clear Pt.cloudy Clear Cloudy Bt.cloudy Clear Pittsburgh, Ps rtland. Portland, reminiscent of thrilling ?k Wi FOREIGN. (7 a.m.. Greenwich time. today.) FURTHER REDUCED BY NEW ESTIMATE Slashes in Assessments May Run Close to 100 Mi Says Richards. slon, 4,000 APPEALED CASES MUST BE DISPOSED OF Board Fixes Policy in Regard to| Persons Having Deposits in Closed Banks. Reductions in assessments of the| value of real estate in the District on | which taxes will be paid during the| fiscal year beginning today, likely will Tun closer to $100,000,000 than the | $80,000,000 estimated recently, Tax As- sessor Willlam P. Richards said today. This will bring to a higher figure the amount of savings in real estate tax | bills during the new year than the esti- | mate recently announced by the Com- | missioners. The reduction in the realty tax rate from $1.70 to $1.50, coupled with the then estimate of reductions in assess- ments amounting to $80,000,000, it was considered, would result in savings to real estate taxpayers of $3,660,000. | 4,000 Appealed Cases. ! Mr. Richards revealed that just be- | fore the deadline was reached early last | month on the filing of appeals from | assessments for the new year a great number of additional cases were filed, raising the total appealed cases from AT MONUMENT 10 FEATURE GEREMONY Military, ‘Patriotic and Vet- eran Groups to Join in In- dependence Day Program. COL. NEVITT ANNOUNCES FORMATION OF UNITS Capt. Hickey Says Traffic Rules Will Be Same as in Pre- vious Years. Plans for massing he colors by mili- tary, patriotic and veterans’ organiza- tions about the Washington Monument, as part of the Independence day cele- bration next Tuesday evening are being rapidly completed by a ttee headed by Gen. Anton Stephan. All units, which will include the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, District N: tional Guard, Naval Reserve and Ma. rire Reserve will be represented by armed color guards and color bearers. ‘They will meet and mass colors around the base of the monument at 7:30, and will form a background for the formal ceremonies on the program, including the readirg of the Declaration of In- dependence and the address by the speaker of the occasion. Music for the occasion will be fur- nished by the United States Marine Band_and Capt. Taylor Branson and the Victory Post, American Legion, Drum and Bugle Corps. Formation of Units. The formation of units for the flag Rob as They Drink Beer Soft-Hearted Bandits Sip Brew, Ply Trade and Take Only From Those Who Are “Well Heeled” With Cash. TRIO of beer-drinking bandits, who sat in a beverage shop at 916 Sixth street for about an hour last night, robbing cus- tomers as they came in, were sought today by police. The hold-up, which netted the rob- ‘The next victim was a newspaper re- porter. As the bandit leader pocketed the newspaper man's $3, Mrs, Mitchell remarked: “That’ll do you a lot of good. He ; probakly* needs it more than you do.” bers a little more than $150, was re- ported somewhat nlucmncl{l. police said, by Frank (Reds) Mitchell, propri. etor of the establishment. Mitchell was out and his wife was in charge of the place when the hold-up Gave Back lnp-rur‘l'mncy. ‘The bandit leader gave the reporter’s ! contribution back to him. | Three other customers came in, but | none of them had more than a few THOUSANDS OF D.C. JOBS AWAIT EDICTS OF TWO AGENCIES Public Works Adminiatration and Budget Bureau to Decide on Funds. RULINGS DUE ON THREE about 3,000 to about 4,000. He said it | processional and massing the colors was likely this would not be completed | will be as follows, as announced by Col. until about August 1. Peyton G. Nevitt, aide to Gen. Stephan It will be completed, however, in time | and vice chairman of the committee for the issuance of tax bills, the first|on military, veteran and patriotic par- | installment of which must be paid in | ticipation “for the Independence day September. | celebration here: U. S. Army, U. S. ‘When this work has been completed, ' Navy. U. S. Marine Corps, U. S. Coast the assessor’s staff will begin work on Guard, 121st Engineers, D. C. National | Dew assessments to go into effect in the Cuard; 260th Coast Artillery, D. C. fiscal year 1935. Mr. Richards recently said he anticipated local economic con- | ditions would cause a further reduction in assessments amounting to about $50,- 000,000, effective in 1935. | In the meantime the Board of As- | sessors has laid down a policy on per- sonal tax payments affecting persons having money on deposit in local banks, which are still closed. Possible Relief Later. There is to be no mofat-rium in levies against such holdings, although relief may be afforded to such depositors later, depending upon what happens to their deposits. The policy requires that such de- positors must list in their personal tax | returns, due this month, the amounts | they have on deposit in local banks, | | with a notation in the margin of the | name of the bank, if closed | If the banks silll are closed when | the first payment comes due in Sep- | tember, the levies will stand. It is ! believed by the assessor's office that - certainly by next March, when the sec- .|ond and final personal tax payment is due, the conditions of the banks, as to | moneys on deposit, will have been made clear. If as a result of changes in the status in such banks these depositors will los any portion of the moneys they n | have on deposit, duz allowance will bo permitted to be made in the personal National Guard; Company A, 372d Infantry, D. C. National Guard; U. 8. Naval Reserve, 20th Marine, Marine Corps Reserve; 23d Marines, Marine Corps Reserve; Grand Army of the Republic and Auxiliary, Women's Re- lief Corps, Society of Colorial Wars, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, United Confederate Veterans and Auxiliary, Veterans of Fereign Wars and Auxiliary, Military Order of Foreign Wars, United Spanish War Veterans, Naval erd Military Order of the Spanish American War, American Legjon and Auxiliary. Disabled Ameri- can Veterans of the World War, Mili- tary Order of the World War, Ameri- can Gold Star Mothers, American War Mothers, Women's Overseas Service League, Military Order of the Loval Legion. Dames of the Loyal Legion, Netional Yeomen F, Yeomanettes; United States Daughters of 1812, Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of the Revolution, Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution, Children of th> Amer- ican Revoiution, Daughters of America, Daughters of the Defenders of the Re- public, Daughters of the Confederacy Daughters of American _Colonists. Daughters of Founders and Patriots, Job's Daughters, D. C. Boy Scouts. Rules Similar to 1932's. Traffic rules for the Fourth will be about the same as in recent years, Capt. Doyle O. Hickey, superintendent of park police, said today. A safety dollars and the bandit leader permitted them to keep it. A mzmo came along next. Although his pockets netted $114, he pleaded poverty and the bandit leader allowed to keep $5. men strolled in. They lounged around for a while, drinking beer and doing very little talking. Hold Up Customer. ‘There came & rap on the door, and cne of the bandits opened it. “Come in,” he invited, stepping aside. As the custemer entered, the bandits drew pistols and ordered him to hand over his money. He gave them $7.50. “Why do you take his money?” Mrs. Mitchell asked. “He’s out of work and that's all he has.” “Here, take it, buddy,” said the leader of the trio, handing the money back to the victim. “She's breakin’ my heart.” tomers were huddled covered by the robbers’ guns. A search g:'l;l: pockets gave the hold-up man “Listen, Mitchell,” said the bandit leader, “you're a good guy and we nope you ain’t got ns hard feelin’s. We're scrTy to have to do this.” ‘Then, with a gencral apology to all, the robbers left. NAVY AIR VICTIM BURIED WITH HONORS |Lieut. Jack Carpenter Richardson Interred in Arlington Cemetery. Chairman With full military honors, Lieut. Jack Carpenter Richardson, United States Navy aviator, who was killed in an air- plane crash at Oceanside Field, Calif., on June 8, was buried today in Arling- ton National Cemetery near the graves of the Akron victims. Capt. Sydney K. Evans, chief of the Navy's Corps of Chaplains, officiated. Honorary pallbearers were Lieut. Comdr. Lieut. Comdr. A. S. Pitre, Lieut. Comdr. Harry B. Slocum, Lieut. Comdr. Gerald L. Schetky and Lieut. Comdr. J. Ross Allen. Surviving Lieut. Richardson are his widow, Mrs. Anne Evans Richardson, and their daughter, Barbara Ann= Richardson, of Coronade, Calif. When | he met death he was attached to the Aircraft Squadrons of the Battle Force Born in St. Louis, June 18, 1897, ‘When Mitchell appeared, all his cus- | in a corner, still | David H. Clark, Lieut. Comdr. Hugh | tax returns, Mr. Richards said. | area will be established around the ac- | tual fireworks display permitting tech- | nicians rcom to operate at Sixteenth | ASSIGNMENTS MADE | Ticac Icom o cpemie st Shxesnin ! —_— captain said that pedestrians will not Various Courts for Justices Named | 0o, PeTitted to approach this area i i i | _Automobiles will be ‘allowed to enter | | il Dl W the Ellipse area but cannot proceed | south on Ffteenth or Sixteenth streets from that area. Traffic around the Ellipse roadway will be one-way count- er clockwise and parking will be per- | mitted on the Ellipse roadway. Details from the military services will assist the park police in maintaining order. | Capt. Hickey asserted that the cir-! cular driveway, skirting the Washing- ton Monument’ grounds, will be closed on north and south sides of the monu- ment, since they are needed for the | ceremories and fireworks display. En- trance into the Monument Grounds will | be from Fourteenth street only. | The superintendent pointed out that The assignment of justices of the ;Dis!rict Supreme Court for the special | term from October 3 until the Christmas recess was announced today by Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat. The assignments are as follows: Mo- tions Court and assignment justice, | Justice F. D. Letts; District Court No. 1 and Equity Court No. 2, Justice Jesse Adkins; Criminal Court No. 1, Justice Peyton Gordon; Criminal Court No. 2, Justice Joseph W. Cox; Circuit Court No. 1, Chief Justice Wheat; Circuit Court No. 2, Justice Danie] W. O'Dono- | ghue; Circuit Court No. 3, Justice Oscar R. Luhring; Circuit Court No. 4, Jus- tice James M. Proctor, and Equity Court the large parking areas in the rear of the Navy and Munitions Buildings wili be open to public parking at 6 p.m. CLAUDE W. OWEN, President of the Board of Trade and chairman of the Fourth of July cele- bration. DURIG PLANS CALL AT WHITE HOUSE Evicted Artist to Leave Letter for Roosevelt Telling of “Per- secution.” Prof. Ernest Durig, evicted from his studio apartment at 1536 Connecticut avenue yesterday, planned to call at the White House today to leave an “u]npomm letter” for President Roose- velt. The letter, the Swiss sculptor said, tells of his “persecution™ at the hands of a “powerful political enemy,” and explains his mysterious disappearance of May 23. Prof. Durig returned home Thurday night, refusing to say where he had been. Yesterday morning, while a Star reporter was interviewing him regard- | ing his disappearance, deputy United States marshals, armed with a court order, moved his models and furnish- ings into the street. In a burst of temperament the artist smashed many of the busts and statues, either hitting them with a sledge ham- mer or throwing them to the sidewalk. ' The remaining pieces, together with the Durigs’ furniture, were placed in storage. Mrs. Durig plans to return to Switz- erland, she said, while her husband remains here to become an American citizen. Meanwhile the Durigs and the 2-year-old daughter are staying with friends, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Pischel, 1603 Connecticut avenue. | 'SUGAR MEN ADOPT Lieut. Richardson was appointed to the Naval Academy from San Francisco in | 1915, graduating three years later. He served with the Destroyer Force, based at Queentstown, Ireland, and in 1924 went to Lakehurst, N. J., Naval Air Station for instruction in lighter-tha: air. He was attached to the U. S. S. Shenandoah and later the U. S. S.| Los Angeles. He was one of the few naval officers qualifying in heavier- | than-air craft after he had qualified in lighter-than-air craft. He repre-| sented the Navy Department on_the| round-the-world flight of the Graf| Zuppelin. He piloted one of the Navy's &emn;zss in the National Balloon Race in p | | PRICE-LIFTNG PLAN Quota System Proposed to Stabilize Quotations at Higher Level. |3 | By the Associated Press. Leaders of the sugar industry yester- day reached a definite agreement to stabilize prices at higher level through a quota system. Subcommittee meet- ings finally surmounted a number of obstacles and reported to the full Stzer- ing Committee with instructions to pro- ceed at once to the drafting of a con- crete plan. The Steering Committee, upon which sat representatives of domestic growers and refiners, as well as those from the Philippines, Hawaii and Porto Rico, was named at a conference of key men in the sugar industry held Tuesday under the auspices of the Agricultural Ad- justment Administration. Quota figures now are being prepared by the subcommittee, which has been divided into two groups for this purpose. Dr. John Lee Coulter, member of the Tariff Commission, who is acting for the farm administrators in helping to prepare the agreement, said that there ICONSTRUCTION PROGRAMS | |Questions Hinge Principally on Whether City May Spend Its Own Money. Two Federal agencies Hoid in thex | hands the power to put to work—or to keep from work—several thousand men | in the District during the course of the fiscal year which began today. These are the public works administration and the Bureau of the Budget. Their word ‘18 being anxiously awaited at the Dis- im:;t Building, where three different constructicn programs are hinging on various edicts, principally on whether ! the District will be allowed to spend its cwn money. In the highway construction field, the director of the budget has power to allow or not, as he szes fit, the District to spend $1,500,000 of gasoline tax money collected frcm its own motorists. | The District is also awaiting a decision” from the public works administration on an allocation of about $2.000.000 of Federal funds for highway work in the District. 300 Jobs Imperilled. Assuming for the moment that neither sum is forthcoming, then the highway department will be compelled to drop 250 to 300 men of its regular Summer force of 750. This does not take into acocunt the work available ; for men working under contractors em- ployed on highway jobs. The highway | department’s appropriation for this | fiscal year is 58 per cent of that for | last year, and the men must be thrown |out of work unless the extra funds | are forthcoming. Of these about 200 | would be Jaborers and skilled laborers, | about 50 truck drivers end shop men and about 50 engineers and inspectors. If the director of the budget should allow the District to spend its own $1,500,000. then the regular highway force would be maintained intact, but many additional men would find work with highwav contractors. The con- struction of the Caivert Street Bridge, one of the items requested. would put 125 to 150 men to work for a year. ‘The rest of the items would furnish 3,500 “man hours” of labor here. ‘Would Increase Force. Should the District get the $1.500,000 gasoline tax allotment and also the $2,000.000 P:deral grant. then its regu- lar highwav force wculd bs increased by abcut 50 engineers and inspeetors, and the allotment would furnish an additional 11.500 “man hcurs” of work for those employed by highway con- tractors. The budget director also has power allow the Water Department to spe - £635,000 of the District's own wet rents or nct, as he chooses. Assum'r~ that he refuses to allow a penny, th- 40 men now employed by the ceps: ment lose their jobs. 35 of them in t- meter installation force and the oth - in the maintenance group. Assumirg that he allows the enti~ cum, then the department's force will | b> maintained intact, and in addition the mcrey will furnish employment for 400 men for one year working under | contractors who build water mains. {,. The common Iabor on the jobs men- tioned is paid $13.50 per week of 30 1 hours, usually five six-hour days. Situation Complicated. | The public works administration alsy !bas power to construct public works here, or to finance, in part, public work |10 be constructed by the District. The | amount to be spent. however, rests |in the discretion of the public works cdministrator and several complications | make it impessible to calculate the exact number of jobs involved. The Municipal Architect’s Office, | which would prcbably be the office | enfrusted with carrying on any of the | building decided upon. let out 8 of its 32 men yesterday. Whether they could be hired back if the District were allot- ted some of the public warks is prob- lematical. | | No. 1, Justice Jennings Bailey. |on July 4. Entrance and exit will be by way of Nireteenth or Twenty-first streets. The Seventeeth street gate will | | be used exclusively for pedestrians com- | | ing and going into the parking area. | No_parking, Capt. Hickey said, will | | Two Badly Injured in Altercation be allowed on Fourteenth street be- | | tween Pennsylvaria avenue and Water | Between Dozen Last Night. street, but it will be permitted on Twelve colored men engaged in an Fifteenth street, in the rear of the !altercation at Twenty-sixth and I | Bureau of Engraving and Printing, en- strests last night resulting in two being | trance from the rorth being only by | admitted to Emergency Hospital. Jo- | Way of Fgurteenth street. No east- seph Green, 25, one of the alleged par- | bound traffic will be permitted on the ticipants, was struck on the head with | north Tidal Basin road, as this will be a milk bottle, receiving a possible frac- | Onc-way, entrance to it being secured ture of the skull, while Rufus Ford, 21, | from Fourteenth or Fifteenth streets. of the first block of Florida avenue northeast, received a stab wound in the left side of his back. | COLORED MEN RIOT i Injured Fighting Fire. Ford was able to leave the hospital| Mack Mathews, colored, 33, was in- | and go home after he had received first | jured early today, when he attempted | aid. Green, his condition reported un- | to extinguish a fire in his boarding | determined, remained in the hospital. | house at 1215 Sixth street. He was | william Henry Page, 25, of the 2600 |treated at Emergency Hospital for | block of I street, was arrested and held | burns and cuts. Fire appartus quelled for investigation. the blaze. i 62-DAY BURIAL IN BLADENSBURG COFFIN SENDS SLIM TO HOSPITAL| Firemen Work Three Hours Bringing New “Champion” | By the Associated Press. Cotton exporters need have no fear | that the South will lose the export | advantage hitherto enjoyed by this cOTTON ADVANTAGE | suggested by the various elements in the The full committee is to meet again | committee would send the agreement to Lose Exports Due to Acre- NS country because of the acreage reduc- | Senate Group Holds Conference Two second precinct police seized two | cases of alleged whisky early today after two colored men, who were said to have been unloading the contraband frcm an autcmobile on Neal place, escaped in a smcke screen despite a barrage of bullets fired by the officers. The policemen, L. 1. Mason and Velt PBraziel, saw the colored pair appar- ently unloading the liquer from the au- tomobile and walked into the one-block thoroughfare to investigate. The men jumped in their car, driving directly toward the officers, who were forced to jump to escape being run down. As it passed them the automobile started lay- ing down a smoke screen, the police said, and they fired several shots at the fleeing car. It kept going. The police returned to where the car had been parked and seized the liquor. | IMPRISONED FOR LIFE Prisoner Pleads Guilty to Dealing Fatal Blow With Hatchet. Andrew Miles, colored, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary in District Supreme Court yesterday as the result of a quarrel over a hat. Last April Benjamin W. Coles, also colored, accused Miles of stealing his hat. Miles denied the charge. Later | a fight resulted in a house at 223 Third street southwest and Miles struck Coles with a hatchet, inflicting a fatal injury. He pleaded guilty to a charge of gecond-degree murder before Justice Daniel W. O'Donoghue and was given 2 life sentence. The Government was represented by Assistant United States Attorney James R. Kirkland, J. K appeared for Miles, had not long been in the department when he gained his first laurels. In 1904 he saved.the lives of two women in a blaze at the old Franklin Building. and subsequently was awarded a valor medal. Four years later he was commended again—for catching a burglar. His method was simple. He knocked the man cold, with a blow so powerful the thug's teeth went clear through Pad- gett’s hand to the bone. Another outstanding achievement of Padgett’s was recognized in 1923, when he was awarded a ribbon for his excel- lent work in the great Knickerbocker Theater disaster. During his eventful years as a fire fighter, Padgett has been injured al- most s many times as any man in the department. There are 11 instances of injury listed on his record. Two-Cent Local Rates on Postage Effective Today Starting today a lot of people get a chance to save some pen- nies on their stamps. ‘The former 2-cent local rate for first-class mail, except postal cards and private post cards, is restored throughout the United States. The 3-cent rate will still apply to mail sent outside a local dis- trict. The local district here includes nearby Maryland and served by the Virginia towns ‘Washington post office. Temperature. Weather. 57 Partcloudy loudy Rain Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Part cloudy day.) Paft cloudy S jolm, g Gibraltar, 'Spain. 65 (Noon. Greenwich time. tof Horta (Fayal). Azores.. 74 (Current observations.) St. Georges, Bermuda.. 78 San Juan. Puerto Rico. Havana, Cuba Colon, Canal TWO HURT IN CRASH ‘Colored Men Seriously Injured When Car Hits Parked Auto. ‘Two persons weré "seriously injured early this morning when the auto- mobile in which they were passengers struck a parked machine in the 700 block of First street. John Stevenson, colored, 27, 1200 block of Hope avenue southeast, has injuries, severe cuts on his ‘The driver of the car, Robert Butler, colored, 21, of the Fenton street ad- dress, was held by police for investi- gation. ime for Court Orders Set. 8. g‘fing clerk of the Motions Court ct Supreme ounced today that all orders be presented in court before 10 to the R. L. (Slim) Jones, new claimant of the “buried alive” championship, was the “happiest guy in the world” as he lay in bed in Emergency Hospital today, recuperating frcm the effects of a 62- day -stay in a tin-jacketed coffin six feet underground. Slim, who hails from Richmond, was dug out of his Bladensburg, Md., grave last night to receive the acclaim of a crowd of about 1,000—most of whom had paid 75 cents each for the privilege of witnessing his “resurrection.” Under auspices of the Blandensburg Volunteer Fire Department, Slim was buried near the Peace Cross, at the intersection of the Washington-Balti- more Boulevard and the Defense High- way, 62 days ago. Since then, thou- sands of curious had paid 10 cents each to peek through a chimney- like tube lay in his coffin, waiting for might not get out—the coffin was wedged tight, and it required the com- bined efforts of nearly every member of the Bladensburg Fire Rescue Squad, working under the direction of Chief Andrew Gasch, to bring him to the surface. As the firemen pulled at the coffin, Dr. Oscar Lavine, squad physician, and avenue, ment, pulled away. o | Still working over him, shook hands Surface. after he finally had been lifted from the coffin, the physicians decided to take him to Emergency. There it was said he was in a state of exhaustion. But Slim didn’t mind that. He had beaten his previous record of 38 days, established at Annapolis, and he had outstayed a competitor, who had been placed in a New Jersey grave at about the same time as Slim was buried in Bladensburg. The digging started at 8 o'clock. The earth was shoveled away in almost no time, but the coffin wouldn't budge. Ropes were placed under the coffin, and all the squad members, including President H. L. Leonard and W. R. Beattie, president of the fire depart- . The coffin wouldn’t come up, how- ever, and it was decided to cut away | Dorothy N the tin jacket. This job wasn’t com- pleted until about 11 o'clock. Then wrapped in a blanket, Slim lay on a hospital cot and, with two nurses, Miss Dorothy Smallwood, South Cliftton Ter- race Apartments, and Miss Ruth Thorne with everybody who filed past. Slim’s weakened condition after his resurrection was due, it was explained, to changes in air pressure. Then, tco, the 87-degree surface temperature ceemed almost frigid to Slim, who had become accustomed to the 103-degree , 4611 Georgia | bef stimulants. Then, tion drive now under way, Rexford G. | Tugwell, Assistant Secretary of Agri- culture, said last night in an address. Marshaling facts, figures and opin- ions, Tugwell said in an address that “the United States, in short, has ad- vantages in cotton growing which no tgnqpqmry reduction in output can de- | stroy.” “Our problem,” he said, “is not one of maintaining the supply of Ameri- can cotton in order to maintain our competitive position in foreign markets; our problem, rather, is one of adjust- ing our supply to the world demand for cotton It is to this end that the cotton adjustment program is directed. It does not aim to cause a shortage, but merely to eliminate a burdensome surplus.” The assistant Agriculture chief de- clared it was not generally understood that “the cotton adjustment tax will have no effect on exports, since it is levied only on domestic processing.” GIRL SCOUTS RECEIVE AWARDS AT ASSEMBLY Special Dispatch to The Star. DECATUR HEIGHTS, Md., July 1— Awards were made to members of Girl Scout Troop, No. 3, at an assembly here, when the Scouts entertained their parents and friends. Mrs. Louis Dashiell of Hyattsville, chairman of the Committee of District | in Washington held another conference | which it was indicated about two more | I.D j was little spread between quota figures industry. Price-fixing, 1 is not conmmxf‘?:led. e SN | Monday to consider the plan if it is Tngwall Says Section Will Not ready by then. Approval u? t‘he full Secretary Wallace, to have him order public hearings upon it. age Reduction. SUBCOMMITTEE VIEWS DAIRY PRODUCT PRICES Yesterday and Plans Hear- ings Later. The Senate Subcommittee inquiring into milk and other dairy product prices yesterday with its legal aides, following | weeks will elapse before hearings start. Senators King of Utah and McCar- ran of Nevada reviewed additional in- formation assembled by Elwood H. Seal. assistant corporation counsel, and W. B. ‘Watson Snyder, special assistant to the Attorney General. Mr. Seal reported to the subcommittee members on a trip he made recently through the nearby farming sections from which Washing- ton's milk supply is received. Senator McCarran will be out of the city dur- ing the next two weeks and hearings are not expected to be held until after his return. FINISH MAILING CHECKS Veterans’ Administration Slightly Delayed With Pensions. ‘The mailing of pension and annuit; checks for June from the Veterans’ AdZ ministration was completed this morn- ing, it was learned today. Normally the checks are all in the mail on the last day of the month. The delay was explained by the rush of additional work in the disbursing office at.the close of the fiscal year The Veterans’ Administration now han- dles the disbursement of civil annuities of retired Government employes as well as the payment of benefits to veterans. First Fourth Victim Is Severely Burned By Firecracker ‘Three-year-old Mildred A. !&o"!ll‘ 414 Second street, became first Fourth of July celebra- uon victim when she was severe- er. | In this office Congress has appro- | priated for only a handful of regular | employes, and the others hired on a per diem basis, and are paid out of |3 per cent allowance from construction appropriations. The -construction jobs | appropriated for this year account for only $1,000,000, or an architect’s ap- | propriation of only $30,000, and under this still more employes of the office are to be let out during the course of the fiscal year. It is not known whether any part of the public works allotment will ear- marked for architectural services, and the present force at the municipal architect’s office could not handle | much of an increase in work. LAND BANK HEAD TAKES OVER OFFICE Albert S. Goss, Seattle, Succeeds Paul Bestor, Missouri, Who Resigned. By the Associated Press. Albert S. Goss, Seattle, today for- mally assumed office as land bank commissioner under the new Farm Credit Administration succeeding Paul Bestor of Missouri, resigned. Goss said that in supervising activi- ties of the 12 Federal Land Banks he intends to follow a policy designed to recognize values on a long term rather than a short term basis. “Congress determined that loans by the land banks should be based upon normal values,” he said. “It is logical, therefore, that appraisals should not follow the fluctuations of the land mar- ket to extremely low or to extremely high levels. “In other words, the system should be built- upon stability. Nowhere in the act is there any hint that the sys- tem should make unsound loans.” Bestor, who has accepted a position with an insurance compary, will con- tinue temporarily in an advisory capac~ ity at the request of Gov. Henry Mor- mthau, jr., of the credit administra- OWENS RITES HELD Insurance Representative Buried Yesterday in Prospect Hill.