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WEATHER. .5, Veather Bureu Forecast) Moderate snowfall this afternoon end- ing early tonight. minimum of about 18. Colder Full report, on page B-4. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 15,16 & 17 No. BELGRADE. OFFERS OLIVE BRANCH 10 HUNGARY N R0 Intent to Impugn Honor of Latter Denied Before League of Nations. 33,095. FRANCE OFFERS PLAN TO ADJUST DISPUTE Yugoslavia Denies Intent to Act if League Fails—Ends Deportations. Fair tomorrow. Temperatures—Highest, 32, at 1 pm. yesterday; lowest, 20, at 9 a.m. today. tonight with Entered as second class matter post ofiice, Washington, D. Money-Mad Males Will Find Heiress Already in Flight Mother’s Will Sets Aside $5,000 Yearly to Man She Weds. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 10.—To Miss Justine C. Perot, the $5,000-a- year income awaiting the man she marries is a matter of considerable annoyance. She foresees a flood of proposals from cranks, and even kidnap threats as a result of the stipulation in her mother’s will directing the trustees of the $300,000 estate to pay, on Miss Perot’s marriage, $5,000 per annum to her husband, so long as he and the said daughter are living together in the marriage relationship.” The mother, Mrs. Eleanor du Pont Taney, member of the prominent du Pont family, prepared the will a month before she died. Miss Perot has left the city for \ &n unannounced destination. By the Associated Press. 1 GENEVA, December 10.—Nicolas | Titulescu, foreign minister of Ru- mania, poured oil on the troubled waters of Hungarian-Yugoslav rela- tions today by telling the League of Nations Council that Yugoslavia's ap- peal against Hungary ig no way ques- tioned the national honor of Hungary. Since Titulescu is a recognized leader in the Little Entente of Yugo- slavia, Rumania and Czechoslovakia, | his words were regarded as in the nature of an official olive branch. The statesmen present in the council chamber were hopeful that Hungary would follow Yugoslavia's lead in accepting a League plan for settlement of the dispute between ‘Yugoslavia and Hungary. France Offers Program. Then France introduced the draft of a treaty providing for the creation of an international criminal court for the repression of terrorism. It would be permanent and would consist of five members. Tibor Eckhardt, the Hungarian representative to the League, said at 3:30 pm. today that no agreement had been reached between his nation and Yugoslavia, but that he “believed an accord would be achieved, although it might take several days.” The new league plan was described as a compromise prepared in such a form that statesmen had every hope Hungary would accept it. It was reported to involve an invi- tation to Hungary to conduct a rigid investigation of the murder of King Alexander and to punish any one | found guilty of connection with the crime. This proposal was first made by Pierre Laval, French foreign minister, in a speech to the Council of the League of Nations. | Provisions of the plan have been accepted by Bogoljub Yeftitch, Yugo- slav foreign minister, who is being pressed hard by his government to get concrete action in Yugoslavia's complaint against Hungary. Moderation Misinterpreted. Yeftitch told leaders of the major European powers he preferred to withdraw the matter from the hands of the League and deal directly with Hungary rather than accept a mere “platonic” condemnation of terrorism. “Our moderation has mistakenly been conceived to be weakness,” he asserted. The cessation of deportations of Hungarians from Yugoslavia has helped relax a situation which was so serious that Laval told a colleague “this conflict should be settled and must be settled to maintain the peace of Europe.” It was learned that a Croat resident | of Youngstown, Ohio, visited the League of Nations last Spring and showed the officials a petition alleged to have been signed by 5.000 Croats in | the United States urging the Leagu to obtain the independence of Croatia from Yugoslavia on the plea that Yugoslavia was mistreating the Croats. The petition began with a reference to Woodrow Wilson's plea for thej right of peoples’ self-determination. | The visitor asked to see J. A. C. Avenol, the League's secretary general, | but was refused admittance. The Ohio man left, saying he would send his petition through the mail. ' League employes today examined the archives to determine whether the pe- ! tition ever arrived. It was remarked that the League could not act on such & petiton. I Belgrade Announces Willingness to' Accept League Decision. | BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, December 10 (#).—High government officials told | the Associated Press today that Yugé- | slavia will take no independent meas- ures League of Nations rule against Yugo- slavia and in favor of Hungary in the two nations’ present dispute. This declaration, it was said, was to dispose of the widespread fear abroad that war might break out if the League | ruled against Yugoslavia. | The intervention of the British gov- | ernment through Prince Paul, regent of the crown, was said to have been | responsible for this decision. World Reaction Effective. | It was also said that an unfavorable | world reaction to Yugoslavia's mml’ deportation of Hungarians—now end- ed—had a distinctly restraining effect (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) e BOLIVIA AGCEPTS | CHACO MEDIATION| War Believed in Final Phase as ¥ La Paz Agrees to League of Nations Plan, By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, December 10.— Bolivian acceptance of the League of Nations’ plan to end the Chaco War, along with a general mobilization of all the country’s available manpower, was announced today in dispatches from La Paz. Many observers here believed the| long-raging wilderness war has en- tered its final phases. Paraguay claims to have thrown an “iron circle” around Bolivian forces. The League plan provides for an! srmistice while a neutral international commission works out details of a set- tlement of grievances. Paraguay has %a acted finally on the League’s offer. f: ' against Hungary should the| DU PONT OFFICIAL GONGEDES “BRIBE” K. K. V. Casey Admits “Commission” Was Paid “Chinese Army, Nanking.” BY the Associated Press. Evidence that the Du Pont Co. paid large “commissions” to secure powder business in China in 1929 was laid today before the Senate Munitions Committee. Du Pont officials did not deny the commissions were in the nature of bribes, explaining they had been told “it was an old Chinese custom.” Documents laid before the com- mittee showed a “commission” of 1 per cent on a large powder sale in 1929 was paid to a Col. De Fremary, a Dutch officer working under con- tract with the Chinese government. Another “commission” of 4 per cent was paid to “Chinese Army, Nanking.” K. K. V. Casey, Du Pont official, conceded the 4 per cent was “graft,” but testified he did not know to whom it was paid. Casey accepted responsibility for “violating” a company policy in this regard. He said he knew if this inci- dent was reported, the company di- rectors would have stopped all further sales. Earlier the company had denied lp:yén; graft to sell munitions to Po- nd. Sold Powder to Poland. Correspondence showed the Du Ponts sold 1000 tons of smokeless powder to Poland on a contract pro- viding for payment over three years The evidence disclosed the du Pont agent in Warsaw, named Klawe, re- ceived a 7 per cent commission, or | 126,000, of which he was advanced | about $30,000 when the contract was signed. Du Pont witnesses said there were no indications this money was ad- vanced to Klawe for payment to any one else. Other evidence included a letter from the du Pont files saying graft was an essential to selling war ma- terials in the Balkans. Casey did not characterize the 1 per ent payment to Col. de Fremary as | “graft.” Added Embargo Evidence. Committee members sald today they also had more evidence of efforts by merican munitions makers to pre- ent embargo legislation by Congress, Letters were in their possession, they said, showing that munitions officials | conferred with War and Navy Depart- ment men to prevent the embargo now in effect on the shipment of war ma{ terials to the Chaco disputants in South America. The sessions will last through next week. Members of the committee are confident that by then they will have presented enough to warrant the ap- propriation of money for inquiry into i the activities of shipbuilders, steel manufacturers and bankers. Their interest in armaments, Chairman Nye | contends, is fully as great as that of the manufacturers themselves. Zarahoff Employed by Vickers. In addition to the ‘commission” disclosures the investigators also ‘found a letter in du Pont company files today asserting Vickers, Ltd., a British company, employed Sir Basil Zaharoff, “mystery” arms salesman, as an intermediary in the Balkans. The letter was written in 1922 by Col. William N. Taylor, du Pont’s Paris agent, who said English and German munitions companies were [most successful in the Balkans be- cause they understood conditions and were willing to use necessary ex- pediences, Du Pont Co. officials promptly “(Continued on Page 8, Column 2.) @b WASHINGTON, D. C., IN POWDER SALES NDUSTRALGHEES SILARES BOSTE SHAPLY N YEAR Securities Commission May Extend Reporting Re- quirement. $1,000,000 INCOMES RISE FROM 20 TO 46 Decline Shown in $5,000 Farners, Attributed to Continuance of Wage Cuts. By the Associated Press. Salaries of executives of big cor- porations were shown today in reg- istration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to have jumped 200 per cent in some instances this year, while others.re- mained stationary or increased less sharply. The. reports ranged from an un- changed remuneration of $86,740 in 1933 and 1934 for E. M. Alleg, presi- dent of Mathieson Alkali Works, to the $47,286 which Vice President Daniel K. Weiskopf of National Dis- tillers Products Corp. will receive this year against $15,640 in 1933. In view of these figures, required in the filing of security registration state- ments with the commission, and the efforts in and out of Congress to bring down excessive salaries and give 1n- vestors more light, commission offi- cials are considering a move to ex- tend the salary-reporting requirement to top officials of all corporations. No new law would be required. S. E. C. Requires Reports. Already corporations seeking to issue securities have to report their officials’ pay and bonuses, but this is not ap- plied to corporations whose securities were put on the market before the securities act was passed. Meanwhile, a report of another gov- ernmental agency, the Internal Rev- enue Bureau, disclosed last night that net incomes of a million dollars or more increased from 20 in 1932 to 46 last year. Of these, one person whose name, like all the others, was guarded care- fully, had a net income of more than $5,000,000 and another’s was more | than $3,000,000. The number of net incomes of $5,000 or less declined from 3,420,995 to 3,339,602, a drop of 81,393. Speculation Believed Factor. ‘These figures, garnered from income tax reports, cover a much wider range than the S. E. C.’s figures will, for the latter will include only salaries, bonuses or other income drawn by corporation officials by virtue of their positions. The Treasury’s statistics include taxable income of all kinds. Official quarters inclined to believe that profits from speculation and changes in the tax laws had much to do with the sudden growth of the million-dollar class. N. R. A rejected any suggestions that code price and production con- trols—now out of favor with recovery rulers—accounted for the increase, which drew new attention to the cur- rent agitation for a more even distri- bution of wealth, v Increases Cited. But spokesmen for the recovery ad- ministration did claim part of the credit for boosting corporation in- comes. The number of tax returns showing corporations with net incomes was 104,702 in 1933, an increase of 25,927, and the income figure went up | 35 per cent to $2,506,078,279. On the other hand, total net in- come—corporation and individual— dropped from $11,185,499,309 to $10,- 845,653,532, the lowest since 1916, The decline of 81,000 in incomes of $5,000 or less was attributed in part to’ the salary-cut movement. Figures at N. R. A. indicate that while dividend payments have gone up, they have not advanced enough to explain the sharp jump in the big income groups. Big Share to Small Earners. Internal revenue figures showed wages and salaries supplied $7,196, 828,256 of 1933's aggregate net in- come and that $5,407,000,000 of this went to the group under $5,000. Business came next as a source of income, with $1,393525,559. Of this amount $1,010,000,000 was under $5,000. Dividends supplied $1,589,189,820, and the buik—$412,000,000—again was in the $5,000 or less class. The Securities Commission files are :Pe source of the following informa- on Seton Porter, president of the Na- tional Distillers’ Products Corp., will (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) —— Orders Cleric Out. ATHENS, December 10 (#).— Athens newspapers said today the foreign office had asked the arch- bishop of the Armenian Church in this country to leave within five days on the grounds that he is involved in spreading Soviet propaganda. Supreme CourtBuilding Figures (13 By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 10.—Figures dorning an entrance to the new Supreme Court building in Washing- ton are not intended to be portraits of Chief Justices Marshall, Taft and Hughes, or other personages, but are “type likenesses.” Robert Aitken, the sculptor, said today that the three men served as his models, but took pains to explain a fine artistic distinction. “The figures aren't portraits of the three men,” he said. “The inspira- tion for the figures was derived from the characters of the men as expressed in their physical appearance, which is a somewhat different matter. “It is necessary for a sculptor to wotk from an individual model to keep his figures from ‘wooden, lifeless. What would people want me to do in decorating a building of this ;l:d,pmkupmaehuutolmhrud» e? “It seems to me that it was emi- nently proper to depict the type 1’< . = Type-Likenesses” of Justices represented in the visages of Taft, Hughes and Marshall.” Aitken then launched into an elo- quent defense of the centuries-old artistic custom of using self-portraits or the portraits of friends in historical works. He pointed out that many of the great Italian painters used their own faces or those of their intimates to represent the Apostles. (One of the figures in the Supreme Court Building pediment is said to bear an unmistakable resemblance to who slyly inserted a dollar sign into the stained glass window of a rich Fifth Avenue church. There have been stories of architects who have caused dubious inscriptions to be carved in nooks and crannies of build- ings on prominent college campuses— that sort of whimsey I don’t ap- prove of.” ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o Sfar MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1934—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. #%# | THOUGHT | HAD BOUGHT LOUIS|ANA FOR GOOD! SHADE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON! MCARTER CALLED INTAX PLOT" QUIZ Utilities Official to Describe to Jury “Deal” Offered Him by Bureau Men. Thomas N. McCarter, New Jersey utilities official whose revelations to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau { brought about the investigation into an alleged income tax conspiracy, was called by the District grand jury to- day as a volunteer witness against six suspected plotters—four of them form- erly in the bureau. McCarter was the principal witness for the Government in the criminal proceedings against a group of men who, according to Secretary Morgen- thau, sought to “sell out the Govern- ment. Other witnesses who were to testify included John A. Conlin of McCarter's advisory staff and the following agents of the Internal Revenue Intel- ligence unit: John Cox, Saxon, F. M. Woodward, F. C. Pond, T. F. Hurney, E. A. Hill, W. E. Kain and Walter P. Murphy. Indictments to Be Asked. Indictment of four or possibly six persons involved in the preliminary investigation ordered by Revenue Commissioner Guy T. Helvering will be asked by the Treasury authorities. The charge against them would be conspiracy to defraud the Governmen‘t in connection with attempted “fixing” of income tax cases. McCarter, president of the New Jersey Public Service Corp. and also of the Edison Electric Institute, was expected to tell the grand jury of a proposal to settle a pending $150,000 tax item made to him by two tax con- sultants in New York City. According to the story McCarter told Secretary Morgenthau, the tax consultants represented that through “inside connections” at the Internal Revenue Bureau they could guarantee satisfactory termination of efforts of the bureau to collect the tax if Mc- Carter would promise them 20 per cent of the amount he would be saved. McCarter Informed Morgenthau. McCarter “stalled” the consultants off for several days and secretly ad- vised Morgenthau of the proposition. The Treasury Secretary said he was “shocked” at the suggestion that a tax case could be “fixed” and asked McCarter’s co-operation in investigat- ing the proposal. McCarter agreed. When the consultants returned Mc- Carter reported he dickered with them over the commission they wanted and finally offered them a flat $10,000 fee. After consultation among the alleged conspirators, it is declared, the tax “experts” consented to accept the smaller fee. Before the deal could be consum- mated, however, the plotters are said to have been tipped off that an in- vestigation was being made by Gov- ernment agents and the transaction came to an abrupt end. Agents Continue Inquiry. Investigators working under direc- tion of Elmer L. Tvey, chief of the Intelligence Unit, .re said to have collected evidence upon which the Government will seek the conspiracy indictments and possibly indictments on other charges, in addition. The agents are continuing their inquiry with a view to checking all tax cases handled by the suspected employes over a long period of years. Two employes at headquarters here were discharged when the alleged plot was discovered several weeks ago, and two revenue agents in New York are facing dismissal also. The tax con- sultants have been barred from fur- ther relations with the Treasury. Assistant United States Attorney George McNeil is handling the pro- ceedings before the grand jury. A Gripping Narrative John 8. KAYE DON FREED Auto Racer Released After 10 ‘Weeksein Prison. DOUGLAS, Isle of Man, December 10 (#).—Kaye Don, famous British speed driver, was released today after serving 10 weeks and 2 days of a four months’ sentence for manslaughter growing from the death of his me- chanic in a wreck on a trial auto spin. He was met by a group of friends and immediately boarded a ship for Liverpool. Il health, it was stated unofficially, was the reason for Don’s early release. ‘With time off for good behavior, his term would have ended January 6. Francis Tayler, Don's mechanic, was killed when they took a night practice run for a race in Douglas May 28. He himself was badly in- jured. ALL-DAYSNOWFALL PREDICTED HERE 900 Workrs Ready to Clear Streets—Ice Causes Mishaps. Steady snowfall all day and into the night was forecast early this afternoon by the Weather Bureau as District em- ployes were kept busy sanding ice- coated hiils to prevent automobile ac- cidents. The bureau declined to pre- dict how long it would snow, but con- tinued to maintain it would be clear and cold tomorrow. Zarlier today it had forecast only flurries of snow this | afternoon. Street scrapers were expected to be placed in operation during the after- noon and the District Government was holding 900 workers and 200 trucks in readiness to begin clearing all streets as soon as the fall stops. ‘The snow removers are recruited from the Highway, Sewer, Water and City Refuse Departments of the Dis- trict government. It is not usual to begin snow re- moval unless the snow has reached a depth sufficient to impede traffic. Fenders Clash. Damaged fenders and ruffied tem- pers were common during this morn- ing’s rush hour, but no serious acci- dents resulted. Automobiles and even street cars skidded on the snow crust, causing minor traffic jams on various hills. Sanding operations were carried on by the District Highway Department and by park police in Rock Creek and other hilly park areas. The Thirteenth street hill was sanded, as was a sec- tion between E and F streets. A minor jam resulted on Indiana avenue, near Fifth and Sixth streets, when several cars, including a police automobile, skidded across the inter- section. The mercury got down to 20 at 8 oclock this morning, the minimum for the last 24 hours, and had climbed little up to noon today. About a fifth of an inch of snow fell. Heavier snows were reported from Richmond and Lynchburg, V: and in the Virginia and West Virginia mountains. Early risers today saw milk wagon horses shod in their Winter boots of leather and rubber, designed to keep the animals from falling on treach- erous streets. Park Highways Open. Park police said they did not ex- pect to close the hilly roads in Rock Creek Park to traffic unless the ice crust became worse. They had sanded the steepest hills by noon OFFRERLESS SHP RDES OUF STORN Four Ships Stand By Ready to Aid Freighter in Mid-Atlantic. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 10.—Four ships stood by today to aid the Japan- ese freighter Victoria Maru, which had been pounded into an unmanage- able condition by mid-Atlantic gales. The liner Albert Ballin reported by wireless today that, in additign to itself, the Pacific trader, the Karl Clasen and the Amsterdam had reached the stricken ship. The Japanese vessel's captain and chief officer are dead, the third officer was lost and seven seamen were in- jured. SOS messages, intercepted by other ships that went racing to her rescue, and relayed to shore, told of her bridge being destroyed by moun- tainous waves. The last message re- ported from her wireless man, however, said: “X-am alone, but present conditions not so dangerous.” Rudder Believed Lost. From the staccato story told in her meager messages, sea-going men de- duced that the stricken freighter lost her rudder in the storm, was being di- rected by the movement of her pro- peller, and apparently was holding her own. The drama of the ship against the sea was brought vividly into the warm living rooms ashore after the freighter told of her radio receiving apparatus being disabled, and asked that she be communicated with on commercial wave lengths between 200 and 400 meters. Regular broadcasts were interrupted to assure the surviving members of the crew that their SOS had been received and that ships in the vicinity were steaming to give aid. In the first messages last night, the Victoria Maru gave her position as latitude 45:39 north, longitude, 28.25 west, about 484 miles north of the Azores, A message at 9:22 p.m., picked up by the S. S. Washington and relayed to the Mackay Radio Corporation’s station at Rockland, Me., asked: “What is my bearing? I am alone, but present conditions not so much dangerous. I gave up about my re- celving set. I will send tests every 15 minutes for bearings.” Owned by Japanese Company. The freighter is a 385-foot vessel of 5,875 tons, owned by the Kokusai Line of Japan and chartered by the United States Navigation Co. of New York. She cleared Hamburg November 16 with a general cargo. Clearance records in New York listed her skipper as Capt. Takenchi, but did not give the name of her chief officer,, third officer or other members of the crew. . ‘The severity of the storm she en- countered was indicated by a message from the Washington to its New York office, reporting: “Going through rough weather. Will not, arrive at Ambrose before Wednes- day afternoon.” The Washington was due in New York tomorrow, as was the Wictoria Maru. ftne Shate. Only |3 Shopping Days Unul Christmas SUNDAY'S Ceniien, * 121,526 .l 132,462 Some Returns Not Yet Received. UP) Means Associated Press. 1.5, MRESTS 9 S MRCOTE DAVE CLMAK SREACHD Treasury Will Ask Wider Po- lice Power to Halt lllicit Traffic. CONVICTION IN 95 PCT. OF GASES IS PREDICTED Many Escape Where Tax Laws Fail to Apply—Bootlegger Leg- islation Also to Be Sought. By the Associated Press. Arrests in the Federal narcotic | drive today ,reached 791 and Harry | J. Anslinger, narcotics commissioner, | predicted about 95 per cent would be convicted in the courts. “Arrests will begin to taper off now,” i Anslinger said. “They will mostly be follow-up cases.” Anslinger said there was no evidence of one Nation-wide gang, though i there was “a lot of interlocking and inter-gang business, particularly be- tween the North and South and the East and the West.” The coast-to-coast coup was said by | officials to be the greatest single blow | ever struck the traffic. Seizures were valued at many thousands of dollars. New Powers Sought. 1 In the midst of the drive, the| Treasury was planning to ask Con- | gress for new police powers for chok- | ing the illicit narcotics trade, w-l gether with new authority for com- batting bootleggers of liquor. Enforcement in both of these fields now rests on Federal taxing powers. The Treasury believes its work would | be more effective if it were given addi- tional power to outlaw narcotic and bootleg activities. In every major city in the land, ! Federal agents forced their way into | dens. Scores of automobiles used by the peddlers were confiscated. i Under the present law, Anslinger said Federal agents ran into cases | they were unable to deal with. He listed as examples forged prescrip- | tions, possession of tax-paid goods and dope production within the States. “We've broken up some important interstate rings and captured some important narcotics racketeers,” he said. of uniform -laws by all he, said, also would help in suppressing illicit narcotics traf- ficking. He said the main supply of illicit drugs comes through New York City and that the principal source now is believed to be Bulgaria. “As a result of the drive the price of heroin here locally has doubled,” Anslinger said. More than half of those arrested in the campaign were estimated by Anslinger to have criminal ’cord.s. One Ounce of Cocaine. Anslinger said only one ounce of cocaine was picked up, heroin and opium comprising the major part of the drugs seized. Some marijuana, against which there is no Federal law, also was taken. He expressed the opinion it was marijuana which probably was given to high school students in Cleveland and promised a personal investigation of this situation. “We found no cases of school chil- dren taking heroin or morphine,” he said. FIRST WIFE ENTERS REYNOLDS COURT FIGHT Former Anne Cannon Says Di- vorce From Heir Was Illegal, and “Libby Holman Knew It.” WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., Decem- ber 10 (#).—Charging that the di- vorce she obtained from Smith Rey- nolds in Reno was illegal and void, and that Libby Holman, “being versed in law,” knew that the divorce was illegal and void before she married Smith Reynolds, Anne Cannon Rey- nolds Smith of Concord today en- tered the court fight for the Reynolds tobacco fortune. Heaping new sensations upon a case already plentifully splashed with drama, Mrs. Smith, who also divorced her second husband, today went into Forsyth Court with a plea that the proposed Reynolds' heirs’ settlement | be disallowed and that the $25,000,000 estate be distributed according to law and fairness. She presents herself as the lawful widow of the young tobacco heir. The claims set forth included ghe | charge that the Cabarrus Bank &! Trust Co. of Concord, which she| termed the “instigator” of the pro- posed settlement, is not the actual co- guardian of her child, Anne Cannon Reynolds, 2d, as it has claimed in the | Pain litigation, but was appointed merely to look after the accounts of the actual Mrs. J. F. Cannon, her mother. Dismissal of District Teachers W ho Smoke and Drink Sought Dismissal of teachers who smoke, | public school children and to reduce | tion of drink and use narcotics will be sought by the District of Columbia Public School Association when the Board of Education meets Wednesday. Contending that tobacco, liquor and delinquency, and example is the best teach- er, and the knowledge that some teachers indudge in the use of alcohol and tobacco goes far to offset the good teaching: Jjuvenile “Whereas |and the Potomac River. TWO CENTS. |CKES MAY URGE NEW U. . BUILDING PROGRAM FOR D. €. Possibility of Request Is In- dicated in Park Ser- ice Report. NORTHWEST RECTANGLE BELIEVED “NEXT STEP” Camerer Scores Congestion and Cites Continued High Cost of Renting. ‘The possibility of Secretary Ickes recommending to Congress or the Public Works Board a new public building program for Washington was forecast today in the annual report of the National Park Service, which was included in the yearly report of the Secretary of the Interior and was ap- proved by him. The Division of Government Space Control, directly under the Secretary and Director Arno B. Camerer, de- clared there was “a justifiable demand for additional buildings for depart- ments not yet adequately housed” and suggested that the time was appro- priate for the National Park Service “to formulate plans for the next step in the general public buildings pro- gram for Washington. and make the appropriate recommendations to Con- gress.” Rectangle Plans Studied. This “next step” which is urged was believed to be the proposed Northwest rectangle, bounded by Eighteenth street, Constitution avenue, E street The new $11,000,000 Interior Department Build- ing is to be erected within this area and plans for the development of: the rectangle are being studied by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Scoring congested conditions in the Government departments, the report declared the lack of relief afforded by the erection of several Government buildings and the continued high cost of renting other buildings “justifies the launching of a new building program. The Division of Government Space Control is a new function of the Na- tional Park Service and one which has had the close attention of Secretary Ickes during the past year. On re- peated occasions he has complained of the Government’s annual rent bill, & problem which the administration has been unable to solve, due to the crea- tion of new bureaus and the hiring of thousands of emergency employes to fill them. Without going into particulars, the report declared: “If the Federal rent bill maintains its present level, a build- ing containing a million square feet of floor space, almost equal in size to the Department of Commerce Build- ing, could be paid for in 17 years. Such a building would accommodate practically all Federal offices now in rented quarters and would be a perma- nent ipvestment of the Government.” Program Inadequate. Secretary Ickes has long realized that the Federal building program along Pennsylvania avenue is inade- quate for the maximum needs of the Government. The report stresses this fact in citing the amount of space allotments during the past year, an activity compelling 201 moves, cost- ing $75,800. “During the past year,” it cites, “119 leases, involving nearly $1,500,- 000, have been made, authorized or renewed. The space allotments for | the new Post Office, Interstate Com- merce Commission, Justice and Labor Buildings have been planned.” With the exception of the Labor Depart- ment space these buildings are now occupied. Despite the fact that these monu- mental buildings are occupied, the Government is “still inadequately and improperly housed,” the report re- minds. At the close of the fiscal year, June 30 last, 98 buildings, aggregating more than 12,000,000 square feet, and seven memorials in the District of Columbia were being maintained and operated by the buildings branch of the Na- tional Park Service, Director Cam- erer's report stated. Outside the Dic- trict, nine buildings with a total floc space of over 400,000 square feet wel being maintained and operated. Cites Work Acconplhhf‘. “Regular work, supplemented by civil works and public works projects and other special jobs incideni to the proper maintenance, operation and protection of buildings and memorials without the District of Columbia, was performed,” the report added. “The creation on emergency governmental activities and the relocation of a num- ber of bureaus caused a large amount of interior alterations, such as in- stallation of partitions, buzzer systems, special laboratory equipment and ting. “Forty public works projects, in- volving allotments totaling a little more than $2,000,000, were under- taken. These improvements included repair of the White House and Wash- ington Monument, restoration work on the Arlington House in Arlington Cemetery, and extension installations of air-cooling and automatic sprin- k“l:‘nl systems in large Federal biuld- Plans for the Northwest Rectangle, it was believed, may be whipped into shape in time to permit the formula- recommendations soon after Congress meets. In addition to the new Interior (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) Guide for Readers Amusements Comies .