Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1934, Page 3

PRICED FOR IMMEDIATE CLEARANCE Hundreds of lovely suites and odd pieces are now being offered at a fraction of their real value in this great savings event. OPEN EVENINGS °TIL 9 P.M. URGED AT HEARING Commissioners Seek Resto- ration of 1936 Estimates and Increases. DISTRICT IIEMSI Determined efforts were made by the Commissioners before the House Appropriations Subcommittee today to have restored to the 1936 estimate some of the principal items eliminat- ed by the Budget Bureau. ‘The Commissioners, it is under- stood, are fighting particularly for in- creased funds for emergency relief and public schools and Police and Fire Departments. Altogether, it is reported, the Budget Bureau slashed more than $3,- 000,000 from the original estimates of the Commissioners. About $1,000,- 000 of this amount was cut from the emergency relief item, bringing it down to $2,000,000, the amount ap- propriated for the current fiscal year. Commissioner Allen believes $3,000,- 000 is the minimum needed for relief in the coming fiscal year. Increase Need Stressed. The need for an increase over the $41,000,000 recommended by the Budget Bureau was stressed by the Commissioners in a general prophetic resume of conditions in the 1936 fiscal year. A financial report by Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor and budget officer, showed the ability of the Dis- trict to support the Commissioners’ original $44,039,356 budget, providing the Federal Government contributed as its share toward the expenses of the District, $8,317,500. This is the amount the Commissioners recom- mended to the Budget Bureau. The bureau, however, is understood to have cut the figure back to $5,700,- 000, the amount appropriated for the current fiscal year, from which was deducted 70 per cent of P. W. A. loans to the District. Through this process the actual contribution fell below $5,000,000, the lowest in history. Chairman Cannon of the subcom- mittee promised to give utmost con- sideration to the pleas of the Com- missioners and said he was confident the District would be granted sufficient funds in the coming fiscal year to operate on an efficient but economical basis. Daily Sessions Planned. The budget hearings, according to Cannon, probably will conclude be- fore the Christmas holidays. Daily sessions are to be held between 10:30 am. and 4:30 pm. After the Com- missioners finish their testimony the department heads are to be called to justify various items in their esti- mates. After that the committee will give civic and business leaders an op- portunity to appear. During the holiday period the ap- propriation is expected to be marked up and put into shape to report to the House soon after Congress con- venes January 3. Until that time the public will be kept in the dark as to both the Budget Bureau recom- mendations as well as the items in the bill POLICE INCREASE PLAN GIVEN SUPPORT Columbia Heights Section Dele- gates Confer With Brown on Need of Men, ‘The entire civic strength of the Columbia Heights section of the city was today offered to Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police, in his fight for an increase of 141 in the personnel of the Police Department. The bodies represented in the con- ference with Maj. Brown today were the Columbia Heights Citizens’ Asso- ciation, the Columbia Heights Busi- ness Men's Association and the Colum- bia Heights Forum. The interview was arranged by Frank Sobotaka, former president of the citizens' as- sociation. Upon the acceptance by Maj. Brown of the assistance of these organi- zations it was announced that repre- senatives would meet at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon at 515 East Clifton terrace to form a special committee to attend budget hearings before both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. It was further announced that A. J. Driscoll, president of the Mid-City Citizens’ Association and others who may be interested in the program be invited to attend this meeting and arrange for representa- tion on the committee. The Columbia Heights delegates in- formed Maj. Brown that they had implicit confidence in his adminis- tration and they believed he was do- ing all that he could with the present limited force. SPECIAL NOTIC!S. (GRESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP. Gountry Club. Submit oo Chddress Bor 273-R, 8t I ‘WILL NUI' B! RBPONSIBLE POR ANY debis contracted by ony one but mysell. A LINKENHOKER. 512 Sth st. se. 14% I WILL NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR debts contracted by any other than myself from November 1. 1034 and meruner AARON BOSIN. 632 Call 1 AM NOT REPONS POR. Dms made other than by myself. SALEMMO. 1300_E st. n.w. FRANK . 1300 E st. n.w. _____ 13° _ 1 WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY d!b wnlrlcl! by ! one_ but mv!elf RTHUR Jomes, 338 £ 1 ave ne. SIBLE FOR ESPON: o one_other_than BuELlo 9158 Quens {OTIC 18 HEREBY GIVEN THAT m Snnual “meeting of the stockNolders of the ton American League Base Ball Clllh III be held at the oflcel Dl the clnb Base Ball Park, Washing C.. Wednflidlr January 2, 1”15 ll IZ o] Clock noon, for the purpose of electing a board of Girectors for the ensuing vear. and for guch other business as may properly be brought before said meeting. EDWAR! EYNON. Jr.. enry WILL debu cuntrlclcd ml"” JAM SPECIAL RETUI RATES ON FULL Shd part Toads to it points within 1.000 miles: padded vans: guarapteed service locll %ovlnl also. . Phone Nati ll 1461! 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Koo oroulh Inrl, mr ch-ues A]l' COHPANY Nol’!h Al f | TREASURY EXPERT IS NAMED TO MAKE TAX COMPARISON (Continued From Pirst Page) now under way before a special sub- committee of the House Appropria- tions Committee. The Commissioners told the Bureau of the Budget in their opinion the Federal Government should increase the payment by around $3,000,000 to a tota] of about $8,300,000 for the fiscal year 1936. Mr. Haas, who will direct the tax survey, is an economist of wide ex- perience and has been for several years associated with various Govern- ment departments and establishments, including the Department of Agricul- ture and the Farm Credit Administra- tion. Haas came to the Treasury as direc- tor of the division of research and sta- tistics in September of this year, suc- ceeding W. R. Stark. He had been deputy governor of the Farm Credit Administration, where he had been closely associated with Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau before the Secretary was transferred to the Treasury Department. In the Spring of 1933 Mr. Hass served as technical adviser to the American delegation to the Interna- tional Wheat Conference which con- vened first in Geneva, Switzerland, and later transferred its sessions to Lon- don. He later was appointed one of the economic advisers to the United States delegation to the World Eco- nomic Conference in London. Upon his return to this country late in July he was made chief economist of the Farm Credit Administration, rising to the post of deputy governor of the administration in November, 1933. Mr. Haas' career also included serv- ing as one of the first representatives abroad of the Department of Agri- culture. He was an agricultural com- missioner for the department, first in Vienna and later in Berlin. The Berlin and Vienna offices were con- solidated into one under his,direction. Mr. Haas was born in St. Paul, Minn., in 1896. He studied both at the School of Business and at the College of Ag- riculture of the University of Minne- sota. He graduated in 1921 with a bachelor of science degree in agri- culture. In the following year he was graduated with a master of arts degree in agricultural economics. Further graduate studies in economics were pursued at the University of Berlin. Studied Land Colonization, During two Summers he has made studies of land colonization methods in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michi- gan for the Department of Agriculture, subsequently coming to Washington to engage in research on land valuation for the Department of Agriculture. His studies on land valuation were published by the University of Minne- sota. Mr. Haas’ experience in land valua- tion is expected to stand him in good stead during the District of Columbia tax survey, be®use of the fact that one of the disputed questions at is- sue in the problem of 4scal relations is the ratio of assessed value to true value. Experts in Washington who are fighting for a more equitable basis for fiscal relations claim that there can be no successful determina- tion of such an average ratio. They point to a wide variety of assessment valuation throughout the country and some have gone so far as to insist mmzmowwupiumm should be considered as & more equit- able base. Following his land valuation work JT1- | for the Department of Agriculture Mr. Haas was detailed to handle work for the department on price analysis, go- ing from this into the foreign fleld. After returning from Europe he was placed in charge of the foreign section of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. He left this position to take charge for two years of industrial research for an investment and re- search corporation in Detroit, return- ing to the Government service sistant chief economist of the Fed- eral Farm Board in 1930, Get New Posts ANTONIO C. GONZALEZ. GEORGE T. SUMMERLIN, ROOSEVELT FILLS TWO ENVOY POSTS Gonzalez Goes to Ecuador, Sum- merlin to Panama, in Latest Shifts. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt today appointed Antonio C. Gonszales of New York as Minister to Ecuador and George T. Summerlin of Louisiana as Min- ister to Panama. Gonzalez has beei Minister to Panama and Summerlin Minister to Venezuela. Summerlin’s transfer leaves a va- cancy in Venezuela. Gonzalez was born in New York City and is a member of the bar in Connecticut, New York and the Dis- trict of Columbia. He was appointed Minister to Panama on August 38, 1933. Summerlin was born in Rayville, La., and is a graduate of the United States Military Academy. He has served at Tokio, Peiping, Santiago, Mexico City and Rome. He was named Minister to Honduras in 1925 and later trans- ferred to Venezuela. It is generally expected that Wil- liam Dawson, now Minister to Ecuddor, will be transferred to Colombia. — Japan to Tax Arms. Japan is expected to levy & tax on the munitions ine , the amount to be thus obtained in 1935 being esti- mated at nearly $10,000,000. # BELL HAD VISION OF ELECTRIC CHAIR, NURSE TELLS JURY (Continued From First Page.) may continue into next week with day and night sessions. Late in July, Mrs. Jones testified, late yesterday, she sat onthe frontporch and watched through a window as Bell opened the refrigerator in the kitchen and took out a small bottle of meat extract. The witness said she found this bottle was discolored and had an evil odor. She locked it up and pro- cured other nourishment for the in- valid. Mrs. Jones testified these bottles of meat extract were always marked by Bell and always opened when he gave them to her for his wife. She related five specific occasions on which food and medicine intended for Mrs. Bell showed signs of being contaminated. Foreign Substance in Syringe. Mrs. Jones said a foreign substance had been mysteriously introduced into & hypodermic syringe from which she gave Mrs. Bell injections of a sleeping potion. Meat from which meat blood was to be extracted for the patient showed strange brown spots, as if a chemical powder had been strewn over it, she testified. A bottle of liver extract likewise was contaminated, Mrs. Jones testified. The nurse explained that she exer- cised the utmost vigilance to prevent any of these substances from reaching the invalid. On the occasion when Mrs. Bell swallowed some of the meat juice, the patient complained of a creeping numbness which deprived her temporarily of the use of her limbs, it was testified. Kept Notes of Observations. During the time immediately pre- ‘ceding Bell's arrest, the nurse kept notes of her observations and a chart of the condition of Mrs. Bell. Another witness yesterday was Wil- liam Benjamin Franklin Cole, com- monwealth’s attorney of Fredericks- burg, who was excused from prosecut- ing the case in order that he might testify. Cole told how the defendant’s' daughter, Miss Irma Bell, called him to her automobile and gave him bottles. which she belleved had been con- taminated. Cole said he got three other bottles from his brother, Dr. John E. Cole, a physician attending Mrs. Bell, and took all of them to Richmond to be analyzed. Poisoned Offered as Evidence. The prosecution offered at least twoscore of these bottles in evidence. Expert testimony was introduced that virtually all of them contained deadly poison. Several hours were occupied late yesterday with technical testi- mony of the analysis given by Thomas A. Balthis of Richmond, a State chemist. A youthful employe of Bell, Wood- row C. Jones, told the court he pur- chased three pints of poison for Bell, who explained he was exterminating rats. Two of these poisons were of a rare and- deadly nature, and had to be ordered by the pharmacist from out of the city. Jones denled Bell showed any dis- posmon toward secrecy. He said he Address BOX 257—S Star Office No. 1—The jury that will decide the fate of Edward C. Bell, 60-year- old Virginia deacon, on trial at Predericksburg, Va., on & charge of at- tempting to poison his wife. First row, left to right: G. Fred Cooke, jr.; B. J. Lucas, Lafayette H. Biscoe, Brewer Beckwith. Second row: G. M. Henderson, J. T. Hearn, J. Edward Tompkins, W. C. Schoonover. Third row: Thomas S. Doggett, Horace B. Cox, Edward T. Peyton and L. A. Dodd. —A. P. Photo. No. 2—Woodrow C. Jones, who testified he bought rat poison for Bell. —Star Staff Photo. No. 3—Court room scene, showing bottles alleged to contain poison, being inspected by, left to right: Thomas A. Bathis, Virginia State chemist; W. W. Butzner, Bell's attorney, and Albert V. Bryan, prosecutor. A. P, Photo. residence to help spread the poison in the basement. “We might as well use all of that arsenic,” Jones said he told Bell. “No, we'll save some of it until we see how it works,” Jones said Bell replied. ROOSEVELT COMMENDED |: FOR WAR PROFIT MOVE Women’s International League Also Favors Continuance of Arms Probe. ‘The District Branch of the Women's International League yesterday voted to send to President Roosevelt & tele- gram commending him on his move to take profits out of war. The branch also favored continu- ance of the Senate munitions investi- gation, in the same resolution in which they voted to send thg message to the Chief Extcutive. The telegram was signed by the officers of the District branch, Mrs. Frank J. 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