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Washington News WATER RATE CUT RETAINED IN 135% BUDGET ESTIMATE Leaders May Be Called Tomorrow to Recommend Improvements. STREET CITES NEED FOR $3,000,000 RELIEF Subcommittee Considers Tuber- | culosis Hospital, Training School | and Home for Aged. Continuation of the existing water rates of $6.56 for 10,000 cubic feet is + provided in the1936 District budget, it was learned today as the House Appropriations subcommittee pre- pared to consider the estimates of the Water Department. The rates were slashed July 1 last from $8.75 and the metered allow- ance raised from 7,500 to 10,000 cubic feet. The reduction, coupled with the Increased allowance, was estimated to save water rent payers approximately $200,000 a year. The Water Department, it is un- derstood, urged that the reduced rate e continued through the coming fis- cal year and the Budget Bureau ap- proved it. Indications are the sub- committee also will follow the Water Department’s recommendations. The Water Department’s estimates are the last to be taken up by the sub- committee in connection with the hearings on the 1936 budget and Chairman Cannon expects to reach them before the end of the day. If this program is followed, representa- titves of civic and business organiza- tions will be given an opportunity to- | morrow and Saturday to present their requests for public improvements. Hearings Requested. Already about a dozen organiza‘ions have asked for time. These include the Federation of Citizens' Associa- tions and the Washington Board of ‘Trade’s Bridge Committee. The subcommittee at its initial ses- sion today completed consideration of the important public welfare estimates and made arrangements to devote the afternoon to those of the District Militia, National Capitol parks, Na- { tional Capital Park and Planning Commission, National Zoological Park and finally the Water Department. The emergency relief program for 1936, a major item in the welfare esti- mates, was discussed in detail by Commissioner George E. Allen and Elwood Street, directer of public wel- fare. The Commissioners gought’ $3,- 000,000 to carry out the relief work in the coming fiscal year, but the Budget Bureau reduced the figure to $2,000,- 000, the same as appropriated for the current fiscal year. Street is said to have given the sub- | committee a vivid picture of the relief | Youth, 19, Fleeing While special details of motor cycle police were swinging into their in- tensive drive against reckless driving today another death brought the Dis- trict traffic toll for the year to 127, surpassing by four all previous records. The latest victim, Leroy Lindsay, street southwest, was killed when a car, reported stolen, he was driving crashed into a tree at School and Sixth _streets chased by police in a scout car from No. 4 precinct. Lindsay died in Casualty Hospital. The special “flying squadron” of motor cycle police made 50 arrests for speeding during the 24 hours which ended at 10:30 this morning. Reckless Driving Charged. In addition to the speeders, one arrest was made for reckless driving |several other motorists were ap- prehended for minor offenses. As a move to bring to speedy trial traffic violators, Superintendent of Police Ernest W. Brown today ex- pected to confer with Judge Gus A. Schuldt, presiding judge of Police Court, to discuss proposed operation of a night court for traffic offenders. Maj. Brown and Commissioner Hazen. Inspector B. A. Lamb, head of the police Traffic Bureau, expressed the opinion today the special details of | motor cycle men may not result in a great number of arrests, because mo- torists who see them will slow down. | He expressed the view, however, that the details will be of great value in making motorists drive more cace- fully. 127th Auto F atality Start of Police Traffic War Into Tree—F lying Squadron” * Jails 50 for Speeding. 19, colored, of the 400 block of Second | southwest while being | last night by the special detail and | The idea was discussed yesteday by | A total of eight motor cycle men | he WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1934 Marks Scout Car, Crashes were assigned to the special duty to- day, with four on Bladensburg road northeast, two on New York averue northeast, one oni Thirteenth street near Roosevelt High School and one on R street near Wisconsin avenue. Four men were assigned last night to the special squad on Bladensburg road and New York avenue northeast. ‘The vigilance squad of motor cycle policemen is operating as only one | part of Commissioner Hazen'’s 11- point program to reduce accidents in | the District through being more strict all along the line with the violators of trafic regulations. ‘The other phases of the program were outlined m detail yesterday by Commissioner Hazen, who held conferences with traffic and police authorities. ‘Three minor injuries were reported in accidents last night. Elizabeth Jefferson, 5, 418 Twentieth street, was treated at Emergency Hos- pital for a leg injury received when knocked down by an automobile near her home. X-rays were to be taken to determine whether she has a | fracture. | Treated at Hospital. Mrs. Mary Haynes, 31, of the 6300 block of Seventh street, was treated at Walter Reed Hospital for cuts and shock, received last night when the automobile which her husband, Clin- ton Haynes, 32, is said to have been driving skidded off Rock Creek Church road and ran into a telegraph pole. The cther injured was John V. Keull, 18, of the first block of Four- teenth street northeast, who suffered back injuries when his motor cycle skidded frem under him at Fifth and East Capitol streets. He was treated at Casualty Hospital. A collision between a street car and bus tied up traffic for a short while |at Dupont Circle late yesterday, but | no one was hurt, police reported. DAWES BANK SUIT NAMES T3IND. R. F. C. Files Action Here in Effort to Collect Part of $60,000,000. The Reconstruction Finance Corp. today filed suit in District Supreme, Court against 13 Washingtonians in an effort to collect a part of approxi- | mately $60,000,000 still owing on re- One of the officials of this bank construction loans to the Central Re- | public Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago. | CONTRAGT SENED FOR GLEN DALE Ickes Removes Virtually Last Barrier for Construc- tion of Hospital. Signing & contract agreement be- tween the District and the Public ‘Works Administration, Secretary Ickes today removed virtually the last bar- rier to construction of the long pro- posed adult tuberculosis hospital at Glenn Dale, Md. The Commissioners accepted the | in such a manner,” said Gloth, | by Attorney General Abram P. Staples WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION BOUNDARYDISPUTE HEARING MARKED BY HEATED GLASH W. C. Gloth of Commission and H. H. Glassie En- gage in Argument. GOVERNMENT EXPERT HOLDS MAPS IRRELEVANT Declares “I Do Not Intend to Try Virginia's Case'—Compro- mise Is Reached. A heated clash between a member of the Boundary Commission and a representative of the United States in the Virginia-District of Columbia boundary dispute enlivened the pro- ceedings today as the Government was presenting its case. William C. Gloth of the commission tangled with Henry H. Glassie, repre- senting the Government, over a re- quest to produce old maps examined by the Government's expert map- maker but not used. Interrupting each other frequently and speaking in raised voices, Gloth insisted that the maps be produced and Glassie insisted that he would not produce them, holding them ir- relevant. Compromise Is Reached. “I do not intend to try Virginis case for it,” said Glassie. i “I am not used to being spoken to I The controversy delayed adjourn- ment for 20 minutes, during which the commission sustained a request | 2 of Virginia that the maps be pro- duced. A compromise was finally Alexanders Island. No. pening Stap * 1793 Map Used in Boundary Hearin This interesting old map, drawn by Andrew Ellicott in 1793, was introduced in the Virginia-District of Co- lumbia boundary hearing today to show the location of Alexanders Island, now Columbia Island. No. 1 shows Masons Island now known as Roosevelt Island. No. 3, mouth of Tiber Creek, long since filled in during the development which created Potomac Park. No. 4, the city of Alexandria. Society and General PAGE B-1 COURT T0 APPROVE BONDHOLDER PLAN FOR MAYFLOWER i Principles of Henderson Proposal to Be Followed in Settlement. o ATTORNEYS REVEAL NO APPEAL PROBABLE The Mayflower Hotel today emerged from the maze of litigation which has enmeshed it for the past three years when District Supreme Court Justice | F. Dickinson Letts let it be kown he | would approve a reorganization plan submitted by the first mortgage bond- | holders under the new bankruptcy 'act. { Justice Letts said he would sign an lorder to this effect within the next few days, and counsel declared a new owping company would be ready to 4 | take over the hotel by February 1 | Under the reorganization plan, which is mandatory on all bondholders, those owning bonds now secured by the first | trust will receive 60 per cent of the face value of their present securities {in new bonds, and the remaining 40 .per cent in capital stock of the new ! company. All of the capital stock will be owned by the first mortgage holders. Cash for Others. The present holders of second mort- gage bonds will be paid off in cash, the amount to be based on their in- terest in the unmortgaged assets of reached under which attorneys for the opposing sides agreed to get to- getner during the recess and see; which of the old and discarded maps | could be located. Today's proceedings opened with | Charles D. Cock, formeriy a drafts- | man with the National Capital Park | and Planning Commission and now | instructor in civil engineering at, George Washington University, on | the stand under cross-examination by 12 NAMED T0 PLAN D. . WELARE BILLS Senator Frank L. Ball, representing Arlington County. Three Sections of Map. Cook made three sections of a map purporting to show the high-water mark on the right bank of the Potomac oppoesite the District as it stood in 1791. Senator Ball brought out, however, that the map drawn by Cook, was substantially identical with the Coast and Geodetic Survey map of 1863, Cook said that the Andrew Ellicott map of 1791 was used for reference but that it was impossible to reproduce its outline to scale since the old map gave no “control points. Most of the present shore line Cook situation in the District, showing more { was Charles G. Dawes, who resigned terms of the contract last week and | said, was taken from the 1853 map, with Ickes' official approval today | some of it from the Maskell Ewing than 20,000 families are now on the relief rolls, and Allen pointed out that more than $2,000,000 is needed in the coming fiscal year to continue the present program. Other estimates in the welfare bud- get taken up by the subcommittee in- cluded those of the Tuberculosis Hos- pital, Gallinger Municipal Hospital, District Training School, Industrial Home School. Home for the Aged and Infirm and St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. Capt. M. M. Barnard, general sup- erintendent of District penal institu- tions; Wilbur La Roe, jr., a member of the Parole Board, and Justice Al- fred A. Wheat of the District Su- preme Court, appeared before the subcommittee late yesterday and were questioned about the various activities. Wheat Defends Jurors, Capt. Barnard also urged an ap- propriation to complete the walled inclosure at the District Reformatory at Lorton, Va., while La Roe is under- stood to have requested funds for the Parole Board. Justice Wheat was questioned about the District jury system and is re- ported to have told the subcommittee he believed the type of persons se- lected for jury service here are of as high caliber as anywhere in the sountry. In connection with conditions at ‘Lorton, Capt. Barnard was asked about reports that prisoners were be- ing allowed to come to Washington on pleasure trips, and that several had been caught at the institution operat- ing a still. Barnard is understood to have replied that he learned certain favored prisoners several years ago were permitted to visit Washington, but he had stopped that practice long ago. The story about the still, he said, obviously grew out of an attempt of several prisoners to concoct a drink out of fruit juices which had been {loncealed in a jar to await fermenta- on. L SN MRS. HENRIETTA WARD, IN D. C. 34 YEARS, DIES Widow of Former Navy Yard Employe Was Born in Montgomery County. Mrs. Henrietta M. Ward, 79, a resi- dent of Washington for 34 years, died early today at her home, 523 Seventh street southeast. She was the widow of William E. Ward, an employe of the Navy Yard for many years, Born in Montgomery County, Md., Mrs. Ward was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Purdum. Mrs. ‘Ward is survived by two daughters, Mrs. J. T. Harrell of Fredericksburg, Va., and Mrs. Mary V. Canter of Washington; two sons, John 8. Ward of Cherrydale, Va., and Newton B. Ward of Washington, and a stepdaughter, Mrs, W. C. Watkins of Rockville, Md. Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed. Chillum Grange Elects Crandell. CHILLUM, Md., December 20 (Spe- cial) —Howard Crandell has been elected master of Eureka Grange, No. 177, to serve one year, and the other officers chosen are Raymond -Ager, overseer; Mrs. Harry Nalley, lecturer; Fred Eichman, steward; Thomas Joy, assistant steward; D. Roy Mathews, chaplain; Charles Miller, treasurer; Lee A. Miller, secretary; Thomas Miller, gatekeeper; Mrs. Howard Crandell, ceres; Mrs. Fred Eichman, pomona; Mrs. Ch;enu Bfllm.gorl. and Mrs. Raymond Ager, assistant IM | his executive position with the R. F. C. and resumed his connection with the bank before the lcans were | made. The petition, filed through Attorney William C. Fitts, states one loan of $30,000,000 was made on June 29, 1932, and a second of $50,000,000 on October 6, 1932, Approximately $23,- 000,000 of the first loan has been re- paid, it was stated, but nothing has been paid on the second loan. Some- thing more than $7,000,000 in interest has accumulated. The petition states the bank is now in receivership and unable to pay its debts. The following local holders of stock, which had a par value of $100 a share, are named defendar.ts: Frederic Bancroft, P. Bicknell, 1661 Crescent place, 12 shares; Mrs. Rose G. Casey, 1425 Whittier street, 200 shares; Mrs. Edythe Patten Corbin, 2122 Massa- chusetts avenue, 30 shares; William G. Hawthorne, Marine Corps Headquar- ters, six shares; Hugo Hennig, 505 Fourth street; Grace Hughes, 2125 Kalorama road, and Alice Marie Mer- rill, 3620 Sixteenth street, two shares each; Mrs. Emma C. Mann, 2400 Six- Marchand, National Metropolitan Bank, eight shares; William B. Pich- ler, 5402 or 5612 Connecticut avenue, one share, and Mrs. Lucy L. Smith, Wardman Park Hotel, seven shares. CONNECTICUT SUIT FILED. 15 Residents of State Are Defendants in Action. NEW HAVEN, Conn., December 20 (AP).—Fifteen residents of Connecticut described as stockholders in the Central Republic Trust Co., of Chicago, Il., were faced today with a suit by the United States Government and the ' Reconstruction Finance Corp.—one of a series totaling $60,476,638.25. The suit to collect interest and un- paid balance on two loans made in 1932 was filed yesterday in the United States District Court here. The Connecticut action is subsidiary to one filed in the United States Dis- trict Court of Illinois, Eastern division. Metropolitan | Club, 182 shares; Mr. and Mrs. Ernest | teenth street, five shares; John T.| work may start at once on the site. Lump Sum or Instailments. Payment of the $1,500,000 covering the cost of construction, officials said, may be made to the District either | in a lump sum or installments, as the Commissioners desire. Secretary Ickes is awaiting word from them. The only possible hitch in the ar- rangements is in connection with the water supply at Glenn Dale, which | must satisfy the Public Works Ad- ministration as to its quality and the amount available. With the first ad- vance of funds the Commissioners expect to drill a 1,000-foot well to tap the main water supply. Sees Ample Water Supply. Engineer Commissioner Sultan said | today there is no doubt the District | can meet the provision of the allot- | ment of P. W. A. funds. He declared | there is an ample supply of water at | Glenn Dale to meet present needs and | if an increased amount is necessary | | it can be procured by digging deeper | wells or by bringing water through a | main leading from the District. | Secretary Ickes made no changes in | the contract which calls for comple- tion of the project by July 1, 1936, and occupancy of the hospital by Sep- | tember 1 of that year. He has no in- | tention, it was said, of holding the | | Commissioners to the letter of the contract, but will insist in approving | all construction contracts before they are awarded. CITES RELIEF COSTS Lusk Holds Sum Exceeds Monthly Cost of Operating Schools. Money spent for relief in Washing- ton last month exceeded the monthly cost of operating the school systcm, according to a statement issued by! Rufus S. Lusk, secretary of the Wash- ington Taxpayers' Protective Associa- tion. “It is stressed in reports from the emergency relief division,” he said, “that there was a net reduction of 277 relief cases. However, relief cists went | up $245,000, so that for each case| cut off the rolls, $885 was added to the outlay.” Mother, 20, See Losing her way as she searched for the place where her baby was being kept Mrs. Mildred McIntosh, 20, wandered about the streets of Wash- ington all yesterday through the cold drizzle and finally, when she could g0 no further, fell unconscious near Eastern High School. - She was found by two men, who took her to Gallinger Hospital. There the young mother, who is scarcely larger than a slight child dnd had but recently recovered from a severe ill- ness, told physicians a confused and somewhat hysterical story of tangled domestic affairs. She was recovering today from ef- fects of the exposure. Worked as Domestic. For a month she has worked as a domestic in Rockville, Md. Before that time she had been {ll and her husband too the child to his sister, Mrs. Belle McKay, at 521 Longfellow street. Several days 8sgo Mrs. Mclntosh heard that Mrs. McKay was about to Faints From Weariness on Quest king Lost Baby, move from the city. Mrs. McKay was to turn the baby over to its father, George McIntosh, yesterday. The Mc- Kay family left the city this morning. What disposition was made of the child could not be learned by police. Mrs. McIntosh determined to come to Washington to get her baby, al- though she did not know where her husband was staying. Her employer brought her to the city in his automobile yesterday morn- ing. Whether she went to the Mc- Kay home is not known, sinceshe could only sob when questioned. Mother at Germantown. Mrs. Sarah Earp, the girl's mother, who lives in Germantown, Md., and works at Olney, Md., said she thinks her daughter did not know exactly where her husband was living and became lost as she searched for him to get her baby. The hope that the husband might take the child to its mother at the hospital was expressed by Gallinger officiala map of 1837 and these were compared ! with the general outlines of the | Ellicott map of 1791. “What Is an Island?” The solemn question “What is an island?” occupied' the attention of the experts for an hour at the sgssion of the commission yesterday. Col. Lawrence Martin, chief of the division of maps of the Library of Congress, said that it was a body of land surrounded by water at its highest stage. Andrew Ellicott's map of the “Ter- ritory of Columbia,” made in 1793, shows “Alexander’s Island” in‘ the/ “Potomak River” just off the shore of Virginia where the Highway Bridge now crosses. Between the island proper and the mainland is a symbol for a swamp. Interpreting the map, Col. Martin | said that undoubtedly from the ccn- figuration of the land shown the island was an island because it was| entirely separated from the mainland | at highest water. Attorney General | Abram Staples of Virginia said that | the map showed the island as part of the mainland, and promised later to introduce evidence to show that in many other such situations parts of the mainland were called “islands” years ago. There is no island there now, in any sense, and Virginia and the Dis- trict are each claiming the filled land between the mainland and the old boundaries of the island, where part of the airport now stands. Ancient Maps Shown., The Government’s case, put in by Henry H. Glassie, special assistant to the Attorney General, started with the | | Ellicott map and several other ancient | maps. A survey of the high-water | mark was made in 1930 and 1931, and the Government’s contention is that the high-water mark as shown in the old maps and as it is today are prac- tically identical, save for the filled land. Alexandria City’s case, of which an outline was put into the record by City Attorney Carl Budwesky yester- day, will claim a boundary extending out to the ends of the bulkheads in Alexandria Harbor. This is the most extensive claim among those of the Virginia subdivisions. “The City of Alexandria has been an incorporated municipality since 1748,” said Budwesky’s outline. “Since that ancient date until the very present, whether it owed its existence to ‘an act of the Commonwealth of Virginia or of the Congress of the United States, the legislative govern- ing body of this city has been vested with jurisdiction and control over the, harbor of Alexandria to the Port ‘Warden's line, and has always openly and notoriously exercised that jurisdic- tion.” Since its incorporation by the Vir- ginia General Assembly in 1748, and its charter from Congress in 1804, as amended in 1826, he said, all new charters for the city have included the ancient rights to regulate wharves and bulkheads built into the Potomac River, which have been extensively exercised for 150 years. Unemployment Insurance in City and Pensions Urged in National Set-up. fare legislation for the District will be drafted by a committee of 12 rep- | resentatives of Washington groups as the result of a round-table discus- sion of the needs held yvesterday un- Welfare, Speakers advocated an unemploy- ment insurance plan as a part of the national legislation now being con- | sidered, extension of the mothers’ aid programn of the District and pensions for the blind and aged. Frederick W. McReynolds, chair- man of the Welfare Board, speaking particularly of the unemployment in- surance plan, said, “We want to be certain that the District is not left outside of, or made an exception to, any ‘egislation the administration may recommend.” Various Groups Represented. He named the following joint com- 'YULE EXERCISES BEGIN AT TAKOMA TONIGHT Giant Tree to Be Lighted and Four School Glee Clubs Will Sing. Christmas exercises will begin in | Takoma Park, D. C.. at 7 o'clock to- night in the playgrounds at Fourth | and Whittier streets. Four school glee Clubs will take part in the exercises | and a giant tree will be lighted by | Dr. H. W. Whitaker, former president of the Citizens’ Association of Takoma, | D. C. Several prizes will be given | | |ices and clothing will be distributed | to needy families. The choruses taking part in the services are George Washington Uni- | versity Glee Club, Takoma Park Pub- |and Boy Scout buglers. Community | singing will be directed by a mem- | ber of the University Glee Club. The public is invited. LA FONTAINE GETS ROWLAND DIAMOND Well Known Saloon XKeeper's Will, Listing Big Estate, Remembers Friend. mittee to submit definite legislative | proposals to be considered at another meeting of organization representa- tives in the near future: Dr. Frederick W. Perkins, member of the Welfare Board; Dr. A. C. Chris- tie of the Public Health Committee of the Board of Trade; Miss Kath- erine Lenroot, director of the United States Children’s Bureau, who rep- resented the Monday Evening Club; Walter S. Ufford, Washington Chap- ter, American Association of Social Workers; Mrs. Caroline Hogue, Citi- zens' Committee for Old-age Pen- sions; John Locher, president, Wash- ington Central Labor Union; Sanford Bates, president, Washington Council of Social Agencies; Mrs. Elizabeth T. Sullivan, vice president, Federation of Citizens’ Associations; George W. Beasley, presigent, Federation of Civic Associations; Dr. John O'Grady, director of Catholic Charities; Mrs. Charles Goldsmith and Dr. Worth B. Daniels, members, Board of Public ‘Welfare. 126,000 Held Eligible. Dr. Leroy A. Halbert, director of research for the District Relief Administration, presented statistics showing that 126,000 persons, exclud- | ing Federal and District employes, ap- pear in the class normally regarded as eligible for unemployment in- surance. A plea that the Government em- ploye be made eligible was submitted by William A. Roberts, people’s counsel. Dr. Halbert also presented estimates that about 1,000 persons would be | eligible for old-age pensions, of the minimum age was set at 65 years. Mrs. Hogue said the average grants per person would be about $25 a month. It was estimated roughly the cost, under such estimates, would total about $300,000 a year. New Departures Suggested. Miss Lenroot urged establishment of a permanent division of home relief in the Board of Public Welfare and a social service department at Gal- linger Hospital. Mr. Ufford, supporting the general objectives, urged specifically that the District Parole Board be provided an adequate staff and that medical and psychiatric personnel be employed at the Lorton Reformatory to aid in re- habilitation of criminals. Rufus 8. Lusk, secretary of the Washingion Taxpayers’ Protective As- sociation, suggested that a complete statement of the costs of the relief program accompany the recommenda- tions of the committee. —— LORTON HAS INCREASE Capt. M. M. Barnard, general super- intendent of penal institutions, re- BUSBY APPOINTED ported today that the population of Gets Position in Legal Depart-!prisoners at the District seformatory at Lorton last month was 1251, as ment of Deposit Insurance Corp. lcomp.red with 1,192 at the end of Representative Busby, Democrat, of | October and 1,170 at the eni of Mississippi, has accepted a position | November of last year. with the legal department of the Fed-| The average daily population dur- eral Deposit Insurance Corp. He will |ing the past month was 1,219, as com- assume his duties after January 1. pared with 1,142 in October and 1,131 Busby was for re-election. | in November of last year, P Leaving his 3-carat diamond ring to his “beloved friend,” James A. (Jimmy) La Fontaine, and the rest of his $200,000 estates to relatives | and friends, the wiil of the late Isaac | H. Rowland, well-known saloon keeper of pre-prohibition days, was filed to- day. Rowland at one time was employed by the Heurich Brewing Co. He quit | his job to open the saloon, on Ninth | street, which became one of the most | popular establishments of its kind. | He retired after passage of the pro- hibition amendment. His will, filed through Attorney Charles E. Ford, gave $25,000 to Nenia F. McKnight, $20,000 each to two nephews, Edward McCarthy and Frank Mace, and $10,000 to a friend, William J. Staub. His widow, Mrs. Lillian Irene Row- land, was bequeathed $50,000, in trust for 10 years, after which the gift will become absolute. Attorney Ford and Staub were named trustees of this | fund. The widow also receives the residue of the estate. It was reported the diamond soli- taire given La Fontaine was worn by Rowland during his saloon-keeping days. Ford and James A. La Fon- taine, jr., were named executors. Mr. Rowl died December 13. In Sales, May Curbing the business activities of two blind men—William Henry Boyer, who has sold newspapers, magazines, fruit and candy in the bassment of the State, War and Navy Building, and William U. Phillips, who plies his trade at the entrance of the old Pension Of- fice Building, occupied by the General Accounting Office—today aroused vig- orous protests among their Govern- ment employe clients. Arno B. Cammerer, director of the National Park Service, who recently wrote a letter to Ralph H. Campbell, executive secretary of the Columbia Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, telling him his wards must keep within the terms of their permits, authorizing only the sale of newspapers, said today his office had discussed putting these people on a salary and that anything that will be to their benefit will be undertaken. Mr. Boyer became blind three years ago. A permit issued last March per- mitted him to sell papers at the State, War and Navy Building, and as his clients increased, he added fruits, candy and sandwiches. Boyer said today he has been mak- ing about $8 a week, with which he managed to support his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Boyer, 53, and himself. They live at 1347 Maryland avenue northeast, but on Monday his mother be taken to Emergency Hos- the hotel. The exact amount of this interest has not yet been determined, but it was believed it will be relatively small | i | | !in the so-called Henderson plan of Te- organization, submitted early in the bankruptey lit'gation by Donald Hen- - derson on behalf of the reorganization , managers. It had been placed before the court earlier by three proteciive committees of first mortgage holders. Power and Light Co. Figurei of $82,000,000 Disclosed to Trade Commission. A proposed program of social wel-|away to children attending the serv- | By the Associated Press. i | \ Appeal Avoided. Counsel for the second mortgag: holders and the hotel company ap- | proved this plan with certain modin- cations, which were accepted, and ali | attorneys involved announced no ap- Ppeal would be taken from the ruling. | Argument on behalf of this plan | was made by Attorney Paul E. Lesh, Testimony that there had been a representing the reorganization man- Service Power and Light Co., a Henry L. Doherty holding concern, was re- tder auspices of the Board of Public |lic School, Paul Junior High School | ceived today by the Trade Commis- sion. The purported write-up, immedi- ately challenged by Robert Burns. | Cities Service counsel, was reported by Randolph K. Ogle, commission examiner. Tells of Write-Up. Testifying in the commission's | utility investigation, principal write-up occurred when the was organized by Henry L. Doherty & Co. to take over from Cities Service Co. its security holdings of electric light and power companies and sub- stantially all of its security holdings of gas distributing and street railway companies. Ogle asserted that Cities Service Power and Light paid Cities Service | and cash for the transferred securities. He said the purchase price was $59,.- 000.000 more than the Cities Service Co.’s original investment. Examiner Testifies. The acquired securities were then | carried at $109,187.645 on the books | of Cities Service Power and Light, the | examiner testified, bringing the total | write-up at the time of organization to $69,129,793, or 173 per cent. HELD FOR (.iRAND JURY William H. Simmons Detained on Robbery Charge. William H. Simmons, about 29, of | the 500 block of Fourth street south- | east, was ordered held for the grand | jury under $5,000 bond when arraigned | today before Police Court Judge Gus A. Schuldt on a charge of robbery. It is alleged Simmons, in company with another person, robbed Matthew A. Welch, 2302 Second street north- east, of $200 on December 15. The offense, it was testified, occurred on the Speedway, after Welch became ill from drinki; Blind Newsmen Facing Slash Be Paid Salary yesterday afternoon that henceforth he must not retail food, candy and fruits, but must confine his business to newspapers and magazines. Hear- ing of this, Government clerks bought up his entire stock. Mrs. S. Spalding, manager of the cafeteria down the corridor, operated by the Welfare and Recreational As- sociation of Public Buildings and terfere with her business. Phillips sells his goods. Mr. Cammerer declared the orig- had branched out. control over the men, but he insisted that it does not want to put them out of business. Park Service for additional authoriza- Ogle said the | Cities Service Power and Light Co.| Co. and aggregate of $100,000,000 in; bonds, preferred and common stock | They should stick to the terms of | their permits or come to the National | adult hospital at Glenn Dale, Md., as | write-up of $82,000,000 between 1924 ' agers, and the New York firm of nd 1930 in the assets of the Cities Beekman, Bogue & Clarke, on be- half of the bondhoiders. They esti- | mated the new securities would be ready for issuance by February or | early in March, 'INCREASED EXPORTS TO ORIENT HAILED House Silverites Claim More Ship- ments Result of U. S. Silver Policy. | By the Associated Press. Increased American exports to Japan and China were claimed yes- | terday by House silverites as a “direct | response” to the Nation's silver policy. Representatives Dies, Democrat, o: | Texas, and Scrugham, Democrat, of Nevada, contended the pick-up in | business ‘with the Oriental countries might be attributed to a boost in the price of silver and to acceptance of the white ‘metal in payment for | exports, | Silver was bringing around 25 and | 30 cents an ounce on the open market | before silver legislation was drafted | and Government buying began. Dies said the American silver policy also has had a “material effect” in increasing exports to the world at large. “In the past four or five months,” | the Texan asserted, “much of the balance of international trade has been settled on a silver basis.” Commerce Department figures show total United States exports for the first 10 months of 1934 at $1,767.697,- 1172, a gain of $469.598,096 over the | corresponding months of last year. China and Japan, especially sus- ceptible to changes in silver policy | because of large holdings of the metal, | accounted for about $79,000,000 of the | increase, or roughly one-sixth. TUBERCULOSIS WORK PRAISED BY OFFICER Dr. Edward J. Schwartz Lauds Association’s Efforts and Sale of Seals. High praise for the work performed by the District Tuberculosis Clinic, at 301 C street, which is financed largely { by the Tuberculosis Association from | the sale of Christmas seals, was voiced today by Dr. Edward J. Schwartz, act~ ing District health officer. “In my judgment, the clinic is ren- Grounds, Inc., said Boyer did not in- | dering a very important service,” said Dr. Schwartz. “During the year sev- A similar situation prevailed at the , eral hundred children are brought to General Accounting Office, where Mr, | this elinic from homes where open cases of tuberculosis exist. “This examination of contact chil- ? inal permits had authorized the sale | dren permits an early diagnosis, a of newspapers, but gradually the men | Point which cannot be overstressed. He said the Na- It is the utterly inadequate number of tional Park Service wants to exercise beds for tuberculosis cases for which Washington must, in the main, at- tribute its high tuberculosis death rate, a situation which is soon to be remedied by the construction of en a result, in large measure, to the con- tion to expand their business, said |tinued influence of the Tuberculosis Mr,-Cammerer. 1If there is a demand | Association for placing the needs be- for this service, said he, the Na- tional Park Service will consider it sympathetically. “The public can rest assured that we ‘are very much interested in the problem of these people,” said Cam- merer. “We took the initiative of placing them in the buildings, and fore Congress.” Dance Planned. FALLS CHURCH, Va., December 20 (Special) —A dance will be held at Lee-Jackson High School here Saturday night for the benefit of tI we can do to better umu-lsmaenc Echo, bi-weekly student. pubs lication. anything lot will be done.” 3 .