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[Comnven ] The Sunday Star WASHINGTON, D. C, RELIEF ‘FURLUUGH" l 0F 2 WEEKS SEEN WITH FUND SHORT Failure to Allow for 5 Pct. Salary Restoration Creates Deficiency. TRANSIENT BUREAU’S TROUBLES ARE CITED Much Unrest During Winter Forecast in Report by Pub- lic Welfare Head. The staff of the Emergency Relief Administration of the District will have to take a payless furlough of two weeks, or work that length of time without pay. between now and July 1, unless a deficiency appropriation is made by Congress, Elwood Street, director of public welfare, said last night. This is caused by failure of some- body to include in the welfare ap- propriations for the current fiscal year an allowance for the 5 per cent salary restoration which was effective last July 1, he said. This situation was corrected in the estimates for the fiscal year 1936, but not for the present fiscal year. The welfare director did not an- nounce which plan he would ask fol- lowed. Transient Bureau Cited. In a report to Commissioner George E. Allen, covering relief operations during November and December, Street discussed troubles arising in administration of the Transient Re- lief Bureau, which culminated in a change of directors. He added: “We. shall probably have to face a great deal of unrest during the Winter with the continuance of un- employment and the development of emotional difficulties of people un- employed and with the actual use of Washington as a sort of sounding board for national publicity for Various malcontents.” As to the complaints of a group of recipients of aid from the Transient Bureau against conditions under that administration Street said most of the difficulties were due to the fact that it had been impossible to get a suitable place to take the place of the lodge at 479 C street, which had | to be closed because it was con- demned by the building inspector and because of difficulties in securing food. He said the latter was occasioned by changes in the accounting and pur- chasing systems. Both of these diffi- culties, he said, had since been solved. Relief Load Reduced. Street reported the relief load on the District was reduced during No- vember and that outlays during that month were about $100,000 less than in October, although it had been an- | ticipated the cost would go up, because of additional needs for fuel and clothing. This did not represent a real sav- ing of $100,000, however, he said, be- cause some $90,000 was spent in Oc- tober for coal, most of which was distributed during November. A closer check is being made to pre- | vent chiselers from getting on the re- lief rolls, Street said. He revealed | EDWARD J. PARLTON (LEFT) ‘The District Court of Appeals to- morrow will pass upon a novel situ- ation in legal jurisprudence—that of the United States Attorney General viction which the prosecuting attorney contends was amply justified by the evidence. legal circles. It has been pointed out | that Attorney General Cummings has, | in effect, taken unto himself the func- j tions of the trial judge and jury, a position which, if approved. will tend to establish a precedent of far-reach- ing significance in criminal cases. Hazel Albert Smith and Edward J. | Parlton, former George Washington University students, were found guilty |in District Supreme Court 14 months ago of deliberately starting a fire in the Sigma Chi Fraternity house at 1312 N street. They appealed from this conviction and United States At- torney Leslie C. Garnett, with his as- | sistant, Harry L. Underwood, filed a | brief in the Court of Appeals con- | tending the conviction was justified by i the evidence. Cummings Intervened. Shortly before the case was sched- uled for argument in the appellate court, the Attorney General filed sev- asking for reversal of a criminal con- | The action of the appellate court is | being awaited with keen interest in | AND HAZEL ALBERT SMITH. —Underwood Photo. eral days ago a “confession of error” | and asked that the conviction be set aside. The case would then be sent | back to the lower court and nolle prossed, it was announced. Mr. Cum- mings expressed the belief the de- fendants are innocent and stipulated that his confession of error should “supersede all prior briefs and argu- ments submitted on behalf of the | United States.” An interesting feature of the case is the inclusion by the Attorney Gen- eral in his brief of a statement con- cerning the length of time required by two Department of Justice agents to drive from Washington to Here- ford, Md. The defendants contended at the trial that they were in Hereford on | the morning of the fire at approxi- | mately 5:30 o'clock. which would have been virtually impossible had they been in Washington when the fire started shortl} after 4 am. Testimony Excluded. The prosecution then made an at- ‘empt to prove through a fire inspector | that the trip could have becn made in the elapsed time, but Trial Justice Peyton Gordon excluded the testimony. | Government evidence excluded at a trial cannot be considered on appeal, | "(Continued on Page 2, Column 1) FIGHT DEVELOPING ANEWFOR ARPORT TRAFFIC CAMPAIGN Cummings and Garnett Differ In Move to Free Sigma Chis NEW BUS ROUTES FOR BORDER AREA AWAIT APPROVAL Spurs East and West of Connecticut Ave. Filed by Capital Transit Co. COMMISSION WILL TAKE ACTION ON PLAN MONDAY Same Rates as in Vogue on Chevy Chase Loop Asked in Rock Creek Lines. | Proposals for establishment of two | new bus lines to serve areas to the east and west of Connecticut avenue near the District line were filed yes- terday with the Public Utilities Com- mission by the Capital Transit Co. ‘The proposals will be considered by the commission tomorrow and it is ex- { pected approval will be granted. The commission will give precedence to this over all other rerouting matters. While the plan has a relation to re- routing of the lines of the transit com- pany it is more definitely an exten- sion of service. The action comes as a result of an appeal by William A. Roberts, people’s counsel, for provision of bus service for residences of the area near the District line and Rock Creek Park. Chevy Chase Fares Slated. The proposed rates of fare and transfer privileges now applicable to the Chevy Chase loop bus line would apply to the suggested new routes. This would be 10 cents cash or four tokens for 30 cents, with free trans- fers to all connection street car and | bus lines, except the Chevy Chase coach line. an extra fare service. The | | fare would be 5 cents cash, without i transfer rights, or a two-part ticket selling for 20 cents, good for any point jon either of the two lines and any point on the Chevy Chase coach line. The two new lines would have 15- minute service. | One of the proposed new routes ! would be frem the intersection of the | ' District line and Buterworth plnce‘ to the Bureau of Standards. The | other would be a two-way line roughly | bounded by Nebraska avenue, Forty-[ first street, Tennyson street and Utah avenue. H Plans Approved in Principle. ' The proposals were submitted to: the commission by John H. Hanna,!| president of the transit company. The | plans have been approved in principle ; by Fred A. Sager, chief engineer of | the Utllities Commission. E. S. Par-| doe, superintendent of bus operations| i | SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, 1935. At left: Miss Helen McCollam, ghntoymphed last night at her ome in Washington after her engagement to William B. Dern, son of the Secretary of War, had been announced. At right: An Associated Press wirephoto, tak- en at Denver late yesterday, showing Dern reading an Asso- ciated Press dispatch telling of the engagement. “It’s absolutely true,” Dern said. —Star Staff and A. P. Wirephoto. o ROOSEVELT RELIEF EFFORTS SCORNED Congress for Unemploy- ment Insurance Critical in Opening. Short of temper and patience to- ward unemployment relief efforts and promises of the Roosevelt administra- tion and many individuals the Na- tional Congress for Unemployment and Social Insurance opened here yesterday. Throughout the two sessions held of the transit company, is a sponsor of the plans. Provision of this bus service, it is explained, would provide transporta- FINES ARE $02 One Bill Is Introduced—Two More to Be Offered This Week. Another fight for establishment of & model airport for Washington was developing at the Capitol as Congress that Miss Alice Hill, emergency relief | settled down for the new term. director, has made arrangements with | the Post Office Department, as well as with the Police Department to report any apparent attempts at chiseling, A check also is being made with offi- cials of the Veterans' Bureau to de- termine if relief clients are receiving compensation or pension payments, he said. LIQUOR DEADLINE SET BY A. B.C. BOARD Dealers Must Have License on Display on or Before January 31, Body Warns. District liquor dealers, of all classes, must have on display at their estab- lishments on or before midnight of January 31 their 1935 licenses if they are to continue sales, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board warned yes- terday. To assure issuance of licenses by iFebruary 1, license fees should be paid to the District collector of taxes by January 15, and the receipt there- after should be filed with the A. B. C. Board, Chairman George W. Offutt said. “No one, whether or not an appli- cation for license has been filed or whether he has deposited license fees, will be permitted to sell alcoholic beverages after January 31 unless his license to do so is displayed in his establishment as provided by law,” Mr. Offutt said. “Sales without such license will not only be prosecuted vigorously, but will be deemed cause for refusal ‘thereafter to issue a license,” he said. ‘Choked on Bone At Dinner Table, Man, 43, Expires ‘Brothers and Mother Fail in Desperate Efforts to Save Charles J. Perry. Choked, apparently from a veal chop bone, Charles J. Perry, 43, of 936 ’C street southwest, died late yesterday “before the arrival of a doctor from “Casualty Hospital. Meanwhile, several of Perry’s broth- ers and his mother, Mrs. Annie Perry, worked frantically trying to dislodge the bone and revive him. One brother, William, who was up- stairs at the time, Murried down and ran his finger in the choking man’s mouth trying to get out the bone. Other members of the family threw water in his face. Perry’s brother, Thomas, and his mother were eating dinner with him when he became choked. . Perry leaves his parents, Mr. and . J. J. Perry; five brothers, Wil- illam, Raymond, James, George and #Thomas Perry, and a sister, Mrs. Sadie M. Langley, s - One airport bill has been intro- { duced and two others are nearly ready to go into the legislative hopper, one in the Senate tomorrow and one in the Hou:e probably before the end of the week. The request for a Public Works Ad- | ministration allotment for the im- mediate construction of an airport on the Gravelly Point site, initiated in the office of the Army engineer, still is under study in the office of Maj. Gen. Markham, chief of engi- neers. Committee to Meet. The whole local airport situation is to be considered by the Aviation Committee of the Washington Board of Trade at a meeting tentatively scheduled for Monday, January 14, by the committee chairman, Clarence A. Miller. Senator Ernest W. Gibson of Ver- mont is expected to introduce to- morrow & re-draft of his bill of last session providing for construction of a model airport on the Gravelly Point site. This bill has been clarified in sections dealing with financing of the project and other items. | Representative Howard W. Smith of Virginia is completing the draft of a bill to provide for construction of a Federal airport at Gravelly Point. He expects to have it ready for intro- duction in the House this week. A bill introduced by Representative J. J. McSwain of South Carolina, providing for leasing, improvement and operation of Washington Air- port as a terminal pending selection by a commission of five members of a permanent airport for Washington, has been referred to the House Mili- tary Affairs Committee, of which Mr, McSwain is chairman. Mr. McSwain is opposed to the use of the Gravelly Point area for a com- mercial - airport, considering it too close to Bolling Field for safety in bad weather. The bills of Senator Gibson and Representative Smith are expected to be referred to the Senate and House District Committees, respectively. Fund Request Studied. The request of the local Army en- gineer office for a P. W. A. allotment for Gravelly Point, it is understood, has been referred to officers of Gen. Markham'’s staff for further study before the general decides to send the request along to Public. Works Administrator Ickes or to table it. Mr. Miller said that the special meeting of his Board of Trade Com- mittee will be called to censider the P. W. A. loan, the McSwain bill and any other local airport legislation then pending, with a view to making recommendations to the full board for a declaration of policy on the local airport matter. MISSING BOY SOUGHT Father Asks Police to Aid in Hunt for Student. A 13-year-old boy was the object of a police search last night. William E. Biggs was reported miss- ing from his home, 1922 Bennett place northeast, since the close of school Friday. James Biggs, father of the boy, notified police. * tion to and from the Woodrow Wilson 'Full House in Court as Po- lice Continue Drive on Violators. | ~_The police drive on speeders, reck- less drivers and motorists who dis- regard the new early morning ban on parking on some 52 miles of streets brought about a full house in Traffic Court again yesterday, when a total of $902 was collected in fines and {nrr_eited collateral. Several times during the recent drive the daily collection has exceeded $1,000, the total being more than’ $1,500 last Wednesday Yesterday's crowded docket includ- ed the cases of 30 speeders brought before Judge John P. McMahon. Each i paid a $10 fine. One person was fined for having 1934 license tags and several others on minor charges. Eighty-four forfeited collateral on various parking charges. Since only one case was reached involving violation of the ban on 2 am. to 8 am. parking, the prospect is that Traffic Court will be crowded most of this week with offenders ticketed during the drive. The ban on certain streets originally was de- signed to facilitate snow removal, but the drive against violations has gone ahead despite the absence of snow since January 1. Hitt to Preside. Myron P. Jacoby, said by police to have parked in an emergency zone, was_ordered to appear Tuesday in Traffic Court. Judge Isaac R. Hitt will preside in traffic hearings begin- ning tomorrow, especially those re- lation. William McNally, a caretaker at Rock Creek Park, who lives at 1501 Park road. was fined $75 for failure to give the right of way after his car collided with another at Twenty-sixth and Otis streets. Mrs. Martha Cope, Silver Spring, Md., wife of James Cope, & special consultant for the N. R. A., was fined $10 for speeding. Fined for Old Tags. Thomas Elliot was fined $5 for driv- ing with expired automobile tags and Ira T. Lee fined $10 for driving his car with improper tags. Six speeders forfeiting collateral ranging as high as $25. Among those who elected to for- feit $5 for double parking or parking overtime were William J. Du Bose, 3009 O street; Baxter 8. John, 3818 Yuma street, and Bruce A. Low, 1701 Six- teenth street. Traffic Director Willlam A. Van Duzer, under whose order the early morning ban on parking from Janu- ary 1 to March 15 was placed, has given instructions that police are to continue wholesale ticketing of viola- tors. He declared no leniency would be shown second offenders. C. OF C. PLANS ACTIVITY Directors of Arlington to Meet at Clarendon Wednesday. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. CLARENDON, Va, January '5.— Plans for 1935 activity will be mapped by the board of directors of the Ar-, lington County Chamber of Commerce Wednesday night in the Kelley Build- ing here. ‘The chamber has taken preliminary steps for a membership campaign and other “revival” moves during the last part of 1934, and hopes during 1935 to regain the Pposition 1t once held in county affairs. ¢ from various States did not appear, | High School, the Alice Deal Junior High School, an elementary school at Broad Branch road and Quesada| street and stores at Connecticut and; Nebraska avenues and those near Chevy Chase Circle. The route of the two-way feeder bus line east of Connecticut avenue | would be from the intersection of Nebraska _and _Wisconsin _avenues, | north to Forty-first street, to McKin- ley street, to Broad Branch road, to Western avenue, to Tennyson street, to Utah avenue, to Thirtieth place, to Military road, to Nebraska avenue and back to Wisconsin avenue. Second Bus Route. ‘The other line would start at the District line on Butterworth place, g0 along Butterworth place to Forty-| ninth street, north to Chesapeake street, along Forty-seventh street. | | north to Fessenden street, southeast | along River road to Wisconsin lvenue{ to Tenley Circle and then nlongl Yuma street to Thirty-eighth street,| to Van Ness street and to the Bureau of Standards, returning by way of Van Ness street to Reno road, to Veazey street, to Thirty-ninth street, to Windom place and Tenley Circle. The company proposes that when this plan is adopted the Wesley Heights-Massachusetts avenue bus line be turned back at Nebraska and Massachusetts avenues, pending fur- ther studies of this bus line. KING WILL SPEED CITY LEGISLATION i Plans to Reintroduce Over Dozen District Bills in Senate Tomorrow. lating to the emergency parking regu- | With the preliminaries of Senate organization disposed of, Chairman King of the District Committee plans to make a start early this week on the program of local legislation. Shortly after the Senate convenes tomorrow, he will reintroduce more than a dozen District bills that were left unfinished by the last Congress. These will include the motorists’ safety responsibility bill, the measure to strengthen the laws against gam- bling, and a variety of other changes and additions to District laws. | Senator King's next step will be to !call a District Committee meeting as !soon as possible, and there were in- t dications this may be done tomorrow afternoon if a quorum can be ob- tained. Senator King will endeavor to ob- tain prompt approval by the commit- tee of those bills which were reported on favorably at the last session, but which did not become law. He is hopeful of having some of these measures reported to the Senate again before that body becomes deeply en- grossed in national legislation. SCHOLARS NOMINATED Two Named From Maryland for District Selection. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, January 5—M. Gor- don Knox of Baltimore and Robert L. Burwell of Annapolis today were chosen by ‘thé State Committee as Maryland’s candidates for the Rhodes scholarships to Oxford University, England. The two will be entered in the sectional group with candidates from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvanis, Delaware. and West Virginia for the four scholarships for the section. {in the afternoon and evening, the dominant note was one of criticism and denunciation of President Roose- velt, big business interests whom he was declared to have befriended, and individuals such as Upton Sinclair, | Dr. Townsend, Father Coughlin and Senator Huey P. Long, who have of- fered social security ideas of their own. Lundeen Bill Lauded. In an approving direction, speakers at the congress lauded H. R. 2827, | introduced to the new United States Congress by Representative Lundeen, Farmer-Laborite, of Minnesota. Even | this measure, however, failed to find complete approval and its author was accused of “timidity” because of his failure to specify that strikers should be fully eligible to all unemployment insurance benefits. The accusation was made by Herbert Benjamin, ex- ecutive secretary of the congress, who admitted, however, that the bill “rep- resents the only approach to a gen- | uine system of unemployment, old age and social insurance for the United States.” Introduction of this measure in the United States Congress was termed | by Mary Van Kieeck, national chair- man of the Interprofessional Asso- clation for Social Insurance, princi- pal speaker at the evening session, as being the first practical step to enact adequate social legislation. Miss Van Kleeck was a member of the President’s Conference on Un- employment in 1921, a member of the Hoover Committee on Unemployment and Business Cycles, chairman of the Program Committee of the World Social Economic Congress in Amster- dam, Holland, in 1931; president of the International Conference on So- cial Economic Planning, held last month at Russell Sage Foundation; director of industrial studies at the foundation, fellow of the economic section of the American Association for Advancement of Science, and president of the International Con- ference of Social Work at Frankfort- on-Main in 1932. “The workers’ bill puts forward a new concept of social insurance,” Miss Van Kleeck said, “namely, that con- tinuity of average income, with an es- tablished minimum equal to a living standard, must be assured through governmental action as a first charge upon the economic system. This con- trasts sharply with past procedures in American industry, which have pro- vided no governmental insurance, but, on the contrary, left the whole burden upon the workers, who are paid only during periods of production.” Other Speakers. Other speakers of the evening were T. Arnold Hill of the National Urban League, Israel Amter of the National Unemployed Council, Waldo McNutt of the Y. M. C. A, Elmer Johnson of the Central Labor Council and Representative Lundeen. The latter promised to carry on an active cam- Daign in behalf of passage of his work- ers’ bill. About 3,000 delegates representing unist, Socialist and other politi- cal groups, several trade and labor units and numerous fraternal organi- l‘bnflnm, attended the first day’s ses- sions. First action of the convention was to respond to a call by a temporary chairman to raise $26 to defray the court charges of two delegates being held for speeding in Laurel, Md. The offenders were from Camden, N. J., and the head of the New Jersey dele- gation at the convention undertook the task of succoring his companions. F. Elmer Brown of the International Typographical Union presided at the sessions. Former College Head Dies. SOUTH BEND, Ind,, January § (#)—Mother M. Pauline, C. 8. C, t of St. Mary’s College from 1835 to 193N died tonight in the college infirmary. She was born at Peoris, Ill, in 1854 as Bridig O'Neill. YOUTHS' CONGRESS REBUFFS RADICALS | Committee Is Enlarged, but Only Nonradicals Can | Be Members. ‘ ‘The National Youth Congress, which brought 250 delegates here, purport- ing to represent some 1.700.000 young | people throughout the Nation, closed | ‘)las! night with passage of a resolu- | tion apparently designed to restrain | the more radical elements in the or- | ganization. | The congress voted to enlarge the Sports—Pages 7 to 11 PAGE B—1 Secretary Dern’s Son En- gaged to Wed Secre- tary at R. F. C. HE engagement of William B. Dern, second son of Secretary of War Dern, and Miss Helen M. McCollam, 25-year-old R. F. C. secretary and daughter of an unemployed bricklayer, was sup- posed to be a secret—but now that it's out, Mrs. Dern. as spokesman for the family, says they are pleased. “Miss McCollam is a very beautiful and very fine girl” Mrs. Dern said yesterday. “The engagement was sup- posed to have remained a secret for some time, but some one heard of it and let it out, which was the only surprising part of the affair. M"thn and where will the wedding 2 but Miss McCollam will have to an- nounce that.” she said. The romance was said to have blos- i somed among the file cabinets and typewriters of the Statistical Depart- ment of the R. F. C., where the bride- to-be is secretary to David C. Elliott, | Young Dern | chief of that division. formerly was empioyed at the R. F. C., but now is in Denver. Miss McCollam expressed surprise that news of the romance had become public. “I can't say when the wedding will be,” she said. to_announce it for some time.” William A. McCollam, the girl's They are to be married soom,! “We hadn't planned | | Continuations Committee, but limit the ' father who has been unemployed be- | additional membership to non-radical cause of illness, said Young Dern had | members. The committee has charge |been “coming over to the house for | | of maintaining the work of the con- |tWo years.” He lives at 1147 Fourth gress and calling future meetings. Throughout vesterday morning, the delegates listened to a political sym- posium, participated in by Senator | Nye of North Dakota, chairman of | the Senate Munitions Committee; for- | mer Senator Brookhart of Iowa, Rep- | resentative Amlie, Wisconsin Progres- | sive; Representatve Rogers, Democrat, of Oklahoma: Representative Marcon- tonio, Republican, of New York and Clarence Hathaway, member of the National Executive Committee of the Communist party. & Nye Tells of Disclosures. Senator Nye told of disclosures made during the investigations conducted by his committee, and declared the Gov- ernment in the past has been in part- nership with American munitions manufacturers. The Senator advo- cated taking the profit out of war by turning over to the Government the manufacture of war materials. He said this country is arming nations which some day may become her ene- mies. Hathaway exhorted the young peo- ple to throw in their lot on the side of workers in what he called the class struggle. “Your movement must accept a class program and a class approach to the problems confronting your coun- try,” he declared. Following the Communist on the program was Representative Rogers, who cautioned his hearers not to “forget to be good American citizens,” and not to “get too impatient about coming out of this depression.” He made a plea for support of the Presi- dent’ recovery program. Presents Marxian Analysis. Amlie presented the attitude of the believer in the Marxian economic analysis, who at the same time takes into account existing conditions of mass psychology, and is willing to ac- complish his Socialistic goal by slow evolution. “It is absurd at this time to talk of any political revolution,” he declared. “The American people are not ready for the ultimate goal.” Marcontonio said a crisis will de- velop within four years which will force the American people either into a dictatorship for the preservation of capitalism or into a new economic order based on a mnimum guarantee of food, clothing and shelter to every family in the land. Brookhart, who is head of the Co- operative League of the United States, told of its work. He said the present economic system had broken down. Regrets Sent to Scouts. A letter expressing regrets at hav- ing mistakenly included the Boy Scouts in the list of organizations an- nounced as participating in the Con- gress, was dispatched last night to Linn C. Drake, secretary of the Dis- trict Council of the Scouts, by Murray Plavner, chairman of the Congress’ Press Committee. Drake and James E. West, chief Scout executive, had protested that the Scouts had no part in the 3 that the name Congress. Plavner explained of the Scout organization was fur- nished him by Waldo McNutt, chair- man of the Congress, who said they were still in the Congress because they had not withdrawn. Two Scouts attended the first American Youth Congress, held in New York last Sum- mer, Plavner said. Train Wreck Kills 2. ANNISTON, Ala, January 5 (P).— A brakeman was crushed to death beneath the wreckage of seven freight cars and a locomotive and the en- gineer was fatally scalded today as a freight train plunged from the tracks of the Southern Railway at Edwards- ville, 15 miles east of here. street northeast. “Helen hasn't told me anything definite about the proposed marriage, but I was under the impression it would take place in a short while, probably in the early Spring,” the father said. SLAIN MAN'S KIN PLEAD FOR HARRIS Laura Henry Would Make Any Sacrifice to Gain Clemency Grant. Laura Henry said last night she is willing to make any sacrifice to obtain clemency for Charles Harris, con- demned to die in the electric chair for the murder of her brother, Milton W. “Milsie” Henry. Harris, she believes, was convicted on “fimsy circumstantial evidence.” “My mother and I would not want Harris sent to the chair even if he were guilty,” she said. “We do not believe that is the way to avenge my brother’s death.” Ask Official Clemency. Miss Henry and her mother have written the Justice Department re- questing clemency for the condemned man. Meanwhile, Charles Edward Russell, the writer, who has been leading the campaign to save Harris from execu- tion, issued a statement last night contending there was “overwhelming testimony” to prove Harris was not the man who bought the automobile in which the gunman rode who mur- dered Henry April 21, 1932, not far from his home, near Sixteenth and Meridian streets. Chief Factor in Conviction. “The allegation that Harris had purchased in Camden, N. J., the car used by the assassins of Henry has been one of the chief supports of the theory of his guilt,” Russell said. “Mr. Garnett (United States Attorney Les- lie C. Garnett) is reported to have made much of this allegation in his letter to Mr. Finch (pardon attorney of the Justice Department). “He seems not to know that it has been utterly disproved by subsequent investigation. Overwhelming testi- mony has shown that the purchaser of that car bore no resemblance to Harris, The man that sold the car, his cashier, the handwriting on the purchaser’s application and other tes- timonies have established this fact be- yond question.” GARGES SUFFERS STROKE Secretary to D. C. Commissioners Is Reported Improving. Daniel E. Garges, secretary to the Board of District Commissioners, is seriously ill at his home at 5224 Chevy Chase parkway, suffering from the effects of a stroke of apoplexy and high blood pressure. The family reported he was im- proving and that the stroke was slight. Mr. Garges, 60 years old, has been in District service for more than 40 years. Many years ago, before being made secretary to the Commis- soiners, he was chief clerk of the District Engineer Department. ~ HALBERT OFFERS SOCIAL SECURITY PLANFORDISTRICT All Forms of Insurance Prc- posed in $23,000,000- a-Year Scheme. FINANCING INCLUDES PAY ROLL ASSESSMENT Worker, Employer and ity Gov- ernment Would Bear Equal Shares of Cost. An all-inclusive program of social security legislation for the District, calculated to cost nearly $23,000,000 a year, is suggested by Leroy A. Halbert, director of research of the Board of Public Welfare, in a statement re- leased yesterday by Elwood Street, welfare director. Such a program would be for every resident here suffering misfortune in- capacitating him for work and would be financed out of equal assessments of 3 per cent of each worker's pay against the employe, the employer and the District government. Halbert proposes that the program be comprehensive and include in one plan unemployment insurance, sick- ness insurance. old-age pensions, pen- sions for the blind as well as mothers’ | pensions and all other proposed forms {of social security legislation. Allen to Study Proposal. The matter will be studied by Com- missioner George E. Allen, District re- lief administrator, as well as by of- ficials of the Board of Public Welfare. | Some recommendations as to unem- ployment, sickness and other economic security insurance is expected to be made by the Commissioners after Congress takes up for consideration the expected proposals of President Roosevelt on these subjects. One of the major principles of Dr. | Halbert's plan is to use revenues from those assessed under the plan to finance a work relief program on a large scale here. ‘The outstanding features of the plan, as outlined by Dr. Halbert, are: 1. The plan proposes to insure the entire population, and not merely cer- tain selected industrial groups. 2. It includes insurance against every kind of misfortune which might cut off the income of a family. Dole Would Be Banned. 3. It provides that all benefits to i the unemployed shall be given in the form of opportunities to work and not in the form of cash allowances in lieu of work. 4. It places no limit on the time over which benefits extend. 5. It provides a graduated scale ac- | cording to the number of dependents and extra expenses for sickness or burial. 6. It provides for rehabilitation of people who are incapacitated or un- prepared to work. Dr. Halbert said there were 243,853 persons gainfully employed in the District at the time of the 1930 census. He estimates this number now exceeds 250,000. Allowing for persons now un- employed and for self-employed per- sons, he finds there now are at least 200,000 persons here working for wage or salery. Estimates Revenue. “Assuming that 200.000 persons earned an average of $1,260 a year, a total of $252,000,000. and that 6 per cent of this was collected from em- ployers and employes combined, it would provide a revenue of $15,200,000. It $7,600,000 were added from taxes, that would give a total of $22,800,000. If $2,000,000 of the $7.600.000 paid by the taxpayers were set aside for sup- plying material and supervision for civil works projects and the other $5,600,000 were added to the $15.200.- 000 raised by pay-roll deductions, it would make a total of $20,800,000 for paying and administering the allow- ances guaranteed by law. “If the cost of administration were $1,456,000, which is 7 per cent of $20,- 800,000, there would be $19,344,000 for direct payments to beneficiaries. This leaves a margin of $344,000 above the estimated cost of the whole proposed insurance program. Seven per cent for administration would be a cost which corresponds pretty close to ad- ministrative costs of unemployment insurance in England, Germany and Austria.” Discusses Possible Reaction. Discussing the cost of financing the proposed all-inclusive insurance pro- gram, Dr. Halbert said: “Knowing the trick of the mind, one can imagine each worker groan- ing as if he were paying $22,800,000 a year. Considering the protection offered, this is the cheapest insur- ance he could buy. When he takes insurance with a leading life-insur- ance company he is not depressed by the fact that it has an enormous in- come from him and the other policy- holders. “Of course, the immediate answer to this cheap insurance idea is that the plan provides no reserves and in- volves paying out all the income an- nually and therefore offers no future return for those who do not call for benefits as they go along. Let us admit this, and say that the whole thing is just a big annual relief tax. It would be justified even for that, but that is not the whole story, by any means.” Monument Crew’s Forgotten Lunches Cost Extra Climb Six hundred feet may seem a short distance to walk for lunch, but it's a bit different when that distance is straight up and down! Reporting at the Washington Monument Friday morning, 10 stone masons working at the 300- foot level had to climb up a lad- der because the outside elevator was out of order. Six of the num- ber forgot their lunches. ‘When they discovered this at noon, they had no time to grum- ble about it, since the lunch pe- riod is only half an hour. It took 7 minutes to descend and 12 minutes to get back to work after a hasty disposition of the for- gotten lunches.