Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1935, Page 2

A2 waw LOGAL DICTATIONS LAID 0 PRESIDENT State and City Personnel Control Seen Object of Administration. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Federal influence upon the man-! agement of State and city governments is now believed to be a definite ob-| jective of the Roosevelt administration. | The controversy which has arisen over the fact that Secretary Ickes, the | public works administrator, wants| Robert Moses, New York park com-| missioner, to resign one of the two, posts he holds has for several weeks | been regarded by some critics as merely the outgrowth of a political | feud because Mr. Moses, as the Re- publican candidate for Governor, had some unkind things to say about the P. W. A. during his campaign. But now 1t appears that no such motive was really held by the administration here and it is denied that any consid- eration except the broadest possible | interest in the public welfare would be responsible for the action taken. Some of the newspapers have com- | mented on the fact that the order calling upon Mayor La Guardia to see | to it that nobody holds two positions | doesn't seem to have been applied any- | where but in New York. But now the P. W. A. is revealed as the instru- mentality of the President bent upon making city and State governments | toe the mark if they really wish to get Federal loans. Centralized Power Hinted. | It might be assumed that this is an | effort to bring about centralization of power, for there is no precedent for Federal coercion or influence upon State personnel, though, to be sure, in the past the Federal Government has insisted upon making the State gov- ernments accept Federal standards in road building as a condition of the matching of Federal and State funds for highways. The use of Federal money, of course, can be applied as pressure against municipalities which not only pursue | policies but maintain personnel dis- tasteful to the national administra- | tion at Washington. Not until the| Ickes-Moses flare-up did the issue be- | come clear-cut The implications of the Roosevelt policy of trying to rule the city and State Governments by dictating their personnel are far-reaching. Had the present order been directed at in- efficiency or irregularity in the hand- ling of a public office the situation would have been long ago cleared up. But Mr. Moses receives no salary from one of his two posts and is acknowl- edged by civic organizations to be one of the outstanding examples of every- thing a public servant ought to be. Principle Involved. From the administration viewpoint, there seems to be a principle involved, however, that doesn't rest with the character of the personnel. It has not, for instance, divulged its reason for opposing Mr. Moses beyond the state- ment that the order is general and applies uniformly. To make an excep- tion anywhere would be to prove that there was no high-minded policy back of the incident, but a political grudge. Hence it is felt here that, in due time, the application of the policy to other parts of the country will be apparent. The case of the mayor of America’s largest city bending his knee to the Federal Government because the na- tional administration has issued a rule telling him how to manage his ap- pointments is not going to be lost on the mayors and heads of smaller cities or upon Governors of States seeking Federal aid. The billions of dollars of money be- ing disbursed by the administration have built up a power of control over local government in America which furnishes plenty of food for political thought for the future. The idea of local autonomy and local independence has long been one of the slogans of the left wing and particularly of the Democratic party from the days of its founder, Thomas Jefferson, while the Republicans have always favored the Alexander Hamilton idea of a cen- tralized government. But then, every- thing is turnd around nowadays, any- way. (Copyrigh DOCTOR SAVES GIRL, 6, AIDED BY SNOW PLOW Highway Crew Heeds Call Path for Physician Rushing to Make Call. By the Associated Press. WINDON Minn., January 21.— The old story of the country doctor braving any weather was re-enacted here Sunday with variations Eloise, 6. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Faust of Delft, was critically ill With diphtheria. Only immediate use of a serum would have her life, Dr. H. C. Stratte said. A blizzard was howling and roads were blocked with snow. Dr. Stratte appealed to John O’Mera, superintendent of a highway crew. A snow plow was driven 10 miles to the Faust home in front of Dr. Stratte’s automobile. 1,289 Ships Fumigated. A total of 1,289 vessels were fumi- gated at United States ports to free them of disease or rats in the last fiscal year. 1935 to | Clear BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Navy Band Symphony Orchestra this evening at 8 o'clock in the sail loft, navy yard: Lieut. Charles Benter, leader; Alex Morris, assistant leader. Overture, “Egmont” “Suite for Orchestra” Rondeau and Badinerie. Air, Cavottes No. 1 and 2. Solo for violoncelle, “Suite”..Herbert Andante. Tarantelle. Musician Samuel Stern. “Symphony No. 1 in Bb"...Schumann Andante un poco maestoso. Larghetto. Scherzo. Allegro animato e graziose. “Vorspiel und Isoldens Liebestod,” from “Tristan und Isolde”...Wagner “Scherzo,” second movement from the “Sonata Tragica”....Macdowell “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, in Stanley Hall, this evening at 5:30 o'clock; John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant leader. March, “Adalid the Chieftain”...Hall Overture, “William Tell’ . .Rossini Serenade, “Les Milliona d’Arlequin,” Drigo ‘Themes from musical comedy, “The Golden Girl” ... Herbert Mexican folk songs, “La Paloma” (“The Dove") .. +.....Yradier Characteristic, “March of the .Beethoven «...Bach corsese . Baron “The Village Swallows”..Strauss Finale, “Ole Virginny,” Zamecnik “The Star Spangled Banner.” 4 | What’s What ' Behind News In Capital Figures on Housing Repair Drive Doubted. BY PAUL MALLON. HERE is no optimist anywhere like a publicity man, especially a Government publicity man. His mimeograph grinds out | numbers as big and round as | chrysanthemums to measure the ac- complishments of his side. But they do not always smell as good as they look. A current example is an announce- ment by the Federal Housing Admin- istration, estimating its home modern- ization drive accompMshments at $205.000,000. That figure gets the headlines and people generally accept the fact that the F. H. A. drive caused $205,000,000 to be spent for home repairs and additions. A_OOKnmA' INT THA GRAND? /775 . If you smell around a little you will find that the direct F. H. A. ac- complishment was less than one-sixth of that. 30 Million Advanced. Only $30.000,000 was advanced by banks to home owners under F. H. A. insurance. A second $30,000,000 of the total amount was probably advanced earlier by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, another New Deal in- stitution Nobody knows for sure about that, because the F. H. A. merely asked its | State directors to send in estimates of the total moderization in their areas. As the H. O. L. C. contributed $30.000,000 for modernization purposes, according to its own figures, there can be little question that the F. H. A. estimate includes the results of H. O L. C.loans. But that is only a sideline argument. The main point is that $175- 000,000 of the $205,000,000 F. H. A. work was not done by F. H. A. And at least $145,000,000 was not done by the Government. It was merely privately financed work done during the Government drive. Much of it, of course, is work that would have been done whether there was @ Government drive or not. Yet in the last analysis you cannot blame the publicity man for claiming all loose credit. It has been a custom among Government officials and others outside the Government long before the press agent was invented. The New Deal la: been burning midnight electricity during the past two weeks are ready now for any decision from the Supreme Court. They would be will- ing to help the court to make the decision if the court needed any help. One of the most interesting things they have dug up is a con- vincing historical excuse for New Deal devaluation. In the fourteenth, fifteenth, six- teenth, and right up to the nineteenth century, it was the legal custom for kings to call in outstanding gold coins whenever the treasury ran low, and clip them. That is, they would ac- tually cut out of the gold a frac- tional part, as much as one-fifth in many cases. The coins were then returned to the people minus a fifth of their value. The king took the clippings. There has been a long dispute among economists as to where Mr. Morgenthau's $3,000,000,000 of book profit on gold came from. A majority assumes it comes from bondholders and property holders. That is a rather nebulous explanation, almost as nebulous as the idea that Mr. Morgenthau just squeezed the profit out of thin air for bookkeeping purposes. A more practical interpretation is that every one paid for it. Every time a dollar was spent after de- valuation, you contributed to the gold profit by the extent to which your dollar bought less goods than before devaluation. The ertent to which devaluation increased prices is the ezact amount you have con- tributed so far. | If the $3,000,000,000 is taken to pay | the bonus, or spent for any other pur- | pose, you will contribute some more, | to the extent to which the inflation- | ary expenditures causes prices to rise further. Farley Backs Biddle. The man who is behind Anthony | Drexel Biddle, wealthy Philadelphian, | for the post of American Minister to | Ireland is Postmaster General Farley. Behind Farley in the matter is the new Democratic Governor of Pennsyl- vania, Earle, who, in turne is in front | of Boss Joe Guffey. That makes as | strong political backing as any one could get. It is a direct result of Mr. | Biddle's generosity to the Earle cam- | paign fund. Yet the betting inside the State Department a few days ago was even money that Mr. Biddle would not get the post. The State Department dealers do not fall very hard for the Farley-Guffey push. They are at least talking as if they would side- track Mr. Biddle to one of those smaller European kingdoms. (Copyright. 1935.) SLEEPWALKER RINGS DOORBELLS AT 5 AM. Blank Expression and Long Un- derwear Only Attire in 5 Above Temperature. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 22.—The hour was 5 am.,, and the temperature out- side read 5 above and dropping stead- ily. The Warren Avenue police sta- tion was receiving a flood of telephone calls, all complaining about “some blankety-blank” was ringing the door- bell. ‘Then from a garage man: “There's a guy just came in here wearing nothing but long underwear and a blank expression.” The blank expression faded under rough police hands and—*“Where am I?” asked Henry Serangrader. “I guess I must have been walking in my sleep.” | | these organizations. | Washington near new Agricultural Ex- ! tension Building. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. | | TREASURY-POSTAL SUPPLY BILL GUT $900,025,598 Recommend- ed to House, $194,884,642 Less Than 1935. By the Assoclated Press. The Treasury-Post Office supply | bill, carrying a total of $900,025,598 | | for the two departments, was re- ported to the House today by its Ap- propriations Committee. This was $194,884 642 less than the 1935 allow- ance. The amount recommended for the Post Office Department was $724,- 264,449, as compared with $725,282,- 569 asked in the budget and with appropriations of $669,793.940 for the 1935 fiscal year. Nearly half of this $54,470,509 increase was due to forth- coming pay cut restoration. Treasury Cut $249,355,151. The Treasury Department, with its subordinate units such as the Public | Health Service and Coast Guard, was allowed $175,761,149. This was a de- crease of $249,355,151 compared with 1935 appropriations, but in the latter were included $187450,000 in “spe- cial items” such as advances to the Agricultural Adjustment Administra- tion for financing cotton and land bank financing. Budget estimates for the Treasury were cut $376,335. The disputed ocean and foreign air mail subsidies weathered the scrutiny ' of the Appropriations Committee and came through unimpaired in its rec- ommendations of funds for the Post | Office Department. The committee pointed out, however, that studies are under way looking to the future sub- {sidy policy. Pending the outcome, “the committee has approved the rec- ommendations of the budget to con- | tinue the amount of the 1935 appro- | priations.” | The report on the committee hear- | ings showed the Public Health Service | believes it will need a 25 per cent in- | crease in funds to combat epidemics | during the fiscal year. Health service physicians said an additional $50,577 would be needed for this purpose, of which $34.389 would be used against spotted fever The report also disclosed the Treas- ury officials have called attention to increased smuggling in all lines, some of it backed by the “lords of crime.” Smuggling Gains Shown. Customs Bureau and Coast Guard spokesmen testified, during hearings on the bill. that liquor smuggling had been gaining rapidly since March, after falling off in the wake of repeal. | Traffic in aliens, narcotics and crim- with the liquor trade. Comdr. S. V. Parker of the Coast Guard estimated that liquor smug- gling at the present rate meant an annual revenue loss of $50,000,000 or $60,000,000. He added that 15 to 20 vessels operate off the coast north of ilhe Carolinas in an active week and perhaps five in Southern waters. To combat smuggling the commit- tee allowed the Coast Guard $4,414,- 000 more for the 1936 fiscal year than was approved last year. Secretary Morgenthau, who has boasted about the way Treasury issues have been snapped up and oversub- scribed, was revealed to have been uncertain about some Government | financing back in September. Appropriations Recalled. Hearings on the Treasury bill | showed Morgenthau felt for a while that a Treasury offering would not ' be taken up completely. Describing a sale of securities in early December as the most successful issue that had been floated in four years, Morgenthau was asked by Rep- resentative McLeod, Republican, of Michigan: “Does that mean there was trouble with some other issues?” “I should say so,” the Secretary re- plied. “To what extent?” “In the issue in September, for a while it looked as though it would not go. talk in New York that I think they | succeeded in frightening themselves.” i U. S. URGED TO BUILD WAREHOUSE HERE of Place to Store Obsolete but Valuable Documents. Erection of a Federal warehouse as a part of any new Government con- struction program in Washington was advocated by Representative Cochran, Democrat, of Missouri, during recent hearings before the House Appropria- tions Committee on the 1936 Treasury Department appropriation bill. Cochran said he had made a survey which convinced him that from 20 to 30 per cent of the space now oc- cupied by Government agencies in Washington is taken up with obsolete but valuable documents which could be stored in an independent ware- house. The Navy Department and the Ma- rine Corps, Cochran pointed* out, have the records of all men who served in In addition, he declared, the General Land Office has a record of all public lands that were disposed of years ago. Cochran said he thought the ware- house should be located in Southwest A plain, fireproof structure of about 12 stories, Cochran explained, should be large enough. FIREMEN FAI.L TO COPE WITH BLAZING FIREPLUG They Turn on the Water to Ex- tinguish Flames, but Then Must Call Gas Inspector. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 22.—Officer James O’'Brien thought he was in Yellowstone Park, With the thermometer reading zero, here was a fireplug blazing merrily. The fire department knew what todo: Turn on the water. It worked until they turned it off. Then flames shot high and wide again. inals was described as linked closely | There was so much pessimistic | Cochran Advocates Construction | TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1935. Mobilize to Oppose Long’s Dictatorial Powers of anti-Long Square Dealers, who p! Copyright, A. lan to demand a special meeting of P. Wirephoto. These companies lining up for parade at Baton Rouge, La., are formed the Legislature to revoke Long dictatorship laws. formed in every parish of the State, leaders said. | | | Battalions will be OPPOSITION SEEN 10 APEX BUILDING Treasury-Post Office Appro- priation Bill Reported to House. BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE, Associated Press Science Editor. NEW YORK, January 22-—New facts about ultra-short radio waves, showing that they spread like soft twi- light in every direction, were reported to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers today. These short waves were sprayed all | erection of the proposed “Apex Build- ing” in front of the new Archives some other Government activity” is found in the Treasury-Post Office ap- propriation bill reported to the House today. The site is at the juncture of Pennsylvania and Constitution avenues east of Ninth street It was, however, emphasized during the hearings before the Appropria- tions Subcommittee, of which Repre- sentative Arnold of Illinois is chair- man, that the Public Buildings Com- mission feels it is imperative that eventually a building be erected on that site, in spite of special legisla- tion passed by the last Congress | designating that site for a Thomas Jeflerson memorial. Prohibition Explained. L. C. Martin, administrative as- sistant in the Division of Procure- ment, explained that the legislative prohibition was placed in the bill in 1932 when it was intended not to authorize any additional public build- struction on that particular site. Rear Admiral Christian J. Peoples, in charge of the Procurement Divi- sicn, outlined the situation as follows: “Congress passed a joint resolution | at the last session of the Congress to build on the Apex Building site. or the triangular plot to the east thereof, a Thomas Jefferson memorial and provided for the appointment of a commission of 10 or 12 members; and it looked to me that we were without special authority of the Con- gress. No Members Named. “The bill to erect that memorial was passed in the closing days of the last session of Congress. I made inquiry of the office of the Speaker of the | House and of the office of the Presi- | dent of the Senate and was informed | that no action had been taken with Tespect to appointing members of the commission. “I think, ultimately, if that triangle group is going to be finished, that | some kind of building should go in that apex.” |UNION LEADERS BALKED Jailed for “Unlawful Assembly,” They Seek to Accuse Police. CHICAGO. January 22 (#).— Eight officers of a teamsters’ union discountenanced by the State’s at- torney were jailed yesterday on a charge of unlawful assembly. Tit for tat, thought they, and de- manded warrants be issued against Capt. Daniel Gilbert and Sergt. Thomas Kelly for fully disturb- ing a lawful assembly.” Judge Joseph H. McGarry, how- ever, refused. SEARS HELD INSANE Son of One of Founders of Mail Order House Given Hearing. WAUKEGAN, Ill, January 22 (#).— Richard W. Sears, 2nd, 25, president of the Woodstock Typewriter Co., and son of one of the founders of Sears, Roebuck & Co., was adjudged insane at a hearing yesterday before County Judge Perry L. Persons. Pretty Miss Leslie Miller brought her souvenir with her when she attended the opening of the fourth week of the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in Flemington, N. J., yesterday. She wore on her coat a minia- ture replica of the “kidnap ladder,” which the State claims “Just a bad attack of gas,” sighed a fireman, and sent for a gas in- spector. et i Weather Causes Suicide. OMAHA, Nebr., January 22 (P).— Leaving a note which read “it is 9 or 10 below zero, too much weather for me to cope with,” Mrs. M. C. Pye, 44, placed the tube from the gas stove in her mouth yesterday and committed \suicide, g . ¥ H auptmann used to kidnap the Lindbergh baby. ~—A. P. Photo. Direct legislative prohibition against | Building, “for the Coast Guard or | ings in the District. and to defer con- | over Boston from an antenna 130 feet | above the ground. A receiving set on a truck traveled all over the city and a surrounding area of about 55 square miles. Never once did the truck completely | lose the little waves. There were deep radio shadows in them in spots, as down behind buildings and under bridges. Some streets were brighter than others with these radio waves. Radio Waves Found to Reflect ANAR[}HY BHARGE Impulses From M any Surfaces The ultra-short waves were first made famous by Marconi. They travel like light and at first were not sup- | posed to bend around buildings or the | curvature of the earth The Boston experiments sirengthen a growing belief that they have powers of reflection that may make them ve: useful. In Boston seemingly the little waves splashed and reflected from all sorts of surfaces In spots completely hidden from the sending antenna the waves seemed to be arriving by reflection from numer- ous other directions. The little waves traveled stronger in the directions least obstructed by tall buildings. Over salt water the ravs were unusually bright and strong After passing the water they lost this extra strength. HOLDING COMPANY TAK 15 PROPOSED Roosevelt Fight on Power Rates May Go Beyond Mere Regulation. By the Asso ed Press The Roosevelt campaign against power rates it calls “excessive” entered a new phase today with a disclosure that it is considering special taxes, as well as regulation, for utility holding companies. ‘This became known in authoritative quarters after the President discussed possibilities for legislation in a two- hour conference with Secretary Mor- | genthau and other aides. It was emphasized that nothing is settled finally. In one quarter, how- | ever, it was suggested that the taxes might be applied to dividend earnings. Holding companies have been under | fire from several sources in the ad- ministration and on Capitol Hill Rentedies put forward have ranged from suggestions that the area over which they might hold sway be strictly limited to hints that some of | them might be found to be economic- ally unnecessary. | The Federal Trade Commission was the latest agency to join in the at- tack, with a statement that State regulation has proved inadequate. | GREENWOOD, S. C., January 22 (®).—Lawton Lipscomb, 38-year-old former mail messenger, was held in | $1.000 bond for grand jury action by United States Commissioner Joe E. | Park vesterday after a preliminary hearing on charges of trying to extort $1,000 from Benjamin D. Riegel, presi- dent of the Ware Shoals Manufactur- ing Co. | | threatened in a letter. Lipscomb pleadgd not guilty. Man, 68, Dies in Storm. ROCK ISLAND, Il, January 22 frozen to death yesterday near the railroad tracks. He had presumably | lost his way in a snow storm. - Grain Elevator Burns. KANSAS CITY, January 22 (#)— Fire Swept the Kansas City Southern grain elevator here last night, with loss to the building set at more than $100,000. The elevator was leased and operated by the Moore-Seaver Grain Co. Come td This 'HELD IN EXTORTION CASE, Mrs. Riegel and their daughter were | () —August Gripp, 68, was found | 1.5, AWAITS REPLY ON RUSSAN DEBT | Troyanovsky Expected to Confer With Hull on Re- turn Here. By the Associated Press ‘The Russian debt problem. which is bound up with attempts to boost American sales to the Soviet, returned to the minds of officialdom today when it developed that Moscow’s answer to a United States proposal is expected within a week. Alexander Troyanovsky, Soviet am- bassador who carried the American offer to Stalin, is due back in Wash- ington soon. He is expected to confer immediately with Cordell Hull, Secre- | tary of State, and Walton R. Moore, Assistant Secretary. The problem dates back to World War and post-war days. The sums at issue include Czarist and Kerensky borrowings in the United States and claims of Americans whose property was destroyed during the revolution or confiscated by the Bolsheviks. By the time the United States rec- ognized the Soviet Union the total had grown to about $500,000,000. President Roosevelt and Maxim Lit- | vinoff. commissar for foreign affairs, | | LS TEAGHER, 4 }Norman Thomas Joins Fight | to Free Arkansas F.E.R.A. Instructor. | By the Associated Press MARKED TREE, Ark., January 22. —Opponents of the South’s “planta- | | tion system™ rallied today to the sup- | Port of a young college graduate and | Federal Emergency Relief Administra- tion instructor, convicted of a charge of anarchy growing out of an alleged | oral attack on Poinsett County land- | | lords. Norman Thomas, leader, and students of Commor wealth College, Mena, Ark., co-op- erative school, promised to aid Ward H. Rodgers, 24-year-old Vanderbilt graduate and former Boston Univer- | sity divinity student, in carrying an | appeal to the Circuit Court Held Under Act of 1919. Charged with appealing to members | of the Southern Tenant Farmi | Union to “overthrew the Government Rodgers was convicted by a magistrate court's jury last night of violating an Arkansas act of 1919. Penalty was | set at six months in jail and a fine of $500. | Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Fred | H. Stafford, describing the verdict es | “substantial,” acted today to dismiss | | three other charges against Rodgers —using profane or abusive language, conspiracy to usurp the Government and acts to intimidate. Thomas Pledges Aid. Promising to help raise a defense fund. Thomas announced from New York he considered Rodgers’ convic- tion “far too important a case to be left to a justice of the peace’s juris- diction.” Mrs. Mary Connor Myers, Agricul- tural Adjustment Administration at- torney, who attended the trial, issued | no_comment She was sent to investigate com- plaints that share croppers are being evicted illegally in violation of acre- age-reduction con‘racts signed by landlords and that plantations own- ers are violating other phases of their contracts. Socialist party | STATE TO TAKE MONEY AND BURY MAN CHEAPLY | pers | disclosed to any on | nurses and oth | tation the defeat of its | Therefore it should be rewritten i NEW LAW URGED ONTUBERCULOSIS 27-Year-0ld Statute Here Held Ineffectual in Meet- ing Problem. Note: This is the first of two articles written for The Star by Dr. White. In addition to being president of the District of Colum- bia Tuberculosis Association Dr White is chairman of the Medical Research Committee of the Na- tional Tuberculosis Association. In these articles he discusses an anti- tuberculosis program for the Dis- trict of Columbia, a subject whicl the anticipated reorganization o} the District Health Department makes of timely interest. BY DR. WILLIAM CHARLES WHIT} President ct of Columt ot the Tuberculosis The District of Columbia needs new tuberculosis control law The present law is 27 years ol Since it was placed on the statul | books medical science has made g advances to which, naturally the local legisla- tion does not altogether con- form Intrinsically the old law, providing for reporting of cases and disin- fection of prem- ises, would not be so bad if it were enforced. It is not enforced. Its structure is such that it can't be enforced. The law calls for the reporting cases. Probably not half the cases Washington are reported today. P sicians are chiefly at fault, vet, par doxically enough, under other ci cumstances they would be the m loyal co-operators. Provision on Tuberculosis. Dr. White The law calls for disinfectio rooms after death from tuberc |in a way satisfactory to the hea officer. Today this probably never required, yet paint, paper. soap ar water would prevent many later ca: of tuberculosis. This law provides that the hes officer “may” disclose the ider y ns with tuberculosis as it “may be necessary in carrying out the pr visions of the act. This has bee interpreted, naturally enough, b health officers in the past as mean ing that the identity could not b And yet visiting are supposed t see that casr that the prop carry out instructio: are reported, and care is established. Simple Wording Needed. The law provides a pe: - own violation, but I doubt if it ev has been invoked in the Distric This law permits by literal interpr own purpose the simplest words to allow officer to carry out its purposes, an at the same time it should be mos elastic so that both the health office and the tuberculosis officer may d their utmost by every means to re- duce the menace of tuberculosis and its . attendant suffering. A careful analysis of the workable and efficient laws governing tuberculesis control in different States and communities i available through the District of Co- lumbia Tuberculosis Association for use in drafting a new and better law As a rule, health laws shouid be re- written every seven years to keep up with the growth in knowledge and procedure. In the interests of economy and public responsibility the most efficient communities have established by law a tuberculosis commission for the sup- port of the health officer and the tuberculosis officer. It is not possible | agreed, however, that a settlement for | Miser Leaves 88,600, but No Kin under ordinary political conditions in | & greatly reduced amount could be achieved. Troyanovsky, Hull and Moore were | reported to be making progress until three months ago when the talks ab- ruptly adjourned and Troyanovsky went to Moscow. At that time—authoritative sources indicated—the Sayiet agreed to pay | the scaled down debt over 20 years— | if the United States would advance a | cash loan of $100,000,000 and arrange | a credit for a similar amount. PARTIAL PAYMENT HINTED. Troyanovsky Indicates Part of Debt to Be Recognized. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, January 22.—Rec- | ognition of “certain sections” ot the | Russian debt to the United States was | hinted here yesterday by Alexander Troyanovsky, Russian Ambassador to this country, en route to Washington. from Moscow. The Ambassador said he ceived new instructions which he will present to American diplomatic offi- cials, but declined to describe them. Russia has counterclaims against the United States in connection with American aid to so-called “white Rus- sian” groups at the time the present Soviet state was in process of forma- tion. Settlement of .the Russian debt to the United States, he said, probably | will be accompanied by a request for negotiations to establish trade privi- | leges for his country. 'KIDNAPING SUSPECT Thomas H. Robinson, Jr., Believed Seen, Dressed as Woman, Alighting From Auto. By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, Tex., January 22— in a long, dark coat” here teday in the belief that the wearer might be an- other of their listed ranking fugitives —Thomas H. Robinson, jr., kidnaping suspect. Police expressed belief the 26-year- | old Robinson, charged with the $50,000 abduction of Mrs. Alice Stoll, Louis- ville, Ky., soclety matron, was the mysterious “woman” who eluded them after alighting from a motor car in a garage here yesterday. Robinson has been reported fre- quently in a woman's masquerade. Gus Jones, veteran Department of Justice agent who figured in the solu- tion of the Charles F. Urschel kid- naping, planned to question a young couple who were in the machine. They said they had given the “woman” a ride, but could give no accurate de- scription of her. Lieut. L. C. Brown of the detective department said the motor number of the car seized checked with the num- ber of one reported stolen at Moline, IIl, December 15. r had re- | to Save Him From Potter’s Field. | or county to divide re- sponsibility for such a task as tuber- culosis between two or more bureaus !such as the Health Department and By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 22.—For 23 years Nestor Fernlein ate his meals at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, but lived in a room on the Bowery at $175 a week. ! He was a silver polisher at the Ritz and ate in the hotel Kkitchen Then he'd go home to the Bowery where no one paid much attention to him Discovered dead in his room at the age of 84, he was found to have sav- ings of $8,600. He left no known relatives and unless one appears unexpectedly, he will be buried in potter's field and his savings will be taken over by the State. ‘Bureau Will Add 1,800 for Census After February 1 Workers on Farm Count to Be Taken From Civil Service Rolls. The Census Bureau has begun to centralize its agriculture census activi- ties at the old Civil Service Building, the Public Weifare Department Always there results such a confusec and inefficient system as occurs her in Washington. Central Control Necessary. The problem of tuberculosis requir a centralized administration under th Commissioners, the health officer anc the tuberculosis officer, so that c tinuous handling of each case and i contacts may be most efficiently car for. Whether the patient is in the hospital or in the home, everythinz possible should be done for cure or prevention until cure or death relieves the community of danger and respon- sibility. On such a commission should be represented the government of the | community as well as the medical pro- fession and voluntary groups dealing | with this problem. In many communi- { ties this commission fixes and con- tends for its own percentage of th taxation and is responsible for budget- ing and spending money in the most effective way. under the proper gov- | ernment authorities Such a commission for the Distric would probably do a great deal to g ,us out of our preesnt dilemma. | Colored Fatalities Deplored. Whenever our high tuberculo: death rate in Washington is men | tioned some one is sure to bring un | the part played by the colored popu- |lation. It is true that the colored ‘race suffers a higher tuberculosis death rate than the white race. One SOUGHT IN HOUSTON Federal agents looked for a “woman | 1724 F street, and will begin t0 Te- | o¢ the geverest indictments that can cruit a local staff to handle this work | pe brought against our present sys- shortly after February 1. {tem is that it has done practically In all, about 1,800 temporary em- | nothing for them. We have here prob- ployes will be taken on, and all will be | ably the best educated colored popu- obtained from registers of the Civil ‘ lation in the world and there are good Service Commission. These will in-| hospitalization facilities. But there clude clerks, typists, stenographers, |seems to have been no recognition of messengers, card punchers and adding | the r..cia susceptibility to this dreaded machine operators. All but the ma- | disease, and the colored people have chine work will be done at the F street | peen given only the same haphazard building. That will be handled in the attention that has been received by bureau in the Commerce Building. the rest of the city. To direct these 1,800 there will be| There should be provided at Freed- about 12 experts, and these already|men’s Hospital a wing exclusively for have been employed. | tuberculosis, similar to the one sug- The peak employment will be | gested for Gallinger. reached in April or May and it is esti- | This would be part of a unified pro- | mated the average term of employ-|gram under a tuberculosis commis- | ment will be from seven to nine sion and with one full-time officer months. ‘The agriculture census, which is taken every five years, was started on January 1. The field work is requiring 25,000 enumerators, who are operating in 226 districts. It is expected this work will be about 80 per cent com- plete by the end of this month. In some sections of the country inclement weather will delay it beyond that date. Census Bureau officials estimate about 6,500,000 farms must be covered. At the last census, there were 6,300,- 000. and it is believed a growth of 200,000 will be shown, due to the trek back from city to rural districts as the result of falling employment in industry. This farm census will take in such items as acreage, value, crop produc- tion, live stock holding and other rel- evant items, 4 bearing the responsibility, . NEWSPAPERS SOLD Hammond Disposes of Johnson City Staff-News and Chronicle. JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., January 22 (#).—James Hammond, publisher of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, yesterday announced that he had sold the Johnson City Staff-News and the Chronicle to the Press Publish- ing Co., publishers of the Johnson City Press. Hammond purchased the Staf- News, an afternoon newspaper. and the Chronicle, morning newspaper. at a court sale January 2. ’ >