Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1935, Page 19

Washington News ALLEN SUPPORTS “HIDDEN BARS” AT HEARING IN HOUSE Fears_ Return to Old-Time Saloon by Changing D. C. Liquor Law. COMMISSIONER CLASHES WITH SANDS, TESTIFYING Objects to References Regarding Attitude of Hotel Owners on Two Bills. Abolition of the so-called “hidden bar” was vigorously opposed by Com- missioner George E. Allen at a hear- ing today before the Judiciary Sub- committee of the House District Com- mittee on two bills to bring the mix- ing of alcoholic drinks into the open. Allen declared the District already has “a fine liquor law,” and that open bars would mark the first step toward the return of the old-time saloon in direct defiance of the Democratic party’s platform pledge. He cited conditions in Chicago, Miami and other cities which have open bars and declared they had re- turned to the old-time saloon. Committee Room Packed. ‘The District Committee room, where the hearing was held, was jammed to capacity with spectators and wit- nesses. Many of them, women as well &s men, were forced to stand. An hour before Allen testified he clashed with Charles E. Sands, rep- resenting the Hotel and Restaurant Employes and Bartenders’ Alliance, who was on the witness stand. The Commissioners objected to certain ref- erences Sands had made with respect to the attitude of hotel owners on the open bar question. Allen, before becoming Commissioner, was general manager of the Wardman Park Hotel. After Sands had made several state- ments in connection with the hotel owners, Allen studdenly interrupted his testimony and declared: “He is making a lot of insinuations. I am not in any way connected with any hotel. I happen to be earnest. I gave up a much better job than I have now to do a good job for the District.” Sands said he did not have any *quarrel” with Allen. “We have been good friends in the past,” he declared. “And this is the only question on which we have had an issue.” Open Bar Bills Backed. Sands, as well as Representative Beiter, Democrat, of New York and Grover G. Aderholt, president of the National Association Opposed ‘to Blue Laws, supported the open-bar bills. Beiter is the sponsor of one of these measures. The other was introduced by Representative Dirksen, Republic- an, of Illinois. Beiter, at the outset of his testi- mony, commended the Commissioners on their efforts to carry out the pro- visions of the liquor-control act and expressed the belief more inspectors and other employes are needed to correct certain conditions. He de- scribed “hidden bars” as “silly,” how- ever, and pointed out they breed in- sanjtary conditions and permit the bartenders to defraud the public by selling low-grade stimulants at the price of high-grade liquor. Beiter revealed he had made a per- sonal inspection in some restaurants, and in one, he said, he found a liquor card listing 31 different brands of liquor, but a check-up in the kitchen showed there were only 11 brands in stock. Beiter also said it is unfair to per- mit the sale of beer on Sunday and not stronger drinks, and in addition he voiced opposition to the 12 o'clock closing regulation on Saturday nights, because it deprived night workers of a “night cap.” Aderholt told the subcommittee there is “nothing degrading” about mixing drinks in public, and his or- ganization saw no reason for the pres- ent secrecy. He also described the Sunday “blue law” with respect to the sale of hard liquors as a holdover from prohibition. Dirksen interrupted Aderholt to an- nounce that he had information show- ing that 1,000 gallons of untaxed alco- hol is being smuggled into Washington daily for diversion into bootleg chan- nels. “I will be prepared to prove that later,” Dirksen declared, “and also to prove that this alcohol is not being brought here to rub on somebody's ankles.” Henry I. Quinn, a member of the Board of Education, told the subcom- amittee the people of the District are strongly in favor of leaving in the hands of the Commissioners the power to determine the distance of liquor stores from schools and churches. Dirksen explained his bill was not in- tended to disturb that feature of the liquor control act. » Amendments Proposed. As a prelude to the hearing the Commissioners sent to Chairman Nor- ton of the House District Committee a series of proposed amendments to the liquor control act. The amendments, drawn by George ‘W. Offutt, chairman of the A. B. C. Board, are designed primarily to tighten enforcement and to correct flaws in existing law. One would prevent “on sale” estab- lishments from selling drinks imme- Adiately preceding the legal deadline for consumption afterward. Another would increase the penalty for drink- 4ng in public. Other proposed changes define champagne as “any effervescent wine,” provide for the suspension of licenses instead of revocation for minor offenses and give the suspended licensee the same right of appeal @5 the retailer whose permit is revoked. ‘Marine vessels, under the proposed changes, would have the right to store beverages and tax them only for the amount sold. Meanwhile, petitions urging Con- gress to enact the Beiter bill, which would permit the sale of liquor in hotels, restaurants and clubs of the District after 2 p.m. Sundays, are being circulated by the National As- sociation to Blue Laws. " ‘The association points out in the petitions that the Sunday restriction on sales of liquor is virtually another blue law. It is contended that this is wrong in principle and in practice. ‘The petitions call attention to the fact that New York,r Maryland and .other sections have Sunday liquor ‘sples and that such sales should be permitted in the District. MacCracken Senate. The WASHINGTON, D. C, Leaving Jail o] The former Assistant Secretary of Commerce photographed as he left the District Jail this morning after a 10-day sentence for contempt of the —A. P. Photo. MARRIED PERSONS CLAUSE HITINBILL Economy Act Provision Would Become Inopera- tive in Most Cases. ——— A bill to make inoperative the mar- ried persons clause of the eccnomy act unless the salary of man and wife in the Government service is in ex- cess of $5,000 a year, was introduced late yesterday by Representative Ran- dolph, Democrat, of West Virginia. The measure, however, would make the clause more stringent in one re- spect. Whenever either the man or wife is employed in the Government gt $4,000 or more, and his or her mate is employed outside the Fed- eral service, the former would be fur- loughed or a year. Offered as Compromise. Randolph said the bill is designed primarily to compromise the ccntro- versy over the married persons clause, but it incorporates the Civil Service Appeals Board,- already proposed in a previous measure: the extension of the civil service to all agencies not exempted by Executive order, and other benefits sought by Government workers. ‘The measure also provides for scrap- ping the present efficiency rating sys- tem and the substitution of a uni- form plan, setting up the following grades: Excellent, 90-100; good, 75- 89; fair, 60-75, and poor, below 60. Thirty days sick leave and the same amount of annual leave also is pro- vided. The retirement act would be amended in several respects. One amendment would permit employes to retire on their own volition upon reach- ing the age of 60. Another would repeal the unpopular law which em- ployes with 30 years or more service are involuntarily retired, and the workers so retired would regain their positions at the previous salaries, pro- viding they have not since passed the age of 60. Retirement Benefits Extended. The Randolph bill contains another provision extending retirement bene- fits to all employes of the legislative establishments. The lowest-paid woman workers in Government service are bearing the brunt of the provision, a survey by the ‘Women'’s Bureau of the Department of Labor shows. Eighty per cent of the dismissed employes earned less than $2,000 a year, the survey showed, while only & per cent of the dismissals came from the higher-paid group. The Women'’s Bureau investigators also reported that personnel officers observed “a general demoralization among employes as a result of the manifest discriminatory effect of the law.” Three-fourths of the dismissals were of women, the Women’s Bureau study states. Quota Club Meets Tonight. The Quota Club of Washington will meet at 6:30 tonight in the Women’s City Club to discuss plans for their convention to be held here March 16 and 17, it was announced this morn- ing. All members are urged to attend. Passing years slowed down Elmer Kraft, the perennial copy boy, shuf- fing on his familiar orbit, and a swifter messenger relieved him of his final dispatch. For 15, for 20—for more years than old-timers seem to recall, Elmer ran copy between the Associated Press of- fice in The Star Building and the ‘Washington Post, always on his half- hour schedule. He never seemed to understand when automatic wire typewriters rob- bed his dispatches of their urgency— they were always yrgent to Elmer, who still kept faith with the old Morse system. Elmer was faithful, but not quite Elmer, Dean of Copy Relieved of His Last Dispatch REPORT IS MADE IN COURT INQUIRY of Document, but Details Are Withheld. Attorney General Cummings has received a partial report on the Jus- tice Department’s extensive investiga- tion of alleged irregularities in con- nection with Police Court practices here. Cummings told reporters at his press conference today the report was Treceived only a few days ago and he has not had an opportunity to read it. | He said the data was preliminary in nature. | The investigation was requested | several months ago by United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett. It is be- ing conducted by special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; under the personal direction of J. Ed- gar Hoover. The agents are reported to have found numerous instances involving irregular listing of fines imposed by the court and improper bonding prac- tices. It has been stated the judges of the Police Court are not under in- vestigation. Cummings, in response to a ques- tion, denied that there has been any friction between his department and the House Committee Investigating Crime in the District over the severe grilling to which Garnett recently was subjected at the Capitol. It was re- ported the committee resented alleged efforts by a justice representative to steer the investigation away from Garnett's office. —_ MRS. DANIEL M'GUIRE DIES AT RESIDENCE HERE Native of New York Made Home in Capital for More Than 20 Years. Mrs. Daniel McGuire, a resident of Washington for more than 20 years, died early this morning at her home, 1925 Sixteenth strcet. She was a na- tive of New York City. Besides her husbtand, she s sur- vived by three daughters, Mrs. V. H. Ragsdale, wife of Lieut. Comdr. Rags- dale, now stationed at Norfolk; Mrs. J. Paul ®rwin of Boston and Miss son, James Calder McGuire. Requiem mass will be offered at St. Paul's Church, Fifteenth and V streets, Saturday at 9 am. Burial will be in the Abbey Mausoleum at Arlington. MAY LOSE ARM By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 7.— When an automobile he was driving overturned at Memorial Circle here last night, Harry E. Blackwell, 31, of the 1300 block Kenyon street, Wash- ington, had one arm so severely lacer- ated that amputation may be neces- sary. He was removed to the Alexandria Hospital. Mrs. Pear] L. Blackwell, his wife, escaped unhurt. Carriers, in’ step with progress, not since he hurt his head in a friendly scuffle with newsboys, & couple of decades ago, when his years were more in keeping with his’ title—*copy boy.” Time passed and endowed Elmer with his bowler hat, his pince-nez, his inevitable umbrella, his profes- sional-looking dispatch case, his big moustache, but it never lifted him from his status of “copy boy” in the eyes of the street urchins who beset his path. Elmer died at Emergency Hospital several days ago, almost alone in' the world. For Several years he had oc- w a little room at Central Union lome 2 e 3 » |Cummings Reveals Receipt | IORAGKEN FRE | AFTER JAL TERW | INCONTENPT A Fails to Dodge Reporters by Using Rear Door to Reach Auto. KEPT BUSY ALL TIME, HE SAYS OF SENTENCE| Attorney Says Health Is Not Af- fected by Ten Days’ Confinement. Purged of a charge of contempt |of the Senate by virtue of 10 days spent in the District Jail, William P. MacCracken, former Assistant Sec- retary of Commerce for Aeronautics and present secretary of the Ameri- | can Bar Association, today was a free | man . again. While photographers and news reel cameramen waited for him at the front door of the jail, MacCracken, last of a shabby group of prisoners leaving after finishing terms for vari- ous petty offenses, hurried out a rear door. Although appearing in perfect health, Mr. MacCracken appeared meek and had little to say to re- porters. He smiled as he climbed the steps out of the rear cell-block and came out into the chill, misty air. Jests With Alert News Hawks. “Sorry to have kept you fellows waiting,” he said, as the few pho- tographers who had anticipated the | rear-exit departure set off flash-bulbs in his face. “I have been ready to leave since early morning.” MacCracken wore a freshly pressed brown business suit and tan raincoat. He set out at a brisk walk from the jail door with an unidentified friend, who had a small sedan waiting on a drive behind the jail. “You have no prison pallor.” this friend remarked. | “No,” said MacCracken, “I am feel- | ing pretty fit.” He was asked what he had done to keep busy. “They found work for me,” he said. “They kept me busy, for which I was g&ale(ul. It was far better than being idle.” MacCracken was assigned to clerical work in the jail office, according to Supt. Thomas M. Rives. Sent Out Books and Papers. About an hour before his release MacCracken sent out by a messenger two suit cases and an armful of books and papers, | To a query concerning reading he Grace McGuire of this city and one | might have done, he said, “I tended | to my knitting.” | During MacCracken's walk from the jail door to the waiting car, photog- iraphers took pictures of him on the {run. Just as he prepared to climb into |the car, a breathless photographer, | panting from a race around the jail, |called: “Please give me a break, Mr. | MacCracken.” MacCracken paused for a moment at the car door, turned and faced the photographer. “All right,” he said, “hurry it up.” He then climbed into the car and rode away. MacCracken was sentenced to jail after papers subpoenaed by the Senate | Airmail Investigating Committee had | disappeared from his office files. He | carried his fight to escape jail to the | 3upreme Court, where the jail senwncel | finally was upheld. Col. L. H. Brit- | tin, sentenced jointly with Mnchck-I | 2n for the same offense, served 10 days in the District Jail in February, 1934, without attempting to fight the case. 'DECISION IN POLICE ATTACK CASE WAITS Judge McMahon Will Render Verdict on Charges at 11 A M. Saturday. A decision in the assault case against Policemen John I. Shotzberger and Ernest T. Wessells of the sixth pre- cinct will be given by Judge John P. McMahon in Police Court at 11 am. Saturday. This announcement was made by the court after the close of arguments in the case yesterday. The policemen are charged with having assaulted Harrison M. Fuller, 841 Ingraham street, when they mis- took him for his brother Allen. against whom they had a parking warrant. The defense acknowledges that Har- rison was struck in the police car by | Wessells in order to maintain his ar- | rest. | . In continuing the case until Satur- day for a decision, Judge McMahon said that there was no doubt in his mind as to the facts of the case as they were presented in the evidence. The question which the court must decide, he declare, involves the prin- ciple of arrest and the rights enjoyed by policemen in making and maintain- ing arrests. 26 Radios Taken By Burglar From F Street Store May Have Tuned in for Police Car Tip to Com- plete Escape. ‘The burglar who robbed a radio store at 938 F street early today ought to be in close touch with events, now , that he has 26 receiving sets. Possibly he tuned in with Scout Car Officers W. A. Schotter and W. M. Suthard getting their orders to in- vestigate his activities. At any rate, he was no where in sight when the officers arrived in their radio car. The burglary had been discovered by the manager, Harold A. Sugar, on opening for business. The table radios which the burglar could find radios. Foening Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING NEW JAIL SOUGHT 10 ACCOMMODATE 1,200 PRISONERS Rives Plans City Institution in Line With Future Needs " at New Site. PRESENT FACILITIES DECLARED INADEQUATE Overcrowding With Obsolete Equipment, Shown in Wel- fare Figures. A new District Jail capable of han- dling from 1,000 to 1,200 prisoners and costing from $1,800,000 to $2,000,- 000 has been proposed to the Board of Public Welfare by Thomas M. Rives, superintendent. Rives suggests that the project be made a part of the new work-relief program when and if that program is adopted and funds are made available to the District. In arguing for the new prison, Supt. Rives pointed out that the present jail was constructed and first occu- pied in 1876. A wing was added in 1927. All of its equipment is obsolete and the jail is so overcrowded that on 102 days in 1934 prisoners in the misdemeanor wing were forced to sleep on mattresses on the floor. In the felony wing that condition existed 64 days. At one time 150 in one wing and 57 in the other were forced to sleep on the floor. Average Population 565. Rives also pointed out that the average prison population has jumped from 368 daily in 1925 to 565 in 1934, and that commitments to await trial increased from 9,681 in 1925 to 20,851 last year. ‘The superintendent also pointed out the lack of proper facilities either for close confinement of condemned pris- oners or for actual executions which now have to be carried out in the jail's mess hall. The present location he also de- clared to be improper since it is in a thickly populated residential section. He suggested that since it is conven- iently situated adjacent to Gallinger Municipal Hospital the old building could be converted into wards suffi- ciently large to house 500 patients. New Site Located. Rives suggested that the new jail should be located on a 50-acre tract near the Home for the Aged and In- firm at Blue Plains. Such a tract, he said, is available and could be purchased for a price not in excess of $1,000 per acre. He argued that the location of prisoners there would serve the double purpose of provid- ing work for them and at the same time help in the cultivation of the farm at the Home for the Aged and Infirm which has been neglected be- cause of the unavailability of labor. Rives pointed out that, although the Census Bureau estimates the District's population as 497,000, the adjacent metropolitan territory is thickly popu- lated and consequently the city needs a jail for a population in excess of the official figures. He also declared it should be sufficiently large to meet the demands of the next 20 years. 875 Single Cells Wanted, ‘The superintendent’s estimate of the jail equipment would provide a min- imum of 675 single cells and dormi- tory space for 325 prisoners. Better judgment, he said, would dictate a larger jail with a minimum of 875 single cells and dormitory space for 325, making a total capacity of 1,200. “No workman should be expected to do work with poor tools,” Rives’ report stated, “Neither should the District ex- pect to make progress in crime pre- vention with facilities which provide no means for the segregation of the youthful and the first offender. There 1s an acute need for proper jail facili- ties if the District expects to make use of accepted methods in crime preven- tion and control.” EDUCATION BOARD BY ELECTION URGED George A. Warren Assails Ap-l pointive System in Address- ing Association. An elective, rather than an ap- pointive, Board of Education for the District, as provided for in the Cap- per bill, was advocated by George A. Warren at the meeting last nighcl of the District Public School Asso- ciation, of which he is vice president. The present system, under which members of the board are appointed by but two judges of the Supreme Court, was assailed by the speaker as contrary to the judgment of the country’s most distinguished edu- cators. He also charged that the present system is in conflict with almost universal practice throughout the United States. The association also went on rec- ord as favoring the bill introduced by Representative Jenckes of Indiana calling for the display of the Amer- ican flag on all public buildings. MRS. ARCHIBALD SMALL FOUND DEAD IN HOME Cerebral Hemorrhage Blamed for Death of Prominent Clubwoman. Special Dispatch to The Star. WOODSIDE, Md., March 7.—Mrs. Archibald Small, 72, prominent Mont- gomery County clubwoman, was found dead at her home on the Brookfield road this morning by Quarles Fleet, colored, janitor of Grace Episcopal Church, Woodside, who tended the furnace in Mrs. Small's home. Fleet notified Rev. Frederick M. Morris of Grace Church, who called declared death was due to a cerebral hemorrhage. Mrs. Small was a former president of the Pederation of Women’s Clubs of Montgomery County and active in the work of Grace Church. A native of Washington, Mrs. Small had been a resident of this community for the past 30 years. « THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1935. Society and General PAGF. B—1 Like France in World War ‘This 1s all that remained today of a row of stately trees on Maryland avenue along the south side of the old Botanic Garden site being developed into the new Union Square. Protests brought explanation that these were soft maple trees, decaying rapidly, and had been marked to go under the program for development of Union Square. It is planned to save many historic old trees in the former Botanic Garden by transplanting them to other locations. by public works. IWCARRAN CLAIMS RELIEF SUPPORT Declares the Administration Forces Are “Wavering” as Vote Again Nears. i | By the Assoctated Press. The Capital waited today for an- other Senate vote on the prevailing wage requirement which was written | 1into the $4,880,000,000 work-relief bill | ltwo weeks ago against President | Roosevelt's wishes. Reopening of the floor fight on ! the measure was held up temporarily | by a distussion of the Army appropri- |ation bill. Administration leaders | stood ready to proceed with the relief controversy the moment this barrier | was out of the way. | As the test neared, Senator McCar- | ran, Democrat, of Nevada, author of | the prevailing wage amendment which the Senate previously passed, 44 to {43, contended the administration’s i forces were “wavering.” McCarran Claims Support. | this week that Vermont's two Repub- lican Senators—Austin and Gibson— | | would change from his to the Presi- | dent’s side if certain concessions were granted, had resulted in “stiffening” the support for his amendment. Senators striving to get the work- | relief bill enacted in the form Presi- | dent Roosevelt desires retorted that | their lines were holding firm. | The Roosevelt leaders have agreed to modification wanted by the Ver- mont Senators. One would eliminate much of the preamble. Opponents of the bill have criticized the preamble on the grounds it empowered the Pres- ident to do anything he wished with the money. Another modification | would earmark $350,000,000 of the works fund for flood relief and other purposes. Vermont has had heavy | flood damage in recent years. Voted for Prevailing Wage. The Vermonters were among 21 Re- publicans, 21 Democrats, 1 Progres- sive and 1 Farmer-Laborite who voted two weeks ago to pay Telief workers the wage rates prevailing in private industry instead of the $50- a-month “security wages” advocated by administration officials. After that setback, the Roosevelt leaders sent the biil back to the Sen- ate Appropriations Committee, where it remained frozen fast until early this week. The committee returned it to the floor Tuesday with the con- cessions wanted by the Vermont Sena- tors and some. others. The committee refused by a tie vote, however, to recommend the Mc- Carran wage amerdment. Instead, the measure went back to the Senate with a provision which would nermit 'security” wages, buterequire the Pres- dent to order prevailing wages paid | wherever he found the lower rates were pulling down wage levels in | private industry. McCarran made ! ready- today to fight for his proposal on the floor. Even if the McCarran amendment should be adopted by the Senate again, Democratic leaders indicated they felt | Terminals confident it would be eliminated ulti- mately in conference with the House. The tree cutting now under way is being done —Star Staff Photo. BUS PASSENGERS ROUTINGS TRACED Hearing Told Majority Using Four Lines Go to Central Area. Evidence showing the majority of all passengers using four suburban and intracity bus lines are discharged in the central business district and the | Government Triangle was introduced today before the Public Utilities Com- misison when it resumed its hearing on a proposal to force the bus com- panies to establish off-street terminals. Charles M. Herrick, civil engineer, who made & study of the origins and destinations of passengers for the Na- tional Capital Park and Planning Commission and the Public Utilities Commission, presented the figures, tabulated during rush traffic hours. Pictures Presented. Francis Breen, a photographer for the Utilities Commission, presented a series of pictures showing traffic terminals of the four companies during the morning rush hours. John Paul Jones, an attorney, ap- pearing for the Georgetown Progres- sive Business Men’s Club and the Georgetown Citizens’ Association, op- posed the proposal to reroute the busses over the Arlington Memorial Bridge. He asserted that operation of the line on M street in George- town “is absolutely essential to that section.” The commission is considering re- routing of the line because of the traffic congestion leading to Key Bridge. WIFE OF M. H. FLANDERS OF RIVERDALE IS DEAD Short Illness Fatal to Prominent ‘Worker in Fraternal Circles. Special Dispatch to The Star. RIVERDALE, Md., March 7.—Mrs. Wilhelmina Pear! Flanders, wife of Myron H. Flanders and prominent local fraternal worker, died in Sibley Hospital, Washington, yesterday, after a short illness./ A native of Barry, Ill, and a for- mer school teacher, Mys. Flanders moved to this community with her husband about 16 years ago. She was first president of the Past Matrons and Patrons' Association of Southern Maryland, Order of the Eastern Star, and a past matron of Ruth Chapter, Hyattsville. Besides her husband, Mrs. Flanders is survived by a sister, Mrs. Norma Wendorff of Barry, Ill, and two brothers, Trueman Early of California and Harry W. Early of Washington State. Private funeral services will be con- ducted at Gasch's undertaking estab- lishment, Hyattsville, this afternoon. The officers of Ruth Chapter will of- ficiate at the burial in Fort Lincoln Cemetery. A hitherto unknown glacier and & “surprise” section of the famous Hub- bard Glacier have just been discovered from a National Geographic Society airplane in an eight-hour flight over almost impenetrable mountain regions of the extreme southwest Yukon ter- ritory. Bradford Washburn, young explorer | of Cambridge, Mass., telegraphed & report of the discoveries to the society headquarters here on arriving at his temporary rail base at Carcross, Yukon territory, Canada. Washburn, who is exploring the tangle of mountains in that vicinity for the society, discovered an immense “new” glacier nearly 50 miles long, and established the fact that the Hubbard Glacier is twice as large as had been supposed. In his report, vg:.shbum said: “The new glacier system lies some 130 miles west of Carcross. “Besides this system on the east and north slopes of Mount Hubbard, we were amazed to find that the Hubbard Glacier, formerly believed to be less than 30 miles in length and L 4 Geographic Society Explorer Finds New Glacier by Plane thought to end at the divide between Mount Hubbard and Mount Van- couver, actually flows fully 40 miles farther into the very heart of the St. Elias Range. It grows broader rather than ,narrower, and finally ends 60 or 70 miles from Yakutat Bay at the very base of Mount Logan. “Mount Vancouver appears to be utterly impregnable. It is one of the most amazing mountain masses that I have ever seen, rising to an altitude of mearly 16,000 feet from the flat snow fields of the Hubbard Glacier in one gigantic cliff of ice and rock without & single climbable angle. “Between Mount Hubbard and Mount Lucania stretches a range of hitherto unseen mountains in which there are at least 20 peaks over 10,000 feet in height and several even higher than this. Mount Lucania lies so far north of the region of our projected mapping and exploration that we did not visit it on this flight; but we plan to return with our mapping cameras next week and cover the whole area with as complete a net- mkno! oblique photographs as pos- . D. C. BANK LOSSES MAY BE DEDUCTED FROM INCOME TAX Percentage Permitted to Be Subtracted Revealed Only by Agents. HELP IS AVAILABLE AT 12 INSTITUTIONS Key to Situation Seen in Recent Statement Explaining Basis of Allowance. Depositors who lost money in Washington’s 19 failed banks are be- ing allowed to deduct some of their losses on income tax returns this year. This was learned today, from au- thoritative sources, which, however, declined to explain in detail what per- centage of deposits may be deducted, as a bad debt. Some of these banks failed in 1932, and the others early in 1933, about the time of the bank holiday. All have paid some dividends, and are in :he rfsmml.s of receivers or liquidating rusts, Data Not Made Public. Federal agents are understood to have certain information which will be of help to depositors in figuring their losses, but this information is not being made public generally. Bank depositors will be helped per- sonally by these agents in making out their returns, however, especially in connection with bank deposit losses. The agents are located in Room 1002, Revenue Building, and in 12 different batnks and branches throughout the city. _An official statement issued some time ago explains the status of de- positors’ losses in banks. This state- iment explained generally that such losses could not be deducted unless there could be a “determination” of the loss. Although no definite information couid be obtained on the manner in which the agents now are allowing losses on bank deposits, it was be- lieved by some observers that perhaps | the key to the situation lay in one part of the er statement, which reads as follows: “Where a bank is in the process ot ! liquidation and the receiver or other | official in charge has issued a state- ment indicating the final approximate | per cent of the deposits to be paid to the depositors, a depositor will be i allowed a deduction as a bad debt the amount of his deposit in excess of the | amount to be received on final dis- !lnhutlon. Any distribution received { subsequently by a depositor of the | amount deducted in his return as a bad debt, should be reported by the depositor as inceme for the yewr in | which such distribution is received.” 5 No Public Statement. | Receivers have made no public ! statement, however, as to what amount McCarran said the disclosure earlier | conditions outside the present curb the depositors in their banks may ex- | pect to lose. As a matter of fact, it | would be impossible for them to give |an accurate figure, because the busi- | ness of liquidation depends on so | many indeterminate factors, such as | the variations in the stock and bond { markets, the fluctuations in real es- tate, the value of assets and the sale- ability of assets. Deduction of a percentage of such losses as depositors have suffered in | the 19 local failed banks, however, is | proving a substantial help by reduc- ing the amount of income taxes due this year. —_— BABY LYING IN CRIB BURNED BY FLAMES Sister, Playing With Matches, Lights Discarded Clothes. Injuries Are Critical. Fifteen-month-old Kenneth Clan- ton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Clan- ton, 1526 Gales street northeast, was critically burned today after discarded clothing in an adjoining room was ac- cidentally set afire by his 4-year-old sister, Shirley. The children were alone in the house after both mother and father had left thinking the other was still at home. Shirley told her mother she was lighting matches to watch them burn when suddenly a flame flared up. With this, according to her story, the young girl ran into the front room of the house. A neighbor, whose name the mother did not know, noticed the smoke and rushed into the house for the little girl, overlooking the other child. It is believed the youngster received the burns when a draft through the par- tially open door blew the flame into the room where he was. The place where the boy was lying in his crib was not burned. The boy's father, returning from a nearby store, saw the fire engines pulling up to his house and running there dashed through the smoke and flame to rescue the child. The father was not burned. Mrs. Clanton, who is 25 years old, had walked several blocks to visit an aunt. At Casualty Hospital doctors said the baby’'s back, chest and face were seriously burned and there was slight chance for his recovery. e HOLLY TREES ALLOWED TO STAY IN SOUTHEAST Citizens’ Protest, Heeded by Na- tlonnl‘ Capital Parks Office, Rescinds Order. Heeding the vigorous protests of Southeast citizens the National Capi- tal Parks Office has rescinded an order to transplant in Rock Creek Park a half dozen fully grown holly trees on Ridge road southeast and announced the trees will be placed in one of the Southeast parks. In a letter to Southeast business men, Frank Gartside, assistant super- intendent of the National Capital parks, said his office had decided not to remove the trees to Rock Creek Park, but that they would be placed in Anacostia, Lincoln or Garfield Parks, all of which are in the South- east area, *