Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1935, Page 4

DECSONUESTIN ON SEHOOL PLANS Montgomery Delegation May Plot Course After Conference Tomorrow. BY JACK ALLEN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, March 11.—The fate of legislation proposed to provide Montgomery County with a means of financing the Board of Education’s $850,000 school construction program, in the event a plea for P. W. A. funds is rejected by the Federal Govern- ment, is expected to be determined here tomorrow night. Members of the county delegation intimated today that with the dead- line for the introduction of local bills in the Maryland General Assembly swiftly approaching, they may arrive at their decision on the school bond legislation after hearing leaders of the Montgomery County Civic Feder- ation, Conference Tomorrow. Representatives of that body will come to the State House tomorrow night to discuss with Senator Sted- man Prescott and the county's dele- gation in the lower House the 10 leg- islative proposals remaining on the federation’s 23-point program. Among them is the suggested school bond authorization bill. T. Yellott Canby, chairman of the Montgomery delegation, said this morning that he and his associates have not fully determined whether to present a measure permitting the sale of $850,000 in school construc- tion bonds if the P. W. A. funds are not obtained or to introduce a bill providing only funds to cover the outstanding construction items. Ten of the measures embodied in the federation’s programn already have been taken care of in local or State- wide bills, seven of which are still pending in the Legislature. Two THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1935. Romanoff Treasure in U. S. mother in 1899, now in the Hammer the folding easel at right. alone cost $50,000. LECISLATORSLOOK T0 RELIEF PARLEY Conference Today May Set- tle Problem on State’s Share of Load. were enacted and signed by Gov. Harry W. Nice and one met with de- feat when the House voted down the | women’s optional jury service bill. | Miss Ruth E. Shoemaker and | Canby have decided to sponsor three | more items advocated by the feder- | ation, one of which would be pre- | sented by Miss Shoemaker to limit | the refunding of county bonds ma- | turing in 1935 to $300,000 and to prohibit the refunding of any obli gations due in 1936. Another measure which she will | introduce would definitely fix the terms of elective officials of the county. The third bill would change the home rule amendment to permit & period of at least one year for obtaining signatures on petitions hnecessary to initiate action for a charter form of county government. | Measures Will Conflict. | With the introduction of Miss Shoe- | maker’s bill regarding the refunding | of bonds, the county delegation will | have before it conflicting measures | covering two of the federation’s pro- | posals. | Joseph A. Cantrel, Fusion party | delegate, is the author of a House‘ biil which would permit the refund- ing of the entire $580,000 due to be paid on the principal of county bonds this year and $293,500 of the amount maturing on bond principals in 1936. | The county delegation is undecided on the stand it will take on five federation measures, two of which deal with the school bond question. The other proposals upon which it has not taken a stand would enlarge the zoning authority of the Park and | Planning Commission. Miss Shoemaker has stated that she will sponsor another proposal authorizing the Park and Planning | Commission to obtain funds to elim- | inate duplications in street names and numbers if the commission does not have the proper authority at the present time. i Democratic members of the county | delegation are opposed to four of the | federation’s proposals. | The four items include the re- assessment of all real property in the county, the creation of a State-wide | commission to study all practicaxi sources of indirect revenue and de- termine an equitable method of allo- cating such revenues to the county, the placing of all county employes under the merit system and the es- tablishment of park districts in the county, with property owners de- siring park improvements to be as- sessed for such work. Miss Shoemaker sald she would offer an amendment to the State Road Commission bill, which has passed the Senate, to require the com- mission to submit reports to the counties showing the cost of carrying out each road project. Preparation of such reports is urged in the fed- | eration’s program. . J. R. FICK, WIDELY KNOWN LUMBERMAN, DIES AT 88| Came to Prince William County | From Canada 1877. Funeral Tomorrow. John R. Fick, 88-year-old lumber- man, who came to Prince William County, Va., from Canada in the “boom” of 1877, died yesterday at his home at Quantico. | Mr. Fick was engaged in the rafl- road cross-tie and pulp-wood busi- ness for 50 years and was one of the leading figures in the county, where he was well known to many persons through his travels in purchasing lumber. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary E. Eunis Fick; two daughters, Mrs. T. Kilpatrick of this city and Mrs. L. O. Moss of Fredericksburg, Va., and two sons, F. A. Fick of this | city and J. E. Fick of Quantico. Funeral services will be held at the residence tomorrow at 2 p.m. and burial will be at Graham Park Farms. in Ladies’ Heel Taps Rubber & Leather Men’s Rubber Heels, 25¢ 15¢ VALET SHOP olo F ST. MEL. | land's legislators, By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, March 11.—Mary- returning for the eleventh week of the session, looked to a conference in the Governor's | office today for a definite program on | relief. i Gov. Nice said at the end of last | veek's session that he was confident a program designed to raise Mary- | and’s share of relief funds would be forthcoming. Relief officials have estimated $13.895,750 will be required for the next ten and a half months, | but a special legislative committee | las; week estimated the State would not be able to put up more than $4,- 000,000 annually. Meet Again Today. The same legislative leaders and committees with whom he conferred last week were to meet with Nice again today to decide what revenue- raising measures would be enacted. There are several revenue-raising bills already in committee. The Legis- lative Relief Committee suggested everal small taxes instead of a large levy. Among the items suggested | were cigars, cigarettes, beer, bridge tolls, income, sales, admissions and gross receipts. ‘Whatever the conferees decide to- day must be followed by quick action, if the Federal Government holds good its threat that no more ‘relief funds will be forthcoming after March 15 unless the State moves to raise its part of the bill. Deadlock Threatens. The $62,262,387 budget, passed by the Senate, was expected to be ex- pedited through the House early this week, although a deadlock in the| House Ways and Means Committee threatened. The committee was still considering the approximations bill at the end of the week’s session Friday, but post- also are 11 miniatures of the Russian royal family. poned its report until this week. Wide Range of Here is the famous jade Easter egg, the Russian Czar’s present to his Galleries, New York. Covered with platinum and gold and encrusted with 500 diamonds, the egg contains On the easel, which is of gold and platinum, The workmanship —A. P. Photo. DEMOCRATS TO MEET The Democratic League of the Dis- trict of Columbia will hold its monthly meeting Wednesday evening at 8:30 o'clock in the Racquet Club, with Senators Radcliffe and Tydings of Maryland as speakers. George Calvert, president of the Maryland State Society, also will be a speaker on the program. Other persons expected to take part in the discussions are Representatvies Ambrose J. Kennedy, William Cole, Vincent L. Palmisano, Alan T. Golds- borough, David J. Lewis and Stephen W. Gambrill. EX-GOV. RITCHIE'S RELATIVE EXPIRES Mrs. Edith Kensett Ritchie, Widow of John J., Was Bal- timore Native. Mrs. Edith Kensett Ritchie, widow of John Ritchie, jr., and a relative by marriage of former Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, died yesterday at her residence, 2034 Twentieth street, after a brief iliness. Mrs. Ritchie was a native of Bal- timore, but had lived here many years. She was a member and active worker in St. Margaret's Episcopal Church and on the board of the Gentle Wom- en’s League. She also was a member of the National Society, Colonial Dames of America. She is survived by a son, Prof. John Ritchie, 3d, of Seattle, Wash; a grandson, John Ritchie, 4th; three sisters, Mrs. Kensett Daniel of the Twentieth street residence; Mrs. Norman H. Slack and Miss Nannie Kensett of Norfolk, Va., and a brother, John Gilman Kensett of Tampa, Fla. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence tomorrow at 10:30 am. by Rev. Herbert Scott Smith, rector of St. Margaret’s Church. Later services will be held at 2:30 p.m. in All Saint’s Church, Frederick, Md., followed by interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Friends are invited to attend the services. - Citizens Will Meet. LIVINGSTON HEIGHTS, Va., March 11 (Special). —Organization of the newly formed Carne Precinct Citizens’ Association will be completed at a meeting at 8 p.m. tomorrow at St. Mary's Church on Glebe road. Topics Offered By This Week in Sunday Star Must a neglected wife remain un- loved? Not if she’s clever, says Michael Arlen’s story in next Sunday's issue of This Week. Why is it that “Two is company, three’s a crowd?” Andre Maurols, noted French thinker, will tell you in “As Others See Us” in This Week. Can a middle-aged man’s life to transformed in a few seconds—and then set back in the old groove in & few seconds more? Walter Duranty in a clever short story shows how it's done. In This Week next Sunday. What two heroes of the Mayflower colony have just been discovered? Honore Morrow, noted writer of his- | sympto: torical short stories and novels, brings you a delightful dog tale—for the heroes were dogs! Does it ever rain or snow on the moon? Is moonlight as “healthy” as sunlight? Questions like these are being answered daily by scientists who explore the moon’s surface through giant telescopes. Next Sunday This Week brings you “Explorers of the Moon"—an article by George W. Gray, noted writer on scientific subjects. ‘What happens to Cordwood McGash, ESTABLISNED 183) - ASSETS OVER $36,000,000 SURPLUS $1,250.000 the new millionaire at the end of his sojourn in Paris? Sinclair Lewis brings his latest serial to & happy ending with Cordwood sitting on top of the world. In “Black Night,” Rufus King, whom you may remember as the author of “Murder by the Clock,” one of 1929's best sellers in the mystery fleld, brings you a story of love and murder that will make your spine tingle. Is Irvin Cobb still funny? Yes, says his short story about the Southern darkies, “Fly High, Mr. Buzzard.” Is bridge a disease? Oswald Jacoby, noted authority on the national card game, writes as though it is, tells the ms and habits of the victims, and, incidentally, lets you in on the life of the great bridge experts and some of the tricks they use to win a game. In “The Shining Hour,” E. Phillips Oppenheim, master of mystery, takes you over to Monte Carlo for another adventure of his smooth Gen. Besserley. There is also a specially written short feature on Katharine Cornell, noted actress, and her two dogs, Flush and Sonia, and another fine color- gravure cover, suitable for framing. REAL ESTATE LOANS No Commission Charged Perpetual Building Association 11th and E Sts. N. W. Largest in Washington BISHOP MARVIN A. CUSTIS Beard Prasident Chairman of the EDWARD C. BALTZ, Seerstary Member of Federal Home Loan Bank System The District of Columbis Building and Loan Leagus 4500 BANKS USE NOTE PRIVILEGE Projected Abolition Would Scrap One of Oldest Forms of Money. By the Assoctated Press. The projected abolition of national bank notes means the scrapping of one of the oldest forms of paper money now in existence. National banks were given the right to issue their own money with the creation of the national banking sys- tem in 1863. Latest report showed 4,600 institu- tions were employing the privilege. Called “Circulation.” These notes, in denominations of $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 and $1,000, designated among banks as ‘“circula- tion” to distinguish them from “cur- rency.” The latter, in the proper sense, is money issued by the Gov- ernment. Under the system now to be given up, bonds having the circulation privilege are deposited in trust with the Treasurer of the United States by national banks, which receive from the controller of the currency an amount of engraved notes equal to the par value of the deposited bonds, bearing the bank’s own name, which they can hand out as money. National banks issuing these notes must provide a reserve equal to 5 per cent of the amount of notes outstand- ing, which sum must be deposited in | the Treasury and maintained when notes are presented for redemption therefrom. The ‘“ciiculation” privilege has source of revenue when money was in demand. Returned 2 Per Cent. For instance, the deposited bonds returned to the bank 2 per cent per year. The “circulation” privilege gave to them an equal amount of money which they could lend out, in pros- perous times at as much as 6 per cent. The only fee for the “circulation” privilege is a semi-annual tax of 1§ of 1 per cent on the amount out- standing. In late years, however, in the Treasury view, the only advantage of the privilege was the advertising value which an institution received through circulation of its notes. TWO DEAD, ONE DYING, Relative Discovers Tragedy When He Visits Home to Invite Three to Dinner. By the Associated Press. persons were found dead yesterday and another was near death from what physicians, after an autopsy, said apparently was poison. The dead are Warren Thompson, 76, of Hanover, and his grandson, Wil- liam Johnson, 11, of Newark. Frank Johnson, 31, the boy's father, is ex: pected to die, the physicians said. The tragedy was discovered by Frank Kelly, a relative, when he called at the Johnson home here to invite the three to dinner. Police said Mrs. Bessie Hupp, 40, housekeeper for Johnson since his wife died two weeks ago, became ill Friday. A. T. 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LIBERTY LEAGUE WARNS CONGRESS Extreme Caution Advised in Passing on Pending Banking Bills. By the Associated Press. Congress cannot be too cautious, the American Liberty League said today, in enacting legislation affecting the banking laws of the country, In analyzing the identical bills which have been introduced into the Senate and the House by Senator Fletcher, Democrat, of Florida, and Representative Steagall, Democrat, of Alamaba, chairmen of the Senate and House Banking Committees, the league in a bulletin said that much emergency legislation has been en- | acted the past two years and that the | most minute consideration should be result of the discovery of private core respondence of the company’s found= ers. These are in addition to docue ments relating to the company’s ace tivitles already in the Government's possession. — COLLEGE GROUP TO DINE Towa State Alumni to Celebrate 77th Anniversary. The National Capital Chapter of the Alumni Association of Iowa State College, at Ames, Towa, will celebrate the seventy-seventh anniversary of the founding of the college at a dinner at the Continental Hotel Friday eve- ning. Dean T. R. Agg of the College of Engineering will come here from Ames for the celebration. Secretary of Ag- riculture Henry A. Wallace, Assistant Secretary M. L. Wilson, Dr. C. W, Warburton, director of the Extension Academy of Sclences of the U. 5. S. R. | Service of the Agriculture Depart- next year, together with new docu- | ment; President R. A. Pearson of the ments from the archives of the Rus- | University of Maryland, who was head sian-American Co., which colonized | of Iowa State for 16 years, and mem- Alaska and the Aleutian Islands and | bers of the Iowa delegation in Con- exploited them until their purchase by | gress are expected to attend. the United States in 1867. .| H.B.Swanson of the Office of Edu- ‘The Russian-American archives were | cation is president of the chapter and lost after the company’s liquidation, | Miss Catherine Ford of the Agricul- but part have been recovered as a | ture Department is secretary. LETTERS BY MONROE FOUND IN RUSSIA Unpublished Notes Were Written When He Was Ambassador to That Country. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, March 11.—Hitherto un- published notes written by President James Monroe when he was United tes Ambassador to England (1803- 07) have been discovered in old Rus- sian archives, it was announced yes- terday. 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Protesting against the bill, the league held the Fletcher-Steagall measure would place “our monetary and kanking structure” at the “whims of political influence.” Report Points to History. “The experience of nations through- out history,” said the report, “has been that, when governmental in- fluence over banking systems assumes the nature of management, rather than supervision, financial ruin fol- | Jows. In such circumstances, the fis- | cal requirements of treasurles rather | than of industry and agriculture tend to become the prime consideration in | | determination of policies.” | The outstanding examples of dis- | astrous inflation in the world, the re- | port added, have resulted from “po- litical control of banks.” | One of the objections to the pro- | posed bill was that “the Federal Re- | serve System is to be used for experi- mentation with ‘economic and mone- tary theories.” Shift in Power Protested. ‘The league protest against the meas- ure, which would further centralize power of the Government over the banking system, also included a com- plaint that it would shift to the Fed- eral Reserve Board powers now exer- cised by the non-political Federal Reserve Banks. “It destroys safeguards in present law affecting the use of currency and credit,” the statement said. “It facilitates inflation and offers no adequate means of checking tend- encies in this direction. “It opens the door to unsafe bank- ing. [ Fears Executive Authority. “It provides for abdication by Con- | gress of its constitutional duty to regulate the value of money. “It delegates to the executive branch unrestricted authority to control the volume of currency and credit with- out so much as declaring a policy. “It strengthens the President’s power over the Federal Reserve Board and | makes it impossible for that agency | or the Federal Reserve Banks to be | independent.” ‘The league suggested a comprehen- | sive study of banking and monetary } matters by a national commission of | “appropriate character” before Con- gress makes “such important changes in policy.” —_— CONVENTIONS ADDED Three More Meetings Scheduled for Washington. Three more conventions have been added to the list of meetings scheduled to come to Washington, it was an- nounced today by the Greater Na- tional Capital Committee of the Wash- ington Board of Trade. The Eastern States Regional Con- ference of the Civil Service Assembly will meet here the latter part of next | month with an anticipated attendance | {of 100 delegates. The Federal Association will have its annual ses- | sion May 13. The annual meeting of | | the American Road Builders’ Associa- 1 tion, with close to 200 in attendance, will meet at the Willard Hotel either next month or in May, the definite date not yet having been set. Methods Used in My Office or many ies on human go. the GAS Administered Per Tooth §2 t Natural .50 Per Plate Tute: L Kampie TERMS MAY BE onvinced ARRANGED Cor. 7Tth & E Sts. N.W. M.to 1 P.M. (Lefi) “PVE SEEN HOw Camelsare made from cost- lier tobaccos. No wonder they perk up my energy.” (Signed) CHARLEY BELDEN Biichl, Weonss MAYOR LA GUARDIA Of New York climbs a fence to in- spect the Thomas Jefferson Park at First avenue and 113th street dur- ing his inspection of eight new playgrounds and park projects in Manhattan and the Bronx. —Wide World Photo. 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