Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1935, Page 19

FEDERAL RESERVE LOANS DECREASE $800,000,000 Drop in 1934 Despite Pleas of Ad- ministration. By the Associated Press. Despite administration pleas, loans by member banks of the Federal Re- | serve System were shown yesterday to | have decreased $800,000,000 during 1934 as compared to the previous year. This report was made by the Fed- | eral Reserve Board in its monthly bul- letin, along with figures that mem- ber bank deposits rose $6,700,000,000 in 1934. Deposits at the year's end were $33,- 848,000,000, while “adjusted deposits,” which eliminates those of the Gov- ernment as well as postal savings and inter-bank balances, were $24,952,000,- 000, for an increase of slightly more than $4,000,000,000 for the 12 months. 1929 Peak of Deposits. Deposits were $37,980,683,000 at the end of the peak period on Decem- ber 31, 1929. The “loans and investments” ac- count of the banks showed an increase of $2,930,000,000 during the year, re- flecting chiefly a gain of $2,650,000,000 in investments in Government securi- ties, and an increase of $900,000,000 in paper wholly guaranteed by the Government. | The investments in corporate securi- ties increased about $200,000,000 dur- ing the year. { Total loans and investments De- | cember 31 amounted to $28,150,278,- | 000, which compared with 835.933,4) 950,000 at the end of 1929. | The largest element in the growth of deposits was in demand deposits of | customers other than banks for gov- | ernments. Increase of Deposits, “These deposits showed an increase of $2,040,000,000, a part of which rep- resented checks in process of collec- tion,” the board said, “while time de- posits of the same group of depositors increased by $1,060,000,000. United | States Government deposits with member banks showed an increase of $670,000,000 in the year, but postal | savings deposits were decreased by | about $325,000,000, reflecting other uses of postal savings funds. Deposits of States, counties and municipalities showed an increase of $470,000,000. There was an increase of $1,500,000,- 000 in balances due to banks, which at the end of the year aggregated $4,- 900,000,000, the largest amount ever reported.” CAPITAL WOMAN LEAPS TO DEATH Miss Martha Avord Sherman’s Body Is Recovered After Plunge From Key Bridge. | | White House Word Awaited Paralytic Youth Asks Personal Inter- view With THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 24, 1935—PART ONE. President. ARTHUR R. GARNER. BY GEORGE PORTER. | RTHUR R. GARNER, 25-year- old paralytic, is tense with ex- citement these days, awaiting an answer from President Roosevelt to a request for a personal interview. | He is anxious to be admitted to| Warm Springs and his mother Te- cently discussed her son's case with Louis Howe, ‘presidential secretary. It was at Howe's suggestion that Gar- ner wrote the President. Like hundreds of other victims of infantile paralysis who have never walked, Garner idolizes the Presi- A woman identified as Miss Martha | Avord Sherman, 48, of 302 Clifton terrace, leaped to death off Key ' Bridge yesterday after leaving her pocketbook, hat and gloves on the span. | Miss Dorothea Sherman of the same | address, confirmed the identification. | The woman’s body was recovered, | after it had floated 100 yards down | the river, by Policeman Carl G. Mc- Cormick, seventh precinct, who en- tered a rowboat manned by Austin ‘Thompson. An automobile operator’s permit bearing the name of Miss Martha A. | Sherman was found in the pocket- | book. There was a note asking that the woman’s belongings be taken to the Clifton terrace address. The woman’s family home was said to be at McLean, Va. FAMILY ASSOCIATION SERVICES 1,578 CASES | S | 666 Families Enabled to Rehabil-| itate Themselves—=2,659 Children Cared For. dent and wants to hear from his own lips about the Warm Springs Foundation. From his home at| Waldorf, Md., Garner dreams of going there and being cured—if he doesn’t find a job first Garner was within six days of his first birthday when life began dealing him cards from the bottom of the The first was infantile pa- After that came 12 oper- in an effort to effect a cure, a fall down 22 steps, a serious ab- dominal operation and a severe beat- ing at the hands of four heartless gunmen. Entered Business. Between such misfortunes Garner has acquired a high school and busi- ness education and operated a road- side stand, where he greets his customers with a cheerful smile After being stricken with paralysis, the baby Garner crawled on his hands, which have developed as large and strong as a plowman’s. Mem- | bers of his family and neighbors car- ried him about for years. He says he | will never forget their helpfullness. At the age of 12 he acquired his first pair of crutches, and later leg braces, so now he can get around with amazing agility. The crutches which were so help- | ful at first almost proved disastrous to Garner when he was attending La Plata High School. Unknown to him the top brace on his right crutch | came off one day as he was starting | down a flight of 22 steps. As he fell a part of the crutch pierced his ab- domen. For weeks he hovered be- tween life and death at Garfield Hos- pital and finally had to have one kid- ney removed. i Was Held Up by Gang. Shortly after that incident his brother “set him up” in a soft drink stand on the Southern Maryland Pike near Waldorf. A few months later four colored men held him up one night, trampled upon him and took all his money. Charles County was aroused, but the quartet never was captured. As soon as he recovered Garner undaunted. armed himself with two revolvers and returned to the stand This Winter he has been operating a neat little store, but business, he says, is very bad ‘I stay here all day. sometimes, and take in only 10 cents.” So he has been trying to obtain a | Government position through Senator Tydings. For months he has been making weekly trips to Washington | in search of employment. Garner is the son of Mr. and Mrs. | James Enoch Garner and has seven brothers and two sisters, | PLANES FOR AMATEURS | WILL BE DESCRIBED W.C.T.U. PLANS SESSION| IN CAPITAL IN 1937% Service was given to 1578 cases| aytomotive Engineers Will Hear | International Conference Is Ex- | during 1934 by the Family Service Association, it was announced in a| report on activities yesterday. This | represents an aggregate of 5401 per- sons, 2659 of whom were children| g ;iaple for use by the unskilled pri-| Temperance h | vate fiyer will be described by speakers | triennial conference in Washington The association, formerly the As-| ... «Department of Commerce night” | in September, 1937, Curtis Hodges, under 16. sociated Charities, reported through | its services, 666 families were en- | abled to rehabilitate themselves. This | was pointed out as significant of the | success of the new work. | Several factors entered into prob- lems of those seeking service from the organization. Unemployment ac- counted for 1244, while under-em- ployment and insufficient earnings | brought 385 families to the associa- tion. Among the general problems were those of unmarried mothers, de- sertion by husband or wife, mutual separation, confiict within the fam- ily, alcoholism and health cnndiuons,; Wife Asks $25,000 | Damages, Naming | Kansas Officials| Charges They Forced| Man to Implicate Her in Murder. By the Associated Press. HUTCHINSON, Kans., March 23.— A young wife brought suit for $25,000 damages against 17 Kansas officials and her brother-in-law today on the claim they alienated her husband’s affections and forced him to implicate her in a brutal murder for which he awaits trial. Mrs. Fannie Riley, in a petition filed here, charged the officials beat, starved and forced her husband, Roy Riley, to give a “false confession” fmplicating her and her brother, Monk Richardson, in the torture slaying of August Reiter, bachelor farmer, last December. The State charges Riley, Richard- son, Lacey Cunningham of Dodge City and Harry Pyle and his son, Al- lan, both of Hutchinson, went to the Relter home the night of December 24 and tortured the farmer and his brother Otto until they revealed the hiding place of $24,000 in bonds. About Development for Un- skilled Flyers. Development of types of aircraft| meeting of the Society of Automotive | Engineers at 8 p.m. Monday, April 1, at the University Club. The future of the gyro-type air-| craft, such as the autogiro, will be | discussed by Agnew E. Larsen, vice | president and chief engineer of the | Autogiro Co. He will describe a gyro- | plane his company is producing rori the Bureau of Air Commerce. This plane will be equipped for driving on | | the highway, as well as for flying. | Walter T. Brownell, aeronautics de- velopment engineer, Bureau of Air Commerce, will outline the work of the bureau in sponsoring development of | various types of aircraft for the pri vate flyer, among them a new ship | powered with an automobile engine.| An informal dinner in honor of the | speakers will precede -the meeting, | starting at 6:30 p.m. . John Henry Lecture Fifth. The Philosophical Society of Wash- ington will hold a meeting next Sat- urday at 8:30 p.m. in the Cosmos Club auditorium, at which time Paul R. Heyl of the Bureau of Standards will deliver the fifth “John Henry Lecture.” His subject will be “What Is Electricity?” v Try this for “Spring Fever” Put this Ventilator in your office or home AND LET IN THE FRESH AIR . . . then your “tired feeling” will disappear! the “comfort zone” . . . never too hot . . . never too cold. Makes rooms finished in high-grade, YOU'LL BE SURPRISED AT ITS LOW PRICE. pected to Attract 2,000 Delegates to City. Christian | hold its The World Women'’s Union will executive director of the Greater Na- | tional Capital Committee of the| Washington Board of Trade, an- | nounced yesterday. The invitation was extended to the | international organization by Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, national president, | and Mrs. Ella A. Boole, honorary | president, after a, series of confer- | ences here. This year's national con- | vention is to be held in Atlantic City. | Meeting with Mrs. Wise Smith and Mrs. Boole were Hodges and Mrs. Jennie Wadleigh, District of Colum- | bia president of the W. C. T. U. | The last world conference was held in Stockholm in 1934. Close to 2,000 | delegates and members are expected | to attend. Mrs. Agnes Slack of Lon- | don is the international secretary, | through whom arrangements are | being made. Allen's 1935 Berry Book describes Best Methods. | Plants. Varieties—Fair- | | fax, Dorsett, Catskill, etc. | B cooy Free. Write. Today | The W. F. Allen Co. | 300 Evergreen Ave. Salisbury, Md. Keeps temperatures in draft-proof. Brackets rust-proof enamel. 00 PORTAL FUND ASKED OF COUNCIL Takoma Park Petition Sees’ Need of Completing Project. Special Dispatch to The Star. TAKOMA PARK, Md., March 23.— An appropriation of $500 for the completion of the Maryland portal to the recently completed Piney Branch road underpess located on the Dis- trict-Maryiand line has been request- ed in a petition presented to the Town Council by L. R. Grabill, a pioneer resident of North Takoma and for many years superintendent of county roads for the District of Columbia. Mr. Grabill in his petition for the appropriation stales that the tract of land bounded by Eastern avenue, Chestnut street and Takoma avenue has been cleared of buildings and graded by the joint action of the commissioners of Montgomery County and the Maryland State Highway Commission at a cost of approximate- 1y $20,000 to provide an unobstructed area at the Piney Branch road under- pass and to form a suitable portal entrance. Grading Plan Approved. This area has been placed under | Maryland- | the jurisdiction of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission for improvement and beautification. and a plan for the grading and planting of the tract has been prepared in co-operation with the Nationai Capital Park Service. This plan is in conformity with the plans for the beautification of the similar adjacent areas lying within the District. Mr. Grabill informed the local au- thorities that the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commis- sion is ready to undertake the im- provement of this area at an early date, but that sufficient funds are not availahle for the work at this time. No Expenditure So Far. All work of removing the buildings, grading, etc. has been done so far without cost to the town, and in order to ascure the early completion of the proposed developent he urges that the sum of $500 be ex- pended jointly with sucn other funds as may be secured, the funds to be expended by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commis- sion. Mayor Lewton has directed the | Civic Improvement and Finance Committees of the Town Council to advise him in the matter. Charles M. Jones, secretary-treas- urer of the commission, advises that | funds on hand are not sufficient to allow full carrying out of the pro- posed plan, but if the Town Counril would aporopriate $500 this amount could be added to that which the commission has appropriated, which combined sum would permit an early completion of the project. Dance at Manor Club. About 300 members of the office section of the Sanitary Employes’ Association were entertained at the Manor Club last night by Brooke Johns and McWilliams' dance orches- tra. A number of employes from | the Sanitary offices in Baltimore and | Richmond were among the guests. “Y” Lecturer WILL TELL OF CONDITIONS IN MEXICO. FRANK B. LENZ, World traveler and international Y. M. C. A. secretary, who will discuss political education and religious conditions in Mexico in a free public lecture Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Central Y. M. C. A, Eighteenth and G streets. “The Silent Revolution in Mexico” will be the subject of Lenz's address. Lenz spent several months in Mex. ico recently in a survey of condi- ticns for the Y. M. C. A. In ad- dition to making first-hand studies of developments below the Rio Grande, he interviewed many pub- lic officials. FOR HEALTH AND ECONOMY IT’S YOUR DUTY TO OWN A NEW FRIGIDAIRE COME TO ANY OF GEORGE'’S STORES—LET THE SALESMEN SHOW YOU WHY THE NEW FRIGIDAIRES ARE SO ECONOMICAL TO OWN NO CASH DOWN GEORGE'S RADIO CO. 816 F St. NW. Washington, D. C. Please send one of your representatives to explain how I can buy a Frigidaire on your Pin Money Pay- ment Plan. T understand that this request places me under no obligation to make a purchase, ADDRESS . ALL STORES OPEN UNTIL 9 PM. MOVIE OF VIRGINIA SOON T0 BE MADE Six Reels of Sound and Color Will Be Pro- duced. By the Assoctated Press. RICHMCOND, Va. March 23.—Six reels cf motion pictures with sound and color of Virginia scenes will be few weeks, and given private showings before President Roosevelt and Gov. Peery prior to distribution for show- ing before 836 American Automobile Association clubs and ultimately as a regular motion picture travelogue. ‘This announcement was made today by Wilbur C. Hall, chairman of the Virginia Conservation and Develop- ment Commission, who said the Amer- jcan Automobile Association through Ernest M. Smith, executive vice presi- dent, had agreed to make the picture and direct its distribution, at the in- vitation of the commission. Mr. Hall said the cost of the pic- ture will run into tens of thousands of dollars, and the total cost to the State will be a maximum of $3,500. The association will bear the remain- ing cost, he said. Virginia's Expense Negligible. “The value of this picture as a lure for tourists cannot be measured dollars,” said Mr. Hall 0 | we have guaranteed from the com- | mission's publicity fund is negligible 'in the cost of the production and will taken in the State during the next| * B-3 | be returned to the State many, many | times.” The association has engaged the Burton Holmes orgsnization to make the picture .nder the direction of Andre Lavarre, who in some of the showings before the automobile clubs, will deliver an accompanying lecture. One of the reels will be devoted to restored Williamsburg. It will Be the first motion picture of the restora- tion allowed by the John D. Rocke- feller organization directing the proj- ect. Among other subjects suggested are Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive, famous places around Richmond, including the Colonial man- sions along the James River; places of historic interest in the Shenandoah Valley, the scenic wonders of South- west Virginia and the Virginia battle- flelds. | Spirituals to Be Feature. | In the accompanying sound will be Negro spirituals sung by an outstand- |ing Negro chorus. Two groups of | Negro singers in Richmond and those | of the Hampton Normal ‘Institute are j under consideration Mr. Lavarre is to arrive in Virginia | next week for preliminary , Mr. Hall said. The sound and other equipment are to follow him within the next two weeks. Between 60 and 90 days are expected to be | required for the actual photographing of the six reels, each of which will be | of 10 minutes' duration. The picture |is to be ready for showing by early Summe: POULTRY AND EGGS. IM CROWING fOr ECK'S Quality Chicks . MT. AIRY. 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