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Washington News HIDDEN BAR BAN MAY BE INVOKED ONLY ON SUSPICION Judiciary Group Moves to Amend Dirksen Bill to Allow Selling. A. B. C. BOARD MAY HOLD DISCRETIONARY POWERS “Honest Dealer Would Be Pro- tected,” Says Palmisano in Discussing Move. BY JAMES E. CHINN. Ever mounting opposition to the, Dirksen bill to abolish Washington’s so-called hidden bars caused the Judiciary Subcommittee of the House, District Committee today to take steps | to have it amended so as to force into | the open only the bars in establish- | ments suspected of questionable prac- | tices. | Chairman Palmisano made this dis- closure during hearings on a bill sponsored by the Alcohol Beverage Control Board to tighten the existing liquor act. The Dirksen bill is now on the House ealendar, but Palmisano said an effort | will be made on the floor to have an | amendment included giving the A. B. | C. Board discretionary power to de- termine the places where liquor should be sold in the open. “We do not intend to disturb the honest dealer.” said Palmisano. “We will let him keep his hidden bar. What ‘we propose to do is to force the ques- tionable dealers—those who misrepre- sent brands of liquor and sell drippings from beer taps—to bring their bars into the open.” Digress From Bill. Although the hearing was called primarily to consider the A. B. C. Board’s bill, several witnesses digressed to discuss the so-called hidden bar measure. One of these was Edward J. Roche, representing the Central | Labor Union, who declared that closed bars as conducted in the District are a menace to health. “We want the sale of liquor con- | ¢ ducted decently.,” Roche declared. “The old-time bar was not as bad as it has been pictured. Bartenders s would not serve liquor after legal Lhours nor would they serve it on . Bunday.” | £ One of the principal provisions in | Hthe A. B. C. Board bill is designed to | iprevent night clubs, restaurants and | other establishments having on-sale | ‘licenses from selling a number of “drinks to a customer before the dead- . line on the legal sale, for consumption | later. The measure would prevent “consumption on the premises after 2 | opened hearings on a bill by Repre- | Witness MRS. HARRIS T. BALDWIN. —Star Staff Photo. MARITAL STATUS ACT SCORED BY 12 Witnesses Are Unanimous as House Committee Opens Hearing. BY J. A. FOX. With an overflow audience com- | posed principally of women who ap- plauded every speaker vigorously, the House Civil Service Committee today sentative Celler, Democrat, of New York, to repeal the marital status law, an outstanding hangover of the econ- omy era. Approximately a dozen witnesses appeared at the hearing, the first on the House side definitely directed against the law which requires that, where husband and wife are employed by the Government, one must be dis- | missed in necessary reductions of force. Without exception, they adhered to the note sounded by Celler in his opening. statement, condemning the law as discriminatory, in various re- spects, and as subversive to sound personnel principles. Nepotism Is Attacked. Linked with Celler’s plea for his | tor and Publisher, he Zb WASHINGTON, D. C, NATION'S EDITORS TALK PROBLEMS IN 3DAY SESSION Eleventh Annual Convention of American Society Is Opened Here. ROOSEVELT INTERVIEW WILL BE HELD TONIGHT Press Club Banquet Saturday Will | Climax Meeting—Borah to Speak. Men who direct the leading daily newspapers of the country opened a three-day discussion this afternoon of their problems and current affairs as the eleventh annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Edi- tors got under way at the National Press Club. The i00 editors and managing edi- tors tonight will have an off-the-rec- ord interview with President Roose- velt at the White House following re- ports to the members on the society’s work from President Grove Patterson of the Toledo Blade, Secretary M. V. Atwood of the Gannett newspapers and Treasurer E. S. Beck of the Chi- cago Tribune. During the meeting, which will be climaxed with a Press Club banquet Saturday night, the editors will con- fer with Government officials, foreign correspondents and one another on editorial policies, with special empha- ¢is on the relation of the modern newspaper to public life. Three-way Talk Today. They expected to find much food for thought in a three-cornered dis- cussion this afternoon on “The Con- flict Between the Important and In- teresting in Newspapers” among Wal- | lace Odell Inc.; William of Westchester Papers, Allen White, famed pro- prietor of the Emporia Gazette, and | Tom Wallace of the Louisville Times. Correspondents familiar with Europe #ill speak tomorrow afternoon on “The Big News in Europe—What It Means and How to Get It.” Dorothy Thompson, given 24 hours to leave Germany when she ruffied Hitler with an unfavorable interview, will join this discussion with Raymond Gram Swing, formerly dean of European corre- spondents and now associate editor of the Nation, and Paul Scott Mowrer, | formerly Paris correspondent and now associate editor of the Chicago Daily News. A review in executive session of faults of today’'s newspapers will fol- low, led by Sir Willmott Lewis of the London Times, Marlin E. Pew of Edi- Arthur Krock of the New York Times, Edson K. Bixby of the Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader, and David Lawrence of the United “am. on week days and midnight Sat- | bill, which would outlaw the marital States News. urday. Although proprietors of some of these establishments are reported to have declared such a restriction would injure their business, none ap- peared I senting the Christian Heurich Brew- sion. Would Put “Teeth” in Bill Charles E. Sands, business repre-’ eentative of the hotel, restaurant em- ployes and bartenders’ alliance, urged that “teeth” be put into a provision in the bill to prevent persons convict- ed of misdeameanors or a felony from ‘working in an establishment handling liquor. He declared some notorious ‘Washington bootleggers of the pro- , hibition era were now in the legal | liquor business, having procured a license through their wives or a | *“dummy.” Palmisano was with his proposal. “If you are going to punish every one who technically violated the old . Volstead law,” he declared, “you might as well bar 90 per cent of the people. I can't agree with you on that proposi- tion.” Manuel J. Davis, representing the | Exclusive Liquor Dealers’ Association of the District, indorsed the A. B. C. bill, particularly the section giving the control board power to suspend as well as to revoke the licenses for vio- lations of the liquor regulations. Objection to a proposed amendment that would prevent distillers and brewers from giving dealers anything ; In excess of $1 in value was regis- tered by Alexander H. Bell, repre- not sympathetic ¢ ing Co.; Harry S. Wender, represent- ing a group of window display dec- orators, and Raymond Gittleman, rep- | resenting the National Gunther Brew- | eries of Baltimore. $25 Gift Limit Suggested. Gittleman suggested that the lim- itation on the value of gifts be raised to $25 so the brewers could donate to - the dealers legitimate advertising signs. Bell insisted it would be “ridic- ulous” to restrict the cost of an ad- vertising sign to $1, while Wender said the limitation would force a number of window display artisans out of work. 7 Marion De Bries, representing the ‘Wine Institute, appealed for a reduc- tion in the present tax on wines. He declared the existing 35 cents per gallon tax on light wines is in excess of the cost of production. California has a tax of 2 cents per gallon on light wines, he said, and as & result that State is deriving more revenue from the sale of that beverage than any other in the country. . De Bries also explained that “some deterrent force” is holding down wine - consumption in this country. Before * prohibition, he said, consumption * amounted to 51,000,000 gallons each year, but last year the consumption dropped to 21,000,000 gallons. REPORT IS APPROVED Banneker Recreation Council Adopts Committee Plan. The Banneker Recreation Council at a meeting yesterday, adopted the report of its Recreation Committee calling for recreational facilities based on needs rather than on ratio of population. Pointing out the strong and weak phases of the present recreational .- set-up in relation to colored residents of the District, the report asks that if a new recreational program is adopted conscientious provisions for promoting interracial good will and . understanding should be included. 3 | ought to retire to the home. status clause by amendment to civil | service law, was an attack on nepo- ! tism in Congress. Earlier tomorrow Stuart H. Perry of the Adrian (Mich.) Telegram, will give Siihouette of an artillery group commander of the 3d Corps Area, Unif nual inspection, which would be com 4101101 SUNDAY MORNING EDITION THURSDAY, APRIR 18, 1935. Fort Myer Troops across the drill field of the Virginia post, where Maj. Gen. Robert E. Callan, v 42 Star ¥ Turn Out for In inspected the quarters of the troops tions of the post. training of the units at Fort Myer. Maryland, Pennsylvania and the Distr; at Fort Myer, pictured as it dashed ted States Army, today began his an- pleted tomorrow. Later Gen. Callan Tomorrow is to be devoted to inspecting the tactical The 3d Corps Area takes in Virginia, Society and General PAGE B—1 100N CAPTAL TOGETI0BSUNDER NEW RELEF PLAN Census Taking Will Give an Additional 4,000 Tem- porary Employment. spection |DISTRICT PROGRAM WINS PRAISE OF PRESIDENT and all the activities and installa- ict of Columbia. 12 ARE INDICTED INNARGOTCSALE Report by Federal Agents Indicates Large Traffic | in Capital Area. The recent Federal drive against narcotic peddlers in Washington re- sulted today in the indictment of 12 | persons by the District grand jury. Reports submitted by the Govern-| | ment investigators ndicate narcotics are being sold on a large scale in the business and residential sections. ‘Those indicted are: Bessie Snow, 442 K street; Thomas 1a Page, no fixed address; Mosby | Williams and Mae Lee, 937 New York avenue; Clay Nichols, 2122 P street; Russell V. Clayborne and Dorothy Tanner, both of 921 Hamilton street; Carl Belohlovek. 1763 Q street; Ben- jamin H. Woolf and Lucille Woolf, both of 1737 Seventeenth street: | Charles Nader, 807 Ninth street, and | Clyde C. Cocmer, no fixed address. | The defendants were arrested in March and all are charged with violat- | ing the Harrison narcotic act. Indicted in Card Game. Two colored men who allegedly volunteered to instruct Rudolph C. O'Meara, Cherrydale, Va., in the fine | points of three-card monte also were indicted by the grand jury. | O'Meara told the jury the defen-| dants, Fenton Meredith and Elvin | Collins, let him pick the red card the first three times when only a quarter was at stake, but that the card he thought was red turned out to be black on two $10 bets. | Alleged to have taken $666 and some | jewelry from Fred B. Harper after | | threatening him with a gun, Frank |H. Acton and Reuben Rose were | | charged with robbery. | they wemt to Harper's apartment, 1833 New Hampshire avenue, on March 8 and took the money from him. Harper said he could not identify either of the men, but Acton, accord- | ing to police, confessod. Cited for Non-Support. Gottleib C. Klein was indicted for | the report of a Special Committee on | non-support of his 70-year-old Wie, | | Another high light was a colloquy | libel before a discussion of “News and = Bertha M. Klein, 3015 Sixteenth street to protest against this provi- between Mrs. Caroline O'Day, New |Pictures” by M. W. Bingay of the De- | northeast. Klein, a retired Bureau of York Representative for whom Mrs. | troit Free Press, L. R. Blanchard of | Standards employe, allegedly failed to Roosevelt campaigned, and Represent- | the New York Daily News and Roy | keep an agreement to pay her $30 a ative Jennings Randolph, Democrat, | W. Howard of the Scripps-Howard month entered into after an earlier of West Virginia. As Mrs. O'Day was proceeding as a witness Rnndolphl quered: “Mrs. O'Day, I get letters from a lot of people who think women | are invading the domain of man and What do you think of that?” “On the contrary, Mr. Randolph, you men have invaded our field,” Mrs. O'Day started, to be interrupted by applause. Continuing, she explained that various mechanical household | devices had taken the housewifely duties away from women. Law Becomes Permanent. At the start Celler said the marital | status law was adopted presumably as | a temporary expedient to spread work, | but that now it had become a per- manent measure. He envisioned it as | an entering wedge to other employ- ment proscriptions. Some departments are enforcing the | law and some are not, he continued, adding: “It is very strange, but wom- en whose husbands are in the service and who get large salaries are unaf- fected. If this law is going to apply to all jobs let it apply to the legis- lative service, too. Committee mem- bers know many members have their wives on the pay roll. Let it also apply to their nephews, brothers and sisters. Not only will members of Congress be involved, but even the President him- self would be involved. If we're going to wipe out nepotism, let's go the whole way.” Mrs. Harris T. Baldwin, first vice president of the Voteless League of Woman Voters, said that the law is doing much “to undermine the merit system.” She said also that while the law was designed to affect married persons without regard to sex, “it seems to affect principally married women.” Because of the number of witnesses still to be heard, the hearing recessed | at noon until 10 am. tomorrow. newspapers. Creager to Preside. Marvin H. Creager of the Milwaukee Journal, first vice president of the so- ciety, will preside at tomorow’s “shop talk” luncheon. Julia Coburn of the Ladies Home Journal, J. Roscoe Drum- mond of the Christian Science Moni- tor and John S. Knight of the Akron Beacon-Journal will speak. Friday evening the society and the Press Club will be hosts at a recep- tion to Vice President Garner, Speaker Byrns, a group of Senators and other | men prominent in officlal Washington life. The editors will hear Donald R. Richberg, National Emergency Coun- cil chairman and acting chairman of the National Industrial Recovery Board, at luncheon Saturday. Frank H. Simonds will speak on | “Europe at This House” and Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, on “Un- | afraid” at the closing banquet Satur- day night. Henry J. Allen, former Governor of Kansas, will be toast- master. FOURTH OFFENSE COSTLY In one of the few fourth-offense speeding charges ever to come before the courts Here, Elmer Fry Robertson, 1448 V street, was sentenced by Judge | John P. McMahon in Police Court yes- terday to pay a fine of $25 or serve 25 days in jail. On & charge of passing a red light he was sentenced to pay $5. Robertson, who is a taxi driver, told the court he picked up two fares who stated they were in a hurry to reach Union Station. He was arrested by Policeman I. Lubore of the Traffic Bu- reau. Robertson’s third offense oc- curred on March 15, at which time he was sentenced to pay a fine of $50 or serve 15 days in jail. He was unable to pay his fine in either case. bode for Easter Egg Rolling Announced at White House ‘The White House today announced an official code for Easter egg rolling on the White House lown. It was prepared by the Recreation Division of the National Parks Serv- ice and has been sent in answer to inquirfes for information regarding the annual event. In its answer to these egg-rolling inquiries, the parks service wrote: “It has been the custom for many years to open the White House grounds on Easter Monday to children for picnicking and playing games on the lawn south of the Executive Mansion. No contests of any kind take place, and, so far as krown to this office, there are no rules or regulations for such contests. “The festival is virtually a chil- dren’s picnic. The egg-rolling is not supervised in any way and the only rules are those made by the children. By observation it is played as follows: “Each child has a basket of dyed eggs. There is one child at the bot- tom of the hill and another at the top. The child at the bottom places an egg on the ground and the one at the top rolls one down and ‘tries. Y to hit it; it is not touched as it rolls down. If it does not hit the egg at the bottom, the children change places. If it does hit it, the child at the top comes down after his egg and tries to crack the other, usually having three trials, the child at the bottom holding the egg in his hand so that only the end shows. “If he cracks the egg, he takes it and then goes to the top of the hill and repeats. If he does not erack it, both children keep their own eggs and change places. 5 the past several years folk dances in costume have been held during the day by organizations such as the Friendship House, Y. M. C. A. and Girl Scouts.” The parks’ information then goes on to say that the White House grounds are open for the Easter egg rolling between 9 am, and 3:30 p.m. to children 10 years of age or under, and that adults are not admitted un- less accompanying a small child. Between 3:30 p.m. and 5§ pm. the general public is admitted to the grounds to enjoy & concert by the United States Marine Band. indictment had been dropped. David Meadows, colored, was jn- dicted for the first degree murder of Alfred Jordan, also colored, last March 6. It is charged he stabbed Jordan with a butcher knife after a fight in the rear of 205 R streot. The grand jury ienored libel charges against Thomas T. Connolly, former Boston Navy Yard employe. in an | automobile bearing signs attacking Senators Walsh and Coolidge and | Representative Rogers of Massachu- | setts. He was arrested March 5 at | Seventh and H streets after a large | crowd had gathered around his car to read the signs. Cleared in Traffic Death. Wilfred F. Jones was absolved of responsibility for the traffic death of | Roger T. Dp Bois last September 15. | Du Bois was killed while riding with Jones when the latter's car collided with a taxicab at Fourth and K streets northeast. Others indicted, with the charges against them, are: Theodore Brown, joy riding; James Charles and James Jackson, house- breaking; Herman Walker, Herman Hawkins, Wiley Crouch, Alphonzo Monroe, Lawrence O. Chapman and Slyvester L. Thomas, housebreaking and larceny; Richard A. Estep, Au- gustus A. Schraeder, Walter Dean and Roy F. Anthony, grand larceny; Ruth Smith, robbery; James Gregory and James Ford, assault with a dan- gerous weapon; Ira B. Moore, assault with intent to commit carnal knowl- edge; Charles Mitchell, depreda-- tion on private property; Harry Her- man Jacobson, attempting to sell ob- scene pictures; George F. Shoemaker, forging and uttering a Government check; George M. Washington, steal- ing Government property, and James W. Hart and Arthur E. Kennedy,!| abortion. The jury cleared the following of the charges indicated: Robert M. Lee, John Douglas and Solomon Temple, housebreaking and larceny; Virgil Eads, assault with a dangerous weapon; William H. Ander- son, violating liquor-taxing act; John Howard, gambling; Robert L. J. Car- mody, false pretenses, and Ellsworth Newman. homicide. . CONFESSIONS CLAIMED IN 6 LIQUOR HOLD-UPS Suspect in Round-up of Gang Ad- mits His Complicity, Police Announce. George 1. Pulley, 24, of Wilming- ton, Del., arrested in the round-up of a gang believed responsible for numerous hold-ups of liquor stores here, has signed confessions admitting he took part in six of the robberies, Lieut. C. P. Cox., in chgrge of the investigation, said today. Pulley was arrested yesterday. Three of five other men, already under arrest, have signed confessions, the police said. Pulley, police say, 2lso confessed to driving automobiles for the gang in a number of other hold-ups in which he did not actually take part. The men are to be arraigned to- morrow in Police Court for prelim- inary hearings. 0 | Park to relieve the F unds for New Bridge Asked To End Speedway Traffic Jams Public Works Administration funds | Water street, east of the present rail- for a new bridge from East Potomac | Way bridge. This will afford a second | “bottle neck” | outlet for the one-way traffic on the | Speedway. i south of the Tidal Basin have been | 'Capt Carroll suggested a subway | asked by C. Marshall Finnan, super- | instead of a bridge to relieve the sit- intendent of National Capital Parks, |uation. He would have an under- it was revealed today. | ground passage placed below Four- The announcement was made when | teenth street, running northward into Finnan was discussing the problem | the Northwest section from the park | Commissioner Allen Awaits Fed- eral Set-up Before Announc- ing Details of Plan. The District will be ready to give | regular employment to 11,000 persons, 14 NIGHT SCHOOLS FACE EARLY CLOSE oo e Fund Shortage Will Be Con- | work-relief program starts function- f f ing, Commissioner George E. Allen sidered by Education | today. Board Today. In addition, there will be at least 4,000 jobs available here under the President’s $13,500.000 unemployment of traffic congestion anticipated Sun- | area, so that there would be no inter- day when hundreds of visitors are ference with traffic bound for Virginia | expected to drive around the Speed- | over the Highway Bridge. | way to see the double-blossom cherry Definite plans have not yet been trees. 3 Capt. P. J. Carroll, in command | nan hopes to get some indication of of Park Police, said there is an cx- ! favorable action so that specifications treme and recurring problem to be |soon can be drafted. fought in the park whenever large ‘The National Capital Park and | crowds are drawn there. Planning Commission some years ago Under the plan of Finnan a new recommended that such a bridge be bridge will be placed over Washington | constructed across Washington Chan- Channel from East Potomac Park to ! nel. RECREATION HEAD NALA.FIGHT BECUN completed for the new span, but Fin- | Unless the Board of Education, °ensus, which is expected to begin which meets this afternoon, can find Shortly, according to William L. Aus- additional money, Washington's 14 ton. Census Bureau director. This ;publlc night schools probably will close employment, which will consist in | May 20, | tabulating returns from the 96,000 Officials estimate that the $89.000 census takers throughout the country, allotted for operation of the night Will schools will be exhausted then. closing will affect more than 7,000 | students. be temporary, however, since the The Work is expected to be carried out with expedition. Furnishing of steady jobs to the District’'s employables on worthwhile Supt. of Schools Prank W. Ballou : work projects will be the backbone of has listed the matter for discussion | the local work-relief program, whi xith the school board at its meeting | vesterday elicited praise from Presi- today. | dent Roosevelt at his press conference. Plan Considered Teachers. SOUGHT FOR CITY T0 PROTECT LEAVE | [ 'Names of 25 Applicants Are A. F. G. E. Lodge Prepares‘ Considered by Newly Formed Cominittee. Search for a competent director of recreational activities for the District was started today by the recently formed District Recreation Committee at its first business session in the office of Commissioner Allen. The committee had before it the 50 a careful canvass might be made of eligible directors. It was said the list was later cut to five and that none of these was a Washington resident. The salary of the person selected to co-ordinate recreation activities | under the unified plan will be some- | to Contest Loss Through Extension Bill. | Embattled N. R. A. employe mem- bers of the agency’s American Fede™a- | tion of Government Employes’ lodge | prepared today to launch a campaign | to safeguard their accumulated an- nual leave, endangered by the pend- | ing N. R. A. extension bill. Lodge No. 91 will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the Washington Loan & It is charged | names of 25 applicants, including two | Trust Co. Building, Ninth and F District residents whose names were | Streets, to organize a vigorous fight | | not revealed, but postponed decisions for establishment of a definite daily hour of finishing work. Aroused by Ruling. ‘The union was aroused by recent ruling waiving an order of Gen. Hugh Johnson, former N. R. A. administra- tor, last year granting an hour off | for every hour worked overtime by the recovery administration employes. The new requirement makes it nec- Rather than force some 1,000 pupils to drop out and throw from 30 to 60 teachers out of work, the board at its second March meeting approved a plan to operate all the schools as long as possible on funds available, instead of continuing a few to the end of the term. | Little consolidation of classes, with accompanying savings, has been pos- sible this year, according to E. L. Lockwood and C. O. Lewis, directors of the white and colored night schools, respectively. They pointed out that not only has the year's enroliment been large, but the usual dropping of courses toward the end of the year by a con- siderable number of students has not occurred. Despite the early closing. all pupils who finish the courses be given full credit for the year's work, Dr. Ballou has stated. Fund Formerly $97,000. | Before the economy act the District was allotted $97.000 for operation of | This was slashed to night schools. $75,000, but $89.000 was made avail- able for the current year. There are six white night schools, @e of which is an Americanization school, one a vocational school and the others of high school status. Refuses to Disclose Plan. Allen declined to make public de- tails of his plan under the new set-up, stating that the program could not be decided until the Federal Works Ad- ministration announces its guiding | policies. He did, however, dispel much ‘of the mystery about his plan. What he has done so far, he said was to set up 12 general classifications of types of work projects which mav be adopted to fit the needs of the unemployed dependent on the pro- gram. Studies already made indicate there will be 11,000 here eligible for this program. A companion feature of the plan, as dictated by the terms of the new work-relief act, is a separation of the unemployables and other persons not eligible for the Federal work program from the employables who will be offered will | eligible These will be placed under the sep- arate care of the District and their care financed out of District revenues solely. Awaits Federal Program. Allen said a definite list of work projects under the Federal plan as yet had not been adopted, and could not be drawn until the Federal rules are available. This will depend on what is to be the District's allotment. He outlined in a memorgndum Of the eight colored night schools which attracted the attention of the where between $4.000 and $6,000 a | essary for the overtime worker to take year. The cost will come out of Dis- | off compensatory time the day after irict revenues as appropriated for the | or never, but employes say they often | six are elementary, one is a combined | President such classifications of work | vocational and elementary institution as street improvements, building of |and one is a senior high school. Ap- activities of the National Capital Parks office, it was agreed. The commiitee hopes to settle the appointment question before the end of the month and plans to proceed then with a co-operative plam of mcnagement of recreation areas now under the control of the Parks Office, the District Playground Department and the public schools. The three voting members of the committee are: Commissioner Allen, Henry I. Quinn, member of the Board of Education, and C. Marshall Finnan, superintend- ent of the Parks Office. Frederic A. | Delano, chairman of the Park and Planning Commission, is non-voting chairman of the group. FEAR MAN A SUICIDE HELD GROUNDLESS Brother of Louis Notes, Reported to Have Made Threats, Denies Intention. A report to police of the disap- pearance and threatened suicide of Louis Notes, 49, of 1913 Kenyon street, whose brother William, 51, drowned himseif in the Tidal Basin in Febru- ary, was denfed today by another brother, Isaac Notes, manager of the Strand Theater. While declining to say where his brother was, Isaac Notes declared he is in correspondence with him and that he was well and has no thought of suicide. The missing man's wife, Gertrude, told police Notes telephoned he was going to commit suicide two weeks ago and she had not seen him since. Prior to leaving Washington Louis Notes was a furniture salesman in the store of his uncle, David Notes, in the 600 block of Indiana avenue. William Notes was manager of a chain of motion picture shows at the time of his suicide. 17TH CENTURY BOOK IS DAMAGED IN FIRE Engines Called to Apartment Sec- ond Time, as Fireplace Bricks Smoke. Pire this morning, believed started from hot bricks in a fireplace, burned through the flooring of a third-story apartment in a building at 1208 Eight- eenth street and damaged a seven- teenth century French dictionary be- longing to Prew Savoy, lawyer, one of the occupants. After putting out the blaze firemen were called again about an hour later when smoke or steam was seen com- ing from beside the brick fireplace. H. S. McDonald, jr., the other occu- pant of the apartment, discovered the blaze. He said a small fire was kindled in the fireplace last night and burned until some time after mid- night. Both McDonald and Savoy are law- yers with the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. The apartment be- low theirs is unoccupied. work extra hours for periods of days or weeks. Leaders of the union are seeking & conference with Donald Richberg, act- ing chairman of the Recovery Board, to get his backing for an amendment to the pending bill that would desig- nate present N. R. A. workers as “old | employes” and thus allow them after June 1., when the life of the agency expires, to benefit from leave accumu- lated during the past year. June 16 Deadline Set. Controller General J. R. McCarl | ruled informally yesterday that the 12,000 workers in the bureau under | present circumstances could not take leave now owing them after June 16. The new N. R. A. bill will have to | A. appointments to overcome this sit- | uation, an informed employe declared. Resentment of the employes was brought to a head by elimination of their bureau from the stagger-hour in operation by the District Traffic Bureau. Protest brought to Bradish Carroll, executive officer and chief clerk of the recovery agency, resulted in a flat statement from his office that there would be no seven-and-one-hadf-hour- day for the workers, who asked for & definite 9-to-4:30 work-day with time off for overtime. NAVY IS DEFENDED BY NOTED WRITER Capt. Thomas G. Frothingham Says Americans Have No Cause for Shame. Declaring there is no occasion for the American people to feel ashamed of their Navy, in direct comparison with the sea power of any nation, Capt. Thomas G. Frothingham of Bos- ton, noted author of naval and mili- tary works, today said this country has a “sound, well-rounded Navy.” Capt. Frothingham is in Washing- ton to speak tonight at a meeting of the Arts Club of Washington, 2017 I street. He will deliver an illustrated lecture, “Ships and Ship Pictures,” tracing the genesis of the Navy. The lecture will be preceded by a club dinner at 7 p.m. Capt. Frothingham, whose research work is claimed to have resulted in the first real understanding of th maneuvers in the battle of Jutland, numbers among his books “A True Account of the Battle of Jutland” and the “Naval History of the World ‘War.” His work on the Julland affair is credited with having led to a revi- sion of the British official account of that naval battle. e Three Porches Burn. Colored occupants of apartments in three buildings in the first block of Pierce street were forced out early to- day by a fire which burned rear porches of the three structures and part of the interior of one of them. A 15-year-old colored girl received a wrist injury in leaving one of the buildings. B provide continuation of present N. R. | | system of going to work recently put | | proximately 4,807 white students now | some 150 instructors. In the colored schools there are about 2,600 pupils | and 85 teachers. 734 BUILDING VALUE | TOPS "33 BY 50 PCT. "Commissionen Told by Inspector That Figures Indicate Change for Better. | ‘The value of building operations in 1934 showed an increase of approxi- | mately 50 per cent over the level of 1933, according to figures compiled by Col. John W. Oehmann, building | inspector. The figure for last year was $9,- | 671,905, as compared with $6,509,~ ‘420 in 1933. “The great number of smaller build- | ings and repairs have made a sizable count toward this increase,” Col. | Oehmann told the Commissioners. He said the increase indicated “a de- cided change for the better,” even not as large as those of some former years, Last year 748 dwellings were con- structed at a total cost of $4,736,675. There were 48 apartments bullt at a cost of $423,355 and 80 business build- ings valued at $1,479,250. TWO SISTERS INJURED IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENT Car of Pittsburgh Girls in Col- lision With Truck—Driver of Latter Detained. Two sisters, Lucy E. Conn, 19, and Marion Conn, 15, of Pittsburgh, were injured today when the automobile in which they were riding collided with a truck at Water and I streets southwest. A third sister, Mrs. Bev- erly Simms, escaped injury. The injured girls were taken to Emergency Hospital, where Lucy was treated for a severe shoulder injury, while the younger sister was treated for hurts about the head. Although their condition was said to be not serious, they were held for observation. Ernest Francis Watkins, 41, colored, of 1241 Union street southwest, driver € | of the truck, was detained by police. EASTER HOLIDAYS BEGIN 95,000 District School Children Get Ten Days Off. ‘The Easter holidays begin at the close of classes today for Washing- ton's 95,000 public school children, continuing until a week from Easter Monday. Parochial schools closed for the holidays at the end of classes Tues- day. The children will return to school next Wednesday. Vacations of varying length have been ordered in the city's private schools and col- | are attending night classes, taught by | though the construction totals were | | sewers, grading of public areas, such | as the Bolling Field project now under way, improvement of other Govern- ment areas and properties here, con- struction of low-cost housing for the | city’s needy, and white collar projects, | including some expans'on of the serv- {ices of the District Health Depart- ment. At Allen’s direction. District offi- cials have been making a survey for a period of weeks as to the occupa- tional classification of persons on Dis- | trict relief. This is intended to show {how many of certain abilities are eligible for the work program. Allen said the work progrms must be de- signed to fit the employment need as gauged by the relief list. Will Receive $50 Monthly. The men and women employed in the new works program will receive cn the average, $50 a month and will | have a 30-hour work week under the proposed program. | " The employables are being listed as to those skilled, semi-skilled and those who are common laborers. Also a similar classification is being pre- pared for white collar workers. Those not eligible for this program ‘will be treated as a social problem | of the District. The District relief | budget, as now stated in the 1936 | supply bill, is $2,000,000. The national works bill provides for | the employment of but one person in a family. This means that in num- erous cases some now on the work | program will have to be shifted over to the District's own program. Also in cases where the wages for those on the Federal program are not suf- ficient to meet the needs of a family, the excess will have to be met by the District. The District will maintain a case | work system to control these features of its program. The Nation-wide jobless count, an- nounced by the President, has been placed in the hands of a committee composed of Relief Administrator Hop- kins, Secretary of Labor Perkins and Secretary of Commerce Roper. ‘Work to Take Six Months. Field work is expected to take three weeks to two months, with each counter being paid from 2 to 5 cents for every name taken. Tabulation, however, probably will require six months’ work, giving employment for that period to the 4,000 to be given jobs here. According to the Associated Press, some of the questions the census takers will ask are: The name, age, color, sex and marital status of the unemployed; where they are located; what persons are employable; what they are qualified to do; what has been their principal job in the past; why they left that job; what they have been doing since that time. ‘The plan contemplated a house-to- house canvass so that not oniy those who are receiving relief, but those who are jobless but have not gone on relief might be counted. It would cover both city and country. A farm census recently made by the Census Bureau did not cover the points now_involved. Robert Fechner, director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, mean- while ordered the purchase of 4,000 trucks and other vehicles in prepara- tion for an increase of Corps strength to 600,000 men under the work pro- gram. LY