Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1935, Page 15

Washington News BILL ABOLISHING HIDDEN BAR HERE 1S T0 BE SIGNED President Indicates Inten- tion Despite Commission- ers’ Attitude. ALLEN SAYS ACTION WOULD BE OPPOSED $till Opposed to Open Mixing of . Drinks, but Recognizes Pre- dominant Views. President Roosevelt indicated to- day that he would sign the bill abol- ishing the so-called hidden bars in the District when it reaches him. It was passed in the Senate yesterday and the House approved it several days ago. Commissioner Allen, who backed the requirement that drinks be mixed out of sight of customers in the orig- inal regulations, declared that if the President should ask the Commission- ers’ opinion on the bill before he acted on it, the Commissioners would record their opposition as voiced in the past, but would not make any fight to have the President kil the measure in view of the action of Congress and the “public” sentiment. Against Open Mixing. “The Commissioners are on record opposed to abolishing our present sys- | tzm, and most certainly I will main- tain a consistent position. I believe open mixing of drinks wrong, but in fairness I must say it appears I am Rescues Boy MAN DIVES IN POTOMAC TO SAVE DROWNING LAD. EARL FRERE. —Star Staff Photo. Diving overboard fully clothed, Earl | Prere, 32, of 928 D street southwest. | rescued a 13-year-old colored boy i(mm drowning when the latter was | seized with cramsp and sank while | swimming off the old Madison Hall | dock near the foot of Ninth street | southwest. ; | Hampered by his clothing, Frere imanaged with difficulty to swim to | safety with the boy, Paris Henderson, | ir., living in the 1000 block of Sixth | street southwest. | Following the rescue, W. P. Wil- liams, colored, of the 1900 block of {Second street, revived the boy through artificial respiration. The fire rescue E | pital for further treatment. | Frere is employed by the Transport Lumber Co., and was working nearby when the boy called for help. quad took the boy to Emergency Hos- | The Foening SHtap WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1935. DISTRICT OFFICIALS FILE §1.500,000 OF WORK-AID PLANS Approval by Allen Awaits Check by Engineers Under Clark. VAN DUZER PROPOSES CITY TRAFFIC SURVEY $960,400 Program of Extension of Sewers Also Is Presented to Commissioners. Obeying Commissioner Allen’s be- hest to speed preparation of the Dis- trict's works program, District officials today filed proposals for projects hav- ing & total cost of $1,500.000. None of the applications will be ap- proved by Allen until they have been checked and found worthy by en- gineers operating under Capt. Howard F. Clark, deputy District works prog- ress administrator. If finally approved by Allen they will be forwarded to the Federal Works Progress Administra- tion. A host of additional proposals are expected to be filed with Allen in the next few days, and millions are to be spent in the next year on projects de- signed to give continuous employment to the needy who have been depend- ent on the District for relief and who are in the employable class. Traffic Survey Proposed. William A. Van Duzer, traffic di- rector, one of the first officials to submit definite proposals, suggested Coal Merchants Hold Outing | nual outing. GOLDEN DECLINES licked. Overwhelming sentiment ap- | that relief clients be employed on a pears to be in favor of the change Allen said When the liquor regulations were drawn the President made known to the Commissioners that he wanted nothing resembling the old-time saloon to return to the District. Allen in- terpreted this as an indicatior that open mixing of drinks in hotels, res- taurants and clubs would be objec- tionable to the President. A new complication arose today When George W. Offutt, chairman of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, said he would ask the Commissioners to adopt a new regulation requiring licensed liquor selling places to set up a separate bar for the mixing of drinks. This would be intended to keep mixing of drinks of hard liquor away from lunch counters at which food is served and where beer may now be drawn. Offutt, who favored abolition of the hidden bar, is afraid there will be a temptation for cus- tomers to drink liquor at the lunch eounters efther while standing or ‘while seated on stools in front of the counter. This would be a violation of the basic: liquor law. which requires ROAD ELIVINATION URGED FOR SAFETY !Military Highway Closing Proposed at Hearing by House Group. | The closing of Military road across | Washington Airport as an emergency | measure to prevent the loss of life was requested by several witnesses at a public hearing today before the House Military Affairs Committee. Samuel J. Solomon, manager of the Washington Airport, declared that the hazard of operating air transport service is very great so long as Mil- itary road eentinues in’ operation and | that the danger is continually grow- | ing. that hard drinks be served and con-| Solomon said that altheugh the sumed by customers only when served | closing of the roed would be def- at tables. On learning of this move, | injtely harmful to the airport prop- Allen said promptly he would have | erty from a real estate standpoint, he mothing to do with it and let the law | pelieved the action should be taken “operate under the system as amended by Congress. —_— TOMORROW TO END LOCAL HOME LOANS ‘Washington Owners Given Until | Midnight to File Appli- cations. Washington home owners who wish to apply to Home Owners' Loan Cor- poration for distress loans were warned today by William E. Foster,| ecting director for the District, that| tho deadline for applications is mid- night tomorrow, Foster said his office, at 101 Indiana | avenue, would be kept open until the deadline. When funds under the new $1,500,000,000 H. O. L. C. extension act became available late in Ma,v.' John H. Fahey, corporation chairman, announced that new applications would be accepted for a period of 30 days, though the corporation had a large number of old applications which it | ‘was unable to take care of before its eriginal appropriation was expended. | It was held unlikely today that Fahey would extend the deadline for new applications. ‘The volume of applications since ac- tivity was resumed a month ago has been much lighter in Washington | than was anticipated, Foster said. "Only about 150 new applications for Joans had been received through yes- terday, though a large number of local cases which had been declared inac- tive because of the corporation’s lack #©f funds have been recpened. Foster said the small number of ap- plications was due to improved eco- nomic conditions and to the fact that private home financing institutions were assuming a more liberal attitude ‘toward the borrower. ' RAIL CHANGE URGED Eastman Suggests Carriers Form Central Fiscal Agency. A central agency to handle all of $he fiscal work of American railroads was proposed to the carriers yesterday by Joseph B. Eastman, Federal trans- portation co-ordinator. 1 - Eastman's suggestion, embraced in # report prepared by J. Edward Davey ¢ the co-ordinator’s staff, proposes gormation of transportation fiscal eorporation and a transportation trust rgompany. 'wAtp. present, the transfer of stock #ihd bonds and other fiscal work of ‘yailroads 1s done by large banking ‘ouses. WORKMEN INJURED | Jules Petit, 41, of 1760 Lanier place, jand John R. Ragland, 60, of 1021 Jawrence street northeast, were in- ? this morning while working in i suditorium between Department ‘ot Labor and Interstate Commerce ommission buildings, when a step- tal. It was found that Ragland, chest injured, was not in a ser- _condition. Petit's wrists were and his right eye injured, at once to prevent possible disaster. He said that closing of the road will entail an expense to the airport of 875,000 for grading, preparation of new runways and moving of hangars and other buildings. Airport Maintains Road. Solomon told the committee that today no government agency is main- taining Military road and that the airport itself is filling holes in the highway to keep the road open to | traffic. Two representatives of the War De- partment testified that Military road no longer is of any use to the War Department. At the suggestion of Corps, an amendment was taken under consideration by the committee which would provide for immediate closing of the portion of Military road be- tween the airport traffic lights and the closing of the entire length from the Washington-Richmond Highway to the Georgetown-Alexandria High- way at the southeast corner of Ar- lington National Cemetery by Oc- tober 1. Portions of the road outside the zirport would be turned over to the Arlington Experimental Farm, to the State of Virginia or to any other Government agency which might re- quest use of the property. Representative Howard W. Smith of Virginia led a delegation from Ar- lington County in opposition to closing of Military road unless a substitute highway around the airport is pro- vided at once. Demands Airport Pay for Road. Smith contended that the airport should pay the cost of comstructing the substitute road, since it had cre- ated the hazard which made necessary the closing of the highway. Solomon replied that the airport was willing to donate a right of way around the edge of the airport for the substitute road, but said he did not believe the airport should pay for con- struction of the substitute highway. Smith charged that Solomon had blocked the passage of the Smith bill providing for establishment of a model airport at Gravelly Point. The committee will take the. bill under consideration in executive ses- sion with a view to making a report to the House at once. A curious brick wall is being built across one end of a court in the new Brickmasons now are constructing the wall about 10 feet high, along streets, Constitution avenue and C street. Maj. M. D. Wheeler, Quartermaster | city wide traffic survey to produce data to be used as & guide in solution of Washington's traffic problems. He proposed an employment program which would call for the expenditure of $73,900. The traffic director also submitted a group of projects for white collar work which would use $5,200 in employment of the needy. These would be set to work in handling files in the traffic department and other cleri- cal operations in connection with traf- fic matters. The largest proposal came from the sewer department which proposed ex- penditure of $960,400 in a program of extension and improvement of sewers. The Quartermaster Corps of the United States Army submitted a pro- posal calling for expenditure of $270.- 000 for grading and other work for the improvement of Bolling Field. Street Unit Asks $160,400. ‘The Street Cleaning Division of the District asked for $160.400 for the employrent of additional men to be used in street cleaning operations. The | argument was made that the District appropriation for this division is not sufficient to permit employment of enough regular workers to enaole the division to keep the city as clean as should be done. Commissioner Allen, District works progress administrator, already has submitted to the Federal agency a number of projects for sewer and highway improvements which would cost $1,500,000. Up to noon today he had received no word from Federal officials g5 to their action on these plans. BANK TO PAY $27,500 FOR REFUSAL OF CHECK George H. Price Co., Inc., Claim- ing Damage to Credit, Wins D. C. Supreme Court Case. Refusal of the Merchants Bank & Trust Co., to honor a check resulted yesterday in the award of $27,500 to the George H. Price Co, Inc, by a District Supreme Court jury. The verdict was returned against Cary Hardee, receiver of the Federal American National Bank & Trust Co., which absorbed the Merchants Bank several years ago. The Price Co., through Attorney Foster Wood, proved it sent out a check on the Merchants bank for $1,700, while having only $1,000 on deposit. Before the check got back to the bank the company deposited additional checks to raise its bal- ance above the needed amount, but the bank refused to pay the $1,700 check until the deposited checks had been cleared. As a result of this action, Wood said, the firm’s credit standing was injured and it lost an account which had paid it $25,000 a year. — . BILL PROTECTS EAGLE The Senate, confronted at times with demands to save the Blue Eagle from extinction, yesterday passed a bill to protect the bald eagle. A bill by Senator Norbeck, Repub- lican, of South Dakota, prohibiting destroying the great American emblem was passed and sent to the House without debate. Just by way of attempting to settle an old controversy, a committee report on the bill said “occasional stories that the eagle attacks children are apparently without foundation in fact.” Brick Wall Will Protect Plot At New Bureau From Parkers dition now under way, which addition to the Bureau of Internal |in its destruction suffi- clent opposition in Congress to block its destruction, temperarily at least. TOHEAD V. F. W.( D. C. Commander Says Business too Pressing. Election Tonight. Nathan G. Golden, District depart- ment commander, caused a flurry of excitement at the second session of the Veterans of Foreign Wars three- day encampment here last night with the announcement he would not be a candidate for re-election. The meet- ing was held in the Hine Junior High School. Pressure of business, Golden ex- plained, made it impossible for him to lend the time to the work of the vet- erans’ organizations that was needed. Election Tonight. “A host of friends had urged me to | run for re-election.” Golden said, “but | I honestly just couldn’t make it.” | Reports of committees was the chief | business at the session. Election of officers will be held to- | night at a meeting which opens at | |7 o'clock. { James van Zandt. national mander in chief of the V. F. W., and Ellie Schill, national counselor and | chairman of the 1935 encampment at New Orleans, will be guest speakers at | the closing session tonight. | Break Is Denied. Denial of any rift between the American Legion and the V. F. W. was made by Golden, who said he was on the best of terms with J. O’Connor Roberts, American Legion commander. He said false reports the Legion did not participate in the parade Monday night arose from a misunderstanding. Candidates for District commander are Edward E. Innman of the Na- tional Tribune and Daniel J. Leahy | of the National Capital Post. The election will be held at the Hine School, Seventh street and Pennsyl- vania avenue southeast., com- | |WOMAN “POISON VICTIM” HELD FOR OBSERVATION Mrs. Martha Wise Tells Police She Is Estranged Wife of Prominent Local Man. Mrs. Martha Wise, 26, of the Du- pont Circle Apartment is in Gallinger Hospital today for observation after she was reported to have swallowed poison and a toilet lotion while in the bath room of the apartment of Carleton Moran, living in the same building, whom she had gone to visit a short time before. Mrs. Wise told police she was the wife of a man of a prominent local family who is now in New York and from whom she says she has been estranged several months. Physicians at Gallinger Hospital reported no definite trace of the poison she was supposed to have taken was found and said she is out of danger. Mr. Moran said she had locked herself in the bath room.. To police and hospital authorities Mrs. Wise related a story of being worried and despondent. OWEN RITES ARRANGED Services for N, R. A. Attorney to Be Held in Columbia, Tenn. Funeral services for Crockett Owen, 55, supervising attorney of the N. R. A. litigation division, will be held in Columbia, Tenn., his birthplace, after cremation here. Mr, Owen died Mon~ day morning at his aome, 1028 Con- necticut avenue, of a heart attack. Mr. Owen, a prominent St. Peters- burg, Fla. attorney, had been in ‘Washington a little over a year. Be- sides his widow, he is survived by two daughters, Virginia and Margaret Craige Owen, and a sister, Mrs. George E. McKennon of Columbia. TREE TO HONOR CZECH Linden in Park to Keep Alive Gen. Stéfanik’s Memory, Park autharities today granted per- mission for the planting of a linden tree in one of the city’s parks in mem- ory of & Czechoslovakian hero, Gen. Milan Ratislav Stefanik, distinguished accident The request came through Repre- sentative Somers of New York from | the Slovak League of America, MISS HELEN L. PETER, 1711 Thirty-fifth street, a member of the Ladies’ Committee, is shown placing an official sticker on her car just before leaving today for Bay Ridge, Md., where the Washington coal merchants held their tenth an- —Star Staff Photo. DL JBINSURANE DL CHARGE DUE Senate Subcommittee on Social Security Plans Begins Hearing. A number of changes in the local unemployment insurance bill as it | passed the House were expected to be | ous buildings would go. considered when the Special Senate Subcommittee on the District’s social security program began a hearing late this afternoon. The subcommittee also has before it the House old-age pension bill, but this measure is not expected to lead to much discussion since it was considered at both ends of the Capitol last year. Among the questions likely to be debated on the unemployment insur- |ance bill are the provision Which | streets. The buildings encumbering raises the pay roll tax above 3 per cent when an employer has a poor record for stabilizing employment, without reducing the tax below 3 per cent when a good record is shown for | keeping men- at work: the require- ments that the pay roll tax start off at 3 per cent, whereas the National security bill provides for a gradual | increase from 1 per cent to 3 per cent over a three-year period; the question | of whether the District government should be required to supplement the | pay roll tax by an additional con- tribution of 1 per cent of the pay rolls of the employers subject to the bill. The subcommittee is composed of | Senators Copeland, Democrat, of New York and Capper, Republican, of Kansas. Meanwhile Chairman King of the Senate District Committee is having minor changes made in the local bill for pensions to the needy blind, to conform to the standards laid down in the national social security bill. The blind pension bill passed the Senate Monday, but Senator King had it reconsidered yesterday when it was found that the definition covering the residence requirement did not co- incide with the definition in the na- tional bill. As in the case of old-age pensions, the plan is to have the Federal Government make grants to supplement pensions to the blind. e FIELD EVENTS ARRANGED FOR POLICE BOYS’ CLUBS 2,500 Youths to Enjoy All-day Outing to Chapel Point on Steamer Potomac. Track and fleld events, refresh- ments and entertainment will be fea- tures of an all-day outing at Chapel Point tomorrow for 2.500 members of the Metropolitan Police Department Boys' Club. The boys will mieet at their respec- tive clubhouses and at 8 am. will march in parade formation to the Seventh street wharves, where they will board the steamer Potomac. The procession will be led by the newly organized 60-piece Police Boys’ Club Band. Sponsored by the Arlington Bottling Co. and the Sterling Laundry, the out- ing will be in charge of John P, Mesh- koff, director of the Boys’ Club, and his assistant, Morris Fox. Among the guests will be Police Supt. and Mrs. E. W. Brown, John Carlton, former boxing coach at Har- vard; “Radio Joe” Kaufman, Jim Pix- lee and Max Farrington, coaches at George Washington University, and Jim McNamara, coach for a number of prep schools here. ‘The boys will arrive back in Wash- ington at 7:30 p.m. 148 DRUNK DRIVING CASES 5-MONTH MARK Police Bureau Shows April, With 87 Arrests, Was High Month This Year. From the first of January to the B ot uly to December, 128; 1933, 240; 1933, 235, and 1834, 351, ¥ BOARD WILL WEIGH NEED FOR HOUSING INU.S. REGTANGLE Park and Planning Body to Determine Height of Buildings. |OLD PENSION OFFICE REMODELING OPPOSED Federal Reserve Board Structure ‘Will Oust Trade Com- mission. The future housing needs of the Federal Government in the rectangle bounded by Seventeenth street, E street, Constitution avenue and the Potomac River, together with the | height of buildings to be erected there, will be considered tomorrow and Fri- day, when the National Capital Park and Planning Commission assembles in the Navy Bullding for its June meeting. The commission also will discuss the projected remodelling of the old Pension Office Building at Fifth and G streets, upon which it does not look with favor. Construction of the new Federal Reserve Board building at Twentieth street and Constitution avenue, which officials hope to begin in September, will be discussed. This will oust the Federal Trade Commission, now in a temporary building on that site. Where 1t will go has not been decided. The Fine Arts Commission has approved preliminary plans for the Federal Re- serve Board Building. The Planning Commission will*go into the problem of the heigit of ad- ditional buildings, in relation to the | space requirements for the various de- partments. The War and Navy De- | partments tentatively have been as- signed land in the Northwest rec- | tangle in the vicinity of New York | and Virginia avenues. The commis- | | sion has already constructed a model | of the area, showing where the vari- | Health Building Is Addition. The new Public Health Service Building, which has recently been completed and is now occupied, is the newest addition to this area of public and quasi-public buildings such as the Pan-American Union, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Red Cross and others. The new In- | terior Department is slated for erac- | tion shortly at Eighteenth and E | the | the site are to be torn down soon by the Procurement Division of ‘Treasury Department. John Nolen, jr., director of planning of the commission, today explained that the projected remodeling of the Pension Office is opposed by his com- mission on two main grounds—it would be out of architectural rela- |tionship to the projected Police, | Municipal and Juvenile Court Build- |ings designed for Judiciary Square, and would also be out of keeping with | the functional relationship of the | ground, which he said should be re- served for court purposes. The planners see in the future a new Dis- trict of Columbia Supreme Court Build- ing arising on the site of the old Pension Office, which is now occupied by the General Accounting Office. Any re- modeling of the present structure would tend to discourage the carrying out of plans for the new District Su- preme Court. The Senate Appro- priations Committee now is holding hearings on proposed remodeling of the Pension Office. Memorial Site Sought. At its two-day meeting the Commis- | sion will debate a suitable suite for | the Thomas Jefferson Memorial here. The body is co-operating with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commis- slon, A number of sites are in mind. In front of the Archives Building, | along Pennsylvania avenue, the Treas- ury Department is interested in re- vising the curb lines and the plaza there. The commission will consider | this also. | C. Marshal Finnan, superintendent of | the National Capital Parks; Special Consultant Bremer Pond of Harvard University, prominent landscape archi- tect, and Francis P. Sullivan, local architect, will discuss with the com- mission plans for a stadium and sports center on the banks of the Anacostia River at the 2nd of East Capitol street. Mr. Finnan will tell the commission how he proposes to spend the $1,000,~ 000 local park improvement fund re- cently granted him by the Public Works Administration. Big Daffodils Found. Daffodils 37! inches long were re- cently found in Rute, Scotland. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a coffin is an effective way of cutting down costs, but take the advice of one who has tried it and go some other way. In 1928, John Henry Thoeing of Duisburg, Germany, decided to come to America. He obtained the neces- sary papers for admittance to this country, then sought a job on one of the ships leaving Hamburg. Here a complication arose when all lines re- trip. Having insufficient money for pas- sage, Thoeing collected a packing box, Speeder in Boat, Exceeding 15-Mile Limit, Is Fined $25 Penalty Suspended After He Is Told Not to Do It Again. “Hey, buddy, pull over to the shore,” may become a familiar phrase on the Potomac River since the law has undertaken to stop speedboat speed- ing. For the first time a case of speed- boat speeding, exceeding 15 miles an hour, was called in Police Court this morning. The defendant, David H. Foster, of 1913 M street, who was testing his speedboat for the Atlantic City races, was given a $25-suspended fine by Judge Robert E. Mattingly, when it was testified that he was driving his boat more than 15 miles an hour in the Washington Channel north of the P street anchor buoy. Judge Mattingly pointed out the dangers of speeding in the channel and warned Foster not to return on a similar charge. DEPOSITORS' FGAT IN HIBHEST COURT Review of Decision Exempt- ing Park Savings Direc- tors Is Sought. Society and General PAGE B—1 BARRETT IS NAMED CO-DRDINATOR FOR RECREATIONIND.C. {lowan, Now With P, W. A, to Unify Programs—Gets $5,600 Yearly. ADDITIONAL CENTERS EXPECTED TO BE SET UP | Appointee Takes Office Monday. Pooling of Personnel Possible When Advisable. Lewis R. Barrett, since April, recre- ation expert for the Housing Division of the Public Works Administration, today was appointed co-ordinator of recreation by unanimous vote of the District Recreation Committee. He will take office Monday and immedi- ately begin planning the long sought unified direction of Washington's rec- reation programs. The selection was male at a beief meeting this morning of members of the committee, Frederic A. Delano, National Capitel Park head; Com- missioner Allen, Henry I. Quinn, Board of Education and C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent of the Na- tional Capital parks, with Thomas S. Settle of the Park and Planning Com- mission as acting secretary. Depositors and the receiver of the Barrett, a native of Des Maines, Towa, has had years of experience in Park Savings Bank today Jointly car- | the work of recreation direction and rled to the Supreme Court of the phaq peen in the Federal administra- United States their fight to force yion since September, 1934. His ap- directors of the bank to pay for|pointment has the indorsement of a heavy losses in the insolvent institu- number of leaders in educational and German Who Shippe To U.S. in Box Seeks Citizenship tion. Counsel for a group of depositors and for John P. Moran, receiver of the bank, filed in the Supreme Court a petition for writ of certiorari to review decision of the District Court of Appeals which exempted the direc- tors from liability for deposits com- ing into the bank after its charter expired, August 30, 1929. This followed swiftly after Control- ler of the Currency J. F. T. O'Connor revoked an assessment he had pre- viously levied on the stockholders to force them to pay 100 per cent on the $100,000 capital stock of the bank Controller O'Connor withdrew the assessment because of a court de- cision in the case of the Potomac Savings Bank, which was held to be a precedent. In this decision the court held that the controller could not levy an assessment against stock- holders of a bank chartered in a State whose laws did not carry double liability on bank stock. Double Liability Lacking. Neither the State of Virginia, in which the Potomac Savings Bank was chartered. nor the State of Alabama in which the Park Savings Bank was chartered, carry double liability. The new effort of the depositors and | the receiver in appealing to the Na- tion’s highest tribunal, is to force the Park Bank directors to pay under authority of the law of the State of Alabama. This case has nothing what- ever to do with double liability or as- sessment on bank stock. In their petition for a writ of certiorari, the depositors and receiver claim the lower court erred on con- stitutional grounds, and that the directors are liable under Alabama law not only for $4,122789 in assets which came into their hands when the charter expired. but also for assets which came into their hands after- ward. The bank was closed during the bank holiday in March, 1933. and the vice president, Robert-S. Stunz, com- mitted suicide, Alabama Law Benefits, ‘The Court of Appeals held that the benefits of Alabama law which require directors to account as trustees may be claimed only by depositors who were such when the charter expired August 30, 1929, but that depositors who placed their money in the bank sub- sequent to that cannot claim the bene- fits of the Alabama statute and are estopped to assert that directors of a corporation conducting a business pro- hibited to the corporation by law are personally liable for the indebtedness incurred. Moran is represented by J. Bruce Kremer, George B. Springston and Herbert M. Bingham, ‘while the de- positors of the bank are represented by E. Hilton Jackson and Wililam E. Richardson. — Choir Concert Tonight. ‘The Petworth M. E. choir, Ardis Atkinson, director, will give a secular concert tonight at the church, Grant circle and New Hampshire avenue, T ‘The second misfortune occurred dur- ing unloading of the box, when freight handlers up-ended it and left Thoeing standing on his head. This was adding insult to injury and the weakened passenger kicked his way out of his crampsd quarters. Imigra- tion officers then took him in hand, found that his papers for admittance were satisfactory and put the question up to officials of the steamship line as to what action they would take. ‘Thoeing contended that he had come over as freight, and that he was willing to pay freight rates. He did—to the extent of $21—and then became swallowed up in New York's millions. Comes to Washington. Five years ago he was married, two years ago he came to Washington, where he is now employed by an electrotyping firm. He lives in Cherry- dale, Va. Yesterday, in the office of a Nassau County Americanization officer, a for- mer managing editor of the New York Telegraph, Meyer Solmson, told the story while representing Thoeing n efforts to obtain citizenship. The latter confirmed it this morning in ays | his office here, adding his advice against trying his method of trans- Atlantic travel Granting of the citizenship is ex- pected without undue delay. - | recreational work and his transfer to |the newly created Washington post was said to have met with the ap- proval of Secretary of the Interior Ickes, P. W. A. head. $5.600 Per Year. Barrett will be paid an annual sal- ary of $5,600, which will come out of the appropriation for the National Capital Parks Office, which is under the Interior Department, but which appropriation is included in the Dis- trict supply bill. Co-ordination of the recreation fa- | cilities of the District, now under the | separate control of the District Play- ground Department, the Community Center Department of the Public | Schools, the Board of Education and | the National Capital Parks Gffice, is expected to be started soon. The di- rector is expected to present & series of programs under the new operation to the Recreation Committee and as | they are adopted they will be passed |on to the affected recreation divi- | sions. There is an arrangement for the pooling of existing personnel of the separate playground units in cases where that is decided advisable | for better operation. New Centers Forecast. In making the announcement of the appointment, Settle anticipated crea- tion of additional recreation centers. The new co-ordinator will have of- fices in the District government in room 507, adjoining the quarters of | Commissioner Allen. Some of his | personal staff, it was said, will be | drawn by Allen from those engaged under the new works program. Some weeks ago, the Recreation Committee selected Tam Deering of Cincinnati for the co-ordinator’s post, | but he finally rejected the offer partly | on the basis of the salary. It is re- ported here that Cincinnati authori- | ties boosted his salary in order to keep him there. 'Y GROUP TO ATTEND CABIN DEDICATION Camp Letts Ceremonies Tomor- row, With Members of Board of Managers Present. Members of the ¥'s Men's Club and | the Board of Managers of the Young | Men’s Christian Association will go to Camp Letts tomorrow to attend | ceremonies in connection with the | dedication of a new rustic cabin pre- sented to the Y. M. C. A. boys' camp by the club. The cabin, of log-type construc- tion, will accommodate a dozen boys and two camp counselors. Although outwardly of pioneer appearance. it contains modern conveniences that backwoodsmen of frontier days never | heard of, including soft bunks, planned ventilation and fine screen- ing. The new cabin is the eleventh of a building program begun several years ago. In addition there are four ‘hu'.s of older type that have been reconditioned. The camp population at present is approximately 100, but | this will be increased by new con- | tingents of campers over the week end. Officials of the Y’s Men’s Club, com- posed of business and professional men interested in the Y. M. C. A, will preseni the hut to the Board of Managers of the “Y” in the pres- ence of the assembled campers and counselors. Later the board will join the club members in sharing “chow” with the boys in their big dining hall at 5:30 pm. The Board of Managers will hold a special meeting after the dinner, with James P, Shick, president, pre- siding. CAT BRINGS SPEED FINE Driver Admits Excessive Rate to Circumvent Black Feline. Fear of having a black cat cross his path cost George L. Jones, 27, colored, $5 for speeding today. Policemsn Patrick J. O'Sullivan tes- tified Jones, who lives at 1137 Twenty- third street, was driving 36 miles per holr on Virginia avenue early today. Jones testified e saw this black cat ahead of him and .. %t his wife urged him to greater speea. “I just couldn't let that black cat get in front of me,” Jones said. “This seems to be your hard luck day,” Judge Given sald. “You're fined 85"