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Washington News AH00R POSTAL WEEK URGED BY FARLEY INLETTER Victory for House-Passed' Bill Seen in Mote to Senate Group. QUARTER OF MILLION | EMPLOYES TO BENEFIT! Increased Revenues Declared Suf- ficient to Justify Addi- tional Cost. Victory was in sight today in the long fight of the quarter of a million postal empleves for reGuction of 'heir work week from 44 to 40 hours. | Backed by President Roosevelt, | Postmaster General Farley has given his indoisement of the 40-hour legis- | lation passed by the House and now | in, th> Senate. In a letter last night to Senator McKellar. Democrat, of Tennessee, | ehairman of the Senate Post Office Committee, Farley, reversing an/ earlier stand. said prospects now are the rising tide of postal business, with | conscquent inciéase in receipts, wm[ justifv the added expense, estimated at 21,400,000 annually. Some 235.000 clerks and carriers and 20.000 substitutes would benefit, the | reduction in hours for the regulars | meaning, of course, that the substi- tutes would get more employment. Text of Letter. The lefter to McKellar said: “Reference is made to H. R. 6990, a bill to fix the hours of duty of postal emploves and for other purposes, which has passed the House of Repre- sentatives and is now pending before your committee. 1 have given much thought tc this legislaticn and I feel I should sayv to you at the time this matter was pre- sented to the department by Hon James M. Mead, chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads in the House of Representa- tives. in April. 1935, it was felt that | the increase in revenue in the postal service had not reached siuch propor- tions as to justify an expenditure suf- ficient to take care of legislation of this character. However. I am pleased to advise you that at this time there | is every irdication that the increase in po revenues will cortinue, and | it is believed that better wcrking con- ditions for the employes can be pro- vided “I have talked with the President, And he believes that in view of the increase in receipts and the general objective of giving additional employ- ment. the bill to reduce the hours of | labor of the postal employes from 44 hours to 40 hours a week is sound. “It gives me a great deal of pleas- ure. therefore, to advise you of my ap- proval of H. R. 6990. “I cannot forget the splendid spirit ©f co-operation in which the postal employes accepted the reductions in their salaries and the payless fur- loughs during the period whern it was | necessary for the department to ob- serve the strictest economy. As you know. Senator McKellar. my approval of this measure is in harmony with the general policy of the administra- tion.” Follows on Principles. With administration support, there is little doubt but that the legislation now will go through. In addition to aiding its own employes, the move puts the Government in the Pposition | of practicing the principle it has been urging on private employers—cutting | hours and spreading work. | The plan is one that has been ad- | vocated vigorously by the postal! workers themselves. The vanous‘l economies practiced in the department | for the better part of taree years have been principally at the expense of personnel, and particularly bitter | complaints have come from substitutes | who have charged they were on noth- ' -ing more than a “starvation” wage. s The department reported a surplus for strictly postal operations in the ' fiscal year 1934, and it has been an- nounced that it was finishing in the black again in the business year just ended. Along with improved condi- tions, efforts have been made, ac-| cording to Farley, to aid the substi- | tutes by filling long-standing va- cancies. 175 ATTEND. BANQUET | GIVEN FOR SHRINE CLUB Thomas Chauncey of Alexandria Group Principal Speaker. Dance Follows. Special Dispatch to The Star. | HERNDON, Va., July 4—More than 175 persons attended the banquet and | dance given here last night for the 8hrine Club of Alexandria. Dr. Wil- liam Meyer of Herndon served as potentate at the banquet and intro- duced the speakers. Thomas Chaun- cey, vice president of the Alexandria ¢lub, was the principal speaker. Chauncey reviewed the work done | at the Shrine hospitals and urged | Co-operation in pushing the hospital | program. Other speakers were Mayor | Allen H. Kirk of Herndon, Mrs. Anna Nachman, worthy matron of the Herndon Order of Eastern Star. and Mrs. Leonard Miller, wife of the president of the Shrine Club of Alex- andria. The banquet was served in the Eastern Star Hall with the danc- ing 1in the Hemd‘n High School suditorium. U. S. GETS SHIP MODEL An 18-foot model of the Mauretania, iacean liner recently retired at South- ‘ampton, England, has been presented $0the Smithsonian Institution for per- manent exhibition in the United Btates National Museum by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The model is ‘being set up in the watercraft division beside a similar model of the Leviathan. ~'The model, an exact miniature of | the ship, which represents the most advgnced type of shipbuilding of the flls? quarter of the twentieth century. was presented to President Roosevelt by the Cunard Line. During recent years it has been shown at expocmw throughout the country. | housekeeper for Walter Allen, a 56- | Stuart F. Reed, ~ Succumbs to Long Illness West Virginian Was Champion of Vote for District. Served as Chairman of House District Com- mittee in 1923-24. Former Representative Stuart F. Reed of West Virginia, for two years chairman of the House District Com- mittee, died at Emergency Hospital at 2:10 o'clock this morning. He had been in poor health for several years as a result of kidney trouble. Yes- terday morning he became very ill and was removed to the hospital from his home, at 1654 Irving street, where he had lived since retiring from Con- gress, 11 years ago. While in Congress Mr. Reed cham= pioned the cause of representation for the District and was author of a bill providing for local representation in Congress. He also fought for adequate school facilities for Washingion and is credited with having initiated several important improvements in the local school system. He was an agdvocate of the local street railway merger which finally came to pass a decade | | after he “mayor” of Washington. relinquished his post as Prominent as Educator. Mr. Reed was prominent as an edu- cator for more than a quarter of & century and also was prominent in | West Virginia as a newspaper pub- lisher. Born on a farm in Barbour County, W. Va. the son of Maj. Milton D. Reed, Stuart Reed began his career as a country school teacher. He went through college with his savings from his meager teacher’s salary, graduat- ing from the University of West Vir- ginia with a bachelor of law degree. He then went to Salem College, where he received the degree of doctor of philosophy. Mr. Reed entered politics as State Senator. serving for four years in the upper branch of tie Legislature. He served as Secretary of State for West Virginia from 1909 to 1917 and in 1915 was elected president of Association of American Secr>taries of State. For eight years Mr. Reed was erii- tor of the Clarksburg, W. Va. Tele- gram. and was elected president of the West Virginia Editorial Associa- tion for three terms. Was Education Chairman. While in the State Senate Mr. Reed served as chairman of the Committee on Education. He was regent of the University of West Virginia and was founder of the School of Commerce at the university and of the Athen- aeum, the college journal. He was a member of the West Vir- ginia Republican State Committee, vice president of the National League of Republican Clubs, a member of the National Literary Bureau of the Re- publican National Executive Commit- tee, and vice president of the National Republican Editorial Association, with offices in Washington, in 1904. In 1905 Mr. Reed declined an appointment as consul general at Buenos Aires. He was active in fraternal affairs and was eminent commander of the Knights Templar in 1908 and was a member of the Shriners, Elks and Modern Woodmen of America. He also was | vitally interested in local fiscal affairs. | the | - @he Zoening WASHINGTON, D. C., Ex-Legislator, STUART F. REED. Mr. Reed served as a member of the International Tax Conference, at| Louisville, Ky. in 1909. He was selected to deliver the address of welcome at Savannah, Ga.. upon the return of the last of the officers and | men of the American Army of Occu- | pation ‘rom the Rhine. He also de-| livered the memorial address on for-| mer President Theodore Roosevelt at | the commemorative services at the| Capitol of Massachusetts. | Mr. Reed served in the United | States Congress for three terms. leav- ing office in 1924. Since that time he had made his home here. Al- though a lawyer by profession, he | did not undertake the practice of law | | here, and engaged in few business| ] affairs. During his entire service in the House, Mr. Reed served as a mem- | ber of the House District Committee, of which he was chairman in 1923 | and 1924. ! As chairman of the committee. Mr Reed sought to put through a schonl' program providing a desk in a full-| time school for every child of school| age: a living wage for school officials and teachers, sufficient to insure the best of teachers and the ablest direct- ing authorities: up-to-date school books and modern equipment. He al- ways worked on the theory that the local schools shculd be models for th> country. | He also worked hard to bring about modernization of the local water supply system and for improvement of street railway service®through merging of the lines. | Student of Fiscal Affairs. Mr. Reed made a special study of | local fiscal affairs and persistently op- | posed many measures which he con- | sidered not just for the local taxpayers | | He opposed vigorcusly any departure ]from the time-honored “fifty-fifty’ | principle of paying the expenses of th= | Nation’s Capital, and it was not until after he left Congress that the half- and-half method was broken cown. He virtually rewrote the Ball rent act because he believed many of its | provisions were not in the interest of | | the Capital's growth and development. | He tried to make it fair both to the | men who owned property and those | | who paid rent. Mr. Reed is survived only by his widow, the former Miss Bonnie Beile | Smith of Clarksburg, W. Va. and a married sister, who lives in Buckhan- non, W. Va. Funeral ararngements had not been completed today, but the body probably will be taken tomorrow to Clarksburg for services and burial. WIFE EXONERATE INFATAL STABBINC, “Justifiable Homicide” Ruling 9f Coroner’s Jury in Marine’s Death. Is Mrs. Esther E. Patterson, 35, was gomery County paid out $1.175 yester- | here to reduce pollution in the Poto- | exonerated late yesterday by a coron- er’s jury which heard testimony that futile effort to convict Mrs. Anne Lyd- | Mit the river to be polluted upstream, | she stabbed her husband to death after he had tried to break into her room at 329 H street northeast after knocking her down the steps on the previous day. The jury was told that the victim, Frank B. Patterson, 40, a retired Marine Corps mess sergeant, was stabbed in the lung by Mrs. Patterson, who reached through a broken panel in the bed room door which Patterson was splintering with a club early yes- terday. An eye-witness account of the “jus- tifiable homicide,” as the jury de- scribe it, was given by the eldest of | the Patterson’s four children. Ger- trude, 14. a student at Stuart Junior High School. | Father Awoke Girl. | Her father, Gertrude said, awoke | | them early yesterday and shouted for | her to come out and return with him to the single room at 208 F street where he was keeping the other children, Bernard, 12: Richard, two| years younger, and Lucille, four. | Gertrude replied she wished to stay | with her mother, who was acting as | vear-old widower, living at the H| street address. Mrs, Patterson had met Allen when he was in charge of | charity work conducted at Quantico | by Marine officers and their wives. Allen had testified he found Mrs. Pat- terson and the children abandoned and destitute at the post several years ago. The schoolgirl, telling her story as calmly as if she were reciting in a class room, said that as her father began to hammer on the bed room door her mother ran to the kitchen and secured & knife. Saw Face Through Hole. The girl said her father shouted if she did not come out he would break in the door and take them both away. “He broke through the panel,” Ger- trude continued, “and I saw his face | and hand with something heavy in | it. My mother hit at him through the hole he broke in the door. I know she didn’t mean to hit so hard. “My father cried, ‘You've stabbed m “‘Yes,’ my mother replied. | “My father went down the steps| and I never saw him again.” Two women and a man who accom- panied Patterson to the H street ad- dress in a taxicab said they had been | arraigned before Judge Ralph Given | $1,175 Is Paid Out For Lyddane Case % Expert Witnesses |D. C. Police Authority Gets $475 and Treas- ury Man $700. | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. | | ROCKVILLE, Md.. July 4—Mont-! day for expert witnesses called in a dane for conspirin; | husband. H Ira N. Gullickson, typewriter and | handwriting expert for the Washing- | | ton Police Department, was paid $475, | while $700 went to Bert C. Farrar, | examiner of questioned documents for | the Treasury Department. | The bills were submitted by the two | witnesses for examinations of notes | ! alleged to have been exchanged be- tween defendants in the case and for | testifying at Mrs. Lyddane’s trial, which ended two weeks ago with the jury in deadlock. Ira C. Whitacre, clerk to the com- | missioners, sent out the checks to Gullickson and Farrar, and also paid out $168.80 for board and lodging of :hf ljux-y which heard Mrs. Lyddane’s rial. g to murder her| s SLEEPER FINED $10 Among a large number of persons in Police Court today on charges of intoxication was Derrick Manning, who was arrested while asleep on a fire escape at the Fox Theater. He was fined $10. Police said they were called by offi- cials of the theater and had a hard time getting Manning down and into a safer sleeping place in the precinct station house. drinking and that Patterson had about four gin highballs prior to the tragedy. Mother Sobs in Relief. Gertrude, it was testified, had spent the previous night with her father. He had admonished here not to go near her mother, and when she failed to return at midnight, went to the . H street address to bring her back. Gertrude told the jury she wished to live with her mother. The two waited together for the verdict, and left arm in arm after it was returned, sobbing with relief. Patterson was put into the taxicab after the stabbing. The cab, however, struck a street car en route to the hospital, and the injured man was transferred to a delivery truck halted by one of his friends. He died soon after being admitted to Casyalty Hos- pital, POLLUTION DATA [IPONROCK CREEK 10 BE SUBMITTED Nagle .Report Expected to Outline Measures for Remedy. ESTIMATE OF COST IS NOT DISCLOSED Results of Study With P. W. A. Funds Aid to Be Given Park Di- rector and Secretary Ickes. The final report on the pollution of Rock Creek—a study that has been | under way for months with the aid of P. W. A. funds—will be ready by the end of the week. This was announced today by John L. Nagle, senior engineer of the Na- tional Park Service, who .has been | directing the inquiry. The report, ‘which will not be made public imme- diately, will be forwarded to Arno B. Cammerer, director of the National Park Service, and to Secretary Ickes, for further action. It is expected to outline remedial measures, which may be taken in suc- | cessive steps, dependent upon the | amount of money the Federal and District governments are willing to spend for elimination of pollution | within the District, in Rock Creek | Valley. The report will turn its at- | tention also to conditions in Rock | Creek in Maryland, where some of the communities. lacking proper sewage facilities, dump directly into Rock Creek. Cost Figures Unrevealed. No estimate of cost to remedy the | pollution problem was revealed by | Nagle, but this will be embodied in | the report, which will give a program | for entirely eliminating the nuisance. | The Rock Creek pollution problem has been studied thoroughly. Nagle has had the benefit of a committee of experts, who went into every phase of the question. Two of the Nation's outstanding sanitary engineers—Leroy | K. Sherman of Chicago and Wesley W. Horner of St. Louis, both members of the Advisory Board of the Public Works Administration, who have had extensive experience in studying sani- tary problems over the Nation—col- laborated in the local study. In addi- | tion, the technical organization with- | in the National Park Service has as- sisted in establishing a remedy. John B. Gordon, the District’s sanitary en- T——— TN THURSDAY, JULY 4, the sisters were the Misses Virginia Star s e 1935.- and Louise Fisher. Society and General PAGE B—1 DISTRICT SECURITY BEING STUDIED BY KING OVER HOLIDAY Action on Local Measure Awaits Settlement on National Bill. COPELAND AND CAPPER ALSO WEIGH CHANGES Conferees on Federal Legislation Adjourn Till Monday After Three-Hour Session. BY J. A. O'LEARY. While House and Senate conferees on the national social security bill mark time over the holiday, Chairman King of the Senate District Commit- tee will take the opportunity to make a careful study of the District pro- gram, especially the unemployment | insurance bill. | Pinal committee action on the local bills is not likely to be taken, how- | ever, until the national conferees settle major issues in the Federal standards. Senators Copeland of New York and Capper of Kansas, comprising the sub- committee which held hearings on the local bills, also are studying the amend- ments proposed by the Commissioners and local organizations to avoid hav- ing the District program more drastic than is being proposed for the rest of the country. Mr. and Mrs. Schuyler Townsend (left) and Mr. and Mrs. David Isles, just after their double wedding cere=- mony at the Church of the Transfiguration. Fourteenth and Gallatin streets. Before their marriage yesterda¥y —Star Staff Photo. HUNT FOR DRIVER FOLLOMS DEATH | Colored Man Victim of Ac- cident June 9—Capital gineer, has assisted the Nagle com- mittee in studying the problem as it affects the municipality. Secretary Ickes, as public works ad- ministrator, early last December made $25,000 lable for the Rock Creek pollution study. Nagle, himself an outstanding e{lgineer. who was chiefly concerned with the building of the Arlington Memorial Bridge, got to work without delay on the study. It has been proceeding since, with the co-operation of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and | its Regional Sanitary Committee. Study in Two Phases. g The engineers divided their study into two main phases—a major en- gineering problem for the proper dis- posal of sewage from Piney Branch, and all the sewers downstream from that point, and the situation above iney Branch. There Rock Creek. which originates in Maryland, pre- sents another problem necessitating the co-operation of authorities of the Free State. This has been secured through the Maryland National Capi- tal Park and Planning Commission. Entirely apart from the park fea- | tures of Rock Creek Valley, Nagle in- | sists that the elimination of pollution rom the waters of the creek is need- ed as a desirable municipal improve- ment. The engineers consider it in- | congruous for the District government to be erecting a sewage disposal plant mac River and at the same time per- from sewage ‘that flows from Rock Creek, downstream of K street. In the past the main offenders, from the viewpoint of pollution, have been the Bureau of Standards, Walter Reed Hospital and the Welfare and Recre- ational Association of Public Build- ings and Grounds, Inc., which used to operate the Pierce Mill Tea House, which has now been abandoned and restoration of the old mill under- taken. Rock Creek drains some 75 square miles in the District and nearby Maryland and enters the Po- | tomac River opposite Theodore Roose- velt Island, the officials said. Dance to End Cami;nl. Carnival activities at the St. Al- | oysius Church were closed Tuesday night with a garden dance and the announcement of prize winners by the Rey. L. J. Kelly, pastor. Awards were made to J. R. Shanahan, R.| Scott, Mrs. James Fowler and Misses | M. E. Riordan and M. E. Carroll. Toll Now 56. { Police today were seeking a colored | man wanted as the driver of the automobile which on June 9 struck William H. Shields, 54, colored, of the 600 block of Fourth street southwest, who died Monday in Gallinger Hos- pital. Shields was treated for cuts at), | Emergency Hospital shortly after the | 'accident and his condition was not | believed serious. Subsequently he was transferred to Gallinger. Andrew L. | Mason, 27, colored, of the 700 block |of Q street, is the man sought by | | police. The accident occurred at | | Fourth and F streets southwest. Shields’ death was officially reported | by police yesterday. Toll Reaches 36. Meanwhile the number of traffic deaths in the District since January 1 | today stood at 56, according to the | official police count. This does nol} | include several persons fatally injured | on rail right of ways. { | Police yesterday questioned a 12- | year-old colored boy, whose bicycle | struck Kate Evans, 54, colored, on| June 15. She died June 27 from | internal injuries. The woman re- turned home after the accident, but later was transferred to Gallinger. No inquest dates have been set in | the deaths. | Two Others Injured. | | A 60-year-old man and young girl were 1njured in traffic accidents late yesterday. The man, Edwin B. Henry of 1724 Nineteenth street, sustained | head cuts when struck by the rear end of a street car making a turn at the Union Station Plaza. He was treated at Casualty Hospital. Betty King, 7, of 1910 Seventeenth street southeast, sustained bruises vhen, police say, she ran into the side of a motor truck in the 1500 block of Good Hope road southeast. She was treated by a private physician. —_— Former Slave, 112, Dies. DEQUEEN, Ark, July 4 ®— “Uncle” Caleb Banks, 112 years old, is dead. Reports received here told of his death at his home, near Para- loma, in Sevier County. A native of Virginia, he was taken to Georgia as a slave and came to Arkansas Jjust before the Civil War. | N o Psi Lambda Meets Tonight. A meeting of Psi Lambda Sorority will be held this evening. at 8:30 o'clock, at the Raleigh Hotel. Turtles Rarin’ for Derby Race To Decide Ca Is a wild turtle speedier than a domesticated one? This question, which has been agitating the boys at Camp Letts for several weeks, will be settled this afternoon when a group of restless, rarin’-to-go shellbacks fresh from the woods will compete with trained racing turtles in the annual Fourth of July Tortoise derby at the Y. M. C. A. re- sort fer Washington boys on the Rhode River. Last-minute expeditions into the forest were made this morning by sev- eral c4mpers, who hoped to obtain wilder ‘and faster “dark horses” for the big race—a highlight of the day’s celebration. Boys who have attended previous derbies claim the untamed variety, do not keep their minds on the business at hand, wandering in circles instead of keeping to a true course. The untamed turtles will be turned loose with the domesticated ones in a large circle, while the 125 campers and 3§ counselors gather around to cheer their favarite The first animal to reach the of mp Letts Honor the circle will be declared 1935 turtle derby champion of the camp. ‘The program for today began with a patriotic service in the Homer J. Councilor Memorial Open-air Chapel in a grove of trees near the shore. The service was conducted by Earle Hawkins, principal of the Bel Air, Md., High School, and Roy E. Le- Moine, jr, of the Seabury-Western ‘Theological Seminary. Counselors and campers will meet this afternocn in the third game of their “world series,” with the boys favored to win, having beaten their leaders in the earlier games by 6-5 and 15-3 scores. Finals of the camp doybles tennis tournament will be played off. In the senior division, Don Burrows and Paul Rogers will meet Charles Waite and Roland Rieve, while in the junior class Dick Mullen and Junior Thorup will play Roslyn Young and Bobby Patterson. There will be a special water front program of swimming and diving. ‘The celebration will end with fire- works at 8:15 pm. Parents and other relatives of the bofs will attend, Officer, Crippled On Duty, Dropped From County Rolls Pay for Montgomery Policeman Butts Is Halted. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., July 4 —Herbert Butts, young Montgomery County policeman, today found himself cut NEW DELAY FACES HOUSE D. C. BILLS T. V. A. Measure Expected to Take Precedence at Monday Session. ! BY JAMES E. CHINN. ‘The District probably will lose its | Adjourn Till Monday. | After a three-hour session yesterday | afternoon, devoted chiefly to technical details, the conferees on the national bill adjourned until Monday night, when they will tackle the important Senate amendments. |, Proposed changes in the old age and blind pension bills for the District are ! minor in cheracter and are expected to be approved without delay. In the unemployment insurance bill, however, the District Commissioners and local organizations have called attention to the fact that 1¢ House measure would impose on Washington conditions more drastic than the Federal plan and more severe than the States are con- sidering. Both houses. for instance, have | voted in the national bill to apply | the pay roll tax for unemployment insurance graaually. at 1 per cent the first year, 2 per cent the second year and 3 per cent thereafter. The House ‘loca) bill. on the other hand, applies | the ultimate rate of 2 per cent at the | start, and theu provides that this can be increased 1n later years to as much as 5 per cent on an employer who does not stabilize employment. but off the pay roll of the county, in whose | scheduled day in the House Monday | win no reduction in the tax below service he apparently was perma- nently crippled 13 months ago. Butts' salary was halted on June 30 because no provision was made in the new levy for funds to pay him, Frank H. Karn, president of the Board of County Commissioners, said. Karn declared the board did not vote on the matter, the young officer being automatically dropped from the roster because of the failure to pro- vide fo his salary in the new budget. An accident near Etchison on June 16, 1934, left Butts with a badly crushed leg, and he has been recei ing two-thirds of his salary from the insurance company and one-third from the country. Whether the com- pany’s payments will continue in view of the board dropping Butts problematical. Butts is still undergoing bi-weekly hospital treatments for the injury, but his leg has failed to respond to treatments as well as physicians hoped. Butts was injured while rid- ing on the side of a police car re- turning from a raid with a load of prisoners and confiscated still parts. The machine skidded into an em- bankment and crushed his leg. {90 GIRLS REGISTERED AT CAMP BLAIR OPENING Class Being Given in Nature, First-Aid and Handicraft ‘Work. Special Dispatch to The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., July 4- Approximately 90 girls registered yes- terday at the opening of Camp Blair, which will be held every Wednesday during the Summer at Jesup Blair Community Center for Girl Scout troops of district No. 4. Classes are given in nature study, first aid, handicraft and tennis. Mrs. Edmund Grahami and Mrs. Joseph Kurz of Takoma Park are in charge of two of the units and Mrs. Elizabeth Vierling of Silver Spring is in charge of a third unit. Mrs. James L. Jordan of Silver Spring and Mrs. Paul Vierick of Takoma Park are chairmen of the Camp Committee. The tennis instruc- tion is in charge of Mrs. Betty Ben- nett of Takoma Park. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va. July 4 (Spe- cial). —Republicans of this city will meet Tuesday to nominate a candi- date for the November election for the Alexandria seat in the Virginia House of Delegates. The meeting will be held at 8 p.m. in the Virginia Public Service Auditorium. Mrs. Ruby Belt, 38, wife of J. R. Belt, 201 West Bellefonte avenue, died this morning at the Alexandria Hos- pital, where she had been a patient since May. Funeral arrangements are not complete. Shot in the head, back and shoulder, Robert Eskridge, colored, was admitted to the Alexandria Hospital last night. Police arrested Willie. Ware, colored, as his assailant. Ware told Detective Sergeant Edgar Sims that he “shot at” Eskridge when the man attempted to break in his house. During the past week a total of 4,403 children attended the city's six municipal playgrounds, Mrs. Virginia W. Ryder, supervisor, reports. The George Mason Playground, which will sponsor a pet show at 3 p.m. tomor- row, reported 1,221 children for the seven-day period. The reséue squad of the Alexandria Fire Department, headed by Capt. L. is| | because the administration wants | early action on the Tennessee Valley Authority bill. | Speaker Byrns, it was learned today, already has informed Chairman Nor- | | ton of the House District Committee that there is little likelihood that the District calendar will be called up Mon- day. He said another day might be | set aside later in the week, or that Monday, July 15, might be given to the | District. | The prospective postponement will delay action on 13 District bills now on the House calendar. These include the Ellenbogen bill to revive the war- { time rent commission. which already has been passed over on two preceding District days. Small Loan Bill Pending. | Four of the other bills are designed | to change the Police Court jury svs- tem. Another would regulate the | small loan business and limit the in- terest rate to 2 per cent a month. Postponement of District day to July 15 will make it possible to add several other bills to the calendar. The Dis- trict Committee will meet Wednesday and probably report out the measures Mrs. Norton would like to have passed before the close of the present session of Congress. Reconsideration of the crime report. however, will be the principal business ‘Wednesday, although efforts are to be made by Representatives Carpenter, Democrat, of Kansas, and Brewster, Republican, of Maine, to get action on a bill to liberalize the Distirct divorce laws. The status of the divorce bill is in doubt due to an unprecedented parlia- mentary situation which will have to be settled before the full committee can consider it. Fight Over Report Likely. Carpenter and Brewster, members of the Judiciary Subcommittee which had the measure under consideration, ordered a favorable report after Chair- man Palmisano abruptly adjourned a | hearing Tuesday in protest against | what he described as their attempt to | | “railroad” it to the full committee Palmisano insists the bill has not been reported. A prolonged fight over the crime re- | port, which is likely, might even pre-| vent a discussion of the status of the divarce bill. Representative Randolph, Democrat, of West Virginia, who| served as chairman of the Crime Com- mittee, is prepared to make a vigorous fight to prevent any change in the report as it now stands, containing a| recommendatior. for removal of United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett. | Randolph is confident that if the| full membership of the committee at-| tends the meeting he will be success- ful, as the battle will end in a 10-to-| 10 deadlock, which would automatical- ly sustain the previous action indors- ing the report. The principal fight will center on the Garnett recommendation, since a majority of the members of the com- mittee are urderstood to agree with many of the cther proposals for legis- lation to improve the law enforcement and prosecuticr. machinery. Licensed to Marry. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., July 4 | (Special) —Marriage licenses have been issued here to the following: Michael Von Derhler Morris, 21, Wash- ington, and Helen Robertson, 18, Seat Pleasant, Md.; Joseph Foster Madigan 34, and Nettie Merando Luzansi, 28, both of Washington; O. Milburn Live- say, 23, Rogersville, Tenn., and Beulan Sanders, 22, Memphis, Tenn.; Lane Mitchell Smith, 22, and Jeanne A. Chapman, 20, both of Washington; ‘Carl Madison Taylor, 29, and Nancy Emily Smith, both of Washington. 3 per cent wren an employer keeps his men steadily at work. i Pool System for States. One of the Seuate amendmeats to the national oill vould allow the States or the District to adopt the Wisconsin plan of giving employers such credit, ‘hrouea reduction in tax, when tney stevilize emplovment, and also would permit adoption of the separate-compan: reserve plan of un- employment insaranc> Under the House bill States could have oy the pool system, under which all pay roll taxes go into a common fund and the contributions wouwid continue re- gardless of the iecord of the indi- | vidual employer. The Wisconsin sep- | arate-company reserve plan also would be sanctioned by the Senate b.ll Supplementing his testimony at the recent hearing. James McD. Shea, president of the Building Owners and Managers’' Assoc.ation, has sent a letter to Senator Copeland. 'nging adoption of the Wisconsin plan here. He wrote “A reserve account means & sepa- rate account in the unemployment fund with respect to an employer or a group of employers. Under this plan an individual employer or group of employers, after they had paid into the unemployment fund a certain specified amount—say $75.00—for each of their employes might be exempt from further contributions. This is similar to the plan now in operation in Wis- consin and.recently adopted by Utah. It gives an incentive for employers or a group of employers to attempt to regularize their employment. If they | are successful, they are rewarded by | having their contributions reduced or stopped, as long as a minimum reserve for each employe is kept in the em- ployer’s account.” In their letter to Senator King sev- eral days ago. the Commisisoners listed a number of other features in the House unemployment bill that would require the District to go further than the rest of the country and they urged Congress not to experiment on the District. BETHESDA ROTARY CLUB SELECTS NEW OFFICERS | { Curtis Walker Named President. Committee Chairmen Also Chosen. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, Md., July 4.—Officers and committee chairmen of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rotary Club were elected at a meeting Tuesday at the Columbia Country Club. The officers are Curtis Walker, president; Harry Welch, vice presi- dent; Claud Hyson, secretary; Leslie B. Bell, treasurer, and Walter Kolb, sergeant-at-arms. Chairmen of the committees are Thomas Lewis, Aims and Objects; Earl Hampton, Classifications; Harry Welch, program; Irving Ray, Friend- ship and Attendance; James B. Fitz- gerald, Entertainment; Marshall Duff, Vocational Service, and B. M. Osgood, Publicity. C. C. C. MEN FIND JOBS Approximately 33,000 members of the Civilisn Conservation Camps ob- tained private employment in the five months ending May 31, according to Robert Fechner, director of emergency conservation work. In May, the greatest number—9,174 —were placed, an increase gf 1,263 over April. '