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Washington News D.C. SMALL LOAN BILL SENT BACK 10 COMMITTEE House Action Follows At- tack by Representa- tive Jenckes. REPORT THIS SESSION NOW SEEN UNLIKELY Prettyman, Answering Charges, Says He Left Measure Until Report Conld Be Made. A bill to regulate the small loans’ business was referred back to the Ju- diciary Subcommittee of the House District Committee today as a result of the attack on the measure by Rep- resentative Virginia Jenckes, Demo- crat, of Indiana, who also charged Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Pret- tyman with nonfeasance in office for his alleged failure to enforce the loan shark law. Indications are the bill will not be reported out of the subcommittee again at the present session of Con- gress. If it is, Representative Hull, Progressive, of Wisconsin has served notice he would file a minority re- port. A companion bill has been on the Senate calendar for some time, but it has met opposition every time it was called up under unanimous consent. Mrs. Jenckes has filed a copy of her charges with the District Commis- sioners and at the same time called ettention to Commissioner Hazen’s «onnection with the Columbia Per- manent Building Association. “The Columbia Permanent Building Association is considered one of ‘Washington’s substantial institutions,” she said. “However, it places this in- stitution and the office of the Com- nussioner of the District of Columbia in an embarrassing position to spon- sor legislation and permit the corpor- ation counsel, Mr. Prettyman, to lob- Dby for its passage.” Left Pending Report. Prettyman, ir-Ocean City, Md., said: “I am the one who raised the ques- tion as to the propriety of the present practices, but I took the responsibility of leaving it, as it was for a short period, until a report could be made to Congress as to the effect of the present law and Congress could speak on the subject.” Commissioner Hazen denied he had any connection with the small loan business. “I fail to see the connection,” he said. “The building and loan asso- ciation makes loans only on first mort- gages, and, further, it is a mutual organization, and it is in no way af- fected by the small loan bill.” Hazen said he offered to resign his position with the association when he was appointed Commissioner, but his counselors all advised there was no zeason why he should do so. Prettyman dictated the following statement by telephone to his office: “The present small loans law in the District was enacted in February, 1913. In the 22 years since then only one license for four months was ever issued. None have been outstanding for maay years. The companies used methods which the law does not reach, according to an administrative construction established over that period. Last year when I came into office, I disagreed with that view and disagree with it now. Would Rout Companies. “My view of the law, if sustained by the courts, would drive all of the companies out of the District of Co- lumbia. I faced two difficulties, one, 10 persuade the courts to upset a con. struction which had stood so long end, two, deliberately to drive our unfortunate people, who must have these loans, to patronize the 314 per cent per month lenders just across our lines in both Maryland and Vir- ginla. My frank statement to that effect is the statement to which Mrs. Jenckes refers. “As to non-enforcement, the situa- tion is as it has been for years, but it is unsatisfactory to me. I sought counsel of Congress in a difficult situation, and, if I had it to do over, would do so again. ° “So far as I know there is no simi- larity or connection whatever between the building and loan associations and small loan companies. They are to- tally different businesses.” Street Quarrels Laid to Heat by Welfare Worker Kansas City Official Dis- counts Cussedness in Neighborhood Rows. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Kans, July 11.— George Lang, head of the local Wel- fare Bureau, blames heat more than cussedness for the recent doubling of his work, “This is the way it appears to come about,” he explained. “In cold or moderate weather, the péople stay in- doors. Warm weather brings them out and into contact with each other. “The children in the yards or streets quarrel over little things. The elders take it up and pretty soon the entire neighborhood is involved. Then it reaches us and we must cool them all off. “People are uncomfortable, don’t sleep nights. The noise of the street keeps them awake. They turn on the radio and that wakes up a neighbor and he fusses. They tell him to ‘mind your own business’ and all his self pride in being a free-born Ameri- can asserts itself. There it starts and it may grow by others taking sides until we spend several days just try- ing to adjust the neighborhood. “When it gets cool again, they’ll forget all about their difficulties and give attention to their work indoors.” Although the closed Federal-Amer- ican National Bank & Trust Co. now has cash of more than $1,000,000 on hand, it cannot pay another dividend to depositors because of pending liti- gation in which stockholders are con- testing the right of the receiver to collect a 100 per cent assessment. Enough funds are on hand to pay the depositors an additional dividend of 10 per cent, accérding to the re- port of quarterly condition of the bank, made public today by Receiver Cary A. Hardee. The bank still owes large sums to the Reconstruction Finance Corp., but has collected such a large proportion from stockholders who did not protest but paid up in full, that the receiver- ship could easily pay another 10 per cent to depositors if it were not for the pending litigation. Cash Totals $1,005,842.47. The report shows the cash on hand totals $1,005,842.47. Most of this was paid in by stockholders, who have paid up to date the proportionately large total of $882,749.46. This is about 45 per cent of the total 100 per cent assessment of $2,000,000 on the capital stock of this bank. Some stockholders protested, how- ever, principally the Davis Trust Co., trustee for the Elkins estate of West Virginia. When the recciver went to court in West Virginia to attempt to collect an assessment of $100,000 the Davis Trust Co. filed here a suit for injunction to prevent the receiver from making the collection. The stock on which the $100,000 assessment is due in the Elkins estate is understood now to be divided among several per- sons. LTTLES REPORY PACFES AZEN Vice Squad Head Says Po- lice Are Active in Boot- leg Cases. Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen, whose ire was aroused Monday by con- fidential reports concerning operation of a dozen bootleg liquor establish- ments, was pacified last night when Lieut. George Little of the vice squad reported police already were active in the cases. The Commissioner did not study ths report, but after being told of its con- tents turned the document immediate- ly ofler to Assistant Corporation Coun- sel Vernon E. West for examination Its details were not made public. Hazen said the report showed some of the reputed bootleggers and dealers | had been indicted, others arrested and some others under investigaticn. ‘West said the document contains so much confidential information that publication would seriously hamper the Police Department in enforcement. In revealing the complaint Monday, Hazen did not blame any individual police official for the alleged lack of enforcement, but declared he would have a “pep” meeting of high police officers soon. He planned to ask the captains how such places could operate under their noses without their knowledge. Lieut. Little’s report placed a differ- ent complexion on the situation and Hazen today took the cpportunity to praise the vice squad head’s ability. “It seems to me Lieut. Little is doing a pretty good job,” he said. 102 PASS VIRGINIA MEDICAL EXAMS 13 Northern Virginia Residents Included in Successful Candidates. Thirteen residents of Northern Vir- ginia were among 102 persons who passed the State medical examination at Richmond June 19, 20 and 21, ac- cording to an Associated Press dis- patch from that city. In announcing the list of those who passed, Dr. J. W. Preston, secretary of the State Board of Medical Ex- aminers, said there was but one fali- ure. In addition to those who passed the examination, 12 persons were granted certificates through reciprocal agreements with other States, with- out examination. Five non-graduates passed a partial examination, Dr. preston said. Northern Virginia graduates were: William Walker Butzner, Freder- icksburg; Hugh Tucker Chelf, jr., Culpeper; Harold Maurice Jackson, Leesburg; Byrd Staur Leavell, Cul- peper; Willlam Provine McGuire, ‘Winchester. John Osborne McNeel, Harwood Hugh Ritter, Herman Wolff, William Swope Wray, Martin E. Wisely, all of Charlottesville; Willlam Eugene Apperson, William Bennett Bean and Frank W. Foote, University. CASH REGISTER’S BELL FOILS COLORED ROBBER Laundry Proprietor Fires Five Shots at Burglar After Dive Through Window. Ringing of the bell of a cash regis- ter in the office of & laundry at 1104 North Capitol street about 3 a.m. to- day awakened the proprietor, George Young. Picking up his pistol, Young hurried to the office and saw a heavy- set colored man wearing & white suit at the cash register. As soon as the burglar was discov- ered he broke a window and went through the opening into the alley, Young in pursuit. Pive shots from he Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1935. $1,000,000 in Closed Bank Tied As Stockholders Oppose Levy Funds Enough for 10 Per Cent Dividend Frozen in Federal-American by Action Agadinst Receiver. Deposits in the Federal-American at the time of suspension in March, 1933, were $9,332,245.87, and a 50 per cent dividend was declared in September of the same year. Offsets of $1,059,325.32 have been allowed, and the actual amount paid out to depositors on the 50 per cent divi- dend amounted on June 30 to $4,- 148,322.57. . Borrowed $2,3”” 42597 From R. F. C. The bank wed from the R. P. C. $2,348,425.5, and has set aside in a collateral account to repay the R. F. C. a total of $992,057.91. Money paid by stockholders on assessment cannot be used to repay the R. F. C. under the law, but must be set aside for dividends to be paid depositors. Under the regulations, the dividend could not be paid, however, to de- positors, without permission from the R. F. C,, before all the R. F. C. loan was paid off. But it is believed that it stockholders’ litigation was out of the way, such permission could be ob- tained from the R. F. C. and the dividend paid. The condition of the Chevy Chase Savings Bank, whose depositors may get another dividend of between 15 and 20 per cent some time in the indefinite future, also is shown by Receiver Hardee's quarterly report. This bank has remaining assets of $162,103.91, no loan from the R. F. C. and no assessment against stockhold- ers. Depositors have been paid a 60 per cent dividend since the bank closed, amounting now to $404,806.94. ‘The bank was bought by Riggs Na- tional, and is now operated there as a Rigggs branch. TRACTION WAGE STUDY CONTINUES Mediation Board Seeks to Bring Agreement in Dispute. A board of mediation consisting of three men continued today its efforts to reach an agreement between 2,700 Capital Transit Co. employes and the company on a wage scale to supplant the old one, which expired April 30. Repeated attempts to get together had failed, so the matter was sub- mitted to arbitration. The workers members of he Amalgamated Asso- ciation of Street and Railway and Motor Coach Employes of America, ask wage increases and improved working conditions. Members of Board. The three-man board consists of Frank W. Swacker, former Interstate Commerce Commission examiner, chairman; Charlton Ogburn, attorney for the union, and Edmund L. Jones, counsel for the company. Sescions of the board are being held at George Washington University Law School and it was indicated two weeks or more may be required to reach an agreement. John H. Hanna, president of the railway, described wages as ‘reason- able” and working conditions as “ab- solutely fair.” Demands of Workers. Principal demands of the workers’ union include the following: An increase from 49 to 79 cents in the hourly pay of workers for the first three months of their employ- ment; from 53 to 83 for the next nine months, and from 55 to 85 cents for all workers after one year. A 15-cent-an-hour additional wage for operators of one-man cars. An eight-hour day and a 48-hour or six-day week. Collection of union dues by the company from wages. Reduction in the time spread to complete a day’s work on the part of trippers and extra men. Guarantee of six hours’ work a day for extra trainmen and bus drivers. SPOKESMEN BACK RETIREMENT ACT Railroad Labor Leaders Speak Before Senate Group to Sup- port Measure. By the Associated Press. Spokesmen for 21 railway labor organizations appeared before a Sen- ate Interstate Commerce Subcom- mittee today to indorse a railroad employes retirement act designed to replace the one killed recently by the Supreme Court. “The bill has the unanimous in- dcrsement of the members of the Railroad Labor Executives Committee and of the organizations,” asserted Timothy Shea, assistant president o: the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire- men and Engineers. Edwin A. Krauthoff, counsel for the Legislative Committee of the Labor Executives Association, which repre- sents the 21 railway employes’ organ- izations, said the bill is not based orn the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution, which the Supreme Court held was not broad enough to permit compulsory retirement insur- ance for railroad workers. He contended the bill is constitu- Uional because it relies on the power of Congress to levy taxes and ap- propriate money. The measure would provide $50,000,000 to pay retirement annuities. 549 PLEBES ENROLLED New Navy Academy Class Due to Total 880 Middies. ANNAPOLIS, July 11 (®).—With new middies reporting for examina- tions in groups of 50 or more, enroll- ments in the plebe class at the Naval the .38-caliber pistol were sent in the | Academy have reached 549. A total direction of the sprinting burglar. They failed to stop him. expected by the end of the PARLEY 1S SOUGHT ONMILITARY ROAD PERIL AT AIRPORT Smith Asked to Confer With Arlington Officials to Speed Closing. SPECIAL RULES PLEA HELD UP BY M’SWAIN Bill to Shut Highway to Be Jammed Through, Is Indication, if Opposition Persists. Declaring that if Arlington County officials oppose the closing of Mili- tary road across Washington Airport they must be prepared to assume the responsibility for any tragedy which may occur there, Representative Mc- Swain, chairman of the House Mili- tary Affairs Committee, today re- quested Representative Smith of Vir- ginia to confer with county officials in an effort to iron out their objec- tions. After the conference McSwain said he told Smith he had received a let- ter from an interdepartmental com- mittee representing the War, Post Of- fice and erce Departments urg- ing immediale closing of Military road “to eliminate a serious hazard to hu- man life.” McSwain told the Virginian he would support the War Department amendment to the bill, providing for immediate closing of Military road, without waiting for construction of a substitute route around the airport, and that this amendment had the unanimous approval of the Military Affairs Committee. Smith to Report Baek. Smith said he would refer the whole matter to the Arlington County authorities, who have objected to the closing of Military road until a sub- stitute is available, and would report back to McSwain at once on their decision. “The Government is gravely con- cerned and wants to clean its skirts of any responsibility for possible loss of life at Washington Airport,” Mc- Swain said. He sald that a few days ago he saw an air transport plane, taking off, narrowly escape crashing into a bus load of passengers on Military road. The bus, he said, started across the airport runway just as the warning siren sounded the approach of the airplane. Rules Suspension Weighed. McSwain held up his request for a special rule for consideration of the bill in the House until he hears from Smith. If the Arlington County oppo- sition is withdrawn, an effort will be made to obtain passage of the bill by unanimous consent, it was indicated. If the opposition persists, however, McSwain is prepared to ask the Rules Committee at once to suspend the rules and jam the Military road closing bill through the House without amend- ment and with limited debate. ALLEN DESIGNATES D. C. PROJECT BODY Board to Speed Up Judgment of Local Proposals—Ross Haworth Is Secretary. A three-man Project Board was appointed today by Commissioner George E. Allen, District works ad- ministrator, to speed up the work of passing judgment on proposals sub- mitted by District and Federal agencies. ‘The members are Capt. Howard F. Clark, Assistant Engineer Commission- er, who i~ deputy works adminis- trator; William C. Cleary, edminis- trative assistant to Administrator Allen, and Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor. Ross Haworth, private sec- retary to Allen, was appointed secre- tary to the Project Board. Capt. Clark will pass on engineer- ing problems, Cleary will handle problems as to provision of relief workers, and Maj. Donovan will pass on the adaptebility and legality of proposals. Officials said there are 85 work pro- posals pending which have a total estimated cost of approximately $4,- 000,000. The board hopes to reach decision on these within severel days and submit an approved list to Allen for his action. STATE DEPARTMENT AID ASKED IN FLYER’S DEATH Efforts under way to have the body of Lieut. Winton Graham, Army fiyer who was killed last week in Panama, brought back to his home in Big Stone Gap, Va., will be centered next in the State Department, it was said this morning at the office of Representative Flannagan, Democrat, of Virginia. Regulations of the Panama govern- ment forbid the shipment of bodies out of the country at this season unless they have been cremated. Mrs. Dona Parsons Graham, mother of the fiyer, decided against cremation and appealed to Senator Byrd and Repre- sentative Flannagan for aid. Their first appeals were made to the Adjutant General’s Office in the ‘War Department and a formal report is awaited by both from this source. It has been learned, however, that the matter is one for the Panama govern- ment to decide and consequently the co-operation of the State Department will be sought. Fire Carnival to Open. FALLS CHURCH, Va., July 11 (Spe- cial).—The Falls Church Summer fire- men’s carnival will open tomorrow pight and continue until July 20. It is announced the Volunteer Pire De- partment hopes to clear $1,000 to pay off the indebtedness of the new fire engine house. O. C. Pearson is gen- eral chairman of the carnival. Mrs. Robert Kendrick, president of the Woman'’s Auxiliary of the fire depart- ment, is the general chairman of the auxiliary. How Is Your Reaction Today? Device Will Show Speed of Motorist’s Response to Emergencies. A device for testing reaction time required by ind ividuals applying for drivers’' permits is shown in use at the Bureau of Vehicles and Traffic. The semi-circular card shows three-quarters of a second were required for one applicant to get his foot on the brake after the light turned red. Traffic Director W. A. Van Duzer is shown standing before the machine. PEEDY reactions are what the Bureau of Vehicles and Traffic wants these days. And just to be cure they recognize them when they see them they have in- stalied new testing machine to measure driver responses. Opening its firsi full day of opera- tion this morning, the machine will be ir use for about two months. Traffic Director W. A. Van Duzer said today, during which time every ap- plicant for a driver’s permit will be esked to submit to the test. The records then will be filed with the | Folice Department and checked against future accidents in an effort to determine if those drivers of slow reaction more frequently are involved in accidents than those with “hair- irigger” responses. Device Is Simple. ‘The device itself is a relatively simple one, in which the applicant stands before a tablelike apparatus on which is a miniature automobile, sloping street with intersection and a traffic light. At the foot of the machine are parts corresponding to the brake and accelerator of an automobile. Releasing the automobile on a green light, the operator of the testing machine then changes the light to red. With the light on red, the applicant is on the spot and the speed with which he operates the foot brake is measured as his reaction time. While the average has been estab- lished at five-eighths and three- quarters of a second, some are clocked in less and many require more, the tests have shown. Supplementary to the actual testing is a set of tables showing the dis- tance a car will travel at different speeds in the fraction of a second necessary for a driver to react. At 60 miles per hour, for instance, a car will move 66 feet in the three- quarters of a second necessary for the average driver to reach the brake pedal. An additional quarter of a second, however, would mean an- other 22 feet. In addition to these distances are those required for the actual breaking, estimated at 198 feet for a car traveling 60 miles per hour when application is started. Previous Tests Made. Van Duzer explained this morning that a similar device had been tried here about two years ago, but that so few cases were recorded at that time that the tests were not conclusive of any accurate proportion between re- action time and accident frequency. During the present period, he said, he Hopes to get about 5,000 applicants on record. Should the findings com- piled from such an experiment show a definite and significant relation be- tween reaction time and accident fre- quency the tests may become a per- manent part of District requirements for drivers’ permits. ‘The device was perfected by Prof. Robbins B. Stoeckel and Dr. Mark A. May of the Yale Institute of Human Relations, aided by statisticians and research experts of the Aetna Casualty and Surety Co. of Hartford, Conn. Experiments with the machine sim- ilar to those just started here also are being carried on by the Connecticut Bureau of Motor Vehicles. NEWP.0. WORKERS| T0 BE APPONTED Exams for Substitute D. C.| Clerks and Carriers to Fill New Register. For the first time in more than five years, the Civil Service Commission will hold an examination for substi- tute clerks and carriers in the Wash-, ington Post Office, it being announced today that applications will be re- ceived at the commission, Seventh and F streets, until July 17. It is expected that from the register to be established, from 80 to 100 ap- pointments will be made immediately. The new appointees will replace tem- porary workers taken on since the old register expired on January 1, 1933. While the examination is open to women, men only are due to be ap- pointed, as is customary. The date of the examination will be set later. Preference in appointments goes to patrons of the local office, which in- cludes those points in nearby Mary- land and Virginia served from here, and also to any possible residents of the surrounding area who might live closer to the Washington office than their own. The basic rate is 65 cents an hour. After permanent appointment, how- ever, the pay is $1,700 annually and is increased $100 yearly until $2,100 is reached. ] ‘While relatively few appointments are in prospect immediately under present conditions. the passage of the 40-hour week bill, now pending in Congress, would boost the number materially, but no exact figures on prospective employment have been made by the local post office. It was brought out today, incident- ally, that substitute carriers from other cities who have been working in Washington while business was slack at“tl:ielr own homes all hdve been re- called. OFFICIALS OF COUNTY VISIT FORT WASHINGTON By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. FORT WASHINGTON, Md., July 11.—Accepting the invitation of Lieut. Col. J. G. Ord, commander of the Army post here, nearly a score of Prince Georges County officials and their families were guests of honor ‘Tuesday afternoon at a parade and review of the R. O. T. C. unit here. Col. Ord invited the group to the fort “in order to promote the cordial relations already existing between the officials and the post.” After the parade the visitors were escorted through the quarters occupied by the R. O. T. C. —_— COOKING SCHOOL SET Special Dispatch to The Star. FALLS CHURCH, Va., July 11— The day branch of the Episcopal Guild of Falls Church will conduct a cooking school at the Episcopal Parish Hall on July 16, 17 and 18 from 1:30 to 3:30 o’clock. A fee of 25 cents will be asked for the entire course, the proceeds to be Promoted Upper: Wilmer S. Schantz, who has served as assistant financial clerk of the Police Court for a number of years, was promoted to clerk this week to succeed Clayton B. Sherwood. Lower: William J. Zepp, record- ing clerk, who was moved up at the same time to succeed Schantz as assistant financial clerk. The changes are a result of a long investigation of Police Court affairs made by the Department of Justice. Results of the investiga- tion are being presented to the grand jury now in session. 150 OF RAINBOW DIVISION T0 MEET Veterans to Hold Three-Day Session for Business, Pleasure and Talk. Former members of the famous Rainbow Division, hard-boiled fighting unit of the A. E. F., were arriving at the Willard Hotel today to begin three days of business, pleasure and just plam gab-festing about who won the war and why. M. Manning Marcus, president of the Rainbow Division Veterans, pre- dicted the meeting here tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday would be the best attended in the 17-year history of the organization. It is expected about 750 veterans and members of the auxiliary will attend. The first arrivals were registering today, but the largest delegations, from New York and Alabama, are expected tomorrow. The New York contingent will arrive on a special train, while the Alabama motor caravan. “What outfit?” seemed to be the password in the lobby and corridors of the hotel today as veterans wearing overseas caps with the service record prominently displayed by the number of stripes, badges or whatnots, met for the first time since the last conven- tion. Some of them are attending the first gathering of their old divisions, while others are the regular conven- tion-goers who have an unbroken rec- od of attendance. Among the features of the conven- tion will be a pilgrimage, by boat, to Mount Vernon, where wreaths will be placed on the tombs of George and Martha Washington. The party will be met at the Mount Vernon Whar! by Senator Byrd, Representative Smith and Virginia State and county officials. The pilgrimage will be made Sunday afternoon, to be followed in the evening by a banquet and the champagne hour. The champagne hour, at 11:45 p.m., marks the zero hour when the division “went over the top” in its first offensive. ‘The veterans will be the guests of Clark Griffith at Griffith Stadium for the game between the Nationals and the Detroit Tigers tomorrow after- noon. Woman’s Death Probed. ‘The coroner today is investigating the death of Mrs. Yvonne M. Brennan, 28, who died suddenly yesterday in the bathtub of her apartment in the 2700 block of Fourteenth street. An au- | topsy has been ordered. Symphony to Rehearse Afloat For Sunset Concert Series The National Symphony Orchestra will hold its first rehearsal afloat to- morrow morning in preparation for the sunset concerts which will be inaugurated Sunday at the water gate of the Lincoln Memorial Bridge. Dr. Hans Kindler will put his mu- | ing sicians through their paces on & Navy barge that has been half cov- ered by a canvass shell and which will be anchored in the Potomac fac- the water gate without tome dis- tortion. Tickets for the six weeks’ Summer concerts have been in demand since the box office in Julius Garfinckel & Co. store opened a week ago, ac- cording to C. C. Cappel, manager of the orchestra. The specially priced season and strip tickets also are prov- popular, while the supply of available single tickets at 25 and 50 cents and $1 is rapidly becoming ex- hausted. The opening concert Sunday will begin at 8 pm. The street car and bus companies have made arrangements to run “spe- cials” to the water gate, and adequate parking facilities are assured for per- sons who motor to the concerts, group will come to Washington in & | Sociéty and General PAGE B—1 CAPITAL SECURITY DL MUST AMAT FEDERAL MEASIAE Standards to Apply in Lat- ter to Be Fixed Before Final Action. GRADUATED PAY ROLL LEVY TO BE APPLIED Senate and House Leaders Agree on 1 Per Cent Tax During First Year. BY J. A. O'LEARY. Final action by the Senate District Committee on the local unemployment insurance bill will be deferred until House and Senate conferees agree on the standards in the national meas- ure. This was indicated today by Sena- tor Copeland, Democrat, of New York, following a preliminary, informal con- ference yesterday with Representative Ellenbogen, Democrat, of Pennsyl- vania. Copeland announced the local pay-roll tax should be put into effect gradually, as in the national bill. This would mean 1 per cent in 1936, 2 per cent in 1937 and 3 per cent thereafter, instead of starting at once with the 3 per cent rate, which would be more drastic than either the national bill or the trend of State laws. Another change announced by Cope- land, after his conference with the author of the House bill, was to start the benefit payments to unemployed two years after the bill passes instead of one year. Other Proposals Waiting. ‘There are several other equally im- portant changes which the Commis- sloners and local organizations have | urged the Senate to make in the House bill that will be considered further before the measure is reported to the Senate. Chairman King of the District Com- mittee and Chairman Copeland of a special subcommittee which held the social security hearings have been going over the unemployment bill individually, but both said today there would be a meeting of the entire com- mittee to pass on the measure. Copeland’s preliminary conference yesterday did not result in elimination of the House provision for a contribu- tion from the District government equal to 1 per cent of the pay rolls of the employers, which would call for about $1,500,000 a year in some form of municipal tax. This District tax bears a direct relation to the House provision, allowing for 26 weeks of benefit payments annually. The re- quirement for a District government tax would cause the local measure to go further than the States’ laws thus far enacted, in which the benefit pe- riods are 15 or 16 weeks. The national bill also uses 16 weeks. The House bill also would give the Federal Government supervision over the Dist.ict unemployment plan. King Teiterated his belief today that the District government should have con- trol of the local law, just as in the | States. The Utah Senator announced last week that he favors shaping the bill substantially along the lines rec- ommended by the Commissioners. Copeland Undecided. Copeland indicated he is still turn- ing over in his mind the question of whether any change should be made in the 26 weeks of benefit pay- ments, and also whether the District government tax should be eliminated or retained. The New Yorker also is studying the advisability of having the bill apply to employers of fewer than four per- sons, to cover such groups as domes- tic servants. The conferees on the national bill, who have experienced difficulty in reaching a final agreement on their differences over several issues, will meet again at 1 o'clock tomorrow aft- ernoon. It is not likely, therefore, that the District Committee will be in a position to meet for action on the local bill until next week. Senator Copeland said there is no dissension between members of the District Committee over the local social security program. Committee members believe they can proceed more expeditiously on the local bill after the remaining differences in the national bill are settled. Ohio Weekly Is Sold. WILMINGTON, Okio, July '1 (&). —R. Kenneth Kerr, manager of Ohio News, Inc., today aurovunced sale of the Caldwell, Onio. Yournal to James F. Hovey, the puper’s editor and manager. The Journal is a weekly. Included in the transaction was the Journal plant. Twins Freed When Witnesses Cannot Tell Them Apart Assault Case Dropped Following Alleged At- tack at Filling Station. Inability of five witnesses to tell one from the other resulted in the dismissal today of assault charges against twins who were tried before Judge Robert E. Mattingly in Police Court. The twins are Roy and Guy More- field, both employed on the same shift at a filling station at Columbia road and Georgia avenue. ‘They were accused by Nathan Ack-< erman, 626 Columbia road, of having assaulted him when he and four com- panions complained about the lights at the filling station being turned off while they were fixing a tire. All the witnesses asserted one of the twins had struck Ackerman when the latter asked if they were trying to save money by turning out the lights. When it came to identification, however, the witnesses were unable to state which of the men had struck the blow.