Evening Star Newspaper, August 10, 1935, Page 14

GAS COMPANIES ASK CONFERENCE OVER RATE PLAN Adjustment Device Desired, Says Sperry in Plea for Discussion. COMMISSION CHAIRMAN INSISTS UPON PETITION Outline of Tentative Program Held Prerequisite to Any Debate. The Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Cos. today made their first movement toward adoption of a slid- ing scale arrangement, or similar de- vice, for gradual adjustment of their Tates. Marcy L. Sperry, president of the companies, notified the Public Utilities THE EVENING Relief Job Refusals Found Negligible at 4 Out of 220 D. C. Investigation istrator Hopkins " nation of An investigation of alleged job re- fusals on the part of persons on Dis- trict relief rolls has revealed only four clear-cut cases indicating an unwill- ingness to work, it was disclosed today in a repoft made public at Federal relief headquarters. An exhaustive inquiry had been ordered by Adminis- trator Harry L. Hopkins. Out of 16,000 employable relief per- sons, the report showed, it was pos- sible to locate only 220 cases which were claimed to have turned down jobs in April or May. Hopkins had ordered the investigation after re- peated criticisms indicating wholesale numbers of persons on relief refusing jobs in private employment. “Negligible Factor.” “On the basis of careful examination of the data obtained, it is unmistak- ably evident that unwillingness on the part of clients to accept work is a negligible factor in the problem of re- lief administration in Washington,” the report stated. “The difficulty lies, Commission they “desired” to invoke | such a pian and asked the commission | to engage in a preliminary discussion with the company and People's Coun- sel William A. Roberts. Riley E, Elgen, commission chair- | man, said he would be willing to dis- | cuss the proposal, but that before the | commission officially took any step the | companies would have to submit a | petition and a plan. Outline Held Adequate. | He said he was willng to accept s plan in outline form, leaving de- tails to be worked out later, but made clear it was up to the company to draft and submit the proposal. In this, Elgen adhered to the terms of a statement the commission made earlier this week in reference to a | gimilar suggestion that came from the people’s counsel. Roberts had proposed that the com- pany and commission agree on an im- mediate reduction in gas rates total- ing $820,000, as a means of ending the protracted valuation and rate cases. Roberts included in his sug-| gestion a proposal for adoption of a sliding scale method of correcting gas rates from year to year. Sperry re- plied to that by stating his work is to enter into conferences. Valuation Base Sought. | The commission is insisting there | be final determination on valuation | of the companies so there will be a| basis for figuring annual rate adjust- ments. Roberts is in accord with this view. Last Spring the commission fixed the value of the two companies at $16,993,000 as of June 30, 1932. The companies have appealed that decision to District Supreme Court. | In the current gas rate case, which has been adjourned temporarily, the commission is gathering data to bring the valuation up to date to Decem- ber 31, 1934. The result of this will be to increase the value of $16,993,000 to the extent of a finding as to the value of plant additions made since | June 30, 1932, and other conditions | affecting values. TWO COLORED ELKS’ PARADES INDICATED‘ Columbia Lodge, Nettled “Host' Ruling, May March August 26. Unless controversies between Colum- | bia Lodge and other local lodges of the colored Elks are settled, Wash- ! ington may see two parades late this month instead of one. The grand pa- rade of the Elks is scheduled for August 27 and now Columbia Lodge may parade alone on August 26. Columbia Lodge members feel they were insulted because their marchers were placed in the third division of the grand parade instead of the first with the other local lodges. Dr. Charles B. Fisher, generol chair- man of the Grand Lodge Convention Committee, explained this was done because the other lodges were “hosts.” Columbia Lodge, he said, withdrew from the entertainment program be- cause of earlier difficulties and there- fore is not a “host” lodge. | POLICE NAB 2 GIRLS | WHO FLED HOSPITAL Diphtheria Patients in Pajamas Returned to Gallinger After Two Hours. ‘Two girls, clad in pajamas and ex- haling diphtheria germs, wandered | about the streets of Southeast Wash- | ington for two hours early today before | they were apprehended by Pvt. J. J. Hennessey, fifth precinct, and re- turned to Gallinger Hospital. The girls, Edna McInturff and Ada Wilson Sterret, both 17, had been sent to the hospital from the Na- tional Training School Tuesday, when it was learned they were suffering from the highly contagious disease. They walked out of their Gallinger ward shortly after midnight and were found at 2 a.m. at Seventeenth and | A streets southeast, six blocks from | the hospital entrance. at WALKS CONTRACTED Woodrow Wilson High School Work to Be Rushed. Completion of sidewalk approaches and grounds of the new Woodrow Wilson High School was provided in a contract awarded yesterday by the Commissioners for improvements to cost $58,641. Much of the work must be com- pleted by September 15, about the time of the opening of the next school term, under stipulations in the contract, which went to Easthon Mel- vin of this city. The work to be done includes lay- | ing of sidewalks, -final completion of the grounds and landscaping. HOPKINS GIVEN AIDE Harry L. Hopkins, works progress administrator, announced last night that L. W. Roberts, jr., of Atlanta, Assistant Secrétary of the Treasury, would work in his department under a six-month leave. Robert, Hopkins disclosed, will be in charge of airport and armory con- struction under works progress program. 7 rather, in distributing a wholly inade- quate .amount of work among 16,500 employable persons now in the relief population of Washington who are registered for work.” Investigators of the F. E. R. A, supervised by Edward J. Webster, collected their data mainly from the United States Employment Service, from the records of the local relief administration and personal inter- views, Charges Refuted. Narrowing the investigation down to 220 suspicious cases, the results shown in the report clearly refute charges of wholesale malingering. Ordered by Admin- Results in Elimi- Offenders. Only four cases were adjudged to be clearly unjustified job refusals. In the remaining cases, either the charges were {ll founded, ignorance of work-relief regulations were in- volved or the refusal was accompanied by extenuating circumstances. The work relief authorizations of 11 persons were canceled because the local authorities questioned their ignorance of regulations requiring them to accept on call jobs on private employment. Three others were cut off relief because their explanations of failure to report for jobs were not accgpted and three more were denied relief because of indifference to the charge of having refused jobs and be- cause of unsatisfactory case records. Variety of Causes. Of the 220 cases alleged to have refused work, reports showed 75 were found not to be on the relief rolls, 53 did not receive the notices of jobs in time'or did not get the jobs when they responded, 12 refused jobs offers for extenuating reasons, and 6 cases involved defective records or conflict- ing reports. The remaining four cases, the re- port stated, were “purely unjustified refusals,” and relief was cut off. The report also refuted indiscrimi- nate criticism to the effect that per- sons are refusing to accept domestic service jobs. During April and May, it was pointed out, the United States Employment Service fijed 3,314 jobs in domestic service, while, on the other hand, only 243 domestic jobs were turned down during the two months. Adequate reasons were given investigators for the refusals, it was said. Nominated MALLOY IS COMMANDER CHOICE OF LEGION. JOSEPH J. MALLOY, Washington attorney, who last night was unanimously nominated commander for the coming year of the District Department, Amer=- ican Legion. His election tonight will be a formality. COLLATERAL PAID MALLOY 1S CHOICE FOR LEGION HEAD {D. C. Convention Opposes Communists and Alien Activity in U, S. The District Department of the American Legion unanimously nomi- nated a new commander last night and acted on resolutions covering a field which ranged from Communists to claw machines. Joseph J. Malloy received the ex- pected approval of the department's | annual convention as its commander | for the coming year. His nomination | was unopposed and his election to- | night will be a formality. Resolutions condemning Commun- !ists were passed. The resolution ob- jecting to the operation locally of ball | |and claw machines as harmful to | youthful morals was killed after one Legionnaire ridiculed it by holding the subject was not in the province | of the Legion. Roberts Indorsed. J. O'Connor Roberts, retiring de- partment commander, was compli- mented for his service by the conven- tion’s indorsement of him for election as national commander at the Ameri- can Legion convention in St. Louis next month. The convention ap- | pointed a committee to boost his can- | didacy in other departments. ‘The convention adopted a group of resolutions denouncing alien and communistic activity in the United States and calling for precautions | against “un-Americanism.” Resolu- | tions demanded that all alienists be | fingerprinved, that all Government employes, Federal, State and munici- | pal. be compelled to swear allegiance to defend the Constitution against all foreign and domestic enemies and that BY JUDGE SMITH Rockville Controversy Ended by Action—Jurist Deplores “Animosity.” By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. a ROCKVILLE, Md., August 10— institutions which permit subversive Strife between Harold C. Smith, | 88encles to exist in their midst. | Montgomery County police justice,| Harlan Wood, a past department and the Rockville Town Council, over | ©Ommander, provoked heated debate the latter’s recently-inaugurated traf- | O tWo occasions with thinly veiled at- fic law drive was a closed issue today. | tacks on the New Deal. Opposing a | Judge Smith posted $3.50 collateral | Fesolution favoring a Federal anti- on an overtime parking charge and | ynching law, Wood said it would be thus put a halt to efforts of the town | “another intrusion of State's rights fathers to effect his arrest for ignoring | 81d our individual liberties and if we a parking ticket placed on his ma- 90N’t oppose the passage of these laws chine a week before. | we will soon arrive at a situation | The collateral was turnel over to Where Washington will control even Justice of the Peace Charles M. Webb, the baking of our biscuits. by Miss Vivian Simpson, local at-| Ine resolution, however, was ap- | proved. Another, indorsing a con- torney who was retained by the judge, | and the jurist said he would forfeit | Stitutional ~amendment abolishing the money. | child labor, wasedefeated after Wood | the rich not contribute to educational | FUND Is SUGGESTEDI In a statement to newspaper men after the case was closed Judge Smith said he felt there had been “a great | deal of unnecessary animosity and persistence in the pressing of this charge.” He explained he had never been | properly served with a warrant, but despite this, his sole reason for de- laying the posting of collateral was his inability to determine to whom collateral on a town ordinance viola- tion should be paid. He asserted the law was not clear on that point. “I wish to sa ythat I, as the police | justice for Montgomery County, am | as amenable to the law as any lay- man.” the judge declared. “This applies to the parking ordinances of Rockville as well as to any other laws. “I hope that it will not be neces- sary in the future for me to stop court proceedings to move my car to avoid being served a ticket. I think that there should be some provision made for county officials so they could park on the street without being molested.” Judge Smith said that it is neces- sary for the officials to be in the court house all day and it is difficult for them to properly carry out their duties if they must leave every two hours to move their cars. He added: “I am glad the incident is over.” Mayor Douglas M. Blandford said the council would make no further attempt to have the Circuit Court designate a justice of the peace to issue a warrant for Judge Smith’s arrest and try the case. “That ends it so far as the council is concerned.” he asserted. “Our only object in pressing this case was to have Judge Smith recognize the town ordinances and obey them.” Leslie B. Thompson, the town's new officer. who was appointed three weeks ago to wage an intensive cam- paign against trafic law -violators, maintained a discreet silence when in- formed that Judge Smith had posted collateral on the charge Thompson brought against him. Painter Killed by Fall. Robert McDonald, 36, colored, 1416 Fifth street, died in Emergency Hos- pital from a skull fracture yesterday after he fell w painting the sec- | 90 ond story of & at 2710 K street. | fought it with a remark that it “would | have Federal agents snooping in every household and we have had enough | invasion of our liberties in the last three years.” A modified resolution | was substituted. Objection Booed Down. The convention booed down an ob- jection to a resolution thanking Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown for the co- operation of his department with the Legion. An attempt made last year to place the department on record in favor of a congressional investigation of na- tional Legion officers who have worked on a “sound money” program was re- newed last night and met the same fate as a year ago. It was quickly tabled. ° Continued Federal aid to the ‘American merchant marine, “in order | that national defenses may not he weakened by withdrawal of American | ships from the seas,” and employment | by companies which receive Federal aid of only American-bcrn or “com- pletely naturalized” seamen, were de- manded in other resolutions passed by the Legion. The usual resolution demanding im- mediate cash payment of the honus was passed. The convention then ad- journed until tonight, when formal election of officers will take place. Byron G. Carson is slated te be named first vice commander, Mrs. Elsie }in- ney second vice commancer and Charles J. Warren third sice com- mander. A supper and ball will con- clude the convention. sWAflMER WEATHER IS PREDICTED HERE Local Showers Tonight or To- morrow Expected—80 Maxi- mum Is Probable. Slightly warmer weather today and tomorrow is forecast by the Weather Bureau, which also predicts local showers for late tonight or tomorrow. A maximum temperature of approx- !mately 87 degrees was expected to- day, with a probable maximum of tomorrow. . Yesterday’s maximum & 3pm, STAR, WASHINGTO DRIVE ON DISEASE |KING WOULD FREE (® IND.C. ISMAPPED | D. . FROM WALSH |, FOR RELIEF FUND Tests to Identify Victims of Tuberculosis Urged as $100,000 Project. OFFICIALS TO SUPPORT DR. RUHLAND’S PLANS Health Head Outlines Practical Program Based on Allen’s Suggestions. An unprecedented attack on the tuberculosis problem of the National Capital, making use of $100,000 of Federal work relief funds for case work, was being mapped out in final form today by District officials. Health Officer George C. Ruhland was completing details of a program calling for widespread examination of residents to identify suspected 6,000 tuberculosis cases which here- tofore have not been reported. ‘The program is expected to meet the approval of the District Works Progress Board and Commissioner George E. Allen, works administrator for the District. Federal officials will be asked to grant approval of the project. The program of Dr. Ruhland would carry into force a tentative program announced weeks ago by Commis- sioner Allen for employment of enu- merators and nurses in a campaign to list persons suffering from the disease. Plan Skin Tests. Dr. Ruhland’s plan would follow generally the outlines of the tests recently made of hundreds of senior students of the high schools. Civic association members would be asked | to submit voluntarily to the skin and | X-ray tests to determine if they are | tuberculosis victims. Either public or private care would be urged on those showing positive tuberculosis reactions. Commissioner Allen is expected to approve the project and ask quick, approval by Federal authorities. ‘Weeks ago he announced he planned expansion of the drive on tuberculosis through the works program. Without waiting to see details of | Dr. Ruhland’s program, Allen said: “Investment in public health is the | best kind of investment. I shall do | all in my power to make the proposed | program a success.” Called Forward Step. Dr. Ruhland emphasized “this is not a complete program. It of itself can- | not eradicate tuberculosis from the | District. In the final analysis, how- | ever, it will be an important step for- ward, aimed at adequate control of | the tuberculosis problem.” Recent reports showed the District | | has gained the unfortunate rank of | | second place in death-rate from the | white plague, with a rate of 120 deaths per 100,000 population, second | only to San Antonio, Tex., with a rate of 145 per 100,000. ‘There are now under treatment for | tuberculosis in the District 6,009 cases. Dr. Ruhland believes there are | at least, 6,000 more which have not | been reported. The proposed program | is designed to identify these and de- | termine proper arrangements for their care. | The $100,000 program to employ | about 100 works progress employes in a new attack on the problem, was drafted following conferences between | Dr. Ruhland and Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, executive officer of the District | | Tuberculosis Association. EXPORT INSURANCE Senator Smith Confers on $500,- 000,000 Proposal—Roosevelt Interested. By the Assoclated Press. Revival of she Nation’s stagnant ex- port trade through a $500,000,000 corporation to insure foreign credit transactions was suggest:" yesterday by Senator Smith, Democrat, of South Carolina in a conference with repre- sentatives of the State, Treasury, | Agriculture and Commerce Depart- ments. The rroposed corporation would be | based on the principle under which | wor risk insurance operated during the World War to put American goods | back on the seas despite the hazards | of submarines and subjection to seiz- ! ure as contraband. Smith said the proposed corporation, whose insurance would be available only to American exporters and manu- facturers and only for exporting to countries willing to c>-operate with the United States to develop reciprocal trade, already had been suggested by him to President Roosevelt. “The President seems to take a lively interest in the matter to de- termine whether the plan is feasible or not,” the South Caroliza Senator said. He added he understood the plan was subject for discussion at a cabinet meeting. | e {POLISH AMBASSADOR BEGINS HIS VACATION M. Patek Rallies From Illness and Sails for Poland—Re- turn Indefinite. Polish Ambassador Stanislaw Patek has been gravely ill, but has recovered sufficiently to leave on his annual vacation, it was learned today. He sailed for Poland from New York this morning. M. Patek was ordered to bea by physicians about two weeks ago, suf- fering from a complication of ailments which embassy officials said were seri- ous at his age. He is about 70. Arrangements for the Ambassador’s vacation were made long before his illness, however, attaches said, and his departure today was declared to have no bearing on M. Patek’s state of health. The Ambassador has re- covered sufficiently to travel unassisted. It was not known when he will return. —_— GEN. PRESTON ASSIGNED Ma). Gen. John F. Preston, inspector general of the Army, was assigned to- day by the War Department to duty D. C., SATURDAY WAGE BILL TERM Utahan Says Funds From Tax Revenues Should Not Be Included. AGREES TO LET PLAN APPLY ON U. S. LOANS Author of Measure Opposes Sug- gestion—Fight Develops on Effort to Pass Black Bill. A motion to eliminate the District government from the provisions of the Walsh bill, which would empower the Federal Government to regulate wages and hours in all Government con- tracts, whether for construction or the furnishing of supplies, will be made by Chairman King of the Senate District Committee in the Senate next week ‘The Government would have the same power over contracts of any State or other agency using money borrowed from the Federal Government. Sengtor King told the Senate yes- terday that if the District has any Government loans, it would be appro- priate to apply the Walsh bill to those expenditures, ‘but that this Federal law should not be applied to the reg- ular annual appropriations for the District Government, nearly all of which money comes from local taxa- ‘The Utah Senator declared that, while the United States pays some- thing toward District expenses ($5,- 700,000 for this year), he emphasized that this money is not a loan or a gift, but is a recognition of the fact | that the Federal Government has | withdrawn so much land from taxa- | tion in the District. He argued that in expending the regular annual Dis- trict appropriations, the District gov- | ernment is exercising the same func- | tion as a sovereign State in expend- ing State money. Walsh Objects. Senator Walsh took issue with King, | contending the District is usually in- | cluded in all general Pederal laws, such as the Bacon-Davis prevailing ‘wage act. Senate action on the bill was blocked yesterday by long debate on the Black 30-hour week bill. However, an agree- ment to limit debate when the Senate | returns to work after the week end virtually assured a vote on both pro- pesals Monday. The 30-hour week proposal passed the Senate two years ago, but died in the House. It was advanced as a | substitute for the Walsh bill by Sena- tor Clark, Democrat, of Missouri, who contended it would “write into law | what the (Walsh) bill leaves to the | discretion of some bureaucrats.” Walsh Assails Clark. Senat.r Walsh, Democrat, of Mass- achusetts hotly charged that Clark had advanced the 30-hour week bill to kill his measure. He said the Black bill had no chance to pass at this session. The Missouri Senator expressed re- | sentment at Walsh's charge, contend- | ing he had offered his bill not as a “rider” but as a substitute. He con- tended N. R. A. had been advanced to kill the Black proposal. The Federal Trade Commission, meanwhile, announced that 21 in- dustries have completed preliminary work toward obtaining commission | trade practice agreements, or volun- tary codes succeeding N. R. A. codes. The commission called on those interested in the proposed agreements, who have not made representations, to submit their views as soon as pos- sible as the commission expects to act soon. Black and Norris Speak. Senator Black, Democrat, of Ala- bama spoke for his bill, while Senator Norris, Republican, of Nebraska, for- merly one of its strongest supporters, opposed it on the ground it had no chance for approval at this session, while the Walsh measure did. Earlier, Senator Long, Democrat, of Louisiana had abruptly served notice he would propose the $3,000,000,000 Frazier-Lemke farm refinancing bill as & “rider” to the Walsh measure. Long said he desired not only to get a vote én the Frazier-Lemke proposal but to kill the Walsh bill, which he contended “was an attempt to saddle N. R. A. on any one dealing with the Government.” C. C. C. ENLISTMENTS BEHIND SCHEDULE Officials Experience Difficulty in Recruiting 328,000 Men to Fill Quota. By the Associated Press. Civilian Conservation Corps jobs have gone a-begging and knocked the recruiting program months off schedule. Official circles disclose difficulty in enlisting 328,000 men to bring the corps up to the 600,000 enrollment contemplated by President Roosevelt when he mapped his new relief pro- gram. ‘The full 600,000 figure is not ex- pected by officials to be reached un- til the cold months of January or February set unemployed to trekking to the forest camps. Checking up on the recruiting de- lay, which had resulted in only 135,- 260 enlistments up to August 3, United States Employment Service officials said reports from State headquarters showed & corps of 500,000 was the probable maximum obtainable at the end of the enlistment quota on Au- gust 31. The requirements laid down by Re- lief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins that all C. C. C. recruits come from relief families was said to be the prin- cipal reason for difficulties of the corps. Previously, unemployed youths were accepted whose families were not on relief, and officials said today it would be possible to fill the vacancies with little difficulty if the rules was modified. ROBBERS CUT YOUTH [Slashed in Hip—Bouts Four Col- ored Men in Fight. Lloyd Costello, 19, of Seat Pleasant, Md., was slashed on the hip by four colored men who held him up last night in an alley in rear of the block of Ninth Costello fought assailants they could AUGUST 10, 1935. rx, of National Symphony, Be- moans Player Shortage. Says Cooler W eather and | Bassoon Artist Would Help Home City. NOTHER bassoon player and snow on the mountains are all Rio de Janeiro needs to make it paradise. This is the yword of Burle Marx, who organized and conducts the phil- harmonic orchestra in the Brazilian capital and will lead the National Symphony here tomorrow and next ‘Wednesday. Rio at night, Conductor Marx re- vealed at the Willard yesterday, is such a tintinnabulation of rhapsody and rhythm that no musicians in that romantic spot are unemployed. From every cafe come the notes of rhumbas and tangoes, for every cafe special tax. For this reason, philharmonic mu- | sicians are scarce, and Marx had to | seek bassoon players 1,000 miles away when the need arose. The Brazilians love their music of all sorts—caboret, opera, philhar- monie—but oh! it gets so hotf Leads by “Dead Reckoning.” “I wish I could put windshield wipers on my glasses,” Marx mused. | “It gets so hot down there when I'm | conducting that my glasses are steamed all over and I have to lead | my men by dead reckoning. If only those mountains were snow-covered, we could run up to them for relief.” The director came here as an apostle | of better musical understanding be- | tween North and South America. He hopes to make the United States as io Solves Jobless Musicians’ Problem, Conductor Reveals L 4 BURLE MARX. ~—Star Staff Photo. §330,000 REFUND 10 22,000 SCOUTS OF WORLD BEGUN Foreign Boys Already in U. S. Making It Good- Will Tour, MANY LOCALITIES OFFER CAMP SITES Jamboree Cancellation on Account of Infantile Paralysis Danger Irrevocable. The task of refunding $550,000 to 22,000 Boy Scouts all over the world who had paid a registration fee of $25 conscious of the music of our Latin music. Five years ago Brazil didn't know what was being played in Argentina, kut, due greatly to the efforts of Marx, that is now all different. Two Novelties. For his Water Gate listeners he is going to present two Brazilian numbers never before heard in this country. They are “Il Guarany,” an overture by Carlos Gomez, and “O Garatuja,” by Nepomuceno. Since February Senhor Marx has been writing a symphony of his own, combining movements classical and modern, at the McDowell artist col- ony in Peterborough, N. H. “Oh, a wonderful place is America,” he says. bassoon players.” Misuse of Franking: Privilege Charged {In House Petition| Reed Says Democratic! Party Notice Went Out in F. H. A. Envelopes. Charging that Federal Housing Ad- ministration postage-free evelopes had been used to mail out news no- tices of a Democratic women’s garden party, Representative Reed, Repub- lican, of New York has introduced a resolution directing the House Post Office Committee to investigate and determine what might be done, if anything, in imposing penalties. Reed said the notices, on mimeo- graphed sheets, bearing the name, ad- dress and telephone number of the F. H. A. at Buffalo, advised that: ‘More than 200 Democratic women of Chautauqua, Erie and Allegany | | Counties are expected to attend a | arden party Wednesday, August 7, |at Lakewod Tea Garden * * * | Democratic Club.” Details of the program followed. | It was pointed out by Reed that the | law imposes a $300 fine for private | use of “penalty envelopes” to avoid | | the postage. His resolution declared | | the “spread of partisan propaganda by an agency of the Federal Govern- ment would appear to be a gross and | reprehensible violation of the law | governing the use of the ‘penalty envelope’ and an illegal and wasteful | | expenditure and a shameful diversion |of the money of taxpayers appro- | priated for the purpose of alleviating suffering and need among the unem- ployed and to promote recovery.” LOW-COST HOUSING PLANS APPROVED' Project for Inexpensive Home:j for Federal Workers Ten- tatively Adopted. Plans for a low-cost housing proj- ect, designed to provide inexpensive homes for Federal workers, were ten- tatively adopted last night by the Community Planning Committee of Department of Agriculture employes, | with prospects of construction of 40 houses in the first group. The homes are to be constructed in nearby Virginia in blocks of 15, to enable individual buyers to gain the | money-saving advantages of whole- sale land-buying and contract-letting. | Financing will be long-term, spread over a 20-year period. Although this | is a private enterprise, with no official Government aid, the Federal Housing Administration has advised the com- mittee in its plans, it was said. STATE RESIDENCE BILLS | SIGNED BY ROOSEVELT| e Third New Law Provides Bridge Facilities for Railroad Tracks. Before leaving on his week end cruise down the Chesapeake, Presi- dent Roosevelt today signed three District of Columbia bills, two of them permitting firemen and police- men to maintain residences in nearby Maryland and Virginia without sacri- ficing their jobs. The third bill provides for con- struction of bridges and underpasses in connection with railroad tracks, entering the Union $tation. One is on P street northeast near Brentwood road and another at West Virginia and New York avenues at MLXM of Eighteenth street north- eas —_— FREDERICK F. NACE IS FATALLY STRICKEN G. P. 0. Employe Dies Shortly After Being Treated for Heat Attack. Shortly after he refused hospital treatment for illness which he thought was due to the heat, Frederick F. Nace, 53, of 320 Anacostia road southeast,. died yesterday at his home of a cerebral hemorrhage. Early in the afternoon Nace was treated for a heat attack by an am- bulance physician. A few hours later he was dead by Dr. George 1 “Bovard, 01 Minnesota _svee northeast, who was called to the home. & TRAFFIC CAMPAIGN N FOURTH WEEK Only One Fatal Accident Reported Since Begin- ning of Drive. Washington's traffic safety cam- paign went into its fourth week today with only one fatal accident thus far. One serious injury was reported in the past 24 hours, the first in several days. Simon Alley, 49, of 328 Tenth street | northeast, is in Casualty Hospital with a skull fracture received last night when he is said to have walked into the side of a street car in the 1300 block of C street northeast. His con- dition is said to be critical. The total traffic deaths in the District | this year now number 65, four less than at this time in 1934. Two other deaths this year, one on a street car right- he had gone to sieep beneath a truck, are not recorded as traffic deaths by the police. Expressing satisfaction over the progress of the campaign to date, Police Supt. Emest W. Brown today warned against any let-up, urging particular diligence by police to keep down the number of accidents over the week end. Members of his com- “So many oboe players and | each to attend the Scout. Jamboree Lere, which was canceled by President without an orchestra is subject to a ;nelghbora as he made South American | Roogevelt for fear of spreading infan- | countries conscious of each other's tile paralysis, was begun today at Boy Scout héadquarters on Vermont ave- nue. Meanwhile, 75 foreign Scouts, al- ready in the United States or aboard steamships bound for America, plan- | ned to turn their trip to this country into a good-will tour, with probable stops in California, Wyoming, New York and Washington. As demolition of the Boy Scout tent city along the Potomac began, Scout cofficials received invitations from va- rious locaiities offering substitute camp sites. Offers came from New York City, Hornell. N. Y.; Gov. Miller of Wyoming and the California Pacific International Exposition at 8an Diego. . Cancellation Definite. | However, there will be no jamboree this year, it has been definitely de- cided. Permission for the 31 Philippine Scouts already in the country to pay their respects to the President was sought today by V. Fral Murphy of the islands in a cablegram to Secretary of War Dern. Other foreign Scouts here include 2 from France, 11 from China and |1 from India. On their way are 5 from Peru, 2 from Chile, 4 from Hawaii, 7 from Hungary, 5 from the Netherlands and 4 from Japan and 1 from the Danish West Indies. Camp Roosevelt, District Scout re- treat on Chesapeake Bay, will be kept | open until September 2, two weeks | beyond the scheduled closing time, it was decided yesterday, so as to pro- vide a recreational spot for the visit- ors. The jamboree was to have run from August 21 to 30. Hundreds of telegrams have come to Scout headquarters since announce- ment of the cancellation indicating “Scouts and Scouters fully appreciate why the jamboree was called off,” James E. West, chief Scout executive, | declared today. Magnitude of Gathering. As officials went about mailing back the money, West said: “The sum of more than half a mil- lion dollars which will all be returned | sponsored by the Jamestown Women's of-way and another resulting from to Scouts and leaders throughout the | 8 man being run over on a lot after country gives some idea 6f the mag- nitude the jamboree had assumed. “The camp is 95 per cent completed. Twenty full sections had been finished last night, all ready for occupancy, with central kitchens, troop kitchens, ice boxes all ready, for the reception of the 27,612 Scouts who were ex- pected.” Demolition of the encampment, which took six months to build, will mand were instructed to pay partic- require two months. Removal of the ular attention to the various special tents from West Potomac Park and orders issued by him during the the Monument Grounds will provide campaign. District residents with additional play- | ground space, C. Marshall PFinnan, | National Capital Parks superintendent, ARMY AIR .BASES “ann\‘?:;zg'lA TROOPS BARRED. POLICY APPROVED Roosevelt to Sign Bill for Con- struction, but Funds Are ania Will Not Permit National Guardsmen to Enter. HARRISBURG, Pa. August 10 (#). —Dr. Edith MacBride-Dexter, secre- 1 tary of health, ruled today that, be- = | cause of prevalence of infantile par- Missing. |alyss in Virginia, 3000 National By the Associated Press. | Guardsmen from that State will not The country is assured a natignal | be permitted to enter Pennsylvania policy of powerful defensive Army air | for the first Army maneuvers this bases, but there are no prospects month. that any will be built immediately. ! Dr. MacBride-Dexter said the dis- President Roosevelt said yesterday ©ASe is spreading rapidly and that 50 that as a matter of policy he would | Per cent of the present cases have sign the measure of Representative developed since the first of the menth Wilcox, Democrat. of Florida, which| The Pennsylvania secretary of would authorize a chain of half a | Dealth said she told Virginia and Army dozen huge bases to guard the Na- | officials at a conference in Baltimore tion’s frontiers. | yesterday that she considered it But he quickly followed with an as- | DCCSSary for the welfare of Pennsyl- Pennsylv: | sertion that he would not recommend immediate construction. The pro- gram outlined in the bill for new bases would cost about $60,000,000, Wilcox has estimated. It also would authorize improving existing air stations, which would cost perhaps another $60,000,000. Backers of the legislation had been hopeful of getting public works money for some of the bases. The bill would direct the Army in building up its chain of bases to con- sider particularly Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, the Rocky Mountain area for a base to help transcontinental movements, the Atlantic Northeast, the Southeastern States and the| | Southeast _Atlantic and Caribbean | area adjoining the Panama Canal. U. S. HELD BACKWARD IN ELECTRIFICATION Administrator Cooke Appeals to Farmers by Radio to “Modernize.” By the Associated Press. Describing the United States as “woefully backward” in rural electri- fication, Morris L. Cooke, rural electri- fication administrator, urged Amer- ican farmers today to “modernize” their homesteads with electwicity. In a radio appeal, broadcast under auspices of the National Farm Bureau Federation, Cooke said that while it “has been a common practice of our | people to consider Orientals as back- ward, in Japan over 9 homes out of every 10 have electricity.” France plans to provide electricity for its entire rural population in five years, he added, while in Sweden over 40 per cent of the farms are elec- trified. Most rural lines can be constructed for about $1,000 a mile, he estimated, including all equipment. The Gov- ernment, which has appropriated $100,000,000 for rural electrification, will lend the entire cost of a sound by | project at 3 per cent interest, repay- A vania to keep the Virginia troops out. THIRD CARRIER ASKS " FOR ANNAPOLIS RUN Bus Company Petitions to Operate | Six Round Trips Daily to D. C. | By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, August 10.—A third | request for permission to provide transportation to Annapolis when ‘the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis electric railway ceases, was on- file today with the Public Service Commis- sion. The Peninsula Transit Corp. asked | permission to operate bus service be- tween Washington and Annapolis over | the Defense Highway, making six round trips a day. Hearing on the application will be held August 14. On the same day, the commission will hear the application of another bus line, the Red Star, to operate in the territory, and that of the new Baltimore & Annapolis Ry. to provide service. The old W, B. & A. will cease operation August 20. LINKED TO SHOOTING |Man Held in Taxi Hold-up Ac- cused by Another. One of two colored men arrested early today in connection with the hold-up of & taxicab driver was im- plicated in a shooting that occurred several hours earlier. John Martin, 21, and Thomas Clark, 26, both of 1251 Seventh street, were taken into custody shortly after K. O. Hollingsworth, 1820 Calvert street, charged they robbed him of $1 and some change. Martin was linked with the shoot- ing of James Hill, 27, colored, 1709 Seventh street, after a revolver was found on him. Hill told police Martin shot him in the hand in a Seventh street restaurant shortly before rll- night. ;