Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1935, Page 4

D. C. WORKS FUND THE EVENING Paralysis Scare Develops Camp Simms OF $422,343 URGED $4,695,694 for Maryland, $356,324 for Virginia Also Asked. Allotments of $422,349 for the Dis- trict of Columbia, $4,695,694 for Mary- land and $356,324 for Virginia were recommended to President Roosevelt today by his Advisory Committee on Allotments to finance works projects. They were included among total allot- ments of $84,495,263 for 3,025 projects in 33 States. The administration estimated the whole program would take 161,664 persons off the relief rolls for one year of useful employment. The aver- age outlay by the Federal Govern- ment, including material costs and overhead, will be approximately $523 per man year. Until the President finally ap- proves the program in whole or in part, the nature of the specific proj- ects will not be disclosed. The allottments board put off until next week, it was understood, approval of the District’s $101,000 tuberculosis survey. It was fully expected, how- ever, that the Health Department sur- vey would receive not only a favorable recommendation, but also presidential approval for the granting of funds. Meanwhile five other works projects for the District, for which the Fed- eral Government has allotted a total of $77,095, received the approval of Mr. Roosevelt. A considerable portion®of the sum will be used in improving the target range of the District National Guard. Commissioner George E. Allen, local works progress administrator, will ex- pend the funds as follows: Construction of target butts and miscellaneous repairs, wiring of garage and storehouse, $24,049. Completion of pistol target ranges, construction of sheds for storage of targets and altering open septic tank, $24.443. Construction of roads and surfac- ing garage floors at the National Guard target range, $23,645. Repair, renovation and painting armory of 260th Coast Artillery, Dis- trict National Guard, $3,864. Copying statistical data from local police precincts, $1,094. FIVE CHlLDR.EN REJOIN MOTHER ON FIFTH MOVE Separation of Parents Resujs in Numerous Shifts Since February. By the Associated Press. OLATHE, Kans, August 21.—Five children—three brothers and two sis- ters—were back with their mother last night, their fifth home since Februery. In that month, after the separation of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Call, at Car. terville, Mo., aJsper County proba- tion officers took charge. Insisting that Lawrence County, Mo., should care for them, Jasper County officers left the five recently on the Lawrence County court house lawn at Mount Vernon. Then two weeks ago an unclel, O. J. Call, near Olathe, provided a home for them. Their mother returned this wesk to the home of her parents at Lakeside, Mo., and asked for the children. WOMAN GETS POST Ella Gardner Takes Department of Agriculture Job. Appointment of Ella Gardner, rural sociologist in recreaticn, to the staff of the Extension Service, Department of Agriculture, was announced yester- day. She will assist co-operative ex- tension workers of the various States in planning and carrying out programs for training rural people in recreational leadership. Miss Gardner leaves the staff of the Children’s Bureau, United States De- partment of Labor, where she was engaged in similar work. U. S. MISSIONARIES SAFE Group Fleeing From Chinese Bandits Reach Haven. SIAN, Shensi Province, China, August 21 (#).—A group of American misionaries, men and women who evacuated Kansu Province because of bandit activities, arrived here today. The arrivals included Rev. and Mrs. Earl Peterson, Chicago and Tacoma, Wash.; Rev. and Mrs. Herman Swen- son, Jersey City; Anna Madsen, North Haven, Conn.; Jennie Wedicson, For- eston, Minn, and Edith Johnson, Rockford, Til. ’Chute Fails Reserve Pilot. PINE CITY, N. Y, August 21 (&). —Lieut. Robert Shearer, Army Reserve pilot, was killed near here last night when his parachute failed to open as he jumped from his crashing plane one and one-half miles west of Five Corners, northwest of Black River. Former Ace G-Man, Purvis,HasEye on Law as Business Silent on Plans Because of Wishes of Those in Negotiations. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 21.—Melvin E. Purvis, former ace Department of Justice agent, said today he “may go into the law business, but not very soon.” ‘The one-time head of the Chicago G-men maintained silence about his plans, but said it was “not because 1 want to, but because of the wishes of the people with whom I'm negotiat- ing.” He did acknowledge he was writing a series of crime - detection articles, some of which have already been com- pleted for publication in a magazine. “I'm doing some more writing now,” he declared, “about my experiences and I've got a few more ideas.” The former investigator denied re- ports his resignation had been prompt- ed by a belief his usefulness as a public enemy hunter had been ended because of widespread but unwanted publicity. “I resigned for personal reasons,” he asserted. “There was no other reason back of my resignation. I merely wanted t0 get out- and -that's what I did.” ’ Above: Simms in a short space of time. Ban on Troops by UT of the refusal of Maryland | health authorities to permit the District National Guard 1o train at Cascade, Md., this Summer may grow a District Guard camp which not only will adequately house the entire Guard, but also ac- commodate the militia troops of Maryland, Virginia and other nearby States for large-scale maneuvers. Faced last week with the alternative of canceling the annual field encamp- ment of the 121st Engineer Regiment and other Guard troops or of finding quarters for them on three days’ no- | tice, Col. John W. Oehmann, regi- mental commander, set about the es- tablishment of a permanent location at Camp Simms, D. C., which will for- ever make the District Guard inde- pendent of the Maryland and Penn- sylvania sites which have been used in the past. The 121st Regiment, the 29th Mili- | |tary Police Company and special service troops of the 29th Division, | | comprising the local Guard units, now |are in the middle of the first week of | their annual two weeks of fleld train- | ing at Camp Simms, and Col. Oehmann | and other local Guard officers are so well pleased with conditions there and with the possibilities for the future that they are undertaking a progtam of constructi on which will make the local camp a model of its kind. Marsh Land Improved. The marsh land, which formerly created an impassable barrier in the heart of Camp Simms, now is being filled and graded and soon will become a spacious, well-drained parade | ground. About two miles of new roads have been constructed and a $68,000 warehouse and garage bulilt. | Col. Oehmann is planning the con- struction of two new barracks build- ings to provide permanent quarters for a full battalion on the hilltop iabove the new parade ground. Addi- jtion of 13" new targets to the camp | rifle range will make possible the | holding there of national matches, Col. Oehmann explained. “We have not been taking advan- | | tage of our possibilities,” Col. Oehmann | said. “We have at Simms a site which has very great possibilities. I feel sure that we can establish a camp within the District of Columbia which will be a source of pride to the city and a permanent incentive to devel- opment of the local Guard.” Col. Oehmann yesterday had 60 ad- ditional emergency relief workers as- | signed to Camp Simms, in addition to 35 who have been there for several months. He obtained from the Dis- trict Government the discarded Bel- gian paving blocks which have been removed from Four-and-One-Half Congress (Continued From First Page.) between Senate and House after the two chambers had passed the legisla- tion in different form, would broaden T. V. A’s powers in pushing the Roose- velt power program in the Tennessee Valley. Utilities Bill Conferees Meet. Senate-House conferees met again today in another attempt to break the long deadlock on the utilities bill clause calling for mandatory aboli- tion of “unnecessary” utility holding companies. Authoritative sources said today that if that proved impossible Representative Rayburn, Democrat, of Texas, an administration “supporter, would seek to have the House instruct its conferees to agree to a compromise | put forward by Senator Barkley, Democrat, of Texas. This compromise, believed to have administration support, is understood to permit two holding companies to a group of operating companies. Despite long parleys, a Senate-House conference committee has been un- able to agree on a new liquor control plan. One argument is whether liquor sales in kegs and barrels shall be per- mitted, or whether bottles only shall be used, as now. Leaders are holding off final ratifi- cation of the new $250,000,000 tax measure to make it the big finale of the session. "It now provides new graduated corporation income taxes, higher capital stock levies, increased excess profits taxes, boosted surtax rates on individual incomes over $50,000, a new levy on dividends re- ceived by one corporation from an- other and increased taxes on estates and gifts. Silver Dragon at Funeral. One of the most elaborate funerals sion, which included silver dragon, extended and held up street time. Thousands to view the procession, | explained. | targets to the 21 already here will | An idea of the work done by District Guardsmen at Camp Below: Col. John W. Oehmann, in command of the camp, using fleld glasses to observe camp activities. —Star Staff Photos. e e S <« D. C. Guard Plans Permanent Training Site at Camp Simms Maryland Because of Paralysis Scare Results in Devel- opment of Local Grounds. street southwest in the improvement of that street. With these blocks he has had the main road into the camp paved, gutters constructed along the remaining new roads, a foundation laid for the firing stands on the new section of the rifie range and foun- dations laid for tents. Three miles of 12-inch tile have been laid to drain | the newly filled parade ground. Barred by Maryland. Four days before the District Guard regiment was scheduled to leave for Cascade, Md, Col. Oehmann was notifled that the Maryland health au- thorities had canceled the encamp- ment because of the prevalence of infantile paralysis. “Last Wednesday a group of Guard officers wen to Camp Simms to decide whether the regiment could camp there or whether it would be neces- sary to cancel or postpone the field training,” Col. Oehmann saild. “We found a jungle of brush and weeds on the only available camp site, but decided to go in there anyway. A trac- tor-drawn mower was started to work at 3:30 pm. Thursday and the regi- ment was in camp Saturday after- noon,” The regimental camp on Sunday was a model of orderliness, with no indication it had just been slashed out of a virtual jungle on the edge of a swamp. Officers and men of the regi- ment, who had been openly skeptical of the site, were won over before the camp was 48 hours old, it was said, and few criticisms have been heard since. In a large, heavily wooded area of | the camp Col. Oehmann found a previously unrecorded spring of large size. He is having the water analyzed and is planning to clear the woods, now almost impenetrable, dense underbrush to form a beautiful area. “We will push the construction of the new target range,” Col. Oehmann “The addition of 13 new permit us to hold national matches on a large scale. We have held small- bore matches here for several years, but want very much to bring the .30- caliber national matches here.” Today the local Guard troops at Camp Simms are observing the annua! Regimental day, which, in accordance with tradition, always is held on the first Wednesday of the encampment. Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, U. 8. A, retired, is to address the troops at a formal ceremonial this afternoon and new officers and enlisted men will be sworn into the service. The histories of the regiment and the other units will be read and a parade held to com- plete the ceremony. MAN-ROBBED BY TRIO WHEN TAKEN FOR RIDE Outer Clothing and $7 Stolen From Nicholas T. Simpson of Takoma Park, Md. ‘Taken for a ride by three men who forced him into a truck at Ninth and E street last night, Nicholas T. Simp- son, 104 Park avenue, Takoma Park, Md., was robbed of $7 and his outer clothes were stripped from him at Fifth and Madison streets, he re- ported to police. Finding him standing near the spot where he was put out of the machine, clad only in his underclothes, a resi- dent of the neighborhood took him to his home and loaned him another suit, Simpson declared. According to the report he made at the sixth precinct, Simpson was at Ninth and E street about 11:30 p.m. when three men approached him. One pressed a pistol against his side and announced, “We're going to take you for a ride” They forced him into the truck and drove to Fifth and KARPIS' WARNING of their | | tor of the bureau, but it was reported park and additional combat training | SPURS .S, AGENTS Threat to Kill Hoover Gives Impetus to Search. for Public Enemy No. 1. With a brazenly worded death threat to their chief as a fresh clue on which to work, special agents of the Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation today | were ‘conducting an intensified search | for Alvin Karpis, who succeeded the late John Dillinger as so-called pub- lic enemy No. 1. Department of Justice officials guarded details of a threat by Karpis | on the life of J. Edgar Hoover, direc- the gangster sent his warning several weeks ago in a letter mailed from an Ohio city. In characterizing the letter as au- thentic, officials declined to reveal whether identification of Karpis as the author was accomplished through | handwriting or fingerprints. It was recalled that George (“Machine Gun”) Kelly affixed his fingerprints to letters threatening death to all Fed- eral authorities responsible for the capture and trial of his pal, Harvey Bailey, for the Urschel kidnaping. Hoover Scoffs at Threat. Apparently the letter is in the custody of experts attached to the| bureau’s technical laboratory here.!| Hoover, it is said, does not regard the threat seriously, holding that Karpis would not send a warning in the event he intended to do him harm. Karpis, it is believed, wrote the letter in a spirt of revenge for the slaying by Hoover’s men last January of his close companions in crime, Fred Bar- ker, and the latter's mother, Kate (Ma) Barker. The Barkers were killed when they opened fire on G-mea who surrounded their hideout on Lake Weir, Fla, and demanded their sur- render. Trail Led to Ohio. ‘The trall of Karpis had led to Ohlo repeatedly in the past. He and several members of the Karpis-Barker gang— kidnapers of Edward G. Bremer, Min- nesota bank president—are said to have hidden in Ohio after the kidnap- | ing of Bremer. Last Fall he is re- ported to have been one of a group of {Convention Delegates ~ -y near Cleveland last January after the pair had shot their way out of a police trap at Atlantic City. whom Federal agents are searching. Willlam Mahan, indicted as a prin- cipal in the Weyerhaeuser kidnaping at Takoma, Wash., and Thomas H. Robinson, jr., wanted for the abduc- tion of Mrs. Berry Stoll of Louisville, Ky., also are at large. JOHN ). TOPPER DIES Former Frederick, Md., Man Suc- cumbs at Son’s Home Here. John J. Topper, 79, formerly of Prederick, Md., and a resident of Washington for 10 years, died yester- day at the home of his son, George F. Topper, 1112 Twenty-fifth street. Mr. Topper came to Washington after retirement from employment in a Frederick brush factory. Funeral services and burial will be in Prederick tomorrow. NEW ENVOY SWORN Hugh G. Grant of Birmingham, Ala., was sworn in today at the State Department as Minister to Albania. Grant's father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Grant; his wife and daughter Louise and a group of Ala- bama friends witnessed the ceremony. The Alabaman will leave for his post, accompanied by his wife and daughter, in September. At a Savings men who escaped from a Cleveland hotel when police arrived to investi- gate a fight. Karpis and another member of the gang, Harry Campbell, forced a Penn- sylvania motorist to drive them to Ofl;-erq is no substitute if your palate is sensitive. mportédby W.A Taylor&Co. 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Hart scoffed at reports the South would break up over dissatisfaction with the Roosevelt program. Charles E. Broughton, national committeeman from Wisconsin and one of the “old” Democrats helping arrange the convention, said “pub- lished statements in out-of-State news- papers of an anti-Roosevelt slate of delegates to the next natfonal con- vention are amusing to us here in | Wisconsin. This State will give him | a solid delegation in 1936.” ‘The President was reported by Woodward to have been keenly dis- appointed at his inability to follow out tentative plans to attend the con- vention, but he will speak to the dele- gates in a radio address from Wash- ington Saturday night. Woodward explained that the pri- mary business would be to instruct State organizations in methods df de- veloping their groups and holding memberships and interest in the ac- tivities. The convention will be one of organization work more than the | discussion of national topics, he | added. Woodward said that Gov. Earle of Pennsylvania had been asked by Pres- ident Roosevelt to take his place at the convention. Earle will be allotted the time originally scheduled for the Karpis is not the only kidnaper for | AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE District and Federal Employes Written in the Ohio Casualty Insurance Company, which is an old-line legal reserve stock company. This insurance conforms with the requirements of the motor vehicle financial responsibility laws. " LONG & CURRY Insurance Barr Bldg., 910 17th St. N.W. Phone: National 3613-14-15 President on Friday evening’s pro- gram. Budget (Continued From Pirst Page.) the money distributed, whereas in July of this year these salaries were as much as 134 per cent of the money given to relief clients. A year 2g0 each case worker handled 86 cases a year and today each case worker handles but 69, due to an increase in the case-work staff, Asks Discharge of 50. Lusk proposed that 50 members of the case work staff be immediately discharged and that the entire staff be ousted by next June 30. To sypport his claim that there is no depression here, Lusk submitted figures to show: That the value of residential construction in the first six months of this. year. amounted to $6,631,000, an increase of 311 per cent over the first six rdonths, of 1933; that the total dollar value of all construction in .the first six months of this year was, $20,254,000, an increase of 300 per-cent over the same period of 1933; that 15,802 new passenger automobiles were purchased here in the first half of this year, an increase of 111.8 per cent over the same period of 1933; that bank clear- ings for the six months of 1935 totaled $445,936,000, an increase of 44.2 per cent, and that in June, 1935, there were 103,453 Government employes, an increase of 58 per cent over the total in June, 1933. Lusk urged the Commissioners also to make a study of the rising cost of | pensions for police and firemen, de-I claring that the expense has risen | from $170,000 in 1921 to $1,010,000 for | this year. He argued no changes in | present pensions should be con-| templated. 339 More Pupils Cited. ‘Barse, arguing the need for a new wing on the Paul Junior High School, } reported that in the past semester the | school had an enrollment of 1,339, or 339 more pupils than its normal ca- pacity. He said the overflow had to « 2% WILLIAM A. MAIO, President of the Southeast Citizens’ Association, who today surprised the hearing on the 1937 District | budget by praising the efforts of the District Commissioners to ob- tain benefits for the Southeast sec- tion. The Southeast Business Men's Association has been very active lately in charging that Southeast has been entirely neg- lected. —Star Staff Photo. be taken care of at the old Bright- wood graded school, a building 55| years old. He explained the difficul- | tles of children going back and forth | between the two buildings in bad | weather. The addition, to include| 10 class rooms and a girls’ gymna- sium, is estimated to cost $175,000. Maio surprised all present by prais- ing the Commissioners for the im- provements for Southeast Washington they have accomplished or have ap- proved for the future. Southeast busi- ness men have been assailing the Com- missioners for their alleged refusal to sympathize with the Southeast. Maio was insistent, however, about | the need of replacing the Pennsylvania | Avenue Bridge, but recalled that the House this session struck out an item | of $15,000 for plans after it had been approved by the Commissioners, the | Budget Bureau and the Senate prior | to conference. The Southeast groups, through Maio, | also asked for widening of Independ- | ence avenue from Second street | southeast to Fourth street southwest; | a, swimming pool and recreation cen- | ter near Eleventh street and Pennsyl- vania avenue southeast, a waiting room and comfort station for Commo- dore Barney Circle and a variety of playground, highway, school and light- | ing improvements. . The Commissioners told Dr. Jordan they were in favor of replacing Chain Bridge with a utilitarian span at about the same level as the present | structure. Jordan and Representative Smith informed them they could not be expected to contribute to the cost, [ Jordan sald the same applied to Maryland. In addition to asking for reopening ~ “Now MUST MAP BUDGET! Roosevelt Orders Them to C Supply Estimates to Bureau Director. President Roosevelt today issued another executive order requiring six mcre independent agencies of the - Government to submit to the budget ;- director estimates covering future ade ministration expenses. instituted - the President’s policy of bringing these independent agencies Bureau, was issued by the President on August 5 and affected seven agen- cies. ‘The order today affects six, namely, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Federal Surplus Relief Adminis- tration, the Export-Imporf Bank of Washington, D. C.; the Second Export- Import Bank of Washington, D, C.: | the Reconstruction Finance Corp., and | the Electric Home and Farm Au- {| thority. The executive order of today, like | the original one, provides specifi- | cally that'mone of these agencies is | to incur, after September 15 next, any | obligations for administrative expenses | not approved by the director of the budget. President Roosevelt said there are seven or eight independent agencies which will be put under the juris- | diction of the director of the budget later on. He said that another ex- ecutive order will be issued in a. few weeks to cover them. of the. old second precinct, Driscoll urged the widening of G street be- tween Seventh and Ninth streets; New York avenue from Fifth to Seventh streets, Twelfth street from New York to Massachusetts avenues and Eleventh street from Massachusetts to Rhode Lsland avenues. J@E H "OUR PLUMBER’ If Your Dentist Hurts You Try DR: FIELD Plate Expert Doubie R s Suction I Guarantee a Perfect Tight Fit in Any Mouth 1 Givé Violet Ray Treatments for Pydrrhea Extraction 5] wnd 52 Also Gas Ext. Plates 31.50 Repaired 4Up DR. FIELD 406 7th St. N.W. 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