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- [coem v | The Sundiy Shwe SUNDAY MORNING, ,AUGUST 25, 0. ESTIMATES FOR 1987 BUDGET TOTAL SSA9T1 5 Increase of $12,764,736 Over Present Total Asked in Initial Program. DETAILS ARE WITHHELD BY MOST DEPARTMENTS School Total Put at $18,000,000. Police Force Increase Is Sought. Appropriations totaling $54,971,351, an increase of $12,764,736 over those granted for the present fiscal year, are being sought for 1937 by depart- ment heads of the District govern- ment, Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, Dis- trict budget officer, revealed yesterday. These estimates are destined for heavy cuts by Donovan and later by the Commissioners before they are submitted to the Budget Bureau as & proposed spending schedule for the next fiscal year. A veil of secrecy still was main- tained over the details of plans of the department heads, only a bare summary of requests being made pub- lic. Details of the proposals, the Com- missioners decreed, would be pub- lished later. Principal increases were sought for achools and welfare institutions, with an increase of $407,000 being sought | for expansion of the Police Depart-| ment. School Increase Asked. School officials have asked $18.- | 041,339 for next year, an increase of 86,579,289 over the sums granted for| the present fiscal year. A year ago| school officials proposed npvrnpnn-j tions for this year amounting to $14,- | 117,911, The total appropriated for | the preceding fiscal year was $10,- 480,000. Department heads a year ago pro- posed appropriations having a grand total of $51,699,000 and this rather staggering figure was slashed to $44,- | 039,356 by the Commisisoners and | when the supply act finally was passed | by Congress the total had been re- duced to $42,206,615. | ‘The Police Department is reported to be seeking appointment of 100 additional policemen, the employment | of 10 additional policewomen and ap- pointment of a woman’'s police cap- tain and the reopening of the old No. 2 police station. Enlargement of the police force was urged by the House Crime Committee in its report on crime conditions and law enforcement in the National Cap- ital and there have been repeated strong demands for re-establishment of the old second precinct station from civic groups. For public welfare, department heads propose appropriations totaling $10,443,050 for the mext fiscal year. ‘This would be an increase of $3,059,- | 848 over the $7,508202 granted for | the present fiscal year. Reports Cause Surprise. Since reports are to the effect that only $2,000,000 is requested by wel- fare officials for emergency relief next year, the same as for this year, this Jarge increase is somewhat surprising. | Just what increases are proposed is held confidential. It is understood large increases are asked for enlarge- ment of facilities of the penal insti-| tutions, which have been badly, crowded during the past fiscal year. | The Health Department proposes a | General expenses Repayment of P. W. A. loan.. Free Public Library._ Gasoline tax fund items. Sewers Collection and disposal of Playgrounds Electrical department. refuse._ Buildings and grounds. Purchase of land Metropolitan Police. . Courts and prisons. ... Public welfare. Militia Reclamation of Anacostia flats. National Capital parks____ National Capital Park and Planning National Zoological Park. Water service CONGRESS ENACTS 30 DISTRICT LAWS Three Social Security Meas- ures Head Long List of Legislation. BY J. A. O'LEARY. The first session of the Seventy- fourth Congress, up to last night, had placed more than 30 new District of Columbia laws on the statute books, headed by the three social security bills to provide old-age pensions, un- employment insurance and pensions | for the blind. Two other important enactments deal with street safety, one requiring motorists to show financial responsi- bility after they have been convicted | of serious offenses, and a negligent homicide law to speed up trial of driv- ers in fatal accident cases. Among the bills passed by the Sen- ate, but left for future action by the House, are the measures to tighten the | gambling laws, and to license and regulate real estate brokers and sales- men. Senate Action Delayed. The Senate postponed until Janu- | ary the House bill to require semi- annual mechanical inspection of motor vehicles, the House bill to make jury service by women compulsory instead of at their option, and the new plan for regulation of the small loan busi- ness here. The social security bills were among the last to go through, it having been necessary to wait until the national social security program was a law, so that the District measures could be drafted to conform to the Federal standards. ‘The old-age measure authorizes the Commissioners to grant pensions to needy persons who, are 85 or over. | Under the national bill the Federal Government will pay half of a $30-a-| month pension, but the District bill | leaves the Commissioners free to more than $15 as the city's share, | each case to be decided on its merits. The Federal Government also will | match .whatever pensions the city awards to needy blind persons, up to & maximum of $15, or a total of $30 a month. The only limit on the amount the District may fix as its shere is that in the case of a child living with parents, the pension shall not exceed $30 & month. | Jobless Changes Made. budget for next year totaling $605.250, an increase of $131,050. While details are lacking, it is believed that Dr.| George C. Ruhland, health officer, is | asking for funds to continue his pro- gram for expansion of the public | health nursing service and the public | school medical inspection. | Hope that the 1937 budget would not exceed the total of that for the | present fiscal year was voiced by Ed- win S. Hege, chairman of the Fiscal | Relations Committee of the Federation | of Citizens’ Associations, in a letter | to the Commissioners. Taxation Change Asked. Discussing taxation, which is being studied by a committee of District of- ficials, he suggested a move to cut the assessments on real estate to 50 per cent of full market value, while at the same time doubling the realty tax rate. This, he argued, would tend to pre- clude misleading deductions drawn from comparison of only the tax rates of verious cities. He opposed any increase in the tax ‘burden or adoption of any new forms of taxation, at least until there is & readjustment of the whole tax sys- tem, on & fair basis as between actual and proposed tax revenue sources, and after a thorough and expert study. He said his committee was opposed to diversion of gasoline tax revenues to general municipal purposes. The committee urged an increase in the Federal payment to the expenses of the National Capital. This, plus normal increase in tax revenues, he believed, would make unnecessary any boost in the realty tax rate. 2 ENTER GUILTY PLEAS ON GAMBLING CHARGE Joseph Wilson and Leo Cohen Each Pay $150 Fine Imposed in Police Court. Two alleged rnumbers operators ar- rested by the police vice squad pleaded guilty to permitting gaming before Judge Robert E. Mattingly in Police Court yesterday, and were sentenced to pay fines of $150 or serve 180 days in jail each. They paid the fines. Led by Sergt. George squad trailed Joseph Wilson, 804 Sixth Btreet southwest, to a point in the rear of the Barrister building on F street, between Sixth and Seventh streets. There, they claim, they saw Wilson turn a quantity of numbers slips over to Leo Cohen, 1223 Hol- brook street northeast. The arrest of the two men followed. ‘The defendants were at first charged with operating a lottery, but members of the squad agreed to the lesser charge when defendants announced they would plead guilty and pay their fines, eliminating s trial. [ & C. Deyoe, the P ‘The local unemployment insurance measure went through with most of the changes the Commissioners asked the Senate to make in the House bill. 1t levies a pay roll tax on all em- | ployers of one or more employes to | establish a fund from which to pay benefits of not to exceed $15 a week | to laid-off workers, for 16 weeks a | year. The pay roll tax will be 1 per | cent in 1936, 2 per cent in 1937 and 3| per cent thereafter, except that after | four years the tax rate may be raised to 4 per cent or lowered to 12 per cent, according to the degree to which each employer stabilizes employment. ‘The District government will make lump-sum contributions totaling $400,- 000 during the first three years, after which Congress will decide whether further contributions from the city are necessary to augment the pay roll tax. . During the session, Congress also passed a $40,548,000 District appro- priation act, for the maintenance of the municipal government during the current year, of which the Federal Government will pay the same lump sum as last year, namely, $5,700,000. All the rest will come from local taxa- tion and license fees. Senate Fails in Plan. The Senate, which always takes a more equitable view of the Federal Governmment’s obligation toward the National Capital, tried to fix Uncle Sam’s share of the appropriation bill at 2 higher figure, but the House again insisted on no increase. Under the direction of Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma, the Senate subcommittee on District appropria- tions approved a Federal payment for this year of $8,317,500. This amount was recommended by the Commis- sioners, being no more than the aver- from the 60-40 ratio a decade ago. In conference, however, the House insisted on going back to the present figure of $5,700,000. More than $600,000 of deficiency and supplemental items for the Dis- trict, including the urgently needed $45,000 for better health protection, later were made available in the sec- ond deficiency appropriation bill cut, which put salaries back on the basic level. $1,650,000 for Harbor. Of local interest in the omnibus and harbor bill, enacted last is the $1,650,000 for the long-delayed and improvement of the Washington Channel water front opposite Potomac Park. The House bill would hs (See D. C. BILLS, Page B i Contingent and miscellaneous expenses. Street and road improvement and rep: Public schools—maintenance and operation. Policemen and Firemen's relief fund WASHING 1937 District Estimates Submitted by Departments 1937. $2,194.698 321,617 1,000,000 729,670 2,593,280 294,100 1,500,749 1,580,360 410,630 1,191,580 12,041,339 4,296,000 1,704,000 4,027,045 1,060,000 2,482,498 605,250 - 937,545 - 10,443,050 52,820 180,000 1,127,320 3527790 260,000 2,205,010 Increase. $331,986 59,537 202,780 1,400,289 3,521,000 1,649.000 407,330 50,000 217,637 131,050 147,115 3,059,848 16,820 140,000 220,320 15,290 45,000 140,190 Commission.. -----$53,591,351 $12,844,736 RALPH JONES. WALTER H. ENGLISH. : THREE IDENTIFIED AS HOLD-UP MEN Victims of Robberies See Trio Captured After Duel With Police. Victims of several recent gas station hold-ups in this section paraded through police headquarters last night and pointed out three youths in a | line-up as the highwaymen. ‘The three are Ralph Jones, 23, and Walter Howell English, 22, of the 500 block of Sixth street, and Malcolm Scott McGhee, 26, of Baltimore. They were arrested yesterday along with twe other youths and a girl after Jones and a companion, said to have been English, engaged in a running gun fight with police for several miles while fleeing the vicinity of a robbery. ‘The others were Reginald Benja- min McGhee, 23, brother of the older ‘McGhee; Mary Agnes Hook, 22, also of Baltimore, and Woods Eastland Crudup, 22. The latter was freed aft- er questioning, the rest are held for investigation. " Gun Duel Flares, Jones and his *companion were speeding past the Benning viaduct about 5 am. yesterday when they were overhauled by a police car, in which Sergt. Bert Sheldon and Pvts. R. E. Glick and Robert L. Rison of the eleventh precinct were cruising. Ordered to halt, they charged ahead, and Rison opened fire. Then a gun blazed in the other car and the duel was on as both vehicles sped across the city. At Georgia and New Hampshire avenues the pursued car crashed into one parked there, and the two occu- pants fled. Policeman Baron Solo- man, tenth precinct, who had been drawn into the chase, found Jones in & vacant lot nearby. After he had been questioned at headquarters, De- tective Sergts. Leo Murray and Daniel H. Jones went to a house in the 1000 (See HOLD-UP; Page B-4.) COMPLAINANT FINED $10 Woman Pays After She Fails to Appear in Court. Her failure to appear in court to 8pPro- | prosecute & man for whom she had sworn out & warrant charging assault with a dangerous weapon resulted in the assessment of a $10 fine for con- TON, D. C, o000 10 ATTEND CAPITAL SESSION OF COLORED ELKS Athletes, Orators, Soldiers and Bathing Beauties Among Visitors. 135 BANDS WILL BE IN TUESDAY PARADE Joe Louis and Jesse Owens, Ring and Track Heroes, to Be Here. Oratory Feature. Colored men and women from every section of the Nation were assembling here today for the annual convention this week of Negro Elks, expecteéd to attract 50,000 visitors and billed as the biggest colored gathering in Wash- ington’s history. Athletes, orators, soldiers, bathing beauties, educators, singers, clergymen and musicians will be among the par- ticipants. Officials of the host lodges promised the following among the convention’s high lights: A “monster” parade Tuesday, with 135 bands, crack colored military units—cavalry and infantry, street singing and dancing, floats and miles of marching units in every variety of spectacular raiment. The appearance on the same day of two of the race’s outstanding ath- letic heroes—Joe Louis, the heav: | weight contender, and Jesse Owens, | Ohio State University track star. An exhibition, also on Tuesday, by & troop of colored horsemen from the | 10th United States Cavairy, stationed | in the Southwest. Oratorical Contest. An oratorical contest tomorrow night, the winner to receive a $1,000 | cash scholarship to any college which he may choose to attend. A Grand Lodge ball at the colored | Masonic Temple Wednesday night, with a grand prize, a new automobile, | to be awarded. The thirty-sixth annual convention of this fraternal order, called the Im- proved Benevolent and Protective Order, Elks of the World, begins this afternoon with a bathing beauty con- test at Carr's Beach, scheduled for 1 pm. At 3 pm. delegates from New York City Elk lodges will conduct me- morial services at the Lincoln Ceme- tery grave of Henry Lincoln Johnson, former Republican national commit- teeman from Georgia and a recognized leader of his race. Music is'to be one of the principal c-nvention features, and a band con- cert has been scheduled for 6 o'clock this evening at Tenth and U streets. Religlously-inclined delegates were expected to attend services tonight at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, the Rev. W. George Avant, Elks’ grand chaplain, preaching, while those pleas- ure bent will be entertained aboard the steamer Southport on & moon- | light river excursion. Cabaret entertainment will be pro- vided each night at the Lincoln Thea- ter or Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, beginning this midnight and starting on following evenings at 10 pm. Harlem entertainers have been | brought down for the occasion. Educational Program. An educational program, continuing the work of a special conference which began Thursday, planned for 9 am. tomorrow under leadership of Dr. Charles Wesley of the Howard University history de- | partment and Judge William C. Hueston, Elks’ commissioner of edu- cation and former assistant Post Office Department solicitor. This will be followed by a band concert on the Tenth and U street site at 10:30 a.m. Col. Charles Young, highest rank- ing Negro officer in the Regular Army, will lead a delegation to Arling- ton Cemetery at 11 a.m. tomorrow to plice wreaths on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and visit the graves of colored World War fighters. A similar pilgrimage is to visit the home of PFrederick Douglas, a slave who became the race’s most esteemed orator. At a public session to be held in the Metropolitan Baptist Church at 1 pm. tomorrow, the delegates will be welcomed by Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen and by high officials of the host lodges. A senior mothers’ coun- cil conference will convene at 5 p.m. The oratorical contest, scheduled to begin at 8 pm. in the Metropolitan Baptist Church, is the finals of hun- dreds of regional contests held among high school students everywhere as part of the Elks’ education depart- ment’s plan to develop a wider race knowledge of the Federal Constitu- tion and the rights it guaran‘zes Ne- groes. Each contestant must take as his subject some phase o’ the Con- stitution. The winner will be given $1,000 toward his education at a uni- versity of his own choosing. Eight (See ELKS, Page B-4.) Here From Jamboree or no jamboree, 3,000 Boy Scouts from all over the world and distant counties of the United States came to Washington last week ang thousands more are on the way. The Chinese Scouts have come and gone, the Cubans are here, the Ha- walians are expected and the Dutch are on their way. “We look for more of them every “They like the trip. Most of the Scouts had reservations, and you has been | WORK' INSURANGE DIRECTOR FOR D. G 10 BE SELECTED Commissioners Also to Plan 0id-Age and Blind Pen- sions Program. ADMINISTRATION SOON TO GET UNDER WAY First Steps to Place Social Se- curity in Effect’ Requires Many Preliminaries. As a first step to place the social security program into effect in the District the Commissioners this week will start search for a “highly quali- fled” director for unemployment in- surance and lay plans for adminstra- tion of old-age and blind pensions. Assessments against employers will not start until January 1, but before then the District must prepare a “plan” for the administration, prepare staff organization and lay out policies and regulations, all of which mus® meet approval of the Federal board. Old-age and needy blind pensions administration is to start as soon as administration can be perfected and | funds are available. The President | signed the old-age pension bill for the | District yesterday afternoon, | After surveying the problems in- volved in the unemployment insur-| ance, the Commissioners were some- | what staggered by the need for quick | action. It appears obvious to them a new District bureau must be estab- lished with a director not only well versed in unemployment insurance, but also having ability to organize |and direct a large statistical staff | handling reports on personnel, salar- ies, investigators and legal work. Mountainous Task Expected. “This is going to be a mountainous | task and whoever is appointed prob- | ably will be gray-haired by the end | of the year,” said one District offi-{ | cial. “This will be one of the most | important divisions of the District, | since it will affect every phase of business and employment in the Dis- trict. The director will be on a par in salary with the other department heads. Unless we can find & highly | qualified man there will be plenty of | difficulties.” The public assistant division, for- merly known as the emergency relief division, may be designated to ad- minister the old-age and needy blind pensions programs. These phases of social security take effect upon enact- ment, but it Will be necessary to | establish & plan and regulations, the Commissioners have been advised by Corporation Counsel Prettyman. As to the unemployment insurance program, Prettyman states: “The Commissioners have to ap- point two members of a board, one of whom must represent employers and the other employes. (The Dis- trict Commissioners will be the other three members of the board.) “This board must then appoint a director, who in turn must designate, | appoint and organize a staff. Purther- | more, the board must formulate a plan which must be submitted to the national board and receive its ap- proval before the Federal Government | will undertake to pay the administra- tive costs and before employes are entitled to benefits. Much To Be Done. “The employers’ contributions will | begin as of Jaruary 1. Between now and then some rather definite regula- tions, some method of collecting and | otherwise handling these moneys, and | some method of keeping the necessary | ! records of employes ought to be de- vised. Inasmuch as a short time is available f this set-up is to be ready by January 1, the various appaint-| ments and preliminary studies ought to receive early attention. | “Because I happen to be familiar | with the various provisions of the statute and because I have been so tremendously impressed with the| enormous administrative difficulties | which will have to be met if the act is to be a success, I further venture to suggest that the director ought to be first of all an efcient and experi- enced administrator. “I sincerely believe that unless an efficient, practical, business executive have charge of the operation of this act, the ensuing confusion will abso- lutely destroy the effectiveness of the statute.” | Nurse to Give Talk. DAMASCUS, Md., August 24 (Spe- cial).—“Diphtheria” will be discussed by Miss Martha M. Keys, public health nurse, at Damascus Elementary School Monday between 2 pm. and 4 p.m. This is the fourth of a series of talks on communicable diseases to be given here. Sights Bring 3,000 Boy Scouts All Over World returning to the wide open spaces on s train leaving at 7:45 o'clock tonight. ‘The 35 Filipinos wili be entertained by Resident Commissioner Francisco Delarto of the Philippines and the presidents of the 10 Philippine socie- ties in the District tonight at 1105 Sixteenth street. 5 These Scouts and the Chinese and James Mody, the Bombay delegate, were in the middle of the Pacific when President Roosevelt decided to call off the jamboree and were astonished with the news when they docked at San Francisco. Including “Be Prepared” represent- atives from France and England, Armstrong rattled off these places as the home points of the visiting Scouts, most of whom are staying st hotels instead of sleeping under, the hun- dreds of tents spread for them along the banks of the Potomac: 1935. Sports—Pages 7 to 11 * Baby’s Anger Becomes News When He Bites Dog on Nose STARTS THIS WEEK Roy Linn, 18 months old, gave a | classic demonstration yesterday of what is news. 1 John Bogart, a city editor of Charles | A. Dana’s old New York Sun, once gave this definition of news: “When | a dog bites a man, that's not news, : but if & man bites a dog, that is| news.” | Quite unaware that he was creating | the chief commodity of daily papers, young Mr. Linn bit his pet dog, Pat- sy, on the nose. It happened like this: Roy was playing with his toys cn the lawn of the Linn home at 5010 | ROY AND PATSY. Klingle road. Up scampered Patsy | and snatched Roy's little wooden truck. | Turning as pink 2s his play suit | with rage, Roy grabbed Patsy and | clamped his teeth on her nose. Patsy | howled. | “I was in the basement” Roy’s mother said, “when I heard the dog yip-yapping. I ran to the lawn and| separated them—Roy was still holding on with his teeth. “Patsy is a fox terrier, but Roy.” said Mrs. Linn, “must have bulldog in him.” Patsy’s hurt wWas only temporary and she was licking her two-headed master joyously half an hour after the biting episode, There were no hard feelings. ARPORT MEASURE 0. HEALTHUNT FAILSIN EUNGRESS% Argument Over Merits of Gravelly Point Blocks Bill in Conference. BY J. S. EDGERTON. Despite universal recognition of the dangerous condition of Washington | Airport, which has led to repeated Department of Commerce threats to close the fleld to air transport opera- | tions, Congress for the ninth consecu- tive year failed to enact local airport legislation when Senate and House cenferees, hopelessly deadlocked, were | unable to report to their respective | bodies last night. There is little | chance of action this week. | The disagreement which prevemedI even a skeleton form of the original | House bill coming to final action, it was announced, came as a result of renewal in conference of the bitter | argument which has raged for nearly | a decade over the merits of the| Gravelly Point airport site. The conference broke down, it was | admitted by Representative Vincent | L. Palmisano of Maryland, chairman of the House conferees, because of the insistence of Representative Jack Nichols of Oklahoma, cne of the three House conferees, that the bill should include the House provision naming members of the commission which was to select a local airport site, Refuse to Yield. | “The Senate conferees refused to | yield to Nichols on this point,” Palmi- sano said last night, “because of a | feeling on their part that the list | proposed in the House bill was stacked against Gravelly Point.” | The Senate conferses, it was said, | made several concessions to the House | in the hope of getting action on an airport bill. They withdrew a Senate amendment restricting the proposed airport site to the District of Co- lumbia and yielded on several other | points, it was indicated. | It is understood that Senator King of Utah, chairman of the Senate conferees led the fight against the Nichols provision. Senator King on several occasions has expressed opinions favorable to Gravelly Point. | ‘The airport subcommittee of the House District Committee, chiefly on the insistence of Nichols, killed the Smith Gravelly Point airport bill last | Winter and, after prolonged hearings, | reported a bill providing for appoint- | ment of a commission of seven mem- | bers to select an airport site and a permanent commission of three mem- | bers to construct and operate an air- port on the chosen site. The bill| authorized an ~appropriation of $2,500,000 to finance construction of | the project. | Charges were made when the bill reached the full District Committee | that the seven-member commission | was stacked against Gravelly Point | and, on the insistence of Chairman Norton of New Jersey, two “pro- Gravelly Point” members were added. Senate Kills Bill. ‘The Senate killed the whole House bill and passed a substitute by Sen- ator Tydings of Maryland authorizing | the President to appoint a comm!sdon} to select a site and report their choice secretly to the President and Con- gress. The failure of the conferees to come to-an agreement is expected to leave ‘Washington without even the begin- ning of a permanent airport for at least another year. In the meantime, the Department of Commerce is watching the situa- tion at Washington Airport critically, prepared to wipe Washington off the Nation’s air transport map at the first indication that the local airport has become a public menace too great to be countenanced any longer. Officials of the Bureau of Air Commerce have said that the local airport is contin- uing in operation “on sufferance.” At the insistence of Secretawy of .Commerce Roper the airport has sta- tioned guards at the Military road crossing to supplement the existing sirens and traffic lights and to insure that automobile traffic is kept out of the path of landing and departing aircraft. Roper stated that unless this picket control Was maintained the airport would be closed to airline operations, but indicated that in his | was disclosed that « opinién even this arrangement Was & temporary expedient at best. INCIVIL SERVICE Commission Says New Workers Must Be Chosen From List. Hopes of some members of Con- gress that they might get a bit of patronage out ¢ expansion of the staff ~f the District Health Depart- ment have been dampened by & de- cision of the Civil Service Commission that new employes must be drawn f-om the commission’s eligible lists. This applies specifically to the new tuberculosis director, who will be paid $5,600 a year, and to the director, three assistant directors and 10 field nurses to be added to the Public Health Nursing Service. Dr. George O. Ruhland was in- formed yesterday of the decision of the commission. At the same time it dorsements of persons for the job of the tuberculosis director and other new workers in the department have been received. Many of these requests have come in since Congress approved a de- ficiency eppropriation for the depart- ment. Dr. Ruhland also is receiving recommendations for the appointment of a new assistant health officer, to fill the vacancy created by the resignation some months ago of Dr. Edward J. Schwartz. The job will pay $5,600. This appointee also must be drawn fromy the civil service eligibility lists if a properly qualified candidate can be found. Dr. Ruhland is seeking a physician well trained in medical work who also hes experience in public health ad- ministration. SEVEN ARRESTED IN LIQUOR RAIDS Five-Colored Men and Two Wom- en Taken and Eight Gallons of Liquor Seized. Fifth precinct police raided six | houses in Southeast Washington yes- terday, arrested seven colored persons, | five men and two women, and seized | about eight gallons of untaxed liquor. The raids were part of a carefully- | planned drive against bootlegging in the Southeast section. They were di- rected by Capt. Joseph C. Morgan, Sergt. G. R. Wallrodt and Pvts. H. L. Pearson and C. R. Burr. Capt. Mor- gan said other seizures and arrests would have been made, but that sus- pects “got wise” and fled before ihe raiders called. Other raids may be made later, he said. Charged with possession of untaxed liquor and held under bond to appear in Police Court Monday were Freder- | ick J. Dorsey, 27, 300 block of I street; ‘William Daley, 31, 600 block of I street: | Elllsworth Fenwick, 31, 900 block of Fourth street; William S. Johnson, 50, 1400 block of C street; Elizabeth John- son, 54, Gessford court; Nannie How- ard, 39, and Edgar Elsey, 43, both of the 1100 block of Fifth street. All these addresses were in the Southeast sec- tion, Elsey and the Howard woman also were charged with keeping un- taxed liquor for sale. SIX-STATE OIL PACT SENT TO PRESIDENT Bills of Connally and Cole Are Scrapped in Last-Minute Compromise. By the Associated Press. The Senate joined the House yes- terday in approving a six-State com- pact to conserve oil and gas by pre- venting physical waste. This sent the measure to the White House. Ratification of this agreement was a compromise, tacitly approved by President Roosevelt, between factions which sought broader legislation to aid the petroleum industry. Bills by both Senator Connally, Democrat, Texas, and Representative Cole, Democrat, Maryland, were scrapped at the last minute because of the impasse and the Chief Execu- tive's wishes, PAGE B—1 LOAN SHARK DRIVE UNDER AGT OF 1913 Small Companies Without: Licenses Are Warned by Prettyman, {1 PER CENT PER MONTH LEGAL INTEREST LIMIT | That Charge on Total Amount Is Meant to Cover All Fees and Other Charges. Concerted efforts to drive small loan companies out of the District, unless they comply with the strict rules of “flood” of in-| | the loan shark act of 1913, will be | started this week, Corporation Coun- | sel E. Barrett Prettyman announced | yesterday. | The drive has been withheld in the hope Congress would enact the pro- posed new small loans act to correct | deficiencies of the old law. This leg- | islation has been killed for the present, | however, | Prettyman previously had announced he was withholding a drive against companies now operating without a license only because he had hope of adoption of the new law and because of the need of families of small in- come to occasional recourse to small loans. Assistant Corporation Counsel Ed- ward Curran was assigned yesterday to take charge of prosecutions under the 1913 act. Prettyman plans rigid enforcement. Already he has con- ferred with Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown on police aid in making cases. May Ask Special Detail. In a day or so, Prettyman will ask either that a number of police officers be designated as a special squad to ferret out illegal loan operators or to have all members of the police force directed to be on the alert for them. Several small loan companies al- ready have closed up, Prettyman has been informed. The 1913 act prescribes that com- panies making small loans must obe tain a license from the District, cost ing $500 annually, and they are re- stricted to a charge of 1 per cent per month on the actual amount of the loan. This limit is designed to in- clude all manner of fees, charges and demands for service. One of the principal weaknesses cf this law, officials have found, is that “procurers” of loans have operated without licenses while acting “theory” they are not connectm the loan companies. Also, there has been the claim of small loan operators they cannot afford to operate on as little as 1 per cent a month, inciuding all charges. New Proposal Drafted. To meet this situation Prettyman drafted months ago a new small loan act limiting charges to 2 per cent a month on the unpaid balance of the outstanding loans and setting up definite rules for all manner of charges. He intended to legalize the services of the loan “procurers” so as to bring them under regulation. Someweeks ago, Representative Vir- ginia E. Jenckes of Indiana attacked Prettyman for not attempting to en- force the old statute. His reply was he was withholding a vigorous drive only to await action on the pending new bill. Prettyman believes hardship on those needing loans will result from rigid enforcement of the old law, but finds he cannot do anything else now. Opposition to the Prettyman legis- lation came from the Russell Sage Foundation and others, who cham- | pioned a law giving loan companies | the right to charge 3.5 per cent per | month interest. VlOLA%OWF\‘S OF Ha.TH REGULATION PAY FINES Two Restaurant Proprietors Plead Guilty and Give Up $10 Each in Police Céurt. Two restaurant proprietors who were among 23 persons against whom warrants were issued last week in a drive by the Heaith Department against unsanitary conditions in eat- ing places entered pleas of gulity and paid fines of $10 each before Judge ‘Iiaac R. Hitt in Police Court yester- ay. The men, both of whom were charged with violations of the health regulations, were James Nickas, 1618 Fourteenth street. and Cornelius Ahen, 1616 Q street. In previcus arrests in the present drive, defendants had been permitted to forfeit like amounts, but it is the desire of authorities to get | convictions, hence they are willing to recommend reasonable fines where violators are willing to plead guilty. WOMAN LEFT TOA DIE Found Bound and Thrown Into Ditch by Motorist. SHERIDAN, Wyo., August 24 () — Wrapped In gunnysacks by a hit-and- run driver and tossed into a gully, Mrs. J. E. Sharkey, 63, was rescued today by farm children who heard her feeble cries for help. Mrs. Sharkey, wife of a home- steader, suffered a crushed leg and internal injuries. She said she was struck by a motor car last night and found herself bound in the sacks when she regained consciousness. Physicians at the county hospital said she probably would recover. GETS JAIL SENTENCE Arthur E. Spring, 1133 Twelfth street, was sentenced yesterday by Judge’ Gus A. Schuldt in the jury branch of Police Court to serve 60 days in jail on a charge of driving while drunk, and to pay a fine of $50 or serve 30 days additional for leaving after colliding. In the same court William Johnson, colored, was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 or serve 30 days for leaving after colliding. In both cases sentences fol- lowed convictions by juries earller in the week.