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Washington News A.F. . E PREPARES 10 DRAFT GOALS FOR NEXT SESSION Committee Program to Ask Pay, Promotion and Merit Planks. GREEN TO SPEAK TODAY IN PLEA FOR HARMONY Yaden and Donovan Engage in Colloquy Over Former's Mem- bership in N. F. F. E. BY J. A. FOX, Staft Correspondent of The Star. CINCINNATI, September 11.—The American Federation of Government Employes today prepared to begin drafting the program for aid of Fed- eral workers which will be pressed at the next session of Congress. The Legislative Committee, which s writing the platform on which the federation will stand, was ready to lay its proposals before the delegates early in the session. Salient features were expected to include the following principles: In- crease in basic pay rates; automatic promotions, such as now prevail in the postal service, throughout the executive establishment; extension of classification to the fleld to insure equal pay for equal work, and pro- tection and extension of the merit system. A large volume of other recom- mendations for improving employment conditions in the Government also was to be laid before the convention by the committee. Green to Address Group. Meanwhile, as the organization con- tinued to work, attention was centered on the forthcoming appearance of William Green, president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, with which the A. F. G. E. is affiliated. Green was scheduled for an address late in ihe afternoon. The A. F. of L. head had not expected to be present, but word was received yesterday that he would stop by Cincinnati on his way to Akron. It was thought likely that, in view of the factional troubles in the feder- ation, Green would make a plea for | unity. His address comes on the eve of the election, which finds E. Claude Babcock, the president, opposed for re- election by one group of the organiza- tion, whiie Babcock and his supporters | are working to defeat Miss Esther Penn, the secretary. Opposition also has sprung up in some quarters to other officers. Colloquy Enlivens Session. As the convention started to work on resolutions yesterday afternoon the session was enlivened by a colloquy be- tween John Donovan, president of N. R. A. Lodge, and James G. Yaden, chief of the examining division of the Civil Service Commission and a dele- gate from Civil Service Lodge. occurred after Donovan had said he had been informed Yaden also was & member of the rival National Federa- tion of Federal Employes and asked if this was correct. President Babcock refused to let | Donovan proceed until Yaden could be recalled from a committee room, and as the men faced each other on the floor Donovan repeated the question. “That’s absolutely correct,” Yaden shot back. “Whose business is it?"” “The business of the American Pederation of Labor,” Donovan re- torted. Yaden turned away and the con- vention proceeded to consideration of the business at hand, a resolution from the Labor Department Lodge, which favored appointment of joint committees by the A. F. G. E. and N. F. F. E. to work for matters of identical interest. The resolution was defeated. Afterward George Googe, Southern representative of the A. F. of L., who 1s attending the convention, said such Joint membership was no concern of the federation, but rather of the con- stituent unit involved. Vice President Plan Beaten. ‘The convention also defeated a res- olution which would have provided for election of vice presidents by their district organizations, rather than by the federation as e whole, as is done now. In the middle of the afternoon the convention adopted a resolution of regret on the death of Senator Long, then stood in silent tribute. “I never knew of a vote by Senator Long that was detrimental to the common people,” President Babcock said. ‘The federation held its annual ban- quet last night at the Netherlands- Plaza Hotel. — FORMER BARONESS “ WEDS FIFTH TIME| Recently Divorced Wife of Peter A. Drury, Jr., Is Married to Edward N. Goldey. "The fifth marriage of the former Baroness Anne Jean von Hagen, re- cently divorced wife of Peter A. Drury, §r., was announced in New York yes- terday by her brother, William Joseph Tobin, wealthy manufacturer. ‘The bridegroom is Edward N. Goldey. The wedding took place in her former home at Haverstraw, N. Y., on August 17. Mrs. Goldey won a divorce from the Drury scion after a whirlwind courtship and marriage in 1928. Her first husband, whose title has ddentified her, was the Baron Fried- rich-Wilhelm von Hagen, a German. CLASS PLEDGES FUND A pledge to raise $500 for the Good- will Industries, Inc., was given last ‘Talma Vernon Methodist Church. d will be used to pay for repair machinery recently in- at the Goodwill headquarters, #::mm Vernon place. This | Witnessed NEAR Y, ASLEEP Mary A. Herbert, 19, Ends Life in 65-Foot Bridge Leap. Despondent over ill health, Miss Mary Alice Herbert, 19, daughter of Thomas G. Herbert, general superin- tendent of the Smoot Sand and Gravel Corp., yesterday jumped 65 feet from | the Sixteenth Street Bridge over the | Piney Branch Parkway, and narrowly | missed failing on a 10-year-old boy, who had been asleep, and his dog. The girl died in Walter Reed Hos- pital a short time later. a card she carried in her pocket, evidently prepared for the purpose. On the card she had written: “I am Mary Alice Herbert*of 1519 Webster Street.” Girl Tll, Mother Says. Her mother, arriving at the hospital shortly after the girl died, said she had been in ill health and despondent for several days. David Russell Lehman, 3708 Ninth street, was sleeping on a tool box about 15 feet from where the girl's body struck in a dirt roadway. He said he had gone for a walk in the Piney Branch woods and had lain down on the box to take a nap when he be- came tired. “I guess I was still asleep when I heard a scream,” he said. “Then I Shep (the dog) and he was biting my arm. The first thing I saw was the girl hitting the ground. I tied Shep’s rope around my waist before I went | to sleep and T guess he just pulled me off the box before I woke up.” Describes Girl's Leap. Young Lehman, still clutching a cotton rope at the end of which Shep followed obediently, stayed on the reconstruct the tragedy. Funeral services for Miss Herbert are to be held at the home tomorrow | afternoon. Interment will be in Con- | gressional Cemetery. The girl, who | was graduated from Central High School last June, is survived by her parents and a brother, Thomas, jr. | Dr. A. Magruder MacDonald, cor- oner, issued a certificate of suicide. —_— Licensed to Marry. ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va., | September 11 (Special).—A marriage license was issued here yesterday to Hubert H. Peterson, 2024 N street, ‘Washington, and Ruth Clotile Dinan, 414 Key Boulevard, Clarendon, Va. The couple proclaimed their inten- tion to be married September 25. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. . ‘TODAY. Meeting, Anacostia Lions Club, Esther Memorial Hall, 6:30 p.m. Dinner, National Sojourners’ Club, La Fayette Hotel, 6 p.m. Meeting, Washington Philatelic So- ciety, Carlton Hotel, 8 p.m, Meeting, Chi Sigma Sorority, May- flower Hotel, 8 p.m. Dinner, Board of Trustees, Colum- bus University, Mayflower Hotel, 6 pm. Bingo party, Ladies of Charity, Nativity Church, 6000 Georgia avenue, 8:30 p.m. TOMORROW. Meeting, Round Table Club, Univer- sity Club, 12:30 p.m. . Luncheon, Kiwanis Club, Mayflower Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Cosmopolitan Club, Carl- ton Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Washington Trade Ex- ecutives’ Association, Carlton Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Electric Power Co. suditorfum, Tenth and E streets, 8 p.m. al Meeting, Ladies’ Auxiliary, Lamb- skin Club, Masonic Temple, Eighth and F streets northeast, 8 p.m. Meeting, Chi Sigma Sorority, May- flower Hotel, 8 p.m. Supper, Alliance Club, Hamilton Hotel, 6:30 pm. Dinner and meeting, Washington Automotive Trade Association, Hamil- ‘nnml.lnn ’ GRLSBODY FALS | Miss Herbert was first identified by | was down on the ground on top of | scene only long enough to help officers ! @he Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, Fatal Leap | Upper: David Russell Lehman and his dog Shep. Lower: Miss Mary Alice Herbert. | —Star Staff and Edmonston Photos. .. LIQUOR FIBHT WL MOVE HEHER {A. B. C. Board to Take Dis- pute to City Heads—Mo- nopoly Feared. ‘ A determined fight between Wash~ ington retailers and wholesalers over | proposed rules to control importation | of liquor into the District will be car- | ried to the Commissioners by the Al- | coholic Beverage Control Board in a few days. The board has drafted a proposed rule to require retailers to buy thelr supplies from wholesalers licensed by the District, except in cases in which the retailers can show proof they can not get desired brands from whole- sale firms licensed here. Retailers now are permitted to buy through solicitors for wholesalers trom other jurisdictions as well as from District wholesalers. The debate turns on an amendment to the law giving the Commissioners discretion- ary powers in fixing rules. Charges that the proposed new rule would make possible a monopoly and place retailers under the control of manufacturers and wholesalers were voiced yesterday by retailers at a hearing before the A. B. C. Board. Spokesmen for wholesalers protested not many of their group could con- tinue to stand competition offered by out-of-town wholesalers. They ex- plained that District wholesalers must pay annual license fees of $1,500, whereas out-of-town wholesalers can do business here by merely paying a $100 fee for a solicitor. Milford Schwartz, counsel to the ‘Wholesale Liquor Distributors’ Asso- ciation, said: stretch of imagination a monopoly did result, such a situation could vegy easily be corrected by the A. B. C. Board.” Emanuel Davis of the District of Co- lumbia Exolusive Retail Liquor Deal- ers’ Association and Albert W. Jacob- son, attorney for the National Bev- erage Stores, led a fight against adop- tion of the -so-called “closed door” policy. George W. Offutt, chairman of the A. B. C. Board, sald a digest of all arguments would be submitted soon to the Commissioners, without recom- mendation. SORORITY PLANS MADE Chi Sigma Meetings to Begin Tomorrow Morning. Miss Mary Lou Colliflower, president of Alpha Province, Chi Sigma Sorority, and the province officers, Lois Mertz, Peggy Smith and Catherine Pfluger, will conduct the meetings of the sor- ority at the annual four-day confer- ence at the Mayflower Hotel beginning | treatment of sufferers, the Commis- | Federal Life Insurance Co. Case “If by the wildest | NEW ELENN DALE HISPTAL 1S HELD IADEDUATEALONE Upshur Street Tuberculosis Base Urged to Continue in Peahody Report. TWO BEDS PER DEATH IS HELD PROPER RATIO Facilities for 220 Patients Are Held Valuable Adjunct for New Sanatorium. Operation of the Tuberculosis Hos- pital, at Fourteenth and Upshur streets, will be required even after completion of the new adult tubercu- losis hospital at Glenn Dale, Md., if the District is to maintain proper sioners were advised today by Dr. J. Winthrop Peabody, general superin- tendent of tuberculosis hospitals. He presented figures to show the present tuberculosis hospital, hadly overcrowded, cares for 220 patients and that 150 others are under treat- ment at Gallinger Municipal Hospital. This makes a total of 370, whereas the bed capacity of the new adult sanato- rium will be but 400. Conversion Anticipated. It had been generally presumed that the old tuberculosis hospital would be converted to other uses after comple- tion of the new building at Glenn Dale, scheduled for September 1 next year. The plan has been also to re- move tuberculosis patients from Gal- | linger. To impress the Commissioners with the need of continuing the hospital in service, Dr. Peabody, in his annual report, stated: “Statistics proposed by public health authorities, in the past, have shown that a community should have one bed for each death, which would mean that the District should have no less than 600 beds. Two-bed Goal Urged. “Dr. Henry Chadwick, State com- missioner of health, Massachusetts, in a papgr presented before the National Tuberculosis Association in Toronto in 1933, said the desirable goal must be revised .to two beds per death. This, he claimed, has been made necessary by more effective case finding meth- ods, by education of the people to the fact that sanatorium care is more ef- fective and also because modern methods of treatment by collapse therapy require the facilities of a hos- pital or sanatorium. “The above statement should make us realize that the new adult sana- torium, caring for only 400 patients, will by no means care for all those citizens of Washington who may be in desperate need of hospitalization, 80, very serious consideration should be given to the thought as to whether the present adult hospital should be abandoned upon opening the new in- stitution. Only by having a sufficient number of beds available to admit patients as fast as application for admittance is made can we properly and effectively carry on a tubercu- losis control campaign.” HEARING REQUESTED | ON RECEIVERSHIP, First Under Terms of Re- vised Act Here. .A petition for a hearing to deter- mine if the District superintendent of insurance should be designated as re- receiver for the Federal Life Insurance Co. of this city was filed today in Dis- trict Supreme Court for Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman by his assistant, Elwood Seal. This is the first case taken to court under the terms of the revised life insurance act for the District. Seal said it was the beginning of a move to compel all insurance companies op- erating here to comply specifically with the terms of the new law. The action was initiated by John A. Marshall, superintendent of insurance, who told the court in the petition the company has assets of $23,267.67, or $2,340.63 less than the minimum of $25,000 fixed by the new law. The company has offices at 717 Florida avenue, the petition stated. Chief Justice Alfred H. Wheat issued a rule returnable September 19. Under the new law the insurance superintendent is required to make examinations of companies and if he finds assets are less than legal re- quirements he may file petitions di- recting the company to show cause why the superintendent of insurance should not be made receiver. In any case in which Marshall was made receiver he would be directed to conduct the business for the benefit of the policyholders, creditors or stock- holders or otherwise as public interest demands. 350 GEODETIC JOBS TO BE DISCUSSED Employes Dismissed August 31 Meet Tomorrow Night With Other Groups. Continuing their - fight to regain their jobs, 350 employes of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, who were dis- missed August 31, will meet tomorrow night in the assembly hall of the Y. M. C. A, with the .Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians. A special report on progress of ef- forts being made for resumption of the emergency project on which the men had been employed will be sub- mitted. ‘The project involves a complete the entire country, in- and Taylor Branson. The concert Wh?:lfipn.n&mrfl'd. visory Council WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1935. Chart Plans for Subsidizing President Roosevelt has placed $27,315217 at the disposal of the Division of Professional Service projects of the W. P. A. to provide six months’ employment for more than 30,000 writers, painters, musicians and actors, and has named Bruce McClure to head the new division. Photo shows Mr. McClure with his assistants working out a plan for subsidizing literature and art. Left to right: Bruce McClure, Hallie Flanagan, director of Federal theater projects; Henry G. Alsberg, director cf writers’ projects; Holger Cahill, director of Federal art projects, and Arthur Goldschmidt, director of the Division of Professional Service projects. HIGHWAY 1S CITED INBOUNDARY PLEA Virginia Counsel Says Mili- tary Road Disputes River Bed Claim. Construction by the Government of Military road at Washington-Hoover | Airport was cited today by Frank L. Ball of Virginia as one reason why the Federal Government never con- sidered the marsh land formerly in the airport as a real part of the bed of the Potomac River. Appearing before the District-Vir- | ginia Boundary Commission, v.hz“ former Virginia State Senator was re- | plying to a previous argument by | Federal counsel that the marsh land which since has been filled in to make | a part of the airport, originally wu: the Potomac River bed and belonged | to the United States. Maps Are Referred To. Ball contended none of the Gov- ernment maps show the bed of the Potomac River extending beyond the 50 -called Alexanders Island, where the airport is situated. In arguing for Virginia that the State boundary | is a low-water mark instead of high- ! water mark, as claimed by the United | States. Ball stoutly contended that| this marsh land back of Alexanders | Island was not Potomac River bed at all but in reality was only a spring- fed marsh. ‘The State counsel quoted a previous witness before the commission as say- ing he personally had counted 13| springs in the marsh area. In addi-| tion to this, Ball claimed, there were | other springs which had been closed up. Ball declared the Government by its own acts had shown conclusively it did not consider this marsh land as bed of the river. The three prin-| cipal reasons for Government control of navigable water for the benefit of all the people, he pointed out, were for the protection of commerce, navi- gation and fishing. The first big thing the Government did, Ball declared, to show the marsh | land was not considered bed of the| river, was to build a “solid road,” Military road, across this marsh. This highway was so constructed, he| claimed, that “not a single drop of water can get through.” ‘The Virginia counsel was interrupted by a Government counsel, Henry H. Glassie, who contended that the Gov- ernment always had a right to fill in a navigable river in the interest of all the people. Battery Cove Cited. “Didn't the Government fill in Bat- tery Cove at Alexandria?” asked Glassie. . Ball called attention to a photo- graph, taken in 1930 and introduced previously by the Government, to show that water was flowing out west of the Richmond-Washington High- way. He contended this water came principally from springs west of the highway. First official objection to the recent agreement on the District of Colum- bia-Virginia boundary in the city of Alexandria was registered today at the commission. It came from James S. Cassidy, a consulting engineer, representing several private property interests. A letter from Cassidy to Chairman Charles B. Brough of the commission, was formally made a point of the record of the commission ghortly before noon today. Cassidy ob- Jjected to the agreement and served notice that he will file a voluminous brief in support of his position. DEMOCRATS AT PEACE OVER OUSTING OF BEST Satisfactory Settlement of Dis- pute Announced as Meeting Is Postponed. Satisfactory settlement of their dis- pute over the projected ouster of Paul Best, president, was announced last night by the District Division of the ‘Young Democrats of America, as they postponed until September 24 a meet- ing scheduled for last night, at which the matter was to have been threshed out. y Both sides in the “feud” admitted last night - that mistakes had been made and all agreed to forget. The Executive Committee had charged that Best had failed to co-operate. National officers of the organization, as well as Postmaster General Farley, will speak at the meeting September 24, it was announced. 4 | bor statistics, ~—Wide World Photo. Police Report Mondell’s Son Found in Barrel After Crash William Harmon Mondell, 31, son of Frank Mondell, Washington attor- ney and former Representative from Wyoming, was arrested shortly after daylight today by police who said they found him hiding in a barrel near the Fifteenth street side of the Spanish Embassy after his car al- legedly damaged two cars parked nearby belonging to embassy attach-s. Employes of the embassy, aroused by the noise of the collision, tele- phoned No. 10 precinct about 5:30 am, saying they believed some one was trying to force entry to the em- bassy. Searching the premises, police found the damaged cars, and near a third automobile, presumably. aban- doned by Mondell, found the young man in a large barrel, they said. The | police tipped the barrel on its side and took Mondell from it, removing him to the precinct via Garfield Hos- pital. Mondell,it was said, had been slight- ly bruised about the left side. He was booked for investigation and no formal charge was placed against him. turning to his father's home at 3147 Sixteenth street when he got into the driveway at the embassy. The damaged cars belong to Leon- ardo Sanchez and Marcello Carmona, | both attaches of the embassy residing there. Prank Mondell, Republican leader | of the House during the Coolidge administration, came to the precinct jon being notified of his son’s arrest. | Mr. Mondell has been practicing law in Washington since his retirement from the House 10 years ago. 0., FOOD PRICES LEAP IN2 WEEKS Quotations Here Are Above Rest of U. S.—Pork Chops Cheaper. While retail food prices advanced only six-tenths of 1 per cent for the country as a whole, the increase in ‘Washington in the past two weeks was 1.4 per cent, with eggs and meat lead- ing the advance. The prices here are 10.3 per cent above those of a year ago; for the whole United States they are only 6.7 per cent higher. ‘The advances represent a raise of 3.3 per cent in & month. The current index for the country is 123, with | average prices of 1913 as the basis. 22 Kinds of Food Rise. ‘Twenty-two kinds of food advanced in the two-week period, according to Dr. Issdor Lubin, commissioner of la- Seventeen of the 48 commodities re- ported from 51 cities remained un- | changed. Meats, fats and oils lead the rise, and cereals, dairy products, fruits and vegetables lead the decreasing off-set. Advances were made in wheat flour, | rice, wheat cereal, chuck roast, plate beef, rib roast, round steak, sirloin steak, hens, leg of lamb, sliced bacon, sliced ham, canned salmon, butter, cheese, eggs, bananas, oranges, cab- bage, pure lard, lard compound and | molasses. Pork Chops Cheaper. Pork chops, on the other hand, de- creased, the only drop recorded in meat prices. Other drops in average prices were made by white bread, prunes, raisins, canned corn, onions, white potatoes, canned tomatoes and oleomargarine. No changes were recorded for corn flakes, corn meal, macaroni, rolled oats, fresh milk, evaporated milk, navy beans, canned pork and beans, canned peas, cocoa, coffee, tea, vegetable lard substitute, salad oil, granulated sugar, corn sirup and strawberry preserves. FOUR HELD ON BOND AFTER NUMBERS RAID Charges of Operating Lottery Are Filed—Slips and Adding Machine Taken. Four men arrested ‘yesterday in a raid on an alleged numbers establish- ment in the 1800 block of Seventh street were held for the grand jury under $500 bond each when arraigned today before United States Commis- sioner Needham C. Turnage on charges of operating a lottery. They are Herman Steiner, 32, of 2523 Fourteenth street, and three col- ored men, Robert R. Williams, 28, of 1912 New Hampshire avenue; Richard O. McCoy, 43, of 708 S street, and police said. The place was said to be connected with a large numbers establishment on Park road where 14 persons were ar- Tested in a raid recently. LY and nine decreased. PRI RETURNE TOFAC CHARGE |False Pretenses Alleged in Sale of Fictitious Accounts. Sought for almost a year, Henry V. F. Price was brought here today from Montreal to answer a false pretense indictment growing out of | transactions lour years ago, in which he is alleged to have fleeced the Mer- chants' Transfer & Storage Co. of approximately $22,000 through sale of fictitious open accounts. The whereabouts cf Price had been lapse of his New York brokerage office in 1931. However, two weeks ago he was located in Montreal. Chief Deputy United States Marshal Thomas Ott brought him to Washington. The indictment, which names three specific deals involving a total of count to the Washington firm non- existent accounts which he claimed were due and payable to him. He represented himself as a broker in the shellac, paint and varnish business. At that time, the Merchants Trans- | fer & Storage Co. was in the business of purchasing accounts receivable. All the business with Price was ;- number of the open accounts sold | to the Merchants Transfer & Storage Co. were genuine, but that others were | entirely spurious. The indictment was returned October 1, 1934. TUGWELL SAYS ZEUCH WAS NOT DISMISSED Resettlement Position Only Tem- porary Due to Interior Depart- ment Record, He Says. Dr. William E. Zeuch, whose dis- missal from the Resettlement Admin- istration has been the cause of a series of protests from organized Gov- ernment workers, was not actually dismissed, according to Dr. Rexford G. Tugwell, administrator. Dr. Tugwell in a formal statement explained that Dr. Zeuch had been dismissed from the Interior Depart- ment “with prejudice” and the com- plaint had not been removed. Con- sequently, he was given only a tem- porary appointment with the Reset- tlement Administration and when the time limit was reached he was allowed to step out. The resettlement lodge of the American Federation of Government Employes has protested that Dr. Zeuch was “blacklisted” by Secretary Ickes and that Dr. Tugwell upheld the blacklisting by discharging him. Tug- well's answer was given when a dele- gation from the local union called on him. BRICK THEFT CHARGED The reported theft of several thousand bricks from a paving job on Van street, near Third street southwest, yesterday resulted in the arrest of a colored suspect. Police who arrested Thomas March, 42, for investigation sald the bricks were being carted from the street and sold to a wrecker. District construction foremen were investigating the case today. Mondell presumably had been re- | unknown for four years after the col- | $1,944, charges Price sold at a dis-| conducted by mail. Officials were told | - Society and General PAGE B—1 8,200 NAVY YARD CIVILIAN WORKERS ASSURED OF STAY Ordnance Required for 23 New Warships Means Jobs Until 1939, LIGHT CRUISER BIDS T0 BE READVERTISED Number of Employes to Vary According to Needs, but Pro- gram Assures Big List ‘The jobs of most of the 8,500 civilian workers at the Washington Navy Yard are insured until about the middle of 1939, according to the present set-up. Secretary of the Navy Swanson made awards for 23 new warships | Monday and announced bids would be readvertised for a light cruiser, with an award to follow shortly after early October if the figures are satisfactory. Thus the workers here secured a new lease on their jobs, for guns and other ‘ol’dnn.nL‘P equipment. for the warships | are constructed at the Naval Gun Fac- tory in the Washington Navy Yard. Officials close to Rear Admiral Joseph R. Defrees, commandant of the | navy yard, explained that the present program of ordnance construction for | the new vessels already contracted for | would continue about two years. With | the ordering of 24 additional ships, | however, the work program here will | be continued about a year and s half | beyond that—bringing the close of | present work in sight to around the middle of 1939, 8,500 Employment Figures. | The employment figure here is ex- pected to be stabilized around the 8,500 mark, it was said. There will be a variation of a few hundred up or down, as different stages of gun con- struction are reached in the program, they explained. For instance, after the toolmakers have made the tools for carrying the work forward, there will naturally be a dropping off in the employment of this craft, they said. | Preliminary work for the new 24- | ship program is expected to start | shortly on designing ordnance for the | vessels. This will be dovetailed in ‘ with the present program of ship con- struction, which is keeping three | shifts busy 24 hours a day at the | Washington Navy Yard. Different types of craftsmen are needed as the | work proceeds and the officials at the | Washington Navy Yard arrange their program so as to have the guns ready |for the mew ships when the con- tractors are prepared to install them aboard the vessels. 33 Warships Under Way. At present 33 warships are being | constructed in private ship yards and 32 in navy yards. They are in vary- {ing stages of completion. The of- ficials estimate there are 15,000 now employed in the private yards and | 28,000 in the navy yards. | Actual construction of the 24 new ships is looked for early next year. | In the interim construction materials | will be assembled from the various subcontractors at the ship yards and everything made ready for the keel layings. Where ships are being com- pleted and jobs were running out, workers in some of the yards will be employed on the new construction. | As the building of the ships proceeds, | various types of workers are needed, | just as is the case in the Washington | Navy Yard on gun construction, where | the draftsmen and toolmakers get | first shot at the job and then other skilled workers follow along to bring the work to completion. Full Treaty Navy by 1942, The ordering of the 24 new war- ships is in line with the administra- tion’s desire to have a full treaty ‘Navy by 1942. A striking illustration | of this will be seen on Saturday at | the Boston Navy Yard, when for the | first time in 15 years a double launch- |ing will take place. The two new destroyers are the 1,500-ton sister ships, Case and Conyngham. Miss Muriel Rodgers Case of South | Orange, N. J., great-granddaughter of | Rear Admiral Augustus Ludlow Case, | will christen the Case, while Mrs. Alice | Conyngham Gifford Johnson of Se- | dalia, Colo., will sponsor the vessel to be named ir honor of her great- great-grandfather, Capt. Gustavu Conyngham. DISPUTE HOLDS UP $900,000 D. C. FUNL Sewer Expansion Program Awaits Peace Between Ickes and Hopkins. Until Harry L. Hopkins, works progress administrator, and Secretary Ickes, public works administrator, can settle their jurisdictional dispute the District’s $900,000 sewer expansion and improvement program hangs in the balance. Application for the funds has long been on file in the offices of each of the authorities. Several other projects from a number of States have likewise been filed with both men. Just who is to have suthority to pass final judgment will eventually be decided by the President. Until a decision is reached, the Dis- trict will have to wait. If Hopkins wins the plan will be accomplished with approximately 800 men being given jobs. If the Public Works Ad- ministration gets the right to act, the District will lose its project, for P. W. A. necessarily will require that the District put up 55 per cent of the money, and the District hasn't got the cash. Licensed at Marlboro. UPPER MARLBORO, Md, Sep- tember 11 (Special).—Marriage li- censes have been issued here to the following: Edgar Seldon Smith, 26, and Mary Joe Shrake, 20, both of Washington; Joseph Willard Turner, ‘Woodrow Wilson Taylor, 22, | Mary Elizabeth Ficklin, 21, both of Washington; Elmer G¢ Thompson, 31, of Clinton, and Agnes Beavers, 18, of Accokeek.