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Washington News STUDENT QUOTAS FOR FINANGIAL AID HERE TOTAL 1,122 $17,280 a Month to Be Ex- pended by National Youth Program. 12 PER CENT OF EACH SCHOOL ROLL ELIGIBLE $15 to $30 Limit for Those in Colleges—$6 Each in High Schools. Financial aid may be given to 1,152 District college students under the National Youth Administration to the extent of $17,280 per month, Com- missioner George E. Allen announced today. Twelve per cent of the enrollment of each of the 10 local colleges listed for inclusion in the program will be the eligible quota, the Commissioner stated. Students may receive up to $15 a month and post-graduate stu- dents up to $30 a month. Just how many students will be certified by the various college heads as eligible for the aid has not been determined. Commissioner Allen, Dis- trict youth administrator, said he would not have the final figures until the end of the month. | High-school students, also eligible | for the program, may receive $6 a month. College students are expected to perform some work in return for their aid, but high school students will not be in work projects. To date the District has received an allotment of $92,000 for the youth pro- grams. More is to be advanced later as need arises, officials say. The number of possible eligible stu- dents in each of the 10 colleges was computed on the basis of the enroll- ment as of October 15. American University was given a quota of 42 students who might re- ceive a grand total of $630 a month: Catholic University, 167 students and $2,505; Columbia Institution, 12 stu- | dents, $180; George Washington Uni- versity, 368 students, $5,520; George- town University, 209 students, $3,135; Howard University, 138 students, $2,- 070; Miner Teachers’ College, 64 stu- | dents, $960; South-astern University, 62 students, $780: Trinity College, 35 students, $525; Wilson Teachers’, 65 students, $975. JACOB BUCHBINDER, FIRM MANAGER, DIES Tllness Proves Fatal to Clerk | Who Rose to Be in Charge of Franklin & Co. Jacob Buchbinder, 71, for 30 years manager of the firm of Franklin & Co., opticians, died today at the home of a sister in New York City, accord- ing to word received here. Death followed an illness of almost five years. Born in Hungary, Mr. Buchbinder came to the United States as a small | boy with his family. He was edu- cated in the public schools of New ‘York and Washington, and at 17 was hired by Franklin & Co. as a clerk in the old establishment on Pennsyl- vania avenue. He was made manager about 30 years ago, and continued active service until his recent illness. ‘The firm is now located at 1329 F street. Mr. Buchbinder lived at 2620 Uni- Versity place. He was unmarred. Surviving are a brother, Phineas, of Pittsburgh, and four sisters, Florence Schwartz, Miss Regina Buch- binder, Mrs. Rosa Klein and Miss Kate Buchbinder, all of New York. Funeral services will be held Friday in New York. Burial will be in the Robeth Sholem Cemetery there. MRS. EDMUND I. OAKES DIES IN CHEVY CHASE Wife of Insurance Agency Offi- cial Had Been Ill Two Years. Funeral Tomorrow. Mrs. Margaret V. Oakes, wife of Edmund I. Oakes, treasurer of the Mutual Insurance Agency, Inc., died yesterday at her home, 9 West Mel- Yose street, Chevy Chase, Md., after an illness of two years. Funeral services will be held at the residence at 9 am. tomorrow, followed by mass at 9:30 in the Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament in Chevy Chase. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Mrs. Oakes was born in Lebanon, !Pa. and lived most of her life in Philadelphia. She had been a resi- .dent of Washington for eight years. Besides her husband, she is survived by a daughter, Miss Margery Oakes; a son, Edmund, jr.; two brothers, Mark and Charles Keating, both of Philadelphia, and two sisters, Mrs. ‘Katherine Toal and Mrs. Mary Knapp, also of Philadelphia. 85 Old-Fashioned $10,000 Notes Still Unredeemed by U.S. By the Assoclated Press. ‘The Treasury still is waiting for 85 $10,000 bills of the old- fashioned large size to be ex- changed for the smaller size pa- per money now in use. Officials said the $10,000 notes were included in $250,000,000 of the old-style currency remain- ing outstanding after six years. Retirement of the large-sized bills started in the Summer of 1929, under Secretary Mellon, to provide the public with currency which could be handled more easily. How much of the missing cur- rency is hoarded away under mattresses and elsewhere, or per- manently lost, is anybody’s guess. Officials said a substantial part of it probably never would return to the Treasury. Mrs. | l Testifies l MISS MARGARET FLETCHER Of Culpeper, Va., as she testified at the morgue yesterday at the in- quest into the murder of her sister, Mrs. Willie Mae Wood, 21. —Star Staffl Photo. REAGUER CHARGED WITHBRIDEKILLING Grand Jury Action Soon to! Follow Verdict of Cor- oner’s Jury. Early grand jury action was predict- ed today in the case of W. H. Reaguer, 50-year-old Culpeper, Va., undertaker, | who has been charged with murder following an inquest into the fatal/ slashing of Mrs. Willie Mae Wood, 21, | in a downtown hotel here early Satur- | day. Authorities said they expected to present the evidence to the grand jury next week. Meanwhile, Reaguer has been transferred frcm Gallinger Hos- pital, where he had been held under guard since the murder, to the District Jail after being booked on the murder charge. In a lengthy session yesterday the coroner’s jury heard more than a dozen witnesses while crowds of rela- tives and acquaintances of those giving testimony stood outside the stufly Morgue, from which they were barred by lack of space, | | Declines to Take Stand. | The middle-aged undertaker, who {looked more like a rugged, weather- | | beaten farmer, sat stolidly between his | defense counsel during the hearing and | declined to take the stand when all | witnesses had been heard. This is a | privilege optional with the defendant. | The jury arrived immediately at its | verdict. Bandages about Reaguer’s wrist were the only apparent traces of his attempt 1 at suicide following the murder. | He was found in the hotel room be- | | side the almost decapitated body of the young woman, his wrist and up- per arm slashed with the same knife which had killed Mrs. Wood. | Seventeen-year-old Anna O'Ban- | non, a business school student and cousin of the murdered girl, told the | Jury how the undertaker forced them | !to come to Washington from Cul- | peper by threatening their lives with a loaded shotgun he kept on the back | seat of their car. The pretty, blond school girl said | that it had a Ve ighw A r pproved highway proj- | Reaguer had threatened to kill her ects from 41 States and the District, | cousin and end his own life if Mrs. Wood ever went back to her husband | of three weeks, Herbert R. Wood of | Fairfax County, an employe of the | Virginia Highway Department. | Girl Registered for Trio. | The O'Bannon girl testified she | | promised her cousin she would never | | leave her and went with the couple | |to the hotel, where she registered | for the three as “H. L. Thomas and | | party of Richmond, Va.” because | Reaguer and Mrs. Wood were “too | nervous” to register. The girl told of occupying an ad- joining room in which she was awak- ened early Saturday by the frantic screams of her cousin, which “came |in through the door and windows, through the wall, so loudly I couldn’t tell who was screaming or what di- rection they were coming from.” The dead girl's mother, Mrs. James Fletcher, wife of a tenant farmer, tes- tified her daughter had been “going about with” Reaguer for years, and he had given her a ring, money and an automobile. She denied she had told Detective Sergt. Aubrey Tolson that Reaguer offered to buy her daughter an automobile if she could be persuaded to break up her mar- riage with Wood. Miss O'Bannon said Reaguer alter- nately protested his love for Mrs. Wood, planned to go to Reno so that both of them could be divorced and threatened their lives during the ride to Washington. Reaguer is & mar- ried man with two grown daughters. Former Threat Related. o Mrs. Fletcher testified that Reaguer had threatened Wood’s life with a shot- gun during a quarrel at the Fletcher farm shortly before her daughter's marriage. ‘Wood took the stand and told of a trip he had taken to Dayton, Ohio, to visit the gorl’s uncle some time prior to_their marriage. It previously had been testified that the girl wired Reaguer for money during this trip and he sent the required sum. Police assigned to investigate the murder said Reaguer had given them no statement following his arrest. A surprise witness, Policeman Charles R. Burnett of No. 1 precinct, testified, however, that Reaguer vol- untarily confessed the murder to him as he was guarding the prisoner in Gallinger Hospital yesterday morning. Burnett quoted Reaguer as saying Mrs. Wood attacked him with a water pitcher and that he then switched on the lights in their room and used the knife which he found lying on the sheets. Reaguer, according to the policeman, said Mrs. Wood apparently had removed the knife from his vest pocket in the darkness. ‘The O'Bannon girl admitted she and Mrs. Wood had come on to Washington with Reaguer as much from fear that Wood would learn they were with Reaguer as from terror of Reaguer himself, e E WASHINGTON, D. C, §349 4%, C.ROAD FUND IS RELEASED IN WORKS SET-UP President Puts 0. K. Stamp on $200,000 Allotment on Grade Crossings. $36,274,750 IS FREED IN NATIONAL PROGRAM District Street Improvement Plans, Speeded to Action, Call for 687 Men. Work relief funds totaling $949.- 496 for long-needed highway and street improvements in the District | were released today by the Bureau of Public Roads in announcing dis- tribution of $36,274,750 for similar work in a Nation-wide program. At the same time, it was announced President Roosevelt had approved a $200,000 allotment previously appor- tioned to the District for elimination of the grade crossing on Eastern ave- nue, between Olive street and Minne- sota avenue. The highway program for the Dis- trict, submitted early last Summer, involves six projects on extension of the Federal-aid highway system into the District at a cost of $363,900, and 16 general projects for paving at an estimated cost of $585,596. District officials said the eftimates had been prepared on the basis of providing a | year's work at security wages for 687 men now on relief rolls. If the work is to be completed in less than a year, the number employed would be in- creased correspondingly. $190,804 Left for Later Work. The allotment for elimination of the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio railroad crossing, which will be made available when Controller General McCarl countersigns the order, was taken from the $410,804 apportioned to the District for such work. There remains, therefore, a balance of $190,- 804 to be covered by a later program. Slowness of State highway depart- ments submitting projects had led Harry L. Hopkins, workers progress administrator, to consider canceling some allotments. The District Com- missioners, however, were not amonz the tardy ones. Their program for highway improvements, long consid- ered in advance, was among the first out any definite assurance until today as to when funds were to be made available. Vork has been practically com- pleted on three of the local highway improvements. These paving of Tenth street from Pennsyl- vania avenue to Constitution avenue, Twenty-second street from Constitu- tion to E street and Rhode Island avenue northeast, from Twelfth to Sixteenth street (north side) and from Fourteenth to Sixteenth streets (south side). Funds from the Federal allotment will reimburse the District for this work, which had been started when the city-wide program was sub- mitted. Many Projects Approved. ‘The $949,496 released today covers the entire amount earmarked for local street improvements from the $200,000,000 fund set aside for high- | way work in the 48 States. The Bureau of Public Roads announced invoving $27,557,700 and grade cross- ing elimination work in 27 States from another $200,000,000 allotment reserved for such purposes. State quotas from the entire $400,- 000,000 allotments were assigned sev- eral months ago, but work could not | start until specific projects had been approved py the bureau and State W. P. A. administrators. The bureau announced that con- tracts for highway construction total- ing $8532,412 had previously been awarded and $2,478,864 for grade crossing elimination. That involves all the expenditurcs to cate under the program. Simultaneously, the bureau an- nounced that President Roosevelt had approved programs submitted by four States in addition to the District of Columbia, totaling $6,828,487 for high- way and grade crossing eliminations. The presidential allotments included Colorado, $2,170,000, and South Caro- lina, $1,207,000 for highway programs, and grade crossing programs costing $699,691 in Rhode Island and $1,328,- 300 for Washington State. Projects and Amounts. The detailed list of projects fol- lows: Widening and replacing of asphalt surface on Eleventh street southeast from Pennsylvania avenue to bridge, $124,000. Replacement of asphalt surface on Twenty-second street from Constitu- tion avenue to E street, $22,500. Replacement of asphalt surface on Rhode Island avenue from Fourteenth to Sixteenth street (south side) and Twelfth to Sixteenth street (north side), $41,800. Replacement of asphalt surface on Rhode Island avenue from First to Third streets and from New Jersey avenue to 200 feet east, $33,700. Asphalt surface on Wisconsin ave- nue from Massachusetts avenue to River road, $72,000. Curb and gutter and bituminous surface on Massachusetts avenue from Wisconsin avenue to Nebraska ave- nue, $69,960. Widening asphalt surface on Tenth street from Constitution avenue to Pennsylvania avenue, $35,300. Widening asphalt surface on Thir- teenth street from Florida avenue to Clifton street, $21,400. Widening asphalt surface on Twelftly street from Constitution avenue to Pennsylvania avenue (excluding cir- cle), $29,600. Replacement of asphalt surface on G street from Fourth to Eleventh streets, $45,000. Fourteenth Street Work. Replacement of asphalt surface oa Fourteenth street from Rhode Island avenue to U street, $40,500. Replacement of asphalt surface on Fourteenth street from Thomas Circle to Rhode Island avenue, $26,500. New paving concrete on Chesapeske street from- Nebraska avenue to Fort- & include the | pening Sfaf WITH SUNDAY .MORNING ED) WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1935. *¥% New Members Added to Metropo]itém Police Force 1., POLICE FORCE INCREASED BY 48 Gain Is Largest Made Dur-“ ing Administration of Maj. Brown. Forty-eight new policemen were | {added today to the force under the | command of Maj. Ernest W. Brown, | representing the largest increase in the number of metropolitan police ap- | pointed at any one time during his administration. | | Thirty-five of the new policemen | represent an increase allowed by Con- | gress at the past session and the re- | maining 13 fill vacancies created by retirements, promotions and resigna- tions. Maj. Brown originally sought ap- pointment of 140 additional officers in this year's budget, but this was heavily slashed. For the next fiscal year, he has sought more than 100, but this has been'cut somewhat by the Com- missioners. The new policemen, who are ap- | pointed for a probationary period of one year, at $1,900 per year, are the following: Edward William Allen, Raymond L. Briggs, Howard Francis Mowry, | Charles Thomas Williams, Herbert C { Wright, jr.. Charles Clifton Harris, ‘Russ!ll P. Livermore, Joseph Francis | Gusack, Sherwood L. McCargar, H.| Keith Dressendorfer, Conrad J. Lip- | | pert, Willlam F. Proctor, James H. | to be submitted. Weeks elapsed with- | Cox, William Devaughn Huskey, Ulys | Samuel Rogers. Martin Joseph Meenehan, Harold T. | Grier, John A. Bryant, John William Groves, James B. Pruitt, Lawrence A. | Hartnett, Richard E. Lane, Robert Blaine Stewart, Carl L. Sierk, Wilbur L. Sherer, Arthur G. McKay, Harry G. Barnes, Arthur B. Cross, Charles M. Livermore, Reuben W. Moore, jr.; Kinley K. Henderson, Bolivar N. Brad- shaw, Charles A. Goodman, James L. | Sadtler, John Bernard Behan, jr.; | | Francis H. Dunn. | Parke H. Sams, Charles W. Stickle, Frank Wright, John T. Durkin, Rus- | sell A. Harris, John W. Baxter, David | F. Mechem, Frank Claire Seeley, | Thomas David Parrack, Frank D. Mc- | Carson, Adam Murlo Arney and James | E. Fippin. | 'RAILROADS URGED ' TO RUSH UNDERPASS Commissioners Ask When Plans ‘Will Be Submitted on 18th Street Project. Speed in preparation of plans for | development of the railroad underpass | | approximately on the line of Eight-| eenth street northeast was urged by | the Commissioners yesterday in letters | to the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania Railroads. Construction of the underpass was ordered by the Commissioners August 23, under the terms of the measure passed by Congress at the last session. The railroads have six months in which to file plans and two years for completion of the work from the date of the order. Asking the companies to state when plans will be submitted and when work can be started, the Commission- ers said: “We are extremely desirous of opening at the earliest practicable date a connecting thoroughfare | through this territory, and will ap- preciate anything you may do to shorten the time prescribed in con- nection with the preparation of plans and the completion of the structure.” The Commissioners explained that budget estimates for the District are being prepared to make necessary pro- visions for the approach roads and other phases of the work which the District will carry. Leaders of citizens’ associations in the area near New York avenue have been urging prompt starting of the work. Drive—Fort Drive from Chesapeake street to Nebraska avenue, $47,000. New paving concrete on Kenilworth avenue from Benning road to Dis- trict line, $166,800. Macadam paving on Twelfth street within limits of circle south of Penn- sylvania avenue, $6,580. Macadam paving on Eads street from FPifty-third street to District Ene, $22,090. Macadam paving on Grant street from Fifty-third street to Fifty-fifth street, $7,050. Roadside improvements on Massa- chusetts avenue from Anacostia road to Alabama avenue, $10,000. Macadam paving on Ridge Road ¢ from Anacostia road to Burns street, $43,810. Macadam paving on Newcomb street from Portland street to 250 feet west of Fifth street, on Oakwood street from Portland street to 250 feet west of Fifth street, on Fifth street from Oakwood street to Lebaum street, on Lebaum street from Nichols avenue to 250 feet west of Fifth street, $30,~ Chief Clerk Howard E. Crawford of the Police Department is shown swearing in 48 new policemen today. .F loyd Dell Writing History Of Reconstruction by U. S. @ Noted Novelist Takes Stand in Auditorium to Watch F.E.R. A. Says This Is Important | Moment in History of United States. By the Associated Press. In a cubicle right under the opera boxes and organ pipes of the old Washington Auditorium, Floyd Dell is writing an account of F. E. R. A.'s doings. The author of “Moon Calf,” “Intel- | lectual Vagabondage” and “Love in the Machine Age” is now on F. E. R. A’s staff and is writing about the work done by persons drawing relief funds. He is an author amid plenty “atmosphere.” a huge stage filled with Federal em- ployes. Around him, over him, under him, are more workers. The overflow- ing New Deal has taken over the building and filled it with typewriters and filing cases. History-in-the-Making. To Dell it's all history-in-the- making. “Everybody knows this is an im- portant historical period,” he said, “and what is happening in our coun- try—all these reconstructive efforts— is the most important thing happen- ing anywhere.” Something in the easy cut of his collar, the softness of his plaid woolen tie which blended with a mustard- colored striped suit, reminded that Dell once wrote “Love in Greenwich Village.” He picked up a notebook manuscript he had decorated along the edges with his own tiny pencil sketches. Among of In front of his door is | FLOYD DELL. —Star Staff Photo. the wee drawings were railroad trestles, | bridges, an underpass for pedestrians ‘in Davenport, Iowa, where he was a reporter long ago; an airport at Dixon, IIL, constructed from rails of an aban- doned street car line; a street in | Alaska. Writes Only of Relief. “Mind you, I am writing only about | work relief done under F. E. R. A, between April 1, 1934, when C. W. A. | ended, to July 1, 1935, when W. P. A. | took over,” he said. “Do you realize that more than one-tenth of all the schools in the country were repaired | during those months, besides the new | ones that were built?” | Dell has worked five weeks on his | volume and will finish in a few weeks more. He said he didn’t know whether | it would be published, but anyhow it would be in the archives, in convenient Iform for the researcher. BAKER'S BRAVERY WINS RECOGNITION City Heads Will Commend Detective for Killing Armed Bandit. Detective Earl Baker of No. 1 pre- cinct will be called before the Com- missioners at their meeting Tuesday to be commended officially for killing an armed bandit early Sunday during the hold-up of a cafe on Bladensburg road northeast. Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen said he would ask that the detective appear to be congratulated by the Commis- sioners, but did not indicate whether Baker will be recommended for pro- motion. The detective's “coolness, courage and good judgment” was commended by the coroner’s jury which on Mon- day investigated the death of the ban- dit, Morris Beck, 30, reputed leader of the notorious “black face” gang. 50 Diners Saw Shooting. The bandit, armed with a sawed- off crowded with 50 diners when Baker opened fire. The man fled, but was tossed from an automobile by his com- panions when they learned he was dying. 3 Several years ago, Baker, a slender, soft-spoken officer, climbed across an ironing board and entered the window of a building to subdue an armed man who was threatening the life of a girl because she refused to marry him. Meanwhile, police were preparing to storm the building in the belief the man could not be captured without force. Given Official Recognition. The Commissioners sent to Police Chief Ernest W. Brown the following commendation for Detective Baker: “The Commissioners wish to extend their congratulations and commenda- tion to Detective Earl Baker for his courage and ability and they desire to praise in the highest degree De- tective Baker's faithful performance of his duty in the recent hold-up at the Blue Bell Barbecue, 2335 Bladens- burg road northeast, last Sunday morning. It is especially noteworthy that this officer had the foresight to protect the lives of other patrons from gunfire until such time as he was able to open fire on the bandit without danger to any one else. “The Commissioners request that Detective Baker’s record show this commendation as an official recogni- tion of his excellent service to the department. The Police Department may well be proud of having in its service such a high type of public officer.” CHILD FALLS IN HOLE Tumbling into & hole dug by chil- 780. Macadam paving on Hillside road from Forty-fourth place to Benning road, $11,750. Macadam paving on Massachusetts avenue from Anacostia rosd to Ala- bama avenue, $41,436, - dren on a lot at Independence avenue and First street southwest, 4-year-old Patricia Davis, 216 First street south- west, suffered a fractured leg yester- day afternoon. The child was taken to tal, shotgun. was leaving a room | BAKERS ANNOUNCE BREAD PRIE RSE Laid to Tax and Higher Material Costs. | Retail bread prices advanced a penny here today to 10 cents per pound loaf. The increase apparently is general, with the major bakeries, including Continental (controlling Corby's and Havenner's), General Baking, Dorsch’s and Sanico, report- ing they have raised the cost to grocers haf a cent a loaf to 82 cents. With the wholesale price at 8 cents, grocers charged 9 cents. With it at 8'; cents they will charge a dime. The price rise affects white, rye and whole wheat bread, but not rolls. Bakers said it was necessitated by in- creases in the cost of materials. Flour has advanced $1.50 a barrel, with the processing tax $1.38 a bar- rel, they said. The price of lard was said to have increased 200 per cent. “We are compelled to absorb the increased costs, whereas our profit is actually less,” one baking company official said. Don E. Montgomery, A. A. A. con- sumers’ counsel, said he doubted “very | much” whether the 1-cent retail price | rise was warranted and that he was | preparing a statement on bread prices which will reveal “the true situation.” His office may investigate the in- crease here, Mr. Montgomery in- dicated. “They can’t blame it on the process- ing tax,” he said. “That has been in effect since 1933 and amounts to less than half a cent a loaf.” due to another small crop was men- tioned as one reason for the increased cost of bread materials. DR. DYER TREATED AT HOSPITAL HERE Condition of Research Surgeon Is “Very Good,” Doctors Say. Declaring his illness not serious, the Naval Hospital today pronounced the condition of Dr. R. E. Dyer, research surgeon of the United States Public Health Service, as “very good.” Dr, Dyer came to the Naval Hospi- tal for treatment of a streptococcus infection, believed tc be the result of a scratch received during some of his experimental work. Dr. Dyer is credited with develop- ment of a typhus serum conceived dur- ing experimentation in the field of typhus fever. During this research it was discovered that rats are the car- riers of this disease. While engaged Some increase in the price of wheat —Star Staff Photo. PARLEY DRAFTS - PUCESONAD | Rehabilitation Conference Hears Social Security Law Coauthor. | The National Rehabilitation Confer- | ence today planned to act on various problems associated with the physi- cally handicapped. The sessions close | tomorrow. Resolutions based on work to be Society and General PAGE B—1 ALEXANDRIAN DIES, CRUSHED IN CRASH AT POTOMAC YARD Broken Skull, Smashed Chest, Punctured Lungs Fatal to S. T. Park. {STREET CAR RIDER’S ARM BROKEN BY TRUCK Forearm, Protruding From Win- dow, Snapped in Freakish‘ Accident. A broken skull, a crushed chest and hemorrhage from bone-punctured lungs today resulted in the death of Samuel T. Park, 61, of Alexandria, Va., injured Friday night when thrown | against the steering wheel of his auto- mobile as it crashed into an iron gate of the Potomac Yard at Alexandria. Park, a switchman for the Rich- mond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Rail- | way Co., died in the Alexandria Hos- pital without ever having regained consciousness. A broken arm and wounds dug by flying glass added to the gruesome appearance of his body when he was taken to the hospital. The condition of James Hasson, 64, of Aurora Hills, Va., another occupant of the automobile who suffered a brain concussion, was reported improved in | Alexandria Hospital. | Arm Snapped by Truck. accomplished with Federal grants to the States, which Aubrey Williams, assistant relief administrator, prom. ised would be forthcoming to many States after November, were in process of being drawn up. Other motions will place the association on record with respect to a national program of employment for the physically dis- abled. Representative Lewis of Maryland sounded the keynote of next year's | program at the annual dinner last | night in the Wardman Park Hotel, when he discussed social security laws and the need of broadening their scope. Co-author with Senator Wag- ner of New York in writing the social security act, Lewis urged legal sanc- tions to insure for every American “the inalienable right to work.” Protects Right to Work. “The industrial order must give every man his fair share of the em- ployment available,” he said. “It must abnegate the privilege of turning thumbs down on the father at 46. “Each worker must be given his day in court, with full legal remedies | provided to effectuate this right to work, just as they are provided for {all the forms of property.” | Lewis charged that American in- dustry has created a class of job- |less “untouchables” by adopting a policy of making it almost impossible for men and women over 45 to gain employment in industrial pur- suits. “I do not charge any conscious class discrimination against the law- maker for the discrimination between property rights and this personal right to work,” he said. “But I do fear | the worker has been the victim of an unconscious class bias.” Stresses Success Abroad. He stressed the success of social legislation abroad. While unemploy- ment conditions in Great Britain and | United States during the height of {the depression, he said, “the agony lof it was taken out of it for the }\\'orkmg classes by their social insur- | ance systems.” Elwood Street, director of public | welfare for the District, was toast- master at the banquet. Despite assurances that November relief grants will be made to many States. the rehabilitation group will have to appeal directly to the Presi- dent for aid after December 1. Until Congress makes available the $1,- 000,000 fund for the physically handi- capped authorized under the social securities act, officials of the Federal Relief Administration felt certain that President Roosevelt would issue an executive order guaranteeing the States aid in the rehabilitation pro- gram. NIXON DIVORCE TRIAL Former “Scandals” Beauty Claims His Decree Invalid—Wants One of Her Own. Trial of the divorce suit brought against the thrice-married Capt. Thomas Hay Nixon, Army Ordnance officer and inventor, by his second wife, Mrs. Annette Pauline Nixon, former “Scandals” beauty, was sched- uled to begin today in District Su- preme Court. Judge Leo Doherty of Boston will be today’s only witness. He will take the stand for Mrs. Nixon. Court will ad- journ immediately after hearing Judge Doherty. While the suit was pending here, Capt. Nixon obtained a divorce in Pennsylvania last August 26, and four days later married Anna Cooke, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard De Walden Cooke of Chevy Chase. The ceremony was performed in Belfast, Me. The second Mrs. Nixon claims the Pennsylvania divorce is invalid. ‘Mrs. Anna Cooke Nixon was brought into the spotlight when her younger sister Jane, 20, eloped with George 8. Scarlett, the family chauffeur. Mrs. Scarlett now is seeking an an- nulment. The Nixon divorce trial is expected to take most of the week. ‘WRS. E. N. YOUNG DIES Wife of Geological Survey Worker to Be Buried in New York. Mrs. Edna N. Young, wife of Gil- bert Young of the Geological Survey, yesterday after a long illness. Mrs. Young was a member of the Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church, and funeral services will be held there at 11 am. tomorrow. Burial will be at her former home, Boon- ville, N, ¥, SET FOR TOMORROW 5525 Thirty-eighth street, died late | Accidents in the District were few | and injuries “slight” from the usual viewpoint, but several injured in the past 24 hours today experienced the torture of broken bones and bieeding wounds. The victim of a freakish mishap, Thomas Goings, 35, of 1326 Sixth | street southwest today has a broken forearm as a result of striking a parked truck with his arm while he was riding a street car in the 700 block of Seventh street southwest Goings, police said, was resting his arm on the window sill of the street car. He was treated at Emergency Hospital William Brady, 23. of 1708 Six- | teenth street, was taken to Emer- gency Hospital yesterday, his head jagged with scalp cuts after being struck by a taxicab at Tirteenth and | P streets. He suffered a sprained | right shoulder, a skinned knee and | numerous bruises. He left the hose pital after treatment Boy Falls Under Truck. James Staley. colored, of the first block of Second street fortunately escaped serious injury when he fell beneath the rear wheel of a truck while being towed on roller skates in the first block of I street. He was treated at Sibley Hospital for a pos- sible ankle fracture and returned home. Mae H. Thomas, 13, of 605 Sixth street received a sprained ankle and | bruises when sgruck by an automobile | in front of her home. ‘ Meanwhile, Robert C. Montgomery, | 16, was still unconscious in Providence | Hospital with a skull fracture and | other injuries received Friday night | when hit by a street car while roller | skating on Pennsylvania avenue south- | east. He is the son of Policeman Rob- ert S. Montgomery of No. 10 precinct. Victim Fights for Life. In Freedmen's Hospital Adam Abra- Advance of One Cent a Loaf Germany paralleled those in the ham. 36 of 1014 I street is fighting for his life as a result of head and body injuries received Saturday night when he was hit by a car at Vermont ave- nue and R street. His suffering today was relieved at intervals by lapses into unconsciousness. Fifteen-year-old Mariam E. Gray of Hyattsville, Md., yesterday regained consciousness for the first time since being hit by an automobile near the Hyattsville Post Office Saturday night. She is believed to be recovering. | Five others suffered bruises in a total of 20 accidents in the District in the 24-hour period ending at 8 am. today. STRIKERS RETURN 70 JOB ON LIBRARY Contractor Declines to Reveal Terms, but Carpenters Re- sume Work. Carpenters were back at work to- day on the Library of Congress annex, | from which they had Been on strike | since August 30, but the terms under which they returned were still under consideration by the contractor this afternoon. The carpenters had gone on strike for the prevailing wage scale of $1.37'; an hour, but the Consolidated En- gineering Co., contractor on the job, had contended that the wage rate aof $1.25 on which the work was figured should prevail. Specifications orig~ | inally written for the job included the | rate of $1.25 an hour, which was cor= | rect at the time, but the wage scale since has been increased to $1.37%.. The carpenters demanded the higher rate. Officials of the Consolidated En- gineering Co. declined this afternoon to explain what they were paying their men or how the strike was settled, but said a statement might be forthcom- ing later. BUILDINGS IIIISPECTION HEARING IS DELAYED Public hearing of complaints against the administration of the inspector of buildings of the District has been postponed to October 30 by Commis- sioner George E. Allen, who will hear “‘evidence” in the cases. The postponement was requested last night by W. Gwynn Gardiner, tormer District Commissioner, who has been engaged as counsel to Col. John W. Oehmann, the building in- spector. Gardiner asked Commissioner Allen for additional time to gather data concerning nine specifications of al- leged violation of laws and regulations governing building inspection work. The specific charges have not been published and Col. Oehmann has withheld his replies, awaiting his ap- pearance at the bearings, a