Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1935, Page 25

DISTRICT DIRECT RELIEF WILL END . TONIGHT FOR 3,00 Half of List to Be Rein- stated Tomorrow on New Basis. W. P. A. ASKED TO RUSH PROJECTS FOR WORK Women and White-Collar Class Lacking Funds—Federal Dole Ends December 1., Direct relief as administered by the District with Federal and District funds will come to an end tonight, to be resumed tomorrow on a reduced basis, according to announcements by District officials. = It is estimated about 9,000 persons on the relief list are affected by the move, Half this number are unem- ployables and will remain as a Dis- trict Government problem. The other 4,500-odd are held to be eligible for the Works Progress Administration program, but have not yet been trans- lerred to the new works plan. District officials have petitioned the Federal W. P. A. to hasten approval of projects for women and white- collar workers to reduce the problem of lack of adequate funds for direct relief. Decision to End Dole. The situation was precipitated by the decision of Federal Relief Admin- istrator Harry L. Hopkins to end the Federal dole December 1. The Dis- trict’s final grant, $250,000, for No- vember, was less than half the sum Allen said he needed. For two weeks relief case workers here have been reinvestigating needs of the 9,000. The plan is to drop all these from the relief list tonight and to reinstate those tomorrow found in need. Drastic cuts have been forecast for those who are reinstated. Meanwhile, District relief officials declare they are beginning to see *“daylight” on the problem of tran- sients. Transient aid as heretofore conducted also ends tonight, but temporary care is to be given all the needy ones until Monday, under or- ders of Allen. Six hundred adidtional employable transients, who were on the transient lists prior to last September 20, were assigned late yesterday to work on the 45,000,000 low cost housing project at Berwyn Heights, Md., launched by the Rural Resettlement Division, Agricul- ture Department. This brings the to- tal assigned there to 1,325, District officials said. Temporary D. C. Aid. The Resettlement Division is taking over several District transient lodges as housing here for the men working at Berwyn Heights. While the addi- tional 600 men are awaiting examina- tion and actual pay at Berwyn Heights the District will give temporary aid to them. This applies to those on the transient eligible list, dating back to September 20. Those transients not eligible for aid have filled the various missions. There are 500 or more needy vet- erans here, according to official esti- mates, who are awaiting provision of aid. Veterans’ Administration officials were expected to issue instructions some time today for their inclusion in the Civilian Conservation Corps camps. ‘The Logan Circle Transient Lodge, where 27 boys are housed while they continue in school, will be continued indefinitely, according to reports from Allen’s assistants. President Roosevelt and the Project Board of W. P. A. have approved & project for continuation of this plan as a W. P, A program, at a cost of $10,800, it was reported. Controller General McCarl will pass on wagrants for this project within two weeks, it was said. Commissioner Allen sent out assurances today the program would be continued by the District until the new works program is finally adopted. Infirmaries to Close. The two infirmaries conducted for the transient sick, the one for white persons and the other for colored, are to be closed tonight. Some of the patients will be directed to apply to the District’s regular clinic. Officials estimated there are more than 200 transients being treated for social dis- ease. The mess hall near John Marshall place and C street, where hundreds of transients have been fed, may be closed tonight. Relief officials were not_certain of this. The assignment of 600 additional transients to the Berwyn Heights project greatly reduced the number on the transient list not included in a permanent program. Officials could not say how many unemployables there were. They said 250 might be & good estimate. GLENN DALE WATER STILL BEING HAULED Well at Sanatorium Has Not Yet Been Restored to Use. The well at the Children’s Tuber- culosis Sanatorium at Glenn Dale, Picture No. 1 shows two tran- sients doing their final washing at the Logan Circle dormitory. They are Prank Relder of Pennsylvania and Roscoe Wolfe of South Caro- lina. No. 2 shows some of the clients at the transient shelter at Eckington place and Q street northeast occupying the double- decker berths. In No. 3 are shown some of the studious transients working at the Logan Circle dor- mitory. Left to right, are Antoni ‘Wozniak of Ohio, George O'Lanten of Texas, Phil Brooks of Kansas, Alexander Sarrano of New York, Lamar Branning of Mississippi and Nicholas Omologiw of California. The Logan Circle lodge wil con= tinue as an educational W. P. A. project, but most of the others will be discontinued or turned to other purposes. —=Star Staff Photos. THREE. ARRESTED INNARCOTICS CASE Two Women, Man Seized After Police Set Trap for Peddlers. A trap set five months ago for lead- ers of a drug-peddling ring that has operated in the District for two years resulted last night in the arrest of a man and two women charged with Helen M. Hamlizon. violating the narcotic act. They were held under $10,000 bond each. The trio—Andrew A. Lebolo, 24; Clara V. Hill, 22, and Helen M. Hamil- ton, 30, who gave their address as the 1600 block of Fifteenth street—were taken into custody on warrants issued by United States Commissioner Need- ham C. Turnage. Detective Sergt. Charles E. Mansfield of the headquarters narcotic squad arrested Lebolo near Fourteenth and R streets. The detective said he found three ounces of heroin on the seat of the man’s automobile. Shortly afterward, Mansfield, Detec- tive Sergt. D. H. Jones and Federal agents went to the Fifteenth street address and arrested the women. Numerous purchases of drugs had been made, Mansfield said, and $260 in marked money was seized at the time of the arrest. Described by police as “wholesalers,” the ring is believed to have supplied more than a score of “peddlers” with narcotics, which subsequently were sold to addicts. The transactions, police said, usually were made when known addicts called the agents by telephone and were met on a street corner. GIRL WHO MASQUERADED he LOBBYING PROB T BE E Chairman ~0’Connor of House Rules Committee to Confer Today. A date for resumption of the inves- tigation of lobbying activities against the Wheeler-Rayburn holding com- pany bill is expected to be fixed at a conference this afternoon between Chairman O’Connor of the House Rules Committee and William H. Col- lins, coungel for the committee. O’Connor plans to renew the in- quiry early next week and recall to the witness stand Howard C. Hopson, reputed “master mind” of the Asso- clated Gas & Electric Co. 2 Eluded Process Servers. Hopson was first questioned by the committee last Summer after eluding both House and Senate process serv- ers for several weeks. He also testi- fled before the Senate Lobby Commit- tee, headed by Senator Black, Demo- crats, of Alabama. O'Connor will recall Hopson to question him particularly about his personal income during the period he developed the Associated into one of the country’s largest holding corpora- tions. Previous attempts to get this information from Hopson were futile, but he vigorously denied reports that his income ran into the millions an- nually. Probe to Be Broadened. As soon as Hopson completes his testimony the committee will turn the spotlight of its investigation on four other large holding companies which are alleged to have participated in the extensive campaign to defeat the ‘Wheeler-Rayburn bill. William A. Roberts, people’s counsel before the District Public Utilitles Commission, said he would follow the progress of the investigation closely because of Associated’s threatened in- vasion of the Washington utilities fleld. - Associated recently acquired control AS BOY GETS. JAIL TERM Isabelle Messmer Sentenced to 60 Days on Seven Bad-Check Charges. Isabelle Messmer, the girl from In- diana who has been arrested here upon numerous occasions while at- tired in boy's clothing, today re- ceived her first jail sentence when she was sentenced by Judge Walter J. Casey in Police Court to serve 60 days on each of seven bad-check charges. The sentences, however, are to run concurrently so she will actu- ally serve only 60 days. The girl, a native of John Dil- linger's home town of Elwood, Ind., was arrested upon her return here after a year's absence. She is ac- cused of having passed $400 in worthless checks on three local de- CURRAN WILL PROBATED Bulk of Estate Left to Widow by Four Corners Man. ot the Virginia Public Service Co. N.R. A. EMPLOYES REDUCED T0 2,300 Weeding-Out Process Is Due to Be Completed Today. The force of the National Recovery Administration has about reached bottom for the present, the weeding- gu.c process due to be completed today e 'WITH SUNDAY NORNING EDITNN Plan to Tax Kentucky Colonels To Cost Jokester $100 Maybe ¢ Forced to Pay Levy for Baby. Edward Louis Stephens Day of Birth. JOKE played by Edward Louis A Stephens, 3435 Brown street, the Kentucky Legislature two years ago may have serious repercus- sions on his pocketbook—if it ever on Fish and Game Protection. Stephens introduced a resolution two years ago. All its multitudinous “wherefores,” summed up, meant the State of Kentucky was running short of cash and taxation sources. Then “That all honorary members of the Governor's staff (Kentucky colonels) be required to pay into the treasury $100 each® year, or upon the failure of such payment be divested of their title.” colonel who failed to pay off and who thereafter used the title of colonel would be guilty of g felony. % year after the resolution was intro- duced Edward Louis Stephens II was born. D. C. DEATH MYSTERY Insurance Payment at Issue in Shooting of Jess Bowers, ‘The United States Supreme Court turned its attention yesterday from such matters as constitutional law to came to a Washington merchant. The case was that of Jess Bowers, hardware store manager, who was in his store at 1311 Seventh street. 8. Del Vecchio, employer, and the Mary- land Casualty Co., holders of the dead & suicide and that awards under the Federal workers compensation act to be not justified. The last decision Ex-Legislator Would Be I Got Commission on while he was a member of finds its way out of the Committee “whereases” and “therefores” and the resolution resolved: of the State of Kentucky the sum of It was further resolved that each Now things are erent. About a HIGH COURT WEIGHS Merchant, in 1931. the question of how violent death found fatally shot September 10, 1931, man’s insurance, claimed the man was & lower court was that Bowers was EDWARD wux SN IL Before his first plaintive protest had re-echoed through the hospital cor- ridors, a bright and shining commis- sion arrived. Thus he became a Ken- tucky colonel on the day of his birth. ‘The commission is signed by A. B. Chandler, who was not even Governor at that time, but who was elected in the recent voting in the State. “Would you reintroduce your resolu- tion, now?” Stephens was asked. “Not me. And I hope it got lost in the Pish and Game Commitee,” he replied. $751,900 APPROVED FOR P.W.A. PROJECTS Action by Controller General Makes Funds Immediately Available for D. C. Approval of Controller General Mec- Carl of works progress projects for the District of Columbia in the sum of $751,900 was given today and the money became available immediately to local authorities of the program. ‘The projects approved follow: For landscaping grounds at the Tuberculosis Hospital, north of the building, east of Arkansas avenue and south of Allison street—$12,398. For sanitation work in mosquito control in the District, $33,372. For construction of service sewers, none of the work to be on private property, the Northwest section is to use $153,845; Northeast, $51,860; m&hnn. $16,239; Southeast, $102,- $18,859, and Southeast, $54,393. NAVY BAND TO OPEN n Sfap WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15 1935. %% NOVEMBER BRINGS TRAFFIC TOLL DROP Substantial Decrease Shoym in Comparison With October. A substantial decrease in the num- ber of traffic deaths and injuries was noted in a police tabulation for the first two weeks of November, as com- pared with the corresponding period 1ast month. Thus far this month three persons have died from automobile mishaps, against six during the first two weeks of October; 141 have been injured, in comparison with 179 for the first 15 days of last month. There also have been fewer acci- dents—318 being reported to date, against 368 for the first half of Octo- ber. Two Accidents Yesterday. ‘Two gccidents, neither of them re- sulting in serious injury, were re- ported yesterday. Michael J. Coffey, 80, of 1345 Girard street, was hurt about the legs when struck at North Carolina avenue and A street northeast by a car driven by Carl Anderson, 27, of 1707 D street northeast. He was treated at Casualty Hospital. Catherine Grubb, 12, of 3701 Four- teenth street, received injuries to her Mrs. Borah Jokes About Prospects For White House Mrs. Roosevelt Getting Kitchen Fixed for Her She Hears. By the Associated Press. Mrs. William E. Borah voiced dis- may today at the exuberance of her friends over her White House pros- pects. “It is the farthest thing from my thoughts,” she told an interviewer. ‘While Senator Borah 1s often men- tioned as a 1936 Republican presi- dential prospect, Mrs. Borah enjoyed spoofing about it. She told a story of her little niece in Boise, who said: “Oh, Aunt Mim, isn’t it nice of Mrs. Roosevelt to have the White House kitchen all fixed up for you?” Mrs. Borah's name is Mary McCon- nell Borah. She is the daughter of & Governor of the State for whom Bo- rah campaigned when he first arrived in Idaho from Nebraska. Sunny- haired gnd blue-eyed, she is as slim and trim as a debutante. She left Boise for Washington sev- eral weeks ahead of the Senator. AMNESIA THOUGHT DETAINING YOUTH Parents of Robert Carpen- ter of Takoma Park Ask Police Search. Fear that their son Robert, 15, had contracted temporary amnesia as a result of a recent illness from grippe, has led Mr. and Mrs, Daniel W. Car- penter, 6513 Eastern avenue, Takoma Park, Md, to ask citizens today to be on the lookout for the boy. Robert left for the Woodward School, Seventeenth and G streets, Tuesday morning with his brother : Richard, 16. Friends saw him outside the build- ing at the begin- ning of classes. He was last seen that night by a street car motor man getting off a. street car at Fourteenth and H streets. Recent Grippe L Sufferer. & His mother Robert Carventer. said he recently had been ill with grippe. This may have-caused tem- porary amnesia, the family physician told her. ¢ face when knocked down by a taxicab near her home. William H. Church, 1721 Bay street southeast, driver of the cab, took her to Garfield Hospital. Two Motorists Exonerated. Earlier yesterday two motorists were exonerated by a coroner’s jury inquir- ing into the deaths Tuesday of 21- month-old David Rosenberg, 4130 Georgia avenue, and Mrs. * Dorothy Bartley, 27, 1322 L street. The jury decided both cases were accidental in releasing Eugene Moore, colored truck driver, whose vehicle ran over the Rosenberg child, and Frederick M. Dahl, 27, of 215 Thir- teenth street southeast, whose car fatally injured Mrs. Bartley as she hurried to work. LOCAL ARTISTS’ SHOW OPENED AT PHILLIPS First Exhibition of Pictures for Sale Begins Tomorrow—62 Are Represented. ‘The work of 62 local artists will be presented et the Phillips Memorial Gallery beginning tomorrow, when for the first time jhe privately owned in- stitution opens its doors for an exhibit of pictures for sale. The works—including prints, draw- ings, olls and water colors—will be pre- sented continuously until January 1 and the artists showing will represent the best in the District and nearby Maryland and Virginia. Among them are George Biddle of Philadelphia, who 1s here working on three mural panels for the Department of Justice Building; Robert Gates of Washing- ton, one of the city’s outstanding younger artists in water colors; Aaron Sopher of Baltimore, e satirical car- toonist, who will show a number of sketches, and Herman Maril of Balti- mare, a young artist who works in oil. Concurrently with the exhibit at the gallery, some 16 paintings by Miss Doris Lee will be shown at the Studio House, 1614 Twenty-first street. Miss Lee recently won first prize and $500 in cash for her work exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute. Miss Adele K. Smith will have charge of sales at the exhibit. PERSONALITY HELD AID IN HOLDING POSITION G. W. U. Instructor Speaks at Y. M. C. A. Forum Urging “Behavior Control.” “Personality ‘trouble” is responsible for most failures in obtaining and maintaining employment, according to William M. Loman, psycholgy instruc- SYMPHONY CONCERTS | partmen The first of this season’s symphony BOWERS SLATED TO QUIT | Z0or ¢ | Envoy to Spain Rumored for Part in Roosevelt Campaign. When he left home, Robert was wearing a dark-blue lumber jacket with small green checks, a tan sweater, a brown polo shirt and long blue trousers. He wore no hat. His hair is light, eyes dark and he weighs about 105 pounds and is § feet 3 inches tall. Meanwhile, four more persons were | added to the missing persons list to- day. Jack Stout, 15, of 1468 Harvard street and Thomas Farrell, 13, of | 1459 Girard street, have been missing | since early yesterday, police report. Miss Sarah L. Hayes, 16, and Miss Mildred Hagen, 14, also have been missing since early yesterday. They were last seen to enter an automobile and drive away from their homes. Both were quoted as having said they were “tired of school” and had decided to take a trip. The girls live at 430 Fifteenth street southeast and 118 Seventeenth street southeast, respectively. Lawrence E. Payne, 14, of 638 Milwaukee place southeast and William Gregory, 14, who “headed south” several days ago, equipped with trav- eling necessities, were located in Greenville, 8. C,, the Woman's Bureau reported today. Beverly Walters, 13, of 705 Ken- tucky avenue southeast, missing since Wednesday when she left to “spend the night” at the German Orphan Home, Good Hope road southeast, also has been located, it was said. CARRIERS PLAN GROUP TO ADJUST DIFFERENCES Trucking and Railroad Industries Expected to Name Joint Committee. Appointment of a joint committee of the trucking and railroad indus- tries as & medium for adjusting dif- ferences between these two major branches of the*transportation fleld is expected soon, the American Trucking Associations, Inc., announced today. Such an sppointment was tenta- tively agreed upon yesterday during a confrence between John J. Pelley, president of the Association of Ameri- can Railroads; Ted V. Rogers, presi- dent of the American Trucking Asso- ciations, Inc., and Joseph B. Eastman, Federal co-ordinator of transporta- tion. After the conference, contact was- made with L. P. Orr of St. Louis, chairman of the Highway Transporta- tion Committee of the National Indus- trial Traffic League, and his co-oper- ation was requested. Further confer- ences are expected. ' FRANCES DEE MOTHER Second Son Born to Actress Wife of Joel McCrea. HOLLYWOOD, Calif,, November 15 —Frances Dee. actress-wife of Joel McCrea of the films, today gave birth a 6%-pound son. first child of the young movie l:m. Joel Dee McCres, now 17 ‘Woman Dies of Auto Injuries. Clara Lewis, colored, 68, of 6013 Eades street northeasp, died in Casu- alty Hospital today from injuries re- Society and General PAGE B—1 300 CHERRY TREES WILL BE PLANTED INDISTRICT PARKS 100 Single-Blossom Shoots to Replenish Ring at Tidal Basin. DOUBLE BLOOMS T0 GO TO EAST POTOMAC SITE Fall and Spring Program, Costing $3,000, Calls for Numerous Contracts. Officials of the National Capital Parks today acted to replenish the supply of Japanese cherry trees, an- nouncing a purchase of 100 of the sin- gle blossom variety and 200 of the double blossoms, as part of its plane ning for this Fall and next Spring. ‘The program will eost $3,000 for a wide variety of material to be pur- chased from nine different firms, some of them Washington nurseries, but others from as far away as Massachu~ setts. Frank G. Gartside, assistant super= intendent of the National Capital Parks, explained the single blossom cherry trees will be used as replace- ments around the Tidal Basin, while the doubles will be planted in East Potomac Park. The singles will cost $150 for the 100 and the doubles, $390. Gartside said 100 weeping willows are being purchased, as the park au- thorities have a rotating crop along the water front parks, and will use these to replace trees damaged by storms. Oriental plants, evergreen shrubs, dogwood, Japanese quince and new roses for the rose garden in Potomac Park also are being purchased. All the parks in the city, Gartside said, will benefit from the program, the cost of which is coming out of regular funds of the National Capital Parks. He believes that the Governe ment has again demonstrated the wis- dom of “shopping arcund” for its plant material by getting bids from a number of nurseries, for many good bargains are represented in the cure rent purchasing program, he said. CHILDREN THANK KIWANIANS FOR AID Crippled Pupils Tell Club Mem- bers How Lives Are Brightened. Four children warmly thanked the Washington Kiwanis Club yesterday for bringing them out of the darkness of the life of a cripple into the light of the everyday world. Miss Shirley Goldberg, former pupil of the Weightman School for Crippled Children, and now a sophomore at George Washington University, told the club she is studying to become a surgeon so she can help other cripples. Miss Goldberg became a Kiwanis case when she was 11. Gertrude Keren, 16, also a former pupil of the Weightman School, thanked the club for affording her the opportunity of receiving an education she otherwise would not have received. She was on the honor roll of graduates from Roosevelt High School. Doomed to spend life in bed with both hands and feet crippled, the Kiwanis Club made it possible for Belmont Poole, 15, to walk and even play some base ball. This came after eight operations at Children's Hospital. Yesterday, at the meeting at the May- flower Hotel, Belmont expressed his appreciation. Mildred Petry, another Weightman pupil, also thanked the Kiwanis mem- bers for making her life a happy one. SILVER TAX RULED NOT RETROACTIVE Court Upholds P. K. Hudson's Fight to Void Collection. Appeal Expected. Taxation provisions of the silver purchase act of 1934 are not retroac- tive, it was ruled yesterday by the United States Court of Claims. The case, brought by Percy K. Hud- son, involved profits of $8,621, which he made on a silver transaction just prior to enactment of the silver pur- chase law, which became effective on June 19, 1934. Hudson paid a tax of $4,311 on the deal, but immediately filed claim for a refund on the grounds the collection was void because it was through retroactive application of the tax law. The court, in announcing its finding, drew a contrast between an income and a transaction tax and pointed out the far-reaching effect if retroactive taxation of such dealings should be deemed proper. It was expected the case will be ape pealed by the Government to the Sue preme Court. WOMEN’S BAR HEARS GEORGE M. MORRIS Council Chairman Speaks at First Monthly Meeting of- Association. George Maurice Morris, chairman of the Council of the American Bar As- sociation and a member of the council for the District, addressed the first monthly dinner-meeting of the Wom- en’s Bar Association last night at the Admiral Club, 1640 Rhode Island avee nue. Morris spoke on co-ordination of the bar. Paul Hannah, a member of the local council of the American Bar As- sociation, discussed the movement for & junior bar association. Miss Helen Newman, law librarian at George Washington University,