Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1935, Page 19

Washington News 5 PER CENT GUT IN RELIEF STIPEND HERE IS SOUGHT End of Federal Dole. Puts Month’s Load Upon Fast- Shrinking Fund. ALLEN HOPES $100,000 GRANT WILL BE GIVEN Commissioner Hits Spending D. C. Appropriation Rapidly, With Budget Inadequate. District relief officials set to work today to reduce payments to all per- sons on the relief list by 25 per cent betore the end of the month, due to the end of the Federal dole. An immediate 10 per cent cut was being made today and the paring of disbursements will be stepped up as the month progresses. Even with this heavy slash, which had been anticipated, the District would be about $100,000 short in needed funds for the current month, unless that amount is forthcoming from the Federal Government. Commissioner George E. Allen Is confident a $100,000 additional grant will be given, however. He took up the matter with F. E. R. A. officials last month, before the Federal relief organization was de- clared abolished, and it is belleved provision was made to keep trom hav- ing to make too drastic and sudden a cut in relief disbursements here. 10,000 Cases on D. C. Rellef. Otherwise the District now is thrown back on its own resources to handle a relief load that now totals more than 10,000 cases. For the en- tire present fiscal year, the District had but $2,000,000 in its own oppro- pristion. This has been spent at the rate of $166,666 a month, to supple- ment Federal grants. The remainder could be exhausted in the next several months, but Commissioner Allen has held out against this, saying the Dis- trict would be utterly helpless to' meet its relief problem should Congress be slow in making a new appropriation. The administrative and service staff of the District relief organization also 15 to be cut by 25 per cent by the end of the month. There now are some £50 workers, including more than 200 case workers, About 3,000 of the 10,000 relief cases are expected to be transferred this week to projects under the Works Progress Administration, but they will not get W. P. A. pay until December 18 and will have to be cared for out of District funds until then. W.P. A. officials are considering projects to give steady work to some 2,500 others on the relief list who are believed employable, but until they are trans- ferred and drawing pay under W. P. A, they will remain on the relief list. 4,500 Are Unemployable. Officials estimate there are some 4,500 unemployables on the relief list, which must be cared for entirely out of District money. ¢ Commissioner Allen is hopeful that by January 1 all of the employables will be shifted to W. P. A. projects and that the District then will be able to care for the unemployables out of its own relief money. If the hoped-for extra $100,000 is not forth- coming, however, the District'’s relief problem will become all the more critical, officials say. Allen found that, without consider- ing this situation, it was necessary to order an immediate cut of 10 per cent in relief payments, which would have to be stretched to 25 per cent before the end of January, At the latest check the average payment to relief clients was about $30 a month. Under the present pro- gram this would be slashed to $22.50 by the end of December. Welfare Director Street explained, however, that some families are getting much less than $30 a month, and some more, depending on budget needs. e TWO BOARDS CONSIDER OFFICERS’ PROMOTIONS Naval and Marine Corp® Groups to Choose High-Ranking Men for' Advancement. Two selection boards met yesterday at the Navy Department, at the call of Becretary Swanson, to choose high- ranking officers for advancement. The Naval Board will recommend 6 new rear admirals and 22 new cap- tains, while the Marine Corps Board will propose 2 colonels to be pro- moted to the rank of brigadier general, about 10 lieutenant colonels to colonels, 8 majors to lieutenant colonels and 12 captains .to majors. President of the Naval Selection Board is Admiral Joseph M. Reeves, commander in chief of the United States Fleet, while the Selection Board of the Marine Corps is headed by Maj. Gen. James C. Breckinridge, who commands the Department of the Pa- cific at San Francisco, Calif. Each of the boards will be in ses- sion, under the law, for at least 10 days, making their recommendations— in the form of Christmas presents to the designees—to Secretary Swanson, who will transmit the lists, if he ap- proves, to President Roosevelt. When Congress convenes. in January the Chief Executive is expected to send the names to the Senate for con- firmation. CLUB TO ELECT SLATE Young Democrats to Hold An- nual Meeting Tomorrow. The Young Democrats Club of Washington will hold its annual elec- tions at the Cariton Hotel tomorrow from 7 until 10 p.m. /Royce Given, Charles Hannowell n‘d Doris Hospital Smyth are among ¢, Punal nominations, howere, wil 3 wever, H?findo election night., 1 he WASHINGTON, D. C, Meet Uncle Sam’s Sealer ca oAl | | - world. DELAY I URGED NTRANGITPROBE Citizens’ Official in Favor of Deferring Hearing Till Congr:ess Meets. Investigation of complaints of fail- ure of the Capital Transit Co. to pro- vide adequate bus and street car serv- ice should be delayed until January, the Public Utilities Commission was Association. ‘The suggestion for postponement of | the public hearings for December 12 was in support of a campaign by Peo- ple’s Counsel William A. Roberts to delay the commission’s move to correct failures in the company’s service until Congress again is in session. The commission recently served notice on the company it had been investigating complaints over a period of months and soon would hold a pub- lic hearing. While a formal order has not yet been issued, commission mem- bers informally have agreed on De- cember 12 as a date. This is within one day of the earliest date that could be set after giving due notice to the company. Commission members have taken the position the agency should act as promptly as possible to correct faults in service. By letter and by investigation of individual complaints from its own staff and the public, commission members say they have been seeking for months to get the company to place its operations in satisfactory condition. Convinced this had not been accomplished, the commission then called for a public hearing on the whole situation, commission mem- bers recalled. Roberts has argued the matter should go over until Congress meets, contending there would be a psycho- logical advantage if that was done. In his notice to citizens’ associations ask- ing them to send him specific state- ments of complaints against service, the peoples counsel stated the com- mission “has somewhat suddenly” called for a public hearing. ‘Wender, in a letter today to Roberts, said the Southwest citizens *regret very much the haste” with which the date of hearing was set. In a letter to the commission, Wender asked for postponement until after the holidays. DANCER IS BOOKED Nicholoff to Appear - Here in Jointly Sponsored Concert. Michael Nicholoff, a dancer for- merly associated with Paviowa, is to appear in a joint concert by the Lisa Gardiner Dancers and the Washing- ton Composers’ Club in Roosevelt Auditorium December 11 at 8:30 p.m. The recital, under sponsorship of the Community Center Department, will feature a number of well-known actors and composers. Tickets are available at the A. A. A. Ticket Bureau and at the Willard and Washington Hotels. Paper After They dug up the Hatchet at George Washington Univérsity today and sent it to' press with an increased circulation—and “flying chips” fall- ing here and there about the campus. Editorial difficulties precipitated by the resignation of five reporters were surmounted by the editors, who.pub- lished an account of the affair under the heading: “Flying Chips—Who Should Edit the Hatchet, the Reporters or the Editors?" Evidently the editors won, for the Hatchet was issued, to say among other things: “The Hatchet is at present faced with a question which sooner or later seems to arise within every similar organization—whether the responsible heads are to have actual-direction of affairs or whether this power is to be put in the hands of a minority group of disgruntled junior members. “Interest in this question has been precipitated by the resignation of five members of the Hatchet staff. The five are: 2 “Ethel Nelson, senior staff, member of the staff since September, 1833. “David Apter, senior staff, member of the staff since September, 1933 (ex- cept for a two-month previous similar voluntary retirement). “Charles Hallan, senior staff, mem- advised today by Harry S. Wender, | secretary of the Southwest Citizens' | “Howard Ennes, senior staff, mem- buo!mmfldn'eemmb&r.ll!‘ Ry MISS HELEN V. SCHROEDER, Clerk in the State Department’s appointment section, who affixes the Great Seal of the United States to about 1,200 documents each year. She is shown with the seal-placing device—the only one of its kind in the —Harris & Ewing Photo. CONSPRACY TRAL BEGHS TOMORRDH Former Internal Revenue Officials and Tax Consult- ant Are Defendants. ‘Trial of two former Internal Reve- nue Bureau officials and a tax con- i sultant for allegedly conspiring to disclose income tax information will begin tomorrow in District Supreme Court before Justice F. Dickinson Letts. The defendants are John W. Hard- grove, former associate chief con- feree; Henning R. Nelson, former auditor, and Frank B. McElhill, New York tax consultant. They are charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States. The Government claims thgt in the course of the conspiracy, Thomas N. McCarter, president of the New Jer- sey Public Service Corp., was ap- proached and told it might be possible to secure a reduction in a $140,000 extra assessment on his income. McCarter is said to have communi- cated with Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, who assigned investiga- tors to the case. The trial will bring the present and past district attorneys to opposing ends of the counsel table. United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett and his assistant, George McNeil, will prosecute the case, while former United States Attorney Leo A. Rover and Willlam E. Leahy will represent the defendants. BRIDGE PLAYER DIES OF SLEEP TABLETS War Department v.crk Fails to Recover at Hospital—Empty Boxes Found. A quantity of sleep tablets she ap- parently took while playing bridge Saturday night proved fatal yesterday to Mrs. Jean Edington, 34, a War Department clerk. Mrs. Edington, who lived at 121 Thirteenth street northeast, died in Sibley Hospital, where she was taken Sunday morning. Mrs. Edington had gone to play bridge with friends at their home in the 1300 block of F street northeast. During the game she complained of feeling sleepy. . She was allowed to sleep on a sofa and was left there when the others retired. Two empty boxes that had held sleep tablets, wtqh Mrs. Edington is said to have purchased before she went to play bridge, were found in her pocketbook, police said. Mrs. Edington has two children. Police say she was separated from ber husband, Wallace. 100 Men to Fight Mosquitoes. CHICAGO, December 3 (#).—Be- sides being pests, mosquitoes can be useful. They are to furnish work for 100 men on & $75,000 extermination W. P. A. project for mosquito abatement on Chicago’s North Shore. G. W. Hatchet Editors Publish Reporters Quit “Sam Katz, junior reporter, mem- ber of the staff since November 1, 1935 (one month of service).” ‘Miss Eleanor A. Heller, editor of the Hatchet and an employe of the Treasury Department, said today she would not be quoted directly, but wished the editorial to speak for itself. All ex-reporters who could be reached said they stuck to their res- ignations, but declined to be quoted further. “I used to be a newspaper man myself,” one of them told a reporter, “gnd I know what kind of a spot you're in, but I'm afraid I must say I have nothing to say.” The editorial, however, was more loquacious, and continued: “These staff members submitted written resignations giving, in effect, general displeasure and discontent as their reasons, and attempting to base their action on alleged failure on the part of the Hatchet to print two stu- ber of the staff since February, 193¢. | and REWARD OF $200 OFFERED 70 SPUR LORING SOLUTION ead of County Board Ex- presses Concern Over Slowness in Case. MT. RAINIER TIGHTENS PROTECTIVE MEASURES Baltimore Detective Agrees to Posting of Cash by Prince Georges Commissioners. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., Decem- ber 3.—In the hope of spurring the hunt for the slayer of Miss Corinna Loring, the Prince Georges County Commissioners today authorized a re- ward of $500. The reward will be formally offered by State’s Attorney Alan Bowle, who, with Lieut. Joseph Itzel, Baltimore de- tective in charge of the investigation, acquiesced in the plan to post a re- ward. Lieut. Ttzel had previously opposed such action, fearing he would be swamped with “bum tips,” but changed his view after a conference with Perry Eoswell, president of the county commissioners. “Now or Never.” Boswell believes police must find the slayer “now or never,” and is dis- | appointed that no one has been | charged with the crime despite the strenuous investigation carried on for the past three weeks by Lieut. Itzel, an ace of the Baltimore homicide squad. ‘The head of the commissioners thinks some one in possession of im- portant information may decide to turn it over to the®muthorities if a pecuniary reward is available. In response to public demand that some action be taken for better police protection in the town, the mayor and Council of Mount Rainier last) night ordered inauguration of a patrol | system, and voted to allow each town | bailiff $1.50 a night for gasoline and | ofl expenses. ‘The plan was sponsored by Council- man John E. Parsell after Mayor Nor- man A. Pruitt’s proposal that a ref- erendum on the question of increas- ing the number of paid town police- men from one to three be held at once was rejected. “Fan Mail” Probed. Having run out of all other clues, police investigating the Loring mys- tery yesterday resorted to interviewing the writers of “fan mail.” Several persons who wrote letters that con- tained promise of important fnforma- tion were seen. Nothing of value was obtained.from them, however, accord- ing to Lieut. Itzel. The detective said he also talked to Mrs. John DeVine of the 3100 block of Connecticut avenue, an elderly woman who employed Miss Loring to read for her. Mrs. DeVine was unable to give him any “lead,” Lieut. Itzel said. Deputy Sheriff William E. Clinton, one of the local officers helping Lieut. Itzel, went to the Washington Navy Yard to check on a man with a scratched face who disappeared about the time Miss Loring vanished. Late yesterday authorities here were told a man answering the description of the missing Navy Yard worker had been seen in Salem, N. C., and may send there to question him. Lack of tangible clues as well as inability to disprove the alibis of all who might be considered suspects is admittedly hampering the investiga- tors. Among the clues sought are miss- ing earrjngs and hat belonging to Miss Loring, and a late diary which, police believe, must have existed. The latest they can find ended in 1933. Victor Harrison Redmond, 42, Wash- ington restaurant manager, arrested on a charge of attempting to attack & 9-year-old Mount Rainier girl, will be given a preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace Gilbert Hughes in that town Thursday night, State’s Attorney Bowie said. Although they have questioned him at length, the Loring investigators have been unable to connect him with that case. 60 PCT. GAIN CITED BY TRANSIT CHIEF But Hanna Tells Takoma Park Citizens Revenues Up Only 25 Per Cent. John H. Hanna, president of the Capital Transit Co. last night told the Citiz:ens’ Association of Takoma Park, D. C., street rallway passenger traffic has increased 60 per cent since the merger of the lines two years ago. He added, however, that this im- provement in business has been ac- companied by a revenue increase of only about 25 per cent. The average fare for all passengers, including transfers, he sald, is now under 5 cents—the lowest in the history of the company. Hanna said the rerouting of down- town trackage probably will be com- pleted next Summer at an additional cost of about $1,000,000. The com- pany already has spent $750,000 for this purpose. He told the association no imme- diate extension of transportation facil- ities is planned for the Takoma Park section, which, he said, now has a greater variety of service in proportion to its size than any other section of the city. Hanna announced 15 additional busses will be put into service within the next few days. Total expenditures for improvement of the transportation service in recent years have aggregated $5,000,000 he-said. The following were elected members of the association: Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Myers, Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. Heiges, and Mrs. W. J. Schutrumpf, Mr. Mrs. Harry J. Quade Mr. and Harry T. Derr. Anti-Poaching Vessel. $§+ Mr. and Mrs. panese vessels, the A t has sent a fast launch to the of New Guinea. Y . T pening St WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1935. 4% Capital’s' Newest Bridge Near Completion Engineers are nearing completion of the new Calvert Street Bridge after more than a year's work. The bridge, which crosses Rock Creek Park near the Taft Bridge, will be completed about December 15 and will be formally opened and dedicated in elaborate ceremonies to be held December 19. Half the bridge was opened ¢ | to traffic several weeks ago. DRY FORCES HER PRESS CAMPAIGN Blame Repeal for Lax Morals and See Prohibi- tion Sentiment Growing. ‘The United Dry Forces of the Dis- trict of Columbia continued their campaign for temperance and prohibi- tion here at two meetings last night, | hurling charges that because of re | peal, mothers were “shooting their | sons,” and predicting that “national | prohibition will roll back like a mighty tidal wave.” Three more rallies will be held to- night at 8 o'clock as follows: Ninth Street Christian Church, Rev. J. H. Jope, chairman, and D. Stew- art Patterson, speaker. Ebeneger ~ Methodist Episcopal Church, Fourth and D streets south- east, Rev. F. F. King, chairman, and W. O. Tufts and John D. Hammond, speakers, Clarendon Methodist Church, J. Raymond Schmidt, speaker, Flays Liquor Traffic. Deets Picket of the Methodist Epis- copal Board of Temperance, Prohibi- tion and Public Morals told a group at the Mount Vernon M. E. Church South last night that “when the people of this country voted for repeal they did so because they were led to be- lieve that repeal would serve the cause of temperance. “They did not vote,” he said, “to turn this country over to the liquor traffic. For months they have been thinking the matter through and to- day millions of them have reached a decision. That decision is that the promises on which they predicated their support of repeal were atrocious falsehoods, that the men who made them had no intention of keeping them, that the difficulties under pro- hibition were trivial beside the conse- quences the country is now suffering from the ruthless promotion of the trade in alcoholic beverages. “The whole attitude of the liquor trade is, ‘you'll take it and you'll like it. If you don't want a liquor store in your residence district, that is just too bad, but—if drunks annoy you in the city library, just shut up about it. If your girl or boy is run over by a :‘r‘\’:{-nken driver, it's just anogher dead Declares D. C. Sets Example. “The City of Washington belongs to the Nation, and the Nation wants evi- dence here that Government is ranged on the side of the home, the church and the school, against liquor selling, legal or illegal, against commercialized gambling, against all of the activities which are in alliance with the under- world. The Nation is going to start back to recognition of moral prin- ciples in government and there is ample evidence that they think this a good place to start. “Mothers shooting thelr sons, young women debauched in dives licensed by government, a mounting consumption of every kind of intoxicant, broken and bleeding forms tossed into the gutters by drivers who have had ‘just a coupla bottles of beer'—that is the price of repeal, and the price which must be paid and paid again and again. The time has come to turn and go back, and when we get back we are going to have men with the intelligence and the stamina to deal with criminals, not trimmers and traders who surrender to them for money or place.” Former Police Chief Speaks. At Shiloh Baptist Church the speaker was John B. Hammond, former chief of police of Des Moines, Towa, and now research secretary of the National Civic League. Explaining the Guyer bill for pro- hibition in the District of Columbia, which temperance advocates are being asked to support, Hammond said this measure was a revision of the famous Sheppard law “with every evasion gap of that law closed.” Hammond urged the colored mem- bers of Shiloh Baptist Church to ab- stain from the use of liquor and nar- cotics as the “greatest enemies block- ing the advancement of their race.” “In my experience as an officer, covering many years” said Ham- mond, “Iedo not know of a single in- stance that I was called upon to prosécute & colored offendér who was at the time of committing the gFE sfie Weary Explaining Injury, Secretary Offers Typed Alibi By the Associated Press. Weary of explaining to every one why his right hand is wrapped in bandages, Russell M. Arundel, secretary to Senator Metcalf, Re- publican, of Rhode Island, has struck upon an idea. With his left hand, he simply shoves into the hands of the curious & neatly typed 250-word explanation. Briefly, the report explains that Arundel wanted to reach a book. He stood on a table. The table slipped. His hand hit a desk and a bone was fractured. BIDS ARE OPENED FOR Z00 BUILDINGS House for Mammals Will Have Room With “Arti- ficial Moonlight.” Among bids for three Zoo construc- tion jobs opened at the Treasury De- partment today was one for an ex- hibition building to house great apes and small mammals and to include a room equipped with “artificial moon- light.” Low bid for the latter building was submitted by the George Hyman Con- struction Co. in the sum of $257,000. ‘The “artificial moonlight” effects have been planned to stimulate the activ- ities of nocturnal rodents. To Be at Elephant House. ‘The structure contalning this room will be built onto part of the old oc- tagonal elephant house, now vacant. Runways and cages for the raceoons were moved to make way for the im- provement. Low bid for the great pachyderm house was submitted by Harwood- Nebel Construction Co., Inc., of this city in the sum of $280,600. This house will be of sufficient size to ac- commodate all three elephants now | crowded together into one small old elephant house, hippopotami, tapirs and others. It will be erected on the southwest side of the Zoo road, about where the Rocky Mountain goats used to be housed, at the lower end of the series of deer houses. Bid on Bird House. Low supplemental bid on the job of completion of the bird house was submitted by Charles H. Tompkins Co. of this city in the sum of $14,200. Another important construction job at the Zoo for which bids were recently opened is for a garage and mechanical shop connected with the central heat- ing plant. All of the new exhibition houses will be equipped with modern public com- fort stations. Decision probably will be reached within & few days by the Treasury De- partment and contracts awarded, so construction can get under way. Wools on Circuit Bench. WARRENTON, Va., December 3 (Special) —Judge Willlam P. Wools of the Corporation Court, Alexandria, is holding Circuit Court here this week in place of Judge J. R. H. Alexander, who is ill. One session of the court last week was held by Judge Philip Williams of Winchester. Woman Is Forced to Face Wall As Bandits Take Men’s Pants Divested of their trousers and shoes in the presence of a woman, four men blushed and frowned last night s two colored bandits went through their pockets, robbed the cash register of a liquor store at 1737 Connecticut ave- nue and escaped with nearly $300. The embarrassment of the quartet was lessened somewhat, however, when the woman, Mrs.. Helen M. Dowden, 26, daughter of Casius S. Larimer, proprietor of the ‘store, was made to face & wall after taking off her shoes, also. Bernard F. Kelly, 32, of 1325 Michi- gan avenue northeast, manager; Wellington Abrams, 1530 I street, and Mrs. Dowden were in the store when the bandits entered. A few minutes later, Andrew J. Dawson, 24, of 714 ‘Tewksbury place, delivery man, and Robert Malone of the Shoreham Hotel, , | & customer, came in. While a confederate stood guard outside, the two robbers proceeded with the hold-up, taking about $100 your| from the men's pockets, $2, & Com- merce Department pass and $1 worth —Underwood & Underwood Photo. D.CHEADS TOTALK ATBHIDGE OPENING Capt. H. C. Whitehurst Also to Speak at Calvert Span December 19. The three District Commissioners and Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director of highways, will be speakers on the program for the formal opening and dedication of the New Calvert Street Bridge December 19, it was an-| nounced today. Arrangements for the program were made yesterday at a meeting of the| general committee at the Harrington | Hotel, with George C. Shinn, chair- man, presiding. Earlier the group had chosen December 17 as the date for the opening. o Under plans mapped out yesterday, the parade will begin at 7 p.m. and | the ceremonies, which will take place | in the natural amphitheater between Calvert and Taft bridges, will begin | at 8:30 pm. _ Route Will Be Lighted. The whole line of march of the parade will be brilliantly lighted and huge electric signs at Eighteenth | street and Columbia road will direct visitors to the bridge. Col. John W. Oehmann of the District National Guard will be grand marshal of the parade, which will include a compos- ite regiment from the National Guard, units from the R. O. T. C., school boy patrol, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, vet- erans’ organizations and civic bodies. It was announced at the meeting that all building trade unions which have had a part in the construction of the bridge will have floats in the parade—about 12 in all. Heads of all citizens’ associations have been invited to meet at the Y. Society and General PAGE B—1 VIRGINIA AWARDED AIRPORT PROPERTY BY COMMISSION U. S. Gets Land East of Boulevard Under Com- promise Decision. GOVERNMENT EXPECTED TO RESIST SETTLEMENT Part of Bird Sanctuary Would Be Lost—Members of Body Irked by Leak. ‘The Washington Airport property and some contiguous land south of the Highway Bridge would be given to Virginia and all land east of the Mount Vernon Memofial Boulevard would go to the United States under & compromise decision rendered by the D. C.-Virginia Boundary Commis- sion. Although members of the commis- sion today refused to make public the official report, now at the Capitol, it was learned in responsible quarters that the commission arranged a prop- erty settlement which undoubtedly will be resisted by the Federal Gove ernment. Fought for Airport. The Government, through Depart- ment of Justice attorneys, had sought jurisdiction over the valuable airport * property on the grounds this “made land” at one time was under tidewater and within the boundaries of the Dis~ trict of Columbia. Judge G. A. Ivere son, chief of Government counsel, said he had received no copy of the report and, therefore, was not in a position to discuss it. Recommendations of the commis- sion must be ratified by Congress and by the Virginia Legislature. There . were indications in Government cire cles that pressure will be brought on Congress to reject the commission's findings, probably under the contene tion they conflict with decisions of the United States Supreme Court. Members Displeased. Malcolm 8. McConihe and William C. Gloth, members of the commission, expressed displeasure over the leak in the Commission’s findings, pointing oui the commissioners had agreed not to make the report public until Congress convened. Charles H. Brough, commission chairman, could not be reached for a statement. It was learned the report fixed a “line of convenience” 150 feet west of the Mount Vernon Boulevard to divide Federal and State jurisdfction along Roaches Run. This line ap- parently would cut through the bird sanctuary established by the Governe ment in this vicinity, raising a quese tion of divided authority over this preserve. U. S. Gets Gravelly Point. The report gives to the Federal s Government supervision of Gravelly Point, which has been discussed as a possible Municipal Airport for Wash ington. = In rejecting the Government's claim that District of Columbia jurisdiction extends to the far western side of the airport because the high water - mark of the Potomac River originally touched the mainland west of old Alexanders Island, the commission apparently held there was insufficient proof as to the location of the ancient M. C. A. tomorrow night to formulate [ Water mark in this area. plans for the participation of these organizations, Fireworks Display. The celebration at the bridge will | include a fireworks display, dancing and the singing of a song being specially written for the occasion. Shinn said efforts are being made to have both the Army and Marine bands take part in the ceremonies and that he expected them to partcipate. He said he would invite a yet unchosen member of Congress to speak on the program. Capt. Whitehurst, who attended the meeting, said he was confident that all work on the bridge, half of which was opened to traffic several weeks ago, would be completed and the con- struction debris moved away before the time of the opening. SEAL BOOTH OPENS Sale of Christmas Seals Begins at Woodwdrd & Lothrop’s. The first booth for the sale of Christmas seals was opened at the P street entrance of Woodward & Lothrop’s department store this morn- ing. Mrs. W. Prank Persons, a mem- ber of the Board of Directors of the ‘Tuberculosis Association, will direct the booth sales. Mrs. Stewart Hyans will have charge of the first booth, and others will be opened As fast as sites are secured for them. Brisk sale of the seals was announced today by Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, managing director of the association. . of car tokens from Mrs. Dowden’s purse and more than $180 from the cash register. In another liquor store hold-up two white bandits were nbt so successful. They took $35 from the store of Frank Del Vecchio, 1208 Eleventh street southeast, but left about $400 behind when they fled before the gunfire of a clerk. » The pair-entered Del Vecchio's es- tablishment shortly before closing time. whlkmhemumo:mthe proprietor and his helper, Nathan Lewis, 35; of 540 Eleventh street south- east the other bandit took $35 from Vecchio's personal Del Vecchio tossed a thick roll of Under the recommendations of the commission Arlington County would continue to exercise tax authority over the airport property and certain ad- jacent territory. The county and the States, through counsel, made a vigor- ous fight to retain control over this land, contending the whole area orige inally was a swamp and within Vire | ginia’s territorial limits. 'PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES’ DIRECTORS MEET Debate on Keeping Coalition Headquarters Out of Politics to Be Heard. The Board of Directors of the American Coalition of National Pa- triotic Societies was holding its ane nual meeting at the Carlton Hotel to- day to elect officers and determine coalition policies for the coming year. Resolutions demanding that the na< tional headquarters of the organiza- tion discontinue its political activity and devote itself more completely to efforts in behalf of national defense and anti-radicalism were to be pre- sented at sessions this afternoon by Rexford L. Holmes, national secretary- treasurer of the National Patriotie Council, a member of the American Coalition. Holmes charges coalition officers with promoting anti-New Deal propaganda without consent of the 117 member organizations. With the national chairman, John B. Trevor of New York City, presiding, committee meetings began at 10 o’clock this morning. The main business ses- sion was scheduled for 1:30 p.m. —_— D. C. LIQUOR RETAILERS MAY BUY OUT OF TOWN Commissioners Adopt Resolutian Permitting Purchase of Brands Not Obtainable Here. Effective next week, District retail- ers of alcoholic beverages may buy their supplies from out-of-town whole=- salers or manufacturers if they can show desired brands are beverages bearing desired trade names and can- not be obtained from licensed sources here in such quantities as to satisfy the immediate needs of the retailers. A regulation to this effect was adopte ed today by the Commissioners, in act- ing on the final draft of a plan which was made before it in principle last week by the office of the corporation counsel. The purpose of the action was to carry out the provisions of an amend- seen limp- ment to the District liquor act adopted at the last session of Congress, whichy