Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1935, Page 5

GOVER BLL NS NHEATEDSETTO Rhode Island Avenue Speak- er Charges Intolerable D. C. Conditions. In a stormy session. the Rhode Island Avenue Citizens’ Association, one of the largest civic groups in the city, last night went on record as favoring the return of prohibition to the District. The approval was in the form of indorsement of the Guyer bill, scheduled for introduction in the next session of Congress and backed by the United Dry Forces. The measure had been referred to the Legislative Committee of the Asso- ciation at its last meeting, and this group presented a favorable report through Chairman Charles O. Pierce. Pierce attempted to preface the reading of the report with statistics and other data relative to “the liquor situation in Washington,” but was restrained by the presiding officer, Dr, E. M. Nelson, first vice president. The resolution offered by Pierce re- ferred to “the intolerable conditions which have obtained here since the repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment.” Authority for “Facts.” In reply to challenges by H. S. Huggins, secretary of the association, and W. S. Torbert, treasurer, Pierce gave Representative Guyer, Repub- lican, of Kansas, as authority for “facts” contained in the resolution. The statements complained of were in regard to the alleged prevalence of drunkenness and the number of establishments in Washington selling liquor legally and illegally. Motions to table the report and to postpone action until the next| meeting were shouted down by sup- porters of the resolution. The action of the Legislative Com- mittee was termed ‘“biased and prejudicial”’ by one member, while another accused the drys of “horn- swoggling tactics.” After the resolution had been ap- proved by a viva voce vote, Torbert called for a standing count, in order, he stated, “to record the sentiment of the old ‘wheel horses’ of the asso- ciation.” Huggins challenged the “ayes” as to whether their dues had been paid. All signified in the affirm- ative. William P. Thomas, chairman of the Membership Committee, declared that the vote could not be interpreted as indicating the feeling of the asso- ciation as a whole, the members hav- | ing no previous notice of the question’s | coming before the group. “As a result of what has happened here tonight,” | he added, “after the next meeting, I intend to leave the association.” Called Quick Deal. It was stated after the meeting by some members that they considered the drys had “put over a quick deal” References were made to the presence at the meeting of “people who hadn’t been around in years.” Richard Ledger, chairman of the Public Utilities Committee, announced indorsement by his group of the slid- ing scale gas rate settlement spon- sored by People’s Counsel William A. Roberts. [ Ledger also reported progress in | the compilation of data on complaints | ald suggested changes in street car afd bus service for presentation at| e public hearing before the Publi Utilities Commission beginning Mon- 'day. ‘The association authorized Ledger to expend $25 in erganizing | the material collected by the com- | mittee. A request that the commission con- | sider remedies for the inequality of | gas volumes in the mains of the area has been transmitted to the utilities body, Ledger further stated. The pos- sibility of a connection with the Prince | Georges County gas “holder” was suggested. Among the matters referred to committee at last night's meeting were: Request for lights on Twenty- fourth street, northeast, north of Bunker Hill road; plea for continued agitation toward securing the instal- lation of traffic lights on Bladensburg road northeast at the intersections of Thirtieth street and South Dakota avenue; complaint against excessive use of whistles by railroad engines in the territory, and a protest against the dumping of trash on the north- east corner of Twenty-sixth and Evarts street northeast. Two committees were elected: The first, to audit the accounts of the association, is composed of J. A. Duerksen, chairman; H. Hurlinger and O. A. Haines; the second, a Nominat- ing Committee, consists of W. S. Tor- bert, George F. Gee, E. G. Slevers, Fred M. Grant and J. P. May. Thirty new members were admitted to the group. ANCHOR CLUB MASONS NAME KERLIN PRESIDENT Malcolm Kerlin, administrative sec- retary to Secretary Roper, was elected president of the Anchor Club of Mas- ter Masons of the Commerce Depart- ment at a meeting Tuesday night at Schneider’s restaurant. Other officers: Clarence C. Weide- mann, vice president; John 8. Collins, secretary; Royal G. Best, treasurer; Albert D, Davis, sentinel. Bureau rep- resentatives chosen were E. W. Libbey, office of the secretary; Earl R. Strong, Air Commerce; Charles E. B. Holland, Census; Paul C. Whitney, Coast and Geodetic Survey; Ward T. Bower, Fisheries; Edward G. Balinger, foreign and Domestic Commerce; Adelbert B. Simons, Lighthouses; Edward V. Ben- ham, Patents; Alva E. Hennage, Ship- ping Board, and Harold B. Gardner, Btandards. Wed 50 Years ANNIVERSARY' OBSERVED BY LOCAL COUPLE. 3 MR. AND MRS. RICHARD BURGESS of 5233 Conduit road, who recently celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their home. i ~—Harris-Ewing Photo, « ¢ | ming construction camp. There were Tugwelltown C BY WILLIAM A. BELL, JR,, Staff Correspondent of The Star. UGWELLTOWN, Md., Decem- ber 12.—The Resettlement Ad- ministration’s first low-rental housing development is a long way from the house-and-garden stage, but just as far from the day two months ago when relief workers started to clear a site for the $5,500,- 000 project. Shepherded by Dr. Rexford G. Tugwell, resettlement administrator, after whom the project is nicknamed, & group of reporters who had not seen this area since work started October 12 toured it yesterday. | They found striking changes. Where once had been nothing but wild, tangled woodland was a hum- rows of neat pine tool houses and warehouses, a shelter for the work- men, two or three hundred men dig- ging, sawing and cutting. The smoke of dozens of brush fires smudged the | Winter air, while snorting tractors | snatched out 70-foot trees or hauled | logs to be stacked for lumber. With the smoke and -noise, the jagged stumps of trees and churned mud, it all suggested “No man’s land.” But rows of big numbered signs made one think of a golf driving range. | These, it was explained, are concen- | tration points for each labor crew. | The men report to their foremen and get their tools there. The change since October is appar- ent when a visitor leaves the concrete highway out of Berwyn for the yellow dirt roads of the project’s 9,000 acres. Berwyn, Md, on a site where “Tugwelltown,” rural resettlement’s low- rental community, is taking shape. Lowel Tugwell chats with workmen in the project’s nursery. Tugwell, Jesse C. Trimble and Stewart Wilson. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1935. onstruction Camp Hums With Work Two Months After Job Starts SLIDING GAS S[:AL[ Relief workers are shown in the top picture clearing woodland near Resettlement Administrator Left to right: ~—Star Staff Photos. | The roads are wider and better graded. | Groups of men, jobless until recently, are at work along the roadsides. Un painted frame guard houses, manned | by former transients now proudly | wearing nickel badges, have been erected throughout the area. “We have a lot of those little | houses,” an official said. “The fire | hazard in this woodland is pretty great at this time of year.” Dr. Tugwell and *his cohorts are especially interested in the project’s nurseries. There is a ‘“master” nursery and several smaller ones. The former | was visited by yesterday’s party. It is managed by & ruddy-faced, white- thatched Scot, Angus B. MacGregor. | Twenty-five years ago, MacGregor | was chief landscape gardener for the Duchess of Albany, aunt of the Prince | of Wales, on her estate at Claremont, Esher. He came to the United States | 11 years later and was I J. P. Morgan on his Long Island |in estate. With the coming of the de- pression, landscape gardening became | m be! to pl su of to thi fol ac la a “luxury profession” and MacGregor | next month, officials said. Eventual became a transient. His talent was dis- | it covered after he was enlisted on this | homes for an equal number of low- project from a District transient lodge. | in The master nursery cares for more | nearby Maryland commun will be rented, not sold. an athletic field is now being cleared. | see, is Chief of Police W. L. Payne's 5,000 plants. Dogwood, holly, fruit than $6,000 worth of trees and about | trees, magnolia, sweet gums, willowl A 82 an oaks, laurel selected from the land on the project are no longer called | habited part of the community. | Georges County, will be erected “Tug-| part of a community whenever they | welltown's” water tower, which Will |can find private employment. There | purposes. has been started on a dam to build | mittee investigating his qualifications | up behind it a body of water 16 to 18 | for appointment as Undersecretary of | feet deep. Officials plan to make the | Agriculture that he had worked on a | trees to grow down to the water’s edge | muddied yesterday tromping over they andscaper for | &nd otherwise leaving the surround- | Tugwelltown clearings. And Dr. Tug- NOVEL ing cleared have been brought there | transients, but simply “workmen.” develop for landstaping-the in-| They are taken out to the site daily |in busses from transient lodges :rd\ L Washington. They are not hous Water Tower Site. here because Dr. Tugwell feels they On a hill top called the Humphreys | should be free to sever their relief ace, the highest point in Prince | connection and become a permanent pply water not only to occupants | has been a noticeable reduction al- | the low-rental housing units but| ready in the number of former | private users nearby. At the foot of | transients, he reported. is hill a large area has been cleared | To a question by Senator Smith, r a lake tp be used for recreational | pemocrat, of South Carolina, as to | Yesterday's party walked | whether he had ever had mud on his ross what will be the lake bed. Work | hoots, Dr. Tugwell once told the com- ke as natural as possible, allowing | farm. He and all his followers got well | well had on shiny black oxfords, not boots. g scenery unaffected. 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Meeting at 11 a.m. the group took up proposed revision of the new schedule of rates submitied by the companies, consider suggested changes which would give some addi- tional benefits to the average domestic consumer. . It has been suggested this be ac- complished by transferring some of the proposed rate reductions from other brackets to the rates for the domestic consumer using from 4,000 to 8,000 cubic feet a month. Savings Estimated. ‘The new schedules originally pro- posed by the companies. commission officials figured, would permit « reduc- tion of 4 cents or less in the monthly bills of the large body of domestic consumers, who use gas only for cook- ing. Greater reductions were offered for those using gas for house heating and water heaters, Still greater re- ductions were proposed for the com- mercial and industrial brackets where there is heavy monthly consumption. The plan calls for an immediate net additional rate cut $305,000 below present rates, including the 85 per cent discount which has been in effect since the Summer of 1932. Altogether the gross cut is figured at $851,000, The conference today was to deal also with a proposed restatement of the framework of the sliding-scale plan, considered at a protracted con- ference yesterday afternoon, which ended after 6 p.m. Officials refrained from outlining the items discussed. Abrogation Discussed. From developments at the hearings it was presumed the group discussed the question of whether the compan- ies or the commission, without notice, could abrogate the sliding-scale pian and the question of allocation of properties, revenues and expenses of service of the companies to the su- burban communities beyond the Dis- trict lines. Many other items were understood to be up for reconsidera- tion. ‘Those attending the conferences were Utility Commissioners Riley E. Elgen, Richmond B. 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