Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) / Fair and somewhat warmer today; to- morrow rain and warmer; gentle to mod- erate east, shifting to southeast and south winds. Temperatures—Highest, 47, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 30, at 7 am. yes- Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and Every Afternoon. terday. Full Report on Page B-3. P) Means Associated Press. No. 1,016—No. 33,549. e Enterec. as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. he WASHINGTON, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, iy Stae MARCH 8, 1936—116 PAGES. * FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS " |TEN CEN7 l ELSEWHERE FRENCH RUSH FRONTIER DEFENSE READY TO USE TROOPS TO FORCE GERMANS OUT OF RHINELAND AREA Will Try Peace| Overtures First. FULL QUOTAS GO TO FORTS European Capitals Tense as Crisis Nears. BACKGROUND— New line-up of European powers has been taking shape rapidly in recent months. First major disturbance in status quo which had eristed somewhat unevenly since end of World War came about year ago when Ger- many renounced military clauses of Versailles treaty and openly began to rebuild army and navy. Since then Germany has returned to real status of major power. Second major action was Italian aggression against Ethiopia last Fall, resulting finally in wide rift between Britain and France on one hand and Italy on other. More recently France formed al- liance with Soviet Russia while Germany became assured of close co-operation of Poland and ap- proached “understanding” with Italy. Britain, although party to naval agreement with Germany, has pub- licly admitted Rhine River is her “eastern frontier” and undoubtedly would stand with France if war developed in that area. By the Associated Pre. PARIS, March 7.—French officials declared that tonight France was ready to use her army, supported by her allies, to compel Germany to evacuate the Rhineland, but that France first would exhaust the peace- ful methods possible under League of Nations. This declaration followed an order by military authorities that all forti- fications along the northeast frontier be garrisoned immediately with their full quotas of troops. The order was issued shortly after the French government decided to do its “utmost” under the League cove- nant to compel Germany to take its | troops out of the Rhineland. May Ask Sanctions. Officials declared France would ask the League to vote economic and fnancial sanctions against Germany. Remilitarization of the Rhineland violates the Treaty of Versailles, the pact by which the League also was created. In authoritative quarters it was stated France would ask Great Britain, Italy and Belgium, co-signa- tories of the Locarno pact, which Hitler denounced, to demand immedi- ate evacuation of the Rhineland. This request will be made, it was said, after the League acts on the vio- lation of the Versailles and Locarno treaties. Russia and Czechoslovakia, it was stated by French officials, have prom- ised France their unlimited backing | against Germany's abrogation of Lo- ! carno. France Pledged Aid. Ambassadors of the two nations, | officials declared, told French For- | eign Minister Pierre-Etienne Flandin | that their governments were with | France “to the limit” in any action egainst the Reich. Authorities said that despite the (See FRENCH, Page A-3.) - FOUR KILLED BY BLAST Rock Pit Explosion Rends Big Hole in Earth, MIAMI, Fla, March 7 (®».—R. H Mills, 38, a gravel contractor, and three unidentified colored men, were killed today in a dynamite blast in a sock pit on the outskirts of Miami. Mills died soon after being taken to & hospital. The explosion knocked & hole in the ground large enough to bury a two-story house. The force of the explosion smashed and shook houses in a two-mile area, and crumpled the corner of a nearby house. the | Rhineland Hails German Troops After 18 Years Flag-Bedecked Cities Stage Parades in Celebration. | By the Associated Press. | COLOGNE, March 7.—German sol- | diers who started their march into the forbidden Rhineland early this morn- ing were sleeping peacefully in bar- racks tonight. Rumors had been circulated for months that barracks were being pre- pared in the Rhineland, and they proved true. Hospitals and dwelling houses had been quietly remodeled for the troops’ occupation. It was the first time in 18 years— since the close of the World War— Rhineland with the announced sanc- tion of their government. (Some French military men have | cherged Germany for some time has had troops, exclusive of police and other forces permitted there, to the supposedly demilitarized zone.) ‘The arrival of the goose-stepping | German soldiers was welcomed by the | populace of all the towns to Which |garrisons were sent. There wert (See RHINELAND, Page - DUCE CONDITIONS Indicates in Reply to League Plea. | By the Associated Press. ROME, March 7.—Flanked by an imposing array of conditions, Italy’s ipeal for peace in Ethiopia was dis- | patched to Geneva today in a teno! iterminauon to get what he started after. | The reply resolved itself down to | this, after a meeting of the cabinet: | First, Italy’s peace conversations | will be conditioned on the realiza- tion by both the League and Em- peror Haile Selassie that Italy is in | Ethiopia to stay, both in territories | already conquered and in others will be wielded; the territory where Italy's influence must be felt, it was explained, is “defined by past trea- ties.” Armies Not to Stagnate, Second, Italy does not intend to let her African armies stagnate. If Fthiopia wants peace, it must seek it with an eye on the Italian mailed fist. 11 Duce made it plain that “equal- ity” ds between Italy and Ethiopia does not exist in the Italian lexicon. Hostilities cannot cease, he said, un- til Italy's needs and demands are satisfied. Thus did Mussolini accept “in prin- ciple” the appeal of the League of Nations for peace in East Africa. Significant was the point that the Italian conditions include the zone of influence which would have fallen to Italy under the peace proposal formu- lated by Sir Samuel Hoare, the then British foreign minister, and Pierre Laval, then the French premier. An excellent authority divulged the inclusion of the Lake Tana area. The lake is the headwater of the river Nile. Ethiopia Accepted Proposals. Ethiopia had accepted the peace pro- posals of the League of Nations’ Com- mittee of 13 without reservation. The League asked for consideration of a peace formula, holding in abey- ance for the moment the question of imposing additional sanctions against Ttaly. Prior to Mussolini's announcement, informed sources said he would insist existing economic penalties be lifted before peace could be discussed. Marshal Pietro Badoglio, command- er-in-chief of the Itallan armies in East Africa, telegraphed today that Tigrean Galla tribesmen continued to harass fleeing armies of the enemy in 8hoa province. House May Adjourn Early Leaving Senate to Try Ritter By the Associated Press. Separate adjournment of House and Senate to allow House members to go home to their campaigning while the Senate holds the impeachment trial of Federal Judge Halsted L. Ritter was discussed yesterday by Senate leaders. Senator McNary of Oregon, the Re- publican leader, broached the idea to Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the majority floor chieftain, as a means of preventing the trial from holding up May 1 adjournment plans. Robinson reserved decision, believ- ing it might be possible to hold the trial while the Senate is awaiting House passage of the tax bill. McNary's idea was to have both Houses clear their slates of essential business and then adopt a joint reso- ) lution allowing the House to adjourn sine die. The Senate could then pro- ceed with the Ritter trial without holding House members in Washing- ton when their minds are on home campaigns. Under the Constitution, one House can not adjourn longer than.three days without the consent of the other. McNary said a joint resolution would solve this, He said, however, that Robinson, before making any decision, wanted the Senate this week to dispose of the Capper amendments to the stock- yards act, the Gore Panama Canal tolls revision bill, and the anti-chain store rebate measure. Then, if pend- ing appropriation bills are out of the way and the revenue legislation is still (See ADJOURNMENT, Page A-16.) ] > | that German troops have been in the | PEAGE APPROVAL' |Italy in Ethiopia to Stay, He reply to. the League of Nations' ap- | | bespeaking Premier Mussolini’s de- | i where a semi-mandatory influence | < 15,000 NazisGo Over Forbid- den Lines. 'HITLER SEES | PEACEINMOVE Offers to Sign New Treaties as He Spurns Old. (Copyright. 1036, by the Associated Press.) BERLIN, March 7.—Germany re- established the “watch on the Rhine” today. By command of Reichsfuenrer Hit- ler, her troops crossed the famous little river. regiment by regiment, to | take up the posts once held by the Kaiser's armies on the frontier of | | France. The number was reported | | to be 15,000. 5 | Hitler called the action a precau- | | tion against communism and France's | | “iron ring around the Reich.” 1It| | smashed the Locarno pact and the ! emnants of the military clauses of | the Versailles treaty. Der Fuehrer declared that Germany, reborn as a world power, was ready to re-enter the League of Nations, but as a comrade, rather than as a con- quered nation. Hitler Calls Election. Then, in an effort to prove that his act was the will of the German peo- ple, he dissolved the nation's par- | llament. the Reichstag, and ordered elections for March 29. It is the composition of the Reichstag which determines the government of Ger- many. Hitler called his action a move for peace. He offered to sign a 25-year non-aggression pact with France and Belgium, with Great Britain and Italy as guarantors. He offered friendship to Lithuania and Czechoslovakia. He assured Poland that Germany had no designs on Pomorze, the Polish orridor to the Baltic sea. (But the French and Belgian gov- | ernments, alarmed, canceled all leaves for their soldiers. The British | government consulted immediately | with diplomats of Belgium, France | and Italy, the co-signatories of the Lecarno pact.) Dramatic Suddenness. ‘The German government's action | was delivered with the suddenness so | characteristic of Hitler. He called the members of the diplomatic corps, in- | cluding William E. Dodd, United States | Ambassador, to his chancellery and " (Se¢ GERMANS, Page A-4) - San Quentin Gets New Head. SAN QUENTIN PRISON. Calif., March 7 (#)—The State Board of Prison Directors appointed Warden Court Smith of Folsom Prison warden of San Quentin Prison today, suc- ceeding Warden James B. Holohan. In resigning recently, Holohan said he felt he had been “sitting on a powder keg” because of the crowded conditions. Readers’ Guide PART ONE. Main News Section. GeneBra‘lz News—Pages A-1 to Changing World—A-3. Washington Wayside—A-10. Service Orders—A-12. Lost and Found—A-13, Death Notices—A-13. Educational—B-4, B-5. Sports Section—Pages PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial Articles—Pages D-1, D-3. Editorials and Editorial Fea- tures—D-2. Civic News and Comment—D-4. Veterans’ Organizations, Nation- al Guard and Organized Re- serves—D-5, D-17. Women’s Clubs, Parent-Teacher Activities—D-6. . Cross-word Puzzle—D-7. Stam, -D-8. Serial Story—D-8. PART THREE. Society Section. Society News and Comment— Pages E-1 to E-10. Well-Known Folk—E-5. ‘Barbara Bell Pattern—E-7. Resorts—E-11. » PART FOUR. Feature Section. News Features—Pages F-1 to F-4. John Clagett Proctor’s Article on Old Washington—F-2. “Those Were the Hagg Days,” by Dick Mansfield—F-2. - Radio News and Programs—F-3. Stage and Screen—F-5. Automobiles—F'-6. Children’s Page—F-17. Highlight's of History—F-T. PART FIVE. Financial and Classified. Financial News and Comment, Stock, Bond and Curb Sum- maries—Pages G-1 to G-5. Classified Advertulni- Pages G-5 t0 G-15. _ ada [ B-7 to THE HOLDOUTS! N NEgsoéAL = \\ TRAINING CAMP STRIKERS TIGHTEN GRIP ON NEW YORK Time Drive to Cut Week End | Trade of Hotels and Theaters. BACKGROUND— Long-time controversy between Building Service Employes’ Union and Realty Advisory Board in New York City was climaxed on Monday by strike call. As week progressed, st-ike area ertended through most of uptown residential sections, Har- lem, the Bronz and part of Grand Central zone. Attempting to expedite settle- ment are Mayor La Guardia and Ed McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor. Issues are wages, hours, closed shop and certain working conditions. Union has won victory in some individual realty concerns. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, March 7.—Timing | their drive to hit the week end tran- | sient business, building service strik- | ers tonight strove to disrupt Gotham's | hotel and theatrical centers. By ordering walkouts at half a hun- dred hotels they created a situation that was called serious, as it affected | week end receipts. At the same time the striking ele- vator operators, porters and other b_ufldmg workers tightened their picket lines at hold-out apartment houses. A definite falling off of week end res- ervations was reported by theaters and night clubs. Miners Change Hotels. Chris Houlihan, head of the union's hotel division, said 45 members of the United Mine Workers of America, here to negotiate a new anthracite coal con- tract, had shifted their quarters from the Hotel Commodore to another hos- telry “approved” by the union. Brooklyn and Queens building own- ers awaited week end developments, wondering whether threats to carry the strike into those boroughs would materialize. Meu.nwhfle. the Realty Advisory (See STRIKERS, Page BOMB FOUND IN MAIL Chancellor Flint of Syracuse U. Addressee of Death Package. SYRACUSE, N. Y., March 7 (®).— A package addressed to Chancellor Charles Wesley Flint of Syracuse Uni- versity containing a nitroglycerin bomb and an ace of spades, was dis- covered in the Syracuse post office this afternoon. No clues as to the sender were found immediately by post office inspectors. Chancellor Flint, to whose Syracuse home the package was addressed, is on a vacation at Miami, Fla., but his wife is at home here. C now firmly- established, newsstands, city-wide. tional 5000. BLUE STREAK Noon Edition The Noon Edition of The Star is the only newspaper in Washington containing the day report and news wirephotos of the Associated Press with all of the news up to the minute of going to press before 12 o'clock. The sale of the new BLUE STREAK edition is If you are not able to get a copy promptly, please advise the Circulation Department, Na- Two Men Give Up, They Can’t See Mae She Avoids Deputies By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, March 7.—A couple of men tried all day to go up and see Mae West. No luck. | | They were sheriff’s deputies. | In their possession was a court order, received today by mail from New York, directing the blond movie actress to refrain from denying that Frank Wallace, a vaudeville actor, is her husband. Tonight the officers still had the order. LABOR ACT UPHELD IN THREE AGTIONS Judge in Wagner’s State Denies Injunctions Against Board Hearings. By the Associated Press. ROCHESTER, N. Y, March Constitutionality of the national labor | relations act today was upheld by | United States District Judge Harlan | HOOVER ATTACKS NEW DEAL TAXING Says Administration Failed in Task of Re-employing Jobless. By the Associated Press. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., March 7.—Former President Herbert Hoover told a cheering audience of Colorado Young Republicans tonight the New Deal had failed in its biggest job—‘re-employing the jobless.” SENTIMENT GROWS IN SENATE AGAINST LUMP-SUM SLASH Capper Characterizes $3,- 000,000 House Cut “Un- fair and Unreasonable.” CITY HEADS PREPARE RESTORATION ARGUMENT Deficit of $800,000 in Revenue Seen if Bill Is Passed Without Supplemental Funds. Read “Errors and Half-truths"— Page A-6. Sentiment against the $3,000,000 House cut in the Federal payment to- ward next year's District appropria- tion bill was developing in the Senate yesterday, as the Commissioners pre- pared justifications for restoration of budget items totaling $697,417, stricken from the measure by the House. Senator Capper, Republican, of Kansas, long a close student of Dis- trict problems, characterized as “un- fair and unreasonable” the reduction of the Federal share from $5,700,000 to $2,700,000. As it passed the House, | the bill carried a total of $42,573,283. | which would make the Federal share only about 6 per cent of the total. The date for beginning Senate hear- ings has not been fixed, but is expected to be within a week or 10 days. | Federation Urges Fight. ‘The Commissioners were urged last night by the Federation of Citizens’ Associations to make a fight for | restoration of the Federal payment, | at least to the $5.700,000 recommended by the Budget Bureau.” Action was taken unanimously without debate on motion by L. A. Carruthers. chair- man of the Fiscal Relations Commit- tee. The Federation many times has gone on record protesting the inequity of | the practice of Congress appropriat- ing progressively smaller lump sums FIRE IN SOUTHEAST HITS LUMBER YARD AND MANY HOUSES | 10 or More Garages, Sheds, 9 Homes Destroyed or Damaged. 15,000 CROWD KEPT IN CHECK BY POLICE ‘Many Suburbs Send Aid te Sec- | tion Near Navy Yard—Damage Held to $50,000. | A lumber yard and 10 or more ga- rages and sheds were destroyed, 12 other buildings, including nine resie dences, were damaged and the South- east Washington ges plant and two automobile service and repair yards were threatened in a spectacular five- alarm fire, which called out between 50 and 60 pieces of fire apparatus early last night. The entire square from Eleventh to Twelfth and N to O streets southeast, between the Washington Navy Yard and the gas plant, was threatened and virtually every structure in the north half of the square was destroyed or damaged. The value of the damaged buildings was low, however, and Fire Marshal Calvin Lauber’s preliminary estimate piaced total damage at bee tween $40,000 and $50,000. Flames at one time shot up to be- tween 60 and 100 feet and the blaze was visible over most of Washington and nearby Maryland. The fire ate tracted crowds estimated at from 10.- 000 to 15.000. resulting in traffic jams extending many blocks from the cen= ter of the blaze. Special police de- | tails were called to handle traffic, ! Communities Send Firemen. Volunteer firemen from Cabin John, Bethesda, Hyattsville. Silver Spring and-other nearby communities were {brought in to man outlying District fire houses, which rad sent apparatus to the fire. The baltimore Fire De- partment also volunteered aid. A gen- eral notice to report for duty was sent Drumming his fingers upon a table, | 85 the Federal share of costs of the to all available firemen at their homes, he emphasized that this was so de- spite an increased tax burden of which “the new taxes of today are | but a part.” The Colorado Springs Auditorium, seating 3,100, virtually was filled to capacity. As he read his address, Hoover clasped and unclasped his hands in front of him. His sallies against the Roosevelt administration brought frequent applause. Hailed As “Liberalist.” Gordon Allott of Lamar, Colo., per- manent State chairman for the Young Republicans, introduced Hoover as “a real liberalist, not the anarchistic, communistic, socialistic type that we have now.” One item in administration legisla- ‘W. Rippey in the first decision on the measure’s validity in the home State of its author, Senator Robert F. Wag- | ner, Democrat. Judge Rippey dismissed three actions | brought in the western district of New York attacking the act’s validity | and denied motions for injunctions to restrain the Third Regional Labor Relations Board from conducting hearings on complains of employes. | Plaintiffs in the three actions were | the Precision Castings Co. of Fayette- | ville, N. Y., and the E. I. du Pont de | Nemours & Co., and the Du Pont | Rayon Co., of Tonawanda. The Du | Pont companies brought two actions. | Third Decision of Kind. | The decision was the third in the country on the constitutionality of | the Wagner act. About two months | (See LABOR, Page A-16) SUSPECTED SPY CASE IS PROBED IN FRANCE | Sentry Says He Was Felled From Behind Near Secret Fortifications. By the Associated Press. NANCY, France, March 7.—The French general staff investigated to- day a suspected spying case in which a sentry at one of France's frontier fortifications was wounded. Officers questioned the sentry, who reported that persons prowling near secret fortifications failed to halt at his command and that he fired sev- eral shots. He said he was struck from behind and lost consciousness. (Nancy is near France’s northeast border, southwest of Saarbruecken.) through newsboys and tion came in for favorable comment: “The New Deal regulations of stocks and security promotion in various aspects have the right objectives. They were hastily and poorly formed without proper consideration by Con- House bill should be enacted without & | jnstant, gress. But they point right.” Common Man to Foot Bill. After indicting the administra- tion's “planned economy” &s en- dangering the Constitution, charging it with waste and ill-founded finan- cial policies, the former President asked: “What of the taxes that will ooze from this spending and debt all your lives?"” “Do not mistake. The new taxes of today are but part of them. More of them are as inevitable as the first of the month. The only alternatives are repudiation or No matter what nonsense you are told about corporations and the rich pay- ing the bill, there will be two-thirds of it for the common man to pay after the corporations and the rich are sucked dry.” He said that election day 1932, the American Federation of Labor re- ported 11,600,000 unemployed. “Today, after three years of the New Deal,” he said, “they report 11,- 600,000 unemployed. To get these people back on jobs was the outstand- ing job of our Government. It was the excuse given for all these doings. “But the grim fact remains that it T (See HOOVER, Page A-4) CUMMINGS LIKELY TO QUIT PARTY JOB Pressure Put on Democrat Treas- urer by Chiefs to Resign. ‘The resignation of Walter J. Cum- mings of Chicago as treasurer of the Democratic National Committee is ex- pected by the Democratic high com- mand here within a few days, it was learned last night. Cummings. it was thought, would give pressure of private business as his reason for stepping out, but it was learned on good authority that other high officials of the committee have hinted strongly that he should not continue as chief fund raiser of the party in view of his holding lucrative positions with corporations which have received loans from the Recon- struction Finance Corporation. Cummings’ connection with bene- ficlaries of R. F. C. loans was first brought to public notice last week by Senator Couzens, Republican, of Michigan. The propriety of & man holding lu- crative appointments from corpora- tions “under the domination of the R. F. C.” also serving as treasurer of the political party in power, Senator Couzens thought highly questionable. j National Capital. | Draft Justification. | The Commissioners drafted the | justifications in response to the re- cent letter of Senator Thomas, Demo- i crat, of Oklahoma, in charge of the bill in the Senate. Following his cus- tom of former years, he requested the city heads to point out changes they deem necessary in the House bill. | chairman of the Senate subcommittee, | Senator Thomas is refraining from ' comment on the House provisions while the bill is awaiting Senate con- sideration. In addition to voicing his opposition to the cut in Federal payment, Sena- tor Capper expressed himself in favor jof | health and hospital facilities. Indicating the possibilities of a local i boost in taxes, it is shown there would | tween $800,000 and $900.000 if the | dollar of supplemental appropriations !being passed later as an addition to llsas appropriations. | Supplements Essential. | The Commissioners will have before | the Budget Bureau tomorrow supple- | mental items totalling nearly $1,400,- 000, which, if passed, would raise the deficit at the end of the next fiscal year to some $2,200,000 on the basis of the House bill. District officials say all of the proposed supplementals are essential. The major item is a re- | quest for $608,008 for relief from now !Jnfil July 1, to prevent desperate hard- | ship for nearly 10,000 cases on the |roster. Present available District | funds for relief will be exhausted by | April 15. | 1 $697,000 of essential items for next | year from the budget as sent to Con- gress in January, it inserted other new items, which raise the total $908,- 000 above the budget total, despite the sharp cut in available revenue as a (See D. C. BILL, Page A-6.) R N PILOT’S BODY FOUND Great Salt Lake Yields Corpse of Airman Missing 5 Months. SALT LAKE CITY, March 7 (#).— Discovery in Great Salt Lake of the body of Glenn A. Lenz, copilot of the Standard Oil Co. plane which disap- peared en route here from Oakland, Calif., last October, was reported to .the sherifl’s office today. The bodies of two other victims were washed up soon after the plane was lost. As | the budget estimates for public | be a deficit in District revenues of be- | While the House cut more than | | but was canceled within a few min- | utes. i The fire, of unknown origin, appar= enly started about 6:45 o'clock in the lumber storage sheds of Galliher & Klimkiewicz, Inc., occupying most of the northeast quarter of the square. The sheds were roofed over and ap- parently the fire was well under way before discovered. Residents of the damaged houses reported that the lumber sheds were a raging inferno when they discovered the danger, and within a few minutes garages and fences in the rear of the houses along N and Eleventh streets were ablaze. Several alarms were turned in al- most simultaneously from boxes in the neighborhood. “We were at supper when the fire | was discovered,” said Mrs. Emma Day, 1320 Eleventh street, whose house was one of those damaged. “Every one at the table seemed to hear the roaring of flames and smell smoke at the same The whole lumber yard was ’ holer RAIL UNITY ACTION | URGED BY EASTMAN | Rising Tide of Traffic Makes Time Ripe to Push Co-ordi- | nation, He Says. By the Associated Press. SIOUX CITY, Iowa, March Joseph B. Eastman said tonight that “the time is now ripe” to push raile road co-ordination projects. Addressing the Sioux City Chamber | of Commerce, the Federal transporta= tion co-ordinator asserted that unifi- i cation projects thus far have been delayed because they require “much |study and preparation,” and because | of restrictions against reduction of Jobs caused by co-ordination. Unless extended by Congress, Easte man’s office will terminate June 16. He has recommended that it be cone tinued for at least five years. “As I see it,” he declared tonight, | “the time is now ripe for definite and persistent action. “The tide of railroad traffic is ris- ing. That means that unnecessary and wasteful work can be avoided with less disturbance of employment, because new work will come in with the swelling traffic to take the place of much that is eliminated.” He added that it should be possible “to arrive at a reasonable plan of come pensation for any displaced employees Wwho can not at once be reabsorbed.” BY GEORGE W. HURD. Probation work in Police Court will be practically wiped out and more than 900 men and women now kept out of jail and allowed to earn a livelihood will have “to root for them- selves” if Representative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas succeeds in his efforts to cut the probation office force. Although there are now 952 active cases on probation, the office has only three probation workers for the four courts. The court has been al- lowed four by an act of Congress March 4, 1919, but the force was re- duced to three with the recent death of Mrs. Katherine Mankin. Under the District appropriation bill as passed Friday by the House, only two would be allowed, Cut in Funds Would Cripple Police Court Probation Work Under the act passed by Congress June 10, 1910, creating the probation system in the Police and Supreme Courts of the District, “probation offi- cers shall carefully investigate all cases referred to them by the court.” Under the present system, investigae tion must of necessity be haphazard and incomplete. Only R. E. L. Smith and Joseph N. Sanford are available to make investigations and handle all other work outside the office, since the entire time of Mrs. Minnie Meeks is taken up with office work. The act establishing the proba- tion system provides that any person convicted of any offense, “except those involving treason, homicide, rape, are son, kidnaping, or a second eonvis —_— (8ee PROBATION, Page A-16.) )