Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1936, Page 17

STANDARD HOURS ADOPTION 15 SEEN COSTING MILLION Unofficial Estimates Place Additional Funds at $828,- 400 for Fire Department. — FIGURE IS BASED ON 3-PLATOON SET-UP Balance of Sum Would Be Needed for Extra Guards at Penal Institutions. Nearly $1,000,000 additional revenue will be required by the District to adopt the “standard hours of labor” approved by the Civil Service Com- mission and recommended to depart- ment heads for consideraiton in pre- paring the 1938 budget. This estimate was made unoffi- cially, since the heads of the two de- partments most directly and immedi- ately affected are at present on leave of absence. The largest single increase would be in the Fire Department, where a minimum of $828.400 would be re- quired to hire additional privates to change from its present two platoons to three platoons. This figure was arrived at by Jesse Jamieson, president of the District Fire Fighters' Association, who made the estimate on the basis of the num- ber of men required and the starting salary at present fixed by law. Balance for Guards. The balance of the $1,000,000 would | be needed to hire additional guards at the District Jail, Lorton Reformatory and the work house at Occoquan. Defl- nite figures on the needs at the three institutions were described as “im- possible,” but at hearings before the last session of Congress, six more * guards at $1.500 each per year, were asked for the District Jail and 10 guards at an unstated salary at the other two penal institutions. In addition to these, Dr. Edgar A. Bocock, superintendent of Gallinger | Hospital, asked for 20 additional nurses. | Chief Engineer Charles Schrom ol; the Fire Department and Elwood | Street, director of the Board of Public ‘Welfare, both are on leave at present. ‘Their two substitutes, Battalion Chief J. J. Carrington of the Fire Depart- | ment and Paul L. Kirby, acting direc- | tor of welfare, indicated they would take no action on making the request- ed new budget estimates until the | regular department heads return. Donovan Asked Estimates. | Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District auditor and budget officer, instructed the department heads Friday to begin immediate preparation of their 1938 estimates so they can be in the hands | of the Commissioners by August 1. His instructions also included direc- tions to make separate estimates on new jobs and salaries required to | adopt the “standard” hours. The Fire Department now is op- erated with 872 men. They work | on two shifts that alternate day and night duty. Men on day duty work 10-hour shifts and, those at night work 14 hours, giving them totals of 70 to 88 hours per week. However, + each’ unit commander for some time has arranged to permit the men to take a day off each week, although the schedule is changed from week to week to suit the department’s con- ‘venience. Under the approved “standard” hours, the maximum would be 40 to 44 hours, with the men working a limit of eight hours per day. 433 Men Would be Added. In order to make this effective, Jamieson said, from 433 to 436 men will have to be added to the depart- ment. In estimating the cost, how- e ', he based his figures of the start- ing salary of privates—$1,900 per year—and did not take into consid- eration the fact that seven new bat- talion chiefs at $4,500 per year, sev- eral new captains at $3,000, addition- al lieutenants at $2,800 and more sergeants at $2,540 would have to be appointed to organize the new third shift. ‘These salary bases, however, do not mean new men will step in and re- ceive them, for veterans of the depart- ment now making $2,400 or better probably will be prcmoted to new officers’ -positions. Hours Would Be Cut. ‘The situation at the penal institu- tions is that guards now are required to work seven days each week, and under the approved civil service sched- ule they would be limited to 572 hours per quarter, or an average of 44 hours per week. No limit is fixed for the daily share of work. 5 This same rule applies’ to nurses employed at Gallinger Hospital, the “Tuberculosis Sanatorium, and at Chil- dren’s Hospital, to which the District eontributes funds each year. Maj. Donovan, in presenting the request for additional estimates to care for the adoption of the new rules, made it plain that department heads are not to expect adoption -of the shorter hours unless the District can meet its anticipated deficlt of nearly $1,000,000. Also, the question must be settled as to what share the Federal Government shall contribute in 1938, and whether the District will have to increase its $1.50 tax rate. CASINO B.ANKRUPT Famous El Dorado at Nice Closes Doors. NICE, France, July 11 (®.—The El Dorado Casino, one of the French Riviera’s most luxurious gambling palaces, announced tonight it had gone into bankruptcy and closed its doors. N ‘The casino, where the French actor, Maurice Chevalier, got his start -in singing, was the third to shut down + since the depression hit the Riviera. Life of College Professor IsNot A Bed of Ease ‘The life of a.college professor isn't what it used to be. A case in point is the experience of George P. Barse, general counsel of the Controller of the Currency’s office, who has been conducting a lecture course on banking law far the last two weeks at the Graduate School of Banking of Rutgers University. Barse has been a member of the faculty of National University Law School for the past 18 years, and this, together with the pressure of his offi- cial duties, plates a premium on his time. Consequently, when called upon to conduct the course at Rutgers, he decided to travel between Washington fand the unjversity campus by plane. | Three times a week, he commuted between the Capital and New Bruns- wick, N. J., by air, becoming probably the first college professor to employ this means of getting to and from | his classes. 400 students this year, affords post- graduate courses only. The participa- tion of Barse followed the request last year of Dr. Harold Stonier, director of the Graduate School of Banking, for co-operation from the office of the Controller of the Currency. BIDS T0 BE ASKED ONHOUSING UNIT $1,600,000 Low Rent for Colored Families Nearing l Final Stages. | Bids will be invited by the P. W. A tomorrow for construction of 317 fam- | ly living units at Langston, the | $1,600,000 low-rent Rousing project on | Benning road northeast. | Completion of the foundations and grading on the 14-acre site in another | | week makes it possible for the huge | | housing . development to enter into | final period of construction. When | completed, by the end of the year, Langsion® will provide decent living accommodations for colored families | in two and three story apartments and group houses. Housing officials have not yet select- ed the families that are to occupy | proximately $7.50 per room, including | service charges, officials explained. The plans for the buildings, drawn up by the local firm of Robinson, Porter & Williams, are the latest de- signs for comfort and sanitation. No dwelling will be more than two rooms deep, thereby emphasizing cross-ven- is devoted to windows. | While the housing division at P. W. A. has scores of applications from | colored families wishing to take ad- vantage of the Government's reason- | able scale of rentals, no arrangements have been made regarding the per- sonnel. TEST TOBACCO SEED AT ARLINGTON FARM South America in Quest for Disease Resistance. Test plantings of more than 600 samples of tobacco seed, collected by the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Agriculture Department in Mexico, Central America and Northern South; America, are being made at Arling- ton Farm near Washington and at agricultural experiment stations in tobacco States in an effort to find a type of tobacco resistant to disease. Dr. E. E. Clayton, tobacco disease specialist of the department, said the region where the seed samples were secured probably is the native home of the tobacco plant. This is the first systematic effort to collect and test some of the innumerable types and varieties that have existed there for centuries. g From these many varieties, he be- lieves, a tobacco may be found which will resist wildfire, blackfire, mosaic, | mildew (blue mold), wilt, stem rot, black shanks, root knot and black root rot, diseases which cause huge losses each year. The collectors were Dr. W. A. Archer and Raymond Stadleman of. the bu- reau. In their explorations they found tobacco plants with flowers from purest white to deepest red, some of the plants with 55 to 60 leaves. Tobacco flowers in this country are pink and the plants seldom have more than The banking school, attended by | these carefully built homes. As | planned, the homes will rent for ap- | tilation. About half of the wall space | Samples Obtained in Central and | e Sunday Star WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1936. Hearing on One-Man S BLANTON 15 AGAIN WARNED AGAINST BULLDOZNG" AGTS Representative Keller Ex- tends Remarks Criticizing Texan in Record. SERVES NOTICE THAT “RED RIDER” MUST GO Declares Colleague Shall Not In- sinuate a Charge Against Teach- ers and School Board. Representative Thomas L. Blanton yesterday received a second warning against further attempts to “bluff and bulldoze” Distrist school teachers. This stand was taken by Represen- tative Kent E. Keller of Illinois, in an extension of remarks published in | the Congressional Record. After serving notice on Blanton that the “red rider” must go, and that there shall be no more ‘“ques- tionnaires.” Keller said: . “He (Blanton) shall not insinuate a charge against the teachers or mem- bers of the School Board without | stating it clearly, so the truthfulness may be put to the test. “He shall not establish any inquisi- tion before which to bring asy school teacher without the full authority of this House legally granted. S Bulldozing to Be Halted. “He shall not be permitted to fur- ther bluff and bulldoze the teachers under the pretense that his member- ship in this body gives him any right, | power or authority further to perse- | cute them, without denunciation of | his pretension on the floor of this | House. “He shall not apply any religious | test without challenge of his right | or any man’s right to do that thing forbidden by the Constitution.” Keller’s criticism printed in the Record was an elaboration of the stinging rebuke he administered to early last month, when Keller first political beliefs. The Illinois Representative intro- | duced a resolution which would have | placed the House on record as de- ploring Blanton’s action, but techni- cal objections were raised to keep it | from reaching a vote. Appeared As Official Act. “Let us note that Mr. Blanton sent this questionnaire on his official con- gressional paper,” said Keller. It was sent in a franked envelope, and & franked, self-addressed envelope for return of the questionnaire was in- closed, and -attention of the school teachers called to that fect. Thus it had every outward appearance of being an official act and was intended | to convey that impression to the teachers. Now read the statement preceding the questions and note that Mr. Blanton stresses the fact that He is chairman of the subcommittee handling the District appropriation | bill. Bear in mind that the District | bill carries the money to pay the salaries of the school teachers of the whole District of Columbia. “The implication is clear. Next, note the concealed threat ‘to save you the time and inconvenience of coming be- fore us in person.’ In short, the im- plication to the teacher must have beerr: Unless you fill out this ques- tionnaire about your religious beliefs, your right to teach boys snd girls under you the plain facts of history, the political tendencies and develop- ments of our times, unless you shrive yourself of the suspicions of Mr. Blan- ton of Texas, of any and all knowl- edge of Russia or the political ideas of the Rusisan people, your salary and your right to teach school in the the District of Columbis will be jeopar- dized.” . Cites Illinois System. Keller, himself a former _school teacher, then pointed out that the sehool system in his State is independ- ent of political interference. Declar- ing there has been no inquisition, in- dictments or suppression there, he added: “We in Southern Illinois would not stand for that.” The Tlinois Representative pointed out that the public school system of Washington is recognized as one of the best in the world, and said: teachers of my own State has na- turally led me to observe with ad- miration the modern and highly ef- cient school system we have here in Washington. To me that is something in which every member of Congress who shares any pride in national edu- cation ought to rejoice. The Con- 25 leaves. Testimony The Post Office Department still looks forward to about three days of “musical siege.” There was a temporary respite yes- terday, but tomorrow, Henry R. Cohen, chief of staff of the Universal Song Service of Hollywood, is due to come before a solicitor’s hearing to defend the right of Universal to yse the mails, and everybody is hoping for harmony. The department objects to Univer- sal's operations. The concern offers to assist embryo song writers in get- ting their pieces in workable shape, but does not guarantee sale. Its standard charge is $50 for “servicing” (See BLANTON, Page 3) Song Service Chief to Give at Postal Quiz Acting as his own accompanist on & piand that had been hauled into the hearing room, Shapiro, at the insist- ence of Horace J. Donnelly, defense counsel and former post office solici- tor, “qualified” as a witness by sing- ing compositions under scrutiny. Opin- g:umdlvldedu to these vocal ef- Cohen is author of the internation- ally known “Canadian Capers,” and his appearance as a witness is being awaited with what practically amounts to intensity. William C. O'Brien, assistant solici- tor. who is handling the case for the each composition submitted. Litera- ture points out that song writers make a lot of money. Thus far the Government has intro- duced one expert to testify that & group of these “serviced” compositions had no commercial merit. This wit- ness, who appeared Friday, was El- Its assets were listed chiefly as equipment. Its liabilities were not disclosed. 4 liot Shapiro, of the firm of Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. of New York, who wrote, “Yes, We Have Nao Bananss.” L4 ¢ Government, has introduced a number Blanton on the floor of the House | learned the Texan had addressed a questionnaire to all District school | teachers probing their religious and “My interest in the schools and the| | % Iluminated- Mall Adds to Capital’s Beauty View taken jrom the Washington Monument last night showing new lighting system along the Mall. - The street in the foreground is Fourteenth. At the left of the Capitol is the Senate Office Building, and at the right, the House Office. The mass of light in the upper left is Pennsylvania avenue. —Star Staff Photo by Dick Apperson. COL. WAINWRIGHT ASSUMES DUTIES Takes Over Command at Fort Myer and of 3d Cavalry. Col. Jonathan M. Wainwright ar- rived yesterday at Fort Myer, Va. to assume command of that post and of the 3rd Cavalry, stationed here. He came here from Fort Riley, Kans, where he was assistant commandant of the Cavalry School. Col. Wain- wright served with the 3rd Cav- alry at Fort Myer 33 years ago as a squadron com- mander and since has - served in several staff de- tails in the War 9 23, 1883, Col t. 3 ] . Col. Walnwrigh! ettt wa graduated from West Point in' 1906. PFrom 1906 to 1917 he served ‘with the 1st Cavalry in the West and the Philippines, rising to the grade of captain. He was a member of the Mexican Border patrol for some time. When this country entered the Reserve the organization of the. 76th Division the National Army at Camp Devens, of Mass. He gerved in France with the 82nd vision and was later assigned to Army of Occupation. . Col. Wainwright was de- of exhibits, including several of the |10 works whose composers hoped for fortune and fame. One of them goes like this: ‘Within only a faded white rose; A faint odor to it still, Placing it to his swollen this treasure, my Where would I've been nose. But for dear, knows?” Malnutrition Fatal to Recluse Who Refused to Abandon Dog Malnutrition and a weakened heart | proved fatal late yesterday to William | H. Poulson, 74-year-old recluse, who for weeks refused to abandon his tiny river shack and go to a hospital be- | cause he did not want to leave his | mongrel dog Jack. Poulson’s last illness was far ad- | vanced when social workets found him Friday afternoon stretched on a cot | in his little shanty which in former | days was a cook house on a “mud | digger” barge. | He was carried out on a stretcher | and removed to Gallinger Hospital. Employes of gasoline and gravel stor- age yards near South Capitol and S | streets had befriended the almost | helpless old man and his dog for months. 5 The drivers who load their trucks | near Poulson's shack said they would look after Jack, a small black and white hybrid. which has become a great favorite with them. Meanwhile, District authorities took charge of the body, pending word from Poulson's relatives at Poul- son, Va, & town named after his family. Poulson, who had been a carpenter, recently was placed on the District’s old-age pension rolls, but never seem- ed to cash his checks, according to his friends along the river front. They fed him and his dog from their own scant larders. Poulson's illness, his friends said, dated from the flood last Spring, which sent 4 feet of water into his shack. He developed & cough, that grew worse as time passed. Soctal workers urged the ailing | man to go to the hospital, but this | he stowtly refused to do, declaring he must stay to take care of Jack | and. the tiny garden of tomatoes and | beans he had planted in a patch of river mud. Poulson had lived along the Ana- costia River for as many years as old residents of the neighborhood could remember. NEW BOATING CLUB HOLDS FIRST SAIL Camp Letts Expedition Guests of “Skipper” Champ and Di- rector Ingram. Members of the Y. M. C. A. Boat- ing Club, recently organized, held their first sailing expedition yesterday at Camp Letts, the Y. M. C. A. vaca- tion retreat for Washington boys, on the Rhode River, near Annapolis. - “Skipper” Mell Champ,’ who has been instructing the camp boys in the art of sailing, and James C. In- gram, camp director, were hosts to the club members duting the after- noon. Some of the members joined with the campers in cooling off in the water. The visitors found the camp filled to -capacity, with an enrollment of 204, the largest in its history. In- boys in several States, including New Jersey and Delaware. The group of 23 German boys, brought here on an international good will mission, has departed for Eu- rope after a two-week visit during which the foreigners learned how to play base ball and other American games. In turn they taught the American boys a number of curious German sports, including “hand ball,” played with-a soccer ball. JOHN T. NADENBOUSCH - DIES IN MARTINSBURG Actively Associated With Bank There for 47 Years—Of Pioneer Family. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va, July 11.— John. T. Nadenbousch, 70, native of this county, for 47 years actively asso- ciated with a bank here until made cashier emeritus two years ago, died at a local hospital this morning. He suffered & fall at his home Monday NEW STREET GAR CHANGES DELAYED Weather Causes Postpone- | ment of Rerouting for Week. Weather conditions have forced a postponement of the Public Utilities | Commission’s plan to have five Capi- tal Transit Co. street car lines re- last routed, night. effective at mignight The excessive heat forced the com- pany to dismiss its work crews Friday " afternoon and spokesmen for the com- | pany explained that during other hot | days the actual work accomplished | had been slowed dowg. The - utilities commission, through | Richmond B. Keech, acting chair- man, informally agreed to postpone the changes for another week so that the new temporary routes will not be- come effective until midnight next Sunday. Friendship Change. Under the new plan FPriendship Heights cars that now run to the Sixth-Seventh 'street terminal on Pennsylvania avenue would be.run to Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania | avenue southeast. Cabin John cars would be alter- nately sent out’ Wisconsin avenue and turned back-at Washington Circle. The Fourteenth street .cars that now run to Potomac Park would be routed directly south on Fourteenth street to the Water street terminal. Effect ot Brookland. Cars from Brookland and the Dis- trict line that heretofore have stopped at G and PFifteenth streets, would be continued out - Pennsylvania avenue and on the Potomac Park loop. The Rosslyn line, now running from Seventeenth street and Pennsyl- vania avenue southeast to the Virginia end of Key Bridge, would be turned west at the Sixth-Seventh street loop. W. P.A. TOHOLD BALL Dancing at Ellipse Tomorrow Is Open to Publie. 3 The Works Progress Administra-' Sports—Pages 6 to 11 |B PAGE B-1 treet Cars Will Start Tomorrow HOT FIGHT NEARS ON PLAN T0 WIDEN CLASS OF SERVICE Long-Standing Petition of Transit Co. Hit by D. C. Groups. ROBERTS WILL OPPOSE SECOND APPLICATION Citizens Fear General Use of Lone- Operator Carriers, Saying Schedules Slowed. ‘The Public Utilities Commission will open a hearing tomorrow morning on use of one-man street cars that prom- ises to be one of the bitterest fights it has ever handled. As long ago as last August, the Capital Transit Co. asked for the right to increase the number of one-man cars on its several lines here. This Spring a second application was made when 30 used street cars were pur- chased from Providence, R. I. Most of those cars have been de- livered, and five of them already have been reconditioned, repainted, mod- ernized and placed in service. Objection to more one-man ecars, however, has come from organized la- bor and the Federation of Citizens' Associations. William A. Roberts, peo- ple’s counsel expects to wage a vig- orous battle to present extension of their use. 71 Now in Service. ‘The company now operates 71 such {cars and seeks the right to use 40 | more. At the time the commission | ordered the hearing, 20 used cars had | been purchased, but the petition asked | for approval of twice the number in view of further anticipated purchases, | and the possibility that some cars now | in service may be converted from two- man operation to one-man service. . Representatives of the several citi | zens’ associations objected so strenu- {ously to the plan that Roberts and William McK. Clayton, chairman of | the federation’s Public Utilities Com- mittee, called a mass meeting to get | the views of interested citizens. The meeting brought out several objections, viz: the cars are now too slow and one-man operation will slow | them further; operation of the:cars is | too much physical labor for one man perform; one-man operation is more l angerous than dual control and will result in an increase in accidents: one-man cars will mean a decrease in the number of persons employed by the company. Fear General Adoption. Spokesmen for the federation re- | peatedly charged that if the transit | company is permitted to increase the number now in service, one-man op- | eration will eventually become uni- | versal. The new “streamlined” cars on the Rosslyn line are of such a type that they can also be converted into one- man vehicles, and company repre- sentatives have indicated that if the application pending is approved, these will be changed.. Hinman D. Folsom, assistant cor- | poration counsel and attorney for the commission, is away from Washing- ton. Riley E. Elgen, chairman, i¥ ill at his home. With these two away, Richmond B. Keech, vice chairman and former people’s counsel, expects to act as both chairman and attorney when the hearing opens. Col. Dan I. Sultan, engineer- Com- missioner of the District and & mem- ber of the Public Utilities Commission, also is absent from the city, but Capt. Hoel S. Bishop, jr., assistant Engineer Commissioner, has been designated to | serve in his stead. NEW AIRLINE RADIO STATIONS PLANNED Will Be Installed at Once Along Route Between Capital and Milwaukee. New airline radio communications stations will be installed at once in Washington and at six other points along its route to Milwaukee, Penn- sylvania Airlines announced yecster- day. The new stations, to be nsed for radio telephone communication with transport airplanes, will be in opera- tion within a week or 10 days, replac- ing outdated earlier installations. The stations will ve at Washing- ton’ Airport and at Pittsburgh, “kron, Cleveland, Detroit, Grand Kapids and Milwaukee. “The new equipment will include the latest products of the R. C. A. 1aboratories and will present the most advanced engineering developments in aircraft radio,” it was annouaced by W. 8. Rosenberger, operations man- ager of the line. “An exclusive fea- ture of the new apparatus is that the system will be the first airline short- wave chain to: operate through all atmospheric_conditions on a single frequency. This characteristic makes possible greater simplicity of construc. tion and operation.” The local station and & majority ot the others will have a power of 200 watts. Due to the improved equip- ment, however, it will have a range comparable with that of the 400-wat} stations it will replace. Twelve addi« tional operators will be employed. MARRIAGE INTERRUPTED Auto Accident, However, Fails to Prevent Ceremony. TRUCKEE, Calif., July 11 (#).—Ax automobile accident interrupted mars riage-bound Robert E. Kitching and Elsie Stang today—so they were mar. ried in a hospital. Hospital attendants said the 24 year-old and 20-year-old bride probably would not leave the ine stitution “for a few days.” Kitching suffered some broken ribs in & cob lision of two cars.