Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1936, Page 2

ROOSEVELT GOES ONTRIP TONIGHT Will Deliver Address at Har- vard Tercentenary Rites Tomorrow. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt will leave late tonight for Cambridge, Mass., where he will deliver an address tomorrow a8t ceremonies celebrating the 300th anniversary of Harvard University, his alma mater. The President also has scheduled a brief trip the first week in October, during which he will make three speeches. Plans call for a speech October 1 at Pittsburgh, another at the Mountain State forest festival at Elkins, W. Va., the same day, and the third at the dedication of a new medi- cal center in Jersey City the follow- ing day. After the Jersey City address he will go to his home in Hyde Park, N. Y, to remain for an indefinite period. Traveling “non-politically,” Mr. | Roosevelt will find time to look in on the world series base ball game in New York on his way from Jersey City to Hyde Park. Speech Today Non-Political. Because the EIkins and Jersey speeches were classified at the White | House as non-political and the one| at Pittsburgh was not, it was assumed the Pennsylvania address will be an out-and-out political talk. Also in- ~cluded in the “non-political” category, however, was his Mobilizaiion for Human Needs speech today. There was no comment at the White | House when informed that Col. Frank | Knox, Republican vice presidential | “candidate, was billed to speak in Pittsburgh at the same time as the President. The President’s decision to make the Pittsburgh speech is regarded by political observers as another indi- cation of his determination to swing | Pennsylvania to the Democratic col- | umn in November. Throughout the campaign the Pres- ident’s advices have been that with the proper campaigning' he could carry this old-line Republican State. His lieutenants, working hard in this | direction, have convinced him that his personal help is necessary. They have pointed out that his visit to the « Philadelphia convention in July made <@ tremendous impression, and that he made many friends during his recent inspection of the flood area in the vicinity of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. New York Speech September 29. On September 29 Mr. Roosevelt will | fddress the Democratic State Con- vention in session at Syracuse, N. Y., | and those in his confidence say he | will cut loose with both barrels. The President will return to Wash- ington immediately after the Syracuse speech, arriving the morning of Sep- tember 30, but will pull out again| that night for his Elkins and Pitts- | burgh speeches. The President today was looking forward to his visit to Cambridge, where he will meet many old Harvard friends. After the ceremonies he will | g0 to Hyde Park. President Busy Today. ! Preparatory to his departure for | Cambridge, the President was busy throughout the day signing papers, disposing of routine business and| conferring with departmental heads. | Among his numerous callers was Representative McReynolds of Tennes- see, chairman of the House Foreign | Affairs Committee, and Representa- ; tives Johnson of Oklahoma and Oliver | of Alabama. He also had a brief talk with Gov. James Curley of Massachu- Washington Wayside . Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. TATOOED. TYPEWRITER repair man who went into & downtown office to do whatever experts do to typewriters created a lot more furore yesterday than he ever realized. . ‘The office happened to be filled with the dreamer type of workers, those who get an idea and drop into a deep reverie from which only hunger pangs seem to rescue them. The instant the typewriter man ap- peared, everyone in the place read the word “Mary” tatooed on his arm. You could fairly see the questions popping through their minds. Did the man marry Mary? If not, why not? Where is she now? Is he sorry he had her name indelibly inscribed on his anatomy? And, rather best of all, was the question: If the man had married a girl named, say, Jean, how did she like to be held in arms so conspicu- ously dedicated to Mary? But no one asked the man anything. * k% X MON ALIVE. A Scottish resident of this jair and beauteous United States Capi- tal City is still quivering over see- ing, in a local journal, a news item headed “Ayreshire, England!” To place Bobby Burm’s country in England is on a par with credit= ing Lee’s birthplace to Massachus setts or Lincoln’s to Georgia. * ok ok X OLD DEALERS. ND now the Department of Agri- culture has gone classical! A recent press release on the graft- ing of apples begins with a quotation from Cato: “ * * * Apples, pears and other vines should be grafted in the dark of the moon, after noon, when the south wind is not blowing.” A paragraph follows from Varro and tne first page of the article con- tinues to quote the sayings of these ancient philosophers on the art of grafting. Even their dates have been thoughtfully supplied—Cato, 234-149 B. C, and Varro, 116-27 B. C. * % % x SENTRY. A WASHINGTONIAN who might have been defeated by the de- pression, but who definitely was not, rides through town in the dead of night in a large car driven by a uniformed chauffeur. He is engaged in a lucrative busi- ness, built on the ruins of an enter- prise killed by prosperity’s demise. Out oI work, the man offered his services as a watchman for the stores of merchants in the Mount Pleasant area. He made his rates attractive and got two or three cilents at once. He made his services of such a high character that more were added setts, who won the Demoératic nom- ination for Senator in Tuesday's pri- | maries and is leading the New Deal forces in the Bay State. —_— Prosecutor (Continued From Pirst Page.) have been cases in which very high bonds were recommended to the court | because of fear the defendants might *skip,” he pointed out. As for nolle prossing of cases, Garnett stated, charges have been | dropped only when the prosecutor be- came convinced the evidence was Ansufficient to warrant going to trial Both Garnett and Brown expressed & desire to “co-operate 100 per cent” ‘with each other. in the interest of ellective law enforcement. Under the plan proposed by Brown today, Garnett would assign an as- sistant to work in close liaison with the Detective Bureau on all homicide cases, from their very inception. Would Collaborate Actively. The assistant prosecutor would ac- company members of the homicide squad to the scene of a reported murder and would collaborate actively with the detectives in the investi- gation of the crime and the collection of evidence. In this way he could aid in as- eembling evidence that would stand up later in court, and, at the same time, his thorough familiarity with the case would be of great benefit to him when the time came to prose- cute the defendant. At the present time an assistant prosecutor is detailed to attend in- quests at the morgue, but not to take part in the actual police investigation preceding the inquest. Maj. Brown recalls having made a suggestion for assignment of an as- sistant United States attorney in several murder cases investigated prior to appointment of Garnett, but tnhat the request was not granted. The police head said his depart- ment would in no way feel that the district attorney was encroaching on “police jurisdiction by such an assign- ment. In the Glaze case no one appears willing to place the responsibility for the long delay in bringing the defendant to trial. The negligent homicide act, under which Glaze was held by a coroner’s jury, was designed to end such long lapses between arrest and trial. That the law can be made ineffective in so far as the speed ob- Jective is concerned is obvious, offi- clals commented today. Glaze has been arrested 33 times in the last 10 years. He was held for the coroner’s jury September 9, 1935, in the traffic death of Mrs. Mary C. Hausenfluck. His case was not called in Police Court untfl Oc- tober 31 of last year and it has been stayed five times—the most re- cent continuance having been granted ‘Tuesday when defense attorneys said they did not know the case was scheduled for tfial. Myma Loy’s Screen Start. Myrna Loy got her screen start aided by Natacha Rambova (Wini- fred Hudnut), second wife of the late Rudolph Valentino. steadily. Finally, calls began to come in from merchants in other areas. The man added a car to his equip- ment to give him the necessary mobility. He got the right to wear a uniform and to carry a gun. His business grew until it has spread pretty much over the whole city His friends say he is earning $500 a month. * x ko x METHOD. HAVE you ever wondered what a cab driver does with au inebriated passenger who won't pay his fare? We know, of rourse, there may be a scra, now and then. And some cabbies will tell you “the police don't want to do anything if we haul them directly into a precinct station.” One we met the other day handles them this way: “First, I threaten to take them to No. 1 Station. That usually works and they quit squawking and pay the fare. “If that doesn't work, I drive them up to a police station, put them out and then the cops have to arrest them for public drunkenness.” * x x % STAKE. Four young boys were throwing dice on the Avenue the other eve- ning. An operative inadvertently broke up the game, but not until he discovered they were endeavor- ing to establish ownership of one jointly purchased candy bdar. * ok x X PASTIME. OUT ir Silver Spring there is a new amusement. It is popular with young and old, is good, clean fun, and is replete with thrills—and marks the return to the older, simpler entertain- ment that our fathers knew. It is the practice of going down to the B. & O's new northwest station and watching the big trains stop. Last night's performance was ex- cellently staged and was well attended by an enthusiastic audience of parents and children, youths and maidens, and the boys from ‘up the street.” got underway when a fast freight from thc West thundered through. An added attraction was the freight's NG MICHIGAN RACES FOR HOUSE CLOSE Wisconsin Renames All Rep- resentatives, Clean-up Returns Show. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, September 17.—Repre- sentative Prentiss M. Brown's margin of victory over Louis B. Ward, asso- clate of Father Charles E. Coughlin, for the Democratic senatorial nomi- nation apparently will be not more than 4,000 votes, nearly complete re- turns indicated today. Brown will oppose former Gov. Wil- ber M. Brucker, the Republican can- didate, in November for the Senate seat now held by James Couzens. lican; Representative John Lesinski, Democrat. Seventeenth—Representative George A. Dondero, Republican; Draper Alien, Democrat. WISCONSIN CLAIMS CONFLICT, Races Decided, But Rival Leaders Have Own Inf By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, September 17— Democratic and Republican winners in the Wisconsin primary each pro- fessed today to see encouragement in the returns as a test of the probable November election trend. But incumbent Gov. Philip F. La Follette, who in winning renomination unopposed as a Progressive Tuesday received more votes than were cast by either rival party, took the view that the comparatively light vote left the November outcome “much in doubt.” With only 78 of the State’s 2,928 precincts unreported, La Follette's total of 173,630 exceeded the total Republican vote by 11,000 and the Democratic by 30,000. He had an- Brown's lead over Ward, with all but 60 of the State’s 3,467 precincts in, was 4,032 votes. Twenty-five of the missing precincts were in Wayne County (Detroit), where the pro-Ward drift may more than offset probable Brown gains in most of the out- State precincts still to be heard from. Ward Carries Several Counties. Returns from 3,407 precincts gave Brown 120884 to Ward's 116,852. Ward, in whose behalf Father Cough- lin made a radio appeal during the campaign and who had the indorse- ment of the priest’s National Union for Social Justice, carried several counties, but Brown captured most of them outside the Detroit area. In the seventeenth district, belated ‘Wayne County returns apparently gave the Democratic congressional nomination to Draper Allen by an un- official margin of 169 votes over May- nard Siebert, the Coughlin candidate. Brucker's victory over the veteran Senator Couzens piled up a8 majority which passed the 100,000 mark. The former Governor made a vigorous campaign, attacking Couzens’ support of President Roosevelt's New Deal policies, while Couzens made no active campaign. 3467 gave Brucker 313,280, “against Couzens’ 190,411, Murphy's Vote Mounts. mer Detroit mayor and high com- missioner of the Philippines, for the Democratic nomination as Governor mounted steadily as Wayne County's returns were reported. Offsetting an early lead from West- ern Michigan for his opponent, George W. Welsh, Murphy gained steadily and on the basis of reports from 3,258 precincts had 256,084 against Welsh's 121,051. On the Republican ticket, Gov. Frank D. Fitzgerald piled up 453434 votes from 3,309 precincts against 54300 for his opponent, Roscoe C. Fitch. graphed Brucker last night that he would support him actively in his Main Is Defeated. There were extremely close races in half a dozen Congressional dis- tricts, but the only incumbent who definitely had failed of renomination | of Battle Creek, who won a special | election in the Third District last | December as indorsee of the Townsend ! organization. Representative Main, who waived Townsend support in the | primary campaign, lost the Repub- | lican nomination by 400 votes to Paul | W. Shafer. Rosslyn L. Sowers, who { won the Democratic nomination in| | that district, was the only Townsend- |indorsed candidate to win in the | Michigan primaries. | Six of the eighteen National Union | | Congressional indorsees apparently |were victorious: Representative | George G. Sandowski, Democrat, in | the First (Detroit); Charles E. Down- ing, Democrat, in the Second; Ross- lyn W. Sowers, Democrat, in the Third: Representative Jease P. Wol- cott, Republican, in the Seventh: John J. Leucke, Democrat, in the Eleventh, and Representative Frank E. Hook, Democrat, in the Twelfth. tricts: Pirst—Charles A. Roxborough, col- ored, Republican; Representative Sa- dowski, Democrat. Second—Representative Michener, Republican; Downing, Democrat. Third—Paul W. S8hafer, Republican; Rosslyn W. Sowers, Democrat. Fourth—Representative Clare E. Hoffman, Republican; Guy M. Tyler, Democrat. Fifth—Representative Carl E. Mapes, Republican; Thomas F. McAllister, Democrat. Sixth—Representative William W. Blackney, Republican; Andrew J. Transue, Democrat (leading). Seventh—Representative Jesse P. ‘Wolcott, Republican; Albert A. Wag- mer, Democrat. Eighth — Representative Pred L. Crawford, Republican; former Repre- sentative Michael J. Hart, Democrat. Ninth—Representative Albert J. Engel, Republican; Jack Eliasohn, Democrat (leading). Tenth — Representative Roy O. Woodruff, Republican; William J. Kelly, Democrat. Eleventh—Herbert J. Rushton, Re- publican (leading); John Leucke, Democrat. ‘Twelfth—Pormer Representative W. Frank James, Republican; Repre- sentative Prank E. Hook, Democrat. Thirteenth—Representative Clar- ence J. McLeod, Republican; George D. O’Brien, Democrat. Fourteenth—Frederick M. Alger, jr., Republican; Representative Louis C. Rabaut, Democrat. Fifteenth—Nathaniel H. Goldstick, Republican; Representative John D. Dingell, Democrat. Sixteenth—Clyde M. Ford, Repub- The Earl Charles C. E. Returns from 3,309 precints out of | The vote for Frank Murphy, for-| Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg tele- | | campaign to succeed Senator Couzens, | was Representative Verner W. Main The nominees in the various dis- | nounced he would support President Roosevelt. Storm (Continued From First Page.) Spit, Ocean View, Virginia Beach and other exposed areas expected to feel the full blast of the storm were mov- ing into the city, and furniture at the resorts was being moved to upper floors. Red Cross headquarters announced arrangements had been made to have Coast Guard stations between the Vir- ginia Capes and the North Carolina- South Carolina State line advise per- sons living along the water line to move to higher ground. ‘Telephone company central offices on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland were asked to stand in should the storm swing inland. The Coast Guard notified the Red | Cross that supply boats were standing | by at Elizabeth City and Newbern, N. C, for use on disaster relief, Two Coast Guard cutters also were ready to go into storm service from More- head, N. C. A number of families were reported to be moving out of their homes at Buckroe Beach. COAST GUARD READY By the Associated Press. The Coast Guard reported today 10 sea-going cutters are standing by along the Southern Atlantic coast ready to give ald to any ships en- | dangered by the hurricane believed approaching. Two of the vessels are in the Key West section, two at Miami, one at Port Everglade, one at Savannah, Ga., one at Wilmington, N. C.,, and three at Norfolk, Va. Headquarters here said also that planes at the Coast Guard air base at Miami are prepared to fly out over the sea, dropping warning messages to small craft without radio. Trucks equipped with radios will i be sent into any area likely to be hit | by the hurricane, to keep Coast Guard | headquarters informed of conditions. CAROLINA PREPARES. WILMINGTON. N. C., September 17 (#.—The North Carolina coast country, lying in the indicated path of a dangerous tropical hurricane, took hurried precautions today and anxiously awaited weather reports. Ur ess the storm veers—about a 150-50 chance. last night's advisories said—its center was expected to hit | Cape Hatteras at noon tomorrow. All craft hugged the harbors, and | many residents of sparsely settled sections along the North Carolina “banks” and the outlying islands were advised of the storm's progress. The North Carolian coast is often | loss of life has resulted from a storm in recent years. The last serious “blow” was in 1933, when a tropical hurricane hit Florida and swept across the mid-Atlantic States to the ocean. The Red Cross was already active, and contcated all its workers in this area to stand-by as a precautionary measure, VIRGINIA THREATENED. Forecaster Says High Winds and Seas ‘Will Be Feit. NORPOLK, Va., September 17.— Warnings of a hurricane that may strike with heavy force, rivaling the storm of three years ago, flew today along the Virginia and. Carolina coasts. John J. Murphy, chief of the Nor- folk Weather Bureau, today said that while there was a possibility the storm would change its course, the situation was bad and as threatening as three years ago. High tides, high winds and high seas were sure to result, even if the full fury of the storm was not felt here, he said. The wind today was from the northeast. It blew in gusts, indicating increasing force, MARYLAND WATCHFUL. Roads Commission Receives Hourly 4 Reports on Storm. BALTIMORE, September 17 (#).— The State Roads Commission kept a close watch today on the progress of the hurricane reported off the Car- olina comst. ‘The commission got hourly reports on the progress of the storm center in order that, if necessary, it might take action to protect roads against storm damage. A 1933 hurricane damaged roads and delayed transportation on the Eastern Shore. National Scene - BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH. INCINNATI, September 17.—The primary defeat of Senator Couzens by the Republican voters of Michigan has turned over a prominent economic royalist to the New Deal camp fn which he belongs. The voters saw the absurdity of his running on the Republican ticket, while at the same time indorsing the candidacy of Mr. Roose- velt, and acted accordingly. An attempt to run with the hares and hunt with the hounds is never permanently successful. Playing both ends against the middle is & smart game when it works, and in the early stages of the New Deal quite a number of politicians got away with it. At this stage, however, the electo- rate shows unmistakable signs of demanding a more definite course from our public men. ‘The Michigan result is calculated to discour- age the trimming bi-partisanship that has seemed to many of them the craftiest method to follow readiness to notify all their subscribers | affected by gales, but no extensive | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1936. Subsidy Seen Necessary at Greenbelt Indications Point to Repayment of Unfinished houses at the Resettlement Administration’s Tugwelltown experiment. Greenbelt, the Resettlement Ad- ministration’s low-rent housing | project at mearby Berwynm, Md., is now nearing completion. Within siz months, 3,000 families will move into their new homes there. This is the last of a series of five articles discussing the social, gov- ernmental and financial phases of the New Deal's experiment. BY GORDON FAMES BROWN. ESPITE Resettlement’s early | avowals of complete self- Greenbelt project, that in- vestment cannot be completely repaid to the Government if the town is to operate as a low-rent housing com- munity. Resettlement officials admit the town cannot serve its purpose, as a | development for low income earmers, without a Government subsidy. Pres- ent indications point to a plan involv- ing repayment of only 55 per cent of the investment. Since the amortization plan is still undetermined, is still in a formative, embryonic state, no accurate predic- tion of a rent scale can be given. But | der various amortization schemes. For instance, if repayments were based on an outright 45 per cent of | total cost Federal grant, with the bal- ance of 55 per cent to be repaid over a | 60-year period at 1% per cent interest, | the scale would range approximately 1frorn $25 per month for a one-room ! room house. These rates include heat and light. Rent Plan Varies, As the amortization plan varies, so do the rents. Under total repayment of the $7.500,000 town cost at 13 per cent over 60 years, the monthly rental increase would approximate $3.50; with interest at 3 per cent under this ! plan the jump would be some $8; a | 2 per eent interest on the 45 per cent grant, 60-year basis, would add about | 50 cents, and & 3 per cent interest on | this basis would make the increase some $3. Resettlement’s policy in settling rents will be guided by this principle: | than to raise them. Officials say an increase in 1938 would not have a beneficial effect on the “morale of the community.” Resettlement mixes paternalism and economics. “At any rate,” leaders have persist- ently said, “the first year's charges | must necessarily be more or less ex- perimental and subject to subsequent revision.” Housing authorities have formulated this principle, the basis of the Wag- near housing bill tabled at the last session of Congress: A man should not pay more than one-fifth of his income for lodging. This concept does not include utilities charges, roughly amounting to $8 per month and in- cluded in the above possible Green- belt scale of $25 to $43. Therefore, liquidation of the $7,500,000 | it is possible to estimate charges un- | apartment to $43 per month for a six- | { It's easier to lower them next vear ! Only 55 Per Cent. with utilities charges deducted from the highest rental estimate, that rate | drops to $35. How does this jibe with the Wagner concept? Would Pay. $420 Annually. At $35 per month, excluding charges | for utilities of heat and light, the| tenant would pay $420 annually, ade- | quate for the $2,100-per-year wage | earner. Whether such an earner falls | strictly within the low-income class— | suitable from the standpoint of health, recreation, non-criminal influences, etc.—is a matter within the realm of the sociologist, the physician, the! economist and the social welfare ex- pert. It is a matter dependent upon & multitude of dynamic conditions. But such a wage earner does not fit into the low-income bracket pre- scribed by Resettlement as a qualifi- cation for Greenbelt occupancy. Pros- pective tenants earning more than | $2,000 annually will probably be re-!| fused residence at Tugwelltown. lnl other words, Resettlement does not feel that the $2100-per-year man | needs the more abundant life of this community. The point, then, is this: Even | under the liberal financing program on which this prospective rental scale | is based, some rents are still too high | if the ideals of Resettlement would | right 45 per cent grant amounting to $3,375,000. The figures prove conclusively that Greenbelt cannot operate as a low- rent housing community without a Government subsidy. Experiment in Housing. Greenbel: is an experiment in| planned housing. Its worth must be evaluated at this time by presuppo- sition that Resettlement will continue its planning in the social, govern- mental and financial phases accord- | | ing to present trends. Indeed, this is the eritical period in that planning, ministration must adopt a final pro- | gram for some sort of liquidation or lease of the project, must perfect | manifold and ambitious plans to cre- | ate a town society and must engi-, neer transfer of the community from | Resettlement to a corporation. i Much remains to be done. { least ominous of possible stumbling blocks would be failure to procure | sanction of the Maryland State Leg- | islature in the form of a town charter. | State and local politics might vir-| tually kill the experiment if the town | corporation became embroiled in petty | party differences. There is no guar- | antee that pressure of some 2,000 | votes, the Greenbelt ballot, might not | dictate rents charged by the corpo- ration. Some crticism has been leveled at the project, especially in the last few months, by Prince Georges County officials, who fear that tax revenues from the town will not meet public Not the | 1o —Star Stafl Photo. estimates, given by Resettlement as| ranging from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000. | will bring levies inadequate to pay| for operation of the school. They | doubt that Tugwelltown residents can “pay their way.” HEALTH BUDGET BEING CONSIDERED D. C. Commissioners Exam- ine Request for $1,117,- 400 for Year. Pleas by the Health Department for an appropriation of $1,117,400 for its operation next fiscal year were being considered today by the Com- missioners as they continued exam- ination of the request of their de- partment executives. The Health De- partment estimates now are more than double what was provided for this year. New Centers Sought. Most of the increase would be for construction of two new health cen- ters, including clinics for all types of diseases handled by the Health Department at its public conference stations. The Health Department asked for $500,000 for the first two buildings of a proposed total of five. Dr. George C. Ruhland, health officer, was not present, as he was in Chicago Arguments for the proposed budget were Voiced by Dr. Daniel L. Seckinge. assistant health officer. The Commissioners are making cuts in the requests of virtually all depart- ments. Prospects are the $500,000 con- struction program cannot be allowee unless there is a boost in the Fede: payment or an increase in taxes, Fire Department Request. Resettlement’'s answer is simply this: “Assess the community at what- ever you think it's worth; that's your business, not ours.” They also point 10 the system of tax payment by the and they refer to the careful choice of tenants as Assuring minimum ex- penses for policing and health work. After all, says the administration, | the county is getting a brand-new | school, a lake, roads, sewers and parks, without one cent of bonded indebted- ness. And, Resettlement argues, the | project has increased surrounding land values by more than 100 per cent. Will Be U. 8. Workers. At least 50 per cent of the town's | residents will be Federal employes, ac- cording to current Resettlement es- timates. If New Deal figures are ac- curate, 60 per cent of Government | employes earn less than $2,000 an- nually. They fit into the administra- tion's concept of low-income brackets. One of Tugwell's reasons for con- structing his first and largest project near Washington was the inadequacy of living conditions here, with high To Resettlement, this experiment is most important as a yardstick for fu- ture developments. In an official re- lease from the administration’s in- | formation division the primary bene- fit is cited as “the release of figures to provide America’s communily builders with the first authentic in- formation on the cost of a planned community.” But Greenbelt is not a true yard- labor provision. This has already been discussed. Resettlement, by own ad- | mission, can make only an estimate absorption of dole receivers. | The project can only be prema- turely evaluated on its social phase. has been seen, there are many problems still unsolved. It will, how- ever, demonstrate the workings of a planned community. Whether its suc- ss will warrant expansion into & town of 3,000 families cannot be pre- dicted now. To the taxpayer the project is im- portant as an experiment created with his funds. The issue is clear: Does the asset warrant the expense? Some deny that Greenbelt is an asset to any but the 3,500 persons who will live there. Others believe the town is & forerunner of many other similar proj- ects. They visualize & future era de- | void of slums and abounding wm:l planned communities. To all, however, the importance of Resettlement's current planning is obvious. The money has been spent, the town will soon be finished. The burden of proof rests with Resettle- expenses. They say that assessment ' ment. Constitution (Continued From First Page.) depicting scenes in the Constitution's formation, Washington observed Con- stitution day at exercises in Memorial Continental Hall, under auspices of the District Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution, and radio addresses by the heads of local bar associations. Document on View. No special ceremony was planned in the Library of Congress, but more than 5,000 visitors were expected to view the Constitution in its bronze- and-marble shrine there. Speakers at the D. A. R. exercises at 8 tonight will be Judge James Quarles and Mrs. Dora B. Haines. Their topics are “The Constitution in 1936,” and “Our Constitution,” re- Plan Spring SPRrine e Yarizy spectively. Music is to be furnished by the Marine Band, a quartet and a soloist. Patriotic and veterans’ or- ganizations will participate in the program and there will be a grouping | of colors executed by D. A. R. chapter officials. ‘Walter M. Bastian, president of the District Bar Association, will speak over Station WRC at §:45 pm. On the same program, sponsored by the American Citizenship Committee of the association, will be Miss Beatrice Clephane, president of the Women's Bar Association. Forty stations of the National Broadcasting Co. will broadcast at 4:45 pm. s program announcing dis- tribution of 500.000 copies of a book describing the American Tree Asso- ciation’s drive for tree planting to mark the sesquicentennial of the framing of the Constitution. Charles Valley Show | | Grange, organizations,” Pack said. “We expect | Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen (left), general chairman for the S; secretary and manager, be held Saturday at g’w& ing Valley Gold Cup Horse Show, and Dean M. Rathbun, over plans for the charity meet to m road and Tilden street. Proceeds will be used for sight conservation work among destitue residents 2 i begin G 10 6N e ThouohoRt the day n a a. a continue thr . hd o Star Stad P from impaired vision. The Lathrop Pack, association president, is to speak. “We have put a half-million copies of this book into schools, Scout troops. D. A. R. chapters, women's clubs, the Pour-H Clubs and similar to see the tree-planting record set up during the bicentennial of the birth of George Washington broken. Then we had 30,000,000 tree plantings re- ported to us. 'LEE BROWN DIES AT THE AGE OF 51 Deceased Was Secretary of Real Estate Investment Firm. Lee Brown, 51, secretary of Arms & Drury, Inc., real estate investment firm, died yesterday at his home in the Alban Towers Apartments. Al- though ailing for some time, Mr. Brown’s death followed a serious ill- ness of one day. Mr. Brown began work with the real estate investment firm 35 years ago, rising to the position he held at the time of his death. He was a son of the late Andrew W. and Molly Brown of Branchville, Md., and spent his boyhood at the latter place. He is survived by his widow, MI’I.; Charlotte G. Brown, three sisters, Mrs, A. F. Middleton, Mrs. R. L. Hill, both of this city, and Mrs. Herbert Can- non of Parker, Ariz.; and awo broth- ers, Joy Brown of Orange, Calif., and Andrew W. Brown, jr., of this city. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.am. Saturday at Chambers Funeral Home, 1400 Chapin street. Burial will be in St. John's Church Cemetery, Beltsville, Md. Night Final Deli Earlier in the cay the Commissione: | scrutinized the requests of the Fur | Department, which seeks a 1938 a)- | propriation of $3.639.900, an increa of $1,165.000, most of which would b the class which cannot afford lodging | corporation as preventing delinquency, | used to hire 528 additional men as means of placing the department on | three-platoon system. 'HAMILTON hONFERS ON ABSENTEE VOTE District Republican Leaders Talk With Chairman in New York. LA group of District Republican lead- ers are in New York today. conferring with National Chajrman John D. M. | Hamilton on plans for getting out the | absentee vote in Washington, and for | co-operating with nearby counties in Maryland and Virginia. The District Republicans hope to | bring out more than the normal 50.- | | be realized. This program includes| ro;is angd overcrowding prompted by | 000 Republican absentee votes. Those a very low interest rate and an out- | . New Dealers’ influx since 1933. | who went to the Metropolis are: | Edward P. Colladay, national com- | mitteeman for the District; Mrs. Vir- ginia White Speel, national commit- teewoman: James C. Wilkes, chairman of the Republican State Committee in and for the District: Clyde D. Garrett | secretary of the committee; Paul E | Lesh, president of the Landon and Knox Campaign Club of the District |and Mrs. Ruth Colladay, vice presi- | dent of the Young Republicans. Mrs | stick of cost—because of that relief | Speel was accompanied by Mrs. Henry Hunt McKee. Mr. Lesh will make a report on the | work of the Landon and Knox Cam- because within six months the ad- | Of increased costs responsible to the |saign Club, which launched & member- ship campaign at a luncheon at the Willard Monday. '$3 FINE IMPOSED ON MISS PESSAGNO Judge Curran Hears Charge of | Parking Auto in Seventh Street Prohibited Zone. | Miss Florence Pessagno was fined $3 | by Judge Edward M. Curran in Traf- | fic Court today on a charge of park- ing her automobile in a prohibited zone on Seventh street last week. Before assessing the fine, Judge | Curran reprimanded Miss Pessagno for a remark she was said to have made to Policeman W. B. Sparks when the officer asked if she was familiar with traffic regulations. Miss Pessagno, who lives in Relay, Md., was acquitted on a disorderly- oonduct charge by Judge Robert E | Mattingly in Police Court last week. | This charge grew out of the same in- | cident for which she was fined to-- y. | After the trial last week, Sparks submitted a written report to Capt Milton D. Smith, Traffic Division commander, in which he complained of the court’s action. WOMAN DIES SUDDENLY Mrs. Amalia E. Sterzer Expires at Age of 70 Years. Mrs. Amalia E. Sterzer, 70, wife of John N. Sterzer, retired merchant | died yesterday after a sudden iliness at her home, 1312 East Capitol street. Besides her husband, who former- ly conducted a dry goods store in the 400 block of H street northeast. Mrs. Sterzer leaves two sons, Carl G. and Henry J. Sterzer, both of this | city, and two brothers, George and Fred Ruppel, both of Baitimore. Funeral services will be held st 2 | p.m. Saturday at the residence. Burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. TRACK WORK NEAR END Promise that reconstruction of street car tracks in front of the White House would be completed before next Wednesday, when the parade of the Grand Army of the Republic is to be staged, has been given by the Capital Transit Co. Other work is being delayed so that extra shifts of workmen can be placed on the work of replacing the wheel rail and the new slot rail and conductor bars, and repaving of the stretch along Pennsylvania avenue between East Executive avenue and Seventeenth street, vered by Carrier Anywhere in the City ° Full Sports - Base Ball Scores, Race Results, Complete Market News of the Day, Latest News Flashes from Around the World. What- ~¢verlt is, you'll find it in The Night Final Sports Edition.