Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1937, Page 1

~ (U. 8. Weather Bureau Foreclist.) Rain and much colder tonight and to- morrow, possibly changing to sleet to- morrow; lowest temperature tonight about Temperatures—Highest, 69, 34 degrees. at noon today; lowest, yesterday. Full report on page A-6. Closing New York Markets, Page 13 85th YEAR. No. 33,856. 55, at 11 p.m. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. @h WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star WASHINGTON. D. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1937—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. #¥# FRANCE ORDERS 60,000 ADDITIONAL TROOPS TO BAR NAZIS IN MOROCCO ReadytoResort Insurge to Armed Force. ACTS TO BAN AID TOFRANCO Britain Dispatches Fleet to Zone of Danger. BACKGROUND— Spanish Morocco was scene of outbreak of Spanish civil war which has kept Europe on edge since last July. Conflict has been struggle between Communism and Fascism. Again Morocco comes into pic- ture with Nazi troops reported massing there. Britain and France, leaders of non-intervention effort, have repeatedly warned Germany and Italy to cease aid to insur- gents. Now they are alarmed, fearing Germany contemplates constructicn of “Little Gibraltar” at Ceute, across straits from British stronghold. They also fear Nazis seek foothold in Morocco, as lever for bargaining for other colonies. By the Assoctated Press. PARIS, January 9.—France threat- ened today to resort to arms if neces- sary to prevent German occupation ©of Spanish Morocco. Foreign office sources fear their diplomatic warning to Bpanish insurgents against opening the strategic North African territory to Germany would fall on deaf ears, leaving France no alternative but action. An official frankly declared France would go to any lengths to eject Nazi troops from the Spanish protectorate which separates French Morocco from the homeland. The French garrison at Fez, the capital of the French territory, was placed in a virtual state of mobiliza- tion, reportedly under orders to re- main in barracks awaiting commands. | ‘The normal troop strength of 40,000 | in French Morocco was ordered in- creased to 100,000. Advices from French Morocco told of a steadily increasing German in- Sfiltration into Spanish Morocco, con- trolled by Gen. Francisco Franco's insurgent Fascists and the seat their revolt. Troops Landing at Cadiz. Thousands of German and Italian troops were reported today to be landing daily at the Spanish insur- gent port of Cadiz. The strictest secrecy prevails and the city, 60 miles from Gibraltar on the western coast of the peninsula’s tip, has become the mystery port of Europe. Steamers, reported landing large numbers of “volunteers” to supple- ment Gen. Francisco Franco's in- surgent Fascists, fly no flags from their masts and their bows are bare ©of names. The stalwart-looking foreigners dis- embark wearing brand-new uniforms of the Spanish Insurgent Foreign Legion. At almost the moment they set foot -— e (See FRANCE, Page A-3.) POPE IS REPORTED FURTHER IMPROVED Infection Still Threatened—Right Leg Is Growing More Paralyzed. By the Associatea Press. VATICAN CITY, January 9.--Pope Plus XI was reported today more refreshed and free from pain than at eny other time since his illness hegan because of his doctors’ concentration on_alleviating his local suffering. Persons close to the pontiff, who has been confined to his bed for more than a month, said, however, it would now be almost impossible to check his grave illness. Open sores, it was said, caused by the varicose veins in the holy father's partially paralyzed left leg, constantly threatened serious infection. His right leg was reported to be | growing more paralyzed daily and the arterio sclerosis to be unimproved. The localized treatment has brought the Pope great relief, prelates said, although the official report after Dr. Aminta Milani’s thorough examina= tion this morning said there had been no change in his general condition. Despite some suffering from his swollen legs, a good night's sleep again was reported for his holiness last night. RAIN AND ‘MUCH COLDER’ FORECAST FOR DISTRICT ‘Break’ in Unseasonable Weather of Last Few Days Is Predicted. A definite “break” in the unseason- eble weather of the last few days was predicted by the Weather Bureau today. Rain and “much colder” tempera- tures are forecast for tonight and to- morrow, bringing an end to the Dis- trict’s brief respite from Winter weather. The forecaster said the minimum tonight will be about 34 degrees. The rain may change to sleet some- time tomorrow, the forecaster added. The mercury soared to 69 degrees yesterday—a new record for January 8—but failed by 8 degrees of equal- ing the all-time “high” of 177, re- corded January 15, 1933, 4 N . expressed | of | By the Assoclated Press. MADRID, January 9.—Four persons | were killed and two British subjects | injured in a night air raid by insurgent pilots who bombed diplomatic head- quarters of three nations—Great Brit- ain, Germany and leand——SocmLsL: officials announced today. The Fascist assault, concentrated on | the so-called “neutral zone” of em- bassies and legations last night, was renewed with fresh vigor today as the | government defense council labored ! to evacuate civilian residents from the | besieged capital. Insurgent bombers dropped 15 ex- | plosive missiles on Socialist barricades in Northwestern University City after artillery and aviation units joined in a congerted attack to break through nt Bombs Kill Four In Night Air Raid on Madrid | Two British Subjects Injured as Diplo- matic Headquarters of Three Nations Are Struck—U. S. Embassy Shaken. government lines on the outskirts of the capital. The night raid damaged British and German Embassies and the Finnish Legation while almost every pane of glass in the Dutch and Egyptian Le- ' gations was shattered by the explo- slons. Today's bombings were centered about a mile east of the British Em- bassy and followed four earlier at- tacks on fortified positions of govern- ment militiamen. Socialist defenders answered the hail of steel with artillery fire and government pilots blasted insurgent positions near Casa de Campo Park and Aravaca. In desperate fighting, government (See MADRID, Page A-3.) SNOW-AND COLD CRIPPLE TRAFFIC 'Middle West and Rocky; Mountain Sections Hit. Bus Unreported. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, January 9.—Virtually | all forms of transportation felt today the pinch of adverse weather condi- tions in most parts of the Nation. Snow-clogged highways and bitter | cold brought motor traffic to a stand- | st1ll in many Middle West and Rocky Mountain sections. Blizzards and fog disrupted air | travel in the Northern States. Thick | weather slowed North Atlantic Coast shipping. Train service was affected | in some Middle Western States. | A Los Angeles hound bus with 15| passengers was unreported in Utah’s | snow. Storms crippled power and com- munications lines in Illinois, Wiscon- sin and Missourl. Seventy-five per icent of Columbia, Mo., homes were | dark last night. A hospital used emer- | | gency lights for a major operation. | | The Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. | | estimated its property damage in Mis- | | souri in excess of $1,000,000. | The deaths of at least 11 persons | were attributed to the weather. Four | were in Texas, one in Nebraska and might not actually be dealing with | two each in Arizona, Utah and Okla- homa. Fear was felt for many ma- rooned by deep snows. Freezing temperatures blanketed the West Coast and dipped into South- ern Texas. Oregon repcrted minimum temperatures of 42 below zero yes- | terday. movable barriers for some branch-line trains in Northern Iowa. Busses oper- | ated without schedules and most rural | —and some city—schools were closed. Skiiers at California mountain re- sorts welcomed 9-foot snows. Airports in New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania and Ohio were closed last night to regular traffic. Nearly 30 vessels waited for a lift in the fog to permit traffic in the port of Philadel- phia. FAR WEST COLD KILLS SIX. Indian Baby and Youth Die—Utah's| Toll Is Two. | | By Lhe Assoctated Press. | SAN FRANCISCO, January 9.—Six deaths were blamed today on the Pnri West's severe cold wave as shivering residents looked hopefully to a weath- er forecast for rising temperatures, An Indian baby was frozen to death near Keams Canyon in Arizona. Discovery of an -Indian youth's frozen body 45 miles southeast of Kingman, Ariz, was reported by an Indian agency official. Three others were feared dead and 30 Indians were ‘marooned. Utah's second victim of the cold weather, Mrs. Mary Zagarich, 54, was found frozen to death in a Salt Lake | cemetery. i Two Northern California deaths | previously were attributed to the ex- | | treme cold. | Southern California orchardists | burned smudge pots to protect their | multimillion-dollar citrus crop from | | low temperatures. i Ducks froze in ponds and had to be | chopped out. | By the Associated Press. PEIPING, China, January 9.— Chinese police officials advanced the theory today that the slaying of 17-year-old Pamela Werner, whose mutilated body was found yesterday beside a lonely road, might have been the climax of a love affair with an unidentified foreigner. Authorities declared only a for- eigner could have slain the vivacious English girl, daughter of E. T. C. Werner, a former British consular official. Natives, they said, will not venture at night into the neighborhood where the girl's body was found, torn by voracious wild dogs. The officials said Chinese dread the neighborhood be- cause they believe a ghost lurks there “waiting to pull unwary victims to their death in a ditch.” Miss Werner had been missing since 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Hospital medioal ex- A MATTSON FEARING RANSOM HUACKING: Requests Abductor to Give Assurance He Deals With Right Party. BACKGROUND— Nearly two weeks ago a masked, bearded man leaped through French doors of living room at Dr. W. W. Mattson’s home in Tacoma, Wash., terrified four chil- dren with pistol, snatched Charles, 10, dropped note and disappeared into darkness with captive. Note demanded ransom of $28,000. Since then there have been rumors of ransom negotiations, but Charles has not been returned. Federal authorities claimed juris- diction in search for kidnaper under “Lindbergh law,” which presumes abductor has crossed State line unless victim is returned within week. By the Associated Press. ‘TACOMA, Wash,, January 9.—Dr.| W. W. Mattson sought today to pre- vent “hijacking” of the $28,000 ran- som demanded by the kidnaper of his son Charles, 10, held for the thirteenth day. The physician disclosed fear he his son's kidnaper by inserting an advertisement in the Seattle Daily Times yesterday imploring the ab- ductor to “give me information so that I may guard against imposters and hijackers.” The advertisement was addressed tb “Mable,” as were four previous notes paper’s “personal” column, and was signed “Ann.” It said: “Mable—we are still waiting. All arrangements have been carried out in accordance with instructions in notes received. Be certain to give | against imposters and hijackers, and | be more specific in your instructions —Ann.” Ransom Payment Doubted. Reliable sources interpreted the ad- vertisement to mean the ransom for Charles’ release has not been paid, though they speculated efforts to pay it may have been made. One theory, supported by several sources, was that Dr. Mattson made an attempt to pay the ransom late Thursday, but was unable to complete the transaction. The unconfirmed theory served as one possible explanation for the sud- den flurry of activity by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation here yesterday. The agents, who previously had (See MATTSON, Page A-2) FERRY LOST IN FOG NEW YORK, January 9 (#).—The ferry Brunswick, fve and one-half hours overdue on a fog-bound trip across upper New York harbor, was located at 2 am. today tied up at pier 40, Brooklyn. A police radio car, scouting the waterfront, discovered the missing vessel. The boat was a mile off her course. Peiping Slaying of English Girl Is Laid to Unknown Foreigner aminers, after an autopsy, announced Miss Werner died of a fractured skull resulting from a blow on the head. She also had been assaulted, they said. British authorities conducted a pre- liminary inquest to ascertain facts of the search for Miss Werner. A for- mal inquest was set for next week. The girl's widowed father was said to have identified the remains merely by murmuring, “Yes, that must have been Pamela.” A strange accumulation of reported facts clouded a theory the girl was the victim of a robber. Her member- ship card in a skating club was found, blood stained, near the body. Expert opinion suggested the blood was spet- tered while the girl was alive. ‘The robbery theory was disputed, however, by the reported discovery of s gold watch on the wrist of the mutilated corpes. | me information so that I may guard | LF.LUNTS ON GENERAL NOTORS T0 FRHT STRKE Two Departments of Union Split With U. A. W. on Walkout. GET PROMISE OF FIRM ON EMPLOYE PACTS Corporation Will Not Enter Into Agreement Interfering With Metal Trades Jurisdiction. | BACKGROUND— Late in December United Auto- mobile Workers of America asked conference with General Motors Corp. to present grievances of em- ployes and stipulated that corpora= tion should recognize U. A, M. A. as sole collective bargaining agency Jor workers. This General Motors refused flatly to do. Union began calling strikes in parts and as- sembly plants of corporation, threatening general strike through= out firm. Strike has spread rapidly, with both sides deadlocked over United .Workers’ recognition and varying interpretations of “collec- tive bargaining.” The corporation maintains it will bargain in indi- vidual plants and the union hold- ing it must bargain from head- quarters with a single labor organization. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Two powerful departments of the American Federation of Labor, those of the metal and building trades, to- | day completed an alliance with Gen- eral Motors Corp. in opposition to strike and organizing activities of the United Automobile Workers, an affili- ate of the Committee for Industrial Organization. This development was disclosed formally this morning by John P. Frey, president of the Metal Trades department, with release of an ex- change of telegrams between himself and H. W. Anderson, labor relations officer of General Motors. brought the insurrection against C. I. O. unions which led to quested the automobile corporation to “enter into no agreement which would give to some other organization au- thority to represent the skilled crafts- men in the metal working industries.” G. M. C. Not to “Interfere.” In reply, he was assured today by Anderson that “General Motors has no intention of entering into any agreement with any other organization | interfering with legitimate jurisdiction of international unions affiliated with the metal trades department of American Federation of Labor.” At the same time, Frey announced that members of both departments, forced out of work by U. A. W. strike activities in a Fisher Body Co. plant in Cleveland, “intend going to work.” | The Fisher concern is part of the Gen- eral Motors set-up. The two departments, which, ac- cording to Frey, are in complete accord | with the action disclosed today, num- | ber approximately 850,000 members in | Six-foot snow drifts proved im- which have appeared in the news- | various A. F. of L. unions, thus repre- | senting well over one-third of the A. F. of L. membership now in good | standing. Lewis Foes Dominate. With the metal unit headed by one of the two bitterest enemies of John |L. Lewls, C. I. O. chairman, the building group is dominated by the (See STRIKE, Page A-3) ITALY EXPANDS WHEAT Duce Orders Greater Sowing to End Severe Shortage. ROME, January 9 (#).—Under urgent orders from Premier Benito Mussolini, Italy undertook today the most extensive sowing of wheat in its history in an effort to end a severe shortage. The orders were issued after I Duce announced this year's wheat crop was 25 per cent below the average of the last three years and of inferior quality. Authoritative agricultural sources declared the shortage is even more serious, placing the deficiency at 30 per cent. Italy, agricultural experts warned, will be short by about 3,000,000 tons for the year. The annual consump- tion ranges around 8,500,000 tons. Summary of Amusements C-12 B. News __B-5-6-7 Comics _ Estate _C-1t07 Short Story ..A-5 Society - A-7 Sports -_.A-10-11 Woman’s Pg. B-8 NATIONAL. President to guide course by Supreme Court reaction. Page A-1 Treasury may take up billion in U. 8. obligations. Page A-1 ‘Widespread nature of strike hinders peace parley. Page A-1 Mattson seeking to bar hijacking of $28,000 ransom. Page A-1 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Jacobs’ fiscal survey exceeded intent, says Glass. Page A-1 Henry G. Hanford is claimed by death. Page A-1 District of Columbia officials to pre- sent fiscal views. Page A-6 Fight planned to repeal “married per- sons clause.” - Page A-16 Colored bandits stab three men; three oars taken. Page A-1¢ A | | usS. \WEATHER, BUREAU WIR, GReSG U.S. MAY TAKEUP BILLION IN BONDS iOperation to End Period of Demands on Money Markets Seen. By the Associated Press. Hizh administration fiscal officials Now, DoC, You HAVE TEN DAYSTO PREPARE A GOOD WEATHER INAUGURAL PRO NO FOOLIN‘! Trailer Camps Are Prohibited By Palm Beach Ban in Society Mecca Is Not General in State. By the Assoclated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., January 9.— Although Palm Beach virtually had The only and Wire in Washington wit Associated Press News evening paper the photo Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 140,439 (Some returns not vet received.) (®) Means Associate PRESIENTAVATS COURTS ATITOE Business for Aid to Program. | B the Assoctated Press. ; President Roosevelt’s strategy on said today the Treasury may repur- | barred its gates today against auto- | entering his second administration, chase $1,000,000,000 of Government obligations in the 1938 fiscal year if the budget is balanced. Even though no surplus were avail- able for debt retirement, they said, Moto this sum of Government bonds might | Taking the initiative, Frey, who |be acquired from private holders charges | through investments for social security trust funds and by using receipts from their suspension last Summer, Te- | “baby bond” sales. Such an operation would end seven years of demands on the money mar- kets to finance Government deficits and would tend to reduce the im- portance of Federal financial opera- tions on money conditions. ‘The budget sets up $540,000,000 for an old-age reserve account under the social security act. Payments into an unemployment reserve account total- ing about $450,000,000 also are antici- pated in the next fiscal year from States with approved unemployment laws. It is not yet known what demands will be made on these funds for dis- | bursements under the security law, but officials said a major portion of both might be invested in Govern- ment securities. These investments would be in- creased as the reserve funds grew in future years. Informed administra- | tion sources have indicated, however, the security act may be changed to prevent the old-age reserve account from growing to a projected $47.000,- 000,000 by 1980. Sales of United States Savings bonds are expected to total between $400,- 000,000 and $500,000,000 in the 1938 fiscal period. If the budget is bal- anced, this money will be available for retiring other Government obliga- tions. None of the proposed transactions (See BUDGET, Page A-2.) —— VETERAN OF MOBILE BAY BATTLE IS DEAD AT 95! Isaac Barton Millner Formerly in | U. S. Service in Wash- ington. By the Assoclated Press. MORGANTON, N. C., January 9.— Isaac Barton Millner, 95, said to have been the last survivor of the Union forces in the Civil War battle of Mobile Bay, died last night at a son's home here. Millner, a Pennsylvanian, served throughout the war in the Union navy and later was employed in Gov- ernment service at Washington. He cast his first ballot for Lincoln. Police increase in Prince Georges may be sought. Page A-16 8. E. C. approval speeds plans for gas stock sale. Page A-16 Territorial plan proposed for Dis- trict. Page A-16 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. This and That. Page Answers to Questions. Page Stars, Men and Atoms. Page David Lawrence. Page Paul Mallon. Page Mark Sullivan, Page Jay Pranklin. Page Headline Folk. Page SPORTS. Wolfpack, Terrors to test C. U. and Maryland boxers tonight. Page A-10 Farmer Burns, matdom's pro dean, dies at age of 76. Page A-10 St. John's of Brooklyn quint menaces G. W. record tonight. Page A-11 Central, Western basket wins make for tight high school race. Page A-11 Changes made in code as U. S. G. A. gives tournament dates. Page A-11 Page A-5 Page B-8 Page B-8 C-8 Page A-¢ A-3 A4 A-8 A-8 A-8 A-9 A-9 A-9 A9 A-9 mobile trailers, the tourist who drags his home behind him found plenty of welcome signs in other Florida cities. Palm Beach, high society’s Winter mecca, enacted this week an ordinance | banning trailer camps as a public | nuisance. however, may drive across Lake Worth to West Palm Beach and find space at two camps within the city limits. | Miami Beach forbids any one to live in a trailer with a law 11 years old. Sarasota, | for the Tin Can Tourists of the World, | has a municipal camp where more bivouacked. Camps are barred in sections of Miami and regulations govern those in operation. ager of The Star Had Been Sick Only 10 Days. Henry Gardiner Hanford, assistant | to the business manager and assistant auditor of The Star, died at his resi- dence, 3706 Military road, last night after a brief illness. Mr. Hanford had suffered an attack of the grip just be- fore New Year; complications arose and he failed to rally. An employe of The Star since July, 1895, Mr. Hanford had risen steadily from the grade of assistant bookkeeper and at the time of his death was an executive of manifold duties. There was scarcely an activity of the com- pany or of its various beneficial funds and plans in which he did not take a responsible part. He enjoyed the | esteem and the trust of the officers and stockholders to a remarkable extent. His acquaintance with Washington business and professional men was a wide one and was both the cause and the effect of his extraordinary efficiency. Born in Sterling, Va., June 27, 1874, the son of Levi and Emma Gardiner Hanford, Mr. Hanford came as a youth to Washington, where he attended the old Washington High School, now Central High. Later he graduated from the Eaton, Burnett and Durling Business Col- lege, at Twelfth and F streets, and came to this newspaper when just past his 21st birthday. Ale most immediately he began to dis- play those qualities which led to his advancement and to his ulti- mate position with the company. He had much to do with the problems connected with the planning and occupancy of the large annex, built on Eleventh street in 1920, and re- ceived special recognition therefor. He was co-executor and co-trustes for & number of the owners of The Star, now deceased. He was treasurer and (See HANFORD, Page A-6.) The tourist who meets rebuff there, | Midwinter headquarters | | than 500 trailers and house cars are | HENRY G. HANFORD CLAIMED BY DEATH 'Assistant to Business Man-| | sources in touch with him understood | today, wili be to give the Supreme Court and business an opportunity to “follow the election returns” and guide his course by the results. | Unless more liberal interpretations of the Constitution are forthcoming and business steps-up employment, enlargement of legislative powers may ! be undertaken and budget balancing will be deferred. This was the consensus at the Cap- itol and among White House advisers, on the basis of the two blunt mes- sages Mr. Roosevelt addressed to Con- gress this week. Democratic leaders expected him to follow through in the inaugural ad- dress January 20 as part of a program to activate public opinion on the wage and hour and unemployment problems. Breathless from the rush of open- ing developments, the Senate and House welcomed a recess today to (See CONGRESS, Page A-2.) BLACK LEGS’ AIM TO SPUR SHIRKERS Planned to Clean Up County in Kentucky—18 of 25 In- dicted Sought. By the Associated Press. PRESTONSBURG, Ky., January 9. —A secret organization known in this mountain region as the “Black Legs,” of which 25 alleged members are under indictment here for criminal syndi- calism, had planned to “clean up” Magoffin County and “make men who refused to work go to work,” Common- wealth’'s Attorney Earl R. Cooper of Salyersville said today. The indictments grew out of a pur- ported beating and robbery last April of a country storekeeper in Floyd County, who, Commonwealth's At- torney O. C. Hall said, had criticized activities of the organization. While authorities pressed search for 18 of the indicted men still at large, action of the Floyd County grand jury prompted mountainfolk, hereto- fore silent for fear of reprisals, to tell officers of midnight floggings of men and women by a band of terrorists along the Magoffin-Floyd County border. Cooper said the “Black Legs” was an offshoot of an unemployed men’s league organized in Magoffin County about a year ago and functioned ap- proximately “two or three weeks.” BUS MANAGER SLAIN GULFPORT, Miss,, January 9 (®). —Floyd Devine, local manger of the Biloxi City Bus Lines, was shot and fatally wounded last night and police said they were hunting a man listed was discharged Thursday, in con- nection with the case. Mrs. Devine, who was with her husband at the time of shcoting, is a sister-in-law of Jerome ‘Dizzy” Dean, the base ball pitcher. Two of five bullets took eftect. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 9.—Those pretty girls who make their living being pleasant and helpful 10,000 feet in the air will continue to be pretty, but some of them will be bigger. One of the country’s largest air- lines (American Airlines) sent out a call today for larger girls to handle the heavier duties aboard its fleet of sleeper ships. “A girl can weigh up to 120 pounds and we don’t mind,” said Howard Kurtz, assistant superintendent of stations for the airline. “The work on the sleepers is heavier than the girls’ duties on the average day run and a little taller and huskier girls get along better on the route than the 100-pounders.” A Airline Seeks Huskier Girls As Sleeper Planes Hostesses Charm, brains and a graduate degree in nursing remain prerequisite to get- tirg a job as airplane stewardess. Previously, however, the height limit was 5 feet 4 inches and the weight limit 110 pounds. Now an extra inch of height and 10 more pounds are permitted. The age limit for begin- ners remains at 28 years. The stewardesses, who serve pas- sengers with meals, hot drinks and cigarettes and take tickets, have even more duties on the sleepers. They take care of 14 passengers in separate berths. They have pillows, blankets and sheets to manipulate. And, again, there’s a supper to serve before midnight on the flight West from Newark and breakfast to serve as the sun and the plane cross the Sterra Nevadas headed for Los Angeles. { i 'Looks to High Tribunal and as Robert Tinsley, an employe who | ‘Thi d Pre: TWO CENTS. JACOBS' SURVEY EXCEEDED INTENT, GLASS DECLARES Congress Merely Sought Re- port on Fair Proportion of Expenses. ADVICE NOT WANTED ON OTHER SUBIJECTS $2,533,347 Figure Probably Will Be Revised if Formula Is Adopted. The Lump Sum Not Reduced, But Abolished The fiscal relations formula does not reduce the lump surm. It abolishes the lump sum. The $2,533,347 estimated as reimbursable to the District is not a Federal payment. Part of it comes from increased assess- ments on local property owners. Part of it comes from new fees tuition and library, for non- | | residents using schools and | | libraries, | There is no more Federal pay- ment, as understood in the past. All the cost of local maintenance & placed on local taxpayers— with incidental exceptions. The accompanying story gives the source of some of the jtems mak- . | ing up the $2,533,347—mistakenly regarded as a new and lower lump sum. Chairman Glass of the Senate Ape propriations Committee today dee | clared the Jacobs fiscal relations ree | port went beyond the functions ine | tended by Congress when it authorized | the inquiry which resulted in the ree | port recommending the end of Feds | eral lump-sum contribution to the | upkeep of the Capital City. “Prom what I have read of the ree | port,” said Senator Glass, “they seem | to have exceeded the proper functions designed by the act of Congress. We simply asked for a report as to what was, in their judgment, after | thorough investigation, a fair propore ! tion of the District expenses that | should be assumed by the Federal | Government. | “We did not ask them to go into 1the question of suffrage, either local | or general, or any kindred subject. It is fair to assume that Congress already knows as much, if not infie nitely more, than this commission concerning matters of that sort. “I cannot speak for other members of the Senate Appropriations Come | mittee, but for myself I may say that | I shall want to analyze very carefully the report of this commission before advocating its approval by Congress.” Opposed Cut in Payment. Senator Glass was one of the Sen- ate conferees who took a firm stand last year against the proposal then {made to cut the Federal payment | from $5,700,000 to $2,700,000. When | the Senate finally compromised on | $5,000,000 as the Federal lump sum for this year, there was coupled with it the provision authorizing the Presie dent to have the study made which resulted in report sent to Congress yesterday. In this report the lump sum, as such, is scrapped entirely and a formula laid down for measure ing the value of services which either the local or Federal government renders to the other. The effect of the formula for the next fiscal year would be to eliminate the Federal obligation entirely and merely have Federal agencies reime burse the District for any services it renders. This Federal money coming back to the District next year would be even less than the $2,700,000 the House proposed last year. Figure May Be Revised. Meanwhile it developed that the | $2,533,347 figure set up in the report as the amount the District would be reim« bursed by the Federal Government and | private citizens receiving special serve ices in the coming fiscal year probably will be revised if Congress scraps the present lump-sum payment and adopts the proposed three-point formula. J. L. Jacobs, Chicago efficiency en< gineer and tax expert who directed the fiscal relations study, admitted that the $2,533,347 figure was arrived (See FISCAL, Page A-6.) OFFICER KILLS MAN IN 30-MILE CHASE Pursuit Over Two Counties Begins With Attempt at Cross-Tie Theft Arrest. By the Associated Press. FREDERICKSBURG, Va. January 9.—A 35-year-old man, identified by his driver’s permit as Leroy Stribling of Midland, Va., was shot and ine stantly killed by Special Officer S. Walker Burgess of Spotsylvania County, late yesterday afternoon after & 30-mile chase through two counties. Pursuit began when Stribling wrested free from the officer who had placed him under arrest in the woods near Four Mile Fork, Spotsylvania County, where Stribling was loading allegedly stolen railroad ties from a cache to his truck. Stribling thwarted capture on the spot, Burgess declared, by climbing into the truck and locking the doors. Stribling started the engine and sped away, with Burgess closely traile ing. Running the truck up a blind farm lane on Skinners neck, Caroline County, about 12 miles from here, Stribling swung the big machine around in an effort to retrace his course to the Tidewater Trail. Bur- gess asserted Stribling made another attempt to crash into his car in the maneuver, forcing the officer to drive into & wheat fleld. ¢ ’