Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1937, Page 21

Wash GOOD-NEIGHBOR POLICY APPLAUDED HTTENTLEPARLE Representative of Ecuador Invokes It as Way to Get 40-Hour Week. SECRET SESSION HELD TO SALVE JAPANESE Incessant Criticism of Conditions | in Orient Is Cut Off From Public Record. BY BLAIR BOLLES. President Roosevelt's pan-American *200d neighbor” policy is showing the world the way to universal economic rapprochement, Carlos Doudebas, speaking for the government of Ecua- dor, told the International Textile Conference today. Doudebas invited the 27 countries represented at the conference to fol- low Mr. Roosevelt's policy to attain their general goal of a 40-hour week and a universal minimum wage level in the textile industry as a prelude to world stabilization of all industry. The President himself yesterday told the 200 men here for the conference he was in full sympathy with their aims of bettering the economic and social position of the textile workers | of the world, and, incidentally, thereby equalizing competition among textile producing nations for the world mar- kets. The conference this morning voted thanks to him for his interest in the parley. Japanese Protected. After Doudebas’ uncontroversial talk, the delegates adjourned their open discussion at the Departmental Auditarium and went into executive ington News Representative Rich 8 2 [ €¢ ND just make me out a check for it,” said Repre- sentative Robert F. Rich, 3 Republican, of Pennsyl- | vania, tossing his putter to his caddy. His victims of a recent afternoon— Representatives Jack Nichols of Okla- homa and Leslie C. Arends of Illinois, and Earle D. Chesney, Veterans’ Bureau contact man at the Capitol— looked not only crestfallen, but sur- prised. “What's the matter with the country’'s currency?” they demanded. “Isn't it good in Pennsylvania any more?”. It seems that isn't the question at all. Rich has a trophy room and | most of its contents are framed checks | | of his golf victims—checks both large | and small, representing the slices, L 4 WITH SUNDAY MORNING ERITION @he Foen ny Star WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1937. ‘Frames’ His Golf Winnings Prefers Checks and Lines His Trophy Room With Them. HEY! YA!GoTT A RAE MY SALARY iF T Play GOLF wiTH 1VANY MoRE % ¥, % COMGRISS MENY, ~; hooks and missed putts of his op- ponents. His Democratic conquests have a suspicion he will turn their checks over to the Republican party cam- paign fund, but even his colleagues get small pleasure in making out a check. When Chesney paid his loss he sent in the above pen and ink sketch. Rich, who is general manager and | treasurer of the Woolrich vania) Woolen Mills, has won wide recognition “watchdog of the Treasury” and “chronic objector” in the House. But, on Saturday after- noons, he generally may be found at one of the Capital’s country clubs. He plays at Congressional, Chevy Chase, Columbia, Army and Navy, Kenwood, Argyle and Indian Spring. (Pennsyl- session to save the feelings of the Japanese. The conference has been attended by almost incessant criticism of the textile industrialists of the Far Eastern empire, and it was thought best not to spread any more of the criticism on the public record “You know, ladies and gentlemen,” Doudebas said, “that in South Amer- jea we are favorably impressed now by the international ‘good-neighbor policy’ supported by the President of the United States. “Allow me to hope that not only | nations, but also governments, em- | plovers and workers will follow always | the same good neighbor policy, and PARK COMMISSION QUSTSG.0.PADES Shaw, Smith and Hampton Get Old Posts Back in Maryland. that, in a near future, we will be able to see closer relationship and true {raternity between the working class and those who can help the workers, because all other policy is bound to destroy the only possible way to help the progress of nations and the bet- | terment of human life.” | Silk Price Decline Cited. Japan, which seeks free trade in | textiles, however, reported openly that | the decline of the silk market in the | face of competition from rayon, an American development, made a 40- hour textile week in her country a remote prospect, while British labor delegates challenged directly the con- | tention of their compatriot employers’ | representatives that progress toward | a 40-hour week should be postponed | until Jabor conditions in the Far East | were improved, and that even then there should be international regu- | lation of hours and wages. | “The abrupt drop of the raw silk | price prevents us from improving working conditions for the time being,” said Takeo Katakura, Japanese man- agement representative. He said the New York raw silk price declined from | $6.25 in 1925 to $1.41 in 1935, owing to the swiftly increasing popularity of the | cheaper rayon, a chemically developed | textile “This situation,” he added, “may well be said to have influence on the | working conditions of other textile in- dustries in Japan, We can only state that we are maintaining the present scale under very trying circumstances. Shortening of working hours in the in- dustry immediately increases costs of | manufacture and leads to self-destruc- tion of the industry and the loss of employmefit of 500,000 people, who are directly concerned with the silk in- dustry.” Alfred Roberts, secretary of the Amalgamated Association of Card, Blowing and Ring Loom Operatives, | and John Carver Hendry, secretary | of the Scottish Council, carried the | fight for British labor this morning | against British management’s apathy | toward the suggestion of a universal 40-hour week, minimum wage level, child labor control and operation on the one-shift system Proposal Called Practicable. “The 40-hour week is a practicable proposal and can be carried out with- out injury to the industry,” Hendry said. Roberts, who estimated that | 100,000 cotton textile workers are un- employed in Britain, declared: “In our deliberations at this con- ference, we cannot dismiss from our minds the fact that a 40-hour week offers the most hopeful means of alle- viating this situation (of unemploy- ment). “‘We realize, however, that a country which depends very largely upon ex- ports for its existence and which has to meet the fierce competition of na- tions with longer hours and lower la- bor standards, cannot hope to reduce its working week unilaterally without meeting disaster, “Let me-assure you, however, that in the event of recornmendations from this conference finding international scceptance, the full force of our in- dustrial power will be used, with or without governmental action, to se- cure for Great Britaint these benefits which the International Labor Office, through its constitutent members, re- gards as essential for the well-being of the textile workers of the world.” MOTORIST FINED William A. Farley, 26 T street, paid & $100 fine today on a second-offense driving-while-drunk charge, both ar- rests occurring during a three-month period. Farley was first arrested on Novem- ber 17, 1936, and subsequently con- victed and placed on probation. His second arrest was on February 28 of this year, at which time he pleaded not guilty and demanded a jury trial. He withdrew this plea today and ac- knowledged his guilt. a A At its first meeting since the ad- | journment of the Maryland General Assembly, the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commis- sion today resumed its former Deme- cratic complexion by ousting Wilton T. Allen, Montgomery County park commissioner, and two other Repub- lican officials. Allen, appointed last July by Gov. Harry W. Nice, will remain as a mem- | ber of the commission until his term | expires in May, 1939, but will not draw | the $3,000 salary accruing to the Mont- gomery park commissioner. | Lacy Shaw, Democratic leader and | former Montgomery County commis- sioner, was elected to succeed Allen. Charles M. Jones of Rockville, sec- | retary-treasurer of and Walter W. Dawson of Rockville, general counsel, were let out and replaced by J. Bond Smith of Takoma Park, the former counsel, and Thomas E. Hampton, Bethesda, former secretary-treasurer. George N. Palmer of Seat Pleasant was re-elected chairman of the com- mission. held his post because his office was | not subject to gubernatorial appoint- ment. These changes were made under a new power of naming its own officers, granted the commission by a law passed at the recent session. The commissioner for Montgomery | County, the secretary-treasurer and | the general counsel formerly were ap- pointed by the Governor. Alarmed at the possibility that the entire person- | nel of the commission, involving more | than 100 jobs, might be changed by appointees of a Republican Governor, State Senator Stedman Prescott of Montgomery County introduced the bill authorizing the board to elect its own officers. Under threat of holding up the Governor's ‘“green bag” ap- pointments, the executive signed the measure despite Repulbican protests. FECHNER SAYS C. C. C. NEEDED IN PROSPERITY Organization Declared Needed to Train Youths Unable to Find Jobs. By the Associated Press. Robert Fechner, Federal emergency conservation director, told a Senate committee today that even if ‘great prosperity” should develop the Civilian Conservation Corps would be needed for “a good many years to come.” Supporting President Roosevelt's recommendation to Congress for a permanent C. C. C., Fechner said the organization was needed to employ and traip youths unable to find jobs. “Employers naturally favor older | men over inexperienced boys from 16 to 19 years old,” Fechner told the Senate Education and Labor Commit- tee. The nearly 2,000,000 youths who have gone through the C. C. C. camps in the last four years have been “im- proved mentally, morally and phys- ically,” Fechner said. | | BAND CONCERT. By the Army Band in the audi- torium at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy conducting. March, “Salute to Mexico”____Brooke Suite, “Tales of a Praveler”___ Sousa (a) The Kaffir on the Karoo. (b) In the Land of the Golden Fleece. Fox trot, “Organ Grinder's --Hu Cornet solo, “Twilight Dreams,” Clarke Ralph Ostrom, soloist. ‘Two selected pieces (a) “Chant Sans Paroles. (b) “Mignonnette.” ‘Waltz, “Belles of Seville”_ .____Lampe March, “Le Regiment de S8ambre et -Friml the commission, | both “Republicans, | Palmer is a Democrat, but | Meuse” - —---—---__Turlet “The Btar Spangled Banner.” T 3,000 Folk Songs In Library May Have Custodian Donor of Records Says| Thousands More Are Unpreserved. By the Assoctated Press A $1,620 item approved by a House Appropriations Subcommittee raised hopes of Library of Congress officials today that the records of 3,000 folk songs gleaned from jungles, prairies, prisons and lumber camps by John A. Lomax soon will have a full time custodian, The mild-mannered Texan, however, appeared more concerned about “the thousands of unrecorded folk songs that are rapidly disappearing” than by the problem of cataloguing the hun- dreds of discs he deposited in the | Library. He is not employed by the Library. The work is his hobby, though par- tially financed by the Carnegie Fund. | He said he and his son—who is in Haiti recording voodoo drum songs— had at last recorded probably every | Negro work song now current in the South, nearly 300. They rushed the job, he said, because “in a few years there won't be any more gang singing—machinery's kill- ing it.” Calling the colored race “our greatest producers of folk music,” Lomax said the songs were available in most natural form in Southern prisons, where the idiom and manner of sing- ing are “‘uncontaminated by white talk | REV. JOHN PALMER AGAIN HEADS BOARD Officers Directors of Presbyterian Home for Aged. Rev. John C. Palmer was re-elected president of the Corporate Board of the Presbyterian Home for the Aged at a recent meeting, it was announced today. Also re-elected were Rev. Alton B. Oltlather, secretary; the Washington Loan & Trust Co., treasurer, and trustees, Harry Blake, J. Harry Cun- ningham, Dr Harry C. Davis, L. S. De Pue, Rev. Mr. Palmer, George W. ‘White, A. C. Baldwin, Alfred B. Gaw- ler, Rev. Freeley Rohrer, Dr. M. F. Thompson, Mrs. Martha Vaughn, Mrs. Brainard H. Warner, Mrs. Edith Galt Mish, Rev. Oltlather, A. C. Olophant, W. P. Putnam and George Francis Williams. Mrs. Mish was elected president of the Board of Lady Managers at a meeting of that group. Others chosen were: Mrs. Peter F. Snyder, first vice president; Mrs. Harry Blake, second vice president; Mrs. Chester Smith, third vice president; Mrs. Elma Saul, fourth vice president; Mrs. John M. Sylvester, recording secretary; Mrs. R. B. Rollinson, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Vaughn, treasurer. The group also made plans for the annual garden part to be held June 16, with Mrs. Cornelia Cotton as chairman. — PARKé OFFICE TO MOVE TO INTERIOR BUILDING Permit Headquarters to Be Estab- lished at Eighteenth Street Entrance. After occupying quarters for many years in the Navy Building, the local parks office is to move late today into the new Interior Department Bulld- Permits for picnics, bsse ball dia- monds and other features in the sys- tem may be obtained, beginning to- morrow, at the permit office of the National Capital parks, just inside the Eighteenth street entrance to the new building. The park police office will be near the permit offce. All National Capital parks units will be reached through the Interior De- partment telephone exchange. For- merly they were on thc War-Navy ex- change P Chosen at Meeting ol; ABATTOR ISSUE RAISED AGAIN BY REVISION N PLANS Commissioners Again Faced With Problem—Firm Claim Objections Met. DISTRICT OFFICIALS DECLINE TO COMMENT Gobel Company Lawyer Contends Changes Will Force Approval of Slaughter House. BACKGROUND— Controversy over request of Al- Jred Gobel, Inc., for slaughter house permit brought strenuous ob= jections last Fall from several Gov- ernment officials, being climazed by a statement from the White House indicating that the President was not in favor of increasing such op- erations in Capital. Leading fight against proposal were Cabinet Members Ickes and Wallace and Chairman Delano of the Park and Planning Commis- sion. Citizens’ associations also joined the fight. All feared bad eflects upon adjacent public and private property. i The District Commissioners today | faced the necessity at an early date of | passing a second time on plans of | Adolf Gobel, Inc., to enlarge and ex- tend its slaughter house operations near the Benning Viaduct, a proposi- | tion long opposed by Secretary of the | “Inv.enor Ickes and many Federal of- | ficials on public nuisance grounds. Dormant for several months, the | issue arose again as a result of revised | building plans submitted by the pack- | ing firm, which went to court in an | endeavor to force the issuance of a | construction permit. These new plans, | according to James M. Earnest, a Gobel attorney, meet the six general objec- tions formerly raised by the Commis- | sioners. District officials declined to comment. For denying the former application for a permit, the Commissioners are involved in an equity suit brought by | the packing firm. Gobel Co. asked $50.000 in personal damages from each of the three Commissioners and also | asked the United States District Court to compel the issuance of a permit. An earlier mandamus action was over- ruled on agreement that additional time be given to revise the abattoir plans and for the Commissioners to file an answer. Gobel Attorney Confident. | “We are confident that the Commis- sioners wiil be compelled to issue a | permit on the basis of our new plans | which meet every objection,” Earnest said today. i If the permit is issued, he said, the | company intends, it is said, to drop |its damage suit against the Commis- | sioners. | Plumbing Inspector Robert J. Bar- | | rett and legal officers of the District | and Public Works Administration have not yet completed their detailed exami- nation of the revised abattoir plans. They are now going thoroughly into | the matter of refrigeration, the lack of | adequate facilities in this respect hav- ing been one of the former objections raised against the original plans. It | would appear on the surface that 1{‘ the company has met the disputed | points to the satisfaction of the build- ing inspection office, the Commission- ers will be forced to issue a permit. They gave no indication, however, of their intentions. As a result of earlier developments, the Commissioners held a special zon- ing hearing and approved a number of new regulations designed to tighten the existing code and provide strict barriers to the future issuance of permits for operations of a “nuisance” | character.” | CREDIT UNION HEADS BEGIN CONVENTION Edward Filene to Be Principal Speaker at Dinner Tomorrow. The 65 national directors of the National Association of Credit Unions opened their convention today in the Willard Hotel. R. Roland Potter is general chairman. ‘With the national president, Claude E. Clarke of Cleveland, presiding, delegates representing 1,100,000 mem- bers of the 6,000 credit unions in 42 States began the two-day business session with a discussion of member=~ ship representation in the association. Edward A. Filene of Boston, promi- nent economist and father of credit unions in the United States, will be the principal speaker at the conven- tion banquet at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow. His talk will be broadcast over a na- tional hook-up. Senator Sheppard of Texas will be present at the dinner. There are 91 credit unions in the District. HEAVYWEIGHT VENDOR WINS BRUSH WITH LAW Abe Milloff, Held for Lingering Too Long After Sale, Is Freed by Court. Abe Milloff, 300-pound ice cream vendor, came out on top in Police Court today in his latest brush with the police. Judge Edward M. Curran took his personal bond on a charge of necessary to make a sale. The defendant is a familiar figure in ‘Washington, having sold ice cream in front of Union Station for a number of years. Ordinarily, he had been al- lowed to post $2 in collateral and for- feit, but last night police demanded $25, which he did not have. Milloff said he paid $2 in August, 1936, and at one time he was arrested 20 times in two days. He left the Police Court free to con- | remaining in one place longer than tinue the support of his wife and two children, Society and General PAGE B—1 Handicapped Children Speak for Bill Deaf and Blind Witnesses Demonstrate Methods—Measure Would Grant $11,158,000 in Educational Program. CHILD MARRIAGE BAN STUDIED BY DISTRICT HEAD Bill, Among Seven for Chang- ing Code, May Receive Approval. CONSENT AGE WOULD BE INCREASED TO 16 Commissioners Consider Measure Raising Wholesale Liquor License to $500. A bill aimed at preventing so-called “child marriages” in the Distri Columbia, it was indicated tod be forwarded to the Budget | with approval of the Commissioners Five deaf girls, aged 6 to 8, who appeared before a Senate subcommittee today. Left to right are Fern Spencer, Mar: and Virginia Clare. 113 ARY had a little lamb," blind fingers typed for blind eyes to read as chil- dren from the Maryland Sehool for the Blind appeared before a Senate committee today to demon- strate what they can ing. “I am well. I love you,” a blond and dimpled girl of 7 said in the soft and unnatural accents of one who never had heard human speech Totally deaf since birth, she and four companions from the Maryland | School for the Deaf did their part at the lip prompting of a teacher. Pending was a bill proposing Federal appropriation of $11,158.000 to be de- voted to improving the educational opportunities of the Nation's handi- | capped children In its support Andrew Birmingham, 16. and Frances Wright, 8. of the School for Blind, laid their Braille writer and their Braille book on the committee table before Senator Pepper, Democrat, of Florida and sponsor of the bill learn to do if | | provided the facilities for such learn- “Write something for Frances to read,” the boy was told, and “Mary | nad ‘s little Jamb” was the response | of the shy little lady as she ran sensitive fingers over the boy's handi- work. | As these two left the table, five smiling girls ranging in age from 6 to 8 took their places. They had heard no sound since birth, but their | sharp eyes missed nothing. | “Bow to me,” a comely teacher said to one of the younghters, phrasing| | the command carefully with her lips. Without hestitation the girl court- | | sied. | “Dance with Alyce.” was the next order and blond little Fern Spencer, |6, put her arms around brunette | Alyce Bean, 8, and waltzed a few | steps. “Read this” the teacher asked, holding a poster up to Mary Lou | Jones, “I am well. I love you,” | she replied Joanna Sturgis, 8. and Virginia | Clare, 6, showed similar skill in fol- lowing the conversation. Previous to the demonstration the y Lou Jones, Alyce Bean, Senator Claude Pepper of Florida, Joanna Sturgis | The children are from the Maryland School for the Deaf at Frederick, Md. | —Star Staff Photo. | | committee heard Dr. John W.| | Studebaker, United States Commis- | sioner of Education, urge the neces- | sity of Federal assistance in bring- | ing educational opportunities to nearly 2,000.000 handicapped children throughout the country. “These youngsters are not getting a square deal” he testified, “partly be- | cause special educational measures are 50 expensive and partly because the children of most parents are not han- dicapped and the necessity for special facilities consequently is not a matter of such close importance. The Fed- | eral Government must help sooner or later.” The Commissioner reminded the | committee, however, that the Budget Bureau has disapproved of extra ap- propriations for such legislation as that pending. In brief, the bill would provide for an outright Federal grant of $40.000 to | each State and the District of Colum- | bia, with $9.000,000 in reserve for matching local funds and $500,000 for administration. The bill is before a subcommittee of | the Senate Committee on Education | 'and Labor. ASSOCIATION HITS MEMORIAL SITE Commercial and Esthetic Loss Seen if Cherry Trees Are Lost. Location of the Thomas Jefferson | Memorial on the south side of the Tidal Basin was vigorously opposed by the Board of Governors of the Mer- chants’ and Manufacturers’ Associa- tion yesterday. The board tontended present plans for the memorial “call for destruc- tion of much of the Tidal Basin and the uprooting of the Japanese cherry trees.” are other sites, more which would not necessitate destruc- tion of one of Washington's greatest natural attractions. Plans for the memorial would bring about “a tremendous esthetic and commercial loss to the city, as it would be necessary to fill in the present basin and excavate three other pools,” the group said. This procedure would change the present beauty spot “into | an ugly eyesore throughout the period of several years required to change the terrain,” it was contended. The board re-elected Louis Levay as national councilor to represent the as- sociation on the Chamber of Com- merce. Arthur J. Sundlun was elected delegate and substitute councilor and John J. Hasley and Bert L. Olmsted as alternate delegates. PUBLIC AUDITORIUM PROPOSED BY CLUB Young Democrats Urge Structure to Be Named for Roosevelt. Construction of a large public au- ditorium to be named for President Roosevelt on the site of the munici- pal center here was proposed yester- day by the Young Democrats’ Club of Washington, meeting at the Wil- lard Hotel. In adopting a resolution offered by L. J. Esunas, the club declared “the Nation's Capital lacks a suitable au- ditorium in keeping with local en- vironment and needs for the holding of public functions, conventions, operas, town hall meetings and the like.” Such an auditorium cou’ * be erected on the north side of Pennsylvania avenue between Third and Sixth streets, the club pointed out, with “adequate beauty, capacity, facility and durability equal to the need.” The name suggested for the struc- ture was “The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Auditorium.” Copies of the resolution were sent to House and Benate Committees on Public Build- ings and Grounds. BANQUET IS TONIGHT The annual banquet of the Central Business Men's Association, with for- mal installation of officers and enter- tainment features, will be held this evening at the Lafayette Hotel, be- ginning at 7:30 o'clock. Officers to be installed are Hugh V. Keiser, president; Dial H. Elkins, first vice president; William J. Mileham, second vice president; Walter C. Po= teets, treasurer, and Miss Mabel White, secretasy. It expressed the belief there | appropriate, | Wife of Official Freed of Police Assault Charge MRS. ALEXANDER T. SAXE. —Star Staff Photo. Mrs. Alexander T. Saxe, wife of an executive assistant in the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, proved to the satisfaction of Police Judge John P. McMahon yesterday that she did not assault Pvt. Spottswood F. Grave- ley of fourth precinct during a traffic argument on March 31. by Judge Walter J. Casey of speeding and failing to sign her registration card. She was fined $5 on the speed- ing charge, and her personal bond was taken on the latter count. Gravely and two other officers testified Mrs. Saxe, driving on High- way Bridge, sounded her horn be- hind a police car, and when the officers were unable to move over she passed them by crossing the center line. Gravely declared she went down the ramp to the Mount Vernon Me- morial Highway after he had entered her car and then refused to make a left turn against a sign reading “No left turn.” When he reached from the back to the front seat to turn off the ignition Mrs. Saxe struck him on the nose, the officer told the Judge. Mrs. Saxe contended, however, the officer struck her as she leaned over, and that she foliowed the police car until she was ordered to stop. She claimed she was so excited she didn’t remember what she said to the officers, who accused Mrs. Saxe of remarks disparaging to the personnel of the precinct. Mrs. Saxe lives at 3220 Connectiont avenue. Previously she had been convicted | SAD000 15 ASKED N CRASH DEATHS | Suits Filed for Four Children Who Lost Parents in Collision. An automobiie accident in nearby Maryland a year ago which bereft four small children of their parents was the basis for four suits in District Court seeking $400.000 damages. The actions were brought by George Eckloff, 2842 Belair place, grandfather | of the children and administrator of | the estates of his son and daughter- | in-law, Cherles A. Eckloff- and Mrs. Mary Eckloff, who were killed in the crash, which occurred at Waterloo, | Md. | Mr. and Mrs. Eckloff were passen- gers in an automobile operated by Joseph Marks, 110 Fourth street southeast, employe of the Capitol Mo- tors, Inc., 215 Pennsylvania avenue southeast, the plaintiff told the court through his attorneys, Alvin L. New- myer and David G. Bress. Both Marks and the motor company were named defendants. The children on behalf of whom the | suits were brought are Charles A. Eckloff, jr., 11; Mary E. Eckloff, 10; Joan A. W. Eckloff, also 10, and Eve- lyn A. Eckloff, 6. The court was told that Marks' car collided with a motor truck while it was being operated at an excessive speed. 'COMMITTEE VOTES SHEPPARD WAR BILL Would Have Finance Unit, How- ever, Check Measure’s Tax Features. The Senate Military Affairs Com- mittee voted a favorable report today on the Sheppard bill to prevent profi- teering in time of war and to equalize the burdens of war, but recommended that it be considered further by the | Finance Committee because of its tax features. The bill provides that during a war period there shall be imposed a tax of 95 per cent of all income above the previous three-year average, proper adjustments for capital ex- penditures for war purposes by exist- ing or new industries. The President would be authorized to fix prices and to require the regis- tration of those managing industries as well as the drafting of men for military service. The committee also approved a bill by Senator Reynolds, Democrat, of North Carolina providing that in any future war soldiers would be entitled | to at least the same compensation and | other benefits applied to the World War. FIRM GETS FRANCHISE BALTIMORE, April 9 (#).—The State Tax Commission received yes- terday the certificate of incorporation of the Howcourt Construction Corp., to acquire, build, repair and dispose of buildings in Montgomery County. ‘The incorporators were listed as Myrtle J. Howard, 1432 Fairmont street; Oscar P. Court, 4527 Ninth with | The bill is one of seven rece introduced which propose a variety changes in the District code. T! being studied by Corporation Cou Elwood Seal The child marriage bill wo crease the age of consent of g 14 years, as it is at present, to 16 ve The age of consent for mal be increased from 16 to 18 years Another bill increasing the cost of wholesale liquor licenses from $100 t $500 also is being considered May Approve Taxi Bill. Two other & of taxicabs and deeds to automob probably will meet of the Commi designed to limi cabs without affect already has a licens would give the Public U mission the right to renew a taxi license when has once given it of it The other 1d issue or a dri up or Been dey bill would make Traffic Bureau an office of instead of the Recorder office when automobiles a said there have been m because deeds have n agencies or other persons retained the $1.50 notary fee charged purchasers He is also examin: more effective regulat arts in the District promote small arm: Police Department propriation of $5,000 Adoption Bill Studied. A bill setting up r method of adopting child wards of the District. it was indicated meet the approval of This measure wou gating agency to | all proposed adoptions f | protection of the child | few safeguards now, Seal | explaining the | Under the legislative proposal, there would be a period of si before adoption papers wo | In the case of separated | one having control of the c be given the v parent could prev the adoption of an months PROBE MARKS TIME | IN POLICE SHOOTING the record ¥ new may fant under Police authorities marked time to- day in their investigation of the | shooting of Second Precinct Detec (Richard E. Williams by Detective | Sergt. Michael Mahaney on Defense Highway near Lanham, Md., Tue: afternoon. Further questioning of Williams, | who was recovering in George Wash- ington Hospital, was delayed pending improvement in his condition. He was | wounded in the jaw and is hardly able to talk. | Mahaney was suspended Wednesd | by Inspector Bernard W. Thomp: | chief of detectives, who said the officer | refused to reveal the purpose of the trip into Maryland Inspector Thompson is investigating |the case with Inspector L. L H. | Edwards and Capts. Ira E. Keck and James E. Bobo. INFORMATION GIVEN Data at Booth in Potomac Park. Visitors Receive A feature of the cherry blossom season here, park officials today pointed out, is the information booth on the west shore of the Tidal Basin in West Potomac Park, not far from the John Paul Jones statue Donald Edward McHenry, naturalist of the National Capital Parks, is in charge of the booth and he explained | that booklets dealing with the local parks and maps will be available for the public. Potato Standard Law for District Asked by Brewster Offers Bill After Find- ing Faulty Produce on Market. Representative Brewster, Republi- can, of Maine went shopping for potatoes recently and discovered so many deficiencies in the standard |of grading he introduced a bill late vesterday “to protect the buyers of potatoes in the District of Columbia." Under the grading law, Brewster explained, a 6 per cent deficiency is allowed in each class. The pota- toes he purchased, however, were said to run as high as 25 and 28 per cent in deficiencies. According to Brewster, deficiencies occur for many reasons, including freezing, injury, black heart, soft rot, dry rot and shriveling. His bill would require all persons offering potatoes for sale to mark and label them according to gradings established by the Department of street, and John W. Wood, 1500 Web- ster street, Washington. The capital stock was given as 100 shares with a | total value of §30,000. | Agriculture. The penalty for viola- tions would range from $25 for the first offense to $200 for each subse- quent oflow.’