Evening Star Newspaper, April 10, 1937, Page 14

THE EVENING KENNEDY MOVES T0BEGIND. C.TAX STUDY TUESDAY Confers With Collins on New Measures Proposed in House. REAL ESTATE LEVIES DUE TO REMAIN SAME Appropriations Head Reported‘ Willing Not to Press for En- actment of All Bills. Chairman Kennedy of the special subcommittee of the House District Committee in charge of the new tax bills announced today he would make another effort Tuesday to begin the once postponed study of the measures. The announcement followed a pro- Jonged conference between Kennedy | and the sponsor of the bills, Rep- resentative Collins, Democrat, of Mis- Fissippl, chairman of the Subcom- mittee on Appropriations, which framed the 1938 District supply bill. The initial attempt to start the study of the tax program Thursday because only one member of his subcommittee, Allen, Democrat, of Delaware, ap- peared at the meeting Kennedy called to map out & program of procedure. Kennedy and Collins discussed the tax bills for more than an hour late yesterday in what was said to be a “spirit of harmonious co-operation,” which indicated there is no ill feeling between Collins and the District Leg- islative Committee, which succeeded in removing 17 legislative riders from the appropriation bill a week ago. Suggests Analysis for Bills, Collins is understood to have sug- gested various methods for Kennedv's closer to the centers of population. aubcommittee to analyze his bills and | 1o have explained he would not press | COnsulting forester and a director of | for enactment of all of the eight he | the National Lumber Manufacturers’ | has introduced at the current session | ;‘55‘”'3““"» of Congress. Kennedy and Collins are reported to have agreed that real estate taxes should not be raised to offset the revenue deficit in the coming fiscal year. Collins has held that view for fome time and even wrote into the appropriation bill a legislative pro- viso which would have prevented the Commissioners from raising the levy. ‘This provision was removed in the House, however, on a point of order Rental Control Idea. Kennedy, it it is understood, reiterated his view during the con- ference that an excess profits tax should be placed on real estate in- Vvestors to control rentals. He takes the position t t benefiting fr gh rentals are not bearing their “proportionate share” of the tax burden Collins pointed out his purpose in Introducing the new tax bills was to broaden the tax base to relieve the burden on real estate, and particularly on the small home owner. also As soon as the subcommittee begins | hearings on the tax bills business and | civic leaders are to be testify. In the meantime plans to have a tax expert brief analysis of the bills information of the members. Kennedy also announced he planned to have another conference with Collins next week, and that he had invited him to appear before the invited to Kennedy make a for th subcommitte: &ubcommittee and explain his views | night on District taxation. EDUCATION BOARD |7, Perment “suts OBJECTS TO FUND , Opposes Inclusion of Money foricnmmission‘Nnuonal Capital Park and Public Library in School | Budget. | funds for a public library in the | &chool budget was expressed today by | Bureau of Mines is slated to vacate the Board of Education. Meeting in special session at the Franklin Building to consider to the provision that part of the $400,000 allowed for the new Thomas | Fifteen rooms in the sixth wing, first Jefferson Memorial School and Li- | floor, will be assigned to the division brary should go to a library to be | of accounts and deposits of the Treas- under the trustees of the Public Li- |ury Department. brary and not the school officials. In accordance with this sentiment, the board will ask the Senate District Committee that $100,000 be added to | the Public Library appropriation to | be given as that unit’s share in the | new Jefferson. Library construction | cost. The officials felt this might per- | mit possible transfer of an identical amount to care for items recommended | by the school and budget officials, but ! not allowed by the House. ‘Walks 100,000 Miles. W. D. Tyre, 57-year-old mail car- rier of Elkins, W. Va, estimates he has walked more than 100,000 miles delivering mail the last 30 years. War of the Roses Is Continued by 3 Flower Shops No Truce Is Indicated as Price Slash Spreads to Other Blooms. The Capital's war of the roses con- tinued today, with the three flower ehops involved indicating it will go on | least until the|parade of youngsters, many of them indefinitely—or at supply of roses is exhausted. Early today, the shops, located on Twelfth street between F and G streets, resumed their bargain sale with prices running anywhere from six for a nickel to 127 cents each for the better grades. Roses which ordinarily sell for $7 to $8 a dozen were being retailed at $1.50 per dozen. Meanwhile the price war has ex- tended to other flowers, with the prices cut on sweet peas, gardenias and car- nations. Sweet peas, ordinarily, 25 to 35 cents a bunch, were going for 15 cents; gardenias for 10 cents, instead of 15 or 20 cents, and carnations at 2 cents each, instead of the usual price of 75 cents to $1 a dozen. ‘The price-cutting began yesterday and the public was quick to take ad- failed | Representative | | of C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent Vigorous objection to inclusion of |0f National Capital Parks, and the the | offices, the Navy will get for its own school budget as approved by the |use about half the vacated space, it House, the members objected strongly | has been decided by the division of | Office of Naval | rooms on the first floor. | | | the Harvard Bureau for Street Hazen, Mr. Vandegrift a John L. Vandegrift, vice chairman of Club of the American Automobile Associati Greet Traffic Expert at A. A. A. Luncheon the advisory board of on, shakes hands with Traffic Research. nd Senator King of Utah. As The “wide open spaces.” hewn |out by the axes of pioneers who | rumbled westward in covered wagons, | |and perpetuated in memory by the | | writers of Western stories, won't be | 80 wide in the next 15 or 25 years. The process of reforestation Is | | closing up the open spaces here | and there in the United States and | gradually is bringing the tall trees | David T. Mason of Portland, Oreg., visualized today the | orest’s comeback to greater contri- | butions toward national recreation and to a balance of the growth and utilization of lumber. Mason was executive officer of the | Lumber Code Authority under the | national recovery act. He is here | attending the Forest Conservation | | Conference at the United States Chamber of Commerce. | “Forests are increasing,” he said, | “through the natural reversion of | submarginal agricultural lands, better | protection of more or less wild land | | that fire has run over for years in the | | past, and through planting of sub- | | marginal and other suitable soil. “Wooded areas are expanding in the East, South and Middle West. | | If you leave out the Great Plains and | ‘Wide Open S paces’ Closin_g Ufi Reforestation Progresses the semi-arid country of the Rockies and the Great Basin beyond, you have | forests gaining ground all over the country. “We are learning to manage our forests a lot better,” Mason added, “especially since the activities under the lumber code have been carried on voluntarily by the industry since | the N. R. A. was declared unconsti- tutional.” Mason, who took a prominent part the conference which adjourned early this afternoon, said its delibera- tions “will give a strong added stimu- lus to better forest practice on both private and public lands. moving toward a balance of growth of timber with utilization of the timber for lumber, pulpwood and other products.” For the Nation's “dust bow!” area, Mason said the proposed *“shelter- belt” of planted trees north and south through the area, and the fixa- tion of sandy soil with grass would help restore the land to use and profitable habitation “That land should never have been plowed up,” Mason declared. “It was used for grazing at first, but later the plowing and harrowing pul- verized the soil so it zould be carried by the wind. I own a farm in Can- ada’s drought area, and the wind | almost blew it away.” FIVELLS AGENCIES. CAPITAL RETURNS INNEW BUILDING Interior Structure Enables Navy to Get More Space Also. Five Federal agencies, moved over- from the Navy Department Building, were established today in modernly equipped offices in the new at Navy Department officials lost no | me in clamoring for offices in their | building vacated by the Fine Arts Planning Commission, the Buildings Branch of the Park Service, the office Park Police. Over the week end, the | the Navy Building. In the general reassignment of space control, National Park Service. Maj. Walter D. Luplow, the War Department’s district engineer for the Washington area, will get four rooms in the seventh wing, first floor. Under the Navy, the Bureau of Aeronautics will gain & room and a half additional; the Bureau of En- gineering, a room, the Hydrographic Office, two rooms; the Bureau of Con- struction and Repeir, two rooms; the Chief of Naval Operations and the Intelligence, seven The Naval Dispensary will be given four addi- tional rooms in which to expand the eye, ear, nose and throat clinic. { The Joint Aeronautic Board will get three and a half rooms; the Bureau of Navigation, eight rooms, the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, two rooms, and the Navy Relief Society, one room. TAXISADVOCATED Wheeler Would Put New | Levy on Corporations to “Divide Power.” Abolition of “excessive concentra- | tion of economic power in the hands | tolerable solution is seen. Education of the few” by means of a graduate tax on net capital returns of corpora- tions, was urged today by Senator | Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana, in an | efficiency.” address before a luncheon meeting of the People's Lobby at the National Press Club. His proposal, the Senator said, “is the only practical alternative to even- tual State socialism” growing out of the present system of “private social- “It isn't necessary to make the Su- preme Court conversant with the inter- state commerce clause of the Constitu- tion,” Senator Wheeler declared, “in order to stop this concentration of wealth which has been going on and is going on at the present time. It can | be done and should be done in a direct, positive and simple manner, as I have outlined in my proposed bill.” The Senator said enterprise under strict regulation, such as the utility industry, would not be subject to the full effect of the proposed tax. In il- lustration, he declared a $100,000,000 corporation, of which there are about 200, would pay $610,000 annually on a $10,000,000 net return. The luncheon meeting also heard public ownership of the vast telephone an telegraph industry advocated by Representative Coffee, Democrat, of ‘Washington. Favoring similar socialization of the steel, textile and motor industries as well as the natural resources of the Nation, Coffee declared the “gigantic combines of capital * * * can make or break America industrially. If Henry Ford should whimsically decide to close his factories tomorrow, by the Wwill of one man alone 750,000 would be jobless.” With Parade The accent was on youth in the Dis- trict government today as juvenile aldes moved into the offices of every | District official to oversee observance of “Junior District day.” Among the events scheduled was a in costume, along Constitution avenue from Twelfth street to Seventeenth. The parade was scheduled to start at 3 pm. Eighty school boys and girls selected to act as District officials for the day gathered at 9 am. in the board room of the District Building to receive their “oath of office” from Police Judge John P. McMahon. The three “Junior District Commis- sloners” were George Finch, 13, Blessed Sacrament School; Robert Naiman, 14, Powell Junior High Schocl, and Alan Reid, 14, Macfarland Junior High School. But the most envied of the junior officials was Clarence Norment, 3d, of Friends School, fire chief for a day, Who had a big red car and a uni- ‘vantage of it. formed driver at his dispossl, Charles Youth Rules District Today, as Big Feature Fyfe, Eliot Junior High School, was Ppolice chief for the day. The District’s junior and senior officials were guests of the Parade Committee at luncheon at the Wil- lard Hotel before assembling in the reviewing stand on Constitution ave- nue, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets. Before the parade got under way, youthful couriers brought messages of greetings from President Roosevelt, Governors of the States and cabinet members to the junior officials in the reviewing stand. William Q. Keenan, 15-year-old son of Joseph B. Keenan, assistant to the Attorney General, called at the White House for the President’s message. Numerous floats have been entered in the parade which will move up Oonstitution avenue to the music of seven boys' bands and drum corps. Parade prizes will be awarded next Priday night in the board room of the District Building. Miss Sybil Baker, supervisor of the District Playground Department, is general chairman of the Parade Com- mittee. Left to right: We are | STAR, the District of Columbia Motor Dr. Miller McClintock, director of Dr. McClintock, Commissioner ~Star Staff Photo. SUPER-IMPOSED HIGHWAYS URGED Harvard Traffic Authority | Heard by A. A, A. Ad- visory Board. Declaring modern automotive streets are most needed today to reduce con- gestion and number of accidents, Dr. Miller McClintock, director of the Harvard Bureau for Street Traffic Research and traffic authority, told the Advisory Board of the American Automobile Association that super- imposed highways are the only solu- tion. | 1 Dr. McClintock’s address was made at a luncheon meeting of the Dis- trict motoring organization at the Willard Hotel yesterday. It was broadcast by the National Broadcast- ing Co. John L. Vandegrift, vice chairmain of the board, presided. Guests included District officials, members of both the Senate and House District Committees, represen- tatives of the National Safety Coun- cil and automotive leaders. Dr. McClintock, who made the first traffic survey in the United States, praised the efforts of Maj. L'Enfant in planning the National Capital in its relationship to beauty and mili- tary value, but stated the French- man could not foresee the motor vehi- cle traffic to come. “No mechanism is as complicated,” he said, “as the average American city. Separation of road crossings and elimination of opposing traffic is needed to expedite mass transporta- | tion. It is not costly to rebuild our cities. It is not necessary to rebuild all at once. It will prove far more costly not to rebuild. Transportation will increase even more within the | | next 10 years, “We must provide for | long-term | relief measures for traffic. No other | |and proper enforcement have their | values, but what we want is some | degree of security and the ability to | | move with a reasonable degree of | | Chairman King of the Senate Dis trict Committee also spoke. He said | he would be glad to have Dr. Mc- Clintock come before him at a later date. He declared himself opposed | to any increase in the gasoline tax | and, although stating the Federal | Government must adhere to its share | for the District of Columbia, declared | | the people must realize the necessity | of some increased taxes to meet the development of the city. “It takes courage and spiritual valor,” he stated, “to meet our problems. We cannot afford to lose the immortality of our Republic.” Prior to the speeches the Advisory Board adopted the report of its Com- mittee on Taxation, which opposed an increased gasoline tax, the pro- posed motor vehicle weight tax and any diversion of funds derived from the present taxes. 'D. C. PIANIST WINS VIRGINIA CONTEST | Leah Effenback Now Eligible to Compete for Honors at Na- tional Convention. By tbe Associated Press. PETERSBURG, Va., April 10.—Con- testants from Baltimore and Wash- ington won the capital district com= petition for young artists yesterday and the right to compete for national honors at the National Federation of Music Clubs’ convention in Indian- apolis April 23-29. The winners were Mary Lida Bowen of Baltimore, voice; Betty Hocker, Bal- timore, opera voice, and Leah Effen- back, Washington, pianist. Virginia divided honors with Balti- more in the student musicians’ con- test, another event held yesterday in connection with the annual conven- tion of the Virginia Federation of Music Clubs and the Virginia Music Teachers’ Association. Charles Caldwell of Radford, pianist; Florence Hyselop, Portsmouth, voice, and Milton Wohl, Baltimore, violinist, received the highest ratings. Student musicians do not compete at the na- tional convention. Fourteen young contestants were entered from Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia and Delaware. Mrs. T. M. Johnson of Princeton, W. Va., district president, presided. Judges of the contest were Kath- erine Bacon, Walter Golde and Frank Kneisel of New York, and Mrs. Roberta Frank of Baltimore. Bristol was selected as the 1938 con- vention city at the closing business session of the joint convention. Mrs. Vincent Ober of Norfolk, was chosen as Virginia’s nominee for the National Federation Board, with the State president, Mrs. L. A. Dunlap of Pulaski, the second nominee if Vir- WASHINGTON, | help health.’” | in the drive will be raised through 'HOUSING ginia is eligible to another place on the board, D. C., SATURDAY, HOSPITALS PLAN TAG DAY ONMAY1 10 RAISE $70,000 Expect to Get $45,000 Addi- tional From Private Contributions. LADIES’ BOARD HEADS WILL AID CAMPAIGN “Health Crusade” Sum Set to Meet | Pressing Needs, Drayton Says. “Tag day,” scheduled for May 1, on which it is hoped $75,000 for the “health crusades” of the United Hos- pitals of Washington will be raised, was announced yesterday at a meet- ing of Columbia Hospital's Ladies’ Board by Charles D. Drayton, presi- dent of Children’s Hospital and | chairman of the Hospital Presidents’ | Committee. “We are pointing in this drive for | $120,000 to cover only the pressing | needs of the nine hospitals involved. The sum will not be adequate to pay off any of the deficits incurred a hospitals during the past few years,” Drayton said. “One reason we are holding tag day on May 1 is because that date | happens to be national child health | day,” he added. “At that time picked | canvassers will station themselves at strategic points with collection boxes | and buttons inscribed ‘Help hospitals | | Private Contributions. “The remaining $45.000 called for private eontributions,” he said, “many | persons averse to contributing to such a large-scope proposition as the | Community Chest being expected to give.” In officially proclaiming May 1 as | Child Health day, President Roosevelt | yesterday called upon the Nation ‘“to | consider and appraise child health | conditions and the community or- ganization for child health and to plan for health protection for every child during the coming year." Issuance | of the proclamation was coincident | with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Children's Bureau. Drayton reiterated his statement, made previously at a committee luncheon at the Mayflower, that the “health drive” here is in no way in- imical to the Community Chest, nor is it intended to suggest that the Chest has “fallen down on its job.” As the greater part of the burden of the drive will fall on the Ladies’ Boards of the hospitals, Drayton said, a meeting of the nine presidents of the boards has been scheduled for Tuesday morning at the Mayfower. Movie “Trailers” Planned. He also announced that two-min- ute sound movie “trailers” are sched- uled to be made at the various hos- pitals and will be shown at local theaters. Commissioner George Al- len, he said, had promised co-opera- tion in gaining consent of the theater managers. Drayton concluded by enlisting the aid of the Columbia Hospital's Ladies’ Board is carrying out the campaign | designed to alleviate pressure on hos- ( pital budgets of unpaid thousands | of dollars spent in care of the needy, 3,560 days' care for patients certified by the Central Admitting Bureau and 10,000 prenatal, syphilis and other clinic visits during the first two months of the current year left uncovered by funds. MEASURE | CHANGES SOUGHT | D. C. Association Submits Lin'; of Wagner Bill Amend- ments. A number of amendments intended to perfect the Wagner-Steagall hous- | ing bill were contained in a report to | Congress on the measure today by the Washington Housing Association. | The report, submitted by Dr. Anson | Phelps Stokes, president of the as-| sociation, was sent to the Senate Com- mittee on Education and Lator and the House Committee on Banking and | Currency. | In the report the association re- iterated its indorsement of the prin- ciple of Federal aid to local com- munities in the provision of proper housing for families now obliged to live “under slum conditions because decent, safe and sanitary dwellings are not available to their communi: ties at a rent they can afford to pay. The amendments, which the asso- ciation “believes to be essential to the efficient and effective operation of & sound public housing program,” include: 1. Provision for slum reclamation of the type now successfully being done by the Alley Dwelling Authority for the District, as well as safeguards for the continuance of the effective and efficient work being done by the authority. 2. Granting of subsidies on a per room basis, with definite minimum standards of room sizes. If a maxi- mum per room grant of $2 or $3 a month were made, both subsidy and reduced cost of producing the dwell- ings could work together to keep rents down. 3. Reduction of funds to be made immediately available to the United States Housing Authority so as to require the authority to seek addi- tional appropriations and further au- thorization to issue obligations and enter into contracts of grant within & shorter period than at present con- templated. This is suggested in order that there may be more frequent op- portunity for check on the operations of the authority by Congress and by Ppublic opinion. 4. Restriction of broad powers con- ferred upon the United States Hous- ing Authority in the matter of audit of expenditures, appointments, modi- fication of contracts with local au- thorities, and so forth. FORFEIT NUMBERS BOND Six of the seven men arrested by the third precinct police in a num- bers raid at Twenty-third and M streets Thursday forfeited $5 bond in Police Court yesterday. The sev- enth, Barney Susser, 38, of 1100 block of Twenty-third street, alleged pro- prietor of the establishment, forfeited $25, APRIL 10, 193 Five Injured in Auto Crash || DRIVE LAUNCHED ONLOAN SHARKS BY ., OFFICI |Many Complain of Violatio of Law Enacted in 1913. |THREE UNDER ARREST FOR INVESTIGATIO! Five adults were injured, but the 15-day-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Herrell of Takoma Park, Md. escaped unhurt this morning when their automobile was in collision at Third street and Maryland avenue southwest with the (y.!n— mobile (pictured above) of James Allen, colored, 40, of 426 Casey court southwest. Those injured were Mrs. Herrell, wrenched back; Allen, fractured shoulder; Bessie Malone, colored, 4:1. of Detroit; Mamie Wigfall, colored, 36, of Baltimore, and Sadie Hartley, colored, 33, 1218 First street southwest —Star Staff Photo W.P.A.LISTS JOBS ACCIDENTSCLAIM COMPLETED HERE. 867 N YEAR Inventories Show Extent of ‘ 18,000 Persons Ended Own | Work Relief Labor Projects in U. S. With pressure being brought to bear on President Roosevelt to curtail work relief expenditures for the next fiscal year to avoid additional taxes e Works Progress Admi; tion today started a back-fire by issuing inventories showing the extent of its improvement projects throughout the country. The State-by-State invento phasizing those projects calling a minimum of materials and a maxi- mum of labor, were released as the President was ting the final touches to the relief messaze he will forward to Congress in a few d The W. P. A. proj periods from 12 to 13 mon in significance in view of New Deal's decision to divert future Fed- eral spending from the durable gzoods industry into channels that would more directly benefit labor and con- sumer goods. For the District of Columbia a 13- month period of operations up to September 15, 1936, was used to show a vast amount of local improvement actually accomplished by work relief labor. Only major projects were cited. em- for covering the New Highways Built. Attention was directed to 39 miles of new highways and streets built and 6 miles repaired, 20 miles of sidewalks and curbs laid on 7 miles of streets and the landscaping of 34 miles of streets and highways. A total of 31,731 cubic yards of flood and erosion control, 14,500 square yards of new terraces and improve- ments along 138 miles of stream beds also were mentioned. W. P. A. work in promoting local recreational facilities was empha- sized in the survey. It for new construction work on 29 ath- letic fields artd playgrounds, 33 small | parks and 1 swimming pool. Four acres of school and recreational areas | were inclosed by fences and 58 acres landscaped. Forty-one acres planted in trees, while 11,053 were treated and sprayed were trees Repairs on Public Buildings. Other completed work accounted for 308 acres of drainage ditches, 17 | and 2 new| miles of storm sewers pumping stations with a combined daily capacity of 61,800 gallons. Repairs were made on 37 public buildings. Direct relief activities included the distribution of 331,000 garments and i . gained | accounted | Lives, Census Survey Shows. A total of 128,768 American citizens met death by violence or accident during 1935, according to a detailed study completed by the Bureau of the Census. The report shows all the causes of death during the year and reveals that 18,214 persons met death by their own hand There were 10,587 homicides the year and 99,967 ac “Venemous animals” ki sons and 709 died of eatin food. Injuries by animals death to 520. to Hunger and thirst were responsible for 53 deaths, as compared with only 21 deaths in 1934. Excessive cold killed 397 and excessive heat sons d 19; htning down 362 persons. Legal executions claimed 191 victim Among the accid 4 were 1581 due to accidents in mines and quarries, 367 due to accide from agricuitural machinery; 222 to elevator accidents; 22 due to ac dents from machinery used for recre- ation: 1,186 due to other machinery accidents; 1587 due to railroad and automobile collisions; 3.819 due to other railroad accidents: 253 due to street car and automobile collisions 512 due to other et car accidents; 34,183 primarily due to automobile accidents: 346 due to motor cycle acci- dents: 1.179 to other land tra rta- tion accidents; 1,041 to wate ns- portation accidents. snd 358 to air transportation accidents There were 146,840 deaths due to infectious and parasitic diseases, which were broken down into 44 classes. Cancer and other malignant caused 144.065 of 1935s to 1,392,752 deaths. Rheumatic diseases nutritional diseases, diseases of the endorine glands and other general d eases took a toll of 42,793. There were 10,069 deaths due to diseases of the blood and blood-making organs; 3.611 from chronic poisonings and intoxica- tions, including 3,349 from alcoholism 135065 due to diseases of the nervous ! system and of the organs of special sense: 340,786 from diseases of the cir- | culatory system; 118,557 from diseases 2,625 tons of foodstuffs for the needy, | and sewing rooms produced 360,327 articles of clothing for relief clients. Nearly 1,000,000 free lunches were served to needy school children: med- ical and dental assistance given to 193,125 others. Other activities cited in the in- ventory included the repair of 10,663 books and the cataloguing of 23.871 volumes for District schools and libraries. of the respiratory system; 89,659 from diseases of the digestive system: 122.- 707 from diseases of the genito-urinary system: 12,544 due io diseases of pregnancy, childbirth and the puer- peral state, and 51,214 to diseases of | early infancy Of the suicides, 6,830 used firearms, | 2,852 poisons or corrosive substances: 2.395 poisonous gas: 3,399 hanging or strangulation; 903 drowning; 777 cut- ting or piercing instruments: 698 jumped from high places and 163 crushed themselves. Firearms also were most frequently used in homicides, accounting for 6,506 | such deaths. ‘There were 1581 persons killed in conflagrations and 6,293 died of acci- dental burns not associated with con- | flagrations. There were 617 deaths from “cataclysm” but only three from | wounds of war. President Roosevelt yesterday signed a proclamation making May 1 Child Health day. Shown with him at the White House as he signed the proclamation are Katharine F. Lenroot (left), head of the Federal Children’'s Burcau, and Earle G. Brown of Topeka, Kans. —A. P. Photo. Auto Financer, Pharmaci-t Clothing Store Operat Accused. an terest charges be trict, Corporation C has launched a campa sharks.” Policeman assigned to 0 as Lester A. Howa corporatio Corporati r, jr., has beer compiling e “loan shar! Ass | Counsel Ches 3 in charge of the campaign “We do not intend to make tional drive,” Gray said, intend to investigate the we receive and to prosecute lators of the 1913 los A number of the com investigated, Gray reveale i automobile financing companie specia refinanc torists w diate ca Cou as of denc bee °s h Three Under Arrest hose already arrested for aliege violations of the loan shark Gr said. are Ben Haber, head of an a mobile finance company block of I street; Sol block of Seventh street Schneider, a pharmacist ock of Seventh street additional charge oS rules, involving letters sent to persons v money, wer by postal inspectors Haber also fnsurance wi marine al Gray typical of ing made by ing companies An Printi n of $387.20 a Tnsurance. The man we surance, $3 f terest in ad charge. Tt | the compa Fee. Interest | turn casas salaries and not large before begin to accumu Mollock to us were made, C the Washi al terest on do or 1 2 weeks CHALLENGES D. C. Motorist’s Claim May Upset Po Court Branch of Counsel's Office. abolition of ranch of the corpor counsel's office would be threa if a motion to quash an informa charging a second offense of reck | driving, argued yesterday by Atto T. E. O'Connell before Traffic J Walter J. Casey, 1d be s O'Connell holds tried only by the or one of his aides The case in question Byron Moyer, the first | convicted in the District ing a street car recklessly the first part of this week charged with a second off | reckless driving in connection | & police chase of his automobile | Pointing to section 932 of tt O'Connell said only cases | prisonment, can be tried by | poration counsel's office | criminal cases, where both a | imprisonment are possible, mus | tried by the district attorney's « according to the quotation from code | Assistant Corporation George D. Neilson called th ‘dl:(’mmn to the fact his | given power under the traffi | try all traffic cases, | To this O'Connell replied |gress had no right to les such authority without amendir | general code to make it confor: |~ Expressing interest in the que Judge Casey gave both sides 10 in which to file briefs A decision adverse to | act would remove all major | and liquor tax cases from the office | the District prosecutor to the Uni | States attorney’s office the P Court h cases ca district att pers D he the tr | s ISPANISH ENVOY TO TA Marked Here. | Doh Pernando Los Rios. | Ambassador, will speak next We | day at a meeting commemoratin | founding of the Republic of & Founding to Republie Spar |on April 14, 1931 | be held in auditorium. Other speakers will be Mardy | childs, correspondent of the St. L | Post-Dispatch, and Ernesto Gal | co-editor of the Photo-History M zine and formerly research ass!s !of the Foreign Policy Association \ The meeti the National Press