Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1937, Page 23

Washington News SENATETOSPEED D. C. LEGISLATION ON TWO FRONTS Hearings on $45,117,000 | Supply Bill Expected to Get Started Wednesday. SMALL CLAIMS BRANCH MEASURE SAME MORNING Proposed Juvenile Court Law to Be Taken Up by King Group in Executive Session. BY J. A. O'LEARY. District legislation is scheduled to move forward on two fronts at the Senate end of the Capitol this week, with the 1938 local' appropriation bill holding the center of the stage. Hearings on the $45,117,000 supply bill are expected to get under way Wednesday or Thursday before the | District Appropriations Subcommittee, with Senator Elmer Thomas of Okla- | homa presiding. i Meanwhile, Chairman King of the District Legislative Committee an- nounced a public hearing for 10 a.m. ‘Wednesday on his bill to set up a small claims and conciliation branch in Municipal Court. Witnesses are expected to appear for and against | the proposal In addition, there probably will be ) an executive session of Senator King's | Committee some day this week to take action on the proposed new Juvenile Court law, which has already passed the House. The Senate Com- mittee has concluded hearings on the | bill, but has not acted on a series | of provosed amendments. The measure | is designed to modernize the hand- ling of juvenile cases by changing the court from a criminal to an equity or chancery procedure. Sup- porters of the bill favor it as it passed the House. | As a prelude to consideration of the appropriation bill, a committee of Dis- trict per diem workers called on Chai man Thomnas yesterday to urge _the elimination of a House provision that would have the effect of depriving them of annual and sick leave. It states that per diem workers, of whom there are about 3,000, could be paid only for time actually worked, and savings effected thereby could not be used for any purpose. Senator Thomas told the delega- | tion to have a spokesman attend | the hearings and present the mat- ter to the subcommittee. Senator Thomas said he would try | to start the hearings Wednesday, if other supply bills now being prepared | are out of the way by that day. In | any event, he expects to start before | the end of the week, with the District | Commissioners as the first witnesses. | ‘The Senator called on the Commis- sioners last week to prepare any changes they have to suggest in the House text, and has been notified by Commissioner Hazen that District officials are ready to proceed. New Revenue at $6,000,000. ‘The supply bill, as it now stands, with the Federal payment left at the current figure of $5,000,000, would re- l quire the District to raise about $6,- 000,000 of new revenue to balance its budget next year. A series of new tax bills have been introduced in the | House and are now awaiting House committee study. The actual amount that may be needed will not be known until the Senate finishes with the ap- propriation bill and conferees have ad- Justed any differences in House and Senate figures. The small claims bill which comes up in the District committee Wednes- | day morning is intended to set-up an | cut from the budget estimates by the | informal tribunal in which a simple and inexpensive procedure could be followed in settling claims involving | 8100 or less. Persons could appear | without counsel, and the court would have authority to permit payment of claim in installments. The concilia- tion branch also would be required to Temain open one night each week. NEW TAKOMA PARK BUS INAUGURATION MAY 2. Inauguration af an express bus | service from Takoma Park via Third | street in the Takoma and Manor Park areas and thence downtown via Thir- teenth street was approved yesterday by the Commissioners. May 2 was made the effective date. Passengers will not be permitted to board southbound busses south of Gallatin street or northbound busses north of Massachusetts avenue except | at regular transfer points. The service will be operated dur- ing the morning rush period Monday to Baturday, during the evening rush period Monday to Friday and during the afternoon rush period on Satur- days. Discontinuance of street car service from Fourteenth street to Colorado aveonue and Takoma Park was the resson assigned for the new express bus service, long demanded by resi- dents of the Takoma area. | BAND CONCERT. By the Navy band in the Sail Loft at the Navy Yard at 2 p.m. tomorrow. Lieut. Charles Benter, leader; Alexan- der Morris, assistant. Program. March, “On the Mall” Overture, “Russland Und Ludmilla,” Glinka Bolo for cornet, “Hungarian Fantasia” Bach Oscar Bhort. “Japanese Nocturne”. Dedicated to the cherry blossoms of Washington. Mymn, “Nearer my God to Thee” Mason Bong, “When You and I Were Young, Maggie” - Butterfield Song, “Lullabye”._____Mrs. A. Gillett March, “Longwood Gardens,” Benter ‘Tone poem, “November 11, 1918 Arr. Benter Song, “A Kiss in the Dark”__Herbert ‘Valse, “Southern Roses”_ -Strauss Intermezzo from: “Cavaleria Rusticana” -Mascagni March, “Uncle Sammy’ -Holtzman “Au Bord d'un Ruisseau (At the brook.) “The National Anthem.” |California will outline social e ¥ i he Sundwy Stae WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 11, 19317, Fireworks Lend Color to Capital’s Pageant of Beauty No. 1—The Cherry Blos- som Festival queen and her attendants arriving at the scene of the ceremony ldst night at the Tidal Basin. Left to right : Masako Saito, 8; Sakiko Saito, the queen, and Barbara Caldwell, 10. The admiring men are C. Melvin Sharpe, left, and Commis- sioner Dan Sultan. No. 2—A display of fireworks with the Monument as a back- ground. No. 3—Girls from the Pem- verton Studio as they danced in the flower garden at the foot of Fourteenth street, on the speedway. Lejt to right: Mary Ireland, Wanita Wilson and Helene Heindrich. . No. 4—Some of the Wash- ington architects who picketed the festival carrying banners protesting against the Tidal Basin site for the Jefferson Memorial, contending the Japanese cherry trees would have to be removed.—Star Staff Photos by Wilkinson and Baker. ASKSRESTORATION INSCHOOL BUDGET Board Will Urge Senate Put Back $200,000 Pruned in House. In a special meeting called to con- | sider the school budget the Board of | Education yesterday voted to ask (he‘ Senate District Committee to restore & little over $300,000 of the $551,285 House. The principal item the members decided they were willing to sacrifice was a $200,000 estimate for purchase of additional land on the Banneker Playground site to be used in the con- struction of a junior high school. This would not interfere with the con- struction work on the school, Supt. Frank W. Ballou told the boerd, if the separate $200,000 asked for erec- tion of the school can be restored. The money for the additional land will be asked next year, Ballou said. Following the custom of the board and the Budget Bureau that the ratio of appropriations for the white and colored schools should be two to one, the school officials were directed to do 2ll in their power to get the Ban- neker School construction item back |in the bill to bring the colored school percentage nearer its 33!; per cent. According to John H. Wilson, a law- yer member of the board, the col- ored schools received only a little more than 17 per cent in the construction allowance by the House. The two to one ratio is based on enrollment fig- ures. Transfers Suggested. Ballou indicated it might be possi- ble to get the Banneker item and a $90,000 needed for additional land at the Dennison School back into the bill if the total of the bill were not raised. This might be done, he said, by transferring $100,000 each from the sum appropriated for the Jefferson High School project and the amount allotted for a new senior high school at Fifth and Sheridan streets. Work might still be done on both projects from which the deduction was made and the two-to-one balance would be somewhat restored, he said. The board raised considerable ob- jection to the inclusion in the school budget of an appropriation for a pub- lic library, which is the case in the (See SCHOOLS, Page B-2.) —_— CLUB TO HEAR KRAMER Californian to Address Democrats on 1938 Campaign. “Glimpses of the 1938 Gubernatorial Campaign” will be the tonir of Repre- sentative Charles Kramer of Cali- fornia at the monthly meeting of the California Democratic Club at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the New House Office Building. Relationship of State Democratic clubs to the national party will be discussed by John B. Colpoys, United States marshal for the District. Representative Jerry Voorhis of lation being conaidered by Congress. AUTOBILLAGTION INGONGRESSAIDED Compulsory Test Measure Is Revived as Bureau Lifts Objections. Quick action at this session of Con- gress on a bill compelling District mo- torists to have their cars inspected twice a year in municipally-operated garages is expected to follow the Bud- get Bureau's withdrawal of objections to the measure. The District Commissioners have pri- vately been advocating enactment of such a law for two years, but have withheld formal approval becauss of the Budget Bureau's stand. Senator Reynolds of North Carolina, & member of the Senate District Com- mittee, revealed yesterday that the Budget Bureau reversed its presious stand after he asked Acting Budget Director D. W. Bell to explain objec- tions to the proposed safety measure. In a reply to Reynold’s request, Bell declared that the Budget Bureau now has no objections to a compulsory automobile inspection law for the Dis- trict and has notified the Commission- ers they may send such a bill to Con- gress with the approval of the Presi- dent, Reynolds revealed. $1 Cost of Each Inspection. The proposed inspection law, which has been pending at the Budget Bu- reau for two months, would compel motorists to have safety devices on their cars inspected twice a year at a cost of $1 per inspection in garages operated by the city government. A similar bill passed the House in the first session of the Seventy-fourth Congress in 1935 but died on the Sen- ate calendar the following year because Budget Bureau approval of the measure could not be obtained. Early this year the Commissioners sent another draft of the proposed bill to the Budget Bureau with a request it be approved early so that no time would be lost in securing con- gressional action. Nothing was heard from the Budget Bureau until early last, month when the American Automabile Asso- ciation revealed it had purchased a second-hand automobile from a local used-car dealer which was tested at the Bureau of Standards and found to have faulty brakes, headlights and other mechanical defects. Aroused by the association’s revela- tions, Reynolds wrote to the Budget Bureau, pointing out that the Com- missioners are “alive to the need for eliminating unsafe cars from the streets” and demanding to know why they could not be authorized to do so. Bell's reply, Reynolds said, “cleared (8ee AUTO BILL, Page B-3) | Sports—Pages 6 to 11 PAGE B—1 e i e et e District Budget Seen Bar To Speeding Building Plan Members of Congress Believe Caution in Long-Range Program Advisable. Hazen Outlines Needs. The $75,000,000 five - year local construction program outlined by Commissioner Hazen served to direct attention of members of Congress yes- terday to the District's accumulated building needs, but found them in- clined to proceed cautiously with any long-range planning until the prob- lem of balancing the city's budget for the immediate future has been solved. Chairman King of the Senate Dis- trict Committee said he recognized the advantage of looking ahead, but added he would not be willing to say at this time how extensive a pro- gram should be embarked upon in view of the pending appropriation needs for the coming year. “I do not lése sight of the future,” said King. “We must plan for the future, because I believe Washing- ton will have a population of 1,000,000 before many years. But immediate needs must not be sacrificed for ex- tensive planning. Must Raise §6,000,000. Previously he had called attention to the fact the District is facing the necessity of raising at least $6,000,000 of new revénue, if the Fed- eral share of next year's District ap- propriation bill remains at $5,000,000, in order to meet the immediate needs of the schools, hospitals, public health and other municipal services, includ- ing the unemployment relief problem. Earlier in the day Chairman Collins of the House Subcommittee on Dis- trict Appropriations, expressed inter- est in the proposed five-year program. and said he favored many of the proj- ects it would include. But he inquired: “Where is the District going to get the money?” Two Republican members of the House District Committee, Represent- atives Brewster of Maine and Shafer of Michigan, favored long-range ning, but.were doubtful whether the District, in its present financial con- dition, would be able to apply $15,- 000,000 & year toward the proposed five-year program. Thomas Is Silent. Senator Elmer Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma, in charge of District appropriations inthe Senate, refrainea from comment. Both he and Collins are members of & five-man committee named by the President in February to study the Government’s space re- { quirements and future building needs. The other members of this committes are Secretary of Interior Ickes, Pred- eric A. Delano, chairman of the Na~ tional Capital Parks and Planning Commission, and Rear Admiral O. J. A Peoples of the procurement division | of the Treasury. With Ickes as chairman, this com- | mittee is having data collected from all Government agencies on space re- quirements, but is not yet ready to report to the Chief Executive. Meanwhile, it developed that the five-year $75,000,000 outline of Capital | improvements is not entirely new, but was taken mainly from a somewhat larger program which District officials drew up in January. Leaves Memorandum. It is understood that Hazen merely | left the memorandum of District needs at the White House Friday for the information of the Chief Executive, and that Secretary MclIntyre, with whom he conferred, had not requestéd it. In reference to the five-year pro- gram, Hazen said yesterday: “This ought to be taken up as an entirely separate building program so as not to get it mixed up in any way with the regular District appropria- tions. “Because the Federal Government wants and expects buildings of a monumental character in the City of ‘Washington, I want to try to get the Federal Government to contribute a muchslarger share of the expense than it does under ordinary circumstances. It stands to reason that the Federal proportion should be larger when the District is expected to build a much (See BUDGET, Page B-2) 4 MINOR D. C. BILLS ON HOUSE CALENDAR Principal Measure to Come Up Tomorrow Would Sell Steam to New Building. The first “District day” of the month in the House tomorrow finds only four so-called minor bills on the calendar awaiting action. The principal measure would au- thorize the Secretary of Interior to furnish steam from the Government’s Central Heating Plant to the new Police Court Building in Judiciary Square. The District would be re- quired to pay a reasonable fee for the service. . The three remaining bills would authorize the issuance of licenses to Drs. Willam Justin Olds, Willlam Hollister and Frederick W. Didier to practice the healing art. 4 I3TAKENINRAIDS INCLUDE JULIANO Recent Fatal Numbers Racket War Near Scene of Round-Up. Three blocks from the house where | | he was shot and another man was killed last December in what police described as a “numbers racket war,” Victor A. “Toots” Juliano, 26, was ar- rested yesterday by police raiders in an alleged gambling establishment in the 1400 block of Eleventh street. Juliano was one of the 13 men and women rounded up by vice squad | raiders in a series of three swift raids. | Charged with conducting a lottery, he | was released on $2,000 bond. Caught with Juliano at the Eleventh street ad- | dress were Beatrice Jeffries, 29, and | Raymond Jones, colored, who were | charged with setting up gaming tables | and released on bond of $3,000 each. Leaving the Eleventh street estab- lishment, the raiders struck at alleged gaming centers in the 400 block of H | street and the 100 block of Fourth | street southwest. They returned tol headquarters with what they described as & quantity of numbers game slips, $820 in confiscated cash, two guns and two adding machines. Brother Found Dead. The arrest of Juliano recalled the | events last Winter that followed the | | gang shooting in which he was wound- ! | ed in the 1600 block of Twelfth street. Several hours after Juliano was wounded, his brother Morris, 28, was found dead in a garage in the rear of his home in the 2100 block of Fourth | street, killed by carbon monoxide fumes. Investigation revealed that the | death of Morris, who, police said, had | been despondent for several weeks, | had no connection with the shooting | of his brother. | Gorman Wright, colored, 27, who | accompanied “Toots” Juliano to the Twelfth street establishment, was | fatally wounded in the gun battle. The shooting prompted Federal agents, who had had the Twelfth street establishment under surveillance for several weeks, to raid it and an | alleged opium smoking den two | blocks away. The scene of the latest raid, police said, was disguised as a combination tobacco and ice store. There were 2,000 pounds of ice in the store at the time of the raid, but police said the tobacco boxes were empty. Others Under Arrest Those arrested in the raids in H street and Fourth street, all of whom were charged with ~conducting. lot- teries and conspiracy to vi the gaming laws were: Wierd Allen Gibson, 37, colored, of the 400 block | pard, 28, of Arlington, Spears, 42, colored, of the 1200 block | of Eighth street southwest; John Ed- ward Higginbotham, 36, colored, of the 1700 block of Seton street; Marie E Manning, 29, colored, of the 1500 block of Sixth street; Wallace W. Beach, 28, of the 400 block of H street; Jesse Edgar Rogers, 43, of the 1200 block of G street; Alexander S, Patterson, 47, colored, of the 100 block of Fourth street; Robert Luther Shep- Va.. Julius of Fourth street, and Olin Malone, 18, of the 300 block of E street, all arrested at the H street address, and Margaret V. Gray, 29, colored, ar- rested at the Fourth street address, which she gave as her residence. DIVORCE SOUGHT Millionaire Asks Decree From Lady Irene Cubitt Clark. RENO, Nev.,, April 10 (#)—James C. Clark, New York thread millionaire, filed suit today to divorce Lady Irene Cubitt Clark of Melton Mowbray, England. He charged cruelty and al- leged she deserted him January 18, 1936. The son of the late J. William Clark, wealthy New Jersey thread manufac- turer, Clark married Lady Cubitt, for- mer wife of Maj. Archibald Edward Cubitt of Melton Mowbray, February 9, 1933. The couple’s property rights were settled out of court by written agree- ment. Arrested @ VICTOR A. JULIANO, Shown after his arrest during a police raid yesterday. ~—Star Staff Photo. A TOMLINSON TRIAL AS MASTER MIND' OPENSTOMORROW Lawyer Accused of Direct- ing Gang of Colored Hold-Up Men. ROBBERY OF TAILOR CHARGED TO TRIO Two, Described as Accomplices of Attorney, Also Will Face Court. J. Willlam Tomlinson, 42, well~ known Washington lawyer, is sched- uled to go on trial in Dis Court tomorrow on a charge of robbery. The Government has accused him of being the “master mind” of a gang of cole ored hold-up men. Tomlinson was associate counsel for Gaston B. Means during the latter’s trial here in connection with the Lindbergh baby kidnaping hoax. Two colored men, described as his accomplices, will be tried with the attorney. They are Philip John Pratt and Charles Henry Bass. The three are under indictment on a charge that they robbed Sam Sira- tonis, proprietor of a tailor shop at 3003 Fourteenth street on August 18, Siratonis was badly beaten with blacke jacks by two colored men who took | $785. 'The Government does not | contend that Tomlinson actually was | present during the robbery. Trio Under Indictment. Tomlinson, Pratt and Walter Small wood, also colored, are under dictment in connection with the F |fax Farms Dairy pay roll robb March 14, 1936. On that occasion, two colored men forced two dairy em- | ployes to surrender more than $3,000. Pratt and Smallwood have pleaded guilty to that crime | The trial will be held before J | 3. Dickinson Letts. Assist, States Attorneys Samuel and Charles B. Murray w the Government's cas | The Tomlinson case | in Justice Letts’ court, pr | day, y trial of Sam Frooks, 52, Jackson He: | attorney and former cand: congressional nominatio; Mary Krieger, 35, former Ok | school teacher, on charges of | mail and conspiracy to blackmail. | Pierce Was Complainant. \ Complainant in the cese was | roll Pierce, elderly presids and trust officer of the National Bank of Alex- andria, who died less than a month ago. Arrested last Summer, the couple has denied guilt. Both are at liberty under bail, as is Tomlinson Frooks was taken into custody by detectives in a downtown hotel after }arrangemenvs had been made for Pierce to meet him there with $2,500. Mrs. Krieger was ‘arrested in another hotel a few minutes later Assistant United States Aftorney | Roger Robb, who will prosecute the case, said the alleged blackmail ‘scheme was concocted when Mrs. Krieger went to the Alexandria bank and leased a safe deposit box. In do= ing so she was introduced to Pierce. | Later she is said to have threatened to sue the banker if he did not employ her, as she claims he promised. Frooks supposedly was engaged as her attorney. Robb said he did not feel that the death of Pierce would hamper the | prosecution to any considerable degree. | Rhodes Faces Second Trial. | Retrial of Fred B. Rhodes, former | head of the Fidelity Building & Loan Association, originally scheduled for tomorrow, has been postponed until Thursday at the request of defense | attorneys. The one-time banker, who also is a well-known lawyer, was tried several weeks ago, but the jury could not reach a verdict. Rhodes will face another jury on the same charge—that he forged & $1,500 withdrawal slip in the name of Desire A. Irr, 65 K street, an engraver at the Government Printing Office, |who was a substantial depositor in |the building association. Justice Peyton Gordon again will preside and | Assistant United States Attorney John |J. Wilson again will represent the Government There will be an additional attor- | ney for the defendant, however. He is William E. Richardson, a friend of Rhodes of long standing. Richargson | said yesterday that his entrance in the case did not mean that William E |Leahy and William J. Hughes. jr, who conducted Rhodes’ first defense, will withdraw. All three will be at the counsel table Thursday, he said. War of R(;ses Ends With Clerks and Stocks Exhausted | | Police Called to Keep Order — Plate Glass Windows Menaced. With both the supply and the floral shop employes exhausted, Washing- ton’s war of the roses ended—at least temporarily—last night. Flower-minded bargain seekers, their interest whetted by price siashe ings in the three shops on Twelfth street between F and G, jammed the stores yesterday to such an extent that during the afternoon police were | called to keep some semblance of order | among the eager purchasers. | Adjoining store owners complained | their plate glass windows were in danger. New venders were added in the flower shops to take care of the overflow and part of the stock had ta |be moved to the street to facilitate the selling. One of the managers is of the opinion that flower wholesalers on the entire Eastern seaboard are sold out and even H the supply is replenished tomorrow the wholesale cost may be higher. It not, the war may be re-