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Wash ROOSEVELT NS §45,915,000 0. SIPLY NEASURE City Faces New Tax Burden | of $7,000,000, but U. S. Payment Unchanged. CONTROL OF HOSPITALS TO HEALTH DEPARTMENT Other Shifts Considered Fail to Carry Through—Several Schools Provided. President Roosevelt signed the $45,915,000 District appropriation bill for the fiscal year, starting tomorrow, | Just before he left the White House today for Wilmington to attend the wedding of his son, Franklin, D, jr., and Miss Ethel du Pont. With the Federal payment toward this total outlay remaining at the present figure of $5,000,000, the local community faces a new tax burden of about $7,000,000 to make revenues cover the remaining 40 or more mil- lion dollars. ‘The question of how to raise this new taxation is now being studied by the Senate District Committee, with 8 variety of suggestions under consid- eration. The appropriation act, in addition | to carrying the funds to run the city for the next 12 months, makes one | important change in the municipal organization by transferring pubhc‘ hospitals from the Welfare Board to| the Health Department. Several other | reorganization proposals were con- | sidered in Congress, but did not re- main in the final agreement on the | ington News Wage Board Aide MISS GWEN GEACH. Star Staff Photo. D.C. WAGE BOARD ADE IS APPOINTED Miss Gwen Geach Chosen Executive Secretary—To Press Enforcement. Miss Gwen Geach, who has had sev- eral years' experience in manage- ment of New Deal activities, today was appointed executive secretary of the recently established District Mini- mum Wage Board, which will fix minimum pay for women and minors in various types of industry in the Capital. The appointment was made by Mrs. William Kittle, chairman; John H. @he Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, D. C. CHECK ADDS 1000 T0 TAXLIST ANDNETS $321 458 Scrutiny of Federal Income Tax Returns Proves Fruitful Task. DEPUTY ASSESSOR PUTS TOTAL AT $5,822,433 Figures Include Receipts From Levies on Tangible and Intan- gible Personal Property. Approximately 7,000 residents were added to the District personal property tax lists during the past 12 months and paid $321,459 in taxes as a result of a check of their income tax re- turns to the Federal Government, | Deputy Assessor Charles A. Russell | revealed today in the fiscal year re- | port . The new “velvet” laid on the rocky District financial path, added to the normal increase in personal property | collections, brought the total from | this source to $5.822433.72, or an in- crease of $756,720.37 over the total for the fiscal year 1936. These figures include the tax re- ceipts from the levies on tangible and intangible personal property and the Bross receipt and gross earnings levies on utilities, banks, building associa- tions and title companies. Ending Year With Deficit. The District, however, is ending the 1937 fiscal year today with a deficit | that may exceed $1,500,000. It may | be two weeks before the District audi- | tor, Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, has all the tabulations at hand. The District WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WEDNESDAY, Girl Scouts of the District wi Harrisonburg, Va. JUNE 30, 1937. HHH Girl Scouts Leave for Virginia Camp aving good-by today as they boarded a train at Union Station, en route to Camp Mayflower, at —Star Staff Photo. | | CADETSV Society and General PAGE B—1 d SENATE. APPROVES OPENING U. 5. J0BS 10 MIDDLE-AGED Bill Goes to House—Would Void Limitations by Civil Service. RESTRICTION IMPOSED ON RETIREMENT PLAN Measure Requires 15 Years Minie mum Service for Eligibility to Join Fund. The Senate went on record yester day in favor of giving middle-aged persons a chance to try for Govern- ment jobs if they are able to pass civil service examinations It passed and sent to the House the bill of Senator Moore, Democ rat, of New Jersey, which provides that, notwithstanding any rule of the Civil Service Commission, no person shall be barred from examination or ap- pointment solely because of age if qualified in all other respects. To protect the civil service retire- ment system, however, it is stipulated that if a person enters the service at an age that would prevent him from serving the minimum period of 18 years required for retirement, he would not be eligible to go into the retirement plan. During the brief debate on the mea= sure Senator Schwellenbach, Demo= crat, of Washington pointed out that in trying to get jobs for the unem- ployed, one of the most difficult tasks of the National Re-employment Serv- ice is to find places for men and women over 40 S” D. E 1Coroner Insists Student Killed LAUNDRY STRIKE bill | The Senate voted for a new Penn- | sylvania Avenue Bridge in the South- Hanna and Arthur L. Schoenthal, the | board members, who now are engaged in preparing for early enforcement | has a general fund cash balance of After pointing out that private in- some $3.500.000 to its credit at the | dustry is asked not to invoke a 40- east, with $325,000 to sfart work, but this was knocked out in conference | and $10,000 allowed for repair of the | old bridge. | A number of school building projects | are provided for in the supply meas- ure, including: To make a start on a Thomas Jef- ferson memorial junior high school | and library in the Southwest, $350,000. | To start a new senior high school | in the vicinity of Fifth and Sheridan streets northwest, $350,000. Other items provide for an addition | to the Bundy School, for replacement | of the Lenox Vocational School, for an addition to the Cleveland School, for a junior high school on the Banneker Playground site, for completion of the Bhepherd School and for purchase of | several new sites for future buildings. of the District’s old minimum wage | law, which was revived by decision in March after it had been inopera- tive for 14 years. The board may be handicapped by a reduction in the administrative funds provided by Congress in its action on the 1938 budget. The Com- missioners had requested $14.320 for the board, but the figure was reduced to $8,615. and $575 for equipment, transporta- tion and office exnenses. In tary, field Miss the result of the reduction in the total appropriation. From 1924 to 1928 Miss Geach was the board plans to appoint tw inspectors and a stenographer. dustrial Commission, which was one 170 3 YEAR TERM GIVEN IN SLAYING| | Defendant, Who Has Remarried | Since Crime, Receives Sentence. of the pioneers in minimum wage administration. The board chairman, Mrs. Kittle, served as a member of that commission before coming to Wash- ington several years ago. Miss Geach served as legislative rep- resentative for Missouri for the Na- tional Child Labor Commission and is said to have been instrumental in the Mrs. Anna M. Sandford. who was | eonvicted by a District Court jury sev- | eral weeks ago on a manslaughter | charge in connection with the dea last September 4 of William Jenkins, retierd fireman, was sentenced today by Justice Jesse C. Adkins to from one | to three years imprisonment. | At the time of the slaying Mrs. San- ‘ ford was known as Mrs. Snyder. She | has since remarried. | She and Miss Edna Weaver were charged with responsibility for Jen- | kins' death. The man was stabbed in | the leg, presumably in a house in the | B00 block of Tenth street southeast, where he lived. He died from loss of | blood. | During the trial Justice Adkins di- | rected a verdict of not guilty in favor of Miss Weaver. Attorneys for Mrs. Banford said they expected to appeal, T0 BE SWORN IN Charles D. Drayton, prominent at- torney, and Col. West A. Hamilton, proprietor of a printing establishment, will be sworn in as members of the Poard of Education just before a spe- clal session of the board tomorrow at | 10 am. Drayton succeeds George M. ‘Whitwell and Col. Hamilton replaces | Dr. J. Hayden Johnson. The board will also hold its annual elections at the same meeting. ELGEN TAKES OATH Chairman Riley E. Elgen of the Public Utilities Commission was sworn in for another three-year term today by Andrew A. Horner, assistant clerk st District Court. The oath was ad- ministered at the Court House. Elgen recently was reappointed. F irecracl&:,er Joke ° During Roll Call Hurts McGranery Sleeping House Member Escapes Plot Laid by Funster. Representative James P. McGranery o Pennsylvania pulled a firecracker trom his pocket yesterday and whis-- pered archly to a companion: “Watch this. It's going to be good.” He lit the firecracker and poked it toward the chair where Representative Clsude A. Fuller of Arkansas was sleeping. A throng of other Representatives who had stepped into the cloak room during a roll call crowded around to see the fun. Bang! went the firecracker. “Ouch!” cried McGranery. ‘The powder exploded in a blinding fAash before the fun-loving McGran- ery could get the firecracker under the chair. He shook his singed finger, while dozens of Representatives streamed from the chamber adjoining the cloak room to find out what was going on. “What's the trouble, Mac?” asked the waking Fuller, - adoption of a child labor law by that State. After a year there she became congressional secretary for the Na- tional League of Women Voters and when the N. R. A. was set up she served as a field representative for the | Southwest for the Compliance Division of N. R. A, with headquarters at Omaha, Nebr. With the dissolution of N. R. A. Miss Geach was transferred to the Management Division of the Resettle- ment Administration and managed four subsistence homestead projects, at Phoenix, Ariz.; Longview, Wash., and two in Los Angeles County. When these projects were completed Miss Geach came to Washington. Lions Honoring New Head. A luncheon in honor of Bert Piers, newly chosen head of the twenty- second district of the Lions Clubs, is being held at 12:30 p.m. today at the Mayflower Hotel. BAND CONCERTS. By the Marine Band at the at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Branson, leader; inanm, assistant. Program. Marines’ Hymn. Capitol Capt. Taylor William F. Santel- | March, “Boy Scouts of America,” Sousa | Overture, “Youth Triumphant,” Hadley Cornet solo, “Napoli” Bellstedt Winfred Kemp. Arranged for military band by the soloist. Prelude to the third act, “Lohen- grin” “Rhumba”. -Harl MacDonald Arranged for military band by Albert Bennert, Marine Band. Clarinet solo, “Prelude et Rigau- Clyde Hall. Selections from “The Serenade,” Waltz, “Jolly Fellows”_ Overture, “Prince Igor” “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the Navy Band in the bandstand at the Navy Yard at 7:30 o'clock to- night. Lieut. Charles Benter, leader; Alexander Morr's, assistant. Program. Overture, “Die Meistersinger,” Wagner Characteristic, “The Smithy,” Alford Solo for cornet, “La Mandolinata,” Bellstedt Oscar Short. Poeme symphonique, “Danse Ma- Cabre” Saint-Saens Piccolo solo, “Through the Air,” Damm John Hreachmack Three numbers: (a) “Intermezzo-Goyescas,” Granados (b) “Praeludium” Jarnefelt (c) “Marionettes at Midnight,” Noack Three dances: (a) “Dance of the Comedians,” from “The Bartered Bride,” Smetana (b) “Hungarian Dance No. 5,” Brahms (c) “Persian Dance, from “Kho- vanstchino” . “Valse des Fleurs, cracker Suite”.______ Gems from the operetta, “A Waltz Dream” of the United States Supreme Court | Of this sum, $8.040 is for personnel | addition to the executive secre- | Geach's salary is to be $2,500 as | attached to the Wisconsin State In-| | for a three-month period prior thereto, Treasury, but all this is obligated under appropriations already made. Agents of the District assessor began | a check of the “green sheets” at the | | Internal Revenue Bureau last July, | making prompt use of the power given by Congress to local taxing officials to | check local returns against the dupli- | cates of the income-tax returns made | to the United States. As a result, .éussell's division mailed |out 17.500 letters during the past year, demanding District residents | to file personal property returns, on | finding they had not done so last July. Returns came back from 13,000 of this number and 7.000 of these | were placed on the personal property tax list. The remainder, 6,000, were | found not to have sufficient personal property upon which to place a levy. 4,500 Fail to Re/pond. There are about 4,500 persons who as yet have not responded with re- | turns to the District. Russell said | #he drive will be continued against 1 in the next six months. Dur- 138 the past year the District aked mandamus suits against 100 persons to force the filing of returns. The persona’ pyoperty returns for the 1938 fiscal year, beginning to- morrow, will be due during July, the levy to apply to holdings as of July 1. Persons failing to file the returns in July, Russell warned, will be subject to a penalty of 20 per cent for de- linquency on returns, plus a penalty of 1 per cent per month for de- linquency in making tax payments. Any person maintaining a place of abode in the District on July 1, and is liable to a tax on their intangible property, regardless of legal residence or regardless of where the property is held, Russell said. From tangible and intangible per- sonal property during the past 12 months the District collected $3,- 741,080. Levy on Banks’ Earnings. The 6 per cent levy on the gross earnings of banks and trust com- panies produced $434,634, the 5 per cent levy on the gross earnings of the gas companies $280,301, the 4 per cent on gross earnings of the electric and ‘“r,Aohone companies and the 4 per t/nt on gross receipts of the street ‘ailway company and the 4 per cent on gross earnings of incorporated sav- ings banks (less interest paid to de- positors) brought in $1,215776, the 2 er cent on the gross receipts of build- ng and loan associations $120,245, the “1% per cent levy on gross receipts of bonding companies and title insurance companies $28,494 and miscellaneous levies on private bankers, the Wash- ington Stock Exchange and note brokers $1,900. NIGHT LETTERS’ COST TO HAVANA REDUCED Minimum Number of Words Charged For Is Cut to 15 From 25. The Western Union and Postal Tele- graph companies today announced a reduction in mimimum-cost cable night letters between the United States and Havana, Cuba, to become effective August 1. The minimum number of words charged for has been changed from 25 to 15, bringing about a minimum charge of 45 cents for a night letter, instead of the former 75 cents charge. This applies to all points east of the Mississippi River. Three cents will be charged for each word over 15, up to 25 words. Each word over 25 will cost only 2 cents, West of the Mississippi River the minimum cost for a night letter cable will be 60 cents instead of the former one dollar. —— RENO DIVORCE ASKED Edwina F. Powell Capital Man. Mrs. Edwina F. Powell has filed suit for divorce against Jafhes W. Powell, office manager of the Thomas A. Edi- son, Inc., in Reno, Nev., it was learned Mrs. Sues AS NAVY GUESTS 22 Argentine and 4 Peru- vian Midshipmen Will Stay Until Saturday. Twenty-two Argentine midshipmen, accompanied by eight naval officers and four Peruvian naval cadets, visited Washington today as guests of the United States Navy. The future South American ad- mirals came to the United States on the Argentine training ship Presidente Sprmiento, which is anchored at Phil- adelphia. THe group will remain here until Saturday afternoon. Argentine Ambassador Filipe A. Es- pil introduced the midshipmen to Act- ing Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison and Admiral William Leahy, chief of naval operations, and Secre- tary of War Woodring. Edison will be host to the group at a reception at the Mayflower Hotel this evening. Tomorrow the Cadets will visit the Marine Base at Quantico and will be Edison’s guests at luncheon at the Mayflower. Later in the day a reception will be held in their honor at the Argentine Embassy. On Saturday the cadets will place wreaths on the Tomb of George Wash- ington at Mount Vernon, on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and at the base of the Argentine hero, Gen. San Martin, in Judiciary Square. Last night the cadets were the guests of Midshipmen at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Capt. Alberto Gallegos, commander of the Presidente Sar- miento, is in charge of the party, WATER CARNIVAL TO AID CHILDREN Aquatic Sports to Feature Benefit. Proceeds to Boost Attend- ance at Camp. A varied program of aquatic sports will feature the benefit water carnival sponsored by the District Congress of Parents and Teachers and scheduled for 8 p.m. tomorrow in the East Po- tomac Park swimming pool. Proceeds will be used by the Council of Social Agencies to send more under- privileged children to their Summer camp at Chapawamsic, Va. The New York contingent of Boy Scouts attending the jamboree will be & main attraction at the carnival in a demonstration of safety and rescue work in boatcraft, Mrs. Walter P. Fry, president of the District P.-T. A. Con- gress, said today. A water polo match will be staged between the Washington Canoe Club and the Ambassador Health Club and a canoe tilting contest will be held be- tween Bill Havens, national A. A. U. champion, and Alden Snell, mid- Atlantic champion. There will also be fancy diving and swimming races. Mrs. Pry pointed out thet the ad- mission price gave full swimming privileges to spectators before or after the contest. The carnival is being put on ‘with the co-operation of 8. G. Leoffler, manager of the East Potomac Park golf course and swimming pool. Self, Despite Doubts of Parents Dr.MacDonald Testifies at Inquest Held at Request of His Friend, Dissatis- fied With First Verdict. The hopes of a father and mother— striviing to clear their son of the stigma of suicide—and the determina- tion of a coroner to do his duty de- spite ties of friendship clashed today at a dramatic inquest into the death of Byrne C. Burns, 18-vear-old George Washington sophomore. ‘The inquest was held at the in- sistence of the parents, Dr. and Mrs. William P. Burns, who were dissatis- fied with the certificate of suicide is- sued by Coroner A. Magruder Mac- Donald after the boy's body had been found, April 11, in the bath room of his home—a bullet wound in the center of his forehead. With Dr. Burns, a noted diagnos- ticiah, and Mrs. Burns, waiting in an ante room, Dr. MacDonald took the stand as the first witness: “It was a painful thing for me to issue the certificate of suicide in this case,” he told the jurors. Was Friend of Father. “I studied gedicine with Dr. Burns, and I have known him for a long time. I went to high school with this boy's mother, and have been on friendly terms with her.” He explained, however, that when he examined the wound in the boy's forehead, he found no powder marks on the skin, but further examination disclosed that the frontal bone of the skull had been burned by gases by the discharge of the gun. “This indicated to me what is known as a contact wound,” he told the jury. “In other words, it indicated the muzzle of the pistol must have been held firmly against the forehead. Otherwise the bone could not have been burned without leaving powder marks on the skin.” Dr. MacDonald said he was called to the Burns home at 3100 Ellicott street by a friend of the family shortly after the shooting. “When I got there,” he said, “I found that the bath room door, which had been locked on the inside, had been smashed by Dr. Burns to reach the boy’s body. There was no gun in the room when I arrived, and I was told it had been removed. Describes Death Scene. “Servants told me the weapon had been found on the floor several feet from the body. The floor was covered with blood, and there were bloodspots on the door and in the batiidb. “It was suggested to me that the boy had been killed accidentally while cleaning the gun. A servant, when asked what had become of the clean- ing material, explained that it was in a bureau drawer in afiother room.” Dr. MacDonald said a post-mortem examination disclosed that the bullet had taken a downward course through the brain, lodging in the base of the skull, He said that at the request of George D. Horning. an attorney and a cousin of the dead boy. he held up the is- suance of the certificate of suicide for some time. “A few days after the tragedy.” he testified, “I told the family I would be entirely willing to hold an inquest into the case if they were not satisfied with my findings. However, they did not accept this offer until June 16, nearly two months after the body had been cremated.” As he was leaving the home after his first visit, Dr. MacDonald said, he was requested to confer with Dr. Burns, who had been Waiting in an adjoining room while the investiga- tion was being made. “It was suggested to me at that time,” the coroner said. “that the case was one of accidental death, but I ex- pressed the conviction that it was a suicide.” Tells of Call to Mother. The coroner also told of a second Vvisit he made to the Burns home at the request of the boy’s mother. “Mrs. Burns had told me she wanted to submit some additional evidence in- dicating that the boy's death was ac- cidental,” the coroner testified, “and when I arrived I found Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of George Washington University, was also pres- ent. “Dr. Marvin said there was nothing in the boy's scholastic record to cause him to take his own life. Dr. Burns then told me the death weapon had a ‘hair trigger,” and I told him I would submit it to the homicide squad for examination. I also told the family that if they would submit to the homicide squad concrete evidence upon which the detectives could base the finding of accidental death, I would gladly change the certificate.” Dr. MacDonald also told the jury he learned the Burns boy at one time had been subject to convulsions, but had not had any attacks for about five years. U. S. CITES GOLF BODIES P. G. A. and Ball Makers' Group Named in Anti-Trust Action. ‘The Federal Trade Commission charged today that the Golf Ball Manufacturers’ Association and the Professional Golfers’ Association have sliced into the rough of the anti-trust laws. Its complaint contended manufac- turers wanting to make official P. G. A. balls must pay royalties or give equivalent discounts to the P. G. A. and must pay license fees to A. G. Spalding & Bros. and the United States Rubber Products Co, which claim patents on the spheres. Despite a pending order of the court for her commitment for contempt, Mrs. Matilda L. Murray, 28, of the 1300 block of Kenyon street, appeared in District Court this morning to fight her husband's suit for limited divorce which involves custody of their two children. Justice F. Dickinson Letts held Mrs. Murray in contempt last February when she refused to obey a court order directing her to turn over the children to their father, Raymond C. Murray, 'a taxicab driver. The jurist imposed yesterday. 1 Mrs. Powell charges her husband, who lives at 4007 Connecticut avenue, with cruelty and asks the return of her maiden name of Fowler, The cous N ple was married here January 36, 1935, A a 30-day commitment, but by that time Mrs. Murray had left the Dis- trict to join her children, Lucille, 8, and Wilie, 4, who were in Connecti- cut with her relatives. Murray filed suit several months ago ~ Woman Facing For Contempt Attends Trial Commitment for a limited divorce, alleging cruelty. She replied with a cross bill, asking a decree in her favor on the same grounds. Pending disposition of the case, the court gave custody of the children to their mother, but in- structed her to allow the father to see them. When Murray later returned to court and said his wife refused to let him see the children, the court transferred their legal custody to him, but since Mrs. Murray has not brought them back to the District, he has been un- able to get the youngsters. ‘When trial of the divorce suit began early this afternoon before Justice Daniel W. O'Donoghue, the judge indicated he was aware of the pend- ing contempt order, but said nothing sbout sending Mrs, Murrsy to jail. i JOB’S DAUGHTERS HOLD INSTALLATION Laura 8. Wallace Made Grand Guardian of Grand Guardian Council. Laura S. Wallace was installed grand guardian of the Grand Guardian Council, Washington District of Job's Daughters, last night at the Brightwood Masonic Temple by Harry J. Schmidt, past associate supreme guardian, as- sisted by supreme and grand officers of Maryland and Virginia. Other officers installed were: Asso- ciate grand guaridan, William J. Dun- ham; vice grand guardiar, Mary E. Teachum; vice associate grand guard- ian, Herbert B. Nevius; grand guide, Mary C. Benfer; grand marshal, Mary Reed; grand secretary, Frances Rob- inson; grand treasurer, Aimee Schmidt; grand chaplain, Dorothy Vernon; grand librarian, Elizabeth Newsom; grand musician, Sallie Wilson; grand first messenger, Mary Moody; grand second messenger, Roberta Stewart; grand third messenger, Nellie Brat- tain; grand fourth messenger, Ella Mae Hughes; grand fifth messenger, Sue Vernon; grand senior custodian, Flora Campbell; grand junior custo- dian, Helen Manning; grand inner guard, William G. Newman, and grand outer guard, William H. Fox. Welfare Picnic Today. ROCKVILLE, Md., June 30.—The Montgomery County Council on So- cial Welfare will give a picnic in Rock Creek Park at 6 p.m. today. Reserva- tiona may be made through Mrs. J. W. ‘Wisner of this town, chairman of ar- rangements. i 2 1S DEADLOCKED Chairman of Shop Owners Hits “Chiselers” Within Cleaning Industry. A small group of “chiselers” within the dry cleaning and laundry in- dustry is making it impossible for both employers and employes to at- tain conditions which “good health requires,” Samuel Rubenstein, chair- man of the Shop Owners’ Committee, declared today as s deadlock reached in efforts to settle the strike affecting approximately 450 workers. Under an N. R. A. code, Rubenstein said, it was possible for the industry to regulate prices so wage and hour concessions could be granted employes. The Sherman anti-trust law now makes it impossible for the majority of the industry to control price cutting by a minority, he asserted. “As a result.” Rubenstein continued, “a small percentage of chiselers is making it economically impossible for the average employer and the averags employe to get the things which good health requires.” Compromise Plan Rejected. In an effort to reopen 13 closed plants the Shop Owners' Committee vyesterday urged the union to accept & compromise agreement under which a minimum wage of $15 a week would be paid while negotiations continued on the organized workers' demands for a 40-hour week, an $18 weekly minimum wage, time and a half for overtime and union recognition. Union representatives rejected the compromise offer, Rubenstein said, and declared the shops would remain closed until their owners met the union’s demands. Negotiations will continue, but the union will have to make some reces- sions before an agreement can be reached, Rubenstein said. Shortly after the conference, union officials announced that the Aladdin Dry Cleaners, 1817 Columbia road, had agreed to all of its demands. Push Hunt for Funds. Meanwhile the Laundry Workers, Cleaners and Dyers Union, Local 187, which is sponsoring the strike, con- tinued to canvass all possible sources for funds with which to carry on its picketing activities. The Retail Tailors’ Association, which already has contributed $100 to support the strike, will meet tonight at Pythian Temple to determine Whether it should extend further financial assistance. At a mass meeting in the Y. W. C. A. last night representatives of 12 local labor groups with a combined mem- bership of 25,000 voted to support the strike and to urge their members to boycott the affected plants until a settlement is made. The League of Women Shoppers, headed by Mrs. Elizabeth Wheeler Colman, daughter of Senator Wheeler of Montana, whose members distributed food to pickets yesterday, voted today to support the strikers in their re- Jection of the compromise offered by the plant operators. Enrollment of Mrs. Henry Morgen- thau, wife of the Secretary of Treas- ury, as one of the sponsors of the league was announced today by Mrs. John Collier, wife of the commissioner of Indian affairs. Calvin Cousens, president of the union, said attorneys are preparing formal charges against a group of laundry and dry cleaning operators, which will be filed with the National Labor Relations Board. DAUGHTER OF HARRISON AIDS PLEA FOR ANNUITY Asks Senate Pensions Committee to Approve 35,000 for Her Mother. By the Associated Press. Mrs. Elizabeth Harrison Walker, only living child of President Benjamin Harrison, asked 'the Senate Pensions Committee yesterday to approve a $5,000 annuity for her 79-year-old mother, who married Harrison three years after he left the White House. 8he testified the widow lives on the income from a $100,000 trust fund left by the President, plus $25,000 inherited from an earlier husband. [N was | year age limit, Schwellenbach added, “And yet the National Re-employment service, in the employment of its own people, has a rule fixing an age limit of 30, 35 or 40 years.” 375 AT G. A. 0. GO OFF PAY ROLL TODAY Majority, However, May Be Re- stored to Duty—Other Cuts Elsewhere. Approximately 375 employes of the General Accounting Office went off the pay roll today as the fiscal year ended, but officials said chances were the majority would be restored to duty. It was announced sometime ago the establishment faced a shortage of funds that would necessitate & reduc- tion in the force, despite the tremend- ous volume of work on hand, but officials were inclined to believe today the money available probably would be sufficient The Civil Service Commission also made a staff reduction today because of insufficient funds, nearly 100 tem- porary employes—principally clerks and typists—being eliminated. A num- ber of permanent employes also were dropped by the commission, but these were placed elsewhere in the Govern- ment. RAIL BOARD AND C. C. C. FUND BILL INTRODUCED Retirement Body Would Get $99,880,000, Corps $350,000,000 for Next Fiscal Year. Br the Assoclated Press. Representative Woodrum, Democrat, of Virginia introduced yesterday. on behalf of the House Appropriations Committee, a bill to appropriate $99,- 880.000 for the Railroad Retirement Board for the next fiscal year and $350,000,000 for the operation of the Civilian Conservation Corps. The measure also included a $50,000 item to finance the investigation of the Joint Committee on Tax Evasion and Avoidance. The funds for tie Railroad Retire- ment Board would be used as annual premium payments under the recently enacted retirement act, TO MAKE ADDRESS Capital Physician to Speak at Chicago Convention. Dr. Carl Kettler, Washington osteo= pathic physician, will address the International Society of Sacro-Iliac Technicians Sunday at their conven- tion in Chicago. His subject is to be “How the Sacro- Iliac Joint Can Be Made to Stay Corrected.” Scores Tramp_le $60 Underfoot, But It’s Recovered Boy Scouts Do Double Good Turn in Aiding Motorist. Scores of motorists involved in traf- fic violations trampled on $60 today and never knew it. The money was in a wallet belong- ing to an elderly gentleman befriended by four Michigan Boy Scouts, out to do their daily “good turn.” The jamboree visitors accompanied the elderly man to the corporation counsel’s office in Police Court to ex= plain that he was innocent of the charge against him, A half hour later the four were back to ask if the office maintained a lost and found bureau. “No,” sald Otto Hauschild, clerk, “why?” “That gentleman lost a wallet with three $20 bills in it,” explained a Scout. “Stand back from the counter, please,” Hauschild told the throng waiting to talk about traffic troubles. The motorists moved back and the Scouts found the wallet under their feet. L