Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1937, Page 18

B—4 = THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON D. C;' ATUGUST 8 1937—PART ONE. {IPRADID STUDY AWAITING FUNDS Hause Group Is Expected to Take Quick Action on Appropriation. e City in mir Commit With t ter: fresh prisitions take qu ficiency bill an ! investiga Balt disas-~ House Appro- expected to 1e need dioon vessels land w The Federa t quiry whict pring, mon veled the radioless more and Democr gress to adopt dios or lakes ar Copels in M ment ssels on rivers Commerce Study Sped Service ye otelephone broadcast- | navigational information on t Lakes through a station at co-operate with the Weather Bureau | in broadcasting weather reports and the Navy Branch Hydrographic hydrographic opinio vessels pert, who wo charge of thi Congres Two Years Allowed. ‘The resolution calling for the stud allows more than two years for com- pletion, & date on wh nland waters,” ‘Almost every body of water presents a different problem h the ship radio law of Ma included provisions for nd water Lakes and were t first the Great inland waters Great Lakes Webster r of the arguments favor of the exemptio resolution asking t quiry. The $25.000 which the Budget | Bureau recommended 3o the House Appropriations ‘Committee sion in the thi be used only to beg It is planned to for completion of th JOHN CURTIS DIES: WAS U. S. EMPLOYE Rites for Retired Agriculture De- partment Worker to Be Held Today John J. Curtis, 71 Departm empl eorrect time Mr a I ago. WO, | we Swing a High Brush | | | | Con- ree steeplejack painters pictured high above the road- way of the Delaware River Bridge, recoating one of the suspen- ables at one of the highest points of the span which is 0 feet above the waterline. Teamwork means everything here because the slightest slip—well, they’re not wearing para- chutes. While two of the brush-wielders take care of the paint job, the third stands on the catwalk above, taking care of them by keeping an eye on the ropes and pulleys on which depend their safety. —Wide World Photo. ‘Sallo;)f W histler Maps by U. S For 20 Cents Creates Tempest ated Press Coast and Geodetic Survey selling original W gs for 20 cents, stler engra is its way around an art ving the work of its employe—Whistler, the Requests poured ir The survey workers replied by send- uth te: | civic leaders, police and traffic off | this week at | ards ARMY DATA SHOW Padgett Lost Life in “Road- side Killing.” | By the Associated Press FULTON, Mo, taken during an August Finger- prints A | % ment more than a decade ago resulted enlist- |of a | City July 22 as Charles W. Padgett | on the slain man's' clothing—C. W. P. His address at the time of his listment the 6th Field Artiller Pa., October 1, 1923, in | from Pittsburgh cutor T. A. Faucett said had word form Andrew Padgett slain man’s father, from Aliquippa, Pa The father’s address had beer in Army records as Coshocton, Ohio. in 1926 ion o ndtow ous disappeara Close, Roehest whose b! were found near compa mobile the my B | torn coat SAFETY LABORATORY | WILL BE INSPECTED Public Officials Will See Key- stone’s Traveling Traffic Test Trailer. A traffic safety laboratory on wheels Automobile Club to members of Senate and House, Federal executives als the Bureau of S There will be a formal ir tion at 2 p.m. Thursday at Connecti cut avenue and Van Ness street Thursday's demonstration w given under direction of Dr. H Dickinson, chief of the automot division of the bureau and member pec- be C one | Here's the log of the trouble Back in 1854 g ling youth of 20 named James Abbot McNeil Whist- ler was doing engravings for the Gov- er histler, J. Young & Complaints p wasn’t also poured The an origlinal the Government, ad ar al, has rd letter explaining: st plate isn't available maps are from photographic the plate in work was map-making, but he Shich ne impudent sketches of fish and Exacting officials, provoked decorations, advised him the United States Governme: try get along without him. Whistler went his way to beco world-famous painter T y went its way with a couple of Whist- ler's engravings. Eighty-three years t their way. with that would %5 s a pretty one, and you can see Whistler's prank —two saucy groups of sea gulls where no sea gulis ought to be. Sheffield, England, has been noted for the manufacture of cutlery since Chauc time. Las spread Spring some one erroneously word t the agency was of the Keystone Advisory Board means of the equipment trailer,” it was explained George E. Keneipp, club manager i, in the by | “the motorist learns his driving lim- | for the club by the Harvard U itations. These devices duplicate cer- tain emergency situations on the road and the result of the tests determines the driver’s weaknesses, if any. The examination, given free by Keystone | experts, includes a vigilance test mental reaction test, steering te: glare test, color vision test, field vision test and stereoscopic test.” The trailer was designed and b of er- Bureau for Street Traffic Re- search. It is towed by a large sedan and includes, in addition to the driver- testing equipment, a public address system and sound motion-picture equipment. It will go into service in the District and nearby Maryland and Virginia following the demonstration. sity - VIGTINFS IDENTITY | Fingerprints Reveal C. W. Padgett's name checked with initials | | | was given as Woodlawn, Pa., but Prose- | tonight he | the Padgett was discharged from the Army | will be demonstrated by the Keystone | the | e “What Is Bid” GIRL AUCTIONEER READY FOR TOBACCO SALES. today in identification of the victim | “roadside killing” near Kingdom | | of President Roosevelt to acknowledge | | that such a count is essential to effi- en- | y | | many agencies whose chief function given | ‘hama and Senator Byrnes, Democrat, | estimated the cost of census would be With working Bass, 20 girl leaf world, gets sales at So exercising pil the tobacco way North said auctioneer shape” season Miss the only in the for the Boston, Va., by voice atop a e of the smoking substance. A. P. Photo. \TUG MAST HINGE TO HELP TRAFFIC| to be th her | Change Will Eliminate Necesslty; for Opening Memorial | Bridge. | The Albemarle is to have her mast i hinged rited States Er yesterd 1k e tug 1 the mast of which for | | weeks has delayed motorists | | using Memorial and Highway bridges. | | The collapsible mast will lessen the | | craft’s height enough to do away with | the necessity for opening the draw | | at Memorial Bridge, but not at High- | way or railroad bridge, o E at the office said | The tug, hauling barges from a| | dredg! project above Memorial | Bridge down river and o to | | Gravelly Point, passes under the | bridges approximately 18 times a day The inconvenience caused by waiting for the draws to open and close was | reported several motorists to the | | American Automobile Association and | to District and United States Govern- | ment officials The revamped mast is expected to | be in use tomorrow. | | ress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, | have been advanced | attending a house-to-house canvass SENATE APPROVES JOBLESS CENSUS Passes Black Bill After| President Exhibits Willingness. Without a record vote, the Senate yesterday passed the Black bill pro- viding for a thorough census of the unemployed—a measure which ap- parently has the administration’s ap- proval despite the previous reluctance By the Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, August 7—Curtis J. Butts 14, ar 5-year-old sister Tessie were te their playmates today about the they were kidnaped by a bea Returned from a vaction in stone National Park, the ct father described the “kidnapi “I had pitched our tent West Thumb Camp and the two ct dren were in a sleeping bag near tent entrance. Suddenly Curtis yelled and I rose on one elbow in t 18 time Yel Idren’s w- cient administration of relief funds. The evidence of the President's present willingness to accept the pro- | posal was presented to the Senate in | the form of a letter from Works Prog- who said that, while it was not needed by the W. P. A, he felt sure such A census “would be of utmost value to | is that of stabilizing employment.” 4 Cost May Reach $5,000,000. \ p Senator Black, Democrat, of Ala- of South Carolina, who have been in- terested in the proposed legislation, around $4,800,000 or $5,000,000, and that the results would be available next April | As introduced, the Black bill pro- vided for a census of the employed as well as the unemployed, but as ported by the Labor Com passed by the Senate, it | ittee and would au- | | thorize a count of only the “partially employed and unemployed.” The bill further provides that the method and extent of the census to be undertaken shall be determined by a committee consisting of Secretary of Commerce Roper, Secretary of La- bor Perkins, Administrator Hopkins, A. J. Altmeyer, chairman of the So- al Security Board; Stewart A. Rice. chairman of the Central Statistical | Board, and William L. Austin, director of the census. Clark Criticizes Plan. Acceptance of the proposal came after a perfunctory debate in which Senator Clark, Democrat, of Missouri criticized the plan as inferior to sev- eral of the census proposals which Like many of his colleagues, however, he said it was better than nothing | A similar view was indicated by Senators Bridges of New Hampshire | and Lodge of Massachusetts, both Re- | publicans. The former called the Senate’s attention to Senator Lodge’s bill,’ authorizing a registration of the unemployed by the use of the postal service. This method, it has been contended, would get the real figures of the unemployed without the delay and without the expense of maintain- ing an army of enumerators. Ly T SCHOOLS’ OPENING SET LEONARDTOWN, (Special). —The 8t. 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