Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1937, Page 5

_BRIDGE STATUARY PLANS SPEEDED Controller’s Ruling to Re- lease Funds for Arlington Span Project. ¥ The way was paved for completion ©f the long-delayed equestrian sculp- ture groups in the Arlington Me- morial Bridge project today when Becretary of the Interior Ickes an- mounced a ruling by Acting Controller General Elliott, clarifying the situ- ation. ‘Two of the equestrian groups are to be placed at the easterly end of the bridge, and these, symbolic of war, are the work of the New York sculptor, Leo Friedlander. The two groups to be placed at the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway aproach on the Lin- eoln Memorial Circle are symbolic of peace and the acts of peace, and these have been executed by James E. Fraser, prominent New York sculptor. Secretary Ickes was advised today by €. Marshall Finnan, superintendent of the National Capital Parks, that negotiations for new contracts with these sculptors ars now under way. Today’s developments climaxed & con- fused situation that began when for- mer President Hoover, as an emer- gency measure, impounded funds with which the work was to be done. The sculptors are now ready to turn over to the Government half-size models of the equestrian groups From these the permanent statues will be carved out of stone. Designs Accepted. The Fine Arts Commission ap- proved and accepted smaller designs of the models and then the President, on March 21, 1933, ordered the Bureau of the Budget to impound the unex- pended balances of the funds for the Pproject. On August 25, 1936, President Roosevelt ordered the funds released, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Driver Ticketed, They Serenade Police Western High Pupils Singing Christmas Carols Outside of No. 7 Precinct Station, Where They Are Taken <> garding the legality of wiping out the |old contracts and signing new ones, increasing the sum sufficiently to cover the cost of completing the work. In his ruling, Mr. Elliott said: | “In view of the long delay due to | causes over which the contractor had | | no control, but which were directly attributable to the Government, this office will not be required to object— all parties agreeing—to the termina- tion of the contracts and the enter- ing into new contracts for the un- | as Good-will Gesture. The carolists as they serenaded the seventh precinct personnel today. —Star Staff Photo. HEIR teachers were quite sure it was merely a “good will” gesture when a score of West- ern High School pupils sere- Christmas carols this morning shortly after one of their number was taken in for driving through a “stop” sign. In any event, the precinct’s police personnel took it as such. Led by Capt. J. E. Bowers, the officers crowd- ed the door and windows of the station house and listened with broad smiles Clinton Alexander Sauls of Claren- don, Va, were en route in Sauls’ sedan to the Franklin Administration Building, along with a score of addi- inaded No. 7 precinct station with|tional songsters, to serenade public school officials. Sauls, a 17-year-old junior, was arrested by Pvt. B. N. Bradshaw on 'a charge of disregarding a “stop” | sign. Sauls and his companions went | to the precinct station, where the | driver put up collateral | Meanwhile, the other students com- TAX GASE SUIT 15 CONTINUED Counsel for Merchant Wins Delay on Grounds Case Was Incorrectly Filed. Police Court Judge John P. Me- Mahon today granted a continuance to January 5 in the case brought by the District against Fairfax,Oyster for his alleged failure to file a return of his gross receipts as required under the business privilege tax law. The continuance was granted at the request of Dorsey Offutt, counsel for Mr. Oyster, who has insisted that the information filed with the court was incorrect, in that the return was filed. When the case first came up in court Monday, Mr. Oyster's counsel sought to have a jury trial, but this was overruled by Judge Edward M. Curran on the ground the law did not provide for a jury trial of such a case. After the brief action, Mr. Offutt said he would ask the court to recon- sider this point at the January 5 hear- ing, and he insisted that under deci- sions of the United States Supreme Court there is provision in general law for a jury trial in cases permitting fines of more than $300 or a jail term of 90 days or more. Jo V. Morgan, assistant corporation counsel, who is in charge of legal mat- ters for the District in connectioms with the Revenue Act, declined to discuss the jury trial question, since this wasa matter before the court, but he insisted that the official records at the District Building show Mr. Oyster did nos file & gross receipts return within the spee- ified time. Mr. Oyster's counsel claimed his client had a business privilege license and that a license could not be ob- tained unless the return had been filed, but Mr. Morgan disputed the point | and said that a license could be ob- tained without the filing of a return | The case brought against Mr. Oyster | | applied to his operation of a produce | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1937. PEN NITES 'TIL Thursday & Friday AST DAYS & NIGHTS IN SPORT CENTER'S but the sculptors, being requested to | finished work at such cost as present |and encouraging applause while the | pleted their downtown serenade with- | Stand at the New Center Market, proceed, pleaded that, due to the long | conditions and circumstances may|boy and girl carolists sang “Silent|out seven voices. On learning young | Ciehy e Hoosr e el oo | gty | Night” and similar numbers | Sauls had been arrested, they has- | plete the project had greatly increased, | B According to the puplls, they had | tened to the station to serenade the and that the original sum agreed | . 5 hoped to “soften the hearts” of the | police upon was not sufficient to cover the | Locomotive Is Retired. police 5o they would liberate the youth | Dr. E. S. Newton, principal of the | ceitlements are caring for 3,000 pa- cost.” After running 1,200,000 miles in jarrested. This, however, was impos- high school. insisted the choralists | tients mostly Chinese. This fact, to- Sum Is Increased. England during 40 years' service, the |sible, in view of the fact that the | merely stopped by the station While | gether with several suggestions. for ervthing you At ihe instance of Mr. Finnan, the | locomotive Henry Oakley, pioneer of | youth in question already had posted returning to school to sing songs in | fighting the disease, is contained in | need. Interior Department then requested the Atlantic type engine, has been re- $5 collateral and gone elsewhere. honor of their. friends—Capt. Bowers | 3 report issued in Singapore by the | 8 ruling of the controller general re-'tired. \ It seems that fellow pupils and and Pvt. H. A. Reed, the officer ..... = -~ . detailed to duty near the school. Paragon Music Hall, in London, $6.45 Ice Skates, Shoes Attached women’s, children's TU- ice skates, securely riveted shoes made’ of ‘ ed, ather-re- fit comes COMP! WITH SOCKS Boys’ & Girls’ $39.95 Bicycles Famous Eagle and other makes. Have front electric lights and horns. some with electric tail- lights. chal zuards. New De- s " parture brakes, back racks. bal- loon tires, stands Leprosy to Be Fought. A new war on leprosy is to be | started in Malaya, whose two leper | x5 green table court lines, 6 folding 4 de luxe paddies. net, posts and 4 balls. Ev- informal committee appointed by the | | Malayan government to study the | | provision of future accommodation for lepers. | | | not enacted into law, the special ses- | Senate bill, but up to 20 times their capital in the House bill. 5 Congress |l e ¥t ork ot e (Continued From First Page.) tomorrow the hope of adjusting differences over the housing bill and send it to the President for signa- ture, since i intended to put the brakes on bu recession by start- ing a home construction boom. Shortly aft noon, however, it became apparent leaders had given up hope of making the housing bill & law before Christmas, and the House began ma g time to await & Senate vote on the measure. When the bill had passed the Sen- ate, about 4 o'clock, Majority Leader Barkley explained that some mem- bers of Congress already had left for home, believing the housing bill, the last pending measure, would take a | longer time in the Seenate. It would not be pos he said, to get a conference agreement at this time. Few in Senate at End. Both houses contented themselves | with appointment of conferees and | then perfunctorily put through the adjournment resolution after a com- mittee reporied the President had no further communications for Congress. | Only a handful of Senators waited | on the floor to put through the routine adjournment resolution after the housing bill passeed The following were named ferees on housing difierences: Sena- tors Wagner of New York, Bulkley of Ohio, Hitchcock of South Dakota, Townsend of Delaware and Steiwer of Oregon; Representatives Steagall of Alabama, Goldsborough of Mary- land, Reilly of Wisconsin, Wolcott of Michigan and Fish of New Yor They will meet within a day or two of the convening of the regular session on January 3, and Senator Wagner is confident of a prompt | agreement. The final vote on passage of the housing bill in the Senate was 66 to 4. The four voling against were Senators Borah of Idaho, Frazier of North Dakota, Lodge of Massachu- setts and Townsend of Delaware, all Republicans Farm Bill Unfinished. Meanwhile the farm relief bill, con- | taining substantial differences be- | tween House and Senate action, also reposes unfinished on a conference table, with conferees not due to meet before December 28. | In addition to getting these two major measures to conferepce the legislative record of the spelMal ses- | sion consisted of passing the nece: sary resolution to make mileage al- | Jowances available to members of | Congress, another to pay the salaries | of the page boys and one or two minor measures, including a routine bridge bill. On the House side high lights of | con- | the session were a new fight on the | by the Government from dealing in wage-hour bill, which ended in send- ing the measure back to committee, and the signing of a petition by 218 members to pave the way for con- sideration at the next session of the Ludlow constitutional amendment for a referendum on declarations of war. Regular Session Aided. Democratic spokesmeen view that, while major legislation was — — = 714 13th St. Natl. 3068 take the | lar session by placing the farm and housing bills in a position for early completion in January. | When they return on January 3,| however, they will ind many equally important problems still in the mak- | ing in committees or on the calendar, including | Governmment reorganization, anti- lynching legislation, proposed changes | in the undistributed profits tax and | other levies to encourage business re- | covery, the proposal to set up seven | litle T. V. A. regional planning | areas and the list of annual appro- ' priation bills, which will -provoke de- | mands for budget balancing. | As the housing bill now stands, | the two branches are in substantial | agreement on reviving insurance for | repair loans, which expired last April. | Senators differed sharply yesterday on | whether this should be revived, but | on a roll call it carried, 46 to 22. Agreé on Home Purchase. There also is substantial agreement | on the sections to make home pur- | chase easier by allowing F. H. A. to insure mortgages up to 90 per cent | of the value on $6,000 homes. thereby reducing the down payment to 10 per cent, and reducing the interest to 54 per cent. On homes of not more | than $10,000 the insurance would | cover 90 per cent of the first $6,000 and 80 per cent of the remaining | mortgage debt. The purposc of the bill not only is to facilitate home purchase but to | create employment by encouraging in- | vestment of private capital in large | | housing developments with F. H. A. insurance on the mortgages. | One section authorizes insurance | on construction loans up to 80 per cents of the value of groups of multi- | family dwellings or groups of houses where the total cost ranges from | $16,000 to $200,000. As these indi- | vidual units are sold, however, the| home buyer could be insured up to | 90 per cent. Provides for Large Projects. There is still another section deal- | ing with insurance for large rental | projects ranging up to $5,000,000. | Insurance of these mortgages is to be handled in a fund entirely separate from individual home mortgages. The bill further seeks to encourage creation of national mortgage asso- | ciations with privately subscribed cap- | ital to finance housing mortgages. It | | has been indicated, however, that the | Reconstruction Finance Corp. may in- | vest $50,000,000 in such institutions. One of the differences facing con- ference is a Senate provision to re- strict Government competition with private lending agencies by preventing any mortgage association controlled small individual home mortgages. | Another difference is that mortgage associations could issue debentures up to 15 times their capital in the‘ PONTIAC WE NEED USED CARS Flood Motor Co. 4221 Conn. Ave. Clev. 8400 | _MEL 1062 Several Senators declared during the debate vesterday that they had been advised by building and loan associations and national savings and loan associations that further amend- ments are necessary if the bill is to | avoid working & hardship on them. Senators in charg- of the bill con- tended the principal amendments re- ferred to should be made in the laws creating the Home Owners’ Loan Corp.. the Federal Home Loan Bank | Board and other Government agen- cies. 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