Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1940, Page 23

General News Election Bill Hearings fo Be Continued Several Testify in Support of Measure Before Senate Group Senate hearings on the Capper bill, to set up voting machthery for the election of District delegates w( the national political conventions, ‘will be continued at 10 a.m. Wednes- day, Subcommittee Chairman Aus- tin announced yesterday, after a dozen spokesmen for local civic groups and several individuals had indorsed the bill before a subcom- mittee. Senator Austin said if there are opponents of the measure they would be heard at that time, along with any others who favor the pro- posal, Among those who testified in sup- port of the bill yesterday were: Harry S. Wender, vice president of the Federation of Citizens’ Asso- ciations, speaking also for the Bouthwest Association; Sefton Darr of the District of Columbia Suffrage Association, who indorsed the bill in principle; William J. Bartle, Stanton Park Citizens; Culver B. Chamberlain, Cathedral Heights; Miss Etta Taggart for the Wash- ingtonians; Mrs. Mary Wright John- eon, a former Democratic national committeewoman; A. J. Driscoll, Mid-City Citizens; Mrs. Leslie B. ‘Wright, Forest Hill Citizens, and Frank Fabrizio, for Loggia Roma No. 167, National Order of Sons of Ttaly. Urge Bill's Passage. Among those who urged passage of the bill as individuals were: John P. Mullen, attorney, one of the orig- inal advocates of the bill; John H. Connaughton, attorney, and Frank- lin G. Sartwell. ~ Several witnesses criticized the present method of leaving the pro- cedure for choosing of delegates to the local committees of the two major parties. The bill would call for the holding of a primary on the first Monday in May, under the supervision of a board of elections, that would lay out precincts and provide all of the hecessary machinery for conducting an election. Candidates for delegate, national committeeman or national commit- teewoman would have to file a cer- tificate signed by 100 voters of the same political party in order to get on the ballot. A poll tax of $1 would be levied to cover the cost of holding the primeries. | Seen Serving Good Purpose. Mr. Darr said the holding of such primaries would serve a useful pur-‘ pose by setting up in the District for the first time in more than 65 Years election machinery that would enable voteless residents of Wash- ington to become accustomed to the holding of elections and to demon- strate they are qualified for suffrage. He said he is a Democrat, but, being a native of Washington, he never has cast a vote. Mr. Wender said the federation also favors local suffrage and na- tional representation and suggested | the pending primary bill should not | be confused with those issues. He said he did not know of any opposi- tion to the proposed primary law, but suggested a poll tax of less than 81 could be fixed and still cover the expenses of the election. Mr. Mullen contended the exist- ing procedure results in sending “hand-picked” delegates to the con- ventions and predicted a primary law might prove a stepping stone to suffrage in its entirety. Mr. Con- naughton alsc opposed the present procedure, arguing it has resulted in sending contesting delegations to the conventions in the past. Expenses are Cited. Mr. Bartle read from a summary of State primary laws, prepared under the direction of the secretary of the Senate, a statement that, in selecting Democratic delegates from the District, nominees are required to accompany their application with a $200 fee to cover the expenses of the election. Senator Austin suggested that “you cannot conduct any kind of a primary without meeting the ex- | penses.” Mrs. Johnson, who said she had long been active in Democratic affairs, spoke in favor of the bill, but also - defended past procedure. Bhe said she could not speak with regard to 1936, but that so far as she knew the primaries were con- ducted properly and fairly. Answer- ing the reference to contested dele- gations, she said that is not unusual, but occurs also in the States. She suggested one amendment to the section dealing with the resi- dence qualification of voters. Senators Capper, Republican of Kansas, and Clark, Democrat of Idaho, joined Senator Austin in conducting the hearing. Corpora- tion Counsel Seal attended the hear- ing, but did not testify. He said later the Commissioners have not et passed on the bill, Pattern Makers Mark 41st Anniversary Labor problems were discussed last night by George Q. Lynch, presi- dent of the Pattern Makers’ League of North America, at a dinner dance last night at the Carlton in cele- bration of the 41st anniversary of the Pattern Makers’ Association of ‘Washington, D. C. Mr. Lynch told his audience that his organization had been success- ful in every appeal for jurisdiction which was filed before the National Labor Relations Board. The guests included Rear Admiral George Pettengill, commandant of the Washington Navy Yard; Capt. W. E. Brown, production officer; Lt. Comdr. A. C. Murdaugh, assistant production officer, at the local gun factory; Harold Ware, secretary of District No. 3; Stanley Du Hadway, president of District No. 3; Joseph H. Brown, master mechanic, and the following supervisory officers of the patternmakers at the yard, George J. Lynn, Edwin C. Lynch, John C. Hohman and Archie A. Griest. Frank G. Bryant was toastmaster. BLOSSOM COURT — Above, Miss Rose Colliflower, center, queen of the festival, and her escort from the 8wan Boat, Thomas P. Morgan, jr., shown with the queen’s court at the : edge of the Tidal Basin, tommunity Chest To Offer $100 Prize For Emb_lem Design Contest Open to Artists Of High School Age or Over; 2 Other Awards ‘The Community Chest tomorrow will set up a $100 prize for the ‘Washingtonian who can design for it an emblem symbolizing its wel- fare service in the city. Coleman Jennings, Chest presi- dent, invited artists and art stu- dents of all *varieties—of senior high school age or over—to com- pete in an emblem contest, open- ing tomorrow and closing April 30. A second prize of $50 and a third award of $25 will also be granted for outstanding designs drafted in the contest, he said. The prizes will not come from Community Chest funds but from the purse of a private donor. Contest Judges. A distinguished committee of judges, headed by H. L. Rust, jr., Chest representative, will include the following members: C. Powell Minnigerode, director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. David Finley, director of the Na- tional Art Gallery. C. K. Berryman, cartoonist for The Star. George Lohr, commercial artist. Mr. Jennings and Herbert L. Wil- lett, jr., director of the Community Chest. The winning .design will be adopted by the Chest as an offi- cial and permanent emblem for use on its stationery and else- where—probably on the buttons worn by Chest volunteers, on posters and outdoor displays. All out- standing designs will be exhibited. The Statue of Liberty in New York harbor was cited by Chest officials as embodying the type of imagina- tion desired for the welfare organi- zation’s new official emblem. Spirit of the Chest Sought. “The emblem should convey the spirit of the Chest in the same way that the Statue of Liberty embodies (See CHEST, Page B-3.) Work on C. & O. Canal To Start Tomorrow Work is to start tomorrow on. a $15,500 reconditioning contract which wil place the C. & O. Canal in con- dition to be filled with water this summer. Francis F. Gillen, new acting sup- erintendent of National Capital Parks, said yesterday that Corson & Gruman Co., of Washington, to whom the contract was awarded, have been notified to start work. Mr. Gillen said that the work should be completed by July 1. At the same time, he said, work is neating completion on a larger con- tract for $161,117 in the vicinity of Widewater between Cropley, Md., and Great Falls. The Widewater contract is also being fulfilled by Corson & Gruman Co. — Frozen Sleep’ Kept Versatile Russian Young About 25 years ago a young- American physician on .a yacht cruise in the Orient encountered a Russian of distinguished ap- pearance who proceeded to amaze the entire company with his de- tailed knowledge* of so many flelds. He knew more about medicine than the doctor, more about mu- sic than professional musicians on the frip, more about engineer- ing than the engineers. “How could you have learned so much in one lifetime?” he was asked. “Well,” replied the Russian, “I am 95 years old, even if I look only 50. Wou see every year I go to a place in Siberia where they put me in & box and leave me out in the snow for six weeks. After that I come out and start all over again.” “It may come to that,” mused Dr.. Temple Fay, Philadelphis neurologist and developer of the A human refrigeration process in ! continuous period of complete the treatment of cancer, who addressed .the Undergraduate Medical Society of George Washington University yester day afternoon. Either the temperature of. the whole body is reduced to 80 de- grees or less by being placed in an ice pack, or some specific area. is reduced to a much lower de- gree. Popularly described as “frozen sleep”—actually the patient is neither frozen nor asleep—the treatment is now showing some > marveloils results- in the _relief of pain‘and improvement in sup- posedly hopeless .cancer cases. No others are accepted. No cancer cure is claimed, Dr. Fay ' stressed, although some cases for which no possible hope was held forth have been able t6 return to their homes and their jojbs. He is now demonstrating, he sald, that there can be induced & 4 freedom from pain and lack of memory of what happens during the interval without any damage to the individual.- Patients come out of the refrigeration refreshed and with new hopes in life. He told especially of a new type of operation in which freez- ing tubes are placed directly in the brain in cases of inoperable and hopeless brain cancers. The brain has demonstrated that it can endure low temperatures without d.m.ge".entg:d lb':urml growths have - appedr, and the victims have re- gained some of the motor func- tions lost because of the tumors. Dr. Pay stressed the possibility of using the refrigerstion as a substitute for morphine or other pain killers. It is quite different from “freezing,” he explained. Actual freezing will stop the growth of cancer tissue, but this is resumed even more rapidly than ever Financial News, Below: A view of the cherry blossoms, looking throygh a National Cepital Parks life suVer's ring, ‘with the Wash- - innon.M‘ ment in thehatk-. d.™ —&$tar Staff Photos. - upon thawing. There is no actual damage to it. The refrigeration, in which temperatures are kept well above freezing, tends. to destroy it, while normal ‘tissues are left unaffected. Beard Asks High Court To Order Release Sam Beard, convicted here five years ago on a gambling charge, yesterday made another attempt to obtain his freedom when he peti- tioned the Supreme Court to order his release from Atlanta Peniten- tiary, where he is serving a two six year term. Beard asked' the high court to review the action of Income Tax Retun 0f $1,000,000 Is Forecast for D. C. Assessor's Staff Plans Busy Deadline Day Tomorrow Belief that collections from the District's personal net income levy would exceed the $1,000,000 revenue estimate was voiced last night by Tax Assessor Edward A. Dent a‘ter observing yesterday’s increased flood of returns. He said he had no way of know- ing yet how well the District would fare under the District’s 5 per cent income levy on corporations and other business concerns, for which & return of $2,200,000 had been esti- mated before tax returns started | coming in, However, prepared for something approach- | ing “land office” business tomorrow, when the deadline for filing returns | will be reached at midnight, ex- cept for some business concerns which have fiscal years of their own or for which extensions of time for filing returns have been gran! Mr. Dent made a rough “guess late yesterday that the District had received as much as $1,700,000 in all under the income levies. While this was far below the estimated total receipts of $3,200,000, it was noted -that Tax Collector Chatham M. Towers had received a very heavy amount of payments by mail, which could not be tabulated yesterday. For the benefit of late comers, the assessor's income staff will remain on duty until midnight tomorrow. A large return is expected at the last minute from corporations, since it is anticipated that maa7 concerns may wait until the 11th hour so as to have the use of their tax paymeénts until then, perhaps saving interest on such sums. McElfresh Is Named Chief_AccounIani V. A. McElfresh, 42-year-old ac- countant, who has been attached to the staff of the Public Utilities Commission of the District for about four years, has been named chief accountant of the agency, Chair- man Riley E. Elgen announced yes- terday. He takes- the place left vacant by the recent death of George H. Wilson. Mr. McElfresh served as a valua- tion sccountant with the Pennsyl- vania Bailroad from 1918 to 1927, and for .six years of that period was with the Cincinnatti division of the: Fifth Circult Court of Appeals,|the riilroad. He resigned from that which recently denied him a writ of | position Yo join the join the valua- habeas corpus. Beard has been iting his’ con- viction on the groun that the evie pping. He is represented by Attorneys James J. Laughlin and Ellis Klein, % tion department of the Norfolk & Western Railroad, and served for several years as an accountant of the West Virginia Public Service Commission. Mr. McElfresh resides at 9615 Brunett avenus, Silver Spring, Md. ) ry on Page'A-1) | the assessor’s staff is| 9-1 B—-1 12-Story Annex To Burlington Hotel Planned Before D. C. Zoning Board April 24 Construction of a 12-story addi- tion to the Burlington Hotel, at 1122-1124 Vermont ‘avenue N.W., is proposed in an appeal for a vari- ance from existing zoning rules, which is to be considered by the Board of Zoning Adjustment at a public hearing April 24 at the Dis- trict Building. This is one of 19 petitions sched- uled for consideration at the hear- ing, and was filed by the Burling- ton Apartment House Co. The board also will hear argu- ments for permission to establish five gasoline service stations, three of which have been filed by Himmel- farb Properties, Inc. These call for filling stations at 814 Bladensburg road NE, at 500 C street N.E. and at 4900 Wisconsin avenue N.W. One appeal from the Brentwood Village Stores Corp. was_for a station at the southwest corner of *Rhode Island and Montana avenues N.E. The fifth, from the Lafayette Build- ing Corp., was for permission to es- tablish a station on the first floor and sub-basement of the Lafayette Building, being erected at Vermont avenue and I street N.W. Bowling Alley Permit Sought. Other petitions were as follows: By Benjamin Ourisman, to erect @ three-story addition to the build- ing at 610 H street N.E. By Meyer Siegel, to establish a bowling alley on the east side of ‘Alabama avenue north of Pennsyl- vania avenue SE. within 200 feet of a residential district. By Henry Oxenburg, to extend a proposed three-story apartment house at Thirty-third place and Pennsylvania avenue SE. By Abe Glickman, to erect a one- story rear addition to the dwelling at 218 Cedar street N.W. By Mary Chillemi, to change a non-conforming use from a bakery to a sporting goods shop at 901 Mon- A roe street N.E. By Katherine V. Hopkins Wylie, to establish an automobile parking lot at 1450-1454 N street n.w. By Axle Anderson, to erect & one- story front porch on the dwelling at 4134 Twenty-second street N.E. By Lavinia M. Engle, to change a non-conforming use from a grocery store to a delicatessen store at 601 | Massachusetts avenue N.E. Educational Institution Planned. By Mrs. Willilam R. Knobloch, to erect a rear one-story addition to %:V dwelling at 3417 Woodley road By Israel Pinkelstein, to change a non-conforming use from a grocery store to a cleaning and dyeing agency at 500 Twelfth street N.E. By Frank 8. Phillips, to establish #n educational institution on - the north side of Watson street east of Conduit road N.W. The school would be operated by Madaline C. Lilly, who was denied an appeal re- cently for establishment of the school in the 4900 block of Butternut street N.W. s By R. N. Manganan, to remove the front terrace and to construct a new front wall and to erect a two- story rear addition at 1410 Massa- chusetts avenue N.W. By the Washington Home for In- curables, to extend the permitted grocery store and parking lot at the southeast corner of Wisconsin ave- nue and Upton street N.W. for a distance of 25 feet into the adjoin- ing residential use district. Census Bureau Club To Present Comedy A variety show and one act com- edy will be presented by the Census Bureau Dramatic Club in the Com- | merce Department Auditorium the night of April 19. Participants in- Joe Mandelbaum, Justine Hoskins, Enid T. Herger, Mary T. | Vranesh, George J. Baird, Virgil ‘Willard, William Stoneberger, Mary Pence, Betty Clark. Beatrice A. | Prince, Mary Thompson, Lois Kee- | fer, Thomas Johnson, Mary Ireland, | Bertha I. Cross, Carl Mueller, Syl- via Singerman and Colin Kerr | Cameron. | clude Group to Gather In Room Where Lincoln Died At 7:22 am. tomorrow 75 years will have passed since President Lincoln died and a small group of his admirers will be present in the room in which he passed away to commemorate the occasion. The group includes Representa- tive Dondero, Republican, of Michi- gan; Dr. Stewart McClelland, presi- dent of Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee; Carl Schaefer of Cleveland, a close friend of Dr. Mc- Clelland, and Randle B, Truett, chief of the Memorials Section of the Office of National Capital Parks, who is in charge of the Lincoln Museum and the house in which Lincoln died. No particular program is con- templated by the group. They just wanted to be there, one said, in the hall bedroom of the Peterson house on Tenth street opposite the old Ford Theater where the Eman- cipator was shot. . “At exactly 7:22 a.m. tomorrow it will be 75 years since the Nation was shocked by the news that the President had fallen victim to an assassin’s bullet,” Mr. Truett said yesterday. In another commemoration of the 75th anniversary of Lincoln’s death the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia will meet for dinner at the Hay-Adams at 6:30 pm. Dr. McClelland {will speak. Chauncey Reed will preside, and Da- vid C. Mearns, superintendent of the reading room of the Library of Congress, wilt deliver a brief talk on Lincolniana housed in the Library of