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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-14

Reasonable Rentals.
Electric Refrigeration.
24-Hour Elevator Service.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL,
rooms, kitchen and bath s62 5O
Resident Manager.
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MERIDIAN MANOR.

II2i CHAPLIN ST. NV,
tYreproot building. elevator service
lnclnerator, tile baths and showers:
eleclrlc refrigeration on house current,
Rooms, Kitchen, Furnished, Dinette
ana Bath. $4,000 to S67 so.
Resident Manager
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2124 EYE ST. NV.
~ Convenient 10 Goverpm

= Near George Washington University.
rooms, kitchen and bath. $50 so
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1920 CLYDESDALE PL. NV.

Near Adams Mill Rid. Entrance
to Rock Creek Park.
Quiet Location-Modern Buildinz.
Room. Kitchen and Bath to
s Rooms, Kitchen and Bath,
S45.00 to $500
Electric Refrigeration.
Resident Manager.
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1901 MASS. AVE. NV.
Cnrnar AFo.. A..

= HOdeEn BUILDING.
24-hour elevator service; telephone
SWltchboard, electric refrigeration.
rooms and bath .....,.....'.S Ao m
rooms, kitchen and bath. -, s7,S0
rooms, kitchen and bath. -, l02.50
Resident Manager,
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THE CHESTERFIELD.

tSSoAuCAt MdHdBeI.
THE CHESTERFIELD.
:, 3141 MT. PLEASANT ST. NV.
very GIoq rtnp to Car Lines. Buses.
L apseT Roo Sh9pp aIgb sss stitna,
Refrigeration.
Rooms, Kitchen, Bath and Porch,
S7l.00.
1920 CLYDESDALE PL. NV.
Near Adams Mill Rd. Entrance
to Rock Creek Park
Quiet Location--Modern Building.
Room. Kitchen and Bath to
Rooms, Kitchen and Bath,
Electric Refrigeration,
Resident Manager.
STUDIO APARTMENTS.
DUPONT CIRCLE SECTION,
CONN. AVE.
Large Studio Rooms with Open
Ftreplaces.
Bed Room. Kitchenette and Bath.
Reasonable Rentals.
THE CECIL,
SOUTHWEST CORNER
18th AND NV
DOWNTOWN BUILDING.
Wa1kiaS Distance Government Depts.,
All Rooms Outside and Large
24-HoUR ELEVATOR SERVICE.
TELEPHONE-SWIT
ELECTRIC REFRIGERATION
INCLUDED IN RENT IN
HOUSEKEEPING APARTMENTS.
I room end bath. $40 IN
rooms and bath ................ $500
Resident Manager.
THE MARINE,
200 18th ST, NV.
Opposite Central High School
Elevator Service--Electric Refrigeration
2 rooms, kitchen and bath. $4,000
rooms, kitchen and bath. ... 1900
Resident Manager.
1918 RIGGS PL. NV.
Between r and SITS, 18th and 18th,
Desirable Apartments at Low Rentals
Room, Dinette. Kitchenette and
Bath. $500 TO $4,000.
THE WALRAFF,
3025 18th ST. NV.
Near Columbia Rid.
. MT. Pleasant st. Cars.
rooms, Kitchen and bath. $500
1882 S ST. NV.
Unusually LARGE Rooms
. rooms, bath and porch. ...... $40 90
1903 RANDOLPH ST. NV.
Modern Building, outside Rooms.
Room, Dining Above Kitchen and
Bath, s41.00.
ACNER & co.
Phone Decatur 5000
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POLL ATTORNEYS ASK
FOR SPECIAL APPEAL
Right to Enter Higher Court
Asked-Claim Lease to
1889 Violated.

Application has been made to the
District Court of Appeals for the al
lowance Of special appeal from the
recent action Of Supreme Court Justice
Jesse G. Adkins denying an injunction
to Sylvester 2. Poll and Lee and Jacob
Shubert, theatrical managers of New
York, to prevent the razing of Polls
Theater situated in the triangle be-
tween Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets,
Pennsylvania avenue and E street,
which is being cleared for a park in
connection with the Government build
ing program.
Through Attorneys William E. Leahy
and William j. Hughes, jr.. the lessees
of the theater claim that Secretary
Mellon violated their lease when he
made contract with H. Herfurth, Inc,
to demolYh the building. The lease
runs until 1899, and the lessees say they
were required by the District Commits
sioners to expend $25O,000 in improve
ment of the property before they could
reopen it.
The lawyers say they noted a general
appeal from the courts decision, but
some doubt has arisen as to their right
to do so under the law, so they are
asking for the allowance of a special
appeal
The building has been partially
demolished
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R. |. CALVERT DIES
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Broadmoor Apartments Man.
ayers Car Goes Over En-
bankment in Virginia.

Roger L. Calvert, IS years old, man
ager of the Broadmoor Apartments, at
1901 Connecticut avenue, and we'll
known IN realty circles here, was in
stantly killed shortly after last mid
night when a heavy sedan which he
was driving plunged over an embank-
ment two and half miles beyond
Falls Church on the Lee Highway, in
Fairfax County, Va.
Mr.. Calvert had been visiting his
parents in Mississippi and was home
ward bound with his niece, Miss Ruth
Calvert, 16 years old. of Collinsville,
Miss, and his brother, w. D. Calvert,
Is years old, of Kemper, Miss. Both Of
the latter were slightly injured by the
impact, which wrecked Mr.. Calvert's
machine
The Calvert automobile skidded, hit
a concrete culvert and overturned into
Shockey branch off a 10-foot embank-
ment following a slight collision with
another machine coming from the OPP
posite direction. The latter car was
operated by Clarence Sauver of Oak
ton, Va, on his way to Manassas.
The motor cars S1de-SW1ped each
other on a sharp curve near the Gull
vert and the Calvert automobile went
out of control Sauver, who was I'M
injured, told DR.. G. A. Ransom, Fair
fax County coroner, that he was well
on the right side of the highway and
that the driver Of the other machine
apparently was unaware of the curve
until he was fairly on it.
In addition to his wife, Calvert is sur
vived by two children, Roger Calvert, jr.,
years old, and Bernice Calvert, ID
years old.
The body was removed to the funeral
parlors of o. E. Pearson at East Falls
Church.
Calvert came to Washington about is
years ago and has been active in the
real estate business since.
A number of collisions have occurred
in the past at the curve where Calvert
met death, police said.
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3O-YEAR TERM GIVEN
FOR STARTING BLAZE
Sentence Passed on Colored Man
Who Set Fire to Apartment,
Causing One Death.

James Hickson williams, 81, colored
who recently pleaded guilty to second
degree murder in setting fire to the
Denver Apartments, l4l9 Chaplin
street, last october and causing the
death Of Miss Jessie Camack, SO,
tenant on the top floor Of the building.
who was suffocsted, was sentenced
today by Justice oscar r. Luhring in
Criminal Division to serve 80 years
in the penitentiary.
williams also mad pleaded guilty to
four charges Of arson, for which the
court imposed sentences Of 10 years
each, to run concurrently with the
murder sentence and with each other,
20 that the total term of imprisonment
viii be 80 years.
The prisoner was overcome when the
sentence was imposed and nearly col
iapsed. He had to be assisted from the
room by deputy marshals.
Besides the Denver Apartment fire,
Williams admitted settin gfire to the
Balfour Apartments, 1000 Sixteenth
street; the Coronado. 1910 Vernon
street and the electric supply store OF
Herbert L. Rucker, 2204 Fourteenth
street
williams was indicted for murder in
Che first degree in connection with the
death Of Miss Camack, but was allowed
70 plead guilty TO second-degree murder.
The indictment is said to have been
the first ever returned in the District
for first-degree murder for death re-
sulting from IRE.
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LAW TO BAN 'SNIPE'
SIGNS IS SOUGHT
Dawson Declares Plans
Would Permit Cleanup Here
Before BiCentenniaI.

Abolition of millions of square feet of
"snipe" signs which literally plaster
many sections of Washington and over
which the Commissioners have no con-
troll, Maj. Donald A. Dawson, Assistant
Engineer Commissioners, said today was
a direct objective in seeking from Con-
gress at this time additional legislation
for the effective regulation of outdoor
advertising signs within the District.
Under amendments to the pending bill
which are to be placed before the Board
of Commissioners, Maj. Dawson pre-
dicted, Washington could easily put its
own house in order with respect to OBJ
jectionable signs before the Inauguration
of the George Washington Bicenten-
NAL celebration in 1882. Like other
Government officials he believes in a
thorough clean up within the District
in view of the civic campaign to rid the
highway approaches to the National
Capital of the array Of unsightly signs
on every roadside.
Discussing the proposed amendments
to the bill pending before the House
District Committee, Mai. Dawson said
that those who had framed them with
a view to Strengthening the hands of
the District Commissioners had predi-
Gated their action on a study of recently
enacted State statutes. Each step
considered" he said, was taken for the
purpose of identifying Washington and
to set an example for the Nation in
the elimination of illegal advertising
signs"
NAL Dawson pointed out that the
District officials, in preparing regula-
tions and amendments in prospect Of
the new law. had done their best to
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PRISONER CONFESSES ROBBERY
FOR. WHICH ANOTHER IS INDICTED
Youthful Salesman Picks Out Victim
Who Had Previously Identified
Another Suspect.

Thomas J. Higgins, 1S-year-old self
confessed taxi bandit" insists on TAX
ing credit" for a hold-up which the
victim had blamed on another man. and
as a result the previously indicted pris-
oner, Edward Eldridge Bunch, has won
reopening of his case before the grand
jury.
The victim of the robbery, William j.
Mitchell, had identified" Bunch as the
"stick-up" man who robbed him sew
eral weeks ago.
Last night Higgins picked Mitchell
from a lineup at the Detective Bureau
as one of his many hold-up victims, and
then, in order to convince everybody
that there could be no mistake about It,
the prisoner is said TO have given ac-
curate details Of the robbery
Mitchell today was taken before the
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Donovan, Under Questioning,
Says Fees Are Lower Here
Than in Various States.
WOULD OFFSET INCREASE
BY PERSONALLY REPEAL
Quizzed on Water Department, He
Says D. G. Has Paid Practically
All Costs Since 1917.

Maj. Daniel ]. Donovan, District au-
ditor and budget officer, today told the
Special House Committee Investigating
Fiscal Relations Between the United
States and District Governments that he
knew of no reason why the present
gasoline tax and automobile registration
fee should not be increased.
The statement of Maj. Donovan was
drawn from him through series OF
questions by Representative Frear Of
Wisconsin, who called attention to
Washington's gasoline tax and automo-
bile registration fee, in comparison with
those in various States, particularly In
Maryland and Virginia.
Donovan admitted that the gasoline
tax and automobile registration fee are
lower in Washington in comparison
with the various States, and said he
was confident that an increase would
add to the revenues of the District
He declared, however, that any increase
in the automobile registration fee
should be accompanied by repeal OF
the personal property tax on motor
vehicles.
Pictures Financial Set-up.
Mai. Donovan also gave the commit
tee, through an intending barrage OF
questions piled by members OF the
committee, q comprehensive picture OF
the financial set-up Of the District
showing to what extent the annual Fed
eral contribution to the support Of the
District is used for various municipal
activities.
Despite the extensive questioning to
which Mai. Donovan was subjected, the
committee did not complete its exami-
nation of him and he was directed 70
continue when the hearing Is resumed
at GAS o'clock tomorrow morning.
Donovan was the only witness examined
and he was on the witness stand con-
tinuously from GAS to about noon.
Donovan began his testimony by CIV
ing at the request Of Representative
Holiday of Illinois an outline Of the
history of the water plant.
He said the United States commenced
the construction of the water supply
system in 1852 and from that time K
1882 the entire cost Of the work wa;
borne entirely by the Federal Govern
ment From 1882, up until 1917, he ex-
planned, the Water Department paid the
entire cost of the distribution system
while the United States under the old
$3.50 plan of contribution paid the
cost of maintenance for the water sup
ply end of the system.
I'm other words" said Donovan, "the
entire cost of the supply and distribu-
ton system was paid out Of the .Soint
appropriation from 1882 to 1917. In
that year Congress required the Water
Department to take over the entire
burden of supporting both the supply
and distribution systems. Since 1917
the District has been paying the entire
cost, with one exception, from the
revenues of the Water Department This
exception was in the construction of
the new water supply system several
years ago, which cost more than
$4,000 600. The new system was financed
out of the general revenues of the
District"
Mai. Donovan then introduced a
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Proposed Budget Bureau
Plan for Raises May Be
Delayed Year.
HOUSE MANAGERS YIELD
ON WOOD AMENDMENT
Some Raises Still Possible, but Not
as Many as Senate Intended
in Earlier Vote.

The movement to grant salary In
creases next year to Government en-
ployes in the under-average grades
suffered a setback today when the
conferees on the Treasury-Post ONCE
appropriation bill struck out the Senate
pay increases as well as the Wood
amendments.
In eliminating the Wood amendment
the House managers yielded to the
Senate. This will permit some salary
increases by enabling department heads
to use unexpended balances for pro-
motions to the extent that such bal
ances may occur.
The cutting out of the additional
money which the Senate voted for how
ever, if finally sustained, would mean
mended by the Budget Bureau to in
crease 80 per cent of the underaverage
grades next year would be postponed for
another year.
Some Increases Possible.
In other words, the report of the con-
ferees on this first appropriation bill
would make possible some increases, but
not nearly as many as the Senate voted
for when it placed in the bill 80 per
cent of the money required to adjust
upward all of the underaverage posi-
tions.
Although these conferees are dealing
only with the TreaSury-PoSt Once bill,
the same issues are involved in all of
the other appropriation bills, and it has
been assumed that whatever the two
houses do on this bill will be followed
in the other supply measures.
Ratification Necessary.
This action by the conferees has to
be taken back to both Senate and House
for ratification.
The amount Of money which the Sen
ate added to the Treasury-Post once
bill last week for salary increases was
$l,190,000. This represented 80 per
cent of the increases needed to bring
up the underaverage grades of these
two departments, and 1t was this money
that the confereeS struck out.
The Wood amendment, which also
was stricken out, would have prevented
the use of any funds next year for pro-
motions within grades of the classical
ton law. Its elimination would enable q
department head to use lapsed balances
resulting from debts or designations in
the service to grant promotions to other
employees within a grade. The exact
amount Of money that would be avail
able IN this way for increases Is not
definitely known.
Similar Bill Considered.
Meanwhile the Senate this afternoon
began consideration of the Interior De-
partment appropriation bill, to which
the Senate Appropriations Committee
has recommended the adding of similar
allowances to take care of the 80 per
cent Of the under leverage grades in that
department.
The Senate, therefore, may vote again
during the day on the general principle
involved in the Treasury-Post Once
conference report
1t is also possible that the Treasury
Post ONCE conference report may be
brought up in the Senate later today
or tomorrow.
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REPORT IS ADOPTED
BY LOWER HOUSE
ON DROUGHT RELIEF
Measure From Conference
Provides $4,000, 900, but
None for Food.
PASSAGE BY SENATE
EXPECTED DURING DAY
Three Measures Rushed Carry Total
of $s11,OoO,OOo in Emer-
gency Program.

By the Associated Press
The $45,00O,0O0 drought relief con-
ference report was adopted today by
the House.
It now goes to the Senate.
The measure carries no provision for
loans for food but provides for ad-
Nances to farmers in the drought areas
for seed. feed and fertilizer.
1t does provide, however, for loans
incident to production Of crops.
The Senate began consideration OF the
drought bill almost as soon as 1t was
received there.
Quick enactment of the emergency
relief program was predicted by Senator
Watson, the Republican leader, as Con-
gress took UP the compromise drought
bill and moved to break the deadlock on
the $4,000 900 public works fund.
Watson was hopeful that three bills
Involving a total of s311 100000 would
get through the legislative grind even
before nightfall.
The si5O,OOO 900 appropriation for
the Farm Board was before the Senate
at the outset today, already approved py
the House.
The House accepted the conference
report on the S116,000,000 bill, Dut re-
tected three Senate amendments.
Strive for Accord.
Senate leaders meanwhile sought to
from out the breach in their ranks over
these amendments in the interests OF
speeding the bill to the White House
THE House bill to authorize an ad-
ditional appropriation OF $l5O,OOo,OOO
for the Farm Board was reporIeo 70
the senate today, but Senator Boran,
Republican. Idaho, objected to imme-
diate consideration. He made no e1-
PLANTATION Of his move, and the measure
went over until tomorrow.
Rorah later said he wanted to know
what the Farm Board intends 70 40
with this appropriation and what 1t mas
done with the other $250,OOO. 600, Iof,
SO far as I can see, 1t has not pene-
fted the farmer at al" he ola not
say he would fight the appropriation,
which Chairman Legge asked as an
emergency proposition.
Building Fund Explained.
The only emergency public works
,,ro0rau President Hoover intends TO
recommend to relieve Unemployment
was covered in his annual message 70
Congress, which requested up 70 $loO,-
OOO. 900 for that purpose.
This was repeated today at the White
House in response TO inquiries about the
speech In Philadelphia last night In
which Senator Davis said the President
was planning $500. 900 900 program.
The Senator had in mind the regular
building construction, provision Tor
which is included in the usual appro-
priation bills for the various depart
ments.
The regular appropriation bills VIII
carry building funds which the White
House estimated would total $5OO,000,-
600, along with the emergency $l16,-
600 5000 authorized in legislation now
IN conference between the Senate and
the House. While this latter would be
planned for expenditure in the imn1e-
date future, the regular appropriations
would be distributed in the normal
course Of progress on the public building
program.
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.DUCE LAYS CRISIS
TO WALL STREET
Tells Senate Plight Is Serious
and Growing Worse Since
U. S. Stock Crash.
BY WILLIAM H. SLOVENIAN.


ROME, Italy, December ia ire
mendous impression has been caused
throughout Italy by the speech of Pre-
mier Benito Mussolini TO the Italian
Senate yesterday afternoon in which he
turned the cards face up and admitted
that there were very few aces among
them. 1t was perhaps the most candid
speech Italys premier has made since
he rose to power.
The financial situation he indicated
Is extremely serious and has been grow
ing worse since the American market
clash last year when, II Duce declared,
I'VE were again thrown into the middle
Of the sea. Since that time navigation
has been extremely difficult for U.S."
Calls Deficit Problem Grave.
The present budget deficit of 500, 0OO,-
600 lire (about $47,OOO,0oO at current
exchange, presents a grave problem,
Premier Mlssolini said, and its solution
Is not forthcoming at this moment. He
pointed out the fact that taxes are al
ready extraordinarily high and cannot
be increased.
1taly's premier justified the recent
cuts in the wages of state employees by
declaring that they should be the first
TO make sacrifices for the nations sake.
These cuts are the only way out of the
budget difficulties he was able to hit
upon, he said. Incidentally. Premier
Mussolini disclosed for the first time
that there are 527,769 persons on the
state pay roll receiving 5000, 600, 900 lire
(about $472 ,000,00O) annually.
Emigration Policy Switched.
Mingled surprise and curiosity was
caused by a statement that he had
switched his policy last August and al
lowed all Italians free emigration, ex-
cept to the United States. No Italians
are allowed papers to go there, he in
dtcated, which was taken as his answer
to reports that the United States is now
planning an embargo on all immigration
for the next two years. II Duce pointed
out that he had not changed his policy
but simply wanted to show Italians that
things are just as bad abroad as in
Italy. Very few are taking advantage
of the opportunity to emigrate present.
ly he said
II Duce's candor in discussing the
affairs with the Senator's is pleasing to
the politicians, although the picture
painted is not by any means a pleasant
one.
(Copyright 1900
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BRITISH PREMIER
FACES HARD FIGHT
Severe Test of Alliance With Lib
erals Coming on Trades Dis
putes Measure.
BY the Associated Press.

by LKe ASSOCldLGQ RTeSS.
LONDON, December 19-Ramsay
MacDonald's government, which yes
terday was Unanswered into accepting
a measure forced upon it by the House
of Lords, will face another severe test
after the holidays, when debate begins
on the so-called trades dispute bill, the
text Of which was published today.
This measure, one of the most i'm
portant in the governments legislative
program, is to nullify the law passed
by Stanley Baldwin's government after
the general strike of 1926 removing
some of the labor unions rights, in
Guiding those of sympathetic strikes
and peaceful picketing.
The new bill would restore these
rights and also would permit British
civil servants to hold membership in
organizations afflliated with the Trades
Union Congress or the Labor party.
Debate on the bill, to begin on jan
uary %, will test the Labor-Liberal
alliance which thus far has kept
Premier MacDonald's head above water.
Some of the Liberals, including the
influential Sir John Simon, are ex-
pected to oppose the measure siren
uOuSlY,
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grand jury after he had expressed a
desire to change his testimony regard
ing the identification" of Bunch. He
admitted to detectives he must have
been mistaken in his earlier identif1-
cation.
Another cab driver who had iden-
titled Bunch as a hold-up man will be
called by the grand jury Monday to
see If he, too, wishes to change his tes-
timony. The reconsideration of Bunch's
case is being handled by Assistant
United States Attorney Julian I. Rich
ards.
Higgins, a magazine salesman, whose
two-week campaign of alleged banditry
was brought to a close through bit Of
daring planning on the part of taxi
cab driver early Wednesday. will be ar
raigned in the courts of Maryland after
he pays his debt to Capital society
Authorities at Annapolis today re-
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VANLOON PLANNING DISCHARGE
OF BANKRUPTCY FOR REMBRANDT
Writer Spends Two Years Preparing Suit Clear Name
of Artist Who Died 261 Years Ago.

Two years was spent in locating an
heir, pUrsuading lawyer to take the
case, combing the archives for a list
ton. The action was filed in the name
of Johnheer Warner van Lennep, q dis
tant descendant of the artists first
wife.
'Rembrandt's ruin really began" said
his hiographer, When he bought himself
much too big house, probably to show
the girl he married, or, rather, her
family-which was a much better fam
lily than his own-that he was a fine
fellow. He never paid for the house"
Rembrandt van Ryn died in 1869
without issue after IS years bank
Iruptcy. -,