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Evening star., 1932-08-07
Possibility Seen That Fund
for Fiscal Year May Re-
ceive Deep Cut.
REDUCTION FORECAST
IN PAYMENT OF TAXES
Enforcement Of Economy Program
May Bring Funds in Range
of Present Expense.

The District Commissioners will hold
a special board meeting at nine o'clock
tomorrow to take up the 1884 fiscal
year estimates.
partment heads, these estimates added
up to $47,200,O00, but before reaching
the Commissioners they have been
subjected to a severe pruning process
by the Districts Economy Committee.
What cut the committee made could
not be learned yesterday, but it is
understood that the estimates have
shrunk rather violently.
The 1893 estimates, when they came
to the Commissioners last year direct
from the department heads, totaled
$57,000,000. When the Budget Bureau
submitted them to Congress they had
shrunk to $47,oO0,o0O and Congress
translated the budget request into an
appropriation bill OF $4l,000,OOO.
Estimates to Be Smaller.
The more modest demands this year
are accounted for largely by the in
sistence of the Commissioners on the
watchword economy" and it would
not come as much of a surprise If the
estimates sent to the Budget Bureau
this year were only slightly greater
than the amount actually appropriated
by Congress for the current fiscal year.
The District has now no surplus funds
In the Treasury, and its cash working
capital fund, usually maintained at
$4,000, 900, has Shrunk to $l,800,000
The Economy Committee Is submit
ting with its estimates a forecast Of
tax income available in the current fis-
cal year, and it Is understood that the
committees forecast looks toward q
substantial decline in revenue.
Personal Incomes Fall
The figures for personal property
taxes. now being worked up in the as
SCISSORS Office, indicate that although
the number of persons making returns
has increased. the amount of money
per person has diminished. SO that a
loss in revenue is expected from this
source. The sale of titles to property on
which the taxes were delinquent in
January of this year was also diSap-
pointing, showing falling off Of about
100000 from the previous sale in 1881.
The first installment Of both real and
personal property taxes for the current
year is not due until next month, and
the forecast can be made more &C
curately after the month closes.
The Commissioners expect to COM
plete their revision of the estimates and
submit their final requests to the Bu-
reau OF the Budget in September.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
FAIRFAX MEDICAL BODY
HONORS ACCOTINK MAN
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HERNDON. Va, August 6.-The fol-
lowing officers were elected at the meet
ing OF the Fairfax County Medical So
ciety, which was held at the residence
of DR.. Ernest C. Shull of Herndon, Va.
President, DR.. William P. Cation of Ac-
cotink, Va. vice presidents, DR.. Jessie
Scott of Vienna, Va, and DR.. Tracy
Nolan of Cherrydale, Va; secretary, DR..
A. L. Carson of Falls Church, Va;
treasurer, DR.. F. M. Brooks of Falls
Church, Va; delegate to the meeting
Of the State Medical Society to be held
in Richmond. DR. c. A. Ransom of Falls
Church, Va
Guests OF the meeting included DR..
Stuart Foster and DR.. Miles Omohundro
Of Washington, and DR.. r. v. Chambhn
and A. e. Bradshaw of Herndon.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
PATCH CAUSES ARREST
OF MAN AFTER g MONTHS
Tailor Recognizes Coat and Runs
for Policeman-Prisoner Held
Under $1,000 Bond.

Morris Kaplan, tailor, knows his
patches. and no one is more aware OF
this than Floyd E. Jackson, colored,
who was arraigned in Police Court yes
terday because Of 1t.
Nine months ago a quantity of cloth
ing and other articles valued at S349
was stolen from Kaplan's shop in the
1900 block of Fourteenth street. Among
the coats taken was one with a small
newly placed patch on the shoulder, IL
had been quite Job to fix, Kaplan said,
as a cigarette had burned hole on the
seam.
Two days ago Kaplan saw colored
man walking along the street with a
patch on his coat shoulder. The tailor
took a closer look and then ran Tor q
policeman. The man was locked up and
gave the name Of Jackson.
He was bound over to the grand jury
yesterday under 81 500 bond on a charge
CT housebreaking. He denied the theft.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
GUARD DUN|TSLEAVE
FOR CAMP TODAY
121st Engineers and Com,
pany A Will Entrain at
Union Station.

Two units Of the District of Colum-
bia National Guard, the 121st Engineer
Regiment, commanded by Col. John w.
Oehman, and Company A, 372d In
fantry, commanded by Capt. Arthur c.
Newman, will entrain at Union Station
this morning for Camp Ritchie, Nd,
where they will undergo their annual
two weeks of intensive field training
Under full field equipment the En-
gineers, 470 strong were escorted from
the Armory, at Sixth street and Penn
sylvania avenue, by the popular 121st
Engineer Band, which WIS led by War
rant Officer Meyer N. Goldman, ma
tionally known bandmaSter.
The soldiers expect to reach the
mountain camp about l O'Clock this
afternoon and to find everything in
readiness for immediate occupation,
Capt. Walter S. Welsh, Headquarters
and Service Company, having left for
camp last Thursday with a supply de-
tachment and advance detail Four
trucks, in charge of Second Lieut..
Henry B. Cockrell, Quartermaster De-
partment, State Staff, also will be
available and will assist the units in
unloading baggage and camp impedi-
menta.
Officer Personnel Given.
The officer personnel of the Engineer
contingent is as follows: Regimental
headquarters, Col. John w. Oehmann,
regimental commander; Lieut.. Col. JUL
ian S. Olff, executive officer; Maj.
Joseph j. Greenlaw, regimental sur
geon; Capt. Douglas A. White, dental
officer; Capt. Charles E. Smithson, ad-
jutant; Capt. Arthur L. Smith, chap
lain; Capt. Walter S. Welsh, supply
officer; First Lieut.. Thaddeus A. Riley,
plans and training officer, and First
Lieut.. Hugh Everett, jr., intelligence Of
f1cer.
First Battalion headquarters-Maj.
Ralph S. Childs, commanding officer,
and First Lieut.. Pearson C. Conlyn, ad-
jutant.
Second Battalion headquarters-Maj.
Clarence S. Shields. commanding OFF,
adjutant.
Headquarters and Service Company
Capt Welsh, commanding officer, and
First LieutS. H. Everett Jr., and Joseph
F Fitzgerald.
I2lSt Engineer Band-Warrant Off1cer
Meyer N. Goldman.
Company A-Capt. George L. Evans.
First Lieut.. James r. Quade, Second
Lieut.. Edward D. Andrus.
Commands Company B.
Company B-Capt. William I. Mu-
shake, First Lieut.. Cooper B. Rhodes,
Second Lieut.. Edward o. Hamilton.
Company Capt. William F. Jor-
gensen, First Lieut.. Luther B. Hall,
Second Lieut.. Franklin r. Brickles.
Company D-Capt Samuel r. Turner,
First Lieut.. Lincoln S. Jones, Second
Lieut.. John T. O'Neill.
Company Capt. Walter A. knight,
First Lieut.. William r. Lane, Second
Lieut.. Howard Il. Burd.
Company F-Capt. George w. Johns
First Lieut.. Edward A. Mcmahon, Sec
ond Lieut.. Donald A Falk.
Medical detachment-Maj. Joseph j.
Greenlaw, Capt. Walter r. Stokes, Capt
Douglas A. White, staff Sergt. Robert
G. Kerby.
The following officers of the State
staff also accompanied the Engineer regi-
ment: Maj. Sidney Morgan, inspector
general, and Capt. Ralph L. Walker,
judge advocate.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
Only 10 Opposing
Appraisals in Area
For National Park
Rest of. 800 Land Owners
In Madison County
Have Not Filed.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


ORANGE, Va, August .6.-While
there are about 300 different owners
of tracts or parcels of land in Madison
County in the proposed Shenandoah
National Park area, only 16 have filed
exceptions to the report of the ap-
praisal commissioners fixing the price
the State would pay for same. They
are w. F. Meadows, Walter Meadows,
w. H. Aylor, Mrs M. E. Fletcher, Miss
Irma Fletcher, P. NJ. Ffnks, c. G.
Southard, L. E. Meadows. Ward Rue
Lumber Co., Walter Nicholson, c. Jar
rell, o. B. Smith, G. w. Smith, John
Finks, S. r. Aleshire, r. D. Koontz,
Lariloba Mining and Development Co.,
and Blue Ridge Copper Co. The Ap-
praisal Board never has filed report
on the value of the Ward Rue Lumber
Co., yet the company has filed ex-
ceptions.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
PRISONER SHOT IN LEG

Colored Man Alleged to Have
Threatened Policeman.
Policeman o. E. Allen, fourth pre-
cinct, shot Charles WILDER Harris, 23,
colored, Of the 1900 block of Union
Court, in the leg today when the man
is alleged to have threatened him while
being placed under arrest along with
two other colored men.
Harris was taken to Gallinger Hos
pital. He and the other two were
booked for investigation. The arrest
and shooting occurred several doors
from Harris home. The men were
being arrested on suspicion Of having
stolen property.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
FEUD ENDS IN DEATH
Man Shoots Relative in Birmine

Man Shoots Relative in Birming-
ham Street.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala, August [F).-
Death added chapter to family feud
of long standing today as Cecil Carter
met his stepfather, George A. Vining, on
a quiet residential street and shot him.
Carter surrendered to police and was
held on a murder charge. Witnesses
told officers Vining and Carter, each
driving an automobile, met and alighted.
AS Vining advanced his step-son drew a
pistol and fired five times, they said.
Police said they were advised breach
arose between them a long while ago
after Carter claimed his mother was
mistreated by Vining.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
3 CASES OF TYPHOID
FEVER ARE REPORTED
Origin Traced to Carrier" in
Montg omery, Health Department
Officials Report.
special Dlspatch 70 M Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Nd, August GA man
who had typhoid fever 81 years ago,
and who has been found to be a "ty-
phoid carrier" is believed to have been
responsible for three cases of typhoid
fever in the upper section of the county,
according to the July report of the
Montgomery County Health Depart
ment, OF which DR.. G. V. Ellicott is the
head.
The investigation Of these cases It
was found. the report states. that the
first case was in all probability infected
from the carrier, who worked on the
place, and that the other two cases.
which occurred nearby, were probably
infected directly or Indirectly from
either this first case or the carrier.
The report further states that statis-
tics show that from l to per cent of
persons who have had typhoid fever
continue to carry the organisms during
the remainder of their lives, even
though they suffer no i'll effects them
selves, but are a danger to others only
when they handle food.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
ASSAULT CHARGE FILED
IN ARREST OF YOUTH
Two Policemen Take Joseph E.
Clark to Gal1inger Hospital
From Home.

Joseph E. Clark, %, of the 300 block
of Massachusetts, avenue northeast, was
arrested last night on assault charges
after he allegedly struck his father and
sister and fought two policemen who
had been called to the home
Clark later was treated at Gallinger
Hospital for rib injury said to have
been received when he fell while fight
ing Policemen John Sirola and Claude
M. Hughes, ninth precinct. Hughes
was kicked in the stomach and Sirola
also was struck, it was reported.
Clark's father, John r. Clark, and his
sister, Viola, 81, were injured about the
head but refused hospital treatment.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
PROGRAM TO MARK
JUVENILE DAY HERE.
Young People Will Present
Sylvan Theater Fete
Wednesday.

Young people from all sections of the
city will unite Wednesday evening In
celebration of Juvenile day. a Midsum-
ncer high spot in the program of the
District of Columbia George Washing
ton Bicentennial Commission for OBJ
servance of the 200th anniversary. Of
the birth of the first President.
Juvenile day has been arranged with
the cooperation Of the commission BY
the Boy Scouts, Girl Reserves of the
Y. w. C. A, Friendship House, Neigh
borhood House and the Salvation Army.
The program of entertainment for the
evening, which falls upon one of the
dates scheduled for the annual series
Of Summer festivals at the Sylvan
Theater was arranged by the commits
sion. working with the Office Of Public
Buildings and Public Parks and the
Community Center Department.
Navy Band Will Play.
Starting at 7 o'clock in the Sylvan
Theater, the program calls for patriotic
! numbers by the Navy Band, followed
by the opening of the celebration by
groups from Friendship House appear
ing in dances and drills, ending in the
"massing of the colors," in which 18
girls clad in red, white and blue will
participate.
| Next will come three early American
dances, then Character Studies OF the
! American Indians" in song, dance and
ceremony, by group from the Saliva
! tion Army led by Captain Douglas El-
6redge, D. T. o. In this pageant, which
will be offered in three parts, there will
be included the TaWnee ceremony OF the
lighting of the fire" the Blackfoot
! ceremony of the M edicine Pipe Dance"
/ the Dance Of the Medicine Man" and
! other dances of the Plains Indians, a
war dance Of the Dakota Sioux. Dance
of the Mana -bou-jo" of the Eastern In
dams end the tribal prayer of the
Omaha Indians. More than "a boys will
participate in this feature OF the pro-
gram.
Girls Plan Pageant.
The Girl Reserves of Camp Stay-at-
! Home" at the Young Women's Christian
Association will present an old Indian
! legend. THE Moon Maiden" with 20
or more young girls appearing in the
songs and dances Of the pantomlne
pageant.
The Boy Scouts of the District of Co.
lumbia will present an eleventh century
I pageant. The Birth of KnighthoOd,
arranged and enacted under the direc-
ton Of Deputy Commissioner Edward M
Perkins. A large number CT Boy Scouts
will take part in this play, which will
! be given in six episodes: THE Good
! Samaritan" The Creation Of Knight
| hood" Robin Hood" THE Making OF
Knight" "Knightly Deeds and Mod
ern Knighthood."
Evening star., 1932-08-07
ANOTHER CAR ROBBED
Maj. Rose Reports 1888 Loss as
Two Men Are Arrested.

While police held two men for In
vestigation in connection with a number
of recent thefts from parked cars, a loss
of clothing and luggage valued at $3.50
was reported last night.
Maj. William E. Rose, 3100 block Of
Woodley road, said the property was
stolen from his car when it was parked
at Seventeenth and 1 streets. 1t in
cluded fur piece valued at S150
Earlier, Park Policemen o. Speera
and J. B. Edelkamp arrested two men
who gave their names as Walter Gaff-
ney. %. HOO block of v street south
east, and Robert r. Devore, IS, 900
block Of I street. No specific charges
had been placed against them.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
BOYS ENTER SWIM EVENT
Teams to Compete in Municipal
Pool.

A team of 10 boys will represent the
central section of the city in the play
ground swimming championships at the
municipal pools, Seventeenth and B
streets, Thursday afternoon. starting at
80 O'clock. Teams of the Eastern and
Western sections also will compete.
The central division squad Is COM
posed of the following r. Merrill, R.
Steadman, C. Birth, L. Schram, r. Jor-
dan, G. CoakIey, C. Mondell, D. Merrill,
B. Whiting, G.. Platt, P Peruzzi, E.
Harrigan, D. Winestein, r. Burns, F.
May, J. Schram, NJ Martin, r. Reidel
and E. Peruzzi.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
Apartment Is Robbed.

Renee Settle, BIG Eighteenth street,
reported to police yesterday that when
she returned to her apartment after
being away on a vacation she found
the place had been robbed OF about
500 worth of personal property. she
said the loot included silver cigarette
lighter, a watch and a necklace con-
Sisting Of Al pearls.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
100000 DAMAGES ASKED
Woman Says Man Serving Paper
on Her Caused Collapse.

The Security Finance Corporation,
investment Building. is named as
defendant in a suit to recover 100000
damages, filed in the District Supreme
Court by Mrs. Laura A. Simmons, 6
Eighth street southeast, for alleged
trespass by force of arms. She charges
that, May II, an agent of the company,
seeking to serve a paper on her, forced
open the door of her home and in a
loud voice demanded to be admitted
to her room, where she was i'll in bed.
She became so frightened by the noise
and commotion. she says. that she
collapsed, and falling out of bed, was
rendered unconscious.
Attorney Raymond M. Hudson ap-
pears for the plaintiff.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
Buck DELAYS Speed Hop.

NEWARK, N. j., August R).-
Bobby Buck, youthful Westfield aviator,
again postponed his projected speed
flight to Mexico City tonight because OF
poor flying weathar Another attempt is
scheduled for Monday night.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
FAIRFAX BOY SCOUTS
HOLD COURT OF HONOR
All Troops in County Represented
at Event-Twenty-Two Boys Re-
ceive Merit Badges.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch 70 The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, August 6.-Boy Scouts
of Fairfax County, now operating for
the first time under their own organi-
zation, with Guy Church of Falls
Church as Scout commissioner, held
their first court of honor this week at
Fairfax, with all the troops in the coun-
ty represented. Merit badges were pre-
sented to % boys. A full corps of Scout
examiners is being appointed by head
quarters, so Fairfax boys will no longer
be required ta 60 to washington or Sil-
yer Spring for their badges.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
CONCERTS SCHEDULED
Bands to Appear in Parks Of the
CITY,

Three band concerts will be held this
week in the city's parks, as follows:
Army Band will play tomorrow eve
ming in the Taft Recreation Center,
Twentieth and Otis streets northeast;
the Marine Band will play Tuesday
in Dupont Circle, while the Community
in Franklin Park.
coleert hours viii be from 7t3o to
Q PM
The Washington times., 1932-06-14

and don't want to be bothered with extras But apart
from that the psychology of their friends choice seems
to me to be all wrong.
Reading At Sea
'The general theory that for protracted illness
voyage or long train journey, hght readlng
is something you can pick up without effort and put
down without regrets what is required. This, L
maintain is wrong. Retirement into hospital, EN-
barking on Journey is a sudden removal from the
familiar There is total unreaity about these passages
In ones life. -,
"The fact that one realizes that their duration will
be limited increases the dreamcharacter of the events
Suddenly and Immediately one has to deal closely with
completely new set of facts, people and attitudes
When one has taken up at the other end with ones
familiar ways again, it is hard to believe that this in
tense temporary adjustment ever took place.
"This process of adjustment forces one into intense
subjective observation and analysis One is constantly
considering oneself in relation to what is going on
around and the isolation from ones world affords
an opportunity in the quieter times to contemplate OBJ
iectivey and at distance ones more familiar exist
ence This last is of great value and is one of the
great functions of hospitals and journeys to give one
chance to take stock of oneself and ones life. But
this is hard and serious work and one cannot keep at
it too continuously. One needs relief.
Not Too Light
"It is my contention that light reading neither pro-
notes intrOspectiOn affords relief from It, and IS
therefore, unsatisfactory for the present purposes Why
Because it claims only half of ones attenOn-One hat
for the book and half for oneself. This is useless
When you start taking stock you must DO II seriously
stop everything go into brown study and work hard
at it. Then for relief it seems to me- you should read
something which requires much concentration as 10
absorb all your attention. Therein lies the only true
relief from oneself.
"Insfead of Have His Carcase,' you see, I feel l
ought really to send you Leckys History of the 18th
Century, in l don't know how many volumes, or harl
Marks Capital but you would probably thank me for
neither. ., L., - 4.
into eyes.
The Washington times., 1932-06-14

+ Congressional Medal OF Honor
men, here with the bonus expe'
dictionary force, will lead the DIS
trict Flag Day parade tonight
In the ranks, marching with 10:
cal American Legion posts, VIII
be 200 other selected members
of the bonus army.
This agreement was reached at
a conference today between the
executive committee OF the DIS
trict Bicentennial Commission
and a committee composed OF
". H. McGrath, Norwood P. Cas-
sidy and F. w. Fawcett, repre-
senting the District Department
of the American Legion.
It forestalled plans for the
staging of a second Flag Day
procession, advanced at a meet
ing of the executive committee
of the District Department OF the
legion last night, in retaliation
for an alleged slight on heroes OF
the World War.
Havenner Explains
DR., George C. Havenner, execu'
tive vice president of the Dis
trict Bicentennial Commission, 1t
was reported, had refused per
mission for the medal men Of the
bonus marchers to head the pro
ceSsion.
DR.. Havenner explained today
that the problem was placed be-
fore him without warning late
yesterday, and that he was power
less to act without the support OF
the executive committee of the
commission.
Favorable action was taken by
this committee today, the follow
ing attending the special meeting
DR.. Cloyd H. NTarvin, Thomas P
Littlepage. Lloyd B. Wilson, w. w
Everett, w. w. Bride. and DR.
Havenner.
The mammoth parade is to be
held as scheduled regardless OF
weather, DR.. Havenner announced
moving from the Ellipse at 7:3C
D.. m. and proceeding to the Capi
tol east plaza by way of ConSti
tuition Avenue, Fifteenth Street
and Pennsylvania Avenue.
30 Bands to Blare
The marchers will be led by a
police escort followed by Brig
Gen. P. L. Miles, grand marshal
The Washington times., 1932-06-14
Senate G. O. Chiefs
To Hear Convention
Here BY Radio

Republican Old Guardsmen
of the Senate, who have at
tended almost every G. o. P.
National Convention during this
generation and have had great
influence in the quadrennial
party conclaves, are going to
tune i'm the radio and hear
what's going on at the conven-
ton beginning in Chicago to-
day.
Arrangements were made late
yesterday to install a radio
receiving set in the Marble
Room off the Senate Chamber.
Here such old-timers as Sen
ators Jim Watson, Indiana;
Reed Smoot, Utah; George
Moses, New Hampshire, and
Vice President Charles Curtis,
will sit around and listen as
the convention returns come in.
The Washington times., 1932-06-14
{. & P. FACES
RATE PROBE
TOMORROW
Public Hearing to Be Held
to Determine Valuation
of Local Company

Aiming toward a reduction
in rates, the Public Utilities
Commission will open a public
inquiry tomorrow at 10 o'clock
into the rates, tolls and charges
of the Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co.
Testimony and evidence dealing
with the earnings Of the COM
pany and branching out into the
question of valuation are Sched-
uled to be given at the opening
session. At present there is no
valuation of the company's prop
critics.
One was fixed in 1914, but this
lapsed as the result of a COM
promise affected by the company
and the commission in courts.
Used AS Rate Base
The 1914 valuation, plus ad-
ditions and betterments without
depreciation to date, is carried on
the commissions records as $31,.
1854, 900 and will be utilized as a
rate base. The commissions rec
ords carries $2,25O,O00 as the COM
pany's 1881 net income available
for return, which is approximately
a 7.8 per cent return.
Close scrutiny is expected to be
given the methods in which the
American Telephone and Tele-
graph system distributes revenues
derived from out-of-town calls.
Washington is one of the lead
ing cities, it is said, in this type
of communication and if it is
found that a portion of tolls so
derived is not credited to the local
company, a greater amount for
reduction will result.
Clayton Leads Fight
William Nc. K. Clayton has
been authorized by the Fedora
ton of Citizens Associations as its
representative to insist upon a
valuation of the company.
The commission today had
under advisement evidence and
testimony dealing with problems
connected with building and main
tanning safety zones and street
car loading platforms.
Due to the telephone hearing,
it is not expected that a decision
on the safety zone inquiry will
be made until next week. A pub
lie hearing into the zone prob
lens was conducted yesterday.