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The Washington times., 1932-03-17
SENATE SHAPES
PROGRAM FOR
HEARINGS
Efficiency Bureau Proposes
Rewriting of Auto Tax
Feature of Proposal

Having in hand already
three reports from the Bureau
of Efficiency on the Mapes
taxation bills, and expecting
the fourth on Saturday, the
Senate District Committee is
shaping its program today to
open public hearings on the
District taxation issue early
next week.
Chairman Arthur Capper has
asked a full attendance of mem
bers at the scheduled meeting to.
morrow afternoon to take vote
on the street-car merger bill.
Path To Be Cleared
With this long-pending measure
out of the way the path will be
cleared for the taxation hearings.
The Efficiency Bureaus analy.
sis of the MapeS bill for an in
come tax on District residents will
be ready for presentation to the
District Committee by Saturday
or Monday, according to word
reaching the Capitol.
In its three reports so far filed,
the Efficiency Bureau has pro.
posed radical changes in the tax
bills as they passed the House
after submission by the Mapes
investigating committee.
Gas Tax Boost
Yesterday, the Bureau of Eff
cheney proposed a rewriting Of the
MapeS measure to tax automobiles
by weight. It had previously pro-
posed revamping Of the House in
heritance tax bill.
The bureau has so far approved
intact one Of the Mapes bills
that to increase the gasoline tax
here from 2 to 4 cents per gallon.
Its investigation showed that the
average gasoline tax throughout
the country is .041 per gallon and
it frankly says the motorists here
should bear the brunt of the cost
of street improvements and main
tenance.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
SMOKE SCREEN
CAR CAUGHT

Clearing traffic before them
with a loud siren and with
smoke belching from a smoke
screen, two rum runners led po-
lice over a two-mile chase in
Northwest Washington before
abandoing, their automobile last
night.
Policeman w. v. Christian and
Precinct Detective j. w. Shimon,
Of the Third Precinct, while
parked in squad car, saw the sus-
pected rum car flash past them
at Twenty-third and G Streets
Northwest.
The policemen gave chase and
almost Immediately dense smoke
came from a smoke screen. The
rum car was also equipped with
a loud siren and cleared traffic
at each intersection.
Several times the policemen
were forced to stop because of
the smoke but they finally caught
the car after it had been aban-
doned at Eighteenth Street and
Riggs Place Northwest. Police
seized the automobile and IA
half-gallonS of liquor.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
ETHEL CLAWANS.
FINED $3.50

Overruling a motion for a new
trial, Police Court Judge Isaac R.
Hit today fined Ethel Clawans,
of Newark, N. j., $3.50 on a charge
of operating as a railroad ticket
broken without a license, and she
noted an appeal,
Miss ClawanS was convicted a
short time ago by a jury, follow
ing testimony Of police Of the
Pennsylvania and Baltimore and
Ohio railroads that they had
bought the return portions Of ex-
cursion tickets from New York to
Washington from her.
It was alleged that she bought
the return parts Of the tickets
from persons en- route to Wash
ington on the excursion trains,
who did not intend to return to
New York, later reselling them
here,
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
CUT IN FEDERAL
PAY PROPOSED
IN HOUSE BILL
Legislative Budget will Be
Called Up After Sales
Tax Measure

A proposal for general reduc-
tion of salaries of Govern
ment employees will be placed
squarely before the House in
consideration of the legislative
appropriation bill, Represen-
tative Byrns 3D. of Tennes-
see, said today.
The legislative bill, which car
ried the salaries for members of
the Senate and House, will be
brought into the House shortly
after the tax bill is passed next
week.
There is sharp division of
opinion on the question of the
extent of salary reduction, Byrns
said.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
LAWYER FREED
IN D. {. CASE.

A verdict of mot guilty" was
directed by Justice jane M.
Proctor in District Supreme
Court today in the case Of
Sylvester L. McLaurin, colored
attorney, charged with larceny
from the District government.
The lawyer was accused Of
taking a record Of the school
work of relative from the files
at the Franklin Administration
Building.
When it was shown that the
keys to the records had been
given McLaurin by the school
janitor and that police stationed
in an adjoining room made the
arrest. Justice Proctor directed
the jury to exonerate the attor-
ney on the ground that the acts
of the janitor ana police consti-
tuted entrapment,
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
Hoover To D, K.
| &c, JOB FUND
Times Staff Photo

President Hoover, it was indi.
Gated at the White House today,
will approve a measure proposed
to Congress providing additional
funds for public work in the Dis.
trict of Columbia with a view Of
relieving unemployment.
The President has been in.
formed of the depletion of the
funds Of the District Committee
on Employment but the matter
has not been placed before him
for action. The question is be.
ing considered by District Off
Gals and Col. j. C. Roop, director
of the budget.
After they have worked out a
scheme and have decided upon
the amount needed to meet the
local unemployment situation, the
matter will be submitted to the
President for consideration.
The District Commissioners to-
day were awaiting the report Of
the Bureau of the Budget on the
draft of a bill. ,
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
BURGLAR VISITS
10 HOMES, GETS
ONLY S15
Thief In His Stocking Feet
InVades Chevy Chase and
Battery Park Houses

Ten houses were entered in
Chevy Chase and Battery
Park between midnight and
dawn today although the
burglar got less than $15 for
his trouble.
The Montgomery county police
of the Bethesda substation said
that in each instance the thief
entered through an unlocked win
dow or door.
Footprints in Snow
Apparently, the work was done
by the same person, who worked
in his stocking feet, as indicated
by the footprints in the snow.
This is the first robbery for two
months, police say.
Those whose homes were en-
tered included e. j. House, Of 406
Fairfax Rd., Battery Park, who
reported nothing taken; j. A.
Wharton, Of 45O6 Ridge St.,
Chevy Chase, who said that a
pocketbook containing $11 was
taken: w. B. Ethel, 4525 Walsh
st., nothing missing; Mrs. r. w.
Beall, 4539 Montgomery Ave-,
lady'S pocketbook, containing a
fountain pen, eyeglasses and a
small amount of change; P. j.
Fischer, 451O Ridge ST., nothing
missing; Maurice Edwards, 504
Maple Ridge Rd., Battery Park,
two felt hats and a mans and
woman's topcoats, later recovered;
Mrs. L. E. Van Allen, 4506 Elm
ST.; T. L. Moody, 4414 Watkins
Ave-, nothing missing, and Mrs.
George E. w. Bennett, 4707 Chase
Ave-, less than 81 in change.
Knocked Over Vase
Mrs. Forline, of 4524 Walsh
St., reported her window was
raised and a vase knocked over.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
new WORK PACT
FOR CARMEN

Negotiations are under way be-
tween the Capital Traction Com
pany and the local street car
mems union regarding renewal
of the working agreement which
expires April /.
Both sides are reluctant to dis
cuSs terms Of the new agreement,
but it was indicated today that
negotiations are progressing
smoothly and that a satisfactory
outcome is expected.
The Washington Railway and
Electric system is not involved
In the discussions because en-
ployes of that company are not
organized. They receive the same
wage scale, however, as those
of the Capital Traction.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
A.F.L. Head Protests
Compensation BOdy's
proposed Transfer

A firm protest against the pro-
posed transferring of the United
States Employees Compensation
Commission to the Civil Service
Commission, to be under the lat
ter body'S Jurisdiction, was voiced
by William Green, president Of
the American Federation of Labor,
in a letter today to Chairman
Joseph w. Byrns of the House
Economy Committee.
Green calls the proposal "un-
wise, impracticable and unsound."
The success o fthiS character Of
humane legislation depends upon
prompt, efficient, and satiSfac-
tory administration" he says,
adding that it should be vested
in an independent administrative
body free from political influences
and from the dominating control
Of a political agency"
There is mo logical connection"
between the duties Of the two
commissions, Green added,
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
CAPITAL H.ONORS
St. PATRICK

Washington today is playing its
full part in the world tribute to
st. Patrick, who 1900 years ago
first set foot in Ireland to begin
the work for his Christian faith.
In the church which bears his
name, a solemn high mass was
sung this morning, with the
Ancient Order Of HibernianS and
the ladies auxiliary sponsoring the
services. The Right Rev. Msgr.
Eugene Connolly was the cele-
brant, and the Rev. DR.. Chris
topher preached the sermon.
Song, dance, feasting and ora
tory will hold sway this evening
at many local obServances, fore
most among which come the ban
quets of the Ancient Order OF
HibernianS and Of the Friendly
Sons Of st. Patrick, both at the
Mayflower Hotel.
Representative John ]. O'Con'
nor, Of New York, will be the prin-
cipal speaker at the former ban.
quet, which will combine a tribute
to the saint and to George Wash
ington'S Bicentennial.
The National Press Club, the
New England States Society, the
University Club. the South Caro-
lima State Society, and the
Women's City Club have Sched-
uled special celebrations Of the
occasion. There will be q musical
program at $3.50 in the Immacu'
late Conception Church audi
torium by artists featured on the
Washington Catholic Radio Hour.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
Boston Tea Party
Described in Talk

The Sons of the American Rev
olution celebrated the Boston Tea
Party at the Mayflower Hotel last
night. Speeches telling of the
growth of American independence
were made by DR.. r. j. C. Dorsey
and Representative w. H. Diet.
rich of Illinois. Vocal and in
strumental entertainment was
given by Miss Lucille Reeves, Mrs.
Helen B. Eckman, Mrs. Ruth Kal-
thoff and Mrs. Carl r. Chind-
bloom.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
PUPILS SUFFER
SKIN DISEASE

Fears Of the spread of Scabies,
an itching skin disease, among
school children have been ex.
pressed to the Distrit Health
Office. Pupils have aroused
their teachers suspicious.
The disease has attacked nu.
merouS school children, it was
announced by DR.. Joseph A,
Murphy, school medical exam
iner. More than IS pupils were
sent to the Health Office yes
terday from Business High
School.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
Publicity UncOUers
Job for SteepIejGck

AS a result Of a story in The
Washington Times about the
difficulty the U. S. Employment
Service was having in finding a
job for a steeplejack, an open,
ing has been found.
Daniel M. Feeney, young but
daring high-climber, has been
hired by r. ]. Brinker, of 1904
Delafield Pl. N. W., and today
c. r. Murray offered him work
on q church Steeple here.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
Bar Asks Tighter
LeqaL Practice LaU

The Bar Association of the Dis
trict last night adopted a resolu-
ton urging Congress to pass a
bill restricting the unauthorized
practice Of law in the District.
The committee which framed the
resolution said banks and trust
companies were encroaching upon
the prerogatives Of the legal pro-
fession.
The association will hold a din
ner at the Mayflower Hotel, April
2, for members of the local bench.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
Father Who Hit Boy
Put In GdLLen0er

Charged with assaulting his son,
William, during an argument at
their home, Wallace Perkins, 1916
Kalorama Rd. N. W., today was
sent to Gallinger Hospital for
mental observation by Police
Court Judge Isaac r. Hit.
The son said he and his father
had an argument at the conclu-
sion of which he turned his back.
AS he did so. he said, the elder
man struck him.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
Struck by Truck,
Man Dies of Hurts

William HisSey, so, Of 1920 g
st. S. E., died yesterday in Provi-
dence Hospital from injuries re-
ceived January 6 when he was
struck by a aforementioned
truck at Potomac Avenue and
Thirteenth Street Southeast.
The truck was driven by Private
Raymond M. Snyder, 81, Of Boil
ling Field. The accident occurred
during a heavy rain.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
KiLUGvais Observes
st. P1trick'S DGu

The Washington Kiwanis Club
celebrated st. Patrick's Day at it's
weekly luncheon today at the
Raleigh Hotel.
Representative Frank Murphy
Of Ohio, was the orator Of the
day, and William Hannah, sang
Irish songs. Homer Rodeheaver
sang and gave trombone solos.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
PAYS S10O, LOSES PERMIT

In the Alexandria police court
this morning T. w. Powell, 218
S. Fayette st, Alexandria, was
fined 500 and cos; after pleading
guilty Of driving under the in
fluence Of liquor. His drivers per-
NIT was revoked for two years in
compliance with the recently en-
acted State law.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
GEN. MALONE TO SPEAK

Maj. Gen. Paul B. Malone has
accepted the invitation of the
George Washington Birthday AS
ISOLATION Of Alexandria to be the
speaker at banquet Of the aSso-
citation to be held at George Mason
Hotel next Tuesday.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
Man Gets so Days
For Bread Box Theft

O'Neill Smith, colored, who
was arrested by Policeman Ollie
Jones while carrying a bread
box, was given a $50 fine or so
DAYS in Jail, in Alexandria police
court yesterday. Smith told Judge
snow he did not know the bread
box contained four dozen dough-
nuts but wanted the box for q
chicken coop.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
Young Democrats
Enlist Pntn1nn Aid

Representative Wright Patman
Of Texas has been named chair
man of a committee to draft a
constitution and bylaws for the
Young Democratic Clubs of
America, recently organized here.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
TRIAL TO BE COSTLY

A jury in the Alexandria Corpo'
ration Court today is trying an
appeal from the police court Of
Montgomery Ward & Co against
Peter Fields. The amount involved
is $29 and the cost of a jury trial
will exceed the total amount
of the suit.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
ELRST AID Is TOPIC

Capt. Melville Carr, of Amer
ican Red Cross, addressed the stu
dent body at Business High School
on life-saving, and first aid after
automobile accidents.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
FIRE SQUAD TO DANCE

Rescue Squad No. 1, Alexandria
Fire Department, will hold it's
Easter benefit dance in the audi
torium Of the Potomac Va. fire
house, Tuesday evening, March 30.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
CLINIC IN ROCKVILLE

DR.. Leo v. Schneider Of the
Maryland tuberculosis Association
will be at the Rockville Health
Center tomorrow morning to con-
duct a chest clinic.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17

they should have said. 1t is a good
answer and it reveals the incapacity
of the prohibitionist mind to under
stand what the average man means
by respect for law in country still
feebly holding on to the idea of
democracy.
In all the wild rumors, guesses and
accusations no one has had the bad
judgment to assign race, religion or
political creed to the kidnapers. If
they are identified there will be trou-
BILE, especially if they belong to
minority in any of these respects
if they are, let us say, infidel Lap
landers who believe in a monarchical
government for America. Then, all
the infidels, all the Lapps and all the
The Washington times., 1932-03-17

monarchsts will suffer and there will be cry for the
expulsion of them all from the country.
But-and this is the point the prohbitionists ought
to consider if they racketeers and gangers they
will be product of country, in our own life
time. They will be the result of law properly If
shfty, enacted-exactly such a law the Colonlsts
rebelled against in ITS, and such law as half the
country nulified when the underground railroad made
mock of the fugitive slave law That is, law which
went against the of justice of the community
law which violated human rights and law which, hav-
ing the sanction of the Government, without the
sanction of the people.
Heroes, Not Cangsters
And for further mediation; the American rebellion
against the Stamp Act did not create nation of law
breakers the Lee Hggnsons and Thoreaus the Quakers
and the Aboitionists who trafcked noby in slaves be-
cause they wanted the Dred Scott decision overborne
were men of the highest probty every of them
later honored by the whole country. The Eighteenth
Amendment may make petty misdemeanants of all OF
except the drys; but it makes and encourages and
enrches powerful body of crimnals-and the fault
goes back to the law itself. '
Prohibition is like blockade in wartime blockade
is not valid, in international law, until it is effective
And the whskyblOckade is in the same case 1t is not
valid because it cannot be enforced And it cannot be
enforced because in the sense OF the natlOn not
valid. Let the drys escape from that vicious circle
No Home Work -. Z a.
I am glad am not the father of any child who saw
recent report of the work of the New York Childrens
Home School-or rather of the lack of work in that
school, The question of home work has been agitatng
educators for several weeks, and fancy that many
deep passion fathers show for the stock market
reports-and with good For them the state
nent of Miss Helen Watson head mistress of the school,
must have been pleasing fifteen-point rise all
through the list. Miss Watson said with energy
"I never assign lessons which must be memorized at
hoe and further "outsde study should be given
task which younger children are required to do"
Modern Schools
Miss Watsons school, with which ! am reasonably
familiar is part Of the Child Education Foundation an
institution over fifteen DID, well established enough
to that modern methods in education have passed
beyond the tricky experimental stage It has it's points
of likeness to other modern schools and its special points
of difference the foundation, for example, includes
training school for teachers who study methods of
education and them put into practice at the
time To the child the important thing is that modern
schools, which make admirable showing in the results
of formal peducaton, do not the methods by which
ordinary schools arrive at these results Children learn
to read and to figure and to draw to speak French and
suppose to bound North Dakota but they learn be-
it becomes interesting and important for them to
learn Not because bad report will be sent home to
their paernts if they do not
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
True to Type
DEFENSE REVEALS
VICIOUS CIRCLE
OF DRYS
Nv GILBERT SELDES.

DID not think that it would take long for official
prohbitioniss to reject the idea that they and their
Lindbergh baby. Their reply that the wets who pa
tronze bootleggers the guilty ones precisely what
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-29

either side stood a tall lamp that gave the effect of @ stage setting. The Bojan extended languid white arm. bare to the shoulder. over her breast was little trans- parent lace. and lace fell in a cas- cade from the gondola. Martin had never imagined that anything like this was to be seen except in a film.
 :. "I kiss your hand" he said with constraint, as he advanced on tip- toe toward the bed, taking care to leave some distance between the Bojan and himself. He took her hand at arm's length and shook 1t twice very cordially.
 How do you do. doctor" said the Bojan in subdued voice. "It Is nice to SC you here again. very nice. ." she repeated, and gazing at him she fell into reflection.
 'I have taken the liberty--Puck told mer-" Martin stammered.
 "Oh, of course. So he wants some money, our young friend whom we fished out of the lake. May l be So vulgar as to ask what the money is for? l confess am very inquisitive. You are man who makes women inquisitive. doctor. Do you know that?"
 Martin with parched throat mur- mured @ negative. Not for anything in the world was he going to favor her with the story of his pawned dinner jacket. "A liability--sudden embarrassment--" he murmured. He observed on his white shoes the red stains of Puck's entrants. How painful 1t all was. "The post Is So irregular in Frauensee--" he added, and then said no more.
 The Bojan said nothing either.
 This lasted for some minutes. and these minutes seemed to hum and spin through the air laden with a sharp feminine perfume. They careered over Martins head like something heavy and frenzied and catastrophe, like an express train or a fire or a landslide. Ab- surb, he thought with throbbing temples. shall get through. shall get through if only don't stir.
 He stood stock still in front of the Bojan's bed and braced every muscle. He got through. It was Q dangerous moment, but he got through. The Bojan, who loved scenes and lived on them, disap- pointedly withdrew her bare arm and let 1t fall on her pillows. These summers away from the theater were so vacant and so unbearably tedious. Her head fell back. Her eyes closed, and a look of pain came over her face.
 "Go into my dressing room and look In the right-hand side of the cupboard. On the top shelf you will find my handbag," she said wear fly. Martin followed the direction of her hand and passing through an atmosphere heavy with scent came to the cupboard. He found himself in . room that was redo. lent of a fastidious woman and full of thousand alluring, myster- ious femaine objects. He felt about in the enormous cupboard among the billowy and rustling disorder of the Bojan's clothing. At last he came upon the handbag amidst her silk underciothes. His conscience smote him As he took hold of 1t. the handbag at arms length on the actress's bed.
 Please, take what you want said the Bojan with . mocking air. She wHtched him attentiveIy as ne took the handbag from her bed again and began to rummage In it with trembling fingers. She wal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-29

who was tired. sat back and rub bed her fingers. She glanced at her wristwatch. Preysing came and stood behind Flaemm- chen.
 Now. where was IT"
 He looked over the sheet in her typewriter-accidentaily his arm touched her neck.
 "Oh. sorry"
 He put his cigar in his mouth and walked away. As he walked away he said:
 Where was I?'
 He turned and looked down on her as she stretched back in her chair. She noticed this, she pulled herself together and sat at atetn- ton.
 Moreover ." Flaemmchen said.
 Moreover" Preysing repeated. "Do you work in Justice Zinno- witz' office?'
 :..No-only occasional jobs."
 Hired ?",
 You pay mel"
 You're a very unusual stenog- rapher-"
 Moreover {.
 Moreover
 As he paced the room 1t was ob- vious he was trying to collect his thoughts.
 She looked at him. waited a mo- ment and then began characteris- tically to change the sheet of pa- per.
 T don't SC why it's unusual for a stenographer to be pretty" Flaemmchen said. If she does her work weli--seems so silly. don't know why they don't like girls like me in offices. Personally I hate ofices--I'd much rather be in the movies"
 "Movies?"
 "Yes. I photograph very well. She tossed magazine, as if it were nothing at all, over to him. He looked down at 1t without touching 1t. What Is this?"
 "I got ten marks for that"
 He picked 1t up. Me"
 As he looked at the picture--he lowered his voice two notes. You
 Moreover ="
 "What?"
 "Only in mutual advantages moreover" What brown hands you have" That's from skiing" "Skiing?" "Yes A man know took me to Switzerland last month "A man2-To Switzerland?- That must have been nice-for him." "Only in mutual advantages Preysing paced the room trying to get his thoughts back to the | work in hand. Moreover He was lucky man-that man." Perhaps"
 Don't misunderstood me. Pm n married man-with grownup daughters. Uh--' What will Preysing ask of Flaemmchccn? Read to-morrOw's installment.