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Evening star., 1932-11-23
HOOVER TOF|GURE
IN TREE LIGHTING
Community Celebration on
Christmas Eve Planned
by Committee.

The National Community Christmas
Tree, in Sherman Square south of the
Treasury, will be lighted at 5 pm,
Christmas eve with brief but impress
sive ceremony in which President Hoo
yer Is expected to be central figure,
it was announced yesterday following
the first meeting of the Executive Com
mittee for the 1882 ceremonies. The
meeting was held in the Office of Mrs.
Elizabeth K. Peoples, chairman, in the
Franklin Administration Building.
The committee tentatively arranged
a program similar to that OF last year,
which is regarded as the most sue
cessful of the kind yet held.
The committe headed by Mrs.
Peoples, director of the Community
Center Department, has for its vice
chairman Ovid Butler of the Ameri-
can Forestry Association, and the fol-
lowing members, representing outstanc-
ing civic and governmental agencies
in the city:
Lieut.. F. B. Butler, assistant director,
Office of Public Buildings and Public
Parks; J. G. Yaden, president. Fed
Grafton of Citizens Associations;
Thomas P. Littlepage, president,
Chamber of Commerce; Ben T. Web
ster, president, Board Of Trade; Mark
Lansburgh, president, Merchants and
Manufacturers Association: Col. Charles
I. Stengle, president, District of Colum-
bia Public School Association; Maj. E.
w. Brown, superintendent of Metro
politan Police; Capt. Doyle o. Hickey,
Superintendent of Park Police; Col. E.
L. Mattice, District Of Columbia Boy
Scouts of America, and Miss Dorothy
Greene, District of Columbia Girl
Scouts of America.
John B. Colpoys, editor of the Trade
Unionist c. H. Pope, president District
of Columbia Bankers Association;
Frank j. Hogan, president District OF
Columbia Bar Association: William H.
Lewis, president Federation of Civic
Associations; Curtis A. Hodges, Greater
National Capital Committee; T. F.
Behler, American Automobile Associa-
ion; A. F. E. Horn, Electric League of
Washington; Miss Sibyl Baker, super
visor District of Columbia Playground
Department; Mrs. L. w. Hardy, Com-
munity Center Department; Mrs. Ga
brielle Pelham, Community Center De-
partmen: Albert Clyde Burton, Office
of Public Buildings and Public Parks;
Mrs. Gertrude Lyon, president District
of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs;
Miss BeSs Davis Schreiner, and Harold
Snyder of the Community Center De-
partment.
The Executive Committee was chosen
by a committee representing the Com
munity Center Council Of the District
of Columbia, which always appoints
the Executive Committee for the Ma
tionai Community Christmas Tree
Lighting on Christmas Eve. j. G..
Yaden is president of the Community
Center Council.
Evening star., 1932-11-23
GRANT TSEEKSFUNDS
TO FILL VACANCIES
Public Buildings Force Held
Seriously CurtaiIed by
Economy Act.

Lieut.. Col. U. s. Grant, Sd, director
of Public Buildings and Public Parks
is considering the advisability Of re-
questing that impounded funds in the
Treasury, placed there by the economy
act, be released so vacancies in his
force may be filled. @
The ONCE of Public Buildings and
Public Parks has been particularly hard
hit by the economy regime, as the item
for salaries has been slashed about half
a million dollars. This means admin
istrative furloughs running as high as
four months have been given.S EN-
ployes placed in this status have Sc
cured work elsewhere in the Govern
ment, in branches that were not so
sharply reduced. -
Would Release Workers.
Col. Grant feels he should permit the
release of his employees who are better
ing themselves by securing employment
in departments where no administra-
tive furloughs have to be given, because
Of a sufficiency Of funds there.
Craftsmen released from the en-
cheering division of Col. Grants office
because of the stringency have found
work with the supervising architects
J4lC oCP1A
which is proceeding with the public
building program. Building guards OF
the colonel's office likewise have found
employment in more lucrative fields.
Must Take Two Furloughs.
Practically all employees of the Office
of Public Buildings and Public Parks
have to take a 30-day administrative
furlough, this fiscal year, in addition
to the 30-day legislative furlough occa.
stoned by the 81s per cent salary slash
Ten days Of this administrative fur
Tough will require to be taken before
December l.,
Col Grant said today that nearly al
his employees have complied with thi.
order to date. He Is uncertain nov
when the next 10 days will be taken, al
though there is a recommendation be-
fore him for action that the next II
days be completed by March 81. Tht
director explained other branches ol
the Government, including part of the
Commerce Department, are faced with
a similar problem and he Is waiting
to see what action is taken by thost
agencies to cope with the problem.
Evening star., 1932-11-23
PROGRAM OF EDUCATION
FOR CONGRESS URGED
Local 372, National Federation Of
Federal Employees, to Campaign
Against Pay Cuts.

Local 372, National Federation Of
Federal Employees, last night indorsed
the program Of Luther e. Steward, ma
tional president, for Campaign Of
education" among members of Senate
and House on the question of pay cuts
and reduction Of important appropria-
tions
1t is proposed to keep in touch with
the legislators, particularly newcomers,
Ito point out the folly Of retrenchtng
in these directions 1t was said.
The meeting, which was held at Dis
trict federation headquarters, was ad-
vised that the commissioner Of insur-
ance had approved the application Of
the local to form q credit union.
Cards and refreshments followed the
business session.
Evening star., 1932-11-23
CHILD MARCHERS
WILL Be BARRED
AT WHITE HOUSE
Area May Be Isolated From
VehiCuIar Traffic to Pre-
vent Visit.
POLICE MAP OUT PLANS
FOR HANDLING VISITORS
Leader Promises No Demonstration
Will Be Staged at Execu-
tive Mansion.

All vehicular and pedestrian traffic
VIII be isolated from the area around
the White House tomorrow If any at
tempt at a demonstration is made by
the 100 children coming to protest to
PRESIDENT Hoover against child misery"
IL was disclosed today by Mai. Ernest
w. Brown, superintendent of police.
Under no circumstances, Mai. Brown
said, will a demonstration be permit
ted. Moreover, the children will not
be permitted to parade without a per-
init, he declared, and thus far leaders
OF the march have not applied for a
permit.
Isolation of the White House was
first employed successfully last Sum-
mer when the radical left wing of the
bonus expeditionary force made two
futile attempts to stage demonstrations.
Ine same plan will be followed, Maj.
Brown said, If the children make an
effort to stage demonstration.
Would Isolate Area.
Plans perfected by Maj. Brown for
thWart1ng the demonstration provide
for the diverting of all pedestrians and
Veh1cular traffic from the area between
Fifteenth to Seventeenth streets and
from the Ellipse north to H street.
MAJ. Brown, i'll conference this
morning with the inspectors and cap
tains, went over his plans in detail for
meeting any emergency growing out of
the coming of the children marchers.
A representative of the White House
police force also attended the con-
ference.
Herbert Benjamin, secretary Of the
unemployed Councils of America. which
is promoting the children's march as
well as the national hunger march"
In December, has given assurance that
no attempt will be made by the children
10 stage demonstration at the White
House. The object of the march. he
declared, Is presentation to President
Hoover of petition of protest against
child misery"
Has Not Asked Permit.
Benjamin, however, has not vet
sought permit for a parade. Such a
permit viii not be necessary, it was said.
II the children do not 60 to the White
House in formation.
Leaders OF the march said the chill
dren would arrive in Washington tomor-
row morning from Baltimore and other
industrial centers, but would not 20 ia
tne White House until about 2 pm.
Plans call for an executive conference at
10 O'Clock tomorrow morning, at which
the delegates to the child misery" con-
ference will select leaders for the march
on the White House.
The concluding event on the program
VIII be the child misery" conference
tomorrow night at 8 O'Clock in Plas-
terers' Hall. After that the children and
delegates to the conference will return
| to their homes.
The petition which the children's
delegation will seek to present to the
President, it was said, viii embody six
demands for relief, based generally on
the program of the Unemployed Coun-
ellis for Winter relief for the unem-
ployed and unemployment insurance.
Children who will participate in the
White House march are now in Balti-
more, 1t was said, and will be enter
tanned there tonight at banquet.
Evening star., 1932-11-23
PLAQUE ABOARD OLD IRONSIDES
TO RECALL CF1ILDREN'S EFFORTS
Bronze Marker to Commemorate Their Work in
Restoration.

troduced by the principal Of the high
school, F. D. Strader. Mr.. Strader IS
conducting contest among the pupils
of his own school to determine the
best wording for the plaque which will
be placed aboard the vessel before she
sails The country's school children
contributed pennies toward rehabilitat-
ing Old Ircnsides.
At noon today at the Raleigh Hotel
as guests of the Kiwanis Club, were
Capt. Gulliver and Lieut.. John Y.
Dannenberg, U. S. NJ, and two blue
jackets, Roy Shiflett. signal man, first
class, and C. j. Conroy, seaman, first
class. Comdr Gulliver presented the
club with a flag of the period of 1912
bearing Is stars and is stripes. The
two enlisted men gave demonstra-
ton Of Navy signaling with fiags. -
Evening star., 1932-11-23

When Old ronsides sails from the
Washington Navy Yard December 10, it
is planed to have aboard new bronze
plaque commemorating the work the
school children of America have done
toward restoring the ancient frigate.
Yesterday, at the George Mason High
School in Alexandria. Va, which is
taking leading part in this movement
the vessels commanding officer, Comdr.
Louis J. CULVER, congratulated the
Nations children on their interest in
the land mark of American history
The naval officer delivered an address
on the history of the Constitution and
showed number of slides and movies
centering around the old ship.
The program was held from to
4:15 O'Clock. Comdr. Gulliver was in,
Evening star., 1932-11-23
HARRY L. HOPPER RITES
TO BE HELD TOMORROW
Employe of Interstate Commerce
Commission Died While at
Work Yesterday.

Funeral services7for Harry L. Hopper,
65, an employe Of the Interstate Com
merce Commission who died yesterday,
will be held tomorrow morning at the
residence, 2205 Randolph place north
cast Following the ceremony, the
body will be taken to Cincinnati for
burial
Mr. Hopper, who had been associated
with the Commerce Commission for
more than l6 years, was stricken with
a heart attack yesterday while at work
at his desk in the Bureau of Valuation.
He was removed to Emergency Hos
pital, where he died.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Stella
Hopper, and one daughter. Mrs. Harold
Dickins Of Eureka, Kans.
Evening star., 1932-11-23
BOY SCOUT STAMP CLUB
WILL SPONSOR CACHET
Covers Will Be Kept Here for Mail
ing at Mt. Vernon, Va, on
December IA.

The Boy Scout Stamp Club OF Wash
ington will sponsor a cachet to be
placed on covers sent to the club prior
to December 10.
The cachet pictures a scout seated,
gazing at the portrait of George Wash
ington. Across the top are the words
boy Scout Stamp Club of Washington,
D. c." and across the bottom, Ami
versary of Washingtons Death, Decem-
ber IA, 1882" After the covers have
been cacheted they will be taken to
the post Office at Mount Vernon, Va,
to be mailed on December IA. Covers
to be cacheted should be mailed to the
Boy Scout headquarters, 1l03 Vermont
avenue,
Evening star., 1932-11-23
TASK OF TELLING ALL ABOUT
WESTINGHOUSE SPORTRAITS ENDED
Mrs. Rose Gouverneur Hoes, Monroe's Granddaughter
Finishes Eight Months Work.

ington from life, and I think the Peale
portrait lent by Washington and Lee
University Is the rarest of them all, y
she said. "It's the first-painted at
10, before he had his false teeth. and
looks most like him.
OF another full-length painting she
explained:
The British Ambassador, Sir Rom
aid Lindsay, borrowed this one Tor us
from Berkeley Square for the Corcoran
Gallery-and 1t will have the same care
going back to England.
tits one of only three painted by
Stuart for which Washington actually
posed and Stuart destroyed one OF
them"
Evening star., 1932-11-23
C. OF c. TO LAUNCH DRIVE
FOR SALES TAX ADOPTION
Representative Lewis Will Discuss
Proposed Legislation at Ken
sington Tonight.
By STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

BY a STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.
KENSINGTON. Md, November 23-
Representative David ]. Lewis will
speak on the proposed manufacturers
sales tax at q meeting to Ee held by
the Kensington Chamber Of Commerce
in the Kensington School at o'clock
tonight
The chamber, which is preparing to
make an effort to enlist other civic
groups in a campaign to urge the adop-
ton of the sales tax by the next Con-
gress. will draft resolution recon-
mending its adoption at a business ses-
sion following Representative Lewis
addreas.
Evening star., 1932-11-23

Mrs. Rose Gouverneur Hoes, Presi-
dent Monroe's great-granddaughter, to-
day finished her eight-month task OF
telling all the queer little quirks about
George Washington's portraits TO
groups she led through Corcoran Art
Gallery
The Bicentennial celebration closes
tomorrow, and now Mrs. Hoes must
send back all the art she spent six
months gathering.
Assembling the first comprehensive
collection of paintings of the first
President and his official associates was
arduous, Mrs. Hoes said, but well
worth the time and trouble"
Twenty-seven artists painted Wash
Evening star., 1932-11-23
KENSlNGT0N RESIDENT
LOSES SUIT FOR SIS, 900
Mrs. Ethel T. Lloyd of Chevy Chase
Is Given Verdict in Auto
Accident Case.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, November 23.-In
the case of Mrs. Annie L. Chamberlain
of Kensington against Mrs. Ethel T.
Lloyd Of Chevy Chase, which was an
action to recover damages in the
amount of $4,000 for injuries alleged
to have been sustained by the plaintiff
In an automobile accident on the Rock
vile pike, near Montrose, February "a,
1881, jury N the Circuit Court here
late yesterday afternoon returned a
verdict in favor of the defendant.
When the accident occurred Mrs.
Chamberlain, the testimony showed,
was a guest of Mrs. Lloyd in the lat
ter'S car.
As Mrs. Chamberlain concluded her
testimony in the case, she swooned in
the witness box and was carried from
the room by q physician and others,
She quickly revived. howeyer. q
Evening star., 1932-11-23
AIRPORT OPERATOR HURT
BY PLANE PROPELLER

Struck on the head and shoulder by
the blade of an airplane propeller when
the motor backfired as he was cranking
it by hand, George C. Brinckerhoff,
operator of College Park Airport, Col
lege Park, Md, was seriously injured
yesterday afternoon. He was taken to
Emergency Hospital, where an opera
ton was performed last night to remove
bits of broken bone from his shoulder
and permit setting of the shoulder.
The blade struck Brinckerhoff a
glancing blow ON the side of the head
and cut deeply into his shoulder.
Brinckerhof lives at SO T street north
east.
Evening star., 1932-11-23
AUTO INJURIES FATAL
. TO MRS. F. H. BAUGHMAN
Woman Hit by Car November 8
Dies at Hospital-Driver Is
Called in for Inquest.

Mrs. Florence H Baughman, 81, Of 514
Nineteenth street, died in Emergency
Hospital about 3 o'clock this morning
of injuries received when she was struck
by an automobile while walking near
Pennsylvania avenue and Seventeenth
street on November 9.
The driver OF the car, J. Leonard
Lyons, 30, CT 1922 Garfield street, was
ordered to appear at an inquest in the
District morgue at II am. Friday.
Rebecca Duncan, 65, colored, 1700
block of Riggs street, was injured yes
terday when hit by a street car at YER
mont avenue and Eleventh street.
Evening star., 1932-11-23
0. E. S. Plans Bazaar.

HYATTSVILLE, Nd, November %
(SpeciaD Ruth Chapter, No. 7, o. E.
S., will hold its annual bazaar December
and 2, in Masonic Temple A cafe
terra dinner will be served December l,
from to pm. Many useful articles
will be sold at auction sale prices. There
will be entertainment and dancing.
Evening star., 1932-11-23
THREE CONTRACTS LET
FOR BUILDING SEWERS
Work to Be Done at Takoma Park,
10th and C Streets, and SD
and Ead5 Streets.

The District Commissioners yester-
day awarded Peter Aiello Of Baltimore
the contract for construction OF the
Takoma Park stormwater sewer, near
Chestnut street and Spring place, for
$6,139.l8.
James Parreco & Son, local firm,
won the job Of building the replace
ment sewer at Tenth and G streets
northeast for $4,907.68.
The Stowell Construction Co. OF
Alexandria received a contract to build
the East Deanwood service sewer IN
the vicinity of third and Eads
streets northeast for 100000.
Evening star., 1932-11-23
Whistle on Garage
Signals Punching
OF Cash Register
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WEED, Calf, November 23.-
Weed residents know without
asking how business is going at
Benton's garage. The proprietor
has rigged up o device so that
every time the cash register is
punched, a whistle atop the
garage blows.
Evening star., 1932-11-23
DR.. HRDLICKA TO SPEAK
Curator to Lecture Tonight on Alas
kan Discoveries.

DR.. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physical
anthropology of the Smithsonian 1nsti-
tuition, will lecture on his recent
anthropolcgical and archaeological dis
coyeries In Alaska at the National
Museum tonight. DR.. Hrdlicka has
spent two Summers on Kodiak Island,
Of the Alaska coast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
MAN FORCES TAXI
TO PICK UP TRIO
Baby With Two Men and Woman
Brought From Baltimore,
Police Are Told.

An armed man late yesterday forced
a taxicab driver to take him to Balti-
more, where he picked up two other
men, a woman and a baby about 5
months old, and then compelled the
chauffeur to bring the party back to
Washington, according to report made
to police
The hacker, Frederick Smallwood, 329
Pennsylvania avenue, said a man hailed
hine at New York avenue and Twelfth
street about pm. and asked to be
driven about the city At Fifteenth and
H streets northeast, he said his fare"
drew a revolver and ordered him to
head for Baltimore.
When the taxi reached Baltimore,
Smallwood continued, his passenger"
directed him to North avenue and Mon
roe street. There, he said, the other
men, the woman and the baby entered
the cab, and he was told to return to
the Capital.
Back in Washington, Smallwood went
on, the armed man told him to stop at
West Virginia avenue and Oates street
northeast, where he was ordered from
the taxi.
You'll find your cab couple of
blocks from here" the man with the
gun remarked, as he drove away.
A few minutes later, Smallwood said,
he discovered the cab at West Virginia
and Florida avenues.
Smallwood gave the police descrip-
tons Of his passengers and all precincts
were asked to be on the lookout for
them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
PROBERS TO FAVOR
TRACTION MERGER
House Subcommittee Will Recon-
mend Consolidation Here, Black
says-RepOrt Due in Two Weeks.

Representative Black of New York,
chairman of the Public Utilities Sub
committee of the House District Com
mittee, announced today that his COM
mittee would make a favorable report
to the House in about two weeks on
the bill to authorize merger of WASH
ingtcns two street railway companies.
The committee recently completed ex-
tensive hearings on the measure and
took voluminous testimony from officials
of the street car representatives, mem
bers of the Public Utilities Commission
and civic representatives. A number of
amendments were suggested at the
hearings.
Mr. Black said his committee has not
held meeting since the hearings closed
about two weeks ago, but he planned to
call a session in about 10 days to act
on the bill. A poll of the members of
the committee. however, he declared
indicated a majority of them are in
favor of reporting the bill as originally
drafted
One member, he said, is strongly in
favor Of an amendment urged by Rich
mond B. Keech, peoples counsel, which
would preclude the merged company
from operating taxicabs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
DISTRICT BUILDING
PROBE is REQUESTED
Doctor Writes Mrs. Norton in Pro-
test Nolle Pressing of Recent
Case by Health Officials.

Thorough investigation of the District
Building, particularly the Office of the
corporation counsel and the Health De-
partment, was urged today by Dr.
James r. Armstrong of the Montgomery
Apartments in a letter to Chairman
Norton of the House District Committee
DR.. Armstrong said he wished to con-
fer with Mrs. Norton regarding the re-
cent nolle pressing of a case by the
Health Department and the corporation
ccunsels office, where conviction was
certain, showing that certain people
seem to be protected while others have
to suffer the consequences of their acts"
The Health Department said it is pre-
sumed that the case referred to by DR..
Armstrong involves an information
against woman naturopath, charging
her with accepting patients in a private
hospital without having q license for
the hospital.
The case dragged through the courts
for more than year, and it was said
Health Officer william c. Fowler last
month secured a statement from the
woman that she was no longer receiv-
ing patients. and a promise that she
would not do so in the future Dr.
Fowler then recommended that the case
be nolle pressed, and this was done.
DR.. Fowler said today that he be-
lieved that was the best course. as a
continuation of the court case, even if
1t resulted in conviction would mean
no more than the leyying of a fine
against the woman, and he believed
the public interest was sufficiently
served by her statement and her
pTc.n-Se,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
CHAIRMEN ARE SELECTED
FOR DEBATE ON RUSSIA
Three Honorary Appointments Are
Made for Fries-Nearing Dis
cussion of Soviet Recognition.

Appointments Of honorary chairmen
for the debate between Maj. Gen. Amos
A. Fries and Prof. Scott Nearing on the
subject, Should the United States
Recognize the Soviet government of
Russia?" to be held at the Masonic
Temple at 8:l5 pm. March Is, were
announced today by the Victor L. Ber-
ger National Foundation, sponsors OF
the debate.
The list of honorary chairmen in
cludes Rabbi Abram Simon, president
OF the District Board of Education;
Right Rev. James H. Ryan, rector OF
Catholic University and director OF the
social action department Of the Ma
tional Catholic Welfare Council, and
Lowell Mellett. editor of the Washing
ton Daily News. Rev. Russell j.
Clinchy, pastor of the Mount Pleasant
Congregational Church. will preside as
active chairman.