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Evening star., 1932-05-04
CLOSING Of PORTS
IN CAPITAL AREA
HIT BY CHAMBER
Senate Move Against George
town and Alexandria Is
Held Unfortunate.
WOULD DIVERT SEA
TRADE TO BALTIMORE
Personal Property Tax on Local
Utilities Also Opposed by
Board of Directors.

A protest against an appropriation
cut which, it was said. would cause the
closing of the ports Of Georgetown and
Alexandria to foreign trade, was made
last night by the board Of directors Of
the Washington Chamber of Com
merce.
1t was said that the proposed SEN
ate slash of 10 per cent of the House
budget would result in the closing of a
large number of customs houses. among
them being those at the two local ports.
Commissioner of Customs F x. A.
Eble was quoted as authority for this
statement.
Move Held Unfortunate.
Emphasizing the historic Importance
of the two ports, the board vigorously
urged a provision be made for their
continuance Members said that II
they were closed, all imported goods
consigned for Washington would have
to come in through Baltimore.
The board took the stand that this
move was particularly unfortunate in
view Of the recent agitation for port
authority for Washington. The appro-
priation needed to keep the port OF
GEORGETOWN open was said to be SAL 900.
Utilities Tax Opposed.
The Senate proposal to impose per-
sonal property tax on local public utili-
ties in addition to corporate income
tax and real estate tax was opposed by
the board, affirming previous action OF
its Transportation Committee. fne
board took the position the bill would
constitute piece meal taxation and that
any tax increase should be general and
should be imposed only after the fiscal
relations problem between the District
and Federal Governments has been def-
nitely and fairly settled.
The board Reimbursed its previous ap-
proval of the Public Utilities Commis-
sion's order requiring meters in taxi
cabs, and also reiterated its indorse-
ment of the proposed appropriation OF
$500 900 for District charitable relief.
The body also recommended that all
economies possible be effected in ad-
ministration of charitable agencies in
the District.
Evening star., 1932-05-04
VOTE WILL DECIDE
IF CARPENTERS
ACCEPT PAY CUT
Saturday Set for Referendum
as Union Officials Order
Men Off Jobs.
BUILDING OPERATIONS
CONTINUE SPEED
Employers to Stand Firm for Re-
duction From $11 to $8a
Day in Capital.

A referendum vote, which will de-
termine the attitude of the union car
penters in the District toward a pay
cut of S712 cents per hour, voted by
the Master Builders Association, will
be taken Saturday, it was stated, by an
authoritative source today.
The new scale, which reduces the
wages of union carpenters on all other
than Government projects from $11 to
So per day, went into effect Monday.
Late yesterday union officials ordered
workmen in the carpenter trade to
leave jobs on which they were employed
and those who had continued to work
under advice of their representatives
threw down their hammers.
Building Continues Speed.
Building construction in the District
continued at its present rate of speed
today, however, according to officials OF
the master builders. More than $50
carpenters applied for work at the as
sociation's offices this morning, accord
ing to Frank j. Sheehan, secretary, and
more than 100 Of these were sent out to
fill the places of those who were af-
fected by the "walkout" order Of yes
terday.
The builders will stand firmly by
their decision for an SO wage, regard
less Of what action may be forthcoming
as a result Of the unions poll, spokes-
man for their organization declared.
THE sentiment among the Master
Builders for a wage of 81 per hour is
too strong to admit of possibility Of
compromise" he said. I'VE have
reached the point where It is impos-
sible to continue paying the higher
scale. and so far as we are concerned
the So standard will continue"
On Open Shop Basis.
The action Of the union yesterday
in calling on its men to cease work
placed carpentry in the District, aside
from Government construction, upon a
definite open shop basis. Men we're
being hired today regardless Of union
affiliation.
The situation as it stands at the mo-
ment will not involve union workrpen
In other trades, it was pointed out,
since the carpenters union is not affil-
lated with the Building Trades Coun-
Gil. Possibility that other crafts would
be involved at an early date was seen,
however, in the fact that negotiations
for a wage slash In other lines Of build
ing operations have been under way
for several weeks, and decisions are be-
ing awaited daily as to how the various
unions affected will receive the pro-
poSals.
Evening star., 1932-05-04
LAWYERS TO FIGHT
BANKRUPT TCY BILL
Contemplate United Stand at
Hearing Scheduled for
Today.

Strenuous opposition to proposed
changes in the bankruptcy law. now
under consideration in Congress, is ex-
pected to be expressed when delegates
from the American Bar Association and
the National Association of Federal
Practitioners appear before a joint
hearing Of subcommittee for the Sen
ate and House Judiciary Committees
today.
A committee from the Federal Prac-
titioners, who had their first organiza-
ton meeting here Monday, conferred
with the Bar Associations Bankruptcy
Committee yesterday to determine If a
joint stand could be made to fight the
bill. Both groups are to express their
views at the hearing at the Capitol.
Campaign Planned.
Meanwhile Judge Max Isaac of New
York, a principal in the formation OF
the new group, whose membership is
restricted to lawyers practicing in Fed
eral courts, announced the association
would set up its headquarters in Wash
ington and carry on the fight against
the contemplated bankruptcy legisla-
ton.
His organization, Judge Isaac stated,
is particularly opposed to those sections
of the bill calling for a suspended dis
charge of the bankrupt unless the assets
equal so cents on the dollar OF the
probable debts, and to the amortization
Of debts, which applies to the bankrupt
wage-earner. This states the insolvent
worker may file a petition alleging he
is unable to meet his debts as they ma
ture. but that he is able to make future
payments to amortiZe his Indebtedness
over a pariod of not more than two
years.
Judge Isaac believes this would do
away with all of the benefits received
by the insolvent in declaring bank
ruptcy, as he would be unable to make
new start with clean slate. He
feels the bill will help the man who
owes a million dollars" and not the
wage Garner.
Executive Group Named.
The Practitioners Association, com
posed of prominent lawyers from all
sections of the country, yesterday or
ganized an Executive Committee, which
will form branches of the association
throughout the United States.
Both the committee from the Bar
Association, under the Craftsmanship
of J. M. Lashley of st. Louis, and that
of the new organization, which is head
ed by G. w S. Musgrave Of Baltimore,
believe a few minor changes in the
present bankruptcy law would be help
full and will suggest these changes to
the congressional groups as suoStl-
tute for the proposed bill.
Evening star., 1932-05-04
LETTER REVEALS WASHINGTON
OPPOSED BOSTON TEA PARTY
Hitherto Unpublished Manuscript to Be
Read at Saturday Meeting of Amerii-
can Historical Association.
George Washington

George Washington diSapproved OF
the Boston tea party.
A letter written in June, 1774, to
George William Fairfax expressing this
sentiment is among the discoveries of
hitherto unpublished Washington man
uscripts which will be described at a
special meeting of the American His
torical Association here Saturday.
1t was found in the vast mass of
Washington letters in the Library of
Congress. less than half Of which have
been published, by DR.. John c. Fftz-
patrick, who is preparing the Bicen-
tennial edition Of Washington's writ
ings under a special appropriation.
Most of the material is in the Con-
gressional Library files.
This letter was written just after
the dissolution of the Virginia House
of Burgesses by the royal Governor for
expressing allegedly disloyal sentiments,
and was dated from Williamsburg, the
Virginia Colonial capital.
Letter Is Long.
THE dissolution" he wrote, was as
sudden as unexpected, for there were
other resolutions of much more spirited
nature ready to be offered to the House
which would have been unanimously
adopted respecting the Boston Port bill
as it is called, but were withheld until
the important business of the country
could be gone through. AS the case
stands. the associates sat for % days
for nothing.
"The day after this event the men,
bers convened themselves at the Raleigh
Tavern and entered into an inclosed
association, which being followed in two
days after by an express from Boston
acouainting us of the sentiment o:
some meetings in our sister Colonies tc
the northward.
In short, the ministry may rely on
it that Americans will never be taxed
without their own consent, that the
cause of Boston the despotick meas
ures in respect to 1t mean now is and
ever will be considered as the cause ot
antagonism (not that we approve OF
their conduct in destroying the tea)
and that we shall not suffer ourselves
to be sacrificed by piecemeals, though
God only knows what is to become oi
us threatened as we are by so many
lowering evils as hang over us at pres
ent having a cruel and bloodthirsty
enemy upon our backs, between whom
and our frontier establishments many
skirmishes have happened and with
whom a general war Is inevitable unlest
those from whorA we have q right u
Evening star., 1932-05-04

seek protection are endeavoring to fix
the shackles of slavery upon US"
Washington continued the letter for
several pages in the same vein, the
involved end unpunctuated sentences
probably Indicating that he was highly
excited. He revealed that the Colo
MES were entering the impending strife
with Great Britain in a serious plight
Virginia had suffered a late killing
frost, followed by an extremely dry
Spring. so that it was believed the crops
were ruined. There were rumors of a
federation of Indian tribes formed to
wipe out the Colonies.
Others to Speak
A few days later Washington wrote
from Mount Vernon to Bryan Fairfax,
protesting against the placing of Bos-
ton under military government and
maintaining that, In the face of the
injustices they had suffered, it was
natural that the populace should have
broken the bounds of propriety The
conduct of the Boston people could not
justify the rigor of these measures, 4"
he wrote.
At the meeting Saturday the new
developments in the story of the first
President and his times will be con-
sidered from the viewpoint Of the pro-
fessional historian. DR.. Fitzpatrick
will point out other significant find
ings in the manuscripts and stress the
value to historians of a complete edi-
ton of Washington's writings. This
has never been possible before, he says,
because of the vast bulk Of material.
Other speakers will be DR.. Edmund
C. Burnett of the historical division
Of the Carnegie Institution of Wash
ington, who will tell of recent discov-
cries concerning Washington's relation
to committees at headquarters, and DR..
Charles Moore on the Potomac En-
vironment of Washington" In the eve
ming their will be public address on
Washington by DR.. William E. Dodd Of
the University of Chicago. Dr. Albert
Bushnell Hart, historian of the Wash
ington Bicentennial Commission, will
preside.
Evening star., 1932-05-04
$50 WILL LOSE JOBS
ON MT. VERNON ROAD
Workmen Will Be Discharged
When Landscaping Is Com
pleted, Officials Say.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, May 4.-Ap-
proximately $50 men will be thrown
out of work with the completion Of the
task of landscaping the 14-mile
stretch of the Mount Vernon Memorial
Highway, which is to be finished next
week, an official of the Bureau Of
Public Roads said today.
The majority of the men are laborers
who have been employed in the plant
ing operations Many were given jobs
on the landscaping work after their
road construction jobs on the high
way had been completed. A large per
centage of the number are white men,.
Work of installing. the approximate
800 lights along the highway has been
finished, and the lights are to be
turned on within the next few days.
The delay In turning on the highway
lights has been caused by a delay
shipment of equipment necessary to
connect the system with the power
plant of the Virginia Public Service Co.
The new highway is to be opened at
night as soon as tn lights are switched
on, the official said.
Evening star., 1932-05-04
HOOVER PHOTOGRAPHED
WITH REPUBLICAN GROUP
Ninety Members of Columbian
League in Capital for Ma
tional Meeting.

President Hoover today stood in the
rear grounds of the White House and
posed for a photograph with 80 men,
bers of the Columbian Republican
League.
Robert H. Lucas. executive director of
the Republican National Committee,
who accompanied the Republican work
ers to the White House, explained to
the President that the league is COM
posed of Italian-American voters who
have organized to advance the inter-
ests of Republicanism.
The visit to the White House followed
a business meeting at the Willard Hotel
where the Italian Americans are at
tending a national meeting of the CO.
lumbian League. At luncheon at the
Willard Hotel today Mr.. Lucas presided
as POSTMASTER. Among those who ad-
dressed the meeting were Secretary OF
Labor Doak, Senator Davis Of Pennsyl-
vania and Senator Barber of New Jersey.
Evening star., 1932-05-04
G. N. HERRELL KILLED
IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH
Car Strikes Tree Near T. B.-Mrs.
Jennie Maher Injured in
Accident.

A man identified by Prince Georges
County police as George Nimrod Her
rell, go, of 933 C street southwest, was
almost instantly killed today when the
automobile he was driving crashed into
a tree at Floral Park, about a mile
from T B, Md, shortly before noon.
Mrs. Jennie Maher, SO, of the same
address, who was in the car, was
brought to Providence Hospital here.
Her injuries are not serious, it was
said.
Evening star., 1932-05-04
HOUSE CLEARS WAY
FOR DISTRICT BILLS
Next Monday Set Aside for
Merger Measure and
Others.

Next Monday is to be District day in
the House Chairman Norton announced
today before the District Committee
She said Majority Leader Rainey had
given her this assurance and that she
also has been promised a night Ses-
sion soon to clear up all pending legis-
lation affecting the District.
The regular meeting of the District
Committee today was devoted to a
conference to consolidate the efforts of
members to get several controversial
bills passed on Monday.
Merger Bill Included.
The first of these to be taken up is
the so-called street railway merger bill,
authorizing merger of the street rail-
ways and bus lines according to plan
already approved by the District Com
missioners and the Public Utilities
Commission.
The second measure to be taken up
will be the Bowman bill to regulate the
sale of securities in the District. 1t has
the support of the Investment Bankers
Association. The third bill is to estab-
lish a board of indeterminate sentence
and parole In the District to relieve the
superintendent of penal institutions
from having to keep constant check on
large number OF prisoners after parole.
Child Labor Plan Up.
The fourth bill will be to give broader
powers to the Acacia Mutual Life In
surance Co., organized to write insur-
ance for members of the Masonic
Fraternity, to enter into the general
insurance business.
The most controversial of the meas
ures proposes to amend the child labor
law so as to permit children under 18
to appear in professional theatrical
performances under proper safeguards
for their health, morals and education
Chairman Palmisano of the Judiciary
Subcommittee today filed in the House
favorable reports on the bills providing
for bird and game sanctuary on the
upper Potomac River and to regulate
the licensing of plumbers in the Dis
trict
Evening star., 1932-05-04
LAYT0NSVILLE PIT. A.
HEARS HEALTH TALK
Montgomery County Nurse Ad-
dresses Meeting in Connection
With Child Health Week.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LAYTONSVILLE, Md, May I'm
connection with Child Health Week, Miss
Tia Moore, public health nurse for
Montgomery County, spoke before the
Parent Teacher Association here.
president, Mrs. r. B. Proctorwith,
Room mothers were named, as fellows:
First and second grades, Mrs. Mowatt
Windham; third, fourth and NTH
grades, Mrs. John LeiZear, and sixth
and seventh, Mrs. Roy Barber,
Finahplans were made for a supper
10 be len IN the school hall Nay l3.
Evening star., 1932-05-04
SANDY SPRING LEGION
WILL DECORATE GRAVES
Post Also Names Committee to
Arrange for Prize for Sher-
wood School Pupils.
Special Dispatch to The Star

SpeclaI DlSpatcn 10 Ane StaT.
SANDY SPRING, Md, May A.
Reuben Brigham, Ferguson Barnsley
and Dorsey Dill were appointed COM
mittee from the Norman Price Post,
American Legion, to decorate the graves
in the county cemeteries, Decoration
day.
A committee of Reuben Brigham, Ed
ward Snowden and John Bancroft will
arrange for the Legion prize to Sher-
wood boy, as decided upon by the prin-
cipal of Sherwood, Austin Lamar. A
special meeting Of the post will be held
May 10, to arrange for its part in
the Bicentennial program which the
Community Council presents at Sher-
wood ON the evening of May 20.
William H. Gilpin presided, and an
announcement was made that the tablet
to be erected in memory of Mrs. Sarah
Mathews, yeoman CD Sd class, would
be erected this week at the grave Of
Mrs. Mathews in st. Johns Cemetery,
Olney.
Evening star., 1932-05-04
SEEK AID ON PAVING
Maryland Park Committee Named
to Confer With GambriII.
pecial Dispatch to The Star

5pecIaI DISPATCH 70 The bJar.
MARYLAND PARK, Md. May A.
The Citizens Association Monday night
appointed the following committee to
wait upon Representative Gambrill and
request his aid in the opening and
paving of an extension to Park avenue
from the District line to Sixty-third
street northeast Washington: Mrs.
Grace Close, Mrs. Olive Smith, Mrs.
Edith Garrick and Peter A. Smith. An
additional contract for more lights on
the extended avenue was also signed
by local citizens.
Evening star., 1932-05-04
ABSENCE OF WITNESS
HALTS MURDER TRIAL
Sheriffs of Three Counties Asked
by LoudOun Court to Ap-
prehend Woman.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
LEESBURG. Va, May 4.-Due to
the absence of a material witness for
the commonwealth, Mrs. Margaret
Smith Littleton, the case of Virgil E.
Clough of Bluemont, charged with
murder, which was opened yesterday
for a new trial, was continued until
June 20.
An attachment was issued by the
court and directed to the sheriffs of
Loudoun, Fauquier and Clarke Counties
asking for Mrs. Lttleton's apprehension
Clough was sentenced TO eight years
In the penitentiary at the January
term of court for the killing of Clayton
Littleton, 29, also of Bluemont, after
a four-day trial. The judge granted
him a new trial.
Evening star., 1932-05-04
TUTOR TAX EXEMPT
Appeals Board Ruling Affects State
University Instructors.

Compensation received by instructors
in State universities is exempt from
Federal income tax.
It was so held today by the Board
of Tax Appeals, which overturned its
previous decision and ruled against the
Internal Revenue Bureau.
The decision was In the case OF G..
Ridgly Sappington, an instructor In the
Maryland University Law School.
Evening star., 1932-05-04
TINDALL'S BUREAU ENDS
District to Close Information Office
as Economy Move.

The District Commissioners today
abolished the Bureau of Information at
the District Building. This bureau was
the scene of activity for DR.. William
Iindall in his last IL years with the
District government.
Following his death Sunday, the Com
misSioners, as an economy measure,
closed the bureau.
Evening star., 1932-05-04
GRANGE PLANS SESSION

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHILLUM, Md, May "A Bicen-
tennial program will feature the after
noon session of the Prince Georges
County Pomona Grange, to be held
May IL in Grange Hall here, with
eureka Grange as host. A business
meeting will be held in the morning.
Evening star., 1932-05-04
FREED OF MANSLAUGHTER
Fairfax Justice Dismisses Charge
Against Two in Fatal Crash.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va. May 4.-Justice of
the Peace A. c. Ritchie yesterday dis
against Damon C. Abel of Washington
and Earl Heatwole of Mount Vernon
Hills, Va, in connection with the death
April % of Miss Virginia Crowell, a
clerk in the Veterans Bureau, who was
killed in an automobile accident on the
Richmond highway.
Evening star., 1932-05-04
Will Address Mass Meeting.

RIVERDALE. Md, May (Special)
Mrs. Mary Harris Armour Of Georgia
will address a mass meeting Sunday
afternoon at 3 o'clock In the NJ E.
Church South. Maryland avenue. Hy-
attsville,
Evening star., 1932-05-04
ACCOKEEK PIT. A. HEARS
TALK ON LANDSCAPING
University of Maryland Specialist
Illustrates Lecture-Plans Made
for College Park Rally Day.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ACCOKEEK, Nd, May Am Illus
trated lecture on landscape gardening
by Mr.. Ballard. specialist of the Uni
versity of Maryland. featured the Par
Teachers Association meeting here
Monday night.
Percy E. Clarke, assistant county
agent, said that a monthly paper show
ing how to make yards attractive could
be obtained by applying to County
Agent w. B. Posey. Arrangements
were made for transportation Of pupils
to College Park on Rally day, May IL
The principal, Miss De Wilde, an
nounced that pupils would enter the
badge tests and teams would compete
in some Of the games and races.
Evening star., 1932-05-04

first violin; George Wargo, viola; Sgd
ney Hamer, violoncello, and Paul Bright
enburg, second violin. Each has studied
violin since childhood, and Milton
Schwartz was scholarship pupil who
was considered prodigy, having won
excellent criticism Of his playing on the
concert stage in New York and Wash
ington while in his early teens, Hans
Kinder, leader Of the National Sym
phony Orchestra. is the original sponsor
for the quartet, which has long list of
members of the diplomatic corps and
resident society as its patrons.
The program Friday will include
Haydn's String Quartet in D Minor" :"
Little Fugue," by Mary Howe MRS.
Walter Bruce Howe of Washington !;
Russian Dance" by Tschaikowsky, as
arranged by Mr.. Wargo, and Quartet
in A Minor" by Ippolitoff -Iwanow.
Evening star., 1932-05-04
OPPOSES COAL CONTROL
Pittsburgh Man Urges Revision of
Antitrust Laws.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Modification of the antitrust laws
and downward revision of coal freight
rates were urged before Senate COM
mittee today by R. Templeton Smith,
vice president of the Pittsburgh Coal
Co., in opposing the Davis-Kelly bill for
Federal regulation Of the bituminous
industry.
Evening star., 1932-09-27

fssts, o. rather lmcheous, IN the regal
chateau Of RambouiIlet, and those
sylvan repasts are famous In the long
annals Of expert French cookery.
Alfonso Is Problem.
One problem Is bothering the en-
inent director Of the presidential proto-
col, M. Becq de Fouquieres. In the
past, when Alfonso Of Spain was still
on his throne, he rarely missed & shoot
in the big forest, and often turned out
to be high gun
Last year the ex-monarch was fortui-
tously absent from his retreat at Fon-
tainebleau when the shooting season
came around This year he Is apt to
be back there and . delicate question
Is thus posed
In view of the fact that France has
not only recognized the young Spanish
Republic, but bestowed its highest
decoration, the grand cross Of the legion
Of honor. on its President, Alcala "a
mora, 1t Is doubtful whether the proud
heir Of the Bourbons would accept the
French Presidents invitation.
It is equally dubious whether. with
possible refusal In the ofhng, the
presidential household would issue the
invitation. The situation thus created
Is right now one Of the favorite topics
of small talk among the sport-loving
members Of the diplomatic corps in
Paris.