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Washington Journal., 1932-11-18

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Washington Journal., 1932-11-18

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idleoene @uiifitiide fir Spielooien
geidrieben.
Evening star., 1932-01-25
NAME UNAUTHORIZED
In FIGHT ON PAY CUT
Federal Employees Federation Calls
Attention to Reference to
Miss McNally.

The unauthorized use of the name of
Miss Gertrude McNally, secretary treas
urer of the National Federation of Fed
eral Employees, by the National Com
mittee of One Thousand Democratic
and Progressive Women in raising funds
from Government workers to fight pro-
posals to reduce Federal salaries has
been protested by the federation.
In Statement of policy" in the cur
rent issue of the Federal News, the fed
eration's official publication, the fol-
lowing announcement is made:
THE national officers regret the un-
authorized use of Secretary Treasurer
McNally's name in connection with the
money-raiSing campaign, now appar-
emily under way, and desire to advise
the federation'S membership that, in
our opinion, such contributions are un-
necessary"
Use of Miss McNally's name appar-
emily was the outgrowth of a recent
mass meeting at the Willard, in which
she spoke in opposition to pay slaShes.
The Committee of One Thousand is
understood to have begun the fund
raising campaign Immediately after the
meeting.
Miss McNally said today she did mot
know money was to be raised to carry
on such fight"
All did was to speak in opposition
to pay reductions" she asserted. mo
one asked to use my name and I did
not know money was to be raised"
Among others who spoke at the recent
meeting were Senator Brookhart of
Iowa and Representatives Connery,
Fitzpatrick and Mccormack.
Evening star., 1932-01-25
JOSEPH w. MOSSBURG
FUNERAL TOMORROW
Capital Restauranteur Will Be
Buried in Clarendon-Widow
and Daughter Survive.

Funeral services for Joseph William
Mossburg. restaurant operator in the
Canital for more than 25 years, who
died in Emergency Hospital Saturday
night, will be held at his residence, SIS
o1Iincv street, tomorrow afternoon at
, O'Clock. DR.. J. Harvey Dunham,
nsstor of the Western Presbyterian
Church, will oficiate.
Mr. Mossburg, a native of Virginia,
will be buried in the Columbia Gardens
Cemetery. Clarendon, Va.
Mr Mossburg, who was born in
ro,,doun County in 1877, has long been
. header in the restaurant business in
washington. At the time of his sud
den death, he was in business with
e bernard Byrne, operating the Ecking-
ton Lunch at Fourth and T streets
northeast.
Early in his business career, Mr..
N6oeehIIre was assistant manager of the
cafe Pepublic, which was located at
Tifteenth street and Pennsylvania
avanIc on the site now occupied by
the washington Hotel. He also oper-
ated a restaurant at Fourteenth street
and Pennsylvania avenue and in the
old Sterling Hotel.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Annie Mossburg, and one daughter,
Mrs Marian Crowder, both of Wash
ington.
Evening star., 1932-01-25
$4,000 MOTORISTS
.ST|L[ USING 81 TAGS
Van Duzer Estimates Number
Here Who Must Purchase
Plates Before Saturday.

Approximately $4,000 motorists in the
District have not yet obtained their 1882
automobile tags, it was estimated today
by Traffic Director William A. Van
Duzer The deadline for operating with
the old 1881 tags is next Sunday mid
night.
Some 100000 new tags already have
been obtained, as against about 127, 300
titles, Mr.. Van Duzer said. From the
difference between the number of tags
and number of titles issued, Mr. Van
Duzer arrived at his estimate of the
number of tags yet to be issued. In
reaching the figure of $4,000, he ex-
planned there are approximately 1000
secondhand automobiles in the hands
of dealers, for which tags would not be
desired just now.
No further extension of time is to
be given for operation of automobiles
with the old tags, Mr.. Van Duzer said.
Operators using old tags after the dead
line will be subject to arrest.
Mr.. Van DuZer pointed out there has
been no congestion recently in connec-
tion with issuing the 1882 tags. The
Office where the tags are issued will be
closed next Saturday afternoon at l
o'clock. Facilities for issuing 5000 or
1000 tags daily until Saturday after
noon are available, the traffic director
said.
According to these figures, it would
be possible to issue nearly all the $4,000
tags by Saturday if the motorists would
apply for them.
Evening star., 1932-01-25

n YNCLE SANS first aeronautical
census of the duck population
Of the National Capital and
" vicinity began this morning
when an Army Air Corps pho
tographic plane took off from Boiling
Field 10 find how many ducks have
established temporary homes in the
Potomac and adjacent waters.
Experts of the United States Biologl-
cal Survey feel that it is highly i'm
portant to determine the effects OF last
years drought on the duck population.
This Winters duck crop" is said to
be dangerously small because OF the
dry weather, which killed countless
thousands of ducks and prevented their
breeding.
They decided that the only way to
count ducks was to work in their own
element, the air. F. G. Lincoln, chlef
of the bird banding section of the
United states Biological Survey, called
on Mai. Howard C. Davidson, com
manding officer at Boiling Field, for
assistance and the first duck census
takers went into action today.
Will Fly Over Feeding Areas.
1t was decided to count the ducks by
the Photographic method and Lieut.
David w. Goodrich, Boiling Field
Photographic officer, and Sergt. Andrew
Evening star., 1932-01-25
TREASURY GETS PLEA
FOR SPECIFIED RATES
Hoover Forwards Request From
Builders Regarding Pre-
vailing Wage" Law.

The petition of the National Asso-
citation of Builders Exchanges, asking
that the prevailing scale Of wages which
must be paid by contractors on Gov
ernment projects be determined in ad-
vance of submission of bids, has been
forwarded by President Hoover to the
Treasury Department for consideration
it was announced today
President Hoover last week issued an
executive order that stipulations of the
Bacon-Davis prevailing wage" law be
written into all public building con-
tracts, along with a clause permitting
cancellation of contract for violation OF
the wage provisions.
This brought an appeal from the
builders organization that prevailing
wage" scales for the community where
a public project is to be erected also be
written into the specifications, SO bidders
would know in advance what wage
scales to base their bids upon.
Earl Stokes, executive secretary of the
National Association of Builders Ex-
changes announced today receipt of a
letter from Lawence Richey, secretary
to President Hoover, stating the petit
tton had been referred to the Treasury
Department, which has charge Of
awarding Off public building contracts,
Evening star., 1932-01-25
D. {. TAX DISTRICT
SHOWS INCREASE
Miscellaneous Revenues Up
as Income Total Falls,
u. S. Returns Show.

The internal revenue collection dis
trict of Maryland and the District of
Columbi was one of ten throughout the
country to show gain in miscella-
neous taxes in 1881 as compared to
the calendar year 1880, during a Pc
riod of generally falling taxes. Vir-
ginia was the only State to show a
gain in total internal revenue receipts.
This was disclosed by the Bureau of
Internal Revenue, which made public
the returns by collection districts for
the two calendar years. Miscellaneous
taxes for this area rose from $3,448,-
769.40 in 1880 to s3,5O2, ,577.48 in 1881.
The income tax for this same area fell
from $48,767 1881 in 1880 to S34,215,-
23243 in 1881.
Thus the total internal revenue re-
turns from the district of Maryland
and this city showed drop from $52,-
216,548.75 to $37,717,809.91 for the
same period.
The drop for the whole country, in
cluding the Philippine Islands, was
from $685., ,966,060.59 to $1,914,O54,-
62259.
The nearby State of Virginia, with
its tobacco tax, was one of the ten which
showed a gain in miscellaneous COL
lections, rising from $87,329 ,39615 in
1880 to $50, 1913, ,42874 in 1881. Vir-
ginia'S income taxes fell off, however,
from SIC 258, ,765.2O to $18,042, ,O39. 10.
This made total gain in Virginia's
contribution to the Federal till from
$105, ,588,16 .35 to $107,115,46844
The State of New York, with it's six
collection districts, which turn in more
than any one State to Uncle Sam,
showed falling off from $865. $751;
044.43 total in 1880 to $500 s321 ,679 So
in 1881.
Evening star., 1932-01-25

! ]. Matos crack aerial photographer at
the local Army station, were assigned
! to assist Mr.. Lincoln in his aerial count;
They expect to make photographs to-
! day to determine the best method of
registering the ducks on plates so they
can be counted at leisure. 1t was plan
ned to fly over the feeding areas on the
river flats at the highest altitude at
which it is thought the ducks can be
photographed, and then at low attitudes
to get pictures of the various kinds of
ducks composing the fiocks
Army pilots have found by observa-.
ton that ducks are not greatly alarmed
by airplaneS and that plane must fly
at less than 400 feet over their feeding
places to disturb them. In some cases
they will permit plane to approach
within 100 feet before taking alarm.
Sharp Photographs Expected.
If today's tests are successful, one
of the great problems of the Biological
Survey will have been solved, it is
anticipated, and much new light will
be shed on the habits of ducks and
other water fowl.
BY flying at 1,OO9 to 1000 feet. it
is believed, the duck survey photo
graphs will show individual ducks and
at 400 feet or less, individual species.
Evening star., 1932-01-25
PASSENGERS BEAT
AND ROB CAB DRIVER
Another Fare Declares Taxi Man
Grabbed $14 as He Counted
Out Money.

The mounting list of taxicab hold-ups
was increased by two over the week
end, with a driver being robbed by
three passengers and passenger being
help up by driver.
Simon Mccullough, colored cab
driver, told police he was dragged from
his machine, beaten and robbed of $3.50
by three passengers whom he picked up
early yesterday.
He said he was employed by the trio
at Pennsylvania avenue and Fourth
street and was told to drive to the TOO
block of E street southwest. There the
men dragged him from the cab, beat
him with their fists and robbed him,
he said.
Allen Shepherd. 82S Eleventh street
northeast, told police driver snatched
$l4 from him and drove away as he
pulled out his money to pay the man
after he had driven him to his home
last night He said he employed the
driver in the downtown section
Evening star., 1932-01-25
BUREAU MERGERS
URGED BY COCHRAN
Missourian Also Offers Bill
Proposing Abolition of
Efficiency Unit.

Consolidation Of the various person.
mel activities Of the Government into
single administrative unit, coupled
with abolition Of the United States Bu-
reau of Efficiency, is provided in two
bills introduced in the House today
by Representative John j. Cochran,
Democrat, of Missouri, chairman of
the Committee on Expenditures in the
Executive Departments.
One of Cochrans bills, if enacted
into law he said, would create an ad-
miniStrator OF civil service and trans
fer to his jurisdiction the duties of
numerous boards and commissions.
Cochran believes enactment of the
measure would effect a large saving in
administration expenses, as we'll as in
official personnel
The Set-up proposed includes the
consolidation of the Civil Service Com
mission, the Employees Compensation
| Commission, the Personnel ClasSifica-
ton Board and the Civil Service Re
tirement Bureau, the last named being
now subject to the administrator of vet
Grams affairs.
Regarding his second bill, to abolish
tne bureau OF EfhclenCy, Cochran eX-
plains the Bureau of the Budget has
taken over the original functions of the
Bureau of Efficiency and is of the opin-
ion this bureau is no longer a necessity.
ii it ever was. Other departments OF
the Government are able. in Cochran's
opinion, to perform what work is left
now to the Bureau Of Efficiency.
Considerable part of this hlrea1l's
time is now devoted said Cochran, ito
gathering statistics for Senators and
! Representatives, and it would be an
easy matter to abolish the bureau with
out IN any way affecting the admins
tration of the Government adversely
While there are numerous bureaus
and commissions that should be abol-
! ished," he continued "or the duties
OF the officers placed in the hands OF
other Government officials without pro-
yiding for extra pay, thus reducing
Government expenditures. the Bureau
Of Efficiency is the most useless of ali y
Evening star., 1932-01-25
S2,742,133FOR D. c.
INSTITUTIONS
St. EIizabeth's, GalIaudet,
Howard u. and Freedmen's
Hospital Named.

For four Washington institutions a
total of $2,742,133 is recommended to
be appropriated in the Interior Depart
ment bill reported to the House today.
These are st. Elizabeth'S Hospital for
the Insane, Columbia Institution for
the Deaf (Gallaudet College,, Howard
University and Freedmens Hospital.
For three of these increases in appro-
priations amounting to $4,000 are sub
mitted, but for Howard University's
building program slash of nearly half
a million dollars under the current ap-
propriations and more than half mil
lion dollars under the budget estimates
is recommended.
st. Elizabeth Proposal.
The bill proposes for st. Elizabeths
Hospital total expenditure Of $l,245,-
G53 for support, clothing, etc, which is
the amount recommended by the budget
and an increase of Sal, ,633 over the 1882
snnropriation. The increase in this
item is due to an estimated increase In
the number of patients, the annual rate
of increase being about 100. NO new
construction is recommended.
Tho Federal contribution to the main
tenance of this institution is continued
at $4,000, an increase Of $4,000 over
the current year, and is the amount
contained in the budget.
For Howard University there is rec
commended an appropriation OF Sl,OI5'-
600. which is S485,000 less than the
current appropriation and S535,O0O less
than the budget figure. For payment
of salaries the committee recommends
$3.50 coo, which is $4,000 less than the
estimate and is the same amount as
the 1882 appropriation. Similarly, the
committee has reduced the item for
general expenses from the budget figure
of s275 900 ts the 1892 figure OF S225,-
600.
Less Than Estimate.
For construction and completion OF
a heat, light and power system the com
mittee has recommended an approprl-
alton of 100000, which is 100000 less
than the estimate of the budget. The
committee also recommends the reduc-
ton of the budget estimate fer CON-
Dletion of construction of a library
BUILDING from S400, 900 to 100000.
The bill carries S293, ,480 for salaries
and subsistence and other miscellaneous
expenses at Freedmen's Hospital, which
is the budget figure and S3,48O more
than the 1882 appropriation for these
purposes No new construction Is pro-
vided for this hospital during the fiscal
wear 1888. One-haf the amount rec
commended is chargeable to the District
of Columbia and is paid into the Treas
ury as other appropriations OF the Dis
! trict of Columbia are paid.
Evening star., 1932-01-25

T~HIS new Army Air Corps crash
truck, designed primarily to
drag personnel from planes
i which crash and catch fire, has
been assigned to Boiling Field
for service tests. No effort has been
spared in designing the truck to save
every possible fraction of second in
getting to the scene Of a crash and g.
ing into action.
The truck has an 80-horsepoWer air.
cooled engine and can travel over
rough open field at 60 miles an hour.
1t carries crew of three and spectac-
ular new firefghting and rescue equip
ment. 1t can generate and deliver
steady stream of a thick, foamy chem
ical which smotherS burning gasoline;
can lay down a smothering sheet OF
carbon dioXide gas; carries sufficient
water to deliver 34-inch stream under
high pressure for half-houn and also
carries four chemical -eXtinguisher
tanks for special purposes. Grapnel
hooks and cables for tearing apart
burning plane, hackSaWS, powerful
metal cutters and other tools are car
ried so as to be instantly available.
One man rides on the rear Of the
truck and as the scene of the crash Is
reached jumps off, pulling as he does
SO a lever which uncoils and throws out
the foamite hose, connected and ready
for action The driver throws clutch
which starts the water pump going.
The third man, pail of foam producing
powder in hand, is ready to pour it
into a hopper on the side of the truck
where it is automatically mixed with
water and fed through the hose under
pressure The entire operation re-
quireS less than 10 seconds. The photo
graphic inset shows the hopper into
which the powder is poured and the
mixing valves at the bottom.
Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1932-01-25
POLICEMEN DENY
SEEING BRUTALITY
Six Called to Stand as Case
of Bremmermann and Clark
Is Speeded Up.

Testimony moved with more rapidity
today as the third degree trial of Po-
licemen Charles r. Bremmermann and
Hollis H. Clark was resumed before
Justice F. Dickinson Let's and a jury
in District Supreme Court The trial
had been in recess since Thursday.
Six police witnesses, including In
spector Ogden T. Davis, former captain
of the old second precinct, were called
by the defense this morning to support
the contention that the two policemen
at no time beat or abused some seven
or eight colored boys they were queS-
tioning about larcenies and house
breaking.
Was Absent From Station.
Inspector Davis served principally as
"a character witness, giving the two
accused policemen a very good repu-
tation for peace and order, truth and
Veracity. Under cross examination he
said he never had been asked to prefer
any charges against them.
Being busy in preparations for his
new position as inspector, the police
officer testified he had spent very little
time at the station during the three
days last June named in the indict-
ment on which Bremmermann and
Clark are being charged for an al
legged assault on Thomas McKeever
Williams, 17-year-old prisoner. He
merely recalled detailing them to spe-
cial duty in connection with the larceny
cases and seeing them at the precinct
at one time.
Others Deny Seeing Weapons.
All the other police witnesses who
testified denied seeing any blackjacks
or clubs in the locker room where the
boys were being questioned and like
wise denied knowledge of any mistreat-
ment of the youths.
Two visiting policemen, however,
Harry E. Britton and Michael j, Ma
hany, who had called to check up on
stolen property. testified they had no
recollection of the boys laughing and
joking" Every other policeman who
has testified was quite positive in his
statement that this was the character
istic attitude of the boys
Among the other policemen who tes-
titled were Odessa S. Hunt, John T
Langley and william c. McCarty.
With the exception of Inspector Davis
the precinct policemen could scarcely
remember a single detail without ref
erence to the record books when cross
examined by Government attorneys.
Evening star., 1932-01-25
FAILURE IN STUDIES,
NURSE KILLS HERSELF
Student, IS, Takes Poison When
She Learns She Cannot Grad
uate With Her Class.

Poison, swallowed presumably after
she had been told she would not gradu-
ate with her class at Emergency Hos
pital, caused the death yesterday of
Helen Black, 18-year-old student nurse
A certificate of suicide was issued by
Dr. A. Magruder Macdonald, deputy
coroner, on the recommendation of po-
lice Investigators reported the girl
had been art-broken because Of diff
cultieS with her studies.
Miss Evelyn Koontz, her roommate,
found Miss Black lying on bed in the
nurses home apparently in great pain
Miss Koontz notified hospital authori-
ties. The girl was given emergency
treatment, but failed to rally, as the
poison already had taken effect
Miss Black is survived by her mother
Mrs. Laura Black, two sisters. Estelle
and Mary, and brother, Warren, all OF
62O7 f ghth street
Evening star., 1932-01-25
KANSANS PLAN DINNER

The seventy-first anniversary of the
admission of Kansas into the Union
will be celebrated at a dinner here
Friday by the Kansas State Society
Vice President Curtis, who will cele-
brate 25 years of service in the Senate
on that day, and Senators Capper and
McGill, will be guests at the affair
which is to be held at the Raleigh
Hotel
Others who have been asked to at
tend include the Kansas delegation in
the House, District Commissioner Her
pert b. CROSBY, William O. Woods.
treasurer OF the United States; Edward
Z. F1nney' soHcltor Of the Interior De-
partment, and Edward F. ColIadav
Representative c. r. Hope is nresi-
dent Of the society.
Evening star., 1932-01-25
Frederick Woman Dies.
sDecial Dispatch To The Star,


WINCHESTER, Va, January Is
Mrs.. Frances Adeline Cooper, wife of
Newton A Cooper, Frederick County
farmer end fruit grower, died Saturday,
day after observing her seventy-sixth
birthday. She had been indisposed for
some time She is survived by her hus-
band, two sons, Walter l. and Grover
C Cooper, here; one daughter, Mrs.
Lillian Hartman, Albin, Va; one sister,
Miss Virginia Ashton, Martinsburg w
Va, and one brother, Charles Ashton,
Rockford, Ill.