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The Washington times., 1932-11-09
5 FACE DEFEAT
ON DISTRICT
COMMITTEE
Glenn of Senate Body Beaten,
With Jones Reported
Also Behind

One member of the Senate
District Committee went down
to defeat at the polls yester-
day while the political fate Of
another member still is hang
ing in the balance today.
Doubt also shadowed the po'
litical careers Of five members
of the House District Committee
The defeated member Of the
Senate District Committee Is
Otis Glenn who was beaten in
Illinois by Representative vii
liam H. Dieterich. Senator Wes
ley L. Jones was reported trailing
Homer T. Bone, his Democratic
opponent in Washington State
with the race still close.
Others Defeated
The members of the House
District Committee who may
have been Scalped at the polls
are Clarence L. Mcleod Of Mich
| igan, Patrick ]. Sullivan Of
PENNSYLVANIA, C. B. McClintocE
of Ohio, Frederick M. Davenport
of New York, and Pehr G
Holmes Of Massachusetts,.
@ Mrs. Norton Back
All Democrats on both com
mitteeS were reelected, including
Mrs. Mary T. Norton, chairman
of the House Committee, re
turned in New Jersey. Senator
Arthur Capper, of Kansas, was
not in danger of losing his seal
yesterday as his term has moi
expired. -. ..r.
The Washington times., 1932-11-09
COLLADAY ASKS
COOPERATION

A plea for cooperation OF
Democrats and Republicans in
the remaining months of the
present administration was made
today by Edward F. Colladay
chairman of the District Repub'
lican committee. Mr.. Colladay
said:
Herbert Hoover is q great
man, a great American and q
great President, but by the will
of the majority he is to retire
and MIR. Roosevelt is to be our
President. Campaign differ
enceS should now be forgotten
and a united effort made
throughout the remainder of
the present administration and
during Mr.. ROSevelt's admins
tratiOn to continue our way
upward to prosperity"
The Washington times., 1932-11-09
Clock Collection
Is Brokers Hobby

It sounds something like pay
mig off an election bet, but that
is not the real reason why Charles
Henry urnham. investment
broker with offices in the 1nsur-
ance Building, collects clocks
which do not run. 1t is just a
hobby.
Besides being clocks which do
not run, they are clocks which
have pictures on the inside OF
the glass shielding the pendulum,
pictures which we're painted in
reverse, with mirrors guiding the
artists brush. The antique time
pieces are considered very valu,
able,
The Washington times., 1932-11-09
PLACED
ON ROOSEVELT

Secret Service operatives are
on duty guarding President-elect
Franklin D. Roosevelt. w. H. Mo-
ran, chief of the Secret Service,
said today.
Moran said Secret Service men
had been assigned to Mr.. Roose-
velt yesterday, and were ordered
to permanent duty last night
when it became evident that he
would be victorious over Mr..
Hoover.
Moran would divulge neither
the number nor the identity OF
the men assigned to the Demo
cratic candidate.
The Washington times., 1932-11-09
Loan to California
By r. F.C. Is Upheld

The reconstruction Finance
Corporation may legally lend
$40, 900 to the Metropolitan
Water District of Southern Cali
fornia, Justice Oscar r. Luhring
has ruled in District Supreme
Court.
Suit of several taxpayers of the
State to restrain the corporation
was dismissed on the ground that
they had not sufficient interest
to maintain the action.
The Washington times., 1932-11-09
GOV. ROOSEVELT I
EP|SCOPAL|AN

Washington is awaiting with
much interest the prospective
church affiliation of President
elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.
= When he was here as Assistant
Secretary of the Navy, from 1918
to 1921. he attended st. Thomas
Episcopal Church, and was a
vestryman there. 1t is generally
anticipated that he will resume
his membership in that church.
The Rev. c. Ernest Smith, rec.
tor of the church. said today
that Mr.. Roosevelt had attended
very regularly during his former
residence in Washington. but
that he had not heard from him
regarding his future plans.
The Washington times., 1932-11-09
C.. u. Students Ldud
EnUOu From ItQLu

Representatives of 1talo-Amer.
ican students of Catholic. Uni,
versity called at the italian EN-.
bassy yesterday to pay their re.
spects to the retiring ambassador,
Mobile Giacomo de Martino.
Father Christopher, speaking
for the students, warmly praised
Ambassador de Martino'S work
in strengthening the bonds be
tween the two countries.
The Washington times., 1932-11-09
VICTORY PART Y
). HELD BY D. c.
(. DEMOCRATS !.
Pent Up Emotions of Long,
Lean Years Let Loose at
News of Landslide

Early today and late last
night the Democrats of the Dis
trict of Columbia (for the first
time since 1916, when a tardy
California vote recorded the re-
election of Woodrow WILSON,
celebrated a Democratic VIC
tory.
In that celebration they seemed
to let loose all the pent-up hopes
and enthusiasms OF the lean
years. The local Democrats be-
gan to cheer at headquarters,
1920 G st. N. W., shortly after 6
p. M, when scattering returns
began to show the Roosevelt
Garner trend in the national
elections.
Cheer Until Midnight
The cheering kept up until past
midnight. BY that time even the
most pessimistic Democrat had
become convinced that Roosevelt
and Garner were "in the bag"
and, thereupon, there were a few
more cheers, a few more songs
and a speech or so-and every
body went home.
Bulletins were read all through
the evening. Every Democratic
gain, in no matter how small q
precinct, was acclaimed by loud
hanG-clapping and huzzahs. A
Hoover-C Curtis gain was met with
groans or silence.
When election news was scarce
the West Virginia HiHblllies'
string orchestra was constantly
in tune and popped up the as
semblage by playing such airs as:
California, Here I Come;
Anchors Aweigh," the naval SONG
so liked by Franklin D. Roose
welt, who was former Assistant
Secretary of the Navy; Happy
Days Are Here Again: "The
Long, Long Trail: Pack Up
Your Troubles; How Dry
Am" and "The Sidewalks OF
New York"
Leaders Make Speeches
John F. Costello, Democratic
national committeeman for the
District, and John B. Colpoys
chairman of the Democratic cen
trail committee, made rousine
speeches. They assailed the de
feated Republican administration
saying it got what it deserved
and then promised the approving
audience that henceforth the Dis
trict organization Of Democrats
would be a militant one ant
never again be dormant" be
tween quadrennial campaigns.
Afterward Mr.. and Mrs. Cos
! tello, Mrs. Conway w. Cooke
' Major Cooke, Miss Sue Killer
. and others who have worked TO
weeks as volunteers in the Dis
trict Democratic organization
posed for photographs under
big Roosevelt photograph ant
slogan.
: When the election Of Roosevelt
was conceded shortly before mic
night MeSSrS. Costell and Col
poyS and Major and Mrs. Cook
sent a telegram of congratula
, ton to the President-elect a
Hyde Park. Following that wen
{ a telegram from Ralph A. Cusicl
: president of the War Veteran
:. Club of the District, and Matt
i A. Beehan, executive secretary
who in past weeks had arrange
i several rallies at local headqual
ters.
The Washington times., 1932-11-09
WOnuen's Mission
Society to Meet

The regular monthly meeting
of the Women's Society for Mis-
sions of the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church is being
held today.
Miss Eleanor Gregg, supervisor
of the nursing service Of the
Indian Bureau, will be the prin'
cipal speaker at the night ses-
sion,
The Washington times., 1932-11-09
Missouri Sends to Senate
Son of Champ Clark

Young Bennett, for a time dur
ing the eight years that his
father was Speaker of the House,
served as the parliamentarian
of that body. Hence, when he
enters the Senate next March
he will not be unaccustomed to
the atmosphere of public life
under the big dome
The Washington times., 1932-11-09
Salary Cuts Seen
For Alexandria

The initial draft of the city
budget for 1888 will be presented
to the Alexandria City Council
at it's meeting tomorrow night.
The budget has been kept Sc
cret but is expected to show dras-
tic salary cuts among the higher
paid city employees.
The Washington times., 1932-11-09
Christian Scientist
Says Chest Helps
Real Needy
BY EDWARD E. NORWOOD

ny Ed w 1AA9O III ANOAVEV
Teacher of Christian Science
I have found the Community
Chest to be a wonderful agency
for wise charity that endeavors
to discriminate between the
real needy and the parasites.
1t is a great channel, in these
times. for such a purpose.
I heartily approve of the
Chest. and I try to cooperate
with it to the best of my abil-
ity each year. God bless the
Community Chest and all of its
activities.
The Washington times., 1932-11-09
Alexandria Police
Pass Quiet Election

Only one election day drunk
faced Judge Snow in the Alex
andria Police Court this morning.
Alton Moore, colored, was fined
IS and costs.
Only two arrests were made all
day yesterday.
The Washington times., 1932-11-09
GROUP TO ELECT

The Washington Passenger AS
sociation will nominate officers
for the year at its next meeting
next Wednesday, at 8 p. M, in
the Lee House.
The Washington times., 1932-03-16
GUARD SP D 7 s
TRANSFER Of
. 500 BILL
Edward Frank, JeWeIer, Held
on Arson Charge; Cash
Hidden in Shirt

Edward Frank, who was in
dicted for arson after several
fires in his jewelry store near
Ninth and E Streets North
west, will have fewer financial
worries for the present as a
result of the vigilance of a
guard at the District Jail.
Frank has managed to keep
pretty consistently in the news,
first through the succession Of
fires in his place of business and
later, after he had been arrested
on an arson charge, through
skipping his bond and going to
Detroit about month ago.
Since his return from Detroit
he has been at the District Jail,
and Captain Ratherdale, of the
jail guard, saw him give his at.
torney 500, according to Jail of,
ficialS.
1t is contrary to jail regulations
for a prisoner to have more than
SO in his possession, so Frank
was searched, and the Jail author,
tiles say they found Sewed in his
shirt $4,000 in Liberty bonds and
5000 in paper money.
The money was concealed in
the space between the shoulder
blades, where the fabric of the
shirt was double.
The Washington times., 1932-03-16
D, c. HEADS GET.
JOBFUNDPLEA
Times Staff Photo
MISS MILLIKEN

The resolution of the District
employment committee asking the
District Commissioners to petition
Congress for a special public
work appropriation to relieve local
unemployment, was transmitted
today. No mention was made of
the amount needed in the appro-
priation.
The steering board decided to
postpone further reductions of its
personnel and make work" pro-
gram for four weeks. These pro
grams have already been cut SO
per cent and it was contemplated
reducing them an additional 40
per cent during April.
Commissioner Luther H. Reich
elderfer said today that the Com
missioners will consider the reso-
luton and welcome any opinion
on the local employment situa-
tim
The Washington times., 1932-03-16
BLUECOAT. HELD
AS LIQUOR
RUNNER
PatroIman Cool Caught, Say
Police, Delivering In
Official Car

Pvt. Claude Philip Cool, 81,
attached to police headquarters
as a radio repair man, was ar
rested last night for illegal pos
session Of two half-gallon jars
Of whisky which, according to
officers, he was delivering"
in a police radio car.
Arraigned today before Police
Court Judge Isaac R. Hit, Cool
pleaded not guilty and demanded
a jury trial. He was released on
500 bond for trial March 20.
Sergt. N. o. Holmes, OF the vice
squad, was told that a call had
been made to the police garage,
and that Cool had left there in
the radio car. A few moments
later, members. of the vice squad
arrested Cool in the 1400 block
of Ninth st. N. W., as he STEP
ped from the machine with two
jars of liquor in his arms and
started into the house.
Inspector L. I. H. Edwards, exec
utive officer of the police force
suspended Cool after questioning.
According to Inspector EdwarIs,
Cool said:
81 was only doing a favor for
a friend"
The radio car, which, under
prohibition laws, can be seized by
Federal authorities, was turned
back to the police garage.
Cool, formerly on motorcycle
duty, was painfully injured De
cember %, 1927, when thrown
from his machine while chasing
a bootlegger.
The Washington times., 1932-03-16
SquQtterS
Ousted By
Police

One of Washington's most no
torious districts was cleaned out
today when the police elected
colored squatters from shacks on
the block owned by the govern
ment- at Four-and-a-half st. and
Missouri Ave.
Recently the wrecking crew
from the police department re-
moved all windows and doors
from the row of once fashionable
brick houses, but the former ten
ants returned after. their de-
parture and, stuffing the holes
with old papers and boards, con-
tinued to make the houses their
homes,
Numerous complaints about
the place have been received by
the police from government en-
ployes working across the street.
It was alledged that at least a
dozen speakeasies flourished in
the block.
An old. mansion, said once to
have been occupied by President
Monroe, was one of the most
denSely populated.
The Washington times., 1932-03-16

Nature rrovides unseen traffic
directors for radio lanes in the
upper air, Prof. Arthur E. Ken
nelly, of Harvard University, said
last night in an address at the
Carnegie Institution of Wash
ington.
Like human traffic directors,
sometimes the governing elements
above speed radio programs on
their way and other times snarl
them into disturbing tangles, he
said.
Professor Kennedy described
the mysterious outer layer of the
earth's atmosphere, of which he
was one of the discovererS. This
layer splits ultraviolet light from
the sun into ions and also keeps
radio waves from flying off into
space. It's height varies from so
to 800 miles, Prof. Kennedy said,
The Washington times., 1932-03-16
TO HAVE
8 D, {, BILLS

The House District Committee
at its meeting today was in
formed by its chairman, Mrs.
Mary T. Norton CD of New
Jersey, that the next District Day
in the House was scheduled for
March % when nine bills will be
presented for House action.
The committee agreed to hold
hearings on the old age security
bill for persons over so years old,
which provides for a maximum
pension of SO a week including
any other income such persons
may have, provided they do not
have more than $4,000 in
property.
"BIue Sky" Bill Up
Arrangements were also made
for hearings on the Bowman bill
to regulate sale of securities in
the District.
The committee agreed to report
out the bill to allow the District
to supply water to the Wash
ington Suburban Sanitary Com
mission.
Action on Merger Seen
It agreed to seek early action
on the street railway merger bill
pending in the subcommittee on
public utilities, headed by Re-
preventative Loring M. Black, jr.
CD Of New York.
The commissioners recon-
mended that the committee spon-
sor legislation to make it a mis-
demeanor to abandon or wilfully
neglect any dependent person,
wife or child, in destitute circum-
stances, and a bill will l. intro
duced to that effect. They also
requested a bill to permit them
to close unnecessary streets and
alleys to provide for proper de-
velopment of a site in AnacoStia
for a new junior high school.
The Washington times., 1932-03-16
CITY PLANNERS
To CONFER

The future of Washington and
city planning problems will be
presented at q public meeting
Friday night by Charles w. Eliot
and j. C. Nichols, member of the
Kansas City planning board, at
the new National Museum.
The meeting will be attended
by the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission. It is
to mark the formal opening of
the planning commissions elabor-
ate exhibit prepared in connec-
tion with the Bicentennial. show
ing the development of Washing
ton from it's earlier days.
The program is arranged by
alumni representatives of various
colleges.
The Washington times., 1932-03-16
City Dump Searched
For Lost POcketbOOk

Alexandria police and sanitary
department employees vainly
searched the city dump yesterday
for a pocketbook containing $12
owned by Mrs. Charles Patten,
1116 Prince st. She had given it
to trash man in a. bundle of old
newspapers.
The radio was used to intercept
the trash man, but he had al
ready dumped his truck when a
police cruiser located him. It is
believed some of the junk pickers
infesting the dump had already
found the pocketbook.
The Washington times., 1932-03-16
CHILD WELFARE
REPORT MADE

The District Commissioners to-
day recommended to the House
q provisions for the improvement
of child welfare conditions in the
District.
The commission recommended
division of health education
+ for the health department; more
adequate provision for the control
of contagious diseases, including
the establishment of a division of
tuberculosis and additional tuber-
culosis dispensaries under the
health department.
They advocated erection of a
modern isolation hospital at Gal
linger Hospital; establishment Of
additional child hygiene stations,
dental clinics in the public schools
and additional medical inspectors
and nurses.
An assembly gymnasium for
each elementary school building
of 16 rooms and four or five
acres of play for outdoor sports
was recommended. They also
advocated separate gymnasiums
in junior high schools for boys
and girls and a play-field of five
or more acres; indoor gym
nasiums in senior high schools
for each sex, and athletic fields
of seven or more acres.
The recommendation was made
that the existing law relating to
commitment of dependent chill
dren in the District be changed
to permit the Board of Public
Welfare to assume care and
custody of dependent children
Without court commitment.
The Washington times., 1932-03-16
MAPES WEIGHT
TAX OPPOSED
BY BUREAU
Would PenaIize Heaviest of
Vehicles; Indorses
Gas Levy

Endorsing the Mapes bill
to increase the gasoline sales
tax in the District from 2 to 4
cents a gallon, but recon-
mending important changes in
a companion bill to tax auto
mobiles here by weight, the
United States Bureau of Eff
ficiency today reported back
to the Senate District Commit
tee it's analysis of two more
of the Mapes measures.
Approving the gasoline tax in
crease, the bureau cited, that
within the past six years, 43
States have raised their taxes on
gasoline sales.
Weight Tax Change
Revision of the House bill to
tax automobiles by weight to in
clude a substitute plan providing
a registration fee of only 81 on
passenger automobiles and like
commercial vehicles was sug-
gested. However, it proposes that
on heavier trucks a weight tax
be imposed ranging from $3.50 on
three to four ton vehicles with
pneumatic tires up to $500 .
year on solid tire vehicles of more
than IL tons.
In proposing retention of the
81 registration fee, the bureau
also proposes keeping the present
personal tax on automobiles.
The report recommends Gre
alton of a special highway fund
into which would go taxes derived
from gasoline sales, automobile
weights, registration and title
permits.
Tax Report Next
From this highway fund would
be paid all highway work in the
District, one-half of the cost of
bridge construction and the yearly
expenses of the motor vehicle of.
flee.
The Mapes auto weight scheme,
the Bureau says would result in a
surplus over the necessary fund
of more than 100000 year, and
it says that more equitable plan
is to double the gasoline tax, tax
lightly by weight the small COM
mercial vehicle and tax heavily
the immense trucks which are
hard upon the streets.
The bureaus report of the in.
come tax, bill is due to reach the
Senate committee Saturday, and
hearings on all four Mapes meas
ures probably will start next week.
The Washington times., 1932-03-16
Prince Georges Road
Committees Named

Road committees for 1882 in
Prince Georges county were ap'
pointed by the board of county
commissioners yesterday.
Chairmen of committees of dis
tricts near washington are: Bla
densburg, John B. Alsop; Mari,
boro, DR.. r.. D. SaSscer; Oxon
Hill, r. Walter Brook: Seat Pleas.
ant, G. N. Palmer; Riverdale, H,
A. Friday, and Berwyn. w. F.
Mullikin. The new committee
men enter office ON April /.
The Washington times., 1932-03-16
School
Clerk Resi0nS Job

F. j. Hollock, clerk of the
Arlington county school board, to-
day resigned and his resignation
was accepted by the board with
out comment. Mr.. Hollock gave
no explanation for his action.
State auditors, who have been
investigating the county school
boards books, continued their in
Vestigation, but made public none
of their findings.
The Washington times., 1932-03-16
DiUOrce Plea Calls
Husband DeSerteT

Charging desertion, Edna M.
Bernard, 210 East Underwood st..
Chevy Chase, Md, has filed suit
in the circuit court at Rockville
for an absolute divorce from
Ralph Bernard, New York city.
The bill states that they were
married in Rockville october 4,
1927, when he was in the army
and stationed at Fort Myer, Va.
They have no children.
The Washington times., 1932-03-16
Mysterious Forces in Air
Influence Radio Waves

but radio reception is best when
it is highest.
BY bouncing" radio waves off
this layer many secrets of the
upper regions may be solved, the
speaker predicted.
The Washington times., 1932-03-16
Fish in the Home,
Tonic of Lecture

Fred G. Orsinger, curator Of
the John Shedd Aquarium, will
address the Biological Society of
Washington, on "Aquaria in the
Home" at it's meeting Saturday
evening at the Cosmos Club.
Arthur Pack, Of the American
Nature Association. will speak on
Alaska in Wild Life"
The Washington times., 1932-03-16
Hotel Gt Marlboro
Faces Paddock Suit

Tom Wilson, colored, has been
served notice to appear in Fed.
eral court in Baltimore to show
cause why his hotel at Upper
Marlboro should not be pad
locked. according to U. S. Depu-
ty Marshal Eugene Shook. Pad
lock proceedings. it was said.
grew out Of a liquor raid last
January.
The Washington times., 1932-03-16
PLAN EASTER DANCE

The Ladies' Auxiliary of the
Cabin John Volunteer Fire De,
partment will give a dance on
Easter Monday evening, March
20, in the new fire house on Con-
The Washington times., 1932-03-16
Park Bench Parking
By TaricGb Taboo

Atop a park bench is no place
for a taxicab, police thought slast
night.
And since the bench, in Lin
coin Park, was demolished they
arrested the driver. John Henry
Campbell, 758 Sixth st. N. e.
The Washington times., 1932-03-16

French delegate, has suggested that
the haggling may go on for two
years. Of course, if a general war
should come first, the ten million
men would be killed without the
blessings of disarmament; but it
would only be decent for the fifty
four nations not to slaughter their
young until the correct methods
have been approved.
Sour Notes
Someone has said recently that
this conference need not succeed in
order to be successful; that is, If it
brings to the surface the various
intentions of the great powers and
keeps the principle of disarmament
alive. its function will be fulfilled.