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The Washington times., 1932-08-26
EXPERTS STUDY
FISCAL RATIO
Of D. Gu 8.
Investigation 0utgroWth of
Long Conflict Over 60-40
Arrangement

A comprehensive report on
the fiscal relations between
the Federal and District gov
ernments, with special en-
phasis on the 6O-4O ratio, is
being prepared by officials of
the United States Bureau of
Efficiency for submission to
Congress this winter.
Accumulation of pertinent facts
upon which the bureaus recon-
mendations will be based was
started shortly before the adjourn
ment of the last session. With
the exception of brief Interrupt
tons the staff of experts as,
signed to the task has been work.
ing steadily on the problem all
summer, Acting Chief Thomas
F. Murphy said today.
Long Conflict
The study and report is the
outgrowth of the long-standing
conflict in Congress on the eX-
tent the Federal Government is
to share in the expenses of the
District. 1t was precipitated at
the last session by the introduc,
ton of the Mapes tax bills al
fecting the District.
Although Mr.. Murphy refused
to disclose what progr is be-
ing made. the question of Fed
eral owned nontaxable property in
the National Capital will come
in for thorough study.
Reported on Mapes Bills
This has been one of the sore
spots in most of the discussions
or the fiscal relations situation.
The Bureau of Efficiency sub
mitted favorable reports on sew
eral Mapes bills at the last ses-
sion. These bills provided for an
inheritance tax, increase of gas
oline tax from two to four cents
per gallon, taxing of motor We
hicles according to weight, levy
ing of an income tax and ad-
justment of taxes on public util-
tiles and banks.
The Washington times., 1932-08-26
PAYROLL THEFT
SUSPECT HELD

Horace williams, 80, said to be
a son of a policeman. today agreed
to go to Montgomery county and
faces charges in connection with
the $4,000 hold-up of the payroll
of the Congressional Country
Club, August 10.
Williams was arraigned today
before Police Court Judge Gus A.
Schuldt as a fugitive from justice,
following his arrest on a.warrant
sent from Maryland.
The defendant claimed he was
at the Department of Justice
Building at the time of the
hold-up.
The clubs payroll was taken
fro. Miss Fannie Lytle, it's secre-
tary, the robber escaping in a
stolen automobile.
The Washington times., 1932-08-26
BRING CHANGE
REQUEST AIDS
HOLDUPS
Grocer and Gas Station Man.
ager Lose $62 to Bandits;
Boys Both Bound, Gagged

Two youths last night fell
victim to the old telephone
order swindle employed by
holdup men, and a grocer and
a gasoline station operator also
were robbed by bandits.
Henry Ritnour. 15-year-old mes
senger, of the 5000 block Con-
necticut Ave. N. w., delivering a
quantity of ice cream and cigar
cites at an apartment in the $500
block Connecticut Ave. N. W., was
held up, bound and robbed of more
than $40 Ky two white men.
Met By a Gun
The men had previously called
the Cathedral Pharmacy, 5000
block Connecticut Ave. and .t5ked
the goods be delivered and that
charge 1o1 $40 be sent.
Ritnour took the order, but was
accosted at the door of a fourth
floor apartment by a white man
who drew a gun on him and forced
him into a vacant apartment.
Auotner aided in birding the
boy. Young Ritnour struggled for
moro than half an hour before he
was able 10 free himself.
Harry C. Curtis, of the first
block Elm Avenue, Takoma Park,
Md, met the same fate and was
robbed of $12 by two white men
at Weaver Place and Canal Road
Northwest a short while later.
Bound and Gagged
He was bound and gagged and
left in the roadway and after q
short struggle freed his bonds
and reported to police.
The men, believed the same
implicated in the first robbery
fled in a sedan parked near the
scene Of the crime.
John Humati, operator of
grocery in the 1900 block Yer
mont Ave. N. w. was robbed at
pistol point of $50 by two colored
men late last night, he told
police.
De Haven Mills, gasoline sta.
ton manager at First and New
York Avenue Northeast was
robbed by a white man this
morning of $12. The man fled
on foot, Mills, told officers.
The Washington times., 1932-08-26
Keeper in RattLers' Den
Thrills Zoo Cr0wd
Times Staff Photo

DR.. William M. Mann to remove
litter of timber rattlers, born
last night, from the parental
cage to the aquarium.
1t seems the reptiles are too
small to be allowed to remain
with their mother. They are so
small they might hide under a
leaf or behind a pebble and bite
an unsuSpecting keeper cleaning
out the cage.
So this morning, while specta-
tors watched breathlessly, God
win went into the mother rat
tiers cage with a bucket and
pronged fork.
With the fork he "shooed" the
mother away and picked up the
squirming infants, which he
dropped into the bucket.
Said a woman:
THAT man has nerve. l
haven't any job, but I'd starve
before I'd put a foot inside
that cage with that snake"
The Washington times., 1932-08-26
Regulated POWer
9 Per Cent of Total

| Power systems under Federal
regulation produced il. 1880 nearly
q per cent of the total power
generated by all companies
throughout the United States, it
was stated yesterday by the Fed
eral Power Commission.
Licensed plants in the Pacific
gas and electric group represent
nearly 38 per cent of the total
capacity; the Niagara Hudson
group. 81 per cent; Common,
wealth and Southern, IA per cent.
and Electric Bond and Share
group. about IL per cent. These
are leaders among the 10 syS-
lens.
The Washington times., 1932-08-26
Prints ShOW Man
Is Theft tSuSDect

William Gather, %, colored. of
Winston,Salem, N. c.. arrested
several days ago by Alexandria
police for investigation, today
was identified by fingerprints as
a man wanted in Maryland on
manslaughter and auto-t h eff t
charges.
Detective Sergeant O'Brien, of
Baltimore, said the man stole
an auto there on August 10 and
a few days later he smashed + in
Newberg, Charles county, Md,
killing Walter Matthews, colored,
of WiNston-Salem. Gather was
returned to Baltimore today.
The Washington times., 1932-08-26
Man Quizzed Here
On Train RObberieS

Richard Michael, 40, colored,
arrested here last Friday, is being
questioned about a series of train
robberies staged in the vicinity of
Lancaster, Pa. Police believe
Michael escaped from the LancaS-
ter roundup.
The robberies we're staged by
five men who boarded moving
trains and threw merchandise to
confederateS.
The Washington times., 1932-08-26
Kin of Washington
Guest at Ohio Fair

Anne Madison Washington
great-great-great grandniece of
George washington, leaves for
Columbus, Ohio, Sunday, where
she will be a guest during the
State fair which will feature the
bicentennial of Washington's
birth.
Miss washington is a direct
descendant of John Augustine
washington, brother of the First
President.
The Washington times., 1932-08-26

share run with penguin, winch
is a black mark against the City of
Brotherly Love; the people of Stock
holm protest against Zoos altogether
because of the imprisonment of ami
mails; in Madrid the Zoo is almost
entirely in the open, but it contains
few rare beasts. The temporary Zoo
des Petits in Paris, taken in con-
junction with the permanent one, is
a clue to the charm and hayward
ness of the French, their passion for
a seductive air, their Indifference to
Anglo-Saxon idealism which, in the
past hundred years, has extended
itself from cannibals to man-eatlng
animals,
The Washington times., 1932-08-26
Talk on Esperanto
At Central TOniqht

Kurt Fritzsching, an attache of
the German Embassy and an
authority on Esperanto, will
lecture on Esperanto tonight at
8 o'clock in Central High School,
speaking in this proposed inter,
national language part of the
time.
The public is invited, and is
asked to use the stadium
entrance.
The Washington times., 1932-08-26

Johnny Goodwin may be just
one of the boys at the Reptile
House to officials at the ZOO but
to several hundred ZOO fans who
watched his performance in the
rattlesnake cage this morning he
is a hero.
Goodwin was commissioned by
The Washington times., 1932-08-26
WOMAN FIGHTER FINED

Mrs. Bertha Kasulke, of
Greater Capitol Heights, was
fined 81 and costs for assault
on her sister-in-law, Mamie l.
Kasulke, also of Greater Capitol
Heights, in police court at
Capitol Heights yesterday. Bertha
it was alleged, threw Mamie to
the ground and pulled her hair.
The Washington times., 1932-08-26
RECEIVERS STOLEN CAR

An automobile reported stolen
in Richmond Tuesday was recov
cred by Patrolman George Ell
more, of the Alexandria police last
night when he came upon the
driver trying to break a lock on
a gasoline pump at the Carter
Motor Company. The driver es
capped.
The Washington times., 1932-08-26
Those French Shows

As occasional visitor to the French capital I could
wish that little more attention paid to making the
professional specaces in the theaters entertaining Also
Like thousands of my countrymen approach Paris with
the VOW that this time at least will be trapped into
going to see the Casino de Paris the Foies Bergeres
and like Them am always trapped This time the trap
ping only half successfu only the show at the
Casino Like all its predecessors with excepton) it
was dull unlike most of them, it wasn't dirty 1t tried
little in half-hearted way, but in spite of the title
(Sex Appeal, 1927 the smut fraud. young girl
could see without blush and without being interested
more than 10 minutes out of it's interminable hours
Chose 10 minutes for the acrobats the best of
whom, on roller skates, I last at the Hollywood
Restaurant in New York;
Il hird-Rate Glamour
For two generations the Partisan revues have had a
false glamour Not of them reached the level of
secondrate revue in America, either in wit or in skill
The dancing is always deporabe; the sketches are long
and pontess the mechanics of the production are faulty
and the spirits low The snap and go of our reves
are entirely lacking
At the Casino this year is a singer of whom great
things are told Marie Dubas. She sings songs which
Yvonne George sang we'll and others which Breton sailors
and college boys sing better But she overwhelms the
French for odd she is the only star who doesn't
put on airs who doesn't try to be lady while on the
stage, who doesn't whether she makes herself look
ridiculous.
All l could think of Fanny Brice who has done the
thng-and done it infinitely better-for IS years
The Washington times., 1932-08-26
KICKED BY MULE

Kicked by a mule, Gilbert Hen
derson, of Travilah, Md, was
treated at Montgomery County
Hospital today for injuries to his
shoulder.
The Washington times., 1932-08-26
True to Type
LITTLE ONES ZOO
BEST PLACE
IN PARIS
Nv GILBERT SELDES-

You can tell nation by the Zoos it keeps well as any
other way and no way is any too good) Zoo in Phil
adelphia once allowed duck such ritf-ratt to
The Washington times., 1932-08-26
A Lot of Babies
GILBERT SELDES

Z GILBERT sELDrs This Zoo of the Little Ones is just
what it's suggess-a collection of new arrivals
cubs and puppies and kids and ambkns and whatever
the dinnutive may be for elephants and hyenas how
the arrangements made must remain mystery; we
have the fact that at time the directors have collected
duckings and chicks and kittens and baby llama ana
colt and several hundred sucking pigs. friend OF NINE
seeing the animated and cheerful spectacle OF these
beastes and the animation and cheer of hundreds OF Ut
tie Parsians in bright cean tighttting clothes with
tiny goved hands and shr voices, declared that it was
the Garden of Eden, making me think for the first me
that at the moment of Creation the still unnamed ANIMALS
might have been little less than fulgrown masodons
or leviathans.
Roaming Free
The idea itself is attractve entertaining still is
the way it has been put into action Except for the
young hyenas and the lion cubs all the animals there
for to touch and tease and most of them wander
ing freely over the ground, minglng with the perambu
ators the the worried mothers and the enchanted
children. What is more, little stands sell bottles of milk
IMPLIED but not serlized which you take in your hand
and offer to the animals In the early morning you
get whole farmyard at your heels but late in the day
the taste for milk leaves the beasts surely the taste
for whskey leaves the dunkad when he has had enough
Then the goaets in your faceand they right
little pigs live up to their names-they gruntng
and suck wildly and look reproachful you take the bot
tie away The young pigmy elephant tears off the nip
pie and loses the milk The calf retreats to it's mother
The llama lifts his scornfu lip.
Big Business
Ihls encouraged feeding of animals in Paris makes YOU
think at times that to the French Zoo is only an ad-
dtOna market place. Around the pool of the polar bears
buns and carrots and bread for sae at high prices
and you continually solicited to buy. Our DO Not
Feed the Animals * entirely unknown; they are there
to amuse the popula2, ard if you get amusement
by feeding them their ingesons and perhaps hastened
deaths can be helped.
The Zoo as place for scientific study the Zoo as
place in which animals particularly cared for
not to exist in the Frenchmans mind It is source of
entertainments spectacle.
The Washington times., 1932-11-11
0TOR DEATHS
IN DISTRICT .
STIR CHIEF

4 statemnt issued today,
llam a. van Duzer, director Of
cles And traffic, said he Is
coerned over the increas.
flunhtr Of traffic fatalities
altarict.
tElk October, Director Van
I'D, IL persons were killed
lItfEsD accidents as compared
In october, 1881. In
a4 d persons were killed
ilhtS l05 in 1891. So far this
AE 100 deaths have been re.
ofte
ssC9e naes of the persons killed
a te 4 ranged from 1e to so
gstFs. i've OF the deaths re-
.ssllFEa TOM accidents ct intersec-
ltip kfa even between il1tersec-
l5lptls But one death resulted
frnsi 40 accident at an inter.
seeAion kohtrOled by traffic lights
or tfaff8c policemen.
1nls accident, however, oc-
Giiffed 10 minutes after the lights
'weEe turned off at midnight.
Six of she persons killed In Oc-
tda1er were pedestrians.
skllx deaths occurred in daylight
ana SIX after dark. Two Of the
tsehtfss occnrred while 1t was rain /
"a AID the streets wet.
The Washington times., 1932-11-11
WHAT'S DOING

Meeting-Sigma Beta Sorority
8 D. M, Shoreham Hotel.
Armistice Day Sermon-"The
Government at washington Still
lives" by DR.. AbraTn Simon, q
p. m, Washington Hebrew Con
Gard Party--oarnma Chapter,
Chi Sigma Sorority, 8 p. m, so
M St. N. e.
Af1nistlce Dance--A m eric q n
Legion George washington Bah,
0 D. M, Mayflower Hotel.
Meeting--Federation Of Paint
and VArnish Production Clubs, all
day, Mayflower Hotel.
historical Evening-United
Daughters Of the Confederacy, B
p. m, Confederate Memorial
Home, 1922 Vermont Ave. N. w.
Solemn Arlnistice Day Mass
Under auspices Of the Costello
Post Of the American Legion,
1919 p. M, Church Of the I'm.
Tnaculate Conception.
Illustrated Lecture - Alaskan
Wonderlal1dS," by Branson De
Cou, under the auspices Of the
board Of managers Of the Epls.
cCpal Church Home, 0:iS D, M.
Willard Hotel.
Meeting-West washing on
Center Dramatic Club. 1880 D.
m, Francis Junior High School,
TwentyfouYth and N SITS. N. W..
Meeting Literary Club Of the
SodAlity Union, 8 p. m, Aloyslan
Club, A I st. N. w.
Armistice Day Celsbration-
Takoma Park Post, No. 2S, sI
2. M, Takon1a Park Community
Foed how-Sponsored by the
District Grocery Stores, inc. AM
day, Washington Auditorium.
Exhibit-Co Columbia water Color
society, ell day, Art League Of
21l1 Bancroft ri.
Lecture - "Chrlstian Science.
rhe Road Of Spiritual Achieve. |
nent," BY Paul A. fiarsch: |
poF1sored BY the Third Christian |
Science Church, Q p. m, Me
norial Continental Hall, Seven
eenth and D SITS. N. w.
Meeting - Ladies Aid Of the
district Fire Department, 9 p. m,
soard Room of the District
Building.
Meeting-Bicentennial Chapter,
american War Mothers, 8 p. M,
The Washington times., 1932-11-11

Hamilton Hotel.
Meeting - Brightwood Citizens
Association, 8 p, m, Paul Junior
High School, Eighth and Nich0l
son Hts. .
Meeting-Young Peoples Dance
Clup, 3 p. m, Chevy Chase Com.
muniey center, Ben Murch
School.
Memorial Services--District Of
Columbia Lodges, Knlahts Of
Pythias, S:ls p. m, PytliAn TEN.
pie. l012 Ninth st.. N. w.
Armistice Day Services--Tn
honor Of Woodrow Wilson, con.
Quoted by the Rt. Rev. James n.
Freeman, Bishop Of Washiilstoli
3:l6 p. m. Bethlehem Chapel.
washington Cathedral.
Ar1fiietice jubilee 49, Sponsored
by the Veterans OF FOREIGN wars.
benefit Of needy veterans and
their families, evening, Washlng-
ton Auditorium. 3
PageAnt-fn In observance OF
american EuuC@ClOn week, under
auspices Of The Parent. .TeAcher
Association Of the Maury School
in Alexandria. evening, In the
school auditorium.
Meeting ~ Pleasant Plains Cit
iEens Association, 0 p.. m, Mon
roe School, Columbia Road N. W,
Card .party-Benefit OF 81.
Francis de Sales Church. Q p. M.
Twentieth Street and Rhode
Island Avenue Northeast.
Dance-St. Francis de Sales
Girls Clubs, . p. m, 2O20 Rhode
Island Ave. N. Is. II
Card Party and Ar1nistice Ball
Auxiliary Board of Trinity COL
lege, $50 p. m, WNrdTlan Park.
Meeting Friday evening dane
ing class Of Chevy Chase Com
lH1unity Center, Q b. m, Ben
Mureh School. Il
Concert--United States Marine
Band, Q p. M, auditorium Of the
Marine Barracks.
The Washington times., 1932-11-11
II. s. Penderter
YieIU Dedication

among the guests attending
tEs dedication OF the new
81 300 900 Wills Eye Hospital ut
AdeIphia tomorrow, will be
q n. B. Pendexter, washington
ceeflllst.
The dedication is held on the
1V0th anniversary of the found.
ang OF this institution and will
c0a1msmorate . century Of service
and progress in the optical field.
rs Pendexter was formerly
resident surgeon of the institution
and is member Of the Wills
Hospital Alumni Association.
Evening star., 1932-11-30
FINAL COURT HEARINGS
REACHED IN OIL FIGHT

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, November 30
United States District Judge William
P. James yesterday signed an order put
ting into effect terms and conditions
Of the mandate Of the Ninth District
Circuit Court OF Appeals in the case OF
the Government against the Pam
American Petroleum Co.
The United States Supreme Court
denied rehearing OF the case.
One Of the terms OF the mandate
calls for al audit, by which Govern
ment prosecutors said they hoped to
establish that at least $4,000 900 is due
the United States Treasury from
moneys received in the sale of oil, nat
ural gas and gasoline Another aim OF
the Government is the surrender by the
concern OF about $50 acres of valuable
oil land in Naval Oil Reserve No. !, In
Kern County, Calf
The recent case was termed a COM
panion to the suit of the Government
against the Pan-American Petroleum
Co. and the Pan American Petroleum
q Transport, E. L. Doheny properties
The first case was tried in 1924. the
court giving the Government judg-
ment for $4,000. 900 and denying Do
heny compensation for oil tanks con-
structed at Pearl Harbor. Hawaii.
The suit involved the blanket lease
made by former Secretary Of the In
terror Fall on land in the Naval Re-
serve. The lease was cancelled aftel
congressional investigation of an as
serted bribe Of 100000 paid to Fall.
Evening star., 1932-11-30
|DEBTSH HINGE
| FOR ARMS ACCORD
Success Of Farley Declared
Depending on Survival OF
Herriot Government.
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.

BY Gable to The star.
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 30
, The fate of the momentous flve-power
talk on which the American delegation
hopes to terminate the Disarmament
Conference with complete success be-
fore Christmas now depends. 1t is de-
clared, on whether the Herriot govern
ment survives the war debt debate in
the French Chamber Of Deputies to-
morrow.
II Premier Edouard Herriot falls, the
delays incident to the forming Of new
French government will be such that
nothing further, 1t Is said, can use
| fully be attempted in Geneva until
January.
II, on the other hand, Herriot sur
wives his parliamentary assault, the
five-power talk will begin here, 1t Is
announced, on Friday.
Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald
! OF Great Britain and his foreign min
lister, Sir John Simon, in this case,
will 20 to Paris tomorrow and proceed
| thence to Geneva tomorrow night in
company with Norman H. Davis, Amer
ican expert, and Herriot.
The Germans, who seemed yesterday
to have felt some trepidation lest the
! French and Americans had reached an
understanding in advance prejudtcial TO
| German interests, have been complete
! ly reassured, II Is said Baron Con-
! stantin Won Neurath, Reich foreign
minister, will, consequently, be present
| In Geneva on Friday.
| Davis. IL Is learned, has discussed the
Evening star., 1932-11-30
SOUTHEAST URGES
CAR IMPROVEMENTS
Five-Cent Fare, Universal Trans
fers and Rubber Tires Recon-
mended at Meeting.

Improvements In street car service In
the District which would react to the
advantage of the traction companies
were advocated by the Southeast Citi-
zens Association last night at q meet
ing in the Buchanan School, Thirteenth
and D streets southeast.
Among suggestions advanced by the
association for the betterment OF car
service were scent fare. universal
transfers and adoption of rubber tires
for street cars to do away with noise
and racket"
The group adopted resolution call
ing for these changes and voted to
forward copy Of it to Richmond 3.
Keech, peoples counsel The measure
provoked considerable discussion, dur
ing which criticisms we're made Of the
lack of comfort stations. covered wait
ing platforms and what was termed the
poor condition of trackage generally in
the southeast section
Appointment of committees for the
ensuing year and admission OF new
members comprised the remainder of
the business Of the meeting George
w. Bell, new president OF the aSsocis-
ton, presided.
Evening star., 1932-11-30
Aid Will Serve Oyster Supper.

WALKERS CHAPEL Va, November
80 Especially The Ladies' Aid Society
of the Walkers Chapel Church is COM
pleting plans for benefit oyster and
meat dinner to be given In the church
basement Friday night. beginning at
o'clock
Evening star., 1932-11-30

from disarmament discussions such dan.
gerous political matters as that Of se-
cur1ty against aggression and that Of
equality In armaments.
The indications are that he has sue
ceeded In negotiating sort of truce In
the discussion OF these matters. Al
though this weeks meeting, II 1t sue
ceeds. may mean only slight reductions,
plans ALREADY are under way to create
mechanism BY means Of which pro-
gresSlVe reductions would be possible.
II Is believed that France would want
Russia, as well as Germany, included
In any general arrangement, especially
since the new Franco Russian pact az
non aggression has established a new
pohtlcal INK between these two coun-
tries.
The United States probably would
want japan to participate, and hence
any agreement reached at Geneva a
likely to be extended later to include
Japan and Russia.
Prevention OF bombardment from,
the air Is one Of Mr.. Davis outstand-
standing points In the field OF naval
arms the chief problem is to effect an
accord between France and Italy so
that the Washington and London naval
treaties could be completed
The Americans. acting solely as help
full Intermediates, are tackling this
problem by keeping the word parity"
out Of the discussion, and by trying to
get France and Italy to agree on naval
building programs up to 1896.
1t is said they have made consider
able progress along these lines.