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Evening star., 1932-09-07
Commerce, Interior, AgricuI.
ture Officials CIoseted Two
Days With Director.
MEETINGS TO CONTINUE
TO END OF OCTOBER
President Ready to Take Hand
Personally in Drastic Steps Re-
quired by Low Revenues.

The Budget Bureau continued today
to dig deeper and deeper into the fiscal
structure of the Government in an ef-
fort to meet the Federal financial
problems with added economies in oper-
alton.
Commerce, Interior and Agriculture
Department officials have been closeted
for the past two days with Budget Di-
rector j. Clawson Roop and B. o.
Kloeber, Director Roops assistant, in
dual conferences aimed at cutting down
the expenditures of the Government to
the lowest possible level in the next
session Of Congress.
The Budget Bureau is proceeding un-
der power vested in it by and with
the advice of President Hoover The
President, before the hearings opened
yesterday, advised the departments in
volved to observe the imperative neces-
sity of the utmost economy and to face
program of expense cutting that mus.
be nearly as drastic as that which faced
the Nation a year ago.
Conferences to Continue.
The conferences will continue, 1t was
stated at the Treasury today, until the
end Of October. BY that time. it Is
believed, every ounce of 'fat" will have
been worked of the estimates for the
Governments expenditures
In addition to advising those taking
part in the conference to cut estimates
to the bone, President Hoover has let
it be known he will stand ready, as
he did last year, to take hand per-
sonally in expense estimate cutting.
Last year the Chief Executive Topped
some $3.50 00O, 600 from the department
al estimates before the budget went to
Congress. IN
The President Is keeping close watch
on the conferences between the Budget
Bureau and the various department and
stand ready for advice while they
continue.
The so far disappointing tax returns
are responsible for the latest economy
move. On Saturday, the last day for
which the figures are available. the
Government deficit was $401 1854, ,657 81
for the fiscal year 1888, almost as much
as the deficit for the same period Of
last year.
Appeals to President.
There have been appeals to the
President and the Budget Bureau, from
business and other private sources for
economies which would reduce the gov
ernmental budget by about $500 900 900.
Ofncials today were unwilling to esti-
mate to what extent the present hear
ings are likely to reduce the total Of
estimates.
It was learned, however. that par
ticular attention will be paid to vet
erans' administration and veterans
compensation.
The present conferences, 1t Is be-
lieved, will determine whether the pay
less furlough plan for Government
salary economies shall be continued
next year as well as whether the
cents flrst-class postage rate shall con-
tinue. Both are temporary economy
moves. and will terminate June 80 un-
less Congress sees f1t, in view Of con-
| tinued necessity for drastic govern
mental economy, to continue them.
Evening star., 1932-09-07

stated address, he also put in hurry
call to No. Engine for volunteers to
go to the telephone booth.
Cost District $1,000.
The suspect was still talking to Nc
Inerney, requesting the immediate pres
ence of firemen, when accosted by Sergt.
M. c. Mason of No. = truck and Pvts.
]. F.. Elliott, NJ Harbin and j. c. Arnold
of No. Engine. The men had reported
early to the fire house co relieve their
comrades, who happened TO be out on
the first alarm.
Forman, employe Of oottling con-
Germ in Georgetown, was being held at
No. z precinct today for investigation,
while police checked over the list of
alarms he is said to have turned in.
Several firemen were hurt answering
the false alarms, 1t was said. and they
cost the District government almost
$1,000.
Meanwhile police sent out a lookout
from headquarters for persons who
turned in false alarm from Connecti-
cut avenue and NJ street this morning
before driving off in a light touring car.
Evening star., 1932-09-07
BOY, 5, IS BELIEVED
VICTIM OF TETANUS
Coroner's Statement Follows Au.
topsy on Body of William
G.. Schekels.

Five-y -year-old William G. Schekels,
who died Saturday in Childrens Hos
pital, apparently was the victim of
tenanus, Coroner Joseph D. Rogers said
today following an autopsy on the
child's body.
Whether the infection resulted from
defective serum used in vaccinating
the boy for smallpox, or from later in
fection of the vaccination wound has
not been determined.
The District Health Department is
conducting tests on the vaccine serum
to discover If it Is deficient. At the
time Of the autopsy. slides were made
in an effort to determine If the tetanus
began after young Schekels accidentally
reopened the vaccination wound.
Funeral services for the child were
held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the
home Of his parents, $40 Newton place.
Burial was In Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1932-09-07
SECOND ANALYSIS
ORDERED IN DEATH
Autopsy Shows Carpenter Sue.
cumbed to Intestinal
Hemorrhage.

A chemical analysis Of food taken from
the viscera Of Raymond Clifton Thomp-
son, 25-year-old carpenter, of 901 Long
fellow street, was ordered this after
noon by Acting Coroner A. Magruder
Macdonald, following an autopsy, which
disclosed the youth died from an in
testinal hemorrhage.
The autopsy was performed follow
ing a report by DR.. Alfred v. Parson.
Takoma Park, Md, that Thompson had
died suddenly early this morning, ap-
parently from hemorrhage of the brain.
Relatives Of Thompson said he had
eaten late last night at ''hot dog
stand" on Georgia avenue. DR.. Mac
Donald ordered the autopsy to deter
mine whether poison was contained in
the food.
Thompson was found in bed by his
father, who was attracted by groans
coming from his sons room. Discover
ing the young man apparently in agony
the father sent for DR.. Parson, who pro-
nounced young Thompson dead upon
arrival.
The dead mans mother said he had
worked yesterday but she declined tc
discuss the circumstances surrounding
his death. Thompson was employed as
a carpenter by his father. 1t was said
he was apparently in good health when
he retired last night.
Evening star., 1932-09-07
BAND CONCERTS.

BY the United States Navy Band
this evening at the band stand at the
Navy Yard at 8 o'clock. Lieut.. Charles
Benter. leader; Alexander Morris,
assistant leader.
March. Guard Mount. -. .Manganaro
"Cavatina," from act II Of Barber
Of Seville" .................. .Rossini
Excerpts from "Of Thee I Sing"
Gershwin
Solo for xylophone,
"RoboldSspiele" .Bode
Louis Goucher, soloist.
Tone poem, TOD Und Verhl-Rung"
death and Transfiguration), Strauss
Valse Filipino. ''Pepy Chatting" .Araullo
Overture, THE Magic Flute. Mozart
Humoresque, THE Girl Left
Spanish Sa1,na suite "A seviiian restivai' ;aaynes
Tavan
Anchors Aweigh."
1.-THE Star Spangled Banner"
BY the United States Marine Band
this evening at the United States
Capitol at 7:30 o'clock. Capt. Taylor
Branson, leader; Arthur s. Witcomb,
second leader.
"Festal March in C"........ Cadman
Tone poem, It'll Eulenspiegel's
Merry Franks. Richard Strauss
Duet for flute and clarinet, 10,
Hear the Gentle Lark. Bishop
Musicians, Luis Guzman and Henry
Weber.
Grand scenes from la Boheme."
Puccini
Song of the Bayou. .Rube Bloom
Trumpet solo, Southern Cross" Clarke
Musician, John p. White.
"Slavonic Dance No. 8" 49,. .Dvorak
Marines hymn, THE Halls Of Monte
yuma"
"The star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1932-09-07
Six Giant Iguanas
Captured ''Sober"
For National Zoo

BY the Associated Press.
The capture of six perfectly
sober" giant lizards was an
nounced today by the Smith
sonian Institution.
Natives of Petite Gonave Island,
off the coast of Haiti, warned q
Smithsonian expedition the great
iguanas could be taken with
safety only when intoxicated.
They advised rum, and said that
If given an opportunity the liz
ards would drink themselves help
less.
But expedition members found
them harmless and captured six
sober animals by hand. They
look like miniature copies of the
long-extinct dinosaurs and 60 to
the National Geological Park
here.
Evening star., 1932-09-07
DRAMA TO BE GIVEN

An action reading of two scenes from
Shakespeare's Much Ado About Moth
ing" will be given at Montrose Park,
Thirtieth and r streets, at $50 pm.
Saturday.
thur B. White, H. Elred Wilson, Ed
Van Gasken, Elizabeth Sypher, Irene
Clawson and Ruth Mckenzie Mrs.
Robert LeFebre will open each scene
with q verse Of Balthazar's Song. There
will be no admission charge.
Evening star., 1932-09-07
RULING ASKED BY STATES

The Home Loan Bank Board has
requested the attorneys general of the
various States for opinions as to
whether laws in their respective States
permit building and loan associations
to purchase stock in the regional banks
to be opened about october Is.
Chairman Franklin w. Fort said
that until enabling acts are passed by
many State legislatures it would not be
possible to dispose of any of the
$130,000 900 of stock in those States.
Evening star., 1932-09-07
ON TRAPS FOR CATS
HENCEFORTH WILL COST MONEY
u S. Cuts l25 Bulletins Off Free List Including Treatise
on "Love Life of Frog"

It will cost you money to learn from
Uncle Sam how to make cat trap and
how to do multitude of other things
for which governmental advice formerly
was given without charge.
The order has gone out that the cost
Of Uncle Sans printed information bull
letins, technical pamphlets and the like
must be reduced so per cent this year
and the economy shears are shipping
briskly, with the aid Of firm blue pencils
The "cat trap" bulletin IS one Of 125
crossed of the free list. It may, how
ever, be purchased from the superin-
tendent of documents for about S cents,
but there are others out of print.
Among them Is the publication which
facetious congressional critics dubbed
"the love life of the frog" Actually.
Departmen10pf Agriculture officials say,
1t was q sober treatise on frog culture
put out at the request Of those inter-
Evening star., 1932-09-07

ested in raising the big-legged, big
voiced jumpers for the market.
The department defends the "cat
trap" bulletin on the ground that 1t
held valuable information, pointing out
that vagrant cats are menace to song
and game birds and that they also COM
municate disease to pedigreed felines
and even humans.
Agriculture of1icials also want 1t un-
derstood they did not issue the famous
Essay on Kissing" sometimes accedited
to them. This. spokesmen say, was In
reality the work Of State Agricultural
agent, who wanted very much to get
some information about hog cholera be-
fore his public. He hit upon the idea
Of . snappy title and few introduc-
tory remarks on the hazards of pro-
miscuoiis osculation before getting onto
his real subject. II was widely read
pamphlst.
Evening star., 1932-09-07
PURSE OF GOLD GIVEN
RETIRED U. S. WORKER
Mrs. Helen c. Forsyth, Alexandria,
in War Department Service
AZ Years.

Retiring after AZ years In the War
Department service, Mrs. Helen C. For
syth, Holiday House, Alexandria, Va,
was presented with purse of gold to-
Day by the clerks In the Adjutant Gem
erals ONCE, War Department. where
she worked. Mrs. Forsyth was chief Of
the procurement section In the Reserve
Division OF the office and had charge
OF appointment Of all officers In the
Reserve Corps.
She was formerly Miss Helen M.
Chamberlin, daughter of Capt. Lowell
A. Chamberlin, Artillery Corps, U. s. A.,
and was married In 1916 to Janvier
Forsyth. who died In 1928. She entered
the Government service as q clerk In the
War Aecords Once ON September /.
1880 and served continuously ID that
department.
Evening star., 1932-09-07
Superintendent SOUGHT
FOR GETTYSBURG PARK
Civil Service Commission Will Ac-
cept Applications at Offices
Here Until Sept. 27.

A superintendent is wanted for Get
tysburg National Military Park.
The salary is $500 year and the
Civil Service Commission will receive
applications until September 27 at its
offices, Seventh and streets, where
full details may be obtained.
The position Is open only to men, and
in addition to a provisional requirement
for graduation from a college or uni
versity of recognized standing, appli-
cants must have had at least five years
of certain responsible supervisory expe-
rience showing familiarity with prin-
ciples of civil engineering on construc-
ton and maintenace and with prob
lens of forestry and landscaping. Ad-
ditional experience of this sort may be
substituted, year for year, for the pre-
scribed college education.
Evening star., 1932-09-07
POETS COUNCIL TO MEET

The District Poets Council of the Ma
tional Woman's party will meet at the
Alva Belmont House Monday at 8 pm.
Some of the members of the council are
Edna st. Vincent Millay, Muno Lee, Mrs.
John Hay White, Nina E. Allendar, Ada
Louise Townsend and Myrtle r. Pat
terSon.
Evening star., 1932-09-07
GIRO Sumter LEAVES
Eckel Goes to Baltimore After Tao
tics Exhibition Here.

After flying 80 passengers, among
them Or. Luther H. Reichelderfer, pres
ident of the Board of District Com
missioners, over the city yesterday
afternoon and staging q demonstration
Of autogvo acrobatics, Capt. Earle S.
Eckel took of today from Washington
Hoover Airport for Baltimore.
Capt. Eckel is making a tour Of East
ern cities In his autogiro. His demon
stration included dead-stick landing
from an altitude of nearly 1000 feet,
wingovers, tight figure eights and other
maneuvers intez1ed to show the un-
usual flying characteristics Of the "ny-
ing windmill
Evening star., 1932-09-07
MITCHELL TO SPEAK
Will Talk on Nationwide Radio
Hook-up September II.

Attorney General Mitchell will dis
cuss Methods of Constitutional Amend
ment, in Particular Relation to Prohibi-
tion Proposals." in a Nation wide radio
speech at $50 pm, Saturday, Septem-
ber II.
The address will be made under the
auspices Of the American Bar Associa-
tion and the National George Washing
ton Bicentennial Commission as a part
OF the celebration of Constitution day.
chester I. Long. former president of the
Bar Association and ex-senator from
Kansas, will introduce the speaker.
Evening star., 1932-09-07
TROPHIES DONATED
Portrait Of Washington Presented
for Regatta Here.

A portrait of George Washington has
been presented the Presidents Cup Re-
gatta Committee for award in the races
here September 16 and II by the Dis
trict Bicentennial Commission, it was
announced today.
Other trophies have been given the
committee by commercial houses in and
about Washington and a number of
others is being sought to give the racers
who will compete here for two days on
the Potomac. John Remon Is chairman
Of the Trophy Committee.
Evening star., 1932-09-07
VOLUNTEERS FOR CHEST
Former "Y' Secretary Offers Serv-
ices on Purchasing Committee.

With the object of helping to effect
additional economies in the operation
of Community Chest organizations, W.
E. Hiltabidle, former Y. M. c. A. busi-
ness secretary, has volunteered his serv-
ices as secretary of the Community
Chest Central Purchasing Committee.
Mr.. Hiltabidle will MAKE q study OF
the purchasing departments OF the %
Chest agencies with a view to recon-
modities as are In general use among
the organizations. He does not plan to
lay any special program before the or
ganizations.
Evening star., 1932-09-07
FINDS BIRDS IN FURNACE
Hamline N. E. Sexton Takes Two
Roasting on Crate.

Two young racing pigeons. believed to
have fallen down the 70-foct chimney
of Hamline Methodist Episcopal Church,
Sixteenth and Allison streets. in the
past few days, were discovered, still alive,
roosting on the CRATE Of the church
ers, colored sexton.
The birds, bearing leg bands, are
being cared for by Bowers until their
owners call for them. They bear the
following bands: l839MCCA32 and
eccIF3SWBB.
Evening star., 1932-09-07
INSPECTORS LOSE JOBS
Four to Be Laid Of Because of
Building Decrease.

Four building inspectors will be laid
of on October /, owing to a decrease in
building activities In the District, it was
learned at the District Building today.
The building operations for the year
which closed June 80 showed 80 per
cent decline under those for the previous
year. and this rate of decrease is appar-
emily gaining. according to Building
Inspector John w. Oehmann.
Evening star., 1932-09-07
PARKS VISITED BY 500, 900
Week End Record, Including Labor
Day, Breaks Record.

More than half a million persons Wis
tied the parks here over the week end.
including Labor day, marking a new
record in the utilizing of park facilities,
it was reported today at the Once of
Public Buildings and Public Parks.
All picnic groves and recreation fields
were crowded, the officials said, and as
an aftermath rs truck loads Of paper,
watermelon rinds and other debris are
being removed from the parks.
Evening star., 1932-09-07
Choral Program Planned.

The Young Mems Jubilee Chorus of
the Friendship Baptist Church will give
muslcal program at 10 o'clock to-
Church.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-07-08
Real Test of Morals
Is Made in Adversely

Morals consist not alone in doing
good, but in enduring hardships and
wrong. The severest moral test which
most of us meet lies in doing some
thing that at first seems intolerable.
The armchair philosophers who
theoretically separate the good life
from all extrahuman relationships
might proftably face, as working
minister faces, the outrageous mis-
fortunes which ordinary men and
women are called on to endure, and
might well study there the good
life in terms of fOrtitude, constancy,
patience and heroic courage.
Morals, more often than the the
orist takes account of, are morale.
Some meeting their Armageddon in
the experience of disaster. grow re-
bellious and petulant; some grow
stoical and talk about their heads
being bloody, but unbowed; some be-
come resigned and try to bend to the
wind without breaking; but some lay
hold on their calamity as Jesus laid
hold on his cross, and use it as the
most effective instrument for good
which life ever fitted to their hand.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-07-08
Exquisite Designs of
Earliest Watch Cases

In the latter part of the Six
teenth and the first of the Seven
teenth century, to keep up with ex-
travagances In dress, watch cases
were pierced, chased and enriched
with colored enamel mounted in
rock crystal cut to form crosses,
stars, and skulls, and representa-
tions of flowers, animals, books, but
terfiies and the fiat oval (the Nu-
remberg egg). The skull, one of the
most popular, was probably an Off
shoot of the head-chopping fashion
Of the day.
Most of these vanities came from
Blois, France, and were called
toys" while the dealers were
known as "toymen."
By the time 1t is evident that
matchmaking, while originating in
Germany, was well acquainted In
France, but there seems to be no
record of any English watch manu-
facturers until the end of the Six
teenth century.
Queen Elizabeth, however, was
watch conscious. being the owner of
a large collection, gifts from cour-
tiers.
We have the Puritans TO thank
for the introduction of the fob, or
tiny pocket for carrying a watch
date. about 1925. The story is plaus-
ible enough. With their violent
antipathy toward the display of any
ornament. they originated the Gus
tom of concealing the watch in the
pocket. By the middle of the CEN
tury (the Seventeenth) the watch
cases were so bejeweled and enam-
eled that an outer case of fish skin,
tortoise shell, shagreen, wood, amber
or pinchbeck Invention Of Chris
topher Pinchbeck, famous Eight
eenth-century horologist), was fash
Toned to protect the inner.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-07-08
Cache of Jewelry

A viking cache of pearls, gold
ornaments and inlaid jewelry was
found under large stone near Wis.,
by, Sweden, by two fishermen. There
were 80 pearls, 8 gold pendants
and % necklaces of bronze with sil.
yer inlay. There is no burial place
near the spot, indicating that the
jewelry was hidden by the owner
for safe-keeping. Gothland, the
Swedish island in the Baltic sea, of
which Visby is the capital, frequent
yields similar ancient relics. It used
to be an important trading point
during the time of the Vikings and
later in the days of the Hanseatic
league.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-07-08
Mammoth Dollar

The biggest dollar bill ever made
in this country, II feet long and 51A
feet wide, is being finished at the
bureau of engraving and printing in
Washington, D. c. 1t is made most
ly of macerated pulp from old money
and is estimated to include about
$1O,OO0,O0O worth of this old de-
stroyed currency. The bill will be
used for exhibition purposes.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-07-08
Spring Found in Ocean

Two and a half miles off shore
and nine miles south of the old city
Of st. Augustine, Fla, a swirling
at the surface of the water and a
strong odor similar to that of the
sulphur springs of Florida marks
the presence of spring of fresh
mineral water rising from the sea
bottom at depth of So feet. 1t is
said that if the outlet Of this spring
were on land it would probably re-
semble a geyser more than a spring.
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-07-08
Thick or Thin?

Mrs. Il" was studying pic
ture of Doone valley, which hung
on the wall of a beauty parlor
where she was having a shampoo.
She asked the young woman who
was serving her:
Have you read Lorna Doone'?'
Well, I'm not just sure. Is it a
thick book or a thin book?"
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-07-08
Monotony

do you enjoy going to social
gatherings"
"Yes," answered Miss Cayenne
"It's a pleasure to meet old friends,
But l must admit that, after few
years, ice cream and chicken SALAD
do seem a trifle monotonous."
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-07-08

l never have seen anyone tran
scend calamity with such positive
triumph, however, who did not have
more than morals at his disposal. AL
ways behind such conduct there has
been a total personal response to
life's meaning which could not be de-
scribed in any terms less than re-
ligion.-Harry Emerson Fosdick in
Harper's Magazine.