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Evening star., 1933-11-22
PLANS TO MAINTAIN
TRACTION SERVICE
Capital Transit Company Head
Testifies at Maryland
Merger Hearing.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special DlSpatCH 10 ne SCaI.
BALTIMORE, November 22.-No cur
tailment of service in either street car
or bus services in Maryland is contem-
plated as result of the merger of the
Capital Traction Co. and the Washing
ton Railway & Electric Co., j. H.
Hanna, president of the former COM
pany, told members of the Public Ser
vice Commission at hearing yesterday
on the application of the Capital Tran
sit Co. for permission to take over the
property and franchises of both COM
panies, located in Maryland.
Mr. Hanna, who becomes president
Of the merged companies, said the
service on both street cars and buSses
would be continuous on existing sched-
the future without being sanctioned
by the commission.
The application calls for transfer and
by the Washington Railway e. Electric
Co., the Capital Traction Co., the Wash
ington & Rockville Railway Co. Of
Montgomery County, the Washington
g. Maryland Railroad Co., the Wash
ington Interurban Railroad Co., Wash
ington & Glen Echo Railroad Co.. and
the Montgomery Bus Lines, Inc. of all
properties and franchises within the
State of Maryland, and the operation
by the Washington Transit Co. as a
common carrier of passengers Of the
railway and bus transportation now
being operated by these companies.
No protest was made against the pro-
posal and the commission Is expected
to give its approval within day or so.
Evening star., 1933-11-22
WOMAN Is INJURED
TRYING TO SAVE GIRL
Mrs. Beall Receives Fractured
Leg When Hit by Auto
mobile.

Mrs. Charles M. Beall, 81, of 1872
Columbia road. suffered a leg fracture
and shock yesterday afternoon while
trying to rescue a 9-year-old girl from
the path OF an automobile at Four
teenth street and Columbia road.
Mrs. Beall was struck by the machine
as she succeeded in pushing the child
partly from its path The girl. Dor
othy Barry, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
David E. Barry, 1920 Thirteenth street,
received numerous bruises when struck
glancing blow by the automobile,
probably having been saved from more
serious injury by Mrs. Beall.
Mrs. Beall was treated at Garfield
Hospital, while the child was treated
at home by private physician for
bruises and shock
Mrs. Mary E. Tiess. AZ. Of Bethesda
driver of the car, suffered from shock
and was aided from the scene. relatives
later reporting the accident for her
to police at No. 10 station house.
Knocked down by an automobile at
Ninth and L streets northeast last
night, Miss Sa1lie Morris. about so, of
802 K street northeast, was seriously
injured
She was taken to Gallinger Hospital,
where it was said her skull Is probably
fractured. Police said Mrs. Lillian M.
Frye, $40 Acker street northeast, drove
the car.
Evening star., 1933-11-22
GRAND JURY HOLDS
BEST AND HIS WIFE
Accused Is Called "SIickest
Confidence Man.
Is ExOnerated.

Albert Best, described by police as "one
OF the slickest confidence men in the
country" and his wife. Mrs. Thea Best,
were indicted by the grand jury today
on false pretenSe charges
The indictment charged the Bests
with giving Miss Laura J. Waters a
worthless check last March in exchange
for $500 in travellers checks
The BestS were brought here last
week from Cleveland, where they had
in a circular sent out by Inspector
Frank S. w. Burke chief of detectives.
Best, according to Burke, also was
wanted in several European countries,
as well as by police of various Ameri-
can cities.
Earl Edward Bishop, ola Bates
street, was exonerated in the death of
his wife, Nellie Eta Bishop, who was
fatally wounded by pistol shot in their
home two weeks ago. Bishop, who was
in the apartment at the time of the
shooting, said his wife had demonstrated
with him for staying out late He said
she walked into another room and heard
the shot a moment later. Friends of the
family testified that Mrs Bishop had
been respondent for some time and
self.
Arnold E. Starkey, who is alleged to
have fired three shots at his wife.
Thelma A. Starkey. was indicted for
assault with dangerous weapon. The
wife said she was visiting an uncle at
4402 Georgia avenue on November g..
when her husband came in and fired at
her Sac was not injured.
George Abston, colored. was indicted
Tor flrst-degree murder in the death
of Ella Brown, colored, who was beaten
to death last october 81 in the rear
DiXons court southwest.
Others Are Indicted.
Others indicted, with the charges
against them, are:
Clifford Westner, joyridding; George
Gimmel, joyridding and grand larceny;
Daniel Blackwell. Louis j. Clark. Henry
Massey and Joseph Harrington, grand
larceny; William T. Mangum. Walter
Davis, Julius A. Aikens. James Nc
Knight, John Hill, George Newman,
Jessie M. Bivens. John Sims and Graf
ton Kirkley, housebreaking and larceny;
William Bradford. robbery; William
Bradford, Willard j. Bradford and Hen
ry L. Ballman, assault with intent to
rob; Raymond Sutton, assault with in
tent to commit carnal knowledge; Pleas
ant A. Polling, violation Section 843,
District of Columbia Code; Eddie Bolts
and Arthur w. Adams, manslaughter;
Jack Watkins false pretenses.
The jury cleared the following of the
charges Indicated:
Howard A. MacCord and Robert L.
MacCord. housebreaking and larceny;
Charles L. Densinger, grand larceny;
Helen Speaks, robbery: Harold w. Wall
ker and Emerson Hartman, homicide.
Evening star., 1933-11-22
TRANSFERS PLANNED
FOR CARS AND BUSES
Public Utilities Commission Will
Pass On Final Phases Of
Merger.

The Public Utilities Commission be-
fore the end of the week will pass upon
plans for transfers between street cars
and buses, to be effective December /,
when merger of the two street car COM
panies becomes an accomplished fact.
A mass of detailed reports on pres
ent conditions was reviewed yesterday
at a conference between Riley E. Elgen,
acting chairman of the commission;
Richmond B. Keech. peoples counsel;
William A. Roberts of commission coun-
sci and James L. Martin, B. M. Bash
man, F. A. Sager of the commission S
staff.
The commission has before it a pro-
posal from the Capital Transit Co., the
new street railway concern, proposing
that free transfers between street cars
and busses be given where no charge
now is made for such transfers, but
that present charges in other cases be
continued.
The commission will determine
whether to accept this for the time
being, or to inaugurate additional points
of intersection between street cars and
buses where free transfers should be
given.
Under the merger agreement adopted
by Congress, the Capital Transit Co. is
required to give free transfers between
the various street car lines.
Evening star., 1933-11-22
LEAGUE WILL ASK
BAN ON TIME LIMIT
Civil Service Reinstatement
Group Wants Extension
for JobIeSS.
The Civil Service Commission will

The Civil Service Commission will
be asked to lift the eligibility time
limit on unemployment registers.
This action was decided upon by the
Civil Service Reinstatement League at
a meeting last night at the Thomson
School. At present those on the re-
employment registers are dropped if
they do not get positions within a year
The league last night also heard a
charge from E. Claude Babcock. presi
dent Of the American Federation of
Government Employees, that those per-
sons on the Unemployment list "are
being given the run-around" so far as
rehiring is concerned
The meeting was preparatory to a
conference of interested organizations
which the league proposes to call Janu-
these jobless who have lost Govern
ment positions in the various retrench-
ment moves of the past few months.
Babcock said he had written to the
heads of all Government establishments
asking for preference in employment for
those on the Unemployment registers,
and that the response had been favor
able. He said George H. Carter, public
printer, and John F. Victory of the Ma
tional Advisory Committee for Aeronau-
tics. had informed him the list could
not meet their needs. He has asked the
Civil Service Commission for list
showing the classes into which these
unemployed fall
The A. F. G. E. will participate in
the proposed conference and other
groups to be invited are the National
Federation of Federal EMPLOYEES. Gov
ernment Workers Council of the Ma
tional Woman'S Party League of the
American Civil Service and Civil Service
Reform League.
The National Federation of Federal
Employees, through the District Fedora
ton, is planning a canvass of the sew
eral Government agencies in behalf of
the ouSted workers.
Evening star., 1933-11-22

Cecilius' father, who died before the
land grant OF what was to become
Maryland could be completed.
Famous Family Ties.
The association which the same CAL
vert strain bore to other illustrious
families in subsequent American history
connects Charles Lord Baltimore, the
fifth, with no less-famed persons than
George Washington and Robert E. Lee
One son of Charles Calvert was Bene-
dict Calvert of Mount Airey, Md. who
served as collector of customs at An
napolis His daughter Nellie married
John Parke Gusts, stepson of George
Washington. and their granddaughter
was Mrs. Robert E. Lee.
The little portrait of the fifth Lord
Baltimore meanwhile went from him to
Benedict Calvert of Mount Airey, then
to his son. George Calvert, who. in turn
passed it down to Charles Benedict CAL
vert. one of his own sons. The portrait
next went to Charles Benedict Calvert's
son, George Henry Calvert. Mrs. George
Henry Calvert, now 81 years old, and
living at 1850 Corcoran street, is the
mother of John w. Calvert, and the
portrait is owned today by them.
Evening star., 1933-11-22
OPEN OBSERVANCE
OF TERCENTENARY
Ceremonies at CoWes, Eng
land, and Baltimore Held
simultaneously.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. November 22.-From
Cowes, England, where two ships spread
their sails 300 years ago to bring the
first colonists to the shores Of Maryland,
comes today the message which opens
the Maryland tercentennial.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
speaking from his Warm Springs home,
joins Gov. Albert c. Ritchie Of Mary
land, in reply to the greetings from
across the ocean. Simultaneous cere-
monies at Cowes and in Baltimore mark
the occasion.
The addresses are to be exchanged
through cooperation of the British
Broadcasting Co. and the National
BroadcaSting Co., starting at AIS pm,
Eastern Standard Time.
Participating in the English exercises
at the unveiling Of a marker telling OF
the sailing of the Maryland colonists on
November %, 1888, are Robert w. Bing-
ham, United States Ambassador to the
Court of ST. James: Albert, Lord Fair
fax Maryland-born members Of the
House of Lords. and Sir Timothy Eben,
descendant of the Lords Baltimore.
Besides President Roosevelt and Gov.
Ritchie. speakers for the exercises at the
war memorial here include Henry A.
Hobson British consul in Baltimore;
Mayor Howard w. Jackson of Balti-
more, and William L. Marbury, chair
man of the Tercentenary Commission.
Evening star., 1933-11-22
Cipil Works Program Slated
For Firm, Position IN Relief
administration Quarters See Continu-
ance of Aid After S4OO, 900, 900 Present
Fund Is Exhausted.

What is going to happen when the
present fund of S400.000, 900 for en-
ploying 100000 heretofore unemployed
on the civil works program runs out?
Is the government going to drop these
people into unemployment again to pro-
vide an acute social problem, and re-
turn them to meager doles of direct re-
lief that provides existence only?
The answer definitely is no, and it
comes from high administration quar-
tiers.
:. These same high quarters are author
ity for the opinion that the admins
tration is putting forth the civil works
program as the answer to the rising tide
of appeals for employment insurance,
expected to reach its flood when Con-
gress meets.
They say the government has caught
hold of something it cannot let go, and
in embarking into the field as an emer-
gency step has definitely committed it
self. for the life of this administration
at least to the policy of setting up a
long-range program of civil works. to
go along with the Federal public works
program mapped out throughout the
country and with an eventual perma-
nent Set-up, regular Federal appropri-
atlons to be swelled by county, city and
State contributions on a definite policy
OF providing jobs for workingmen.
Problem Is Recognized.
Administration observers have stated
the opinion that in recognizing the need
for employing men and women and
paying them regular wages, instead of
providing work relief and merely a
meager existence, the administration
has recognized the oft-repeated opin-
ion that there always has been an un-
employment problem in this country
even in the so-called prosperous days of
1928 and 1929 and that the civil works
program is the first step toward solv-
ing the problem.
In connection with the public works
program, the Civil Works Administra-
ton is known to be scanning the field
for the highest type socially desirable
and engineeringly feasible" civil works
projects that can be prosecuted far be-
yond the time when the original S400,-
100000 allotment to the Civil Works
Administration from the Public Works
Administration fund will have been
exhausted
"Feelers" 1t is known, have already
gone out to the States on the proposal
that there be set up permanent or
ganization to deal with the problem
of keeping a part, if not all, of the men
and women it is contemplated to en-
ploy on the present civil works pro-
gram. in some sort of similar problem.
The principal problem is the projects.
The Civil Works Administration is ex-
Evening star., 1933-11-22
Plans to Seek Conference to
Work Out Fixed Percent
age Formula.
SEES PROGRAM ENDING
DELAY ON FISCAL BILL
Yearly Fight Between Branches Of
Congress Costly in Time-Basic
Ratio 60-40.

Believing a fixed percentage basis of
apportioning the expenses of the Capital
between the Federal and District gov
ernmentS would be better than the lump
sum Federal contribution plan followed
for number of years, Chairman
Thomas of the Senate subcommittee on
District appropriations announced to-
day he plans to write to Chairman Can
non of the House subcommittee suggest
ing the adviSability of considering the
question at the coming session.
Senator Thomas said he may suggest
Joint meeting OF the two Subcommit-
tees as one means of trying to reach a
settlement of the fiscal relations issue
Annually since the House inaugurated
the policy of appropriating a lump sum
as the Federal share instead of a def
mite percentage of the cost of main
tanning the Capital City, the House and
Senate have disagreed over this part of
the bill.
Sees Measure Speeded.
Senator Thomas said today that II a
percentage basis could be arrived at it
would eliminate the difficulty which
arises annually over the determination
OF what part of the local supply bill the
Federal Government should meet This
difficulty. the Senator said has the ef-
feet of retarding consideration of every
item in the bill
AS to the exact ratio that should be
fixed in returning to the percentage
OASIS OF fiscal relations, the Oklahoma
Senator said it could be arrived at by
studying the facts as they now exist re-
gardlng the amount of untaxed Federal
property in Washington, by valuing the
services the District government rem
ders the Federal Government, such as
fire and police protection. and consid
ering also the fact that Washington is
the Nations city.
Prior to the introduction of the lump
sum policy. the percentage ratio was go
per cent from District revenues and 40
per cent from the Federal Government
and the substantive law which set UP
that ratio has never been repealed
Would Hear Citizens.
The Senator reiterated his belief that
local residents be given the opportunity
to be heard on appropriation matters
Senator Thomas became chairman of
the District Subcommittee of the Sen
ate Appropriations Committee last
March, when the Democrats took con-
troll OF the Senate. and had charge of
the local appropriation act for the cur
rent fiscal year. in the Senate. His
committee recommended a Federal con
tribution for the current year of So
100000, but in conference it became
necessary to accept the amount fixed by
the Budget Bureau and the House
namely. S5.7OOOO0. This marked the
second sharp cut in the Federal share
in the past two years. Two years ago
the Federal share was s9,500,O00 The
first reduction. made last year, brought
it down to S7,775,00O.
Evening star., 1933-11-22
EXPERTS QU|zzED
ON GAS VALUATION
Holder Installed for $3.50, 900
Was Appraised at S286, 400,
Counsel Claims.

A gas holder. which was installed for
1888, 900, but was appraised at s2s6,4oo
in the reproduction cost summary. to-
day formed the basis for long cross
Co. experts in the valuation case before
the Public Utilities Commission.
A. c. Klein. the company expert on
reproduction values. explained in an
swer to questions by Assistant Corpora
tion Counsel William A Roberts. that
the reproduction cost figure cost was
greater because it included sums paid
for items in addition to those called
for in the subcontracts to put up the
holder. Among these were furnishing
power for compressed air machines,
fuel. water police protection during
strikes. if any, and temporary con-
struction which would have been neces-
sary during construction of the holder
Klein said the contract for construc-
tion of this particular holder was let
June g. 1881, to Bartlett & Hayward
and that the holder was put in service
IN December, 1881 II is at the east
plant and has a capacity of 4,700,000
cubic feet. He admitted that from July
l, 1852, until July /. 1855, Sleel prices
have generally been declining and that
the steel business was better in 1881
than in 1882
Engineer Commissioner Gotwals chal-
lenged some of Klein's cost figures for
gas pipe. Kleins figure for 4-inch pipe
was 38 cents foot. Maj. Gotwals said
the District Water Department in Sep
tember. 1882. had bought 4-inch water
pipe for 30 cents a foot.
Klein explained that pipe manufac-
turers charge a differential in the case
of gas pipe, because of more labor used
in its construction. so the figures are not
strictly comparable. Discounting the
differential, he said. his figures would
have been SO cents instead of 38.
Evening star., 1933-11-22
PRESIDENTIAL YACHT
WILL BE OVERHAULED

The presidential craft Saquoia has
gone to the Norfolk, Va, Navy Yard for
overhaul. the Navy Department dis
closed yesterday in announcing orders
relieving Lieut.. John S. Blue of duty as
her commanding officer. He had held
this post in addition to duties at the
Washington Navy Yard.
The department said no definite time
had been set for the return Of the
Sequoia to Washington. officials ex-
planned she Is still at the service of the
President. but not ship of the Navy
because she is not fully oficered and
manned.
In all probability, officials said, should
President Roosevelt require the services
of the Sequoia this Winter. Lieut.. Blue
~'--'r wo-,d be assigned as her COM
C.Eo-r
Evening star., 1933-11-22
C.W.A. to Demand
Man.Sized Work on
States Relief Jobs

The Civil Works Administra-
ton has no easy jobs for any,
body.
This was made clear today by
Harry L. Hopkins, civil works
administrator, when he revealed
that the word has gone out
through the newly set-up civil
works organization that bosses on
jobs are to be hardboiled, and If
the force provided cannot do the
work, to get a force that can.
Hopkins has made it clear that
in paying man-size wages to the
civil works army, the Civil Works
Administration expects a man
size job done, whether it be in
ditch-digging or accounting.
He has ordered State civil
works organizations to demand
that each man employed give the
best that is in him, and If his
~---k is not satisfactory, to fire
Evening star., 1933-11-22

pecting to feel the hard toes of the
boots of the members Of Congress on
some of the projects that will be under
taken in the rush of the present pro-
gram to get 100000 men to work
through the Winter After the first
rush the Civil Works Administration is
expected to tread more lightly and
choose with much more consideration
the work that is to be undertaken by
its army of the employed unemployed" ="
Meanwhile, as many as possible of the
already carefully scanned public works
jobs that can be undertaken by the
swiftly moving organization OF the
Civil Works Administration, are being
showed from Public Works Admins
traitor IckeS' desk to the desk of Civil
Works Administrator Harry L. Hopkins.
The comparatively numbering machinery
of the gigantic Public Works Admins
tration has delayed many smaller
projects because of need for concen-
trated consideration of the larger prof.
ectS, but it is expected that the Public
Works Administration can now apply
some Of its concentration to the smaller
Jobs that the shock troops" of the
administration can undertake without
all the formalitieS of entering into con-
tracts examining security and all the
OlliCl NCOdlAo Jlldt illuoI UC dllNiiNtd W
before the money is allotted for a
public works project
Just how the permanent Civil Works
organization will be set up, If and
when it is set up, is not now known,
but suggestions have been made that
the Labor Department eventually will
take it over, co-ordinating the various
non Federal units with the central
Fedora. organization The present Ma
tional Planning Board of the Public
Works Administration is expected to
have an important part in the even
tual national State -city-county Civil
Works set up.
Planners Get S25O.OO0.
An indication of what is in the
mind of the administration along this
line was given yesterday in the allot-
ment by the Public Works Administra-
ton of S250,000 to the National Plan
ming Board to hire qualified technical
advisers to such existing State, city
and regional planning units as meet
with the requirements and standards set
up by the National Planning Board.
The money also is to be used for
sending one or more Federal technical
advisers to such new planning units as
may be organized throughout the
country, which in the opinion of the
Planning Board and the Public Works
Administration, have assurance of local
support. These Federal experts will or
ganlze and direct the work of these
new planning units
Evening star., 1933-11-22
Descendants Cherish Miniature
Of Lord Baltimore Done IN 1870
Fifth of Line Then Pro.
prietor of Maryland
Colony.
Relic in Family of WasI,-
ingtOn Banker Since
1t Vas Painted,

With attention focused on Maryland
history because Of the 300th ami
versary of the sailing of the Ark and
the Dove, seventeenth century ships
which brought 'Maryland's colonizers
into Chesapeake and Potomac waters,
an expertly wrought miniature portrait
Of Charles Calvert, fifth Lord Balti-
more. was displayed today by a Wash
ington family which traces its lineage
back through the Maryland proprietors.
The miniature, reproduction of which
was allowed The Star by its present
holder, John w. Calvert, assistant treas
urer of the National Savings and Trust
Co., was executed in 1730 while Charles
Lord Baltimore was the proprietor Of
the Maryland colony. 1t has remained
in the Calvert family without Interrupt
ton ever since, and its display in The
Star today comedies with the exhibit
ton in Baltimore, for the first time in
history, OF contemporary portraits Of all
the Lords Baltimore
Paintings First Grouping.
Paintings of the early Maryland pro-
prietors have been displayed individu-
ally. Of course, but the Baltimore show
is the first in which they have been
grouped.
The miniature which the Washing
ton banker holds is that of Charles Cal
vert, who was the son of Benedict
Leonard Calvert, the fourth Lord Balti-
more. Benedict was a son of an earlier
Charles Calvert, the third Lord Balti-
more. The earlier Charles was a son of
Cecilius Calvert, second Lord Baltimore,
who sent out the expedition in the Ark
and the Dove to colonize what is now
the Southern Maryland Peninsula. The
first Lord Baltimore was George Calvert