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Evening star., 1934-12-20

Curbing the business activities of
two blind men-William Henry Boyer,
who has sold newspapers. magazines,
fruit and candy in the basement of the
State, War and Navy Building, and
William U. Phillips, who plies his trade
at the entrance of the old Pension Of
flee Building, occupied by the General
Accounting Office-today aroused Wig
orous protests among their Govern
ment employe clients.
Arno B. Cammerer, director of the
National Park Service, who recently
wrote letter to Ralph H. Campbell,
executive secretary Of the Columbia
Polytechnic Institute for the Blind,
telling him his wards must keep within
the terms of their permits, authorizing
only the sale of newspapers, said today
his Office had discussed putting these
people on a salary and that anything
that will be to their benefit will be
undertaken.
Mr.. Boyer became blind three years
ago. A permit issued last March per-
mitted him to sell papers at the State,
War and Navy Building. and as his
clients increased, he added fruits,
candy and sandwiches.
Boyer said today he has been max
ing about So a week, with which he
managed to support his mother, Mrs.
Elizabeth Boyer, So. and himself.
They live at 1347 Maryland avenue
northeast, but on Monday his mother
had to be taken to Emergency Hos
pital.
The blind salesman received notice
Evening star., 1934-12-20
INCREASED EXPORTS
TO ORIENT HAILED
House Silverites Claim More Ship
ments Result of U. S.
Silver Policy.

By the Associated Press.
Increased American exports to
Japan and China were claimed yes
terday by House silverites as a direct
response" to the Nations silver policy.
Representatives Dies, Democrat, o.
Texas, and Scrugham, Democrat, of
Nevada, contended the pickup in
business with the Oriental countries
might be attributed to a boost in the
price Of silver and to acceptance OF
the white metal in payment for
exports.
Silver was bringing around 25 and
80 cents an ounce on the open market
before silver legislation was drafted
and Government buying began.
Dies said the American silver policy
also has had a material effect" in
increasing exports to the world at
large.
In the past four or five months"
the Texan asserted, much of the
balance of international trade has
been settled on a silver basis"
Commerce Department figures show
total United States exports for the
first 10 months of 1884 at 1,767 ,697,-
172, gain of S469, ,598,O96 over the
corresponding months of last year.
China and Japan, especially sus-
ceptible to changes in silver policy
because of large holdings of the metal,
accounted for about 100000 of the
increase, or roughly one-siXth.
Evening star., 1934-12-20
LA F0NTAINE GETS
ROWLAND DIAMOND
Well Known Saloon Keepers
Will, Listing Big Estate,
Remembers Friend.

Leaving his 3-carat diamond ring
to his beloved friend" James A.
(Jimmy) La Fontaine, and the rest
of his 100000 estates to relatives
and friends, the will of the late Isaac
H. Rowland. well-known saloon keeper
Of prohibition days, was filed to-
day.
Rowland at one time was employed
by the Heurich Brewing Co. He quit
his job to open the saloon, on Ninth
street, which became one of the most
popular establishments of its kind.
He retired after passage of the pro-
hibition amendment.
His will, filed through Attorney
Charles E. Ford, gave SIS 900 to Nenia
F. Mcknight, $4,000 each to two
nephewS, Edward Mccarthy and
Frank Mace. and $4,000 to a friend,
William j. Staub.
His widow, Mrs. Lillian Irene Row.
land, was bequeathed $50, 1000, in trust
for 10 years, after which the gift will
become absolute. Attorney Ford and
Staub were named trustees of this
fund. The widow also receives the
residue of the estate.
1t was reported the diamond soli-
taire given La Fontaine was worn by
Rowland during his saloon keeping
days. Ford and James A. La Fon-
taine, jr., were named executors. Mr..
Rowland died December 13.
Evening star., 1934-12-20
CITIES SERVICE
WR|TE-UP CHARGED
Power and Light Co. Figure
of s92,0O0,000 Disclosed
to Trade Commission.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Testimony that there had been a
write-up of $50, 900 900 between 1924
and 1880 in the assets of the Cities
Service Power and Light Co., Henry
L. Doherty holding concern, was re-
ceived today by the Trade Comnis-
sion.
The purported write-up, immedi-
ately challenged by Robert Burns,
Cities Service counsel, was reported
by Randolph K. Ogle. commission
examiner.
Tells of Write-Up.
Testifying in the commissions
utility investigation, Ogle said the
principal write-up occurred when the
Cities Service Power and Light Co.
was organized by Henry L. Doherty
& Co. to take over from Cities Service
Co. its security holdings of electric
light and power companies and sub
stantially all of its security holdings
of gas distributing and street railway
companies.
Ogle asserted that Cities Service
Power and Light paid Cities Service
Co. and aggregate of 500, 900, 900 in
bonds, preferred and common stock
and cash for the transferred securities.
He said the purchase price was s59,-
100000 more than the Cities Service
Co.'S original investment.
Examiner Testifies.
The acquired securities were then
carried at 9,187645 on the books
of Cities Service Power and Light, the
examiner testified, bringing the total
write-up at the time of organization
to S69, 9,129, ,793, or 173 per cent.
Evening star., 1934-12-20
WORK
PRAISED BY OFFICER
DR.. Edward J. Schwartz Lauds
Associations Efforts and
Sale of Seals.

High praise for the work performed
by the District tuberculosis Clinic, at
301 C street, which is financed largely
by the tuberculosis Association from
the sale of Christmas seals, was voiced
today by DR.. Edward j. Schwartz, act
ing District health officer.
I'm my judgment, the clinic is rem
dering a very important service" said
DR.. Schwartz. During the year sew
eral hundred children are brought to
this clinic from homes where open
cases of tuberculosis exist.
This examination of contact chill
dren permits an early diagnosis,
point which cannot be overstressed.
1t is the utterly inadequate number of
beds for tuberculosis cases for which
Washington must, in the main, at
tribute its high tuberculosis death
rate, a situation which is soon to be
remedied by the construction of an
adult hospital at Glenn Dale, Md, rs
a result, in large measure, to the con-
tinued influence of the tuberculosis
Association for placing the needs be-
fore Congress"
Evening star., 1934-12-20
DAWES BANK SUIT
NAMES IS IN D. {.
R. F. C. Files Action Here
in Effort to Collect Part
of S60,OO0,0OO.

The Reconstruction Finance Corp.
today filed suit in District Supreme
Court against 13 Washingtonians In
an effort to collect part of approx
mately s6O,Ooo,o0 still owing on re-
construction loans to the Central Re-
public Bank g. Trust Co. of Chicago.
One of the officials of this bank
was Charles G. Dawes, who resigned
his executive position with the
R. F. c. and resumed his connection
with the bank before the leans were
made.
The petition, filed through Attorney
William C. Fits, states one loan of
S30,000,00O was made on June 20,
1882, and second of s50.00o,000 on
October 6, 1882. Approximately $23,-
100000 of the first loan has been re-
paid, it was stated, but nothing has
been paid on the second loan. Some
thing more than $7,OO0,000 in interest
has accumulated.
The petition states the bank is now
in receivership and unable to pay its
debts. The following local holders of
stock, which had par value of S100
share, are named defendants:
Frederic Bancroft, Metropolitan
Club, 1872 shares; Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
P. Bicknell, 1861 Crescent place, IL
shares; Mrs. Rose G. Casey, 1925
Whittier street, 200 shares; Mrs.
Edythe Patten Corbin, 2122 Massa-
chusetts avenue, 80 shares; William G.
Hawthorne, Marine Corps Headquar-
tiers, six shares; Hugo Hennig, sos
Fourth street; Grace Hughes, 2125
Kalorama road, and Alice Marie Mer-
rill, 1920 Sixteenth street, two shares
each: Mrs. Emma G. Mann, 2400 Six
teenth street, five shares; John T.
Marchand, National Metropolitan
Bank, eight shares; William B. Pich-
Ter, 54O2 or 5612 Connecticut avenue,
one share, and Mrs. Lucy L. Smith,
Wardman Park Hotel, seven shares.
CONNECTICUT SUIT FILED.
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Principles of Henderson
Proposal to Be Followed
in Settlement.
ATTORNEYS REVEAL
NO APPEAL PROBABLE
First Mortgage Owners Would
Get New Securities and Stock,
With Cash for Others.

The Mayiower Hotel today emerged
from the maze Of litigation which has
enmeshed it for the past three years
when District Supreme Court Justice
F. Dickinson Let's let it be kown he
would approve reorganization plan
submitted by the first mortgage bond
holders under the new bankruptcy
act.-
Justice Let's said he would sign an
order to this effect within the next
few days, and counsel declared a new
owning company would be ready to
take over the hotel by February /.
Under the reorganization plan, which
is mandatory on all bondholders, those
owning bonds now secured by the first
trust will receive so per cent of the
face value of their present securities
in new bonds, and the remaining 40
per cent in capital stock of the new
company, All of the capital stock will
be owned by the first mortgage holders.
Cash for Others.
The present holders of second mort
gage bonds will be paid off in cash,
the amount to be based on their in
terest in the unmortgaged assets of
the hotel. The exact amount of this
interest has not yet been determined,
but it was believed it will be relatively
small.
These provisions were incorporated
in the so-called Henderson plan of re-
organization, submitted early in the
bankruptcy litigation by Donald Hen
derson on behalf of the reorganization
managers. 1t had been placed before
the court earlier by three protective
committees Of first mortgage holders.
Appeal Avoided.
Counsel for the second mortgsg,
holders and the hotel company ap-
proved this plan with certain modlri-
cations, which were accepted, and ali
attorneys involved announced no ar
peal would be taken from the ruling.
Argument on behalf of this plan
was made by Attorney Paul E. Lesh,
representing the reorganization man
ayers, and the New York firm of
Beekman, Bogue g. Clarke, on be-
half OF the bondholders. They esti-
mated the new securities would be
ready for issuance by February or
early in March.
Evening star., 1934-12-20

Losing her way as she searched for
the place where her baby was being
kept Mrs. Mildred Mcintosh, 20,
wandered about the streets of Wash
ington all yesterday through the cold
drizzle and finally. when she could
go no further, fell unconscious near
Eastern High School.
She was found by two men, who
took her to Gallinger Hospital. There
the young mother, who is scarcely
larger than slight child and had but
recently recovered from a severe ILL
ness, told physicians a confused and
somewhat hysterical story of tangled
domestic affairs.
She was recovering today from ef-
fects of the exposure.
Worked as Domestic.
For a month she has worked as a
domestic in Rockville, Md Before that
time she had been Ill and her husband
too the child to his sister, Mrs. Belle
Mckay, at 521 Longfellow street.
Several days ago Mrs. Mcintosh
heard that Mrs. Mckay was about to
Evening star., 1934-12-20

were assigned to the special duty to-
day, with four on Bladensburg road
northeast, two on New York averue
northeast one on Thirteenth street
near Roosevelt High School and one
on r street near Wisconsin avenue.
Four men were assigned last night
to the special squad on Bladensburg
road and New York avenue northeast.
The vigilance squad of motor cycle
policemen is operating as only one
part of Commissioner Hazen's IL
point program to reduce accidents in
the District through being more strict
all along the line with the yiolators
of trafhc regulations. The other
phases of the program were outlined
IN detail yesterday by Commissioner
Hazen, who held conferences with
traffic and police authorities.
Three minor injuries were reported
in accidents last night.
Elizabeth Jefferson, S, Alb Twentieth
street, was treated at Emergency Hos
pital for leg injury received when
knocked down by an automobile near
her home. X-rays we're to be taken
to determine whether she has a
fracture.
Treated at Hospital.
Mrs. Mary Haynes, 81, of the $500
block of Seventh street, was treated
at Walter Reed Hospital for cuts and
shock, received last night when the
automobile which her husband, Clin-
ton Haynes. 80, is said to have been
driving skidded off Rock Creek Church
road and ran into a telegraph pole.
The other injured was John v.
Keull, 18, of the first block of Four
teenth street northeast, who suffered
back injuries when his motor cycle
skidded from under him at Fifth and
East Capitol streets. He was treated
at Casualty Hospital.
A collision between a street car and
bus tied up traffic for a short while
at Dupont Circle late yesterday, but
no one was hurt, police reported.
Evening star., 1934-12-20
CONTRACT SIGNED
FOR GLEN DALE
Ickes Removes Virtually
Last Barrier for ConStruC-
tion of Hospital.
Signing a contract agreement be-

Signing q contract agreement be-
tween the District and the Public
Works Administration, Secretary Ickes
today removed virtually the last bar
rier to construction of the long pro-
posed adult tuberculosis hospital at
Glenn Dale, Md
The Commissioners accepted the
terms of the contract last week and
with Ickes' official approval today
work may start at once on the site.
Lump Sum or InstalIments.
Payment of the sl,5o0,oO0 covering
the cost of construction, officials said,
may be made to the District either
in lump sum or installments. as the
Commissioners desire. Secretary Ickes
is awaiting word from them.
The only possible hitch in the ar
rangements is in connection with the
water supply at Glenn Dale, which
must satisfy the Public Works Ad-
ministration as to its quality and the
amount available. With the first ad-
vance of funds the Commissioners
expect to drill 1,000-foot well to
tap the main water supply.
Sees Ample Water Supply.
Engineer Commissioner Sultan said
today there is no doubt the District
can meet the provision of the allot-
ment of P. w. A. funds. He declared
there is an ample supply of water at
Glenn Dale to meet present needs and
If an increased amount is necessary
it can be procured by digging deeper
wells or by bringing water through a
main leading from the District.
Secretary Ickes made no changes in
the contract which calls for compile
ton of the project by July /. 1886,
and occupancy of the hospital by Sep
tember l of that year. He has no in
tention, it was said, of holding the
Commissioners to the letter of the
contract, but will insist in approving
all construction contracts before they
are awarded.
Evening star., 1934-12-20
L0RTON HAS INCREASE

Capt. M. M. Barnard general super
interdent of penal institutions, re-
ported today that the population of
prisoners at the District Hefornatory
at Lorton last month was / ,251, as
compared with 1872 at the end of
october and Ito at the emf OF
November of last year.
The average daily population dur
ing the past month was 1919, as COM
pared with 1,142 In October and 1.l3l
u November Of last year.
Evening star., 1934-12-20
YULE EXERCISES BEGIN
AT TAKOMA TONIGHT
Giant Tree to Be Lighted and
Four School Glee Clubs
Will Sing.

Christmas exercises will begin in
Takoma Park, D. c., at Z o'clock to-
night in the Fairgrounds at Fourth
and Whittier streets. Four school glee
Clubs will take part in the exercises
and a giant tree will be lighted by
DR.. H w. Whitaker. former president
of the Citizens Association of Takoma.
D. C. Several prizes will be given
away to children attending the serv-
ices and clothing will be distributed
to needy families.
The choruses taking part in the
services are George Washington Uni
versity Glee Club, Takoma Park Pub
lie School, Paul Junior High School
and Boy Scout buglers. Community
singing will be directed by a men,
ber of the University Glee Club. The
public is invited.
Evening star., 1934-12-20
18th AUTO Fatality Marks
Start of Police Traffic War
Youth, 10, Fleeing Scout Car, Crashes
Into Tree -':Flying Squadron
Jails so for Speeding.

While special details of motor cycle
police were swinging into their in
tensive drive against reckless driving
today another death brought the Dis
trict traffic toll for the year to 1877,
surprising by four all previous
records.
The latest victim, Leroy Lindsay,
10, colored, Of the 400 block of Second
street southwest, was killed when a
car, reported stolen, he was driving
crashed into a tree at School and
Sixth streets southwest while being
chased by police in a scout car from
No. 4 precinct. Lindsay died in
Casualty Hospital
The special flying squadron" of
motor cycle police made so arrests
for speeding during the "a hours
which ended at 1890 this morning.
Reckless Driving Charged.
In addition to the speeders, one
arrest was made for reckless driving
last night by the special detail and
several other motorists were ap-
pretended for minor offenseS.
AS a move to bring to speedy trial
traffic violators, Superintendent of
Police Ernest w. Brown today ex-
pected to confer with Judge Gus A.
Schuldt, presiding judge of Police
Court, to discuss proposed operation
of a night court for traffic offenders.
The idea was discussed yesteday by
Maj. Brown and Commissioner Hazen.
Inspector B. A. Lamb, head of the
police Traffic Bureau, expressed the
opinion today the special details of
motor cycle men may not result in a
great number of arrests, because no
toriSts who see them will slow down.
He expressed the view. however, that
the details will be of great value in
making motorists drive more care
fully.
A total of eight motor cycle men
Evening star., 1934-12-20
CITES RELIEF COSTS
Lusk Holds Sum Exceeds Monthly
Cost of Operating Schools.

Money spent for relief in Washing
ton last month exceeded the monthly
cost of operating the school system,
according to a statement issued by
Rufus S. Lusk, secretary of the Wash
ington Taxpayers Protective Associa-
ton.
1T is stressed in reports from the
emergency relief division" he said,
that there was a net reduction of 277
relief cases. However, relief c1sts went
up S245,000, so that for each case
cut off the rolls, 1885 was added to
the outlay"
Evening star., 1934-12-20
z NAMED TO PLAN
D. c. WELFARE BILLS
Unemployment Insurance in
City and Pensions Urged
in National Set-up.

A proposed program of social vel
fare legislation for the District Will
be drafted by a committee of IL rep
resentatives Of Washington groups as
the result of a round-table discus
sion of the needs held yesterday un-
der auspices of the Board OF Public
Welfare.
Speakers advocated an unemploy-
ment insurance plan as a part of the
national legislation now being con-
sidered, extension Of the mothers aid
program of the District and pensions
for the blind and aged.
Frederick w. McReynolds, chair
man of the Welfare Board, speaking
particularly of the unemployment in
surance plan, said, I'VE want to be
certain that the District is not left
outside of, or made an exception to,
any legislation the administration may
recommend"
Various Groups Represented.
He named the following joint COM
mittee to submit definite legislative
proposals to be considered at another
meeting of organization representa-
tives in the near future:
DR.. Frederick W.. Perkins, member
of the Welfare Board: DR.. A. C. Chris
tie of the Public Health Committee
of the Board of Trade; Miss Kath-
crime Lenroot, director of the United
States Childrens Bureau, who rep
resented the Monday Evening Club;
Walter S. Ufford, Washington Chap
ter, American Association of Social
Workers; Mrs Caroline Hogue, Citi-
zens' Committee for Old-age Pen
sions; John Locher, president, Wash
ington Central Labor Union; Sanford
Bates, president, Washington Council
of Social Agencies; Mrs. Elizabeth T.
Sullivan, vice president, Federation of
Citizens Associations; George w.
Beasley, president, Federation OF
Civic Associations; Dr.. John O'Grady,
director of Catholic Charities; Mrs.
Charles Goldsmith and DR.. Worth B.
Daniels, members, Board of Public
Welfare.
126,008 Held Eligible.
DR.. Leroy A. Halbert, director Of
research for the District Relief
Administration, presented statistics
showing that 10000 persons, exclud-
ing Federal and District employees, ap-
pear in the class normally regarded
as eligible for unemployment in
surance.
A plea that the Government en-
ploye be made eligible was submitted
by William A. Roberts, peoples
counsel.
DR.. Halbert also presented estimates
that about 1000 persons would be
eligible for old-age pensions, of the
minimum age was set at IS years.
Mrs. Hogue said the average grants
per person would be about S25 a
month. 1t was estimated roughly the
cost, under such estimates, would total
about 100000 a year.
New Departures Suggested.
Miss Lenroot urged establishment of
a permanent division of home relief
in the Board of Public Welfare and
a social service department at GAL
linger Hospital.
Mr.. Ufford, supporting the general
objectives, urged specifically that the
District Parole Board be provided an
adequate staff and that medical and
psychiatric personnel be employed at
the Lorton Reformatory to aid in re-
habilitation of criminals.
Rufus S. Lusk, secretary Of the
Washington Taxpayers Protective As
sociation, suggested that complete
statement of the costs of the relief
program accompany the recommends
tions Of the committee.
Evening star., 1934-12-20
BUSBY APPOINTED

Gets Position in Legal Depart
ment of Deposit Insurance Corp.
Representative Busby, Democrat, of
Mississippi, has accepted position
with the legal department of the Fed
eral Deposit Insurance Corp. He will
assume his duties after January !.
Busby was defeated for reelection.
Evening star., 1934-12-20
Chillum Grange Elects Crandell.

CHILLUM, Md, December 20 (Spe-
ciaD Howard Crandell has been
elected master of Eureka Grange, No.
lit, to serve one year, and the other
officers chosen are Raymond -Ager,
overseer; Mrs. Harry Nalley, lecturer;
Fred Eichman, steward; Thomas Joy,
assistant steward; D. Roy Mathews,
chaplain; Charles Miller, treasurer;
Lee A. Miller, secretary; Thomas Miller,
gatekeeper; Mrs. Howard Crandell.
ceres: Mrs. Fred Eichman, pomona;
Mrs. Clarence B. Smith, flora, and Mrs.
Raymond Ager, lady assistant steward
Evening star., 1934-12-20
MRS. HENRIETTA WARD,
IN D. C. "a YEARS, DIES
Widow of Former Navy Yard
Employe Was Born in
Montgomery County.

Mrs. Henrietta M. Ward, 70, a resi-
dent of Washington for "a years. died
early today at her home, 523 Seventh
street southeast. She was the widow
Of William E. Ward, an employe of
the Navy Yard for many years.
Born in Montgomery County, Md,
Mrs Ward was the daughter of the
late Mr.. and Mrs Rufus Purdum.
Mrs. Ward is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. j. T. Harrell of
Fredericksburg, Va, and Mrs. Mary
V. Canter of Washington; two sons,
John S. Ward of Cherrydale. Va, and
Newton B. Ward of Washington, and
a stepdaughter, Mrs. w. C.. Watkins
of Rockville, Md
Funeral arrangements have not yet
been completed.
Evening star., 1934-12-20
CONNECTICUT SUIT FILED.
Is Residents Of State Are Defendants
in Action.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, December 20
P.-Fifteen residents of Connecticut
described as stockholders in the Central
Republic Trust Co., of Chicago, ILL.,,
were faced today with suit by the
United States Government and the
Reconstruction Finance Corp.-one of
a series totaling $50, ats, ,638.25.
The suit to collect interest and un-
paid balance on two loans made in
1882 was filed yesterday in the United
States District Court here.
The Connecticut action is subsidiary
to one filed in the United States Dis
trict Court of Illinois, Eastern division.
Evening star., 1934-12-20
HELD FOR GRAND JURY
William H. Simmons Detained on
Robbery Charge.

William H. Simmons, about 20, of
the 500 block of Fourth street south
east, was ordered held for the grand
jury under $5 900 bond when arraigned
today before Police Court Judge Gus
A. Schuldt on a charge of robbery.
1t is alleged Simmons, in company
with another person, robbed Matthew
A. Welch, 1902 Second street north
east, of 5000 on December Is. The
offense, it was testified, occurred on
the Speedway, after Welch became ill
from drinking,
Evening star., 1934-12-20
Dance Planned.

FALLS CHURCH, Va, December
20 (SpeciaD "A dance will be held
at Lee-Jackson High School here
Saturday night for the benefit Of the
Student Echo, bi-weekly student pub
licatiop.