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Evening star., 1934-10-11

at all and the observatory still is
lighted with oil lamps. With the
availability of direct current it IS now
possible to make use of electricity.
The buildings are held together with
copper nails. Even a single iron nail
might so seriously affect the elusive
value of gamma" that the measure
ments wuold be worthless. DR.. Flem-
ing, one of the guests of honor yes
terday, related that he spent some
miserable days there due to the re-
venge of drunken carpenter whom
he had discharged. The man de-
liberately scattered keg of nails
through the thick layer of sawdust
under the floor and until the last of
these nails had been located nothing
could be done except search for them
Walls of Sawdust.
The observatory has literally walls
of sawdust several feet thick. More
than is carloads were used in its
construction. Sawdust was about the
best insulation material known at the
time and it was essential that the
temperature should not vary more
than a degree during the "a hours.
Capt. r. S. Patton, director of the
Coast and Geodetic Survey, praised
the personnel of the observatory who,
isolated from most human contacts,
have given their lives to the pursuit
Of the elusive gamma. The direc-
tor since 1911, until his retirement
Evening star., 1934-10-11
EDNA VIE.

Although awarded an absolute di-
vorce by the Virginia courts, Percy A.
Vie, attorney in the Bureau of In
ternal Revenue, today was ordered
by the District Supreme Court to pay
$50 month toward the support of his
two daughters, Dorothy E., 18, and
Edna c. Vie, Is.
The wife, Mrs. Frances w. Vize,
1921 Sixteenth street, was awarded a
decree for separate maintenance for
herself and daughters by the local
court in 1882. Vie, however, OBJ
tanned his decree in Arlington County,
Va, and then applied to this court for
an order vacating the separate main
tenance decree.
The wife, through Attorney Jean M.
Boardman, admitted he was no longer
required to support her, but con-
tended he was not relieved of the
obligation of supporting the daughters.
Agreeing with this contention, JUS
tice Joseph w. Cox signed an order
requiring Vie to pay $50 a month
for support of the children so long
as he continues to make like pay
ments on the home in which they live.
Evening star., 1934-10-11
Unfinished C.. W. Il. Projects
In City Deteriorating Fast
Value of Jobs Likely to Be Left for
Lack of Funds to Total 100000.
Labor Provision Is Barrier.

fence and pool for Twin Oaks Play
ground, $4,000; surfacing and equip
ment for the Kenilworth Playground,
81, 100; courts, surfacing and gates for
the Hoover Playground, $4,000; courts
and equipment for the New York Ave
nue. Playground, $1,000, landscaping
and retaining wall for Happy Hollow
Playground, $1,000.
School and Wharf Jobs Left.
In the repair shop there is an un-
finished project for ground improve
ments to the Randle Highlands School,
S37 900. and building for the Occo-
guam Wharf, $4,000.
Projects unfinished at the Zoo in
clude completing floors of the lion
house, $2500; completing outdoor cat
house. $500; completing mountain
for mountain sheep, s1,710: completing
floor and cutters in bird house, s2O1.
At Soldiers Home there remains to
be completed the decorating of the
interior of Stanley Hall auditorium,
S1,118; erection of two storehouses,
$2,250, and laying brick walks, s819.
At Gallinger Hospital there is $500
worth of work undone on the labora-
tory annex
One War Department project was
the demolition of the Aqueduct Bridge.
This was about 70 per cent complete
at the close of C. w. A. activities. The
work has been continued as an E. w.
A. project and is now about IS per
cent complete. When completed, how
ever, the old stone piers will still rise
about feet above the water.
Paving Also to Be Finished.
In the National Capital Parks Office
there is an incomplete project in
volving the grading and paving Of
the Rock Creek and Potomac park
way from K street to the L Street
Bridge. This project will be under
taken by District authorities out Of
an allotment of P. w. A. money for
road construction.
In Rock Creek Park there was
project for excavating, grading, build
ing road, concrete curb and gutter
on the line of Piney Branch road
near the Park Road Bridge. This
was started and abandoned. It will
not be completed, as far as is now
known. This particular job would
require approximately $4,000 to
complete, of which only $19,500
would go to relief labor and the rest
to supervision, materials and equip
ment-
Evening star., 1934-10-11

These views show the relics Of
q number of C. w. A. projects left
unfinished.
Upper, left to right: The Fort
drive, with the Alice Deal Junior
High School in the background.
Men were at work on this grading
job when the picture was taken.
There has been complaint from
parents over the mud left by the
partly finished job.
Aqueduct Bridge was to have
been taken down and the job was
only 10 per cent complete when
C. w. A. ended. There is still some
work being done on this and the
job is about IS per cent done.
Rock Creek and Potomac Park
way. looking south from the
Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge. This
job will be taken up later with
P. w. A. money.
Lower, left to right: A half
finished field house on the Bloom
ingdale playground.
Damage done the retaining wall
for the Piney Branch roadway in
Rock Creek Park. Rains have done
considerable damage.
Star staff Photos.
Evening star., 1934-10-11
COLUMBUS STATUE
TO GET WREATHS.
Italians and K. of c. to
Honor New World Dis
coverer Tomorrow.

Principal celebration Of Columbus
day tomorrow will center around the
Columbus Statue on the Union Station
Plaza, where Italian organizations and
the knights of Columbus are planning
ceremonies. The exercises are sched-
uled to start at 1890 am. and will
celebrate the 442d anniversary Of
Americas discovery.
A delegation representing the COM
bined Italian organizations of the city
will lay wreath at the foot of the
statue. At the same time G. E. Her
ring, State deputy of the Knights of
Columbus, also will place wreath.
Msgr. Eugene J. Connolly, knights of
Columbus chaplain and pastor of st.
Peters Church, will deliver the invo-
cation.
Embassy Staff Invited.
Members of the italian Embassy
staff and many officials of the District
and Federal governments have been
invited to attend a later celebration
to be held by the Italian organizations
at 8 pm. in the Central High School
auditorium.
Speakers will include DR.. Walter
Oavi6ge, president of the Italian-Amer-
ican Society, and Prof. Giuseppe PREF
zolini of Columbia University. VIII
liam Amoroso, president of the italian
Federation, will preside and Hugo A.
Carusi will be master Of ceremonies.
During the evening tomorrow, Dis
trict Deputy l.. Harold Sothoron and
Supreme knight Martin H. Carmody
of the Knights of Columbus will de-
liver radio addresses.
Curley Club Plans.
The Curley Club will celebrate the
anniversary with an entertainment
to follow its regular meeting this eve
ming in the Continental Hotel. Rev.
Francis Harrity of the Church of the
Immaculate Conception will deliver
the principal address. William j. Boyd
will preside. There will be dancing.
The Edward Douglass White Coun-
Gil of the Knights of Columbus will
celebrate tomorrow with open house
at its club house, IA Garrison road,
Clarendon, Va. There also will be a
social meeting tonight.
Evening star., 1934-10-11

When the Civil Works Administra-
ton went out of business last March
it left in its wake number of prof.
ects around the city half finished and
deserted, some of them rapidly de-
teriorating because of exposure to
the weather. Some of these projects
eventually will be finished at the more
leisurely pace adopted by the Emer-
gency Works Administration. Some
of them seem doomed to remain un-
finished.
c. w. A. projects, during their brief
history, were designed primarily to
create employment, but many of them
involved rather extensive purchases
of material and use of heavy equip
ment, such as trucks, steam shovels,
and the like. Under the E. w. A.
the use of heavy equipment is practi-
cally eliminated through the require
ment that not less than 80 per cent
of the cost of any project be paid to
labor Therefore, the unfinished jobs
which would require a greater pro-
portion of materials or equipment
must remain unfinished.
Must Jobs Listed.
Immediately after the c. w. A. went
out of existence its authorities called
on the District administrators for
list of emergency projects which
should be finished, because leaving
them half done would create trans
portation or other problems. Under
this list the District was allowed to
finish few projects, such as the paw
ing of Fifteenth street and small road
ways near the Washington Monument
in the Mall, but a long list of other
unfinished jobs remained. Another
sorting-out process followed, and those
which could be finished largely by
hand labor, with materials already on
hand, SGd not much use of equipment,
are being slowly finished.
A list of the unfinished projects,
which will probably not be finished,
involves approximately 100000 worth
of jobs. Among them are, in the
Fairgrounds Department, house, wad-
ing pools and court for the Bloom
ingdale Playground, $4,000; surfac-
ing and courts for Georgetown Play
ground, $2,400; Surfacing and wading
pool for Raymond Playground, $4,000;
courts and wading pool for Hamilton
Playground, $4,000; courts and track
for Virginia Avenue Playground,
$1,000; landscaping and track for
Takoma Park Playground, $4,000;
Evening star., 1934-10-11

this year, was George Hartnell, who
has made notable contributions to
the science of terrestrial magnetism
and now Is conducting researches on
instrumental improvement.
Capt. N. H. Heck, chief of the
Division of Terrestrial Magnetism and
Electricity Of the Coast and Geodetic
Survey, traced the history of the OBJ
servatory. In addition to DR.. Flem-
ing. the guests of honor were DR.. j.
Barteis, noted German geophysicist
who now Is research associate of
the Carnegie Institution of Washing
ton. and DR.. Daniel L. Hazard, senior
mathematician of the Coast and Geo.
detic Survey, who is best known for
his directions for msgnetics measure
ments, which are in use all over the
world.
Evening star., 1934-10-11
LIGHTING TO BE STUDIED

The basic principles of illumina-
tion in commercial, residential and
various other fields of electric light
ing, will be discussed by a group of
lighting specialists in the four-day
class of scientific lighting, to be con-
Quoted by the Potomac Electric Power
Co., beginning next Tuesday.
The class, to be attended by some
100 representatives of local jobbers and
electrical retailers, will be given the
results of several years of research of
DR.. Matthew LuckiSh of the General
Electric Lighting Research Labora-
tories.
Evening star., 1934-10-11
NEW UNITS DESCRIBED

The set-up and functions of the
numerous emergency alphabetical
agencies are described in a book Just
published by the Brookings Institu-
tion under the title, New Federal
Organizations, An Outline of Their
Structure and Functions" It is writ
ten by Laurence F. Schmeckebier.
The book enumerates 46 major or
ganizations and many subsidiary COR
porations created or greatly enlarged
in scope between March 4, 1888, and
June 80, 1884.
Evening star., 1934-10-11

Parent-Teachers to Meet.
The Parent Teacher Association Of
the Phillips School will hold its first
meeting of the season tonight at
8 pm.
Evening star., 1934-10-11
Man Slashed by Knife.

Forty stitches were required to
close knife wounds sustained by Vonie
wilson, 40, colored, of the 1900 block
of Fourteenth street, when taken to
Freedmen's Hospital about 1890 this
morning. The wounds were in his arm
and chin. Mrs. Catherine Wilson, "a,
colored, wife of the wounded man.
alleged to have inflicted the wounds
during row in their home, was ar
rested.
The Washington times., 1934-05-02

Jury Indicts Woman
In Abuse of Infant;
Robbery Holds 3

CBulldog") Sweeney, John A.
Mullins and William F. Lowry.
They are alleged to have taken
$35 from the station manager,
Opie E. Wall. D
The three were also indicted on
another charge of robbing Joseph
M. McVearry, manager of fill
ling station at Fourteenth Street
and Maryland Avenue Northeast.
LeBeau Indicted
Accused of padding" payrolls
in a conspiracy to swindle the
B-W Construction Co., John r.
LeBeau, head of plumbing and
heating firm, and Michael F.
DAILY, one of his foremen, were
indicted. LeBeau was also
charged with larceny after trust
of $1,5O0.
Frank j. Gardner, 64, former
New York State Senator. was in
dicted on a charge of violating q
statute prohibiting the sale and
purchase of public office. He is
alleged to have taken $100 from
w. E. Hawkes. on the lromise Of
securing him a job as electrician
in the new House Office Building
The Washington times., 1934-05-02

HOUSE, PARTICULARLY DEMOCRATIC
SIDE, PRINCIPLES BILL
SUBJECTED
COERCE THEM AGAINST
FORCE
Unfortunately shosghtedy accepted
whipwieders their
We say shor-sghtedy advisedy
BECAUSE FEW MEN ARE Debating
AND THREATENING DICTATE
THREATEN VOTERS REPRESENTA-
WASHINGTON.
The dictatos talk reading They depvng
them of patronage
They have not the either of their threats
THERE I POWER TO READ
OUT OF PARTIES THERE IS POWER
ALTOGETHER.
THOSE WHO ARE BACKSLIDING IN FACE FALSE
THREATS SHOULD BEWARE OF THAT REAL POWER.
The Washington times., 1934-05-02
BANK PAY.OFF
VOTE ETOHOLD.
CONGRESS
Representative Truax ellis
House Action Is Demanded
Before Session Ends

Indications that attempts would
be made by certain congressman
to keep Congress in session until
some action be taken on the Nc
Leod bank pay-off bill were given
today during a brief speech by
Representative Charles V. TruaX
DO, of Ohio.
During discussion on the prob
able date of Congress adjourn
ment, Mr.. Truax told the House
it should not consider adjourning
for the summer recess until such
important bills as the Mcleod bill
have been acted upon.
Committee Again Delays
Action on the Steagall amend
ment to the Senate bank deposit
bill, which would provide much
needed aid for depositors of closed
banks, was delayed further today
by the House Banking and Cur
rency Committee.
Scheduled to complete hearings
this week on the deposit bill. the
committee today instead took up
a bill authorizing the RFC to
make loans to private industry.
The bank bill, carrying the Stea
gall amendment, will be reported
out late this week, however. one
committee member predicts.
Sponsors of the Mcleod bill
which calls for paying off deposit,
ors 100 per cent meantime are
making all possible efforts to have
petition calling for a vote on
their amended bill by May IA.
Already the petition has been
signed by SO of the necessary las
(Continued on Page 2, Col. y
The Washington times., 1934-05-02

Mrs. Jessie Irene Ritchie, "a,
was indicted by the District
Grand Jury today on a charge
of abusing and maltreating a IT.
months-old infant.
According to testimony, the
baby while i'll was brought to a
roofning house in the 1000 block
Of I st. N. w. by Mrs. Ritchie on
april 18.
Illness of the baby grew worse
and developed into pneumonia
The defendant was accused of
feeding the child sandwiches when
a liquid diet had been prescribed.
Mrs. Ritchie was arrested under
the name of Jesse Chaplin. She
tolG police the baby is Virginia
Farrell, daughter of her brother,
of Charlotte, N. C. The baby is
in Gallinger Hospital.
Held in HOld-up
Linked to a hold-up and in
which a suspect was killed April
l at filling station at Ninth
Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
southeast, three men were in
dicted on charges of robbery and
assault with a dangerous weapon.
The defendants are: Elmer
The Washington times., 1934-05-02

political sals being used block the Mcleod bank
which
of particular piece of legislation
THESE THREATS QUESTION
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, ELECTED BY ALL THE
THE BENEFIT OF THOSE PEOPLE,
IS TO LEGISLATE ACCORDING TO THE
COTERIE OF ITS MEMBERS ELECTED BY AN
NUMBER OF OUR CITIZENS
effort defeat particular b three or four
ickery that BILL the
fundamentals system Of government challenged
connection with payoff
demanded that
good of the entire country
against thousands pied their will
possible manipulation the House
a vote the
reliably hold their faerng line
political death those who forward with the fight for
The Washington times., 1934-05-02
Cut in. Tariff
On Liquor
Likely
BY International News Service

BY International News service
The Administration has no pres
ent intention of reducing the Fed
eral tax on liquors. 50 a gallon,
but it is not unlikely that the
tariff of IS a gallon will be modi'
fled, it was learned today.
President Roosevelt, along with
other Administration officials, is
concerned over the continued
widespread illicit distilling and
bootlegging, recently disclosed by
Joseph H. Choate, head of the
FACA.
Any action, however, probably
will await congressional enact
ment of the reciprocal tariff pow
ers which Mr.. Roosevelt has asked
Representative John J. O'Con'
nor CD of New York today
charged that whisky trust
lobbyists have become so bold as
to attempt to ply their trade in
offices of the White House.
Representative O'Connor pro
posed:
i. Limitation of profits of
whisky diStillers under the
code.
2. Elimination of tariff on
foreign liquors to bring down
prices.
3. Legaliz a tion of bootleg
whisky estimated at 10000, 900
gallons.
The Washington times., 1934-05-02
NRA'S COERC|VE
AIM NDEN|ED
BY International News Service

BY International News Service
The whole aim of the NRA
is to organize industry to govern
itself with certain necessary
governmental supervision which
industry itself requested" w.
Averill Hartman. chief assistant
to Recovery Administrator Hugh
S. johnson, informed the bust
ness world today.
He said there is:
mo intention, expressed or
implied, to force industry to
act according to NRA in
sistence; to the contrary, the
wish is to help industry prop
erly to govern itself. There is
no desire to employ cOercive
methods"
Harriman'S remarks were con-
sidered significant since he made
them just when the chiefs of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce were assembling mere to
take stock of the NRA'S. policies
and the entire New Deal.
His declaration of the policy OF
NRA on enforcement differed
from that of William H. Davis
depoSed national compliance di
rector, told the State directors OF
the Federal emergency council
two months ago. He told them
the NRA proposed to start an in
tensive drive against code vic
lators.
The Washington times., 1934-05-02
H. |. HARTMAN
SEESDANGER
IN NRA
Chamber ahead Admits Gains
In Recovery But Fears :.
AutocratiC Rule
BY International News Service

Conceding that economic hori-
IONS have indeed frightened
under the New Deal, Henry I
Hartman, president of the United
States Chamber of Commerce
nevertheless declared today, be-
fore the twenty-Second annual
meeting of the Chamber opened
that two of the recovery programs
greatest agencies-the NRA and
the AAA-must face three acid
tests to determine their lega-.ty
These New Deal bulwarks, he
said, will be challenged:
/. On the ground they trans
cend the power of Congress in
the degree Of regulation they
impose on industry and agri-
culture.
2. That they violate the Fifth
Amendment of the Constitution
-fOrbidding the taking of prop
erty without due process of law.
3. That Congress has i'm
properly delegated some of its
powers to the Executive.
Problem Seen
Mr.. Hartman emphasized that
no constitutional question would
arise concerning the enforcement
of agreements embodying regula
tionS for business and agriculture
upon those who had assented tc
the agreements. He said:
"The question comes to
whether such fair rules can be
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The Washington times., 1934-05-02
Hartman Confirms
MOLeu's NRA Claim
D. TDto.DotIonoI Naxvs Sarv,co

BY International News Service
Prof. Raymond Moley's state
ment that the NRA and the AAA,
twin props in the Roosevelt re-
covery program, were born under
the roof of the United States
Chamber of Commerce and not
in the minds of the so-called
brain trusterS" was confirmed
here today by Henry I. Hartman,
president of the chamber. Even
before the election of President
Roosevelt, Mr.. Hartman disclosed,
special committee of the cham
ber worked out the basic features
of NRA.
The Washington times., 1934-05-02
ICE CREAM
NENSEEK
OLDPAY
SCALE
ParIeys May Break Deadlock;
Wage Compromise Within
Five Cents of Demand

Washington's major bakeries
were not operating today, follow
ing the strike of bakers and
helpers for increased pay.
Employing bakers had no in
formation this afternoon as to
whether an attempt would be
made to bring in nonunion bakers.
Some of the large bakeries were
importing bread to be delivered
to restaurants, but otherwise the
production and distribution. OF
bread in the principal establish
ments here was at StandStill.
Ice Cream Men Out
Meanwhile, B. L. Hart, repre-"
senting the ice cream manufac-
turers' committee in contact with
union labor, said the ice cream
makers had walked out this morn
ing, according to schedule, and
that he had received no informa.
ton from them in the way of Sug.
gesting negotiations.
A conference was under way at
the Mayflower Hotel this after
noon, with reference to the bakers
strike. Although no statement was
Forthcoming, it was understood
that bakers and their employers
were discussing a possible settle.
ment of the strike.
Matter of Cents
Only cents an hour in the
proposed wage scales now divide
the two groups. The aim of the
wage increase is to give the en-
ployes somewhere near the same
weekly earnings they received be-
fore their hours of work were
shortened.
The ice cream makers, like the
bakers, want more pay. They are
now paid $3.50 a day for skilled
men, 81 for unskilled and $3.50
(Continued on Page 2, Col. y
The Washington times., 1934-05-02
U.S,LOANS SEEN
BOON To IDLE
BY International News Service

BY International News Service
Direct loans to industry by the
Federal Reserve banks would in
crease employment by 100000 and
place $2S2 100000 additional cap
ital into industrial operations dur
ing the next six months, Gov.
Eugene Black, of the board, today
told the House Banking and Cur
rency Committee.
He urged the committee to
adopt the bill by Senator Glass
CD of Virginia, providing for
Federal Reserve bank loans to
commercial enterprise.
This bill, he said, has the ap-
proval of President Roosevelt, Sec
retary of the Treasury Morgen-
thau, and himself.