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The Washington times., 1934-06-01
HEALTH CAMP
ASKS FUNDS

With the date of the opening
of the District tuberculosis Asso-
cations summer camp still months
away, ITO applications for admis-
sion have already been received
and the number is daily mount
ing.
The maximum capacity of the
camp is so, but the association is
hopeful that additional funds, suf-
ficient to care for all applicants,
will be raised before the date for
the opening of the camp.
Mrs. Ernest r. Grant, executive
secretary of the association, said
today:
with 1890 known cases of
children in this city diagnosed
as tuberculosis the number of
applications for admission to the
camp is expected to increase
greatly. We will welcome all
contributions for this purpose.
All of the money received will
be used directly for the care
of additional little patients.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
HOUSE WATERS
STAGE SCRAP

Already the scene of several
skirmishes this session. the House
restaurant early today saw a diff
ferent encounter.
This time the alteration was
between the restaurant head
waiter and One of his tray
trotters, both colored. as the eli
max to an argument over the
latters pay envelope.
Who started the battle isn't
known. but hearing a crash of
crockery and table ware, Capitol
Policeman Frank Skinner arrived
to find both on the floor amid
fragments of dishes and table
sauce bottles, fists and feet fly
ing.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
SULTAN SLATED
FOR D, {, POST

Lieut.. Col. Daniel I. Sultan,
distinguished Engineer Corps Of
ficer, may be named by President
Roosevelt to succeed Major John
C. Gotwals as District Engineer
Commissioner, it was rumored in
official circles here today.
Major Gotwals' term expires
next month and, as the post is
one of the most desirable in the
Army appointments. it is ex
pected there will be a mad
scramble for it.
Colonel Sultan is 40 years old
and a graduate of West Point
with the class of 1907. He is
now United States engineer at
Chicago and also serves as Pub
lie Works Administrator for Cook
county.
Colonel Sultan served overseas
and was awarded the Distin-
guished Service Medal. After the
war he was assigned to the Mica
raguan Canal survey and for his
work on this project he was
awarded the Oak Leaf which cor
responds to second D. S. M.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
70 MEET NGS'D. c. LOAN BILL
. DRAW 10000 VOTE TODAY .

Long-awaited action on the Dis
trict 10-million-dollar public works
bill by the House was predicted
for today by Majority Floor Leader
Joseph w. Byrns DD of TenneS-
see.
The House first must dispose
the Tarver bill creating a board
to control prison industries. It is
believed the local loan bill will
be brought up after about an
hours delay.
Under the loan bill the District
Commissioners may borrow $10,-
100000 from the PWA to build a
new tuberculosis hospital, a sewage
disposal plant, and other NUM-
cipal items approved by the Sen
ate and by the House District
Committee.
The bill, now under a special
rule calling for one hours debate.
is more than 100000 less than
the Senate bill provides.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
Machine Signs
H. s. Checks in
Huge Lots

1t would take Major James R..
Lusby, the Districts disbursing
officer, two whole days to sign
with his quadruple pen the 1000
to 10000 Emergency Works prof.
ect checks that his assistant,
Frank w. Holmes, can sign in an
hour on an hour and a half at
the most.
The reason is that Mr.. Holmes
uses the latest check signing de-
vice authorized by the United
States Treasury. 1t is an offset
Autograph printing press. in fact;
and the signatures of Daniel f.
Donovan, District auditor, and
Major James R. Lusby, disbursing
officer, are not written out by pen
at all.
In fact, they are not even
signatures. They are facsimile
signatures; just as the names on
U. S. bonds and on paper money
are not signatures at all-but are
facsimile engraved copies of the
handwriting of the proper Of
ficialS.
When Uncle Sam began to pay
farmers for slaughtered pigs, for
excess crops, for blowing under
arabic lands, the strain on the
check-signing officials of Govern
ment got so great over night that
the Government officials rushed
out and bought several of these
latest office devices.
The AAA eventually bought six
Of these check signers; the Hole
bought one of them: Emergency
Works checks are handled in ten
thousand lots-and the District of
Columbia found it necessary and
economical to install one.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
WALSH OUTLINE
CITES POINTS
UNDERF|RE
Committee to See All u. S.
Contracts and Check on
Labor Payments
By LOUIS E. WHITE

Indications that the Senate
"kick-back racket" probe will be
sweeping and thorough we're
evident today when Senator David
Walsh CD of Massachusetts,,
chairman of the investigating
committee, prepared memo
randum suggesting the scope OF
the investigation.
The Senator, who sponsored
the inquiry, compiled the memo
randum as an initial step in lay.
ing the groundwork for the probe
and with view to placing it be-
fore his committee when it meets
in few days to agree upon the
plan for the investigation.
Under the plan of Senator
Walsh the committee will obtain
all contracts for Federal projects
entered into since the passage OF
the Davis-Bacon law which pro-
vided that the prevailing wage
rate should be paid to workers on
Federal projects.
Check On Officials
The Senator proposes that the
committee make inquiry as to the
methods employed and extent to
which Government officials re-
sponsible fer the execution of the
contracts have investigated VIOLA
tons of the Davis-Bacon law; de-
termine whether the Government
officials have been insisting on
compliance with the law and, if
not, what prosecution can and
should be initiated.
One question of vital import
ance which the committee chair.
man proposes to inquire into thor
oughly is the manner OF what
became of the money returned to
contractors through "kick-back"
methods. He intends to determine
if the money ultimately went to
the contractors; if the contractors
used it for swelling their own
profits and to lessen losses on par.
ticular contract. and whether the
books of the contractors show the
payment of the full wage due
without showing receipt of the
"kick-back" money.
Seek Tax EvaSiOnS
This will be done ostensibly
with the view of determining il
the contractors who made use OF
the 'kick-back" practice at
tempted to violate the income
tax laws.
The investigation also should
reveal, Senator Walsh suggests,
if it was the intention of certain
contractors in submitting low
bids to use "kick-back" methods
and thereby obtain contracts to
the disadvantage of contractors
within the law.
Another point which the Sena'
tor believes should be probed is
to what extent labor leaders have
conspired with contractors to
give the latter the benefit Of
"kick-back" assistance and to
what extent labor leaders have
sold jobs to workmen.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01

More than 10000 convention
delegates will meet in Washing
ton this month. attending 20
large national gatherings, accord
ing to an announcement today
by Curtis Hodges. director Of the
Greater National Capital Com
mittee.
The National Education ASso-
citation, with three affiliated
groups, will convene in the Wash
ington Auditorium, June 30
July g..
The American Institute of
Banking. meeting June lila, at
the Willard Hotel, and the Ma
tional Retail Coal Merchants AS
ISOLATION and the National Code
Authority for the retail solid fuel
industry. meeting June 1920 at
the willard Hotel. are important
conventions slated for June.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
Board of Commissioners
Commissioners met as a board.

The Commissioners met board.
Devised plan to move Calvert Street Bridge without
waiting for the carpenters strike to be settled tory this
page)
Ewood Street. director of public welfare takes oath
of office at District Building (Story Page ~
District Officials express fear that reduced appropriations
may endanger fire alarm system (Story this page)
District officials explain method of signing thousand
checks hourly by device. (Story this page.)
Alcohol Beverage Control Board to ask for
money. (Story this page.)
The Washington times., 1934-06-01

Three charter members of the Womens Club of Richmond
had the emery have their pictures taken the Foreh
Anniversary Club birthday And the picture
their Washington friends) They stood in behind
cake and candles Smiled pretty the photographers Thus
admitting in the public prints that they had crossed the Two
Score Rubicon.
With admiration I print their Miss Mary Lyons
Miss Mary Cameron and Mrs. Beverley B. MunfOrd Crhe
Richmond papers beautifc editorials about them. Why
not? They the only know who openly admit
being 80
But these are women of the Gay Ninees In the Gay
they weren't ensaved and did they pleased meanwhile
satisfactory technique, then.
Virginia gentlemen of the period did not approve of their
wives belonging club club to them meant salty jokes,
card tables and barymbols of free masculine niquity.
However, the Virginia ladies got their club. Made an
intellectual and moral force in the community"
And the tables and the bar and the salty jokes
today they commonplaces among Free Women.
The answer of little Margaret Hook Kentucky when the
gentlemen of the Spelling Bee asked her to spell
booze" is significant I'm not whether it proves that
hibton Amendment effective that Kentucky is not
the gay harddrinking region one has been hoping.
Anyhow when they mentioned the dreadful word to Marga
ret she asked the gentlemen to say it again.
Booze 1" they repeated
"oh never heard of that said Margaret and down.
The manner the O-to5 year-od spelling champions was
q mixture of chdishnes and sophscatiOn Have always
suspected the qualities were related anyhow They APP
preached the mrophone with But if they mis-
spelled they crumped sobbngy into the of dear Mama
The Washington times., 1934-06-01

IF YOU happen live that big stretch of country be-
tween Connecticut Avenue and Wisconsin Avenue, not far
from the Bureau Standards and hear deep rumbng noises
about dusk don't be alarmed They the audible memo
ries Of Jack Sterretts youth.
Jack Sterretts live beside woodsey old Sprngand
Years ago Mr. Sterretts mother had big pond Spring
land Big stones beside the pond and always two three
big sitting the stones nghfa and boastng about
their success in life
Recently Jack Sterett began to think senmenaly of the
frogs or the toads Gone gets consed of his youth De-
Cided that since had the woods and the pond of his
cestors why not few frogsOf another generaon-nat-
uraly So he dashed down to pet shop while the mood
was upon him. and bought two toads Paid quarter for
them Liked them we'll that he dashed down again
and bought lot toads. Two whole dollars WORTH
Now neither he Mrs Sterrett is certain that frogs in
bulk successful Particularly with their voices raised in
evensong What with the rainy spring and the neghbors
and everything.
Drive by there yourself evening Don stop to listen
It won't be necessary.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
D. C. to Get S725,OOO
For Relief in June

The District will be granted
$725,000 for relief purposes for
June. Federal Relief Administra-
tor Harry L. Hopkins said today.
The District Commissioners had
first asked $500 900 for this month,
but reduced the figure owing to
decreases of the relief rolls.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
Senate
e Senate District Committee did not meet

The Senate District Committee did not meet
Tn a memorandum prepared by Senator David l. Walsh
3D. of Massachusetts today indicated that the kick
back investigation will be sweeping and detailed (SOry
this page)
The District appropriations bill finally approved by the
Senate and House yesterday awaiting signature of
President Roosevelt today. (Sory this page.)
Hearings on the bill to egaze horse racing the District
will begin before the Senate District Committee
(Story Page 81
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
LABORERSBEG|N
MOVING BRIDGE
NEXT WEEK
Contractor Allowed to Waive
Requirement on Calvert
Street Structure

The Calvert Street Bridge will
be moved. preparatory to the
building of a new bridge across
Rock Creek, without waiting for
the carpenters strike to be settled.
The Board of District Commits
sionerS decided on this move to-
day and took the necessary action
after Engineer Commissioner Got
walls and Assistant Engineer
Whitehurst pointed out that the
longer the temporary braces re-
main under the present Calvert
Street Bridge, the more difficult
the moving job; and also that
there is a possibility of danger be-
cause of water seeping into the
soil on the steep banks above the
creek.
Will Waive Clause
The Commissioners, therefore,
will start the move by permitting
the contractor in charge of the
moving work to waive one clause
in his contract requiring both
street car and automobile traffic
be maintained after the first "a
hours.
To live up to this requirement
would mean certain work on
bridge approaches involving car
penters, who are on strike and
holding up the move.
Starts Next Week
The Commissioners waived this
requirement today and when the
move starts early next week the
plan is to keep street car traffic
going over the bridge after the
first break-but to divert all au-
tomobile traffic entirely to the
Connecticut Avenue Bridge.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
Dupont Circle Trees
To Get Treatment

Tree surgeons will begin treat
ing three trees in Dupont Circle
next week, under an authorization
made today by C. Marshall Fin
nan. superintendent of National
Capital Parks.
The contract for treatment of
the trees was let several months
ago, but the treatment has been
held UP due to a wage dispute
among local tree surgeons.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
PUPILS TO BE FETED

The la girls of the seventh
grades in Alexandria public
schools VINO will be graduated to
high school next week will be
guests of the Alexandria Business
and Professional Women'S Club
at the monthly dinner meeting
in George Mason Hotel tonight.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
LEGION FETE TONIGHT

An Army chow" dinner will
be feature of the meeting of
Alexandria Post No. "a. Amer
lean Legion, in Gadsby's Tavern
tonight. Officers of the two
high school cadet corps and
members of the squadron of Sons
of the Legion will be guests.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01

family. She tells the story herself.
Sste, the gay little daughter of Mrs. Cur
It's Dali was hurrying off to school
Don't wear that old beret, Sistie," said
Mrs. Roosevelt 1T is shabby. Besides you
have pretty new hat.
Sistie paused for a short minute.
Il know have new hat. I wore it on
Monday. But my friends at school think 1
look better in my old one. P'raps I'll never
wear the new one. You just don't under
stand.
Merely grandma in her own home-is the
wife Of the President Of the United States.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01

for
Newstips

Cash Prizes Each Week
Phone News Tip Edi-
tor, Washington Times,
District 1000. K e e p.
Your Eyes Open for
Unusual Events - Don't
Write - Phone Between
$50 A. M. and 6 P. M.
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
First Lady's Influence Nil
With Sistie Dali on
Choice Of Hats
By HELEN ESSARY

Practically million people regard significantly the
opinion of Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt Whatever she speaks
the radio the lecture PLATFORM whatever she writes
IN magazines in newspapers whatever she in her
clear voice is listened to with admiration.
:. But-a prophecies is without honor in her
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
House

The House District Committee did not meet
Action on the Districts $1OOOOOOO PWA bill expected
late today. (StOry this page.)
The Washington times., 1934-06-01

or Whoever the chapefOne Was.
This afternoon, pretty Charlotte Mayo is
having the rehearsal of her wedding to Will
liam Preston Smith 3d. The wedding will
take place tomorrow afternoon.
A certain hostess had planned to have
tea today at 1925 F St. When she discov-
cred that Charlotte and the gay wedding
party would be at 1926 F St., at the same
hour, she thought at first they would make
an attractive bit of entertainment for her
guests. Then decided the competition would
be too great and changed her party to Sun
The Washington times., 1934-06-01
.iStrictLOS

daily resume of all action in the House and Senate
dealing SOLELY Nth the District of Columbia and all
action by the House and Senate District Committees
and Board of District Commissioners
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-29
LAW STILL MOVES SLOWLY

WHATEVER else the New Deal may have
W done, it has at least failed to cut loose
from the proverbial delays of the law.
Some months ago the National Labor Rela-
tons Board issued its famous decision in the
Houde case. The decision is of importance to
every large employer of labor and every labor
union, in America, since it seeks to set an
Interpretation Of the famous Section IA of
the MIRA.
But the decision has been hanging fire ever
since. The Governments legal machinery
could not get into action until Nov 80, when
lawsuit was filed. Now petition for clari-
fed bill of complaint has been filed by the
company's lawyers, which will delay hearing of
the case until mid-January, at the least
Ultimately, great many months will have
elapsed between the time the ruling was first
made and the time it is finally passed on by
the courts The delay has been a bad thing all
around.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-29
SERVANT OF CHILDHOOD

A GOOD many children got Wizard Of or
books for Christmas. That has been hap
pening every year, and it will probably go on
happening for long time to come. These OF
books have become American classics, and
their readers are numbered in astronomical
figures by now.
1t is interesting, therefore, to discover that
the late L. Frank Baum, their author, wrote
them somewhat against his will while trying to
do something else.
James Thurber recently told all about Mr.
Baum in the New Republic.
1t was this writer's great ambition to write
distinctly American fairy tales He wanted
no more of ogres, enchanted princesses, fairies,
and malicious dwarfs; he planned to discover
the pever-never land right in the middle of
Chicago, or some other equally unlikely place,
aui he had written some 20 books when, in his
forties, he wrote The Wizard of o."
he wrote this one more or less as a stunt
There is nothing especially American about it,
except that Dorothy, the little girl who goes
wandering through the lend of the Scarecrow
and the Tin Woodman, cones from Kansas.
Having finished it, Mr.. Baum sought to return
to the task of becoming an American Hans
Christian Andersen.
But at this point the children Of America
stepped in. They liked The Wizard of o."
and they began pelting him with letters de-
handing that he vrite more about this mar
velous fairyland. After getting some thousands
Of letters, Baum gave in and wrote a sequel
Once more he tI;ed to go back to his chosen
field, and once more the children showered
letters on him.
The upshot was that he had to keep on
writing OF books until he died-and then the
books remained so popular that another writer
was engaged to keep the stream flowing, so
that new OF books are still coming out
Here, in miniature is an excellent sample
of the sort of thing that can happen to a man
who creates something alive. It takes posses.
sion Of him. He ceases to be his own master.
Mr.. Baum was never a free agent after he
had turned his famous Wizard loose among
the children. He started something that was
bigger than he was
The ambitious youth who hopes to become
a writer might be warned To write a book
is to daily with potent enchantment. 1t may
work better than you expect-and, if it does,
you are forever afterward at the mercy of
some one that you yourself invented!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-29
DEATH IN A HURRY

livery IS minutes in the year now ending
II some one was killed in an automobile
accident; every 81 seconds some one was in
jured on the streets and highways.
Despite campaigns of education and view
Withdrawn editorials the year 1884 passes
with an aH-time high record Of $4,000 traffic
deaths and about one million injuries. 1t is
a death toll as great as the number Of Anleri-
cans killed in battle during the World War.
The causes are many. They include
drunken driving, new high-speed models
driven on highways not built for such rapid
transit, and ramshackle machines bought be-
fore the depression and no longer safe TO-
travel.
But human factors doubtless have con-
tributed most to the years shameful record.
We are gripped by a crazy notion that it is
somehow important to get wherever we may
be going in a hurry, and then get back in
hurry. We take chances without thinking that
they also involve the lives and limbs of others.
Laws that can not be enforced do little
good. This newspaper has no remedy-only
prayer that some day we may come to our
senses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-29
In Monterey

BY Fan BOYD HEINEY
A faint guitar o, happy hearts
that beat,
With youthful rapture; castanetS
that chime
With clinking silver heels and flying
feet,
While laughing dancers whirl in
perfect time;
And dark eyes flash and bright
mantillas sway
Where lovers meet to dance in
Monterey.
Old Monterey Now Senorita
A creole love song to her faint
guitar;
While dainty fingers sweep across
the strings
Her laughing lips as red as cinna-
bar
Repeat the glad refrain, 20, Senior.
stay
Where lovers meet to dance in
Monterey"
But gypsy ears and hearts are tuned
to hear
The call of open roads and wind
ing streams
And tents beneath the stars; and
all oul dear
Illusions fade like mist some
times in dreams
A faint guitar love song far
away
Where lovers meet to dance in
Monterey,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-29
TAXPAYERS DIVIDENDS

4 NY one of a dozen achievements OF the
IA Federal Trade Commission last year may
he cited as worth more in dollars to the Amer
lean people than the cost Of maintaining that
useful Government agency. This is clear from
its current annual report
On a budget slightly in excess of million
dollars. the Commission last year carried on
its customary policing of industry, between
the various units and between industry and
consumers.
In addition it did many other things. Its
disclosure of malpractices and financial Jug
Cling in the electric and gas utility industries
already has saved consumers millions of dol
lars. 1t may save them much more, if state
regulatory bodies make proper use of this in
formation.
It's study of monopolistic practices in the
milk business can yield rich dividends in higher
prices to dairy farmers and at the same time
lower prices to milk consumers.
It's investigative services for NRA, AAA and
IVA have measurably increased the efficiency
Of those Government agencies.
It's analyses of Purchasing systems, steel
industry practices, gasoline price trends and
corporate salaries are essential to Congress
in framing important legislation.
Selfish interests which want to be left free
to exploit the people. try every year in Con-
gress to cripple the Commission by curtailing
its budget.
Few, if any, other branches of the Govern
ment give taxpayers as much for their money.