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Evening star., 1934-06-18
"HANDS-OFF" POLICY
TAKEN IN AIRPORT TALK
Commerce Department Aeronau-
tics Branch Not to Interfere
in Selection of Site.

The Commerce Department aero
nautics branch will maintain a
"hands-off" policy in connection with
the selection of municipal airport
site for Washington, according to a
report from the branch to Senator
Gibson of Vermont, author of the
pending Gravelly Point Airport bill.
At the same time, it was announced,
Senator Gibson has received reports
from Pennsylvania AirlineS, Central
Air Lines and Eastern Air Lines. all
of which now use Washington Air
port, that they have no objection to
the Gravelly Point site proposed BY
the Gibson bill.
The aeronautics branch, which has
supervision of civil aviation activities
in the United States, has taken the
position that so long as a municipal
airport possesses the necessary quail
ficatlonS as to safe operation, its loca-
ton is matter of no official concern
to the Commerce Department, Sena-
tor Gibson was informed.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
D. c. LIKELY TO GET.
.P. P.W.A.SEWERFUND
Officials in Ickes' Absence
See Fair Chance of Bor-
rowing Money.

While new P. w. A. funds made
available by Congress are sufficient to
provide for "only about one-tenth of
all the new projects for which appli-
cations are now on file," officials said
today in the absence of Secretary 1ckes.
they considered the District of Co.
lumbia has a fair chance of borrow
ing enough money for the proposed
sewage disposal plant included in its
P. w. A. program.
Secretary Ickes has refrained from
making any definite promises on any
of the desired local projects, they
said, but he has frequently expressed
himself as favorably disposed toward
the sewage disposal project, which
would end pollution of the Potomac
River.
Applications on File.
Applications are on file covering
about $4,000, 100000 in non-Federal
projects and $1,000, ,OO0,O00 or more in
Federal projects. Against this huge
sum, the most that the Public Works
Administration can expect to get is
about s500O0o,000. In addition, $780,
100000 will be obtained through the
sale of Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration securities.
"The District Of Columbia will have
to take its chances on even terms
with other borrowers, thousands of
which are doomed to diSappoint-
ment," it was said at the adminiStra-
ton.
Door Not Closed.
Although the District has received
some S45,000,OO0 in approximately
200 large and small projects in the
past year, officials have not closed the
door en- any future projects. especially
now that the Commissioners can bor-
row the same as other municipal au-
thorities.
1t is considered improbable that
the entire District P. w A. program
can be carried out in view of limited
funds but there is very reasonable
expectation that Secretary Ickes will
approve loan for the sewer disposal
plant
Mr. Ickes has never expressed him.
self tavorably toward starting the
Municipal Center at this time.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
DETERMINATIONS
FOR 700 ALCOHOL
INSPECTORS NEAR:
Deficiency Bill Provision Be-
Iieved Certain of
Passage.
TESTS FOLLOW CHARGE
OF "HAND-PICKING"
Civil Service Commission Will
Quiz Re-appointed
Dry Agents.

With Senate Democrats, led by
Senator Mcclellan of Tennessee, sue
cessful in getting through a provision
in the deficiency bill to require some
700 former prohibition agents to take
new Civil Service test in order to
hold jobs to which they had been re-
appointed in the Bureau of Internal
Revenue, the Civil Service Commits
sion, 1t was thought today, soon
would be fixing a date for the
examination.
Action on the deficiency bill had
not been completed this morning, but
the House had accepted the Senate
provisions covering the status of the
TOO, and it appeared foregone con-
clusion that the bill would become
law as 1t now stands.
These former prohibition agents
have been reinstated principally as
inspectors at s2,600 a year in the new
alcohol tax unit of the Bureau OF
Internal Revenue, and even before
McKellar and others had started the
fight against them, the Civil Service
Commission had been preparing to
hold examinations for vacancies to
fill similar posts in the unit.
Others to Be Held.
Along with the examination for in
spectors-this designation is only
being used temporarily and may be
changed later-the commission also
will hold examination for investi-
gators. The commission already had
arranged tests for storekeeper-gauger
in the unit, but applications are no
longer being received for these tests
The commission has not yet reached
a decision as to the nature of the ex-
aminations for the inspectors or in
vestigators, but it was revealed today
that applicants will be required to
undergo a rigid character examina-
tion. This Is IN line with a principle
set down by the commission for test
ing persons with non-civil service
status who were transferred to the
Bureau of Internal Revenue last
month when it absorbed the remnants
OF the prohibition unit of the Bureau
Of Investigation.
Already Have Status
The reinstated prohibition agents
who are being forced to take a new
test already have a competitive civil
service status, but McKellar and
others charged that they we're Hoo
yer Republicans" who had been hand
picked for the new jobs by subordi-
mates at the Treasury Department.
This allegation has been denied, Sec
retary Morganthau saying that the
men were chosen on the basis of
known service covering anywhere from
2 to years.
A character examination was part
OF the test to which these men had
been subjected.
Evening star., 1934-06-18

"HE Post Ofhce Department to-
Gay added a RECEPTIONS" to
the personal staff of Post
i master General Farley.
The incumbent of the posi-
tion-which strikes a new note in
postal portfolios-is Mrs. Frances
Walker of 3525 Davenport street. Sh,
took her post this morning at desk
in the cathedral-hke reception room
Of the Postmaster Generals suite, pre-
pared to maintain liaison between the
vast outer reaches of the executive
Offices, habitat of job-seekers, and the
inner sanctums of Farley and his
aides.
Mrs. Walker has for the past five
years been assigned to Secretarial work
at the Federal Trade Commission.
Evening star., 1934-06-18

Stuart T. Williams, steel worker
turned sculptor, was in a state of
near-collapse today in his home, 5188
Fulton street, as a result of the Public
Works of Art Project Committees
seizure of his unfinished masterpiece,
Recovery" which he had planned to
present to President Roosevelt.
Williams began his work on "Re-
covery" as an employe of the P. W.
A. P, after he had eked out meager
livenhood for his family and himself
by working for the Emergency Relief
Division.
The work-consisting of two steel
workers riveting a girder while a
Blue Eagle looks on from above
was about half finished when Will
liams was dropped from the P. W..
A. P. pay roll. He appealed to Mrs.
Roosevelt, however, and short time
later was given permission to go ahead
Evening star., 1934-06-18
SCULPTOR is NEAR COLLAPSE
AS p. ". 4. p. SEXES WORK

with the piece. With two models he
was working in an attic studio in the
Corcoran School of Art
Last week." he said, II gave out
a statement to the papers to the
effect that l was going. to move the
piece and finish it UP on my own hook,
as felt that it was entirely my own.
This evidently made the committee
sore, because when changed my
mind and asked for three or four days
in which to complete the work, the
answer was confiscation.
"The thing was in clay and moving
it couldn't help but mess it up some
thing awful. I realized that and
that's why I decided not to have it
moved myself"
Grant Code, secretary of the COM
mittee, explained the piece was seized
because Williams was spending too
much time finishinA it.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
MAN WHO SOUGHT JAIL SENTENCE
FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT DIES

John Connors, so, of the 1900 block
of H street, who is said to have well
coined Jail sentence in order to re
ceive medical treatment, died late
yesterday in the District Jail in
firmary-a day after being sent there.
Connors was convicted on a drunk
charge May Is, but was placed on
parole. Last Saturday. however. he
was charged with violation of parole
and sent to Jail after twice appealing
to parole officers for medical treat
ment. it was said by headquarters
detectives.
Records at the Board of Public
Welfare show Connors on June / was
given a permit for admittance to Gal
linger Hospital. He was not admitted
there, but DR.. Philip Stebbing, ad-
mitting officer at Gallinger, said hospi-
Evening star., 1934-06-18

tai records failed to show whether the
man had applied at the hospital for
admittance.
Dr.. Stebbing said, however, it is
possible he may have applied for
treatment and no record been made
at the hospital.
Police reported that Connors said
he was told the hospital was crowded
when he applied for treatment and
was turned away.
DR.. Stebbing said that the wards
where alcoholics are cared for have
been crowded and that orders have
been not to take any except emer-
gency cases.
Connors' death at the Jail was be-
lieved to have been due to heart at
tack and an autopsy was to be per-
formed at the District Morgue some
time today.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
DISTRICT RELIEF
ON BASIS BETTER
THANELSEWHERE
22,735 April Applicants Cut
to $4,000 in May-cost
Rise Only 200.
NATIONAL INCREASE
IN EXPENSES 1920
Baltimore Among Cities Close to
Washington Making Less Head
way Against Burden.

While the number of persons on re-
lief rolls in l4l Jurisdictions through
out the country decreased less than
one-half of per cent and the amount
of money spent for unemployment re-
lief increased IL per cent between
April and May, the District decreased
its number of relief persons per
cent while the amount expended here
went up only 2 per cent.
This was disclosed today in a state
ment issued by the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration and released
! through Elwood Street, director of
public welfare.
In April the District had %, ,735
families and single resident persons
on its relief rolls. In May this num-
| Der had been reduced to $4,000. In
April the obligation incurred for re-
lief was s666,786, while in May the
| total increased to S683,O75
Figures for Nation.
For the country at large, however,
April's total number of families and
, persons reached 1,914,007 and was re-
| duced in May to 1,909,363. The IL
| per cent national increase in money
represented s52,614,038 in May
against $47,17l ,626 in April.
Cities close to Washington which
made less headway in reducing the
relief burden carried by public funds
included Baltimore, which was able to
reduce the number of families and
persons by only 2 per cent, while its
money expenditures increased IL per
| cent.
Richmond, Va, witnessed a per
| cent increase in the number of per-
sons on relief and 38 per cent
gain in the amount of money obh-
gated for their care
! In contrast to the slight decrease
in the number of families receiving
relief" the Federal Emergency Relief
! Administra tion's statement said, of
the national average, ''the amount of
obligations incurred for unemploy-
ment relief in these cities increased
substantially during May.
Increase Is Explained.
"a number of cities reported that
this increase was due to the higher
costs Of the work program as COM
pared to the cost of direct relief and
| to the fact that the work program
was in force during the entire month
| of May, while in April it was not
fully organized till the last half of
] the month. Due largely to these fac
tors, the percentage increase in the
amount of obligations incurred for
relief were higher in May. 1884, than
| in May of the two preceding years"
Commenting on the figures in the
report, Street said:
This certainly shows that all the
criticism that Washington is spend
ing too much money for relief is not
founded, because actually we're doing
, a whole lot better than the rest of
the country"
Evening star., 1934-06-18
c. C. c. HAS VACANCIES

Vacancies for veterans will be avail
able in the Civilian Conservation
Corps on June 30, when termination
of enlistments for those who en-
rolled year or more ago will auto
matically discharge large number
OF present members Of the corps, 1t
was announced today by the Vet
erans' Administration
In the District, veterans desiring to
enroll will apply at Room 148 in the
Arlington Building.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION
INSTALLS CLYDE MILLS
President of Columbia Starts Fifth
Term-Other officers Also
Inducted.

Columbia Typographical Union in
stalled Clyde M. Mills as president for
his fifth term during a meeting yes
terday at Typographical Temple, 423
G street.
Other officers inducted include
Claude I. Mallard, vice president;
Fred s. Walker, secretary-treasurer; +;
Frank S. Lerch. trustee; Arthur Arm
strong, Harry A. Carter and John M.
Devlin auditors; Thomas A. Lawton,
sergeant at arms, and Ernest j. Ell
wood, doorkeeper.
The Executive Committee includes
Dean S Blackwell, Charles j. Bussius,
Robert M. Daniel, Louis A. Day, Hugh
Everett, Norman Sandridge, George
Lee Rooney. John T. Bradley. Charles
E. Musser, Bernard j. Lynch, Frank
w. Greene, John A. Pike and G. F..
Smith.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
PEYSER LOSES APPEAL
FOR POST COMMISSION

The Court of Appeals today refused
to approve a request by Col. Julius 1.
Peyser for an $87,500 commission from
the American Security & Trust Co.
for obtaining purchaser for the
Washington Post.
Peyser contended he had secured a
$4,000, 900 offer for the paper from
David Lawrence and that the trust
company acted improperly in refus-
ing to accept this offer. The District
Supreme Court, however, held the trust
company had acted in good faith, and
this view was taken by the Court of
Appeals. Attorneys F. D. McKenney,
John S. F1annery and G. B. Craighill
represented the trust company.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
DR.. GEORGE F. ZOOK GETS
HONORARY LAW DEGREE
U. S. Commissioner of Education
Honored at Commencement
of Michigan University.

DR.. George F. Zook. United States
commissioner of education, today re-
ceived an honorary degree Of doctor
of laws at the annual commencement
exercises of Michigan University at
Ann Arbor, Mich.
DR.. zook will leave the Federal serv-
ice soon to accept position as direc-
tor Of the American Council on Edu-
cation. He was formerly president OF
Akron (Ohio) University.
The educator also has received
honorary degrees from four othe.
schools. They are Duquesne Univer
sity at Pittsburgh, Wayne Universi
at Detroit, Boston University ar
Mount Union College at Allan
Ohio.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
TWO OBOYS ESCAPE
IN BUS SMASH-UP
Vehicle Narrowly Misses
Hearse When the Driver
Goes to Sleep.

Two boys on their way to school
today narrowly escaped serious injury
when the driver of a bus in which
they were riding went to sleep at
the wheel, struck tree on the west
side of Bladensburg road and careened
across the street before funeral pro-
ceSsion and smashed a set of flood
lights on a high pole in front Of a
filling station.
The boys, Calvin and Jesse Foster
IA and II years old, were only
scratched and bruised, however, and
after examination at Casualty Hos
pital went on to school. A third pas
senger in the bus, Carl Wagner, 2699
Evarts street, was only shaken up,
and remained on the scene after the
crash.
Reckless Driving Charged.
The driver. Sherman N. Redmiles,
%. 1888 Trinidad avenue, who has
been employed by the Capital Transit
Co. for about six months. was held
at the ninth precinct station on
charges of reckless driving and failure
to have the address on his drivers
permit changed.
RedmileS was driving his bus
toward the city on Bladensblgg road
when, according to his own statement
to police, he went to sleep, to wake
up as the bus crashed into a tree on
the right side of the road. After
striking the tree, which tore the right
door and a section of the right side
of, the vehicle careened across the
street diagonally. cutting in front of
and almost striking a hearse as it
headed a funeral procession out the
gate of Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Crashes Into Station.
Then the bus crashed into the fence
and fioodlight fixtures at the Mulligan
Hill Service Station. The bus was
bound for Eleventh and G streets
southeast
One of the two boys fell out the
gaping side as the bus reeled across
the street, according to Frank M. Fan
ming. who was driving the hearse
by the rear Wheels" Tanning said
land I had difficulty stopping the
hearse to keep from hitting him"
The boys were taken to the hos
pital by passing motoriSt.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
PAGES HONOR SHANNON

Thirty-three House pages today pre-
sented to Representative Joseph B.
Shannon of Missouri two volumes of
books entitled THE Rise of American
Civilization" by Charles A. Beard, as
a token of 'our highest esteem"
Representative Shannon has always
taken a special interest in the pages
and last week gave them a dinner in
the garden of the Shoreham Hotel.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
HAMILTON TO HEAD
YOUNG REPUBLICANS
Kansan Named by Fletcher to
Plan Associations in Vari.
GUS States.
BY the Associated Press.


Chairman Fletcher Of the Republi-
can National Committee today ap-
pointed John D. NJ Hamilton of To-
peka, Kans., as chairman of a SUBJ
committee to formulate plans fol
young Republican associations that
have been organized in various States
Hamilton recently was named gen.
eral counsel of the national commit
tee. Other members of the subcom-
mittee are Harrison E. Spangler, Iowa
national committeeman, and Mrs
Grace Semple Birmingham of st. Louis
national committeewoman from Mis-
souri,.
The Executive Committee of the
National Committee adopted a resolu-
ton at its recent meeting in Chicago
proposing Nationwide program fol
young Republicans.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
PLAN JOINT PROGRAM
AT SYLVAN THEATER
Zalipsky Opera Club and Bekefi-
Deleporte Institute to Ap-
pear Wednesday.

A joint program by the zalipsky
Opera Club and the Bekefi-Deleporte
Institute will be presented Wednesday
evening in the Sylvan Theater as the
second of the Summer festivals spon-
sored by the Community Center De-
partment and the Office of National
Capital Parks.
THE Dancing Princess" an operetta
by Emmeric Kalman. will comprise
the first section of the entertainment.
Dances, including several original bal
lets. will be given during the second
half of the evening.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
WORLD PEACE PRESSURE
DECLARED RE0RGANIzED
Council for Prevention of WaI
Summarizes Measures Taken
by Government.

The Government is increasingly
cognizant Of public pressure for world
peace" according to Frederick j. Lib
by, executive secretary of the National
Council for Prevention of War, in a
statement issued today coincident with
publication of a monthly bulletin of
the organization, in which a summary
of peace measures being taken by the
Federal Government is published.
Continued efforts in promoting more
action by the disarmament confer
ence is urged in the bulletin. Our
efforts for it must continue" Libby
said.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
CLUB HAS OUTING
Members of st. Matthew's Chur>

Members Of st. Matthews Chur>
Go to Beach.
Members of the Calvert Street Clul
of st. Matthews Church, Rhode Is
land avenue, had an outing at Chesa.
peake Beach yesterday. They were
accompanied by Rev. DR.. Strickler
spiritual advisor to the club, and Prof
Brown of the National Law School.
Sack races, base ball and various
other athletic events featured the out.
ing. The group returned late last
night.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
ALLEGED GUNMAN
IS BROUGHT HERE
Many Witnesses to Be
Called to Identify "Tri-
State" Gang Chief.

Witnesses in wide variety of
crimes, including the Union Station
mail robbery and shooting of last
December, will be called upon to scru-
tinize John Kendrick, 80, reputed
muscle man" of the notorious ''Tri-
State" gang, who was brought here
from johnson City. Tenn, last night
While being flngerprinted at police
headquarters, soon after his arrival
here, Kendrick. according to mspec-
tor Frank S. w. Burke, chief Of de-
tectives, attempted to attack one of
several newspaper photographers as
signed to cover" his return. He was
overpowered by officers, however. and
taken to the twelfth precinct police
station.
Declared Model Prisoner.
Kendrick, who was captured as he
walked out of. a johnson City movie
theater, was brought to Washington
by Chester r. M. Hackney, chief dep
uty marshal at Knoxville, Tenn. He
was model prisoner, Hackney re-
ported, and, toward the end of the
long automobile trip, was permitted
to ride without handouts
At police headquarters Kendrick
joked with reporters, good -humoredly
denying any part in the activities of
the gang and insisting he was "a
good boy" When the photographers
set up their cameras to snap his pic
ture. however, he suddenly broke away
from his guards, 1t was said, and
lunged at one of them.
Further Questioning Planned.
Kendrick, it is understood, will be
questioned by agents of both the JUS
tice Department and the Post Office
Department, as well as by Detective
Sergt. Floyd Truscott and other head
quarters men.
Only two members of the gang re-
main at large-Herbert Myers, 80, and
Arthur Misanas, 81. The others
Robert Mais. %; William Davis, 80;
Hendricks wife, Barbara, %, and
Marie McKeever-Werer rounded up by
Baltimore and Philadelphia police be-
fore Hendricks capture.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
Gems Trade Quiet.

Lack of oroers from the United
States is blamed for the slump in Ger
many's precious stone trade.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1934-09-12
R. DAUGHERTY,
PIONEER MAN,
DIES SUNDAY
ol-Year-Old Nespelem Resident
Succumbs At Sacred Heart
In Spokane
Funeral On Lawn
Was Last Of Family Of Thirteen;
Only Two-Known Relatives
Still Living

Robert Daugherty, pioneer resi-
dent of Nespelem, died Sunday al
the Sacred Heart hospital in Spo-
kane. Funeral services were held
Tuesday morning on the lawn of the
Community Methodist church.
Funeral services were in charge
of the Rev. c. H. Schneider. Burial
was made in the Pine Greek ceme-
terry above Riverside.
Mr.. Daugherty, who was about 81
years old, was born In WaitSburg
Washington, and was the last of a
family of thirteen children. His
father, Frank Daugherty, who was
a Civil war veteran, died in Okano-
gan two years ago.
The only known relatives of Mr.
Daugherty are Mrs. Ellen House
man of Fairfield, Idaho, and
brother in-law, Fred Beeman, o.
Tonasket.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1934-09-12
Fishing Waters
Closed By State
Some Streams And Lakes In Ok.
anogan County, Game
Official States

Fishermen of the state are mott
fled by the state game commission
that the following waters have been
closed since the revised edition of
the 1884 fishing pamphlet was is
sued:
Okanogan county-West and
North forks and all tributaries of
Salmon creek above the U. S. res
ervoir at Conconully; Little Goose
lake and Moccasin lake.
Skagit county-Lake Caskey.
Skamania and Lewis counties
Until September 80: Cispus river
from Upper Cispus trail westward
to line between ranges 6 and 7; the
west boundary of the forest; East
Canyon, Niggerhead, Mccoy, Green
horn, Iron and Blue Lake creeks;
Dry, Smith and Johnson creeks
within the boundaries Of the ma
tional forest only; Blue Lake. and
Goose lake.
The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1934-09-12
Complete Surveys
OF Wheat Tracts
Compliance Work Now Underway
At Agents Office; Second
Payments Coming

Surveys of wheat acreages con-
tracted under the production con-
troll allotment plan, have been COM
pleted and office work on the forms
will be completed within week, it
has been announced by Vernon
Chapman, county agricultural
agent. The surveys were author
lied to check compliance with allot-
ment contracts.
As quickly as routine office work
has been finished the compliance
records will be sent to Washington,
D. c., for final inspection. Checks
covering the second payment, which
in Okanogan county will total &c.
800, will be issued from Washing
ton, d. G.
Payments Due 104 Farmers
The allotment payment due this
county will be distributed among
l04 farmers, the amount each re-
ceives depending on the extent the
individual farmer reduced his wheat
crop this year.
Western Ferry county wheat
growers who participated in the
production control plan will divide
$1400, their share of the allotment
payments made by the federal Agri-
cultural Adjustment administration.