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Evening star., 1934-01-31
HARTMAN URGES
j. s. HOUSING AID
Advocates Corporation Spon-
sored by Government at
Contractors Session.

Formation of a Government housing
corporation as a re-employment meas
ure was recommended today by Henry
I. Hartman. president of the United
States Chamber Of Commerce, in an
address before the fifteenth annual con-
Vention of the Associated General Con-
tractors Of America. il session at the
Willard Hotel
To re-employ the 1000 900 workmen
formerly employed in the capital brick
industries" said Mr.. Hartman. L would
suggest formation of a Government
housing corporation to encourage pri-
vate capital to enter the loW-cost hous-
ing field
Instead of offering outright bonuses.
such a corporation might assume sec
ond mortgage or other equity owner
ships up to 20 per cent of cost, and
by establishing moderate interest rates
and seeing to it that construction costs
are kept at the lowest possible level.
unemployment can be assured in this
neglected section of the industry"
Urges Stapdardiza ton.
Mr. Hartman suggested that low
costs be accomplished through stand
ardization of building equipment units
After a report of the Legislative
Committee, presented by Col. George B.
Walbridge. chairman. the contractors
voted to indorse the Duffey bill, pend
ing in the House, to put S500,000,000
at the disposal of the Home Owners
Loan Corporation for small home con-
struction loans.
The Berlin bill. proposing the re-
quirement that local contractors be
used in all public construction financed
in whole or in part by Federal money,
was unanimously opposed
After indorsing the Capper bill to
make non-profit making religious insti-
tutions eligible for r. F. C. loans to aid
in operations and maintenance. the
contractors suggested the bill be amend
ed to permit loans for construction
work to such institutions and broad
ened so as to take in hospitals and
other charitable institutions.
johnson to Speak.
Col Walbridge reported the Associated
General Contractors are cooperating
with the Administration Committee in
drafting a bill for equitable adjustment
of contract prices under the N. r. A.
He said the bill will be perfected short
ly and introduced in Congress. Action
on it is expected at this session. he
asserted.
Recovery Administrator Johnson is
scheduled to speak at this afternoons
session. The convention will close with
a report of the Resolutions Committee
and election of officers and directors.
Last night there were addresses by
A. C. Tozzer. president of the associa-
ton; Floyd o. Booze. secretary
of the Northern California chapter; w.
A. Snow. safety director of the associa-
tion. and E. ]. Harding. managing di-
rector of the association.
Evening star., 1934-01-31
DEFENSE ASKS DIRECTED VERDICT
IN ACTION OYER MISSING HEART

The suit over the missing heart of
17-year- Michael Callas resolved it
self into a fight for directed verdict
in favor of the defendant, DR.. A. Ma
gruder Macdonald, in District Supreme
Court today. When the boy died three
years ago his heart was found on the
wrong side of his body.
The boys mother, Mrs. Cleopatra
Callas. claimed the heart was removed
after death without her knowledge or
consent and that it was not returned
to her for burial with the body. She is
asking $4,000 damages.
Dr. Macdonald, District coroner,
testified yesterday that he removed the
heart during an autopsy and turned it
over to a pathologist for examination.
He said he has no personal knowledge
where the heart is now, but believed It
was in the custody of the pathologist
Lester Wood, counsel for Mrs. Callas.
said the mother did not know the heart
was missing until six weeks after her
son had been buried. At that time her
suspicious were aroused and she had
the body. exhumed, discovering then
that the organ was missing. Wood said
that about three months after the fu-
neral he received letter from counsel
Evening star., 1934-01-31
St. Paul Woman Offered Post
As Lunch Program Supervisor
Mrs. Katherine Mcfarland Ansley viii
Arriue Sunday to Plan Central Kitchen
for UndefnOuriShed School Children.
Mrs. Katherine Mcfarland AnSley of
st. Paul has been offered the appoint-

Mrs Katherine Mcfarland Ansley of
st. Paul has been offered the appoint
ment as supervisor in charge of the
program for serving lunches to under
nourished school children. it was learned
today at the District Building
Mrs. Ansley will arrive here Sunday
and be ready Monday to start planning
of the operation of a central kitchen for
the preparation of the lunches. to re-
place the present system, under which
the food is prepared by a private con-
tractor
Mrs Ansley. a sister of Col Earl Nc
Farland, aide to the Assistant Secre-
tary of War, has been engaged IN SIM
liar work in St. Paul during the past
two years She is graduate of Kansas
State College and has been a teacher of
home economics at the University of
Illinois.
Official announcement of her appoint
ment is expected shortly. She is to be
paid out of District emergency relief
funds and will act as a District official
Meanwhile, plans for Establishment
of the central kitchen went forward
today when DR.. Louise Stanley. head
of the Bureau of Home Economics. De-
partment of Agriculture, made further
studies of several buildings which might
Evening star., 1934-01-31

be employed. Three under consideration
are the Wisconsin Avenue Manual
Training School, Wisconsin avenue
near Q street; the Bradley Building,
near the Department of Agriculture,
and the old Cardozo Building, in the
southwest section, now used by unit
of the District emergency relief division
Commissioner George E. Allen re-
ceived from the District Repair Shop
today an estimate that it would cost
$3940 to install necessary equipment
at the Manual Training Building if that
is to be used as the central kitchen.
1t is expected request will be made for
civil works funds for this work if the
Wisconsin avenue building is selected.
L. c. Wormington of the repair shop
listed in his estimates 100 gallon water
heater, sink and drainboard, two SOUL
lery sinks, two grease traps, one me-
chanical potato pealer. 10 special gas
stoves, three tables and 10 aluminium
kettles. Installation of a new gas main
and the laying of cement floor also
would be required. he reported.
Such facilities would provide for
preparation of lunches for 4,50O per-
sons. A downtown cafeteria now is
under contract to prepare and deliver
the lunches.
Evening star., 1934-01-31
ID CANDIDATES PASS
D. C. DENTIST EXAMS
List of Successful Applicants Made
Public by Board of Dental
Examiners.

A list Of the successful candidates
the recent examination held by the
Board of Dental Examiners of the Dis
trict were made public today. They
are:
DR.. Carey NJ Browne. 1873 U street:
Dr. William A. Callahan. 423 MaSsachu-
sets avenue: DR.. Henry c. Edwards.
$50 Twenty-fourth street northeast:
DR.. Robert M Harper, 240 Sixteenth
street; DR.. Paul w. Hotter, Baltimore
Md: DR.. Edwin G.. Kerans. 1905 Ken
nedy street: DR.. E, ]. Lally. Niles. Ohio:
DR.. Tillie Lyons 1888 Connecticut ave
nue.; Dr.. Archie E. MaSsimio. Staten
Island. N Y; DR.. JOIN. A. OKee1,
Cohoes. N Y: DR.. Walter J. Reed. 3305
o street: DR.. Vahdi Sabit, Turkish en-
bassy; Dr. Charles G. Shoemaker, lr
54O0 Edgemoor lane, Bethesda, Md. and
DR.. Albert E. Woronow. 1906 S stree
southeast.
Evening star., 1934-01-31
ABUSES REPORTED
|NNEW UNITS Pay;
STUDY IS STARTED
Budget Bureau Scans Some
Reported ExcesSes in
Higher Brackets.
SPIRIT OF EXECUTIVE
ORDER HELD VIOLATED
Decree Affected 10 New Agencies
Other Salary Questions Be-
ing Considered.

Revision of the so-called tolerance
clause" of the executive order classify
ing salaries in the new emergency
agencies. under which administrative
officers were given 20 per cent lee
way from the scale set by President
Roosevelt in fixing the rates in the
upper brackets. appeared as a posi-
bility today when it was learned that
the matter is being studied by the
Budget Bureau.
Abuses. in some instances. of this
latitude were reported to be the under
lying reason for the matter being be-
fore the Budget Bureau. However.
there was no confirmation there, Off
cials saying there was nothing that
could be made public at this time. mas
much as no definite decision had been
reached.
The tolerance clause" was inserted
in the Presidents order of last Novem-
Der Is. it was understood, to protect,
in the regarding the salaries OF higher
ranking employees who had been en-
gagged at a figure to which it was felt
their duties entitled them. Likewise.
the same safeguard was thrown about
workers with civil service status.
Raised Too High.
However. it is reported. there were
cases in which this clause. instead Of
being used to hold salaries at the then
existing level. which was its obvious
intent. was seized upon to raise them
above that,
This. it is pointed out in informed
quarters. would be violative of the spirit
of the executive order. and the opinion
was expressed that in cases of the
sort the paw roll would more than
likely be held up by Controller General
McCarl. as in contravention of the
economy act.
The executive order was issued to
bring pay in the emergency agencies
into line with that in the regular estab-
lishment, and the scale, which CORE
sponded with the classification act
rates. was set up after lengthy study
by a special committee. The action
was initiated by administration officers,
because all the new groups had been
created under law which provided
that pay could be fixed without any
regard to the classification act Con-
troller General McCarl held that the
workers were not subject to the Is per
cent paw cut. and in consequence. there
was a wide variance in the salaries.
some being higher and others being
lower than that paid for the same work
in the old establishments.
10 Agencies Affected.
In addition to fixing the scale. Presi-
dent Roosevelt also directed that the
statutory cut should apply.
There we're 10 new agencies affected
by the first order. which the President
followed by another January 5, which
brought under its provisions the newly
created Civil Works Administration and
any other groupings that had been
created since the original order had
been promulgated or that might here
after be created
Not alone the tolerance clause but
some other questions arising out of
emergency group salaries are under
stood to be included in the present
study of the Budget Bureau.
ANY changes that ultimately may be
decided upon will be carried out by
executive order.
Evening star., 1934-01-31

for DR.. Macdonald offering to return
the heart if it was wanted.
Michael collapsed on the street in
August, 1880. He had been a virtual
invalid all his life. presumably because
of the fact that all of his vital organs
were transposed.
H. Mason WEIGH, who with Lucian
Vandoren, is representing DR.. Mac
Donald, today asked Trial Justice F. D.
Let's for a directed verdict in favor
Of the physician.
Mrs. Callas had testified that her
husband consented to the autopsy upon
condition that no organs be removed.
Welch said Dr. Macdonald had no
knowledge of this limitation. but that
"even if the parents had expressly OBJ
jected, the law still made it his duty to
perform the autopsy If he was not sat
isfied as to the cause of death, and that
the removal Of an organ in the course
of an autopsy for further pathological
examination is a matter Of discretion
resting with the judgment of the
coroner"
Wood contended there was no ground
for believing an autopsy was necessary,
and even If there had been ground,
that It was incumbent upon the coroner
to return the heart to the parents 20
1t could be buried with the body.
Evening star., 1934-01-31
BURIAL IN ARLINGTON
is GIVEN COL. HUTTON
Commanding Surgeon of 9th Corps
Area Served Years Here
After World War.

Funeral services for Col. Paul c.
Hutton. commanding surgeon Of the
9Th Corps Area, who died OF heart
disease Saturday in Chicago, were held
this morning in the Fort Myer Chapel.
followed by burial with full military
honors, in Arlington National Gene
terry.
Col. Hutton served in Washington
four years as chief of the hospital di-
vision in the Office of the surgeon gen.
eral Immediately following the World
War. He was awarded the Distin-
guished Service Medal for his work in
evacuating and caring for wounded
soldiers in the Paris group.
Honorary pallbearers included Mai.
Gen. Robert U. Patterson. Col. William
H. Moncries, Lieut.. Col. Shelley N.
Larietta, Maj Charles w. Riley. Maj.
Charles B. Kendall and Maj. j. Vincent
Falisi, all of the Medical Corps. Chap
lain Julian E. Yates conducted the
services.
Evening star., 1934-01-31
MRS. BLANCHE FREY DIES
AT HOME OF DAUGHTER
Widow of Levin Sothoron Frey
Was Member of Society of
District Natives.

Mrs. Blanche Hall Frey, 78. widow of
Levin Sothoron Frey, lifelong resi-
dent of Georgetown, died yesterday at
the home of her daughter, Miss Louise
NJ Frey, 184l Columbia road, after an
illness of about three months.
She was a member of the Society of
Natives of the District of Columbia and
an active member and worker in the
Presbyterian Church. She was interest
ed in charitable societies connected with
the Georgetown and Chevy Chase Pres
byterian Churches.
Mrs. Frey was daughter of the late
Mr.. and Mrs George r. Hall of the
District. Surviving her are two daugh-
tiers, four sons, four sisters, brother
and a number of grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held tomor-
row at 2:30 pm at the home of her
son, Clarence E. Frey, 1922 Forty-first
street.
Evening star., 1934-01-31
WARMER WEATHER
MAY SPOIL SKATING
Rising Temperature and Rain
Due for Tomorrow. End
ina Record Cold Wave.

Mounting temperatures and rain to-
morrow are expected to terminate the
cold wave, all too soon for the skating
enthusiasts who only this morning were
given access to the CLASSY surface of
the Rejecting Pool
After three days of intense cold. the
Potomac this morning was covered with
thin sheet of ice far south
Colonial Beach. Some of the smaller
boats, which came in this morning were
encrusted from stem TO STERN with
frozen spray.
Chopped All Night.
Capt. James Templeman and men,
bers OF his crew, who brought the Irene
Pearl in from Norfolk with load of
fish. chopped ice all last night to
tighten the forward structure Of their
boat. Norfolk passenger boats. however,
experienced no difficulty.
At O'Clock this morning United
States park police opened the Reflect
ing Pool at Lincoln Memorial to skat-
ers. The mercury got down to 10 de-
grees at 5 am, and ice on the pool
probably will hold until the closing
hour at II O'Clock tonight
Reservoir Ice Thin.
Ice in the old Sixteenth Street Reser-
voir was too thin to bear many skaters.
although a few turned out there late
yesterday Only enough water for po-
tential skating is left in the reservoir.
and this lies so low that it freezes
slowly. About an inch of ice had de-
veloped there this morning and police
said skaters probably would be kept off
Yesterdays minimum of a fraction
under degrees was the lowest here in
four years. The mercury tonight is not
expected to go under "a degrees
The current forecast for Washington
and vicinity said increasing cloudiness
and warmer tonight, followed by rain
and warmer weather tomorrow" Mod
crate southerly winds were predicted.
Evening star., 1934-01-31
STOVE EXPLOSIONS
INJURE TWO WOMEN

Two stove explosions in houses al
most directly across the street from
each other resulted in minor injuries to
two colored women today.
The first blast occurred in the home
of Mrs. Ella Malone, 407 First street.
She was preparing her morning meal
when the kitchen range exploded. Cut
and bruised, she was taken to Casualty
Hospital.
A short time later Mrs. Florence
Young 408 First street, started fire in
her kitchen stove. The blast caused
her to fall into the wreckage Of the
range, but she, too, escaped with only
minor hurts She was treated by an
Emergency Hospital inferno, who re-
sponded to an ambulance call.
Evening star., 1934-01-31
RESIGNATION PRESENTED
GARNETT BY MCINERNEY
Assistant U. S. Attorney in Charge
of Grand Jury Cases Had
Been 8 Years on Job.

Assistant United States Attorney Will
bert McInerney, who has handled the
presentation of cases to the grand jury
for the last two years. today rendered
his resignation. effective February %,
to United States Attorney Leslie c.
Garnett Garnett announced he would
accept the resignation with regret.
McInerney, graduate of George
town Law School, was appointed to the
district attorneys staff more than three
years ago by Leo A. Rover. He was
assigned to Police Court and soon as
sumed charge of that Office. Approx
mately a year later he was transferred
to the District Supreme Court and
given charge of the grand jury. In
that connection he has handled many
important cases arising out of financial
scandals disclosed after the citys banks
had been closed
McInerney will enter the private
practice of law in the same Office with
Milford F. Schwartz, who opened Of
fees in the Standard Oil Building after
resigning recently as assistant United
States attorney
Evening star., 1934-01-31
c. v. j. GIVES FREE
COURSE TO YOUTHS
High School Graduates, Un-
able to Pursue Studies.
Aided by University.

Some 30 or more Washington boys
and girls who were graduated from the
high schools here a year ago and who
have been prevented by economic con-
ditions from realizing their ambitions
for college education met at George
Washington University yesterday to
hear from President Cloyd Heck Mar
win of plan which has been formu-
lated by the university to enable them
to enter at once upon college work.
The students we're selected by Supt
of Schools Frank w. Ballou. with the
cooperation of the five senior high
school principals, on the basis of scho-
lastic ability. from among the group
who unable to go on to college. have
returned to their high schools for post
graduate work
The members of this group will be
given the opportunity during the Sec
ond semester. now opening, to take up
whatever studies they may wish to
pursue in the university. Through the
generosity of friend of the university
they will be relieved of all tuition pay
ments and will bear only the cost of
books and registration fee.
Educational Experiment.
President Marvin explained the offer
had been extended by the university
as an educational experiment which
will be of special service to the COM
munity. The object is to determine
what select group of students can
achieve in college study upon their own
responsibility, but with the fullest CO.
operation of the university faculty
While the members of the group may
attend any classes they wish. they will
be held to no formal classroom re-
quirements, but must. as President
Marvin expressed it, work out their
own educational salvation" He told
the students he wished them to think
of their study not in the customary
terms of courses and credits. but rather
in terms of accomplishments. When
ever they feel they have prepared
themselves sufficiently in a subject they
may apply for comprehensive exam
ination, and upon passing the exam
ination will be assigned regular college
credit. A full-time tutor will be en-
gagged by the university to direct the
experiment.
Praised by DIR. ball0u.
DR.. Ballou, who attended the meet
ing, told the students he considered
they had been presented with an in
valuable opportunity, but warned then
they must consecrate themselves te
realizing its advantages to the full.
The experiment differs in several re.
spects from any of the honors course:
or experimental colleges which have
been set up by various universities ir
this country. 1t arises out of anc
meets a need created by the new de.
mands of a new day.
President Marvin looks upon it as 9
significant move and one which may
have far-reaching effect in the educa.
tional world when its results are knowr
and assayed.
So far as the local high schools art
concerned, it will relieve a serious sit
uation which has arisen because of con.
gestion occasioned by the heavy de.
mand for postgraduate work.
The group will meet again at tht
university Friday at 1890 am. to or.
ganize their work.
Evening star., 1934-01-31
NURSE DIES IN VIRGINIA

Miss Audrey May Garden, a member
of the 1888 graduating class Of nurses
from Emergency Hospital, died January
25 in Memorial Hospital at Lynchburg,
Va.
Funeral services were held at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. G.
Garden, in East Radford. Va.
Evening star., 1934-01-31
Bill Forbids Subjecting Stock
of Banking Institutions to
Double Liability.
M0RGENTHAU REPORTS
HE HAS NO OBJECTION
Chairman Norton Arranges to
Have Measure Placed on Unani.
nous Consent Calendar.

A favorable report was ordered By
the House District Committee today on
the King bill to amend the banking
regulations of the District
The measure provides that stock of
any savings bank, savings company or
banking institution doing business in
the District. issued after date of en-
actment, shall net be subject to double
liability.
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
thau reported he had no objection to
the bill. He said since Congress IN the
banking act of 1888 removed from fu-
ture issues of national bank stock the
double liability the bill would be in ac
cordance with that policy, and unques-
tionably it would be helpful in bank re-
organizations.
Chairman Norton has made arrange
ments to have the bill placed on the
unanimous consent calendar Of the
House and will call it up for considera-
ton at the first opportunity.
Pension Action Deferred.
The committee deferred action on the
old-age pension and alley clearance
bills These two measures were sched-
uled to be reported favorably at to-
days meeting, but Mrs Norton said
final action would be withheld pending
the receipt OF report from the Com
miSSionerS on the pension bill and one
from the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission on the slum erad-
ication measure.
The committee also sidetracked con-
sideration of the proposed amendments
to the District liquor control act rec
commended by President Roosevelt.
Mrs Norton said she had been advised
the Commissioners desired no action be
taken on the proposed amendments
until they have had an opportunity to
confer with Attorney General Cum
mings relative TO the suggested changes
Lack of a quorum prevented the Sen
ate District Committee from taking
final action on any pending bills at its
weekly meeting. but the members pres
ent went through the calendar infor-
malIy and selected several measures on
which they will poll the entire commit
tee for decision.
Name Change Proposed.
Chairman King and Senators Cappc~
Of Kansas and Davis of Pennsylvani'
were the only members who could b
present A bill to change the name o
B street southwest to independence
avenue will be reported BY Senate
Davis if poll of the committee show
a majority for it. B street nOrthWes
has recently been designated Constltu
ton avenue.
Senator King will poll the commit
tee on a bill he has had pending fOl
The mast tuo wears relating tn the nuSli-
fications of practicing lawyers in the
District of Columbia The bill would
require attorneys whose practice is con-
fined to special tribunals or to Govern
ment claims TO designate the class OF
practice they engage in. as distin-
guished from general practitioners who
are members of the bar of the District
Supreme Court.
The committee also will be polled on
a bill amending the employees liability
act and several other minor bills.
Evening star., 1934-01-31
Hitchcock Holding His Own. ="

Gilbert M. Hitchcock, "a, former
United States Senator from Nebraska,
has been iii at his home. 2l25 KaIo-
rama road, for several days, 1t was
learned today. He was said to be
holding his own" and since becoming
i'll his condition has been unchanged"
Evening star., 1934-01-31
'CINDERELLA' SCHEDULED
Production to Be Given Tonight at
Thomson Community Center.

cinderella and the Silver Slipper"
will be presented tonight at Thomson
Community Center, Twelfth and l.
streets. by Mrs. Wilma Wright Flood,
dramatic director, and Mrs. Jeannette
P. Tolford, dancing director, at the
center.
Harold Snyder is in charge Of stage
effects and Gertrude Hurley will be
accompanist.
Evening star., 1934-01-31
Cites Rent Fixing.

The report contained history of the
rent fixing legislation which Congress
enacted for the District near the close
Of the World War when the sudden in
crease in the city's population created
an acute housing problem. Comment
ing on the fact that this legislation was