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Evening star., 1934-02-27
REPORT ON BUDGET
ESTIMATE FOR D. c.
AWAITED BY HOUSE
Appropriations Group to
| Consider Supplemental
Sums at Hearings.
| AGRICULTURE MEASURE
| TO BE HANDLED FIRST
Funds for Schools, Library and
Bridge Will Be Asked by
City Heads.

The House Subcommittee on Ap-
preparations. which will frame the
1885 appropriation bill, today awaited
a report from the Budget Bureau on
the supplemental estimates recon-
mended by the Commissioners, total
ling $l,223.0OO
The subcommittee is expected to
begin hearings on the 1885 budget
within the next few days and is anx-
iouS to take up the supplemental
items in connection with the regular
estimates. The supplemental items
have been at the Budget Bureau for
nearly month and members of the
subcommittee do not understand why
they have not been transmitted to
Congress.
Representative Cannon. Democrat,
Of Missouri, chairman Of the subcom-
mittee. said he would start hearings
on the budget as soon as the House
passes the agriculture appropriation
bill. This measure is now under con-
sideration and probably will be passed
tomorrow or Thursday. This would
pave the way for start on the Dis
trict estimates by Friday.
No Definite Date.
Mr.. Cannon, however, declined to
fix definite date for beginning the
hearings. Twice already he has been
forced to postpone the start because
of protracted hearings on the esti-
mates of the Department of Agricul-
ture.
Hearings on the District estimates
are expected to be comparatively
brief Members of the subcommittee
said it should not take longer than a
week to 60 over the complete budget,
due to the long list of justifications
submitted by the Commissioners.
These justiflcations cover more than
500 pages and outline in comprehen-
sive detail the need of every item in
the budget.
The largest item in the supple
mental estimates calls for s36OO0O
for construction of additional build
ings at the District Work House and
Reformato-y.
Library Funds.
1 lie OllltI lJeiIlS lllCluut SlObubu
for construction of branch public
library in Georgetown; $4,000, prepa
rations OF plans and an engineering
survey for the proposed new Chain
Bridge; S205.000 for completion of the
Anacostia Junior High School; $780,
900 for an addition to the Deal Junior
High School: $4,000 for construction
of a gymnasium and extension of the
automobile repair shop at the Arm
strong Technical High School: $4,000
for purchase of additional land at the
Phelps Vocational School, and s65 900
for four-room addition to the school
building, and s15O.000 for completion
of the purchase for a site for the
proposed new Jefferson Junior High
School.
Maj. Daniel J. Donovan. auditor
and budget officer, has advised the
subcommittee that should Congress
restore the full Is per cent Govern
ment pay cut on July /, number Of
changes would have to be made in
the estimates as approved by the Bud
get Bureau. The 1885 budget is predi-
Gated on restoration of only 5 per cent
of the salary cut. Donovan eSti-
mates an additional 10 per cent would
add 81, 1000 to the budget total ex-
elusive longevity pay increases which
would increase that amount by
100000.
Evening star., 1934-02-27
PLANS entertainment
AT WILSON TEACHERS
Play Institute to Hold Second
Sessions Under Community
Center Department..

I.
The second session of the 1894 Dis
trict Play Institute, conducted under
the auspices of the Community Gen.
ter Department and recreational in
stitutions of the city, will be given to-
night at the Wilson Teachers College.
Folk dancing. led by Mrs Ruth
Aubeck Foster of George Washington
University. and elementary rhythms.
led by Miss Amalie Preische of the
Potomac School, compose tonight s
program.
The institute will continue until
March q with such specialists as Miss
Ella Gardner of the Children's Bu-
reau, Department of Labor; Miss
Meredith Hayward. Rossell School;
Miss Eleanor Brady of the District Of
Columbia Girl Scouts: Miss Dorothy
D. Wright, Neighborhood House; Dean
Longfellow of the District of Columbia
Boy Scouts; Ralph w. Foster, Young
Mems Christian Association, and
Commodore Longfellow of the Amer
ican Red Cross, conducting the ses-
sions.
Each meeting will be held on Tues
day from to 10 pm.
Evening star., 1934-02-27
LEGISLATION AFFECTING
WOMEN is DISCUSSED
Mrs. Dorothy Dunn Addresses
Business and Professional
Club.

Mrs Dorothy Dunn of the staff of
the Juvenile Court discussed legisla-
ton affecting women and children at
the regular monthly meeting of the
Business and Professional Women S
Club last night at the Willard Hotel
Mrs. Dunn. who is chairman of the
Legislation Committee for the Staee
of Virginia clubs. was presented by
Mrs. Alice Fay, chairman of the Legis-
lation Committee of the local club.
Miss Alice Cheyney, assistant to the
director of international labor, spoke
or international Relations"
Evening star., 1934-02-27
DAMAGE SUIT is FILED
IN SHEDDING ACCIDENT
S25, 900 A k e d for Injuries -
Motorist Alleged to Have
Entered Roped Area.

Francis E. Vernon. 14o Thirteenth
street northeast, filed suit in District
Supreme Court yesterday for $4,000
damages from Samuel j. LHom-
medieu. Washington Loan and Trust
Building, for injuries alleged1y re-
ceived when his sled ran into the de-
fendant's automobile in the 310O block
of Macomb street.
Vernon, who is represented by At
torney j. w. Gum. said the defendant
drove his automobile into a section
of the street that had been roped of
for shedding.
Evening star., 1934-02-27
Campaign Is Planned.

BALLSTON, Va, February 27 (Spe-
ciaD Plans for a membership drive
will be the chief topic for discussion
Of a meeting of the Ballston Citizens
Association to be held tonight in
Ffremen's Hall. according to Presi-
dent Ray R. Cogswell, who urges q
large attendance Of members.
Evening star., 1934-02-27
ISSUE OVERSUBSCRIBED
Treasury Accepts $75,O6S, 900 of
Bids of S42o,115,ooo.

Secretary Morgenthau announced
yesterday that the s75,000,000 issue
of 182-day Treasury bills dated Feb
ruary % were nearly six times over
subscribed.
OF the $42O, lis, 900 received in bids,
$75 ,Os8, 900 was accepted. The aver
age interest rate on q discount basis
was 0.62 per cent Q year.
Evening star., 1934-02-27
Police Seek Taxi Driver.

Police are seeking a taxi driver who
stole an expensive coat several days
ago from the home of Mrs. Shirley
Barton, 1920 r street, while she went
in the house to get money to pay her
fare. Mrs. Barton told police she left
the driver waiting and when she re-
turned he and the coat were gone.
Evening star., 1934-02-27
DIES OF pneumonia
Death Claims Kensington Man
at Mt. Alto Hospital.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
KENSINGTON, Md, February a.
Ralph Montague Hendricks, SO, a resi-
dent of this town for the past IS
years, died of pneumonia last night at
Mount Alto Hospital, washington. He
was born In Washington.
The deceased leaves his wife, Mrs.
Edith B. Hendricks, and three daugh-
ters Mrs Scott Ofutt, Mrs. Holland
Heron and Miss Helen Hendricks, all
Of Kensington. Funeral arrangements
are not complete.
Evening star., 1934-02-27

Starvation rations were being
sought today as snow and ice spread
famine among the birds Of city parks,
country fields and the reaches of the
Potomac.
Songbirds, sparrows and partridges
shared the plight of migratory fowl
whose feeding bottoms along the river
and bay are sheeted over with ice.
The snow is proving white plague
for the city's feathered denizens. Res
idents have been asked to deposit
grain. cracker and bread crumbs and
suet if possible in cleared spaces con-
venient to the birds.
William E. Thomas of 211 First
street has appealed for supplies of
bird food to spread on Capitol Hill
and in the parks. He will distribute
the food himself, he said today. If the
public will make donations.
Hundreds of Ducks Dying.
Efforts are being made by the Bio
logical Survey, Department of Agri-
culture and Virginia authorities to
stave off famine among the water
fowl of the Potomac. Maryland Of
ficials are cooperating along the
Eastern Shore.
But funds are low and feed in large
amounts comparatively expensive.
Hundreds of wild ducks are perishing
daily, unable to pierce the ice to reach
the ife-sustaining seeds and roots on
the shallow river bottoms. As much
food as can be obtained is spread, but
the supply threatens to run short.
Paul G. Redington. chief of the
Biological Survey, said today the need
of assistance is acute. In the city,
he said, suet, parrot seed, cracker
crumbs and shelled peanuts should be
spread.
In the fields and woodlots OF nearby
Maryland and Virginia, Mr.. Redlng-
ton said, the prevailing SHOWS promise
terrible suffering and perhaps deci-
nation" for partridges.
Appeals in Montgomery.
Although the partridge is timid, he
can be induced from the covert If the
feed is placed in convenient places.
Deep snow covers the seed pods on
which the birds feed and there is no
alternative but starvation.
Fearing that partridges and other
varieties of birds will perish for lack
of food if the snow remains on the
ground for any great length of time
w. Carroll Waters. chief deputy game
warden for Montgomery County, has
asked that those in q position to dc
so clear away the snow and scatter
grain where the birds would be likely
Evening star., 1934-02-27
BRIDGE TEAMS TO MEET

Players to Compete Under Aus
pices of Federation.
Meeting under the auspices Of the
National Federation of Federal En-
ployes, the Federal Bridge Leagues %
teams will hold a session of contract
tournament bridge play tonight at the
Colonial Club, 1915 Sixteenth street.
Play will start at o'clock. with
more than 80 competitors. A silver
trophy will be awarded.
Evening star., 1934-02-27

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l i out of thai rom
exception howeverthe little otter
he the secluson Of his dn
to a
snow and repeats the
showed with shove
the of their they had
family
rolled his
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place almost perpetual but
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-02

A determined effort is to be made in
Connecticut this summer to remove an
traces of White pine blister rust. ms
nestilence has caused immense damage TO
our white pine stands in the last decade.
And it has only been recently that we have
. IN any degree been able to control the
! disease which bids fair in sections, where
white pine grows thickly, to kill off all OF
this species of tree.
AS a natural resource in our own state
white pine is valued at 1,484,82 inns
constitutes quite an item. We hope 1t VIII
! never be said that the state stood by ana
watched comfortable tree disease 40
damage to the amount given above. White
!. pine blister rust depends upon medium
: for its successful transmission to the tree.
This agent is wild currant or gooseberry
bush.
JJpon these two shrubs the rust forms.
y It floats in the form of tiny spores from
= the bush to the tree where 1t does us
/. work of destruction. Then once more IL
: floats back to the currant or gooseberry
bush, to which it does no harm wnatso-
I. ever, but upon which it grows until ~
: comes to the travel cycle once more ana
: commences its work of destruction all
! over. An odd disease, but one that re-
: ouired years of study and careful expert
ment before discovery of the truth was
: ascertained.
= II does not require trained men to break
: nm white pine blister rust. 1t merely re-
! 0uires hardy young men, working under
: 4 supervisor who knows his business. We
: have had such crews throughout the state
IN the past few years eradicating the wi!d
: currant and gooseberry bushes. The
I. state has given its workers in this field
wide latitude in destroying what they may
Judge guilty of determination. Property
owners have been agreeable too in this
respect. We sincerely hope they VIII CO.
operate as the fight continues to save
valuable tree
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-02

think they have seen the United States
when they have viewed little Of New
England, New York City and Wash
ington, d. c.
It won't be seemly for Americans 10
laugh at them for such sketchy tours. That
is the way many American tourists do"
the European lands they visit. A lively
theme for discussion in any social gather
ing might be the mapping out of an ideal
tour for our guests. Would any half-dozen
Americans be able to agree on what abso-
lutely must be seen and what ought to be
omitted? II would be wholesome for US,
too, to hear the visitors comments as they
make their rounds.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-02
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1884
Regulation Needed

What is termed as powerful and as
strong Financially lobby as ever con-
gregated in the congressional halls oil
Washington is now operating and making
some Roadway in preventing passage OF
the stock exchange regulation bill. When
Connecticut manufacturers gathered in
Washington few weeks ago and sum-
moned Connecticut's national legislators,
senators and representatives, to state
their positions on important legislation
THE stock exchange bill was among those
~stressed as inimical to Connecticut
Interests.
= II certainly is no more inimical to-our
Estate interests than it is to those in any
sother state. We perhaps should make
Preservation there. We are nearer to the
real center of security trading than good
.many states. We are more populous than
-.some of the states that, are two and
three times our size. There is consider
able wealth concentrated in Connecticut
So wealth that can be diverted to the
stock exchange in profitable trading
Ferdinand Pecora, counsel for the
senate banking committee that has been
probing the activities of the New York
Stock Exchange, has just revealed some
interesting figures. It. develops that 6Oo
firms that deal on the New York
Exchange made average profits of 81 $685.
1913 beginning in 1928 and continuing
right through 1929. Perhaps that is no
!. excuse to make laws that will prevent the
legal transaction of reputable business
which consists in stock transactions.
There are many faults to be found with
tina present bill now in the hands of com
mittee. But they should be smoothed out
before it is reported. The severest critics
admit that some regulation is needed. They
said that 20 years ago. AS result no
legislation ever was passed. They'll 40
the same thing again and as result the
same high-handed methods will prevail
and millions will be poured into the ex-
change Golfers. Nobody wants to Kill
proper business, but everyone does desire
TO remove the stains from it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-02
Moscow Letter
by JOSEPH II. BAIRD
iUnlted Press STAFF Correspondent


Moscow (UP)-The Soviet Union
In these days gives the foreign OBJ
server much the same impression
as a long battle line where gen.
erals troops are pushing the enemy
forward In one salient while re-
treating in another.
Out OF thousands OF available
snap -shots Of life and industry In
this vast land. two may be taken
to illustrate the point:
Soviet Exhibition
This correspondent recently at
tended an exhibition of the prod
ucts of Soviet Industry under the
Five Year Plan" When II IL re-
membered that Russia. until the
revolution. imported virtually all
of Its machines save those made
here under foreign supervision.
the array of complicated machin-
cry exhibited was impressive.
In one room, for instance. were
moving picture cameras and pro-
Jcctors made by a factory In Len
ingrad. To iayman, at least.
they appeared to be well made
and m0dernly equipped. Nearby
were models of Soviet tractors and
other farm machinery appearing
quite similar to American ones.
There were examples OF Soviet
made textiles not 30 perfect as
those made abroad. but. at least.
wearable.
Soviet on Field
In still another part of the
building, one saw n model, faith
fully reproduced In scaled down
equipment. modern Soviet oil
field. New and radical designs In
aircraft were shown. as were q
modern goid-dredge and the new
est. most powerful types OF loco.
motives.
Now. II II difficult to realize that
nation which can build giant
locomotives and complicated NOV
ing-picture projectors must groan
and sweat under the simple job OF
delivering mall. Yet that IN ex-
nctiy what the Soviet Union does.
Tho newspapers are filled with
protests about and criticisms Of
The mali service.
Recently an official was sent TO
Inspect the post Offices In Tash-
kent. His report on mall service
worse than IN the average town.
was q surprising -expose Of ineffI-
cheney.
Elgist Weeks Delivery
Registered letters. he found.
sometimes were not delivered for
six or eight weeks after their re-
ceipt. Collections from the city
mall boxes were irregular. some
times only 10 OF the city's so mail
boxes were cleared during the day.
The sorting OF the letters IN the
post ONCE was extremely slow.
None Of the post office oIlciaIa
seemed TO know the correct rates
for mail or parcel post.
Recently Taahkent ordered 4.eeO
mall boxes 20 be placed on the
doors 81 apartments and Offices
Duo ~ the stupidity Of some ofIis
eiaI. the addresses On them we're
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-02
Europeans Look Us Over

The other day 1875 Europeans tourists
arrived in New York on German SNIP
forerunners of the great number OF sucn
travellers expected during the coming
summer TO take advantage of exchange
rates favorable TO European currencies.
Steamship statistics show that AZ per
cent of current travel Is being done ny
Europeans, large gain over the former
n per cent. At least 10000 are expected
to visit Us between now and august
Steamship lines are offering special low.
cost tours from European points TO TINS
country, AZ they have offered tours from
America TO Europe In the past.
This ought 10 be an interesting expert.
-ence for everybody - our visitors ana
ourselves. The United States is big
country. and few of these visitors may see
much west Of the Appalachian Mountains,
unless they dash out 10 Niagara Falls and
TO Chicago for day or two at the Cen.
.tury Of Progress Fair A lot Of them viii
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-02

other extreme. II Is making the
District Of Columbia into the
Aqua Caliente Of the USA.
Already passed by tho House
IL q provision permitting horse
racing In tho national capital.
The president has signed the
professional boxing bill. The
ID. G. committees OF both houses
are fRvoFably considering the
idea Of legnlixlng gambling.
And the "mOdcl liquor law"
which was 20 have mnde Wash.
ingtOn the perfect city ~ for Ms
drinking Is concerned, II fast
being toned down 20 something
like the gOod.Old -days.
This law started out by pro-
viding that liquor stores close at
8 y. M; that bars In hotels and
restaurants be hidden from the
Wow OF the drinkor; no licenses
to chain stores or restaurants;
no sales by drink or bottle on
Sunday; and no sales within 200
feet OF any church.
RIGHT ABOUT
In less than two months, re.
view the developments.
The closing hour TOR retail
stores has been changed to 10 y.
m. Regulations are being
changed to permit the bar to DO
visible--in fact rcquler that IL
be vislble--but protected by n
plate glass cage. The idea IL, Mr.
Drinker should be nblo to see
tho conditions Under which his
drink In mixed, and what goes
: into II. Regulations also are TO
be changed to permit sales In
chnin stores. tAnythlng to bring
down the prices.) Also the ban
Is coming off Sunday drinking.
Finally, the churches have
grown 30 tired of protesting
against the estn blishmont of Ba-
looms and drink selling rcstau-
rants Within 200 feet of their
property, that they've about
given up the ghost.
Why 20 to Reno. Monte Carlo
Aqua Caliente, or Havana, these
days? Washington Is 10 be the
really gay town.
MERRY.GO.ROUND
Secretary Wallncc's recently
published pamphlet, "Americn
Must Choose" Ia one OF the sea.
sons best sellers Over
$4,000 copies already have been
sold and the demand continues
Assistant Secretary of War
Harry Woodring Is spending n
good deal of his time just now
answering letters and telephones
from Kansas Democratic lead
ors urging him to return and
run for governor Wood
ring was defeated for rcelec.
ton In 1882. Tho home boys
want him TO run again, but he
can't see II DIR Leo VOL
man, impartial chairman of the
Presidents Automobile Labor
board, is finding his Job plenty
thorny The embattlcd union
workers are accusing him OF be-
ing anything but impartial, and
Richard J.. Byrd, the labor rep
rcsentative on the board, has
been openly critical De.
spite the fact that they have
been In the NRA eight months,
tho codes for the aluminium
dUu hutUIdCitc tOhI lIluubtFlgB
are still uncompieted The
anthracite code was one of the
first submitted; the aluminium
code was presented last Septem-
Der Reason for delay Is that
both industries are dominated
by monopolistic interests which
balk at rclinquishing their
strangle holds, and General John
son has not Cracked down"
Illinois Republican Representa-
tive Everett NJ. Dirksen has no
illusions about politics. He tells
this story: A candidate running
for office asked an audience.
What are the fruits OF victory"
Someone in the rear replied:
"Plums, melons, and applcsaucc."
Copyright, 1894, nv United Fea.
turc Syndicate, JDc.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-02

A minister down in Virginia has just
appealed for legalized lotteries to replace
the illegal gam and devices that now
take thousands vi dollars from people an
nualy. He's right in that respect If we
did have a few legalized means of betting
or gambling such sums as were within
every mans means, then there would be
less chance for the slot machine or the
horse race betting to flourish. New York
has just legalized betting on horse races
at it's major tracks. In this way the state
will to some extent collect a bit of the
money it probably lost during the past
decade and half. The Virginia minis
ter is right in his declaration that most
games of chance are "rigged" against the
man who plays them: LOCALIZED lotteries
would give as fair chance to one man as
the next. Lotteries were used to build
many public projects in the early days,
why not now?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-02
Know Your Waterbury
Its History, Facts and General Information
. - MA

Daniel 4. Munger, Edward I. Por-
ter; and auditor, Edward .. Clark.
The moderator Of tho meeting was
Leonard Bronson, u senior justice
OF the peace. Nelson Js Wclton was
chosen by ballot for clerk.
The city hall that was later
erected on the Green to take tho
place Of the meeting quarters At
Gothic hall was not completed until
fifteen years late about 1868. His
torian Anderson says ''the city
court and the whole machinery Of
the city government were confined
to n single room, with little furni-
ture and few comforts. Tho annual
city elections were all hold In the
large room Cor hall. so-callcd). no
division into wards or voting dis
trlcts having been made for either
tho town or the city," Gothic hall
had also been used at this timo
an the place OF worship OF the old
First Congregational church; It
formerly stood ION the Green near
where the Wolto. fountain now In
Ia cherries. out OF the way
building. reached by "A muddy
lane"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-02
Those Gentle Japs

Ambassador Hrosi Saito, who is a
good fellow and clever diplomat, and
fraternizes easily with our Washington
correspondents, is mildly grieved because
Americans do not understand Japan"
He laments in recent interview or
maybe it was cocktail hour - that his
people are so often represented in Amer
lea as an aggressive nation" The fact
is, he insists, that Japan is one of the
gentlest and most self-effacing of nations,
and her only policy is to promote peace
on earth and good will to men. How can
we so misunderstood her?
No doubt the Buddhist and Shinto
priests are gentle. And the people, in
their picturesque towns and villages, as
portrayed by Lafcadio Hearn, are almost
uniformly gentle and charming. The
diplomats too with their urbane assur-
ances, seem to fit into the picture.
Unfortunately the old Samurai gang,
who seem as bold and ruthless as our
western robber barons of the Middle
Ages, don't fit so we'll. II the natural
spirit of Japan is gentle the militarists
seem to have the nation by the throat. 1t
is they who shape national policy, and
build armies and navies, and copy the
worst examples of occidental civilization,
and start Cabling up China and defying
the rest of the world. And so great is the
apparent acquiescence of the japanese
masses that hardness and turbulence OBJ
scure the old Japan which Americans
loved.