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Evening star., 1934-09-27

Uncle Sam, who has done some
pay cutting himself in recent years,
now has been called upon to raise
the pay of one Of his dollar-a-year
men to 5000, because the proposed
beneficiary suffered $500 reduction
in his $4,000 salary from the State
of New York as result Of State tax.
The case came to light today when
Controller General McCarl held that
the only authorization could come
from the President.
The issue was raised in behalf Of
William H. Lange, whose basic salary
as director of the New York State
Employment Service is $1,000 and
who serves also as State director Of
the National Unemployment Service,
q Federal agency, at salary Of 81
q year. This Federal Unemployment
Service was organized to register and
certify men for work on public works
projects.
Secretary Perkins wrote the con-
Evening star., 1934-09-27
Planning Commission Ad-
vised of Step by Sec
retary Settle.
EUROPEAN CONDITIONS
REPORTED BY N0LEN
Conference of All Agencies In
terested in Project to Be Called
by Arts Body.

President Roosevelt in a few days
will name the new Alley Dwelling
Authority to eradicate Washington's
unsightly back-street houses.
The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission was so advised
today by its secretary, Thomas S.
Settle, who also served as secretary
of a special group of WaShingtonians,
headed by Canon Anson Phelps Stokes.
who are advising the President on the
personnel of the authority.
For some time Mr.. Roosevelt has
had on his desk the report of the
group. Congressional authority dl-
rects the President to name the or
ganization that will begin eliminating
the city's alley dwellings.
The commission heard a great deal
about the housing problem today, for
its director of planning, John Nolen,
jr., reported on his observations in
Europe this Summer on housing.
Conference Is Urged.
The commission adopted resolu-
ton that. after the President has
named the Alley-Dwelling Authority,
the commission itself should call a
conference of all the agencies here
interested in the housing problem.
This would include the Public Works
Administration, the District Commits
sioners, the Alley-Dwelling Authority.
the Planning Commission, the Federal
Housing Administration, the Federal
Emergency Relief Administration and
other groups. The planners took this
action because the law directs the
commission to concern itself with
housing problems here.
Mr.. Settle recommended that low
cost housing in Washington should be
closely co-ordinated with the elimina-
ton of the alley dwellings. This the
commission will seek to do, after the
Alley Dwelling Authority comes into
existence.
Mr.. Nolen presented report on a
stadium at Frankfort-on-the Main in
Germany, which has a structure such
as Washington is striving for. The
Federal Government has a 40-acre
tract here on the banks of the Ana
costa River at the end of East Capitol
street as a site for a stadium. Mr..
Settle said the construction of recrea-
tional facilities often is done with
relief workers and that some such
program, utilizing WaShington's unem-
ployed, might be practical here.
Northwest Rectangle.
The commission again devoted at
tention to the Northwest rectangle
bounded by E street, Eighteenth street
Constitution avenue and the Potomac
River, in which the Federal Govern
ment proposes to erect future public
buildings.
For the first time. Col. Daniel I.
Sultan, the new Engineer Commits
sioner for the District, took his seat
as a member of the commission.
Delayed until october was the final
report of L. H Weir Of the National
Recreation Association, engaged as
commission consultant to study the
Washington recreational system.
Evening star., 1934-09-27
Citizens viii Act
As "Spotters" for
Better Car Seruice
Rhode Island Group
adopts Plan to Aid
Utilities Committee.

To further their plan for better street
car facilities, the Rhode Island Avenue
Citizens Association last night ac-
cepted a plan proposed by their Pub
lie Utilities Committee in which all
members of the group were made
secret spoilers" to aid the commit
tee in checking on street railway
conditions.
The punching of cars, cars with
side seats which the members pointed
out were uncomfortable, and the
thumb licking" of transfers by the
conductors are some of the items
which will be reported to the COM
mittee by the members.
Cards were ordered printed and
distributed to the members of the
group. When filed, the cards are to
be returned to the association. The
results of these studies will be re-
ported to the Public Utilities Com
mission.
Evening star., 1934-09-27
Mother of IL Awaits Son
Who Strayed Too Many Times

spare tire, ricocheted upward, and
pierced the brain of the man at the
wheel.
Dying, he was taken to hospital
at Crestview, Fla. A card in his
effects identified him as Alfred j.
Smith Of Malvern, N. Y. But with
his last breath, the stranger gasped
out the name of Mrs. Reid.
That's my mother" he said.
So John Reid is coming home. Back
to the mother who reared II children.
His father, Ernest Reid, an invalid,
won't believe the son Is dead. The
mother knows-she had premonition.
Zone goes, another comes" says
Mrs. Reid, looking across the room
at q bassinet, where q grandson just
. few days old peers out from be-
meath billowy blankets. The grandson
was born the day the son was shot.
Evening star., 1934-09-27
$1,130 Grant Approved by
Hopkins Is Announced
by Allen.
COLONIAL MOTHERS GET
INITIAL ALLOTMENT
Georgetown Colored Cooperative,
Representing 200 Children,
Also Receives Aid.

Operation of the first two self
help" groups of families on the Dis
trict relief list will be started promptly
under a grant of $1.130 approved by
Harry l.. Hopkins, head of the Federal
Emergency Relief Administration, and
announced today by Commissioner
George E. Allen, District relief admin
istrator.
The self-help programs are based
on the plan Of cooperative enterprises
using unemployed persons who are
subject to relief and idle capital in
a move to place relief plans at least
on partial self sustaining basis.
Junior Companions.
The elf-help enterprises are Junior
companions of the District Rehabili-
tation Corporation, organized to handle
low-cost housing and subsistence
farming projects on a very much
larger scale.
The corporation, however. is not
controlling the self-help program.
The two groups receiving the initial
grants are the Colonial Mothers Self
help Cooperative and the Georgetown
Colored Mothers Self-help Co-opera-
tive. The former is an organization Of
80 white women who have a total of
l20 children. This group received $3.50
to start its program. The second
group consists of 48 colored women
having a total of 200 children. It re-
ceived a grant of $3.50.
The funds will be used for the pur-
chase OF cloth for the manufacture of
dresses, Shirts bed sheets, pillow cases
for the mothers and their children.
and If there Is a surplus materials will
be sold to. the District Emergency Re-
lief Division and the receipts turned
into a revolving fund for continued
operation.
New Quarters Planned.
The groups have been meeting at
st. Johns Episcopal Church in
Georgetown. but new working quar-
tiers are to be established.
The sponsors for the two groups are
Miss Mary T. Kolb, Miss Bertha
LOCKER, Rev. Bland Tucker, Miss
Agnes Brophy and DR.. Joseph Dodson
OF Freedmen's Hospital.
The president of the Colonial Moth
ers is Mrs Anna Englehart. The
president of the colored group Is Mrs.
Pauline Mcintosh.
Evening star., 1934-09-27
KANN STORE GIVEN
BLUE EAGLE PRIZE
Window Display at Eighth
Street and Market Place
Judged Superior.

The window display at Kann's
department store was judged best
today from a standpoint of educa-
tionaI and patriotic value in con-
test conducted as a part of the Ma
tons Capital Blue Eagle week.
The first-place award was made to
a display at the corner OF Eighth
street and Market place, although the
store has several other especially ar
ranged windows.
Second place was awarded the
Hecht Co., third went to Lansburgh
& Bro and fourth to woodward o.
Lothrop.
The displays were judged by COM
mittee from the District Federation
of Womens Clubs as representatives
of the consumers in the Blue Eagle
celebration. The committee was
composed Of Mrs. Edgar B. Merritt,
acting president of the federation;
Mrs. Lloyd w. Biddle. first vice presi-
dent, and Mrs. Grattan Kearns, de-
partmental chairman.
The displays will remain uf1-
changed throughout the remainder OF
the week, and officials of the drive
today issued an invitation to all in
terested consumers to pay a visit to
them.
At noon today John Dickinson,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce, ad-
dressing the Kiwanis Club at luncheon
at the Mayfower Hotel. complimented
Washington for the interest mani
tested in the N. r. A. in the current
observance.
The celebration also will be dis
cussed before citizens associations
meeting this week. Tomorrow Sylvan
King, executive head of the drive.
will discuss Blue Eagle week before
the Reciprocity Club at the Hamilton
Hotel and q speaker also will appear
before the trustees Of the Better
Business Bureau at luncheon at the
Raleigh.
Last night a group Of Baltimore
business men was told Of the drive at
q dinner at the Hamilton and they
indicated afterward that similar
campaign in the Maryland metropolis
will be given serious consideration.
This is the first out-of- town group
to show an interest in following the
example set by the National Capital.
+ A program of brief radio addresses
will be continued through Saturday
night.
Evening star., 1934-09-27
BATHING AND WADING
IN CREEK PROHIBITED
Temporary Closure Is Necessary
When Stream Is Found Un-
duly Polluted.

Bathing and wading in Rock Creek
will be prohibited by Capt. P. ]. Car
roll of the United States Park Police
until further notice, because the Pub
lie Health Service has found that the
water is unduly polluted.
This became known today when G.
Marshall Finnan, superintendent of
the National Capital Parks, issued
orders after receiving the report from
the psychologists.
The samples Of the water Of Rock
Greek were taken by Public Health
Service authorities, one from Piney
Branch, about so yards above the
Park Avenue Bridge, and one at
Pierce Mill, IS feet below the sewer.
A record Of the analysis showed that
the meteorological results indicated
fairly heavy pollution from sanitary
sewage"
The Public Health Service wrote:
due to the pollution of Rock Creek
we would recommend that wading and
bathing be prohibited In the creek"
Evening star., 1934-09-27
MAN IS KILLED
BY STREET CAR
Earl F. Paxson of Seat
Pleasant Run Over Near
District Line.

Earl r. Paxson, 81, plumbers
helper, of No. 9 Ridge street, Seat
Pleasant, Md, was instantly killed
about / am today when run over by
Capital Transit Co. street car near
east and the District line.
The wheels of an eastbound Seat
Pleasant car passed over Parsons s
body. The accident occurred at a
point where the tracks left the street
and ran across an undeveloped Sec
ton.
The motorman, Everett w. Johnson.
81, of 1918 Orren street northeast, told
police he saw the body lying between
the rails but mistook it for a section
of newspaper until he got too near to
halt the car.
Police were told that Paxson usually
rode to the end of the car line. but
that last night he alighted from q
street car several blocks from his &C
customed stop despite the protests of
some acquaintances on the car, who
said he had been drinking.
An ambulance was summoned from
Casualty Hospital and Paxson was
pronounced dead by DR.. G. H. Boyn-
ton. His body was removed to the
District Morgue.
The coroner's Office was still investi-
eating the death today and DR.. A.
Magruder Macdonald was uncertain
if an inquest would be necessary.
The theory that Paxson might have
been slugged and thrown on the tracks
by robbers was secuted by police. Pax
son was said to have had only little
change when he left home and part
Of this was still in his pockets when
the body was found.
Paxson is survived by his mother,
Mrs. Ettie Paxson of Montrose, Md;
sister, Mrs. Blanche Freas, also of
Montrose, and his widow, Mrs. Edith
Paxson. said to be living in Washing
ton.
Evening star., 1934-09-27
Commissioners Attack Pros
posaIs After Department
Hearings End.
MAY LOWER 100000
MORE TO MEET INCOME
Task of Further Reductions Held
Hopeless if Needed Better.
ments Are Allowed.

The Commissioners today attacked
the problem of slashing at least slo,-
100000 from the $4,000, 900 budget
proposals submitted to them by heads
of District departments and inde-
pendent agencies.
The difficult task of marking up"
the budget estimates for the fiscal
year 1886 was begun this morning
after the city heads had heard the
last argument of department heads in
support of their requested appropria-
tions. The last officials heard were
those Of the National Parks Service,
which has control over numerous
parks and Fairgrounds in the District.
Seek Second Big Trim.
The city heads are not permitted to
reveal what action they take in formu-
lating their proposed budget. 1t was
said, however, the Commissioners
aimed to slash at least 100000
from the estimates, and then the
document will be gone over again with
the hope of cutting off some $4,000, 900
more to bring the cost for the next
fiscal year down to the level of the
expected 1886 revenues.
The Commissioners have indicated
they regard this as a rather sorry and
hopeless task if needed Capital i'm
provements are to be allowed
They have insisted, however, they
hope to avoid any boost in taxation.
Big Items Not Included.
The total of the estimates of $50
329, ,224 does not include s1,370,000 in
trust fund items, nor Sl,300,000 for
repayment of public works funds,
which would bring the grand total to
$52, ,999 ,224.
Requests for appropriations which
would be chargable to general rev.
enues of the District total SAG, ,433 900.
while expected general revenues
amount to but $33,438,0OO.
Evening star., 1934-09-27

For 10 years John Reid needed the
lure of the road. Home for while,
then gone.
Three times in that period, when
he had dropped from sight, his
mother, seeking traces, had gone to
identify bodies, hopeful they might
be those of strangers, but fearful.
Now this is all over. At the end
of the road Reid found death, and
the mother, Mrs. Clara Emma Reid,
for the last time waits for him at
the home. 703 Quincy street.
Reid, who was "a. left here q week
ago Monday, saying he was going to
Argentina.
Friday, in Florida, officers on the
lookout for robbery suspect fired on
a speeding car when the driver failed
to heed a command to halt.
The bullet struck the rim Of the
Evening star., 1934-09-27
INDICTMENTS QUASHED
FOR LACK OF EVIDENCE

The Government today quashed in
dictments against five colored officials
Of the National Benefit Life Insur-
ance Co.
Assistant United States Attorney
Edward L. Burroughs said the charges
were dropped because there was not
sufficient evidence to justify q prose-
cution.
One indictment charged John T.
Risher. Daniel M. Gary and Mortimer
F. Smith with conspiracy to embezzle
funds of the company. Smith, with
Robert H. and Samuel w. Rutherford
were accused in another indictment OF
conspiracy to commit perjury.
Evening star., 1934-09-27

Upper: Workmen constructing a
retaining dam to keep the water at
a uniform depth in all parts Of
Reaches Run so that fish may be
kept there even when the river is
low. The work also will remove
the unsightliness Of the mud fats
that results when the water Ii
low.
Below: A group of interested off,
cials shown as they inspected the
new project. Left to right: Frank
T. Bell, United States Commis-
sioner Of Fisheries; C. Marshall
Finnan, superintendent of National
Capital Parks; Judge William s.
Snow, member Of the Commission
of Game and Inland Fisheries OF
Virginia; DR.. M. Darcy Magee,
president of the Washington chap
ter of the Izaak Walton League,
and Glen C. Leach, chief of fish
culture of the Bureau of Fisheries.
Star Staff Photos.
Evening star., 1934-09-27
WORKER ELECTROCUTED
Colored Employe of Capital Tran
sit Co. Killed Instantly.

John Parrott, colored, 80, Of 1927
Herford place, was instantly electro
cuted this morning at the Capital
Transit Co. machine shop, Twenty
fourth and p streets, while at work
with an electric tester. Parrot was
said to have grasped the tester by
the unprotected end. The tester car
ried 1,500 volts.
The coroner is investigating.
Evening star., 1934-09-27
Open House Rally.

John c. Rout of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing will speak on
How Uncle Sam Makes His Money
and Stamps at an open house rally
tomorrow at 6 pm, at the, Pythian
Temple, 1912 Ninth street. The Elks
Boys Band will furnish music for the
one-and-one-half-hour program put
on by the Capital City Boys Club, to
which every one Is invited.
Evening star., 1934-09-27
TESTS ARE FACED
BY YEX-DRY AGENTS
700 Must Take Exams To-
morrow to Hold Tax
Unit Jobs.

More than TOO former Prohibition
Bureau agents, who now are required
to take new examinations in an effort
to hold investigative jobs to which
they were reappointed in the Alco-
holic Tax Unit Of the Internal Reve-
nue. Bureau, tomorrow will start un-
dergoing those tests, in competition
with nearly $4,000 other aspirants fol
the places.
The examinations, given by the
Civil Service Commission, are being
held in 500 cities, including Wash
ington. They will be concluded on
October 13.
Reappointment Attacked.
The former prohibition agents al
ready have competitive status, but
their reappointment was attacked In
the last Congress by Democratic Sen
ators, who charged they were Hoover
Republicans" hand-picked for the
new assignment Their re-examina-
ton was forced by an appropriation
bill rider cutting of the pay aftel
December l of all who failed to quail
ify anew.
This rider provided for open COM
petitive examinations, which is re-
sponsible for the other thousands oi
applicants. The Civil Service Com
mission said today that the tota
entries in the examination lists were
1889, including the incumbents.
Approximately $50 incumbents who
would otherwise have been barred
from the examination because they
are over so, the maximum age limit
set to qualify, will be eligible for the
tests by reason of an executive order
from the White House yesterday.
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
thau, who has been attempting to
hold this force together in the face
of fire from Capitol Hill, was instru-
mental in obtaining the order after
he had been unsuccessful in reaching
an agreement with the Civil Service
Commission to set different age limits
for experienced and non-experienced
men.
Positions Not Insured.
This action does not insure that
these men will retain their positions,
but it gives them the opportunity to
compete on an equal footing, which
they otherwise would not have had
In the meantime, the Treasury and
Civil Service Commission are con-
fronted with the problem of arrang-
ing examinations for some 10000
other employees of the alcoholic tax
unit who were transferred from the
Justice Department when the new
liquor enforcement unit was set up.
Attorney General Cummings has ruled
that the appropriation rider is broad
enough to cover these, although it was
designed primarily to affect only the
prohibition agents.
These latter had been dropped from
service when the Prohibition Bureau
was abolished, and were taken from
the unemployment registers of the
Civil Service Commission by Secretary
Morgenthau because of their long
experience.
Evening star., 1934-09-27
Relief Society to Meet.

The Southern Relief Society will
meet at its home, 2727 Adams Mill
road, at 10 am. next Tuesday. All
members are asked to attend and
bring their friends. Mrs. Pearce
Horne, president, will preside.
Evening star., 1934-09-27
LIQUOR LICENSE KILLED
Florida Avenue Permit Revoked
for Alleged Sunday Sale.

The Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board today revoked the liquor license
held by Mrs. Anna Cataldi for an
establishment in the 1000 block Of
Florida avenue on a finding that an
employe of the place had sold bottle
of LIQUOR on Sunday,
Evening star., 1934-09-27

CADET COL. DON ANDRUS,
Western High School senior, who
has been selected as colonel of the
High School Cadet Corps in the
white schools. He was picked from
a field of five contenders for the
rank by a Board of Examiners,
headed by Lieut.. Col. Wallace M.
Craigie, u S. A., retired.
Young Andrus is the son of Col.
C. L. Andrus, U. S. M. c., and
lives at 1902 Thirty-seventh street.
Western High School students de-
clinedtto compete for the colonelcy
until three years ago, its cadet
officers preferring to command
companies. Since then, however,
that school has had the ranking
officer of the corps for two years,
relinquishing it last year to Nc
Kinley, only to regain it this year.
Star staff Photo.
The Washington times., 1934-08-09

JUST ASK YOUR
NEICHBORS

Right in your neighborhood there must be a
woman who has been benefited by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Let her tell
you how good this medicinei is before and after
childbirth, at the Change, OF whenever wom-
an is nervous, weak and rundown:
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
By WILMA LAVILLE

An announcement has already
been made as to the details of
the Greed" suits this fall. And
that's of great Importance in
the realm of tailored suits. For
Greed has been the recognized
master of them for many years.
Fashions will be inspired by
those of the early 1900'S, in suits
as we'll as in other clothes. Coats
slightly fitted, braid bindings,
fluffy jabotS at the neckline of
blouses, all those things recall
the days of the Edwardians.
And suits will be made with
customary Greed workmanship.
which is excellent as that in any
suit made for an EngliShman.
For the Creeds we're originally
mems tailors, and got their start
by making riding habits for
Queen Victoria.
The story goes that the popu-
lace Uttered when they saw a
wooden horse being drawn
through the streets, which the
Queen was to mount for her fit
tings. But the world of fashion,
the English court and then sew
eral European courts. soon fol
lowed the lead of the adored
Queen,
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
History Of the Tailored Suit to
Repeat Itself This Fall

Following riding habits came
tailored suits for other pursuits,
for walking. shopping, for the
country. Suits took on many
details of mems suits, and were
made of the finest worstedS de-
signed for men. They followed
the very fitted lines of the day,
but we're innovations insofar as
they were completely simple.
The fashion of tailored suits
has waXed and Waned. Some
years they were very popular,
we're considered the basis of
every good wardrobe. In other
years they we're seldom seen.
But they have never gone out
entirely.
Always, year in and year out,
the few really we'll dressed
women of the world have con-
tinued to wear them. They have
included at least one tailored
suit in their plans each year, or
each season. For they know that
nothing ever looks quite as well.
Tailored suits have not al
ways preserved their mannish
appearance. Sometimes tn ey
have been quite sports-like,
sometimes almost feminine. But
they have lasted, returned, are
always in excellent taste, always
worn by the right people"
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
White Wool Suit Trimmed
With Baum Marten

A stunning suit to carry one
through the late summer and
early fall seasons is the one
worn by Irene Dunno recently.
Of white wool, it is trimmed
with a notched collar of Baum
Marten. The skirt flares into a
circular flounce. The wrist
length jacket reflects the fall
influence, with it's bracelet cuffs
of Baum Marten. The V-necked
blouse has a cowled neck. A
stitched wool tricorne and brown
accessories are worn with the
outfit.
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