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Evening star., 1934-02-14

budget, which for the current year
is expected to amount to approx
imately $4,000, was considered at
length by the board.
AS a result of a rapidly increasing
enrolment in the majority of the
schools, the School Board decided
that at least four additional teachers,
three elementary and one high school,
would be necessary next year.
Although called especially as a bud
get meeting, number of other prob
lens came to the attention Of the
board and consumed the greater part
Of its time. Representatives of the
Fairfax County Colored Citizens As
ISOLATION appeared and requested that
provision be made to provide instruc-
ton beyond the elementary grade
level for colored children. The board
decided to withhold any decision on
the matter for the time being.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
DENIES PRISON RIOT
DUE TO Discomfort
Washington State Warden and
Aides to Grill Convicts
Further Today.
by the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press
WALLA WALLA, Wash, February
44.-Denying the bloody Lincoln S
Birthday State Penitentiary riot was
faused by prisoners dissatisfaction
over bad food" Warden James M
McCsuley and his assistants planned
today to grill further some of the
eonvicts involved-those who are still
alive.
The warden said:
"They said they'd received the best
treatment they have ever had, and
that they just had too long sentences,
and wanted to make it out"
The death list stood at nine today
eight convicts shot down by rifle and
machine gun fire from the walls, and
one guard, who was stabbed to death
The ring leader was named by
Warden McCauley as Philip Wallace
serving q minimum term Of 10 years
for robbing a Fort Lewis paymaster
Wallace was not injured.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
SLAYER GETS LIFE

LENISON. Iowa, February IA (F).-
Louis Hamann, 10, confessed slayer OF
his grandmother, Mrs Christina Evers
pleaded guilty last night and was i'm
mediately sentenced to life imprison-
ment at Fort Madison Penitentiary
on a first degree murder charge.
Hamann beat the aged woman with
a stick of firewood and then stran-
gled her to make sure she was dead, !"
officers said he told them. He sought
$40 he believed she had hidden in
the house at SchlesWig.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
FAIRFAX SCHOOL
BUDGET NATURES
Slight Difference Expected
in Figures Obtaining
Last Year.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special DiSpatch 10 The star.
FAIRFAX. Va, February i4.-1ndi-
cations that when the Fairfax County
school budget for the fiscal year 1884
IS is finally completed it will show
but slight difference from the l933-34
budget of $4,000, including both
State and local funds. was foreseen
as result Of a special meeting OF
the County School Board held here
for the purpose of discussing budget
airy problems.
Discussing items from the current
years budget with Division Supt.
w. T. Woodson, members Of the
board suggested they could see but
little possibility of making any ma
terial changes. The matter of in
struction, largest single item on the
Evening star., 1934-02-14

United States to recognize that the
workers have rights.
He is not Communist nor an
anarchist, of course, but he is q cap
italist who sees the worker, which is
rare thing. indeed. And now it is
up to the workers 10 retain those
rights which they have been given"
Fascism, she said, is gaining head
way throughout Europe. "In England,
every one says No, we will never have
Fascism, for we do things differ
entity" she said.
And some day the king will wake
up in Buckingham Palace with Ram
sey Macdonald and the Prince Of
Wales, those two supersalesmen CT
politics, and find that while English
men were doing things differently
| Fascism conquered England, quietly
but thoroughly"
From the audience came the query,
why did you write against the Com
Evening star., 1934-02-14
STRIKERS FIGHT TROOPS
Clash Occurs at Sugar Mill in

Clash Occurs at Sugar Mill in
oriente Province of Cuba.
HAVANA. February IA (P.-Strik-
ing workers clashed with soldiers at
the United Fruit Co. sugar mill at
Preston, in Oriente Province, yester-
day, but no casualties were reported.
The soldiers made many arrests.
Ofncial dispatches to the govern
ment said the attitude assumed by the
strikers was frankly revolutionary"
Employees of the mill today rejected
government arbitration of their
troubles with the management and
walked out. The company said the
strike would not affect operations.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
Trinity U. Head Named.

WAxAHACHIE. Tex, February IA
H1.-Rev. Raymond Hotchkiss Leach,
New York, has been elected president
Of Trinity University here and will
assume his new duties April l. The
new president Is secretary Of the
university department OF the Council
Of Church Boards of Education. He
formerly was dean Of men at the
University Of Nevada. He Is q grad
uate of Oberlin College Mr.. Leach
succeeds DIR. John H. Burma, resigned.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
AUTOMITIVE EXPORTS
IN 1893 SHOWED GAIN
Improvement Over 1882 Due to
, Demand for Cars and
Trucks.
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
United States automotive products
exports were shown by Commerce De-
partment figures today to have gained
43 per cent in value in 1893 over 1882.
The value in 1888 was S93 ,968 900,
compared with $82 ,185, 900 in 1882.
Improvement, the Department OF
Commerce said, was due entirely to
strengthened demand for passenger
cars and trucks as shipment of mis-
cellaneous products declined.
The combined shipments of passen-
ger cars and trucks numbered 107, 03l
valued at ,805,O00, against 65,492
valued at SEA 4,945, 900 in 1882, a SO
per cent gain in volume and 48 per
cent in value.
Evening star., 1934-02-14

munist government Of Russia In the
capitalisttc press?"
For the same reason" Miss Gold
man replied. that I wrote against
capitalism In the radical press. knew
the Communist press wouldn't print
what ! had 10 say against them"
Evening star., 1934-02-14
TOBACCO GAIN HEAVY
North Carolina 1888 Crop $685.
$4,000, Against $35, ,273, 900.


RALEIGH. N. c., February IA [4O.
North Cardinals 1888 tobacco crop
wss valued at 1858, 900 in estimates
announced yesterday by the crop re-
porting service of the State Depart
Inent of Agriculture.
This is S48.280,000 more than the
e35, ,273 900 the 1882 crop produced.
With 509 ,060, 354 pounds of the esti-
mated 1888 production Of 518.522, 900
pounds marketed through January,
the crop already has brought in ap-
proximately $8l 100000, the report re-
vealed
The average price paid through
January, was $I597 a hundred as
compared to S12O3 for the 1882 crop
marketed through the same period
a. year ago. The report estimated
the yearly average for 1888 would be
S1610 a hundred. as compared with
S12 the previous year.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-23
HOPKINS FORMS
RELIEF PLAN

Immediate steps will be taken to
formulate new Federal relief pro-
gram, which virtually will sup
plant direct relief and the CWA
activities, Harry L. Hopkins, Fed
eral Emergency Relief Administra-
tor, announced today.
Mr.. Hopkins said he would con-
fer with President Roosevelt and
other Administrative officials as
soon as possible on the new plan,
and indicated the program may
be launched as early as next week.
Although he declined to dis
close details of the new set-up,
he indicated it would be long
range planning program and,
under the 950-million-dollar appro-
priation just made by Congress
for relief, expects it to be carried
well into next winter.
Mr.. Hopkins also said he would
decide late today on the number
of Civil Works Administration EN-.
ployes to be laid off next Friday
in rehabilitation of the organi-
cation, now in progress. A total of
$4,000 were dropped today and
10000 last week. The AdminiStra-
tor added, however, that he eX.
pected next weeks diSmissalS
would be considerably smaller
than todayS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-23
D, c. To ASK PWA
FOR FUNDS

District officials are preparing
list of District projects to be
submitted to the PWA for possible
aid in financing. They have been
selected from the list submitted
last summer, which totaled more
than IS million dollars. The new
list is headed by a request for
funds for the construction of the
Municipal Center estimated at
$4,9OO,OOO.
The second request was for
funds for the sewage disposal
plant at an estimated cost of eight
million dollars. A request for two
million dollars for the construc-
ton of a tuberculosis hospital for
adults in Buena Vista, located
next to the hospital for children
now practically completed, was
also made,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-23
$4,000 SPENT
On TEMPLE

A total of 100000 was spent on
the George Washington Masonic
National Memorial Temple in
Alexandria last year, according to
reports made at the annual meet
ing of the association in the tenn
pie yesterday. The association has
a balance of $4,000 on hand.
Col. Louis A. Watres, of Scran-
ton, Pa, who presided over the
session, was reelected president,
and ]. Claude KEEPER, of Wash
ington, was renamed secretary
treasurer. Plans for continuing the
work this year will be announced
later.
Last night, the delegates joined
with 400 MaSons of this city and
vicinity in honoring the First
President at the annual banquet
OF Alexandria, ashington Lodge
in Armory Hall.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-23
NEW PLAN AIDS
HOME OWNER

District home owners whose
mortgages are held by closed banks
will be aided by the Home Owners
Loan Corporation, under plans be-
ing formulated by the Washington
office of the corporation.
First mortgages amounting 70
considerably more than million
dollars are held by District banks
closed since the bank holiday Of
last March, it has been estimated.
Under the new plan, liquidation
of these mortgages will be handled
in a newly organized wholesale de-
partment authorized by the board
of directors of the HOLC. Holders
of mortgages have been urged by
Paul ]. Frizzell, manager of the
local office, to make application
at once so as to set the machin-
cry in motion for their relief.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-23
Thief Gets 2 Years
For Stealing Clocks

Milton Curry, Is, colored, Of
the 100 block Eighth st. N. w.,
was today sentenced to two years
and six months in the District
Jail on charges of assault and
robbery at a hearing before Judge
Robert E. Mattingly in Police
Court.
After a spectacular chase
through the crowded shopping dis
trict during which he knocked
down a man who attempted to
stop him, Curry was arrested and
accused of stealing two clocks
from the Golden and Sons store
in the 14O0 block H st. N. w.,
several days ago.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-23
COMMISSIONERS
AID kEECHFOR
P. j. {. POST
Position of Peoples Counsel to
Be Abolished When New
Move Is Completed

Possibility that the post of Peo-
pies Counsel may be abolished
was strong today as the District
Commissioner backed the present
holder of the position, Richmond
B. Keech, for appointment to the
Public Utilities Commission.
Mr.. Keech, whose term expires
Saturday, has been mentioned
numerous times for the utilities
post, made vacant several months
ago by the resignation of Maj.
Gen. Mason M. Patrick, then
chairman of the commission.
Backed BY d. C. Heads
Yesterday Melvin C. Hazen,
president of the Board of Commits
sioners, went to the White House
bearing a recommendation of Mr..
Keech's appointment from the
Commissioners.
Mr.. Hazen said the recommen-
dalton was made strictly on a
merit basis. Appointment of Mr..
Keech would not mean an in
crease in salary for him, as his
present post pays $1,000 per year,
the same salary he would receive
as member of the commission.
Should the appointment be
made, it is understood, the Com
missioners will ask that the posi-
ton Of Peoples Counsel be COM
bined with that of Assistant Cor
poration Counsel.
Duplication Seen
The Commissioners feel that
having both officials is a useless
duplication, since the duties of
the two positions are similar.
Mr.. Keech now is engaged in
the telephone rate case before
the District Supreme Court and
should no appointment be made
to fill his office, it is feared the
litigation may have to be halted.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-23
Sen. King InvitesD. C.Heads
To Special Meeting

Senator William H. King CD
of Utah, chairman of the Senate
District Committee, announced TO-
day that he has called special
meeting of his committee for next
Tuesday morning to which he has
invited the District commissioners
in order to have the members of
the committee and the Commits.
sioners exchange ideas on legisla-
tive matters affecting the District.
He said:
Il desire to have the Commits.
SiOnerS join with us in discuss
ing the District bills now on the
committee calendar and any
other matters which the COM
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-23

mittee members or the Com
misSiOners may suggest.
81 feel that the new Commits
siOners have by this time had
an opportunity to orient them
selves and to get used to their
new places. 1t would appear
that q meeting such as 1 have
called for next week should
serve a useful purpose and aid
the committee in its future de-
alterations regarding District
matters"
The Senator also said he will
lay before the committee the re
ports of the Investigations made
into the bread and milk industries
in Washington.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-23
HOSPITAL WORK
PROTESTED

A protest against the require
ment Of 12-hour shifts for grad
uate nurses and male attendants
at Gallinger Hospital has been
voiced by Senator James j. Davis
(RO of Pennsylvania, a member
of the Senate District Committee.
The Senator brought the mat
ter to the attention of the Senate
in an address in which he said:
while this battle for wage
restoration is being carried
through on many fronts, there
are intOIerable conditions con-
nected with the problem which
should not be endured. refer
to the 12-hOur shift required of
graduate nurses and male at
tendants in Gallinger Hospital.
"The employment of 10 addi-
tiOnal graduate nurses and 30
more OrderlieS would remedy
this condition, and make pos
sible an eight-hOur shift. This
is reasonable request and one
which is in accord with every
theory and ideal of good bust
ness and good government"
The situation also has been
brought to the attention of Sen
ator William H. King CD of
Utah. chairman of the Senate
District Committee, who has sug-
gested that a remedy can be af-
forded if sufficient funds are
made available in appropriation
bills.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-23
SIX-YEAR ROAD
PLAN SCANNED
BY DISTRICT
100000 Proposal Will Be
Financed by Gas Tax From
1885 Until 1910

A six-year bridge and highway
construction program, calling for
the expenditure of about $15,-
500, 900, was under consideration
at the District Building today,
with the tentative approval of
Major John c. Gotwals, District
Engineering Commissioner, al
ready obtained.
Including the maintenance and
construction of streets and bridges
from 1885 through 1910, the pro-
gram was submitted by Capt. H.
c. Whitehurst, director of high
ways, and made public today.
Tie With Gas Tax
The program costs were esti-
mated to tie in with the income
from gasoline taxes, and have
been arranged on a flexible basis.
In preparing the estimates, the
plan assumes that the total gaso-
line tax revenue on a 2-cent-per-
gallon basis will be the same as
for 1885, and states that any fall
ing off in assessment return will
be compensated for by small in
crease from the direct tax.
Estimates submitted to Congress
for the construction of Calvert
Street Bridge in 1888 will provide
a surplus of $175,000. which, &C
cording to the plan will be used
for the construction of a grade
crossing over Eastern Avenue.
Bridge Projects
Most important in the 1885
schedule is the construction of the
Calvert Street bridge. For the fis-
cal year of 1886 the Benning via
duct will be widened and the
Michigan Avenue viaduct over the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will
be improved to eliminate the grade
crossing.
The Pennsylvania Avenue bridge
will be improved under recommen-
dations for 1887. The following
bridge projects will be added:
K Street over Rock Greek; Six
tenth Street over Military Road;
Klingle Street over Rock Creek;
Pierce Mill over Rock Greek, and
Twentieth Street over Piney
Branch.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-23
ASSESSMENTS
ARE TERMED
EXCESSIVE
Senator King Hints Support
Of Recommendations of
D. C. Engineer

Recommendations that the as
sessment now charged for sewer
and water mains in the District
be cut in half have been made to
Congress by Major John c. Got
walls, Engineer Commissioner for
the District, it was revealed today.
The recommendation were made
in letter to Senator William H.
King CD of Utah, chairman of
the Senate District Committee,
who said he will study the pro-
posal, and intimated he would be
favorable toward it.
Held Too High
The present assessment is 81
per lineal foot, and is assessed
against both sides of the street.
making a total for each lineal
foot of Sc, while the cost is esti-
mated at 1914 per lineal foot for
service sewers, and $3.11 for water
mains, according to Commissioner
GotWalS.
It is his belief that the assess
ment should be reduced to $3.50
per lineal foot, and he also sug-
gests that the reduction be pro-
vided for in the bill making ap-
preparations for the District for
the coming fiscal year. In his
letter to Senator King, Major Got
walls said, in part:
"The present rates for water
and sewer mains of So per foot,
such rates being established in
1927, were met without embar-
raSSment, and almost unnOticed,
by private builders during the
period of buOyant construction.
However, during the period
Of the depression these charges
are a serious bar to private
building. AS the resumption Of
normal private construction is
an important objective in the
recovery, this opportunity is now
taken to request your cOOpera-
ton in reducing the above
charges to amounts fairly rep
resentative of the service they
are to the private party paying
the assessments"
WILLING TO TESTIFY
Major Gotwals said he would
be willing to come before the
committees of Congress with his
proposal, and Senator Elmer
Thomas 3D. Of Oklahoma, chair
man Of the Senate appropriations
subcommittee on the District bill.
said he would be glad to have
Major GotWals testify.
The matter was recently called
to the attention of Senator King
by B. H. Gruver, a local builder.
who protested against the exist
ing rates. Senator King referred
the matter to Major GotWals,
and in reply received the recon-
mendationS for the reductions.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-23
Is Class A Liquor
Licenses Are Issued

Sixteen Class A wholesale liquor
licenses were issued today by the
Alcohol Beverage Control Board
of the District. Glass A permits
give the holders the privilege of
dealing in liquor, wine and beer.
The fee Is $500. In Class B,
permitting sale only of light wine
and beer. seven paid $500 each
for permits. Seventeen licenses,
costing 500 each, were issued for
the privilege Of soliciting orders
for beverages.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-23
IVA Soon to Sell =
Electrical Devices

Plans for furnishing electrical
appliances at low cost to more
than 100000 residents of the
Tennessee Valley by May /, are
nearing completion, IVA officials
announced yesterday.
Conferences have been held
with representatives of the elec-
trio refrigerator industry on types
desired in the valley, and stand
ards for ranges and hot-water
heaters have been agreed. Other
electrical labor-saving devices will
follow.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-23
Cadets to Compete
With InfQntru Unit

Squads of the Alexandria and
George Mason High Schools
cadets will compete in rifle and
drill matches with squads from
the Alexandria Light Infantry at
the guard company'S regular drill
in the Armory Monday night.
After the competitive drill the
Light Infantry under command of
Lieut.. John S. Arnold will give a
demonstration Of the War Depart
ment's new style drill, devised in
case rapid mobilization again
should become necessary.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-23
Lebanon Tall CedQrs
To Hold Meet Here

More than 1000 Tall Cedars Of
Lebanon are expected to attend
the ceremonial Of Capitol Forest.
No. 104 Chapter, in the Masonic
Auditorium, Thirteenth Street and
New York Avenue Northwest.
Wednesday.
This group will comprise men,
berS from Hagerstown and Balti.
more, Md. and Clarksburg, w. Va.
and together with local members
will stage street parade in uni
form.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-23
Ring Larceny Holds
Youth for Grand JurY

Wilmer Hail.. 81, of the 900
block Columbia Rd., pleaded not
guilty before Judge Robert E.
Mattingly in Police Court today
to a charge of grand larceny and
was held for the Grand Jury
under $500 bond. Hall was &C.
cuSed of taking a ring valued at
$700 from the Wardman Park
Hotel after he had been cleaning
the apartment of Miss Jeanne
Sturges and selling it to A. E.
Arnold, a secondhand dealer in
the 1900 block G st. N. w., on
February 13.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-23

A bill extending greater priVi-
leges to the General Federation of
Women's Clubs was introduced in
the Houes today by Representa-
tive Richard B. Wiggleworth Of
Massachusetts.
The measure amends a former
act to permit the organization to
hold real estate up to a million
and a half dollars and authorizes
it to hold meetings outside the
District of Columbia.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-23
Suspected Rum Car
Uses Smoke Screen

Even though repeal is an &C.
complished fact in Maryland and
soon will be in Washington, rum
runners continue to ply their
trade in the same old way, using
all the old tricks in evading pur.
suing police.
Traffic Bureau Patrolman C. H
Gould was cruising near Second
Street and Virginia Avenue South
east last night when a suspected
rum car came in view. He pur,
sued it a short distance and the
driver let go a dense cloud of
acrid smoke. Mr.. Gould was
blinded temporarily and the Car
and driver escaped.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-23
Father of 4 Goes to Prison
For Traffic Fatality

McInturff ran down and killed
Marie Berkowtiz, 50, at Georgia
Avenue and Otis Place Northwest,
last October 9. Investigation dis
closed he had been drinking at the
time and when overtaken in his
truck two blocks from the tragedy
was unaware he had struck the
woman.
A plea for mercy was made by
McInturff's lawyer, Michael j.
Lane. The Government was rep
resented by Assistant U. S. At
torney Irwin Goldstein.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-23

Pleading guilty to charge of
manslaughter growing out of a
traffic fatality, Martin D. McIn-
turf, 26, of Silver Spring, Md,
was sentenced to serve from two
to three years in prison by Justice
Peyton Gordon today in District
Supreme Court.
In imposing sentence, Justice
Gordon said he was taking in con-
sideration that McInturff was the
father of four small children, the
youngest of whom is two months
old.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-23
Board of Commissioners

The Commissioners met as board to hold a public hear
ing racing. (Story sports page).
Investigation into the operation Of the Capital Transit
Company with regard to violation of the Public Utilities
Commissions regulations started today.
Wholesale liquor licenses and solicitors licenses
nounced by ABC board today. (Story this page)
Word waited from White House on the appointment of
Peoples Counsel Richmond Keech the Public Utilities
Commission by the commission today (Story this page)
Announcement of sx-year building program for the
District made public at the District Building