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The Washington times., 1934-06-04
WHEELER WINS
APPO|N TMENT

Leslie A. Wheeler. for three
years acting chief of the division
of foreign agricultural service of
the Department of Agriculture,
has been appointed as the perma-
nent head Of the agency.
His rank is that of a principal
agricultural economist.
Mr.. Wheeler Joined the depart
ment in 1926 as a research expert.
Mr.. Wheeler's duties now in
clude the gathering and dissem-
nation of information regarding
world competition for agricultural
products, and the production, mar
keting and distribution Of these
products in foreign countries.
The Washington times., 1934-06-04
-Four Hurt When Car
Hits Telephone Pole

Four persons were. hurt when
the automobile in which they
were riding skidded on the MARI
boro Pike near Upper Marlboro,
Md, last night and crashed into
a telephone pole. They are:
Mrs. D. C. Wheatley 10, 400
block, New Hampshire Ave N. w.,
condition serious with internal
injuries; Mrs. Mamie Paula, 1900
block South Carolina Ave. S. E.,
condition serious; George Vogcl,
9, skull fracture, and Mrs. Cath
crime Vogel, so, 400 block New
Hampshire Ave. N. W.. cuts and
shock. Carl Wheatley and two
other passengers were uninjured.
The Washington times., 1934-06-04
TIP ON Staying
W|NSAWARD

Information on the death of Ed
ward Jackson, So, of Seat Pleas
ant, Md, when shot at his home in
a family quarrel captured first
prize last week in The Washing
ton Times neWStip contest.
The second prize was awarded
for a tip that Norman S. BoWles.
Washington attorney. had been
sentenced in Baltimore to three
years and a $4,000 fine for viola
ton of the income tax law.
Other awards we're made for the
following tips:
The injuries received by six
year-old Thomas Motley, of the
14OO block of Columbia Rd. N. W..
when he fell down an elevator
shaft; discovery of an abandoned
automobile which led police on
merry chase in the belief that it
belonged to Justice Peyton Cor
don: theft of an iron terrapin
from the University of Maryland
and an automobile accident at
Union Station.
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Board of Commissioners

The District Commissioners did not meet Board.
Formally approved the District Appropriation bill now
before the Presidents and discovered traffic light item
larger than the amount requested Story this
Announced moving of Calvert Street Bridge to take place
Thursday. Story this page
Board of Public Welfare mass meeting of its
1900 employees in the Department of Commerce auditorium
Thursday night Story this page.
Public Utilities Commission issues statement declaring its
inspection and research facilities will be end June 30
(StOrv Page ~
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Citizens Boost Bill
To Elect Delegates

Delegates to national political
conventions should be elected
here under rigid supervision by
the District Commissioners, the
Sixteenth Street Heights Citizens
Association believes.
In letter to the House District
Committee today the association
went on record as unanimously
faVoring passage of a bill now
awaiting action of the House
providing such regulations.
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BRIDGE: MOVING
DUE THURSDAY
HAROLD BURST

They start to move the Calvert
Street Bridge at S a. m. Thursday
of this week.
Engineers from all over the
country will join the turnout OF
District officials to watch the
great steel span, weighing 1900
tons, slip along over its steel roll
ers until it rests 80 feet south of
the present location.
The moving will require between
eight and twelve hours; bridge
engineers have differed as to the
time. Five horses are all that are
required to pull this huge weight;
the horses will turn windlasseS,
and each turn will bulge the
bridge along about one inch.
Following completion of the job
there will be a re-routing of Ill
traffic, and in about 48 hours Cal
vert Street Bridge traffic will be
limited to street cars only.
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GIVEN
$4,000 FUND
It D|DN' 7 ASK
Veterans Rub Their Eyes When
They Realize Congress
Boosts Their Figures
"What! More money than
we asked fOr!"

"What! More money than
we asked for!"
The District Commissioners,
Major Dan Donovan. the District
auditor, and Daniel E. Garges,
the oldest veterans Of the Dis
trict government, rubbed their
eyes. today when they realized
that Congress in one place in
the D. c. appropriation bill now
before the President for signature
has actually appropriated a
larger sum than the city authori-
ties requested.
1t is $4,000 for traffic lights
whereas the Commissioners asked
for $4,000 only; and with this
enlarged item is the definite in
structions from Congress that
$25, 900 at least must be spent for
new stop-and-go-lights.
Okay Goes to- Budget
Formal approval of the entire
bill with its $35, 100000 total
went to the Bureau of Budget TO-
day from the Commissioners.
While there may be rejoicing in
the traffic bureau over the new
lights, there is weeping and wailing
in the Alcohol Beverage Control
Board whose force of inspectors is
practically wiped out by the new
appropriations. Chairman Offutt
and Isaac Cans, board member,
spent most of the day at the Capt.
toll pleading for a supplemental
appropriation.
The feeling at the District Build
ing is that with the Inspector
force reduced to merely pair OF
men, the administration of the
new District liquor law will break
down entirely.
P. U. C. Hit Hard
Somewhat the same feeling pre-
walls in the Public Utilities Com
mission, where a reduced appro
priation will deprive the District
of the services of a dozen men
who have been attending to com,
plants and keeping the standard
of service up to par.
The Washington times., 1934-06-04
School Bids Too High;
Plans to Be Chdnqed

The Alexandria City Council
will meet tomorrow night to re-
ceive City Manager Wallace Law
rence's recommendations on bids
recently opened for construction
of a new high school. The bids
overran estimates by $4,000. Mr..
Lawrence said today the plans
will have to be revised.
The Washington times., 1934-06-04
Former Judge King
Funeral Rites Set

Funeral services for former
Judge William Rufus King, for
mer chief counsel of the United
States Reclamation Service. will
be held at two o'clock tomorrow
at Hyson's funeral home.
The 69-year-old former |execu-
tive died Saturday in the Raleigh
Hotel. He was here on a visit
from the Hawaiian Islands. and
has made his home for several
years in Los Angeles.
Interment will be at Portland,
Ore.
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FARLEY MOVES
To NEW SUITE

The last division of the depart
ment moved into the new Post
Office Building.
Postmaster General James A.
Farley took possession of luxuri'
. GUS new suite, where tomorrow
afternoon he will hold a house
warming party for members of
the press.
The press section was moved.
but was inaccessible by telephone
their phone system not having
been installed.
The Washington times., 1934-06-04
WIFE BRUISED
IN STRUGGLE
WITH PAIR
William P. Munford Taken
to Casualty With Bullet in
Head; Cash Saved

Two men shot William P. Mum
ford of Camp Springs, Md, late
last night during a struggle fol-
lowing their attempt to rob him.
Mr.. Munford is in Casualty
Hospital in an Undetermined
condition" while his wife, who
also struggled with the robbers.
is in a highly nervous condition,
but refuses medical aid.
AccOsted Near Home
She, however, saved the days
receipts of their combined garage
and store by hiding the roll in
her bosom.
The two had just closed their
business for the evening and had
carried two chairs from the store
to their nearby home when, the
robbers approached. They had
seen no automobile near and the
two came up to them without
warning.
One, holding a revolver. showed
it into the mans stomach, and
asked for his money. When Mr..
Munford said he did not have
any, the man began a tussle. The
second robber began quizzing Mrs.
Munford. They edged the pair
around the home to the back
porch, where the first robbel shot
Mr.. Munford through the head.
Woman Knocked Down
Mrs. Munford broke away from
her aSsailant and ran to the road,
where the robber threw her to
the ground, but was frightened
away before he could force her
to give up the receipts, estimated
at 500.
Tony Dove, an employee of the
store. took Mr.. Munford to
Casualty Hospital after calling
Prince Georges county police.
Policemen Oscar Beall and
Harry Morris were later given a
description of an automobile seen
cruising about the neighborhood
earlier. in the evening.
The District lookout warning
for the men notes that lone may
be wounded" but Prince Georges
police said they knew nothing Of
the robbel. being shot at by
neighbOrS or paSSerS-by.
The Washington times., 1934-06-04

soemny by the Vice President of the United States to the
office of chairman of the Joint Select Committee on the
Disposition Of Useless Papers in the Executive Department
Judging by his general attitude, Mr.. Fess if EFT to his
ncinations might find all the papers of the present
Executive Department useessexcpt few indiscreet ones
which have been destroyed wisely. However, Senator
Alben Barkley good Democrat also the committee
He will undoubtedly keep keen Kentucky the Re-
publican gentleman from Ohio.
The Washington times., 1934-06-04

the other day Kitty acquired Jack S six:year-
old daughter. That's the answer.
Ambassadors are going across the ocean.
Senators are going back to their constitu-
ents.
Cabinet members are looking toward the
Maine woods.
And Mrs Anne De Voc is escorting James
McNair and Puss Pants, the cats of the
Arthur Krocks, to an apartment in New
York for the summer
In the encourage of Prince Fumimaro
Konoyo, the president of the japanese House
of Peers, who is coming to Washington tt
four secretaries from Japan, Two are younI
the Imperial University of Tokyo.
The Washington times., 1934-06-04

Senator Fess is tidy little person. Looks
like a college professor (old style). His big
glasses generally slide down too far toward
the end of his nose, particularly when the
G. o. P. is mentioned, unsympathetically.
Then he springs up from his seat and makes
sharp remarks.
The actual designation of Senator Fess'
committee was made at the suggestion of
the "acting Secretary of the Smithsonian
institution reporting, pursuant to law. reIa-
tive to certain papers and documents in the
files of National Museum not needed in the
transaction of business and having no per-
The Washington times., 1934-06-04

senator MetcaH SAKE, UHu6TsIdIu'
The Senator earuly anxious about the state of the he
public And as said before has taken to satirica verse 1t
in effort the nation.
Here is poem which he read in the Senate the other
dav (vou can see mind slightly Gelett B"rTeSS)
oh Shade of Jefferson!
Tell
Is this Donkey
Or a Purple CoW?
Another effort inspired by his attitude toward profess
serial and also by the recent visit of the Ringing
Brothers goes like this
There is maught so funny
In any Cl0Wn
As Donkey
Wearing Cap and Gown!
The Senator from Rhode Island rather goats over the
Donkey the emblem of the Democratic party We often
The Washington times., 1934-06-04

for
Newstips

Cash Prizes Each Week
Phone News Tip Edi-
tor, Washington Times,
District 1000. K e e p
Your Eyes Open for
Unusual Events - Don't
Write - Phone Between
$50 A. N. and 6 P. M.
The Washington times., 1934-06-04

wondered about it's significance, myself.
Representative Edith Nourse Rogers OF
Massachusetts had pathetic letter from
an unappreciated hero The gentleman had
saved the life of his wife. And by George,
or by Andrew, he thought he deserved
Carnegie medal.
Of course, we haven't met the wife.
Senator Simeon Fess q know some day
I shall spell the first name incorrectly.
Get the wrong vowels in Simeon which
wouldn't be polite). Well, anyhow, Sena-
tor- FoSs has inst heen aDDOinted quite
The Washington times., 1934-06-04
Senate

The Senate District Committee did not meet.
Plans for conducting the kckbac< racket investigation
will be completed meeting of the Senate Education and
Labor Committee Wednesday, (Story on this page.)
Doubt automobile liability insurance bill for the
District will be enacted this Congress held today
(StOry Page b.
The Washington times., 1934-06-04

word) in his rhyme.
Senator Metcalf is as you know a serious
Republican Naturally! NowadaysD A New
Dealer is to him what a Christian was to
Nero. He is likewise quite rich. Has been
a textile manufacturer as well a states
man. He has a luxurious yacht, Felicia,
which for the last three springs he has kept
at anchor in the Potomac Rivcr-not far
from the Norfolk boat
AS soon as the weather is pleasant the
Senator and Mrs. Metcalf move from the
Mayflower and five on the Felicia for econ
7
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House

The House District Committee did meet.
The House passed the deficiency appropriation BILL
ing $4,000 in local items. (StOry Page ~
The Washington times., 1934-06-04
Maybe 1t S the Humidity
That Causes All This
Up on Capitol Hill
Bv HELEN ESSARY
By HELEN ESSARY

We're going Congressional today-almost entirely
The rise of the mercury the thermometer and the rush
of fists and bills to the head and jaw bringing out some
nice bits about impatient lawmakers.
The Washington times., 1934-06-04

Senator Jesse H. Mecaf of Rhode Island has poetic
But there's touch Of bitterness is it Illustration mice
The Washington times., 1934-06-04
DistrictLOS

daily of all action in the House and Senate
dealing SOLELY wth the District of Columbia, and all
action by the House and Senate District Committees
and Board of District Commissioners.
The Washington times., 1934-06-04

manent value O. historical interest and asking Tor action
looking toward their disappearance all of that
It seems that the Senator will have to push his spec
tacles back and get to work on the fated papers
Not in the least political but-Pretty Kitty Wilkins New
bold is now introducing sixyearold Marianne Newbold
(beer known Bunny my daughter" .
When Kitty and Jack Newbod off and got married
The Washington times., 1934-06-04

The Senate District Committee did not meet.
Evening star., 1934-08-13

All the doctors agree, however, that
my nerves had nothing to do with it.
injured my spine once. in fall from
the front porch when I was kid, and
it may be that did something to my
nerves. I don't know-and, to tell
the truth, I'm not particularly wor-
ried."
Miss Blake was studying medicine
at George Washington University, in
Washington, at the time of the first
attack. Previously, she had completed
a business course at Washington and
Lee High School, in Ballston.
After I became interested in art, "
she said, "I decided to abandon my
ambition to become a physician. I
quit at the end of my second year
at G. w. What I had learned en-
abled me to become a registered
nurse, however. and now, when I'm
not busy with my art, do a bit OF
nursing or even a little stenography
When I'm blue or worried, though, ]
have to turn to drawing orspainting
its the only thing that gives me
any satisfaction, and even If were
to go blind again, and stay that way
I'm sure I'd figure out some way
to keep it up"
Evening star., 1934-08-13
INDIRECT BENEFITS
|. OF P. v. A. SHOWN
District Is Far Down List OF
Areas Furnishing Ma
teriaIS.

PENNSYLVANIA, Ohio and New York
receive the greatest indirect benefit
from P. w. A. expenditures in sup
plying materials used throughout the
country, while the District-not being
a manufacturing center-is far down
the list.
Although the District was near the
bottom of the list of States in mate
rials furnished, it supplied slightly
more than each of four States:
Wyoming, Delaware, Nevada and
North Dakota. The materials listed
as having been obtained in the Dis
trict were planning mill products and
wall plaster.
In order to find the relative stand
ing of the States as beneficiaries from
the standpoint of materials supplied
the Public Works Administration took
a theoretical average State" produc-
ing one forty-eighth of the nationa.
aggregate Of materials, as 100. In re-
lation to this average of 100, Penn
sylvanias index figure is 678; Ohio
Asst; New York, 353; Illinois, 352, ano
Washington State, 313. Then follow
80 other States, ranging from Ala
bama, with 281, to Utah, with 4. The
District comes next, with an index
figure of 3, was followed by wyoming
2; Delaware, l; Nevada, l, and North
Dakota. 0.3.
The three States at the top of the
list, it was explained, have the re-
sources and mills supplying such COM
modities as steel, cement, lumber, ma
chinery, etc.
The object of P. w. A. in compiling
the statement was to show one of the
ways in which P. w. A expenditures
indirectly reach the people generally
throughout the country, as well as
benef1tting the areas where the prof.
ects are carried on.
The administration estimates that
about half the cost of an average
project is spent at the site of a prof.
ect and the remainder spread among
the States in proportion to the mate
rialS they supply.
Evening star., 1934-08-13
---S-az9Bs-----.

day In search of some Of the specl-
mems described by Mr.. Phillips, ne
was referred to William L. Brown,
chief taxidermist of the institution.
Mr.. Brown led the way to case OF
exhibits collected by the Wilkes expe-
dition in 1888.
There" he said, indicating some
wilted looking mammals hung up on
sticks. Bats and a flying lemur."
Phillips Charge Denied.
The photographer dutifully took pic
lures of the bats and the flying lemur,
which is so old its scientihc name mas
been changed, Mr.. Brown said.
How about some other old Specl-
mens?"
NO" said Mr.. Brown. "These are
the ones I was told to show you. The
newspapers never get anything right
anyway"
Told about the remarks Mr.. Phillips
had made about his grizzly, Brown re-
piled hotly, THAT is absolutely truth
less. They never did anything like
that here. I haven't been here. 80
years, but have been around 26, and
I worked under the man who was here
before then. They never did it."
"Are you trying to replace the old
exhibits with new ones?"
Now" said Mr.. Brown, you're ask
ing questions. never tell the news
papers anything"
Later he volunteered that whenever
new skins could be obtained, the old
ones are replaced, and sometimes old
hides are remounted to improve them.
The institution also adds regularly to
its collection.
Evening star., 1934-08-13
EDWARD 7. LEWIS, 63,
DIES AT HOME HERE
Realtor Had Been III Since Fall
From Street Car Last
April.

Edward Thomas Lewis, SO, native
of this city, died yesterday in his
apartment at the Highlands. He had
been sick since April 5, when he was
injured in a fall while boarding a
street car at New York avenue and
Fourteenth street. Coroner A. Ma
gruder Macdonald and the police to-
day were conducting an investigation
in an effort to determine if the in
jury was the cause Of death.
The deceased, great-grandson Of
the late Samuel Lewis, first auditor
of the Treasury Department, was in
the real estate business and a mem
Der Of the Real Estate Board. He is
survived by his widow, Mrs. Elsie
Gadwin Lewis, and a daughter, Mrs.
Kenneth Murray.
Funeral services will be conducted
at Lees undertaking establishment,
Massachusetts, avenue and Fourth
street northeast, tomorrow at 10 am.
Interment will be in Rock Greek
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1934-08-13
US. TOENTERTA|N
: JAPANESE PRINCE
Members of Reigning House
to Arrive in New York
Tomorrow.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press. n Adt nf s1ads
The State Department announced
today that their imperial highnesses,
Prince and Princess Kaya, members
of the reigning house Of Japan, will
arrive In New York from France on
the steamship Majestic, tomorrow, and
will be the guests of the American
Government in New York, West Point
and Washington.
The Prince and Princess will be
greeted with o 21-gun salute as the
Majestic passes Fort Jay on Govern
ors Island.
American officials will greet the
royal party at quarantine on a special
cutter and convey them to their hotel.
James Clement Dunn, chief of pro-
tocol and special assistant to the Sec
retary of State, officially will welcome
the Prince and Princess for President
Roosevelt and Secretary Hull.
He will be accompanied by DR..
Stanley K. Hornbeck, chief of the
Division of Far Eastern Affairs; Eu-
gene Dooman Of the State Depart
ment, First Lieut.. John Weckerling,
who will act as military aide to Prince
Kaya, and a special agent of the State
Department.
Army and Navy officers from New
York will represent the military
service.
Evening star., 1934-08-13
RECKLESS DRIVING
CASE TO BE PROBED
Safety Board to Act on License
of Twice Reported
Violator.

The motorist who has been re-
ported twice by traffic safety spoilers
for driving recklessly probably will
know tonight whether his drivers Il
cense will be revoked.
The Board of Revocation and Re-
view was scheduled to meet at 1:3C
pm. today to take up his case, re-
ferred to it by Sergt. Walter H
Thomas of the Traffic Bureau, di-
rector of Police Chief Browns safety
campaign.
The driver, whose identity will not
be revealed by police unless his per-
NIT is revoked, was reported by two
of the secret hundred" on two sep
arate occasions for driving recklessly
and passing stop signs. A check-ur
of his previous record was made and
it was found he had been convicted
twice on speeding charges.
In connection with the campaign OF
the secret hundred" Sergt. Thomas
received a letter of thanks from an
automobile dealer today, who said If
it had not been for a report by one
of the spoilers the agency would not
have known one Of its automobiles
was being used without authority.
Evening star., 1934-08-13

coming down the street by listening
to their footballs. And still can.
when I first got so could see
again, everything seemed beautiful.
MY mother-everybody knew looked
prettier or handsomer than 7 had
thought before. I just couldn't resist
the impulse to try to put everybody
and everything saw down on paper
or canvas.
81 had been mildly interested in
drawing before, as most children are,
but not sufficiently so to devote any
great amount of time or thought to
it. Now, however. my interest was
intense.
IT don't know what 1t was-maybe
1t was the fear of another attack Of
blindness, maybe it was something
else-but, anyway, I worked like the
dickens and in a surprisingly short
time I was able to turn out some
creditable drawings"
The two more recent attacks OF
sightlessneSs were of shorter dura-
ton than the first one. The last one
occurred in February, 1882.
What caused me to go blind" Miss
Blake said, nobody seems to know
Evening star., 1934-08-13
BANDITS ROB VICTIM
TAKEN ON LONG DRIVE

A hold-up by two bandits who
forced him to drive them almost to
Fredericksburg. Va, was reported to
police of that city early today by
Joseph A. Nance Of Cherrydale, Va.
Nance said he stopped in front OF
the City Post ONCE here last night
to mail a letter. AS re-entered his
car, he said, the bandits got in he
hind him, pointed pistol, and ordered
him to drive.
Nance said the two men halted '1im
about 10 miles north of Fredericks-
burg. robbed him Of 50 and drove
away in his car,
Evening star., 1934-08-13

wOHN M. PHILLIPS, Pittsburgh
naturalist and business man,
believes, after viewing the
~ stuffed animal exhibits at the
National Museum. that some OF
them should be labeled antiques
they are so old both in years and
style.
"They might be interesting as ex-
amples of the growth of the taxi
dermist's art from mere stutflng TO
animal sculpture" he said to the
Associated Press, but as repre-
sentations of the animals in question
many of them are ''grotesque."
"They looked starved or like
bloated bondholders," said Mr.. Phil
lips. Some of the taxidermists in
early days had never seen the animal
they were supposed to be reconstruct
ing"
Critic Tells Of Donation.
The critic said he had presented a
grizzly bear skin to the Smithsonian
80 years ago.
"When I saw him in the case he
had shrunk to the size of a brown
bear. Great hunks of hide were gone.
Some one later hunted up the missing
skin and sewed it back in. He was
remounted, nearer natural size"
Some of the exhibits, Mr.. Phillips
said, are so old the animals have
gotten white haired. Brown fur has
been bleached by age until the ex-
hibits look like the grandfathers Of all
the species.
The Smithsonian curators admit
some of their exhibits are almost ou
wears old. When newspaper pno-
tographer went into the museum TO-