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Evening star., 1934-04-20
LOCAL P. w. A. BILL
PARLEY ON TODAY
King Calls Senate D. c. Commit.
tee to Consider 20.
Million Grant.

Chairman King of the Senate Dis
trict Committee was endeavoring to-
day to arrange for a meeting of the
committee this afternoon to act on
several pending bills and to begin in
formal consideration Of the s20000,-
600 public works authorization for
the District.
Senator KING and Chairman Norton
Of the House District Committee may
arrange for joint meeting Of the two
committees later to expedite the pub
lie works bill. Oher business in the
Senate may prevent Senator Kings
committee from holding the prelimi-
nary meeting he has in mind for this
afternoon.
If meeting is held today consid-
Grafton may be given to the nomina-
tions Of Richmond B. Keech for men,
bership on the Public Utilities Com
mission and William A. Roberts to
succeed Keech as peoples counsel.
The pending public works bill is to
enable the District to apply to the
Federal Public Works Administration
for funds for a list of urgent i'm
provement projects, on the basis of
80 per cent as an outright grant and
70 per cent in the form Of q loan,
to be repaid over period Of years.
Under existing law the Commission
ers are not authorized TO borrow
money.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
NATIONAL AIRWAYS
DELAYS BIDDING
Only Line Differed by Wash
ingtonians Waits Mail
Extension.

The Nations only airline officered
by Washingtonians refrained from
bidding for temporary airmail con-
tracts when bids were opened today
by the Post Office Department.
This line. National Airways, formed
and operated by personnel of the
former Ludington Airlines. which
operated between Washington and
New York, withheld action until air.
mail service is extended into the
New England section in which it
operates, it was explained.
Officers of the company are Paul
F. Dog" Collins, Samuel Solomon
and Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam, all
of whom are associated with the
Ludington line and with the Airport
Swimming Pool project here.
National Airways, established last
year, successfully survived the hardest
New England Winter in aviation his
tory, flying 100000 miles with tri-
motored equipment during the past
nine months in country which has
minimum of aviation aids.
Our present plans" the officers
said, call for concentration on the
New England territory so it will have
the very best air transport service the
traffic can justify. The three New
England States which we serve are
with one exception the only ones
without airmail service. We are con-
f1dent that their just claim for such
service soon will be recognized. When
it is, We will seek to provide that
service"
Evening star., 1934-04-20
Car Strap Railing
Breaks, hjuring
Woman Passenge
Three Others Hurled to
Floor at Thomas Circle
and 18th Street.

An unidentified woman was injured
and three others we're thrown to the
floor of a southbound Fourteenth
street car this morning. when the
rod holding straps for passengers
pulled from the wall of the car at
Fourteenth street and Thomas circle
According to witnesses to the acci-
dent. the screws holding the rod came
out when the car lurched while max
ing the curve.
The car, bound for Eighth and F
streets northeast, was filled, with all
seats taken and passengers standing
both on the front and rear. The
weight Of the passengers was too
great when the car swung into the
curve, with the result that several Of
them were hurled to the floor.
The injured woman refused to be
taken to a hospital, and a taxicab
was called to take her home
Officials of the Capital Transit
Co. said they had no report of the
case, although the conductor took the
names of several witnesses. 1t was
reported at the traction company
offlces, however, that a similar acci-
dent occurred yesterday at Second
and r streets northeast, but that no
one was injured.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
Fireman Sares Woman ClH,ging
TOFOurth Floor Window Shutter
Burning 10Th Street
Apartment Trapped
COl0red Occupant.
Rescuer on Top Rung
of Ladder Barely High
Enough for Task.

Trapped on the fourth floor of a
burning apartment house at 1l66 Nine
teenth street early today, Miss Jessie
Harris, 27, colored, climbed through
a window and clung to a shutter by
her fingertips until a fireman raised
a ladder and carried her to safety.
Miss Harris, who was clad only in
pajamas. lost her grip as Fireman
C. c. Sellers reached for her from
the top rung Of the ladder and
dropped into his arms. The fireman,
although severely jolted, held onto
her and carried her to the ground.
Meanwhile Mrs. Mary Clark. so,
also colored. had been assisted from
the second floor of the four story
building by other firemen, who re-
ported she was nearly overcome by
smoke.
Door Knob Burns Hand.
Awakened by smoke, Miss Harris,
who occupied an apartment at the
rear of the fourth floor, leaped from
her bed and ran to the door. AL
though the knob was so hot that it
burned her fingers, she said, she
threw open the door and tried to
grope her way to the stairway. The
smoke was so thick. however. she was
forced to return to her apartment.
Hysterical and screaming, she ran
Evening star., 1934-04-20
MRS. NORTON GETS
PARKING PROTEST
Seventh Street Merchant Asserts
Ban Has Retarded
Business.

Chairman Norton of the House Dis
trict Committee today received a pro-
test that "the prohibiting of parking
on business streets in this city is re-
versing the trend for better business
and the effort to restore business is
showing a tendency in the opposite
direction"
Harry Sherry. proprietor Of the
market at Seventh and D streets,
made this protest and added IF this
condition is continued we will be
forced to decrease our personnel, thus
placing out Of employment additional
labor. We are writing this In the
spirit Of cooperation urging your in
fuence to restore prosperity"
At the request of Roy Miller, in
charge of the convention department
Of the Greater National Capital Com
mittee, Chairman Norton joined with
the committee in extending an invi-
tation to the International Society for
Crippled Children to hold its meeting
next year in Washington.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
MACARTHUR BACKS
LARGER ARMY BILL
Tells House Subcommittee Meas.
ure Seeks to Remedy Glar.
ing Defect.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Giving his unqualified approval" to
a bill to add $4,000 men to the Army,
Gen. Douglas Macarthur, Army chief
of staff, told House Military Affairs
Subcommittee today that the measure
seeks to remedy one of the most glar-
ing, critical defects of our military
establishment"
The bill, introduced by Representa-
tive Thomas, Democrat, of Texas,
would direct an increase in Army en-
listed men from 118,750 to 165, 900 and
the officer personnel from $4,000 to
14,063.
Enactment of this bill would en-
nance the security of the United
States" Macarthur asserted. 1T
would lift the American Army above
the danger line; give us an opportunity
to rehabilitate thousands of young men
who are now suffering the results Of
the economic depression"
He recalled that although authorize
ton now existed for 286.000 enlisted
men and $4,000 officers, in the last IL
years reduced appropriations has
brought a continuous shrinkage OF
these numbers to the dangerously in
adequate figures we now have reached"
Evening star., 1934-04-20
WATER RATE CUT
TO Be C|TY-W|DE
All Consumers Will Secure
Reductions if Bill
Is Passed.

Fears voiced by some District resi-
dents that they might not benefit by
the proposed 25 per cent reduction in
water bills, as provided in the 1885
District budget. were quieted today by
a declaration by E. H. Grove, water
registrar, that all consumers would be
treated alike, though the cut will not
be effective until next Spring for
large number.
Confusion arose in the minds of
some consumers because of the stag
gered" system of issuing annual water
bills. but while the proposed reduc-
ticns will effect different consumers
at different times, all will obtain the
cut rate If the bill passes, Grove said.
In addition to the proposed 25 per
cent reduction in water rates, the
1885 budget calls for an increase in
the minimum rate metered allowance
from $500 to 10000 cubic feet
Mailed in Sections.
Water bills are mailed out by the
District in six different sections. This
is done so the force of the department
will have time to read meters, pre-
pare bills and place them in the
mails.
Bills covering service during the
current fiscal year now are being pre-
pared for about $4,000 consumers re-
siding in the Northwest County"
area. that is, the outlying northwest
section, above Florida avenue and
Georgetown. Mr.. Grove estimates that
about half of these will not be paid
prior to July l when the reduced rate
would go into effect But these con-
sumers would receive the benefit of
the proposed rate cut in bills rendered
next Spring.
Discount Allowed.
The present act of Congress pro-
vides for a 10 per cent discount on
bills paid within Is days after bills
are rendered.
Bills for the current fiscal year have
been rendered for all sections of the
city except the Northwest County"
Bills for the southwest and southeast
sections were rendered after July 81,
last; for the northwest section below
Florida avenue and including George
town, after October 81, last; north
east section, after January 81, last;
and for consumers having private
meters and those on a fiat rate sys-
tenn, after July l. last year.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
MARINE WORKERS
ARGUE GRIEVANCE
Sing "InternationaIe" as
They March to Relief
Headquarters.

Singing the "Internationale, Com
munist hymn. to the accompaniment
of several mouth organs, approx
mately 80 marine workers marched to
Federal Relief Administration head
quarters today to present their griev-
anceS.
Previously, two representatives Of
the group had called at the White
House and attempted to see Marvin
Mcintyre. one of President Roose-
velt's secretaries. They were told,
however, that Mcintyre would receive
delegation OF not more than seven
at 10 am. TOMORROW They left with
the promise that their followers would
return to Baltimore after visiting the
Federal Relief Administration.
Escorted by Police.
Escorted by motor cycle policemen
and members Of the Crime Preven-
ton Bureau, the marine workers pa
raded to Federal Administration
Building from a hall in the TOO block
Of o street where they had spent the
night. In addition to the Communist
hymn, their harmonica experts played
Yankee Doodle" old Spinning
Wheel" and other tunes
Closely watched by police, the ma
rine workers. who spent n hours
hiking the 40 miles from Baltimore,
spent the night in a hall in the 700
block of o street. The footsore band
trudged into the Capital late yester-
day, carrying banners with their de-
mands lettered on them in red paint.
Refuse Lodgings.
The marchers mostly members of
the Marine Workers Union, were
escorted to the Transient Relief Bu-
reau by police, who stood by while
they turned down an offer of nights
lodging They based their refusal on
the bureaus ruling against permitting
white and colored persons to share
the same quarters. From the bureau
they paraded to the hall. which is
used for colored religious services.
There they spent the evening outlin-
ing their plans for today and. between
times, singing the "Internationale,"
the Communist hymn.
The marchers' primary grivance,
their leaders said, is against the TAX
ing over of their relief program along
the Baltimore waterfront by the
Government. For some time, it was
explained. they have been admins
tering their own relief, through an
organization set up by themselves.
This week, however, they were noti-
fed the work would he done nv the
Federal relief administrator for the
Baltimore area.
The marine workers were armed
with circulars outlining the following
four-point program:
"Q) For adequate relief; (2)
against police terror; 90 for the
right to organize and strike, and a.
for enactment Of the unemployment
social insurance bill"
The circular was signed by the
Waterfront Unemployed Council of
Baltimore, Communist organization.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
0N-SALE LIQUOR
LICENSE DENIED
Control Board Heeds Church
and School Protest in
Quinn Case.

Heeding protests made by church
and school associations, the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board today denied
an application for an "on sale" liquor
license for the establishment of John
r. Quinn at 1923 Nichols avenue
southeast, because it is located near
three churches and a school.
The case was one of the most Wig
orously contested handled recently by
the board
In formal opinion in the case the
board found the place is located $50
feet from the nearest portion of the
Congress Heights School; rs feet ap-
proximately from the doorway of the
Methodist Episcopal Church; about
800 feet from the Baptist Church and
about 100 feet from the Episcopal
Church. The board also stated the
establishment is slightly less than
one-half mile distant from the nearest
gateway to st. Elizabeth's Hospital.
The petition had been protested by
Rev. G. L. Connor. representing the
Methodist congregation; DR.. E e.
Richardson. pastor of the Baptist
Church and Mrs. Lillian Hennige.
representing the Protestant Episcopal
Church and the Parent Teacher As
Sociation of Congress Heights.
Rev. Connor had complained that
after the Quinn establishment started
selling 80 beer many of the con-
firmed drinkers and loafers of this
and nearby communities were drawn
to this section of the square and
-
The complainants. however, did not
charge that any of the alleged dis
orderly conduct was attributable to
operation of the Quinn establishment
The board ruled that the place was
not an appropriate one for the sale
of hard liquor.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
YOUNG MOTHER OF TWO
ENDS OWN LIFE BY GAS
Former q. s. Worker Kills Self
at Home-Despondent Over
Ill Health.

Mrs. Daisy Ruffner, 81, former Gov
ernment employe, committed suicide
today by turning on the gas Jets in
the kitchen of her home at 1913
Forty-fifth place northeast. Coroner
A. Magruder Macdonald issued a GER
tif1cate of suicide.
Mrs. Ruffner took her life shortly
after her husband, John Ruffner. an
employe of the District Fire Depart
ment, had gone to work, leaving his
wife and two children, 10 and 7, at
the home. On coming downstairs, the
older child found Mrs. Ruffner on the
floor Of the kitchen and the room
filled with gas.
Police and fire rescue squad cars
were called, but their efforts to revive
her failed. Ruffner told police she
had been despondent over Ill health.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
SENATE BURGLAR ALARM
ACCIDENTALLY SET OFF
Police Summoned by Disbursing
Officer in Hurry to Distribute
Retroactive Pay.

Realizing he had heavy days
work before him to distribute the
per cent retroactive pay restoration to
Senate employees, c. F. Pace, Senate
disbursing officer, came to work ahead
Of time this morning.
He had scarcely entered his office
when he was greeted by Capitol po-
licemen, who came scurrying In from
every direction. They wore the grim
expression Of guards of the law about
to do their duty.
1t soon developed that they were
rushing in to protect the disbursing
officer. who had unintentionally set
OF the burglar alarm system by COM
ing to work earlier than usual. The
alarm system is scheduled to be turned
on at a certain time In the morning,
and the opening of the ONCE before
that hour automatically notified the
police.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
22-ACRE PARCEL
|SPURCHASEDFOR
| ROCK CREEK PARK
$50, Deal Concludes
| Buying for Montgomery
| Project.
lC0URT ACTION DELAYS
| COMPLETION OF PLAN
Section Probably Will Be Devel-
oped for Horse Show
Purposes.
BY STAFF Correspondent Of Tn. Star.

BY stan Correspondent Of The Star.
SILVER SPRING, Nd, April 90
Purchase of a 22-acre tract of land
from the heirs of r. T Ray for Unit
No. 2 of Rock Creek Park was an
nounced today by Curtis Walker,
purchasing agent for the Maryland
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission. The price announced was
$4,000.
The tract is the last large parcel
Of land needed for the development
Of Rock Greek Parkway and purchas-
ing work now is virtually completed,
Walker said. Only few acres, di-
vided in small plots, are needed TO
finish the work of obtaining the area
set forth in the original taking lines"
of Rock Greek, he declared.
Bounded by Highway
The 22-acre tract purchased from
the Ray heirs Is bound on the south
by the east-west highway and con-
tinues northward about three-quarters
Of a mile. It extends from the Ray
farm on the east to Rock Creek on
the west.
Negotiations for the purchase were
virtually completed several months
ago, but completion of the deal was
delayed pending appointment by a
California court of a guardian for a
minor child named as part-owner of
the tract in the will of the late r. T.
Ray. member of one of the best known
families in the western metropolitan
district Of Montgomery County and
one Of the county's pioneer families.
Horse Shows Planned.
It is expected that the land will be
developed for recreational purposes.
Several horse shows were held last
Summer on that part of the tract
bordering the East-West Highway,
and the Park and Planning Commits
sion has decided to extend the use Of
that section for similar meets this
season.
A permanent show ring may be
constructed there eventually, officials
said
Evening star., 1934-04-20

to the window and climbed up on
the sill
Firemen meanwhile had arrived in
response to two alarms turned in al
most simultaneously by other occu-
pants of the building, who had fed
when the blaze was discovered in Q
second-f1oor apartment.
Working swiftly, Sellers dragged an
auxiliary ladder to the roof of an ad-
joining filling station and raised it
beneath the shutter from which the
screaming woman clung. He could
barely reach her dangling feet from
the top of the ladder.
Miss Harris was administered resto-
ratives and quickly recovered.
The flames, believed to have been
caused by a cigarette, damaged the
building to the extent of approx
mately $4,000, firemen estimated.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
Births Reported.
RAYMOND and Bettina pemins hn,

Raymond and Bettina Demins. boy.
Stephen and Marie Jones. boy.
Paul and Florence Rittenhouse. boy.
Claude and Dorothea Dickinson, boy.
Henry and Helena Smith, boy.
Lawrence and Margaret Harry. boy.
James and Beatrice Davis. boy.
Carl and Martha Harper, boy,
George and Doris Smoot, boy.
William and Betty Browne. boy.
Robert and Helen Skinner, girl.
Dominic and Lucy Bartolomeo, girl.
Theodore and Helen Craver. girl.
Willard and Vivian Hill. girl.
John and Thelma Mccormick. girl.
Cecil and Barbara Blackwell. girl.
Arthur and Alma Lewis. girl.
Joseph and Mary Dilullo. girl.
Timothy and 1rma Daley. sirl.
Harold and Ruth Philips. girl
Eldridge and Ethyl Luttrell. boy.
Luke and Virginia Vandergrift. boy.
William and Dolores Burke, boy.
Elmer and Evelyn Wines. boy.
Thomas and Regina Keliher. boy.
MSS5ss ffSn snd spd M.Ts HseR aodssS 1asS boz Soy
Lawrence and Natalie Glass, boy.
James and Anne Montfort, boy.
Harold and Dorothy Hart. boy.
Gilbert and Mabel Sherfey. girl.
Victor and Alice Hollihan. girl.
Harry and Catherine Palmer. girl.
Walter and Mary Maher.. girl.
Samuel and Violet Russell girl.
Wallace and Jessie Coleman. girl.
Arthur and Mary Bonnet. girl.
Glen and Carrie Rowland. girl.
Leo and Pauline Sullivan. girl.
Christopher and Lucretia Grapger. girl
William .sna Ehx1hakh NeAzGssA1l
Evening star., 1934-04-20
SHOEMAKER ACCUSES
U. S. JUDGE OF CRIMES
Representative Asks Probe of
Minnesota Jurist-Claims He's
Mentally Deficient.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Representative Shoemaker, Farmer
Laborite, of Minnesota, today in the
House impeached Federal Judge
Joseph w. Molyneaux of Minnesota
on charges of high crimes and mis-
demeanors and usurping of powers.
He asked an investigation by the
Judiciary Committee of the jurists
official conduct in office.
Shoemaker introduced a resolution
which was read by the clerk. He
then took the floor and said Molly
neaux "has discredited the judiciary
in the State of Minnesota"
He is not in his right mind"
Shoemaker said, adding the jurist had
been in a sanitarium.
"As a matter Of fact, he is crazy"
he contended.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
MORGENTHAU REMOVES
PORTRAIT OF GALLATIN
Replaces Picture Behind Desk
With That of Taney-Ob-
jected to Stern Visage.

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary Morgenthau has replaced
the portrait of Albert Gallatin, which
for years has hung just behind the
desk chair of Secretaries of the
Treasury. with one of Roger B.
Taney.
Il wanted somebody not quite so
stern" Morgenthau said.
Gallatin, Pennsylvania, was
Secretary Of the Treasury from 1901
to 1914 under Presidents Thomas JET
ferson and James Madison
Taney was Secretary for less than
year in l833-1834 under President
Andrew Jackson. Later he went on
the Supreme Court bench and be-
came Chief Justice
Evening star., 1934-04-20
ROCKVILLE REPUBLICAN
FUSIONISTS APPOINTED
Trio Named to Represent Towns
on County Committee Of
New Party.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
ROCKVILLE, Md, April 20.-Rock-
vile Republicans have selected Mrs.
John A. Holmes, Adolph Guide and
Thomas M. Anderson to represent the
district on the County Committee Of
the Fusion party. recently formed to
place full county ticket In the field
this Fall.
The meeting was attended by ap-
proximately so Of the leading members
Of the party in the district and was
conducted by Walter w. Dawson, well
known attorney and chairman of the
Republican State Central Committee
for the county.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
Marlboro Licenses.

UPPER MARLBORO, Md, April 20
(SpeciaD Marriage Licenses have
been issued here to the following:
James D. Hawkins, "a. Washington,
and Mary Elizabeth Hitaffer. %,
Laurel, Md; Charles Elmer Bowler,
%, Washington, and Nellie Elizabeth
Higdon, %, Washington; William Har-
vey Hatch, n, and Elizabeth Estelle
Brewer, 10, both Of Arlington. Va;
william Matthew Cunningham, "a,
and Hattie Imogene Smith, 10. both
of Laurel
Evening star., 1934-04-20
SLAYER OF TWO SUICIDE
St. Louisan Who Killed Ex-Wife
and Her Employer Dies.

ST. LOUIS, April 20 @.-George
C. Brown, 81, who shot to death his
divorced wife, Genevieve Brown, and
her employer, Christian Hasenpflug,
Wednesday, died in City Hospital last
night of a self-inflicted bullet wound
Brown, formerly a clerk for the st.
Louis-San Francisco Railroad. blamed
Hasenpf1ug, proprietor of the Kris
Art Letter Co., for his marital
troubles.
After Staying his former wife and
Hasenpf1ug in Hasenpf1ug's office,
Brown shot himself in the head.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
ASKS $25,O 900 DAMAGES
Marie M. Connor Sues District
for Injuries.

A $4,000 damage suit against the
District for injuries received in a fall
to the sidewalk was filed in District
Supreme Court today by Marie M
Connor. TIT Tenth street.
Through Attorneys John S. Hayes,
William j. Byrne and the firm of
Matthews & Trimble, the plaintiff told
the court the municipality permitted
q hole to be In the sidewalk on Second
street near A street southeast She
said she fell into the hole October 20,
1882.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
Herndon G.. of C. to Meet.
'ecial Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HERNDON, Va, April 20.-The
Herndon Chamber Of Commerce will
meet at / pm. tomorrow in the Pres
byterian Church for the annual busi-
ness meeting and election d o@csss.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
Woodside Dance Tonight.

NORTH WOODSIDE, Md. April 20
(SpeeiaD The annual Spring dance
Of the North Woodside Citizens As
sociation will be held tonight at Grace
Parish Hall.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
RECORDER SWORN IN
Tompkins Succeeds Coage al
Deeds Executive.

Deeds Executive.
William ]. Tompkins Of Kansas
City. Mo-, today was sworn in as re-
corder of deeds for the District by
Frank Cunningham. clerk Of the Dis
trict Supreme Court.
The new recorder was appointed re-
Gently By President Roosevelt for q
four-year term. He succeeds Jefier-
son q. Coaae,