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Evening star., 1935-11-19
D. c. TOURIST INCREASE
LARGER THAN RESORTS

Belief that the 1885 increase In
Washington tourist trade was larger
than the average for resort hotels was
expressed today by Curtis Hodges, ex-
ecutive director Of the Greater Ma
tional Capital Committee Of the WASH
ington Board Of Trade.
It was reported at q meeting Of the
American Hotel Association in At
lantic City, Hodges said, that the
business increase at resort hotels this
year was 16 per cent. Washington
tourist figures, with the same increase
for November applied to December,
show an increase this year over last
Of 20 per cent, Hodges said.
The number of tourists in Washing
ton from January to November /,
1885, was 2,2s1 .s43; the total indicated
for the year ut the same rate Of in
crease would be 2,533,87S. The 1884
tourist figure was 2,o7s.225. =
Evening star., 1935-11-19
.2,9)O D. c. WOMEN
TO Be GIVEN Jobs
Additional w. P. A. Projects
Are Indorsed by Roosevelt.
$4OO, 900 Available.

approximately $500 women on the
relief rolls here will be given employ
ment on some of the additional w. P.
A. projects approved by the President
yesterday, for which $4o0, 900 Of W. p.
A. funds will be made available.
The purposes for which this new
allotment may be used are: Providing
school lunches; sewing circles for
women on relief; clearing and improv-
ing the grounds Of the District Home
for Aged and Infirm: Fairgrounds and
other facilities for the Children's Tu-
berculosis Sanatorium at Glenn Dale,
Md; for continuing the Logan Circle
students lodge, and for packing and
distributing surplus commodities for
those in need.
Although these projects were sp-
proved, their total cost was estimated
by District officials at $2,o00.000 The
fact only $400, 900 Is to be made avail
able at this time means that Com
missioner George Z. Allen, District w.
p. A. administrator, will have TO de-
termine the relative importance Of the
projects and how much should be ap-
piled to each.
The District win still have about
!, 500 persons, mostly In the white col
lar group, who have been on relief.
and District officials are hoping some
additional W. p. A. white collar pro-
jects win be approved to provide work
for them.
Evening star., 1935-11-19
M'CARL HALTS PLAN
FOR ADVISORY FORCE
Large Staff for Rehabilitation
Projects Was to Have
Been EMPLOYED.

A plan of the Resettlement Admins
tration to employ "a very large STAIR
for supervisory activities in connection
with rural rehabilitation projects to
cost $s1, 900. 900. has been halted in
midair by Controller General McCarl
who has called for justification Of the
expenditure.
This was disclosed today in q deci-
sion settling certain questions the Re
settlement Administration had raised
in connection with the projects. In
presenting its case, the administration
said it was spending $44, 4,000, 900 for
making loans and grants to 525, 900 In
dividual families and to co-operatives
and explained that this involves a
very large staff Of case supervisors,
farm management advisers and other
personnel of this character"
"The functions Of such personnel" {"
the administration continued, "are to
furnish advice and supervision to the
individual families and co-operatives. !"
McCari responded:
1T is not apparent under what au-
thority Of law it could be held that
any funds appropriated under the
emergency relief act of 1885 are avail
able for the employment Of personnel
to furnish advice and supervision to
the individual families and Cooper
atives.'"
Evening star., 1935-11-19
MAN FOUND DEAD
LOCKED IN ROOM
Robert J. Lewis, Writer, Be-
Iieved to Have Died II
Hours Before Discovery.

Locked in his room for two days,
Robert J. Lewis, As. free lance news
writer, who was described as coming
from a prominent Kentucky family,
was found dead last night at his apart
ment at 1901 N street. Empty bottles
which had contained 200 headache
tablets were discovered near the body.
police said.
A former civil engineer, Lewis is
an accident In South America about
five years ago, and since had been
troubled with severe headaches.
The mans wife, Mrs. Dorothy Lewis,
an employe Of the State Department,
said she had gone to visit friends sew
eral days ago, but returned home yes
terday when she became alarmed at
not being able to get her husband on
the telephone.
With the help Of q locksmith, she
entered the apartment and found her
husband sprawled across the bed, police
said. Physicians said he apparently
had been dead IL hours. 8.
An envelope police said they found
in Lewis parked car contained this
brief message: II am Robert ]. Lewis.
Notify my wife. Dorothy Lewis" De-
tectives refused to divulge the con-
tents of other notes Lewis Is said to
have left.
The homicide squad and the cor
oneris office are investigating. An
autopsy was to be performed today to
determine the cause Of death.
Police were told Lewis was last seen
by . resident Of the apartment house
who saw him enter his apartment
Sunday.
Another resident, with whom Lewis
had talked occasionally, quoted him as
saying his father was q former Am
State Department records
fail to reveal any diplomatic oficial
from Kentucky by the name Of Lewis.
Mrs. Lewis said she understood sew
eral members Of her husbands family
had once held high public Offices and
that one relative formerly served as
chief Justice Of the Kentucky Supreme
Court.
Evening star., 1935-11-19
DRUNKARDS' FARM
PLANS ARE PUSHED
Commissioners Ask Laws
Be Drafted as Survey
Shows Repeaters.

The Commissioners today carried
forward the plans of Commissioner
Melvin c. Hazen for development of a
drink cure" farm for habitual
inebriates.
They asked Corporation Counsel E.
Barrett Prettyman, Judge Gus A..
Schuldt of Police Court and Chair
man George w. Offutt Of the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board to prepare
enabling legislation which will permit
inebriates to be sent to a rehabilitation
farm instead of penal institution.
Near Workhouse.
Oficials advised Commissioner
Hazen the proposed farm should be
developed near the District Work.
house at Occoquan, where inebriates
now are confined when lengthy court
sentences are imposed.
Police Supt. Ernest w. Brown and
Wilbur La Roe, jr, of the Board Of
Indeterminate Sentence and Parole,
were asked to develop ideas and sug-
gestions as to best methods Of
operating the proposed farm. They
will contact police departments and
parole officials in other jurisdictions
concerning the suggestion.
Gets Repeater Figures.
Commissioners Hazen and Sultan
will proceed with plans for construc-
ton of an institution to care for the
habitual drunks.
Some weeks ago HAGEN was con-
Vnced of the advisability of special
farm for cure Of inebriates when rec
ords showed that numerous persons
here had been convicted time and
again on the charge of being drunk
He consulted with welfare and other
officials and was told that in many
cases repeated arrests for intoxication
indicated that the persons involved
were victims of sickness" rather
than being deliberate violators of the
law.
Evening star., 1935-11-19

tire on his car.
An Associated Press dispatch quoted
police as saying Golsen had pulled
over to the shoulder Of route 20 and
was working on the tire when a truck,
He was dragged 100 feet. The driver,
Lawrence Meyer, was held on a tech
nical charge Of manslaughter.
Former "G-man"
Golsen, who lived with his wife,
Mrs. Florence Golsen. at 1900 Con-
necticut avenue, had left the w. P. A.
ONCE here about a week ago. His
duties consisted Of investigating GRIM
inal irregularities in works projects.
He formerly was connected with the
Bureau Of Investigation, Justice De-
partment.
While at Georgetown Golsen played
center on the eleven, being graduated
in 1925.
Mrs. Mamie Lawrence, SIS, Of 1895
D street northeast, is in Casualty
Hospital with chest injuries and brain
conclusion, received when an auto
mobile in which she was riding COL
nded with another at Ninth street and
Massachusetts, avenue northeast.
Anna Sohm, 81. Of 610 Irving street
was treated at Georgetown Hospital
for possible internal injuries after she
was struck at Ninth and G streets by
an automobile said to have been driven
by Charles Bontfele, 80, Of 26 Logan
Circle.
Evening star., 1935-11-19
FNE-YEAR POLICE
PROGRAM MAPPED
BY CHIEF BROWN
Continued Efficiency During
Future Years Sought in
Plea for Data.
INCREASED DEMANDS
ON PERSONNEL SEEN
Suggestions Of Administrative
Aides to Include Use for Added
Men on Force.

A comprehensive five-year program
designed to help the Police Depart
ment maintain its efficiency and eff
fectiveness in the face Of increasing
demands. was planned today by Supt.
Ernest w. Brown.
The plan is far-reaching in its
scope, embracing Improvements IN
personnel, equipment, possible changes
in the territorial boundaries of pre-
cincts or the creation Of new pre-
cincts. 1t also contemplates an over
hauling Of laws and regulations to
determine whether some have be-
come obsolete and whether new ones
are needed.
Maj. Brown has called on his ad-
miniStrative assistants and command
ing officers to aid him in preparing
the program.
Excerpt From Memorandum.
In a memorandum to these officers,
he said:
THE department is preparing a FIVE
year program for the activities of the
Police Department, having as Its OBJ
lective improvement in police service
to meet the increasing demands as 4
result of increased population, in
creased motor vehicle registration and
an increase in the number of out-of-
town visitors to the Nations Capital.
You will submit, not later than
December IS, 1885, suggestions for i'm
provement in the police service in the
way of increased personnel, improve
ment in equipment, changes in the
boundaries Of the precincts, additional
precincts, bureaus or units, additional
laws or regulations, or notifications or
changes in the existing laws, also
changes in the existing manual gov
erning the force, having in mind the
development of the highest degree Of
efficiency in the department"
Maj. Brown said he enviSioned
many needed changes in the coming
five years to keep the department at
maximum efficiency, and that the
primary purpose of the program Is to
develop a general outline to follow.
Each year he proposes to make cer-
tain Improvements, giving precedence
to those OF an urgent nature.
Need More Police.
The most important need at the
present time, Maj. Brown pointed
out, Is an increase In personnel. For
two years, he has pleaded with the
Commissioners, the Budget Bureau
and Congress, to allow appropriations
for a substantial addition to the uni
formed force.
Maj. Brown also believes some of the
physical equipment of the department
has outlived its usefulness and should
be replaced.
Actual formulation Of the five-year
program will start after December Is,
when the administrative officers and
precinct commanders have submitted
their suggestions for necessary i'm
provementS.
Evening star., 1935-11-19
MRS. AGNES S. BURBANK
DIES AT AGE OF SO
Deceased Was Widow of Head
Of Foreign Division of
Post Office.

Mrs. Agnes Stailey Burbank, Sc,
widow of Daniel N. Burbank, and a
resident of this city since she was q
child, died yesterday at her home, 2l47
r street, after an illness of several
months.
Her husband, who died in 1929, was
for many years head of the foreign
division Of the Post Office Department.
Mrs. Burbank Is survived by a
daughter, Miss Maude r. Burbank; q
son, DR.. Caryl Burbank, and two
grandsons, Richard w. and Daniel M.
Burbank, all of this city, and
brother, Frank L. Stailey, Vallejo,
Calf.
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow at 2:30 pm. at Hysong's fu-
neral parlors, 1900 N street. Rev. DR..
j. Harvey Durham, pastor Of Western
Presbyterian Church, will offlciate.
Burial will be in Congressional
ceaftery.
Evening star., 1935-11-19
FUNERAL TOMORROW
FOR J. NJ. RIORD0N
Services for Retired Banker to Be
at St. Peters Catholic
Church.

Brief funeral services for John NJ.
Riordon, IS, of 40l Sixth street south.
east, retired executive vice president
Of the Bank of Commerce & Saw
ings, will be held tomorrow at $50
am. at the Lee funeral home and Will
be followed by services at st. Peters
Catholic Church, Second and C streets
southeast. Burial will be in Con.
gressional Cemetery.
Honorary pallbearers, representing
banking groups here, will be as fol.
lows:
Representing the Bank Of Conn
merce & Savings, Maurice D. Rosen-
berg, Joseph Sanders, Thomas J.
Groom. DR.. Clarence A. Weaver, A. S.
Galley and Harry z. Mayer; repre-
senting the District Bankers Associa-
ton, Charles H. Doing, Maurice D.
Rosenberg, Howard Moran and Vic
tor Deyber; representing the Eastern
Building & Loan Association, Clar.
ence r. Donohoe, william N. Payne,
Jr.; William H. Harrison and James
j. Hayes. Charles J. Walker, not
representing any group, also will be
an honorary pallbearer.
Mr.. Riordon's nephews will be active
pallbearers. They are DR.. Gusts
Hunt, Paul Hunt, Donald Hunter,
Russell Riordon, Robert Riordon and
Dr.. Ernest Smith.
Evening star., 1935-11-19
STREET CAR KILLS
BALTIMORE MAN,
9th D. c. VICTIM
Visitor Struck Down Cross.
ing Pennsylvania
Avenue.
w. P. A. FIELD AGENT
Is FATALLY INJURED
Eugene Golsen of Washington,
Former Oman, Hit by Truck
While Fixing Tire in Jersey.

Struck by q street car as he at
tempted to cross Pennsylvania avenue
to loading platform, Harry A. Bald
win, about so, Of Baltimore, was al
most instantly killed last night.
His death was the ninety-seventh
to occur in the District from traffic
accidents since January l.
Baldwin was rushed to Emergency
Hospital from John Marshall place,
where the mishap occurred, but he
died on the way from fractured skull.
The motorman of the car, John
Southworth, SO, of 9l4 Sixth street
northeast, was released in custody Of
an attorney for appearance at an in
quest.
Washingtonian Killed.
According to police, Baldwin was
crossing the street on diagonal line
when he walked into the path OF the
oncoming car.
A washington man was killed IN
a New Jersey crash and several other
Evening star., 1935-11-19
CLARIFIED RULING
ON REDS SOUGHT
School Heads Expected to
Ask McCarI to Clear
Up Confusion.

The Board of Education tomorrow
is expected to ask Controller Gen.
eral McCarl to clarity his recent
decision to withhold pay checks from
any school employe who admits
teaching or advocating Communism in
the classroom "or elsewhere"
The McCarl ruling will be brought
formally before the board by Super
intendent of Schools Frank w. Ballou,
who has prepared a lengthy analytical
statement indicating he believes the
Controller General has not changed
the status Of the educational program
in the schools-that teachers may
tell Of the facts Of Communism In
accordance with the opinion of Cor
poration Counsel E. Barrett Pretty
man.
Several board members, however,
are said to believe McCarl should be
asked to interpret his ruling In view
of the confusion and uncertainty 1t
has caused.
The McCarl order went beyond the
scope OF the Prettyman opinion by
requiring all school employees before
being paid to sign a statement each
month that they have not either
taught or advocated" Communism.
He did not define the word teach"
Privately. some school and District
officials believe McCarl went beyond
the intent Of the law, especially In
view of the statement of Representa-
tive Cannon, Democrat, Of Missouri,
author of the anti-Communism rider
in the 1896 appropriation act. Cam
non has said he did not intend to
prevent teachers from reciting the
facts of Communism or other forms
of government and pointed out that
a child's education would not be COM
plete without that information.
DR.. Ballou has taken the position
that since McCarl did not define the
word "teach," school employees can
follow the Prettyrnan ruling and sign
the statement required by McCarl's
order as long as they do not advocate
the communistic form of government.
Evening star., 1935-11-19
FARM GROUP HEAD
PRAISES CHANGES
Tells Land Grant Colleges
A. A. A. Bringing Agri-
culture Equality.

Agriculture has made itself a place
in the sun" through agricultural ad-
justment programs and the organiza-
ton Of progressive farm cooperative
bodies, Edward A. ONeal, president
Of the American Farm Bureau Fed
GRAFTON. said here today.
ONeal. speaking before the forty
ninth annual convention Of the Asso-
citation Of Land Grant Colleges and
Universities at the Willard Hotel, said
agriculture has made more progress
in the past few years than has ever
been accomplished before in the his
tory Of man.
"The agricultural adjustment pro-
grams are bringing about equality for
agriculture" he said. I'VE are seeing
that agriculture is being brought
under such control that it will receive
its fair share of the national income
and be able to hold its own with the
other organized groups of society"
Game Project Related.
I. N. Gabrielson, newly appointed
chief Of the Bureau Of Biological Sur
vey, described the Iowa experiment
under which farmers contract with ths
State for the production Of game Or
the basis Of this experiment, Gabriel.
son urged extension services of tht
State colleges to give serious considera.
ton to this new field of effort and an
opportunity for producing additional
income on the farm.
Chester c. Davis, administrator OF
the agricultural adjustment act, will
talk on the subject of "The Grass
Revolution" at the meeting tonight
DR.. w. I. Myers, governor of the Farm
Credit Administration, also will be q
speaker on tonight's program.
Wallace Urges Broad View.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
last night urged the delegates to re-
gard establishment of a permanent
"long-term and economically sound
program" as q national problem. He
said in order for the program to sue
coed the farmer must look beyond his
own problems and consider the welfare
of his neighbor, his region and the
Nation.
Unless the farmers can learn tc
make the necessary mental and emo
tional adjustments, we are licked be.
fore We start" the Secretary said, and
then launched into q forecast of an
era Of regional planning by farm lead
ers during the coming Winter.
The emergency programs put into
effect in 1888 had serious shortcom-
tngs, Wallace asserted. but added that
we are at last approaching the agri-
cultural program as we would have
then If there had been time"
High Interest Hit.
Cut-throat interest rates charged
farmers before they became aware
they were eligible for credit with the
Farm Credit Administration were de-
plored by Farm Credit Governor
Myers in . statement read at the
convention. He said these interest
charges ran as high as a per cent.
Necessity for improving the farm
ers' purchasing power was stressed by
Secretary Of Labor Perkins before a
home economics sectional meeting last
night.
Evening star., 1935-11-19
JURY HEARS j. s.
ACCUSE M'NE|L Of
EMbEzz[|NG PLOT
Lone Survivor of Indicted
Park Savings Trio
Goes on Trial.
PROSECUTOR SAYS TWO
GOT MORE THAN SIG, 900
Federal Attorney Claims Dummy
Accounts Shielded Alleged
Fraudulent Operations.
Benedict M. Mcneil, once assistant

Benedict M. Mcneil, once assistant
cashier of the defunct Park Savings
Bank and only survivor of three men
indicted two years ago after its col
lapse, went on trial today before JUS
tice F. Dickinson Let's in District
Supreme Court.
The two others charged with Nc
Neil were Robert s. StunZ, vice presi-
dent Of the bank, who committed sui
eide Just before it closed, and the de-
fendant's father, Alexander Mcneil.
q real estate man. The elder Mcneil
died last year after pleading not guilty
to the charge against him.
The three were charged with con-
spring to commit larceny of $4,000
of bank funds and with conspiring
for Stunz to embezzle the same
$4,000.
Four on Jury Lost Money.
In his opening statement to the jury
Of 10 men and 2 women, four of
whom said they lost money in the
financial crash of 1888, Assistant
United States Attorney John J. Wilson
said he expected to prove the alleged
peculations took place over an eight
year period, beginning February l.,
1925, and ending with the bank holiday
March 3, 1893.
Outlining the Governments case,
Wilson charged that Stunz and Nc
Neil, who resigned as assistant cashier
August IA, 1929, Systematically with
drew various sums totaling S26,030 up
to month before the time Mcneil
severed his connection with the bank
Mcneil and Stunz devised system Of
debit and credit memoranda to cover
these Withdrawals, Wilson charged, al
leging that the account of a depositor
was credited with exactly the amount
withdrawn so as to make the books
balance.
Both Mcneil and his fathers real
estate company, which went under
the name Of j. Mcneil & Co., MAIN
tained accounts in the bank, Wilson
stated. He then proceeded to give the
jury a lengthy lesson on technicali-
ties of bank bookkeeping.
Charges Dummy Accounts.
Wilson charged two dummy ac-
counts were used to cover up the
Withdrawals. Both were opened by
Stunz with large overdrafts, he de-
clared.
Cards for these accounts were found
by Department of Justice investiga-
tors in the bank vault in sealed en-
velope marked with McNeils name,
Wilson said.
George E. Walker, chairman of the
board of the bank when it closed, was
the first witness. His testimony con-
Cerned the banks set-up and identif:-
cation Of its officers.
The jury was selected with COM
paratively little delay, the prosecution
challenging only one juror and the
defense six
All the jurors were asked by De-
fense Counsel James F. Reilly whether
they had lost money in the closing of
any Of the local banks. Six replied
they had, and four Of these we're al
lowed to remain on the panel Asso-
ciated with Reilly in the defense is
Attorney Robert E. Lynch, formerly
an assistant corporation counsel.
Mcneil has been at liberty on bond.
Evening star., 1935-11-19

persons were IN
jured here in ac-
cidents.
Eugene Golsen,
81, special field
mt for the
Works Progress
Administra on
and a form e r
Georgetown Uni
versity foot ball
player. di d at
Bound Brook, N.
j., early ay
from injuries re-
C i've d W h e n
struck by a truck
as he changed a