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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-20

Warm, dressy, burly over
coats, plain colors, checks
and novelty mixtures,
neat styles in all mems
sizes.
Evening star., 1935-09-27
WELFARE BOARD
PENSION AGENCY
Commissioners Urged to
Place 0Id.Age Benefits
Under Group.

Administration of the Districts old
age pension law should be placed in
the hands of the Board of Public We'll
fare rather than under some new or
independent director, the Commits
sioners were advised today by repre-
sentatives of group OF civic, social
and religious organizations.
The Commissioners informed the
delegation the matter had not been
decidedA
The city heads have before them a
number of suggestions. One is that
the old-age pensions be administered
by the newly created District Unem-
ployment Compensation Board. An
other is that a separate agency be
set up. Still another is that an aNso-
ciate director under the compensation
board be appointed to handle old-age
pensions and blind pensions.
The delegation today included WAL
ter S. Ufford, representing the Execu-
tive Committee of the Monday Eve
ming Club: Mrs. Louisa Roberts Of
the Council of Social Agencies; Mrs.
w. w. Husband of the Twentieth
Century Club, Mrs. william Morgan
of the "Voteless" D. c. League of
Women Voters, DR.. William L. Darby
of the Washington Federation Of
Churches, William H. Savin of the
Family Service Association, Mrs. Eliza
beth T. Sullivan of the Federation Of
Citizens Associations and James F.
Duhamel, representing the Associa-
ton Of Oldest Inhabitants and other
groups.
Evening star., 1935-09-27
HOUSING MERGER
DENIED BY FAHEY
Home Loan Bank Board
Head Says Jobs Are Good
for Some Time to Come.

Chairman John H. Fahey of the
Federal Home Loan Bank BoAed yes
terday applied another spike to the
recurrent rumor of consolidation OF
Federal housing bureaus and told
newspaper men the mass Of H. o. L..
C. employees were assured of jobs for
some time to come"
Fahey also stated that Nation
wide survey of real estate and home
financing conditions made by CO.
operating financial organizations re-
vealed striking improvement" The
survey showed an average increase in
rentals since April l of 7.6 per cent.
with some of the New England States
being the only areas not reporting an
advance.
The chairman stated he had heard
numerous stories that organizations
under his direction would be merged
with the Federal Housing Admins
tration, P. w. A. housing and other
bureaus, but if there was any truth
to them he knew nothing about it..
He explained that he was working
with other housing chiefs to co-ordi-
nate activities of the various bureaus.
He promised there would be no ma
terial reduction in the corporations
personnel in the near future.
Evening star., 1935-09-27
SCHOOL EXPANSION
APPEAL SUBMITTED
Mrs. Doyle and DR.. Ballou Head
Delegation Before Commis.
sioners Urging Funds.

Facing prospects of a slash of
$4,000, 900 or $4,500,0 coo in their esti-
mates for the next fiscal year. school
authorities appeared before the Com
missioners today to make strong
defense of their plans for expansion
of the school system.
The delegation was headed by Mrs.
Henry Grattan Doyle, president of the
Board of Education, and Dr.. Frank w.
Ballou, superintendent of schools.
The proposed 1887 school budget
totals $18,041 ,339, or an increase of
s6,500,000 over current appropria-
tions. The Commissioners were un-
derstood to have told the school heads
they could have between $4,000, 900
and s2,500,000 more than appropria-
tions for the present fiscal year. Com
missioners are hoping to be able to
chop down the total estimate to ap-
proximately $47,000,000.
They say this Is necessary if the
District Is to live within its expected
revenues.
School officials appearing with Mrs.
Doyle and Supt. Ballou we're George
M. Whitwell, DR.. ]. Hayden johnson,
Benjamin L. Gaskins and Henry I.
Quinn, members Of the board, and
Stephen Kramer, G. C. Wilkinson,
Robert L. Haycock and Jere Crane,
assistant superintendent, and Charles
B. Degges, secretary OF the board.
Evening star., 1935-09-27

work-relief program other than to say
that the District Works Projects
Board, which he headed, now has
completed its duty of passing on Fro
posed works programs.
It has been rumored for months.
however, that Capt. Clark has not
been in sympathy with many of the
policies in the District work-reliet
system. His engineering training made
it difficult for him to sponsor many
of the projects sent to his committee
primarily as means of giving steady
work to the unemployed on the relief
list, officials have been Informed.
His decision to step out of the
w. P. A. direction conceded with the
development of the question of
whether the hours of mechanics on
w. P. A. projects should be shortened
Labor leaders opposed the security
wage scales fixed for the w. P. A.
claiming the effect would be to break
down union wage scales in private
fields. The Federal administration
compromised with labor last week by
instructing local administrators that
they could, if they saw fit, reduce the
hours of work for mechanics. This
would have the effect of showing q
higher hourly wage rate.
John Locher and other officials Of
the Washington Building Trades
Council last year made an official pro-
test to the Commissioners over their
designation of Capt Clark as chair
man of a District Committee to han
die "kick back" complaints against
contractors. They said he was not in
sympathy with union wage scales. In
stead of filing complaints with Clark S
committee, organized labor leaders
took complaints to Senator Walsh's
kick back committee of the Senate,
and later Capt. Clark was called there
to be questioned about District policies
on wages.
Capt. Clark has been acting in an
official capacity ever since the original
work relief program was started in
November of 1888, when the Civil
Works Administration was launched.
He has continued to serve in engi-
neering direction of the succeeding
Emergency Works Administration and
the Works Progress Administration.
In the past few months he sat as
chairman of the projects board which
approved works programs costing
some $4,000, 900, which had been sent
to the Federal w. p. A.
Evening star., 1935-09-27
ONLY5 ACCIDENTS
OCCUR IN TRAFFIC
Lone Casualty Is Boy, 6,
Slightly Bruised by Truck
in Street.

Washington's motorists became more
safety conscious today as police re-
ported only five accidents, none of
them serious. A child was the lone
casualty, and his injuries were slight.
The victim was 6-year-old Jackie
Bradley, 724 Third street. who re-
ceived a cut lip and bruised knee
when struck by truck as he crossed
tie street in front of his home He
was treated at Casualty Hospital.
Jesse B. Slaughter, Ashland, Va, was
driving the truck, police said.
Cars were damaged in the other
crashes, one Of which involved a mail
truck that overturned in a collision
at Thirty-eighth and Warren streets.
Messengers Condition Serious.
Meanwhile, Franklin Britt, 10. of
1882 Fourth street northeast, mes
senger, who was injured yesterday
when his motor cycle collided with a
truck. was still in a serious condition
in Casualty Hospital. He received a
mangled foot, brain conclusion and a
possible fracture of the skull.
Reviewing cases involving the Dis
tricts new financial responsibility law,
the American Automobile Association
reported today that AZ drunken drivers
and hit-and-run motorists had been
denied driving privileges during the
five-week period from August Is to
September 81.
Remarking on the speed with which
the law, effective August l, has brought
offenders to account, the A. A. A. said
II cases. all except one involving resi-
dents of the District. were handled
during that period by the Department
of Vehicles and Traffic. The depart
ment suspended 81 driving permits and
"blacklisted" five persons who were
driving without proper credentials and
now will be unable to obtain a permit
The remaining 35 cases are pending
final investigation. In addition, the
department suspended 80 license tags
Convictions Are Many.
OF the 40 drivers who lost their right
to operate a motor vehicle because
they had no liability insurance OF
otherwise did not qualify under the
safety responsibility act, 20 were con-
victed in District courts. 19 in Mary
land, in Virginia and one in Della
ware, the A. A. A. reported. There
are 26 States which have similar
laws, and in any one of these a Dis
trict resident can lose his right to
drive here.
The A. A. A. noted that all of the
cases under the new law so far have
involved persons convicted of driving
while drunk or hit-and-run driving
where personal injury has resulted.
Evening star., 1935-09-27
RULE ON PARKING
HITS MERCHANTS
Court of Appeals UphoIds
Ban on Use of Firms
Areas.

A decision by the United States
Court of Appeals today deprived doz-
ems of merchants, most of them in
the wholesale districts. of parking
space which they have been using
for years for the loading and unload
ing of their trucks.
The decision was in tie form of a
denial of writ of error filed by the
Briggs Hotel Supply Co.. 474 L street,
in behalf of Marshall Smith, one of
its employees, who was convicted some
time ago by Judge Gus A. Schuldt in
Traffic Court on charge of occupying
a public space.
In upholding the decision of the
lower court, through refusing to re-
view the case, the Court of Appeals
has deprived all persons and COM
panies of the use of space lying be-
tween the sidewalk and building line.
These spaces have been used for
parking purposes for many years and
might still be used, it was stated at
the Police Court Office of the cor
poration counsel, if the parking had
not become both a nuisance and a
menace to pedestrians. In many
places, it was said. oil has gradually
run from vehicles to the sidewalk,
causing slippery condition which
has resulted in the injury of a num-
ber OF persons. Smith was arrested
on June 10 after. police said, he had
parked a light delivery truck on the
public space in front of the COM
panys building and left it there Is
minutes without loading or unloading
Evening star., 1935-09-27
OVERHEAD WIRES
AT AIRPORT SOON
WILL Be REMOVED
Pepco Officials Announce
Plan Ending Three Years
of Agitation.
SURVEY TO DETERMINE
COST IS COMPLETED
1900 to 1900 Feet of High-Ten-
sion Line to Be Placed
Underground.

One of the worst hazards of the
washington Airport-overhead high
tension wires-will be removed as soon
as possible, Potomac Electric Power
co. officials promised today.
The announcement climaxed a CAM
palgn for removal of the wires which
oates back more than three years. Il
had been intensified recently as a re-
suit OF an airplanc crash in California
In which a pilot. co-pilot and Stew
ardess were killed when their plane
struck similar suspended power lines.
The power company said it was
willing to place the lines in UNDER
ground cables and was completing a
survey to show the cost. proper
method and extent of the wiring to
be buried
Wires Down in District.
There are some 1900 to 1900 feet
of high-tension lines suspended about
so feet above the southeastern ap-
proach to the airport in Virginia.
Except for telephone wire along the
Pennsylvania Railroad tracks, they are
the last such hazards around the field.
The telephone line was said not to
constitute any serious danger.
The Public Utilities Commission. in
the Summer of 1882, ordered the power
company to remove its overhead lines
and poles on the District side of the
airport. The wires were buried and
the poles taken down shortly there
after. But the question was raised
whether the commission had jurisdic-
tion over the Virginia part Of airport
territory. This question is being set
tied now by the Boundary Commits.
sion.
Mcclellan TO Get Survey.
The present lines belong to the
Braddock Power Co.. an affiliate of
the Potomac Electric Power Co. The
survey regarding their removal prob
/ ably will be submitted tomorrow to
DR.. William Mcclellan, P. E. P. Co.
president Company officials said
about $50 subscribers are served by the
lines.
Although most planes entering or
leaving the field fly over the wires at
safe height, a miscalculation might
/ result in grave accident it was said.
Representative Randolph of West Vir-
| ginia. chairman of an aviation sub
/ committee of the House District Com
mittee. yesterday wrote DR.. Mcclellan
! demanding removal Of the wires. He
said he would not rest" until this was
done. There has been similar agita-
ton in Congress for some time.
Evening star., 1935-09-27
Globe Trotter, .OPtin,ist, Here
after 10th Trip around World

to lose If war breaks out. Take the
Suez Canal. It's invaluable. Think
of the enormous wealth which flows
through it, and of the constant peace
time fight which ,oes on to keep nat
ural forces from closing the channel.
Europe and the world can't afford
to close that canal even for a few
days. II there is fighting, 1t will be
a local scrap. Every one knows that
overcrowded Europe must colonize
Africa. Mussolini's men whom I saw
swarming on his transports looked
more like laborers and colonists than
soldiers to me-"
Brittlebank landed in New FORK yes
terday on a cargo boat which main
tains regular express schedule all
the .ay around the world. The boat
is owned by an American company
which, Brittlebank said, is doing much
to open up foreign markets.
The globe trotter, who makes his
home while not on the road at
Charleston, S. c., had put almost
100000 miles behind him since he
retired from business at SO and set
out to see the world and the people Of
the world.
Evening star., 1935-09-27
WOMAN IS FOUND
DEAD IN APARTMENT
Mrs. Katheryn Shenk, Federal
Worker, Victim of Cerebral
Hemorrhage.

Mrs. Katheryn Shenk. 81, q clerk
In the Internal Revenue Bureau and
ister-in-law of the late William
Hughes, former United States Sena-
tor from New Jersey, was found dead
In her apartment yesterday at South
brook Courts, 1920 Sixteenth street.
Her body was discovered as the re-
suit, Of an investigation begun by
workers in the Internal Revenue Office
after she had been missing since Tues
day. A coroner's investigation revealed
that she had died of a cerebral hem
orrhage a day before her body was
found.
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow in Paterson, N. j., where she
lived for many years before coming
to Washington about 10 years ago.
She is survived by two brothers in
New York City.
Evening star., 1935-09-27
Guards at Bellevue Magazine
Told to Ban Communists

Guards at the Bellevue Magazine are
under special orders to be on the look
out for and prohibit the entrance OF
Communists to the Government prop
erty, it was disclosed yesterday at the
Naval Court of Inquiry hearing on
the fatal shooting Saturday of John
D. Moriarty, Government Printing
ONCE employe.
Moriarty was shot by Pvt. John F.
Whitmore, Marine guard on sentry
duty at the main gate, when he
knocked the gate ajar with his car and
drove into the grounds. The shooting
occurred during q scuffie at the auto
mobile.
During the course Of the investiga-
ton, Whitmore was asked:
did you receive instructions to keep
Evening star., 1935-09-27
Hospital Memorial
Left for Any W
Magr"der or Hooe
Member of Prominent
Families PrOrides for
Care OF "AiIing."

A memorial room in some Wash
ington hospital. to be used by any
sick or ailing" Magruder or Hooe,
will be established under the will of
Mary B. Hooe, filed IN District Su-
preme Court today.
Miss Hooe is connected with both
families, which are well known in
Washington and Prince Georges
County. She died here July %.
The will, which disposes of about
$4,000, leaves the bulk of the estate
in trust for Miss Hooe's brother. Caleb
C. Hooe. and after his death this
trust is to be used by th2 executor and
trustee, Caleb Magruder, for hos
pital room as memorial to her par
ents.
When the room is not being occupied
by Hooe or Magruder. it may be
used free of charge by an INDECENT.
Leo P. Harlow and M. Hampton Ma
gruder represented the executor before
the court.
Evening star., 1935-09-27
BOARD HEAD SLAIN,
PRINCIPAL A SUICIDE
President of West Virginia Coun.
ty School Body Shot to Death
in Office.

BY the Associated Press.
CLARKSBURG, w. Va. September
27.-James F. Tracy. 32-year old prin-
cipal of the Mount Glare Junior High
School, broke into the private Office
of DR.. J. w. Corder. president of the
Harrison County School Board. late
yesterday and killed both the physician
and himself.
Tracy was the son of Mrs. Dora
Tracy, who for 13 years had been
secretary to Wade H. Coffindofer, SUI
perintendent Of schools She lost her
position on July / along with her em-
ployer as the new School Board took
Office.
Laco Wolfe. former chief of police,
was in DR.. Corder's Office when Tracy
broke into the room. automatic pistol
in hand.
Il shouted to him, For Gods sake,
don't shoot" Wolfe said. But he
fired four times at Corder and turned
the smoking gun to his own heart as
the chairman Slumped to the floor"
Tracy had been i'll for some time.
A note found in his pocket said an
X-ray picture disclosed he was AZ
fNcted with malignant growth.
Evening star., 1935-09-27
CAB DRIVERS UNION
PRESIDENT is HELD
Henning Charged With operat-
ing Vehicle Without License
Following Revocation.

Bernard L. Henning, president of
the Cab Drivers Protective Union,
whose SIS Nbusiness license was re-
voked Tuesday for failure to abide
by the zone rates set by the Public
Utilities Commission, was arrested to-
day on charge of operating an un-
licensed public vehicle.
Henning was arrested by Officer
J. L. Mavars of the hack inspectors S
office while sitting in his taxicab
at a hack stand near the navy yard.
He was locked up at No. precinct.
Collateral of $50 is required on this
charge.
When the Commissioners revoked
his license, on recommendation of the
District License Committee and Cor
poration Counsel E. Barrett Pretty
man, Henning was given "a hours
in which to turn in his public vehicle
license.
After he had failed to do this the
hack inspectors Office instituted a
search for him.
Evening star., 1935-09-27

Julius Brittlebank, perennial globe
trotter, has arrived again in Washing
ton, genial, ruddy and active at IT.,
his sturdy legs still keyed to the roll
of the freighter which conveyed him
on his sixteenth trip around the world.
An optimist is Mr.. Brittlebank, an
optimist so confirmed that neither war
nor revolution can shake him in his
faith that the world is becoming yearly
better place in which to live, a
wealthier, happier place to visit and
observe.
Brittlebank saw Mussolinis troop
ships, an argosy Of them, massed with
men. moving through the Suez Canal
on their way to the Ethiopian border,
but he saw nothing very ominous in
the movement, nor in the electric air
of the Mediterranean. where battle
squadrons are jockeying into position.
"I'ts all lot of bluff in the big
game of colonial expansion" said
Brittlebank. please don't think I
think I know it all; I'm only guessing,
of course, like any other outsider.
But I've been on the ground. I
know how much the big powers have
Evening star., 1935-09-27

Communists out of the magazine?"
"Yes," Whitmore replied, about a
month ago"
Whitmore, in answer to questions,
declared he was aware of the serious
nature of the work going on at the
Bellevue magazine. His story as to
the accidental shooting Of Moriarty
was substantially the same as that
told previously by other witnesses.
Adjourning at 4:30 pm, the court
agreed to reconvene Monday at am.
Final arguments will be submitted
then, it was said, and recommenca-
tions in the case will be sent Secretary
of the Navy Swanson possibly the next
day. Col. Harold L. Parsons, Marine
Corps, heads the court.
Whitmore already has been exon
Grated by coroner's jury.
Evening star., 1935-09-27
Boy Burned Fighting Fire.

Vincent Di Stefano, 16. of 1714 B
street southeast was treated at Gal
linger Hospital last night for pain
full burns to the arm and leg, received
at q fire in the storehouse Of Michael
Del Balso, contractor, at Ninteenth
and B streets southeast. The boy was
assisting In extinguishing the blaze.
Evening star., 1935-09-27
ANDREW l. HUSS, 70,
DEAD IN FREDERICK
Retired Employe of Government
Printing Office Was Penn
sylvania Native.

sylvania Native.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICK. Md, September ~
Andrews L. Huss. 70. for many years
a resident Of Washington and a fore
man in the Government Printing
Office, died at his home here late
yesterday after a three month illness.
Born in Waynesburg, Pa, Mr.. Huss
moved to Washington in 1893, where
he lived until his retirement from the
Government service five years sgo,
when he bought home here. He
was a member of the District Ma
sonic Lodge.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Flor
ence Reeder Huss; a brother, James B.
Huss of Washington; two sisters, Mrs.
Ralph Cooley of Spokane, Wash, and
Miss Ida D. Huss Of Washington, and
two daughters. Mrs. Monroe Zentz of
University Park. Md, and Mrs. Dem
meade Kolb of Salisbury, Md.
Funeral services will be held tomor-
row at pm. at the Etchison S-neral
home, Frederick.
Evening star., 1935-09-27
Golf Tournament Dated.

The annual Fall golf tournament for
employees Of the District government
will be held October at the Washing
ton Golf and Country Club, the Com
missioners announced today. Capt
Howard F. Clark, Assistant Engineer
Commissioner, is the defending cham
pion.
Evening star., 1935-09-27
Licensed to Marry.

UPPER MARLBORO, Md, Septem-
ber 81 Especially .-Marriage licenses
have been issued here to the following
Francis Louis Glasgow, 81, and June
Burnell Gill, 20. both of Hyattsville,
Md, and Wilmer Richard Edelen, %,
Upper Marlboro, Nd. and Katherine
Sarah Ellingsworth, 81. Queens VII
lage, Long Island, N. Y.
Evening star., 1935-09-27
VIDAL FREED ON BOND
Air Commerce Head Released on
Charge of Speeding. ~

Eugene L. Vidal. director Of the
Bureau Of Air Commerce was released
on this personal bond by Judge Isaac
r. HIT in Traffic Court today on .
charge OF speeding.
Vidal was arrested on Wisconsin
avenue by Policeman w. E. Bicker Of
the Traffic Bureau.
Evening star., 1935-09-27
BUS CHANGE STUDIED
Monroe Street Northeast May Be
Relieved by New Schedule.

Proposed changes in the route Of
the Rhode Island avenue bus line, de-
signed to reduce traffic on Monroe
street northeast, will be considered
at q public hearing before the Public
Utilities Commission at 5 pm. Octo-
ber A.
The line now runs both east and
west on Monroe street. Traffic Direc-
tor william H. Van Duzer reports he
has found no undue congestion, but
suggests that westbound buses be op-
Grated through Lawrence or Newton
streets If the route is changed.
Evening star., 1935-09-27
M STREET TWO-WAY
Change Will Be Made When New
Lights Are Installed.

M street from New Jersey avenue
to Thirteenth street will be made
available for two-way traffic after in
stallation of new traffic lights at Thir-
teenth and M streets and Sixth and
M streets has been completed, Traffic
Director william A. Van Duzer an
nounced today.
Installation of the new lights by
the Potomac Electric Power Co. at q
cost of $16474 was ordered today by
the Commissioners.
After the street is made two-way
artery parking will be permitted on
only one side, Van Duzer said.
Evening star., 1935-09-27

deputy W o r k S
progress admin
iStrator for the
District. His res
ignation was ac-
cepted by Com
missioner George
E. Allen and the
CommisSi o n e r S
promptly desig-
mated A uditor
Daniel J. Dono-
van to fill the
position c a p t.
Clark gave no
reason for get
ting ont of the
control of the
Evening star., 1935-09-27
CAPT. CLARK QUITS
D. c. RELIEF POST
Deputy Works Progress Ad-
miniStrator'S Break on
Policy in Background.

A break in the ranks of the District
relief directors occurred today wnen
Capt Howard F. Clark, Assistant En-
gineer Commissioner, resigned as