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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
Bill to Increase City Heads
Po,oer Written by Prettyn'an
Fiscal Provision, Citing Greater Con.
troll Over Budget, Is Big Change
.-... in Ne,U Plan.

sufficiently demonstrated as opposed
to such extensions of power when sug-
gested in the tentative bill he drew
up last year.
In connection with proposals giving
the Commissioners more authority to
deal with marches" on Washington,
such as the famous bonus march dur.
ing the Hoover administration, Mr..
Prettyman Is suggesting that the Com
misSoners be given power to return
home at public expense. "indigent
transients" who come into Washing
ton.
Many of the remaining provisions
Prettyman plans to put into the bill
will be minor In character, by COM
parison, but all Of them, nevertheless,
will be framed for one or two pur-
poses, to clarity existing legislation
and to relieve Congress Of many Of
the picayunish duties they are now
called on to perform for the District.
For instance, 1t will give the Com
missioners authority to regulate the
use of all streets, from building line
to building line, to change the names
of streets, to settle and pay damage
suits in amounts Of 500 or less, to
make specific regulations for special
events, such as the Shrine convention
and the presidential Inauguration, and
to issue permits for construction Of
pipe lines, etc. At present the Com
missioners must seek legislation to
carry out these functions.
Health Powers Planned.
Prettyman also plans to write into
the bill q section to give the Health
Department undisputed control over
the spread Of any contagious disease.
Existing law, he said, enumerates GER
tain Of these diseases, but with blan-
ket authority to regulate every type
of disease, 1t would not be necessary
for the health ofncer to ask special
legislation every time o new disease
became epidemic.
Another provision Prettyman said
he would insert in the bill would be
designed to give the Commissioners
power to issue and renew permits for
hospitals, boarding houses, ETC., and
to issue permits for the solicitation
Of funds.
In order to remove any doubt as to
the authority of the Commissioners to
revoke automobile registration GER
tificateS and to impound cars for vio-
lation of traffic regulations. Pretty
man said he would include provision
to make that power SPECIFIC.
Prettyman explained the provision
giving the Commissioners authority
to regulate the use of all streets would
be put into the bill because Of an old
statute which gives the Federal Gov
eminent control over theroughfares
within the limitation of its property.
Assistant Corporation Counsel FL
wood Seal, who also Is on q brief vaca.
ton here, plans to assist Prettynian In
drafting the bill. .-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
Mint Will Store
Silver Dollars in
Treasury Vaults
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Cramped by shortage of stor-
age facilities, the Treasury De-
partment shortly will begin move
ment of silver dollars from the
Philadelphia mint to the Treas
ury vaults in Washington.
Shipments are expected to ar
rive within the next few days
and will be stored in the new
vaults completed here a year ago.
The total to be transferred was
not made known, but officials said
they doubted if it would amount
to 500, 900, 000."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
SENATE UNIT ACTS
SOON ON D. c. BILLS.
Airport Problem Among
Questions Due for Commit
tee Action This Week.

The Senate District Committee
probably will be called into session
before the end of this week to con-
slider several pending measures, in
GLIDING the question of whether to
seek action at this session on the air
port problem, Chairman King mdi-
Gated yesterday.
The House has passed a bill leav-
ing selection of an airport site to
commission, but Senator Gibson,
Republican, of Vermont, sponsor of
airport legislation in the Senate. has
favored development Of the Gravelly
Point site.
The three local social security bills
-old-age pensions, pensions for the
blind and unemployment insurance
also are awaiting committee action
Senator King said these would be
taken up as soon as the national So
cial security bill is acted on finally
by Congress. The bills relating to
pensions for the aged and blind are
ready to be reported, and Legislative
drafting experts also have made q
study Of proposed changes in the
House unemployment insurance meas
ure.
Another bill which passed the
House recently and is awaiting Sen
ate committee action is the measure
to require regular mechanical inspec-
ton of motor vehicles in the Dis
trict. ,
There are several minor District
bills on the Senate calendar that may
be called up in the Senate tomorrow
including amendments to existing
laws to allow District policemen ano
flremen to reside in nearby Maryland
and Virginia counties. The proposed
new small loan law for the District
which has been postponed on previous
calendar days, also may be considered
again tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
BY JAMES E. CHM.

OCEAN. CITY, Md, July 27.-Al-
though ON a vacation" here, Cor
poration Counsel z. Barrett Pretty
man today began drafting compre-
hensive bill to give the District Com
missioners many additional powers as
well as increased control over the an
nual District budget.
BY Thursday, when he Is due to re-
turn to the Capital, Prettyman plans
to have the measure whipped into
shape for approval of the Commits
sioners and formal presentation to
Chairman King of the Senate District
Committee and Chairman Norton Of
the House District Committee.
Already the corporation counsel has
tentatively decided on the major fea-
lures. The outstanding provision will
be the one to give the Commissioners
more authority than they now have
to determine the amount OF the
yearly budget estimates and at the
same time increase their control over
municipal expenditures.
Lump Sum To Be Known.
He would accomplish this by q
section requiring the Budget Bureau
to inform the Commissioners, in ad-
vance of their submission Of annual
estimates, as to the size of the Fed
eral lump sum for the pending fiscal
year. The Commissioners would base
their estimates on this amount, plus
the recommended expenditures from
local revenues-but the amount of
set by the Commissioners, and not the
Budget Bureau.
At present, the Budget Bureau in
forms the Commissioners of the
amount of estimates they may sub
init, despite the fact the major part
of the money is raised through local
taxation. 1t has long been urged that
the Budget Bureau should not exer-
else the same sort of restrictive pow
er over the municipal budget, repre-
senting local tax funds, that 1t exer-
cises over the Federal budgets which
are made up, of course, of Federal
funds.
Prettyman'S aim is to free the Com
missioners of Budget Bureau control
over local funds, although he has not
decided definitely on the phraseology
of his bill nor has he consulted the
Commissioners on his plan. Auditor
Donovan has made extensive studies
in the past of the question of Budget
Bureau control over local estimates
and will doubtless have much to say
on that point when Mr.. Prettyman
consults him.
Board Powers Not Sought.
The corporation counsel does not
intend to propose any new powers
of control ~ the Commissioners over
citizens boards, such as the Board Of
Education, Board of Trustees Of the
Public Library or---Public Welfare
Board, believing public sentiment was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
SCOUT CAMP TO GUST
FOUR BALL DIAMONDS
Permits for Games to Be Discon.
tinued by August So Facili-
ties Can Be Arranged.

A number of Washington base ball
teams are going to find themselves
without diamonds during the Boy
Scout jamboree here next month.
Frank T. Gartside, acting superin-
tendent of the National Capital Parks,
said yesterday that by August l per-
mits for base ball games on the four
diamonds just north Of lower Four
teenth street, in Potomac Park, will
no longer be issued. The Boy Scouts
will have o camp there and workren
have to start putting in sanitary
facilities, electrical outlets and other
adjuncts. The Scouts are scheduled
to move into that area around Au-
gust 10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
Tug,cell's Agency
Gets Walsh Home
For l,6O3Monthly
b. the Associated Press.


Undersecretary Tugwell's Resettle-
ment Administration is paying ST.
603.50 a month to occupy the $780,
900 mansion Of Mrs. Evalyn Walsh
Mclean at 1920 Massachusetts, avenue,
it was disclosed yesterday.
This amount, it was said, represents
a cost of 81 per square foot per year
for 1922 square feet Of office space.
The lease was signed for one year.
Despite the cost, officials said en-
ployes can work amid palatial sur
roundings, which include pipe organ,
for less money than would have to be
paid for an office building. The
cheapest space available in an ONCE
building. was said to cost $3.50 per
square foot per year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
FIRE DAMAGES. SCHOOL
statr correspondent Of rhs Star

BY STAFF Correspondent Of The STAR.
HUNTING HILL, Md, July 27.-A
fire of mysterious origin which broke
out in. Bailey School near here late to-
day was extinguished by the Rockville
Fire Department after battle lasting
for more than an hour. Damage was
placed at 81 ,000.'
Firemen said, that the fire broke out
in o waste basket and spread through
out the building before It was discov-
cred.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
U. S. DEFICIT IN 8 DAYS
IS ONLY $50, 900, 1000
Lul1 in Spending Slows Mounting
Federal Debt, Now Totaling
$422, S35,210.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A lull in the Governments emer-
gency spending program has caused
the Treasury's deficit to mount only
$50, 100000 in the last eight days.
From July to July IL the deficit for
the new fiscal year climbed precipitate-
ly to $392, 204, 497. At the close Of busi-
ness, July as, it was $422, $685. lo.
For the first II days Of the month,
expenditures for emergency" pur-
poses amounted to $266, 607 900, or
$15, SOC, 900 . day. Since, however,
emergency OUTLAWS have totaled only
$45.ooo,ooo. or 5000 daily.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-28
Accokeek Merchant Injured.

ACCOKEEK, Md, July ~ Especially Z.
Clinton Baden, IS, local merchant,
was badly cut about the head when
his automobile was struck by hit
and-run driver here last night. He
was treated by DR.. John Bowers and
went home.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-20
FIRE
TAKES LIFE OF
COLORED BOY

Chester Lockard, Jr., three years
and four months of age, was
burned to death yesterday after
noon when fire of undetermined
origin destroyed the house in
which he and his grandmother,
Mrs. Ollie Robson, colored, were
living just north of the city
limits, Imperial.
The fire started at sos o'clock
yesterday afternoon and was first
noticed by Emmett Terrell, Ell
Centro, who was passing at the
time on his way to Ell Centro from
Brawley. He heard the child's
grandmother who was in the yard,
calling for help to save the young
ster but when he reached the rear
of the small house there was
nothing he could do as the place
by that time was mass of flames,
and was quickly destroyed.
The boy had been sleeping on a
cot in the house and was over
come by Cne smoke and flames be-
fore he was able to get out OF
danger.
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow afternoon at 2:30 O'Clock
at the A. M. E. church in Imperial.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-20
IA TOILETTE
WOULD DOUBLE
WORK RELIEF
Wisconsin Progressive Offers
Amendment For Ten Billion
And Initiation

WASHINGTON, March 20 UPO-
Senate progressives attacked the
work relief bill from the left today
with a demand for an addition of
$4,000, 100000 to the appropriation
and initiation invoked to finance it.
Sen. Robert M. La Toilette, P,
Wis, asked that the total money
to be spent through the bill be
doubled-raised to the tremendous
sum of $100OO,OOC,OO0. Sen. Burton
K. Wheeler, D., Mont, Immediately
prepared a proposal to finance the
program through initiation OF the
currency.
Wheeler said he would press for
action on the initiation feature to-
day.
The left wing drive opened after
final skirmishes over conservative
attempts to limit the amount to be
spent in relieving unemployment.
La Toilette said he had about
decided" to abandon his original
public works amendment in favor
of simple proposition to add S.
000,000,000 and bringing the total
appropriation to, So, 100000. E.
"The allocations now included in
the bill appear to cover the situa-
ton adequately" he said.
Wheeler said he intended to
speak only briefly on his amend
ment, which would require issuance
of "greenbacks" to cover the cost
of the works program.
Administration leaders hoped to
pass the bill in the senate tomor-
row and send it to conference with
the house, which approved it Janu-
ary "a.
The senate acted on several
minor amendments today, reinstat-
ing some that had been eliminated
previously.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-20
WILL PETITION
COUNCIL FOR
:. BUS SERVICE
Continued On Page 81

Bus service for Ell Centre will be
available for residents OF this city
If plans of Bert Davis materialize,
he said today.
Davis is seeking signatures to a
petition to be presented to the city
council asking for q franchise to
conduct such a service through the
business and residential sections OF
the city.
He proposes to operate 81 pas
senger bus on 80 minute schedule,
starting about a. NJ. and ending
around 11:15 or 1870, with a pro-
badly five cent fare and not to be
higher than 10 cents, with stops
made on the approach side OF street
intersections. Territory and equip
ment would be increased as ex-
pansion demands.
The proposed service would start
at First and He'll and follow this
route:
North to Main, west to Seventh,
south to Sandalwood, east to
Fourth, north to Len Rey, west to
Fifth, north TO Main, west 10 LII
perial avenue, north to Adams. east
to Eighth, south to Sandalwood,
west to Seventh, north to Main,
east to First, south to He'll.
Half fare would be charged to
school pupils on their way to and
from school and buses would be
equipped with all safety equipment
and properly insured.
Davis has had considerable ex-
perience in transportation, he
states, having operated bus lines in
other California cities.
He has already obtained several
hundred signatures to the petition
and has placed copies at Lanier IS
News stand, CTS Main street and at
Clements Drug store, for the con-
venience of those wishing to sign
it.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-20
DARROW SAYS
MIRA HELP To
BIC BUSINESS
Little Fellow Being Squeezed
Out OF Picture According To
Famous Attorney

WASHINGTON, March 20. U.P)-
The NRA was gotten up to help
big business" Clarence Darrow de-
clared today as ne testified in blunt
and honely phrases before the SEN
ate finance committee.
II found that NRA was gotten
up to help big business and could
not help big business unless it took
away from the small fellow" he
said.
Darrow told of the work done
by his NRA review board. appoint
ed by President Roosevelt, and said
that when felt I wasn't wanted
any more" he returned the unspent
portion OF his appropriation and
went home"
Darrow sat directly in front of
Chairman Pat Harrison. He de-
livered his testimony in a low
voice while he fingered his spec
tacle case, turning it over and over
on the table before him.
Il had nothing against General
johnson then or SINCE" he said,
referring to the fiery exchange be-
tween the review board and the
MIRA administrator at the time of
the DarroW boards first report last
summer.
Donald R. Richberg, new dear'
coordinator and NRA counsel at
the time the Darrow board was in
operation, sat a few feet from Dar-
| row. S. Clay Williams, retiring
head of the MIRA, sat on the 9TH
er side of Darrow.
Gets Only Crumbs
Darrow said big business has
all the advantages"
And NRA materially increased
| that advantage" he continued.
Big business has keen men at the
head, plenty of money, can adver-
tiSe in the leading newspapers, on
fences and barns all over the coun-
try.
Little business is supposed to
pick up the crumbs that fall from
the rich mans table. Little buSi-
ness has small capital. 1t can't
take page in the Saturday Eve
ming Post. 1t can't broadcast over
the land the story of good values +"
Darrow said the review board
studied 81 codes and presented
three reports.
MY sympathy is with the small
fellows" Darrow said. "The only
way the little man can live is to
charge less than the rich man. The
big fellow has to charge more be-
cause he is lavish with his money.
There is no question that small
business has suffered under the
NRA. 1t has suffered more than
it would have suffered otherwise"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-20
STATE INCOME TAX MEASURE TO
BE ISSUE ON ASSEMBLY FLOOR
Gets Approval Of Lower House Committee On Rev.
And Taxation AS First Of Merriam's
14POint Program

other proposal, to increase bank
and corporation franchise taxes,
was postponed.
Ranking high in interest with the
income tax measure was the ap-
proval by the assembly labor and
capital committee of three bills adj
vocating six-hour day, five day
week for nearly all types of labor
except agricultural, domestic and
professional.
The income tax bill, submitted by
Assemblyman Ford Chatters, Lind
say publisher, provides for rate
one-third that of the federal plan.
Chatters estimated it would raise
between $17500,000 and $20,00O,000
biennially, and pointed out that it
would include the incomes of state
employees who are not required to
pay a federal tax.
Collection of the tax would be
administered by the state fran
chise tax commission.
Committee approval of the bill
moved the personal income tax
fight onto the assembly floor, where
advocates of higher rates and of
board of equalization control of col
lections will attempt to amend the
measure.
The committee failed to approve
suggested amendments placing ad-
ministration of the act in the
hands of the board of equalization.
To Obey Franchise Tax
A second point in Merriams pro-
gram - doubled franchise taxes -
was almost certain to be approved,
committee members said. Action
was delayed to permit reprinting
of amendments.
Bills by Assemblymen Ray Will
hanson and E. V. Latham were
given equal consideration. They
provide for a rate of increase of
two to four per cent, with maxi
mum of eight per cent, and it was
estimated $1l,000,000 in new revenue
could be raised each two years
through this medium.
Action on Assemblyman Jeffer-
son E. Peyser's bill to exempt food
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-20
Dynan1iters Menace
Mississippi LeUees

MEMPHIS. Tenn, March 20. U.P)
Threats of levee dynamiting to
carry away floodwaters of Arkansas
and Mississippi streams increased
the burdens of relief workers to-
day.
Sheriff Howard Johnson of
Craighead county, Arkansas, por-
ton of which is almost entirely un-
der water, maintained vigil at Mo-
nette after such threats were made
along the st. Francis river.
The Cache river, feeding into the
White in east central Arkansas,
bowled over levee north of
DeValls Bluff late yesterday, mum
dating 10000 acres of land and
driving out 200 families.
Red Cross officials estimated 49,
000 were homeless, not counting
some 5000 in upper stretches of the
rivers who have been able TO re-
turn to their homes.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-20
FEDERAL ROAD
ENGINEER ON
VALLEY VISIT

C. H. Sweetser, chief engineer of
the United States Bureau of Pub
lie Roads, of San Francisco, who
has charge of the federal highways
in the western states was visitor
this morning at the chamber Of
commerce. Federal aid roads, in
this county are highways u. S. 80
and U. S. 80. Sweetser called to
pay his respects to President Tyler,
Manager Hays, w. A. Tondro and
Leo Hetzel, past presidents of the
chamber who had at various times
in the past contacted him in re-
gard to improvement of roads in
Imperial County and adjacent
counties.
Sweetser declared himself as very
we'll satisfied with the maintenance
by the state highway commission
of these major highways in I'M
perial county, declaring that this
county had the finest system OF
through highways, all built so re-
Gently that it was possible to in
corporate in their construction the
highest improved type of highway
standards.
Sweetser has been on an inspec-
ton tour of the roads in Southern
Arizona, coming to Ell Centre over
U. s. 80, the Broadway of America.
He stated that the State street
crossing of the Southern Pacific
tracks in Ell Centro is among the
railroad grade separation struc-
lures presented to the governor for
consideration by the state highway
department, and that the project
will be considered by the govern
ment highway engineers If and
when congressional appropriation
is made for this purpose. Sweetser
expressed himself very hopeful that
the eight hundred million dollars
in Secretary Ickes' budget plan will
be appropriated for additional
highway construction and for grade
separation structures, resulting in
important benefits to highways
the country.
Engineer Sweetser also manifest
ed much interest in the proposed
Niland-Desert Center connection
which would bring Highway U. S.
No. SO originating at the Canadian
Border and traversing the states of
Idaho and Nevada on south past
Las Vegas and Boulder Dam and
into Imperial Valley, this road
terminating at Calexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-20
POLICE SEEK
COMP PANION Of
SLAIN WOMAN

LOS ANGELES, March 20 U.P)-
Belief that Mrs. Louise Appier,
wealthy Montecito Heights apart
ment house owner, was murdered
Monday night for robbery, was
strengthened today by discovery
that nearly $4,000 she withdrew
from bank had disappeared.
At the same time the mystery
deepened when police sought an
unidentified man with whom Mrs.
Appier attended downtown
theater last Saturday night.
Investigators announced they had
learned that Mrs. Appier had a
habit of carrying her money in
small sack tied around her reck
under her dress.
The sack was found empty when
the body was discovered yester-
day. Detectives picked up two but
tons torn from the woman's blouse,
indicating that the murderer had
seized the sack and rifled it of its
contents. After beating his victim
to death.
Detectives said Mrs Appier with
drew $1811.75 from her bank last
Feb. and had paid over 5000 of
the money to her banker, to meet
a note.
On Feb. %, she cashed another
check for $50.
1t is believed she had carried
most of the money in the sack.