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Evening star., 1935-03-23
BANKS OPEN FIRE
ON OMNIBUS BILL
Nations Lenders Suggest
Changes to Minimize
Political Influence.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Nations bankers Unbiased an
official assault On the administrator S
omnibus banking DILL yesterday. sug-
gesting changes designed to minimize
political influence in control OF the
Federal Reserve System.
Among other things was demanded
the dropping of the Secretary OF the
Treasury and the controller of the
currency from the boards reserve
membership.
The bankers attitude was expressed
in statement filed with the House
Banking Committee while Prof. Irving
Fisher of Yale was testifying that the
bill has, in my opinion, the greatest
potentiality for good or i'll of all bills
that have been put forward in this
administration"
Deposit Insurance Approved.
The statement was presented by the
American Bankers Association. 1t
approved sections dealing with de-
posit insurance and technical changes
in the banking laws, but baked at the
provisions intended to increase Gov
ernment control over the Federal Re-
serve System and to liberalize lending
powers of reserve banks.
1t suggested alterations to insure,
as far as possible, the absolute inde-
pendence of the Federal Reserve)
board from partisan or political con-
siderations."
nf tho Fadora1
Reserve act" the statement said, in
formed opinion both in Congress and
among bankers has been striving to-
ward the deal of making the Federal
Reserve Board of such independence
and prestige that it might be described
as the supreme court of finance anc
banking.
We believe there is greater neeo
now than ever before for realizing
this ideal.
Committee Signs Statement.
Signed by Rudolf S. Hecht. Robert
v. Fleming, Tom K. Smith, winthrop
w. Aldrich and Ronald Ransom, tht
A. B. A. special committee on tht
bill, the statement advocated that thu
board be reduced from eight TO fiv.
members through retirement as ex-
officio members of the Secretary o.
the Treasury and the controller O.
the currency. AS soon as a vacancy
occurred among the appointive mem
bers, the A B. A. would leave tina
post vacant.
Also. the bankers committee pro
posed that the terms of the presiden
and the Reserve Board governor b.
made concurrent; that board member
and the governor be removable only
for cause, and that open market op,
erations be put in the hands of the
Reserve Board and four Reserve Bank
governors.
Fisher Suggests Better Way"
Fishers analysis of the bill wa!
this:
Rightly administered it coulC
bring us out of the depression in &
few weeks. Wrongly administered Il
could thrust us deeper in
He said still better way" woule
be to replace the Federal Reserve BY
a monetary authority, withdrawing
the Government from the banking
business altogether.
Fisher objected particularly to thu
provisions in the pending bill allow
ing the Federal Reserve Board to in
crease the reserves required of Re
serve member banks.
Evening star., 1935-03-23

Built in 1881, the Van Buren School
building is as badly out Of date as
the stoves. The rooms are large, with
huge windows and high ceilings, and
with the best of modern equipment
would be difficult to heat.
Hard TO Heat.
Children alternately have to move
to a bench close to the stove or sit
behind a metal screen TO cut off the
excessive heat. At times they cook"
on one side, while the other Is freez-
ing.
The Van Buren School is not men,
toned directly as one Of the new
construction projects included in the
list submitted by the Board Of Educa-
ton for Public Works Administration
funds. Indirectly, however. it is made
part of the program. Il the $l55,-
900 asked for an addition of eight
rooms and an assembly hall-gymna-
Evening star., 1935-03-23

tCOILlHu6u fTBIn FlISt Edkt.D
"amicable session." but had reached
no definite conclusions"
The House side of the situation is
summed up briefy-the 2 per cent
sales tax to raise Sc, 500, 900. Of that
amount s3,5000O0 would 60 to direct
relief. $l,500,000 to old-age pensions
and the remainder to servicinG
charges on the $4,000, 900 relief bond
issue of 1888.
Senate Problems Completing.
The Senate side of the situation is
more complex. 1t involves:
The tax of per cent on gross sales
OF utility ompanies-now dead In
the House-which is estimated To
raise $4,000, 900 yearly.
A tax OF 10 per cent on patent
medicines. estimated to raise $3.50 900
A tax of 10 per cent on cosmetics
estimated to raise $3.50, 900.
A floor tax of S cents per gallon on
whisky. estimated to raise s555, 900
Those levies fall far short Of rails
ing the required s5.000,000 To ap-
proximate that amount, the tax OF
3.25 cents per gallon on beer must
be included, which, with estimated
revenue of $1,000, 900, brings the Sen
ate total to approximately $4,000, 900
in estimated revenue.
The beer tax is before the Senate on
third reading A beer levy bill never
has reached the floor of the House
but discussions during passage Of the
sales tax in that body indicate def
nitely that the beer tax would be
shouted down there.
The fate of the utilities tax bill in
the House also indicates that the
other Senate levy bills would face a
similar fate.
But the debate in the Senate shows
that sales tax would meet with
real trouble there. Leading Senators
regarded the vote by which q sales
tax was reCommitted to committee
and the vote by which the utilities
bill was passed on thiru reading as
indicative OF the Senate determine
ton to kill ell sales tax bills.
And there is the statement OF Sen
ator J. Allan Coad, Democrat, Of St
Marys. majority floor reader in the
Upper House, that a sales tax will not
pass this Legislature.
Evening star., 1935-03-23
VAN buren, SCHOOL

~ EPEATED efforts have been
- made recently by the Board
II of Education to replace the
L y old fashioned low pressure
heating plants in the public
schools because they have outlived
their usefulness.
All of them smoke and spread soft
coal dust. They fail in some instances
to heat the school buildings properly
There are q such obsolete plants still
in use. The board has sought vainly
for an appropriation OF 100000 to
replace them with modern furnaces.
In the list of % such schools, the
Martin Van Buren Elementary School.
on w street between Fourteenth and
Fifteenth streets southeast, is not
mentioned. The reason is that instead
of having an old worn-out plant, the
Van Buren School has no plant at all.
Instead, it has old-time. barrel-like
stoves
Evening star., 1935-03-23
N. R. A. employees
TOLD JOBS ARE SAFE
Richberg Says No Change or Over.
turn in Personnel Is
Contemplated.

N. R. A. employees were given assur-
ance yesterday by Donald r. Richberg.
newly named acting chairman Of the
National Industrial Recovery Board,
that their jobs are safe.
we contemplate no change or over
turn in personnel" Richberg declared
at his first press conference. We
are going ahead on the presumption
that Congress will prolong the Recov-
cry Administration beyond the June 16
expiration date"
He stated emphatically N. R. A. will
push its work vigorously, and added:
IN. r. A. is far from being dead as
dodo. 1t is very lively creature" "
Evening star., 1935-03-23
Congress in Brief

BY the Associated Press
TODAY.
Senate.
Debates work-relief bill.
House.
In recess.
YESTERDAY.
Senate.
Refused to agree to limit debate on
work-relief bill.
Commerce Committee recommended
passage Of Copeland food-drug bill
Finance Committee heard Senator
Barkley charge attempted intimida-
ton during N. r. A. investigation.
House.
Passed bill to pay $1,000 100000
soldiers bonus with new currency.
Military Subcommittee approved
bill to create air bases through the
country.
Evening star., 1935-03-23

Apparently this would prevent Far
ley from realizing any secret ambitions
he may have had to run for Governor
of New York in '36. He cannot run
for Governor and conduct the presi-
Dental campaign at the same time.
1t is generally understood Mr.. Roose-
welt does not want to ruin Farley S
governorship chances. But there is
no one else to run the presidential
campaign.
The old talk about Commerce Sec
retary Roper being switched to the
postmaster generalship is being re-
vived. No one else Is being men
toned. at least not where any one
can hear 1t yet. Who will get Roper's
job also seems to be undecided.
Public Privacy.
A new place to hold private con-
ferences has been discovered by Mr..
Farley and R. F. c. Chairman Jesse
Jones. 1t is the last place you would
think of-in a closed automobile at
the curb on busy Pennsylvania avenue.
outside Jones office. No place could
be more public and at the same time
more private. No one could listen in.
The choice OF such an unusual
spot by the ttCo eminent Ne,o
Dealers one morning this meek
has spurred considerable specul1-
ton as to Whdt they were contering
about
Until Jones tells, you will never
know, which is not encouraging. be-
cause Jones never tells anything. II
the gentleman on the roof of the car
heard Alright, Farley will not want to
tell. Farley always likes to keep pat
ronaee matters to himself. especially
when his friends are involved.
Silver Buying Plan.
Mr.. Morgenthaus new silver buying
program means nothing new except
that he has at last been able to find
two nations to cooperate In a trade
balances by selling silver to us for
goods.
Evening star., 1935-03-23
MAN is DISCOVERED
INJURED IN STREET
Isaac Sterner Believed to Have
Been Victim of Hit-Run
Driver.

Believed to have been struck by a
hit-and-run automobile, Isaac Sterner,
81 OF 1910 Girard street, was found
lying on the street car tracks near
Fourteenth and Fairmont streets
early today with serious head injuries.
He was seen by Ernest Viverette
233 Kentucky avenue southeast, and
was taken to Emergency Hospital in
the cab of Emmett Harler, $50 K
street, who was driving by. Sterner
told police he didn't know what struck
him
At the hospital, it was said his ear
was severed and he may have skull
fracture.
Evening star., 1935-03-23
VIDAL is SATISFIED,
Similar Tests Planned on Atlantic
Coast.

Eugene L. Vidal, director of the
Bureau of Air Commerce. last night
expressed satisfaction with the flight
test of the department. radio COM
pass plane over the Pacific and dis
closed plans for similar experiments
between the Atlantic Coast and the
Island of Bermuda
The tests on the West Coast. Vida
said, had proved as successful as
those over land during the past year
and a half.
Evening star., 1935-03-23

episode in the relations between the
United States and the Philippines
were Secretary of State Hull and Sec
retary of War Dern, Maj. Gen. Greed
Cox. chief of the Bureau of Insular
Affairs Of the Army; Senator Pitt
man Of Nevada and the following
high-ranking Filipinos: Manuel Que
gon, president of the Philippine Sen
ate; Manuel Roxas representative and
member of the Constitutional Conven-
ton: Pedro Guevara, resident COM
missioner; F. A. belgrade, resident
commissioner; T. Sandiko, vice presi-
dent of the Constitutional Convention;
M. Cuaderno, member of the Consti-
tutional Convention, and Recto.
Trade Solution Sought.
Meanwhile, Murphy, who is expected
to become the first American high
commissioner to Manila to represent
the President in watching over the
progress of the new government, was
busy with cabinet departments here
attempting to iron out future eco
nomic relations once the present free
trade with the islands disappears
under independence. ,-s s'.s-
Evening star., 1935-03-23
BAN ON RADIO ADS
Reich to Clear Air October / for
Political-Cultural Tasks.

BERLIN, March 23 R.-Radio ad-
vertising in the Reich will be banned
October / because of the "incom-
patibility with the political and cul-
tural tasks of broadcasting," &C.
cording to a circular letter issued
today by DR.. Paul Joseph Goebbels,
minister of propaganda and public
enlightenment.
The circular explained that the
ban will permit concentration on
more important newspaper advertis-
ing and window display. +
Evening star., 1935-03-23
Patrol Leaders Named.

GROVETON, Va, March % (Spe-
ciaD Patrol leaders Of the newly or
ganized Boy Scout troop of Groveton
School, one of the largest In Fairfax
County, are: Douglas Kearns OF Happy
Valley, Courtney Sauni Of Alexandra
and Harvey Clapp Of Union Farm. {
Evening star., 1935-03-23
ROMANCE REPORTED

Swedish Prince May Wed Neither
lands Princess.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March %
R.-Close on the heels Of formal
announcement Of the engagement Of
Princess Ingrid of Sweden to Crown
Prince Frederick OF Denmark, rumors
circulated yesterday that husky 49,
year-old Prince Carl Johan would soon
be betrothed to Princess Juliana OF
the Netherlands.
A Stockholm newspaper columnist
forecast the announcement would be
made April 80, the princess 26th
birthday. Prince Carl is said to have
met Juliana at the wedding of the
Duke OF Kent and Princess Marina in
London for which Julians was one
of the bridesmaids.
Evening star., 1935-03-23
U. S. ECONOMIC MISSION
SAILS FOR FAR EAST

Study In Japan and China to Aid
Projected Reciprocal Treaty
Negotiations.
BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 23.-The
American economic mission to the
Far East sailed yesterday for Japan and
China to study economic conditions
preliminary to making recommends
tions in the projected reciprocal treaty
negotiations.
w. Cameron Forbes, chairman, said
here yesterday the group Of 16 chosen
by the National Foreign Trade Coun-
Gil will study the history, trend and
probable future trade relations be-
tween Japan and the United States"
The mission has no governmental
afilliations. 1t Is financed by COM
mercial and industrial firms.
Evening star., 1935-03-23
MARYLAND'S TAX
SITUATION CAUSES
LEGISLATIVE SNARL

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Evening star., 1935-03-23
ROOSEVELT SIGNS
CERTIFICATION OF
ISLANDS CHARTER

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1935-03-23
MILLION ARE READY
TO MARCH AS CLASS
OF II IS SUMMONED

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1935-03-23

A PERSONAL understanding is
" supposed to exist between
n Postmaster General Farley and
Il the boss, whereby sunny Jim
x,,;lf ,>Mxn,,tet. tka y%0atp, q st or
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-01
CCC ROYS LEARN

Nearly 10000 Civilian Conser-
walton Corps workers voluntarily
participated in the CCC edhca'
tional program in January, it was
revealed yesterday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-01
PERMITS RISE
s. PER CENT
IN YEAR
Suburbs Show Big Upswing
With Gain of us Per Cent
in Arlington

Greater Washington is in the
midst of the second great building
boom since the World War.
Homes of all sizes and prices
and structures of various other
types are springing up through.
out the Metropolitan area, keep
ing pace with the jump in it's
population to an estimated 100000.
Building permits show a ire
mendous gain, especially in three
sections. The District is shown
to have had an increase of IS per
cent in total valuation of new
buildings during the last year as
compared to the year before.
Arlington county records reveal
a gain of about ITS per cent and
Montgomery shows a similar in
crease.
Prince Georges county reports
an increase, although the per-
centage does not compare with
the other sections.
d. C. Permits Issued
Permits for construction work
estimated to cost $1O,520,475 were
issued in the Tistl let from March
/, 1884, to March /, 1885. The
number of permits was 5,211, as
compared to 4,779 issued in the
same period a year before for a
total of $6,365,280.
A tremendous gain, both in
number of permits and total val
uation, was recorded in the east
ern suburban area of Mont.
gomery county. From March IS,
1884, to March q. 1885, 357 per-
mits were issued for $999,455
worth of building, principally Of
homes and small business places.
In the previous year the number
of permits was 172 and the total
valuation $338,310.
In the western suburban area
of Montgomery county 268 per.
A1AACS 4O1 14,AO9,OUV WC1G 1SSUSU, DIS
compared with 1919 permits for a
total of $824,091 in the year be-
fore.
Rest of County Dull
The rest of Montgomery, out
side the suburban area, reported
but So permits for $85,750 in new
construction, compared to 70 per.
mits and $1O7,925 valuation for
the year before.
Arlington county keeps we'll
astride of the building squirt, with
459 permits issued during the year
prior to March /, 1885, for a total
of $1,714,835, compared to $50 per-
mits and a valuation of $620,691
the year before.
Arlington's permits for the last
year included 316 for new dwell.
ings. The year before 1853 dwell.
ingS were built.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-01

Lewis T. Gibbs, 1900 block New
ton st. N. w., a graduate of Cen
trail High School, is one of the
three candidates for the presi-
dency of the Student Government
Association at the University Of
Maryland, the highest honor the
student body can bestow on one
Of its members.
Presidential elections, which will
terminate two weeks of extensive
campaigning by the three candi-
dates, will be held tomorrow and
Wednesday. The other candidates
are Louis Ennis, of Long Branch,
N. j., and Addison King, of Balti.
more.
Gibbs, junior engineer, has
been active in campus affairs
since his freshman year, when he
was representative to the execu-
tive council and chairman of the
frosh prom committee. This year
he is on the interfraternity coun-
Gil as a representative of Sigma
MI fraternity, is on the track
squad, a member of Tau Beta Phi,
honorary engineering, and an ad-
vanced officer in the Reserve Of
ficers Training Corps. He was
chairman of the junior prom COM
mittee.
Gibbs was valedictorian Of his
class at Central High.
Other Washington students who
are candidates for election to stu
dent government offices are Rich
ard Maurer. 1000 block Park Rd.
N. w., and Jack Shinn, 1900 block
Mintwood Pl. N. w., vice presi-
dency: Betty Quirk, 1900 block
Delafield Pl. N. W., and Joan
Wells, 1900 block Jenifer st. N.
w., secretary treasurer; Richard
Babcock, 1900 block @ st. N. w.,
and Thomas Richardson, 600
block Quebec Pl. N. w., presidency
of the Mems League.
Washington goods who have
been named in the Women's
League are Rebekah Fouts, 5000
block Mckinley St. N. w., presi-
dency: Mildred Chaplin, $500 block
Wisconsin Ave., Chevy Chase, and
Anna Marie Quirk, 1900 block
Delafield Pl. N. w., vice presi-
dency; Claire Boehoff, first block
Quincy ST., Chevy Chase, and
Elizabeth Norris, 600 block Morris
Pl. N. w., secretary; Virginia
Webb, 1900 block Linnean Ave.
N. w., recorder: Marjorie Grin
stead, 3700 block Morrison st. N.
W., Flora Waldman, 27OO block
Chesapeake st. N. w., and Vir.
GINA White, Lamond st. N. w.,
presidency of the Y. w. C. A.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-01
SWEEPSTA AXES
WINNER WINS

Information that a Washington
man held ticket on one of the
favorite horses in the Irish Sweep
stakes captured first prize in The
Washington Times newstip con-
test last week.
The second prize was awarded
for a tip on the accident in which
18-year-old Mike Kerr, Virginia's
youngest amateur Jockey, fell
from his horse and was seriously
injured.
Other awards were made for
the following tips: the fire at
Waterbury, Md; an accident in
Takoma Park, Md; bus crash in
Alexandria, Va, in which several
persons we're injured, and the
tourist who exhibited a tame
bear for passersby at Bladensburg
Road and New York Avenue N. E.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-01
PEARSON HANDS
REBUKE To
MATTHIAS
Accuses Maryland U. Writer
of "IncorreCt, Misleading,
Injurious" DordS

In the face of a rebuke by Dr.
Raymond A. Pearson, president
of the University of Maryland,
Marshall Matthias, editor Of the
Diamondback, student newspaper
whose frontpage editorial in last
weeks issue condemning the
presidents administrative policies
kicked up a furore on the campus,
today declared his intention to
stick ohis previously announced
policy of passive resistance"
In 1.-The Presidents Message"
which was to have appeared in
this Afternoons issue of the paper
but which he made public yester-
day, President Pearson branded
statements in Matthias editorial
as incorrect, misleading and in
furious to the reputation of the
university"
He Takes Exceptions
In addition to expressing his
regret that the editorial had been
published on the grounds that
those. "who were familiar with
conditions at College Park were
displeased with this type of pub
licity," DR.. Pearson took ex-
plicit exception to several of Mr..
Matthias editorial remarks.
Openly contradicting Mr.. Ma
thias' statement that the quality
of the Maryland teaching staff
had been impaired during his ad-
ministration, DR.. Pearson stated:
"Our faculty today includes
some of the most distinguished
authorities on their respective
subjects in the United States"
DEFENDS DEPARTMENTS
He likewise took exception to
Mr.. Matthias statement that some
of the university departments had
been wrecked, saying:
sour departments are main
tanning their usual standards to
a highly creditable degree and
some of them today are
stronger than they ever were."
Mr.. Matthias inference that he
and Governor Nice had collabo-
rated on the proposed $4,000
budget slash was misleading, and
in bad TASTE" he. declared. adding
that the Governor had been SYM
pathetic and had already helped
more than was generally known.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-01
Pay Restored, Clerks
Go On Buying Spree
''NOw we can have those new
hats for EaSter!"

"NOw we can have those new
hats for EaSter!"
Four pretty employees of the
Labor Advisory Board were re-
joicing today, together with thou
sands of co-workers.
"And I won't need to be patch
ing these darned stockings (pun)
all the time, either"
Black-eyed Gertrude Nolan so
giggled to her trio of pals.
Why the optimistic converse
ton? Because the quartet hap
pened to remember that today is
the first day since June 80, 1882,
that they will receive a full days
pay for a full days work.
No JOkerS In 1t
OF course, it's April Fools Day,
and by all rights there should be
a joker, but none has appeared
even with legislative tendencies to
include such things.
The girls were tickled because
today they drew their last slightly
sliced check and henceforth will
be able to afford some of those
little luxuries that femininity
yearns for.
Mrs. Grace v. Purdy, 200 block
of Rhode Island Ave. N. E., a vet,
eran of 10 years Federal service
and now secretary to Henry H.
Collins, jr., of the Labor Advisory
Board staff, sighed:
"YOu bet; hats, stockings,
glOves-all those little things we
girls have gone without. I
guess it isn't such bad world,
after ALL"
PLAN SHOPPING TRIPS
Miss Mary K. Bell, $500 block
Connecticut Ave-, a textile advisor
from Columbus, Ohio, made a
pact with Miss Sylvia Yuster, 1900
block New Hampshire Ave-, N. w.,
who halls from Fargo, N. D., to
hustle downtown on the 18th.
Both brunettes, they plan some
window shopping together in the
meantime to select millinery or
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-01
Ken MURRAY
Says:
"LOvely to Look At"

Once again. Washington is
crowded with visitors anxious
to see the pink blossoms of the
Japanese cherry trees. Guess
they figure it's worth the trip
just to. see something bright,
without the aid of "rOSe-cOlOred
glasses"
The early poisoning has puZ-
Zled the proponents of the "In-
come Tax Publicity" law. :.
Funny how the cherry trees
blOOmed about the same time
the pink slip" was nipped in
the bud.
Then, too, some Of the visitors
are hard to satisfy. One fellow
said, "These cherry trees are all
right, but / want to see the trees
that the Congressman get all
their banana oil frOm?"
so REMEMBER:
japanese cherry blossoms are
a lot like some of those bloom
ing resolutions in Congress.
All show and no fruit.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-01
Elk Boys Band
HELPS Lift Debt

The Elk's Boys Band will give
a concert tonight at the Western
Presbyterian Church. The pro-
ceeds will go toward the mortgage
O: the church. which has been
foreclosed. The band is donating
it's services, according to Man
ager Harry Leer, who is arrang-
ing the concert. James Kidwell
will direct the band, and Law
renee Leer, assistant conductor,
has made the musical arrange
ments.