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The Washington times., 1935-02-19
ROSCOE TURNER.
ANGBORN
FLY HERE
London-MeIbourne Airmen In
Capital to Attend Pilots
Reception

With bird-like grace, Col.
Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pang-
born landed at Boiling Field to-
Gay in the huge, gray plane in
which they flew to third place in
the hazardous London to Mel
bourne, Australia, air race last
year.
The famous fliers came here
to Join the cream OF Americas
airmen, who are here for the
fifth annual reception for dis
tlnguished pilots tonight at the
Raleigh Hotel.
The famous flying team brought
along another air ace with them
from New York. He is Jack
Wright, who also participated in
the London.Melbourne race and
landed in a Persian jail. He
was liberated after the United
States Government interviewed.
Wife in Party
Mrs. Turner, a beautiful bru-
nette, also accompanied the party.
The party left New York at
$50 a. M, and bucking bad fly.
ing conditions en- route, arrived
at Boiling Field shortly after
1920.
They were met at the airbaSe
by Major Martin F. Scanlon,
commandant of the field; Col. j..
Carroll Cone, of the Department
of Commerce; Comdr. Pat Bell
niger, of the Naval Bureau of Aero
nautics; w. A. Patterson, presi-
dent, and Harold Crary, vice preSi-
dent of the United Air Lines, and
Helen McCloskey, famous woman
flier.
Officials of the United Air
Lines. which owns the ship that
the flying team flew to fame, an
nounced the ship will leave to-
morrow, with Colonel Turner and
Mr.. Pangborn in charge, for Cali
fornia, where it will be put back
in passenger service.
Is Passenger Plane
The plane was originally built
for such service, but was chosen
to make the London Melbourne
race shortly after it started carry
ing passengers.
The filters went from the field
to the Raleigh Hotel, where a re-
ception will be held tonight.
Senator William G. McAdoo, Cali
fornia, will present diplomas to
the filters in attendance. These
include such aerial luminaries as
Major James M. Doolittle, Art
Chester, Prof. and Mrs. Jean Pi-
card, Capt. Boris Sergievsky, Capt.
Eddie Rickenbacker and others.
The Washington times., 1935-02-19
Mellon to Give y. C..
A New Art Center
"A thing of beauty is a joy

"A thing Of beauty is a joy
forever"
The nebulous dream of Ameri.
can artists everywhere to make
Washington that thing of beauty
by making it the mecca Of all art
lovers the world over is fast becom-
ing a reality today.
To give the National Capital an
art gallery that would surpass the
famous galleries in European CAPT.
tails has long been a dream of
American artists and art lovers.
Mellon Aids Plan
Now Andrew w. Mellon, de-
scribed by some as the greatest
financial wizard this country ever
burgh he plans an art center here
as an annex to the National Gal
lery Of Art.
According to Frank j. Hogan,
Washington attorney and counsel
for Mr.. Mellon, the former Treas
ury head believes the National
Capital should be the country's cul-
The Washington times., 1935-02-19
j. 8. EMPLOYEES
REACH PEAK

A report issued today by the
Civil Service Commission reveals
that the 94,O5O permanent and
temporary civil executive Federal
employees stationed in the District
Of Columbia during December of
1884 is the largest number here
since the warNyear 1918, when
117,760 were polled on November
II, Armistice Day.
Since June, 1893, there has
been steady rise in the total of
permanent and temporary work
erS in the city, the report reveals.
On that date there were 65,437,
and there has been an average
rise of approximately 1000
monthly for most of the months
since that, time.
Of the 94,05O in Washington
during December of 1884, 86,451
were permanent and 1889 were
temporary employees. OF the group,
56,45O were men and $1,000
women.
Men employees outnumbered
women almost to / in Decem.
Der throughout the country, how
ever, the total of 672,273 showing
500, $40 men to but los, 633 women.
The Washington times., 1935-02-19

tural center and its collection of
art treasures should surpass those
in London or Paris.
The mystery which always has
surrounded Mr.. Melons famous
collection of works of the old
masters was partly cleared up
when Mr.. Hogan announced that
the Pittsburgh multi-millionaire
had spent $19,000,000 on art
treasures and that in 1881, he
purchased five paintings, valued
at $3,400,O0O from the famous
Hermitage collection Of the
Soviets.
The Hermitage collection con-
tanned some of the most famous
of the Rembrandts. Raphaels,
Van Dycks, Van Eycks, Rubens,
and Botticellis.
Back in 1881, Mr.. Mellon de-
MED all reports that he had pur-
chased any of the Hermitage
masterpieces, but at that time
it was reliably reported he had
bought the famous Madonna Of
the House Of Alba" by Raphael
for $500, 900.
The Washington times., 1935-02-19
PUG. UPHOLDS
10-CENT FARE
FOR BUSES
Declares New Line Will Give
Superior Grade of Service;
SIapS Roberts

Overriding the objections Of
Peoples Counsel William A. Rob-
erts, the Public Utilities Commits
sion today reaffirmed its action
calling for a 10-cent-fare express
bus line from the Takoma Park
area down Thirteenth Street to
Pennsylvania Avenue.
The commission, in a denial Of
Mr.. Roberts motion for regular
fare line, pointed out that the new
express line, which will begin oper-
alton March Is, is a supplement
tary and superior" service.
Uniform Fare Sought
In its ruling the commission
stated that it is DESTROYS to bring
about a uniform fare for bus SER
vice as soon as this can be done
consistently, "but not at the ex-
pense of denying a superior grade
of service"
The commission explained that
after the entire rerouting plans
have been put into effect, there
will be need for a hearing on
the proper fares for the entire
line.
Mr.. Roberts requested that the
commission suspend its order call
ing for the express bus service
and call for a new hearing. The
order included provisions for
routing Takoma Park street cars
down Georgia Avenue and a
feeder bus service from the
Takoma area to Fourteenth and
Kennedy Streets Northwest, to
connect with the Fourteenth
Street car line.
Asked Faster Service
The commission justified this
action by citing the demand Of
residents of the area for a quicker
service by street car to the down.
town section, and for the removal
of street car tracks along Ken
needy Street between Georgia
Avenue and Fourteenth Street.
In denying Mr.. Roberts motion,
the commission took a slap at
the peoples counsel and other in
terested parties who have offered
a variety of suggestions as to the
rerouting of street cars in the
area. The commission stated:
"The difficulty of the prob
lem of furnishing mass trans
pOrtatiOn for the areas here in
vOIved is manifested by the va
riety of views expressed by in.
terested parties. In a number
of instances and within q COM
paratively short period certain
proponents Of plans frequently
and radically changed their
views. The commission pro-
ceeded with caution and with
greater deIiberatiOn for this
reason. ManifestIy, the COM
mission cannot vary its orders
with the same freedom of action
as proponents can vary their
proposals"
The Washington times., 1935-02-19
ACCRUED LEAVE
PLEA GRANTED

Reimbursement to Federal en-
ployes in the Panama Canal Zone
for accrued leave that is unused
when they leave the service will
receive no objection when dis
bursting officers accounts are
audited by the General Account
ing Office, a decision of Comp
troller General j. r. McCarl re.
vealed today.
The payments, however, must
be those made prior to July l of
this year, in cases where it is
shown that it is impossible to
grant accrued leave to Canal Zone
workers before they leave the
service.
Although the payments were
declared erroneous" objections
were waived by the Comptroller
General because of the extended
period over which the practice
has prevailed.
The Washington times., 1935-02-19
D. C.Clerk Union
Plans 3 Meetings

Three meetings are scheduled
this week for members Of the Dis
trict of Columbia Federation of
Federal Employees, all taking place
at the organizations headquart-
ers, ITO Fourteenth st. N. W..
Tonight the Credit Union
League will convene, to discuss a
general expansion Of membership.
Tomorrow the General Account
ing Office Branch of Local No. 2
will meet. Wednesday, President
John w. Ginder, Of the Treasury
Department will preside over a
meeting of the Federation's eX-
ecutiVe council,
The Washington times., 1935-02-19

HAZEL KEATHLEY
served with her school paper as
associate editor, and at the same
time was successful in having
several poems and short articles
accepted by the Florida Times.
Union, one of the States big
dailies.
Intending to continue her
career with Uncle Sam, the at
tractive Southerner hopes to
perfect herself at short story
writing in her off-hours.
1.-THE cold weather is such a
relief" she says, in declaring
she prefers Washington to her
native cline.
The Washington times., 1935-02-19
Ken MURRAY
Says:

That former mayor of Spring.
field, ILL.,, who embeZZled $780,
900 in 1882, was arrested in
Los Angeles. He claims that he
is a victim of amnesia. Funny,
that amnesia. it only seems to
effect those who have other PEG
pies money.
In answer to charges of
forgery, he says that he can't
even remember his own name
OF course, he isn't accused
of signing his own name.
It's only natural that they
should look for him in Holly
wood. What a place fer a
man, out Of his senses, to lose
himself.
So REMEMBER:
Amnesia must have been very
prevalent in 1882 Lots of
politicians thought they were
plumbers. then drained" the
city treasures.
The Washington times., 1935-02-19
TEETH SOUGHT.
IN BAN AFTER
EXEMPTION
Prettyman Decision AssaiIeG
in Letter by Rep. Cochran
to School Board

Plans for putting teeth" in
the highly controversial married
persons" clause of the economy
act were revealed today, follow
ing a ruling by Corporation Coun.
sci E. Barrett Prettyman permit
ting employment of Washing.
ton teacher whose husband is
employed in the Federal service.
In letter to the Board Of
Education, made known today,
Representative John j. Cochran
3D. of Missouri, chairman of
the House Committee on Expendi.
lures in Executive Departments
and author of the law, revealed
his committee is investigating OBJ
GRAFTON of the law with a view
to strengthening it. He stated:
II might say the committee
is now investigating this sub.
ject, not with a view of repeal
ing the law but with a view Of
putting teeth in the law. When
the matter was taken up be-
fore the committee, there was
not a dissenting voice, but all
insisted that reports be secured
as to how the law was working.
APPLIES TO d. C.
II am going to bring this
situation to the attention of
the committee when the sec.
ton is taken up. AS author of
the law, 1 feel that it applies
to the teachers of the District
of Columbia, as well as other
Government employees"
Mr.. Prettyman ruled the other
day on the application of woman
for employment as a teacher in
the local schools, who was the
only eligible person on the list
for the job. In accordance with
rules of the Board of Education,
the woman was denied the posi-
ton because her husband was
employed in the Federal Govern
ment.
The Corporation Counsel ruled
that inaSmuch as she was the
only one who qualified for the
position, the rule of the school
board did not hold.
Seek Jobs Back
On the basis of Mr.. Pretty.
mans decision, it was learned to-
day half a dozen persons, who
resigned two years ago from the
local school system because Of
the ruling prohibiting employ.
ment of both husband and wife
in the Government, have applied
for unemployment.
These cases have been conSid-
cred by the personnel committee
of the Board of Education, which
will report their findings to the
full board tomorrow.
Some time ago the Civil Service
Commission held this clause did
not apply to District employees in
appointments or reinStatementS,
but ruled that it did apply in
cases of applications for transfer
from the District to the Federal
Government.
The Washington times., 1935-02-19
Treasury Studies
Payment in Cash

Treasury disbursing office Off
Gals were checking today on re-
suits of the experiment with cash
payments to 1900 employees Of
the War Department recently
with a view toward gradual ex-
tension to all departments in
Washington. The partial shift
was described today as fairly
satisfactory" although it has not
been decided as yet whether next
pay day will see other workers
paid with currency rather than
check.
The Washington times., 1935-02-19

Writes Short
Stories

A literary career is the secret
ambition of pretty Hazel Keath-
ley, clerk7stenographer with the
Public Works Administration
and a member of that units
popular All States Society.
Dimpled, constantly merry,
with blue eyes and jet-black
hair, Miss Keathley halls from
Jacksonville, Fla, where she at
tended high school before join
ing the Government service
several months ago.
While in high school she
The Washington times., 1935-02-19
Virginia Society
WinDance Tonight

A dance and entertainment will
be held by the Virginia State
Society at p. m. today in the
Willard Hotel. Former Governor
and Mrs. John Garland Pollard
and several congressman are eX-
pected to attend the affair.
The Washington times., 1935-02-19


Americans regard themselves
as worthy parents. But Austrian
Minister Edgar Prochnik went
to his sons school weekly to
keep in touch with young Ed
gar's interests. Madame Fujii,
wife of Counselor of Japanese
Embassy, arranges every-Satur.
day sightseeing trip of art gal
1eries, museums, etc., for small
daughter. Mrs. Donald Rich
berg is about to make spring
curtains and over-draperies. She
sews eXquiSitely, by hand. =.
Success of young Theodore Til
Ter with his marionettes and
plays is great pleasure to us.
We remember him as a little
boy, practically in rompers, CIV
ing shows for neighborhood
children. Mrs. Scott Hovey,
new Pan-Hellenic president, will
help decide in 1885 whether col
1ege sororities are worth keep
ing. .Saddest words in any
language: She must have been
beautiful-once.
The Washington times., 1935-02-19
Alabama Society
To Fete Governor

Honoring the new governor.
Bibb Graves, the Alabama State
Society will hold banquet, dance
and reception at the Willard Hotel
on March 8. Reservations are
being accepted by Allen Laster,
secretary, of the Bureau of Inter
nal Revenue, and other officers.
Evening star., 1935-05-13
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.

TODAY.
Meeting, Graduate Nurses Associa-
tion. American Red Cross Building,
8 pm.
Dinner. Jacoby Society, La Fayette
Hotel. $50 pm.
Dance, Hellenic University Club,
Hamilton Hotel, 9 pm.
Dinner. Sigma Xi, University Club,
7 pm.
Dinner, District Dental Society,
University Club, 7 pm.
Bingo party, Women's Benefit As
sociation, American Legion hall, Third
and Kennedy streets, $3.50 pm.
Meeting, Optimist Board, Hamilton
Hotel, 8 pm.
Dinner, American Psychiatric Asso-
citation, Mayfower Hotel, pm.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon, Trade Executives Asso-
citation, La Fayette Hotel, 1890 pm.
Dinner. Propellers' Club, La Fayette
Hotel, pm.
Rally, West Virginia Democratic
Club, caucus room of the Senate,
pm.
Meeting, Columbia Heights Business
Mems Association, Riggs Bank Build
ing, 1908 Fourteenth street, room 204,
$50 pm.
Meeting, Society for Philosophical
Inquiry, New National Museum Build
ing, 4:45 pm.
Meeting, National Institute of Adult
Education, Burlington Hotel, pm.
Luncheon, Ladies Aid, Universalist
National Memorial Church, 1910 Six
teenth street, pm.
Evening star., 1935-05-13
FIVE DEAD |NF|RE
IN MINING SHAT I
Six Others Injured as Flames
Shoot Up 500 Feet at West
Virginia Plant.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
FAIRMONT. w. Va, May 13.-
Five men were burned to death by
steam and six others injured, one OF
them critically, in a spectacular mine
shaft fire that shot flames 500 feet
into the air at the Bethlehem Mine
Corps No. Al shaft at nearby Bar
racksville early yesterday.
The mine was idle, but one pump
was operating in the 300-foot shaft
to free it of water. The fire broke
out about midnight, and a group of
men was sent into the pit to battle
the flames.
An electric fan was shut off and
the air current in the shaft forced
the flames almost 500 feet into the
air, investigators said. The group of
men, working with hose to extinguish
the flames. were burned by hot steam
from the streams of water forced back
upon them as the walls of the shaft
collapsed.
L. A. Howell SO, mine inspector
for the Bethlehem Corp. and widely
known in West Virginia for his mine
safety work, was among those fatally
burned. Howell came to this State
from Wales. where he was decorated
by the British government for his
mine safety activities.
The other dead are Terry Welty, 40,
section boss; D. w. Jones, %. as
s1stant safety director; Harry West,
80, a timberman, and Jay Wells.
plumber. All leave families. They
died shortly after reaching a hospital.
Veteran miners said the fire was
one Of the most unusual in the States
history, in that it broke out in the
timbering of the shaft, and that hot
steam caused the four deaths.
P. j. McGraW, a district mine in
spector, battled the blaze with 100
men. Officials could not give the
cause of the fire.
Evening star., 1935-05-13
SEARCH RENEWED
FOR FALLEN PLANE
200 C. C. C. Members in Party
Halted by Rain Near Har-
risonburg, Va.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special DlSpdICH 10 Inc SIdT
HARRISONBURG, Va. May 13-
Halted last night by drenching rain,
a searching party. including 200 C.
c. c. members and foresters, this
morning resumed their search Of the
rugged Brooks Gap County for an
airplane reported to have crashed
yesterday morning.
A clue as to the identity of the
ship was given by Lawrence Miller
of New Market, who said he expected
a friend, W. S. Wagner, to arrive at
New Market from Cincinnati at yes
terday noon. Efforts to located Wag-
ner by phone at Cincinnati were un-
successful
Russell Baker residing at Fullas
Run, said he saw the plane go into
a spin and apparently plunge into
the mountain side His impression
was that one wing was torn off in the
spin. He estimated he was about 3
miles from the plane, which was flying
unusually high.
Baker organized a searching party,
which spent the afternoon in the
mountains.
The territory is flown over daily
by mail planes between Washington
and Charleston, w. Va, but a check
indicated all mail planes on schedule.
Evening star., 1935-05-13
ANCIENT INDIAN
FORTS DISCOVERED
Clue to Mysterious Tribe
Found in Flint Hills
of Kansas.
By the Associated Press.


ARKANSAS CITY, Kans., May Is
A vanished race of fort building
Indians held the imagination and
fancy of residents here today as o. D.
Sartin, authority on ancient tribes,
pursued his investigation of their re-
Gently discovered Qualifications in the
flint hills of Kansas.
The forts, discovered by an inquiSi-
tive cowboy, indicate race older than
the Usage and Kaw Indians found
here by the White men, Sartin be-
lieves, and give evidence that their
builders were unusual Strategists who
had disappeared long before the
French and Spanish invasions.
Circumvented Surprise.
Sartin said he had communicated
with research groups, but had been
unable to find any who had heard OF
or seen similar forts. That they were
built by Indians, he is certain because
no evidence of white occupancy has
been found
Built along a 4-mile front, the
fortresses are so placed that surprise
attack would have been impossible.
Circular store rooms, one of which
yielded three gunny sacks of arrow
heads. indicated to him. Sartin said,
that the tribesmen lay back of their
stone ramparts fully prepared for siege
and attack.
Evidence of Attacks.
Sartin also found hundreds of arrow
heads surrounding the forts at ap-
proximately arrowshot, indicating
they were attacked at times.
Of their domestic utensils, Sartin
found only fire pits, some followed
stones and a few fragments OF pottery
Their flint mines. carefully lined with
stone as they worked deeper into the
earth in search of flint for arrow
heads. also have been eXcavated by
Sartin for miles around the bluffs on
which the forts were erected.
Similarity Noted.
Investigation of their burial grounds
indicated that many bodies apparently
were stuffed into crevices in the rocks
instead of being buried. This char
acteriStic was also noted by archeolo-
lists who investigated the famous cliff
dwellings of Mesa Verde, Colo. The
Mesa Verde Indians, vanished race
also were excellent stone maSons and
their cliff dwellings in the canyons OF
Mesa Verde were virtually impreg-
nable. They, too, were pottery makers
Evening star., 1935-05-13
Toxic Influence Felt in Siam,

BANGKOK, Siam, May 13 (P).-
japanese influence has spread in Siam
at rate so alarming to Western
powers, it was learned yesterday, that
diplomatic representatives have made
many inquiries at government Offices
The government denied that Siam
was being swung Intentionally into
Toklo's orbit. But there appeared
little doubt that Japan now was
Slams most favored nation"
Evening star., 1935-05-13
ARREST WOMAN DRIVER
Police Make Charge After Six
teenth Street Collision.

Claire C. Johnson, Al. a clerk, of
2013 New Hampshire avenue, was ar
rested on charge of reckless driving
last night after her automobile was
in collision al Sixteenth and Irving
streets with another operated by Hugh
M. Devine of 612 Farragut street. No
one was injured
The woman driver was taken to No.
10 precinct and required to post $25
collateral on the reckless driving
count. Witnesses said her car was on
the wrong side of the street when
the crash occurred
Evening star., 1935-05-13
SCHOOL PAY BILL KILLED
Gov. Lehman Vetoes Measure to
Restore Teachers Salaries.

Restore Teachers Salaries.
ALBANY, N. Y, May 13 R).-Gov.
Herbert H. Lehman today had re-
jected a bill designed to restore the
salaries of 10000 New York City
teachers and other civil service en-
ployes to the 1882 level. The salary
increase would have amounted to about
$13,000000 annually.
The Governor said in a veto mes
sage last night he was rejecting the
bill at the request of Mayor Fiorella
La Guardia.
The Washington times., 1935-01-19
GOV. NICE BACKS
GAMING DRIVE

MOUNT RAINIER, Md, Jan.
19.-Gov. Harry w. Nice is
morally" supporting the Prince
Georges county commissioners in
their drive to eliminate illegal
gambling.
The Governor told that yester'
day to a committee of ministers
of all denominations from the
country, who called on him at
Annapolis and urged him to take
definite stand on the gambling
evil.
The committee, headed by the
Rev. Walter P. Plumley, of the
Episcopal Church, presented a
resolution to the Governor adopted
at meeting of church represen-
tatives last Wednesday in Hyatts-
vile, urging that he lend his moral
support to the commissioners and
that he start probe of county
officials who have allowed gam
bling to flourish openly in the
county for the past Is years.
While giving his approval to
the action of the commissioners
in ordering all gambling places
closed, the Governor stated that
such a probe of county authorities
would "cast a reflection on the
previous administration"
He feels that a probe should be
made by the county rather than
the State, which lacks Jurisdiction
in such matter, he said.
In addition to the Rev. Mr..
Plumley, the committee which
visited the Governor included the
ReverendS Fred Miller, R. K
Nevitt, Keith Gusts and J. L.
Lambrides.
The Washington times., 1935-01-19
ADVISORY VOTE
SOUGHT IN D. c.

A referendum plan to give Dis
trict residents an advisory voice
on important issues in the city
government is under study at the
White House, it was learned today.
Commissioner George E. Allen
has instructed Corporation Coun-
sci E. Barrett Prettyman to draft
such bill permitting a referen-
dunn vote twice a year. The vote
would have no binding power on
the Commissioners.
Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen
expressed his disapproval of the
measure stating sentiment of Cit
liens could be obtained from
citizens association and other civic
units without the expense Of a
voting system.