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Evening star., 1936-09-23
VAST ORGANIZING
SO|L-WATER NEED
Upstream Engineering Con-
ference Told Conservation
Task Immense.

Nothing short of "far flung, war
time-like" organization will be ad-
equate to deal with soil and water
conservation in this Nation, Morris l..
Cooke, rural electrification admins
traitor, declared today at the Up
stream Engineering Conference in the
Commerce Auditorium.
A successful struggle against "the
inroads Of our agricultural well-being,
now in a full cry" demands the atten-
ton of men competent in fields of
management and organization as well
as representatives of a wide variety
of techniques and disciplines, he said.
Cooke suggested "a democratically
chosen moderator for every water
shed"-an official without legal au-
thority, but representative of the
citizens Of q watershed in all efforts
for the conservation of soil and water.
Co-ordinated Body Polite.
IF we are to save our lands and
make better use Of our waters" he
said, I'VE must work out a national
procedure which utilizes local auton-
omy as part Of a co-ordinated ma
tional body polite"
Cooke mentioned State compacts,
regional and State planning boards
and authorities such as the T. v. A.
as possible answers to the problem Of
coordination.
"Our battle against dust storms,
droughts, floods and especially soil
erosion" he continued, "is being re-
tarded by the disease of distance.
No section of the country can
be allowed to be ravished beyond a
certain point without the rest of the
country suffering"
Plan for Greatest Flood.
Sherman M. Woodward, chief water
control planning engineer for the T.
v. A., told the conference that in plan
ming flood control works, such as levees
and detention reservoirs, provision
must be made for the greatest flood
Evening star., 1936-09-23
GAS FIRMS MERGER
HEARING ORDERED
Utilities Commission and S. E. c.
to Receive Arguments
Next Week.

The hearings are scheduled next
week-one before the District Public
Utilities Commission and the other
before the Securities and Exchange
Commission-on the proposal by the
Washington Gas Light Co. to acquire
the Alexandria Gas Co. and the
Washington Suburban Gas Co.,
Hyattsville. The Public Utilities
Commission hearing is scheduled for
Monday and the Securities and Ex-
change Commission hearing for
Wednesday.
All three concerns are subsidiaries
of Washington & Suburban Co.'S, a
Massachusetts, trust, which has moved
to sell its control through invest
ment bankers This will offer oppor-
tunity for return of control of the
companies to Washington.
The Washington Gas offer for the
Alexandria and Hyattsville plants, to
which it sells gas for distribution, is
375000, a figure appearing in ap-
plications before both the regulatory
commissions.
Evening star., 1936-09-23
ENROLMENT LAG
LAID TO HOLIDAY
Total Reaches 1851, Gain
of 92O Over Second
Day of 1885.

With a holiday today for the parade
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
public school enrollments will be de-
layed until classes resume tomorrow.
Yesterday the total reached 88.57l,
a net gain for the day of 4,038 over
the opening day of school Monday.
The increase over the second day of
last year was only 900, according to
the statistical Office at the Franklin
Administration Building.
Some delay in enrolling the large
number Of pupils expected has been
attributed to today's holiday, officials
expressing the opinion many parents
would keep their children out of
school until after the days recess.
Another delay. although smaller in
proportion, was attributed to the
Jewish holidays now being observed.
The present total is SAB more
than the first day of school last year
but the increase has not yet reached
the maximum anticipated for the first
few weeks of school.
Evening star., 1936-09-23
GOODWIN MURDER
QUIZ AT STANDSTILL
Prisoners Stick to Story-Material
Under Victims Fingernails
Being Analysed.

Although numerous tips" from
civilians still were being run down,
the police investigation of the murder
of Mrs. Florence Goodwin, 43year -old
Government worker, was virtually at
standstin today.
Two colored men, Carl D. Chase,
25, house boy at Mrs. Goodwin's
fashionable boarding house at 1902
Sixteenth street, and John williams,
who formerly worked for her, were
still being questioned, but police had
not broken down their story that they
know nothing of the case.
A chemists report on his analysis
of material removed from under
Mrs. Goodwin's fingernails was still
awaited. Assuming she scratched her
attacker, police expect this analysis
to disclose whether the assailant was
white or colored.
Mrs. Goodwin, who worked as a
typist in the Procurement Division of
the Treasury Department, was beaten
to death in the Sixteenth street house
Friday morning.
Evening star., 1936-09-23
HURRICANE RELIEF
PROGRAM OUTLINED
$50 Families in Need and Crop
Damage Extensive in
Some Sections.
Pv the Associated Press.

Ev the Associated Press.
Reporting on surveys of the area
swept by last weeks tropical hurri-
cane, the Red Cross and Agriculture
Department said today $50 families
were in need of relief. and crop dam
age was extensive in some sections.
The Agriculture Department added,
however, that crop damage was not
as great as had been expected.
The Red Cross estimated $4,000
was needed for relief of the stricken
families.
Eighteen homes were reported
destroyed and IS damaged along the
North Carolina banks. Approximately
$50 families in the Norfolk, Va, area
were said to need relief.
Agriculture Department reports for
North Carolina indicated "only slight
storm damage to Fall beans in the
Elizabeth City section"
In Virginia, storm damage to crops
was confined largely to a narrow
strip about IS miles wide along The
coast" said the department.
Evening star., 1936-09-23
Ain,onyAccepted,
But Contested, Is
Before Court
Man Asks Ruling as Wife
Takes Cash, Then
Objects.

The unusual question Of whether a
wife may accept alimony from her
husband and at the same time con-
test the validity of the decree in
which the alimony was awarded was
placed before the United States Court
of Appeals today.
Through Attorneys Jean M. Board
man and S. Jay McCathran. David e
Harris of the Chastleton Hotel asked
dismissal Of the appeal of his wife,
Mrs. Frances c. Harris, from an abso-
lutte decree he obtained last Fall on
grounds of infidelity.'
Although the husband obtained the
divorce, the trial court ordered him
to pay $50 monthly to his wife. In
his petition today he said Mrs. Harris
demanded that he pay the monthly
allowance and that he has remitted
regularly during the pendency of the
appeal.
His attorneys argued that by de-
manding and receiving the benefits
OF the divorce decree Mrs. Harris
waived her right to appeal.
Evening star., 1936-09-23
VALUE Of TAXABLE
REAL ESTATE IS
REPORTED HIGHER
Tax Assessor Estimates In
crease of $12,658,769
in Fiscal Year.
U. S. RAISES EXEMPTED
HOLDINGS $84,335,560
Data Will Be Submitted to Ex.
pert Directing Study of
Fiscal Relations.

The assessed value of taxable real
estate in the District has been in
creased $l2 2,658, 1863 over the last fiscal
year during period in which the
United States raised its tax-exempt
holdings by S84 4.335 $50. according to
q report prepared today by Tax As
SCISSOR Fred D. Allen for the use of
j. L. Jacobs. Chicago efficiency engi-
neer and tax expert. Jacobs was ap-
pointed by President Roosevelt to di-
rect study of fiscal relations be-
tween the Federal and District Gov
ernments.
Taxable real estate on which cur
rent tax bills are based, the report
shows, amounts to Sl,144,457 ,153, as
compared with s1,13l ,798,3s4 in the
last fiscal year. This increase means
that property owners will be required
to pay s190,339 more than last year
into the Golfers of the District.
Value Set at S657, ,0S1,5O5.
Allen placed the latest value of tax
exempt Federal property at s657,OSl,-
sos. The value in the last fiscal year
totaled s572,745,945. Previous COM
pilations showed that Federal holdings
jumped nearly 81 per cent in the last
six years during a period the Federal
contribution to the expenses of the
District was cut from $9,500,000 to
s5,o00,O00.
The increase in the value of Fed
eral property in the last year is repre-
sented both in acquired land and new
buildings. The valuation of the build
ings Jumped S74,00000 and the land
S10000,000.
The increased assessment on tax
able real estate, Allen said, is rep
resented chiefly in new construction.
Aside from the jump in the value
of Government -owned property, the
report disclosed that other taX-eX-
empt property also increased in the
last year. The valuation on churches,
educational and charitable institu-
tions, for instance. was raised from
ses,l37,645 last year to s99,415,545
this year. A larger rise is shown,
however. in the valuation of property
owned by the District government,
which increased from S39, 1863, 1888 last
year to s6o,796 800 this year.
Donovan to Get Data.
Aliens report, together with other
statistical data being prepared by
various department heads of the Dis
trict government, will be submitted
this week to Maj. Daniel j. Donovan,
auditor and budget officer, who in
turn will forward it to Jacobs.
Other departments working on re-
ports for Jacobs include the police,
fire, water, sewer, highway and elec-
trical. DR.. Frank w. Ballou. super
intendent of schools, also is preparing
data showing the number of Govern
ment executives in the District apd
children of Government employees liv-
ing in Maryland and Virginia attend
ing the public schools without the
payment Of tuition.
Evening star., 1936-09-23
INQUEST PLANNED
IN WOMAN'S DEATH
Jury to Determine Whether As
phyxiation Was Suicide or
Accidental,

An inquest was scheduled today In
the death Of Mrs. Elizabeth Zegowitz,
81 and deaf, whose body was found
Monday in the gas-filled kitchen Of
her home at 612 @ street.
An autopsy, performed yesterday
after relatives told Coroner A. Ma
gruder Macdonald the woman had
been suffering from heart ailment,
revealed asphyxiation was the cause
Of death.
DR.. Macdonald decided, however,
to withhold issuance of q death GER
tifcate and let a jury determine
whether Mrs. Zegowitz, who was found
sitting near three open stove Jets with
her head muffled in dish cloth,
took her own life or died accidentally.
The woman's body was found by
two Of her sons, John and william,
when they returned home from work.
She has two other sons And three
daughters
Evening star., 1936-09-23
DR.. CALL WILL ADDRESS
COLLEGE CONVOCATION
Wilson Teachers Group to Meet
Monday Afternoon-Scholar-
ship to Be Announced.

Wilson Teachers College will have
It's first formal convocation of the
year at 2:30 pm. Monday, when DR.
Arthur e. Call, recently returned from
Europe, will discuss THE United
States and World Peace"
At the same time the Wilson Teach
ers' Alumni Association will announce
the winner of its annual scholarship,
awarded after competitive examina-
tion of washington high school stu
dents. The test was held after the
close of school last June.
Activities at Wilson got under way
yesterday with the opening event of
the annual freshman week. Miss Bet
tina Craig was crowned freshman
queen of the campus at the annual
student picnic, held on the grounds of
the Sixteenth Street Reservoir. About
$50 students were present, and Miss
Craig received crown from Preston
Newton, vice president Of the college
council.
Freshman week will end Friday.
when tea dance In n'honor Of the new
students will be held at the school.
Evening star., 1936-09-23
BYRD COMMITTEE
LAUNCHES STUDY
Step Taken to Coordinate
Work of Experts on Gov.
ernment Costs.
BY WILL P. KENNEDY.

Definite steps toward co-ordinating
the studies and recommendations of
two expert committees-one respon-
sible to Congress and the other to the
President-looking to simplification of
the organization Of the admins
trative branch of the Government for
economy and efficiency were taken to-
day at a conference called by Senator
Byrd of Virginia, chairman Of the
special Senate committee.
Conspicuous at the meeting were
Louis D. Brownlow, director of the
Public Administration Clearing House,
Chicago, formerly q District Commits
sioner, and Luther H. Gulick, director
Of the Institute of Public Administra-
ton, New York, who conducted the
fact finding study on which Byrd,
while Governor of Virginia, reorgan-
lied the State government.
These two experts on public ad-
ministration are special advisers both
to Senator Byrd's committee and to
President Roosevelt. They will be in
direct charge of co-ordinating the two
district studies-by the executive and
legislative branches Of the Govern
ment.
Members Are Present.
The Senate Committee members
present included Chairman Byrd,
author of the resolution calling for
the studies, and Senator Townsend of
Delaware, chairman Of the Republican
Senatorial Committee. Others in
cluded William Tudor Gardiner,
former Governor of Maine, and John
D. Clark, professor of economics at
the University of Nebraska, who are
members of the Byrd Advisory Com
mittee of experts.
Fred w. Powell, acting director Of
the Institute of Government Research,
who is in charge of the fact-finding
survey the Brookings Institution Is
making for the Senate committee,
made a works progress statement,
which emphasized some Of the major
problems before the reorganization
groups.
Powell promised that the Brookings
report will be ready well in advance
of the meeting of Congress in January.
Senator Byrd said he Is planning to
hold public hearings in November and
December.
Look for Overlapping.
Byrd announced that his committee,
while studying the administrative or
ganization of all executive depart
ments, has been giving primary atten-
tion to overlapping and duplication
among so-called New Deal" agencies,
81 of which were organized during the
last three years and some 40 of which
are still operating. Some Of these
units were set up by Congress. but
the majority were established by
executive order of the President. Some
of these, such as the Social Security
Board, the National Archives and the
Tennessee Valley Authority, are perma-
nent bodies. A proposal to make the
National Resources Committee .
permanent body was held up for
further study, ~ the last session Of
coayTsss closed.
Evening star., 1936-09-23

reasonably to be expected, otherwise
failure of the works themselves will
bring greater destruction than II no
work had been done"
In recognition Of the long-range as
poets of soil and water conservation,
the conference organizers have ar
ranged a meeting tomorrow for young
men. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
will be the first speaker. There will
be an address by Representative Nav
erick of Texas, reports by representa-
tives of various young peoples groups,
a showing Of the Resettlement Admin
istration movie, The Plow That Broke
the Plain" and brief talks by Cooke,
H. H. Bennett, chief of the Soil Con-
servation Service, and Reed w. Bailey,
director of the Inter r-Mountain Forest
and Grange Experiment Station.
Government bureaus, the principal
participants in the Government-spon-
sored conference, were taken to task
today by Robert E. Horton, consulting
hydraulic engineer Of Voorheesville,
N. Y.
THE practice now common in Gov
ernment bureaus of carrying out ex-
tensive experimental researches and
publishing only the Investigators con-
clusions, without the basic data, can
not be too strongly condemned and
should forthwith be discontinued, !"
Horton said. Such data may be and
often are vastly more valuable for
other purposes than for the purposes
for which they are collected.
See Science Handicapped.
1.-THE lavish expenditure of money
in the collection Of data, accompanied
by q parsimonious policy in the mat
ter Of publication Of the data retards
instead Of advancing science"
George D. Clyde, dean Of the School
Of Engineering, Utah State Agricul-
tural College, termed control of small
streams to permit more eficient use
Of water and to prevent erosion and
flood damage an urgent need through
out the United States.
The importance of the insignificant
raindrop and the lowly blade of grass
in soil conservation was stressed in
discussion and papers presented at
the conference yesterday. These units
also determine the rate Of water run
of and subsequent floods, it was as
serted.
Evening star., 1936-09-23
'SOFTNESS' CALLED
STUDENTS ENEMY
DR.. Gray of American University
Sounds Warning at Open.
ing Exercises,

A warning against what he de-
scribed as one of the most deadly
enemies" of modern college life
"softness'-was sounded today by Dr.
Joseph M. M. Gray, chancellor of
American University, at exercises
opening the school year at the institu-
ton.
The opening convocation exercises,
held in Metropolitan Memorial Church.
adjacent to the college campus. were
presided over by DR.. George B. Woods,
dean of the College of Liberal Arts.
Glasses will begin tomorrow morning
at the campus, but will start this eve
ming at the downtown center of the
university, 1901-1907 F street, the
Graduate School, and the School of
Public Affairs.
The big event last night was o big
Brother and Big Sister" party at the
college gymnasium.
Evening star., 1936-09-23

Of the Spanish civil war. In mo-
ment the throng Of spectators and
prospective buyers joined in attempt
ing to hush him while he and Bell
argued.
Listen to me-" Bell said sternly at
length. IF you want to argue. you
won't have a chance. I can talk lot
louder than you. I've been In this
business Is years"
After a sarcastic rejoinder from
jackson, the detective seized him. He
struggled, and time out was called on
the sale. Finally Jackson was taken to
the police station, where he elected to
forfeit SIS collateral Earlier, three
women arrested for picketing the auc-
ton the day before, were released on
32S collateral each ser . hearing Fri
day.
Evening star., 1936-09-23
APARTMENT DRIVE
FOR FUNDS SOON
Letters to Be Used in Red
Cross Campaign, Says
Mrs. Grayson.

Plans for soliciting thousands Of
apartment house dwellers in Wash
ington during the Red Cross roll call,
nounced today by Mrs. Cary T. Gray
son, chairman of the house-to-house
membership drive.
Mrs. Grayson said every apartment
building for which volunteer CAM
paign chairman can be obtained will
be included in the drive. This is the
first time, she explained, that the
District Red Cross Chapter has at
tempted this form of solicitation.
Residents in 46 apartment houses
already have indicated willingness to
supervise enrolment in their buildings.
Mrs. Grayson reported.
Named Unit Chairman.
Miss Elizabeth Wightman was ap-
pointed chairman of the unit that will
carry the drive to apartment houses.
She has been associated with the Red
Cross as volunteer for some time,
her first work being with the Pitts
burgh Chapter during the World War.
Miss Wightman urged today that
all persons willing to volunteer for
apartment house solicitation get In
touch with her at Red Cross roll call
headquarters, 1416 H street, telephone
National 3605.
Letters to Be Sent.
Apartment house captains" will not
be asked to 60 from door to door, it
was explained, but will distribute let
tiers now being prepared at roll call
headquarters to every apartment
dweller. The letters will include
enrolment blank ad-
dressed for return to the captain.
Lloyd B. Wilson, chairman of the
roll call, yesterday announced ap-
pointment of Laurence E. Rubel Of
Underwood g. Underwood as chair
man of campaign publicity. Assisting
Rubel are Edwin H. Powers of the
American Red Cross and representa-
tives of local newspapers, radio sta
tions, department stores and other
concerns able to get the roll call mes
sage to the public.
Evening star., 1936-09-23
Franco Sale Hecklers to Be
Outtalked, Says Auctioneer

The Maj. Ramon Franco auction,
which already has resulted in arrest
Of four persons, began its third session
today, with Auctioneer Benjamin Bell
prepared to outtalk any new hecklers
who may arise to plague him.
Bell yesterday drowned out an eager
questioner, who was hustled from the
sales room at the Washington CAL
leries, 722 Thirteenth street, by De-
tective j. o. Patton and charged at the
first precinct station with disturbing
the peace. He identified himself as
John Peace jackson, 6s, Of 1342 Co
lumbia road.
Jackson rose to ask what he called
q "civil question" about whether duty
had been paid on the goods belonging
to Franco. brother Of the rebel leader
Evening star., 1936-09-23
COUSIN OF PRESIDENT
TO BE "TORCH SINGER"

A new addition to the ranks of pro-
fessional entertainers in the Capital
will be made week from Friday,
when Mrs. Alexander Cochrane Forbes,
cousin of President Roosevelt and
daughter of the late Minister to Can.
ada, Warren Delano Robbins. makes
her debut as torch singer" In the
Mayfower lounge.
known as Sunny" Robbins before
her marriage to member of one of
Boston's most prominent families, Mrs.
Forbes appeared a week ago OF Mai.
Bowes' amateur hour. She since has
had q number Of offers to appear
as Q professional. Her engagement
here will hs her first.
La gaceta., 1936-01-02
PROGRAMS DE RADIO

Estaci6n de Clearwater Y ca
dena Nacional: $50, noticias /;
go, Edwin Hill; 7:45, estu-
dios de vida; 8;45, orquesta de
cuerdas de la NBC; 900, pro-
grama del Showboat; 1000,
Paul Whiteman; LIS, Leon
ard Keller; IL 80, orquesta sim
f6niea de Minneapolis; IL 100,
violinista Shandor; IL :08, or
questa de King, y 1890, Leo
Zollo.
Estacion WDAE y cadena
Columbia 6 100, Patti Chap
pin; 6:35, George Hall; 700,
Myrt y Marge; 7:15, Buddy
Clark; 7:3O, Kate Smith; 8 100,
orquesta de Dargherty; $40,
Ell fin de un Sueno; 900, Wal
ter O'Keefe; $3.50, Phil Cook;
1920, la Marcia del TEMPO;
1O;45, Mary Eastman; IL :15.
orqCesta de Isham Jones, y Il:
80, ~orquesta de Dorsey.
La gaceta., 1936-01-02
TOSCANINI Y
DIRIGIRAN LA ORQUES-
ia ~SINFONICA DE LA G. M.

New York, Enero LA or
questa sinf6nica de la empire
sa General Motors, integrada
por 70 mGsicos, tendra como
directories de honor, en- la tenn
porada de los conciertos de in
vierno, a Arturo Toscanini, ell
famoso director, y Leopoldo
Stokowski.
El domingo 5 de enero toca-
"a con la orquesta la famosa
mujer violinista Erica Morini.
Leopoldo Stokowski tomara
la batuta de manos de Emo
y dirigira ell IL de ene-
70, cuando tambien cantara
con la orquesta la famosa con-
tralto hungara Enid Szantho.
Gladys Swarthout, la renom
brada mezzo- soprano, canta-
"a con la orquesta, ell dia 10, Y
Lauritz Melchior, ell celebre tie
nor "wagneriano" ell dia &c de
nero.
La gaceta., 1936-01-02

Ell bale de c~oronaci6m

Ell bale de corondci6n
Extraordinario ell bale de
Aho Nuevo en- Ell palacio del
Centre Asturiano.
Fiesta brillantisima en- la
que fue coronado la nueva Rel
ma elegida en- Noviembre. En-
ell teatro Sc llev6 a efecto la CO.
ronaci6n. AL dar ell reloj las IL,
subi6 a su trono democratico,
la reina, Srta. Cristina COMA
lez. Preciosa, vestida con un ele
gantisimo traje de raso Iblan-
CO, con encajes ~plateados, avan-
z6 hacia ell trono, donde ell Pre-
sidente, Sr. Luis Lopez lie puso
la corona que ostentaba la Srta.
Julia Fernandez, que en- esa
noche cumplia su reinado.
Las damas Sc nombran jose
fina Fernandez, Maria, Gomez,
Vicenta Longo y Dolores Sua-
reZ.
Lindos bouquets de flores lie
garon hasta ell escenario. Obse-
quio para la nheva reina y su
corte. Actu6 de maestro de ce-
remonia ell Sr. Arturo Moran.
Despues del acto de corona
ci6n Sc efectu6 una reception
en- uno de los salones, brindan-
dose por la corte entrante y la
saliente. Sc obsequi6 con deli
cioso ponche y finfsimos dulces.
Ell bale continue en- medic
de la mayor algeria. En- ambos
salones era cast impossible ell
movimiento.
Ademas de la orquesta ia
Tropical, que tOcaba en- la sa-
la cantina, Sc ola la gaita.
La orquesta art Hazel and
His New Workers" TOGO los bal
tables en- Ell piso alto, ganando-
Sc los aplausos de los bailado-
res.
Una noche inolvidable.