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Evening star., 1936-01-08
D. c. BOARD GIVEN
LEEWAY IN GAG"
RULE ON BUDGET
Commissioners Confer With
King After Order Is
Disclosed.
OFFICIALS IN DILEMMA
ON FUTURE COURSE
Three Highest Local Authorities
Told They May Exercise
Own Discretion"

Administration officials will give the
Commissioners some leeway," it was
reported today, in complying with the
gag" rule issued by the Budget
Bureau forbidding any officer or en-
ploye of the Federal or District agen-
cies to advocate or oppose any legis-
lation until the policy of the President
is sought and ascertained.
There was no official statement to
this effect today, but the fact re-
mained that after the order was dis
closed yesterday the Commissioners
conferred with Chairman King Of the
Senate District Committee and OPP
posed new taxes for the District and
advocated appropriations not yet
sponsored by the Budget Bureau.
Some District officials declared to-
day they were somewhat Inundated"
by the effect of the order. as applied
to the District government.
Discussed Taxes.
Discussing the conference with Sem
ator King late yesterday, one official
said: We'll, if that was treason. the
Budget Bureau will have to make the
most of 1t. We discussed both taxes
and appropriations with the Senator.
What in the world are we to do
about it? Members of the Senate or
House District Committee will be
wanting our views on various District
matters at the time we may be in con-
ference with them.
"If we refuse to talk we may be in
contempt of the congressional COM
mittee, and if we do talk we will be in
contempt of the Budget Bureau"
Elsewhere, it was learned, the Com
missioners have been given to und i
stand, correctly or not. that the Cor
miSsioners would be allowed some di--
cretion in obeying the Budget Bureau
mandate. The Commissioners, how
ever, plan to obey the rule strictly as
to formal actions they may take in in
itiating either appropriation or legis-
lative proposals or in making reports
on such matters pending in Congress.
Held Informal Chat"
The conference with Senator King
was described by one source as being
only an informal chat" and mot
really in violation of the Budget Bu-
reau rule
Heretofore. administration rules have
forbidden District as well as Federal
officials from going to members or
committees of Congress with pleas for
appropriations not approved by the
Budget Bureau as being in accord With
the financial policy Of the President" E"
Many a proposal has been stopped b.
that rule.
The new ban includes mere policy
matters, along with appropriation re-
quests. The rule now is that the
Budget Bureau will consult with the
President on appropriation matters
and the National Emergency Council
will act in cases Of the legislative or
policy matters.
Evening star., 1936-01-08
PIT. A. ASKS REPEAL
OF "ANTI.RED" RIDER
Central High Association Declares
Measure Used to Attack
School Officials.

Repeal of the anti-communism rider
to the current District appropriation
bill is demanded in a resolution adopt
ed by the Central High School Parent
Teacher Association and forwarded to-
day to the Appropriations Committee
of the Senate and House.
The association, headed by H. c.
Phillips, declared the congressional
provision prohibiting teaching or ad-
vocating communism in the public
schools has been used as means Of
attacking by inference the public
school system and public school Off
cials."
The resolution declared members
of the association "by personal obser-
vation and daily contact with their
children believe that such attacks have
no basis either in fact or in law" and
that the resulting publicity has Gre
ated an unfavorable and unjustifiable
opinion Of our public school system
and public officials"
Representatives Blanton of Texas,
Randolph of West Virginia, Jenckes Of
Indiana and others have asserted they
will fight to retain the amendment as
District law.
Evening star., 1936-01-08
ZiOncheck Asks
"RecOrd" Publish
Trial Transcript
Seeks House Consent for
Publication, but Smell
Makes Objection.

Representative Zioncheck, Demo-
crat, Of washington today asked
unanimous consent In the House to
put in the Congressional Record a.
transcript made by his own stenos-
rapher at his trial on drunkenness
charge in Police Court yesterday.
He first asked that the transcript be
printed in the largest type used in the
Record but when Representative Rich,
Republican, of Pennsylvania inter-
posed an objection that this might
lead to other members making similar
requests Representative zioncheck
merely requested that 1t be printed.
Minority Leader Smell said it had
not been the custom to allow Police
Court proceedings to be printed in the
Record and that for the present, at
least, he would object.
Zioncheck said: "I think you mem-
bers Of the House should know whas
is going on"
Evening star., 1936-01-08
MAN RESISTING H0LD-UP
GETS FRACTURED SKULL

Legarnet Davis, IS, attendant at a
filling station at 22l8 Champlain
street, was in an undetermined condi-
tion at Emergency Hospital today
after being struck on the head with
an iron bar while resisting hold-up
attempt at the station last night. Ply
sicians said he may have a fractured
skull.
Police were told a colored robber
hit Davis with the iron bar and then
fled without taking any money.
After sitting in lunch room on
Fifth street near K for more than an
hour last night, two men arose sud-
denly from their seats and trained
pistols on James Sinclair, an employe,
robbing him of SIS. Sinclair said he
could identify the pair.
Evening star., 1936-01-08
Food Taken Three Men and Dog
Stranded on Barge in Potomac
Ice Finally Breaks After Holding
Vessel T,UO Weeks ks-HOle St0ue in
Hull by Grinding Floes.

Bundles of food and a can of coal oil
were at the Fisheries Bureau dock yes
terday. but it was a problem how to
get them to the barge, more than a
mile away and cloaked by fog. Besides,
the river ice had moved toward shore,
making 1t dangerous to put out boat.
The electric warning gong was
changing steadily. No one could see
through the fog more than 100 feet
Edwin D. Pelot, station superintendent.
said:
"I've got some of the best river men
in the business working here, but no
ones going to take boat out in tnat
stuff"
A chilling wind swept of the river,
and watchers could hear the ice
crunching as the day grew warmer.
The fog was lifting. Soon the other
side of the Potomac could be seen.
At l pm. the white mist shut out
everything but the gray frame build
ings of the fisheries bureau At 1:20
pm. the visibility was five or six miles
up and down the river. The Norfolk
boat, Northland, nine hours late,
swept by.
Finally Make Start.
Pelot said then it would be all
right to send a boat. So a motor was
attached to small skiff and provi-
sions loaded and with a reporter and
photographer on board. Every now
and then a chunk banged against the
prov and the skiff lurched. The pilot
had to twist and turn through
crevasses in the frozen river. In the
channel and clear Of the ice the boat
drove steadily to the barge's side.
Spook ran to the rail and barked.
Wright and his companions looked
down, smiling. The provisions were
lifted up.
Thanks" the men said. We'll
sure need those now."
Drifting ice pushed the Sidney from
its anchorage at Browns Point, where
it was loading gravel, the day after
Christmas. The barge was carried
downstream, dragging anchors, to its
present position. Its owners, Wal
than and Co., Baltimore, have been
notified and are expected to send a
tug soon to tow it to Norfolk.
Evening star., 1936-01-08
RENO DECREE WON
BY MRS. RENNERT
Society Matron Reported on
Way to Miami to Wed
Walter WaImsIey, Jr.

Hugo RaSin Rennert, prominent in
Washington and Philadelphia society
and now a resident of Richmond, was
divorced in Reno, New, yesterday on
grounds of cruelty by Mrs. Maria
Teresa -Domenech Rennert,
comely and popular Washington So
ciety matron. The trial was conducted
in private, the Associated Press re-
ported.
1t was reported in Reno that Mrs.
Rennert is en- route to Miami to marry
Walter Walmsley. jr., an American
consul at Havana. This. however.
could not be verified mere and the AS
sociated Press was unable to reach
Walmsley in Havana or Miami.
The RennertS were married in
Madrid, Spain, November 10, 1928,
and have an 8-year-old daughter,
Maria Elena. An agreement gives the
mother custody of the child, with the
father contributing $25 monthly for
her support.
Mrs. Rennert, a native of Spain, has
been described as one of the best
dressed women in Washington. Friends
of Mr. Rennert, who formerly was
connected with the Mixed Claims
Commission, said he has lived in
Richmond since his wife went to Reno.
Considerable publicity attended Mrs.
Rennert'S efforts in the Spring of 1884
to bring into this country an African
pigmy who had been sold as a slave
to her step-father, Gen. Nunez de
Prado, while the latter was captain
general of the Spanish Province CT
Andalusia.
The slave, whose name was Gogo,
remained in Spain when immigration
authorities banned him from this
country. At that time Gogo was no
larger than 3-year-old, although he
had attained the age of 80. He could
play the guitar, wait on table and run
errands.
The slaves" status was that of a
privileged family retainer and Mrs.
Rennert fought valiantly but without
success to have him admitted to this
country. The State Department de-
clined to intercede, as did the Spanish
Embassy, on the ground that Gogo
obviously. was no Spaniard and should
not be included in the Spanish quota.
Evening star., 1936-01-08
BUSES FASTEST,
COMPANY STATES
Results of Tests Given to
Utilities Commission at
Hearing.

Buses operated by the Capital
Transit Co. average a speed OF little
more than miles an hour better than
street cars, William B. Bennett, as
sistant to the president of the concern.
told the Public Utilities Commission
today.
He showed this Is true in both morn
ing and evening rush hours and that
afternoon traffic invariably is slower
than that of mornings.
The average speed Of street cars, as
shown by tests made on several lines.
Is 87l miles an hour, Bennett said.
Similar tests on busses showed an
average of 1921 miles an hour, he
said, offering the following table:
Averages in the morning rush hours,
8.66 for cars, lib for buSses.
Midday averages, 9.26 for cars, 11.39
for buses.
Evening Averages Lower.
Evening rush-hour averages-7.99
for cars, 1922 for buses.
Before Bennett returned to the wit
ness stand, j. E. Heberle, vice presi-
dent and controller of the company,
submitted q tabulation showing the
average fare paid by revenue passen-
gers since introduction Of the weekly
pass system is 6.03 cents. as against
an average of 7.9 cents under the old
10-cent and token rates.
At the request of Peoples Counsel
William A. Roberts, Heberle said that,
on the basis of mills per bus mile,
the company now pays 48,140.43
taxes to the District. On basis Of
per cent on the gross revenue. as
paid on the car lines, the company
would have to pay $46,057.63.
Another table submitted by Heberle
showed a total of 43.44 miles of track
age has been abandoned or removed
by the company since December l.
1888, when the two old companies
merged. Previously 2.74 miles had
been abandoned, making total OF
46.18 miles in territory now served
either by buses or re-routed car lines.
Outspoken opposition to construc-
ton of subways. voiced by Heberle, also
was before the commission.
Roberts provoked the statement OF
Heberle by closely questioning him as
to how the concern would be able to
meet demands for service If the pres
ent rate of increased street car patron
age continued.
Roberts outlined his plan for con-
struction Of more than four miles OF
subways at a cost he estimated at about
$4,000, 900, with tube lines running
from E street to Thomas and Dupont
Circles, and from Seventeenth and E
streets to the vicinity of judiciary
Square.
Assuming that a reasonable portion
Of. the cost would be borne by the
Federal Government and that the re-
mainder could be financed through
Federal aid" Roberts said late yester-
day, "do you believe more satisfactory
service could be rendered by these
subways than is given at present?"
mo" Heberle answered.
Evening star., 1936-01-08
TWO 0STATESASKED.
TO ADOPT DISTRICT.
SPEEDING PENALTY
Van Duzer Wants Virginia
and Maryland to Re-
woke Permits.
10000 NEARBY DRIVERS
USE CAPITALS STREETS
Civitan Club Commends Traffic
Director for Sponsoring New
Safety Measure.

Traffic Director William A. Van
Duzer moved today to include Mary
land and Virginia motorists under his
new policy of automatically suspend
Ing or revoking drivers permits OF
convicted speeders.
In letters to John @. Rhodes. Vir-
ginia commissioner of motor vehicles,
and Walter R. Rudy, Maryland COM
missioner, Van Duzer asked co-opera-
ton in the new program.
The Traffic Departments authority
to suspend or revoke drivers licenses
is limited to District residents, leaving
some 10000 motorists who come here
daily from adjoining areas outside its
jurisdiction.
Van Duzer said:
ITO make the new regulations effec-
tive, Virginia and Maryland drivers
must be liable to the same penalties
as those who live in the District.
Moreover, it is unfair to penalize Dis
trict drivers while others go unpun-
ished. The Virginia and Maryland au-
thorities have co-operated with us in
other safety measures and hope they
will do so in this one"
The District Commissioners ap-
proved the new policy yesterday, but
raised the minimum rate for which
speeders' licenses may be suspended
or revoked from 80 to 35 miles an
hour. The policy provides for
schedule of suspensions of increasing
severity with each offense.
Approval came also from the Civil
tan Club of Washington, the Board
of Directors commencing Van Duzer
in a resolution adopted last night
The board expressed hope the new
policy will be strictly enforced" ac-
cording to Charles G.. Morgan, jr.,
secretary.
The policy was announced by M. o.
Eldridge. head of the Board of Revo-
cation and Suspension of Permits. who
said it will be put into effect within
10 days.
Police Court Judge Gus Schuldt,
who is handling traffic cases this
month, said today that a plea by a
defendant that his driving permit
might be suspended or revoked if he
should be convicted will avail moth
ing in cases coming before him.
II have been in favor of safety
measures to cut down traffic accidents
for many years." he declared. i will
not consider the possibility of a IL
cense being suspended as an extenu-
atinp circumstance.
I'VE have tried to equaliZe penalties
and make them fit the offense. A IS
fine may be as much of penalty for
one man as a $50 fine is for another.
A speed of 40 miles an hour on an
open road in broad daylight may not
be as dangerous as speed OF Is
miles an hour in congested traffic.
so far as my court is concerned,
the new policy Of suspending or re-
voking permits will not enter into
consideration when speeders are be-
ing tried. Motorists have been given
advance warning, and am in favor
of taking adequate measures to pro-
tect the public from speeders."
Evening star., 1936-01-08
KING BACKS FIGHT
ON D. {. TAX RAISE
Senator Also Against Use of
Local Revenue in Courts
Construction.

Plans Of the Commissioners to op-
pose proposals for large boosts in
District taxes on the ground the
Budget Bureau has refused to permit
use of all revenues now in sight from
present levieS have the Endorsement
of Chairman King of the Senate Dis
trict Committee, it was stated today.
Senator King also has approved a
new plan for financing construction
of the new minor courts buildings out
of District revenues instead Of seeking
legislation for a direct loan of $780,
600 for the purpose from the United
States Treasury, officials said.
These two important District mat
tiers were discussed late yesterday at
a conference between the Commission
ers and Senator King at the Capitol.
Commission Hazen, with the sup
port of his associates at the District
Building, previously had declared
against proposal for boosts in taxes,
and submission of the 1887 budget to
Congress Monday clearly showed their
reasons.
The Budget Bureau ruthlessly
slashed the Commissioners estimates
of SAT ,482, 900 to 43,100,000 and Dis
trict officials calculated yesterday this
would set up an expected surplus at
the end of the next fiscal year of
about So, 300 900, or possibly somewhat
more, depending on the extent Of in
creased tax collections under present
levieS.
Hazen suggested to Senator King
that some of this surplus be used to
start construction next year of the
new homes in Judiciary Square for
the Police, Municipal and Juvenile
Courts, in which there also would be
provision for housing the recorder of
deeds office.
How much Is to be asked will de-
pend on whether the construction
program would be over a period of
two or three years, it was said. If
the program is fixed for three years,
81 ,000,0 900 Of the surplus would be
used and more If the construction
is to be completed in two years. The
loan proposed will be called back.
The Commissioners must submit the
new plans to the Budget Bureau. The
question also is expected to be raised
when Senate and House committees
consider their actions on the estimates
as proposed by the Budget Bureau.
Adequacy of present District rev.
enues has been studied by a COM
mittee of District officials headed by
Corporation Counsel E. Barrett
Prettyman. More than month ago
the group submitted a partial report
suggesting the need for much larger
sums each year for permanent i'm
provements and for maintenance
costs.
The group made no recommends
ton at the time on the proposed
adoption Of an income, inheritance.
increased gasoline tax and an auto
mobile weight tax, intended to re-
place the present personal property
tax on vehicles.
Evening star., 1936-01-08
1853 CRIMES Barred
BY REVENUE BUREAU
Years Report Reveals 14'
Charges Against Own En-
ployes-Many 0usted.

By the Associated Press.
The Internal Revenue Bureau, pur-
suing its campaign against tax law
violators, recommended the prosecu-
ton of 159 criminal cases and secured
SO convictions and $20,212,161 in addi-
tional taxes and penalties in the last
fiscal year.
The bureaus annual report showed
today that lat charges were preferred
against its own employees. These re-
suited in the dismissal of SO employees
and the prosecution of IL, of whom II
were convicted.
Rewards of $43,652 were paid for
Information which led to the collec-
ton of additional taxes.
Evening star., 1936-01-08
Partner, in Suit,
Says Game Cocks
Kept on Hog Farm

Asking a dissolution of partnership,
Clifford A. Williams, 216 G street, told
District Supreme Court today that his
partner, Earl G. Hendrick, Vetarans'
Administration employe, used their
hog farms in Virginia Highlands to
keep game cocks.
williams said Hendrick had other
businesses besides hog raising and that
one of them made it necessary that
he provide quarters for some so roost-
ers and care for injuries they received
during periods when Hendrick had
them away from their quarters.
4 The plaintiff also asked the court to
order Hendrick to account for the
profits from their hog farm business.
Evening star., 1936-01-08
OVERTIME PROTESTED
Treasury Employees Seek Extra
Pay for After-Hours Work.

Objecting to what they term "over-
time" work, some members of the
staff of the Procurement Division of
the Treasury Department, at spe-
cial meeting recently, passed a reSo-
luton asking that If the Government
found it necessary to work personnel
overtime, extra compensation be paid
for 1t.
This was announced by the FEEDER
alton Of Architects, Engineers, Chem
lists and Technicians in statement,
which said q meeting Of the fedora
ton will consider report on the
matter tomorrow night at $40 F street.
Evening star., 1936-01-08
CHILD GIVEN SHELTER
Found in Vacant House, Girl Is
woman's Bureau Problem.

Three-year-old Doris Phillips. who
was found Monday night in vacant
house on E street, today became a
problem to the Woman's Bureau.
Until her mother, who gave birth to
a boy last Saturday, is released from
Gallinger Hospital, police are con-
sidering placing the child in q charity
home.
Meanwhile, Doris has been given
temporary shelter at the Children's
Receiving Home. The girls father.
Eugene Phillips, was released after
brief questioning by police.
The Washington times., 1936-02-20

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Evening star., 1936-08-01
MINISTER TAKES
POST TOMORROW
Rev. S. G. Spottswood to
Talk at Wesley A. NJ. E.
Zion Church.

Rev. Stephen Gill Spottswood, new
minister of the John Wesley A. NJ E.
Zion Church, will assume his duties
there tomorrow, preaching at II am.
and 8 pm.
He came here from st. Luke's
African M E. Church, Buffalo, N. Y,
where he had been pastor since 1882.
Previous pastorates were in Indianap-
oils, Ind; Winston-Salem, N. c.; New
Haven, Conn, and Portland Me. He
is vice president of the Board of
Christian Education of the A. M. E.
Zion Church, has been a General Con-
ference delegate and member of the
Episcopal Committee of the A M E.
Zion General Conference since 1923.
He maintains seven days program
in his church, featuring adult educa-
ton and social service. Mr.. Spots
wood has been a contributor to the
periodicals Of his denomination. At
present he is writing a book manu-
script on the organization Of the local
church.
Evening star., 1936-08-01
OPEN AIR SERVICES
DR.. Braskamp to Address
Masonic Rites.

The open-air religious services to be
held at Temple Heights at pm. to-
morrow, under the direction of DR..
Simpson B. Daugherty, assistant grand
chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Ma
sons, will be addressed by DR.. Bernard
Braskamp, pastor of Gunton- Temple
Memorial Presbyterian Church.
The musical program will be under
the direction of ]. Walter Humphrey,
with James L. Jones, basso soloist, &C
companied by Mrs. Mabel Peft.
The special guests will be members of
the following blue lodges: Federal, Po-
tomac, Cathedral and Theodore Roose-
welt. together with members of the fol-
lowing Eastern Star chapters: Mizpah,
Cathedral and Federal, with their
families.
Evening star., 1936-08-01
Denver Man
WillOccupv
Pulpit Here
DR.. Anderson to
Preach at New York !
Avenue Church. i!

THE guest speaker at the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church to-
morrow will be DR.. Martin e. Ander.
son, minister Of the Central Presby-
terian Church of Denver, Colo. His
topic will be "Christ's Mission and
Ours"
The General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church in the United States
has been invited to observe its 150th
anniversary in Washington in 1888.
and DR.. Anderson has been appointed
by the moderator to the Sesquicen-
tennial Committee to arrange for this
celebration.
The vesper service will be observed
at pm. DR.. Anderson will speak on
Things We Most Certainly Believe"
Prayer service will be held Thursday
evening.
Evening star., 1936-08-01
BAPTISTS TO HEAR
GUEST PREACHER
Rev. J. E. Berkstresser of
Alabama at Metropoli-
tan Church.

At the Metropolitan Baptist Church,
in the absence Of the pastor, DR.. John
Compton Ball, the guest preacher will
be Rev. j. E. Berkstresser, pastor of
the Baptist Church of Sylacauga, Ala
He will speak at II am. on "The Be-
levers Five Crowns, and How to Win
Them" In the evening his subject
will be "A Lawyer in Heaven"
The teachers of the Bible school
meet Thursday at o'clock for lesson
discussion. Subject: philips Mission
ary Labors." Prayer service Thursday
evening. Leroy Gravatte will lead.
The Live Wire" Bible Glass will hold
religious services at the Northeast
Mission, 1340 Eighth street Friday
evening. Ralph Gross will speak.