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The Washington times., 1936-03-09
D. {. FUND BILL
TO BE AIRED

Further encouragement that the
District appropriation bill will be
revised before the Senate agrees
to. enter into a conference with
the House on the matter was given
today in a statement from Sena-
tor Millard E. Tydings CD of
Maryland.
Senator Tlydings is an eX-officio
member of the Senate Subcom-
mittee on District appropriations
and a member of the Senate Dis
trict committee.
He said today he had been un-
able to give much attention to the
bill as proposed by the House, but
when advised that severe cuts had
been made in budget estimates,
notably the reduction of the fed
eral contribution to $2,7O0,0OO, he
said:
"It seems to me that that is
very drastic cut and it must
be very seriously considered. l
would think that before such a
proposition is acted upon it will
have to be gone over very care
fully"
The Washington times., 1936-03-09
$500 OF AAA
STAFF SEEN IN
NEW WSET-UP
Senator Smith Pushes
Plan Believed Sure
OF Enactment

Efforts of Senator Ellison D.
Smith CD OF South Carolina, to
have the $500 employees of the
AAA, now working or on fur
Tough, put to work on the AAA
substitute plan were pushed one
step nearer enactment today.
Although a quorum was not
present at the executive meeting
of the Senate Agriculture Com
mittee meeting today when the
matter was considered, the clerk
of the committee was directed
to poll committee members for
their votes on the joint reSolu-
ton which would carry out this
program.
Because Senator Smith, author
of the resolution, is chairman
of the committee and respected
by the Senate for his knowledge
of the situation. it is expected
the report will be favorable.
The joint resolution is a broad
one and seeks to overcome all
obstacles presented by govern
mental red tape or department
regulations in keeping on the
rolls the personnel that was built
up to handle the many ramifica-
tionS of the AAA.
The Washington times., 1936-03-09
NEWST|PS WIN
TIMES PRIZES

Tipsters were on their toes last
week, and the judges in The Wash
ington Times News Tip contest
had a difficult task in selecting
the winners, so many tips were
received.
One of the prizes went to the
tipster who gave The Times ex-
elusive information that Oleg
Troyanovsky, schoolboy son OF
the Russian ambassador. is to be
operated on for appendicitis.
Other winning tips were for in
formation that the big black bear
broke loose in the Northeast; of
the discovery of a body in Lang
don Park; of a boy struck by a
railroad train; If the disappear
ance of a store clerk with several
hundred dollars; of the driver
who crashed the White House
gates; of the undermining of the
M Street bridge; of the bribery
arrest in Arlington; of the death
of boy in an automobile acci-
dent near LAUREL of family car
ried down ladders from a blazing
home, and of a truck-car crash on
River Road.
The Washington times., 1936-03-09
Ken Murray
Says:

That Black senatorial COM
mittee has certainly caused
quite a storm of protest by
it's seizure of 100000 wires
from the files of the telegraph
companies Darn funny, these
Senators. With the largest
library in the land next door,
they still want to read other
peoples mail.
Senator Black claims that
the wires were paid for by
lobbyists who wanted to influ.
ence legislation. Guess you'd
call that "telegraft."
On the other hand, anti.
New Dealers charge that this
comprises an interference with
the right of free speech. Well,
with the rates they're charging
at the present time, you'd hard
ly call a telegram free speech.
So remember:
A senatorial committee is a
body that keeps minutes. and
wastes hours.
Copyright, 1896, Mcknight
Syndicate, Inc.
The Washington times., 1936-03-09
Mdnsfie|d's Sprint
In F|dppy 0vertodt
Too Speedy for THE

Little things like a heavyweight
overcoat and the march of time
cannot and do not stand in the
way of the law.
Capt. Richard E. Mansfield,
commanding the Ninth police
precinct, proved that to Judge
Gus Schuldt in Police Court to-
day when he described how he
caught a thief half his age after
a four block sprint.
The captain was standing at
Seventh and H Streets Northwest
last night when John Chesley, "a,
colored, dashed from a store with
the proprietor in hot pursuit.
Joining the chase, Captain
Mansfield overlook the youth and
jailed him on a petty larceny
charge. Asked by Judge Schuldt if
his heavy police overcoat did not
hinder him, Captain Mansfield
said:
mot a bit, Your Honor. 1t
was heavy and I'm twice as old
as that boy, but I knew I'd get
him."
Chesley, who gave his address
as the 1900 block of Sixth St.
N. w., pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to serve 180 days in Jail.
The Washington times., 1936-03-09
Sen. Glass Fur Coat
Stolen From Room

Following several days and
nights of comparative quiet on
the crime front, Washington po-
lice today were facing the prob,
lem of finding the thieves who
stole Senator's mink coat. They
also sought two hold-up men and
a number of burglars.
Senator Carter Glass, of Vir-
ginia, went on a vacation over
the weekend and returned to his
suite at a downtown hotel last
night to discover that his mink
lined coat, valued at $4,000, had
been taken while he was away.
1t was the coat in which he
has been photographed so many
times and which is we'll known
to many WaShingtonians.
Dairy Man Held Up
The holdup men sought are two
colored men who yesterday held
up Edward C. Hutchins, of Bar
croft, Va, driver for the Chest
nut Farms Dairy. They took 81
from him and 10 pounds of butter
from the wagon he was driving
The robbery took place in the 600
block of Twenty-third st. N. W..
Both men were armed.
Mrs. Will Rogers, wife of an
okla h ON a Representative. re-
ported to police that her pocket
book containing $15.37 was lost
or stolen in a Pennsylvania Ave
nue drug store yesterday.
A young white man is sought
for robbing Miss Camille Holmes
of 800 Eighteenth st. N. w. of
$23 at Seventeenth and H SITS.
N. w. last night. The man
stopped her and asked for a
dime, Miss Holmes told police,
and while she was fishing in
The Washington times., 1936-03-09
TONS OF SHAD
DIEM BASIN

In the event you, as a local
angler, are wondering what be-
came of the energetic shad that
shook itself loose from your hook
a few weeks ago and darted back
into the murky depths of the
Tidal Basin, be it recorded that,
in company with thousands of
his fellow shad, he is being dealt
with summarily by the National
Capital Parks Service.
In the past week, more than
10 tons of dead shad have been
transported to the disposal plant
at Four Mile Run, Va, where
they are being cremated. The
work, according to C. Marshall
Finnan. National Parks head, is
being aided and abetted by flocks
of sea gulls who today swarm
over the basin and gorge them
selves on the floating corpses.
Caught in the basin by the big
freeze, the fish died by tons at
the approach of warm weather,
sending up a stencil which threat
ened to interfere with the public's
appreciation of the fast approach
ing cherry blossom season. But,
Park Service officials hold, the
debris will be entirely cleared
away by that time.
Pointing out that the dead fish
make excellent fertilizer, Park
officials deplored the fact that
no suitable storage place is avail
able, making immediate cremation
IooorIoSa1.Yy
The Washington times., 1936-03-09
RAIN DUE
HERE TODAY

Spring-like weather which lured
thousands of Washingtonlans TO
the parks, golf courses and on
motoring trips yesterday, will con-
tinue through today, the Weather
Bureau forecast.
However, the forecaster predict
ed light rain during the day, and
added it would be colder tomorrow.
The bureau recorded a high Of
So degrees for yesterday and low
of only As at $50 a. m. today. Au-
thorities reported that the high
ways we're crowded with motorists,
while golf clubs and parks, espe-
cially the Zoo, were thronged.
The Washington times., 1936-03-09
I LEAVE BILLS
PASSED, GO TO
PRESIDENT
House Accepts Report
OF Conferees, Gains
For Workers
By FRANK M. SMITH

BY a roll call vote of 324 to
10, the House today approved the
conference report or the Federal
annual leave bill, putting final
congressional approval on the
measure and sending it to the
President.
Immediately following the roll
call on the annual leave bill, Rep
resentative RalnSpeck called up
the sick leave bill. A roll call was
forced on this conference report
although the standing vote showed
103 in favor OF IL and none in op-
position. The roll call vote was
335 to 2.
Strict Regulations Asked
Representative Thomas L. Blan-
ton Cd, of Texas, called on Rep
reSentative Ramspeck to see that
strict regulations we're enforced to
prevent employees getting leave un-
less they were sick. He said:
"There are some faithful,
honest and diligent employees in
the Government. But there's a
lot of maligners who are TAX
ing leave. Some go to party
and the next morning they
don't feel like working and they
don't come to work.
81 want to protect the good
ones who never take leave from
the other employees"
CLAIMS BLANKS SOLD
Representative Blanton was in
terrupted by R esent a tive
Wright Patman CD of Texas,
who said that he had been told
by a member of the House that
Government employees could get
blank doctors certificates and fill
in the dates themselves. Blanton
retorted that they could be bought
for So and then he forced the
roll call vote.
The roll call on the annual
leave bill was forced by
Representative John c. Taylor
CD of South Carolina, who
joined in debate against the
measure when it was called up
by Representative Robert Ram
speck CD of Georgia. chairman
Continued on Page II, Col. p
The Washington times., 1936-03-09
CITY RELIEVED
OF REPAIR
BURDEN
Program Runs to April
With Other Projects
Over Million

Expending a total of $3,160,134
for construction and repair Of
highways and streets in the Ma
tion'S Capital under the Works
Progress Administration program,
the Federal Government has taken
over from the municipal admins
tration the burden of caring for
II major highway projects.
The WPA program for the Dis
trict, as a whole, will carry on
until April. The total for all
projects amounts, to $4,456, ,402,
while 69.7 per cent Of this amount
is being expended for the high
ways projects.
Under ordinary conditions, the
municipal government would be
forced to care for the II highways
projects, virtually all of which
have been completed or are under
construction. However, under
WPA rules, the Federal funds are
being expended on the ground
that the highways are major por-
tions or by-passes to a Federal
highway.
Most Used in Parks
The highway and improvement
expenditures of the WPA amount
to $3,160,134. The II major prof.
ects in the District are costing the
Federal Government through
WPA expenditures 81 1,580,067. The
other $2.580,067 is being spent for
road and repair work on Federal
owned land, such as in parks.
AS a result of this spending by
the Federal Government, the
gasoline tax collections are used
only for repair work which the
municipality itself orders.
OF the II projects, 10 already
are completed. They are: Eleventh
Street Southeast. from Pennsylva-
MIA Avenue to AnacoStia Bridge;
Twenty-second Street Northwest,
from E Street to Constitution Ave
nue.; Rhode Island Avenue North
east. from Fourteenth to Sixteenth
Streets, and from First to Third
Streets; Tenth Street Northwest,
from Constitution Avenue to Penn
sylvania Avenue; Thirteenth
Street Northwest, from Florida
Avenue to Clifton Street; Twelfth
Street, from Pennsylvania Avenue
to Constitution Avenue; G Street
Southeast. from Fourth to Elev-
enth Streets; Fourteenth Street
Northwest, from Thomas Circle to
Rhode Island Avenue; Chesapeake
Street Northwest, from Nebraska
Avenue to Fort Drive.
Projects Under Way
Those now under construction
are: Massachusetts, Avenue North
west from Wisconsin Avenue to
Nebraska Avenue; Fourteenth
Street Northwest (west side),
Rhode Island Avenue to U Street;
Fort Drive Northwest from Chesa-
peake Street to Nebraska Avenue;
Kenilworth Avenue from Benning
Road to Deane Avenue and from
Deane Avenue to the District line.
Two others, Wisconsin, Avenue
Northwest from Massachusetts,
Avenue to River Road, and Con,
necticut Avenue from Fessenden
Street to the District line, are to
be put under contract within the
next two weeks.
The Washington times., 1936-03-09

her purse for the coin the man
put his hand in his pocket and
held it in such a way that she
believed he held a gun. He de-
manded her money and jewelry
and had the cash and was about
to get her jewelry when a car
drew up to the urb and
frightened him away. The man
ran in the direction of Lafayette
Park.
Miss Edith Allen, of 655 South
Carolina Ave. S. E., was grabbed
by two men in the 200 block of
Ninth st. N. E. last night who
snatched her purse containing
SIS and fled.
The Washington times., 1936-03-09
d. 6. CONNECTIONS
For Traffic
OffenSeS
Speeding, Second Offense

Speeding, Second OffenSe
Ross E. Payne, 227 Anacostia
Rd. S. E., SIS.
William E. Hicks, "a Rhode
Island Ave. N. W., SIS.
James E. Montague, 1918 Penn
sylvania Ave. S. E., $40.
Speeding, First OffenSe
Thomas C. Trundle, Maryland,
$40.
William A. Dawson, Maryland,
$40.
Francis jackson, Maryland, $40.
Harvey D. Butler. Alexandria,
Va, $40.
Patsy Troiano, 625 A St. S. E.,
$40.
William P. Sutton. 2OS Cedar
st. N. w., $40.
Continued on Page 16, Col. A.
The Washington times., 1936-03-09
Kerwin to Speak

Hugh L. Kerwin, director OF
conciliation of the Department of
Labor, will speak at a meeting Of
the District Society of Profes-
sional Engineers at the Raleigh
Hotel Wednesday night.
The Washington times., 1936-12-29
On the Job Again

THIS LEAP YEAR is almost over, but you girls whose
i boy-friends haven't popped the question needn't
worry.
With prosperity surging forward young swains will
be tumblng over another in their eagerness to get
that settled and done with.
Real estate brokers report that the demand for new
homes has already shown marked increase.
Department stores enjoying boom in orders for
furniture and other household effects to fit out cozy
nests for turtle doves.
Everything indicates that Dan Cupid will soon be
working overtime. Poor chap he is glad to be back on
the lob again. He has been on relief long enough.
The Washington times., 1936-12-29

and approved by the Senate. This
is the system of government to-
day. It is inadequate, unsatisfac-
tory and contrary to the Ameri-
can principles of freedom and
equal rights to all.
The Washington Times has Wig
orously taken up the crusade for
the right of suffrage for the cit
liens of Washington. In solicit
ing cooperation of the press Of
the country in this effort it pre-
SentS these material facts:
The Districts population Gig
ureS of the 1880 census) exceeds
that of eight States. The voting.
age population is estimated at
$4,000 exceeding the voting-age
population of 10 States.
During the last fiscal year the
District of Columbia paid in ma.
tional taxes $17,322,929 - more
than the sum paid in such taxes
by Is of the States individually;
more than was paid by nine States
combined. In the leVying OF
these taxes, and in their expendi-
ture, the citizens of Washington
had no voice.
During the World War the Dis
trict sent more men to the colors
than any one of the II States,
although unrepresented in the
body which declared war, and
prosecuted it.
There are other figures bearing
on the Districts contributions to
the nation. but they pale into in
significance beside the basic prin"
ciple of democracy that all people
shall be represented in their gov
ernment.
A reading of the debates Of the
Constitutional Congress indicates
that there was no intent by the
trainers of our Government to
deny application Of this principle
to those who chanced to live in
the national capital. The Con-
stitution makers unintentlonalIV
failed to give Congress the power
(analagous to that which is pos
sessed with regard to the admiS-
sion of territories to statehood
of granting representation in Con-
gress, and in the electoral college,
to the population of the District
when it becomes fit. This gross
injustice should be remedied With
out delay.
The Washington times., 1936-12-29

Tor Howard is "hham Lie nlH
duly elected Senator, the laws of
his State and the lame duck
amendment has cheated him of
ever sitting in official status in
the Senate chamber. AS a one
time duly elected Senator, how
ever, he will be allowed the free
dom of the floor as courtesy in
the coming sessions.
All members of Congress can
come on the Senate floor in an
ex-officio capacity once they have
been elected to a term Of office.
Senator Howard got in under
the ropes as the winner for the
unexpired term of Senator
Thomas D. Schall, who was killed
in an automobile accident. The
term, however, expires January
3. The next session, of course,
begins January 5, and so he'll
never sit.
A somewhat parallel case in
wolves William L. Hill, who was sec
retary to the late Duncan U.
Fletcher of Florida, who died while
in office. Senator Hill, appointed
for the unexpired term of Senator
Fletcher, came in office after Con-
gress had adjourned and too never
sat in Florida'S seat in the cham
ber.
On the House side of course was
the youthful Representative Dan
iel S. Earhart who filled out the un-
expired term of Representative
Charles Truax.
Strangely enough these men had
plenty to do. They handled what
patronage came their way, kept
up with their constituents re-
quests for help in the Government
department, kept an office staff
employed and of course drew
their salaries.
Another unusual situation which
will be settled momentarily and
for that matter may be ironed out
as you read this column concerns
the death of Senator Peter Nor
beck of South Dakota. Senator
Norbeck was a Republican, but
special kind of a Republican. His
autobiography in the Congress
sional directory for the second
session of the 74th Congress con-
gress contained just these words:
PETER NORBECK, TheO-
dOre Roosevelt Republican, of
Redfield, S. OAK"
For carrying these sentiments he
The Washington times., 1936-12-29
Gross Injustice
Gazette, Niagara Falls, N. Y,
Nov. 21, 1885,

Gazette, Niagara Falls, N. Y,
NoU. 21, 1885,
Among the bills which will be
introduced in the new Congress
of the United States, which con.
venes in January, will be one pro.
posing an amendment to the Con,
Stitution to give the residents of
the District of Columbia, the ma
tion's capital, the right to vote.
Such a bill was introduced in the
last Congress but failed of pas
sage.
The justice Of the demand of
the citizens Of Washington for
the privilege of the ballot can not
be questioned. To deny them this
right is to sanction policy that
led to the Revolutionary War
taxation without representation
for the people of the District Of
Columbia have all the obligations
of American citizenship, so far as
support of the Government is con-
cerned. yet they have no voice in
the control Of governmental af-
fairs. The situation is due, un-
questionably, to failure of the
trainers Of the fundamental law
of the land, to consider this ques-
ton when provision was made for
the capital district.
Today the District of Columbia
embraces so square miles of ter
ritory. In 1900 it measured only
10 square miles and most of the
people who lived there at that
time were itinerant residents who
voted in their home districts. AS
the city grew and residents in in.
creaSing number made the dis.
trict their permanent home the
situation took on an entirely diff
ferent aspect.
Until 1871 the District was gov.
erned directly by Congress. In
that year it was placed under ter
ritorial government with a legiS-
lature of IL councilmen and 20
delegates elected by the people
annually. In 1874 the District
was placed under the manage
ment Of three commissioners who
were appointed by the President
The Washington times., 1936-12-29
The Presidential Term
By James T. Williams, Jr.

Congress will be called on at
the coming session to give the
American people a chance to
lengthen the term of future Presi-
dents to six years and limit them
to one term in the White House
There is nothing partisan about
this proposal. 1t will ne intro
duced in the Senate by q Demo
Senator Burke of Nebraska.
Representative Tinkham Of Massa.
chusetts, a Republican, will intro.
duce the resolution in the House.
TAFT'S VIEWS
Nor is the proposal a new one,
Woodrow Wilson was elected Presi'
dent the first time in 1912 on a
Democratic platform which in
cluded a plank favoring an
amendment to the Constitution
providing for a single presidential
term of six years.
-Four years later Mr.. Taft, whom
Mr.. Wilson had defeated for re
election to the Presidency in 1912,
declared himself inclined to favor
single presidential term.
"Such a change" he said in
an article on the Presidency
which he wrote while a member
of the law faculty Of Yale Uni.
verSity would give to the execu.
tive greater courage and indie
pendence in the discharge of his
duties. The absorbing and di.
verting interest in the reelection
of the incumbent taken by those
Federal civil servants who regard
their own tenure as dependent
upon his would disappear and
the efficiency of administration
in the last year of term would
be maintained"
These were among the reasons
that caused some of the ableSt
members of Convention at Phila
delphia which drafted the Consti
tuition to urge that it provide fol
a single term of seven years
Among these was the senior mem
ber of that great gathering, Ben
jamin Franklin.
In fact, the Committee of the
Whole, by a vote of five States
to four, decided in favor of q
single term of seven years and Sc
reported to the Convention. When
motion was put in the Conven
ton to insert the words during
good behavior" in the place OF
"seven years" it was defeated by
vote of five States to three.
The suggestion that the presi
Dental term be limited only by
the good behavior" Of the incum
bent originated with Alexander
Hamilton and Gouverneur Nor
ris was one of several other dele
gates who supported it. When
put to a vote it was defeated-siz
States opposing and four favorine
the proposal.
There were other proposals, some
for shorter and others for longer
presidential terms. In fact, it was
one of the more difficult matters
with which the Convention
wrestled. Finally, on September
6-the Convention met in 1887
the Convention voted in favor oi
the system that has prevailed evel
since presidential term of foul