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Evening star., 1936-06-21
HALBERT "RETIRED"
FROM D. C. BUREAU
Former Relief Director Forced
From Service Due to Lin.
tied Funds"

Leroy A. Halbert, who had the re-
sponsibihty of organizing the District
Relief Administration as its first di.
rector, but who was shifted to research
work two years ago, when Miss Alice
Hill was placed in charge, has been
forced from the service due to lim-
tied funds" it was revealed yester.
day.
His retirement" was effective June
IS, though no announcement of it
was made at the time. The Develop
ment was disclosed in the monthly
diary of welfare activities published by
Elwood Street, welfare director
The Research Bureau, Street said,
has become the Statistical Bureau of
the Public Assistance Division. with a
limited staff. and with Miss Hazel
Spicer, Halbert'S former assistant, in
charge. He said it had become neces-
sary to reduce personnel because Of
limitation of funds for the div-
sion.
A testimonial dinner was given By
members of the division to Mr.. and
Mrs. Halbert May IL, he added. "Mr.
Halbert has been faithful, loyal and
devoted in his service" Street said.
Tie group gave Halbert a number Of
books, Il
Evening star., 1936-06-21
LOCATION DOUBTS
END ASSAULT CASE
Arlington Authorities Waive
Maids Charges That Man
Attacked Her.

Because they can not determine the
exact scene of the alleged crime, Ar
lington County authorities have
dropped criminal assault charges
against Wilton w. Bullock, "a, of 6O3
Ninth street southwest.
Bullock was arrested by Washing
ton police week ago on complaint of
Miss Ollie Barb, Is, a maid employed
in the 1900 block of Eighteenth
street. She charged Bullock picked
her up in his automobile at
Eighteenth and v streets and drove
her to an isolated road in Arlington
County where he attacked her.
The man is now being held at the
District Jail on a fugitive warrant
under $4,000 bond.
Laurence w. Douglas. Arlington
County commemorative attorney, in
formed the Washington Detective
Bureau yesterday that I'VE are unable
to handle the case because we can
not establish the location Of the al
legged crime" Douglas explained that
he is not certain whether the scene
was in Arlington County or in Fair
fax County.
Capt. Ira Keck of the detective
bureau here said last night he was
referring the case to the Justice De-
partment.
Evening star., 1936-06-21

thought he has only two weeks yet to
serve.
Doubts il Cars Necessary.
In the first place, he took exception
to the geographical argument and i'm
piled that he didn't believe the auto
mobiles we're needed at all, adding q
bit tartly:
1T is not apparent how the pur-
chase of automobiles for use in travel
ing through the mountainous interior
of the island could be regarded as
necessary in collecting customs du-
ties" Why, even in the Allegheny
and Rocky Mountains field workers
find $3.50 cars very successful, he
amplified
Then, of course, McCarr said. there
is always the law to be considered.
And McCarl knows how to find laws.
The upShot is is that Mrs. White
more owes the Government about
S700-unleSs and until kind Con-
gress comes to her assistance.
But Mrs. Whittemore has always
been able to take care of herself.
Evening star., 1936-06-21
Light Bulb Flares,
Kisses Like Bomb,
Thrills Detectives
12-FOOt Bolt of Blue
Flame Rockets Over
KuehLing'S Chair.

The "unmistakable" sound of a
kissing bomb and 12-foot bolt of
blue flame threw the. Detective Bu-
reau into a furore last night.
Hearing a peculiar noise, detectives
fed in various directions. One
reached for fire extinguisher. Lieut..
Benjamin c. Kuehling, who was closer
to the sound, ducked under his desk
and just in the nick of time. A mys-
terious fash of light, IL feet long,
leaped from his desk to the floor
behind his chair.
After the fireworks were over, q
post mortem disclosed that the cause
was not a bomb, nor a new form Of
firecracker. The excitement resulted
from a faulty electric light bulb in
Kuehling's desk lamp.
When uf1Screwed from its socket,
the bulb showed tiny hole through
which gas had escaped, and a small
quantity of molten resistance wires,
which was later found in a pellet of
metal at the spot on the floor where
tAs fame had ended.
Evening star., 1936-06-21

years and finally, ON June /. 1925,
were given undisputed title to the
property by decree of the District
Court of Appeals.
Bills Keep Coming In.
During all these years, the District
government was sending tax bills to
the house, addressed to the de-
ceased Pralls.' AS ownership Of the
property was in question, the taxes
remained unpaid. Alvin L. Newmyer,
attorney, represented the sisters in
their successful fight to defend the
will.
The Prall family has owned the
property since 1860 and five genera
tions have lived there. During its
brighter days the house was the
scene Of many gay social gatherings.
Ethel Roosevelt learned to play the
piano in the parlor of the old house,
under Mrs. Knorr's tutelage.
The property has been estimated
to be worth from $12o, 900 to $50, ,0OC,
but no buyers have come forward to
pay the price. =
Evening star., 1936-06-21
LUMP-SUM STUDY
[AUDED BY HAzEN
Thanks Thomas for Getting
Break in Deadlock and
Passage of Bill.

Hope that study of the District
Federal fiscal relations issue by a
commission to be named by Presi-
dent Roosevelt will result in a just
and lasting solution of the problem
was voiced yesterday by Commissioner
Hazen.
1.-The statement was contained in
a letter to Senator Thomas, Demo-
crat, Of Oklahoma. chairman of the
subcommittee which had charge Of the
1887 District supply bill, praising the
Senator for achieving a break in
the deadlock and passage of the bill.
AS president of the Board of Com
missioners, Hazen said:
"On behalf of the people of the
District of Columbia and themselves,
and the municipal service generally.
the Commissioners of the District Of
Columbia extend to YOU and to the
members Of your subcommittee their
heartfelt and grateful appreciation of
your splendid achievement in OBJ
tanning an agreement to, and the pas
age of. the District of Columbia ap-
preparation bill for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1887.
while the Commissioners regret
the reduction in the Federal contri.
button, they realize that the appro-
priation bill as enacted represents
the best that could possibly be hoped
for under the circumstances.
THE Commissioners heartily favor
the proposal for an independent
study to be made under the direc-
ton of the President for the purpose
of establishing a fair and equitable
amount to be contributed by the
United States toward the expenses
of the District of Columbia. The
Commissioners express their sincere
wish that the results of this study,
as communicated to Congress by the
President will settle this question
for many years to come justly to the
United States and the District of
Columbia"
Evening star., 1936-06-21
CENSUS, INVENTORY
OF JOBS SUPPORTED
Movement Is Given Impetus by
Committee of Council for
Industrial Progress.

The movement for Federal census
of unemployment and an inventory
of employment throughout industry
was given an impetus by Council for
Industrial Progress Committee. which
yesterday proposed these two objec-
tives.
A tentative program of research was
completed preparatory to drafting a
report to be submitted to industry and
the Government.
During three years of graphing with
problems growing out of the depres-
sion, the New Deal has never made a
census of unemployment,
After its first meeting, the commit
tee emphasized the need for accurate
statistical data on the national prob
lem of unemployment, variously esti-
mated from 100000 to 100000
prior to the formulation of construc-
tive policies to deal effectively with
the problem.
The ultimate objective is to estab-
lish a procedure which will give ac-
curate and timely information to all
industries, mining. manufe cturing,
construction, services and trade" a
statement said.
Evening star., 1936-06-21
TRAINING SCHOOL
CONDITIONS HELD
TOBE DEPL0RABLE
Survey of House Subcom-
mittee Announced Fol-
lowing Visit.
NEEDS OF INSTITUTION
OUTLINED IN REPORT
Fire Hazard and Lack of SAM.
tation Are Among Disadvan-
tages Discovered.

Conditions at the National Training
School for Girls were branded as de
plorable and intolerable" by a special
subcommittee of the House District
Committee in a report made public
last night by Chairman Norton.
The report is based on the result of
q visit to the institution several days
ago by the subcommittee, which con-
sisted of Mrs. Norton and Representa-
tive Carpenter, Democrat, of Kansas.
The subcommittee was appointed about
q month ago to investigate the school.
Various needs of the institution were
outlined IN the report, together with a
recommendation that comprehensive
program be adopted for rehabilitation
of the girl inmates.
Fire Hazard Cited.
First in Importance" said the re-
port, lis the great fire hazard on ac-
count of old building and old-fashioned
locks, controlled by levers, on the doors.
This system of locking however, we are
informed by the superintendent, DR..
Smith, recently has been discontinued.
I'VE found the buildings in a very
unsanitary condition. There are only
six toilets, no basins, no running water
in the corridor on each floor and no
hot water supply.
The kitchens are supplied with
large coal ranges, no gas ever having
been furnished. but we understand the
w. P. A. is now taking care Of this
problem and that gas pipes are being
laid in the different buildings.
There are practically no recrea-
tional facilities at the school. The
classrooms are very meager. Employees
are under civil service. but there are
no trained workers or teachers of any
subject.
Cleaning Needed.
"The buildings are badly in need of
cleaning and painting. There are old
fashioned cauldrons for heating water
in the laundry instead of hot-water
supply. There is not heat radiation
in any of the bed rooms and only one
or two steam coils in each corridor to
supply heat"
The statement pointed out that as
a result of recent publicity, an appso-
priation of 100000 was provided in
the 1887 District supply bill for alter
atoms and Improvements.
The report closes with this state
ment:
I'VE believe it would be safe to say
that IN no other city of this size in
the Nation could be found so intoler-
able a condition as has been that OF
the National Training School for Girls
In the District of Columbia
Evening star., 1936-06-21
PROPERTY SALES
TO Be DEMANDED
T0DEFRAY TAXES
D. c: Officials Plan to Push
Amended Phipps Act to
Force Collection.
SOME ARE IN ARREARS
NEARLY FIFTY YEARS
Several Cases Prepared-Prall
Holdings Delinquent Almost
to Assessed Value.

District officials yesterday prepared
to invoke the amended Phipps act,
which became law last March, to apply
to District Supreme Court for auction
sale of realty properties as a means of
forcing collection of unpaid taxes and
penalties, some of which date back
nearly so years.
Acting Corporation Counsel Vernon
E. West was considering a recon-
mendation from Tax Collector Chat
ham Towers for such action against
the property of the Prall family on
Sixteenth street near street, on which
the delinquency of $65 1872 is almost
equal to the present assessed value.
Several other cases have been pre-
pared. and recommendations for action
against other property owners will be
submitted soon.
The PhippS act of 1929 gave au-
thority to the Commissioners to apply
to the court for sale of property at
public auction, after a two-year period
in which the District held a tax lien,
LOT IlOH-pdy ymenL OF taxes.
Difficulties Overcome.
Towers at that time sought sale
of a number of properties on which
there were old and large delinquencies,
but action was postponed because the
Commissioners were advised the then
existing law contained provisions Of
fariy,o too poapy dia6cu1tiar The ~
suit was a request for a further
amendment to the law which was
enacted last March.
Delinquency in taxes on the Prall
property dates back to 1887. To date,
the accumulated tax amounts to ST.
$3.50, plus penalty amounting to
$3,339.89 plus the cost of legal ad-
vertisement of s22.65 plus interest
figured at $35,065, making the total
debt to the District amount to
$65,892.67.
The assessed value of the property
for the fiscal years 1886 and 1887 is
listed at s66,368. In 1885 the total
was $81, 1924.
Other Cases Pending.
The other cases, on which Collector
Towers has court auction sale action,
involved the following:
Anne E. McQuade for the northeast
corner of Twenty-ninth and K streets
an accumulated tax and penalty total
of S3,65334; for w. Grant Wadhams,
for an alley property in the center of
the area bounded by Fourteenth, c
and D streets, and Linworth place
southwest, s2,760.86;
Mary A. Wadhams, on which later
there was a tax lien to John Faust,
formerly a tax broker. for property at
1889 Six-and-a-half street, for a to-
tai delinquency of s493.5S, dating back
to 1920;
John Faust, for property at TAO
Longfellow street, on which there was
reported to be a delinquency of ST.
898.98, dating back to 1927;
Henry Ragan. for property at Square
265, lot 812, on which there was said
to be a delinquency $235.09, dating
back to 1919; and,
Evening star., 1936-06-21
Blocks Credit on Cars
Bought by Customs Collector
T,cO Autos Purchased at
$l,O87.98 Each for
Island TrGUeI.
Mrs. WhittemOre AUers
Eight Bids Weighed
Before Buying.

And now . the vivacious Mrs. Jean
Springstead Whittemore, collector of
Customs at San Juan, Puerto Rico,
knows what il means to Lave her ears
boXed-in a manner of speaking, of
course-by Controller General McCarl
1t appears, in a decision made pub
lie at McCarls Office yesterday. that
Mrs. Whittemore, f,rrner member of
the Democratic NattcGal Committee,
was responsible for purchase of two
autor~obiles at 81 ,0S7 98 each, for Of
fioial duties. The money was taken
out of customs receipts.
1t so happens, however that Con-
gresS now watches automobile buying
pretty closely, since that celebrated
instance a few years ago, when the
then Postmaster General Walter F.
Brown made a vehicular investment to
accommodate his topper, and law
limits all purchases TO $3.50 unless
otherwise provided.
Credit Is Refused.
So, one of Mr.. McCarl'S bright young
men caught up with the Whittemore
cars when the voucher for payment
came through, and promptly refused
to allow credit in the collectors &C
counts
Mrs. Whittemore was asked for an
explanation and gave it right prettily.
Bids were asked and eight offers
received, she said. The collector even
did a bit of shopping and tried to
buy used cars, but it was no bet. And.
because "the purchase of these two
big cars, suitable for travelling through
the mountainous interior of the island,
were required to meet the needs Of
the service" Mrs. Whittemore went
ahead and bought
But McCarl is not weakening, even
Evening star., 1936-06-21
S.n of Col. Coleman, Missing
From West Point, Hunted Here

matics and had indicated he was going
to a preparatory school in New York
for tutoring.
A presidential appointee in June,
1885, Fred entered the military insti-
tuition a year behind his brother John.
Robert M. Coleman is the third mem
Der of the trio.
Fred is 20 years old, 6 feet tall,
weighs $50 pounds and has brown hair
and brown eyes.
Col. Coleman, who has been i'll in
Walter Reed since June 5, is sta
toned at Patterson Field, near his
home at Fairfield, Ohio. y
Evening star., 1936-06-21

Washington police were asked last
night to aid in a search for the young
est member of q trio of brothers en-
rolled at. West Point, who has been
missing from the military academy
since Thursday.
From his sick bed in Walter Reed
Hospital, Lieut.. Col Fred H. Cole
man, Army Air Corps, told police his
son Fred, jr., a plebe. left the acad-
emy presumably to visit New York
preparatory school, but had not ar
rived there.
Col. Coleman said he was informed
Fred has been deficient A mathe-
Evening star., 1936-06-21
NOM|NATOR RALLY
SALES TOP $4,000
At Least $4,000 Expected at
Griffith Stadium for
Roosevelt Speech.

Success of the Roosevelt nominators'
rally next Saturday night ins Griffith
Stadium is assured, with 10000 tickets
already sold. Joseph E. Davies. general
chairman, announced last night.
Its sponsors say it will be the nearest
approach to the old-time enthusiastic
political get-together Washington has
seen in many years.
At least $4,000 persons are expected
to be in the stadium when President
Roosevelt gees on the air from the
Democratic convention in Philadel-
phia to accept the party's presidential
nomination.
Simultaneous rallies will be held all
over the country with the aim of rails
ing a million-dolla campaign fund
through dollar subscriptions.
Sale of tickets here has been largely
by young people, although Mrs. ].
Borden Harriman's women's division
has contributed largely to the success
Of the affair, Davies stated. He said
solicitors have been ordered to abide
strictly by the law which prohibits sale
of such tickets on Government prop
erty.
Before the Presidents speech, there
will be an outdoor circus, including a
donkey base ball game, vaudeville and
fireworks.
An old-fashioned torchlight parade
will precede the festivities at the
stadium. The parade will be composed
mainly of Democrats from the 48
States now in Washington. There will
be illuminations, living cartoons, bur-
lesque and civic floats and other ex-
hibits, including sections of dancing
acrobats and clowns. At least 750
musicians will be in the procession.
The parade, which will be divided
into State sections, each with mounted
aides to Grand Marshal Melvin C.
Hazen, starts at Tenth street and
Constitution avenue and moves west
to the Veterans Administration Build
ing, where there will be a halt to
permit those who wish to fall out and
proceed to the stadium by car.
Evening star., 1936-06-21
$40 FINE SUSPENDED
Youth Who Took Garbage for
Hogs Unaware of Law.

Eugene F. Guy, 20, of Capitol
Heights, Md, was given a suspended
fine of $40 by Judge Walter J. Casey
in Police Court yesterday on a plea
Of guilty to the theft of two cans of
garbage from the rear of the Earle
Building.
The arrest was made on the COM
plant of Raymond Luiba of the Earle
Building, who said the refuse was
worth Is cents can. Guy told the
court he was collecting the garbage
for his hogs and did not know there
was any ordinance prohibiting his
action.
Evening star., 1936-06-21

when and II the charges I made
against the Board of Education of the
District Of Columbia had been sat-
sfactorily explained and corrected.
This has not been done to dste&
Evening star., 1936-06-21

British Boost Pay.
Pay Of many government employees
in England Is being raised.
Evening star., 1936-04-09

Plaids. checks. hort:
zcntal and vertical
stripes. clocks--they're
the right ideas for
Easterl 3Sc, soc. 81
Evening star., 1936-04-09

Tuesday, the consensus Is that he win
be virtually eliminated Is factor In
the presidential race. The Knox sup
porters realize this and they are ex-
erting a maximum of effort. Knox has
spent the last three weeks in continue
Gus speech-making In Illinois.
Borah made one speech in Chicago
several weeks ago and he Is spending
three days this week In the rural Sec
tions Of the State.
The result here largely win be Judged
by the State wide preferential vote.
II Borah wins this he will be entitled
to the backing Of eight delegates at
large. The popular vote by districts
also Is calculated to exercise moral
influence. A number Of candidates
for delegate, althogh they are favor
able to Knox, have announced that
they will vote for Borah In the event
he carries their districts in the prefer
ential vote.
tCopyright, 1885. By the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1936-04-09
BOTH CAMPS HAIL
WISCONSIN VOTE
Democrats Think Foes of
Victorious Hoan Will
Fight Roosevelt.
BY JAY G. HAYDEN.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, April 9 (N.AN.A.).
The existence in Wisconsin of q
clear-cut division between conservatives
and liberals of the sort that is expected
to take shape in a half dozen North
western States in the coming Presi-
dental election caused party leaders
here today to scrutinize the results of
Tuesdays primary with unusual in
terest. And both Democrats and Re
publicans found grounds for optimism
in the results.
The Democrats were pleased by the
victory Of Daniel w. Hoan, Socialist,
in the Milwaukee mayoralty contest,
because they believe he was opposed
by much the same combination of in
tereSts which will be arrayed against
President Roosevelt there in Novem-
ber. Hoan was the nominee of the
Farmer La bor- Progressive Federation,
including the La Toilette brothers,
which gives every evidence of becom-
ing the nucleus Of Roosevelt support
given preference to this group, rather
tnan tne Democrats, IN QStrlDutl0n
Of patronage in the State.
Roosevelt Impressive.
Also the Democrats are rejoicing
because Roosevelt completely showed
under his opposition in the Demo-
cratic primary and polled more votes
than the pro-Borah and anti-Borah
Republicans combined.
The Republicans find their greatest
cheer in the fact that, in the only
Statewide contest, Edward T. Fair
child, conservative Republican, run
ming for Justice of the State Su-
preme Court. appears to have defeated,
by about 10000 majority, Glen P.
Turner. who was supported by the
La Follettes and the Milwaukee So
cialists. Fairchild originally was ap-
pointed to the court by Walter
Kohler, the last Republican Governor
of Wisconsin.
Turner, powerful campaigner,
made his chief issue the recent de-
cisions of the United States Supreme
Evening star., 1936-04-09
Brittany Weave Suits
and SchIoss Topcoats

Here you will find that unusual degree of style
that lends distinction to Woshineton's annual
Easter Parade. New patterns, rich shades,
special back treatments in the suits Anthem
tic raglan and other models in the topcoots
Evening star., 1936-04-09

the reason that It was accomplished
by the return Of Q considerable num-
Der of La Toilette progressives to the
Republican primary for the first time
since 1880.
While they were disappointed by
the election of Hoan, the Republicans
point to the fact that his opposition
was the first attempt at a combination
Of conservative Democrats and Repub-
licans and that it gave Hoan much
the closest call he has experienced
in the 20 years that he has been
mayor.
Substantially the same lineup that
existed in this Wisconsin primary Is
taking shape in Minnesota and North
Dakota and in somewhat less degree
In Nebraska. In all Of these States
the radical elements are grouping to
support Roosevelt and the conserva-
tives to oppose him.
The Wisconsin result gives Senator
Borah first blood in the Middle West
ern Republican primaries and it
is expected to have an effect Of stim-
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and Ohio.
Borah Is Active.
Borah Just now Is touring Southern
Illinois in the final stage Of his battle
with Frank Knox for the States presi-
dental Endorsement.
Knox, on the face Of the situation,
has distinct advantage, both in the
almost unanimous support which the
Republican organization is giving him
and the fact that he has a complete
delegate slate in the field as against
only handful Of candidates pledged
to Borah.
In Illinois, however, Borah has
everything to gain and little to lose,
whereas the future of Knox as a
presidential aspirant is largely wrapped
up in this contest. Unless Knox can
win sweeping victory here next
Evening star., 1936-04-09

Court nullifying New Deal measures.
He pledged himself, If elected, not to
declare any act of the State Legis-
lature unconstitutional and asserted
that all judges should be prohibited
from so doing.
Before the primary, political OBJ
servers agreed that this judicial con-
test would provide the best available
portent as to political trend In the
State and that a victory for Fairchild
would indicate swing toward con-
servatism. Turner, the returns show,
was deserted by many of the La Fol-
lette supporters in the farming dis
tricts.
The defeat by 6-to-1 margin Of
o proposal for municipal ownership
Of the Sheboygan electric plant
Evening star., 1936-04-09

The famous NON
wilt" collar steps
out in colorful
new styles this
season. Patterns
are both pro-
nounced and sub
dued. SI.95, S2.SO