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Evening star., 1936-03-09
CAPITOL, LIBRARY
BENEFIT BY BILL
$23,330,368 Appropriation
Is Recommended for Legis-
Iative Branch in 1887.

Physical and other improvements
for the Capitol and Library of Con-
gress are provided In the legislative
appropriation bill reported to the
House today by its Appropriations
Committee.
The bill carries total of $23 1886, 1868
for 1887 fiscal year expenses, $604, ,292
less than the current legislative ap-
preparation and S841, ,403 less than
budget estimates for varaious activi-
ties of the Senate, House, Capitol
police, Capitol architect, Library of
Congress, Government Printing ONCE
and Botanic Garden.
While the House was allowed six
more pages to run members errands
from the floor, a budget recommenda-
ton for improvements in the House
press gallery was refused.
The House drew two more telephone
operators to handle the increased
volume of calls and It's telegraph and
telephone allowance was increased by
$4,000 to $4,000.
A $2,225,000 allowance was granted
for continuing construction of a
Library of Congress annex. Funds
also were provided for replacing sky
lights and sections of the Capitol roof
and for rewriting the old Supreme
Court section Of the building. The
bill omits $4,000 sought for two more
elevators at the Senate end of the
Capitol. h
The Library of Congress was given
20 more employees. partly to catch up
on a 50.000-volume lag in the place.
ment of books.
The House restaurant, which has
been going into the red little in the
past Is months after operating on its
own for three years, was granted a
$4,000 reserve operating fund for use
against such contingencies.
The amount recommended for the
Senate is $3,314,464, which is $685., 3,677
less than current appropriations. The
total recommended for the House is
$8,302, ,108, a net decrease of $101 ,602
from the current appropriation.
For the Capitol police, $110,440 is
recommended, a slight decrease under
the current year. The Capital force
has been put under standard require
ments. A total Of 81 appointees out
of 1873 has been made according to
this requirement and continuance
of this provision is recommended.
For the Capitol Building repairs.
$416,725 is recommended, an increase
of $5o,275 above surrent approptka-
tions.
Evening star., 1936-03-09
Star Delivery Boy Knocks Out
Hold-Up Man With One Punch
Interested in Boxing.
He Finds Chance to
Put 1t to Use.
Doesn't Tell Mother for
Fear He You'd Have
to Cine Up Route.

Seventeen-year-old Joseph Germany
jr., who delivers papers for The Star
in his spare time, knocked out a
would be hold-up man Saturday night
with one punch to the jaw, but he
was afraid to tell his mother about
it for fear she would make him give
up his newspaper route.
Joseph has always been interested
in boxing and in the basement of his
home at 1910 Spring place he has
rigged up punching bag, which he
knocks around for 10 minutes every
day. He also has set of boxing
gloves and has spent many hours
working out with his friends.
Nothing was further from his mind
than boxing, however, when he walked
out of an apartment house at Oak and
Center streets with S25 in his pocket
that he had collected from newspaper
customers.
Meets dup Man.
AS he turned the corner of the
building, man stepped from the
shadows. A hat was pulled down
over his eyes, and his right hand
bulged menacingly in his overcoat
pocket.
Give me your money and be quick
about it," the stranger ordered.
AS Joseph hesitated momentarily
some one in the apartment above
raised a window.
The bandit glanced up at the
window, and Joseph saw his oppor'
tunity. His boxing experience hac
taught him to lead with his left, but
Evening star., 1936-03-09
NEW PAIN KILLER
IGNORED BY CLINIC
Dentists Meeting Here Hold
Treatment Only so
Per Cent Effective.

The 2,000 dentists in attendance at
the fourth annual Five-State Post-
Graduate Clinic at the Wardman Park
Hotel are not particularly impressed,
as q group, by the sensational claims
made several months ego for a new
pain developed by Columbia
University professor.
No papers or discussiCus on the new
treatment have been scheduled for the
four-day meeting, which brings den-
fists here from Virginia, Maryland,
West Virginia, North Carolina and
Delaware as guests Of the District
Dental Society. The ''pain-killer'
made headlines last December, when
it was described to dental conveu-
ton in New York City.
Experts attending the convention
here said the effectiveness of the
treatment is highly debatable. Sew
eral dentists said they tried the solu-
ton and found it effective only about
so per cent of the time.
A committee of specialists was to be
conducted through the Justice De-
partment by J. Edgar Hoover, chief Of
the Bureau of Investigation.
Hoover was said to be interested in
identification work perfected by some
dentists. DR.. Clearence o. Simpson,
Washington University School Of
Dentistry, st. Louis, has taken 250,000
X-ray photographs of the human jaw
bone, and no two of the pictures were
alike.
DR.. Simpson is convinced identifica-
ton can be conclusively established
by this means in thousands of cases
where all other effects fail. He
planned to discuss his research with
Hoover while in Washington.
DR.. Stephen c. Hopkins, president
of the District Dental Society. well
coined the delegates at the opening
session.
Other Program Speakers.
, Among speakers on today's program
were DR.. E. c. Rosenow, Mayo Foun-
dation, Rochester, Mimi: DR.. Joseph
D. Schaefer, assistant professor of
oral surgery, Northwestern University;
DR.. William M. Murphy. Nobel Prize
winner in medicine in 1884. and as
sociate professor Of medicine at Har-
ward University, and DR.. Simpson.
A feature of the convention is an
exhibit of historic, scientific and crea-
tive art objects at the National Mu-
scum, representing the hobbies and re-
searches of various dentists. The ex-
hibit is in charge of DIR. Walter A.
Rath.
One article in the exhibit attracting
considerable attention is set of false
teeth which once belonged to George
Washington. 1t is being shown here
for the first time.
Another feature of the program will
be IAN evening at Monte Carlo" frolic
tonight
Evening star., 1936-03-09
Carpenters Auto
Gets NelU Window
As Result of RO,C

Lee Hammers 1924 sedan had new
window and the Italian EmbaSSy's S
limousine was sporting new hub cap
today, marking the official close of a
controversy which nearly landed Ham,
mer and the embassy chauffeur in
Jail.
Hammer. 71-year- r-old carpenter, was
driving north on Fourteenth street
near Irving when the embassy car,
operated by Mario Ricciardelli, drew
alongside.
The chauffeur, according to Ham
mer, yelled to him to move over.
Hammer replied he had places to go
and didn't intend to pull over.
A moment later the cars bumped
together, hub cap being pulled from
the limousine. Hammer said Ricciar-
delli then ran over and drove his fist
through window of his sedan, cut
ting his hand in the process.
Policeman Edward Hall took both
men to No. 10 precinct, where they
were released after agreeing to settle
the matter out of court by paying for
each others damage. The chauffeur
was treated at Garfield Hospital for
the cut.
Evening star., 1936-03-09
|DR. SZOO ACCEPTS
CALL IN NEW YORK
Clergyman viii Fill Pulpit of
Collegiate Church of st.
Nicholas.

Rev. DR.. Joseph r. Sizoo, one of
will leave the New York Avenue Pres
byterian Church next month to be-
come pastor of the Collegiate Church
of st. Nicholas in New York City.
DR.. Sizoo announced from the pull
pit yesterday that he will take over
his new pastorate on May /. In a
letter to the session and members
of the church here, he said:
"TheSe years are and shall always
remain among the happiest years of
my life, in which I have had untold
evidences of your good will and have
been enriched by your friendships.
Indeed. so happy and glorious have
been these years that it is well-nigh
impossible to think they should ever
end. And yet that has actually come
to pass.
Twelve years ago God pointed me
here; today He points me elsewhere.
I am deeply and solemnly convinced
that it is His will for me, and I cam
not do otherwise. I am a man under
orders; I have no right to consider
my own ease or wish, but only the
will of God But the same ProVi-
dence which has watched over us SO
far will watch over us the rest of
the way"
One of Oldest Churches.
The Collegiate Church of st. Nicho-
las, which had its beginnings in the
days of Dutch rule over New AmSter-
dam, is one of the most distinguished
in New York Located on Fifth ave-
nue at Forty-sixth street. it is believed
to be the oldest Protestant church in
America.
Born in the Netherlands on May IS,
1884, DR.. Sizoo came to America as a
boy with his family. He received his
first university degree from Hope Col
lege. Holland, Mich. later attending
the New Brunswick Theological Semi
nary and taking post graduate work
at Columbia University. He received
the degree of doctor of divinity from
Rutgers College.
Wed in 1915.
He was married to Florence May
Mapes of Goshen, N. Y, in 1915. They
have two children, Joseph MapeS and
William Mapes Sizoo.
In addition to his work in the min
istry DR.. Sizoo has distinguished him
self as q lecturer and author. During
the war he served overseas as an
Army chaplain.
He will succeed Rev. DR.. William
Macleod, who has been retired.
Evening star., 1936-03-09

over the Cape Cod Canal we're too
narrow. Inasmuch as the Federal
Government purchased the artificial
canal from the company owning it,
as national defense measure, the
Government has jurisdiction over the
bridges there, officials pointed out.
The Bourne Bridge is 1884 feet long.
The approa ches terminate in tower
like constructions. There Is an ade-
quate motor drive along the banks
Of the Cape Cod Canal, DR.. Moore
said, with fitting approaches. This
Is exactly what he would like to see
projected in the Great or Little Falls
region here, to replace the obsolete
Chain Bridge.
The Fine Arts Commission will meet
the latter part of the month and DR..
Moore will call to the attention of his
colleagues the latest developments in
the Chain Bridge situation.
Evening star., 1936-03-09

Landscape treatment should be ade-
quate, in keeping with the park de-
velopment, he said. The bridge is
doubly important, he emphasized, for
it will form an important connection
between the two great parkways, lead
ing on either bank Of the Potomac to
Great Falls, as we'll as being an arterial
traffic highway between Maryland and
Virginia.
If constructed after the lines Of
the Bourne Bridge. DR.. Moore asserted,
there would be no abutments sticking
up in the Potomac River to be DAM
aged by ice foes. The rock formation
in the region of Little Falls would
facilitate construction, he said.
Massachusetts provided the neces-
sary tie-in with the Bay States exist
ing highway system, Army engineers
explained, with reference to the
Bourne Bridge. which was commits
stoned last Fall. The existing bridges
Evening star., 1936-03-09

In real emergencies he prefers his
right. SO he started punch from the
ground. The blow caught the bandit
squarely on the chin and sent him
sprawling. Before the man could
recover, Joseph was on his way home
as fast as his legs would carry him.
He's Reluctant to Talk.
He said nothing to his parents about
the incident that night, but they no
ticed the skinned knuckles on his
right hand at breakfast yesterday and,
after considerable questioning, they
learned what had happened.
The youth explained he had said
nothing about it because he was afraid
his mother would make him give up
his paper route. Mrs. Germany said
another paper boy was held up at the
same place about month ago.
Joseph is a junior at Central High
School.
Evening star., 1936-03-09
BORAH SEEKS DATA
ON WIRE "SEIZURES"
Resolution Calling on F. c. c
to Give Report Is Prevented
From Immediate Action.

BY the Associated Press.
A resolution calling on the Federal
Communications Commission to in
form the Senate by what authority it
made recent mass seizures" of tele-
grams for the Black Lobby Committee
was introduced today by Senator
Borah. Republican, of Idaho, but i'm
mediate consideration was blocked.
Chairman Black of the Lobby Com
mittee said he would not object to
the resolution If it used some other
word for Seizure"
He contended there had been mo
seizures" in the ordinary sense Of that
word, because all kilograms obtained
had been duly subpoenaed.
Borah agreed to use the phrase
alleged seizure" but no agreement
could be reached, and Democratic
Leader Robinson asked that considera-
ton 60 over until tomorrow.
Borah said he wanted only "com-
plete record of the wholesale obtain
ing of telegrams and was not offering
the resolution In the mature of CEN
sure"
However, he said, he did not know
what his views Gould be after the COM
mission reported.
Evening star., 1936-03-09
CUT OF S3,O|)O,OlO
|NFEDERAL SHARE
| LIKELY MAIN ISSUE
Upper Chamber to Receive
Measure Formally
This Afternoon.
DEFICIT OF S2,20O,O00
IN PROSPECT NEXT YEAR
Commissioners and District Off
cials Expected to Testify
First for Restoration.
BY ]. A. OIEARY.

With the $4,000 900 cut in the Fed
eral share of the 1887 District appro-
priation bill likely to be one of the
main issues considered, the Senate
subcommittee in charge of the meas
ure probably will start hearings within
a week.
The bill, which passed the House
Friday carryingg total of s42, 2,573.-
283, but with the Federal payment
slashed from the Budget Bureau rec
omendation of $5,700,000 to S2,7O0.-
900, will be formally received by the
Senate this afternoon and referred to
the Appropriations Committee.
Senator Thomas, Democrat, Of Ok
lahoma, chairman of the District
Subcommittee Of the Appropriations
Committee, is desirous of expediting
the bill and probably will fix the Gate
for hearings within a few days
Tydings Urges Care in Cut.
Maryland, one of the ex-oficio men,
bers of the subcommittee, said TO-DAY
he has not had an opportunity -
study the details of the bill in lis
present form. but, in commenting On
the cut in the Federal payment, h
added: 1T should be carefully gora
into before so drastic a reduction is
made"
The Maryland Senator. togethor
with Senators King. Democrat C
Utah, and Capper, Republican o
Kansas, are assigned from the Sena
District Committee as members
the District Appropriations Subcom-
mittee.
Although the House reduced t.
Federal share to the lowest figure =.
history, it added new items whil
brought the total of the bill up t.
$9o8,283 above the budget estimate
with the result that the District GOV
ernment would face a deficit in rev
enues next year unless the bill is re-
vised. At the same time, the House
reduced many essential operating
items the budget had recommended.
including health and hospital facilities.
s2,20O,OOO Deficit Looms.
IL lIlC AtS uleI OLolIlCI JILL lOE DSHC
year should pass in its present form
and necessary supplemental items for
the remainder of this year are ap-
proved in the next deficiency bill, the
Districts estimated deficit next year
would be s2,2O0,OO0.
The hearings are expected to start
with the Commissioners and other
District officials presenting the justi-
flcation for restoration of items elm
mated by the House, in response to
the letter written several days ago by
Chairman Thomas asking for in
formation on any changes they deemed
| necessary. The officials will be fol-
lowed by spokesmen for civic organiza- =
tionS.
While the members of the Senate are
not discussing changes until the APP
preparations Committee acts, through
out the history of fiscal relations be-
tween the Federal and District Gov
ernmentS the Senate has always en-
deavored to keep the apportionment
on an equitable basis.
Evening star., 1936-03-09

Justice Let's were wholly unfounded
and wrongful"
The conduct of Justice Let's, said
Chief Justice George E. Martin
speaking for the court, was "fair and
Just throughout and beyond reason
able criticism"
The facts involved in the case arose
in the course of prosecution OF 13
persons charged with violating the
prohibition laws. Eight of the l3
were found guilty by a jury in Justice
Let's court and five of these appealed.
Duke entered the case on behalf Of
several of the defendants after their
conviction. He submitted proposed
bill of exceptions to Justice Let's,
asking that it be allowed for submis-
sion to the Court of Appeals. Justice
Let's refused to sign the bill, however,
saying it was inadequate and defective.
A substitute bill presented by former
Assistant United States Attorney Har-
old w Orcutt, was found by the judge
to be correct.
Charged Obstruction.
Protesting against Justice Let's ac-
tions, Duke charged that he had "ob-
structed justice in the case of the
appellants by denial of bail and finally
by sending up to the Court of Appeals,
when further delay was impossible, an
inaccurate, incomplete and false bill
of exceptions"
He added that "the United States
attorney Geo A. Rover stands equal
ly guilty in this obstruction of justice
and Justification of records" The
Appeals Court later struck this Ian
guage from its records, on the ground
1t was scandalous and defamatory.
Insubsequent proceedings during the
course of the prohibition case appeal.
Duke repeated the charges and stated
further that Justice Let's has de-
stroyed any possible belief in either
his judicial discretion or his judicial
or personal integrity, because of his
Justification of the record in this
case"
Failed to Back Charge.
AS result of Dukes charges the
Court of Appeals called special hear
ing for January 8, 1888, on the sole
question Of whether the record of the
case sent to it by Justice Let's was
untrue. Duke failed to submit SUBJ
stantiating evidence or to appear on
the day of the hearing.
Later, in a civil case in District
Supreme Court, Duke caused his client
to ask for disqualification of Justice
Let's as the trial judge on the ground
he had hand picked" the jury in the
criminal case and deliberately vio-
lated the rights of the poor people on
trial before him" The charge also
was made that Justice Let's cannot
be trusted to decide case involving
poor person, like the petitioner, on
one hand. and a banker and Govern
ment official of high standing, on the
other"
AS result Of these accusations, the
District Grievance Committee COM
planned against Duke, charging him
with professional misconduct prejudi-
cial to the administration of Justice.
He was tried and convicted by three
judges.
Associate Justice Harold M. Ste
phens of the appellate court, who only
was recently appointed to the bench
and, therefore, was not a member of
the tribunal during the time involved
by the disbarment proceedings, gave
5 q separate concurring opinion He
agreed there was no Justification for
Dukes accusations.
Evening star., 1936-03-09
A. A. A. PERSONNEL
MEASURE PUSHED
Senate Agriculture Group Due to
Act on Bill to Retain
Employes.

The Senate Agriculture Committee
probably will act late today or tomor-
row on a resolution authorizing and
directing the Agriculture Department
to retain the personnel of the Agri-
cural Adjustment Administration to
carry out the new farm program un-
der the recently soil-conser-
vation law.
There are $500 A. A. A. employees,
Of whom Gal have been furloughed
since the A. A. A. law was declared
unconstitutional. The pending reSo-
ton, sponsored by Senator Smith,
Democrat of South Carolina, calls for
retention of those on furlough as well
as the Others
Chairman Smith asks for action on
the resolution at a committee meet
ing today and steps are being taken
now to poll absentee members.
Evening star., 1936-03-09
False Fire Alarm
Laid to Monument
BY Man on Visit
Tells Court He Got Lost
and Kept Running
Into Shaft.

Gustave Nelson in Police Court to-
day blamed the Washington Monu-
ment for his turning in a false fire
alarm.
He pleaded guilty, although he re-
marked he remembered nothing about
it, and his case was referred to the
probation officer for a report before
the imposition Of a sentence.
Sergt. H. G. Martin of the third
precinct testified Nelson, a New York
restaurateur visiting here, pulled an
alarm box at Seventeeth and r streets
at 1:10 am. Sunday.
Nelson told Judge Isaac r. Hit he
was riding In a car with a friend, who
let him out near Lincoln Memorial.
In trying to find his way back to the
center of the city, he said, he kept
running into the Washington Monu-
ment.
He Is at liberty under $500 bond.
Evening star., 1936-03-09
DISTRICT, NEARBY
v. p. A. PROJECTS
TO OCOST $2O,617,9l1.
Hopkins Reveals Most to Be
Spent on Repairs and
Construction.
BALANCE PROVIDES
WHITE COLLAR WORK
Maryland's Share $7,s65,s51,
While Virginia Will Get To.
tai of $s,295,65s.

Rendering an accounting Of W. P.
A. expenditures on projects in the
District, Maryland and Virginia, for
which total of s20,617,9l1 had been
approved as Of last December 81, Ad-
ministrator Harry l.. Hopkins revealed
today that great proportion of the
Government money will be spent on
construction and repair work
In the District. Hopkins reported,
697 per cent of the total of $4,456,-
402 for W. P. A. projects will ac-
tually go into construction and re-
pair jobs of various kinds. For Mary
land. such expenditures will represent
approximately 80 per cent of the to-
tai of $7,865,851, while in Virginia
slightly more than so per cent OF
s8,295,658 will go to public improve
ments.
The balance Of the $20,6l7,9l1,
Hopkins said, will be spent to provide
work for women, white-collar and
other professional and technical un-
employed workers.
Types Of Projects.
A listing by types and cost of prof.
ects in the District as OF December
81 shows the following classes ac-
count for the bulk of the money;
Highways, roads and streets, ST.
$50 O,067. or 34.4 per cent; public build
ines governmental and educational,
sl6s s.062, or 3s per cent; parks and
Fairgrounds, s539,533, or l21 per
cent; water supply and sewer systems,
S575,832, or 1919 per cent, and air
ports and sirways. $243,7sl, or SIS
per cent.
This leaves the remaining 30.3 per
cent of the funds, or approximately
$780, 900, for white-collar jobs.
Projects in Maryland.
In Maryland the expenditures for
construction and repairs will be as
follows:
Highways, roads and streets, $2.736,-
$50, or 34.8 per cent; public buildings,
both educational and governmental
S882,748. or 1i2 per cent: parks and
Fairgrounds, $S7l .638, or Ill per cent;
flood control and other conservation
S274,263, or 3.5 per cent; water supply
and sewer systems, $l,450,27s, or 1874
per cent; transmission and distribu-
ton lines, S579,244. or IA per cent, and
transportation. $328,155, or Al per
cent
Virginia expenditures Of a similar
nature were reported as:
Highways, farm-to-market roads
and streets, s1.s3s,S37, or 234 per
cent; public buildings. both educa-
tional and governmental. $541 ,009, or
SIS per cent; parks and Fairgrounds
$1,774, ,604, or ala per cent; flood con-
troll and other conservation, S54. sos
or or per cent; water supply and sewer
systems, $723,l04. or 81 per cent;
transmission and distribution lines
s12,255, or OIL per cent, and transpor-
tation, $8l ,l86, or 10 per cent.