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The Washington times., 1936-05-08
Cheap Labor

The shortage of skilled mechanics available to work
on large District projects being financed through the
Public Works Administration must not be made ex
cuse for bringing outside workers into the city WITH
A VIEW TO FORCING DOWN WAGE SCALES.
If is necessary to import 1OOrkers here-al-
thOuqh that uUOuId seem absurd lUith relief roll
of about 2OOOO-the greatest must be erercized
bv officials to see that complete Dage standards are
maintained.
LIKEWISE THERE MUST BE PLACED UPON THE
CONTRACTORS ENGAGED IN THE CONSTRUCTION
TASKS THE OBLIGATION TO SEE TO IT THAT THE
IMPORTED WORKERS ARE SENT BACK TO THEIR
HOME COMMUNITIES WHEN THEIR PERIOD OF
SERVICE ENDS
The shortage of skilled mechanics is said to exist
on the tuberculosis hospital under construction at Glenn
Dale and the sewage plant job at Blue Plains.
similar shortage probably exists on other smaller
jobs and already it is being charged that nonunion
tractors are seeking workers in other communities who
will come here and work for less than the union SCALE
Washington has seen similar occasions in the past
which have been used excuse to glut the local
labor market with cheap labor from other sections.
In the past such labor has been brought here by cheap
contractors has worked for WHILE and then has been
cut adrift on the local labor market.
The inevitable result of those tactics to throw
own relatively high paid workers out of employment the
jobs going to the imported workmen who, having
sponsibiltes in the city, willing and able to work
below the local SCALE
WE WANT NO MORE OF THAT EVEN IF WE
HAVE TO DELAY SLIGHTLY THE WORK ON EX-
ISTING LOCAL CONSTRUCTION JOBS.
Incidentally it should be mentioned a cause for
some rejoicing that the shortage of skilled workers is
attributed to the speeding up of private construction
jobs in the local fields.
That is a healthy indication and Washington
1DOuId be uOLIing to put up with little incOnUen
fence in order that these priUateyntiated jobs may
be encouraged.
The Washington times., 1936-05-08

at the ragamuffins who were ad-
vancing through the jungles and
over the mountains. His we'll
trained troops, the high-nosed
aristocrat promised, would soon
rout the hungry hordes under
Bolivar.
But the wealthy Dons were
nervous. The people were fright
ened. Some hid their treasure in
the massive Rey Felipe Castle at
the seaport Of Lima. Thirty-five
millions are said to have rested
inside those strong walls-and
some is said to be there still.
Many loyal Spaniards turned
The Washington times., 1936-05-08


Recovery, Ltd"
The advertise
.ent was an
alluring invita-
ton to the Brit
ish public to
c n t r i b u t e
$375,000 to the
romantic enter
prise Of seeking
buried treasure
on CocoS Island.
Treasury r e :
C ov e ry, Ltd, !"
was q pretty
stylish out fit.
It's directors in
The Washington times., 1936-05-08

Mr.. Demaray pointed out that
this vast fund was only to pay
rental on space in 20 buildings
leased by the Government after
July /, 1885, so that the money
had not been provided in pre-
viously written supply bills.
The item Of 1891 ,S04 for rental
and maintenance does not apply
to any of the other buildings
previously rented.
For these buildings, the New
Dealers pay as high as SITS per
foot Of space.
When questioned, Mr.. Demaray
made no effort to disguise the rea-
son for these rentals.
He was asked by Chairman
James P. Buchanan CD Of Texas
when he told of the necessity for
the money:
'Why?"
Mr.. Demaray replied:
"TO accommodate Govern
ment personnel"
CHAIRMAN Buchanan later said:
Il was just wondering why
these departments that you have
mentioned, that have been func-
tiOning for years, need so much
space all of a sudden"
These rentals Ito accommodate
Government personnel" are only
small portion Of the New Deal rent
bill.
HIS TARGET
Representative Bert Lord (R.)
Of New York, disliked the way
that Representative Thomas l..
Blanton CD Of Texas, was ad-
dressing his Democratic colleagues
the other day when making a
speech.
Lord made a point of order
that Blanton was talking to the
Democrats and apparently ignor-
ing the members on the Republi-
can side of the House.
Before a ruling could be made
on the point of order, Blanton
shouted:
81 always talk to the largest
audience"
| MTSFTRE?
One Of the colleagues of Repre-
sentative Marion A. Zioncheck,
The Washington times., 1936-05-08

m ost ardent
Democrats.
w EN- the
House Appropri-
ations subcom-
n1ittee was hav-
ing hearings Of
the first def
cheney appropri-
alton bill for
1885, A. E. De-
maray, aSsoci-
ate director OF
he National
p ark Service,
was discussing
a rental item to-
falinp S3Q1. .Rn4
The Washington times., 1936-05-08
Wise Words

You can do anything with chill
dren if you only play with them.
Bismarck.
He that departs with his own
honesty for vulgar praise, doth
it too dearly buy.-Ben johnson.
BY night an atheist half believes
in a God.-Young.
The Washington times., 1936-05-08
SAFETY AT SEA

The Quartermaster Corps of the
United States Army has a record
that few shipping companies can
equal.
The corps has never lost an
Army transport outside of a war
zone.
Maj. Gen. Henry Gibbins, the
Quartermaster general, testifying
before the House Appropriations
Committee, was recommending ad.
ditional safety devices for Army
transports.
He pointed out that these
vessels, on which are carried of.
ficerS and men, have never had
any difficulty but that there was
no assurance that they would not
encounter an emergency in the
future.
He was asked by Representative
Lloyd Thurston (R) Of Iowa:
"The Quartermaster Corps
has never lost a ship outside
of the war zone, when they were
tOrpedOed?"
General Gibbins advised that
there had never been such loss.
FOND MEMORIES
The Post Office Department has
had many strange requests for
special stamp issues, but probably
the strangest one yet made came
from Representative Byron B.
Harlan CD of Ohio.
Although the Post Office De.
partment has turned thumbs down
on the vast majority of requests,
Harlan has asked that a special
issue be written to celebrate the
one hundredth anniversary Of the
McGuffey Reader, a text book
written by William H. McGuffey,
of Miami University, in Ohio.
Harlan said:
81 doubt if there are very
many members of this House
who were educated in the West
or Middle West prior to the turn
of the century who. do not cher.
iSh in their hearts a very dear
recollection Of the McGuffey
Reader"
The Washington times., 1936-05-08

the song OF
who wrote it
but those lines
are homes.
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fun" walled .
plaintive, fe-
male voice
''Lt'S n o
fun bein &
fond Of some.
one
"If 8 o m e.
one trea { s
you like o
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w h e r e
upon, you n
The Washington times., 1936-05-08
Greatest Show on Earth
Ru John SI1Nre. Jr.

the washington speed king, thinks
that he has an answer to the
question Of why Zioncheck has
been so much in the limelight
of late.
The member Of the House says
that the reason for Zioncheck's
escapades Is that:
"He is seeking publicity and
getting nOtOriety."
The Washington times., 1936-05-08
RENTAL MONEY

Amounts paid by the Govern.
ment for renting office space are
astounding even to some Of the
The Washington times., 1936-05-08
The Human Side of the News =

Two years ago, over in London,
the newspapers carried an lad"
headed in large letters: Treasury
The Washington times., 1936-05-08
A REMINDER

One Washington taxicab driver
has a method of reminding his
passengers and motorists of the
dangers of the highways.
On the radiator cap is placed a
small but gruesome model of a
skeleton.
It serves as an effective warning.
The Washington times., 1936-05-08
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
leone TREATS YOU LIKE A DUMB ONE"

Just caught two lines over the
radio. Don't know the name OF
Evening star., 1936-07-03
M'NAMARA is GIVEN
MAXIMUM SENTENCE
Jury Extended More Sympathy
Than You Deserved Judge
Tells Youth,

William Martin Mcnamara. 81.
Petersburg, Va who was found guilty
last week of manslaughter, was sem
fenced late yesterday to from 3 to
IS years imprisonment by Justice
Daniel w. O'Donoghue of District
Court, who said the youth already
had been accorded too much SYM
pathy. The sentence was the MAXI
mum allowed by law.
Mcnamara was convicted Of killing
John Mikedis, chef at K street cafe,
March a. The Government, which
charged him with first degree murder.
contended he accidentally shot Mikedis
while attempting to kill his own wife.
Ruth, waitress.
Obviously impressed with the story
of unrequited love told by the youth
from the witness stand, the jury
brought in the manslaughter verdict.
THE jury extended more sympathy
to you than you were entitled to-
said the Judge to the pale youth.
This was first degree case and the
verdict should have been first or cer-
tally nothing less than second"
Mcnamara received the sentence
without show of emotion. He was
represented by Attorneys Frank J.
and e. Russell Kelly.
Evening star., 1936-07-03
ONE DEAD, 3 HURT
IN AUTO ACCIDENTS
Fairfax County Farmer Crushed
When Car Pins Him
Underneath.
BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star

BY stan correspondent OF The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, July 3-A Fairfax
County farmer was killed and three
New York men injured in automobile
accidents in Fairfax and Prince Will
liam Counties last night.
Philip Lee, So, Chantilly farmer, met
instant death when crushed beneath
an overturned automobile which was
in collision with another machine on
dirt road near Chantilly off Route so
Lee was thrown from the car in
which he was riding and killed when
the machine landed on him after over
turning twice. Sheriff E. p Kirby re-
ported He was riding with Richard
Payne, 81, colored, of Chantilly.
Payne's machine and a car operated
by Linnie Harris. colored, also of
Chantilly, collided head-on on a curve
of the dirt road, the sheriff reported.
Kirby arrested Payne on an investiga-
ton charge and summoned Harris to
appear at an inquest, which DR.. c. A.
Ransom, county coroner, said he will
hold today. Neither of the colored
men was hurt.
Another accident between two trucks
on the Richmond Highway, two miles
south of Woodbridge, sent three New
York men to the Alexandria Hospital
with severe head lacerations. Two of
the men were retained overnight at the
institution.
They were listed as Charles Econo-
mas, TWenty-eighth street, New York
City; George Alleck, same address. and
Nicholas Angelides, the Bronx, N. Y.
DR.. William P. Cation of Accotink took
the men to the hospital
Evening star., 1936-07-03
NEW GROUP PLANS
FOR Church HERE
Presbyterian Dissen terS
Send Representative
to District.

Plans are under way for organizing
a Presbyterian Church Of America in
the National Capital.
Rev. Leslie w. Sloat. who said he
is former pastor of the First Presby-
terian Church of the United States
Of America at Ridgeway, N. j., has
been sent here with the idea Of eStab-
fishing the new church.
The Presbyterian Church of Amer
ica. Rev. Mr.. Sloat said, was founded
June II in Philadelphia at a meet
ing of forces breaking away from the
Presbyterian Church of the United
States of America.
Dr. j. Gresham Machen. leader of
the Constitutional Covenant Union,
which dissolved itself to permit the
organization Of the new group, was
elected the first moderator. The as
sembly adopted declaration Of faith,
subscription to which was made
mandatory on ministers, elders and
deacons. 1t is set forth by the Or
ganizerS of the new church the
Scriptures of the Old and New Testa-
ments are the word of God, the only
infallible rule of faith and practice. =
This group, it was explained at the
Philadelphia session, said it sought Ito
continue what We believe to be the true
spiritual concession of the Presby-
terian Church of the United States
of America. which We hold to have
been abandoned by the present or
ganization of that body. and to make
clear to all the world that we have no
connection with the organization bear
ing that name"
DR.. Machen and seven others were
ordered by the Philadelphia Presby-
terry to renounce their afiliation with
the Independent Board of Foreign
Missions. Their refusal was held as
insubordination by the Presbytery. and
this ruling was upheld by the General
Assembly meeting at Syracuse. N. Y.
Rev. Mr.. Sloat said meeting will
be called here about August l, if there
is sufficient interest for the establish
ing of the new church. He will con-
duct services under the new church
plans Sunday, at pm, at the Bible
Institute Of Washington, 1916 Yer
mont avenue. Services will be contin-
ued thereafter each Sunday at the
same time.
Evening star., 1936-07-03
HEALTH SERVICE
G|VESD. c. $51,943
Regulations Approved by
Surgeon General CON-
piled With Here.

From total available funds of
$8,881 .859, the United States Public
Health Service has marked s51 ,943
for use of the District Public Health
Department during the fiscal year
just started, it was disclosed today
in a financial breakdown issued by
the Treasury Department.
Accompanying the financial state
ment were eight pages of mimeo-
graphed regulations approved by
Thomas Parran, surgeon general of
the United States, which the States
and the District must comply with
in order to receive their quarterly
allotments.
Among the requirments are ap-
proved plans for extending and i'm
proving the local health services,
budgetary and other reports, training
OF personnel and the matching Of
certain portions of the allotments.
At the Offices of the District Health
Department 1t was said that all the
conditions are being complied with
and that anticipation of the Federal
assistance figured in plans of the
department for the new year.
Division of d. C. Fund.
The total for the District for the
year is divided as follows: $40, 1872 on
a basis of population; $16,500 for
application to special diseases and
conditions; $5,261 for training or
personnel, and $4,000 on a basis of
financial needs.
Maryland will receive $125,433 dur
ing the new year with the division
as follows: $67,632 on a basis of pop
ulation, $4,000 for special diseases
and conditions, s2l,692 for training
personnel, and $10,10s on a basis of
financial needs.
Virginia is scheduled to receive
$214,972, earmarked as follows: $780,
3s2 on a basis of populate $4,000
Tor special diseases and u Anditions,
$26,26S for training personnel, and
$6s,3l2 on basis Of financial need.
Part Is Unexpended Sum.
OF the total available, $4,000, 900
is provided in the appropriation act
OF this year while the balance is
unexpended from the fiscal year OF
1886.
New York is scheduled to receive
the largest sum for health services
with s659,620 available for that State.
Pennsylvania is down for $500, ,988,
while both Illinois and Texas will
receive more than $4,000 each.
Delaware will receive the smallest
sum, $31, ,024. Alaska Is down for
$35,2s1, with Nevada slated for only
$3S.47l. Hawaii is to receive more
than the District s5S,68S.
Evening star., 1936-07-03
DECLINES TO MAKE
ESTIMATE OF SUM
BELIEVED NEEDED
Expansion of D. C. Affairs
in '38 Anticipated by
Official.
DONOVAN COMMITTEE
WORKING ON PROBLEM
Suggestion Heard Gasoline Levy
Revenues Use Be Broadened
in Future.

Although declining TO make any esti-
mates Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen
believes the District will have to raise
more revenue for the fiscal year of
1888, and as a result has instructed
the Special Committee on Taxation
to continue its studies to find new
sources of income.
He instructed Mai. Daniel J. Dono-
van, District auditor and chairman of
the committee. to call the group to-
gether and renew the studies begun
about year ago under the chairman
ship Of E. Barrett Prettymsu, former
corporation counsel.
Normal expansion Of the Districts
business" Hazen said, will make ad-
ditional revenue necessary. We have
fallen behind in recent years in capi-
tai Investments and some of these will
have TO be made up.
Federal Share Cut.
AT the same time. Congress has
cut down the Federal share to the
point that we will have to seek addi-
tional money from some other source
unless the special study to be made
this Summer and Fall convinces Con-
gress the United States must con-
tribute more.
Il don't know just where the money
is coming from and that's the task I
have given Maj. Donovan's committee.
Il do know that when the next bud
get figures are submitted for 1898 there
is likely to be demand for expendi-
lures in excess of our revenue. aud
the gap must be filled in some way"
The Special Committee on Taxa
ton made preliminary report to the
Commissioners several months ago in
which four possible sources Of revenue
were outlined. The committee did not
draw any conclusions, however, and
made no specific recommendations.
Proposed New Sources.
The proposed new sources were an
increase in the gasoline tax, a weight
tax on automobiles, an inheritance
tax and new forms of taxation of pub
lie utilities. The committee also con-
sidered and eliminated possible in
come tax
Hazen would not commit himself to
any of the suggested additional as
sessments, but he did say that sug-
gestions have been made that the use
of gasoline tax revenues be broadened.
At present all such revenue is used
for construction and maintenance Of
highways, but the suggestion outlined
by the Commissioner would permit the
money to be used to keep up traffic
signal lights and highway signs. to
pay part of the expense Of patrolling
the highways, and several other items
directly affecting traffic conditions.
Savings Possible.
Sufficient allied items could be
found. he said, to save about S625 coo
annually from the general fund,
whereas a 1-cent increase in the gaso-
line tax would net return OF S1,000,-
900 a year over present income.
Hazen hopes the committee will
make some definite recommendations
by the time the 1888 budget has to be
submitted to Congress next Winter.
Serving on the committee with Maj.
Donovan are Vernon West, acting COR
poration counsel, who succeeded
Prettyman; Richmond B. Keech, vice
chairman of the Public Utilities Com
mission; William A. Roberts peoples
COUNSEL C. M. Towers, tax collector.
and Fred D. Allen, tax assessor.
Evening star., 1936-07-03
LIBRARIES TO CLOSE

The central building and all branches
of the Public Library will be closed
all day tomorrow, July 4, and Sunday.
The central building was to close at
pm. as usual today. but the major
branches will remain open until pm.
The art division at the central
building will close at pm. daily un-
til after September IL.
The Library of Congress will be
closed all day tomorrow, it was an
nounced today. This is one of the two
days of the year that the building ts
closed all day, the other day being
Christmas.
Evening star., 1936-07-03
NEW CHAIN BRIDGE
lis DUE TO Be PLAIN
STEEL STRUCTURE
Little Consideration to Be
Given characterization,
Sultan Says.
ACTUAL WORK MAY
| BEGIN NEXT SPRING
Engineer Commissioner Favors
Two-Lane Span-Approach
to Be Improved.

The proposed new Chain Bridge,
authorized at the last session Of Con-
gress, in all probability will be plain
steel span with little consideration
given to ornamentation, it was re-
vealed yesterday by Col. Dan 1. Sui
tan, Engineer Commissioner.
Plans have not yet been drawn for
the new bridge, but much preliminary
work has been done. Clifford r.
Whyte, District bridge engineer, ex-
planned. however, that plans will not
be ready for several months and that
actual work of replacing the present
62-year-old structure probably will
not be undertaken until next March
or April.
Congress authorized a total expen-
diture of $350,000 for the new bridge.
but only S250,000 of this amount was
made available. Whyte said no ef-
fort to let contract will be made
until the whole sum is made avail
able, SO that the contractor may be
assured of completing the job once
it Is undertaken.
To Raise Roadway.
Present tentative plans call for
replacement of the existing bridge
with another much the same type.
The roadway level, however, will be
raised about feet on the Virginia
shore and about feet on the District
end in order to make the span level.
1t is probable the roadway will be
"a feet wide and that a 5-foot walk
way will be added, either inside the
structural steel or as a balcony ex-
tended from the bridge proper. These
details, however, have not been worked
out.
Col. Sultan favors the 24-foot
width. He explained that unless a
four-lane roadway can be constructed
a two-lane pavement will be better
than a three-lane bridge. With only
two lanes, the Commissioner said, mo-
torEts Will not be tempted to pass
other cars. whereas a third lane prob
ably would work out to be a traffic
hazard.
Money Considered Sufficient.
Col. Sultan regards the money ap-
propriated as ample to construct an
excellent bridge, if ornamentation is
made secondary to actual strength.
He believes. too. that the existing
piers, constructed in 1874. found to be
in good condition after the flood of
last March. will serve many more
years with no hint of danger.
The approach on the District end
of the span will be rebuilt so as to
eliminate the present sharp angle
turn. Col. Sultan said, and altogether
1.-The bridge will be good safe struc-
ture, ample to carry any load to
which it may be subjected"
Evening star., 1936-07-03
Z0NING HEARINGS
TO BE HELD JULY is
Commission to Consider Three
Proposed Amendments
Tn Cnde

A public hearing was called today by
the District Zoning Commission on
three proposed amendments to the
coming code. The hearing will be held
at the District Building on the morn
ing Of July Is.
Consent provisions of the code were
modified this week by the commission,
primarily as a curb on further filling
stations in areas where they are not
wanted. One Of the proposed changes
would require that before any station
may be established or enlarged Is days
notice will be required, to give adjacent
property owners a chance to make any
objections they desire.
The second amendment includes
flats" with apartment and tenement
houses in the restrictions placed on
the size Of lots each may cover.
The last is merely q technical modi-
f1cation Of the present code to make
uniform the size Of inclosed courts in
two areas of the city in which there Is
at present discrepancy.
Evening star., 1936-07-03
Pup Disappears
After Leap Causes
Auto to Hit Tree
Miss Jane Reese and
Queen G. Dunno Are
Treated at Hospital.

Frightened. jolted and confused
Duke. 4-mouth-old Scotch terrier,
was wandering in the rain today some
where in the upper reaches of the
northern Sixteenth street vicinity,
where yesterday he caused an automo-
bile accident that injured two persons.
Duke was riding in the rear seat of a
car driven by Miss Jane E. Reese, 10,
of 1892 Military road, sister of his
mistress Suddenly he pumped him.
self into Miss Reese's lap, causing her
to lose control of the car. They
smashed into a tree. Miss Reese and
Owen C. Dunno, %, of 1901 N street
were cut and bruised and had t. be
treated at Walter Reed Hospital. Duke
vanished.
The car belongs to Maj. James r.
Lusby. District disbursing officer, who
is Miss Reese's uncle.
Evening star., 1936-07-03

He makes his kill, possibly full
grown OK or zebra, eats his fill, and
leaves the remains to the scavengers,
although on occasion. with his rough
tongue, he licks the bones very clean
indeed.
The early Romans caught lions for
their gruesome games in Greece, but
no lions are left in Southern Europe
although there are a very few in India
The lion ranges all Africa except the
Sarah and densely wooded regions.
Enjoys Family Life.
He follows the migration of wild
herds and feeds nightly Oddly
enough, however. game in African
sanctuaries has been found to in
crease where the lion is protected
due, probably. TO the fact that the
lion selects the weak and aged for
his prey.
The lion lives Is or 20 years, usually
remains faithful to one mate, rears
families of from one to five yearly,
and seems to enjoy domestic life
Joe himself is proud father sew
eral times over. Lion cubs, however,
are something of dreg on the market
Many persons buy them as cunning
pets, only to become alarmed at their
rapid growth in size and temper
Thus, the lion pet goes on sale again
in few short months.
Tomorrow: Hopping Harry, the
n,auling Marsupial, uho likes his
boring.