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Evening star., 1937-02-11
HOUSE UN|TSPLkN.
MEETING TUESDAY.
| ON JACOBS REPORT
Special subcommittee to
Work Out Program of
Procedure.
ONE GROUP TO STUDY
PROBLEM OF DEFICIT
Joint Session Is Called to
Eliminate Overlapping in
Respective Duties

The two special subcommittee ap-
pointed by the House District Com
mittee to study the Jacobs fiscal re-
lations report arranged today to hold
a joint meeting Tuesday to work out
definite program Of procedure.
One of the subcommittee, headed
by Representative Kennedy, Demo-
crat of Maryland, has been instructed
to study proposals in the report for
raising additional revenue to Offset
part Of the $10,000,000 deficit faced
by the District in the coming fiscal
year on the basis Of the present Sat-
100000 budget. The other will con-
slider 10 changes in existing law rec.
commended in the report.
Representative Nichols, Democrat Of
Oklahoma, chairman Of the subcom.
mittee which will handle the proposed
statutory changes, suggested the Joint
session in an effort to work out q
program for the study that would
avoid overlapping.
Unfamiliar With Details.
The Nichols subcommittee has not
yet held meeting, and is unfamiliar
with the details of the study that con-
fronts it. Kennedy's group. however.
has mapped out tentative program.
and its members are now engrossed
in study of the Jacobs report and
the proposed three-point formula for
settling the controversy over the fiscal
relationship between the Federal and
District Governments.
The subjects to be considered by
Kennedy's subcommittee include rec.
concentrations for increasing the gaso.
line tax, substitution of an income tax
for the present tax on Intangible per.
sonal property, weight tax on motor
vehicles, a revision of business taxes,
and an inheritance tax.
Jacobs to Be Witness.
The subcommittee has decided to
call as its first witness J. L. JACOBS,
Chicago efficiency engineer and tax
expert, who directed the fiscal re,a-
tions study on which his report was
based. Members of the so-called
Advisory Comr-.,ee, which aided
him, also are to be called. as well as
Maj. Daniel j. Donovan, District audi.
tor and budget officer. The Advisory
Committee" was composed Of George
McAneny, president of the Title Guar.
anty Trust Co. of New York City:
Clarence A. Dykstra, city manager Of
Cincinnati, and James w. Martin.
chairman Of the Kentucky State Tax
Commission.
Kennedy's subcommittee proposes
to proceed slowly with its study until
the House Subcommittee on Appro-
priations. in charge Of the 1888 Dis.
trict supply bill, definitely decides
whether to adopt the Jacobs three
point fiscal relations formula or to
recommend continuance of the pres
ent lump-sum Federal payment toward
District expenses.
Until that question is settled, Ken
nedy said his subcommittee will not
be in a position to determine how
much additional revenue the District
will need in the coming fiscal year
70 meet the prospective deficit, and, OF
| course, cannot pass intelligently on
the proposals for legislation to tap po.
tential new sources Of revenue.
Evening star., 1937-02-11
CAPITOL ADDITION
| HEARINGS ENDED
Arguments For and Against
Extension Taken Under
Amusement.

The Senate Public Buildings and
Grounds Committee today completed
hearings on the proposed extension Of
the east front Of the Capitol and took
under advisement arguments for and
against given during the last week.
Chairman Connally announced the
committee this afternoon would in
spect q plaster model Of the build
ing as it would look If the original
central portion should be brought out.
Lorimer Rich, New York architect,
closed the discussion for the opposi-
ton today, while George Oakley Tot
ten, jr., of this city and several others
summed up the arguments in support.
Rich, consulting architect for the
Treasury, opposed the extension on the
ground that moving the central por-
ton forward would have the effect of
decreasing the height and grandeur Of
the dome, and would give the appear
ance Of five-unit building. instead Of
the present three-part effect of CEN
tral portion and two wings
If more space is needed, he said, the
logical move would be to add slightly
to the ends of the two wings, without
disturbing the historical central por-
ton. Answering the contention that
the old sandstone in the center should
be refaced with marble to harmonic
with the wings, rich said that where
the sandstone is in bad shape it could
be replaced without being noticeable,
since the central portion Is kept
painted.
Totten, who has designed a number
OF Government buildings and studied
architecture both here and abroad, was
equally positive the extension should
be carried out. It has been under
consideration from time to time for
70 years.
given lower appearance, and that
accomplishing it by extending the
East Front would be an esthetic ad-
vantage. Although emphasizing that
the design of the dome should not be
changed, he urged that the cast-iron
material Of which it is constructed
be replaced with marble while the
extension Is being made.
James Henry Harper also testified
In support Of the extension today.
Harry r. Cunningham, an archi-
tect, in favor Of the change, told the
committee that the District Court
House Is regarded as a fine old
building" and pointed out 1t was re-
faced not many years ago without
causing it to lose Its early Federal
character"
Evening star., 1937-02-11
UNDERPASS SOON
Will BE OPENED
Eastern Avenue Project Nearly
Completed-Michigan Avenue
"nrk Drooraesas
Work Progresses.

Opening Of the new Eastern avenue
underpass, financed from funds grant
ed the District for grade crossing
elimination, has been scheduled for
some day next week by Capt. H. G.
Whitehurst, director Of highways.
As soon as 1t Is opened the old
Quarles street grade crossing will be
closed.
The Michigan avenue viaduct, being
partly financed out of District funds
and partly from Federal grants, now
Is about 90 per cent completed and
will also be opened before long, officials
said.
The original grant Of $41o,0 900. sup
plemented January ! by an additional
grant of $3.50, 900, also viii make pos
sible widening Of the railroad viaduct
over Bladensburg road northeast just
north Of New York ayenus. Plans for
thAs peo3ect uoW ~ hstng ygspassd.
Evening star., 1937-02-11
MARRIED WORKER
REPEAL BILL HIT
N. F. F. E. Head Sees Kin
Affected Under $4,000
Joint Pay Limitation.

A bill to repeal the marital status
law that has been a bone Of contention
for nearly five years was before the
House today for consideration, but the
form in which it was reported out from
the Civil Service Committee yesterday
opened a new field of controversy.
The marital status law requires dis
misSal of husband or wife in Joint
Government employment, where re-
duction Of force is necessary, and also
gives preference in hiring to the non
married woman. The new law pro-
posed would change the basic civil
service law which permits two mem
bers Of a family to hold Federal posts
and forbids this if their joint salaries
equal or exceed $4,000.
The first adverse comment on the
proposal came from Luther G. Steward,
president Of the National Federation
OF Federal Employees, who asserted it
introduced an extraneous element that
had no part in merit system employ
ment.
Pointing out that family" has been
interpreted to mean all the members
OF a household living under one roof,
Steward said the prescription could
easily deprive the Government of the
services Of persons eminently qualified
simply because they had kin In Fed
eral posts.
The action of the Civil Service Com
mittee yesterday precedes special
hearing ordered on the marital status
law by the House Committee on Ex-
penditures in Executive Departments,
which is antagonistic to repeal.
Chairman Ramspeck Of the House
Civil Service Committee expects to 20
before the Rules Committee early next
week to ask privileged status for the
revsmped bill.
Ramspeck explains that while those
who were separated from the civil
service under provisions Of the mar
ried persons clause may be reinstated,
If their civil service status is satisfac-
tory and they have served long enough,
it does not mean that they go on the
eligibility list. It is up to them to find
q Job and induce the appointing officer
to give it to them. So, in effect, the bill
reported yesterday applies to all new
appointments.
Two other civil service bills vere re-.
ported yesterday and Ramspeck be-
lieves they can be passed by unanimous
consent. One is the legislative retire
ment bill, under which employees of
Congress, by notifying the clerk of the
House o. the secretary of the Senate
Of their desire, may be placed under
the retirement act the same as other
Government employees. II they desire
to have their past services computed
toward retirement they viii have to
make up tho back payments.
Evening star., 1937-02-11
.125 MORE GUARDS
ASKED AT LORTON
To AID EFFICIENCY
Vital to Operation of New
"WaIIed Prison." Barnard
Says.
SERIOUS SITUATION
SEEN IN SHORTAGE
Retiring Superintendent Points
Out Critical Needs in Outline to
Representative Randolph.
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

Without an increase of 125 guards
the District Reformatory at Lorton,
Va, will be unable to operate its new
walled prison." Capt. M. M. Barnard,
retiring general superintendent of Pc
nal institutions, today advised Repre-
sentative Randolph, Democrat, Of West
Virginia.
Randolph, q member Of the House
District Committee, has been intensely
interested In conditions existing in the
penal institutions and sought the views
Of Capt. Barnard before he leaves the
District service.
Capt. Barnard gave Randolph q brief
outline Of the problems confronting
the various District penal institutions
problems that were described in de-
tail in q series Of special stories which
appeared in The Star last Fall, based
on an exhaustive investigation by q
representative Of the paper.
Many Needs Listed.
These stories stressed the serious
situation resulting from an acute
shortage Of guards, as well as other
conditions existing at the institutions,
which Capt. Barnard summarized in
his report to Randolph. as follows:
"First Of all, let it be said. in broad
general terms, we have neither suffi-
cient housing, educational, industrial
or hospital facilities, nor sufficient
guard force to make possible either
proper working Of our inmates or
proper custody. This institution diff
fers very widely from the usual close
knit. walled prison, where, with few
exceptions, all Of the inmates are as
signed to duty In shops in which one
officer can render sufficient guard
service for anywhere from 100 to $50
or more inmates.
Due to a very limited market our
shops, where one custodial officer Is
enough, utilize the services Of COM
paratively few inmates. so that we
must have a great number Of shops
with the accompanying need for more
guards. For the same lack of market,
more Of our inmates must be worked
on our farms and orchards, and here
again, because Of the. lack of custodial
force, we cannot utilize our farm areas
to the greatest benefit of the institu-
tons"
"Makeshift" Arrangements.
The new so-called walled group"
at Lorton Is designed especially for
inmates who fail to respond to the
usual prison discipline. If Congress
does not provide funds for employ
ment Of 125 additional guards, Capt.
Barnard said, I'VE will be unable to
operate our walled group as the sepa-
rate institution it Is expected to be.
Without this very material increase in
the numbes Of guards, we must con-
tinue to makeshift and neglect op-
portunities for the best utilization Of
our intimate personnel"
Randolph told Capt. Barnard he
would work for an improvement Of
conditions in the penal institutions,
and at the same time complimented
the veteran penal official on the
splendid manner" tn which he has
fulfilled the duties Of his office.
Evening star., 1937-02-11
BY LEILA MECHLIN.

A UNIQUE exhibition Of excep-
n tional interest opened this
~ afternoon at Garfinckels. It
4 \ consists Of paintings in oil
and water color, etchings, drawings
and craft work by local artists, spon-
taneously contributed for the benefit.
through the Red Cross. Of the flood
sufferers.
These works are to be sold by direct
sale and through the unusual method
Of silent bids" This means that
any one desiring to acquire one Of
these exhibits may confidentially
register with the person in charge the
amount he or she is willing to pay for
it. A week hence when the exhibi-
ton closes, the works will be dis
tributed to the highest bidders.
The plan of this exhibition was
evolved by Miss Edith Hoyt, well
known as a water colorist and land
scape painter. She is chairman Of
Evening star., 1937-02-11
AIR ROUTE ANNOUNCED

Faster airplane service between
Washington and Rocky Mountain
points. including Denver, was an
nounced today.
The new schedules permit passen-
gers to leave Washington at 8:45 am.
on Pennsylvania Central Airlines,
connecting at Cleveland with United.
with arrival in Denver in time for
dinner. There also Is afternoon de-
parture, with arrival in Denver shortly
after miduight
Evening star., 1937-02-11
Prisoner Says He
Was Arrested for
Being Democrat

Moe J. Bailey, colored, had
been up in Police Court on drunk
enness charges before, so his plea
today evoked little leniency, but
considerable laughter.
Your honor" he told Judge
John P. Mcmahon, "the cops are
picking on me cause I'm Demo-
crat."
They must be picking on YOU
in q good many precincts, re-
torted the jurist. 'Forty-five
days"
Evening star., 1937-02-11
PROGRAM GROUP NAMED

Future programs of the Soroptimist
Club will be under direction of Miss
Ella Werner, Miss Elva McNamara,
Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, Miss Mar
garet Golland and Mrs. Mary Lewis,
it was announced yesterday at the
clubs monthly meeting In the Willard
Hotel.
The new Program Committee will
fnnction until tno end Of March.
Evening star., 1937-02-11
PIT. A. TO CELEBRATE

The John Burroughs School Parent
Teacher Association will celebrate
founders day tonight with . novelty
program, "The Bakery Shop" under
the direction Of Mrs. Florence B. Law
son. The show will be held at 8
O'Clock in John Burroughs auditorium.
Miss Elizabeth Andrews will give q
short talk ON Hobbies" at Q business
meeting, at which DR.. r. j. Haskell
will preside.
Evening star., 1937-02-11

For falling to take her place In o
queue Of 400 people waiting admis-
sion to motion picture theater at
Derry. Irish Free State. May Stewart
vas arrested and tined 90 cants.
Evening star., 1937-02-11
ADDRESS ON Vienna
PLANNED TOMORROW
Motion Pictures to Accompany
Talk by Dr.. Erich Mann at
Nons%i{ufio1- Hall

Constitution Hall.
DR.. Erich Mann, q resident Of Vi
emma, will address the members of the
National Geographic Society tomor-
row night at Constitution Hall on
life in the Austrian capital.
Accompanying motion pictures will
show such personages as Franz Joseph,
Emperor from 1848 to 1916; Arch
duke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassi-
nation touched OF the World War, and
the wedding Of Karl and Zita, last
Hapsburg sovereigns.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-16

lanes which would be allotted to Italy in the present nine-nation hunt for submarines, which everyone believes are Italian, attacking rner- chant ships.
 The British plan is to continue the new pirate" control and to attack without mercy any warshipS which illegally Tnolest merchantmen, but at the same time to try to bring Italy back into cooperation with Britain and France.
 French charges of plans for in- creased Italian interest in Spain reached extreme proportions with the assertion in the newspaper Oeuvre of Paris that MuSsolini ln- tended to send i60,000 men to take Madrid and end the war. To this report, the newspaper Humanite, organ of the French communist party, added the charge that as- phyxiating gas would be used against Mardid. Oeuvre, incidentally Is the organ Of the dominant rad- ical socialist party which D the key group in the French govern mental coalition.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-16
Police Officials M
 Cheshire Tragedy
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i dow, as police had thought, but simply walked up to the back door found 1t bolted, broke the window reached inside and opened the lock When he got Inside his w&s awake and opened fire, he says.
 Revolver Is Found
 The revolver, Q .30 caliber, WaA found by State Trooper Henry Mayo this morning among the dishevel. ment of the living room. A bullet fired from the gun was found In the door jamb between the bedroom end living room. 17svon admits firing l2 or IA shots, but claims that most of them were fired wild to try and scare the gun from his wifes hands'
 Locking For Reed
 After firing the shots ct his wife, Hivon says he went upstairs look. nig for Reed. But Reed had heard the shooting and decided that the Hivon house was no place for him. The window in the rear of the house bore evidence of his hurried flight without the cermony of removing the screen he had dived through the window and dropped the l2 feet to the ground. He ran to the home of Q neighbor, Robert Small of 4rookvale road, and phoned for the police.
 Meanwhile Hivon had returned to the living room and engaged ii ans other tussle with his wife. He says he clubbed her over the head, and one in the back of the neck, and after she fell to the ground he left the scene and started through the wooteI. Returning isl l6 minutes he saw no lights and hear no noise, SO he thought she had returned to bed. He says he then walked the railroad tracks toward New Haven, after first throwing tho remainder of the gun into the canal. It had been his intention to walk to New Haven, but he became tired, icy down, and doxed. Later he got up again, walked further, and then finally lay down and fell asleep where he was captured.
 Boxed At New Haven
 Hivon engaNed in several boxing matches ct New Haven during past years, but his past occupation was that of sheet metal worker. HM wife had raised chickens and sold eggs, from the farm which she pur- chased in 1880. She married Hivon December lD, io00. Her previous marriage name was KennAr and her maiden name was Werner. It is be- lieved she has three sons, Edward, Ray and Joseph Kennar living in New York and her daughter, Mrs. Marion Gamble lives about mile from the Hiyon home.
 The Gould funeral home in Southington, to which Mrs. IHivon's body was removed, is awaiting word from the sons before making any funeral arrangements
 Legal Procedure
 The legal procedure which the case of the state against Hivon will follow is expected to be as follows: Coroner John T. Monzani will is- sue Q finding holding Hivon respon- sible for the death by murder of his wife; Cheshire authorities will arraign him on the charge and order him bound over to the superior court ct Waterbury; states Attor- ney Lawrence |. Lewis will call for Q grand jury, and seek ai indict- ment for murder and should the jury return c true bill Hivon will be arraigned on the murder count.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-16
HARDWOOD GETS
 NTOC. O.P. RACE
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cept.
 1t is this: T would accept only with the definite understanding that I would appoint Q working advis- ory committee from the eight coun- ties of the state."
 Harwood, who resembles Q south. ern colonel with his beard, said that Q few minutes before his boarded e liner for Europe in midsummer he was first approached on the chair manship by the head of Q huge Republican contingent.
 q told the gentleman the sug- gestion was ridiculous" said Har- wood, land that l shouldn't con- sider the matter. I refused to give the gentleman my forwarding ad- dress"
 Since his arrival home, Senator Harwood has been beseiged by rep. resentatlVes of many groups within the party seeking to make him the new state chairman.
 '"The situation has developed 60 many raimifications," he said, "that now I feel owe 1t to the Repub- llcan party to say what I have. l will enter into no contest and should 1t develop that I was chos- en chairman my intentions are to serve only Q year or two until cer. tain things are ironed out"
 Up to this week, Q feeling had prevailed among certain leaders and many party workers that Harwood could not be induced to accept the post but since word leaked out that he might, Q definite trend toward him has developed hourly
 Major John Buckley, Holland county leader, who for several months has been considered c probable choice, Is now said to be encountering opposition from cer- tain groups included in. which are units of Republican women throughout the state and Connec. ticut Young Republicans. Should the committee choose Harwood for It's chairman, leaders say Samuel '. Pryor, Greenwich, would De Selected for national committee
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-16

stand, will be actually printed by the government. Many of the local guldebooks written by WPA authors have local sponsorship and we'll known publishers have taken many of them for the actual printing.
 The salesroom of the GPO re- veals the variety of the govern ment's publishing work, ranging all the way from paper folders to elaborately bound reproductions of treasures hidden among the federal records. Thus, in the publishing field, too, the governent Is daily oc- cupying Q more impressive position.
 NEXT: The biggest banker, thC biggest real estate operator, the biggest shlpbuilder, the biggest - well, that's enough to show just how deeply the government lS "ln huainess.n
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-16
Forces M
 Smashing Victory
tcontinued from Page D

Peiping, Sept. l6.-(UP)-Japan- csc military authorities announced today the carEure of Kuan, 90 miles south of here, after what they described as the largest engage ment by Japanese forces since the Russo Japanese war of i004-06.
 News of the capture of Kuan signaled the start of on attack against Lianghsiang, l8 miles south- west of Peiping. Heavy Japanese bombing planes dropped explosives on the Chinese lines. The roar oi battle was clearly audible in Piep- ing.
 The Japanese announced that af- ter e stiff fight their troops cap- tured Yangtsekan and another de- tachment occupied Fangshanhsien, which formerly had been Chinese divisional headquarters.
 It started when detachment of Japanese troops, soTne swimming and fighting ct the same time, man. aged to cross the Yungting river opposite Kuan and began the speedy construction of Q steel pon- toon.
 Eight Chinese divisions, believed to total 100000 men, were involved The Japanese numbers were not known.
 Keep Out Says Chinese
 Shanghai, Sept i6.--tUPl-The Chinese governntnt officially nos titled the embassies today to warn all foreign shipping to remain out side the l22nd meridian off the China coast betwetn c .. m. to c D. m.
 The region outside the i22nd meridian roughly covers the waters between the coast and the pilot ships in the vicinity of Shanghai.
 The notification was taken to inc dicate that Chinese are planning aerial retaliation for the Japanese blockade or their coast. Americans Advised
 Shanghai, Sept. 16-(UP)-Unit- cd States consular authorities to- day advised Americans concentrat- cd ct Haichow, on the coast north of Shanghai, to 60 to Tsingtao and await evacuation.
 Chinese authorities announced yesterday that they were closing the port because of the Japanese blockade. Previously, Americans in the interior had been ordered to gather there.
 American authorities feared also that Chinese authorities might close the port of Ningpo before Amer jeans, chiefly missionaries, could comply with orders to gather there from their posts in Chekiang prov ince.