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Washington News Society and General -———I ----i ____WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1937._**» PAGE B—1 SENATORS REVISE HOUSE NAVY BIEL; IGNORE HOSPITAL Cut of $1,000,000 in Sum for Model Testing Plant Is Restored. TOTAL OF $512,847,808 REPORTED IN MEASURE Budget Bureau Request for $1,- 500.000 to Start New Insti- tution Left Out. BY J. A. O’LEARY. The Senate Appropriations Com- mittee today restored a House cut of $1,000,000 in the limit of cost on the Navy's proposed new model test- ing plant in Washington, but left out of the naval appropriation bill a Budget Bureau request for $1,500,000 to start a new Naval Hospital here. | For the entire upkeep and develop- ! ment of the Navy, the Senate group I reported out a total bill of $512,847,- 808, which is a net reduction of $3,- 707,620 below the House figure. With Senator Byrnes. Democrat, of South Carolina in charge, the measure prob- ably will be taken up in the Senate tomorrow. The budget estimate for Naval Hos- pital, just transmitted by President Roosevelt two days ago, -was to have been used to buy a new site and start a hospital construction program esti- mated to cost $3,200,000 or more when completed. In 1931 Congress passed a bill au- thorizing the remodeling and exten- sion of buildings at the present hos- pital site at the foot of Twenty-fourth street. The letter transmitting the new budget estimate, however, reveals it has been decided to acquire a new site elsewhere in or near the District. May Necessitate Increase. This change in plans, the Budget Bureau said, may necessitate an in- crease later in the original limit of cost of $3,200,000 fixed for the en- largement of the present hospital. The Senate Committee's action on the model testing plant has the effect of reinstating the original budget rec- ommendation for a total outlay of $3,500,000. Of this amount, however, only $1,500,000 is expected to be spent during the coming year. The Senate action is in conformity with the intention of the enabling act passed last year, which authorized purchase of a site in the vicinity of Washington and erection of modern experimental plant to replace the ob- solete ship model basin at the Wash- ington Navy Yard. The House Appropriations Commit- tee decided the new model plant and testing basin could be established on property already partly occupied by the naval research laboratory at Belle- vue. D. C. The House, to carry out that decision, prohibited use of any of the money to acquire land, and reduced the limit of cost. Restoration Recommended. The Navy Department, however, told the Senate committee the building of the new plant at Bellevue would en- tail substantially more cost for the foundations than the cost of a suit- able site would come to. The depart- ment recommended restoration of the original budget program and the com- tnitee agreed. Viewing the bill as a whole, the Senate committee arrived at the net reduction of $3,707,620 by cutting out $5,000,000 for the purchase of strate- gic minerals, and adding $1,292,380 to other items scattered throughout the bill. The Senate committee did not change a House item of $265,000 for Improvement of the power plant at the Washington Navy Yard. Under replacement of naval vessels, no change was made in the House pro- vision of $90,000,000 to start con- struction of eight destroyers and four submarines. The armor and arma- ment allowances also was left at the House figure of $40,000,000. A. S. BERNSTEIN CLAIMED BY DEATH One of Founders of A. & N. Trad- ing Co.—Was Resident Here 18 Years, Abraham S Bernstein, 56, one of the founders of the A. & N. Trading Co. and a resident of Washington for the last 18 years, died last night at Garfield Hospital after a long illness. Mr. Bernstein was secretary-treas- urer of the A. & N. Co. at the time of his death. He formerly resided in New York City. He was a member of Samuel Gomp- ers Lodge, F. A. A. M., and was well known for his contributions to charity. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Anna Bernstein; a daughter, Miss Jeanette Bernstein; a son, Nathan J. Bernstein; three brothers, Samuel, 1 Emmanuel and Herman Bernstein, all of this city, and four sisters, Mrs. Lillian Rosenthal and Mrs. Rebecca Williams of this city and Mrs. Mar- tha Volk and Mrs. Lottie Cohen, both of New York City. Funeral services, accompanied by Masonic rites, will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Danzansky's funeral par- lors. Burial will be in Addas Israel Cemetery. BAND CONCERTS. By the Soldiers' Home Band In Stanley Hall at 5:30 p.m. today. John 6. M. Zimmennann, bandmaster: Anton Polntner, assistant. March, “World's Progress,” Victor Herbert Overture, “Precioso”_Von Weber Three songs from Elliland (Suite 2), Von Fielitz (a) “Frauenworth.” (b) “A Spray of Roses." (c) “Resignation.” Excerpts from Irish musical comedy, “Shameen Dhu”_Olcott Fox trots popular: 1. “Red Hair and Freckles”.Deppen 2. “The River and Me”_Warren Valse de concert, “Valse Brilliante,” Chopin Finale, ‘Wake Up America”..Glogau “The Star Spangled Banner." Allen Opposes Proposed Ban On Half Pints D. C. Commissioners Are Expected to Block Move. Tire proposal of the Alcoholic Bev- erage Control Board that the sale of half-pint bottles of liquor be banned in the District probably will be voted down by the Commissioners. Commissioner George E. Allen, who has supervision over the A. B. C. Board, has declared his opposition to the plan, declaring he can see no good that would result from the change. The question may come up for ac- tion at the meeting of the Board of Commissioners tomorrow. “The A. B. C. Board has done a good job,” said Allen. "I believe in supporting the board whenever possi- ble. But I think the proposal that the sale of half-pint bottles of liquor should be banned is almost ridiculous. "I favor rigid enforcement of pres- ent rules, but I fail to see where ban- ning the sale of half-pint bottles would promote temperance, good en- forcement or anything else.” IS KILLED IN NOUSE Anti-Saloon League Effort Backed by Magruder at Annapolis. B' 8 Staff Correspondent ol me 3tar. ANNAPOLIS. March 18—The drive by the Maryland Anti-Saloon League to restore prohibition to the "wet” areas of the State was put to death last night when the House killed a bill providing for referenda on the sale of alcoholic beverages. Tlie bill was introduced for the league by Delegate Walter M. Ma- gruder of Montgomery County and is the first measure sponsored by a leg- islator from the National Capital area to be defeated this session. An unfavorable report was brought before the House by its Judiciary Committee and the proposal was quickly killed when Magruder’s mo- tion to substitute the bill for the un- favorable report lost by 66 to 32 and a motion to adopt the report was carried by a viva voce vote. Magruder declared in support of his motion that the committee’s only ob- jection to the bill was that it would have required the signatures of only 15 per cent of the voters in any one election district to force a referendum in that area. He said he had given the committee an amendment which would raise the requirement to 30 per cent of the voters and had believed the change would result in the bill being reported out favorably. TROOPERS SOUGHT IN MONTGOMERY Grand Jury Urges Action to Ob- tain State Police for High- way Duty. Special Dispatch to Th« Star. ROCKVILLE, Md„ March 18 — After having been in session but three days, the grand jury for the March term of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County completed its work late yesterday and was excused by Judge Charles W. Woodward from further attendance at this time. The jury recommended in its report that at least one member of the county police force be detailed for duty at Gaithersburg and the upper county section and that steps be taken to obtain services of State police to patrol State highways within Mont- gomery County. The report compli- mented the county police force for its good work during the past year. The report recommended various repairs to the jail, old and new court houses and county home. The jury, according to the report, found 24 inmates in the county home and 48 prisoners in the county jail. The report also recommended that all jurors in the county be summoned by written notice indicating the month, day, time and place of appearance. MISS EDITH L. ADAMS FUNERAL IS TODAY Descendant of Massachusetts Pioneers Lived Here for 20 Y ears. Miss Edith L. Adams, 58, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, died Tues- day in Garfield Hospital after a short illness. Descendant of pioneer setlers of Newburyport, Mass., Miss Adams came to Washington about 20 years ago and had been with the Agriculture Department for 15 years. She lived at 4909 Thirteenth street and was a member of the Universalist Na- tional Memorial Church, 1810 Six- teenth street. She was a sister of the late Robert M. Adams, former Washington resi- dent and Cornell University professor. Clifton L. Adams, her brother, of Silver Spring, Md., survives. Funeral services were to be held at 3 p.m. today at the W. W. Chambers Co. funeral home, 1400 Chapin street. Her body will be sent to Hill, N. H„ for burial. GEN. HOF’S $101,637 ESTATE GOES TO WIDOW Maj. Gen. Samuel Hof, U. S. A., retired, who died here March 5, left an estate valued at $101,637.92, a petition for probate of his will re- vealed when filed in District Court late yesterday. His wife, Mrs. Alice Mayo Hof, was his sole beneficiary. She was named executrix by the will, which was dated June 18, 1919. Through Attorney F. G. Munson Mrs. Hof told the court that she and her husband were joint owners of their home at 1831 Nine- teenth street. t i W OPPOSITION GROWS TOWARD PLAN FOR JEFFERSONEDIFICE P. W. A. Exhibits Super- visor Sees Cost 5 Times $3,000,000. FINE ARTS COMMISSION IS TERMED REACTIONARY Planning Board to Devote Tomor- row Afternoon to Considera- tion of Memorial. While the National Capital Park and Planning Commission was pre- paring to devote tomorrow afternoon to consideration of the Thomas Jef- ferson Memorial and hold a joint ses- sion on that subject with the Pine Arts Commission on Saturday morn- ing, opposition to the project began to gather force. The memorial is pro- jected at the south of the Tidal Basin. Eames MacVeagh, supervisor of ex- hibits in the housing division of the Public Works Administration, and son of the late Franklin MacVeagh, Sec- retary of the Treasury in the Taft administration, came out in opposi- tion to the Thomas Jefferson Memo- rial, contending that while the project figure is $3,000,000, there are those that think it will "cost five times that much." The Pine Arts Commission, which favors the memorial, is now "reactionary and dominated by one man”—Dr. Charles Moore—who has been chairman for a great many years, MacVeagh asserted, recalling that his father was one of the originators of that commission, when the eider MacVeagh was Secretary of the Treasury. 'The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is much too big and in fact an effort to outdo the Lincoln Memorial,” said MacVeagh. “There are 57 steps pro- posed up to the main floor, in an effort to give it magnitude. It is so planned as to cut off access to Four- teenth and Fifteenth streets and changes the simple contour of the Tidal Basin to rigid, straight lines. Wants Epoch Interpretation. “John Russell Pope, the architect, took the same portico and the same squatty dome he used in the Mellon Art Gallery and used it in the Thomas Jefferson design. “We are living in a transcendent era and we should have architecture to interpret this epoch,” MacVeagh said, pointing to the Folger Library, designed by Paul Cret of Philadelphia, as an example of this. "We now have in Washington a petrified forest of Greek and Roman columns.” The Mall and Triangle are a kind of Roman Forum. I hope it's not too late to have an open com- petition on the Thomas Jefferson Memorial design, thrown open to all architects,” MacVeagh emphasized that there are other considerations than archi- tecture entering into his opposition to the present design, pointing to the street layout and other difficulties. While he had no specific suggestions as to the design or location for the memorial, he said that it should “be entirely modern in the simplicity of its lines” and have “smooth surfaces.” He explained that he is a member of art and architectural groups in Chi- cago and will endeavor to get the Chicago architect to form the spear- head of opposition to the memorial, as designed. Avoided Factory Aspect. While his father was Secretary of the Treasury, MacVeagh asserted, he supervised the construction of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and had it so designed as to avoid a fac- tory appearance for the building. Likewise, he supervised the Post Office on the Union Station Plaza, to have it in conformity with the station and create a beautiful building, he said. Today, the National Capital Park and Planning Commission is inaugu- rating its three-day March meeting, during which it will consider the street layout in the vicinity of the Mellon Art Gallery; planning in the Wash- ington-Baltimore-Annapolis area; a suitable auditorium for Washington and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. William T. Partridge, consulting architect of the commission, has created a model of the Thomas Jeffer- son Memorial and will present a re- port on the whole subject. John Nolen, jr., director of planning of the Commission, said that consideration will be given the most practical solu- tions relating to the adjustment of the Tidal Basin areas; connections to Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets and approaches to the Highway Bridge. The commission last year requested the United States engineer office, when it approved the flood-control levee at the rear of the Navy and Munitions Buildings, to study the possibility of another levee, along the bank of the Potomac River, running from the Lincoln Memorial to the Railroad Bridge, in Potomac Park. E A. Schmitt, senior engineer in the United States engineer office, will present a report inmorrow afternoon and is also scheduled to appear at the joint meeting on Saturday morning. Some Government officials believe that erection of the Thomas Jeffer- son memorial In West Potomac Park will create a flood-control problem, especially if Washington experiences a flood similar to that of last March. 20 CHILDREN RESCUED FROM THEATER FLAMES By the Associated Press. NORTH BERGEN, N. J„ March 18. —Twenty children were reseed and two operators escaped late yesterday in a Are caused by igniting of Aim in the projection room of the Trans- fer Theater. The small audience consisted most- ly of children. The rescues were made by Stanley Buscher and Ed- ward Notte of Union City, who car- ried out several children, and also by a public service line crew of four men. The operators, Angelo Bianco, 24, and Milton Mierzwa, 24, escaped from the booth with singed hair. Damage was estimated at $5,000, * Are These Two Buildings Alike? Eames MacVeagh, supervisor of exhibits in the housing section of the P. W. A., says they are. Both structures were designed by John Russell Pope, noted New York Architect, and MacVeagh says the Thomas Jefferson Memorial (lower) has “the same portico and the same squatty dome” as the Mellon Art Gallery (upper). GAS KILLS WOMAN STILL UNIDENTIFIED Asphyxiation Is Fatal to New Tenant of Apart- ment. With all means of identification destroyed, an attractive woman cl about 26 was found asphyxiated early today in an apartment which she had rented less than 24 hours before at 1918 Calvert street. A well-dressed brunette, she was found lying on the floor of the kitchen, with all the jets of the gas stove turned on and the cracks of the door and windows tuffed with paper. Labels had been removed from the woman’s dress, coat and hat. Her pocketbook contained only a small amount of money. Mrs. Marion Hale Britten told police she rented an apartment to the woman about 5 p.m. yesterday and was given a deposit of $5. The woman then left after giving her name as “Mrs. Claiborne” and saying her husband, a pastry chef in a downtown hotel, would pay the remainder of the rent later. About 10 o’clock last night the woman returned. Some time later Herbert Britten, 22, son of Mrs Britten, smelled gas and went to the apart- ment of "Mrs. Claiborne” to in- vestigate. He found the door shut and the lights out and went away. This morning, however, the odor was more noticeable and Viola Har- rison, the Brittens’ colored maid, pushed the door to the apartment open and found the body. The hotel where the woman said her husband was employed said no one by that name worked there. When it was learned from the Missing Persons Bureau of the Police Depart- ment that the description of the dead woman was similar to that of a girl who has been missing from the Indus- trial Home School since March 14, Earle W. Cassie, superintendent, went to the District Morgue for identifica- tion purposes. Cassie did not know the dead woman. D. C. DEATH RATE AT LOW DURING ’35 Fewest Demises for Any Year Since 1924 Reported by Census Bureau. The total death rate in the District reached its lowest level during 1935 since 1924, according to a report made public today by the Census Bureau. The report, covering deaths from all causes and death rates by States dur- ing the period from 1920 to 1935, shows a total of 8,438 deaths in the District during 1935, or a rate of 14.3 per 1,000 of population. The rate was the same in 1924. It was lower in only two of the 15 years covered in the report. In 1921 the rate was 13.6 per 1,000 and in 1922, 14 per 1,000. The highest rate in the 15 years was in 1926, when a level of 15.8 deaths per 1,000 was reached. The local death rate remained above 15 per 1,000 from 1925 through 1933 except for one year, 1927, when It dropped to 14.7. In 1933 the rate dropped to 14,5 and in 1933 it was 14.8. The total of 8,438 deaths in 1935 was the largest for any single year of the 15. The District death rate throughout the entire period was above the average rate for the United States as a whole. The average for the Nation in 1935 was only 10.9 deaths per 1,000. The highest death rate for the United States was 13 per 1,000, recorded in 1920. The report showed a total of 1,392,752 deaths in the United States during 1935. DRILL POSTPONED The competitive battalion drill and band contest between the cadet corps in school divisions 1-9 scheduled for today at Central High School has been postponed to Monday, it was an- nounced today. The postponement was decided on because of the wet parade grounds, school officials said. Regimental com- petition will be held next Thursday. Major Operation Is Performed On Old Tiber Creek at G. P. 0. Tunnel Is Dug Under Stream to Con- nect Printing Office Buildings Across North Capitol Street. BY HAROLD B. ROGERS. Historic old Tiber Creek, long ago converted into an underground stream, has just undergone a major "opera- tion” in the course of digging a deep tunnel under it on North Capitol street for the Government Printing Office building program. The tunnel, which is to connect two new G P O. buildings on opposite sides of North Capitol street at G place, has been dug not only under the car tracks of the Capital Transit Co., but underneath old Tiber Creek as well, forcing the bottom of the new tunnel 40 feet below- the level of the street. In the course of the complicated construction job, motor traffic has been diverted to runways on each side of North Capitol street, water and gas mains have been uncovered and sup- ported by new bridges, and a large part of the historic old Tiber Creek stone and brick work, dating far back beyond the Civil War. has been cut out and replaced temporarily with a huge steel flume. Formerly Open Creek Bed. Tiber Creek at that place carries the waters which used to flow south- ward in the open creek bed somewhere between North Capitol street and First street northeast. In the course of cutting out the old Tiber construction for the width of the new tunnel, the contractor, Charles H. Tompkins Co., removed a large part of the old rubble stone wall, which was apparently the original construction to hold in the banks of the Tiber. They removed the high brick arch, 18 inches thick and about 15 feet high, which had been con- structed about 1845, and then cut out the concrete bottom, which had been laid as late as about 1895. The bricks of the arch are of larger size than those in use now, and the construc- tion was found to be in sound con- dition. To carry the old Tiber Creek waters and accompanying sewage from North- east Washington across the tunnel excavation, the contractor, as ex- plained by Francis M. Tompkins, branch manager, who is superintend- ent on the job. installed a steel flume about 7 feet in diameter and long enough to reach far into both the north and south ends of the cut sewer. Flume to Be Replaced. The stream flow through this flume fills it about two-thirds full, Tomp- kins estimated, with a flow of about 50,000 gallons a minute of old Tiber Creek water, and the remainder sew- age from the Northeast. Later this flume will be replaced by the old brick arch construction. The new tunnel is to connect the new Government warehouse now un- der construction on the east side of the street with the new G. P. O. annex to be built in the future on the west side of North Capitol street. The warehouse at North Capitol street and G place is making good progress in its reinforced steel and concrete construction to carry heavy- loads. It probably will be finished in October. About 400 workmen are busy on this job and the tunnel under the street. When the warehouse is fin- ished the materials in the old G. P. O. at North Capitol and H streets will be moved into the new warehouse. Plans are being drawn by the procurement division of the Treasury for the new annex to be built later at North Cap- itol and H streets. Creek Put Underground. Old Tiber Creek was a prominent feature of the landscape for many years in the early days of Washing- ton and was put underground during the memory of many living Washing- tonians. It meandered southward, with several branches, from the area of the Soldiers' Home grounds, where it was fed by springs. It crossed Pennsylvania avenue not far from the foot of Capitol Hill, near Second street, entered the James Creek Canal, which went southward to the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, near the site of the War College. The James Creek Canal also was connected with the old canal which ran westward along what is now the line of Constitution avenue and emptied into the Potomac. Excavation for the Federal triangle buildings uncovered several old re- mains of that canal water front. Many curiosities were discovered in the course of digging the tunnel 40 feet below the street and in opening the ancient old creek. Inside the workmen found the place I infested with gigantic sewer rats and strange, giant cockroaches, which they said were of a brilliant red oolor and had no eyes. BILL ON D.C. SALES Measure Defines Rights of Buyer and Vender in Transactions. President Roosevelt has signed the bill applying the uniform sales law to the District of Columbia, it was announced today at the White House. The measure defines the rights of buyer and seller in the sale of goods and is similar to the uniform law in force in 42 of the States. The measure, which has been under discussion in Congress for several years, takes effect July 1. In urging passage of the bill re- cently the Senate District Committee pointed out there is no substantial statutory law regulating the sale of goods in the District and declared there is "considerable confusion” in the application of common law to commercial transactions here. The need for adoption of the uni- form sales act here has increased in recent years because of development of the metropolitan area surrounding Washington, coupled with the fact that Maryland and Virginia both have the uniform sales law. In recommending the bill, the Com- missioners told Congress that con- flicting decisions on numerous mat- ters lr> the absence of statutory law covering many other types of trans- actions "have been a decided dis- advantage to our merchants and to their customers.” _ MICHAEL J. FAHEY, 71, EXPIRES AT RESIDENCE Heating Plant Engineer at G. U. Dental School Lived Here 53 Years. Michael Joseph Fahey, 71. chief en- gineer in charge of the heating plant at the Georgetown University Den.al School, died yesterday at his home, 1333 Varnum street northeast. He had been ill since early December. Mr. Fahey, a Washington resi- dent for approximately 53 years, was a member of Keane Council of the Knights of Columbus here. He is sur- vived by a son, Joseph J. Fahey, a chemist of the United States Geolo- gical Survey; a daughter .Mrs. Wil- liam M. Bowers, and four grandchil- dren. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Aloysius Catholic Church, following brief services at the residence. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. ---•- INDORSE SUBWAY PLAN Federal Employes’ Group Reaf- firms Stand on System. The District Federation of Federal Employe Unions last night reaffirmed its indorsement of a subway system here to relieve traffic congestion. Hie resolution also backed the Board of Trade in seeking a $25,000 appropriation for an engineering sur- vey of the subway proposal. Progress in Efforts to Change Mount Vernon Set-up Reported. The Mount Vernon Liquidating Trust is making progress in its ef- forts to reorganize into the proposed Mount Vernon Mortgage Corp., which would be expected to be a going con- cern to earn money for depositors of the closed Mount Vernon Savings Bank. Signed agreements are being re- ceived from depositors in considerable volume, according to Robert T. High- field, executive secretary of the trust. These agreements signify the approval of the plan by depositors who had $100 or more in the bank. Approval of such depositors will be necessary to put the plan into effect, whereby all depositors who had less than $100 in the bank when it closed will get cash, and the depositors who had more than $100 will get preferred stock for the balance of their claims. The Mount Vernon has paid a 40 per cent dividend, and hopes through the proposed reorganization to set up a going concern which will pay all depositors in full. The plan is backed by the International Asso- ciation of Machinists, which has put up a large amount of real estate to assure the success of the proposal. Progress made so far in the three weeks since the plan was first an- nounced justifies the prediction, Highfield said, that the new organi- zation may be made effective within 90 days from its start, which would be some time during May. CAPITALWOMAN CALLED BY DEATH Miss Cornelia J. Stoutenburgh Dies at Residence After Short Illness. Miss Cornelia J. Stoutenburgh. 46. died at her home at 1635 Webster street yesterday afternoon after a short illness. Miss Stoutenburgh for many years was connected with Herbert Bryant & Son in Alexandria. She was a mem- ber of the parish of the Shrine of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church and was associated with the League of the Sacred Heart and the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin. She is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Walter M. Donnelly, Mrs. Ernest B. Prangley, Mrs. Ellwood E. Werner and Sister Mary Anita, R. S. M., all of Washington, and four brothers, T. A. and Charles I. Stoutenburgh of Philadelphia; Seymour J. Stouten- burgh of Palls Church, Va., and James A. Stoutenburgh of Wash- ington. Requiem mass will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart Church, following brief services in her home at 9:30 o’clock. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. FUNERAL CONDUCTED FOR COL. GALLAGHER Interment for Retired Army Officer Follows in Arlington. Funeral services for Col. Hugh J. Gallagher. U. S. A., retired, who died at Walter Reed Hospital Tuesday, were held this morning in the hospital chapel. Requiem mass was conducted by Chaplain Patrick J. Ryan, Army, and Capt. E. A. Duff, Navy chief of chap- lains. Burial followed in Arlington National Cemetery, with full military honors. The following honorary pallbearers were named: Brig. Gens. Charles W. Kutz, Frank B. Watson, John E. Woodward and Everard E. Hatch, all retired; Brig. Gen. Richard H. Jordan, assistant to the quartermaster general; Cols. William J. L. Lyster and Henry H. Sheen, both retired; Col. Edward B. Clark and Lieut. Col. Gregory Hoislngton. A SENATE PASSAGE SENDS FIRST PAY RAISEJOPARLEY Treasury Postal Measure Provides Increases for Custodial Workers. $3,250,000 IS ADDED IN SENATE CHANGES $1,505,138,000 in Supply Bill. Includes Appropriation for Security Fund. BY J. A. O’LEAR The $1,505,138,000 Treasury-Post Office supply bill for the next fiscal year is headed for conference today, carrying approximately $850,000 to grant small pay increases to custodial workers in post offices and other pub- lic buildings. The measure passed the Senate late yesterday with amendments that added $3,257,000 to the House total. Of the $850,000 added compensation for custodial workers, the House had previously approved $775.00"> for em- ployes in post offices. This part of the total, therefore, is not at issue in con- ference. The remaining $75,000 was added in the Senate yesterday to give the same increase, $60 a year, to cus- todial employes in buildings under the Treasury Department. McCarran Bill Waits, i While these items benefit only a limited number of Federal workers, they constitute the first recognition by this Congress of the movement to raise the wage level in the lower brack- ets throughout the Government serv- ice. The movement was launched early in the session through the McCarran- Connery bill, which is being delayed in committee at the request of the Budget Bureau. The bureau said a | survey is being made of various per- j sonnel problems The action taken on the pending supiply bill also indicates some in- creases in the lower brackets are pos- sible under the existing salary classi- fication law whenever the Appropria- tions Committee sees its way clear to make additional funds available. Since the Treasury-Post Office bill j carries the first large appropriation toward the reserve fund for the Fed- eral old-age retirement feature of the social security law. Senator Vanden- berg. Republican, of Michigan told the Senate again yesterday it should aban- don the full-reserve system now being established and substitute a smaller j contingent reserve. Big Reserve Held I'nnneessqry. Pointing out that the full reserve | will amount ultimately to $47,000,- 000.000, Vandenberg asserted such a huge reserve is unnecessary and un- wise in a Government-controlled re- tirement system. He emphasized that under a contingent reserve system Congress either could reduce pay roll taxes or increase retirement benefits. •-•- BUTLER GETS 2 TO 4 YEARS IN GEM THEFT Report of Probation Officer Con- sidered in Sentencing John Morcischek, John Morcischek, 49-year-old but- ler, who pleaded guilty last week to two charges growing out of the theft of $300,000 worth of jewels from his employer, Mrs. Henrietta Bugher, 1785 Massachusetts avenue, was sentenced late yesterday to two to four years in prison. In imposing sentence District Court Justice Peyton Gordon took into con- sideration the report of the probation officer, to whom Morcischek’s case had been referred for investigation. Many of the stolen jewels were re- covered in New York City, where they allegedly had been mailed by Morcis- chek. The butler, who had served many prominent families, told police he found the jewels in the lobby of the exclusive apartment house where Mrs. Bugher resides. JAMES WELSH, NATIVE OF WASHINGTON, DIES Was Prominent in Plumbing Business—Funeral Rites to Be Tomorrow. James Welsh, 75. native Washing- tonian, who for many years was prom- inent in the plumbing business here, died yesterday at his home, 1710 Nineteenth street, after a lingering illness. Funeral services will be held at the home tomorrow at 8:30 a.m., followed by requiem mass at St. Paul’s Church, Fifteenth and V streets, at 9 a.m. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Ceme- tery. Mr. Welsh had been associated with his brother, John, in the plumbing business since 1896. He was a member of the Holy Name Society of St. Paul’s Church. Two brothers, John and Thomas Welsh, and a sister, Mary Welsh, survive. M’REYNOLDS ASSAILED AS “OX CART LAWYER” Representative Celler Calls Him “One of Worst Offenders’’ on Court. By tbe Associated Press. Representative Celler, Democrat, of New York yesterday characterized Supreme Court Justice James C. Mc- Reynolds as an “ox cart lawyer.” In an address Tuesday night Jus- tice McReynolds called on losers in litigation to take adverse decisions of the courts in a spirit of sportsman- ship. “His intentions may be good." Celler said, “but hell is paved with good intentions. He is one of the worst offenders on the court. He contributed to the majority decision against the child labor law.”
Transcript of IGNORE HOSPITAL JEFFERSONEDIFICE RAISEJOPARLEY
Washington News Society and General -———I ----i
____WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1937._**» PAGE B—1
SENATORS REVISE HOUSE NAVY BIEL; IGNORE HOSPITAL
Cut of $1,000,000 in Sum for Model Testing Plant
Is Restored.
TOTAL OF $512,847,808 REPORTED IN MEASURE
Budget Bureau Request for $1,- 500.000 to Start New Insti-
tution Left Out.
BY J. A. O’LEARY. The Senate Appropriations Com-
mittee today restored a House cut of $1,000,000 in the limit of cost on the Navy's proposed new model test- ing plant in Washington, but left out of the naval appropriation bill a Budget Bureau request for $1,500,000 to start a new Naval Hospital here. |
For the entire upkeep and develop- ! ment of the Navy, the Senate group I reported out a total bill of $512,847,- 808, which is a net reduction of $3,- 707,620 below the House figure. With Senator Byrnes. Democrat, of South Carolina in charge, the measure prob- ably will be taken up in the Senate tomorrow.
The budget estimate for Naval Hos- pital, just transmitted by President Roosevelt two days ago, -was to have been used to buy a new site and start a hospital construction program esti- mated to cost $3,200,000 or more when completed.
In 1931 Congress passed a bill au- thorizing the remodeling and exten- sion of buildings at the present hos- pital site at the foot of Twenty-fourth street. The letter transmitting the new budget estimate, however, reveals it has been decided to acquire a new site elsewhere in or near the District.
May Necessitate Increase. This change in plans, the Budget
Bureau said, may necessitate an in- crease later in the original limit of cost of $3,200,000 fixed for the en- largement of the present hospital.
The Senate Committee's action on the model testing plant has the effect of reinstating the original budget rec- ommendation for a total outlay of $3,500,000. Of this amount, however, only $1,500,000 is expected to be spent during the coming year.
The Senate action is in conformity with the intention of the enabling act passed last year, which authorized purchase of a site in the vicinity of Washington and erection of modern experimental plant to replace the ob- solete ship model basin at the Wash- ington Navy Yard.
The House Appropriations Commit- tee decided the new model plant and testing basin could be established on property already partly occupied by the naval research laboratory at Belle- vue. D. C. The House, to carry out that decision, prohibited use of any of the money to acquire land, and reduced the limit of cost.
Restoration Recommended. The Navy Department, however, told
the Senate committee the building of the new plant at Bellevue would en- tail substantially more cost for the foundations than the cost of a suit- able site would come to. The depart- ment recommended restoration of the original budget program and the com- tnitee agreed.
Viewing the bill as a whole, the Senate committee arrived at the net reduction of $3,707,620 by cutting out $5,000,000 for the purchase of strate- gic minerals, and adding $1,292,380 to other items scattered throughout the bill.
The Senate committee did not change a House item of $265,000 for Improvement of the power plant at the Washington Navy Yard. Under replacement of naval vessels, no
change was made in the House pro- vision of $90,000,000 to start con- struction of eight destroyers and four submarines. The armor and arma- ment allowances also was left at the House figure of $40,000,000.
A. S. BERNSTEIN CLAIMED BY DEATH
One of Founders of A. & N. Trad-
ing Co.—Was Resident Here 18 Years,
Abraham S Bernstein, 56, one of the founders of the A. & N. Trading Co. and a resident of Washington for the last 18 years, died last night at Garfield Hospital after a long illness.
Mr. Bernstein was secretary-treas- urer of the A. & N. Co. at the time of his death. He formerly resided in New York City.
He was a member of Samuel Gomp- ers Lodge, F. A. A. M., and was well known for his contributions to charity.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Anna Bernstein; a daughter, Miss Jeanette Bernstein; a son, Nathan J. Bernstein; three brothers, Samuel,
1 Emmanuel and Herman Bernstein, all of this city, and four sisters, Mrs. Lillian Rosenthal and Mrs. Rebecca Williams of this city and Mrs. Mar- tha Volk and Mrs. Lottie Cohen, both of New York City.
Funeral services, accompanied by Masonic rites, will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Danzansky's funeral par- lors. Burial will be in Addas Israel Cemetery.
BAND CONCERTS. By the Soldiers' Home Band In
Stanley Hall at 5:30 p.m. today. John 6. M. Zimmennann, bandmaster: Anton Polntner, assistant. March, “World's Progress,”
Victor Herbert Overture, “Precioso”_Von Weber Three songs from Elliland (Suite 2),
Von Fielitz (a) “Frauenworth.” (b) “A Spray of Roses." (c) “Resignation.”
Excerpts from Irish musical comedy, “Shameen Dhu”_Olcott
Fox trots popular: 1. “Red Hair and Freckles”.Deppen 2. “The River and Me”_Warren
Valse de concert, “Valse Brilliante,” Chopin
Finale, ‘Wake Up America”..Glogau “The Star Spangled Banner."
Allen Opposes Proposed Ban
On Half Pints
D. C. Commissioners Are
Expected to Block Move.
Tire proposal of the Alcoholic Bev- erage Control Board that the sale of half-pint bottles of liquor be banned in the District probably will be voted down by the Commissioners.
Commissioner George E. Allen, who has supervision over the A. B. C. Board, has declared his opposition to the plan, declaring he can see no good that would result from the change.
The question may come up for ac- tion at the meeting of the Board of Commissioners tomorrow.
“The A. B. C. Board has done a
good job,” said Allen. "I believe in supporting the board whenever possi- ble. But I think the proposal that the sale of half-pint bottles of liquor should be banned is almost ridiculous.
"I favor rigid enforcement of pres- ent rules, but I fail to see where ban- ning the sale of half-pint bottles would promote temperance, good en- forcement or anything else.”
IS KILLED IN NOUSE Anti-Saloon League Effort
Backed by Magruder at Annapolis.
B' 8 Staff Correspondent ol me 3tar.
ANNAPOLIS. March 18—The drive by the Maryland Anti-Saloon League to restore prohibition to the "wet” areas of the State was put to death last night when the House killed a bill providing for referenda on the sale of alcoholic beverages.
Tlie bill was introduced for the league by Delegate Walter M. Ma- gruder of Montgomery County and is the first measure sponsored by a leg- islator from the National Capital area to be defeated this session.
An unfavorable report was brought before the House by its Judiciary Committee and the proposal was
quickly killed when Magruder’s mo- tion to substitute the bill for the un- favorable report lost by 66 to 32 and a motion to adopt the report was carried by a viva voce vote.
Magruder declared in support of his motion that the committee’s only ob- jection to the bill was that it would have required the signatures of only 15 per cent of the voters in any one election district to force a referendum in that area.
He said he had given the committee an amendment which would raise the requirement to 30 per cent of the voters and had believed the change would result in the bill being reported out favorably.
TROOPERS SOUGHT IN MONTGOMERY
Grand Jury Urges Action to Ob- tain State Police for High-
way Duty. Special Dispatch to Th« Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md„ March 18 —
After having been in session but three days, the grand jury for the March term of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County completed its work late yesterday and was excused by Judge Charles W. Woodward from further attendance at this time.
The jury recommended in its report that at least one member of the county police force be detailed for duty at Gaithersburg and the upper county section and that steps be taken to obtain services of State police to patrol State highways within Mont- gomery County. The report compli- mented the county police force for its good work during the past year.
The report recommended various repairs to the jail, old and new court houses and county home.
The jury, according to the report, found 24 inmates in the county home and 48 prisoners in the county jail.
The report also recommended that all jurors in the county be summoned by written notice indicating the month, day, time and place of appearance.
MISS EDITH L. ADAMS FUNERAL IS TODAY
Descendant of Massachusetts Pioneers Lived Here for
20 Y ears.
Miss Edith L. Adams, 58, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, died Tues- day in Garfield Hospital after a short illness.
Descendant of pioneer setlers of Newburyport, Mass., Miss Adams came to Washington about 20 years ago and had been with the Agriculture Department for 15 years. She lived at 4909 Thirteenth street and was a member of the Universalist Na- tional Memorial Church, 1810 Six- teenth street.
She was a sister of the late Robert M. Adams, former Washington resi- dent and Cornell University professor. Clifton L. Adams, her brother, of Silver Spring, Md., survives.
Funeral services were to be held at 3 p.m. today at the W. W. Chambers Co. funeral home, 1400 Chapin street. Her body will be sent to Hill, N. H„ for burial.
GEN. HOF’S $101,637 ESTATE GOES TO WIDOW
Maj. Gen. Samuel Hof, U. S. A., retired, who died here March 5, left an estate valued at $101,637.92, a
petition for probate of his will re- vealed when filed in District Court late yesterday.
His wife, Mrs. Alice Mayo Hof, was
his sole beneficiary. She was named executrix by the will, which was dated June 18, 1919. Through Attorney F. G. Munson Mrs. Hof told the court that she and her husband were joint owners of their home at 1831 Nine- teenth street.
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OPPOSITION GROWS TOWARD PLAN FOR JEFFERSONEDIFICE P. W. A. Exhibits Super-
visor Sees Cost 5 Times $3,000,000.
FINE ARTS COMMISSION IS TERMED REACTIONARY
Planning Board to Devote Tomor- row Afternoon to Considera-
tion of Memorial.
While the National Capital Park and Planning Commission was pre-
paring to devote tomorrow afternoon to consideration of the Thomas Jef-
ferson Memorial and hold a joint ses-
sion on that subject with the Pine Arts Commission on Saturday morn-
ing, opposition to the project began to gather force. The memorial is pro- jected at the south of the Tidal Basin.
Eames MacVeagh, supervisor of ex- hibits in the housing division of the Public Works Administration, and son of the late Franklin MacVeagh, Sec- retary of the Treasury in the Taft administration, came out in opposi- tion to the Thomas Jefferson Memo- rial, contending that while the project figure is $3,000,000, there are those that think it will "cost five times that much." The Pine Arts Commission, which favors the memorial, is now
"reactionary and dominated by one man”—Dr. Charles Moore—who has been chairman for a great many years, MacVeagh asserted, recalling that his father was one of the originators of that commission, when the eider MacVeagh was Secretary of the Treasury.
'The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is much too big and in fact an effort to outdo the Lincoln Memorial,” said MacVeagh. “There are 57 steps pro- posed up to the main floor, in an effort to give it magnitude. It is so planned as to cut off access to Four- teenth and Fifteenth streets and changes the simple contour of the Tidal Basin to rigid, straight lines.
Wants Epoch Interpretation. “John Russell Pope, the architect,
took the same portico and the same squatty dome he used in the Mellon Art Gallery and used it in the Thomas Jefferson design.
“We are living in a transcendent era and we should have architecture to interpret this epoch,” MacVeagh said, pointing to the Folger Library, designed by Paul Cret of Philadelphia, as an example of this.
"We now have in Washington a petrified forest of Greek and Roman columns.” The Mall and Triangle are a kind of Roman Forum. I hope it's not too late to have an open com- petition on the Thomas Jefferson Memorial design, thrown open to all architects,”
MacVeagh emphasized that there are other considerations than archi- tecture entering into his opposition to the present design, pointing to the street layout and other difficulties. While he had no specific suggestions as to the design or location for the memorial, he said that it should “be entirely modern in the simplicity of its lines” and have “smooth surfaces.” He explained that he is a member of art and architectural groups in Chi- cago and will endeavor to get the Chicago architect to form the spear- head of opposition to the memorial, as designed.
Avoided Factory Aspect. While his father was Secretary of
the Treasury, MacVeagh asserted, he supervised the construction of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and had it so designed as to avoid a fac- tory appearance for the building. Likewise, he supervised the Post Office on the Union Station Plaza, to have it in conformity with the station and create a beautiful building, he said.
Today, the National Capital Park and Planning Commission is inaugu- rating its three-day March meeting, during which it will consider the street layout in the vicinity of the Mellon Art Gallery; planning in the Wash- ington-Baltimore-Annapolis area; a suitable auditorium for Washington and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial.
William T. Partridge, consulting architect of the commission, has created a model of the Thomas Jeffer- son Memorial and will present a re-
port on the whole subject. John Nolen, jr., director of planning of the Commission, said that consideration will be given the most practical solu- tions relating to the adjustment of the Tidal Basin areas; connections to Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets and approaches to the Highway Bridge.
The commission last year requested the United States engineer office, when it approved the flood-control levee at the rear of the Navy and Munitions Buildings, to study the possibility of another levee, along the bank of the Potomac River, running from the Lincoln Memorial to the Railroad Bridge, in Potomac Park. E A. Schmitt, senior engineer in the United States engineer office, will present a report inmorrow afternoon and is also scheduled to appear at the joint meeting on Saturday morning.
Some Government officials believe that erection of the Thomas Jeffer- son memorial In West Potomac Park will create a flood-control problem, especially if Washington experiences a flood similar to that of last March.
20 CHILDREN RESCUED FROM THEATER FLAMES
By the Associated Press. NORTH BERGEN, N. J„ March 18.
—Twenty children were reseed and two operators escaped late yesterday in a Are caused by igniting of Aim in the projection room of the Trans- fer Theater.
The small audience consisted most- ly of children. The rescues were made by Stanley Buscher and Ed- ward Notte of Union City, who car- ried out several children, and also by a public service line crew of four men.
The operators, Angelo Bianco, 24, and Milton Mierzwa, 24, escaped from the booth with singed hair. Damage was estimated at $5,000,
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Are These Two Buildings Alike?
Eames MacVeagh, supervisor of exhibits in the housing section of the P. W. A., says they are. Both structures were designed by John Russell Pope, noted New York Architect, and MacVeagh says the Thomas Jefferson Memorial (lower) has “the same portico and the same squatty dome” as the Mellon Art Gallery (upper).
GAS KILLS WOMAN STILL UNIDENTIFIED Asphyxiation Is Fatal to
New Tenant of Apart- ment.
With all means of identification destroyed, an attractive woman cl about 26 was found asphyxiated early today in an apartment which she had rented less than 24 hours before at 1918 Calvert street.
A well-dressed brunette, she was found lying on the floor of the kitchen, with all the jets of the gas stove turned on and the cracks of the door and windows tuffed with paper.
Labels had been removed from the woman’s dress, coat and hat. Her pocketbook contained only a small amount of money.
Mrs. Marion Hale Britten told police she rented an apartment to the woman about 5 p.m. yesterday and was given a deposit of $5. The woman then left after giving her name as “Mrs. Claiborne” and saying her husband, a
pastry chef in a downtown hotel, would pay the remainder of the rent later.
About 10 o’clock last night the woman returned. Some time later Herbert Britten, 22, son of Mrs Britten, smelled gas and went to the apart- ment of "Mrs. Claiborne” to in- vestigate. He found the door shut and the lights out and went away.
This morning, however, the odor was more noticeable and Viola Har- rison, the Brittens’ colored maid, pushed the door to the apartment open and found the body.
The hotel where the woman said her husband was employed said no
one by that name worked there. When it was learned from the Missing
Persons Bureau of the Police Depart- ment that the description of the dead woman was similar to that of a girl who has been missing from the Indus- trial Home School since March 14, Earle W. Cassie, superintendent, went to the District Morgue for identifica- tion purposes. Cassie did not know the dead woman.
D. C. DEATH RATE AT LOW DURING ’35
Fewest Demises for Any Year
Since 1924 Reported by Census Bureau.
The total death rate in the District reached its lowest level during 1935 since 1924, according to a report made public today by the Census Bureau.
The report, covering deaths from all causes and death rates by States dur- ing the period from 1920 to 1935, shows a total of 8,438 deaths in the District during 1935, or a rate of 14.3 per 1,000 of population. The rate was
the same in 1924. It was lower in only two of the 15 years covered in the report. In 1921 the rate was 13.6 per 1,000 and in 1922, 14 per 1,000. The highest rate in the 15 years was
in 1926, when a level of 15.8 deaths per 1,000 was reached.
The local death rate remained above 15 per 1,000 from 1925 through 1933 except for one year, 1927, when It dropped to 14.7. In 1933 the rate dropped to 14,5 and in 1933 it was 14.8.
The total of 8,438 deaths in 1935 was the largest for any single year of the 15.
The District death rate throughout the entire period was above the average rate for the United States as a whole. The average for the Nation in 1935 was only 10.9 deaths per 1,000. The highest death rate for the United States was 13 per 1,000, recorded in 1920. The report showed a total of 1,392,752 deaths in the United States during 1935.
DRILL POSTPONED
The competitive battalion drill and band contest between the cadet corps in school divisions 1-9 scheduled for today at Central High School has been postponed to Monday, it was an-
nounced today. The postponement was decided on
because of the wet parade grounds, school officials said. Regimental com-
petition will be held next Thursday.
Major Operation Is Performed On Old Tiber Creek at G. P. 0.
Tunnel Is Dug Under Stream to Con- nect Printing Office Buildings
Across North Capitol Street. BY HAROLD B. ROGERS.
Historic old Tiber Creek, long ago converted into an underground stream, has just undergone a major "opera- tion” in the course of digging a deep tunnel under it on North Capitol street for the Government Printing Office building program.
The tunnel, which is to connect two new G P O. buildings on opposite sides of North Capitol street at G place, has been dug not only under the car tracks of the Capital Transit Co., but underneath old Tiber Creek as well, forcing the bottom of the new tunnel 40 feet below- the level of the street.
In the course of the complicated construction job, motor traffic has been diverted to runways on each side of North Capitol street, water and gas mains have been uncovered and sup- ported by new bridges, and a large part of the historic old Tiber Creek stone and brick work, dating far back beyond the Civil War. has been cut out and replaced temporarily with a
huge steel flume.
Formerly Open Creek Bed.
Tiber Creek at that place carries the waters which used to flow south- ward in the open creek bed somewhere between North Capitol street and First street northeast.
In the course of cutting out the old Tiber construction for the width of the new tunnel, the contractor, Charles H. Tompkins Co., removed a
large part of the old rubble stone wall, which was apparently the original construction to hold in the banks of the Tiber. They removed the high brick arch, 18 inches thick and about 15 feet high, which had been con- structed about 1845, and then cut out the concrete bottom, which had been laid as late as about 1895. The bricks of the arch are of larger size than those in use now, and the construc- tion was found to be in sound con- dition.
To carry the old Tiber Creek waters and accompanying sewage from North- east Washington across the tunnel excavation, the contractor, as ex-
plained by Francis M. Tompkins, branch manager, who is superintend- ent on the job. installed a steel flume about 7 feet in diameter and long enough to reach far into both the north and south ends of the cut sewer.
Flume to Be Replaced. The stream flow through this flume
fills it about two-thirds full, Tomp- kins estimated, with a flow of about 50,000 gallons a minute of old Tiber Creek water, and the remainder sew-
age from the Northeast. Later this flume will be replaced by the old brick arch construction.
The new tunnel is to connect the new Government warehouse now un- der construction on the east side of the street with the new G. P. O. annex to be built in the future on the west side of North Capitol street.
The warehouse at North Capitol street and G place is making good progress in its reinforced steel and concrete construction to carry heavy- loads. It probably will be finished in October. About 400 workmen are busy on this job and the tunnel under the street. When the warehouse is fin- ished the materials in the old G. P. O. at North Capitol and H streets will be moved into the new warehouse. Plans are being drawn by the procurement division of the Treasury for the new annex to be built later at North Cap- itol and H streets.
Creek Put Underground. Old Tiber Creek was a prominent
feature of the landscape for many years in the early days of Washing- ton and was put underground during the memory of many living Washing- tonians. It meandered southward, with several branches, from the area
of the Soldiers' Home grounds, where it was fed by springs. It crossed Pennsylvania avenue not far from the foot of Capitol Hill, near Second street, entered the James Creek Canal, which went southward to the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, near the site of the War College. The James Creek Canal also was connected with the old canal which ran westward along what is now the line of Constitution avenue and emptied into the Potomac.
Excavation for the Federal triangle buildings uncovered several old re- mains of that canal water front.
Many curiosities were discovered in the course of digging the tunnel 40 feet below the street and in opening the ancient old creek.
Inside the workmen found the place I infested with gigantic sewer rats and strange, giant cockroaches, which they said were of a brilliant red oolor and had no eyes.
BILL ON D.C. SALES Measure Defines Rights of
Buyer and Vender in Transactions.
President Roosevelt has signed the bill applying the uniform sales law to the District of Columbia, it was
announced today at the White House. The measure defines the rights of
buyer and seller in the sale of goods and is similar to the uniform law in force in 42 of the States.
The measure, which has been under discussion in Congress for several years, takes effect July 1.
In urging passage of the bill re-
cently the Senate District Committee pointed out there is no substantial statutory law regulating the sale of goods in the District and declared there is "considerable confusion” in the application of common law to commercial transactions here.
The need for adoption of the uni- form sales act here has increased in recent years because of development of the metropolitan area surrounding Washington, coupled with the fact that Maryland and Virginia both have the uniform sales law.
In recommending the bill, the Com- missioners told Congress that con-
flicting decisions on numerous mat- ters lr> the absence of statutory law covering many other types of trans- actions "have been a decided dis- advantage to our merchants and to their customers.” _
MICHAEL J. FAHEY, 71, EXPIRES AT RESIDENCE
Heating Plant Engineer at G. U.
Dental School Lived Here
53 Years.
Michael Joseph Fahey, 71. chief en-
gineer in charge of the heating plant at the Georgetown University Den.al School, died yesterday at his home, 1333 Varnum street northeast. He had been ill since early December.
Mr. Fahey, a Washington resi- dent for approximately 53 years, was a member of Keane Council of the Knights of Columbus here. He is sur- vived by a son, Joseph J. Fahey, a chemist of the United States Geolo- gical Survey; a daughter .Mrs. Wil- liam M. Bowers, and four grandchil- dren.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Aloysius Catholic Church, following brief services at the residence. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
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INDORSE SUBWAY PLAN Federal Employes’ Group Reaf-
firms Stand on System. The District Federation of Federal
Employe Unions last night reaffirmed its indorsement of a subway system here to relieve traffic congestion.
Hie resolution also backed the Board of Trade in seeking a $25,000 appropriation for an engineering sur- vey of the subway proposal.
Progress in Efforts to
Change Mount Vernon
Set-up Reported. The Mount Vernon Liquidating
Trust is making progress in its ef- forts to reorganize into the proposed Mount Vernon Mortgage Corp., which would be expected to be a going con- cern to earn money for depositors of the closed Mount Vernon Savings Bank.
Signed agreements are being re- ceived from depositors in considerable volume, according to Robert T. High- field, executive secretary of the trust. These agreements signify the approval of the plan by depositors who had $100 or more in the bank.
Approval of such depositors will be necessary to put the plan into effect, whereby all depositors who had less than $100 in the bank when it closed will get cash, and the depositors who had more than $100 will get preferred stock for the balance of their claims.
The Mount Vernon has paid a 40 per cent dividend, and hopes through the proposed reorganization to set up a going concern which will pay all depositors in full. The plan is backed by the International Asso- ciation of Machinists, which has put up a large amount of real estate to assure the success of the proposal.
Progress made so far in the three weeks since the plan was first an- nounced justifies the prediction, Highfield said, that the new organi- zation may be made effective within 90 days from its start, which would be some time during May.
CAPITALWOMAN CALLED BY DEATH
Miss Cornelia J. Stoutenburgh Dies at Residence After
Short Illness. Miss Cornelia J. Stoutenburgh. 46.
died at her home at 1635 Webster street yesterday afternoon after a
short illness. Miss Stoutenburgh for many years
was connected with Herbert Bryant & Son in Alexandria. She was a mem-
ber of the parish of the Shrine of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church and was associated with the League of the Sacred Heart and the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin.
She is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Walter M. Donnelly, Mrs. Ernest B.
Prangley, Mrs. Ellwood E. Werner and Sister Mary Anita, R. S. M., all of Washington, and four brothers, T. A. and Charles I. Stoutenburgh of
Philadelphia; Seymour J. Stouten-
burgh of Palls Church, Va., and James A. Stoutenburgh of Wash- ington.
Requiem mass will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart Church, following brief services in her home at 9:30 o’clock. Burial will be in Mount Olivet
Cemetery.
FUNERAL CONDUCTED FOR COL. GALLAGHER
Interment for Retired Army Officer Follows in
Arlington. Funeral services for Col. Hugh J.
Gallagher. U. S. A., retired, who died at Walter Reed Hospital Tuesday, were held this morning in the hospital chapel.
Requiem mass was conducted by Chaplain Patrick J. Ryan, Army, and
Capt. E. A. Duff, Navy chief of chap- lains. Burial followed in Arlington National Cemetery, with full military honors.
The following honorary pallbearers were named: Brig. Gens. Charles W. Kutz, Frank B. Watson, John E. Woodward and Everard E. Hatch, all retired; Brig. Gen. Richard H. Jordan, assistant to the quartermaster general; Cols. William J. L. Lyster and Henry H. Sheen, both retired; Col. Edward B. Clark and Lieut. Col. Gregory Hoislngton.
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SENATE PASSAGE SENDS FIRST PAY
RAISEJOPARLEY Treasury Postal Measure
Provides Increases for Custodial Workers.
$3,250,000 IS ADDED IN SENATE CHANGES
$1,505,138,000 in Supply Bill. Includes Appropriation for
Security Fund.
BY J. A. O’LEAR The $1,505,138,000 Treasury-Post
Office supply bill for the next fiscal
year is headed for conference today, carrying approximately $850,000 to
grant small pay increases to custodial workers in post offices and other pub- lic buildings.
The measure passed the Senate late yesterday with amendments that added $3,257,000 to the House total.
Of the $850,000 added compensation for custodial workers, the House had previously approved $775.00"> for em-
ployes in post offices. This part of the total, therefore, is not at issue in con- ference. The remaining $75,000 was added in the Senate yesterday to give the same increase, $60 a year, to cus- todial employes in buildings under the Treasury Department.
McCarran Bill Waits, i While these items benefit only a limited number of Federal workers, they constitute the first recognition by this Congress of the movement to raise the wage level in the lower brack- ets throughout the Government serv- ice. The movement was launched early in the session through the McCarran- Connery bill, which is being delayed in committee at the request of the Budget Bureau. The bureau said a
| survey is being made of various per- j sonnel problems
The action taken on the pending supiply bill also indicates some in- creases in the lower brackets are pos- sible under the existing salary classi- fication law whenever the Appropria- tions Committee sees its way clear to make additional funds available.
Since the Treasury-Post Office bill j carries the first large appropriation
toward the reserve fund for the Fed- eral old-age retirement feature of the social security law. Senator Vanden- berg. Republican, of Michigan told the Senate again yesterday it should aban- don the full-reserve system now being established and substitute a smaller
j contingent reserve.
Big Reserve Held I'nnneessqry. Pointing out that the full reserve
| will amount ultimately to $47,000,- 000.000, Vandenberg asserted such a huge reserve is unnecessary and un- wise in a Government-controlled re- tirement system. He emphasized that under a contingent reserve system Congress either could reduce pay roll taxes or increase retirement benefits. •-•-
BUTLER GETS 2 TO 4 YEARS IN GEM THEFT
Report of Probation Officer Con- sidered in Sentencing John
Morcischek, John Morcischek, 49-year-old but-
ler, who pleaded guilty last week to two charges growing out of the theft of $300,000 worth of jewels from his employer, Mrs. Henrietta Bugher, 1785 Massachusetts avenue, was sentenced late yesterday to two to four years in prison.
In imposing sentence District Court Justice Peyton Gordon took into con- sideration the report of the probation officer, to whom Morcischek’s case had been referred for investigation.
Many of the stolen jewels were re- covered in New York City, where they allegedly had been mailed by Morcis- chek. The butler, who had served many prominent families, told police he found the jewels in the lobby of the exclusive apartment house where Mrs. Bugher resides.
JAMES WELSH, NATIVE OF WASHINGTON, DIES
Was Prominent in Plumbing Business—Funeral Rites
to Be Tomorrow.
James Welsh, 75. native Washing- tonian, who for many years was prom- inent in the plumbing business here, died yesterday at his home, 1710 Nineteenth street, after a lingering illness.
Funeral services will be held at the home tomorrow at 8:30 a.m., followed by requiem mass at St. Paul’s Church, Fifteenth and V streets, at 9 a.m. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Ceme- tery.
Mr. Welsh had been associated with his brother, John, in the plumbing business since 1896. He was a member of the Holy Name Society of St. Paul’s Church. Two brothers, John and Thomas Welsh, and a sister, Mary Welsh, survive.
M’REYNOLDS ASSAILED AS “OX CART LAWYER”
Representative Celler Calls Him “One of Worst Offenders’’
on Court. By tbe Associated Press.
Representative Celler, Democrat, of New York yesterday characterized Supreme Court Justice James C. Mc- Reynolds as an “ox cart lawyer.”
In an address Tuesday night Jus- tice McReynolds called on losers in litigation to take adverse decisions of the courts in a spirit of sportsman- ship.
“His intentions may be good." Celler said, “but hell is paved with good intentions. He is one of the worst offenders on the court. He contributed to the majority decision against the child labor law.”
