Evening star. [volume], November 23, 1934, Page A-4, Image 4

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Ordinary U. S. Needs Given
by Buchanan—Relief
Held Big Problem.
By the Associated Press.
An estimate that ordinary Govern
ment budgetary figures would aggre
gate $2.500,000,000 in the next fiscal
year—exclusive of undetermined relief
needs and public debt requirements—
was drawn yesterday by Chairman
Buchanan of the House Appropria
tions Committee.
As for a possibility of balancing the
budget in the 1936 fiscal year, the
Texas Democrat said there was "not
a reasonable chance," unless relief ap
propriations were curtailed. There
has been little indication that they
Will be. %
Buchanan, who is head of the group
that formulates all of the appropria
tion bills, said four such measures
would be ready for congressional ac
tion in January. Hearings will begin
about December 4, he said.
Supply Bills Estimates Waited.
In that connection, Buchanan made
known the Budget Bureau had not
completed its work of preparing esti
mates and justifications for the nine
regular supply bills and that the ad
ministration had yet to decide on how
much money it planned to ask of
Congress for relief purposes. The mat
ter of relief he termed "the most se
rious problem that confronts the Gov
ernment and one which must be
solved."
Explaining that relief outlays will
be included in a deficiency appropria
tion bill, "which may be larger than
*11 the other money bills combined,"
Buchanan said:
"Until the administration definitely
decides upon its relief program, we
cannot proceed. Appropriations for
relief will come late, in my opinion,
einie the program may depend on
legislation on a specific line of em
ployment for the unemployed.
Says Practice Must Stop.
"The hardest problem of the ad
ministration is reljef. The present
huge outlays cannot go on indefi
nitely. The Government cannot con
tinue to make a definite charge
against those who earn to distribute
among those who do not earn.
"The outlay during a period of
emergency is justified, but the period
must come to an end and retrench
ment on outlays must come about.
Some system to purge the relief rolls
of those who do not actually need
relief must be adopted. I think there
are many more on the rolls than there
should be. Those on relief rolls who
are offered jobs and refuse to take
them should be removed immediately.
"While much of the present out
lays through the R. P. C. and public
works loans will be returned to the
Treasury, that spent for relief is gone
and will never come back.
"Continued recovery, however, will
increase revenues and lessen the need
for tax legislation, because expendi
tures would decrease."
Births Reported.
Wilfred and Emma Howarth, twins, boy
and girl.
Levin and Frances Price, boy,
Selby and Ruth Preffitt. boy.
Robert and Jennette Brinker. boy.
William and Laura Abraham, boy.
Robert and Ruth Heflin. boy.
Jerom#» and Josephine Demoro, boy.
Bennie and Rose Bran. boy.
George and Wilmina Schoolmeester, boy.
Fulton and Alice Lewis, jr., boy.
James and Mildred Getz. girl.
Reuben and Rose Baxter, girl.
Ralph and Lucille Ingram, girl.
aul and Gladys Seidel. girl.
rederick and Mary Koss. girl.
Raymond and Agnes Minnlck, boy.
Saul and Ida Friedman, boy.
William and Thelma Richmond, boy.
William and Gertrude Ο Donnell, boy.
Arthur and Viva Downer, boy.
Hubert and Jennie Hooks, boy.
Charles and Wilma Yates, boy.
Stanley and Nancy Harman. boy.
Lukas and Victtoria Petrlni. boy.
Charles and Evelyn Clem, boy.
William and Rena Collins, girl.
John and Zole Nelson, girl.
Joseph and Ethel Weiss, girl.
George and Mary Blackweli. girl.
Perceville and Mary Bobbitt. girl.
Jackson and Agnes Marshall, boy.
Joseph and Julia Bell. girl.
Rr.'^ert and Julia Coran, girl.
James and Willie Speight, boy.
Marshall and Mary Watson, girl.
Da\id and Helen Madison, girl.
Herman and Jane Darden. boy.
Vincent and Bernice Hill. girl.
Julius and Josie Bravard. boy.
Howard and Hearemeaine Beale. boy.
Walter and Josephine Smith, girl.
Leroy and Bertha Henry, girl.
Deaths Reported.
Amelia H. Moore. ft!>, 1311 Fairmont st.
Alfred E. Taylor. 90. -'ÎT'-O Upton st.
George Strobel. 89. Sibley Hospital.
Marietta Bauman. 71. .'10 Bryant st.
Mary Cassidy. 70. '.'148 Ο st.
John S Pomeroy. 65. 91.'! F st. n e.
Jacob S. Tipton. Ri. Gallinger Hospital.
Ruby Rosenberg. 63. 5000 Nebraska ave.
Claudia Κ McCorkle. 54. 37'!0 Upton st.
Goldie Beavers. 54. Columbia Hospital
William Laeonesse. 60. St. Elizabeth's
Hospital
Harper Bush. 57. Gallinger Hospital.
Helena M. Ridgway. 50. en route Casualty
Hospital
Gene Arnold. 54, Garfield Hospital.
Nellie L. Kenglfc. 40. .'iOW5 10th st.
Ethel C. Weakley. 36. Georgetown Hos
pital
Arthur M. Cummings, 33. St. Elizabeth's
Hospital.
Mariaret Cooper. 3. Gallinger Hospital.
Jennie Ford. 76. Î433 Κ st.
Dance Planned to Honor G. W. and Oklahoma U. Teams
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This group of fair Oklahomans are sponsoring the dance to be given by
the Oklahoma Society of Washington in honor of the George Washington Univer
sity and the University of Oklahoma foot ball teams on Thanksgiving night at the
Raleigh Hotel, folloicing their game here that afternoon. They are, from, left to
right: Charlotte Turner, Erwina Owens. Margaret Wells, Virginia Smith, Gladys
Bruce, Eloise Porter, Christine Burgess, Margarite Marloic and Martha Simms sitting
HARLEY P. WILSON,
UTILITY HEAD, DIES
AT ALEXANDRIA HOME
(Continued From First Page.)
became a director in this super or
ganization.
Mr. Wilson was born in New York
June 14, 1873, the son of Samuel Pey
ton and Margaret (Chaddock) Wilson.
He went West as a young man and
entered the University of Oregon. Be
fore his 20th birthday anniversary he
married Frances Mary Edmonston of
Portland, Oreg., in January, 1893. They
had two children, Alice Irene Wilson
and Holt Chaddock Wilson, both of
whom now live in New York City.
In April, 1910, he took a second
wife, Caroline Anna Deike of Berkeley,
Calif., who died March 23 of this
year after taking Mr. Wilson West
on a trip for his health. She con
tracted pneumonia en route back to
Washington from the West Coast.
Built Plant in Indiana.
In 1923 Mr. Wilson bought the San
Joaquin Light & Power Corp., and In
1924 he built a large hydroelectric
plant on the Tippecenoe River in
Indiana.
Two years after he sold out to the
North American Co. in 1925, he
came to Washington and bought the
Washington Rapid Transit Co. from
Leon Arnold.
As a representative of the North
American Co. he initiated the merger
movement which ended unsuccess
fully. Although he failed to win ap- 1
proval for his own plan he was
active in the negotiation which led
to the final approval by Congress :
of the combination of the two street
car companies a year ago.
Wilson let it be known when he
bought the Sixteenth street bus line
at a price reported to be in excess
of $500,000 that it was his intention
to use that company as a weapon to
force the merger. Acting in behalf of
the North American Co., he began
buying up stock In the Washington
Railway & Electric Co., which owned
100 per cent of the stock of the Poto
mac Electric Power Co.
Acquired WRECO Interest.
Later the North American did ac
quire a controiing interest in the
WRECO, and the holding company
now owns virtually all the stock of
the new Capital Transit Co.
Funeral services will be held at the
home Monday morning. Survivors in
clude the son and daughter, a sister.
Mrs. A J. Jenkins of Seattle, and two
sisters-in-law, Miss Margaret Deike
and Mrs. H. W. Hughes.
Mr. Wilson was a member of the
Society of American Military Engi
neers. the Washington Board of Trade
and the Metropolitan, Army and Navy,
Chevy Chase, Congressional Country.
Burning Tree and Army, Navy and
Marine Corps Country Clubs in Wash
ington and the Belle Haven Country
Club in Alexandria.
He was an Episcopalian and a Re
publican.
MRS. SWANSON SPEAKS
FOR NAVY RELIEF BALL
Tells of Society Distributing
$100,000 in Gifts and Loans
Last Year.
The Navy Relief Society, which will
hold its annual ball at the Willard
Hotel on Thanksgiving night, dis
tributed over $100,000, including loans
and outright gifts, mainly to depend
ents of enlisted men of the Navy
and Marine Corps, last year, Mrs.
Claude A. Swanson, wife of the Sec
retary of the Navy, last evening told
a radio audience over Station WMAL.
She spoke at 6:15 o'clock.
She recalled that the Navy Relief
Society originated with the Army and
Navy foot ball game in 1904. when
the managers offered $9,000 for the
relief of needy widows and orphans
of officers and enlisted men of the
Navy and Marine Corps.
CLASS TO MEET
G. U. Law School Group of '24
to Hold Reunion.
The Georgetown Law School Class
of 1924 will hold its tenth annual
reunion tonight with a dinner in the
Willard Hotel. The principal addresses
will be by Justice Daniel W. O'Dono
ghue and Jesse C. Adkins of the Dis
trict Supreme Court.
Rev. Francis Lueey, S. J., regent
of the school, also will speak. Guests
of honor are to include Dr. Hugh J.
Fegan, dean of the law school, and
Thomas J. Hurney, registrar. John
J. Orlosky is chairman of the com
mittee in charge. The toastmaster
will be John A. Rellly. professor of
finance at Columbus University.
'"Meanest Man" Reforms.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Λ>>.—During
the annual Red Cross roll call a
counterfeit $10 city warrant was
kfound among the contributions. Re
cently a bona flde $10 warrant was
sent to Red Cross headquarters, with
this note:
"I couldn't sleep; please forgive
me."
BANNE»
ON MONEY POLICY
Fletcher Mails Queries on
Central Bank and Other
Legislative Issues.
Br the Associated Preu.
Information on every phase of
banking and monetary legislation
hai been sought by Chairman
Fletcher of the Senate Banking Com
mittee in a questionnaire submitted
to leading bankers *nd economists.
Fletcher, who is conducting the
survey on his own Initiative and not
on the authority of his committee,
made the questionnaire public today.
He emphasized he was not commit
ting himself to any legislation, but
merely was seeking Information In
view of demands from various quar
ters for legislation of one kind or an
other.
Three Divisions In Study.
The questions, divided into three
subdivisions headed "money," "redis
count bank" and "banking," included
the following Id brief:
Whether the power over the issu
ance of currency should be vested in
a non-political authority representing
both Government and private busi
ness such as the Federal Reserve Sys
tem, In the Secretary of the Treasury,
in a non-political privately owned but
Government chartered central bank,
or in a Government owned and op
erated bank.
Whether currency should be re
deemable in gold, silver, both, or a
combination of both, in coin, bullion
or bullion for export only.
> If a fixed ratio to gold should be
re-established, and if not, how it
should be changed from time to time,
and if the currency is to be irredeem
able, how it should be managed.
Merter of Systems Questioned.
Whether there should be a Gov
ernment owned and operated bank
ing system, and. if not, whether there
should be changes in the private bank
ing system such as a unification of
the 49 different systems, by merging
into one system, by compulsory mem
bership in the Federal Reserve Sys
tem. by making the laws of all States
conform, or by requiring all com
mercial banks to take out Federal
charters.
Whether there should be branch
banking and, If so. whether it should
be Nation-wide, State-wide or re
gional.
Whether there should be insurance
of deposits and, If so, under what kind
of a plan.
One hundred sixty thousand men
are working on the Hwei River con
servation project in China.
experts DISAGREE
ON BEIT OF TREES
Fight on Drought Region
Project Forecast at
Foresters' Meeting.
I Br the Associated Pr«M.
Foresters differed today on the wis
dom of planting a shelter belt oi trees,
100 miles wide. In the Midwest.
Some called the plan fantastically
impossible, but nevertheless the Forest
Service pressed a survey upon which
recommendations will be made to
President Roosevelt for transmission to
Congress. The estimated cost of the
project is $75,000,000.
The clashing viewpoints are expected
to lead to heated discussions at the
January meeting of the Society of
American Foresters. H. H. Chapman,
president of the society, thinks the
♦75,000,000 should be spent on "more
substantial and more promising proj
ects." Others of the society say he is
wrong and that the shelter belt would
be a success.
The Forest Service will have 5,000,
000 trees ready to begin the 100-mile
strip next Spring.
Walter Mulford of the University of
California, a former president of the
foresters' society, has said the plant
ings had small chance of success and
recorded "grave misgivings" as to tbe
plan.
Chapman said trees could be grown
In the area by skilled selection of spe
cies. care and disregard of cost, but
added, "What a pity that such a sum
be not spent for more substantial and
more promising conservation projects
applied to existing forests."
Other foresters will come to the
January meeting of the society, how
ever, to favor the program, arguing
that In Nebraska a big reforestation
project has been under way for years
and that farmers have grown shelter
belts in thousands of places.
The American Tree Association was
said by officials not to have recorded
itself in any way on the shelter belt
project.
LAW SCHOOL ATG.W.U.
WILL HOLD RECEPTION
John Garland Pollard Will Be
Guest—Faculty and Student
Bar Sponsor £vent.
The faculty and Student Bar Asso
ciation of the George Washington
University Law School will hold a
reception and dance for alumni and
students tomorrow evening In Stock
ton Hall on the campus.
Among the guests will be John Gar
land Pollard, former Governor of
Virginia and president of the George
Washington Law Alumni.
The committee on arrangements in
cludes Prof. James F. Davison, chair
man; Prof. Walter C. Clephane, Mi«
Helen Newman and Stanley V,'.
Bobskill.
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