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ACTION SCHEDULED
ON TREASURY PAY
Committee Meets Tomor
row to Consider Compro
mise on McKellar Rider.
The Senate Appropriations Com
mittee will meet tomorrow morning
to act on the Treasury-Post Office
supply bill, to which a subcommittee
hais attached a compromise plan lor
paying the 1,200 Treasury employes
who have been performing their duties
without pay since December 1, due
to a restriction placed on current ap
propriations.
Under the compromise, ill of the
employes will receive the money due
them, but after May 15 between 400
and 500 of them would be dropped
from the service. The McKellar rider
of last year was originally intended
to affect about 720 emp!oyes of the
abolished Prohibition Bureau who
were later re-employed by the Treas
ury to enforce the new liquor laws.
These employes will get their pay for
the past three months and for the
future. As to the 720 around whom
the dispute started, all will be paid
until May 15, after which only thote
who passed the new examination
. would be eligible to continue on the
pay roll, if the compromise is adopted.
A new and separate personnel prob
lem was brought to the attention of
the subcommittee yesterday by Sen
ator Dickinson, Republican, of Iowa.
It was an amendment to have the
salary classification act reapplied to
several hundred employes ot the In
solvent bank division. The informa- j
tion laid before the subcommittee was :
to the effect that one of the recent !
banking laws contained a provision
which placed these employes outside
the classification act. The committee
■will pass on this question before re
porting the bill tomorrow.
GRAVELLY POINT
DISCARD RUMORS
. OPEN NEW FIGHT
(Continued From First Page.)
eration of Citizens' Association, the
Interfederation of Citizens* Associa
tions, the Aero Club of Washington
and the Washington Air Derby Asso
ciation.
Closing of Military Road.
During the period ol construction
Df Gravelly Point, Mr. Delano said
Washington Airport could be made
safe and more useable by closing Mili
tary road, provided a substitute road
Is conducted and that title to the
right of way remain in the United
States.
"Because of the definite limitations
of size and the uncontrolled hazards
surrounding Washington Airport,'' he
said, "the commission cannot indorse j
It as the central commercial airport
for Washington."
"Your committee." he said, "may
Inquire why, with such repeated in
dorsements of the Gravelly Point
site, no action has yet been obtained.
The answer is simple. Whenever leg
islation for Gravelly Point is before j
a committee of Congress and its many
obvious advantages have been pre- '
sented, those desiring to sell other
sites to the Government intervene, Î
request Inspection of their sites and
have on several occasions asked
for a special commission to investi
gate and report later. Before the
committee concerned can make these
inspections and complete hearings '
Congress is adjourned.
"The question of who shall finance
the airport has also caused delay."
In conclusion Mr. Delano expressed
to Chairman Randolph the hope that I
his committee, "having taken such !
complete testimony, will proceed to
adjust the financial question as seems
equitable and recommend Gravelly ,
Point as the central commercial air
port for the National Capital."
Chairman Randolph has called a
meeting of his subcommittee for to
morrow morning and It is probable a
final meeting will be held Tuesday
morning for completion of the sub
committee report to the full District
Committee. This report is to be sub
mitted in time for consideration by
the District Committee at its regular
meeting Wednesday morning.
JUDICIARY SQUARE
ACTION PROMISED
IN SENATE GROUP
(Continued From First Page.)
Court buildings in Judiciary Square ;
the District property on Pennsylvania :
avenue between Third and Sixth I
streets could be disposed of to the ;
Federal Government for future new
buildings, such as a new General Ac- 1
counting Office. Ttie question of fu
ture use of the original Municipal
Center site is not dealt with, however,
in the pending bill.
It developed at the hearing that
the Commissioners have in mind three
court buildings in Judiciary Square,
one for Police Court, one for Munici
pal Court and a third building large
enough to house Juvenile Court and
the recorder of deeds office. Engi
neer Commissioner Dan I. Sultan said
the three buildings would cost ap
proximately $3.000,000.
Chairman King inquired whether
the people of the District would be
willing to meet the cost of proceed
ing with the court buildings if it de
velops a P. W. A. loan cannot be ob
tained.
"We are willing to meet the cost,
but not all in one year," Mr. Yaden
replied. "We would want to discuss
further with you the question of the
terme.
Attorney John E. Laskey, support
ing the bill on behalf of the District
Bar Association, agreed with Mr. Ya
den, but also stressed the point that
the cost should not have to be met
all at one time.
Among others who indorsed the
general purpose of the bill were A.
J. Driscoll of Mid-City Citizens, Louis
Justement of the Board of Trade, Gil
bert Rodler. chairman of a commit
tee of the local chapter, Institute of
Architecte, and Harry S. Wender,
Southwest Citizens.
HALPERT GIVES BOND
PHILADELPHIA, March 9 OP).—
Samuel R. Halpert, In the news as
the "boy broker" when he was jailed
on fraud charges 13 years ago, today
furnished $5,000 bail to await extradi
tion proceedings as a suspect in a
$1,500,000 Chicago brokerage swindle.
Halpert went to Philadelphia police
with the information that he under
stood the Chicago authorities were
looking for him. Bail fixed at $25,
000 was reduced when evidence was
given that Halpert has been living in
Philadelphia since hie release from
prison 10 years ago. and could not
be classed as » fugitive.
I
Figures in $100,000 Suit
Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Ι——— ■ Ί
Mrs. Bette Louise Swalley. 26, (renter* ïhown leaving court at Erie,
Kans., with two friends yesterday after having been a spectator at the
trial of a suit for $100,000 brought by her husband, W. J. Swalley, jr.,
against F. A. Johnson, 54-year-old man of wealth. Swalley charges
alienation of his wife's affections. The trial will be resumed Tuesday.
Scientists and Educators
Term Broadcasts for
Young "Rot."
(Continued From First Page.)
where the children actually are urged
to lay down the law to taeir parents i
as to what they shall eat and what
medicines they shail take—it seems
to me high time somebody does
something about it. It is a situation j
which may result in a great deal of j
harm to the coming generation."
"These broadcasts are providing a
false stimulus," said Dr. John E. j
Bentley, professor of psychology at
American University. "They do not
make for integration of character.
It is the story of the exciting movies
all over again. If we could have j
cultural matters presented over the
radio during the late afternoon it
would be line."
Unstabilizing Influence.
The radio terrors of the early eve
ning tend to put children out of touch
with reality, develop unwholesome j
imaginativeness, and constitute en
iinstabilizing influence, according to
Dr. Paul Ewerhardt, director of the
Washington Institute of Mental By
?iene and of the child guidance clinic
of the public schools.
Dr. Ewerhardt's chief activities lie
with the problem children of Wash
ington schools and he comes daily
into touch with the influences which
cause them to go wrong. Hè is In
favor, he said, of pressure being ;
brought to bear to change the char- .·
acter of the radio programs especially ;
itaged for children since there are
repeated many of the evils formerly !
Sue to the most lurid sort of moving
pictures.
The situation is quite different, the !
psychiatrist said, from that brought
about by the dime novels and various
horror stories upon which were de
veloped the imaginations of the past
generation. In that case, at least,
:he reading habit was developed. The
:hild could not get the thrills utterly
without effort.
Had to Be Own Actors.
And when it was desired to drama
ize the lives of the heroes and hero
nes the children had to be their own
ictors. They were obliged to do some
;hing actually creative. At least they
;ot some good outdoor exercise over
3laying robbers or wild Indians. Now
t is all dramatized for them. They
:an get all the satisfaction merely by
istening.
There is no curb of reality placed
)n the imagination, Dr. Ewerhardt
>aid. The tendency is for the chil
iren to live more and more in a world
>f dreams and phantasy from which
îventually they may not be able to
escape. In problem children he has
found a distinct relationship between
ivhat the individual sees, hears and
ioes.
In one case he traced an attempt of
some imaginative schoolboys to derail
ι train to such an episode in a moving
picture thriller which was running in
the city at the time.
This, Dr. Ewerhardt said, is in ad
iition to the extreme nervous stimula
tion of the radio thrillers which rob
:hlldren of sleep, outdoor play, hours
of study and lead to nightmare-like
dreams.
GOERING AND ACTRESS
WILL MARRY APRIL 11
Hitler's Right-Hand Man Issues
Long-Expected Announcement
of Engagement.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
BERLIN, March 9.—Gen. Hermann
Wilhelm Goering, Prussian premier,
and Frau Emmy Sonnemann, a mem
ber of the Prussian State Theater, are
to be married April 11, it was an
nounced today.
Gen. Goering, who is also Reich
minister of aviation and Chancellor
Adolf Hitler's right-hand man, has
been seen so often with the tall blond
actress at theatrical, musical and so
cial events in the last year that the
announcement occasioned no surprise
here. Goering is 42 years old, Frau
Sonnemann, 35. He is a widower,
having been married to Baroness Ka
rin von Pock of Sweden for just a
rear before she died in 1931. He has
one son.
(Copyright. 1835.)
Whale Killers Fined.
Fines up to *500 for the killing of
whales are provided in a new law of
the State of Sarawak, Borneo.
' \
Legalizes Horse Race Bet
ting and Finally Gets Out
right Repeal.
By the Associated Press.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March β.—
Arkansas, 100 years old come June
15, 1936, Is in a manner οf speaking
having its face lifted and its com
plexion changed.
Once the bluest of the blue law
States (it was recently against the
law to buy a cigarette), this former
stronghold of conservatism the last
few weeks has watched its Legislature
legalize horse race betting, authorize
manufacture and sale of wines of un
limited alcoholic content, and finally
vote outright prohibition repeaL
Many Influences Cited.
Some say it is "the Hot Springs
influance." the disposition to give a
hand to the State's best-known resort,
in stiff competition for the tourist
trade with other resorts located in j
more liberal localities.
Hot Springs, which for years has
elected officials who boast of their
"broadmindedness," has never suf
fered any serious headache from Ar
kansas' prohibitory laws. But there
has been feeling there and elsewhere
in the State that it would look better
if the Spa's diverse attractions were
all legal and regular.
Others credit the change in trend
to elderly, amiable Gov. J. Marion
Futrell, who in effect told the Assem
bly early this year: "What you can't
prohibit you should control."
Package Sales Legalized.
His dictum was followed by passage
of the race legalization, wine and
package-sale liquor bills.
Arkansas started ignoring the anti
cigarette law many years ago. Sun-,
day base ball squeezed in in 1929. The
1931 Legislature let loose a real bomb- j
shell when it passed a 90-day divorce
law, particularly for Hot Springs' ben
efit. Beer, of the 3.2 variety, was
given a Legislative welcome in 1933.
The further liberalizations got un
der way as soon as the Assembly me*
two months ago.
Loud huzzahs went up from the
Hot Springs neighborhood.
A Little Rock minister commented
in a sermon that Arkansas appeared
headed for perdition on a toboggan.
N. R. A. LOSES FIGHT
ON TEXAS GAS STATION
By the Associated Prçss.
HOUSTON, Tex., March 9.—Federal
Judge T. M. Kennerly sustained today
a demurrer to an indictment brought
under provisions of the petroleum code
of the N. R. A. against E. D. Sorsby,
operator of a service station at Hemp
stead, Tex.
The indictment, returned December
4, 1934, was the first to be brought
by the Government in this district for
alleged violations of the N. R. A.
Sorsby was charged with unlawfully
working his employes in excess of the
48 hours per week provided for under
the code. Judge Kennerly ruled that
no offense had been charged against
the laws of the United States.
*
SLOGAN FOR G. 0. P.
PR0P0SED8Y KNOX
Publisher Offers Program to
"Get America Back on
the Pay Roll."
Bj the Associated Pre··.
ROCK ISLAND, 111., March To
a Republican party be greeted u
"de-loused" and made clean by ad
versity, rrank Knox, publisher of
the Chicago Daily News, tonight ten·
dered a program and slogan for re
covery:
"Get America Back on the Pay
Roll!"
Addressing the John Ericsson Re
publican League of Illinois in annual
convention, Knox lambasted the N.
R. Α., the Government's failure to
balance the budget, and demanded for
banks and business freedom from po
litical domination.
He flung a dart at the President's
relief plan, remarking:
Raps Relief Work Fund.
"We know that under the skillful
guidance of Jim Farley and his assist
ants the $4.000,000,000 work-relief fund
will constitute a huge campaign fund
employed to control the next elec
tion." The "beby bond" issue Knox
termed "thinly disguised currency In
flation."
"For nearly the first time," the Chi
cago publisher told his Repuolican
audience, "we meet unvexed by the
burden of support of the great selfish
combination which seek monopoly,
and the so-called leaders of finance
who seek Government advantage.
They have, happily deserted cur
ranks. En masse, they have gone
over to the Democratic party where
the pickings are good."
Attacking the N. R. A. as responsible
for increasing unemployment, caus
ing industrial strife and lowering
wages, Knox asserted all industry re
quired of Government Is uniform
protection again sweatshop wages,
long hours and child labor.
Offers G. O. P. Platform.
He viewed artificial restriction of
farm production as perhaps a tem
porary device in an emergency, but
said the permanent remedy for farm
ing must be freedom from bureau
cratic control.
If the Republican party is to func
tion successfully as an opposition
party, Knox averred, it must stand
for: A free, independent f.ystem of
banking and credit, a atable gold
standard; equality of protection to
the agriculturist and industrialist
alike; economy In public affairs; re
pudiation of the theory of "spending
ourselves back into prosperity," a
balanced budget, protection for the
victims of depression and drought.
NEW "EXPRESS" BUS
SERVICE INITIATED
Washington Rapid Transit Co.
Opens Route From D. C. Line
to Commerce Unit.
A new "limited express" bus service
from the Maryland-District line- to
the Commerce Department was In
augurated yesterday by the Washing
ton Rapid Transit Co., with the ap
proval of the Public Utilities Commis
sion.
The bus line follows the route from
the District line along Alaska avenue,
Sixteenth street, Kennedy street. Four
teenth street, Colorado avenue. Six
teenth street, I street. Vermont ave
nue, Madison place, Treasury place
and Fifteenth street to the Department
of Commerce, thence to Constitution
avenue and Twelfth street.
From the starting point to Colorado
avenue and Fourteenth street no stops
are made, but from there stops are
made at all point* along the route to
take on passengers. No passengers are
discharged, however, until the bus
reaches the west entrance of the
Treasury Department.
Transfers will be Issued only at
Fourteenth street and Colorado avenue.
FOES OF BIG ARMY
FIGHT FUNDS USE
Senator*King Say· Any of P. W.
A. Expenditure» Can Be
Prevented.
Br the Associated Ργμι.
A «well of opposition to Increased
military expenditures is developing In
the Senate to dash against the big
Army sentiment that put across the
$400,000,000 War Department appro
priation bill
"We can defeat any plan to use P.
W. A. funds for military purposes,"
Mid Senator King, Democrat, of
Utah. "That would be an outrage In
view of. the enormous appropriations
already made for the Army and the
Navy, and more contemplated."
Reminded that Senator Borah in
troduced an amendment to the relief
bill barring use of any of the pro
posed $4,880,000,000 for military pur
poses. King declared:
"I will fight for that."
Similar support for legislation to
shut the Army and Navy out of the
P. W. A. coffers was voiced by Senator
Pope. Democrat, of Idaho.
"Certainly there will be legislation
to prevent military profiteering out of
public works funds," Pope said.
Meantime the Senate Munitions
Committee, in recess for two weeks,
planned to reopen hearings Tuesday
by calling William B. Shearer, big
Navy advocate, whose activities at the
Naval Limitations Conference in
Geneva in 1927 brought an investiga
tion by the Senate.
Artist Feared Loit in Snow.
ESCALANTE, Utah, March 9 VP).—
A fierce snowstorm here today In
creased fears for the safety of Everett
Reuss, 20, a Los Angeles artist who
came to Southern Utah November 11
with two months' supply of food for a
sketching expedition. Reuse was last
reported late in November, when he
visited a sheep camp. Laver hU two
burros were found, starving.
Ν. R. Α. Finds Vivid
Defense in Words
Of Woman Official
Br the Auoclated Pre»».
NEW YORK. March 9—In
forceful language Mrs. Anna M.
Rosenberg, regional compliance
director of the N. R. Α., told 35C
Code Authority executives yester
day to crusade against adverse
action by Congress.
"I'd be damned If I'd sit by In
your places and let Congress or
the Senate take action without
expressing my opinion," she said
at a meeting.
OCCOQUAN INQUIRY
OPENS TOMORROW
Detail· of Charges Against Stein
and Costeilo of Gnard Not
Made Public.
Members of the Penal Committee of
the Board of Public Welfare will hold
an executive session at the District
Building tomorrow to hear charges and
countercharges against W. A. Stein,
captain of the guard in charge of the
wharf at Occoquan Prison, and John
A. Costeilo, guard, both of whom have
been suspended.
Details of the charges against the
two men were not made public. It
was explained, however, that Capt.
Stein suspended Costeilo and the guard
countered with accusations against his
(tlperior, which also led to the letter's
suspension.
Stein figured several months ago in
charges brought by former Represen
tative Shoemaker oi Minnesota, who
alleged before the House of Represen
tatives that bricks and other building
materials had disappeared from the
Occoquan wharf.
Costeilo is serving on his fourth
appointment as a prison guard in the
District, having previously been In
the service in 1905-07, 1908-10 and
j 1916-18.
DAVEY PUSHES FIGHT
ON FEDERAL RELIEF
Ohio Governor Carrie» Plea to
People, Charging Autocratic
Control of Funds.
Br the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 8.—Gov.
Martin L. Davey tonight carried hl«
relief administration controversy with
the Federal Government direct to the
people of Ohio.
In a broadcast he charged that
"autocratic Federal control" of relief
administration In the State "extend*
even to the expenditure of money fur
nished by the State of Ohio."
The executive, maintaining the
State had no Jurisdiction whatever
over relief matters, said all rules for
relief "are made by theorists in Wash
ington and other theorists in Colum
bus who are the agents of the Fed
eral Government."
Concerning Federal ReUef Admin
istrator Harry L. Hopkins, Davey said :
"If he will be courageous enough and
fair enough to eliminate the inexcus
able waste and inefficiency in the
Ohio relief program, the people of
this State will be willing to dig down
Into their thinly lined pockets and
contribute their share, through new
taxes, if necessary, to maintain a
businesslike, economical and humane
relief program."
Referring to his request that the
Federal Government take over the
relief set-up in the State, Davey said:
"I insist that they must assume public
responsibility."
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• The beautiful Aeroform rear-end design of
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carrying space under lock and key. Separate
compart ment β for luggage, spare tire and
tools in rear deck ot all models.
Wi,h absolute confidence, we
make the statement that a Nash
"ride" will eclipse any automo
bile ride you have ever had.
It's like having "a new road
under the wheels" wherever you
drive. Synchronized Springing
does it—springe that flex evenly
at all four wheels. Springs in
which patented "Silenite"
damper-leaves control friction.
Springs that never need lubrica
tion. Springs that never squeak.
This even spring action, with car
weight balanced 50-50 front and
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