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UOOSEVELT TAKES > _ _ __ _ i 0 ■ — Assistant Navy Secretary Also Guest on Trip Aboard Sequoia. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS. Md„ July 27.—Presi dent Roosevelt’s guest tonight on a week end cruise down Chesapeake Bay was Controller General McCarl. one Of the New Deal’s sharpest thorns. Long a personal friend of the Exec utive, McCarl nevertheless has blocked more than one administration project, squabbled with cabinet members over expenditures. Further, McCarl re cently has been boomed for the Re publican presidential nomination next year. As he Ashed and talked with the watch dog of the Federal Treasury, Mr. Roosevelt had with him another guest whose business relations with the controller general may have been none too friendly. *•' Assistant Navy Head Guest. f. The third prominent member of the presidential party was Henry Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, which has been battling with the controller general over dollars and cents ever since the office was estab lished, 14 years ago. The executive made no announce ment of his week-end plans as the Government yacht. Sequoia, steamed away today, except to say he hoped to get in some Ashing and be back In the White House Sunday night. He may have anticipated some chuckles, however, over the conversa tions between McCarl and Henry Roosevelt. Only recently McCarl and the Navy were engaged in a bitter controversy over travel allowances for dependants of naval officers ordered home to retire. McCarl, a Republican, who was sec retary to Senator Norris, Republican, of Nebraska, when he was named con troller general In the Arst year of the Harding administration, recently clashed with both Norris and the ad ministration over T. V. A. expendi tures. Recent Refusals. t Before the Nebraska home folks gtarted ’’McCarl for President” clubs last Spring. McCarl also had turned down housing programs for Harry L. Hopkins; refused to pay for a shower bath installed by Secretary Morgen thau. refused to pay Gen. Pershing’s Pullman fare without receipts, refused to install a water cooler for the Su preme Court and made Rexford Guy Tugwell, rural resettlement director, pay the diSerence between airplane And railroad fare on a Florida trip. Other guests of the President in cluded Mrs. McCarl. Miss Marguerite Lehand and Miss Grace Tully. per sonal secretary, who brought aboard a bundle of correspondence. Works (Continued From First Page.) under the United States Bureau of Hoads. 883 men, at $1,589,904 Projects awaiting approval included Bewer projects for employing 1,055 men at $960,569 and miscellaneous projects for jobs for 3,571 men at a total cost of $3,848,713. The District Project Board, named about a week ago by Commissioner Allen, yesterday announced approval of 12 additional projects to cost $473, 653 and to employ 609 more persons dor a year. If approved by Aleln these two will be sent along to Federal Officers. Zoo Work to Cost $229,632. Among the new proposals are proj ects for improvements at the Zoo at a cost of $229,632. They are designed to give steady work to 225 men. The Items include new fencing, new cages, a shelter, new restaurant building, new convenience stations and new walls for the Hon house. The Project Board consists of As tistant Engineer Commissioner How ard F. Clark, the deputy works ad ministrator; Auditor Daniel J. Dono van and William C. Cleary, assistant deputy administrator, with Ross Haworth, secretary. The board has approved projects for a variety of grading, landscaping, repairs, walks and road projects for the Zoo; quarry ing stone for building construction to employ 31 men at a co6t of $13,832; a new attack on the starlings, giving work for 35 men at a cost of $10,605; mosquito control work for 49 men yrith the cost calculated at $45,372. Construction work at the 260th Coast Artillery Armory ■ at Water and O streets southwest for employing 29 men with a cost of $3,864; rifle range Improvements would give work to 38 more men at a cost of $24,049. Other work at the rifle and small eallber ranges would cost $48,000 and <rn it-Ar 1- fA HO men Jobs Drafted to Fit Need. Projects are being drafted to fit the employment need. Labor is the guide rather than mer£ construction plan ning. Thousands of dollars will be spent for white-collar projects for the reason that there are 211 professional and technical persons on relief and 1,480 “office workers.” Studies show there are 1,336 skilled Workers; 2,377 semi-skilled workers, such as chauffeurs and watchmen, and 8,640 unskilled laborers subject to re lief. There are 1,000 others having no experience in any kind of work. About 25 per cent of the total on re lief are women and about 75 per cent are colored. Delays that have dogged all efforts Of Federal and District officials in getting the program started since April 8 are shown in newspajjer ac counts of steps taken in the pre liminary moves. Allen was named District admin istrator June 17. The matter had been discussed for weeks previously. On June 17, 18 and 19 Federal Works Progress Administrator Hopkins held * conference for his State adminis trators at the Mayflower Hotel here. , District engineers already had feady for approval a series of high way and sewer projects. On June 21 .Allen sent to Federal officials five .highway projects to cost $1,236,713 and two series of sewer projects to cost $1,144,075. On June 24 Allen called District department heads Into conference and told them to “make speed" In submitting additional projects. They began to flow in several days later. On June 24 Hopkins’ staff asked Allen to submit names of his work assist ants. This was done the .next day and approval came back on June 26. *■' On July 1 the Federal Allotment Board recommended granting the District $2,017,043 to make an early ■tart on projects. Grants for New York City, Alabama, Georgia and In diana were also recommended. Presi dent Roosevelt was reported to have approved these grants on July 3. On July 18 Allen received notice A Towers Defy Lightning New Yorkers have seen several skyscrapers being "struck” by lightning, but this is the first time the camera has caught bolts hitting the city's two outstanding towers at the same moment. Dr. K. Winfield took this exceptional photo from the terrace of his apartment during an electric storm when lightning cracked down on both the Chrysler Building, left, and the Empire State Building at the same foment. Photo was taken during a heavy down-pour of rain. —Wide World Photo. of Federal approval of 12 projects for Federal agencies here at a cost of $1,651,245 for employment of 1,706 men. On July 20 Allen received a letter from Works Progress Administration giving authority for five highway projects. No mention was made of the sewer projects. On July 23 a notice went to Allen from the Treasury advising of ap proval of funds for the previously mentioned highway projects. July 27 arrived with no word of completion of pay roll arrangements. But on August 1 Mr. Allen hopes to get started somehow AALBERSE UNABLE TO FORM CABINET Queen Wilhelmina Expected to Recall Colijn in Effort to Defend Guilder. By the Associated Press. THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, July 27.—Premier-Designate D. P. Aalberse tonight found The Nether lands’ political and financial crisis too much for him, and handed the pre miership back to Queen Wilhelmina. It was confidently expected former Premier Hendryk Colijn would resume the office next week, reconstruct his own ministry and renew his fight to defend the guilder against devaluation. Aalberse, summoned after Colijn’s “hard money’’ government resigned in the face of parliamentary opposi tion to its economy program, gave up when he found he could not get the support he needed for his government. A more optimistic atmosphere pre vailed in financial circles at Amster dam. Reports there said the Bank of The Netherlands was expected to raise its bank rate again to 7 per cent, in an effort to halt the flight of gold. Yesterday’s losses were about $15,000, 000. (The guilder opened firm at Lon don yesterday, and gained during the day, closing at 7.36 >4 to the pound. Friday’s close was at 7.37%.) I --— EDUCATIONAL. HARGRAVE TcW “MAKING MEN—NOT MONEY” Full nins months accredited preparatory A and Junior school. In healthful Piedmont A Indlsidual attention. Smsll Clines. «• H perlenced master*, Christian Faculty. 9 B porta. Moderate rata. Foe Information 3 Wr(i>V A. H. Camdea, Prti„ 1st 8 Chatham. Va, *r at* United Seheola | Aaaaeiallan, W7 Natleaal Prtat Bulldlni, .NAticnal 1ST* MT. ST. JOSEPH’S HIGH SCHOOL Conducted by Xaverlan Broth ers. Effectively prepare* boys for college or business. Small classes. Graduates In over 40 colleges and scientific schools. Home life in democratic at mospnere. Mild, healthful cli mate. Spacious, well-appointed buildings. 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More than 600 delegates from all sections of the country are expected ] to register tomorrow at the opening ; of the annual convention of the , Commercial Law League of America , at the Wardman Park Hotel for a , four-day session. i Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes. D. D., canon of Washington Cathedral, will i repeat the Invocation opening tha first session, to be followed by a re* port of the Committee on Rules of Order by Robert H. Sykes, chairman, of Durham, N. C. Addresses of welcome will be made by Lunsford L. Hamner, local attor ney; Ralph D. Quinter, vice president of the Bar Association of the Dis trict of Columbia, and Melvin C. Ha zen, president of the Board of Com missioners of the District of Colum bia. The response to addresses of welcome will be made by Harold B. Doyle of Youngstown, Ohio. Ely to Make Report. After the appointment of the Com mittee on Resolutions, of which Har old H. 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