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. FUNDIHSKED
$25,000 to Administer New
Act to Be Sought by D. C.
Heads Monday.
An urgent request for approval of an
emergency appropriation of $25,000 for
administration of the new’ smoke con
trol act just passed by Congress will <
be rushed to the Budget Bureau Mon
day by the Commissioners.
Engineer Commissioner Sultan founa
himself facing the problem of a new
law in control of the smoke nuisance,
without appropriations to make it pos
sible. The bill authorizes necessary
appropriations, but Congress must yet
make the funds available. Should there
be a slip and the money not be appro
priated, enforcement of the new act
apparently would be left in the hands
of the Health Department, which has
but two inspectors assigned to check
on smoke nuisances.
"Strenuous efforts" will be made to
have a deficiency item of $25,000
promptly approved by the Budget Bu- 1
reau and dispatched to Congress in a
plan to have It attached to a third
national deficiency bill, expected# to
be passed by Congress before the pres
ent session ends.
Belief is held the Budget Bureau
Will approve the item, since it
passed favorably on a proposed smoke
control bill similar to the one finally 1
enacted by Congress. In that action
the bureau found the legislation not
in conflict with the President's finan
cial program.
Col. Sultan has directed Capt. Hugh
P. Oram. District director of inspec
tion. to prepare a detailed program of
enforcement machinery to be covered
by the $25,000 item. The adminis- 1
tration would- be placed in the hands
of a combustion engineer who would
have a staff of assistants and inspec
tors considerably larger than the two
men now attempting to do smoke
control work under the Health De
partment.
FOUR ARE RESCUED
FROM BEACHED BOAT
Harbor Police Answer Midnight
Call to Potomac Flats Fol- ,
lowing Accident.
Two couples were rescued by police
of the Harbor precinct after being
marooned about four hours last night
on the Potomac flats in a 32-foot
cruiser, which was beached after
It ran into an obstruction and sprang
a leak.
It was nearly midnight when police
arrived and took the four off the i
boat, about 100 yards out from shore. !
a short distance down the river from
the Army War College.
Those rescued were John W Birch,
41. of 1809 Otis street northeast, vice
president of the W. H. Hessick & Son. !
Inc., and owner of the craft; his i
wife, Elizabeth, and Mr. and Mrs.
Oliver E. Thomas, 1425 Rhode Island
avenue.
Although the bottom of the boat
had filled with water, all its occu
pants except Mr. Birch, who put on a
bathing suit and went overboard in an
effort to stop the leak, kept dry. Har
bor police were notified of their plight I
by two youths who passed by in a
canoe.
Sergt. C. C. Wise and Pvts. H. S.
Carrico and T. D. Bailey effected the
rescue
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PRESIDENT DECLARED
SAVIOR OF COLORED
Representative Mitchell Praises
New Deal in Alabama
Address.
By the Associated Press.
ATHENS. Ala, August 10.—The
"New Deal” was described today by
Representative Mitchell, colored
Democrat from Illinois, as a “square
deal for all and special privileges
for none” in an appeal to members of
his race to support President Roose
velt and the Democratic party.
In a prepared address before thou
sands of colored people assembled
to celebrate “Negro Tennessee Valley
Authority Appreciation day,” Mitchell,
who was educated at .Tuskegee Insti
tute. called the “New Deal” the "sal
vation of the country and the salva
tion of the Negro.” He paid high 1
tribute to the President.
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CAPT. IVAN L. PROCTOR
BURIED IN ARLINGTON
Funeral services for Capt. Ivan L.
Proctor, Army Air Corps, who died
March 19 at a hospital in the Philip
pine Islands, were held yesterday from
the Fort Myer gate of Arlington Na
tional Cemetery.
Capt. Proctor was born in Nevada.
Iowa, November 11, 1887, entering
the air service tn 1918. He is sur
vived by his widow, Mrs. Mary L.
Proctor.
The following officers of the Army
Air Corps were honorary pallbearers:
Capt. William B. Souza. Capt. James
A. Mollison, Capt. Alfred W. Mar
riner, Lieut. Donald F. Stace, Lieut.
Alvin C. Kincaid and Lieut. Mervin
E. Gross.
S. B. CLEMENTS DIES
Samuel Burche Clements. 40. of
1330 Massachusetts avenue, died '
Thursday at Gallinger Hospital of
lobar pneumonia. Funeral services
were held this morning at Nevius fu
neral home, 924 New York avenue.
Burial was in Arlington National
Cemetery.
For several years Mr. Clements had
been a supervising clerk ia the Chesa
peake & Potomac Telephone Co.
Surviving are his widow. Mrs. Ma
rian A. Clements, and a son, Samuel
Burche. jr,
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Two Drown in Bridge Collapse
Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
The Interstate Bridge at La Crosse, Wis., after 140-foot section collapsed yesterday bringing death to Francis
Landrieu, United States Government engineer, and his wife and paralyzed traffic in the section. Landrieu and
his wife were drowned when their car went down with the bridge. Two other passengers were rescued. Other
spans over the Mississippi are 30 miles up and down stream.
Clarification of Political
Position Still Waits.
Travels East.
By the Associated Press.
Herbert Hoover entered his 62nd
vear today a figure of political mys
tery to many.
The anniversary of that day in
1874 when he was born, the son of
a blacksmith at West Branch. Iowa,
found him again rn route East from
California. Business meetings will
hold him in New York from Mon
day through Wednesday.
New opportunities to confer with
Republican leaders will be afforded
there, and at a time when the New
Deal setback in Rhode Island has en
emir aged party organizers to greater
efTor's against the administration.
Every Move Watched.
Because of the former President's
increasing contacts with the G. O. P.
command, his greater readiness of
late to speak out on national policy,
and uncertainty at the Capitol as to
his personal intentions regarding
1936. more than usual attention will
be given any activity of a political
savor.
It was said here no po'itical con
versations are scheduled. Since vari
ous prominent Republicans sought
the Hoover ear on past trips, however,
congressional quarters expect this one
to be no exception.
If what has happened before is any
criterion, these who so seek will find
him ready to listen, but his lips shut
tight when it comes to public discus
sion of nomination possibilities.
Whether Mr. Hoover has any ideas
about trying a comeback himself—a
subject of disagreement in Washing
ton—appears unlikely to be answered
for some time.
May Influence Platform.
Friends expect him to disregard
suggestions for a statement about his
own personal position on the nomina
tion question and rather to confine
himself to discussion of fundamentals
of government until the political sit
uation has clarified considerably.
They would not be so surprised by
moves on his part to influence the
Republican platform on the issue for
1936 as he now sees it, ‘ Shall the
American system of government en
dure?”
Events next Winter—particularly
New Deal fortunes in the Supreme
Court and what follows—seem des
tinued to affect his course along with
that of the campaign itself.
Some Democrats profess to foresee:
another Roosevelt-Hoover campaign.
Sentiment to run the ex-President
again was conceded today in a re
sponsible Republican quarter, with Re
publican women of the East men
tioned especially in that regard. The
same source, however, expressed the i
opinion it would not happen.
3 DEMAND JURY TRIALS
ON GAMING CHARGES
Police Report Marked Nickels
and Numbers Books Seized in
Georgia Avenue Raids.
Three persons demanded jury trials
on charges of permitting gaming when
! arraigned before Judge Robert E. Mat
tingly in Police Court today. They
were released on $500 bond pending
jury trials August 26.
Louis Mascetti, 37, of 3001 Georgia
avenue, operator of a shoe shop, was
arrested yesterday. Police said num
bers books, slips and marked nickels
were recovered after a special officer
had made a play at the address
Mascetti pleaded not guilty. •
Samuel Kaufman and Dave H.
Kaufman, operators of a grocery at
2827 Georgia avenue, were arrested
August 1 after police claimed numbers
plays were made there on two occa
sions. Both pleaded not guilty. The
Kaufmans were arrested under cir
; cumstances similar in Mascetti's ar
rest.
“LIGHTS” IS TOPIC
—
Rev. Richard Byers Martin, Sum
mer pastor of Luther Place Memorial
Church, will preach at 11 o’clock to
morrow on “Brilliant Lights.” *
Harry Zwoyer will be at the organ
in the absence of Mrs. Cornelia L.
Kinsella. The choir will sing.
The Christian Endeavor Society will
meet at the church at 5 o’clock. Cars
will transport all to the home of
Messrs. Alden and George Towber
man, 1601 Fillmore street, Clarendon,
Va.. for a picnic dinner. Later Miss I
Mabel Maxwell will lead in the study j
of "Missions—1935.”
Rubber Curbs Noise.
Crepe rubber is being used to sup
press some of the street noise of Dur- j
ban, South Africa. The material is ■
being laid under the tracks of the j
street railway to absorb the noise
caused by the passage of the vehicles, i
Selassie Calls Upon League
To Take Further Action in Ron
Says War Will Violate 1906 Treaty and
Briand-Kellogg Pact—Denies Aim
Is to “Civilize*’ Ethiopia.
The action taken by the League
of Nations Council in the Italo
Ethiopian dispute is discussed here
by the ruler of the African kingdom.
BY HAILE SELASSIE I.,
Emperor of Ethiopia.
ADDIS ABABA. Ethiopia. August
8 (By Wireless!.—The resolution re
cently adopted by the League of Na
t ons permit the resumption of arbi
tration between Ethiopia and Italy
but the arbitration is being confined
to questions of fact concerning the
Walwal incident. The basis of the
conflict remains untouched, and the
conflict continues.
Thus since last December we have
marked time on the same spot and
all that time has been used by Italy
to arm herself. It is to be hoped that
at the next session of the League
Council. September 4. the question
will be examined in its entirety.
It would have been preferable that
this examination had been started
during the League Council session
July 31, for it appears as if the exam
ination bv the council will take a
number of weeks.
The procedure undertaken in con
formity with the League pact should
be followed to the end. Ethiopia,
which asked for this procedure, will
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Stamps Speaker
NEW YORKER TO ADDRESS
GROUP.
HARRY L. LINDQUIST.
Editor of Stamps Magazine and
president of the National Federa
tion of Stamp Clubs, will lead a
New York contingent to the golden
jubilee convention of the American
Philatelic Society, meeting at the
Hotel Carlton Monday to Friday.
He will be one of the speakers at
a dinner for philatelic journalists
Tuesday evening.
—Blackstone Photo.
PRESIDENT ANGLING
ON TRIP DOWN BAY
Works Progress Administrator
Hopkins Guest on Yacht
Sequoia.
President Roosevelt was seeking re
laxation today aboard the Government
yacht Sequoia on a week end fishing
trip down the Chesapeake Bay. He
will return tomorrow evening ready
to plunge into another busy week,
with a number of important legis
lative bills awaiting his signature, in
cluding the administration's social
security measure.
Departing from his usual routine,
the President and a group of friends
boarded the Sequoia early last night
at Annapolis, Md. He will mix a
little business with his fishing, for
among the guests were Works Prog
ress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins
and Miss Marguerite Lehand, the
President’s personal secretary.
Others in the group included Sena
tor and Mrs. Byrnes of South Caro
lina, Senator Barkley of Kentucky
and Capt. Wilson Brown, senior White
House naval aide.
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Gun Smuggler Gets Four Years.
MARIBOR, Yugoslavia, August 10;
(A>).—A man who advocated violent
measures to wrest Crotia from Yugo
slavia and make it part of a Haps
burg kingdom was sentenced today to
four years in prison. The prisoner,
Ivan Gabric, was arrested in May
charged with smuggling guns to Cro
tian farmers.
punctually conform as she has done
up to the present.
Ethiopia did not participate in the
treaty of 1906. (In the 1906 treaty
Great Britain. France and Italy
agreed to maintain the status quo in
Ethiopia.) This treaty at the time
, of its conclusion was in accordance
1 with the traditions of the old type of
diplomacy adopted by the European
states with regard to Africa. But
since then the rights of nations have j
changed and the contents of the treaty
of 1906 must be interpreted henceforth
within the framework of the provision/;
of the Covenant of the League of
Nations, of which Ethiopia is a mem
ber.
. Italy's pretention that she is oc
cupying our country in eder to ac
complish the work of civilization
violates the League pact. Her design
of making war violates the Briand
Kellogg anti-war pact and it should
be noted that it also violates the pro
visions of the 1906 treaty guarantee
ing the maintenance of the status quo
in Ethiopia and the safeguarding of
her territorial integrity.
War is not a means of civilization,
and the Italo-Ethiopian treaty of
1928 itself condemns it.
(Copyright liCl.l. by the North American
1 Newspaper Alliance. Inc i
Motor Carrier Act Giving
Interstate Supervision to
U. S. Is Signed.
By the Associated Press.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
! sion today named Joseph B. Eastman
as chairman of a new division which,
with a new Bureau of Motor Car
riers, will administer the motor car
rier regulatory act.
Eastman and two other commis
sioners, to be named later, will super
vise the interstate rates for motor
trucks and busses. He will remain
as Federal co-ordinator of transpor
tation.
Under terms of the act, signed by
President Roosevelt yesterday, the
commission will take over supervision
of common and contract motor vehicle
carriers engaged in interstate trans
portation after October 1.
Eastman said the act provides for
the States to continue exercising full
authority over intrastate transpor
tation.
Common carriers must obtain cer
tificates of public convenience and
necessity before they may operate, but
those which were operating on June
1, 1935, will receive these as of right.
Contract carriers must obtain per
mits also, but those in operation on
July 1, 1935, may receive them if they
show bona fide operation. Brokers
must obtain a license requiring ade
quate proof of financial responsibility.
Vehicles used exclusively in carry
ir.g live stock, however, and in carrying
fish or agricultural commodities, or in
the distribution of newspapers, are
exempt, as are those controlled and
operated by farm co-operative asso
ciations.
Other regulations require common
carriers to establish “just and reason
able” rates and they are forbidden to
discriminate in rates or service. All
carriers, including those which are
otherwise exempted, are made subject
to regulations with respect to the
qualifications and maximum hours of
service of their employes and the
safety of their operations and equip
ment.
Other matters made subject to reg
ulation are the consolidation or merger
of properties, the issuance of securi
ties and the financial responsibility of
the operators. Appropriate reports
may be required from motor carriers
and brokers and their accounts may
be prescribed.
MRS. G.H. YOW DIES
Mother of N. R. A. Official to Be
Buried Today.
Mrs. George H. Yow, 69, mother of
J. Stuart Yow, assistant deputy N.
R. A. administrator in charge of 15
construction codes, and of Mrs. S. S.
Williamson, 3314 Mount Pleasant
street, died yesterday at her home in
Thomasville, N. C.. according to word
received here today.
Burial will be this afternoon in
Thomasville.
Road Program Starts.
8iam has launched a national high*
way construction program.
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EASTERN CROSSING
PROIECT ADOPTED
Bates Road Hazard Put Off
Until Later Date in
Recommendation.
Two of the District's three major
grade crossings will be eliminated
with construction of an Eastern ave
nue underpass and a Michigan avenue
viaduct by use of work relief funds
under a program planned by Dis
trict officials.
The third grade crossing, that at
Bates road, will be left for future
action, this being abandoned as a
part of the program of the District
Works Progress Administration.
It has been announced previously
the District could not remove all
three crossings under the grant of i
$410,000 to the District as its propor- I
tion of the Federal sums set aside
for elimination of grade crossings.
The Commissioners yesterday asked I
the United States Bureau of Roads to
approve inclusion of the Eastern ave
nue project in the local works pro
gram for grade crossings. An under
pass W'ould be built on the line of
Eastern avenue northeast, near Olive
street. When it is finished the pres
ent Quarles street crossing would be
closed.
The only question not finally de
cided heretofore has been whether
the Michigan avenue or Bates road
crossing projects should be included
in this phase of the new work relief
program.
Construction of the Eastern avenue
underpass w'as estimated to cost some
$220,000. Calculations arc this would
provide work for 125 men per day, for
a total of 145,600 man hours on a
basis of 130 maximum hours per
month.
Forty per cent of the cc*t will go to
direct labor. This alternative was
proposed by the Commissioners in
stead of following the rule of spend
ing not more than $1,400 per man
per year.
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RUTGERS TRUSTEE DIES
Dr. J. R. Duryee Also Reformed
Church of America Officer.
TANNERSVILLE. N Y.. August 10
(4*).—Dr. Joseph Rankin Duryee of
New York City, a trustee of Rutgers
College and trustee ol the Reformed
Church of America, died yesterday at
his Summer home near here. He
was 81.
“Scarlet Letter”
Brand for Illegal
Parkers Is Proposed
By the Associated Press.
HUNTINGTON, Ind., August 10.
—R. C. Porst, police chief, has
proposed the branding of traffic
law violators with a "scarlet let
ter.”
He would aflx a red tag to the
car of an improper parker and
require that it be displayed a
month uhless the driver desired
to erase the badge of guilt by
payment of a dollar fine.
Caterpillar Honored.
A memorial hall Is about to be
erected to the honor of a cater
pillar. The insect has been the means
of reclaiming vast acres of land
once covered with the prickly pear,
which made the land useless. After
the caterpillar has been through it
the land is available I or agricultural
purposes.
LICENSE REVOCATION
ON TAXIS WEIGHED
City Commissioners to Consider
New Weapon to Force
Rate Order.
Revocation of the business licenses
of taxi drivers who have refused to
adopt the 20-30-50-70-cent rate order
of the Public Utilities Commission
will be considered by the District
Commissioners Tuesday as a means
of enforcing the utility body's uni
form rate edict.
This means of obtaining obedience
to the order was proposed yesterday
by the Utilities Commission. The
District Commissioners deferred ac
tion to the board meeting Tuesday.
The effect of the move would be to
deprive the cab drivers of their means
of livelihood until they subscribe to
the uniform rule. Three drivers, said
to have been using taxi meters in
stead of the prescribed zone rates,
were involved in the recommenda
tion. The commission said it knew
of but 10 known violations of the
order.
II the District Commissioners sup
port the move, the License Board
would be directed to hold a hearing
on revocation of the licenses granted
under the District license act.
The point is that union cab driver
leaders have been seeking arrest so
as to make a court test of the com
mission's order. The commission's
plan would leave court action to
initiation by the affected drivers.
The License Board is headed by
Edward L. Thomas, assistant cor
poration counsel. Other members are
Wade Coombs, superintendent of li
censes; James L. Martin, secretary.
Utilities Commission, and Inspector
L. I. H. Edwards, assistant superin
tendent of police.
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Rubber Turf Used.
Rubber turf is being used on the
tracks on which are held the grey
hound races, which is said to give
better footing after a rain than grass.
It is also being tested on foot ball
fields, and if found to be better, will
be used on track and ball fields.
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