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WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1936. *** PAGE B—1
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! IN RELIEF FUNDS
! SOUGHT BY BOARD
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\ Welfare Unit Indorses
Statement of Street
on Needs.
$630,000 REQUESTED
TO AID ‘EMPLOYABLES’
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\ Approximately 3,000 Cases Must
Be Cared For, Officials
Declare.
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Appropriation of $830,000 to supple
i ment present relief funds during the
last six months of the present fiscal
i year should be sought as soon as Con
' gress meets, the Board of Public Wel
, fare advised the Commissioners today.
The board Insisted the present sum
k of $1,600,000 for the year is inadequate,
that the amount of relief now available
is too small and that many additional
cases need help.
The action of the Welfare Board
was in complete indorsement of the
k statement made recently by its director,
f Elwood Street, who insisted there
should be a demand at the opening
of Congress for a large additional re
lief appropriation.
t One-twelfth of the present District
relief fund is being spent each month
under direction of the Commissioners.
Because of questions as to whether
the sum was adequate the Commis
1 sloners had required the board to make
* a report of experience during the first
quarter of the fiscal year.
Specifically, the board asked a sup
plemental item of $630,000 for relief of
residents who are classed as ‘ employ
ables.” but who are in distress, need
ing shelter, food, clothing and other
relief. The board estimated there are
approximately 3,000 cases who need
relief now, or will need it.
TP provide more adequate relief for
the ‘‘unemployables,” the only ones
now receiving direct relief, numbering
approximately 4.500, the board asked
a supplemental appropriation of $135,
000, which would mean monthly indi
vidual allotments could be increased by
about $5.
xne uuara aiso asKea an aacnuonai
•um of $65,000 to provide a more ade
quate personnel to handle aid to the
' unemployables," insisting this was
needed to lighten “the unduly heavy
case load” now existing, to clear up
uninvestigated cases, and to meet Civil
•Service requirements. The hoard
stated that because of the limit of $1,
600,000 on the total relief fund for the
present fiscal year, it had been neces
sary to make reductions in the month
ly allotments to - relief cases, even
though only “unemployables” have
been getting help since July 1.
“Now that the case load is made up
of unemployables only, we have prac
tically eliminated all families in which
there is any income to be supplemented
by relief, as was done prior to July 1,”
said the board. “Naturally, the
amount of relief needed in each fam
ily is much higher than when we were
supplementing some earning in the
, family.
"We have not been able to meet the
extra needs of the unemployable fam
ilies for such things as medicine, car
fare, milk, warm clothing and inci
dentals.”
Statistics reported to the Commis
sioners showed that the number of
cases receiving relief had decreased
from 4,534 in July, when the average
grant per case was $27.16, to 4,264 in
September, when the average grant
' per month Increased to $27.32. The
board predicted the number of unem
ployables would increase again during
" the Winter.
If for no other reason, the board
„ argued, the present monthly allotment
« of the relief fund, about $133,000, must
7 be increased during the Winter, be
cause fuel must be put into many
budgets. It said also Winter clothing
j must be purchased and added “the
case load is bound to increase because
.j of illness in the Winter months.”
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CONTRACTOR FINED
' Bt a Staff Correspondent ol The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va.. October 30.—
; The first case here for violation of
ithe city’s new plumbing code resulted
in conviction of Herbert Grinder, 41,
500 block Taylor street, Washington,
< a contractor, in Police Court yester
| day. He was fined $50 by Judge
James R. Duncan.
t. Grinder was charged with not
* having obtained a permit and license
. for work done here October 14. The
* city’s plumbing code became effective
| March 15 last.
Police Upbraided
As Judge Frees
Man W ithout Legs
Sentence Is Suspended
on Charge of Solic*
iting Alms.
5.
K A man without legs should not be
: brought into court and prosecuted lor
* trying to make an ’honest living,
I* whether he sells pencils, flowers or
newspapers, Judge Robert E. Mattingly
told officers in Police Court today.
"Why don’t you go out and bring in
the murderers, burglars, wile-beaters,
pistol-toters and thugs and leave these
poor people alone?" Judge Mattingly
asked Policeman J. E. Jones in sus
* pending the sentence ot Edward Bern
J stein on a charge ol soliciting alms.
» Bernstein, who is 36, told Judge Mat
i tingly he has been supporting himsell
since he was 10 years old, when he
lost both legs in a railroad accident.
| Policeman Jones testified that shop
pers dropped money in Bernstein's hat
at Thirteenth and P streets without
taking a paper, leaving it to be sold
to some one else.
Bernstein told the court he has been
‘ selling newspapers lor more than lour
(months at the spot where he was ar
rested and that he never had been
a molested belore. He said he came
from Pensacola, Fla.
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Zoning of Surroundings Is Under. Stud); at Washington Airport
Foundry M. E. Minister
Charges “Treason” in
Liquor Controversy.
“Treason to the best interests of
the Nation and of the Army” was
charged against Acting Secretary of
War Woodring last night by Re*.
Frederick Brown Harris, pastor of the
Foundry M. E. Church, in a denuncia
tion of the cabinet officer’s overruling
Walter Reed officials on granting a
dealer a license for liquor selling near
the Walter Reed Military Hospital.
The pastor’s criticism was voiced
at the midweek services of his church.
Abase of High Office,
Declaring the action was a prosti
tution of high office “to debauch hu
man life," the pastor said:
“That an acting member of the
President’s cabinet should without
argument or reason override the pro
tests of doctors and hospital authori
ties and by his personal influence in
sist on the selling of Intoxicating
liquor at the very gates of an Army
controled institution is a spectacle
which reveals public service at its
lowest level. That a great hospital
* * • should have a breeding place
for the “black peril” plarfted at its
very gates by the Secretary of War, in
spite of protests, is a spectacle to
make angels weep and good citizens
tremble for the future of the democ
racy which exalts men with such at
titudes to high position. Such a
high-handed act by a liquor conscious
head of the War Department is
treason to the best interests of the
Nation and of the Army. Such an
act on his part manifests a callous
disregard which disqualifies him for
any future usefulness.
“What sinister sympathy or relation
to the traffic explains his attitude he
only leaves us to surmise.
"The sooner his place at the cabi
net table is occupied by one worthy
of that circle of advisers around the
President, the better."
Board Plans Conference.
While public discussion of the con
troversy thus becomes more heated,
the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
has completed plans for a conference
next Friday at 2 pjn. with spokesmen
of public and private hospitals on this
particular problem.
When application for the contested
permit near the Walter Reed Hospital
was filed the board rejected it because
of protests made by authorities of the
institution. Subsequently, however,
Secretary Woodring wrote the board
saying there should be no special
policy applied in connection with the
military center, but that the board
should be guided by its usual custom
in issuing permits.
The permit then was granted and
the issue became one of public con
troversy, with citizens’ groups and
church organizations condemning those
favoring the permit.
DETECTIVE LIEUTENANT
FILES SUIT FOR DIVORCE
Ms a StsS Correspondent ei The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md., October
30.—Lieut. Clement P. Cox of Suit
land, Md., second assistant chief of
Washington detectives, Wednesday
filed suit for divorce from Mrs. Grace
A. Cox of 3019 Cambridge place, Wash
ington. in Circuit Court here. He
alleged misconduct and cruelty in the
suit filed through Attorney M. Hamp
ton Mag ruder.
Cox declared be was married in
Alexandria, Va., in 1909, a year before
he Joined the District police force.
Three years ago, according to the di
vorce petition, he left his wife and
moved to his father’s home in Suit
land.
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25,000 TO ATTEND
National Session to Be Held
in Washington June 30
July 9.
More than 25.000 Boy Scouts from
all parts of the United States are
expected to attend a national jam
boree to be held here from June 30
to July 9, it was announced today at
Boy Scout headquarters. The twen
ty-seventh annual meeting of the
National Council of the Boy Scout
organization will be held during the
jamboree encampment.
Each of the 544 local councils ad
ministering the Scout program in the
United States will be given an oppor
tunity to recruit one or more troops
as its official delegation. Each troop
will have 32 Scouts, a senior patrol
leader and three adult leaders, it was
announced. In addition the National
Council session will bring together
several hundred adults, who are gen
erally the outstanding educators,
physicians, lawyers, engineers and
business men of their respective com
munities.
Engineers to Draft Plans.
An engineering stall which will
develop plans for the layout of the
Scout camp will open its office here
about November 15. The encamp
ment will be a city in itself, it was
explained, with all necessary facilities.
The jamboree is to be financed by
the Scouts and leaders themselves,
it was announced, each paying a reg
istration fee, which covers the cost
of food and other essentials*. Hun
dreds of troops are expected to bring
their own tents, and the result will
be an exhibition of the types of
camping equipment in use in all sec
tions of the country.
President to See Review.
The jamboree program will include
several national events, in which all
visiting Scouts will participate, such
as a grand opening review by the
President, a grand convocation and
a great closing program.
Although the encampment is main
ly for American Scouts, a resolution
passed by Congress and approved by
the President makes possible the tem
porary entry into the United States
of visiting foreign Scouts under pre
scribed conditions, it was announced.
FIRE CHIEF SCHROM
RESUMES COMMAND
Returns to Post Much Improved
In Health After Two-Month.
Leave.
Fire Chief Charles E. Schrom today
resumed command of the Fire De
partment, concluding a two-month
leave of absence which Commissioner
Hazen had ordered for the Improve
ment of his health.
He reported his condition much im
proved and said physicians had ap
proved his return to duty, so long
as he did not attempt to carry too
heavy a load of responsibility.
Chief Schrom had considered ap
plying for retirement during the past
year, but.indicated today he had
abandoned the Idea, at least for the
present. He suffered from high blood
pressure early In the year and Hazen’s
order for him to take * long rest
was confirmed by members of the
Board of Police and Fire Surgeons.
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TRAIN FOR VOTERS
The District Republican State Com
mittee has arranged a special train
for Pittsburgh voters leaving Wash
ington Sunday at 7:46 am.
The special rate for this service
applies to coaches only and tickets are
good for 10 days. They are available
at Republican headquarters, 41* H
street, at the National Capital
Republican Club, Sixteenth street at
Scott circle.
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The necessity for zoning of areas around air transport ter
minals as a safety measure is being studied by the Bureau of
Air Commerce, which has begun a long series of field studies
at Washington Airport. This photograph, made from the
Goodyear blimp Reliance, is the first showing of the neivly com
pleted 4,200-foot paved runway at the local airport and the ob
structions at its southern end, which are part of the subject of
the zoning studies. Within the area in the circle are junk yards,
railroad sidings and other obstacles to safe emergency landing
in line with the runway. Half of the shorter, 3.000-foot run
way also is shown in its completed condition. The remaining
half is being constructed, laying of foundation stone beginning
yesterday. star Staff Photo by Elwood Baker.
I “Take That Out ” Mrs. Roper
Pleads of “Mum” at 1936 Shoiv
Incompletely Opened Variety Named
for Mrs. Roosevelt Doesn’t Do Her
Justice, Says Cabinet Wife.
Th« Department of Agriculture’s
thirty-f.fth annual chrysanthemum
show was opened to the public today
In the department's greenhouses.
Fourteenth street and Constitution
avenue, after a preview, at which
Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, wife of the
Secretary of Agriculture, received the
wives and friends of cabinet officers,
the diplomatic corps and Government
officials.
Two new Japanese varieties of
chrysanthemums and 11 pompoms, de
veloped by the Department of Agri
culture and offered to the commercial
growers this year for the first time,
were a feature of the show, which will
be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., in
cluding Sunday, through November 6.
The show comprises 210 varieties of
Japanese, 417 varieties of pompons
and single chrysanthemums, and 11
varieties of cascade chrysanthemums,
some of them new commercial vari
eties introduced this year, all grown
in the department's greenhouses.
While the wide variety and rich col
ors of the flowers brought'acclaim
from the visitors, the large yellow
variety of Japanese chrysanthemum
named for Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
three years ago had not fully opened.
"Take that one out,” was the plea
of Mrs. Daniel C. Roper, wife of the
Secretary of Commerce, "it doesn't
do Mrs. Roosevelt Justice.”
Some of the visitors, however, no
ticed a particularly fine specimen of
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the Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt variety
among the taller plants, and observed
that It might have been given greater
prominence were it not nearly 7 feet
tall. It was not the first time that
politics tinged the conversations of
those who came to admire chrysanthe
mums. Varieties named after former
President Hoover, Mrs. Hoover, Mrs.
Calvin Coolidge and Rexford G. Tug
well frequently brought forth com
ments which indicated the Nation is
in the final week of a presidential
campaign, and two flower lovers un
wittingly blocked the narrow aisle for
several minutes while they discussed
the relative merits of several pre-elec
tion polls.
In the center bed of the greenhouse
are 1,200 plants of the large-flowered
Japanese varieties in white, many
shades of yellow, gold, bronze, lavender,
pink and deep red. Most of these pro
duce only one flower to a plant. Some
are all of one color and others have
petals with contrasting colors on
either side.
The names of the varieties differed
widely. Secretaries of Agriculture
Jardine and Hyde were to be seen in
the larger varieties. The Mary Pick
ford was the only one named after a
movie star, the Eva Le Gallienne rep
resented the stage, and Maj. Edward
Bowes, a lavender flower, the radio.
Not far from the Gen. Pershing was a
Pvt. James Gresham, one of three
types named for the first men of the
NEW S/fETY ZONES
Utilities Commission 0. K.’s
Design—Now Up to
City Heads.
The Public Utilities Commission
has approved the stream-lined safety
zones established by Traffic Director
William A. Van Duzer, with the stipu
lation that the ends be separated
from the body of the zones to indi
cate that pedestrians should not stand
In the detached triangles.
After a legal study of the possible
effect of the change in the form
of the street car loading zones on
damage actions against the District,
the commission gave its answer late
yesterday. The plan now goes to
the District Commissioners for ac
tiofi, since the plan has been found
to require approval of the joint board,
consisting of the city heads and the
utilities body.
The new style zones have been
painted along Seventh street in the
downtown area and all along Wiscon
sin avenue from the District line to
M street. The reshaping of the zones
is regared as an experiment. The
idea was developed from stream-lined
zones used in Milwaukee.
The theory is that the extra length
of the zones, ending in a point, will
tend to cause motorists to swing to
the right and avoid running through
the safety areas. The commission in
sisted the triangular ends be sepa
rately marked and not attached to
the zone proper, as an indication to
the pedestria he cannot count on
protection there.
A. E. P. killed in the World War. The
States of Iowa, New Jersey and Ver
mont were represented by one bloom
each. The practice of naming species
after individuals has been discontinued
by the Department of Agriculture,
however, and those introduced this
year included such names as Delec
table, Crinoline and Mulberry.
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Mrs. Wallace Opens “Mum” Show
Among distinguished guests at pre-view to the annual chrysanthemum show were, left to
right: Mme. Munthe de Morgenstierne, wife of the Norwegian Minister; Mme. Peter, wife of the
Swiss Minister; Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, wife of the Secretary of Agriculture; Mme. Peer, wife of the
counselor of the Swiss Legation, and her friend, Mrs. John Murray Easton. —Star Staff Photo.
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SCHOOL DECISION
MAY BE DELAYED
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Status of Non-Resident Pu
pils Due to Receive
Further Study.
Lois Kemp probably will not know
until next Wednesday whether she
can enroll In Gordon Junior High
School, although Corporation Coun
sel Elwood H. Seal already has recom
mended that she be allowed to enter
classes there until January 31, or
until the appeal of her father's suit
can be decided by the District Court
of Appeals.
School authorities. meanwhile,
awaited receipt of the Seal recom
mendation from the District Com
missioners, to whom it was submitted
yesterday.
Seal suggested that the 11-year-old
Clarendon, Va., girl and any other
non-residents whose fathers are em
ployed in Washington be permitted
to enroll with the understanding that
their status can be reconsidered at
the end of the present term of school
January 31. Through Robert E.
Lynch, counsel for Lois’ father, John
S. Kemp, it was announced that the
condition is acceptable.
It was expected that members of
the Board of Education would be
polled today and tomorrow to deter
mine whether they will agree to the
Seal suggestions, but under rules of
the board if a single member declines
to vote, the subject will have to be
presented at a regular meeting of the
board.
It is known there Is a division of
opinion among board members as to
the meaning of the law governing the
admission of non-resident pupUs In
the public schools, but the members
have not expressed themselves on the
corporation counsel's suggestions since
Justice Jennings Bailey ruled that
the Kemp girl cannot be barred.
The proposed poll will be made by
Charles B. Degges, secretary, but It
was not expected to be undertaken
until after Dr. Prank W. Ballou, su
perintendent, can confer with Mrs.
Marion Wade Doyle, president of the
board.
Meanwhile, Lois Kemp is continu
ing her studies under a private tutor
within a few blocks of the school she
hopes to enter.
ENLISTED MEN IN NAVY
HELD OF HIGH CALIBER
Need for Competent Officers Cited
in Talk by Capt. Archer
M. R. Allen.
The present high caliber of enlisted
men in the Navy requires an even
more competent type of naval officer,
Capt. Archer M. K. Allen, on duty in
the Office of Naval Operations, told a
luncheon meeting of the Junior Board
of Commerce, yesterday at the Lee
House.
President Albert E. Conradis, who
presided, explained that the gathering
was in honor of Navy day and was
one of numerous similar luncheons
held throughout the Nation, under
the sponsors hip of the Committee on
National Defense, of which Humphrey
Daniel of this city Is a member.
Surveying changes that have taken
place In the Navy in a generation,
Capt. Allen pointed out the principles
on which the Naval Academy Is oper
ated in order to Insure competent offi
cers. Naval enlisted men these days
are high school graduates and many
of them hold college diplomas, Capt.
Allen declared.
Fred B. Linton, chosen recently to
become executive secretary of the
board, was introduced by President
Conradis. He takes the place of Wil
liam H. Press, who has become assist
ant to the executive secretary of the
Washington Board of Trade.
ffi PER CENT GAIN
IN D. C. WHOLESALE
BUSINESS NOTED
Census Bureau Figures
Show Upturn Has Passed
1929 Mark.
BIG GAIN IN PAY ROLLS
AND EMPLOYES CITED
Data Supplement! Increase De
cently Deported in Detail
Trade—Wages Higher.
Statistics indicative of booming
business in Washington were made
public by the Census Bureau today
with a report that wholesale sales here
gained 66 per cent in the two years
after 1933 and outdistanced the figures
of 1929. This commercial index is
generally held a sound key to the
presence or absence of prosperity.
In 1935, Census Bureau Director
William L. Austin said, there were 621
wholesale establishments with net
sales during the year of $239,423,000,
while in 1933 there were 568 establish
ments with sales of $144,119,000.
"Net sales exceeded the 1929 peak
by 7 per cent," Austin said. “Both of
the percentage changes in net sales
are affected by variations in price
levels between the census years, which
are not taken into consideration in
this release, but which will be evalu
ated in the final report.”
This statement follows by two
weeks a report that retail sales were
mounting in the Capital. The census
is part of the business census project,
which includes also surveys of service
businesses, amusement enterprises,
hotels, broadcasting stations and net
works, contract construction, truck
and bus transportation, warehousing,
advertising agencies and the insurance
Hnciruacc
The average number of wholesale
enterprise employes here increased
from 6.886 in 1933 to 8,175 in 1935, a
gain of 19 per cent, while for the
same period pay roll increased 36 per
cent, from $10,042,000 to $13,628,000,
reflecting a substantial increase in the
average annual earnings per employe.
The increase in pay roll amounted to
71 per cent of the increase in operat
ing costs.
In addition, the report shows 327
active proprietors and Arm member#
of unincorporated businesses who are
not included In the count of employes,
nor is their compensation included in
pay roll figures.
Figures of Periods.
A recapitulation of the report show#
these figures for the years 1935, 1933
and 1929:
Establishment*—1935, 621; 1933,
568; 1929, 492.
Net sales—1935. $239,423,000: 193%
$144,119,000; 1929, $223,401,000.
Expenses—1935, $23,499,000; 193%
$18,434,000; 1929. $23,583,000.
Employes—1935, 8,173; 1933, 6,886;
1929, 6,756.
Active proprietors—1935, 327; 1933,
334; 1929, 267.
Pay Boll Figures.
Total pay roll—1935, $13,628,000;
1933, $10,042,000; 1929, $12,666,000.
Full-time pay roll—1935, $13,450,000;
1933, $9,956,000; 1929, no figures.
Part-time pay roll—1935, $178,000;
1933, $86,000; 1929, no figures.
Chain store warehouses are not in
cluded in these figures.
Each group but one of the six
major types of wholesalers listed in the
report shows an increase in net sales
for 1935 over 1933. Bulk tank sta
tions furnish the exception. Full serv
ice and limited-function wholesalers,
manufacturers' sales branches, agents
and brokers and assemblers are up
more than 50 per cent.
New York Woman Killed.
GOSHEN. Ind., October 30 OP).—
Mrs. Florence T. Wildes of 277 Park
avenue, New York, was injured fa
tally near here yesterday when an
automobile driven by her husband,
Walter K. Wildes, was struck by an
other car operated by Horace Batt,
71, of Indianapolis.
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Plot to Prevent
Cat Show Is Laid
To Group in Club
“Wicked Conspiracy**
Among Fanciers Is
Charged in Suit.
A ‘‘wicked conspiracy” exists In the
ranks of the Columbian Cat Fanciers
to prevent a scheduled cat show being
held December 6, the organization
charged in District Court today in a
suit against 10 of the organization's
members. An injunction and an ac
counting were asked.
Through Attorney Herbert S. Ward,
the cat fancier group charged the 10
defendants entered into a conspiracy
to destroy any possibility of staging
the show. They met secretly, it was
asserted, and elected officers who now
purport to act for the club. In ad
dition, Miss Mabel E. Hitchcock, 1761
Massachusetts avenue, the secretary,
had hidden the club’s 200 cat cages
which were to be used in the show,
the court was told.
The club also charged that the
opposition group has caused its ac
count at the Riggs National Bank to
be impounded.
Justice Joseph W. Oox ordered the
defendants to show cause November
5 why they should not be required to
surrender the cat cages and other
property to the old officers, release
the club funds and refrain from in
terfering with the proposed cat show.
Named as defendants were Ira
Chase Koehne, Mrs. Ira Chase
Koehne and Helen Koehne, all of
Silver 8pring, Md.; Annette H. Mc
Carthy, Kennedy - Warren Apart
ments; Mrs. Edward Martin. Lee
House; Elizabeth Walsh, 3646 Warder
street; Miss Hitchcock, Maud Hobson,
1505 Gallatin street; Ann Hacker
Wilkes. Woodley Towers Apartments,
and Frances Marshall, Kennedy
Warren Apartments.
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