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WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1937. *** PAGE bZi^
IN TRAFFIC CASES
.15
Time for Defendants and
Witnesses Determined by
Arrest Precinct.
CUT IN LOST TIME
HELD MAJOR BENEFIT
Other Subjects Considered in 2
Hour Conference Not Revealed
by Judge McMahon.
A staggered system of hours for the
trial of traffic cases in Police Court
was agreed on at a conference yes
terday among the four judges and
representatives of the corporation
counsel’s office and the Police Depart
ment. The plan will be put into effect
February 15.
Under the new system, which will
be amended to meet any conditions
which may arise, defendants, wit
nesses and police will appear in Traffic
Court in the following order:
For precincts 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7, at
9:30 a.m.; Traffic Bureau and pre
cincts 3, 9 and 10 at 10:30 a.m., and
precincts 6, 8, 11 and 12 at 11:30 a.m.
Cuts Waste In Time.
The plan was first advocated by
Judge Edward M. Curran and meets
with the approval of all interested
because it will accomplish a number
of things. One of the greatest bene
fits seen is in relieving the early morn
ing congestion. Under the present
system all persons must report at
9:30 a.m.
Further benefits seen is the more
systematic manner in which the court
can be conducted, the elimination of
many hours lost daily by business and
professional defendants and witnesses,
and the elimination of much time lost
by policemen in court.
Hold Two-Hour Conference.
Presiding Judge John P. McMahon
announced the result of the meeting.
Which consumed more than two hours.
Present, in addition to the judges,
were Corporation Counsel Elwood Seal,
his chief Police Court assistant. Rice
Hooe; Maj. Ernest W. Brown, police
auperintendent, and Inspectors B. A.
Lamb and L. I. H. Edwards of the
Police Department.
Judge McMahon refused to divulge
the nature of other matters discussed,
although it was known some impor
tant questions are awaitaing their
action.
HIGH SCHOOL CONCERTS
WILL START TOMORROW
National Symphony Orchestra to
Begin Second Group
of Recitals.
The National Symphony Orchestra,
under direction of Hans Kindler. will
begin its second group of concerts in
the Washington high schools this
week, it was announced today.
The orchestra will play at Central
High School tomorrow, Eastern High
Friday and Western High Febuary 16.
The first students’ concerts were
given two weeks ago and attracted
students not only from public, private
and parochial schools here, but also
from Maryland and Virginia communi
ties.
Starting at 3:30 p.m., this group of
concerts will emphasize music of the
Latin countries and will be featured
by a Spanish dance by Lisa Gardiner.
BENEFIT SUPPER SET
Program of Music to Follow An
nual Shrove Tuesday Event.
The annual Shrove Tuesday pan
cake supper will be held tonight in
the parish house of the Church of
the Epiphany, 1317 G street, from
6:30 to 7 o’clock under the auspices
of the Epiphany branch of the Girls’
Friendly Society for the benefit of
Its diocesan and national obligations.
Adolf Torovsky, organist and choir
master of the Church of the Epiphany,
aided by soloists, will present an hour
of music for the combined benefit of
the Z. B. Phillips Hospital Founda
tion fund and the Girls’ Friendly So
clty at 8 p.m. at the church.
RETREAT LEAGUE MEETS
Gathering Tonight Precedes Eve
ning of Recollection Thursday.
The Washington Retreat League
Will meet at 8:15 o’clock tonight at
the Washington Retreat House, 4000
Harewood road northeast.
Dr. Lawrence J. Shehan, assistant
director of Catholic charities of the
District, will act as retreat master at
an evening recollection Thursday at
< p.m.
f BAND CONCERTS.
By the Soldiers’ Home Band in
Stanley Hall at 5:30 p.m. today. John
8. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; An
ton Polntner, assistant.
Program.
March, “Loraine”_Ganne
Overture, “The Men of Prometheus,"
Beethoven
Suite characteristic, “Norwegian
Scenes” _Matt
(a) “A View of the Mountains.”
(b) “A Peasant Dance.”
(c) “The Sleigh Ride.”
Excerpts from the musical comedy
“The Only Girl”.Herbert
Two Mexican numbers (a) “I*
Paloma” (requested) _Yradier
b) “Manolas y Manolas”_Steger
Medley waltz, “Old Timers”_Lake
Mnale, “Go Get ’Em".Holzmann
“The Star Spangled Banner.”
By the Navy Band Symphony Or
chestra in the Sail Loft at the Navy
Yard at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow. Lieut.
Charles Benter, conductor; Alexander
Morris, assistant.
Program.
“Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Flame,"
Richard Wagner
(Prom “Die Walkure”)
“Scherso No. 1," Op. 82.—Cesar Cul
Valse, “Roses Worn the South,” Op.
388 ...Johann Strauss
“The Star Spangled Banner."
Mystery Qem Answers Plea
Anonymous Donor Sends Diamond by
Regular Mail to Swell Flood Fund.
THIS OIAMOND WAS SENT TO
BY AN unknown donor
TO AID FLOOD SUFFERERS
It h Far Sale Here
‘THE MONEY Writ SE TURNED OVER
TO THE RED CROSS
The diamond mysteriously sent to The Star to aid flood
sufferers is shown on display in the window of Galt & Bro., 607
thirteenth street. —Star Staff Photo.
NESTLING on a satin pillow In
the window of a Washington
jewelry store today is a 1.22
carat blue diamond, a mys
tery gem sent by an unknown donor
in Charles Town, W. Va., to aid the
Red Cross in its flood relief work.
The stone, valued by Galt & Bro.,
jewelers, at 607 Thirteenth street, at
from $700 to $750, came to The Eve
ning Star In an unregistered en
velope and accompanied an unsigned
note in a feeble hand, which said:
“I haven’t the money I would like
to have to give to the Red Cross for
flood relief.
"For the inclosed stone get what
money you can and give to the Red
Cross. Thank you for helping me in
this way.”
Galt agreed to display the diamond
and sell it without commission. The
gem itself was in a second envelope
attached by a paper clip to the letter,
and scrawled across this second en
velope was the request:
"Get what you can for the inclosed
stone and give it to the Red Cross.”
The handwriting appeared to be
that of an elderly person. The sta
tionery was of good quality.
D. C. GAMING BILL
TO BE CONSIDERED
Measure on Qualifications of
Lawyers Also Due for
Early Senate Action.
The bill to strengthen the gambling
laws of the District and the measure
to define the qualifications of lawyers
here, both of which were held up
temporarily in the Senate yesterday,
will be called up again within a few
days, Chairman King of the District
Committee said today. Prospects are
bright for approval of both measures
at that time.
The gambling measure, which Is
aimed primarily at the numbers game,
passed early yesterday, but had to be
reconsidered a short while later be
cause it went through while the Sen
ate was under an apparent misappre
hension that it was acting on a dif
ferent bill for a general recodification
of the entire District code.
Titles of Bills Similar.
The misunderstanding is believed to
have resulted from the similarity in
the titles of the two bills. The dis
cussion which preceded passage of the
gambling bill related to the recodiflca
tion measure, which is still in com
mittee, rather than to the gambling
restrictions, to which the pending
measure was confined.
When the misapprehension was dis
covered it was decided to reconsider
the bill’s passage and take it up again
the next time the calendar 1s called.
All indications are the Senate will
approve the gambling bill and send
it to the House the next time it comes
up. A similar measure was passed
unanimously in the Senate two years
ago, in the early days of the Seventy
fourth Congress, but failed of action in
the House. Since this is a new Con
gress, it had to be reintroduced in the
Senate this year.
Early Consideration likely.
Meanwhile, Senator King said the
District Committee will give early
consideration to the other bill for a
general recodification of District laws.
The bill to .define the qualifications
of general practitioners of law was
postponed yesterday at the request
of Senator Gibson, Republican, of
Vermont, who said he thought it
should be given careful consideration.
Later Senator King said he expected
the bill to pass the next time it is
considered.
Association to Elect.
The Connecticut Avenue Associa
tion will meet at the Mayflower Ho
tel tonight at 8:30 o’clock for election
of officers and the reading of annual
reports.
CAPITOL CHANGE
HEAIK TO END
Chairman Connally Says
Committee Hopes to Con
clude on Thursday.
After hearing further testimony for
and against the proposed extension of
the east front of the Capitol, Chair
man Connally of the Senate Public
Buildings and Grounds Committee an
nounced today the committee would
try to conclude the hearings at 10:30
a m. Thursday.
Those who appeared In support of
the bill today were Edgerton Swartout
of New York, a former member of the
Pine Arts Commission; Nathan Wyeth,
municipal architect of the District;
Harry F. Cunningham, a local archi
tect, and H. P. Caemmerer, secretary
of the Pine Arts Commission.
Opposition to remodeling and ex
tending the east front of the old orig
inal section of the building was led by
Leicester B. Holland, architect, whose
views were shared by E. W. Donn, jr„
also an architect. Dr. T. S. Palmer,
who appeared as a citizen and tax
payer, made a plea for preservation of
the historic old original section of the
structure.
Three reasons have been advanced
for many years by supporters of the
measure, namely: That there Is an
architectural defect, which gives the
dome the appearance of overhanging
the portico on the east front; that
the sandstone of the old central sec
tion should be refaced with marble
to match the wings, and, third, that
the extension would give the House
and Senate additional office space.
Holland contended that in con
sidering a project of this kind, possi
ble losses should be considered as
carefully as possible gains, and that
in his opinion the losses from chang
ing the east front would outweigh
possible gains. These losses, he said,
would be both aesthetic and histori
cal.
Holland is chairman of the Com
mittee on Preservation of Historical
Buildings of the American Institute
of Architects. In response to ques
tions by Chairman Connally, how
ever, he said the institute has not
taken action on the proposed exten
sion of the Capitol.
Swartout testified that even if the
eastern portico did support the dome,
the whole central feature of the orig
inal section of the building is not
big enough to match the wings, which
were built later.
Wyeth declared that if the old,
original portion of the building still
stood alone, he would hesitate to sug
gest its alteration, because it was a
“beautiful composition,” but with the
wings added and other changes sub
sequently made, the proposed adjust
ment of the east front is desirable.
Roosevelt Pleased by Naming
As 20th Century Beau Brummel
President Roosevelt was quoted to
day as being very much pleased to
learn the Merchant Tailors Design
ers' Association had put him at the
top of a list of “Twentieth Century
Beau Brummels."
In response to questions at her
press conference this morning, Mrs.
Roosevelt said her husband was quite
pleased with his new distinction.
Mrs. Roosevelt was asked:
“Does the President give much
time to the selection of his clothes?"
She replied that her husband was
able to devote very little time to
choosing clothes, but added that he
seemed very much interested once he
concentrated on the task.
The designers, in convention at the
Washington Hotel, explained that Mr.
Roosevelt topped the list of best
dressed men because he is "the only
President in the last 20 years who
could be intelligently termed a well*
dressed man, and the only one in
years whose formal clothes have not
looked motheaten.
“He is conservative but always cor
rect. On the other hand, be baa
originated several vogues, notably the
cutaway made entirely of one fabric,
whih he wore at his second inaugura
tion. He is always perfectly dresed
for the occasion.”
Fred Astaire, the designers said, Is
"responsible for convincing the Amer
ican man that a tailcoat is not
comic or sissifled, but a correct and
good-looking garment.”
The designers describe Lucius Beebe,
New York newspaper columnist, as
"the greatest dandy of his time, a
perfectionist in dress.”
Others on the list were William
Paley, president of the Columbia
Broadcasting System; Charles F.
Olore, Chicago broker; Enzo Fier
monte, prize fighter; Frank Chap
man, jr., opera singer; Angler Duke
Biddle, society man; Peter Arno,
comic artist; Senators Lodge of Mas
sachusetts and Tydlngs of Maryland
and Ben Sobol, oil magnate.
The convention of designers will
be in session here through Friday,
with I. H. Milbouer, president, presid
ing. The convention will determine,
among other things, the trends in
men's fashions for the Spring season.
CAPPER PLEDGES
SUPPORT TO FIGHT
ON D.C. RACE BILL
Reiterates Belief in Votes
for Local Citizens at
Monday Evening Club.
PRETTYMAN OUTLINES
CAPITAL’S CHIEF NEEDS
Calls for Revision of Code and
Building Program With
“Equitable Financing.”
Senator Capper. Republican, of Kan
sas, ranking minority member of the
Senate District Committee, last night
pledged his support to any move de
signed to defeat the Norton bill to
legalize horse racing in the District,
and reiterated his belief that residents
of the Nation's Capital should be given
national representation and the right
to vote.
The Kansan expressed his views on
the District and its needs before a
distinguished gathering at the Monday
Evening Club's forty-first anniversary
celebration" at the Wardman Park Ho
tel. In aligning himself with other
opponents of the racing measure, Cap
per said:
"I don’t want to see a gambling in
stitution of that kind in Washington,
and I’ll do everything in my power to
keep it out.”
While he believes Washington Is
‘‘the best-governed city of Its size in
the country," Capper declared its citi
zens should have the same privileges
every other citizen of the United
States enjoys—the right to vote and
representation in Congress.
-Needs" of City Outlined.
E. Barrett Prettyman, former cor
poration counsel and president of the
club, suggested as the principal needs
of Washington:
First, a clarification on the part of
Congress and the executive branch of
the basic concept of the District of
! Columbia, whether it should be con
sidered an ordinary municipality or
as Federal territory, on the site of
which the Federal Government is op
erated.
Second, a revision and ‘‘moderniza
tion” of the entire District code.
Third, a comprehensive building
program with proper and equitable
financing.
Fourth, a realignment of the execu
| tive branch of the District govem
! ment, extending greater powers to the
| Commissioners.
| Senator Capper, In touching on
what he described as urgent needs,
1 said the District Jail, the reforma
: tory at Lorton, Va.; police headquar
' ters and other institutions should be
I replaced or improved. He said he
! wants to help the District "in every
way I can,” and added he hopes to
remain on the District Committee as
long as he is In Congress.
Greeted With Applause.
The Kansan was greeted with ap
plause when he arose to speak. Smil
ing. he said:
"That’s music to my ears. You
know we Republicans don’t hear that
very much on the Hill any more.’’
Representative Quinn, Democrat, of
Pennsylvania, who is a member of
the House District Committee, told
the gathering there was one thing
Washington did not need—civic pride.
“I’ve never seen a city where there’s
so much zeal and thoroughness on
the part of the citizens to improve
their surroundings.” he said. "You’re
to be congratulated.”
Quinn expressed hope Washington
would some day be self-governing and
suggested that the residents flood the
House and Senate with propaganda
to acquaint the legislators—"every
one. not just your committee mem
bers”—with the city’s problems.
High Death Rate Cited.
The Representative, while admitting
the District needs many improve
ments, declared the greatest need is
for better health conditions. He said
he could not understand why Wash
ington’s death rate is higher than
that of Pittsburgh, an industrial city.
Corporation Counsel Elwood Seal
spoke briefly and advocated giving the
Commissioners broader powers with
which to govern the city. He said It
is necessary to go to Congress “even
if it’s just a matter of laying a pipe
line across a street."
Senator King, Democrat, of Utah,
chairman of the Senate District Com
mittee, who was to have addressed the
club, was unable to attend because of
a prolonged session of the Senate.
Among the guests were Maj. Daniel
J. Donovan, District auditor and bud
get officer; Health Office George H.
•Ruhland, Public Welfare Director El
wood Street, Mrs. Elizabeth K. Pee
ples and Dr. George F. Bowerman.
Ray H. Everett, former president of
the club, was toastmaster.
SHOT WOUND FATAL
TO E. P. SCHNEIDER
Business Man Killed Self on Eve
of Treatment for Nervous
Disorder.
Ernest P. Schneider, secretary-treas
urer of the Ballauf Manufacturing Co.,
who shot himself yesterday in the
basement of his home as preparations
were being made to send him away
for treatment of a nervous disorder,
died last night in Emergency Hos
pital. Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald Issued a certificate of suicide.
According to police, Schneider, who
was 38, snatched a .32-caliber revolver
from an upstairs dresser drawer as
he'saw his physician, a nerve spe
cialist, approaching the house. He
ran to the basement and fired one
shot into his temple before members
of the family could intervene. He
died a few hours later.
Schneider, who lived at U20 Park
wood place, had been under a physi
cian's care since he suffered a ner
vous breakdown in December, police
said. Members of the family said he
was to be taken to Florida for a rest
cure.
STREET PROGRAM
PROPOSED. COST
SEENM000
Details of Estimates on
Extensive Improvements
Disclosed.
UNDERPASSES ASKED
AT TWO OF CIRCLES
Five-Year Plan of Widening
Main Arteries Involves Esti*
mated $3,741,300.
Street widening, underpasses and a
long list of other changes designed to
expedite traffic, suggested last May by
a special subcommittee of the House
District Committee, would cost the Dis
trict upward of *10,000,000, according
to estimates made today by Highway
Director Herbert C. Whitehurst.
Details of his estimates, submitted
two weeks ago to Engineer Commis
sioner Dan I. Sultan, were released as
the Commissioners prepared to study
the suggested program. A report is to
be submitted to the House District
Committee.
Among the important specific Items
suggested in the program outlined by
the House subcommittee, which was
headed by Representative Carpenter,
are the construction of a street-car
underpass for Dupont Circle and the
revamping of both Thomas and Scott
Circles.
A proposal by Capt. Whitehurst and
other District engineers for routing
Fourteenth street car tracks through
Thomas Circle provoked a storm of
protest several years ago. The mem
bers of the Public Utilities Commis
sion voiced doubt as to advantages
which might flow from an underpass
for Dupont Circle. They said last
Summer and repeated today they
feared bottle-necks for vehicular traf
fic would be created at both ends of
the subway for the cricle.
Cost Estimates.
The estimates for the extensive pro
gram suggested by the House sub
committee are broken down by Capt.
Whitehurst as follows:
A five-year program of street widen
ing, *3,741,300, or about *740,000 a
year, which is nearly three times the
-■urn the District has been spending
for street widening each year.
For revamping Thomas Circle, *60,
000, and for revamping Scott Circle,
$86,000.
Five-year bridge construction and
replacement program, *3,500.000. or a
program of *700,000 for each of five
years: construction of an underpass
for Dupont Circle, *285,000. If an un
derpass were substituted for other re
vamping plans for Thomas Circle the
cost was placed at *300,000.
Widening of the underpass in Rock
Creek Valley under the Massachusetts
avenue viaduct. *350,000, and the value
of this Capt. Whitehurst doubts. He
said an alternative plan would cost an
estimated *100,000.
Pedestrian Tunnels.
Construction of pedestrian tunnels
at Fifteenth street and New York ave
nue was estimated to cost *42.000:
Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue, *31,000, and Twelfth street
and Pennsylvania avenue, *36.000.
Construction of safety islands at va
rious locations would cost *50,000 a
year for several years.
Construction of overpasses at Thir
teenth street and Florida avenue and
at New York and Florida avenues
northeast showed estimates of *175.000
and *150,000. respectively. Capt.
Whitehurst questions the value of
either one.
The highway director submitted al
ternative estimates for the proposed
construction of a traffic artery as a
by-pass for Georgetown. He esti
mated the cost of building a low-level
highway on the bed of the old Chesa
peake & Ohio Canal, from K street
to Foxhall road, with ramps con
necting with Key Bridge, at *925,000.
Capt. Whitehurst figured the cost of
building a high-level traffic way along
K street, serving the same purpose,
at *1,430,000. The proposal for the
Georgetown by-pass originated more
than a year ago with District en
gineers. Capt. Whitehurst said that
although the canal route showed a
smaller construction C06t, to this would
have to be added the cost of the right
of way, estimates for which have
varied widely. H' favored the high
level roadway over K street.
Bridge Over Anacostia.
One of the largest of the bridge
items included in the suggested six
year program would be a new span
across the Anacostia River on the
line of South Capitol street, the total
cost of which is estimated at *1,750,
000. This would be scheduled for
development in the fiscal years 1942
and 1943.
There are 23 street-widening proj
ects included in the suggested five
year program. Estimates for nine
projects, suggested for the first year
of the program, are as follows:
Twenty-second street, from Massa
chusetts to Pennsylvania avenues,
*149,500: New York avenue, Four
teenth to Fifteenth streets, north
side, *15,000; Independence avenue,
Second street southeast to Maryland
avenue southwest, *175,000; Eleventh
street, Massachusetts to Florida ave
nues, *286,000; Twelfth street, New
York and Florida avenues, *233,500;
Sixth street, Pennsylvania to Florida
avenues, *357,500; E street; Nine
teenth street to Virginia avenue, $49,
400; Twelfth street, Constitution to
Independence avenues southwest, *84,
500, and K street, Ninth street to
Connecticut avenue, *160,000.
LIGHT ORDER CHANGED
The Capital Transit Co. was given
until March «1 by the Public Utilities
Commission yesterday to equip street
cars on certain of its suburban lines
with Golden Glow headlights.
The effective date had been fixed
for February 15, but was set back
due to delays in delivery of these
lights.
The new headlights, designed for
dimly lighted areas, will be Installed
on street cars operated on the Poto
mac Heights-Oabin John line west of
Thirty-sixth street and the Columbia
line east of Banning road.
Hearings Start on Supply Bill
District officials were the first to testify as the House Appro
priations Subcommittee opened hearings today on the 1938 Dis
trict budget supply bill.
Seated (left to right) are Chairman Ross Collins and Repre
sentative Caldwell of Florida, while standing (also left to right)
are Commissioners George E. Allen, Dan I. Sultan and Melvin C.
Hazen. —star Staff Photo.
Last Employe of JV. R. A. Due
To Finish Report This Month
Job to End With Final
Word in History
of Bureau.
Last of an army of 5,300 employes
of the National Recovery Adminis
tration, Miss Diana Rogovin, now is
completing the final report of one of
the great experiments in govern
mental history, with the knowledge
that the writing of the last word will
bring to a termination both her own
job and the N. R. A. This, she esti
mates, will be about the end of this
month.
What will she do after she receives
the last N. R. A. pay check In history,
she does not know.
“I have been so busy on the report
I have not had time to give very
much thought to what is going to
happen afterward,” she said. "I al
ways have made a policy of doing one
job at a time, and I'm not going to
worry about another job until this
one is finished.”
Why she was chosen to be the last
survivor of the onoe powerful N. R. A.
is something Miss Rogovin often puz
zles over. She has watched the great
staff dwindle about her until, of all
the organization, which once num
bered among its personnel, some of the
country’s most noted business leaders,
she alone was left.
Keen eyed, soft spoken and girl
ishly youthful despite her prema
turely gray hair. Miss Rogovin now
occupies a desk in the office of Clyde
R. Chambers, chief of the division of
industrial economics. Commerce De
partment, while finishing the report
which will put a period to the history
of N. R. A. Her hair, according to
her friends, began turning gray when
she was a schoolgirl—N. R. A. did
not do that to her.
Joined Staff in 1933.
Of herself Miss Rogovin speaks very
little if at all. She joined the N. R.
A. staff in September. 1933, a little
more than two months after organ
ization of the administration began
under the leadership of Gen. Hugh
R. Johnson.
She 1s a native of Jersey City, Miss
Rogovin stated, when pressed for a per
sonal history. There she received her
primary education and went through
high school. She went to Hunter
College, New York, and later took a
playground teacher’s course at Ashe
ville, N. C. She went back to New
York to take a private course in
languages and then went into the
business world, first as an account
ant and bookkeeper. For six years
she was secretary to a theatrical book
ing agency in New York.
Returning to Asheville, Miss Ro
govin worked as an office manager
and. in the Summer, as a playground
teacher.
She came from North Carolina to
Washington to enter the N. R. A.,
first as secretary and assistant to
H. O. King, deputy administrator and
later division administrator. Miss Ro
govin assisted in drafting of the N.
R. A. code for the copper industry.
Secretary to Harriman.
So successful was she in this im
portant task that she was chosen to
become secretary to W. Averell Har
riman, N. R. A. administrative officer.
When the Division of Review of the
N. R. A. was created in June, 1935,
Miss Rogovin went to the new divi
sion as assistant to the director, Dr.
Leon C. Marshall, and also as liaison
officer between Dr. Marshall and the
consultant staff.
By this time the Supreme Court had
ruled against the recovery act, and
Wife Left Messages on Wall,
Divorce Plaintiff Tells Court
Asserting that his wife wrote mes
sages to him on the bath room walls
and once smeared his new overcoat
with molasses,. Oscar R. Evans, elec
trical fixtures dealer, filed suit in Dis
trict Court late yesterday for limited
divorce from Mrs. Grace W. Evans,
2323 Fortieth street.
Through Attorney Edwin C. Dutton
Evans told the court that before the
depression he had a prosperous busi
ness yielding him as much as $25,000
annually, and that he gave his wife
a personal allowance of $50 a week.
With the business slump, however, he
was forced gradually to cut down the
allowance and modify their scale of
living, be asserted.
But Mrs. Evans “would not be reo
onciled to the changed conditions and
continually hounded him for money
which he did not have,” the suit
stated.
As a result there was a rift be
tween them, he set forth, and now the
wife prefers “to live alone, locked in
her own room, when at home, and the
plaintiff seldom sees her, although
she writes notes and leaves messages
written on the walls of the bath room
and elsewhere about the apartment,”
the suit continued.
Last Fall, the court was informed,
Evans had a new overcoat and "as he
was leaving in the morning, defendant
came out of her room and smeared
him with molasses.”
He asked the court to enjoin his
wife from molesting him.
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! MISS DIANA ROGOVIN.
Star Staff Photo.
the N. R. A. was on the way out.
The division of review expired in
March last, and Miss Rogovin was
transferred to the Division of Indus
trial Economics, which was set up
under executive order from the White
House in conjunction with the Com
mittee of Industrial Analysis.
To the committee was intrusted the
task of making a final study of the
whole N. R. A. history and its effects
on Americain life and business. The
committee and the division, both sep
arate from N. R. A., were housed in
the Commerce Department. One by
one the N. R. A. pay roll was whit
tled down until finally only Miss Ro
govin was left.
It was her task to work with the
committee until its work was com
pleted and the whole story of N. R. A.
had been written ffor future genera
tions.
While Miss Rogovin herself will voice
no opinion as to why she should have
been selected to remain after all other
N. R. A. workers had been discharged,
her friends say it is a tribute to her
intelligence and uhflagging zeal.
KARL W. CORBY LEAVES
WIFE ENTIRE ESTATE
Will Filed in District Court.
No Petition for Probate
Is Made.
Karl W. Corby, partner in the brok
erage business of W. B. Hibbs & Co.,
who died last Thursday, left his entire
estate to his wife, Mrs. Mary G. Corby,
according to the will, which was filed
in District Court today.
No petition for probate, which cus
tomarily contains an estimate of the
value of the estate, accompanied the
will.
Executed May 11, 1921, the will was
on the printed form provided by the
Scottish Rite, of which Mr. Corby was
a member. The document was filed
by C. E. Christopher, secretary of the
Masonic organization.
Mrs. Corby and Mr. Corby’s father,
C. I. Corby, were named in the will as
executors.
Escorial Work Delayed.
The building of Madrid’s famous
Escorial in the sixteenth century was
disturbed by strikes of the workmen
for more pay and more wine.
DISTRICT’S FISCAL
PLIGHT IS LAID
BEFOREHEARING
Donovan Tells House Group
City Is Confronted With
$10,000,000 Deficit.
OPPOSES ADOPTION
OF JACOBS PROPOSAL
Presents 27-Page Financial State
ment, Contents of Which
Is Kept Secret.
The financial plight of the District
in the coming fiscal year was pictured
to a House Subcommittee on Appro
priations as it started hearings to
day on the proposed $47,500,000 budget
for the 1938 fiscal year.
Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor
and budget officer, read a 27-page
financial statement which showed the
subcommittee that the District is con
fronted with a deficit of nearly $10.
000,000 in the next fiscal year if the
proposed budget is approved together
with the Jacobs three-point plan for
settling the perennial controversy over
the fiscal relationship between the
Federal and District governments.
The entire first session, which lasted
from 10 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., was de
voted to a discussion of the District's
financial situation. The three Com
missioners—Melvin C. Hazen, George
E. Allen and Col. Dan I. Sultan—as
well as Fred D. Allen, tax assessor,
joined Maj. Donovan In stressing pro
spective acute condition of finances.
Representative Collins, Democrat, of
Mississippi, the subcommittee chair
man, declined to make Maj. Donovan's
financial statement public or to dis
cuss any of its details. The District
officials, as usual, were pledged to
secrecy.
Early this afternoon the subcommit
tee resumed the hearing and actually
began consideration of the budget de
tails. The first witness was Col. John
W. Oehmann. building inspector, wrho
was called to defend the estimates of
his department.
JACOBS REPORT HIT
BY CITIZENS’ GROUP
Federal Contribution Toward Up
keep of Capital Is Termed
“Too Meager.”
The Jacobs fiscal relations report
was denounced last night in a resolu
tion adopted by the Stanton Parle
Citizens’ Association at its meeting
at Peabody School.
Curtis E. Chadwick, who introduced
the motion, cited the ‘‘too meager”
contribution of the Federal Govern
ment toward upkeep of the Nation's
Capital. The resolution declared the
Federal contribution covered only 40
per cent of the money that ordinarily
would be derived in taxes.
In another resolution adopted Chad
wick complained of the street car
service in the Stanton Park area and
asked that "more through cars" be
placed on the line running from Thir
teenth and D streets northeast to
the Mount Pleasant section.
Police were asked to enforce the
regulation prohibiting “heavy” trucks
from using Maryland avenue as a
thoroughfare during the night and
early morning hours.
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PLACEMENT SERVICE
ESTABLISHED AT C. U.
A placement service for students
and graduates of Catholic University
has been established under direction
of Dr. George K. McCabe, professor
and acting head of the economics de
partment, it was announced yesterday.
Dr. McCabe and his staff, with the
aid of Rev. Dr. Maurice S. Sheehy,
personnel specialist, will act as mid
dlemen between prospective employer
and employe. They have organized
a library of books and pamphlets for
occupational and vocational guidance
in the Mullen Library, and will coach
seniors in the history of the indus
try or institution where openings ex
ist to give background prior to inter
view. They also are collecting in
formation concerning seniors.
OPERA DATE CHANGED
The Estelle Wentworth opera group
will present Gilbert and Sullivan's
"H. M. S. Pinafore” as the first of
its Spring series in Roosevelt High
School Auditoridm early in March in
stead of in February, as was originally
announced.
The operettas are under the aus
pices of the Community Center De
partment, where tickets will soon bo
available.
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Seahorses Talk,
Fisheries Bureau
Expert Discovers
By the Associated Press.
A Government expert learned in
the lore of the ocean deep vowed to
day that he had overheard fisheo
talking to each other.
After an exhaustive study of tho
life of the hippocampus, a mysterious
creature popularly called the seahorse,
Isaac Ginsburg of the Bureau of
Fisheries reported to the Smithsonian
Institution:
“The seahorse has the distinction
of being one of the species of fish
that ‘talk.’ It makes almost inaudi
ble snapping noises with its Jaws
which seem to serve as a means of
communication."
The seahorse resembles the fear
some creatures of delirium tremens.
It has the head of a small horse,
the tail of a monkey, the shell of a
beetle, the pouch of the kangaroo,
and eyes which enable it to look
forward and backward at the same
time.
Despite aU that it ie a small, feeble,
almost defenseless creature.
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