Bortnick Fined $100 In Compensation Act Charge; 31 Dropped Restaurant Owner Changes Plea to Guilty in 4 Cases Benny Bertnick, well known in local sport circles as a wrestling referee, today withdrew before Po lice Judge Walter J. Casey a previ ous plea of not guilty and a demand for a jury trial on 35 alleged viola tions of the Unemployment Com pensation Act. He pleaded guilty to four of the cases and was fined $100 in one of them, similar sen tences in the three other being suspended. The 31 other cases, repetitious in nature, were dropped by Assistant District Attorney Karl Kindleberger, in charge of Police Court prosecutions. The referee, who operates a res taurant at Twelfth and F streets S.W., pleaded guilty in the four cases before Judge Casey to deducting 3 per cent from the wages of four employes in his restaurant between April and October of this year to Cherry Trees (Continued From First Page.) and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission. In mentioning the future trips he would make to the Capital and his anticipation of pleasure over the site of a new memorial lined with a thousand cherry trees, the President precipitated another gale of laugh ter. He explained he was just a “Duchess County hick” who knew something about trees. The cherry tree, in fact, is a short lived tree, the President emphasized. There are now 1,700 cherry trees in Potomac Park, and if the plans of the commission are realized the number eventually will be increased to 2,700. Year in and year out. the Presi dent emphasized seriously, some 40 or 50 cherry trees have to be trans planted or cut down for obvious rea sons. That was chiefly because they are short-lived and sickly ones have to be removed from "time to time. It's going on yearly, he indicated, and stirs no commotion. Mr. Roosevelt explained that the constituted authorities after long consideration had decided on the Tidal Basin site and all the plans had been officially approved. When asked if he would take steps to halt construction work he replied nega tively for that reason. When he was Assistant Secretary “ of the Navy. Mr. Roosevelt recalled, he was struck by the fact that there was no memorial in Washington for '‘one" of the three greatest Presi dents. It was not until 1933 that the Democratic party officially decided something ought to be done about erecting a Jefferson memorial, he pointed out. Four different sites for a me morial were considered and out of the four, he said, the final.action of'the Congress was to select the site on the Tidal Basin. He re minded them that it is now too late to change these plans. Mr. Roosevelt also went into the history of the discussions that cen tered on the character of the me morial, whether it should be utili tarian or non-utilitarian in type. Some people suggested a stadium GOLDEN WEDDING. —Mr. and Mrs. William G. Lang, who recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at their home, 5305 Second street N.W. Mr. Lang is retired from the Post Office Department. —Harris-Ewing Photo. pay the local unemployment com pensation tax. . The law prohibits any deduction from an employes’ wages to pay any part of the employer's contribution. When Bortnick was arraigned be fore the Police Court October 17 he pleaded not guilty to 35 charges of violation and demanded a jury trial. or a municipal hall, he pointed out, and somebody even decided on a race track. After four or five years of deliberation, he said, a non utilitarian memorial was decided on and nothing more can now be done about it. The figure of 88 trees quoted today by the President was submitted by the Jefferson Memorial Commis sion and are the trees on the founda tion site as reported in The Star on Wednesday. There are in all 171 cherry trees within the area be tween the outlet and inlet gates that will be disturbed by the change in the contour of the Tidal Basin and these include the 88 trees on the foundation site. The President did not mention the other trees, con* fining himself strictly to those im mediately to be affected by the foundation operations. Nurserymen Offer Trees. Soon after the President had. spoken, a committee representing I the American Association, of Nur- j serymen called at the White House j to offer to furnish the Government j with all the cherry trees needed for , the memorial site in the future. Richard P. White, executive secre tary. told Marvin H. McIntyre, one of the secretaries, that the asso ciation would gladly give the 1.000 trees the President mentioned when they are needed. Others on the committee were; Paul Stark of Missouri and C. O. Siebenthaler of Ohio, both past pres idents of the association, which has its headquarters in the Southern Building, Washington. They in formed Mr. McIntyre they had heard of the differences over the cherry trees and desired to be of assistance to the Government.. They left to see Arno B. 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Greene was jailed yesterday on suspicion of robbery and violation of the deadly weapons act, after officers asserted they found at black Jack in his car. The girl was taken to Juvenile Hall. Policewoman Lucille Shelton said Velma told her: "I don’t want to see him again. He promised to buy me an engage ment ring when we got to California. He said all older men in California have young brides.” Detectives said they were con vinced the couple's marriage in Wlckliffe, Ky., November 5, was legal. However, the policewoman said she had' wired authorities at Talmadge, 111.,' Velma's home,' asking if they intended to institute annulment proceedings. She added that, if not, such action might be taken locally and the girl made a ward of the Juvenile Court. West Virginia Society Elects Col. Rice Col. Heber H. Rice was elected president of the West Virginia State Society at a meeting yesterday at the Raleigh Hotel. He succeeds David S. Davison. Other officers named were Thomas W. Cain, George S. 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