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THE BOSTON GLOBE JULY 15. 1939 SATURDAY, 16 Married in Woburn Church Forestry Expert Paces Room New Speed Cited For Civil Service Bixby Says Non-Competitive Examinations Eliminated Report Blocks Rapid Transit For Arlington Project Rejected Because of Expense by Metropolitan Planning Division New York's Way Of Easing Relief Burden Related Citizens Committee Luncheon Hears Subcommittee Report -V IS 1 X' i I' 'tJ' 'J 'f-'' It A. it i William H. Bixby, actin? directs of the State Division of Civil Service, gave out yesterday a statw.ert of what has been accomplishe since the new division supersede-! the former Civil Service Commission. He said, in general, that the number of provisional appointments has fallen off, and that noncompetitive examinations are a thing of the past From May 24 to July 1, 95 examinations, of which 35 are for pro motions, were scheduled.

Three examinations were given in June, 41 will be held in July. 49 in August, end one in September. Since May 24. 10 examinations have been held and 247 applicant have been examined. Eligible lists have been established in 33 caset.

and 562 of the 1603 persons who took the examinations passed them. Physical tests were given to 197 applicants for office posts, 6 provisional temporary appointments for three months or less were made, 59 temporary provisional appointments were authorized pending the establishment of eligible lists after examination, and three provisional appointments were authorized pending the result of competitive examinations. In the labor service 157 candidates were given practical tests to qualify for lifeguards in Boston, Worcester and Springfield; 407 applicants were given physical examinations, and five provisional temporary appointments were approved in cities and towns and 20 in the state service. The records of the old commission show that' from- Jan. 1 to May 24 of this year 135 examinations were scheduled and that 54 of them were for promotion.

Investment Bill Signed Gov. Saltonstall yesterday signed the bill permitting domestic insurance companies to invest in real estate mortgages which have been insured under the Federal Housing act All Store Open Saturday Take advantage of our Complete Stocks 7ol Bathing Suits Beach Wear Play Suits Dresses 7c omame W1WTER AT WASHiWCTOW ST. TKMONT WIST ST. An4 Shop SHOWS ABILITY TO JUDGE DISTANCE Russell J. Lutz, instructor at Harvard Forest, during testimony at Callahan hearing.

Atty. John h. Murphy is central figure in background. 1 1 (Photo by Rand) Mrs. James O.

Frazer is the former Miss Lillian Davidson Stone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Lewis Stone of Randolph, and her marriage to Mr. Frazer, the son of Mr.

and Mrs. G. L. Frazer of Monroe, N. took place at the Unitarian Church in Woburn.

After a wedding trip to Maine, Mr. Frazer, who attended the( University of New Hampshire, and his bride, who attended Framingham Teachers' College, will live in Monroe. 4" 3, 4 the redistricting work. Under, the present system, the County Commissioners are' in charge of the redistricting in each, county. The State Constitution provides that if a change in population warrants, the Legislature shall realign the districts every 10 years.

The total number of House members is 240. Under the provisions of the report, the number of members- assigned to each county would be as follows: Barnstable, Berkshire, 7: Bristol, 18; Dukes. EsseV. 30; Franklin, Hampden. 18; Hampshire, Middlesex, 54; Nantucket Norfolk, 19; Plymouth.

10; Suffolk, 46, and Worcester, 47. The town of Cohasset, in Norfolk County, would for the purposes of the proposed legislation remain in the Plymouth County setup, 1 Report Favors Lead by Governor On Redisricting Gov. Saltonstall would have control of the redisricting of Representative districts under the terms of the majority report of the special commission on redistricting, filed with the Legislature yesterday. The report was signed by the Republican members of the commission. The Democratic members will file a minority report Under the recommended legislation, the Governor would appoint five residents of each county to do I 11 SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1939 MINIATURE ALMANAC IS Daylight Savins Tim 5:20 (High Tide.

Sun Si 8:20 I ..10:49 pm Lenslh of Dy. 15:00 1 Moon Rise. 4:03 am Height of Tide. Sin am, lift 2in pm Light Automobile Lamp at. .6:50 pm Moon'a Changes New Moon.

July id 5h 3m. evening. W. 1st Quarter. July 23.

7h 34m, morning, Full Moon, July SI, 2h 37m, morning, V. Last ttuarter. Aug. B. 5h 18m.

morning, E. POOR PA "We can't afford a maid, but I let Ma set Nora for a month. Nora haa been workin for Fay an Ma wants to find out about Fay's family trouble." FIRST CROSSING Ruth Evelyn Henderson. In Poetry. Coodby.

dear Fatherland. I won't atay long. Nor bring dishonor on the family name. But fifty thousand tourist can't be wrong; I go to find Quaint things of foreign fame. This silly muscle beating on my ribs.

The big boat' ensirje thrumming down below, Eegret to leave your Democratic Niba But both of us are all tuned up to go. Please do not notice that I almost wept Or tell me what to take when seas are rough. XH miss you now and then. But you have kept Me tied to your suspenders long enough. Why, You Buy the Drinks to Healing in hyperbole is that after so long listeners discount even understatement from that source, if you know what we mean.

Ed. Pointer in Globe. But provided we don't know what you mean, what happens? Bidde-ford Journal. We Could Use a Few Cleopatras, Too Another trouble with this world is too darned many Napoleons and not enough Wellingtons. Lynn Item.

Ever Hear of ft Slug of Rye? Ever hear of a "slug of fresh fish?" That's what they call 'em down along the Maine coast. Lewiston Journal. ODD ITEMS from EVERYWHERE About the youngest automobile saleswoman in New Hampshire probably is Marie Rickert, 19-year-old Dover girl, who in her spare time teaches dancing and acts as drum major for the Somersworth Maccabees drill team. The Connecticut Department of Health is urging everybody to go out into the fields, the back yards, the vacant lets and along the roadsides of the state to destroy every ragweed plant In sight for in five or six weeks it will be hayfever time! When ATyce Bertha Pitman of Athol and Seaver Alston Willey of Montpelier, Vt. were married last Saturday the bride's father performing the ceremony they knelt on a satin pillow stuffed with the love letters which they exchanged during their courtship.

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Crowther have presented to the Ford Museum in Detroit a pair of Anderson Eastman wooden ckates with steel runners, formerly the property of Clayton Morgan of Sunapee, N. H. A picture showing how the skates were worn, posed by Clyde Colcord, accompanied the gift.

There are 12 "Wiltons" in the United States, and Postmaster James Killkelly of Wiltcn. N. which is to celebrate its 200th anniversary, has asked each of the other 11 to send pictures and useful information about their "Wilton," which, with a picture of the original Wilton, in England, will be made a permanent exhibit in the local Postoffice. Partly because the church needs it anyway and partly because a son of Vermont's first Governor, a Wil-listom man, helped found the Willis-ton. Congregational Church, the Williston folks are going to devote a lot of time for the next two years in fixing up the church all ready for the celebration cf the entrance of Vermont into the Union in 1791, after 16 years of independence.

An investigation directed by Commissioner Arthur R. Greenleaf of the Maine Sea end Shore Fisheries Department 6hows that lobster is tne favorite food of seals and that they probably consume thousands of pounds every year which is a perfectly good reason for the extinction of the mammal with the discriminating appetite. The Maine commission is now trying to find ways to utilize the bodies of the great number of seals which they expect to be slaughtered by irate lobster-men and other fishermen. Abe Martin Sayings Soma feller are auch glad-handera that thy eyen mak uddeB adversity feel that ther glad t' meet him. Mr.

Lai Bud threw a aurprite fer her husband laat venin She wl at homa when ba jot thera. Barrows and Party Off for World's Fair PORTLAND, July 14 (A. A noisy send-off was accorded the liner Acadia tonight as it sailed for New York with a party of 117, including Gov. and Mrs. Lewis O.

Barrows, to participate tomorrow in Maine Day at the World's Fair. The Governor and1 Mrs. Barrows will leave New York via airplane Sunday for the San Francisco World's Fair to take part in a Maine Day program there. The Planning Division, which has studied the advisability of extending to Somerville and Arlington the existing rapid transit system of the Boston Elevated Railway declined in a report submitted yesterday to the Legislature, in a report to recommend the project since it "would tend to increase the heavy burden now borne by the taxpayer." The cost is estimated at about $11,000,000. The report calls attention to the fact that a comprehensive study of transportation in Greater Boston is under consideration by the Legis-ture and also recalls that in several earlier" reports the division has stated that, although the improvement would be desirable from the viewpoint of convenience, it could not be justified as the construction costs and rentals would increase the annual deficit of the Elevated.

The division rejects the plan lot extending the rapid transit system from Davis Somerville, to Arlington, says that the possibility of obtaining P. W. A. or P. A.

grants is remote at this time, and that the full burden would have to be borne by the metropolitan transit district. The report points out that to complete the project it would be necessary to connect the East Boston tunnel with the Viaduct near North Station connecting with Lechmere sq. This cost about The latter location would then be abandoned and a new street-level station would be constructed across the way on property owned in part by the Boston Maine Railroad. The proposed construction of the rapid transit system would continue to Washington Winter Hill, School st, Somerville junction, Central along the B. M.

right of way to Davis and would include stations at Winter Hill, Central st and at the existing Somerville Highlands station. The cost of construction alone would be $5,800,000. The members of the division ex press the opinion that if the system were to be extended to Arlington the best way would be to use the Boston Maine tracks from Massachusetts North Cambridge, to Arlington Centre. The report is signed by chairman James D. Henderson, director Henry I.

Harriman, Paul C. Ryan, associate commissioner of public works, John M. Whouley of the Department of Public Utilities, William F. Rogers of the Metropolitan District Commission, and Daniel P. McGillicuddy of the Boston Transit Department No Mourners at Burial of Howard Long Special Dispatch to the Globe MANCHESTER, N.

July 14 With no attendants except the undertaker and his assistants and with no clergyman to conduct rites at the grave, the body of Howard Long, executed this morning at the New Hampshire State Prison for the murder of Mark Neville Jensen, was buried today in Pine Grove Cemetery, Manchester. The body was claimed by a Manchester undertaking firm soon after the execution and was taken to the cemetery this afternoon. Arrangements for the burial were made by John S. Hurley, Long's counsel, but he was not present for the burial, nor did any relatives or friends appear. Long passed a lonely life in the New Hampshire State Prison in the last 18 months, and the final act of his1 earthly career stamped him as one who went to the grave with no one to mourn his passing.

The process of burial took scarcely more than 15 minutes. Fuller, Ames Join Dover Estate Board Former Gov. Alvan T. Fuller and John S. Ames of North Easton yesterday informed Gov.

Saltonstall that they are willing to serve on a committee with Commissioner Eugene Hultman to report on the advisability of the Commonwealth accepting the Dover estate of the late Alice Cheney Baltzell. The Governor's office announced that the three men will consider various possible usos which the Commonwealth could make of the mansion and the grounds. Tbey will also consider the cost to the state for any project and the possible loss in local taxes. Commissioner Hultman has already made a preliminary survey. A number of individuals and organizations have sent suggestions to the Governor, he said, and they are be ing considered.

Secretaries From 40 States Convene Aug. 16 CONCORD, N. July 14 At least 40 states will be represented at the 22d annual conference of the National Association of Secretaries of State at the Balsams, Dixville Notch, Aug. 16 to 19, it was said today by Enoch D. Fuller, secretary of state for New Hampshire.

It is expected that Governors of Maine, Vermont Massachusetts and New Hampshire will attend an official reception Aug. 17. Mr. Fuller said it will be the most representative convention the association ever held. In addition to the business of the conference there will be an extensive recreation program.

$3,445,000 Authorized For Boston Relief Work The State Emergency- Finance Commission yesterday authorized Boston to borrow $3,443,000 for relief purposes; $1,700,000 df that amount will be used for relief $1,755,000 for W. P. A. work. The commission also authorized Chelsea to borrow for maintenance and of Medford to borrow $58,000 for the payment of revenue loans and maintenance expenses.

Viduerfise your Summer Wants in the Daily and Sunday Globe. Read the Want pages in tomorrow's Globe. What New York city has done to relieve the welfare burden was described yesterday by a subcommittee to Mayor Tobin's Citizens' Committee engaged in studying methods of providing funds for expenditures to the needy. The group of five men, who traveled to New York to acquire the information, made their report following a luncheon tendered to the full committee at the Parker House. No recommendations will be made until the group has conferred with a cross-section of Boston's business life "so as to obtain as thorough and complete representation as possible, particularly among manufacturing and retail trade groups." A guest at the meeting was Mayor Dewey Archambault of Lowell, who emphasized the importance of relieving the welfare burden by citing conditions in his own community.

He pointed out that the tax rate of $48.80 could be nalved by eliminating welfare costs. Among those present at the meeting were Pres. James R. G. MacDon-ald.

Vice Pres. John J. Kearney and John McLaren of the Boston Central Labor Union; Harry H. Pierce, representing the cooperative banks; Edward R. Mitton of Jordan Marsh Company; Charles Francis Adams, representing the Boston Chamber of Commerce; John P.

Ego, president of the Central Council of City and County Glenwcod J. fcherrard of the Hotel Mens Association; Robert A. MacLellan, Richards M. Bradley and John C. Kiley of the Boston Real Estate Exchange; Leo T.

Foster, head of the Municipal Survey Commission; Robert W. Nutt of the West-Roxbury Cooperative Bank, and Charles O. Ruddy, representing the Council of Presidents, Boston School Department No Bill Against Portland Police Indictments Not Warranted, Grand Jury Reports Special Dispatch to the Globe PORTLAND, July 14 The Grand Jury which all this week had been taking evidence of possible criminality in the Portland Police Department reported no bill against any policeman today. Six indictments in cases not related to conduct cf the Police Department were returned, however. More than 100 witnesses were heard in the five-day hearing, which grew out of the report of two G-men hired last Spring by City Manager James E.

Barlow to investigate the department. They found indications that a policeman might be engaged in graft. City Manager Barlow said after the Grand Jury had failed to find evidence warranting indictment of any policeman that he felt the principal problem at Police Headquarters remains unsolved and that the only solution is Chief Ralph D. Brooks' resignation. The city manager pointed out that the investigators found the principal trouble with the Police Department to be poor administration and that the Grand Jury investigation had done nothing toward solving it.

Chief Brooks resigned three weeks ago, indicating that he felt he lacked ability for the job. The city manager accepted the resignation but the City Council overruled him by a 3-2 vote. Although no one in City Hall would say definitely today that civil proceedings would be instituted to get at the bottom of the administrative problems, it was generally expected that such, action would follow. Flyer Crossing Ocean Nonstop NEW YORK, July 14 (A. The Transatlantic, American Export Airlines survey plane, took off from Botwood, N.

at 2:59 p. m. (E. S. today for Foynes, Ireland, on its first trip over the northern transatlantic route.

At 7 p. m. (E. S. it advised its New York base it was 633 miles out of Botwood, flying at a 160-mile-an-hour clip at an altitude of 8500 feet.

An hour later it reported that radioed information from the French survey plane, Lieut De Vaiasseau Paris, indicated the skipper of that 10-year-old, six-motored machine had decided to attempt the 3106-mile hop from New York to Bisca-rosse, France, non-stop. The two planes were supplementing each other's radio reports. They had taken off from New York within an hour of each other. The American plane refueled at Botwood. It is due in Foynes, Ireland, about 11 a.

m. (5 a. E. S. tomorrow.

Lynn Woman's Sale Of Securities Halted John H. Backus, director of the securities division of the State Department of Public Utilities, yesterday su5pended temporarily the license of Mrs. Anna Beckman of Lynn to sell securities in the state, but said he would not make the suspension permanent until Mrs. Beck-man had had an opportunity to make restitution to some of her customers or take back the stock they had bought. At a hearing before Backus earlier in the day, Edward Moloney, chief inspector of the division, alleged that Mrs.

Beckman had sold to several women living in or near Lynn 10,000 shares of the stock of the American. Almaden Mining Company, although the 'stock has not been qualified for sale in the state. Mrs. Beckman said she believed the company would make money and that she had acquired a large block of the stock for herself. She also stated that if the sale of the shares was illegal the purchasers thereof would be reimbursed.

Phone Exchange Plan Held Up The State Public Utilities Commission -yesterday suspended until Aug. 16 a plan and schedule of the New England Telephone Company for setting up one exchange area for Newton and another for Watertown, together with rates and" services in the two areas. of the 14 charges, the one concerned with payments on trees. As the hearing opened attorney LRugg announced that the books of Patrick Holland, Lawrence contractor, would be available on Tuesday. Attorney John L.

Murphy, brother-in-law and counsel for the commissioner, stated at the close of the hearing on Thursday that a state engineer who sought to examine Holland's books had been referred to Holland's lawyer. The announcement created a sensation because Holland, testifying on Wednesday had said that he made "plenty" in connection with a tree-removal contract and would be glad to let a state engineer inspect his books. Murphy said that he had communicated with Holland's lawyer, William H. Daly, and Daly had "offered his cooperation." Rugg said that the books are. in the hands of Holland's auditor, and the auditor is being called back from a vacation so that they can be produced.

Tells of "Trading" Taking Callahan again under cross-examination, Rugg asked why the Commissioner had reduced the specifications for trees in the Hos-mer contract from nine to six-inch trees. The Commissioner replied he had done so during "trading" in order to get the best possible price for the Commonwealth. The Commissioner said only a few six-inch trees were- -involved. "We did not figure we would get 50 to 100 trees out of 6000 at the Harvard forest," he testified. Rugg estimated that would be less than 1 percent, and then said, "As a matter of fact as it turned out there were 30 percent "I don't know that it was a fact," returned Callahan.

Rugg recalled Russell J. Lutz, an instructor in forestry at the Harvard forest, to the stand. Lutz said that he had been assigned by Ward Shepard, director of the forest, to examine trees at the scene over an area a half-mile long and 100 feet wide. He said he had done so on Thursday after 5 p.m. Lutz testified he had found 32 percent of.

the trees between six and nine inches, 27 percent between 10 and 15 inches, 37 percent between 16 and 24 inches, and 4 per- cent between 25 and 30 inches. When Murphy asked Lutz how he happened to make the survey, Rugg interjected that he was responsible. Murphy then recalled that the Hos-mer contract covered 35 miles arid inquired of Lutz if he was a good judge of distance. He asked Lutz to estimate the size of the hearing room. Lutz estimated 40 by 60 feet.

At Murphy's request, Lutz paced off the width and revised his figure to 30 feet. "I'm not good at measur-ingx inside," commented Lutz as laughter swept the room. Lutz admitted that it was only in his opinion that the trees along the road were the same as those in the forest Shepard Recalled 4 Ward Shepard was recalled to the Shepard denied he had ever discussed prices with Callahan. He maintained that position under cross-examination, and added that conditions after the hurricane were such that it was impossible for anyone to have any accurate information. "If you were in that uncertain state of mind," inquired Murphy, "you wouldn't be surprised if Commissioner Callahan or some "other official was in that same quandary?" "No, sir," replied Shepard.

He testified that he had asked Lutz to make the surveyV. Houghton was then called to the stand. He testified that he had made a Study Of 141 contrarts ralliner fnr tree removals. He said 79 of them also called" for 'bridge construction. On May 15.

he testified, payment had been completed only on 15 of the contracts. He testified that up to May 15 the state had paid out or had been billed $852,267 on tree contracts for which original estimates totaled $715,310, an- increase of $138,957. Incomplete contracts call for $287,568, he testified, summarizing that thus far the state had contracts involving trees that total $1,183,260. Rugg questioned the Commissioner with regard to an "overpayment" of S36.000 for rpmnvnl rf truo Perini. Caflahan testified that it was a.

"bookkeeping overpayment" and not actual said that the error was made by the field engineer and produced sheets to show deductions had been to cover the amount. Rugg inquired if the change had been recorded with the comptroller's office, and the Commissioner explained that was not necessary because it was corrected in the department and the deduction had been made when payment was sought. Both sides then rested on charge one. Callahan Continued from the First Page Houghton took the witness stand shortly before adjourned the hearing until 9:30 Monday morning. Shortly after the hearing adjourned, Commissionerv Callahan issued a statement in he said that he "will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the elaborate, mathematical calculations read by Mr.

Houghton have absolutely no value whatsoever as regards the fair cost of the Mohawk' Trail and Jacob's Ladder projects." "A Fine Mathematician" "Mr. Houghton is a fine mathematician," he said, "but he has not practical knowledge of construction work, as he already has admitted at this hearing. "Mr. Houghton's figures attempt to compare the Jacob's Ladder and Mohawk Trail projects with projects carried on under normal, favorable conditions in the Summertime. He does not seem to realize that the Mohawk Trail and Jacob's Ladder projects were completed in, record-breaking time under the worst Winter conditions.

Hi comparisons are neither fair nor reasonable. It Is farcical for him to make such an attempt. "It is a well-known fact that th Mohawk Trail has been the financial graveyard of contractors. Virtually every contractor who worked at this location has been either financially bent or broken because of the almost impossible physical circumstances encountered. "Mr.

Houghton's figures disregard the obvious fact that there was a catastrophic hurricane and flood last Fall, which added immeasurably to the financial and physical hazard of completing a project on either the Mohawk Trail or Jacob's Ladder. "I am very proud of the engineers of the Massachusetts Department of Public Works who worked night and day during Winter months, fightLig ice and snow conditions, to accomplish one of the greatest engineering feats ever attempted in a state as far north. as the latitude of Massachusetts. "I also wish tp emphasize that the splendid record-breaking work accomplished by opening the Mohawk Trail and Jacob's Ladder projects to travel by May 27 has prevented tremendous economic loss to the Commonwealth. The opening cf these highways in ample time for, the large tourist traffic that the state is now enjoying has been a huge economic gain to the people of Massachusetts." Contracts Discussed The contracts' under discussion were two awarded to C.

J. Maney Company, of Somerville, -for work on the Mohawk Trail and one awarded to B. Perini of Framingham, for work on Jacob's Ladder. Taking up the first Maney contract, Houghton testified that it was awarded on Oct. 14, 1938.

and calls for an expenditure of $517,336. Houghton testified that the contract, one of the largest, was awarded on a noncompetitive basis. Rugg then asked Houghton to compare unit prices in the Maney contract with the unit prices set by Commissioner Callahan on Sept. 29, eight days after the hurricane. Had the contract been awarded on that basis Houghton figured the saving at $91,725.

Asked what the possible saving would have been if the contract had been awarded on the basis of average Chapter 90 prices for 1938 Houghton replied $152,151. Asked what the probable saving would have been it the contract had been awarded on the basts of -average competitive bids of ,1938, Houghton replied $202,496. Taking up a. second contract awarded to the same company on the same date, Houghton testified that the respective possible savings would have been $54,550 under the established unit prices, $85,529 under the -Chapter 90 prices and $63,836 under the average campetitive prices. Payments Taken Up Turning to the Perini contract, Houghton testified th actual prices in the i contract call for $624,346.

Asked to testify as in his est of possible savings, Houghton testi- nea under the unit prices, $220,870 under chapter 90 prices and $209,430 under comntitiv. hiH prices of 1938. In. testifying the last figure, Houghton brought out it covered only 17 items of 62 items in the contract. Most of the day was devoted to winding up testimony on the first ill Home has its good points.

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