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Society and General
WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1935. ***
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M'CARRAN SEEKS
LUMP SUM BOOST
FOR CITY'S BUDGET
Opposes D. C. Income Tax
in Senate Hearing on
Supply Bill.
. HOLDING DOWN SHARE
OF EXPENSE OPPOSED
Welfare Officials Will Ask Res
toration of Items Cut
by House.
Because of the interest the Federal ·
Government has in the National
Capital, it should meet a fair part of
the cost of running the city. Senator
McCarran. Democrat, of Nevada, said
today in discussing local appropriation
problems. He also declared his op
position to imposing a local income
• tax on the District, particularly be
cause he believes it would be burden
some on the large number of Govern
ment employes.
In regard to the division of ex
penses of maintaining the District,
the Nevada Senator indicated he is
not in sympathy with the trend in
recent· years to hold down the Federal
share of the annual appropriation bill.
This trend has brought the Federal
lump-sum payment from $9,500,000 in
1932 to $5,700,000 for the past two
Jears. In the pending bill for next
year, the House voted to continue
that figure toward a total appropri
• t ion of $39,308,000.
While not a member of the subcom
mittee now holding hearings on the
supply bill. Senator McCarran is on
the Appropriations Committee and
elso on the District Legislative Com
* «nittee.
Would Restore Budget Items.
Going ahead with the hearings on
the supply bill, the subcommittee ex
pects to hear Public Welfare officials
, describe the urgent need of restoring
α series of budget items for hospitals
' *(nd correctional institutions, elim
inated by the House. Among the
■witnesses were Elwood Street, direc
tor of Public Welfare, arid Capt. M.
M. Barnard, superintendent of penal
institutions.
Gallinger Hospital, the Tubercu
losis Hospital and the Children's Tu
berculosis Sanatorium will be hard hit
next year if certain Budget Bureau
estimates are not restored to the bill,
It was pointed out.
These suggested amendments in
clude:
For the Tuberculosis Hospital, $9,000
for nursing services; Children Tuber
' rulosis Sanatorium, $11.000 ior nursing
and $22,000 for maintenance; for
equipping the addition to the Chil
dren's Sanatorium. $10,000; Gallinger.
$17,000 for personnel end $15,000 for
maintenance.
Lorton Cut Made in House.
The House cut from $190.000 to
$100,000 the estimate for building a
wall and certain buildings at the
Lorton Reformatory, and also reduced
the item for guards at the reforma
tory.
The program for handling emergency
relief next year, for which the House
bill carries the budget estimate of $2,
000.000, also was explained to the
' Senate group. This $2,000.000 is to
enable the District to provide for its
unemployable persons, under the new
relief plan of trying to provide work
projects instead of direct relief for
those who are employable. Officials
believe it will still be necessary for the
Federal Government to continue to aid
the District with relief funds next year
to provide for employable persons who
may not be able to fit into work proj
ects or who do not get sufficient in |
that way to provide for their families.
In connection with a debate in the
Senate recently regarding the amount
necessary for relief in Washington, as
compared with other ci'^les local offi
cials pointed out todav;'that out of 32
rities fairly rorrjiafab'.e with Wash
ington the DislTict stood eighteenth
in per capita^expenses ior relief and
in the amount per family.
+' Officials agreed that the transient
teliei problem is an important factor
here because so many persons are at
tracted to Washington The Federal
Emergency Relief Administration,
which seeks to take care of the tran
fient problem throughout the country,
jurnishes funds for that purpose here
at the rate of about $70,000 a month.
While the jail estimate was being
considered, subcommittee members
cugagrd in a debate on the question
I of capital punishment, but there was
no suggestion of changing the law
providing for electrocution here.
The subcommittee will devote to
morrow to the needs of the public
school system.
AUTO LIABILITY BILL
INDORSED BY HAZEN
Letter to Chairman Norton Sees
Merit in Measure Waiting
Action in House.
Hope for enactment of the automo
bile liability bill, now awaiting action
In the House, was expressed today by
Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen.
In a letter to Chairman Norton of
the House District Committee, who
has been struggling to get the bill up
for a vote, Hazen said he believed the
measure would produce great benefit
in striking at hit-and-run drivers,
drunken drivers and others who com
mit serious traffic violations.
The letter was in response to
* suggestion from Chairman Nor
ton that she would introduce legis
lation to ban jay walking if such
a law was held necessary. Hazen
made no direct answer to that
suggestion, but it was recalled that
in the past he had failed to approve
such a suggestion from Traffic Di
rector Van Duzer.
Hazen told Mrs. Norton of his plans
to start soon a new educational cam
paign with the objective of bringing
about better public obedience to traf
fic rules.
Young Democrats to Meet.
SUITLAND. Md., March 14 (Spé
cial).—The Young Democratic Club
of Southern Maryland will meet at
the Suitlend Community Hall torn or»
row at 8:30 p.m.
Sixteen-Year-Old Slayer and Sister
Mrs. Pauline V. Havener <in black». with a policewoman tin white coat), as she appeared at police head
quarters today for questioning in connection with the killing last night, of Pvt. John H. Gully, Port Myer soldier.
At right: Philip Zier, aged 16, Mrs. Havener's brother, who told police he shot the soldier to protect his sister.
—Star Staff Photos.
A —
Attack on Sister in Home
Given Pefice as Cause
in Arrest of Two.
Philip A. Zier. 16. was being held
today on a charge of murder for the
fatal shooting last night of a Port
Myer soldier when the latter attacked
his sister, Mrs. Pauline V. Havener.
19. and threatened to kill her. in her
home, a shack, overlooking the Po
tomac River, at 3912 Κ street.
The soldier, John H. Gully. 31. ap
parently was killed instantly when
the youth fired a .22-caliber bullet
through his head.
Zier and Mrs. Havener said Gully
tried to force his attentions upon her
and when she repulsed him seized
her by the throat and threatened to
kill her.
The boy was holding his sister's
young son in his arms in an adjoining
room when he heard her scream. He
put the baby down on a couch, grab
bed a rifle and fired the fatal shot as
Gully clutched at Mrs. Havener's
throat, police were told.
Mrs. Havener's mother, Mrs. Vir
ginia Zier, was away from home at
the time.
According to the police Gully had
been friendly with Mrs. Havener for
some time, but apparently this friend
ship had been broken, and he had
gone to the home in an effort to
renew it.
Zier was arrested by Policemen
Ruby Downs and T. O. Montgomery
of No. 7 police station and shortly
afterward made a complete confession,
officers said. Because of Zier being a
juvenile he was taken to No. 11 police
station in Anacostia to be placed in
a special room instead of being locked
up in a precinct cell. Mrs. Havener
was booked as a witness and locked
up at the Police Women's Bureau.
Mother and Baby Leave.
The shack in which the shooting
occurred is between the Chesapeake
& Ohio Canal and the Potomac River
and has a roadway leading to it
through a culvert under the canal.
No one was at the shack this morn
ing and neighbors said Mrs. Havener's
mother left during the night, taking
the baby with her.
Police took statements today at
headquarters from young Zier and
Mrs. Havener, during which they sub
stantiated earlier accounts of the
shooting and told officers Gully had
been drinking.
An inquest into the death was set
for Saturday at 11:30 a.m. Mrs. Hav
ener's husband. George Havener, is
said to be stationed at a C. C. C.
camp.
SUICIDE PROSCRIBES
TEARS FOR HIS END
Names Three Jazz Tunes as Those
to Be Played at Funeral
Service.
Samuel R. Orr, 27, truck driver for
a local department store, who killed
himself yesterday at his home, 1515
Lamont street, wanted no tears shed
over his departure. Instead, in a let
ter addressed "To All," he called ior
jtutz:
"Sing these two songs I love so weU,"
he wrote:
" 'Stay as Sweet as You Are' and
'Love in Bloom.' And, too, I'd like to
hear, 'The Object of My Affection.'
"As I sit here and take stock of
myself," Orr wrote in another letter,
addressed to "Myself," "I And a useless
sort of a creature, weak-willed, self
centered." He deplored the errors of
his way, his failure to correct them,
and the trouble he caused others.
. Orr left a wife and two children. .
One Hotel Houses
Τ ινο H. G. Wells, but
Not Quite Calmly
Writer and Utilities Ex· \
pert Cause Confusion
to I)ili#ent Press.
The visiting British author and his
torian, H. G. Wells, and the visiting
1 Massachusetts public utilities expert,
! H. G. Wells, are both registered at
the Mayflower Hotel, a circumstance
which has given rise to some con- j
fusion.
At least one rpporter and camera
man yesterday followed the wrong
Mr. Wells from Government depart
ment to Government department and,
finally, back to the hotel, anxious to
interview him on world affairs.
The Mr. Wells from Haverhill,
Mass., did not wish to qualify as an
expert on the subject. Meanwhile
the British author went his way un
interviewed. He regards them as
something of an ordeal anyhow.
Hotel telephone operators now in
quire. "Which Mr. H. G. Wells,
please?"
« UNE FOIS
FOR TAX RETURNS
More Than 1,175 Persons
Pass Through Collector's
Office in Two Hours.
With tomorrow midnight the dead
line for filing income tax returns, the
crowd at the Revenue Bureau deputy
collector's office today broke all rec- |
ords.
At 9 o'clock, when the door opened,
a block-long line had formed.
By 11 o'clock, two hours after open
ing, more than 1,175 persons had
passed through the office for assistance
and for filing their returns. At this
rate of speed the total for today from
9 to 5 o'clock will exceed yesterday's
figures of far more than 4,000 persons.
The office was to close-promptly at
5 p.m. today, but will remain open
tomorrow night until the last taxpayer
is taken care of at the final stroke of
12 midnight.
Twelve deputy collectors scattered
throughout banks and branches were
busier today than usual. Yesterday
each had from four to five people
waiting in line, but taxpayers who
went to the banks found they were
able to get somewhat quicker service
than at the deputy collector's office.
Returns may be mailed, of course,
if properly sworn to before a notary
public They should be mailed to the
Collector of Internal Revenue, Balti
more, Md.. presumably to be in his
hands before midnight. March 15. In
the past, however, it is understood
that envelopes postmarked before mid
night have been considered to be
filed in time.
DRUNK DRIVING DENIED
An information charging him with
driving while drunk was issued today
in Police Court against Policeman
Henry A. Matney of the Traffic Bu
reau, who was suspended Tuesday
night by Lieut. W. T. Storm, following
an automobile accident.
The policeman was arraigned before
Judge Gus A. Schuldt. entered a plea
of not guilty, and demanded a jury
trial.
Although there wag no testimony
In court this morning, Lieut, storm
reported to officials of the corporation
counsel's office that he had found
Matney asleep at his home after re
ports he had been involved in an acci
dent. Later Lieut. Storm called one
of the police surgeons to Matney's
home, the surgeon declared Matney
to be intoxicated and the lieutenant
suspended hia.
Says Downtown Area Would
Not Find It Traffic
Solution.
Opposition to any plan for total
abolition of automobile parking In the
downtown area as a solution to traffic
congestion was voiced today by Peo
ple's Counsel William A. Roberts.
Agreeing that the use of streets and
public parks for automobile storage
must be "diminished" to accommodate
traffic, Roberts, however, again ad
vocated construction of storage ga
rages, to be operated by the Govern
ment, as a more effective solution.
His position was stated in a letter
to Frederic A. Delano, chairman of
the National Capital Park and Plan
ning Commission, who yesterday made
public a summary of ideas on traffic
improvement in which he said that
neither the Government nor private
individuals could embark in the con
struction of garages unless the city
authorities, with the approval of Con
gress. make effective rules against
street parking in the downtown area.
Opposes Sweeping Ban.
"I can not agree with any plan for
the total abolition of parking in the
commercial area," Roberts wrote.
•This would be justified only by
pmergency traffic conditions and is
not a permanent solution."
He made the point that, while
many cars are parked all day down
town on the streets, many car own
ers are obliged to reach numerous
separate points within the congested
area in the course of their business
and that separate fees for parking at
each point, even if off-street parking
places were available, would be pro
hibitive in cost.
The parking problem soon will be
considerably increased when the 1.500
cars now parked daily on the Grand
Plaza, east of the Commerce Build
ing. will be forced out of that lo
cation.
Widening Value Questioned.
Roberts also questioned the eco
nomic benefit of elaborate and ex
pensive plans for street widening
which, he said, now are being con
sidered because of traffic congestion.
Street widening does not decrease
traffic congestion to an amount any
where near what is popularly be
lieved, he said.
He urged that some official body
present a tangible program for con
struction and operation of. parking
garages and called attention to the
House bill, which he drafted, that
calls for an appropriation for the
building of such garages.
SIX ME INDICTED
AS A RESULT OF.
2 GAMBLING RAIDS
27 Others Named by Grand
Jury and Five Cleared
of Charges.
BEACH, FITZGERALD
LOTTERY DEFENDANTS
Frazier, Brinkley, Amorosi and
Lewis to Answer for Alleged
Gaming in Southeast.
Six men were indicted on gambling
charges by the District grand jury to
day as a result of two raids made last
month by the police vice squad. The
jury returned 27 other indictments
and ignored charges in five cases.
John Herman Beach and John
Fitzgerald were charged with operat
ing a lottery In the 1100 block of
Eighth street southeast. Police who
arrested them February 27 said they
seized a large quantity of numbers
books and betting slips.
Southeast Defendants.
In the other case an indictment was
returned against James Beverly Fra
zier. Eugene Frazier Brinkley, John
Amorosi and Joseph Lewis. They were ;
arrested February 21 in connection
with the operation of an alleged gam-1
ing establishment in the 500 block of
Eighth street southeast.
Others indicted, with the charges
agains*. them, are:
Clarence Williams, James Scott.
Edward Willis and Raymond M. Jones,
joyriding; William Theodore Gilstrap,
joyriding and grand larceny; Edward
L Norman, William Rice. Le Roy
Catterton and Benjamin E. Nettles,
grand larceny; McKinley Brooks, Ray
mond Brown, John Williams, Rudolph
Hutchinson and John E. Hughes, jr.,
housebreaking and larceny; Yancy G.
Dean and Sonny Parker, housebreak
ing; Gwen M. Liberty and Frank V.
Webb, robbery; Dessie Heath, receiv
ing stolen property; Francisco Solis.
I. Platzel, Isabelo Macaltao. Elpidio
Dizon and Ella McDanieLs, assault
with a dangerous weapon; James H.
Allen, Fred U. Williams, Wellington
Tolliver, William Henry Anderson.
William Theodore Gilstrap and
Beatrice Edwards, violating liquor tax
ing act of 1934; William Theodore
Gilstrap, smoke screen: Florence M.
Brown, violating section 73, title 18,
tJr.ited States Penal Code; John R
Caton and Thomas D. Williams, carnal
knowledge, and Myrtle Arnold, abor
tion.
Five Chartes Ignored.
The following were cleared of the
i charges Indicated:
Fennie Harris, joyriding; Ν. E.
Chapin. grand larceny: Thelton
Toison, assault with a dangerous
weapon; James Winston, violating
liquor taxing act. and Beatrice Harris,
violating section 73, title 18, United
States Penal code.
COLORED "ROMEO"
IS BEHIND BARS
Faces Prison Term for Attempt
to Free His Girl
Friend.
I Stronger bars than those he sought
to part for his girl friend have closed
behind Russell Hawkins, colored. 24
years old.
Hawkins received a six-month jail
sentence in Police Court today on a
j charge that he destroyed pri
vate property when he went at
midnight armed with a jimmy
and a brick to liberate 16-year-old
Reglna Newman, colored Inmate of
the Women's Receiving Home. 800
block of Potomac avenue southeast.
The youth admitted to Detective
Sergt. Watson Salkeld that he <caled
a 10-foot fence and four flights of
fire escape, climbine to the window
where Regina was waiting.
After Hawkins began to pry at the
heavy screen, police said, a woman
guard heard him. came into the room,
and Hawkins fled down the fire escape
and across the fence again.
But Hawkins was suspected at the
home. He had called during visit
ing hours, asking to see his "little sSs
ter Regina." so often that the police
woman began to ask him questions.
Hawkins allegedly tore out two.
screens and took two pins from a
window. The destroying property
charge was brought when Police Court
official· decided the law against liber
ating prisoners could not be applied
to the case.
When Hawkins was himself locked
up two.days ago his girl friends did
not desert him. Police at No. 5 pre
cinct said Hawkins was one of their
most popular prisoners.
"That boy," .said a policcman, -is
darktown's original Romeo!"
Hit-Run Victim Was Returning
To Wife After 7 Fears' Absence
Identified last night after lying un
conscious in Emergency Hospital since
early Sunday, the victim of a hit-and
run driver, Frank P. Stehlin, 44, was
returning home to his wife after his
mysterious disappearance seven years
ago, it became known today.
Stehlin, who was found lying un
conscious in the street in the 400
block of Maryland avenue southwest,
and identified through local newspa
per pictures, left home suddenly in
November, 1927, his 61-year-old wife,
Mrs. Emma C. Stehlin, 495 Ν street
southwest, said today. There had
been no marital rift at the time, she
said.
"The next I heard from him was
this past January," Mrs. Stehlin said.
He wrote asking if I »«s still his
wife, and I answered in the affini
tive by mall. Then another letter,
layiog he might come home^ame in
February. That was the last I r.eard
from him until my daughter, Naomi
Crowley, recognized his picture yes
terday and I identiflfrt him st the
hospital."
Mrs. Stehlin said her husband's
mother and father and a daughter by
hie first marriage are living In St.
Louis. She has four children ranging
in age from 21 to 38 by a former mar
riage.
Hospital doctors, according to Mrs.
Stehlin, said his chance for recovery
was very slight. He received a frac
ture of the left leg, double fracture of
the right arm, possible skull fracture
and lacerated scalp.
Police had little evidence to go on,
it was said today, but through a
broken automobile headlight lens
found near the victim established he
was struck by an automobile. A search
was being made for the automobile,
police aaid.
Police Knocked—No Reply
A sledge finally served as a key to this door, one of four that guarded
the entrance to a gambling den at 1410 H street, which was raided yesterday.
—Star Staff Photo.
<.
Vice Squad Uses Axes and
Sledges to Batter
Down Doors.
Forty persons were taken into cus
tody as the police vice squad raided
what the police described as one of
the Capital's oldest and best patron
ized race-horse gambling establish
ments in the heart of the downtown
financial district during the late rush
hour yesterday.
While hundreds of Government em
ployes and office workers let their
dinners wait to watch the raiders,
Lieut. George M. Little end his squad
used axes and sledges to batter their
way through an intricate series of
doors on the fourth floor of the Mary
land Building. 1410 H street, and
completely 'bottled up" the patrons
of the den.
Escape I* Barred.
The quick entry of the squad, made
despite a confusing arrangement of
mirrors at the entrance to the place,
prevented the escape of any one by
way of a knotted rope that was kept
coiled near a window for apparent
use in such an emergency.
After herding the "players" into
six patrol wagons, police returned to
the gambling house and removed four
telephones, two short-wave radio sets,
several loud speakers, a quantity of
racing sheets and other gambling
equipment. A number of racing slips
were torn up and thrown out a win
dow while the raid was in progrès·,
police said.
Four Men Charged.
At headquarters, four of the men
were charged with setting up gaming
tables. They identified themselves as
Garry F. Quinn, 32. of the 7300 block
of Georgia avenue: Robert A. Murray,
43. oï the 1000 block of Fourteenth
street; Clarence A. Langley of the
5700 block of Ninth street and Ed
ward T. Parson. 34, of the 700 block
of Twelfth street. The others ar
rested were booked as witnesses and
released.
The place had been twice before
raided, police records showed.
FOUR PLEAD GUILTY
TO SHORT WEIGHTS
Merchants' Cases Continued for
Sentences, to Be Recommended
by Welliver.
Pour merchants entered pleas of
guilty when arraigned before Judge
Ralph Given in Police Court today
to charges of short weights in the
sale of meats. All of the cases were
continued for sentence.
There were three charges against
Harry dayman, 1400 block Ρ street,
the average shortage being a quarter
of a pound. In the case of Harry
Zager, 1500 block Seventh street, offi
cials of the office of Weights and
Measures said they made two separate
purchases and that in one the short
age was nearly three-quarters of a
pound and in the other, a quarter of
a pound.
Abraham Marcowitz. 900 block
Fourth street southwest, was charged
with three shortages. Two were ap
proximately a half pound each and
the other about three-quarters of a
pound.
The largest single shortage charged
was against Irvin J. Le Vinson, 1300
block U street. In one of four cases
against him, authorities said, there
was a shortage of almost a pound on
a four-pound chicken. Other shortages
in his case, they said, ranged from
a quarter to three-quarters of a pound.
All of the cases are being handled
in Police Court by Assistant Corpora
tion Counsel Edward M. Welliver. by
whom sentences will be recommended.
Tax Office Open Late.
ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE,
V·., March 14 (Special).—The office
of the commissioner of revenue of
Arlington County will be open to t
o'clock tonight and tomorrow night for
the purpoee of assisting taxpayers
with preparation of their Federal and
State income tax retyrns.
RECREATION BODY
PROPOSED FOR B.C.
I
Commission Would Pool Em
ployes and Facilities as
Experiment.
President Roosevelt's insistence upon
a speedy solution of Washington's
tangled recreation problem yesterday
brought forth, under the guidance of
Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, a projected District of
Columbia Recreation Commission that
will pool, as lar as possible, exist
ing employes and facilities, pick a
superintendent and operate for a year
as an experiment
The members of the new commis
sion will be Commissioner George E.
Allen, spokesman ior the District Gov
ernment; Henry I. Quinn, prominent
attorney and member of the Board
of Education, lepresenting the Com
munity Center Department, and C.
Marshall Finnan, superintendent of
the National Capital parks. Mr.
Delano will serve as chairman of the
group, but without a vote. These men
evolved the new commission, after two
sessions, .laving been assembled by
Mr. Delano after President Roose
velt had written to the interested
agencies suggesting that they get to
gether and formulate a unified pro
gram.
May Be Called ' Co-ordinator.'
The District of Columbia Recrea
tion Commission has not yet decided
whether il shall officially call ,ts op
erating officer a "superintendent or
"co-ordinator," but in any event, he is
to be the group's secretary and ex
ecutive officer, by virtue of his post.
The agency having jurisdiction over
a facility first must give its approval,
under the new scheme. The Board
of Education has been insisting that it
have full control over its own build
ings. which are used sometimes for
recreation, declining to turn over the
schools to the part-time jurisdiction
of some outside group. The board has
felt that it alone has the responsibility.
Accordingly, in yesterday's agreement,
the requirement was written in that
the governing agencies must first give
their indorsement for recreational
facilities before the lands can be so
utilized.
Announcement of the new set-up
was made by Thomas S. Settle, sec
retary of the National Capital Park
and Planning Commisison, who sat in
with his chief on the formative ses
sions. He has been asked to serve as
temporary executive officer and will
receive applications for the job of
"superintendent" or "co-ordinator" at
his office. Room 1621 Navy Building.
The amount of the salary involved was
not revealed.
Approval Announced.
Mr. Delano called the meeting to
order in his office in the Interior De
partment, where the National Re
sources Board is located, as he is vice
chairman of that group. Acting as
neutral chairman, he flrst assembled
the group late last month and then
evolved a tentative set-up. Commis
sioner Allen later talked the matter
over with the District government
authorities. Mr. Quinn laid the propo
sition before his colleagues on the
Board of Education and Mr. Finnan
spoke with his associates about the
plan. Yesterday, the trio was able to
announce that each organization
favored the set-up.
Appointment of the "superintend
ent" of recreation under the nev. uni
fied system is expected to be made
shortly. Already recreational activi
ties in the peiks and elsewhere are
opening up.
"We are going after the very best
man in recreation that we can get
anywhere in the country," said Mr.
Settle today, "just as was done in
the case of the new District health
officer." } ;
Mr. Settle made it clear that this
is a distinct profession. Inasmuch as
the Chief Executive himself has taken
a hand in the situation, the officials
are particularly anxious to make the
best showing possible. Mr. Settle ex
pects the new superintendent would
be at work by May 1 Each of the
three agencies involved is to con
tribute to the ejfenses of the new
BOARD APPROVES
SCHOOL PROJECTS
FOR WORKS SET-UP
List of Construction Jobs to
Be Given City Heads
Today for Action.
$1,650,000 INCLUDED
IN 18 BETTERMENTS
Four New Buildings. Plus 14 Im·
provements. Sought in
D. C. Requests.
A revised list of needed construction
projects in the public school system,
which the Board of Education hopes
to have included in the new public
works program when money is made
available under the pending $4,800,
000.000 works-relief bill, will be sent
today to the District Commissioners
with a request that the program be
approved.
The list was made yesterday at an
executive session of the board's
Finance Committee, composed of
George M. Whitwell. chairman: Mrs.
Philip Sidney Smith and Dr. J. Hayden
Johnson. The closed meeting also » a»
attended by Dr. Frank W. Ballou. su
perintendent, and Dr. Hayden John
son. president of the board.
No official announcement of the new
projects was made after the meeting
but it was learned that the list of
construction jobs recently sent to the
Public Works Administration by Dr
John W. Studebaker. United States
commissioner of education, was "sub
stantially" followed.
New Schools Asked.
The list, as it now stands, includes
38 projects requiring an expenditure
close to $1.650,000. This sum would
provide for plans and specification?
for two new senior high schools, a new
vocational school for girls, a new ele
mentary school and 14 additions and
improvements to present buildings.
In addition to these, a number of
projects requiring little or no material
but a great deal of labor also were
considered, it was learned, and prob
ably will be recommended for comple
tion as made-work projects under the
relief program of the District.
Dr. Ballou said today he would
forward the requisition to Engineer
Commissioner Dan I. Sultan, who is
in charge of all new District building,
some time today.
The new renior high schools on the
list would provide a white school in
the northern part of the city, probably
in the Manor Park area, and a colored
school in Northeast Washington,
probably on the site already owned
by the School Board on Benning road,
north of Twenty-fourth street.
would Replace "Disgrâce."
The new vocational school would
replace the Dennison School on S
street between Thirteenth and Four
teenth streets, which is now consid
ered "a. disgrace to the school sys
tem." The board is not only anxious
to replace the building but also wants
to move it out of that area to a new
site. The present site of the Tuber
culosis Hospital, opposite Roosevelt
High School, has been suggested if
that property ii made available to
the board when the new hospital at
Glenn Dale, Md„ is completed.
The new elementary school would
be constructed on Bladensburg road
near Mount Hamilton to relieve over
crowded conditions in other nearby
schools.
The 14 additions follow:
Rose Lees Hardy School. Foxhall
road and Volta place, completion of
second floor.
Alexander R. Shepherd School,
Fourteenth and Kalmia streets, com
pletion of second floor.
Assembly Hall Wanted.
John Greenlief Whittier School.
Fifth and Sheridan streets, construc
tion of assembly hall-gymnasium.
George Truesdale School, Ingraham
street between Eighth and Ninth
streets, eight-room addition and
assembly-gymnasium.
Bunker Hill School. Michigan avenue
and Twelfth street northeast, four
class rooms and space for four addi
tional class rooms.
John H. Ketcham School. Fifteentii
and U streets southeast, eight-room
addition and assembly-gymnasium.
James Monroe School, Columbia
road between Georgia and Sherman
avenues, assembly-gymnasium.
Archibald B. Grimke School. Ver
mont avenue between Τ and U streets,
eight-room addition and assembly
gymnasium.
Joshua R. Giddings School. G street,
between Third and Fourth streets
southeast, assembly-gymnasium.
Room for Cleaning-Dyeing.
Margaret Murray Washington Voca
tional School, Ο street between North
Capitol and First streets, room for
cleaning and dyeing.
Paul Junior High School. Eighth
and Oglethorpe streets, lO-room addi
tion and gymnasium.
Shaw Junior High School, Seventh
street and Rhode Island avenue, im
provement of stage and corridors.
Armstrong High School, Ο street
between First and Thirds streets, gym
nasium and extension oi auto repair
shop.
A second project at Armstrong calls
for improvement of corridors and
remodeling of present gymnasium
The made-work projects, requiring
only labor, will include a number of
improvements to playgrounds, grading
of school grounds, and a number of
minor repair jobs to buildings and
ground for which materials can be
made available by the board.
department. No additional legislation
is needed at this time, said Mr. Settle.
The agreement, he explained, seemed
to be as far as they could go under
the present laws.
The new superintendent will meet
with the commission, which will map
out a policy for him to follow. Any
suggestions he might have for im
provement of recreation here, to give
the residents of the District better
facilities, will be submitted to the
commission for approval. There was
a disposition yesterday to "go the
limit in unifying recreation here,"
said Mr. Settle.