Evening star. [volume], March 14, 1937, Page A-9, Image 9

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-lit TREE PLANTING
THREATENS TG LAG
40-Hour Week for District
Laborers Cuts Possible
Work Next Year.
TTnless appropriations are increased,
the District will fall farther behind
the growth of the city in its tree
planting program, according to a sur
rey of conditions made yesterday.
There has been no change in the ]
appropriation for two years. The sig
nificant current point, however, is
that adoption of a 40-hour week for
District per diem mechanics and la
borers will reduce the amount of work
which may be performed next fiscal
year by the Department of Trees and
Parkings.
It is estimated there are now no
less than HO.000 trees which should
be replaced This figure represents
for the mast part trees of undesirable
or unsuitable types which should be |
replaced, but it also includes an es- !
timate of 3,000 trees which have been
removed or which have died, which
Should be replaced.
For the past two years, the de
partment has received a total appro
priation of $126,600. Clifford Lan
ham, head of the department, last
Fall asked for a modest increase of
$15,000 in the proposed 1938 budget,
but because of the city’s financial
stress the Commissioners cut out the
increase.
Labor Cost Ip $7,200.
Recent adoption of the 40-hour week
for District laborers means that no
w-ork is done on Saturdays. This pro
gram adds about $7,200 to the District's
labor cost for trees and parkings per
year, and with the granting of in
creased annual and stick leave to per
diem employes, the costs of the de
partment have increased some $10,000
* vear.
"I am not complaining, this depart
ment must take its proper place along
with the rest." said Lanham. "But I
could use a lot more money. It should
be remembered that the trees of the
District have been called the glory
of the National Capital,'”
Automobiles and requirements of
traffic. Lanham disclosed, take a heavy
toll of the District's trees. Last year
there was the amazing total of 4.400
tree boxes about young trees along
the curbs which were broken by auto
mobiles.
That figure, he explained, does not
Include the damage done to mature
trees from being hit by cars. And that
is not near all of the toll taken by
mechanical forces. Many a tree dies
because its roots are severed as work
men dig trenches in connection with
the laying of sewer and water mains
and electric conduits, or in the widen
ing of streets, Lanham said.
121,BOO Curb-Line Trees.
To get a proper picture of the prob
lem of the department it should be
remembered that there are now 121.- |
BOO curb-line trees in the District.
Merely to spray these trees to keep .
insects from killing most of the lot
It takes a gang of workmen three
months to cover the whole route.
Each year, also, the department
must trim curb-line trees. Lanham
states his department is fortunate if
he is able to allot enough of his work
ing funds to permit the trimming
of as many as 10,000 of these trees a
year. With one gang of workmen
on this job it would take 12 years
to cover the entire city.
During the past Winter the District
was able to plant some 2.400 trees
along curb lines. The year before the '
total was 3,700. The high peak was I
reached two years ago, when nearly j
7,000 were planted, but that was made
possible only through the additional
help provided by the W. P. A.
Hanfstaengl
tContinued From First Page.)
got any farther than Switzerland.
Other friends were sure he had started
for Spain. They thought he might
be there: and. if he is, that he might
not come back.
Another friend intimated that
‘■Putzi” had differed radically with
Ambassador to London Joachim von
Hibbentrop on Reich policies toward
the Anglo-Saxon world.
It was this friend's conviction that
Von Ribbentrop had insisted that !
Hanfstaengl be given ime assign- ;
ment which would prevent him from !
Interfering with or criticizing the Lon- }
don Ambassador's course.
Hanfstaengl, those who knew him |
well were quick to point out. always j
stated his opinions, even adverse, with I
the utmost freedom. But, they added, j
hp was a unique character and no
body seemed to take offence.
Nazi party officials said reports of
—and Now the Mud Sitter
Frank Peterlin, who started a sit-down strike in his auto
mobile when it bogged in the mud of a street in Juliet/ 111.,
pictured as he made engine repairs on his machine to pass the
time. His determination to sit until the city docs something
about the matter has been increased due to the fact his car is
noio frozen in the mud. and it looks as though it will be Spring
before he can move anyway. The city street commissioner is
showing very little interest in his plight —Wide World Photo.
I the “liquidation” of his office as for
eign press department chief were news
to them.
“Putzi's” confidential secretary ad
mitted truth of the reports his office
was in “process of liquidation.”
His name was in the list of promi
nent persons attending the recent
1 Leipzig Pair, but, said the secretary,
it was all a mistake.
Hanfstaengls sister at Munch said
she understood her brother had gone
on a special mission at Hitler's per
sonal orders, but that she did not know
where or why.
His mother, at Uffing, said she had
not the faintest idea where her son
might be. She expected him on his
birthday February 12. but a letter
arrived the next day informing her he
was 1 ving the country on a special
mission.
The goal is secret, he wrote, and
said I would boar from him later,
when he was fr~c to talk. Since then
ue ve heard nothing whatever of him,"
she said.
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to receive 10 lashes and 90 days in
the House of Correction,
In ordering the first legal whipping
to be given in 21 years. Magistrate
Fletcher directed that Crabtree be
given a physical examination to de
termine if he can stand the ordeal.
The main problem facing Sheriff
Kemp was where to get the whip to
carry out the sentence. The bull
whin which was used to execute
the 20 lashes on a man convicted in
1916 of a similar offense has been
discarded.
The sheriff had not determined
whether to purchase a new whip op
borrow cne from a coal mining com
pany of this section,
Crabtree was arrested last Wed
nesday night after neighbors reported
to police they heard Mrs. Crabtree
screaming. Motor Cycle Officer Cur
tis MacKime, who made the arrest.
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VENEREAL DISEASES
JOINT MEETING TOPIC
Social Hygiene and Medical So
cieties Will Hold Discussion
on Wednesday.
! Four subjects will be discussed at a
! joint meeting of the Social Hygiene
Society and the Medical Society of the
District of Columbia at the Medical
Society Building. 1718 M street, at
8 p.m. next Wednesday,
The meeting, called for the discus
sion of venereal diseases, is open to
the public.
Ray H. Everett, executive secretary
of the Social Hygiene Society, will
speak on "The Physician, Public and
Venereal Disease Control." The sec
ond subject will be handled by Dr.
Harry R. Fowler and Dr. William H.
Hough and will be accompanied by a
talking slide film of syphilis.
Dr. George C. Ruhland, District
health officer, will give a summary of
plans for the venereal disease prob
lem locally, while Dr. George W. Cres
will will discuss "Syphilis in a Medical
Clinic.”
ONE-MAN “SIEGE"
IN
Illinoisan Unrelenting After
Six Days’ Demand for
Street Repair.
By lhr Associated Press.
JOLIET, 111., March 13.—The siege
of May street approached a show
down tonight with Frank Peterlin,
the besieger, unwavering in his re
solve to get those cinders.
For six days Frank has sat and
slept in his mud-bogged automobile
demanding that the city repair the
street in front of his house. His
hope for victory mounted on the
strength of Street Commissioner Sam
Shepley’s statement that he ‘might
do something" about the cinders
Monday.
Irked at Publicity.
But Shepley reverted to silence to
day. Associates reported him irked at
the publicity and disposed to let
Peterlin keep sitting from now on.
It. was recalled that the commis
sioner’s promise carried the reserva
tion "if the weather permits.”
"Shepley has made promises to me
before," Peterlin declared today be
tween munching a sandwich arid
greeting the public. "If he doesn't
do something this time—well, I'm not
a quitting man.”
The 35-.vear-old electrician cocked
his feet comfortably on the front seat
of his sedan, flicked on the radio and
the electric heater and continued:
"Ten loads of cinders would fix this
street up. That's all I've been asking
for years. I've lived here 10 years
and have got a house now, but what
good is it if you can't get at it?"
Neighborhood Support.
"The neighbors are all with me in
this. It's more than a one-man fight.
Not only on May street, but a lot of
people in this town and I guess about
every other town are in the same boat.
I guess this is almost a national issue."
Commissioner Sheplev's colleagues
on the City Council also sought to
ignore the sit-down.
“I'm not interested," said Mayor
George T. Jones.
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Out Results of Tests
in 6 Vehicles.
Improvement in the ventilation of
busses operated by the Capital Transit
Co. on its Chevy Chase line was re
ported yesterday by the Public Utilities
Commission on the basis of tests of air
made by a chemist in the District
Health Office.
In only one of six busses from which
samples of air were taken, while the
busses were in regular service, was the
carbon dioxide content found higher
than the maximum regarded as satis
factory.
Prom the chemist, J. B Reed, came
the suggestion that mast of the dis
comfort caused to passengers appar
ently resulted from gasoline fumes,
which he believed had been sucked
Into the Intake valves of the ventila
tion equipment of the busses.
The solution of that problem. Reed
suggested, rested on improvement of
engines, gasoline and oil, to reduce the
amount of gases which are now dis
charged into the streets.
Excessive Heating Cited.
Excessive heating of busses also has
been cited in complaints which have
been filed with the commission by bus
passengers. Some weeks ago. the com
mission called this to the attention of
the company and directed that bus
drivers be directed to use more care
in the operation of the heating and
ventilating equipment.
After reading the reports of the
chemist, commission officials said they
were convinced there had been consid
erable improvement in the conditions
of the air in busses since the ventila
tion apparatus was ordered installed
and since the company had been
ordered to check on operation of the
equipment.
Reed concluded from his study tfiat
ventilating facilities on coach No. 3235,
which was tested February 26, either
were inadequate or that they were
faulty at the time the test was made.
When this bus was empty it was found
to have four parts of carbon dioxide
in 10,000. This content rose to 10
parts when 35 passengers had been
taken aboard and to 20 parts with a
passenger load of 52,
Others Showed 15 Parts.
None of the other tests showed a
carbon dioxide content of more than
15 parts in 10.000, even when a bus
was loaded with as many as 59 pas
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‘‘Ventilating facilities which will
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loaded bus to 15 parts in 10,000 are
considered adequate," Reed said.
Referring to the gas fumes, Reed
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causes most of the complaints and if
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