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LOAN IAI
ASKS i TO
New Organization Would
Make Available 85
Cents on Dollar.
COUNSEL FOR GROUP
OF 12 FILES PETITION
Four Were Connected With Fidel
ity—Home Loan Bank Board
to Set Hearing Date.
A petition was filed today with the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board for a
charter to form the First Federal Sav
ings & Loan Association, which is
planned to purchase assets of the closed
Fidelity Building & loan Association
and make available 85 cents on the
dollar to shareholders of the defunct
organization.
The petition was filed by Walter M.
Bastian, attorney, who has been the
counsel in negotiations for a reor
ganization of the Fidelity. He acted
on behalf of the new organizing group
of 12 men. four of whom were con
nected with the Fidelity and eight
who were not.
Four Shareholders.
The four who were shareholders in
Fidelity are Dr. Ralph S. W. Bonnett,
former president of Fidelity; Marcus
Borchardt, secretary of Fidelity and
former special assistant to the Attor
ney General; Harry J. Miller and John
L. Fletcher.
The other members of the organiz
ing group are Maj. George L. Berry,
co-ordinator for industrial co-opera
tion; Dr. Carl Henning, physician;
Edwin Jacobson of Jacobson Bros.,
builders; William D. Jamieson, attor
ney and former member of Congress;
John C. Coons, vice president of the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.;
P. J. Schardt, assistant to the vice
president of the Southern Railway;
Harry P. Somerville, manager of the
Willard Hotel, and Thomas Somerville,
treasurer of Thomas Somerville Co.,
plumbing.
Will Set Hearing Hate.
The Federal Home Loan Bank
Board early next week will assign
e date for a hearing of the petition
by the Review Committee of the
Board, headed by Oscar Krentz.
This committee will hold a hearing
on the petition for a charter and
draft recommendations to the board,
which later will meet to decide on the
charter.
While these formalities are neces
sary, it was understood today there
was no doubt about the board ap
proving this organizing group, and
granting a charter.
The organizing group will then meet
to elect themselves directors and name
officers.
Unofficial indications were that
Jamieson might be selected as presi
dent.
Would Own Shares.
The new directors and their officers
would qualify as shareholders in the
new institution by the ownership of
shares. They would apply for mem
bership of the new Federal in the
Federal Home Loan Bank of Winston
Salem, N. C. They would also apply
for insurance of the shares in the
Federal Savings & Loan Insurance
Corp.
The next step would be a formal
report to the controller of the cur
rency. who now has control of the old
Fidelity. The receiver now in charge,
James H. Nolan, would make applica
tion to the District for permission to j
sell the assets of the old Fidelity to
the new Federal institution. The
court then would fix the date for a
hearing on this application to sell.
If and when the court approves
such a sale, the final details would be
carried through by co-operation of the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the
pew Federal institution, the office of
the controller of the currency and his
receiver.
Plan to Be Pushed.
No estimate was available today as
to the time expected to be involved
In carrying out this procedure. All j
officials concerned, however, have in
dicated it will be pushed as rapidly j
as possible.
When the new Federal is estab
lished shareholders will have the
privilege of getting immediate cash
up to 85 per cent if they want to do so, I
or they may leave their funds in the
new institution.
This new association will be con- j
ducted under the rules and regula
tions of such associations, which are j
entirely different from the system
operated by the Fidelity. Each ac- j
count will be insured by the Federal !
Savings & Loan Insurance Corp. up !
to $5,000.
The new Federal Association would |
operate as a member of the Federal !
Home Loan Bank System. All of the
loans would be made on what is known
as the "direct reduction loan system.”
This means that each monthly pay
ment by a member of the asociation
would be directly applied, part of it
to pay off immediately some of the
principal of the debt, and the re
mainder to pay interest.
POTOMAC CONSERVANCY
COMPACT BILL OFFERED
Randolph and Lewis Co-operate in
Measure to Permit D. C. and
4 States to Join.
Co-operating with Representative
Le wis. Drmorrat. of Maryland, Rep- |
resentative Randolph, Democrat, of
West Virginia yesterday introduced a
bill to permit Maryland. Virginia, ]
West Virginia. Pennsylvania and the
District to enter into a compact for ,
a Potomac Valley conservancy dis- j
trict for the prevention or abate- j
ment of harmful pollution of the Po- 1
tomac River and its tributaries.
This action was taken after Rep
resentatives Lewis and Randolph had
conferred with five officials. These
were Dr. R. H. Riley, director of the
Maryalnd State Department of Health
and chairman of the Potomac Valley
Pollution Conference; George L. Hall,
acting chief engineer of the Mary
land State Department of Health;
J. B. Gordon, director of sanitary
engineering in Washington; W. B.
Halton, professor of chemistry at
American University, and G. F. White,
associated with the Water Resources
Commission. ^
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Traffic Hazards Dynamited
The American Automobile Association yesterday used 100
sticks of dynamite to demolish the junk cars recently used to
demonstrate the break-down of local inspection laws. Two of
the old cars are shown enveloped in flames.
The blastinp took place in Upper Rock Creek Park. Md.. in
the presence of Traffic Director Van Duzer and other officials.
—Star Staff Photo.
Collins Battles Smilingly
To Give District “New Deal”
“Pilot” of n. c. Bui
Takes Defeat and Vic
tory With Grace.
Efforts of Representative Collins,
Democrat of Mississippi, to give Wash
ington a “new deal." are about over
for the present year.
As chairman of the subcommittee
on appropriations which framed the
1938 District supply bill, he has just
finished piloting the measure through
the House. That job was easy, how
ever, in comparison with the work
he did behind closed doors of a com
mittee room, conducting hearings and
whipping the bill into shape for
presentation to the House.
Collins took the chairmanship of
the District appropriations subcom
mittee when the new Congress con
vened because no other member who
was eligible wanted it. Neither did
Collins seek the assignment He re
garded it as "worse than the itch,"
but he took it anyhow with a promise
to give the District a “new deal.”
Failed to Satisfy Everybody.
Whether the bill he prepared rep
resented a "new deal" depends, of
course, on the point of view. Natur
ally, civic organizations did not get
everything they asked in the way of
improvements—not because Collins
did not regard them as essential pri
marily. but because there would oe
no funds to finance them. And some
of the things he did, were not met
with approval in all quarters. But
whatever he did. Collins firmly be
lieves he was acting in the best in
terests of the District.
To Collins can go much of the
credit for scrapping the Jacob fiscal
relations plan which proposed a rev
olutionary scheme for determining the
extent the Federal Government should
share in the expense of the District.
Though aided by his colleagues on
the subcommittee, especially Repre
sentative Engel, Republican of Mich
igan, it was Collins who first saw
the unworkability of the Jacobs for
mula. and went to work to have it
scrapped.
A Smiling Battler.
A placid, mild-mannered gentle
man of the Deep South. Collins is not
easy to anger. He smiles even at ad
versity.
Perhaps the best illustration of his
temperament was his reaction in the
House yesterday as members of the
District Legislative Committee at
tempted to riddle his appropriation
bill because they thought it usurped
their authority and prerogatives to
dictate the District's legislative needs.
Collins fought the efforts to elimi
nate some of the legislative provisions
when he believed removal would
.jeopardize improvements and reforms
that would make the District a better
place in which to live or to save tax
payers a few dollars.
Each time he battled, however, he
finished smiling. Frequently, between
skirmishes, he would exchange pleas
HOEPPELS’ PAROLE
TESTIMONY STUDIED
Board Considers Data Presented
by Father and Son at
Hearing.
The Parole Board today was con
sidering testimony heard yesterday
afternoon on the applications of
former Representative John H. Hoep
pel of California and his son, Charles,
for parole from the District Work
house at Occoquan, Va.
The two have completed four
months of their sentences of from
four to twelve months for conspiracy
to sell an appointment to West Point.
They are now eligible for parole and
are said to have good records as
prisoners.
The Board of Intermediate Sen
tence and Parole heard the former
Representative and his son along with
24 other prisoners who are eligible
for parole. %
AMENDMENT PROPOSED
Senator Capper, Republican, of
Kansas, yesterday proposed a consti
tutional amendment to eliminate “dis
criminations” in the Federal and State
income tax systems.
He would permit the taxation of
Federal securities. The Federal Gov
ernment also could tax salaries of
State and local employes and would
permit States to tax Income of Fed
eral employe*.
REPRESENTATIVE COLLINS.
antries with those who were fight
ing him. Once he sat beside Chair
man Norton of the District Legisla
tive Committee, who took a leading
part in the fight to eliminate the rid
ers. and chatted pleasantly with her.
Collins knew there wasn't anything
personal in the battle. Mrs. Norton
and other members of the District
Committee were fighting him on a
principle. And each time Collihs was
licked he came back with that in
evitable smile.
Approved Fights for Principles.
In fact, his attitude was indicated
before the fight in a statement he
gave newspaper men. One paragraph
of that statement read: "If the mem
bers of the District Committee wish
to make points of order on items in
this bill which, in their opinion, do
not have merit, then it is their duty
to endeavor to eliminate such pro
visions from the bill and there will
be no quarrel with me or the Appro
priations Committee because of such
action.”
Collins first came to Congress a
humble minority Democrat during the
administration of President Harding,
and remained in the House continu
ously until 1933. He stayed out of the
House race in 1934 to try for the
Senate. Losing, he missed the Seventy
fourth Congress, but was returned to
his seat last Fall.
Collins is not a freshman on the
Appropriations Committee. Neither
was he unfamiliar with District affairs
when he took the chairmanship of the
District subcommittee. Many years ago
he was a member of the District sub
committee, and when he interrupted
his House service to run for the Sen
ate he was chairman of the appropria
tions subcommittee in charge of the
important War Department supply bill.
In a few weeks Collins will be 57.
He holds degrees from Transylvania
and Mississippi Universities, and
practiced law in his home town of
Meridian, Miss., before being elected
attorney general of the State—a posi
tion that cleared his path to Congress.
Woman Wounded
With Lost Weapon
Of Col. Goddard
Ballistics Expert Had
Searched for Revolver
Over a Week.
The loaded revolver for which Col.
Calvin Goddard, well-known ballistics
expert, had been searching for during
the last few days in his home at 3533
Quebec street was found yesterday
after Miss Beatrice Burba, 23, of 1318
Madison street, shot herself through
the hand with the weapon.
Col. Goddard said the .25-caliber
revolver, the only loaded gun in his
collection of more than 500 weapons,
vanished from under a couch pillow
about a week ago.
Miss Burba had called at Goddard’s
home to examine his collection, ex
plaining that her fiance in Boston was
an arms collector and she was anxious
to find a unique gun for him.
“I left the room for a moment and
heard a shot and knew the young
woman had found the “lost” revolver,
Col. Goddard said. “It was almost
uncanny how she happened to pick
up that gun out of the several hundred
unloaded ones.”
Miss Burba was treated at Emer
gency Hospital and returned home.
Th« wound was serious.
HEAVY D. C. TRAFFIC
CITED BY GIBSON,
PROPOSING SURVEY
Subway Feasibility Study
Urged Particularly in
Offering Resolution.
SENATE DISTRICT GROUP
WILL CONSIDER PROJECT
$25,000 Appropriation and 5-Man
Commission Are Sought—Hear
ings Planned.
BY J. A. O’LEARY.
The volume of traffic in Washington
has reached a point justifying Con
gress in having a comprehensive study
made of the problem, especially to
consider whether subways would be
feasible, Senator Gibson, Republican,
of Vermont, said today, commenting
on the resolution he introduced yes
terday to authorize a survey of the
subject.
"I have thought for a long time
that the city is bound to come to
subways, but I am not committed to
any particular plan.” Gibson said.
‘‘My purpose in offering the resolu
tion was to open the way for a
thorough discussion of the traffic
problem.”
Provides for 5-Man Board.
The resolution, which was referred
to the Senate District Committee for
report, provides for a five-man com
mission, and authorizes a $25,000 ap
propriation to cover the cast of the
survey.
The Engineer Commissioner of the
District would be chairman, serving
without additional compensation. The
remaining four members would be ap
pointed by the President, who would
fix their compensation.
The commission could employ ex
perts and hold hearings, with power
to subpoena witnesses and records.
The scope of the inquiry is indicated
by the direction given the commission
‘‘to make a full and complete study
and investigation of traffic conditions
in the District, with a particular view
to determining the feasibility of a sub
way system in said District, and to
make recommendations to the Con
gress with respect thereto." The com
mission's report would be required
within one year.
Tourists Aggravate Traffic
Senator Gibson said he regards the
traffic problem as an important < ne,
because the large number of District
and nearby automobiles is augmented
daily by the hundreds of tourist cars
that pass through the Capital City.
The highway division of the Dis
trict government recently has been
studying plans for various changes
in street plans at congested points,
including proposed underpasses at
some of the circles. These, it was
pointed out, could be considered along
with other suggestions by the pro
posed commission.
Senator Gibson, although not a
member of the District Committee of
the Senate, has in former years taken
a deep interest in District affairs.
While a member of the House he was
active in the creation of the Paik
and Planning Commission, in develop
ing a five-year school building pro
gram and in a survey of the District
government. Since coming to the
Senate he has advocate an airport for
the National Capital.
Hazardous Cars Dynamited.
While the survey proposal was being
aired, the American Automobile As
sociation was demonstrating to traffic
i and police officials how dynamite is
the best remedy for the hazard created
by mechanically defective machines.
In an isolated section of Rock Creek
Park across the Maryland line the
automobile club blew one "junk heap"
to pieces with explosives and burned
five other cars.
Traffic Director William A. Van
Duzer, who was among the witnesses,
said he could "think of no better use
for dynamite. These cars were a
menace to traffic—but they will not
harm any one now."
The demonstration was intended to
call the public's attention to the dan
gers of driving unsafe automobiles.
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Story League Meets Tonight.
Stories from China, Japan and
Korea will be told at a meeting of
the Story League at 8 o'clock tonight
at the Y. W. C. A., Seventeenth and
K streets.
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BAND CONCERT.
By the Soldiers’ Home Band in
Stanley Hall at 5:30 p.m. today. John
S. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster; An
ton Pointner, assistant.
Program.
March. “Chimes of Liberty” Goldman
Overture, “The Four Ages of Man,”
Lachner
Entr’ Acte (a) “Un Peu d’ Amour,”
Silesu
(b) “The Toy Soldier's March,”
Kreisler
(c) “Jacinta" (Spanish Dance)
Stoughten
Scenes from the musical comedy,
“The Count of Luxemburg”..Lehar
Fox trot, “Summer Is Over”—Burke
“The River’s Taking Care, of Me”
Greer
Waltz suite from "Little Boy Blue,”
Bereny
Finale. “To the Front”_Hume
“The Star Spangled Banner.”
BOWERMAN LAUDS
FUND FOR LIBRARY
BRANCH AT SCHOOL
Librarian Sees D. C. Bill’s
Provision as Valuable
Experiment.
ADEQUATE SPACE IN
NEW BUILDING URGED
Collins Praised for Efforts to
Build Up Adequate System
for Capital.
Construction of a branch library in
connection with a public school proj
ect—an experiment which the library
authorities advocated several years
ago—will be made possible under the
1938 appropriation bill, as reported
to the House.
The bill provides funds tor the be
ginning of construction of the Thomas
Jetlerson Memorial Junior High
School and Library in Southwest
Washington.
“I’m extremely gratifies by this
provision for two reasons," Dr. George
F. Bowerman, librarian of the free
Public Library, said yesterday. "First,
it will enable the Public Library to
' meet the needs of the residents of
that section. A branch has been
needed there many years.
"But I’m particularly interested in
having this experiment tried out there
in a junior high school. Although a
small branch library has been main
tained at Eastern High School for a
number of years, w'e have never had
any real test of whether a branch can
be operated in a school building as
successfully as in separate buildings.”
Name Approved.
Dr. Bowerman also expressed sat
isfaction with the name selected by
the Appropriations Subcommittee for
the school, but added that “for our
purposes we probably will call the
library the Jefferson branth.” The
subcommittee established a precedent
in undertaking to christen the school,
a job ordinarily left to the Board of
Education.
“Ordinarily we name the branch
libraries for tne sections in which they
are located," Dr. Bowerman aaici.
Dr. Bowerman explained that the
question of placing oublic library
units in the schools was the subject of
a report made to the House District
Appropriations Subcommi: ee in 1931
after it had been approved by both
the Board of Library Trustees and the
Board of Education. The report sug
gested the experiment, assuming that
1 the amount of land purchased for a
school is sufficient, or could be made
sufficient, to accommodate both the
school and a oranch library.
Dr. Bowerman said he would insist
that adequate space be provided in
the Jefferson School for the branch
library, which would be under ad
ministration of the board of library
trustees.
Lauds Collins’ Efforts.
Dr. Bowerman praised Chairman
, Collins of the appropriations subcom
mittee for his efforts in securing in
creased services of the Public Library
through appropriation of more ade
quate funds for personnel, services
and books and periodicals in addition
to providing funds for completion of
the new Petworth branch. The Pet
worth section has been fighting for a
branch library for many years, and
the new building will fill a real need,
Dr. Bowerman said.
"Mr. Collins has long been a friend
of the library,” he said. “Even when
he was not in Congress last year he
went before a Senate committee to
urge restoration of funds for the li
brary in the supply bill. If the bill
passes in its present form, for the
first time since 1930 the central branch
will be able to remain open each Fri
day afternoon and the major branches
every Saturday afternoon. The bill
provides an increase in personnel of
20 employes.”
While saying he is very glad for
the addition of the Petworth and
Jefferson branch libraries. Dr. Bow
erman pointed out that these would
not lessen the burden placed on the
inadequate Central library.
In answer to a contention that the
new units would reduce the number
of persons using the Central library,
he said he estimates that 75 to 90 per
cent of those registering at the new
branches would be “new business." He
pointed out that since 1929 the num
ber of registered readers has jumped
from 76.000 fto 130.000 and the usage
of books from 1,500.000 to almost
3,000,000.
40 AND 8 DANCE TONIGHT
French Envoy and Mme. Bonnet
to Be Among Guests.
Voyageurs of the District's Forty
and Eight, fun and honor society of
the American Legion, are giving their
annual dance tonight at Wardman
Park Hotel for the benefit of the or
ganization's Americanism and com
munity service programs. Dancing
will be from 10 until 1.
Among distinguished guests will be
the French Ambassador and Mme.
Bonnet, the District Commissioners
and department commanders of the
city's several veterans’ organizations.
Separate Cremations Planned
For 2 Women, Despite Request
The poignant last request of
Dorothy A. Lawrence and Adrienne
Courtenay, who died in each others
arms in a suicide pact in their gas
f.lled apartment at 1851 Lamont
street, that their bodies be cremated
together and the ashes "comingled”
and scattered at sea, will not be ful
filled.
Private funeral services for the
young women, who apparently died
Tuesday night, but whose bodies were
not discovered until yesterday, were
to be held this afternoon at 1 o’clock
in the Crematorium at Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
In accordance with the wishes of
the family of Miss Lawrence, however,
the cremations will be conducted
separately. Final disposition of the
ashes has not been decided, but Lester
Lawrence, 114 Longfellow street,
brother of Miss Lawrece, said:
"You can rest assured there will
be no comingling of the ashes.”
In their farewell note, the young
women—Mifg Courtenay was 27 and
Miss Lawrence, 28—revealed their de
termination to die because they feared
they would be separated and that their
art—both were students of dramatic
art—would be crushed.
The young women had known each
other for two years and had lived in
the Lamont street home of Mr. and
Mrs. W. W. Weadon for a year. Miss
Lawrence worked in the Patent Office
and Mrs. Courtenay was a secretary to
Dr. Joseph Elward, 1726 I street.
Miss Courtenay same to Washington
from Minneapolis at an early age and
attended the National Cathedral
School for Girls. She was the grand
daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Charles
Courtenay, author of the best seller,
“The Art of Growing Old Gracefully,”
who at one time was vicar of St. Peter’s
at Tunbridge Wells, England. Her
mother, Mrs. Edith K. Courtenay, lives
at Glenside, Pa.
Miss Lawrence is survived by her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Law
rence, Bethesda, Md., and three broth
ers. Dudley. Lester and Randolph, all
of Washii^ton.
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Family Left Destitute
Widow Seeks Funds to Bury Husband
and Care for Children.
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Rosa Butts, 10, and her brother. Elmer. 8, shown on the front
steps of their home at 1218 Eleventh street southeast this morn
ing. —Star Staff Photo.
EAVTNG her destitute children
in their drab two-room apart
ment, Mrs. Charles Butts, 31,
set out this morning to find
means of saving her husband from
burial in Potter's Field or cremation,
and to clothe and feed her boy and
girl.
Charles Butts. 32, intermittently
employed by the W. P. A. as a laborer,
died early today in Casualty Hospital.
He was the victim of burns suffered
March 4 when a coal stove exploded
in his home at 1231 Eleventh and
One-half street southeast.
Two weeks ago doctors informed his
wife Annie he could not live. She
moved the children, Rosa. 10. and
Elmer, 8, to a small first-floor apart
ment in a frame
house at 1218
E 1 e venth street
southeast.
Mrs. Butts left
her home for the
hospital at an
early hour this
morning and
trom there visited
the division relief
office at First and
I streets south
west to isk for
help. All relief
authorities could
„ _ .. suggest was cre
mation of her
husband s body or a grave in potter's
field.
Shaking her head sadly. Mrs. Butts
decided to try other means to secure
; monev for burial.
Mutts to Compete
With Bluehloods in
Dog Show Today
Hittenmark Will Hold
Novel Contest at Syl
van Theater.
Mutts, as well as thoroughbreds, will
have a chance to take prizes in a
unique dog show to be held today at
Sylvan Theater on the Monument
Grounds by Gordon Hittenmark,
Station WRCs "time-keeper.”
Hittenmark is going to depart from
the usual rules and give all entries
a "break” by handing out prizes
to the best-looking dog, the largest,
, the smallest, the cutest and the best
trickster.
Entries closed at 11 o'clock this
morning. The program includes a
parade and judging during the early
afternoon.
Each dog entered will be given
a certificate of membership in the
! "air-way kennel club," which Hit
! tenmark has been promoting on his
! early-morning programs.
HAZEN DEMANDS
TRAFFIC CLEARANCE
Orders Strict Enforcement of Law
Giving Right of Way to
Fire Apparatus.
Strict enforcement of traffic laws
requiring motorists to give fire appar
atus the right-of-way, was demanded
by Commissioner Hazen today in a
letter calling the attention of Police
Supt. Ernest W. Brown to several
recent accidents in which firemen
were injured.
Maj. Brown, in an order to pre
cinct commanders, emphasized that
regulations direct motorists to drive
to the curb and stop when they hear
the sirens of emergency vehicles.
“You will direct members of your
command strictly to enforce these
regulations,” Maj. Brown directed.
At the request of Commissioner
Hazen, Maj. Brown ordered that
whenever possible a scout car should
accompany fire apparatus on emer
gency runs to clear the streets and
arrest motorists who fail to heed the
warning siren.
CROP OUTLOOK GIVEN
COLLEGE PARK, Md„ April 3 (IP).
—Arthur B, Hamilton of the University
of Maryland Department of Agricul
tural Economics reported an “uncer
tain” tobacco crop outlook in Mary
land, depending upon the extent to
which domestic consumption may in
crease to compensate for losses in for
i eign trflide.
Later Mrs. Eva Doyle, a friend, of
1106 O street southeast, said that, if
necessary, she would "go around the
neighborhood—like I did one time 15
years ago—and take up a collection to
get the money to bury Mr. Butts."
Mrs. Butts is penniless, Rosa and
Elmer are half-clothed and often
hungry, and relief authorities say they
are unable to contribute more to then
aid.
Funeral arrangements are being
held up. awaiting Mrs. Butts' efforts
to provide burial for her husband.
While their mother was away today.
Rosa and Elmer were in charge of
Mrs. Nellie Ley, 708 G street, south
east. a relative of Mrs. Butts by mar
riage.
Mrs Ley said “Rosa and Elmer
hadn't been fed this morning—it was
then two or three hours after the
regular breakfast hour. She planned
to take them over to a sister of Mrs.
Butts. Mrs. Nora Grant, for something
to eat.
According to Mrs. Ley. Mrs. Butts'
parents, who live in Martinsburg. W.
Va . are "almost as penniless" as the
widowed mother.
The place where Mrs. Butts and her
children now live consists of a rather
barren bed room, with a double bed
and a day bed. and a small kitchen.
The mother has managed to keep the
family together for the past month.
Her husband, when he was well, did
not work regularly for the W. P A.
and had gone back on the job only a
week before he was burned fatally
after a layoff on account of the
weather. He was a laborer.
22 NEW MEMBERS
JOIN CITIZEN UNIT
Chillum Heights Association Asks
Speed Curb Near Keene
School.
Twenty-two new members have
joined Chillum Heights Citizens' As
sociation during the last month, it
was announced at last night's meeting
at Keene School. George M. Dixon,
president, believes it to be a record
i "take."
Those elected are: Mr. and Mrs. W.
W. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. William G.
Lang. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Riordon. Mr.
and Mrs. Clinton M. Hisle. W. F.
Henderson. Mr. and Mrs. H. Tukes,
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Richards, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles E. Reed, Miss Fanny
Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Hurley,
Mr. and Mrs. G. Ambrose Schmidt,
Harold C. Kinners and James A.
Membert.
The association authorized letters
to authorities requesting 15-mile-an
hour speed limit signs be placed on
j streets leading to Keene School, that
sidewalks be provided and that hedges
| obstructing pedestrians' view be re
moved.
A resolution was passed authorizing
that other letters be sent asking that
the area lying south of Riggs road,
north of Gallatin street and west of
the B. and O. tracks, east of Rock
' Creek Church road, be placed in
Police Precinct No. 6 instead of No. 12,
especially as Keene School lie6 in that
section. As Soldiers’ Home and the
B. and O. railroad tracks intervene
between Precinct 12 and the area,
police from that precinct take longer
to reach it than tho.se from No. 6.
The meeting ordered a thorough
examination of steps to be taken in
! prohibiting more liquor licenses being
1 issued to dealers in the area.
The association voted to send re
grets to Henry Gilligan on his pro
posed resignation from the School
Board.
DRIVER WHO FOLLOWED
POLICE AUTO IS FREED
Two eleventh precinct policemen
who charged a motorist with speed
ing because he kept pace with them
in the rear as they answered an
“emergency” call failed to make their
case in Police Court yesterday.
After questioning the officers closely
Judge John P. McMahon dismissed
the charge against Malcolm G. Kee
of 466 K street when he testified he
did not notice his speed, thinking
the police car was merely “cruising.”
The policemen, Ralph Stoner and
C. E. Ripperger, testified Kee attained
a speed of 40 miles an hour in trail
ing them as they headed for the
station house in response to a "report
at once” call.
In dismissing thp case Judge Mc
Mahon declared: "If you were speed
ing in answer to an emergency call,
your siren should have been blowing.”
officers said it was not. *
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CITY HEADS 10 ACI
ON AGENCIES’ PLEA
10 HELP JOBLESS
Citizens’ Mass Meeting at
4:30 Tomorrow to Focus
Attention on Plight.
FORMAL FUND REQUEST
DEMANDED BY COUNCIL
Additional $1,000,000 Is Sought!
in House Bill for 1938 for
Employables.
Demands of the Council of Sor.
| Agencies that the District Commi
I sioners make a formal request of the
Budget Bureau for funds with whir!:
to care for the city's 3 000 unemploved
| “employables" will be artod on at -i
| board meeting Tuesday, Commissioner
| Hazen said today.
A mass meeting to focus public atten
| tion on the plight of the "employ
ables,” who are denied both direr t
relief and work relief, will be held
tomorrow at 4:30 pm. in the Firs'.
Congregational Church, Tenth and G
streets, under auspices of the council.
William McClellan president of the
Potomac Electric Power Co, will be
the principal speaker.
Mrs. William A Roberts, executive
secretary of the council, in a letter to
Commissioner Hazen Friday, reminded
him the Budget Bureau had put the
blame for failure to care for the city's
needy “squarely back on the Commis
sioners,” and urged “that this situa
tion be corrected ' j
The Budget Bureau pointed out,
Mrs. Roberts wrote, that the Commis
sioners have never made a formal re
quest for additional funds to meet the
relief emergency.
Controversy Old One.
Controversy over the need for ad
ditional relief funds has prevailed
since October, when Elwood Street, di
rector of public welfare, recommended
a supplemental appropriation of $830 -
000 to care for needy who are receii -
ing neither direct nor indirect assist
ance.
Street's recommendation was never
transmitted formally, but the Com
missioners let it be known the Fed
eral agency had declared informal,
it would not approve the request.
Early this year, welfare workers wl.
conferred with John L. Keddy, a -
sistant budget director in charge of
District affairs, charged he had d> -
dared the support of unemployed
workers who were willing and able to
work but wfho could not find jobs, was
mainly a responsibility of the churches.
The Council of Social Agencies has
contended the Commissioners should
make a forrfial application for addi
tional relief funds so that responsibil
ity could definitely be fixed if thej
are rebuffed by the Budget Bureau. •
Resolutions at tomorrow's mass meet
ing will suggest that the Commission
ers be urged to try to obtain a de
ficiency appropriation of at least
$100 000 a month for thP re
mainder of the present fiscal year to
meet urgent relief needs through the
Board of Public Welfare. They wtfl
, also point out that as the House bill
for 1938 makes no provision for the
relief of ''employables." that an ad
ditional appropriation of at least
$1,000,000 be made available to the
Board of Public Welfare for relief
needs and an adequate administration.
Committee Expected to Continue. I
The resolutions, expected to b
adopted will continue the Spewa;
Committee as now constituted and wii:
authorize it to carry out the purpos'
of the mass meeting in such ways a.‘
it may see fit. This will include try
ing to devise and carry through, in
co-operation with other public ar.r
private agencies, plans not only
meeting the needs of those now un
employed. but for solving the unen.
playment problem in the future.
Interest in tomorrows mass meeting
1 is growing by leaps and bounds, a.
I cording to letters and telephone calls
received by Chairman Jennings and
Canon Anson Phelps Stokes. Some of
Washington's most prominent citizens
' are joining the list of sponsors.
Stories of the plight of some of the.^e
"employables." gathered by volunteer
church workers under direction of the
Family Service Association and printed
; in the newspapers, have aroused a
wave of sentiment which is indicated
I oy offers of direct help for the people
| in question and of assistance in carry
: mg out the purpose of the mass
meeting.
Tomorrow's mass meeting is called
by a committee of 23 leaders m
1 church, social welfare and civic or
ganizations of the city.
Chairman Jennings last night again
called attention to the fact that this
I is not a church service in any sense
i of the word. It is a mass meeting of
; citizens of all creeds and denomina
tions.
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HOPKINS WILL GET
| W. P. A. UNION PLEA
_
Members to Protest Dismissals
Ask That Congress Spend
More to Continue Jobs.
A delegation of W. P. A union
members from half a dozen rities w.ll
go before Administrator Harry L
Hopkins Tuesday at 3 p.m.. to plead
; for a "broader concept" of the \V. P.
A. program.
Administrative and research workers
j met last night at thp Willard Hotel
to protest dismissal of some of their
fellow workers and map a program
of demands for presentation to Hop
kins. Union members represented
Washington, Chicago, Cleveland, Den
ver, Seattle and San Francisco.
They will urge: Full continuance
of W. P. A. to be financed by a de
ficiency appropriation: expansion ol
research necessary for the proper plan,
ning of a relief program; extension ol
civil service status to all W. P. A
administrative and research employes,
and establishment of white collet
projects sufficient to absorb those stii:
unemployed at regular civil servic*
pay.
The meeting last night urged i
| census of the unemployed and sug
gested that "for this work all dts
I missed administrative and research
i workers should be reinstated at once ’
Representative Voorhls, Democrat
1 of California was one of the speakers
| Others included Eli Oliver, executhi
vice president of Labor's Non-Partisar
! League; Willis Morgan of New York
president of the City Projects Council
and Walter S. Polakov, who wroti
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