Evening star. [volume], April 24, 1937, Page A-16, Image 16

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

Image provided by: Library of Congress, Washington, DC

                
SITE OF MEMORI.
Congress Step Seen Likely
to Back Drive Against
Basin Location.
COMMISSION IS ASKED
FOR CONTRACT DATA
Committee Junks Wearin Proposal
for National Architectural
Competition.
. BY WILL P. KENNEDY.
Opponents of the proposed loca
tion of the $3,000,000 Thomas Jef
ferson Memorial at the Tidal Basin,
including those concerned over the
threatened destruction of some of the
cherry trees,' will have an opportunity
to be heard before the House Library
Committee on Tuesday, starting at
10 a.m.
Chairman Keller and Representa
tive Treadway of Massachusetts,
the ranking Republican members of
the committee, who have voiced their
sympathy with a drive to "save the
cherry trees" and to preserve the
graceful contour of the Tidal Basin,
said at the hearing yesterday they
believe steps may be taken by Con
gress to support the campaign.
Senator King, Democrat, of Utah,
ehalrman of the District Committee,
has joined the fight on present plans
tor the memorial. He bases his oppo
sition on several grounds.
"First, the site is inappropriate,” said
the Senator. “The design looks more
like a mausoleum than a memorial.”
He said he also is opposed to it
because it may cost from $6,000,000 to
$8,000,000.
The House Library Committee, at
Its meeting yesterday, informed Repre
sentative Wearin, Democrat, of Iowa,
sponsor of a resolution to delay con
struction of the memorial until after
a Nation-wide architectural competi
tion has been held, that nothing can
be done along the line he proposes.
In effect, they “junked" his resolution.
Representative Treadway then intro
duced a resolution prohibiting the use
of the Tidal Basin as a site for the
memorial. This will be the basis for
the resumed hearing Tuesday.
Contract Data Sought.
Meanwhile, the Library Committee
is endeavoring to obtain from the
Memorial Commission definite in
formation regarding what “contrac
tual relations have been entered into
with John Russell Pope, noted archi
tect, for erection of the memorial.
Representatives Keller, Treadway and
Wearin all agreed the committee has
no criticism of Pope's "outstanding
ability.”
The records of the commission show'
that Senator Lonergan, Democrat, of
Connecticut on February 18, 1937,
offered the following formal resolu
tion, which was unanimously car
ried:
“Resolved, That John Russell Pope
of New York be appointed architect
for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
to be constructed in Washington, D. C.,
to be paid for complete services a
sum equal to the minimum fee of 6
per cent of the actual cost Ol the work,
in accordance with the statement of
professional practice of architects,
and schedules of minimum charges of
the American Institute of Architects,
the work to be performed and service
rendered in accordance with code or
codes as covered by the aforemen
tioned schedule of professional
charges, copy of which is attached.”
The next resolution passed desig
nated the National Park Service as
executive agents to make the actual
contracts.
The Jefferson Memorial Commis
sion was authorized to select the
architect, the site and the design and
to name an agent by act of Congress.
Now Ready for Contracts.
It is contended that due notice was
served on Congress more than a year
ago that the commission was ready
to make contracts, and that if Con
gres tv as not satisfied, then was the
time to stop the commission. A re
port from Chairman Keller of the
Library Committee, No. 2341, dated
April 1, 1936, said: "The stage of work
has so far proceeded that the com
mission is now ready to award con
tracts for the construction of the me
morial. The lowest estimate was that
for $3,000,000, for which sum authori
zation is now requested.”
A public law approved June 3, 1936,
authorized and directed the Thomas
Jefferson Memorial Commission "to
proceed with construction of : r me
morial on a site selected by the com
mission under a contract or contracts
hereby authorized to be entered into
to a total sum not exceeding $3,000,
000.”
The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission meanwhile yes
terday stood on its remommendations
to the Memorial Commission that
while the site at the Tidal Basin was
satisfactory, a general study of the
whole area should be made, taking
into consideration traffic requirements,
landscape treatment and other fac
tors.
Progress* Explained.
Arno B. Cammerer, director of* the
National Park Service, who is also
executive officer of the Planning Com
mission, explained to the planners the
progress that has been made on the
problem. The National Park Service
has been designated by the Jefferson
Commission as its agent in the con
atruction of the memorial.”
Francis P. Sullivan of the American
Institute of Architects, who sought to
make a statement at the hearing be
fore the Library Committee yesterday,
but was Tuled out until Tuesday, ex
plained today that he merely intended
to make clear the position of the insti
tute on the Wearin resolution. He
said it has tbken no part in framing
the measure, although specifically
mentioned in the resolution.
"We have no criticism to offer of
the procedure that has been adopted
by the Memorial Commission,” he
said, "in its selection of an architect
nor of the selection that has been
made.”
He explained in a letter to Chair
man Keller that “it is the fixed policy
of the institute to extend co-operation
to the Government agencies concerned
with public building problems when
ever called upon to do so.”
Money in Egg.
DECORAH, Iowa OP).—Hulda Moen
an egg candler, altered the story aboul
the oyster and the pearl.
One egg she was examining showed
a black spot. Miss Moen became
curious, cracked open the egg and
found a shiny quarter.
Slaying Suspect
MARYLANDER HELD IN
MOUNTAIN SHOOTING.
CLYDE FRIEND
Of Friendsville, Md., lanky
34-year-old mountaineer, is
held on a warrant charging
he shot a?id killed Quinter
Hook, 60-year-old farmer.
Posses hunted Friend for four
days, but were afraid to close
in on him because he had a
high-powered rifle. He sur
rendered after being trapped
in his parents’ mountain
home. —A. P. Photo.
Rev. C. E. Buck Sees Step
Possible if Appeal for
Funds Fails.
It Is not beyond the realm of possi
bility that one or more of Washing
ton's hospitals will be forced to close
its doors if citizens fail to meet the
present financial emergency now con
fronting the institution, Rev. Calvert
E. Buck, superintendent of Episcopal
Hospital, told a group of 175 hospital
heads and board members yesterday
at a luncheon in the Mayflower.
“It is up to you who are ‘key men’
in the united hospital appeal to make
every Washingtonian see that each
time treatment is given to control a
disease, every man, woman and child
who walks the streets of Washington
is made healthier,” he said.
Charles D. Drayton, chairman of the
Hospital Presidents’ Committee, who
presided, told the gathering $11,000 of
the $120,000 required to meet pressing
i needs of the nine hospitals making
. the appeal had been contributed so far.
$3,000 From Performance.
Mrs. L. B. Norris, president of the
Georgetown Hospital Ladies' Board,
reported over $3,000 of this was the
result of the Georgetown University
Mask and Bauble Club's benefit per
formance of Galsworthy's “Loyalty'’
last week.
Miss Beatrice Mullen, director of
medical social service at Georgetown
| Hospital, reported 300 contribution
boxes marked “Help Hospitals, Help
Health” had been distributed to local
stores.
Mrs. waiter B. Fry, president or tne
District Parent-Teachers' Congress,
pledged support of the organization’s
15,000 members to the drive.
Drayton reported co-operation would
be given by the large department
stores in providing windows next
week for hospital work displays, such
as clinics, operating rooms, labora
tories, etc.
A preview of the three-minute movie
trailer, to be used in theaters here
next week carrying an appeal punctu
ated with actual hospital scenes, was
shown at the luncheon.
Clark G. Dimond, chairman of
"Badge day,” May 1, announced his
committee had zoned the city into
I nine sections, each with one of the
| nine hospitals as headquarters.
Plans to have pyramidal horse
drawn appeals and an R. C. A. sound
truck cruise through the city on May
1 were outlined at the luncheon. All
that is needed. Drayton said, is a
license from police.
Bloom Pledges Book Proceeds.
Announcement was made that Rep
resentative Bloom, Democrat of New
York, has pledged to the drive fund
70 cents out of every sale of his illus
trated book containing the Constitu
tion and other important documents.
Benefits in the Interest of the drive,
j each charging $1 admittance, were
j announced by Drayton as follows:
Tea at the home of Mrs. Harry Wil
' kins, 1701 Twenty-second street. Mon
! day, when her collection of book
! bindings will be shown; tours through
Foxhall road houses and Alexander
Kirk House, where the secretary of
the Czechoslovakian legation and Mrs.
Perozie will receive Friday, and the
Curtis Club, 1925 F street, will be
opened to visitors wishing to con
tribute to the fund May 5.
Drayton expressed thanks at the
luncheon to all who had co-operated
in arranging the drive, among them
. Ross Garrett, director of the Central
Admitting Bureau for Hospitals; Lou
Brown, territorial representative of
Loew’s, Inc.; Carter Barron, manager
of the Capitol Theater, and local de
partment store officials.
PARK TOUR TOMORROW
C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent
of National Capital Parks, announced
today that Park Naturalist • Donald
Edward McHenry will conduct a tour
for the public over the Rock Creek
Park Nature Trail from 2:30 to 5
p.m. tomorrow.
McHenry will meet the hikers at
picnic grove 19, Beech and Bingham
drives, in upper Rock Creek Park, at
2:30 p.m.
■ ■ ■
OF HOMES FOR U. S.
REMO WORKERS
Disabled Employes Also
Would Get New Form
of Security.
ALCORN ADDS APPROVAL
OF CONGRESS MEASURE
Contributions From Pay, as Well
as Subsistence Payments,
Would Be Used.
BY J. A. O’LEARY.
Establishment of homes for dis
abled or retired Government employes
in various parts of the country, as a
new form of social security for Fed
eral workers, won the indorsement to
day of John S. Beach, former chief
of the Retirement Division of the Pen
sion Bureau.
Discussing the bill introduced in
Congress recently to carry out the
plan. Beach explained it would, if en
acted, be financed by small contribu
tions from employes, plus subsistence
payments by those who make use of
the homes.
Robert H. Alcorn, chairman of the
Joint Conference on Retirement of
Civil Service Employes, joined in ex
pressing approval of the proposal. He
said he believed it would "serve a real
purpose.”
The employe contribution called for
in the bill would amount to *1 a year
for each *1,000 of salary. On the
basis of present pay rolls. Beach esti
mated this would produce nearly
*1,000,000 annually.
Experience Will Solve Question.
‘‘It is within the realm of possibil
ity,” Beach said, "that in the not dis
tant future, when initial costs have
been paid, the rate of contributions
or of subsistence payments, or both,
may be reduced. Experience alone
would solve this question.”
If Congress should pass the bill, he
said, the first step would be for the
agency designated to carry it out to
purchase tracts of land in widely
separated parts of the country. He
suggested that one should be near
Washington, and that others might
be located in northern New England,
in the South, on the Pacific Coast
and on the Atlantic Coast. He sug
gested the cottage type of develop
ment rather than institutional type,
except for the hospital facilities that
would be required. The theory of the
plan is that employes could go to
these homes for recuperation or va
cation, but the primary object would
be to offer relief to disabled workers,
annuitants or dependent relatives of
annuitants.
Objections Foreseen.
commenting on the possibility that
some employes may object to being
taxed on the ground that they may
never become beneficiaries of the
plan, Beach said:
"Not every person who takes out
fire insurance has a fire, but every
prudent owner of insurable property
should insure, and most do. Further
more, we are just now living in an
age when social security, social insur
ance and care for the aged and needy
are marching forward in great strides.
The Government employes should be
in the vanguard and insure for them
selves an added measure of relief in
case of incapacity to carry on.”
The pending bill was introduced by
Representative Randolph of West Vir
ginia, by request, and is awaiting com
mittee consideration. The bill desig
nates the Civil Service Commission to
administer the plan.
bondssetforfive
IN GAMBLING RAIDS
26 Arrested in Drive on Alleged
Gaming Places—Equipment
Seized.
Five of 26 persons arrested yester
day in three raids on alleged gambling
establishments appeared before United
States Commissioner Needham C.
Tumage, who fixed their bonds and
set dates for hearings.
Those who appeared were Thomas
Newman, 24, colored, 1400 block of
Church street, and Coleridge Williams,
21, colored, 1300 block of Corcoran
street, both charged with setting up a
gaming table and operating a lottery,
released on $2,000 bond each for hear
ings May 24; Kermit Mallette, 33. col
ored, 1300 block of Girard street,
charged with operating a lottery, re
leased on $1,000 bond for a hearing
May 5; Robert Brown, 43, colored,
2100 block of Nineteenth street,
charged with operating a lottery,
tery, released on $200 bond each for
a hearing Monday.
Newman and Coleridge Williams
were arrested in a raid in the 1300
block of R street and Mallette, Brown
and Willie Williams were taken in two
separate raids on an establishment in
the 1800 block of Seventh street.
Lieut. Lawrence Beale, leading a
headquarters raiding party, seized a
quantity of alleged gambling equip
ment in a house in the 4500 block of
Fifteenth street. The place appar
ently had been hurriedly vacated, Beale
said. No arrests were made.
The other raids were led by Lieut.
Clarence Lutz and Sergt. T. E. Ed
wards, both of No. 2 precinct.
-•
Mountain Cable to Be Fast.
A new mountain cable railway, to
be the fastest in the world, is being
built by Austria from St. Anton, in
the Arlberg, to the summit of Galzig,
6,900 feet high.
New Glass Home for Captive Insects
....- ---T~...
In the glass penthouse shown in the inset the Agriculture
Department soon will observe the life cycle of a multitude of
insects. Some such ivork is already carried on by the depart
ment in rooms in the south building. For instance, as at the
left, Miss Helen Louise Trembley looks at a tray of little boxes
containing ticks in various stages of growth, all carriers of the
dreaded spotted fever. At the right, a mouse sits quietly in a
corner of a jar while the scientist, whose hands are visible,
stirs the ticks on the bottom of the jar to fasten to the mouse, so
that the virulence of the ticks may be tested.—Star Staff Photo.
Unemployed Spend Night in
Waiting Room of Public
Assistance Office.
Fifteen men and women, mostly col
ored, continued their sit-down strike
today in the waiting room of the Divi
sion of Public Assistance Office, 1400
block of U street, in an effort to en
force demands for immediate relief.
The unemployed strikers spent last
night on the waiting room benches.
They refused to comment on reports
that they were locked in during the
night and could not obtain food or
drink.
Empty milk bottles, however, seemed
to indicate they had not gone hungry.
The strikers say they face eviction
from their homes and that it takes at
least three weeks to obtain aid.
Elwood Street, director of public
welfare, announced yesterday that no
effort will be made to evict the dem
onstrators unless they become disor
derly or interfere with the business
of the agency.
Street said the strikers' applications
for relief had been considered and
a few orders issued. Most of the ap
plications were declined because the
men and women could not qualify for
relief, it was said.
BURROUGHSGROUP
SEEKS NEW SCHOOL
Bunker Hill Institution Declared
Inadequate by Citizens’
Association.
Declaring the Bunker Hill School
inadequate to care for children of the
neighborhood, the Burroughs Citizens’
Association last night asked that funds
for a new structure be voted by the
Senate Appropriations Committee.
Guest speaker John J. Hurley, presi
dent of the Michigan Park Citizens’
Association, asked that the busses be
shifted from Ninth street to the old
route on Tenth street.
A committee was appointed to confer
with W. A. Van Duzer, director of
traffic, to find whether the District
was planning to reroute the heavy
truck traffic on South Dakota avenue
or Eighteenth street as had been pro
posed. Edward Dougherty, Robert
Fumiss and Mrs. Emil Smith were ap
pointed to represent the association on
this committee.
The recommendation of Kenneth
Armstrong that Bunker Hill road be
widened was referred to the Executive
Committee for action.
The association asked Eighteenth
street be rezoned from Randolph street
to Bunker Hill road from commercial
to residential restricted.
G. P. 0. DINNER TONIGHT
TO HAVE 1,000 PRESENT
More than 1,000 persons will sit
down at the annual banquet of offi
cials and employes of the Govern
ment Printing Office at the Willard
Hotel tonight—and they won’t have
to listen to speeches.
The dinner starts at 7:30, and there
w-ill be a floor show and dancing.
August J. Giegengack, public
printer, will welcome the guests, who
will include the members of the
Joint Committe on Printing, and
Representative Lambeth, Democrat,
of North Carolina, chairman of the
committee, wHll bring greetings from
hU associates.
Dr. George C. Havenner is chair
man of the Banquet Committee.
Bugs Use Elaborate Penthouse
In Study of Habits, Love, Diet
Laboratory on South Building of Agri
culture Structure Has Double ,
Doors and Screening.
High above the street the Agricul
ture Department has just built a
double-barrel glass-inclosed labora
tory to investigate the habits, love
life and diet of man’s pestiferous
enemies, the "hexapod arthropods,”
known generally as bugs.
This roof garden for insecfs tops a
block-long wing of the multi-corri
dored south building of the depart
ment, which stretches along B and C
streets from Fourteenth to Twelfth !
streets southwest.
Mosquitoes, lice, ticks and other !
flying nuisances which make miserable
the life of man and beast will be j
reared and watched by entomologists
interested in finding the key to identi
fying insects in their immature stages. 1
They all look alike when they are
babies.
Penthouse Has Strong Glass.
The penthouse for a louse has
double doors, double screening and
extra strong glass, so no insect can
escape. Bolts and locks keep out in
truders. Most of the parasites which
will enjoy t^is life of luxury require
blood on which to feed and develop,
and suitable animats, such as mice,
guinea pigs and rabbits, are provided ,
for this purpose.
Tenants tor tne soutn ouuaing skj
home are to come from all over the
country. When field agents of the
department discover living specimens
of grubs or other immature insect
stages belonging to groups that cannot
be classified, they will cage their cap
tives, place them in tightly sealed con
tainers and ship them to Washington.
Under the eyes of scientists, the
bugs will grow to adulthood and thus
give the entomologists information
which will aid in combating insect
pests and in the enforcement of plant
quarantines.
Two problems which will receive
early attention are studies on the
habits and development of wood ticks,
because of the relation to Rocky
Mountain spotted fever, and studies on
certain kinds of mosquitoes suspected
of carrying encephalomyelitis, a seri
ous disease.
On the other side of the aisle in
the department’s penthouse are row
upon row of experimental pots, each
to hold specially treated soil. Phos
phates may have been added to one,
arsenates to another, or selenium
compounds to another. Corresponding
soils, filled with untreated soil, serve
as checks.
Seeds of a plant selected for the
tests are placed in each pot. The-be
havior of plants in soils both with
and without added toxic substances
points the way to overcome natural
deficiencies of soils or to nullify the
influence of toxic substances like
selenium that may occur naturally,
or like arsenates that may be added by
spraying or dusting plants for in
sect control.
second on South Building.
The bug and soil greenhouse is the
second to be placed atop the south
building. The first, complete last Fall,
is used as an experimental laboratory
by plants specialists, to supplement
research in laboratories at Arlington
Farms and the Beltsville. Md., research
farm.
It is 300 feet long and 26 feet wide,
consisting of 14 units. Studies in
plant physiology, breeding and disease
resistance which need constant at
tention of investigators are carried
on there.
Building such laboratories high up
in the air is cheaper than placing
them on the ground near enough to
the department to make them prac
tical, the department holds. Land
value in the neighborhood of Four
teenth and B streets southwest is very
high.
GRAY LADIES HEAR
MAJ. GEN. REYNOLDS
21 of Walter Reed Unit of D. C.
Red Cross Rranch Attend
Graduation Rites.
Twenty-one Gray Ladies of the
Walter Reed Unit of the Hospital
and Recreation Service of the District
Chapter, American Red Cross, heard
Maj. Gen. Charles R. Reynolds, sur
geon general of the Army, at gradua
tion exercises yesterday afternoon at
Army Medical Center.
Those graduated are Mrs. H. D.
Await, Mrs. Robert Bicknell, Mrs.
Charles W. Bradley, jr., Miss Elian
Bryden, Mrs. Gertrude Camp, Miss
Jane Culbertson, Mrs. John E. Doyle,
Mrs. M. A. Ferrell, Mrs. John W.
Joyes, Mrs. R. C. Mackay, Mrs. Eliz
beth McCartney, Mrs. F. H. K. Rey
nolds. Mrs. F. E. Scrivener, Mrs.
Arvo T. Thompson, Mrs. William H.
Wagner, Mrs. Frank Ward, Mrs. Har
ry Wardman, Mrs. F. W. Wheeler and
Mrs. Mary L. Willis.
Prominent persons taking part in
the ceremonies and the tea which fol
llowed were Brig. Gen. Wallace De
Witt, commandant of the center; Col.
Joseph F. Siler, assistant command
ant; Miss Margaret H. Lower, Ameri
can Red Cross field director; Mrs.
Henry R. Rea of Pittsburgh, war
time Red Cross field director at Wal
ter Reed and founder of the Gray
Lady service; Miss Mabel T. Board
man, national chairman of volunteer
service, and Mrs. Albert N. Baggs.
Horse's Rights
Still Protected,
Motorist Finds
He's Fined $2 for Park
ing Too Close to
W ater Trough.
Automobiles have taken almost com
plete control of the city’s streets, but
the horse still has his rights—as can
be attested by Walter S. Stamford,
who Was fined $2 by Traffic Judge
Isaac R. Hitt today on a charge ol
parking within five feet of an "ani
mal drinking fountain.”
Stamford was arrested by Pvt
T. R. Beckwith for parking too near
a watering trough on New Jersey
avenue.
Said Stamford when arrainged to
day, "I thought that was an old
fashioned bathtub. I have seen it
regularly for the past two years, and 1
often wondered why they left it there.
If I had known, your honor, I wouldn't
have thought of depriving any horse
of his drink of water.”
-.
Traffic Signs Case Continued.
Arguments on briefs in the case of
Cornelius H. Doherty, an attorney,
who has contested all traffic signs
erected on streets other than those
designated by an act of Congress, were
continued for the third time today in
Judge John P. McMahon’s branch of
Police Court. The case was continued
until next Saturday.
V
Fugitives Believed by Police
to Have Been “Black
face Gang.”
Two bandits, believed by police to ■
have been the "blackface gang" mem- i
bers who escaped from the Lorton Re
formatory Thursday, eluded capture
early today after robbing two liquor
store proprietors of $523.
Edward B. Smith, proprietor of a '
liquor store at 609 Eleventh street
southwest, emptied his gun at the rob
bers as they fled in a grav-bodied sedan
after taking $223, two boxes of cigars,
an adding machine and two quarts of
wine from his store.
One of the bandits slumped in the
car while he was firing. Smith told
police. A watch on all hospitals was
kept during the early morning in ex
pectation that the bandit had been
wounded and would seek treatment.
Twenty minutes before they robbed
Smith, the robbers held up Alex Ster
ling, proprietor of a liquor store at
429 Fifteenth street northeast and
escaped with $300. Both men were
armed, but neither fired a shot, their
victims said.
Descriptions of the bandits dove
tailed with those of Martin J. Walsh,
36, and Walter Forbush, 22, who fled
• the reformatory in a guard's auto
i mobile which they had been repair
I ing. The men, both of whom have
long criminal records, victimized Dis
trict merchants in a series of hold
ups last year.
employTpoucy
UPSET BY ELLIOTT
Method of Civil Service Unit in
Fixing Per Diem Workers
Service Overturned.
The policy followed by the Civil
Service Commission in fixing length
of service for per diem employes in
the administration of the retirement
act was upset by a ruling of Acting
Controller General Elliott, made
publicc today.
It is thought the commission will
seek a reopening of the question.
The commission has held previ
ously that "employes regularly ap
pointed are employes of the Govern
ment during the entire period their
names are carried on the rolls, al
though paid only when actually em
ployed.”
Elliott says, however, that "only
the actual periods of service of em
ployes appointed and paid on the
basis of ‘when actually employed’
who are otherwise entitled to retire
ment benefits, may be included in
‘length of service' for the purpose
of computing retirement annuity.
He added that it would not be
necessary to recompute the annui
ties of employes previously retired.
The ruling applies principally to
intermittent employes in the field
service.
HUNT PURSE-SNATCHERS
Police Seek Four Who Robbed
Woman on Dumbarton Bridge.
Four schoolboys who snatched a
purse from Miss Isabelle Stone, 2202
Q street as she crossed Dumbarton
Bridge near her home last night are
being sought by police today.
The boys, who wrere about 14. fled
into Rock Creek Park Miss Stone told
police. Her purse she said, contained
only 60 cents.
Tomorrows The Day When Some Cities Put an Hour on Deposit
UNLESS Washington is on its
collective toes tomorrow,
somebody is going to miss his
favorite radio program and
perhaps be late for a train.
For at 2 a.m. 19 States will give
away an hour, not to be recaptured
until September 26, and thereby go
on daylight saving time.
Although the Capital is not tamper
ing with its timepieces, it will be af
fected just the same.
Programs Change.
The programs on the coast-to-coast
networks are moving up an hour and
the local programs also will differ.
Program directors in Washington
broadcasting studios have done a lot
of juggling, but despite their efforts
r
some of the local features have had to
be dropped.
And they fear the consequences, too,
because they expect a repetition of
what occurred last year when it took
the public a week or 10 days to become
accustomed to the change, and the
studio switchboards were swamped
with calls from persons who wanted
to know:
"What happened to Jack Benny?
Aren’t you going to broadcast Paul
Whiteman’s program tonight? Where
is Fred Allen?”
Railroads Don’t Worry.
The railroads probably aren’t worry
ing so much, because they operate on
standard time and revamping their
schedules isn’t quite as difficult.
1
There will be changes, however, and
new time tables are being issued.
While the Capital is running an hour
behind time as far as New York, Phila
delphia and some other Eastern cities
are concerned, there seems to be a
movement afoot to restore daylight
saving here.
No concerted attempt to bring back
daylight saving has been made in
Washington since it was discontinued
nationally in 1920.
Reason for Change.
Designed as a conservation measure,
which advocates said would result in
a ■great saving of coal and enable the
public to work their gardens after
office and factory hours and thus
increase the food supply for the Allies,
the daylight saving law was effected
in 1918.
It was continued in 1919, for the
usual seven-month period from the
last Sunday in March to the last Sun
day in October, but in June of that
year Congress voted to repeal the law.
And it was repealed over President
Wilson’s veto.
Although the American Federation
of Labor went on record against con
tinuation of the law, with one of the
leaders maintaining that "daylight
should take care of itself; let labor
devote its efforts to getting a six-hour
day,” the principal opponents were
the farmers.
They claimed It was Impossible for
* )
{
them to start work an hour earlier
because the crops were then wet with
dew.
Office workers and merchants
seemed to be generally in fdvor of
"cheating on the sun,” since it gave
them more time for recreation, even
though it meant getting up an hour
earlier.
Sentiment here appears to be the
same as when the law was repealed,
if the action of the Board of Trade
and the Merchants and Manufac
turers’ Association can be taken as an
indication.
Both of these bodies have informed
Representative Sacks, Democrat, of
Pennsylvania they are in favor of
his bill to revive daylight saving In
the District, subject to congressional
action.
If daylight saving ever returns here
a problem that developed among own
ers of valuable timepieces at the end
of the first “saving period" probably
will crop up again. At that time
those possessing heirlooms and ex
pensive watches worried about the in
juriors effects that might result from
turning back the hands.
Jewelers and watchmakers flew at
each other’s throats. One faction held
it did not harm a watch to set back
the hands an hour, while the other
side said it was better to turn the
hands forward 11 hours.
Finally it was decided the best solu
tion was for a person to let his watch
run down and atop for an hour.
*
1). S. Bureau Is Considering
Tentative Terms for
Rating Regulations.
21-PASSENGER TYPES,
NOW USED, FACE BARS
Three Classifications of Airports
Would Be Established by
Proposed Rules.
Operation of the larger types of
modem airliners at Washington Air
port may be prohibited under the
terms of tentative airport rating regu
lations now being considered by offi
cials of the Bureau of Air Commerce,
it was learned today. These regula
tions, if approved, are expected to go
into effect in the Fall.
Two airlines operating through
Washington now are using 21-pas
senger types of airliners which may
be barred from the local field if the
regulations go into effect as they now 1
are being considered. !
Under the proposed regulations,
definite minimum standards will be
set up for airline terminals but each
airport will be considered and rated
individually in accordance with the
type of operations it handles.
i. lassihcat ions Considered.
The classifications being considered
are those of ''superterminal.” a re
quirement for which will be runway*
of at least 4,000 feet minimum length,
giving landings and take-offs in at
least four directions; ‘'terminal,” with
a minimum runway length of 3,500
feet, and ''limited," with a runway
length of at least 2,200 feet.
Under the proposed regulations, air
ports will be certified for use only if
suitable for the type of equipment
normally operating there. For ex
ample, smaller airports may be certi
fied for the operation of small, single
engined airplanes with low landing
speeds and good performance char
acteristics, but closed to transport .
airplanes. Others may be open for
smaller types of transports but closed
to large, high-speed types.
In each case, however, it is said
by officials of the bureau, tlv poorest
performance of airplane and pilot l
observed at the field, rather than
the average, will be the basis of de
termining the type of rating given '
the airport.
Work May Begin at Once.
If it is decided to promulgate the
regulations, the work of establishing
individual airport ratings may begin
at once, even though the rules will
not become effective until Fall.
Surveys which may be used as a
basis for the rating of Washington
Airport already have been under
taken. The Bureau of Air Commerce,
using special photo-electric equip
ment, has conducted a series of ob
servations to determine the exact *
requirements for all types of aircraft
operating from Washington Airport
under various conditions of weather
and loading.
On the basis of these experimental
observations, the Bureau of Air Com
merce has pointed out the desirability
of clearing emergency landing areas
at the ends of existing runways in
case of engine failure on take-offs
and is studying the need for airport
zoning regulations requiring the clear
ing of emergency areas around the
main airline terminals.
POLICE COURT QUIZ
WELCOMED BY HOOE
Assistant Corporation Counsel Ex
plains Release of Woman
in Accident Case.
Thorough investigation of the Police
Court branch of the corporation coun
sel's office will be welcomed by Assis
tant Corporation Counsel Rice Hoop,
in charge of the office, he announced
today after learning that Commis
sioner Melvin C. Hazen has requested
such an inquiry by Corporation Coun
sel Elwood Seal.
"I would particularly like an in
vestigation of all the circumstances in
the case of Mrs. Betty Peal," he raid.
Mrs. Peal was held by a coronor s
jury after having been released by
Hooe after her auto allegedly struck a .
street car, fatally injuring a passenger
in her machine.
Hooe said he released Mrs. Peal
after she had been charged aith uck
less driving, before the death of hrr
companion. Mrs. Peal was -veld on a
manslaughter charge by a coroner's
jury, but left the city and police have
been unable to locate her.
The head of the Police Court office
denied there had been any laxity. as
has been intimated by Col. Lawrence
C. Crawford, chairman of the Board
of Trade's Traffic Committee, in call
ing attention to the Peal case before
a meeting of his group on Thursday.
JEWELRY JAILS BOY
Youth, 16, Turned Over to Brook
lyn, N. Y., Police by D. C. Officials. ^
Sol Kleindorf.. 16, was turned over
to Brooklyn, N. Y.. police ypsterday
after a Washington detective report
ed* finding jewelry worth $1,800 in
the boy’s possession.
The youngster, missing from his
Brooklyn home since Thursday, was
arrested by Sergt. David Fletcher fol
lowing receipt of a tip that he was
trying to sell the jewelry to a local
dealer. The jewelry, police said, had
been reported stolen by the boy’* step
brother, Abraham Silberberg.
-•
BAND CONCERT.
By the Soldiers’ Home Band in
Stanley Hall at 5:30 p.m. today. John
S. M. Zimmermann: bandmaster,
Anton Pointner, assistant.
Program.
March, “Radetzy” _Strauss
Overture, “The Pearl of Korea,’’
Hadley
A Southern rhapsodie, “Virginia,"
Hayden-Wood
Grand scenes from the opera.
“Faust"_ Gounod
Fox trots, “Gypsy Blues”_Blake
“Fashionette" (requested) Glogau
Xylophone solo by Musician KiefTer.
Valsette, “Lovely Lucerne”... Godin
Finale, "Navy Blue"-Zimmermann %
"The Star Spangled Banner.” ,J