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General News Tim I
PAGE B—1
HEARING SET OCT. G
ON 33 PROPOSALS
FOR ZONING SHIFTS
Commission Also to Consid
er Classification Changes
for Alley Properties.
WIDE REVISION ASKED
IN NORTHERN D. C. TIP
Wtlsh Estates Requests Holding
on Massachusetts Be Put Under
First Commercial.
Proposals for 33 changes in zoning
classifications of properties—eight of
them initiated b,v the District Zoning
Commission—will be considered at a
public hearing at the District Building
beginning at 10 a.m., October 6. In
addition, the commission will consider
changes in the zoning of 10 alley
properties, making the schedule one
of the heaviest in recent years.
One of the major suggestions of
the commission involves extensive re
vamping of the zoning plan for a
larger area near the northern tip of
the District. This is bounded by Whit
tier street. Eastern avenue, Sligo Mill
road and the right of way of the Bal
* timore & Ohio Railroad.
The shifting of the zoning classifi
cations there is proposed as the result
of six months of study by planning
experts. Much of the area now is
undeveloped. One effect of the new
Plan would be to eliminate classifica
tions which permit construction of
flats or apartments in residential
rones, restricting them to commercial
areas which would be provided within
the territory.
Petition of Walsh Estate.
The Walsh estate has petitioned the
» commission to change from residential
to first commercial the zoning of the
property at 2020 Massachusetts ave
nue. ana an adjoining unimproved lot.
The building there formerly was
rented for office space by the United
States, despite the residential classi
fication, the' Commissioners lacking
power to apply their regulations to the
Federal Government.
Proposals made by the Zoning
Commission involve the following:
Change from residential 60-foot C
■ rea to residential 40-foot C area,
all property on the west side of Wis
consin avenue between Calvert and
Garfield streets, which is near Mount
Alto Hospital.
Change from residential A restrict
ed to residential A semi-restricted,
properties on the east side of Thirty
eighth street between Mount Alto
Hospital and Cathedral avenue, plus
some of the parcels bounded by Ca
thedral avenue. Fulton, Thirty-eighth
and Thirty-ninth streets, as well as
lots on the southwest corner of Thir
ty-eighth and Fulton streets.
Change on Forty-fifth Street.
Change from A semi-restricted to
A restricted, properties on the west
side of Forty-fifth street between
Western avnue and Harrison street.
Change from first commercial 60
foot C area to residential 40-foot B
area, property on the north side of
Harrison street between Forty-fourth
street and Wisconsin avenue, now
mostly occupied by flats.
Change to residential 40-foot B
area all of the property on both sides
of Eighteenth street northeast, be
tween Monroe and Newton streets,
which now is zoned for-first commer
cial use; and change to residential
40-foot A restricted area all of the
property on Eighteenth street north
east between Brentwood road and
Lawrence street which now is zoned
for first commercial use.
Minnesota Avenue Proposal.
Eliminate all of the commercial
Classification from properties on Min
nesota avenue southeast between Mas
sachusetts and Pennsylvania ave
nues and from properties on Pennsyl
vania avenue southeast between Min
CUiU A WVlU-Jr -iSCVCIHil
street.
. Change from first commercial to
residential 40-foot A area certain par
cels on both sides of Pennsylvania
avenue southeast between the District
line and Alabama avenue.
One of the cases which comes up on
a property owner petition is that of '
Raymond Garrity, which has been re
jected four times by the commission,
which also won a victory over the case
In the Court of Appeals. It calls for
«. change from residential 40-foot A
restricted area to a residential 60-foot
C area classification for property on
the south side of Macomb street east
of Connecticut avenue.
FALL KILLS COMEDIAN
Colored Man Playing at Howard
Pound Lying in Areaway.
Gallie Degaston, 35, colored come
dian engaged at the Howard Theater,
died yesterday in Casualty Hospital a
short time after he was found lying in
Bn areaway beneath his second-story
room at a house in the 1800 block of
Sixth street.
Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald
issued a certificate of accidental death
caused by a fall.
Judge Excuses
Motorist's Slip
Sneeze Caused
Judicial understanding of the in
voluntary impulse to sneeze saved a
District motorist the embarrassment
of a nne yesterday.
Claude M.. Rocca. 35, giving his
address as 3132 M street, was appre
hended Friday by Traffic Officer J.
fc. Proctor on a charge of driving his
automobile through a red light at
Fifth street and Massachusetts ave
nue.
Brought before Judge Robert E.
Mattingly yesterday, Rocca explained
that he had been seized with an ir
resistible fit of sneezing as he reached
the Intersection and had found him
self past the red light before he
could cope with the situation.
Assuring the court he was not in
dulging in snufT at the time, Rocca
was released on his personal recog
' nisanee, plus a promise to sneeze
more opportunely in the future.
Light Bulb Prevents Giraffe From Getting Sore Throat
Roy Jennier, curator of reptiles and mammals at the Washington
Zoo. lets pet tiger Harry measure his arm for a lusty bite. Harry was one
of the many animals photographed at Boston yesterday after Dr. William
Mann arrived with his collection.
Malcolm Davis, curator of birds at ,
the Zoo, holds chesty cockatoo as the
party stopped en route from the East.
“What's worse than a giraffe icith a sore throat?4’ The expedition
came near finding an answer but for the use of big electric lights, shoicn
just above the animal's head. The bulbs were used to heat the ariimals’
traveling boxes. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos.
Health Department Hunting
Germ That Sickened Al
most 500 Persons.
Guinea pigs in the Health De
partment laboratory last night strug
gled to digest cultures from choco- 1
late eclairs which hava made ap- 1
proximatcly 500 persons ill in Wash
ington and the nearby counties since
last Thursday.
Dr. R. R. Ashworth, chief of the
Health Department's food inspection
service, said several days must elapse
before laboratory tests on the animals
will reveal what germ in the eclairs
affected the stricken persons.
The most pronounced symptoms in
those stricken after eating the eclairs,
the health bfficer's publicity director
announced, are vomitting, diarrhea
and other gastro-intestinal disturb
ances.
Health Officer George C. Ruhland
issued a statement reiterating a warn
ing issued almost two years ago, tell
ing commercial bakers that they
must not prepare pastries with un
clean utensils or under unsanitary
conditions. But Capt. Ira Keck,
assistant chief of detectives, an
nounced that arrests will follow any
evidence of violations of Health De
partment regulations.
All of those made ill, the Health
Department reported, ate eclairs made
by one local bakery. Several days may
pass before the cause of the poisoning
can be determined, the Health De
partment reported.
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SUPPORT IS URGED
FOR FIDELITY PLAN
Shareholders Must Give Approval
By September 30, Chair
man Says.
A “last-minute” call for share
holders in the closed Fidelity Building
& Loan Association to register approval
or disapproval of the proposed reor
ganization plans was issued yesterday
by Mrs. Mark C. Bullis, chairman of
the Shareholders' Committee.
Mi%. Bullis said a survey shows that
approximately 75 per cent of the
shareholders have not signed consent
agreements indorsing the plan to re
organize the institution as the First
Fidelity Savings & Loan Association
on an 85 per cent cash payment basis.
She set September 30 as the dead
line for consent agreements" to be
sent to the receiver of Fidelity. Mrs.
Bullis said she expects the support
of the shareholders.
The announcement followed action
by approximately 100 employes of the
Washington Post Office approving the
proposed reorganization.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES
REPORTED IN SCHOOLS
Health Officer , Urge* Parent* to
Make Daily Inspection of
Children for Illness.
During the first week of the new'
school term three cases each of scarlet
fever, diphtheria and whooping cough
were reported. Health Officer George C.
Ruhland said yesterday.
Though the number of contagious
diseases so far' found among pupils
was not unusual he said he regarded
the first week's record as a "head
light of the approaching season of
contagion.”
Advising parents to make a daily
inspection of their children for signs
of illness, such as running nose, sore
throat, fever .and coughs, Dr. Ruh
land said: "The child who ambles off
to school with these symptoms may
pay the penalty of injury from severe
illness that could have been prevented
by a day’s rest. It is also unfair to
other children to be thoughtlessly ex
posed to an infectious disease.”
He advised parents to call a physi
cian if such symptoms are apparent.
SLAUGHTER HOUSE
SURVEY PROPOSED
Ruhland Suggests D. C.
Send Committee to Inspect
Plants in Other Cities.
Dr. George C. Ruhland. District
health officer, who has been studying
plans for the Adolf Gobel slaughter
house, said yesterday he felt the best
interests of the city would be served
by sending a committee to investi
gate conditions at a few of the mod
em meat-rendering plants in the
East and South.
He was interested also in reports
from McCook. Nebr., that a render
ing plant in that town is installing
air-conditioning because of com
plaints of odors from citizens. So
far as the Gobel plans are concerned,
no provision has been included for
modem air-conditioning.
"It is very important that a slaugh
ter house and rendering plant should
be equipped to process the odors and
shut them inside.” Dr. Ruhland said.
"Especially is it necessary during the
Summer.”
The health officer announced he is
considering forming a committee of
District and Federal officials to visit
certain plants outside Washington.
On the committee, he said, there
would be representatives of the
Health Department, sanitary engi
neers and experts from the Public
Works Administration.
Wants to Know Methods.
“I want to know all about the struc
tural plans of some of the mo6t mod
em plants,” Dr. Ruhland said, "as well
as how the methods of processing meat
is inspected by other health depart
menis.
“If Washington is to have a render
ing plant, we cannot ask for less than
the best. An investigation of this kind
would give our Health Department in
formation concerning the devices
found most useful and advantageous.
We would want to have the plant pro
vide every possible safeguard against
nuisances.”
In the Nebraska town where com
plaints were made against the odors
of meat rendering, the doors and win
dows of the plant will be sealed tightly.
Fresh air will be admitted through
special openings and before it is re
leased to the outside world it will be
washed,, cleaned and deodorized.
Secretary Ickes is watching the sit
uation here closely, as indicated by
his recent warning to the District
Commissioners that sewage treatment
of waste from the Benning slaughter
house would cost the city a minimum
of $55,000. The most that could be
expected in taxes from the slaughter
house, after it is built, would be from
$5,000 to $6,000, he said.
Collins to Press Bill.
Representative Ross Collins, chair
man of the House Appropriations Sub
committee for the District, has prom-.
Ised to reintroduce his bill levying
charges on industrial concerns emp
tying an excess of waste into the local
sewage plant.
Whether the Gobel company actu
ally completes its Benning slaughter
house or finally agrees to abandon it,
Federal officials said yesterday, an
other effort would be made next ses
sion to provide the National Capital
with protective legislation against so
called nuisance industries. To date
the Benning plant has made slow
progress.
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First Residents Will Occupy
Greenbelt Homes in Week
Neiv Co-operative Community Will Be
Launched With About 25 Families.
Most of Structures Finished.
BY CARTER B. JONES
Greenbelt community in Prince Georges County, Md, the Govern
ment's first experiment in constructing a complete suburban town for 111
! housed city families, will receive its first inhabitants within the next week
or so.
At the Farm Security Administration, formerly known as the Resettle
ment Administration, it was said yesterday that the initial group of families
will be approved in the next few days. ♦ - ...
tnese families will move into their
new homes as soon as they can ar
range such matters as leases on their
present homes. .
The new co-operative community
will be launched with around 25 fam
ilies. These will be augmented grad
ually until by February 1 the entire
885 families are expected to be in
stalled.
Most of the structures are com
pleted. needing only to be furnished.
Such things as electric refrigeration
and electric cook stoves will be pro
vided. Approved families without
furniture will have the opportunity to
buy it on an easy-payment plan.
Braden To Take Residence.
So far has the project advanced
that Roy Braden of Arlington '
County, who has been appointed city
manager of Greenbelt, is preparing
to take up his residence there, prob
ably by October 1.
The new town's first election has
been set for November 23. A town
council will be chosen by the citizens
then occupying Greenbelt.
The post office will be opened by the
first of the month. Enough store
space will be stocked to provide for
the charter members of the new com
munity. The Maryland Legislature
already has incorporated Greenbelt.
By the time the entire community
is settled down, by Midwinter, there
will be the usual facilities of any
small town, perhaps more complete
than most of them boast. There will 1
be a business center containing a food !
store, a drug store, a general mer- j
chandise store, a restaurant, barber
shop, beauty parlor, service garage, i
bus station, filling station, laundry
agency, movie theater and office for
physicians, dentists and practitioners
of other professional necessities.
One Shop of Each Kind.
As the Farm Security Administra
tion of the Agriculture Department
(See~GREENBELT/Page B-2T) —
WOMAN HIDES NAME
AFTER RIVER LEAP
May Be Wife of D. C. Lawyer,
but Police Report Failure
to Identify Her.
After 12 hours of investigation, po
lice reported last night they had
been unable to establish the identity
of the middle-aged woman who leaped
into the Potomac River from the High
way Bridge yesterday and was res
cued by two colored fishermen in a
rowboat.
Suffering from shock, the woman,
about 50 years old, was taken to
Emergency Hospital, • where she re
fused to give her name, but asked
that her private physician be called
to treat her. »
Hospital officials said she was ad
mitted to a private room, but all
efforts to establish her identity had
proven futile. It was reported she
is the wife of a Washington lawyer.
Roy Moore, 47, of 702 Barry place,
and Thomas A. Driver, 607 Freemont
street, told police they were fishing
near the bridge when they saw the
woman leap. Some one on the bridge
threw a lifeline, the fishermen said,
and she held it until they could row
the boat to her side. Before leaping,
the woman dropped her pocketbook,
containing $12, on the bridge. All
marks of possible identification had
been removed from the purse, police
said.
Inspector L. I. H. Edwards denied
that police were attempting to with
hold the woman's name because of
the prominence of her husband.
BRINKLEY LEAVES
DISTRICT HOSPITAL
Will Be Able to Return to Work
in About a Week, Brain
Specialist Says.
Arthur G. Brinkley, 47-year-old con
tractor, who returned to his home in
a dazed condition Friday after being
missing for nine days, was discharged
from Homeopathic Hospital last night,
Brinkley had been taken to the hos
pital for rest and diagnosis in an effort
to determine the cause of his confused
mental condition.
His physician, Dr. R. B. Thibadeau,
a brain specialist, conducted numerous
tests and reached the conclusion that
Brinkley had been suffering from
amnesia resulting from an emotional
shock. After a consultation with Dr.
John Shugrue, another brain specialist,
Dr. Thibadeau said:
,rWe don't know what caused the
condition, but it is clearing up sat
isfactorily. There is nothing or
ganically wrong with Mr. Brinkley
and he will be able to go back to
work in about a week.”
Brinkley told his family he had
wandered aimlessly through the
South after being kidnaped and
robbed by a group of colored men in
Arlington County September 15. He
lives at 5514 First street.
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Will Install Officers.
Installation of newly elected officers
of the Department of Agriculture Post
No. 36/ American Legion, will be
conducted by Thomas Mason, jr„
post commander, Friday at 9 p.m. in
the Gingham Club, 1423 Pennsylvania
avenue.
Lonergan Feels Jefferson
Group “Probably” Will
Have to Shift Plans.
Belief that some site other than the
Tidal Basin probably will have to be i
chosen for the Thomas Jefferson Me- j
morial was expressed here yesterday
by Senator Lonergan, Democrat, of
Connecticut, a member of the Jeffer
son Memorial Commission.
"I fell confident the Thomas Jeffer
son Memorial project will go forward
to accomplishment, but that in all
probability a new site will have to be
selected," he said.
The Connecticut Senator empha
sized he was expressing only his per
sonal view, and not attempting to
predict what the commission may do.
Meanwhile reports were current in
other quarters that the commission
was preparing to turn to some other j
location, the Tidal Basin site having !
led to considerate controversy in the j
House near the close of the recent :
session.
No Change, Says Bovlan.
Asked about these reports, Repre
sentative John J. Boylan, chairman
of the commission, wired The Star
from his home in New York yesterday
as follows:
“There are no new developments
in the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
matter up to this time."
The three Senate members of the
Memorial Commission originally were
against the Tidal Basin site, but when
a majority was found to be for it they
decided to abide by the decision. After
the decision had been announced,
however, the Tidal Basin proposal pro
voked controversy, particularly as to
its effect on the cherry' trees and the
present appearance of the basin.
New Site May Be Studied.
Near the close of the recent session
of Congress the House had before it
an estimate of $500,000 to begin con
struction on the $3 000.000 memorial,
but the item was stricken from the
third deficiency appropriation bill on
the floor. Several weeks earlier Rep
resentative Keller ^>f Illinois had re
ported from the House Library Com
mittee the Treadway bill to prohibit
placing the memorial at the Tidal
Basin, but leaving the commission
free to select another site.
In declining to make the initial
$500,000 appropriation at this time
the debate in the House indicated the
purpose was not to sidetrack the
memorial project, but to delay action
pending further consideration of lo
cation. If the situation as it existed
in the House just before adjournment
remains unchanged w'hen Congress
reconvenes, the question of picking a
different site probably will come in
for serious consideration.
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TOURIST TRAVEL UP
Virginia Total for August 20 Per
Cent Ahead of Last Year.
RICHMOND, September 25, (/P).—
Tourist travel in Virginia in August
was approximately 20 per cent ahead
of the same month last year, Wilbur
C. Hall, Chairman of the State Con
lervation Commission, estimated today.
Time in Its Flight Turns Backward for Some.
I ME in its flight turned
backward today, but not
lor Washington.
Cities observing daylight
saving time set back their time
pieces one hour early this morning,
thus making up for the hour they
snatched when they moved the
clocks ahead on April 25. And pre
sumably every one was paid back
for that hour of sleep he lost in
the Spring.
Washington, which sticks to
standard time, had no clock-turn
ing to do, but aould not escape
certain effects, since so many of
its neighbor cities go daylight every
Summer.
Radio Affected.
There are, for instance, the radio
programs. Unless fans watch the
announcements closely, it probably
will take them days to find out
what has happened to their fa
vorite programs, for most of them
will move back the hour they
Stepped forward in April, because
New York puts on so many network
features. Even the local program!
will undergo readjustment becauaa
the chain headliners are changed.
Perversely enough, a non-daylight
time community catches a program
an hour later when It moves back
on standard time.
Then there is the stock market—
for those Interested—it closes an
hour later for Washington investors.
Trains Little Affected.
Trains, planes and buses are not
much affected, since they stick to
standard time, with regional ex
ceptions.
Once more Washington is in
chronological tune with New York,
Philadelphia and other cities which
will remain on Eastern Standard
time until next April.
Most of the urban communities
in 19 States observe daylight time.
So do 80 Canadian cities.
Washington once had daylight
time. It was put into effect gen
erally from 1918 until the close of
the war as a conservation meas
ure. It saved light and power and
increased industrial production.
But it didn't last. And efforts to
revive it in the Capital have
been futile thus far.
Board uf Actuaries Reports
on Failure of Congress to
Aid Retirement Reserves.
The failure of Congress to appro
priate anything toward the retirement
fund for Government employes in the
first eight years of its existence—1920
28—has been the principal factor in
bringing the accrued liability of the
Government to the fund to more than
*1,174,344,000, according to the an
nual report of the Board of Actuaries
for the year ending June 30, 1935, and
Just made public.
The report has been forwarded to
Congress by the Civil Service Com
mission.
Since 1928, Congress has raised
annual appropriations from approxi
mately $20,000,000 to the $72,000,000
carried in the current budget, and as
of June 30 last, the balance in the
fund was slightly under *300.000.000.
The board estimates that Congress
should appropriate *51.000.000 an
nually for 63 years to make the fund !
“artuarily sound."
Robert H. Alcorn, chairman of the
Joint Conference on Retirement, in
a prepared statement yesterday, said
the figures revealed in the commis
sion's report are unnecessarily alarm
ing.”
“I am convinced.” Alcorn said,
“that there is no danger of the re
tirement fund being bankrupt and
wish to reassure all Government em
ployes who are interested in this
important subject that from my
own observation and knowledge of
the operation of the law and the
present situation with reference to
the fund that they should discount
any fear as to the retirement fund
going on the rocks.”
SLASHER ATTACKS
MAN ON I STREET
Suspect Reveals No Motive After
Being Identified by
Victim.
Charles Kessecker, 36, of 513 F
street, was slashed on the face yester
day afternoon by a man who attacked
him near Fourteenth and I streets
and then escaped through the crowd.
After being treated at Emergency
Hospital, where 20 stitches were taken
In his face. Kessecker returned to the
scene with police, who arrested r man
Kessecker identified as his attacker
The man gave his name as Arthur C.
Hudson, 27, of 1402 I street, but would
reveal no motive for the attack, police
said. He was charged with assault
with a dangerous weapon.
Witnesses told police Kessecker
staggered to a barber shop after the
cutting, while his assailant walked
coolly through the gathering crowd
and disappeared.
MRS. M’GEEIS NAMED
TO SOCIAL AGENCY POST
Appointment of Mrs. Theresa Dans
dill McGee, formerly of the Washing
ton Tuberculosis Association, as
secretary of the health division of
the Council of Social Agencies was
announced yesterday by Mrs. W. A.
Roberts, director of the council.
Mrs. McGee has been a resident of
Washington for the last 10 years and
at one time was assistant director of
child health education for the National
Tuberculosis Association. She takes
the position formerly held by Ross
Garrett, who is now in charge of the
Central Admitting Bureau of Hos
pitals.
The divison Mrs. McGee will head 1
has ben largely responsible for pre- 1
venting duplication of the work of 1
public and private welfare agencies i
in dealing with the needy sick and
for establishment of the Central Ad
mitting Bureau for Hospitals to lnves- (
tigate needs of persons who apply for <
free medical care. \<
D. C. REFERENDUM
Bill 10 BE URGED
IN NEXT SESSION
Reynolds Stresses Value of
Advisory Polls as Pro
vided in Measure.
WOULD REGISTER VIEWS
ON MUNICIPAL ISSUES
Senator Points Out Result Need
Not Be Binding—Little Ex
pense Anticipated.
BY J. A. O’LEARY.
Legislation to allow Washingtoni
ans to express their wishes on im
portant local issues by voting in ad
visory referendums will be pushed
when Congress reconvenes by Sena
tor Reynolds, Democrat, of North
Carolina, he announced yesterday.
The Senate District Committee will
be asked by Reynolds, who is one
of its members, to hold public hear
ings on the question early in the
next session to get the reaction of
civic organizations to the proposal.
Meanwhile, the North Carolinian
summed up his own view of the bill
as follows:
"I am going to pash the proposi
tion. berause I think the residents
of the District certainly are entitled
at least to register their preferences
on major municipal problems, even
though the result w-ould be advisory
and not binding as to the final de
cision.”
vt ouia nenect sentiment.
Reynolds pointed out it would offer
i means of meeting the argument
sometimes advanced in connection
with District legislation, that Congress
is unable to tell what the local com
munity favors or disapproves.
The North Carolina Senator empha
sized. however, that the referendum
system should be conducted in a way
that would call for little or no ex
pense. and he believes it can be done
pn that basis. He helieves volunteer
workers could be enlisted, and that
polling places could be set up either
in business places or in public build
ings.
Commissioner Allen has been the
ieading advocate of the referendum
plan for the past few years. In 1934
:he Commissioners tried to conduct a
referendum in Takoma Park to get an
expression as to whether sentiment
>f that area was for or against the
granting of alcoholic beverage licenses
n the neighborhood. Arrangements
were made for registration of voters
and a day designated for the casting
of ballots at polling places. The ref
erendum was not held, however. Some
of the applicants for licenses chal
lenged the authority of the Commis
sioners to conduct the referendum
under existing law, and a court order
was issued restraining the city heads
from going ahead with the balloting.
District officials decided not to appeal
from the court order.
Adjournment Blocked Action.
Commissioner Allen, however, con
tinued his interest in the subject and
had prepared the bill which Senator '
Reynolds introduced just before Con
gress adjourned last month. It was
too near adjournment to take the
measure up. but Reynolds felt Its in
troduction at that time would enable
District residents to study its ^'tailed
provisions during the recess.
The bill would give the Commission
ers specific authority to conduct a
referendum whenever they deem it
advisable to obtain an expression of
the sentiment, either of the whole city
or a particular neighborhood, on any
public issue.
Although not more than two ref
erendums could be held in a year,
an V niimhpr /niaetiA.. __u
submitted on one occasion. The
bill makes it clear that the result
would be advisory only and not com
pel the Commissioners to do or re
frain from doing any act.
The voting list would be confined
to citizens of the United States. 21
or more years of age and who have
lived within the District for at least
a year prior to the referendum. In
its present form the bill also would
exclude persons who have a vote
elsewhere.
The commissioners would be au
thorized to appoint an election board
of three members to arrange for
and supervise the holding of the
referenda. This board would lay
out the voting precincts and make
all necessary rules and regulations
to govern balloting.
ORGANIZED BIBLE CLASS
COMMITTEE WILL MEET
Dr. Blackwelder Will Deliver
Address on “The Church and
the Kingdom of God.”
The Central Committee of the Dis
trict Organized Bible Class Associa
tion will meet at 7:45 p.m. tomorrow
in the Lutheran Church of the Re
formation, 212 East Capitol street.
The main address will be delivered by
Dr. Oscar F. Blackwelder, whose sub
ject will be "The Church and the
Kingdom of God.”
Bible class presidents, teachers and
jtudents and members of the commit
tee are invited to attend.
Vice presidents of the association
tor the 1937-8 year are Dr. A. W.
Summings, at large: Harold S. King,
Baptist; Mrs. Etta Zahn, Congrega
tional; Noah R. Robinson, Disciples;
Mrs. J. M. Smith, Evangelical and
Reformed: Irving L. Koch, Lutheran;
Mden W. Hoage, Methodist Episcopal;
toward M. Stackhouse, M. E. Church
South; W. H. Harrison. Methodist
Protestant, and Clyde D. Harrison,
Presbyterian.
Dahlia Show Is Set.
The V/oodridge Garden Club will
lolri a dahlia show tomorrow night
n Sherwood Presbyterian Hall, Twen
y-second street and Rhode Island
ivenue northeast. Entries will closa
it 7 p.m. tomorrow, Harold J. Clay,
jresldent of the club, anncamcert.
>eorge Marshall is chairman of the
ommittee in charge of the show, the
ighth to be held by the club this year.