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Mandatory Area
For Parking in
Buildings Urged
Zoning Board Plans
Hearing on Apartment
And Assembly Centers
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A drastic proposal to require
parking garages or parking areas
for any new multiple-family dwell
ings or places of public assembly
erected In the future Is to be con
sidered by the Zoning Commission
at a public hearing February 7, it
was announced today.
The proposed rule would not be
applied to one-family dwellings. The
reference to places of public as
sembiy presumably would include
theaters and churches, skating rinks
and the like, although the present
draft of the suggested amendment
to the zoning rules does not so
specify.
The plan was suggested by Har
land Bartholomew, zoning expert of
St. Louis, Mo., who serves as part
time consultant to the National
Capital Park and Planning Commis
sion and who has conferred a num
ber of times with the Zoning Com
mission.
How Proposal Reads.
The proposal Is to add a new sec
tion. No. 14, to read:
"Space for automobile parking—
•'Every building used for dwelling
purposes, excepting only one-family
*■' dwellings, shall provide garage space
whether in the main building or in
accessory building, or in a parking
area on a lot occupied by the main
building, sufficient to accommodate
one automobile for each dwelling
unit within the main building.
« "Buildings designed or used for
public assembly shall provide a
storage garage either in the main
building or in an accessory building,
or in a parking area on the lot
occupied by the main building, suffi
:ient to accommodate one automobile
for each five seats in the assembly
hall.”
The proposed amendment also
states that nothing contained in the
section shall be construed as a
waiver of any of the area require
ments of the zoning regulations.
New Open Conrt Definition.
To clarify the meaning of the pro
posed requirement of a parking area,
as an alternative to a parking
garage, the commission is offering
a new definition to section 1 of the
definition of “open court,” which
would read:
“Parking area: An open, unoccu
pied space, dedicated for parking of
*' automobiles exclusively, and in
which no gasoline or automobile
accessotHs are sold and n© business
la conducted.”
One District official who did not
want to be quoted personally -sug
gested that to make such off-street
parking arrangements really effec
tive it might be necessary for the
Commissioners to invoke a ban on
all night parking of cars in the
atreet^. Such a ban has been sug
gested a number of times in the past
and always has met with determined
opposition from sections of the
public.
Basement Garages Permissible.
The new move recalls that under
the original zoning regulations of
the District provision of parking
garages in the basements of apart
ment houses was not permitted,
and these were amended some years
ago. following a campaign by va
rious groups, to make basement
garages in apartment houses per
missible.
Presumably the proposed nMe as
now drawn would not affect existing
buildings, although there was no
official statement on the point.
Such properties, however, one offi
cial suggested, would become “non
„ conforming.”
The commission also is proposing
another amendment to its .rules
which would require that applica
tions for the construction or use of
private stables would have to be ap
proved by the Board of Zoning
Adjustment. The present rules do
not require such approval if the pri
vate stable would abut an alley.
Woman Found Dead,
Revolver in Hand
Mrs. Carrie Hatton, 65, was found
dead with a bullet wound in her
right temple in a second-floor bed
room of her home at 1227 B street
6.E. today.
Mrs. Rhoda Winemiller, her
daughter, told police she found her
mother lying on the floor clutching
a revolver in her right hand. She
said she had left her Hyattsville
(Md.) home this morning to visit
her mother after being unable to
reach her by telephone. She found
the body at 11:15 a.m.
Police said they understood Mrs.
Hatton had been in ill health for
some time and had recently under
gone an operation. Her husband,
James Hatton, is a Government em
ploye, investigators were told.
til A ill A FAA
TY. r. m. Maas o,jol
s To Relief Rolls in Week
The Works Progress Administra
tion announced today that 8,582 per
sons were added to relief rolls dur
ing the week ending December 27,
to make a total of 2,152.252. This
figure compared with the all-time
W. P. A. high of 3,363,000 in October,
1938, and with 3,093,855 on Decem
ber 28 a year ago.
Officials said the W. P. A. plans
on an average of 2,000,000 relief jobs
for the current fiscal year and will
endeavor to maintain the rolls on an
average of 1,350,000 for the 1941
fiscal year.
The reduced figure is based on the
proposed budget of $1,000,000,000 for
work relief.
Ickeses on Secret Trip
Secretary and Mrs. Harold L.
Ickes, Interior Department officials
« said today, left last night for an
4 “unknown destination" in the South.
They will take a two-week vacation,
it was said. One of Mr. Ickes’ aides
said the Secretary did not wish to
disclose where they were going.
• >
WINTER’S ORPHANS—When the mercury dips so do the spirits
of homeless men. Gloveless hands burled in pockets and collars
upturned, this group waited outside the Central Union Mission
for a meal and a bed.
If he was lucky—and there was room inside—this individual
who sought warmth from his own breath found a haven for the
night, a sheltered comer where he could keep from freezing
until dawn.
Size is not important when it’s a hand-me-down, but never
theless Harvey U. Prentice (center) tried to find a reasonable
“fit” for two men without overcoats at the Gospel Mission.
—Star Staff Photos.
Four Killed, 7 Hurt
In Auto Accidents
In Nearby Areas
A Fifth Traffic Victim
Dies of Injuries
Received Christmas
Traffic Record
The traffic record as revealed
at police headquarters for 24
i hour period ending 8 a.m. to
| day:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, 17.
Motorists injured, 2.
Motorists arrested. 311. ■
Pedestrians injured. 6.
Pedestrians arrested for vio
lation of pedestrian control
regulation, 3.
Four were killed in traffic acci
dents in nearby Virginia yester
day, while a fifth traffic vlct^rn died
from injuries received Christmas
Day, and seven others wer# lpjured
in an accident 'in Marylana?
Pvt. Harold J. Desjardins, 22. of
Fall River, Mass., and Pvt. Charles
H. Harbert, 20, of Fairmont, W. Va„
both of the 1st Marine Aircraft Unit
at the Marine base at ijuantico. Va„
were, killed when a truck in which
they were riding sideswiped an
! other truck on the Brownfield road
i noor riiiontion
John W. McLaughlin. 71, and his
sister. Miss Edith McLaughlin, 67,
of Maplewood. N. J., died in Alexan
dria Hospital last night several hours
after their car, operated by Mr.
McLaughlin’s wife, struck a bridge
abutment a mile south of Wood
bridge, Va., on Highway 1. They
were en route to Florida. Police
were told Mrs. McLaughlin had
fallen asleep at the wheel.
Fifth Traffic Victim Dies.
The fifth fatality was Vernon
Harrison, 20, of Capitol Heights, Md.,
who died early today in Casualty
Hospital from injuries received when
he fell from a truck in Capitol
Heights Christmas Day. He suf
fered internal injuries.
Virginia State police were investi
gating the accident in which the
Marines were killed. According to
reports received by post officers, Mr.
i Desjardins and Mr. Harbert were
struck by a rack projecting from
the side of the other truck. Mr.
Harbert was thrown against the
steel backboard of the truck in
which he was riding and Mr.
Desjardins was thrown off onto the
ground. Both were taken to the
Post Hospital, but Mr. Desjardins
was dead on arrival and his com
panion died shortly afterward.
Alan W. Barnard, 20, of Wood
stock, Utah, was slightly injured
and more than a dozen others on
the truck escaped. Services for Mr.
Harbert were to be held this after
noon at the post. His body will be
sent to his home for burial.
Seven Are Hurt.
Attendants at Alexandria Hospital
said Mr. McLaughlin died of a frac
tured skull and Miss McLaughlin of
head and internal injuries. She
was thrown from the car over the
bridge railing onto the ice in a
small run.
seven persons, au colored, were
injured early today when their car
skidded and struck a telephone pole
on Defense highway. They were
brought to Casualty Hospital.
George McClelan, 22, of 106 Fiftieth
street N.E., suffered an injury to
his spine, and Gertrude Brooks, 18,
of 1911 T street N.iy., a serious head
injury. The others, who escaped
with minor injuries, were Ulysses
Maxwell, 23, of 465 Maryland avenue
S.W., the driver; Walter Green, 20,
of 624 Fifty-fifth street N.E.; Lewis
Davis, 19, of 6505 Cloud place N.E.;
Dorothy Payton, 17, of 1338 Riggs
street N.W., and Junius Logan, 18,
of 5605 John street N.E.
Treasury Stenographer
Is Declared Suicide
The coroner's office has issued a
certificate of suicide in the death by
hanging yesterday of Audrey Lee
Quirk. 28, a stenographer for the
Treasury Department, who was
found suspended by a noose impro
vised from her bath robe belt in
her third-floor room in the 800 block
of H street N.W.
The young woman was found by
another roomer who summoned aid.
She had been dead only a short
time.
Her mother told police she had
been in poor health for some time.
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U. 5. Narcotic Agents
Will Probe Sales
Of Drugs to Pupils
Assistant Prosecutor
Confers With Author
Of Magazine Article
Federal narcotic agents will begin
an immediate investigation of al
leged narcotic sales to high school
students, Assistant United States
Attorney George E. McNeil an
nounced today.
Mr. McNeil made the announce
ment after conferring with Hugo W.
Wolter, author of an article in a
magazine published by the Council
of Social Agencies, charging that
narcotics may be bought freely by
students; a young colored man who
collected the alleged facts on which
the article was based and D. L.
Yutronich, Federal Bureau of Nar
cotics agent.
Mr. McNeil said alleged sales to
students at Dunbar High School and
Shaw and Gamet-Patterson Junior
High Schools, all colored, will bo
looked into especially. Evidence
suitable for presentation to a grand
jury, possibly next week, will be
sought.
The assistant district attorney ex
plained that Mr. Wolter did not have
sufficient evidence to go before the
grand jury himself, and for that
reason the matter was being turned
over to the Federal narcotic agency.
Mr. McNeil said “buys” will have to
be made by a person in the confi
dence of the alleged peddlers and
the regular routine of arrest fol
iUWCU.
Meanwhile, Police Supt. Ernest W.
Brown said he has “absolutely no
information as is alleged in the ar
ticle,” which was based on informa
tion gathered over a three-year pe
riod by a graduate student of How
ard University, whose name the
council refused to divulge.
Maj. Brown added: “If Mb. Wol
ter has information such as he
alleges, he should turn it over to the
district attorney or he is not doing
his duty.”
Stands by Presentation.
Informed of Maj. Brown’s com
ment, Mr. Wolter stood firmly by
his article, in which he said the in
vestigator, in his survey in the “cen
tral” area—which lies about 10
blocks east and west of North Cap
itol street, just north of the Capitol
—was given 10 places narcotics
could be bought by the students.
"The police know about the situa
tion,” Mr. Wolter said, “but they do
not have the personnel to clean it
up and this is an easy thing to over
look. Really, it is not the fault of
the police, but is due to the condi
tions under which these students
live.”
Mr. Wolter promised to make his
information public.
Capt. Rhoda Milliken, head of the
Woman’s Bureau, said she had
checked information on which Mr.
Wolter’s article was based and had
found it did “not exaggerate the
true picture.” About two months
ago, she said, three colored men were
arrested for selling dope to four
colored girls, students of a high
school. The men did not possess
narcotics at the time of their arrest,
however, she said, and they were
prosecuted on other charges.
Vlimiu IMU J H1WTC
Harry Anslinger, head of the Fed
eral Bureau of Narcotics, also sug
gested that Mr. Wolter turn his
alleged evidence over to a grand
jury.
Mr. Anslinger branded the reports
of narcotic selling as “entirely with
out foundation." His agents have
investigated many such reports, he
said, and had found that conditions
described in the article “do not
exist.”
The article also charged: “The
high schools and other legitimate
recreation centers are surrounded
by gambling joints—three at corners
near a junior high school. Within
one block of every school are several
houses of ill repute where bedrooms
may be temporarily rented. • * *
Certain streets are known as the
regular beats of street walkers and
students ply the trade as child pros
titutes. Whisky is purchased by
students and kept in lockers, hip
pockets and handbags.”
Child, 3, Suffers Burns
Three-year-old Margaret Duncan,
colored, was burned about the legs,
arms and face today when her dress
caught fire as she was playing near
an open fireplace In her home at
1102 Fifth street N.W. Her mother
put out tide fire with her hands.
A
Star Praised for Constructive
Efforts for Traffic Safety
Letters Cite Value of 1939 Analysis
And 'Why Must They Die?' Series
Letters dealing with the analysis
of 1939 fatal accidents in the Dis
trict published Monday in The Star
continued to pour in today from
men deeply concerned in the fight
against traffic fatalities.
Among the communications re
ceived was one from Senator Austin,
Republican, of Vermont, and others
as follows:
To the Editor of The Star:
The study made by Tire Star of
the cause of traffic fatalities in
the District of Columbia serves to
educate and to cause more prudent
conduct by pedestrians and mo
torists.
WARREN R. AUSTIN,
U. S. Senator from Vermont.
* * * *
To the Editor of The Star:
I have been much interested in
the ‘‘Why Must They Die?” articles.
Undoubtedly the illustration which
acoompahtepL each article serves a
double purpose because it first at
tracts the reader's attention and
then induces a comparative read
ing. Vou are to be congratulated
upon the concise methods of pres
entation. I feel sure that it has
served its purpose if it has made
drivers think in terms of safe driv
ing and pedestrians think in terms
of safe walking and thus averted
one accident which might have cost
a life.
It is my hope that you will con
tinue these articles and in this way
make Washington a safer and hap
pier citv for 1940.
JENNINGS RANDOLPH,
U. S. Representative from
West Virginia.
^
To the Editor of The Star:
This study of traffic fatalities in
the District of Columbia during the
year 1939 ... is, I believe, the most
complete and interesting study of
its kind which has ever been made
in any newspaper. It should be
helpful in improving traffic condi
tions and in reducing the number of
traffic accidents and deaths in the
District. M. O. ELDRIDGE,
Assistant Director of Vehicles
and Traffic.
* * * *
To the Editor of The Star:
It is interesting to note in your
study of 1939 traffic deaths that
more than one-third of the fatal
accidents were due to the pedestrian
and not to the automobilist. This
leads one to doubt whether any
traffic regulations which relate only
to the automobilist will reduce the
number of deaths due to neglect of
the pedestrian. No automobilist is
willfully responsible for a death and
death caused by the carelessness of
the pedestrian should be prima
facie evidence that the motorist is
not to blame.
Traffic control officials are always
using the excuse ‘‘inadequate police
force.” Observations indicate the
real difficulties are as much due to
the large number of regulations
which do not affect safety or ex
pedite traffic as they are to an in
adequate police force. If enforce
ment was based on the stopping of
practices which relate to safety or
expediting traffic and not to picking
up minor offenses, the police force
could handle the situation in a more
efficient manner. It is doubtful
whether additions to the police force
would better conditions without the
elimination of a large number of
minor regulations—in the Police
Court recently it was observed that
during one session the cases pre
sented were all infractions of minor
regulations.
The making of arrests on account
of technical violations when safety
or holding up of traffic is not in
volved serves no good purpose and
tends to discredit the whole system.
For example, the parking regulations
of the District probably do not have
more than 10 per cent enforcement
and no adequate enforcement of
limited parking can be made with
out parking meters.
In areas where meters are not
available there should only be two
regulations—parking or no parking.
There is probably not a driver in
Washington who does not technical
ly violate the speed regulations every
day and is subject to arrest. A
large number of the arrests that are
made are due to technical violations
and the question of safety does not
enter in. J. C. HOYT.
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To the Editor of The Star:
The Star's analysis of traffic
safety for 1939 on the streets of
I
Washington leads me to offer you
• * * some comments which occur
to me.
First of all. in regard to safety
on streets and highways, it is nec
essary to educate, awaken, even
alarm the people as to the situa
tion which actually exists. This
you are doing in a very admirable
way in The Star.
After public opinion has de
veloped a consciousness in regard
to street and highway safety it
, then seems logical to bring forward
proposed or definite remedies to
the situation. • • •
In The Star's article on traffic
; fatalities published Monday, some
: suggestions are made which, if car
| ried out, would aid in reducing
I traffic fatalities and accidents In
Washington.
More policemen, better street
lights as to location and timing,
additional walk signals, all would
help; but one must confess that
these remedies alone will, not, solve
the problems of street and highway
safety.
• * • I believe public opinion is
both educated and alarmed about
street and highway accidents and
i fatalities. However, there will be
a continuing need to keep the alarm
at fever heat, so to speak, while
giving considerably more attention
to methods which when put into
operation will contribute to the
elimination of street and highway
accidents and fatalities.
CHESTER H. GRAY,
Director, National Highway
Users Conference.
(To the Editor of The Star:
' During the past year the Key
stone Automobile Club followed
with the very greatest interest the
series published by The Star under
the heading “Why Must They Die?”
Keystone has long believed that
only by careful and thorough ex
amination into the causes of acci
dents can we act soundly and ef
fectively in behalf of safety.
The Star’s year-long series, cul
minating in its remarkably com
plete round-up study which was
published January 1, unquestion
ably has served to focus a much
needed spotlight upon the basic
facts about the accidents which
take place on Washington's streets.
Knowing The Star's deep and
constructive concern with respect
to this question, Keystone is look
ing forward to the continuation by
your newspaper of the factual
studies which have so amply
proved their usefulness.
GEORGE E. KENEIPP,
Manager, Keystone
Automobile Club.
Four A. U. Students
To Start Radio Series
Pour American University stu
dents will inaugurate a series of
radio programs on station WJSV at
7 pjn. tomorrow with a discussion
of radio education in a democracy.
Succeeding Saturdays have been
allotted to Catholic University,
Georgetown University and the
University of Maryland. The pro
grams are called “The Student’s
Workshop.”
The four to participate from
American University are Hector
Sherertz, Jean Miller, Francis Dew
ey and Edgar Keller. Two others,
Doris Miller and Frances Brew
ster, will contribute musical num
bers.
Jewelry Engraver, 67,
Is Discovered Dead
A 67-year-old jewelry engraver
was found dead today on the floor
of a bedroom adjoining his third
floor shop at 1116 G street N.W.
The man, George E. Smith, ap
parently had died of a heart at
tack. His body was found by L.
S. Weingarten, a long-time friend
who had come to call on Mr. Smith,
as was his daily custom.
Mr. Weingarten told police the en
graver had lived and worked in the
quarters for 25 years and had been
in business at another location dur
ing the previous decade.
He added Mr. Smith had been un
der a doctor’s care recently.
A brother, Oscar Smith, Harris
burg (Fa.) railroad shop employe,
was notified.
I
Bill Provides Free
Admission to D. C.
Historical Places
McNary Measure Also
Would Ban Fees in
National Parks
Congress will be urged at this
session by Senator McNary, Repub
lican, of Oregon to abolish the fees
now charged by Government agen
! cies for admission to historical or
archeological places of interest,
some of which are in and near
i Washington.
At present visitors pay a 10-cent
admission fee at the Lincoln Muse
| um and the house in which Abra
! ham Lincoln died, on Tenth street
between E and F streets N.W. The
same charge is made at the Arling
ton House in Arlington National
Cemetery. -
During the last year a fee system
was established for the Shenandoah
Park in Virginia at the rate of 25
cents for a trip or $1 for a season.
After introducing in the Senate
i yesterday a bill to. prohibit such fees
Senator McNary said he had, these
points of interest in and around
| the National Capital in mind, as
I well as others. The Senator said
he did not believe in the practice
and would push his bill for action
before the Public Lands Committee.
Roosevelt Holds opposite View.
The McNary proposal was dropped
into the hopper as President Roose
velt was taking the opposite view
point in his budget message to Con
gress, in which he commended the
policy of the National Park Service
of charging nominal fees for en
trance to national parks and his
toric monuments, on the theory that
those who use these places should
meet at least part of the cost.
The President threw in a sugges
tion that Congress might wish to
consider a broader adaptation of
this system of making certain Gov
ernment facilities pay their own
way in part.
On the other hand, the Public
Roads Administration has frowned
on the adoption of the toll system
to build super-highways.
Other Bills Introduced.
Among other bills introduced yes
terday was one by Senator Downey,
Democrat, of California to divert
excess national savings into a 10
year $100,000,000,000 ‘‘super-safety
highway” program to bring about
business recovery. He estimated
$10,000,000,000 a year could be put
to this purpose. Other new meas
ures introduced included:
By Senator Connally, Democrat,
of Texas to increase the Federal
share of old-age assistance grants.
By Senator Hayden, Democrat, of
Arizona to provide the 1942 and
1943 regular authorizations for the
Federal-aid highway system. This
program always is authorized for
two years at a time, so that State
highway departments may plan
their participation in advance. The
Arizona Senator added a new pro
v lOlUii W upcil bi axuv/ UUbblC*
necks in big cities that lie in the
path of cross-country highways. It
would enable the Federal highway
agency or the R. F. C. to advance
funds on a loan basis to acquire
wider rights of way for boulevards
through cities.
Six bills were offered in both
houses to make October 11, the an
niversary of the death of Gen.
Casimir Pulaski, Polish hero in the
American Revolution, a national
memorial day.
Senator McNary’s bill relating to
the fee system at public places does
not affect the large national parks,
but only historic places like the Lin
coln Museum here.
Senator Downey has not worked
out the details of his super highway
plan, but proposed as a preliminary
step a Senate investigation.
Two Workmen Escape
In Ditch Cave-in
Two workmen escaped injury to
l day when they were caught mo
. raentarily in 12-foot ditch by the
cave-in of nearly a ton of earth on
the grounds of the Library of Con
gress. Joseph Taylor, colored, 38,
of 118 F street N.W., was held in
the ditch about 10 minutes as he
worked to free himself front earth
piled up above his knees. Another
workman. Joel Corley, 25, of 305 E
street N£., said he scrambled out
of the opposite end of the ditch as
he saw the bank giving way.
4
Pruning of School
Items in Budget Hit
By Mrs. Doyle
Figure $109,000 Below
Current Set-up Curbs
Program for Shut-ins
General disappointment with the
pruning of the school estimates in
the 1941 District budget to a figure
$109,000 below this year was voiced
by Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, presi
dent of the Board of Education to
day. Mr. Doyle expressed particular
regret that more teachers could not
now be made available to provide in
struction for the shut-in children
and reduce congestion in the junior
and senior high schools. The Budget
Bureau allowed 20 new teachers and
a librarian for use in new schools to
be completed in the coming year.
She also regmted the general
treatment accorded the building and
land purchase items and the Items
for repair of buildings and grounds.
The school building program was far
behind, she said, and the cut of land
| purchase items to $47,000 came as a
. blow because of the generally in->
| creasing land values. The school#'
; are also far behind in their repaint
i ing and resurfacing programs on
I buildings and grounds, she pointed
l out with reference to the cut of the
repair estimates $25,000 below this
j year.
Librarian Trouble Ended.
| The board president said she was
! delighted with the removal of the
I troublesome “rider” in several pre
| vious appropriation bills limiting the
average salary of the school librar
ians to that of the public librarians
doing the same type of work. The
librarians’ salary schedule is set up
in a basic teachers’ salary act of 1924
providing for annual increases which
have been nullified by the rider. The
public librarians’ pay is prescribed in
the Classification Act of 1923 and
does not provide for the annual step
ups.
She also praised inclusion in the
building program of the new Abbot
Vocational School and the new
junior high school for Anacostia,
but regretted elimination of the
long-sought new Wilson Teachers’
College.
Supt. Frank W. Ballou will prob
ably make a detailed report on the
effects of the allowances at the
next meeting of the board Wednes
day at 3:30 p.m. in the Franklin
School.
Mrs. O'Hara Marshals Forces.
Great disappointment over the
elimination of the project for home
instruction of shut-in children was
expressed by Mrs. Odetta O'Hara,
president of the Association for
Education of Handicapped Shut-In
Children. Mrs. O’Hara said the
group would meet today at 2:30
pm. at her home, 615 E street N.E.,
to name a legislative committee to
carry the fight to the Capitol. At
present the instruction is being car
ried on as a W. P. A. project, but
has been sought unsuccessfully in
past school budgets as a regular
part of the public school program.
The association is formed of tiie
mothers of children being aided by
the present W. P. A. project under
which children are taught both in
hospital clinics and in the homes.
It was revealed that the item was
eliminated by school officials them
selves in favor of other projects
considered more urgent after school
officials were advised a certain limit
had been fixed for school expendi
tures.
I esrs tor West Point
Will Begin Tuesday
Examinations of candidates for
appointment by the Commissioners
to West Point to fill two existing
vacancies are to be held beginning
Tuesday at 11 a.m., Geoffrey M.
Thornett, secretary to the Commis
sioners, announced yesterday.
The first step will be physical ex
aminations conducted by Dr. John
A. Reed at the fire engine house at
1018 Thirteenth street N.W.
Mental examinations are to be
held in room 215, Wilson Teachers’
College, Eleventh and Harvard
street* N.W., January 10, 11 and 12,
beginning at 8:45 am. Subjects to
be included in the tests include his
tory, algebra, grammer and com
position, geometry and English com
position and literature.
Those desiring to take the ex
aminations are directed to report to
Mrs. M. H. Gropp, chief examiner,
Board of Examiner*.
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D. C. Budget
Awaits Choice
Of Chairman
House Committee
Head Urges O'Neal
To Accept Post
Chairman Edward Taylor of th*
House Appropriations Committee to
day urged Representative Emmet
O’Neal, Democrat, of Kentucky,
“one of the brightest men in Con
gress,” to take the job of chairman
of the District Appropriations Sub
committee.
Action on the District budget for
1941, set by the Budget Bureau at
$49,435,008, awaits appointment of
a subcommittee chairman to succeed
Representative Ross Collins, Demo
crat, of Mississippi, who resigned
at the end of the first session of the
Seventy-sixth Congress, last sum
mer.
Ml* nn inunpltvtAni
from Louisville, who is serving his
third term in Congress, told Mr.
Taylor that he would reach a de
cision next week. Mr. Taylor re
marked this morning that, whether
the District Subcommittee had a
chairman or not, hearings on the
District appropriation bill would
have to await action on the defense,
independent offices and other sup
ply bills affecting the executive
offices of the Federal Government.
Meanwhile, William Duval, clerk of
the subcommittee, is making a pre
liminary study pf the District budget.
Praised for Ability.
Chairman Taylor said that Mr.
O’Neal had one “of the brightest
minds in Congress.” He is “con
scientious and honest.” He is not
in robust health, but Mr. Taylor,
who said that the appointment of
Mr. O'Neal would be a "blessing for
the District, for the Appropriations
Committee and for the House of
Representatives,” is urging him
strongly to take the post. Mr.
O’Neals acceptance of the offer
“would solve the District's problem,”
Mr. Taylor observed.
II Mr. O'Neal in the end decline*
the proposal, Mr. Taylor will seek
another man as chairman. At the
present, Representative O'Neal is
serving on the deficiency and the
Post Office Department subcommit
tees of the Appropriations Commit
tee. He was an active member of
the committee in its investigation
of the W. P. A. last spring.
Mingled Reactions Voiced.
Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen
expressed satisfaction with tha
treatment of the budget by th#
Budget Bureau, but mingled re
actions were voiced today by vari
ous District departmental chiefs.
"The budget is entirely satisfac
tory to the Commissioners,” Mr.
Hazen declared. “I think tha
Budget Bureau is to be compli
mented. It's a good budget and I
only hope Congress will approve it
Engineer Commissioner David Mc
Coach, jr„ said:
“The budget, if approved by Con
gress as submitted, will permit th*
District government to operate effi
ciently during the coming fiscal year
without increase in taxes. Th®
Armory and library are desirabl®
improvements. But our heavy com
mittments for these projects and
repayment of P. W. A. loans have
necessitated the postponement of
other desirable improvement proj
ects."
Brown's Force Held Down.
Maj. Ernest W. Brown, super
intendent of police, pointed out
that he had asked for 100 new men
and some civilian personnel. Th®
Commissioners cut the number of
new officers to 25 and now, h®
pointed out, the budget includes
provision for no more than he has
now.
“I asked for more.” he declared,
“and they gave me only what I had
last year.”
Also “looking for more” was Fir®
Chief Stephen Porter, who said h®
didn't get the 15 men he asked for.
‘Other than that,” he said, “they
didn’t hurt us.”
Expressing himself as “satisfied
in every way.” Director of High
ways H. C. Whtiehurst said the
new money for his department
would help improve streets and fin
ish the already started Sousa and
Massachusetts avenue bridges.
F. C. C. Eases Regulation
On Recorded Programs
The Federal Communications
Commission has amended its radio
broadcast station rules so as to re
quire stations to make announce
ments of recorded broadcasts every
30 minutes. The former rules re
quired announcements each 15 min
utes
The commission explained that
the change was made to avoid in
terrupting the entertainment con
tinuity of a recorded series or of
long records now quite generally
used. The change is effective im
uicuiavcij.
Assailant Hits
'Wrong Man';
Gets 45 Days
Two mistakes were alleged In
connection with an assault case
heard in Police Court yesterday, but
Judge Hobart Newman held only
one at most had been made.
Pedro Fiore, a barber, identified
John W. Barker, 37, push-cart op
erator, as the man who gave him
a black eye without provocation
Tuesday in front of the former’*
shop at 439 K street N.W.
Barker said he had never seen
Mr. Fiore before.
Policeman D. A. Davis said his
investigation indicated the defend
ant might have intended to strike
a man of similar appearance with
whom he had been fighting earlier
in the day.
Judge Newman said to Barker:
“You have been convicted five
times ofv assault but only fined $10
in each case. That doesn’t seem
to have done any good. Perhaps
your temper will cool off In JaiL
I’ll give you 45 days.1*
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