Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1927, Page 5

i BUDGET PROVIDES SCHOOL EXTENSION Plans for Four New Buildings Urged With Funds to Com- plete Nine Others. Authorization for the preparation of plans and specifications of four new school buildings, and appropriations for continuing and completing work on nine others are recommended in the District appropriation bill reported to the House yesterday. Included among these are $1,000,- 000 for continuing construction of Mc- Kinley Technical High School and $276,000 for completion of the Gordon Junior High School in Georgetown. The bill recommends $37,250 for the purchase of school building and play- ground sites to remain available untii June 30, 1929, for the following spe- cific items: For the purchase of land in the v cinity of the Langdon School, to pro- vide for the erection of a new 16-room school building to replace the present Langdon School. For the purchase of land adjoining the site on Grant road now owned by the District of Columbia, Athletic Fund Retained. ¥or the purchase of land in the vi- einity of the Peabody School for play- ground purposes. For the purchive of land in the vi- cinity of the Wovmley School for play- &round purposes. The sum of $125,000 contained in the District bill for the fiscal year 1925 for an athletic field for the West ern High School remains available until June 30, 1928, ¢ Five thousand dollars,is recom- mended for the preparation of plans and specifications for the erection of & 24-room bullding, including a com- bination gymnasium and assembly hall, on a site already purchased at Nineteenth street and Columbia road. For the erection of a 16-room build- ing, including combination gymnasfum and assembly hall, to replace the pres- ent Langdon School building, $275,000 is recommended. Bryan School Addition. For the preparation of plans and #pecifications for a ccmbination gym- ‘nasium and assembly hall for the Wheatley School, $1.500 is recom- mended. For the construction of a six-room addition to the Bryan School, includ- ing the necessary remodeling of the present building, $125,000 is recom- mmended. ¥or the preparation of plans and specifications -for the construction of an eight-room addition to the Morgan School, including a_combination gym- nasium and assembly hall and the necessary remodeling of the present building~ $3,000 is recommended. the construction of an eight- room addition to the Margaret Mur- ray Washington Vocational School, located on O street, including the nec- essary remodeling of the present building, $150,000 js recommended. For continuing the construction of the McKinley Technical High School $1,000,000 is recommended. Provision for Construction. For repair and construction of / achool buildings the bill makes the fol- ng provisions, totaling $2,767,000: . For repair, replacement and exten- sion of equipment, furniture and fur- nishings, including pianos, to adapt for use as junior high schools, the old Eastern High School, $5,500; the Jef- ferson School, $6,000, and the Powell School, $6,000; in all, $17,500. For the completion of the Garnet-Patterson Junior High School, $275,000. For the completion of the construction of the Gordon Junior High School in George- town, $275,000. For completion of the construction of ‘the addition to the Langley Junior High School, $375,000, the authority to enter into con- t or contracts for this addition con- tained in the District of Columbia ap- priation act for the fiscal year 1927 &rohereby increased by $75,000. For the erection of a four-room extensible building in Potomac Heights, $85,000. For the construction of an eight-room addition, including a combination gyin- $nasium and assembly hall, to the Bar- nard School, located at Fifth and De- catur streets northwest, including the necessary remodeling of the present building, $175,000. For the prepara- tion of plans and specifications for the erection of an extensible junior high school building in Brightwood, in ac- cordance with the plans of the Mac- farland Junior High School, modified as the limits of the site may require, ,000. Hospital Fund Division. Allocation of funds to the various Washington hospitals for care and reatment of ind.gent patients under contracts to be made by the Board of Public Welfare, is recommended as follows: Freedmen’s Hospital, $42,500. Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, $17,000. ‘Children’s Hospital, $22,000. Providence Hospital, $17,000. Garfield Memorial Hospital, $17,000. Central Dispensary and Emergency: Hospital, $23,000. ern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $10,000. ‘Washington Home for Incurables, 0,000. Georgetown University Hospital, ,000. George Washington University Hos- pital, $8,000. TWO DIE IN GUN FRAY; " ONE HELD BIG BANDIT Police Believe Man Is Tommy 0’Connor, Who Escaped Exe- cution—Officer Is Killed. By the Associsted Press. ¢ DETROIT, January 29.—Cross fire between drug store bandits and police tonight resulted in the slaying of a policeman and an unidentified man Tho police believe may have been Tommy O'Connor, noted Chicago " killer. ¢ Another bandit, Ernest Martindale of Chicago, who was shot, perhaps fatally, babbled the name of O’Connor after he had lapsed into umconscious- | ness from his wounds. “Pommy O'Connor set me right on this,” cried Martindale. Tommy had the Jowdown on this and we couldn't o thing labels of the slain bandit whose body was taken to the county morgue indicated he lived in Chicago. O'Connor_escaped from a guard of police in Chicago, on Christmas day. 1923, as he was being returnedto jaii to await execution for murder. The slain officer was Stacey Mizner, 20, who was to have been promoted to' sergeant February 1. Edward Gerring, ~ policeman, was seriously wounded. BOCHUM, Germany, January 29 (#). —The Rhenish gnd Westphalian miners’ unions have given notice that they will terminate on March 1 the ex- | | i | | NATHAN CAXTON. DIES OF SCALDS. Girl of Three Spills Hot Water Prepared for Cold. Beverly Ann Browne, three years old, who was scalded by upsetting a basin of hot water from a table next to her bed while preparations were being made to treat her for a severe cold a few days ago, dled yesterday at Providence Hospital. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt issued a certificate of accidental death. The | child, the daughier of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Browne, 1706 T street, was frightened at the preparations to treat her and threw her arms up, THE SUNDAY ACTION ON CAYTON 1S UPTO SENATE Young Lawyer Is Nominated by President to Dis- trict Judgeship. The Senate will have before it for confirmation tomorrow another nomi- nee for a District post—Nathan Cay- ton, young Washington lawyer, who was selected by President Coolidge yesterday to be a judge of the Munic- ipal Court, succeeding the late Charles V. Meehan, who died recently. This nomination will leave the Senate with five candidates to con- firm for important posts in the Dis- trict. In addition to Mr. Cayton's nomination, those of John W. Childress and Benjamin F. Adams, nominated to be members of the new Public Utilities Commission, Sidney F. Talla- ferro and Proctor Dougherty, Dis- trict Commissioners, still await the Senate's approval. Mr. Cayton is only 28 years old. but triends of the President represented him yesterday as believing that the selection will be' approved by the lawyers of Washington. While the President had the appointment under consideration, he is said to have re- ceived indorsement of the young man from members of the local judiciary and from individual citizens, as well as the .District Bar Association. Mr, Cayton is a native-born Wash- ingtonian, and lives with his parents at 2948 Macomb street. He is a graduate cf Central Hlgh School and National University Law School. He has been assoclated with Alexander Wolf in the practice of law, and has overturning the basin. specialized in Municipal Court cases. DR. BALLOU DEPLORES DENIAL OF $121.000 TEACHERS' FUND (Continued from First Page.) dld not seem to be able to get the viewpoint of Dr. Ballou on extenu- ating circumstances surrounding vari- ous figures he brought to them. This was forcibly brought out dur- ing a discussion of the number of rooms at the Grant School. Dr. Bal- lou stated they had 12 regular class- rooms in the school, 10 in use and 3 special classrooms in use. This pro- voked Mr. Simmons to say: “I admit that sontetimes I am not good at arithmetic, but you show here 12 regular classrooms. You say here you have 12 regular classrooms and a minute ago you said there were 10 regular classrooms in use now. You say there are 10 regular classrooms, with 3 special classrooms, which would make 13. According to your other statement, you have only 12 rooms. Dr. Ballou Explains. After an extended controversy over this feature Dr. Ballou was permitted’ to expiain that the Grant has 10 reg- ular classrooms in use by reguiar classes and three other rooms used for special classwork, two of the lat- ter being regular rooms. Evidently sensing that the ‘subcom- mittee members were bent on the elimination of the' appropriation for the 72 additional teachers, Dr. Ballou frankly toid them if they did this they wouid seriously hamper the proper functioning of the school system. He said the new teachers were needed to take care of the new rooms which will be opened up during this school term and the next school term. He further explained that the in- crease in the enroliment this year cou.d not be taken as a criterion for nexc year, inasmuch as this was what is known among schooimen as “the iean” enrolimén. year, whiie next year will bring a peak increase, if past ex- perience is carried out. o $32,000 Saved in Year. Dr. Ballou pointed out that the school officials have an unexpended balance of approximately $32,000. in twachers’ saiaries which was saved during the past fiscal year. He said thal no ieacher was engaged unless imperatively needed, that none of the 72 teachers asked for are special teachers and that as much money as possible is saved through *turnover” ol teachers. . After a bit of bickering concerning a discrepancy in figures by members of the subcommittee; Dr. Ballou stated: “The evidence shows that this build- ing program shouid be carried out. There is no question about that at all. I feel that I am here as the at- torney for the children, and I am pre- senting the evidence to ‘the best of my ability. Discrepancy Appears. “I regret if 1 appear to be irritated by these questions, and I wish there were an opportunity to sit down and in a deliberate way go over the evi- I desire o present the evi: in. the form in which you wanted it presented. I shall do the best 1 can to organize the case and present it “It would appear from some of the questions that have been asked here that there is a discrepancy of five children between the enroilment and some other figure, and, of course, there is likely to be a discrepancy. Of course, any one can take these figures and indicate that additional iniormation ought to be presented, and we will present it. “We only want the evidence pre- sented, only the truth and the facts, and we stand upon that evidence ab- solutely and ungqualifiedly.” 25 Per Cent Clause Holds. The report on the hearing on the bill indicates that the Commissioners made an urgent plea for removal of the 26 per cent limitation provision Engineer Commissioner J. .Franklin Bell pointed out that only one schooi site of the many provided for in the current appropriation act has been purchased within the restricted price Col. Bell also told of the plea that had been made to the civic .and other or ganizations to aid the Commissioners %o bring pressure to bear upon the owners of desirable school sites to sell within the limitation. Representative Funk, however, re- plied that the failure to buy the sites was due t oone or two things. “Eitiu the assessed value has been too low and you could not operate under the 125 per cent limitation,” he said, “‘or they (the owners) are holding them for outrageously high prices. The committee took the position that while the limitation will have the effect of delaying acquisition, by continu ing to focus public attention upon the matter a more satisfactory situation would result.” New Purchasing Plan. One new feature of the bill which discards the present system of pur- chasing District supplies by compel- ling the District to buy from the Federal supply committee, thus put- ting the District in this ‘respect on the same basis as other departments and agencies of the Federal Govern- ment. Officials of the District do not believe will result in any economies. M. C. Hargrove, District purchasing agent points out that there are few jtems that the Federal Government, through its purchasing agency, is was able to find six that the District purchases lower than the Federal Government. The committee, how- ever, listed three items at prices lower than the District pays for them. “The general supply ' committee buys a number of items included in this schedule under what is known as estimated quantities,” sald Mr. Hargrove. “They get estimates from the various departments and then they buy all at once. It would not be practicable for the District to get these estimates. Paper Clips Purchases. “I picked out one small item and that is the small item of paper clips. If the committee were to send around to all departments and ask their needs fer these paper clips, the Dis- trict would have to do the same. “The general supply committee would call on the District Commis- sloners to supply their estimates for paper clips. That would mean that we would have to circularize every department of the District govern- ment, and we have 65 departments, Then, furthermore, some of these d partments have 10 different appro- priations which will be charged for paper clips.” Another new provision in the bill for the manufacture of automobile identification tags by prison labor at the District workhouse and reform- atory, was recommended by the Comiaissioners to obvlate any delay in the distribution of the license plates such as occurred this year. It also provides funds for a small foun- dry to produce certain cast iron pro- ducts such as sewer tops, window bars and grates. These two activi- ties are expected to result in a ma- terial saving to the District. The bill also provides for the elimination of the publication of the annual book listing delinquent tax- payers whose properties are to be sold at a public sale. In lieu of this book, the tax assessor’'s office will be required to prepare this information in proper shape for inspection of interested persons who care to see It. Printing Causes Deficit. FThe printing of the delinquent tax list for taxes in arrears on June 30, 1926, cost the District $7,585,44, which was $2,085.44 in excess of the appropriation for this purpose. A deficiency appropriation already has heen urged by the Cemmissioners to settle the amount of this claim. The report of the subcommittee's hearings In connection with the ap- propriation for the Police Court re- veal that considerable interest was manifest in the congestion in the Po- lice Court, with the result that R. L. Humphrey, chief deputy clerk was forced to go intg considerable detail to explain the situation. It was brought out that there were pending 1,189 cases awaiting jury trial, last December 31, as compared with 141 on the same date of the preceding year, despite the increase of two additional Judges. Mr. Humphrey pointed out that the increase was due to the increased de- mands for jury trials, and that the court instead of disposing of less cases had actually disposed of 832 more than in 1925. An analysis by Mr. Humphrey show- ed that 1,606 jury trials were demanded in 1925, compared with 2,668 last year. and that 1,465 were disposed of In 1925, whereas 2,297 were disposed of last year. 4 Traffic Decrease. The appropriation carried in the bill for the ‘traffic director's office represents a material decrease under the amount recommended by the Budget Bureau. While the estimates called for $123,000, the bill provides for $89,360, a decrease of $33,860. The principal reductions were made in the items for additional employes and for 18 proposed signal operators to op- erate the control stations for the au- tomatic traffic lights. ‘The appropriations committee also eliminated an item of $5,000, with which Traffic Director M. O. Eldridge had planned to use for making traffic counts and surveys. The committee decided that this was properly a func- ‘tion for the Police Department, after Maj. Edwin B. Hesse has given as- surance that his organization gould do that work efficiently. Instead of having the traffic lights operated from 9 different control points, the committee proposed @ central control station and estimated that a saving of $15,000 would be possible, Mr. Eldridge had asked $18,000 to pay the salaries of thesc control operators. Chairman Funk quizzéd Mr. Eld- ridge extensively about this $18,000 salary item and asked him if it were not possible to provide some sort of a device to replace the men. “You have started some traffic, regulations and lights here,” he said, “and now you come with a charge of $18,000 for men to press a button in an engine house to control these lights.” In connection with the appropria- tion for the traffic director's office, the bill prohibits the District from bearing any expense in connection with the installation of street car loading plat forms and the.lights used to distin guish them. The expense hereafter, will have to be borne entirely by the street car companies. The first specialized autogire, or windmill aircraft, built expressly for able to get at lower prices than the isting agreements with the mine own- ers relativg go wages and working time. District Government. Of 15 items on the ggneral supply committee schedule, . Hargrove rotating-wing flight, and not a modl- ;.:ed airplane, has been constructed in urope. STAR, WOMEN OF PRES GIVE STUNT PARTY Guests From Official Life Share Merriment With Washington Writers. The Woman's National Press Club {gave its first big “Stunt party” last night at the clubhouse of the National Assoclation of University Women, the event taking the form of a cabaret supper grill, with all of the talent selected from the Press Club mem- bership. The party went off with a bang that places it—the ladies say—on a par with the famous old Gridiron Club as a favorite sister, and writers of politics, religion, soclety and thrillers turned their various gifts into an im- promptu program of fun and frolic. The more than 20 guests of honor, representing stateswomanship and departments of law and order and mere civic life, were received by Miss Cora. Rigby, president, and Mrs. Sallie V. H. PicKett, vice president of the club, and with the members they were - seated at small flower-decked tables. After that the ringmaster and chalrman of the entertainment com- mittee, Miss Katharine Brooks, brought on her speclaltles with a rush of fun and good humor. “Bang Out Your Stories.” The Budding Berlins opened the service with “Bang Out Your Stories On the Old Machine,” with a rattling tune that sometimes sounded like “Pack Up Your Troubles.” Miss Ruth Kleipherger, as’ chair- man of the constitution committee, rudely Interrupted the brilliant intro- ductor, remarks of Miss Brooks by de- manding another vote on the club’s constitution, when such turmoll arose that a runner was dispatched to the home of Vice President Dawes to get a little advice on constitutional law and Senate rulings, but soon returned empty-handed, as the Vice President sald the Senate would not allow him to have any rulings. A song, “Our Constitution,” showed Miss Kleinberger's vocal powers, and Miss Bessie Poe, as Sing Nankee Po, parliamentarian of the last Chinese parllament, interrupted proceedings with some high-flown sentiments ex- pressed in Chinese. Miss Emma Pearley Lincoln as the Swami of the evening forced the com- pany to concentrate on the program as much as it could. Giida Gray was there in the person of Miss Helen j Fetter in native Hawailan costume, and, accompanied by Miss Jackie Mar- tin on her famous Stradi-ukulele, she gave some native dances. Freedom of City. A messenger rushed in with a tele- gram to the club, saying, “The city Is yours tonight, bandits and _all (Signed) Edwin B. Hease, chief of po- ce. Mme. Lotus Lantern Wu of the Peking Herald, later apprehended as Mrs. Vylla Poe Wilson, recorded the evening's proceedings on a tablet as blg. as a biscuit board. The woman politicians received some snappy sug- gestions and were well “taken off” by Miss Maxine Davis, and Miss Ruth Jones gave her famous monologue on L ne Soctety Editor. A telegram arrived from Berkeley, Calif., signed Will Rogers, poet-lariat and the world’s most-traveled mayor, which ran, “Please detail your club humorist to hold down my cot in the White House until I finish my term out here.” * Another message, this, time from Hollin Hall, Va. said: “Hello Much ado. Would I do? McAdoo. Miss Lincoln and Miss Gourley Edwards presented a dialogue hetween a city editor and a publicity writer and then the tuneless and budding Berlins sang a parody on “Yes Sir, That's My Baby.” Miss Ruby Black, as the White House spokeslady, did some work that reminded Mrs. Herman Gasch to tell some more “Secrets of the White House Kitchen.” Domestic Affairs. Mrs. Ann Hard, one of the timid members of the club, attempted to walk across the room at this point | and fainted, but was sufficiently re- vived later on to sing “the Gridiron Song,” with howling success. But a message was recelved by Miss Rigby, saying: “Please tell my wife to rush home, the biscuits are burning. (Signed). BILL HARD.”, Miss Mildred Brown and Miss Jackie artin sang some ditties captioned. Uncle Sam's Step Children—The Navy and Air Service. An international pageant—some- thing quite new to Washington society —featured Miss Jessle MacBride as director, and the countries represent- ed, with many interludes, were: China, Miss Gertrude Brigham: Mexico, Miss Katharine Lewis: Russia, Miss Mar- garet Germond; Miss Margaret Hart and Miss Corinne Frazier, two Brazil- fan nuts; Miss Blanche Joyce and Miss Gourley Edwards, as Pan-America. Miss Martha Strayer, Nicaragua, and then Margaret Hart blew in as a Scotch high-ball and did a bit of genuine United States jazz. Miss Bess Schreiner appeared with warrants for the arrest of the woman politician who told too many secrets, the White House spokeslady was pinched for the same offense, Gilda Gray was grabbed because of the airi- nes of her costume—notwithstanding the presentation of the ke to the city by Chief Hesse—and the last warrant was for the author of cer- tain stories. An appeal to the lady lieutenant of police, who was found among the guests of honor, prevent- ed overloading the “van.” From Queen Marie. Harking back to ~ood old days, a cable came from .darie, Queen of Rumania, dated Bucharest, January 29: “Regret my mileage book ran out before I could accept your kind invitation for tonight. I suggest as your slogan, ‘Stop, look, listen,’ also ‘Hear no evil, see no evil, write no evil,’ but never leave out royalt. There were also messages from two persons conspicuous in the news. The guests of honor, who entered into the spirit of the club’s first stunt party, were: Representative Florence P. Kahn of San Francisco, Calif.; Rep- resentative Edith Nourse Rogers of Lowell, Mass.; Asst. Attorney General Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrand Kathryn of the Juvenlle Court, District of Columbia; Judge Mary O'Toole of the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia: Lieut. Mina E. Van Winkle of the Woman's Bureau, Metropolitan Police; Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, vice chairman of the Republican national committee; Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau, president general of the N. 8. D. A. R.; Mrs. John L. Sherman, president of the National Federation of Women's Clubs; Miss Mary Anderson, director of the Wom. en's Bureau of the Department of La- bor; Miss Louise Stanley, chief of the Bureau of Home Economics; Maj. Julia Stimson, U. 8. A.; Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry, president-elect -of the Congressional Club; Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest, pageant director of the Com- munity Center; Mrs. Wilson Green, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 30. 1927—PART 1. U.S. PURCHASE OF-ARBORETUY | SITE EXPECTED NEXT MONTH House Committee Action on Project Taken to Mean Mount Hamilton.Tract Will Be Bought for $300.000. Establishment on the Mount Ham- flton tract in northeastern AWVashing- ton of a national ar.oretum, & cherished scheme of bolanists and garden lovers of the Capital for many years, drew a step nearer com- pletion last week when the House committee on agriculture favorably reported the Senate bill to purchase the more than 400 acres included in the Mount Hamilton area. It now appears certafn, according to leaders in Congress in charge of the legislation, that the bill authoriz- ing purchase of the land for the specific purpose of creation of the national arboretum will be passed before the middle of February and that the money agreed on as neces- sary for the purchase—s$300,000—will be provided in either a deficiency appropriation measure or added as a rider to one of the other appropria- tion bills, House ~leaders have announced that the measure authorizing pur- chase of the land and establishment of the arboretum is definitely a part of the majority legislative program and will be put through shortly. _These leaders have been assured that the bill, in its amended form, wil be accepted and passed by the Sen- ate. The amendments are to reduce the purchasing authorization from $600,000 to $300,000 and to eliminate the park and recreation provisions. Longworth Favors Plan. udge | Mrs. Abby Scott Baker, Tzetta Jewell Brown, Mrs. George Barnett and Mrs. J. Borden Harriman. Miss Bess Davis Schreiner, chair- man of the house committee, and her aides, Mrs. Susan Walker and Miss Felen Atwater, were in charge of seat- ing guests. - Speaker Longworth, House Leader Tilson and Chairman Snell of the rules committee have all expressed themselves heartily in favor of the legislation and the plan as a whole. The Commission of Fine Arts, which has been in close touch with the en- tire situation, is anxious that steps be taken immediately toward actual purchase of the land, in order that the encroachment of ptivate building operations in the area comprised in the Mount Hamlilton tract may be checked and the approach to the arboretum saved. The *area proposed to be purchased, and urged by many national organi- zations as an ideal site for the na- tional arboreutm, included the Mount Hamliton and Hickey Hill localities, lying between Bladensburg road and Kingman Lake, or the Anacostia River, on the east and west sides, and running north and south approxi- mately from M street to T street northeast, although its northeastern corner runs beyond T street to the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks. 1Its southern boundary is about three- fourths of a mile north of the Ben- ning road. The area is quite heavily wooded, and accerding to botanists and gardeners, is an ideal .location for the proposed national plant laboratory. ‘When the enabling legislation is passed the first step will be to enter into negotiation with the more than 30 private owners of the property, a move that will probably take a year, while in the meantime the Depart- ment of Agriculture may proceed with the plans it has already outlined for arboretum development, and which are now before the Budget Bureau. Work May be Delayed. Actual development work may not begin for two or three years, but once begun, it will move fast. The Fine Arts Commission points to the balancing of research laboratories of the plant and animal kingdoms on both’ sides of the Capital, with the arboretum on the east and the Na- tional Zoological Park on the west. In addition to becoming a’national laboratory, affording opportunity for the more than 200 prominent bota- nists in Washington to experiment with plant and tree life, it will offer a site near the Capital for comprehen- sive experimentation in timber grow- ing, according to F. C. Coville of the Department of Agriculture. Declaring that by development of improved varieties of grain, fruits, vegetables and other crops, the ef- ficiency of agriculture and the finan- clal returns from it have been en- hanced, Mr. Coville pointed to the possibility of centering timber pro- ducing trees development work in the arboretum. «'We are just beginning to grow trees for timber,” he said. “Millions of dollars will be spent on timber growing in the next few generations. An improved variety that will mature in 50 years will cost the grower only one-fourth as much, by reason of the compounding of the investment, as an unimproved variety that requires eight years. To assist the foresters of the country in the development of rowing varieties is one of of the National Arboretum. Timber Losses Cited. Enormous losses of timber are caused by destructive fungus diseases of trees, as for example, the Asiatic chestnut blight which has almost wiped out the American chestnut from several of our States. The develop- ment of varfeties immune to such dis- eages should be undertaken at once at the National Arboretum. /“Timber trees are subject to the ravages of destructive insects. The cultivation of locust, for example, for fence posts and rallroad ties is regard- ed as impracticable because most of the trees are destroyed by insects. Oc- caslonal individual locust trees, how- ever, are not affected. Apparently they are distasteful to the insects. Such individual trees should be made the basis of experiments to determine whether varieties can be bred which are free from the attacks of destruc- tive insects. Work of this kind should be carried on at the National Arbore- tum. “It is weil known: that first generva- tion hybrids in plants and animals often possess useful qualities in com- binations that do rot exist in either parent. A mule is more useful for certain purposes than either the horse Pl ol 5t0 10 P.M. —herewith become _the day's most pleasure- promising hours (12 to 10 - Sundays). For it's then that we're serving our $1.50 Regular Dinner | Many a man—with his wite, too—will step in, sit down, emjoy it, and then throw out his chest, convinced that this old world is a wonderful place after all! or the donkey. A lamb from a French Merino ewe and a Shropshire ram is | more valuable in certain economic sit- | vations than a lamb that is pure French Merino or pure Shropshire. The establishment of the National Arboretum would furnish facilities for extensive experiments in the cross breeding of timber trees, such as long- leaf pines with loblolly pine, sugar pine with white pine, and coast red- wood with giant sequoia. Such ex- periments ought to result in the pro- duction of new and very valuable tim. ber trees.” Foreign Plants to Be Grogn. Not only will the arboretum serve as a tree and plant laboratory, but it will ‘also become” a permanent plant and tree library for the permanent preservation of authentic living spe cimens of the thousands of plants in troduced by the Department of Agri- culture from foreign countries which will grow In the climate of Washing. ton. It will contain all the wild rela- tives of cultivated plants which will grow outdoors in this climate and will turn out to be, botanists predict, an invaluable source of material for the breeding of more valuable varieties. Extension of the arboretum to in- clude Kingman Lake would have the added effect of constituting a perma. nent bird sanctuary for the thousands of marsh and upland birds which habit the lake borders and the land sloping down to its banks. In its original form, the tract com- prised 408 acres. It has dwindled down in the years until not much more than 325 acres of the Mount Hamilton and Hickey Hill areas are now available for purchase. The assessor of the District of Columbia placed its value nearly a year ago at $343,048 for the original tract of 408 acres. In 1920, when its purchase was under consideration for another pur- pose, the assessor's valuation was $264,620. Among those who testified in favor of establishment of the arboretum in January, 1926, before the House com- mittee on agriculture are Mrs. Frank B. Noyes and Mrs. Harold 1. Pratt, representing the Garden Club of America; Dr. Coville, Robert Pyle, chairman of the arboretum committee of the American Association of Nur- serymen; Dr. John C. Merriam of the Carnegie Institution; Dr. A. F. Woods, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; Dr. T. Gilbert Pearson, president of the National Association of Audubon Societies; Warren H. Manning of the American Institute of Park Architects; Col. W. B. Greeley; chief of the For- est Bervice; E..T. Allen of the Na- tional Lumber Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation; John Young of the Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists of New York; Henry T. Moon of the American Association of Nurserymen: Stephen Child of the American Society of Landscape Archi- tects; Miss Harlean James of the American (ivic Association; Prof. L. H. Bailey, president of the American Assoclation for the Advancement of Science, and W. W. Ashe, Society of American Foresters. PATIENT, SHOT, CUTS THROAT IN HOSPITAL Grabs Razor From Doctor While on Operating Table—Silent 24 Hours About Wound. . Special Dispatch to The Star. CINCINNATI, Ohio, January 29— After enduring the pain from a bullet wound in his abdomen in silence for at least 24 hours, Edward Hall, 34, a carpenter, grabbed a razor from the hands of an interne while on an oper- ating table in the general hospital to- day and slashed his throat, dying in a few minutes. Hall collapsed in a railroad station early this morning. There was noth- ing about his appearance to indicate he had been shot, nor did he mention it to policemen who took him to the hospital. When he was stripped at ‘t:: dm”lgll:nl( §he bullet wound was nd. Physicians sai o f‘fl{l o 4 it was at least all refused to tell where or he had received the injury. Dr.oml:lg:' an interne, was preparing him for the Operation a few minutes later when Hall seized the razor. He slashed at grre.“nx:::r,hl::n Jjumped back, and then v e acr v "3,’.‘,’,‘ the blads acrow his throat, sev- e man’s home is been'tn Philadeiphin, "o < o 10 have Jewish Children to Have Fete. The children of the Jewl: Home, Thirty-fourth and I:h ll:ro:::: will be entertained there Sunday, Feb. ruary 6, from 3 to 6 o'clock by the pter of Sigma Sorrity. S e play, “School Days,” will , sented, followed by dramatimtiey ot the Mother Goose poems. Daneing, yocal selections, recitations. games reshments and_retr will conciude the bt B9 2 For the first time in five years the mints of minte of Great Britain are turning out Sells Nationally Advertised QUALITY LUMBER (FOUNDATION TO ROOF 7 . 1/% /Pa. Ave. D.]. 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