Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1930, Page 17

PLAN FOR AIRPORT 1S GIVEN APPROVAL BY BOARD OF TRADE Federal Government to Give Half of Land for Project. TREASURY WOULD MAKE LOAN TO MEET EXPENSE | | Site Considered for Development Consists of Approximately 280 Acres of Land. Development of a municipal airport for Washington near the Virginia end of the Highway Bridge under the plaus decided on by the congressional joint | commission, by which it is proposed that the Federal Government contrib- ute about one-half of the acreage, was formally indorsed yesterday by the di- rectors of the Board of Trade. The plans as announced by Senator Bingham of Connecticut, chairman of the congressional commission, is an ex- itious and fair solution of the prob- m, from the points of view of time, provision for future ex] jon of air | travel Indlmmmem? L rI:‘ and uée financing of the project, Lawrence Williams, chairman of the Board of Trade aviation committee, declared tc- day in commenting on the action of the trade body. The site to be developed under tI decision of the col commis- sion consists of a_combination of the property of the Washington Airport, Hoover Field, & portion of Columbia Island in the Potomac; a part of the Department of Agriculture Experimental Farm and a stretch of Military road. Approves Financing. The Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1930. Miss Callie Estelle Parsons (left) and Miss Jennie Lee Sugg, Osage Indian girls of Pawhuska, Okla., are members of the Nation High School Orchestra, | which played here Saturday for President Hoover. THREE SUSPECTS This plan, Mr. Willlams explained, will provide an airport here where im- mediate airport needs could be pro- vided for, contains provision for the gradual development of the Gravelly Point area, on the Potomac below High- way_Bridge, which is covered 'with a shallow depth of water, and also for the acquisition, when needed, of an auxiliary, fleld on an area of higher elevation where fog would not be_likely. ‘The financing of the airport, under the commission's arrangements, Mr. silence fears that would not share in the cost of the de- velopment, which would be used by both Federal and local interests. He pointed out that the long-term financing, through a loan from the Fed- eral Treasury, without interest, over a HELD N SLLEEING Previous Death Mystery Wit- ness Held in Beating of Cab Driver. ‘Three suspects were lodged in the Bladensburg jail today while Washing- ton and Maryland police were awaiting sufficient improvement in the condition of Harry Martin Melton, 44-year-old taxicab driver, to learn from him whether or not the persons arrested thus far were members of the party of four who brutally beat him over the ‘head with a lead pipe and left him on hole | 2 lonely Maryland road early Sunday Tevenues. ‘That the Federal Government, under the 's plan, would be mak- ing an equitable contribution to the Capital’s airport, Mr. Willlams ex- plained, is to be seen in the fact that approximately half of the area in combined field near Highway Bridge ‘would be donated by the National Gov- ernment. Some Now in Use. The site of the combined field con- sists of about 280 acres, a portion of which already is in use as an airport the Washington rt and Hoover concerns. About 140 acres of this tract, it is revealed, would be denated the Federal Government with the transformation of a part of the Agri- cultural Experimental Farm, Military road and Columbia Island into the air- and for the development of the cntire area for its destined airport purpases. ‘These considerations, Mr. Willlams added, convinced the directors of Board of Trade-that the most expedi- tious solution of the problem had been found and that the m‘;dcm‘ of P-Ti: project had been predicated on & fair and equitable to local taxpayers, who would share use and benefit of the port with the agencies of the Federal Government. ; ‘The insertion of an appropriation out of District funds of $250,000 annually over the period of years to amortize the loan of $2,500,000, he said, should not create a serious change in the local budget and tax situation, CONGRESS TO GET PLAN SOON. Federal Government To Give Part of Land for New Municipal Airpert. With its course of action for meeting the airport needs of Washington defi- nitely mapped out in the report made blic yesterday, the Joint Congres- et Airport Commission will intro- duce soon in both branches of Congress the legislation necessary to carry out the program. e commission’s formal report dis- | closed that the &omple!e plan contem- lates the following steps: 2 Immediate establishment' of a main landing field at the south end of High- way Bridge by purchase of Hoover Field and Washington Airport, combining these two areas with adjoining plrc'.ls' of Columbia Island and the experi- mental farm of the Department of Agri- culture. Plan Gradual Development. s Purchase by the National Cap! Park and Planning Commission of other land away from the river and at high altitude for use as an auxiflary airport on days when fog or other atmospheric conditions are unfavorable along the water front. R Gradual ~development of Gravelly mo: R Those held are: Jack Taliaferro, 30 years old, and Charles Fletcher and William Brown, both colored, of Hyattsville. Taliaferro’s Machine Abandoned. Police claim Taliaferro’s machine was the | found abandoned near Melton's de- serted taxicab. They say Taliaferro explained its presence there by declar- ing he ran out of gas at that point about 2 o'clock Sunday morning. ‘The colored suspects are said to re- side near the scene of the assault. All three prisoners deny any connection with the crime, police say. At pres- ent they are booked merely for in- ferro was taken into custody last night by Sergt. Machen and Con- stable Gasch at the Bladensburg Fire House at the conclusion of an inquest into the death of Frank Earle Baldwin, I'Gl which he had been the Pprincipal Verdict Unsatisfactory. ' Baldwin was found dead in Talia- ferro's car, late Priday night and the inquest resulted in a verdict that the man “met his death through causes unknown” to the coroner’s jury. The Hyattsville undertaker from whose the | establishment funeral services for Bald- win were conducted this morning at first refused to accept a cenmcnu'e 50 worded. Justice of Peace Hugh O'Neill, who led, asked the jury to attempt to reach & more specific verdict, and even the jury seemed dissatisfied with the verdict, for it endeavored to amend it with a endation that lerTo be held for the action of the grand jury. Failure on the part of the authorities to have an autopsy performed or in- troduce some medical testimony to show the immediate cause of death was ability to make a more specific findin, Lengthy cross examination of Tallnx- ferro and other witnesses, in an effort tq indicate that Baldwin had met with foul play, were futile and the only ab- normal symptoms any witnesses admit- ted noting in the man was that he had been drinking heavily. Taliaferro himself found Baldwin’s body slumped over the back seat of his car near a Bladensburg barbecue stand, but at- tempts to trace the movements of the two men prior to that time resulted only in confusing testimony. Second Suspect Released. Taliaferro was the second suspect taken into custody, by Gasch and Machen. Another man was arrested yesterday but was released after ques- tioning. Naval School Planned. NANKING, March 4 (#).—China is to have an Annapolis. The ministry of the navy hopes to open a school for naval officers patterned after the Ameri- can one here in the Fall, blamed by the jurymen for their in-| D.C.COMMISSIONERS OPPOSE ARMORY Unfavorable Report Made on Plan to Buy Washington Auditorium, ‘The District Commissioners today sent to Congress an unfavorable report on the Elliott bill which proposes to acquire the Washington Auditorium and remodel it as an armory for the District National Guard. ‘The cost of remodeling this bulding would be very high, the Commissioners reported, and it would be unsuited to its purpose even after extensive remod- eling. At the same time the Commissioners appointed a board to investigate and report on the whole subject of the location, design and cost of a suitable armory for the District National Guard. Assistant Engineer Commissioner Don- ald A. Davison, Building Inspector John W. Oehmann and Municipal Architect Albert L. Harris are named members of the board. ‘ “There is a very real need for an armory for. the use of the National | Guard of the District of Columbia and various organized reserve units and vet- erans’ organizations in the city of Wash- ington,” the Commissioners wrote, “but in the opinion of the Commissioners this need can be more satisfactorily and economically met in another way. While it is possible to remodel the ‘Washington Auditorium Building to convert it into an armory for the Na- tional Guard of the District of Colum- bia, the alterations will be very exten- sive and costly, and the resulting build- ing, while usable for the purpose named, will not be so well adapted to the pur- pose as one built especially for that pur- pose. It would be deficient in storage space, thus requiring the rental of stor- age space elsewhere, and would be in- adequate to care for any additional units in case of an expansion of the Na- tional Guard beyond its present au- thorized strength. “The Washington Auditorium is an expensive building in a downtown loca- tion. Preliminary rough estimates of the cost of construction of an armory especially designed for the purpose in- dicate that such a building could be constructed for about $750,000 (exclu- sive of the cost of a site), and that the result would be a more satisfactory armory than the remodeled Auditorium could be.” —_— $1 BILL RAISED TO $10 IS PASSED ON WOMAN Search Begun by Police for Man Accused by Operator of Room- ing House. A search was begun by police today for a well dressed man alleged to have passed a raised $10 bill on Mrs. Blanche Howe on the pretense of en- gaging a room at her boarding house at 1209 L street yesterday afternoon. The man called and asked to be shown a room which seemed to please him. At first he tendered a $20 bill for an initial payment of $5, requesting change. When Mrs. Howe was unable to make the change, he produced a $10 bill which she later found had been raised from $1 to $10. He received $5 change. Mrs. Howe told police of No. 2 precinct that she belleved the $20 bill also had been raised. Point for tuture use. The appropriation, to be advanced as a loan by the Federal Treasury, would be paid back, without interest, by the District in 10 annual installments ur1 $250,000 each. Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of | Michigan, & member of the commission, | voiced a sharp eriticism yesterday aft-| ernoon of local organizations that have ' advocated Gravelly Point as the best airport, declaring that the commission has been “handicapped and hampered by the organized commercial bodies.” Blames Gravelly Point Demand. The Michigan Senator said it was his belief that the failure to get the Fed- eral contribution of $500,000 toward the airport, recommended by the commis- sion last year, could be traced, at least indirectly, to a reaction in Congress to| the demand for “Gravelly Point or nothing.” ‘The Senator referred also to the pro- | test of Chamber of Commerce officials against the proposed method of financ- ing the airpert and sajd that continued opposition along this line would threaten to destroy permanently interest on the of Congress in local airport legis- | |WOMAN HELD OVERNIGHT FREED OF CHARGE OF THEFT OF AUTO | District Attorney Finds No Evidence Against Dorothy M. Davis, but Companions Are Accused. It seems that Dorothy M. Davis, 24, who spent 48 hours in jail recently when she appeared late at court on a gas-main-tapping charge, got another bad break last night when she was locked up on a charge of stealing an automobile, for she was given frees at Police Court today, the office of the District attorney saying there was no evidence to show that Miss Davis knew sl;‘ee wn'z riding in“l fihnl.r::nhme when stopped by police last nl Miss Davis' companions of vesterday, Hugo Springer, 22, and Frank H. Chris- topher, didn’t fare so well, as the former was held for grand jury action on.two charges of “joy-riding” and the latter on one count. Springer demanded & jury trial for stealing license plates Various counts of violations of the traf- fic code l‘llnllt’.“both men are also to P T it v le, accom] Policemen Leo Murray -n:“m Beyoe, the arrestors of Miss Davis, on prohibition charges in January, kept a three-hour watch on the Davis home, at N street near Twelfth, last night, be- fore they were rewarded with the ap- Proach of the expected automobile. The three were immediately apprehended when police recognized the machine as one stolen from James C. Dowd, 226 Channing street northeast. on Febru- ary 13, They were also booked with the theft of a car from Abraham Wolman, 420 Kenyon street. Police say that Springer secured license plates for the first car from the District by giving the name of a dead man. Charges of obtaining tags through misrepresentation were placed against h&’m Davis will receive trial by jury in the case of tapping a gas main on Thursday. She recently pleaded guilty to two prohibition charges and receivs | such e | Ehe ey ahd bility of Posttion, wad showid ve ALL GRADES LISTED BYBOARD IN URGING SERVICE PAY RAISE Appropriations’. Increase Would Total $85,684,706 if in Effect Now. RENTAL ALLOWANCE WOULD BE STOPPED Officers Should Be Paid on Basis of Earned Salaries Rather Than Liv- ing Wage, Group Believes. This is the third of a series of articles on the proposal, mow pvending bejore President Hoover and Conmgress, o in- crease the pay of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health Service and Coast and Geodetic Survey. The fourth article will appear tomorrow. BY DONALD A. CRAIG. In the pay increases which it has rec- ommended the Interdepartmental Pay Board has included every grade from private to major general in the Army and the corresponding grades in the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Pub- lic Health Service and Coast and Geo- detic Survey. ‘The total increase in the appropri- ations for these six services, if the p: posed pay schedules were in effect du; ing the present fiscal year, would be 26.75 per cent, or $85,684,706 above the aggregate appropriations required under the existing law, according to an esti- mate by the Budget Bureau. Specifically, the board has included in its recommendations for pay increases commissioned officers, warrant and commissioned warrant officers, woman nurses, enlisted men, the entire retired personnel and the National Guard and Reserve forces when on active duty. Throughout its report the board has employed the Army titles which are understood to cover the personnel of all services in the corresponding grades. Allowances Would Be Stopped. One of the most radical chan; pro- posed is the discontinuance of rental and subsistence allowances for com- missioned officers. The board recom- mends that these allowances be con- solidated with pay into a single item, which shall be merely designated “pay.” When Government quarters are fur- nished to an officer it proposes that a rental value shall be deducted from his pay. is the opposite of the present system. ‘The board believes that officers should be paid upon the basis of their “earned salaries” rather than in accordance with the theory of the “living wage.” b only complete and perfect sys- tem of paying an officer according to his living expenses,” declares the board, “would require every officer to submit & budget, to be approved by competent reviewing authorities, and his emolu- ments fixed thereby. This is obviously impracticable. “PFurthermore, the procedure neces- sary, to establish the right of the mar- ried officer to receive the allowance for dependents has become so formidable and so inquisitorial as to cause intense dissatisfaction among this class of offi- cers. The attention of the board has been called to several cases (and there are doubtless many others) where the officer has foregone this allowance rather than expose his dependent mother to the humiliation of laying be- fore the public in an official document such intimate details of her life as re- quired by the form devised by the controller general for the establish- ment of dependency in such a case. Value Held Pay Factor. “Sound uires that an officer stould be paid for- his value to the Gov- ernment, without regard to his family status, not for his expenses of existence, and simplicity of administration requires that the amount granted him be con- sidered as ‘pay’ and not a complex mix- ture of ‘pay’ and varying ‘allowances.” " ‘The increases in appropriations under the proposed pay schedules for each service, as estimated by the Budget Bu- reau on the basis of the 1930 strength of each service, would be as follows: Army, $40,147,571, or 30.94 per cent; National Guard, $3,986,385, or 24.77 per cent; Organized Reserves, $1,375,965, or 30 per cent; making a total increase for the War Department of $45,509,921, or 30.49 per cent. Navy, including Reserves, $32,500,000, or 24,32 per cent. Marine Corps, including Reserves, $3, 407,296, or 21.38 per cent. . Ctoa“ Guard, $3,455,450, or 18.19 per cent. Public Health Service, $589,025, or 30.61 per cent. s Coast and Geodetic Survey, $223,041, or 40.18 per cent. These figures do not tell the story of how the proposed increases will affect each grade in the six services. That is all worked out carefully and set forth in detail in the report of the interde- glanmental board, and will be explained a later article in this series. History of Legislation Studied. The first thing the board did before working out the proposed new pay schedules was to study the history of pay legislation in the various services and then formulate a statement of prin- ciples which it “deduced from its study of prior and present legislation, from its knowledge of conditions in the services and from its collective experience in the military services, upon which principles | bo: it is believed any service pay legislation should be based so far as practicable.” Before setting forth this set of prin- ciples, however, the beard said that complete conformance to them could be accomplished, with fairness to all, only in case personnel conditions throughout the services were uniform, “Consequently,” adds the board, “on account of the different systems of pro- motion in the several services and the varying results obtained thereunder, strict adherence to all these principles is not entirely practicable in their ap- })hcnlon to the pre&;nuon of new pay legislation at this time.” - Here are the principles enunciated by the board: 1. Rental and subsistence allowances should be consolidated with pay into a single item designated as “pay.” 2. Pay should be based fundamental- ly on the responsibilities inherent in the grade held and the normal service to be expected of an officer holding e. 3. A base pay should be established for each grade, with increments for length of service therein. 4. When Government quarters are furnished an_ officer a rental value should be deducted from his pay. 5. No officer should receive more pay than any other senior to him. 6. Pay should be uate, based upon the current purchi value of the dollar, to enable an officer at all times to give his best thought to the service rather than to problems of ex- istence. 7. The pay of officers of higher ld be commensurate with ity their and to SCHOOL CONMITTE 10 COWVEN TODAY T0 PLAN PROCRAN Group Will Make Survey of System by Impromptu Inspections. i | | | [SUPT. BALLOU CENSURED | | AT HEARING YESTERDAY; | House Body Considering Measure | Providing for Elective Board. The special subcommittee of the ed- | ucation subcommittee of the House Dis- | trict- committee, which is to’ make a | personal investigation of the schools | |in the District, followin~ complaints | of mismanagement of the school sys- tem lodged at a hearing last night on | the bill for popular election of the school board, arranged to confer late this afternoon to map out its program of inspection. ‘This subcommittee, consisting of Rep- resentatives Beers of Pennsylvania, Hall of Indiana and Mrs, Norton of New Jersey, will not make its program public, but will drop in unexpectedly at various schools to view the physical conditions and t a background of personal observation before hearings are resumed on the elective school board measure. , ‘This was decided upon when the hearings yesterday simmered down to censure of Dr. Frank W. Ballou as superintendent of schools, to criticism of various features of the school system and to the declaration that “the only wa" to insure the school hoard’s re- sponsiveness to the desires of the par- ents and taxpayers is to elect its members.” First Definite Statement. ‘What Chairman Reid of the subcom- mittee conducting the hearing charac- terized as “the first definite statement presented” to the subcommittee was made by Henry C. Clark, vice presi- dent of the District Congress of Parent- Teachers’ Associations, who represented a group of these organizations recently in seeking the “privilege” of naming one member of the school board. He told the subcommittee that Chief Justice Walter 1. McCoy, under whom the ap- pointments then came, said: “I will not consider for the school board any one who is not favorable to Supt. Ballou,” and that Dr. Ballou had issued a state- ment to the effect that he would not have a man on the school board who would not support him. He further told the subcommittee that the school officials are bitterly opposed to any in- telligent investigation of the educa- tional system in Washington. Numerous instances of alleged mis- management by the present board were cited by Dr. George C. Havenner, presi- dent of the Federation- of Citizens' As< sociations and of the Citizens’ Advisory Council, who is an efficiency expert with the United States Bureau of Effi- clency. He declared that an investi- gation made by him personally dis- closed that the members of the school board never visited the schools and that the visits made by Supt. Ballou were infrequent, casual in nature and brief, Scores Ground'’s Condition. The special investigating subcom- mittee was urged by Dr. H‘lvznner to pay particular attention to the school grounds, which he said were in a dis- graceful condition, muddy, strewn with broken glass and other refuse, He stressed insanitary and unsafe condi- tions in many plants, illustrating that he had found windows leading to fire escapes nailed down and shocking quantities of filth and refuse in class roo&l:. ar H. Brinkman, former clerk to the Senate District committee, and now & practicing attorney engaged by pro- ponents of the elective measure, testi- fled that the five-year school building program formulated in 1924 by the school board was a piece of strategy hasily rushed through to prevent an in- vestigation by the United States Bureau t():f Efficiency which had been asked by ‘ongress to prepare a program. He cited figures as showing that the board, setting themselves u&u experts, had seriously erred to e extent of at least 40 per cent in their estimates of requirements. He argued that a board so far wrong ought to be replaced by a board chosen by the taxpayers on account of their qualifications, Mr. Brinkman also charged the pres- ent board with spending “fortunes” for decorative accessories rather than much-needed educational facilities, The elementary school facilities, he said, are too small to accommodate the pupils, with a result that many are being denied i‘co}:lo(;]mx despite the compulsory educa- aw. Labor Leader Testifies. “It takes political pull to get a child into many Distriét ugwlsy“ l‘f:l-lleflcd. George A. Warren, representing the Central Labor Union and the Mid-City Citizens' Association, called attention that the present system of having the courts appoint the school board is de- fective because the courts are already 50 congested that they cannot attend to the trial of important cases which are their prime duty, and so cannot give adequate time to the selection of prop- erlyrdqumfled members for the school ard. — the remuneration of a successful ca: lnscivfl life. " i . The pay of an rson on the re- tired list should by;peblsed upon the pay of persons of like grade on the active list. 9. Retired personnel on active duty should receive the pay they would re- ceive if on the active list, 10. Travel allowances should be reg- ulated so as to reimburse the officer as equitably as possible for the different classes of travel performed. Civil Life Rate for Nurses. - 11. The pay of warrant officers and commmissioned warrant officers, ap- pointed after years of enlisted service and whose further promotion is re- stricted, should be determined without regard to that of commissioned officers. 12. Pay of nurses should be based vn the remuneration for similar service in civil life, with retirement provided for physical disability incurred in line of duty as well as for length of service. 13. Pay of enlisted men should be based on length of service and the nature of the duties prescribed for the grade of raf in which serving. 14. To avold confusion and multi- plicity of decisions, the laws mvernlnx pay should be drawn in explicit lan- guage and should provide for a simple system of administration. None of these principles, the board explains, are intended to affect the right of officers, regardless of rank, to receive special compensation while per. 1 luty I:,vn!vln; “extra hazard’ LUCKY LIKES HIS FAN MAIL Lucky, the now famous post dog of Takoma Park, with C. E. Bird, whom he assists in the distribution of mail. from school children. Takoma Park’s Mail Dog Gets Big Kick From Own Fan Mail Lucky Recipient of 78 Valentines and Gift From Woman in Ohio. Lucky makes no bones about it—he gets a great kick out of his fan mail. Perhaps it's the novelty, because Lucky, up until a few months ago, was more accustomed to handing out letters than to receiving them. Every week day for three years now, blizzards or not, Lucky has been help- ing C. E. Bird distribute the mail around Takoma Park. So engrossed did Lucky becdme with being the postman’s right-hand man that he refused to chase any cats until the mail was up. Lucky Gets Mail. He learned to sit on his haunches upon Takoma Park’s front porches and watch while Mr. Bird produced letters from his pouch for the residents. 'l‘::han m‘o:o:lnnbly. that n‘a:; began ive up packages. mn himself. s for Lu 3 Of ' course, cky couldn’t know, since he never reads his press notices, but he was getting to be quite a celebrity. A story printed in The Star last November had been republished in a national periodical for school children, m’ld flmt;‘t?'r‘y Mt '-hee Mmg’m Lucky many o country. . The first Lucky knew of it was on Valentine’s day. "He got 78 valentines, most of them from the second-grade pupils .at Petworth School, although Some were from far off. Gift From Ohio, Then Lucky bey to watch Mr. Bird's mail uch with something more than professional interest. Yesterday & letter came from a woman in Ohio, inclosing 10 cents and y something instructing Mr. Bird to nice for Lucky. Mr. Bird followed instructions and when Lucky reported - for duty he scented something unusual in the air, so he sat up on his haunches and looked pretty. The airedale, which belongs to E. A. Seigler, & resident living near the post office, presently was permitted to stick his head in the mail bag and came up with something nice. Mr. Bird, following instructions, had sflfl shopping for Lucky in a butcher’s | and 0p across the street. nnkuu no bones about i D Portland Car Fare Raised. PORTLAND, Oreg., March 4 (). — The Oregon Public Service Commission yesterday gave formal permission to the Yes, Lucky enjo?ln‘ his fan on | Portland Electric Power Co. to advance its street car fare from 8 to 10 cents, effective next Wednesday. The dog got 78 valentines last month —=Star Staff Photo. HEAVRINS CONSENT T0 EVIGTION PLEA McPherson Case Witnesses Asked to Vacate Apartment. Mr. and Mrs. Roy R. Heavrin of the Park Lane Apartments, sensational wit- nesses in the case of Mrs. Virginia Mc- Pherson, 22-year-old nurse who met a tragic death in the premises, today de- cided to leave the scene of the tragedy for a new home. They reached their decision after Justice James A. Cobb in Municipal Court consented to an agreed entry upholding the complaint of the Joseph H. Himes Co., landlord of the Park Lane, in an eviction suit against Heavrin, The formal complaint presented by the Himes company requested that the Heavrins move from apartment 115 un- der the terms of the lease which pro- vides that the landlord shall have the privilege of asking that premises. be vacated. Soon after the first grand jury in- vestigating the McPherson case was in- formed by the couple of screams and distressing cries that emanated ‘rom the nurse’s apartment on the night of mfx tru;dy gi;he t1'-.1:“&1;15 appealed to police, charging t they were bein; “harassed.” b g Several weeks ago police of the third precinct were summoned to the Heav- rins, apartment to quell a disturbance that upset the decorum of the Park Lane Apartments. Lieut. William C. Holmes, who led the police, charged that the Heavrins resisted investiga- tion and hurled red pepper at him and his men. The Heavrins were charged with assault. N The charge against Mrs. Heavrin was nolle prossed in Police Court today and her husband allowed to forfeit $5 col- lateral, Mr. and Mrs. Heavrin did not ap- pear in court today. Wilbur C. Ruff, manager of the Park Lane, and Mrs. Lillian Conway, telephone operator, both McPherson witnesses,. however, were there, but did not testity, BEECH TREE AS GIFT. Aux:’ n't”hm.lm ve heec);‘tree )‘u‘n been do- naf e office of public buildings ublic parks by Mrs. Archibald of 1826 Massachusetts avenue and will be planted just west of ithe wooded grove between the Lincoln Me~ morial drive and the extension of B street northwest, in West Potomac Park, In making this announcement today Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of public bulldlni: and public parks, said that the tree is now located just north of Mrs. Hopkins' home and was planted by her and her husband soon after their marriage. PAGE B-1 0. SUPPLENENTAL ESTIATES URGED TOTALING S6430 Hoover Sends Suggested Appropriation Figures to Congress. CORPORATION COUNSEL INCREASE IS INCLUDED $240,000 Asked for School Books and Supplies, $37,800 for Police Pay and $20,000 for Hospital. Supplemental estimates of appropria- tions for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year beginning July 1 next, totaling $684,300, were submitted to Congress today by the President. ‘This budget includes $6,500 additional for personal services in the office of corporation counsel; $240,000 additional for text books and other education sup- plies; for construction of an eight-room extensible building in the vicinity of Connecticut avenue and Upton street, $140,000; for construction of an addi- tion to the Stuart Junior High School, including 10 class rooms and two gym- nasfums, = $240,000; salaries for the metropolitan police, $37,800, and an additional amount for personal serv- ices at Gallinger Muncipal Hospital, $20,000. In explaining the need for additional funds for the corporation counsel's office, the Budget Bureau said that this is to provide for an assistant to the corporation counsel, who shall be an expert in public utilities law and prac- tice. The corporation counsel is the general counsel for the Public Utilities Commission, and the commission joins with him in urging that provision be made for the appointment of an assist- ant to the corporation counsel so skilled in the field of public utilities law as to be able adequately to handle the com- plex legal questions that are coming before the commission in increasing numbers. School Sum Explained. In explaining the need for $240,000 for school books and supplies, the ud« get for the fiscal year 1931 contains an estimate of appropriation of $135,000 for text books and school supplies for vugfl: of the first eight grades in the public schools. An act approved Janu- ary 31, 1930, became law lubug;l:tnt to the transmission of the 1931 bu and this new law authorizes the Board of Education to provide text books and other necessary educational books and supplies for the use of all 'Eupfll in the public schools, including the junior high and senior high schools as well as the elementary schools. The pur- pose of the estimate submitted today is to provide the additional amount rll:cessary to carry into effect this new w. The purpose of the estimate totaling "$380,000 for new school building con- struction is to provide for an eighte room building in the viicpity of Con= neeticut avenue and Upshur street and a 10-room addition with two gym- nasiums at the Stuart Junior High School to meet the needs for increased school facilities at these locatioas, Police Increase Explained. The additional amount of salary for the Metropolitan Police Force, $37,800, is explained as follows. by the Budget Bureau: “There are 14 police precincts in the District of 'Columbia, each of which is officered by a captain and a lieutenant. At present the captain remains on duty for 10 and lieutenant for 14 hours 4 All members of the force below the of lieutenant are on duty for lhhmm ary to lowances of a the fiscal year 1631, in order that the daily’ hours of duty of the captains and lieutenants may be placed upon an 8-hour basis.” The reason for the $20,000 estimate for personal services at Gallinger Mu- nicipal Hospital is that since the sub- mission of the budget for 1931 it has been disclosed that the estimates of appropriation for personal services con- templated- deductions from the salaries of certain employes on account of sub- sistence and quarters to be furnished them, whereas it now appears that these employes will not be subsisted and uartered at the hospital, and hence should receive their salarfes without such deductions. § Young schoolgirls are receiving in- struction in beauty culture, including manicure and makeup, from complexion specialists of the fashionable West End of London. AIRMAIL PICK-UP DEMONSTRATED HERE Federal aviation officials and members of Congress device, which is intended to permit the landing or picking up of airmail by an airplane in The photograph shows a pick- inary test of the device. The airmail pouch, shown plane, is automatically freed from the cable in the big chute and a new pouch is picked CBite 4" eped bt mere than 50 mmiles o Kours ings or aboard ships. being ma % release and pick-up being today witnessed flight tests of the new Adams girmail pick- Tlight from the roofs of beid at Hoover Field yesterday afternoon du: a prelim- the ground at the end of the cable e n’.’-u. up at the same insta ln-rhulh By