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URGE PSITTACOSIS “{ABORATORY" 10 GUARD SCIENTISTS Discontinuation of Further Work“in Building Here Is Advocated. | 1 i JISEASE SPREAD LAID TO “OVERCROWDING” Quarantine Station Would Be Used to Reduce Danger of Infection to Others, Further studies of psittacosis, or par- ot fever, probably will be conducted at | a branch laboratory of the Public; Health Service on some isolated island, where a quarantine station now is es- tablished. 1 After an intensive study of the sit- uation at the hygienic laboratory here, where 12 persons have contracted the mysterious disease in efforts to isolate the organism responsible, 2 board of public health officers, appointed by Surgeon Gen. Hugh S. Cumming, l\?\'e recommended that further work \'n\h1 parrot fersr and similar filterable vh'us‘; maladies % discontinued here, that the bullding Y completely overhauled and a new bullding be provided if possible. Building Held Inadequate. The board found the present hygienic Jaboratory ‘building totally inadequate for such work. and considered it likely - that the Avercrowding of workers in the | limited quarters was responsible for the | ‘he disease. spread of ‘he ¢ : | Gen. ing now is con- m’erm" at what public health quaran- tine t!onitiamofitu:ihle!out tion laboratory s e -l: p.:t‘)blhle that two or more As Gided on I 5 sent there to_carry_on doctors will Safety for Others Urged. ot a ney bduilding, it was wt":hxperxme'nm work awith malignant filterable viruses probably could be car- ried on here with complete safety for body not (Iluctlyl handling the r the cuitures. m’;h:“::‘::; ‘\’:alne to no definite con~ elusion as to the medium by which the germs were distributed through the aundmg. There are at present two ries—that t:\‘ut"“ carried by cock- roacl b Anhae";mymu ‘were reported as doing today, with no new cases. “xl:‘:. R. Hy.. Spencer, Public Health Serv- ice surgeon, Who has been scouring the ‘country to obtain blood from conva- Jescent parrot fever patients with which 1o obtain convaleseent serum, was back fh Washington today with blood from 10 persons. This is believed sufficient to supply the serum for all the present cases and any new ones likely to de- CARTER HOME GIVEN | NO SPECIAL GUARD Pratt Explains Shortening of ‘Beat’ Only Step Taken to Protect Public Printer. - Although the police are taking pre- uutionsr‘y ‘measures to protect the resi- dence of Public Printer George H. Car- ter, at 1661 Hobart street, Maj. Henry G Pratt, superintendent of police, explain- ed today that no special guard ever has been stationed outside the residence. When Mr. Carter began his exposure of the gambling racketeering in Wash- ington about & month ago, Inspector William S. Shelby of the detective force ordered the “beat” in the neighborhood of Mr. Carter’s residence shortened so that police detailed to it could be more readily called in meh:.ul an en;e‘::;ncy, o such _emergency ever a L NMllj. Pratt gxphintd today that al- though Mr. Carter never requested po- lice protection it was deemed advisable to take some precautionary measures in ¥iew of possibilities arising out of the public printér's attacks on gambling | activities. Dollc!fl;b}l,\ h;"ltbehe:\ the " althoug! S b‘ged;d!h'gflen:d about one-half, so that | men on duty might be able to circle Mr. Carter’s residence every few min- utes. st~ SEES NO RESTRAINT IN FIXED CALL RATE Gov. Young of Federal Reserve; Says Money Interest Will Adjust Itself. By the Assoclated Press. Gov. Roy A. Young of the Federal: Reserve Board testified before the House banking committee investigating the banking situation today, that an | arbitrary maximum limit of 6 or 8 per cent on the call ml:xlx‘ey rate would not vent over speculation. w:!eplymg 1o a suggestion by Repre- sentative Seiberling, Republican, Ohio, that “Congress should vlace a limit on the call money rate,” Yuing said "lhosfv things adjust and control ihemselves. “But they didn't adjust themselves last Fall when the rate went to 25 per cent, until you and the Federal Reserve Board had put on the brakes,” observed Beiberling. Ydun:' answered that the board had taken no “drastic” steps toward holding down the call rate. Asked in “whose interests” the call rate was fired, Young said it was de- | termined by the combined interest of the borrower and the lender. He argued against a limit on the call rate on the ground that a high rate curbed speculation. “If an 8 per cent rate were named as & maximum, speculation would be great- manager, property man and assistants [ left_cnest, Melvin Sorrell, 21 years old, | ¢ Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1930. % Four feminine members of the Coft Shaw comedy, “Great Catherine,” tonight IN AMATEUR PLAY ! Columbia Group to Present’ “Great Catherine” Tonight at Central High. When the Columbia Players present | the George Bernard Shaw comedy, | “Great Catherine,” at Central High School tonight, there will be $60,000 worth of antique furniture on the stage. Last night at a dress rehearsal stage | were in & constant state of trepidation | while amateur stage hands moved the | valuable sets. ‘The furniture is of the period por- trayed in the play and was loaned for the occasion. * The scene‘of the produc- tion is the palaces of the czars. ‘The staging of the play is part of a plan to make it possible for Washing- ton to be represented in the national | gontest for the Belasco Cup in New Yor kthis Spring. The Columbia Play- ers won the local tournament this year as they did last and are hoping to carry their production to Broadway. Proceeds of the play tonight will be de- voted to this end. Most of the male characters in “Great | Catherine” are drawn from the cast of “When the Ship Goes Down,” the play which brought the prize to the| Columbia Players. The title part, Ca-| therine, will be played by Aurora Poston. | the director, who will be supported by Anne Ives of the-Arts Club. ‘Both play- ers have long professional records. The iwo leading male roles are played by | George Odell and H. R. Baukage. | Dorothea Lewis, winner of the diction | prize this year, is a well known amateur | who will take part. When the cast was assembled, it was done with the purpose of forming a company of tal- ented amateurs, seasoned by a few pro- fessionals to add finish to its work. The current offering will be repeated later at the Wardman Park Theater if | the situation justifies it. Broa‘rdvnun Youth Stabbed. Suffering from a stab wound in the of Broad Run, Fauquier County, Va. was brought here from his home yes- terday afternoon and taken to Emer- gency Hospital for treatment. It was stated at the hospital that the young | man was stabbed with a penknife by an acquaintance while engaged in an altercation at Broad Run yesterday. His recovery is expected. i | tion to reduce fares to any rate not ex- umbia Players who will appear in the at Central High School at 8:30 oclock. They are: Upper left, Aurora Poston; upper right, Mildred Brown; lower left, Dorothea Lewis; lower right, Anne Ives. 960 000 SETS USED LIEUT. VAN WINKLE BIVES EXPLANATION Fails to Disclose Reasons for Reference to Bureau. Pratt Also Silent., . Her reasons for including her highly unfavorable opinion of the Bureau of Efficiency in a letter to Chairman Sim- mons of the House District appropria- tions subcommittee, made public Tues- day, today were submitted to Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of po- lice, 'by Lieut. Mina C. Van Winkle. chief of the Women's Bureau of the Metropolitan police, but what those reasons were both Lieut. Van Winkle and Maj. Pratt declined to disclose. Mrs. Van Winkle also is understood to have told Maj. Pratt, in her report this morning, why she included, in an interview given a.Star reporter at the time her letter to Representative Sim- mons was made public, references (o Representative Simmons having shown “personal malice” toward her in the recent hearings of Chairman Simmons’ subcommittee on the District appro- | priations. Maj. Pratt asked for the explanation of the letter to Representative Sim- mons after it is reported to have aroused the ire of the appropriations subcommittee chaiman and the other members of his subcommittee, Mrs. Van Winkle indicated this morning that she expects her explana- tion of the whole affair to bring the discussion 10 an end. “It should have ended before' !hfls."l Mrs. Van Winkle declared. Maj. Pratt is known to be in favor of his subordinates taking up their dif- ficulties with members of Congress through him and not dealin g direct with them. 4-H CLUB PLANS MADE Delegates From Seven Counties Meet at Culpeper. Special Dispatch to The Star. CULPEPER, Va., March 21.—County agents and 4-H Club delegates from | Madison, Orange, Rappahannock, Far- quier, Prince William, Fairfax and Cul- peper Countles met in the office ot County Agent J. C. Eller here to plan for the district short course to be held the week of April 11. The delegation was assisted by Gordon Elcan of the State club department. A committee was appointed to select a place and equipment necessary for the work. An attendance of 200 club members is expected. INVADES AGRICU Animal Commonly Known An American didelphyoid marsupial wandered down from the hills of old Virginia to encroach upon the sanctity of the Department of Agriculture grounds today, and bgi“\:cl':)to h{:n ;i:'lcxgaz Mr. Opossum is al com| fattening diet that will culminate in his appearance, not in feigned death, but in cooked reality on some one’s dinner table in the near future. The whitish gray pelage and black ears and tail of the an , conspicuous er. and i the case of a sudden decline the crash would be correspondingly greater,” he said. barren branches of a tree l.l:n o'nhng " t grounds, attracted the attention of & messengexyhis morn- STRAY DIDELPHYOID MARSUPIAL LTURAL GROUNDS as Opossum Now Under- going Fattening Process for Captor’s Dinner Table. ing, who in turn notified John H. How- ard and Edward Winslow, utility mien at the agriculture office, Together they set out to capture the invader. Howard, armed with a threatening stick, pursued the ’possum up the tree, while Winslow waited below in the capacity of a reception committee of The 'possum game was up when the visitor was ‘given a sudden and pected jolt which sent him hurtling one. unex earthward to the waiting Winslow, ‘The captors sald this morning that unds, first. of be substantfally increased ere Mr, um'’s _ seven all, must a decision as to bis disposal is reached. i KEECH TO DEMAND HALF-FARE RATES FOR SCHOOL PUPILS, Compulsory Car Fare Reduc- tion to Be Urged as Merger Condition. FREE RIDES AT OPTION OF UTILITY BODY ASKED| Combine Amendment of l’eople's“ Counsel Proposes Maintenance of | Present Charge for Two Years. | Richmond B. Keech, people’s counsel, | came out today strongly in support of | half fares for school children, declar- | ing he would go before the House Dis: | trict committee to ask that the street | car merger bill. be amended so as to | make half fares compulsory. Further to protect the interests of school children, Keech said he would propose that the amendment authorize | the Public Utilities Commission to fix fares for school children at less than | half the rate for adults, or to compel free fares for them, should conditions so warrant. Indefinite Reduction Allowed. The merger bill now merely author- | izes the Public Utilities Commission to | | reduce school fares without stating how much, a provision which meets | with _the accord of the street car companies. | The section which Keech will pro- | pose as a substitute for this provision in { the bill would apply. to children up to | graduation from high school. It will | specify also that their fares shall not exceed half of the rate for adults. He | considered that the .position of the! | Public Utilities Commission would be | strengthened if that body is empowered | to eliminate street car fares for school- | | children entirely “if conditions, in | their judgment, warrant” in the future. | Any Rate Authorized. His substitute proposal would also em- | power the commission in its own discre- { | | | | ceeding ‘half the fare for adults. ! Keech also announced that he would iargue in ‘favor of retaining in the merger bill ‘the provision, bitterly op- | posed by the street car companies, that | the present rate of fare shall continue | for two years after the merger. This | two-year~ guarantee to continue the present rate he regards as absolutely | essential to the merger act if the public interests are to be safeguarded. MOTHER WHO LEFT BABIES SURRENDERS | Tells Head of Women's Bureau She| Has Been Seeking Work Since Last Friday. Sought by police for the past week for | abandoning her two children, Mrs, Vir-| ginia Anderson Tripplett, 22’ years old. | of 419 Third street, walked into the | Women's Bureau this morning and sur- | rendered to Lieut. Mina Van Winkle | She is being held for investigation. | Mrs. Tripplett told Licut. Van Winkle | | that she left her children, Rowena, 3 | years old, and Virginia, 18 months old. | with a friend, Charles Ellis, in the 600 block of F street, because she was “too ill to work and care for them too.” Ellis turned the children over to the | authorities at Children's Hospital last | | Friday, when he was unable to locate | Mrs. Trippleit after telling her she | would have to resume charge of the ba- bies, and they were later taken to the Receiving Home, where they are now being cared for. | Mrs. Tripplett told police that she had | | been hunting for work throughout the | { city since leaving her two children with Ellis, but her efforts have been in vain. The family is destitute, police say, the | husband serving a three-year sentence | at Occoquan, while the brother has been unable to find employment for some time. Lieut. Van Winkle said that Mrs. Tripplett has been arrested once before for abandoning her children, but that | the case against her was nolle prossed. | 'CITY HEADS FIGHT 70 RETAIN TINDALL Special Legislation Asked to Pre-| vent Removal of Information Bureau Chief. i | | 1 | The Districc Commissioners have taken up the fight for the retention of Dr. William Tindall, veteran employe | of the District government, in the face of his threatened remoyal as chief of of the bureau of information at the District Building. In a letter to Chairman Capper of | the Senate District committee yester~ |day, Commisstoner Dougherty asked | that special legislation be enacted to | continue him in service. ‘He and his { colleagues, Mr. Dougherty said, did not | think there was justification in the| | House appropriation bill for the Dis- | trict in singling out one employe. | The House bill contains no provision | for retaining the services of Dr. Tindall, |'who is scheduled to leave next August unless Congress extends his term for two more years When the District bill reaches the Senate an effort will be madé to add a “rider” which will insure Dr. Tindall’s continuance in office. Dr. Tindall is 85 years old, and has been in the District service 61 years. Under the Jaw he must retire in August because of his age, In view of his wealth of information about the city and the District, his continuance as chief of the Bureau of Information, Wwhich was created for him, is desirable to the Dis trict Commissioners, Belief was eX- pressed today that the House would agree to a rider if the Senate decides | | to make & provision in the bill for re- taining the services of the veteran em- ploye. < LS G Will Address Citizens. Representative John C. Ketcham of Michigan and Dr. George C. Havenner, president of the Federation of Citizens’ |Asmclntlons. will be guest speakers at the regular meeting of the Glover Park |Citizens’ Assoclation tonight at 8 oclock The civic body will meet in the Indus- trial Home School. 'The pre ogram_includes danci and . refreshments following the meet] § 3 \Mnnlden and Jean Shul | Potomac River. PAGE B-1 BOND DEBTS CAUSE I BETA PHI PLEDGES AT GEO These young ladies are to be initiated into the mysteries of Pi Beta Phi at George Washington University. | row, left to right: Lillian May, Monta Ruediger, Jean Kirkwoods, Wilhelmina Gude, Catherine Fredendahl, Jane Mene- . Back row: Janice Burroughs, Margaret Borjes, Janet Esc| ' fee and Marjorie Moor AIR FIELD CHANNEL CLOSING OPPOSED Arts Commission Against| Plan to Fill Stream for Proposed Port. A —— | Vigorous opposition to the closing of | Boundary Channel, separating Columbia Island, in the Potomac River, from the | Virginia shore, for the purpose of per- | mitting an extension of the proposed Washington Alrport was expressed yes- | terday by the Commission of Fine Arts, This was announced today by the com- | mission’s chairman, Charles Moore, who presided at yesterday's sessions. ‘When the water gate, near the Lincoln Memorial is finished, Mr. Moore ex- | plained, the commission looks for a great increase of boating in the upper Columbia Island will be a great resort for boating, just like Belle Isle, near Detroit, Mr.. Moore said. An important link in this program is the keeping open of Boundary Channel. Mr. Moore asserted that a very ex- pensive bridge is now nearing comple- tion over Boundary Channel and now to dry up this waterway and fill it in for airport land would seem inadvisable, for then this pretentious bridge would be going over no water at all. The ques- tiog of closing Boundary Channel came upbefore the bridge was ever started, Mr. Moore pointed ouf, and the com- mission and the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission decided that this should not be done. Land Titles Involved. The chairman of the Fine Arts Com- mission put forward the suggestion that the Government should give to the com- | mercial aviation concerns for a period of years its rights to Government lands, so far as it may give these rights, as there is a tangled situation involving land titles on the Virginia side of the Potomac River. The land title question has never been clearly settled by the courts and considerable doubt still exists as to whether the Government owns up to the high water mark, and if so, just to what high water mark—that of 1791 or a subssquent one. Mr. Moore believes that if the com- mercial concerns are permitted to de- velop an airport, with the aid of the Government, Washington will get a better airport more rapidly. Development of an airport at Grav- elly Point will come in the natural course of time, Mr. Moore said, ex- pressing the belief that by 10 years hence extensive landing fields will not be required, due to mechanical im- provement in the airplanes and for other reasons of engineering and sclence. The question of an airport on the site of the present Boundary Channel must be considered in the light of “put- ting a flying fleld between Arlington and the public,” Mr. Moore asserted. Approved Other Plans. The Commission of Fine Arts has o objection to the development of an air< port where the Washington Airport and Hoover Field are located, as it has already placed its stamp of approval on the proposed construction program of airport development in that area.. The Washington Alrport is now constructing an administration building and hangar there, The granting of a part of Arlington Experimental Farm will close up that entrance to Arlington, Mr. Moore pointed out, in explaining that the whole question is very complicated and needs further study by the commission. The commission approved the pur- chase of the Henry K. Bush-Brown { Jd Lacrosse Players “Egged on” to Use Sticks Properly In preparing for the great “battle” to be fought between the lacrosse teams of St. John’s Col- lege, Annapolis, and the Oxford- Cambridge combination, which will take place on April 1 at the Central High School Stadium, St. John's team’' has® adopted un- usual methods to perfect its stick technique. Eggs are used in teaching the new members of the champs to catch and handle the ball. The coaches are demon- strating just how the principle of gravity is applied in stick work by catching an egg on the back of a lowered plate. The pupils are required to catch eggs in their lacrosse sticks, being fined each time an egg is cracked or broken, This method has trained the squad members to handle an egg with great dexterity and also to “cradle” a lacrosse ball with equal facility. But the wear and tear on eggs, according to Mr. Smith, St. John’s steward, has been terrific. TRUCK FALL VIGTIM SERIOUSLY HURT John Wolff Thrown to Pave- ment as Machine Swerves. John J. Wolff, 31 years old, of 654 E | street northeast, was seriously injured yesterday afternoon when he fell from the rear of a truck driven by Charles Dulin as it turned the corner at Penn- sylvania avenue and First street, and, according to the police, was forced to swerve to avoid a collision. | Wolff was taken to Casualty Hospital and treated by Dr. Louis Jimal for con- | cussion_of the brain and lacerations of | the scalp. Six other persons received minor in- { Juries in traffic accidents yesterday aft- zen-mon and last night, Five-year-old Kenneth Harr of Brent- ood, Md., sustained lacerations of the alp and his brother, Dean Harr, 7, contusions of the face when a taxicab driven by Blanche Harr was struck at Seventeenth and Q streets by a car operated by James S. Dinnis of 934 K street. The children's injuries were treated by a private physician. Others refpamn( injuries were Henry Corley, 5, of 1025 Fourth street; Robert Carter, 38, of 1720 P street; Mary Clag- gett, 48, of 1720 P street; Willlam ‘White, 26, of 119 R street, and Edward Davis, 9, of 2424 F street, all of whom are _colored. Fourth and L streets by a colored hit- and-run driver. Police have a descrip- tion of the man and are conducting a search for him. KARL S. HOFFMAN EEADS CHURCH LAYMEN’S GROUP All Souls’ Unitarian Association Holds Annual Election—Full Board Is Chosen. Karl S. Hoffman was_elected presi- ent_of the’ Layman’s League of the [a | All Souls’ Unitarian Church last night jat a dinner and a ladles’ evening at buffalo group to be placed in the Na- | the church, Sixteenth and Harvard tional Zoological Park. The exact site for the placing of this group will be determined after consultation with Dr. William M. Mann, the superintendent. | ‘This group was on exhibition at the ! Union Station and was viewed by hun- dreds of visitors to Washington. Further consideration was given to: the George Rogers Clark memorial, to be erected in Indlana. Sponsors of this memorial are appearing today be- fore the joint committee on the library at Capitol Hill, Inspect Arlington House. { Following an inspection of Arllngtonl House, in Arlington National Ceme- tery, the commission approved the res- | toration now going forward under di- | rection of the quartermaster general of the Army. Ferruccio Vitale, landscape architect member of the commission, will study the proposed plans for the landscaping of the grounds of the ven- erable mansion. The commission gave attention to a proposed stadium at the end of East Capitol street, overlooking - Anacostia Park, and approved a suggested design submitted by the allied architects. PLAN PHILIPPINE SOCIETY Purnell Offers Bill to Incorporate International Group. By the Associated Press. A bill to incorporate an international soclety to “unite in fraternal bonds the men who served in the Philippines,” was introduced yesterday by Represen- tative Purnell, Republican, Indiana. ‘The society would be incorporated in the District of Columbla, and would be open to men who served in the Philip- pines during the war with Spain, the Philippine Insurrection and: subsequent campalgns. i streets. The retiring president is John W. Adams, Other officers elected are: Townsend, vice president: Robert W. Cushman, secretary, and James C. Rogers, treasurer. R. H. Sargent, topo- graphic _engineer of the Alaskan branch, United States Geological Sur- vey, gave an illustrated lecture on i a From the Air.” John W. E WASHINGTON U. ‘The Corley boy was run down at|that is, Front , Jean Fly, Betsy Garrett, Marian —Star Staff Photos. REMOVAL OF FUND *IRES TAKOMA PARK |Citizens to Protest Cutting Qut Appropriation to Elim- inate Grade Crossing. Indignant over the action of the House subcommittee on appropriations in removing an item of $211,000 in the 1931 District appropriation bill for elimination of the treacherous Chestnut street grade crossing over the Balti- more & Ohio Railroad tracks, the Ta- koma Park Chamber of Commerce and other organizations in that community are planning a series of protest meet- ings, it was disclosed today by Walter Prichard of the North Takoma Im- provement Club, which will hold a meeting tonight. ‘The plan for removing the grade crossing contemplated the -construction of an underpass at Fern street, and was stricken out of the appropriation bill, according to Prichard, with the mere explanation of Representative Simmons, chairman of the subcommittee, that “the project is not necessary at this time.” Urged for Long Time. “It should be known that the building of this viaduct to carry the tracks of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at this t has been discussed and pleaded for for some 10 years back.” Prichard. “Tf cality, both in Maryland and the Dis- trict, as well as by the Chamber of Commerce of Takoma Park, the com- missioners of Montgomery County and the mayor and city council of Takoma Park, Md. The two latter bodies have notified the District authorities of their willingness to defray their share of the expense for the project. “There exists complete harmony as to the precise location and the main plans therefor. The fatal accident last No- vember at the said crossing, when two residents of Washington were Kkilled outright by a train and the third hope- lessly crippled and is yet in the hos- pital, has served to unify divergent views that existed, and at the ice of all personal interests. ““The Chestnut street grade crossing is the only existing unprotected crossing in the National Capital where fatalities have occurred, yet In spite of this fact the chairman of the aforesaid appro- priations committee sees fit to state that the expenditure of the money requested te eradicate the damnable and danger- ous situation is not ne at this time, although at the same time sanc- tion and recommend to Congress, the governing body, the appropriation of $145,000 for enlarging a highway bridge already built elsewhere over a railroad, , at Monroe street northeast, Brookland, D. C, and which bridge al- ready serves as a comparatively safe channel of traffic in that locality. ‘Wants Item Restored. “The explanation offered by the chair- man of the subcommittee on District appropriations as to the Fern-Chestnut strcet undertaking can only be surmised by the interested public. The only ob- Jections in the past are those that have been heard from a few taxpayers in ‘Washington, who have selfishly stated that the Fern street project would be of greater benefit to the Maryland resi- dents just across the line, the former not noticing that traffic passes both ways. nor that the District of Columbia is not a rate division exterritorially to the jacent States of the Union, whose $9,000,000 lump sum is annually appropriated to at least care for, in part, the District highway system. “As to the probability of amending HIGH WATER RATES IN OTHER CITIES Inquiries Show Some of 27 Cited by D. C. Heads Have Not Paid for Systems. SIX OF SEVEN QUERIED HAVE T0 PAY INTEREST Plant Here Out of Debt and City Has $28,540,000 Equity, Oram Reveals. Higher water rates in other cities cited by the Commissioners in support of an increase in the District’s rates are in 2 number of instances due to sinking funds created to cover bonded indebted- ness, according to word received today {rom some of these municipalities in re= sponse to inquiries by The Star. Since the District has no bonded in- debtedness on its water system, the sur- vey showed that the rates in Washing- ton are more nearly comparable to those in the 27 cities which, the Commis- | sioners pointed out, a 67 per cent above the rate here for domestic con- sumers. Bond issues and other methods of financing the water plants in these 27 cities were not used as factors in the mgautl;ve Analy:‘u olx the Commis-~ support of their 2 ‘mendation for higher rates. T The Star queried 7 of the 27 cities for statements explaining the factors im- volved in the fixing of water rates, merely to get a cross-section of the financial structures of other municipal water plants. These were Baltimore, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Providence, Akron, Los ‘Angeles and Springfield, Six Have Bonded Debts. The replies showed that six of these cities—Baltimore, City, Cincin- nati, Providence, Los Angeles -and Akron—have a bonded indebtedness on their water systems, and their rates are fixed to raise sufficient revenue to rétire bonds and pay interest and provide for maintenance and operation. From 8) 1d, however, came information that its present water tax is not actu- ally based upon interest on bonded in- debtedness or the cost of extensions, as the rates have been in effect since 1886, when the city purchased the water works private interests, ton, however, has paid for its water system, and has an equity in it, according to Capt. Hugh Orab, Assist- ant Engineer Commissioner, amounting to $23,540,000. As a result water rates here are lower than in those cities which have not paid for their water systems, primarily because there is no bonded indebtedness on plant. crease, which the Commissioners urged to be put into effect in the comink fiscal year, he said, is designed to.provide needed improvements in the system which cannot be financed on the income from current rates. A&s\lml.ng that bonded indebtedfiess on_its water sys- tem -of $23,540,000, the amount of its investment, Capt. Oram figured that, in- stead of the average 26 per cent in- crease proposed for the new fiscal year, water rates would have to be raised about 76 per cent in order to retire the bonds, pay the interest on them at the rate of 5 per cent a year and carry out the proposed m of improvements. In other words, the present $6.36 do- mestic rate for metered service would have to be raised to $11.19 instead of $8.75, as planned under the new sched- ule, and the flat rate unmetered serv- ice rate would jump from $7.03 to $12.37, instead of $9.85. Average rates by Washingtonians would be her still. The average water user pays more than the minimum rates cited above. Cincinnati Considers Cutting Rate. Cincinnati, which is considering a reduction in its current water rates, according to J. A. Hiller, wperénund- end of water works, charges 12 cents a hundred cubic feet for water and raises sufficlent revenues to cover opera- tion and maintenance, carry interest and sinking fund and provide for serv- ice extensions. The current District metered rate is 8.48 cents for 100 cubie feet, and the proposed increase will raise it to 11.66 cents, or nearly equal though the District the Cincinnati rate, has no bonded indebtedness as a drain on its income from the sale of water. With a bonded btedness Wi tion showed are ng systems, .um-..r{;.m would not be the marked difference cited in the com-~ parisons made by the Commiissioners. Providence, according to Frank E. Waterman, commissioner of iblic works, has a sliding scale which re- duces with .increased consumption, so as to benefit commercial and industrial interests. The rate paid by most do- mestic consumers, however, is 18 cents for 100 cubic feet. The rate interest on bonded indebtedness. in addition to the allocation of $150,000 annually to an _extension and ' de- &rechfion fund. This rate, by the way, one of the highest in the country for publicly owned plants. In Akron H. Lester Newhall of the water work department said the ma- the District appropriations bill as re- ported, it is difficult to believe that Con- re.u will not carefully consider the needs for the $211,000 in question which was approved the bureau of the budget and takd to restore the item so arbitrarily stricken out.” The suggestion that high school cadets anvly themselves more diligently to the study of -warfare than the ordinary curriculum was answered today by fig- ures given out by Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant superintendent of schools, showing that nearly three times as many cadets as non-cadets reached their school honor rolls for scholastic attainment on a percen ” Accord to these , which were compiled from statistics furnished by Eastern and Western High Schools, 1 out of every 13.9 cadets in these schools was on the honor roll this year, while 1 in every 38.9 non-cadets attained the same distinctions. Out at Western there was an honor roll of 105 names at the beginning of . Of these, 30 CADETS OUTNUMBER NON-CADETS ON HONOR ROLLS, SURVEY SHOWS Figures Reveal 1 Out of 13.9 Members of Corps Make Grade to 1 Out of 38.9 Non-Members. 1 non-cadet in every 76 m L 1t was further shown that cadets aré ::e lnxlm‘ul;n;;l?lrdtl;advmme. since there of them, AL guly 428 ar as compared with At Eastern the situation was similar, :vxlltdhlln:;drtdla i“ %n mih honor roll ~CA n on the roll. At this school 45 boys received honor-roll awards out of 182 that were. E olthcl!.nmeuduhm?;nw‘:d Te non-cadets. The total number of bo) lnmemmnmtmuum'}l’: corps, while 643 are outside its ranks. Dr. Elmer S. Ne rod these figu sent lnllfll.l voluntarily to Mr. Kramer. The idea appealed to the first ssistant superinter it, who has in- vited all other high school pri submit similar data. jority of consumers pay $14.40 a year and use less than the allowable quan- tity. This rate, he explained, covers interest, payments to sinking fund, op- eration and maintenance. It has been in effect since 1921 and no change is contemplated. Baltimore’s Rate High. . Baltimore's domestic rate is 15.4 cents for 100 cubic feet, which E. G. water engineer, said sustains the water department and cares for interest and sinking fund charges. The been stationary for the last six years, and Rost declared there is no immedi: ate prospect of a change. Baltimore's rate is another e: t.nle high rate. Kansas City also a o which reduces from 17 cents for 100 ' cubic feet a month to & minimum of 6 cents for 100 cubic feet a month for all over 400,000 cubic feet. The water de- partment’s sinking fund, however, is ° created by direct taxation all & rate has § property, although the interest on in- 3 debtedness is paid from revenue from | the sale of water. Plant extension is i also covered by bond issues. Kansas f City is now considering a readjustment . of rates. Y Don J. Kinsey of the Department of Water and Power of Los o ported t ties—] s ‘.' slenhm. Minne- with lower water rates B ones for Washington.