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§45,59.28 DISTRICT MEASURE REPORTED Appropriation Bill in House $242,789 Below Budget Estimates. (Continued From First Page.) mended. Chairman Simmons in re- porting upon this said: | “For some years it has been the cus- tom of the District government to sign to clerical work per diem employcs engaged under authorizations for the emgployment of laborers and mechanics Upon learning of this practice the com- mmittee expres: and in- sisted that permanent clerical workers should be employed and designated as such and carried on the regular rolls. Creation of a new office of “project engineer,” at a salary of $3.600, is yec- ~ ommended for theymunicipal architéct's office. The committee approved $76,120 for this office, which is an increase of $12.420 over currcnt appropriations and $10.280 more than the budget esti- mates. Chairman Simmons said that “due to the greatly expanded work of | the office, an acditional employe is re- quired for follow-up work on contracts and specifications and in connection with future project An_estimate of $150.000 for tion of a house for Fire Engine Company No. 16, Truck Company No. 3 and the Fire-Police Depariment Clinic in the vicinity of Thirteenth and K streeis is recommended and made available imAi mediately, together with the unexpended | balance of $150,000 for such projects | contained in the 1931 law. Approval| also is given of the purchase of a site for a house and truck company in the vicinity of Twelfth street and Rhoce; Island avenue northeast, at an esti- mated cost of $15,000. A request for $80,000 for the purchase d_installation of traffic signal lights, an increase of $27,100 over the current year, was approved by the committee. [ The amount recommended for personal services in the office of director of traffic is $36,060, which is $2,420 less than the estimates. This reduction is due mainly to elimination of a junior “traffic engincer, who was to have been engaged on counting automobiles for traffic studies. Two new positions are included in the appropriation recommended for the Public Utilities Commission’s activities during the next fiscal year, consisting of one valuation engineer at $3800 and one valuation accountant at _$3,800, and authority is provided for the employ- ment of expert services to the extent of $5,000. Library Was Approved. The committee has approved 17 new positions in the Free Public Library. Fourteen of these are for the new Northeast branch, which is scheduled to be opened on January 1, 1932. The three other new employes are each to receive $1,020, and one is to be de- tailed to the main library building, one to the Chevy Chase branch and the third to the Mount Pleasant branch. During the hearings it was disclosed that the personnel recommended in the budget for the northeast branch would not permit such branch to keep open more than 32 hours per week, whereas other major branches are conducted on the basis of 72 hours weekly. The com= mittee believes that this branch should be operated on a par with other major branches and has therefore included in the bill additional attendants at a cost of $4,990 for tre period from January 1 to July 1, 1932, i For the purchase of beoks, periodicals and so forth the estimates contain a request for $70,000, $30,000 of which is for original stocking of the northeast branch, leaving but $40,000 for the other objects, or $14.500 less than for the cur- rent' year. The committee does not favor “the reduction and has added $14,500 to the estimate. The estimates also contain a provision for the acquisition of a site for a branch liorary in_Georgetown at a cost of $35,000. The committee believes that the site now owned by the Government at Wisconsin avenue and R street on which the Georgetown reservoir is situ- ated offers a desirable location, and, therefore, has inserted a paragraph suthorizing transfer of this site to the District Commissioners and an ap- propriation of $30,000 for grading and preparation of plans for a new library structure thereon. Two additional employes at $1.620 each are provided in the auditor’s office. 1t is explained in the report that these new positions are required as a result of the order of the Commissioners bring- ing under the provisions of the retire- ment act a large group of laborers and mechanics. Municipal Center Financing. 1In explaining the.financing of the Mu- micipal Center project Chairman Sim- mons reported to the House as follows: “A supplemental estimate requests $1,500,000 for beginning the construc- tion of the first unit (court building) of the Municipal Center project, and, in addition, suggests that the total cost of preparation of site and completion of such unit be fixed at $5,000,000. The committee recommends the appropri- ation of the $1,500,000, but proposes that the entire cost of the courts build- ing unit shall be fixed at $6,000,000 instead of $5,000,000. The bill provides that the whole project with respect to such unit may be placed under contract. “It is_contemplated that the Mu- nicipal Center Building will be con- structed comparable as to material, architecture and utility with the build- ings now under construction in the Mall area. “Under the appropriation of $1,500,- 000, which the committee recommends, it is estimated that $1,000,000 will be expended for the building, $266,664 for clearing site and foundations, and the .balance for certain preliminary work, such as test borings, grading, sewer and vuter change n connection with financing the cost of the courts building it will be recalled that the Federal Government's building program contemplates the acquisition of the District Building. It has been assessed at $3,471,000, including the site. Whatever is realized from the sale of this property will appreciably reduce the cost of the entire under- taking to the District. The committee inserted in the bill a provision for_$2,400. iImmediately avail- able for an Wssistant to the electrical who is to be retired September For the electrical department the appropriation of $1,244,320 is $112 1 the current appropr tion and $5,120 less than the budg estimates A reduction of $20,000 has been made by the committee in the item for light- ing. This saving is possible owing to a recent reduction in the electric light rate which went into eflect after the estimates were submitted to Congress. The committec has added $15.000 to the bill for use in connection with the power survey being made by the Dis- trict government. This sum is to be used for engineering assistants, draft- ing and clerical help, and for traveling and other expenses incident to the in- spection of modern power plants and their accessories. . The total amount contained in the estimates for public schools for the fiscal year 1932 is $13,179,250, and the » appropriation recommended by the com- mittee is $13,518,770. This latter amount is $373.620 less than was appropriated for 1931 and $339,520 more than the estimates for 1932. In addition to this THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JA ARY 30, 1931 Salaries ... Contingent a Municipal Center Street and road improvement and repair Sewers ..... Collection and disposal of refuse Public playgrounds .. Electrical department Public schools .... Metropolitan Police . Firz Department . Health Department, Courts and prisons Public welfare Miscellaneous .. Public buildings ! National Capital Park and Planning National Zoological Park .. Tc exclusive of water service, Water service . . Total, including water service Appropria~ tions, 1931, Estimates, © 1932, $2,935,080 294,106 1,500,000 4,476,500 1,511,000 2,140,780 218,540 1,249,440 13 $3,316,194 294,566 3,065,000 . 4,185.800 32,500 1,672,260 8,060 0 13.892,390 Increase (+) Increase (+) 5 Amount rec- ecrease ommended in accompany- ing bill for 1932, $2,923,920 296,546 1,500,000 4,172,600 1,386,000 2,076,520 —5,120 339,520 ,320 —160 —18,180 433,056 3,488,900 2,583.920 DENOERATS AGRE TOND CONPRONSE Party Conference Threatens Special Session in Block- ing Supply Bills. (Continued From First Page) |stock for agricultural credit corpora- 5| tions not to exceed $5,000,000 of the $43,442,637 2,396,280 —$200,629 -4663.280 —42,160 $45.839.017 :545,596 28 —$318,704 —$242,789 policy aZopted last year of eliminating all combination gymnasiums and assem- bly halls in the elementary schools, pro- vision for which was included in the budget, and recommends the use of this money for additional class rooms. The gymnasium and asscmbly halls pro- posed in connection with senior and Junior high schools are recommended by the committee. Building Projects Included. The building projects included are as follows: Continuing _the construction of the| velt (Business) High School, $400.000 For the completion of the construc- tion of the first unit of the Young| School, in Northeast ~Washington, $30.000. For the completon of the construc- in_Northeast Washington, $300,000. For the erection of an eight-room building on a site to be purchased in the vicinity of Connecticut avenue and Upton street, $140,000. For the erection of an eight-room building on a site to be purchased in the vicinity of Burleith and Glover Park, $145,000. For the construction of an eight-room addition to the Douglass-Simmons School and the necessary remodeling of the present building, $130,000. For the construction of an eight-room addition to the Harrison School and the necessary remodeling of the present building, $140,000. For the construction of a six-class- room addition to the Orr School, $80,000. For the construction of a second story of four classrooms at the Key School, $60.000. For the completion of the construc- tion of the Macfarland Junior High School, $200,000. For the construction of an addition to the Paul Junior High School, includ- ing 10 classtooms and one gymnasium, $180,000. For the erection of a junior high school building on a site already pur- chased for that purpose in the Brook- land-Woodridge section, $200,000; and the commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for such building, at a cost not to exceed $500,000. For the construction of an addition to the Woodridge School, 110,000. This project was added by the committee. For the erection of a new school building for the Jefferson Junior High School on a site to be acquired in Southwest Washington for that purpose, $200,000, and the Commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for such building, at a cost not to exceed $575.000. For the construction of a gymnasium at the Randall Junior High School, $40,000. For the construction of a gymnasium and three additional classrooms con- necting the Hine Junior High School and the Towers School, $55,000. For-the construction of an additional building for the Giddings School of 12 classrooms and three auxiliary rooms, $170,000. This project was added by the committee. For the construction of a school building on a site now owned by the District of Columbia at Fourteenth street and Kalmia road to provide four classrooms and unfinished space for four additional classrooms, $110,000. This project was added by the commit- tee. For the cohstruction of an addition to the Murch School to provide four classrooms and unfinished space for four additional classrooms, $30,000, and in addition thereto $80,000 of the unex- pended balance of the appropriation for “Buildings and grounds, public schools,” contained in the District ,of Columbia appropriation act for thé fiscal year 1931, is made immediately available for this purpose and shall continue avail- able during the fiscal year 1932. This project was added by the committee, $4,172,600 for Streets. For street and road improvement and repair the committee recommends an appropriation of $4,172,600, which is $13,200 less than was appropriated for the current year and $303,900 less than the budget estimates. Under the item for assessment and permit work the estimate of $300,000 for the fiscal year 1932 is reduced to $250,000 on the rec: ommendation of the Engineer Commis. sioner. This decrease is possible be- cause of the recession in building op- erations in the District. The estimate of $2000,000 recommended by the budget for the paving of streets, includ- ing curbing and gutters, is approved by the committee. For repairs to_streets, avenues, roads, and so forth, the esti- mate of $1,175000 is recommended. This is the same amount that was ap- propriated for 1931. A For the whole cost of widening B street, from Fourteenth street to Vir- ginia_avenue, there is an estimate of $168,500. The estimates for the Arling- ton Memorial Bridge Commission con- tain an jtem amounting to $76,400 to pay the share of the Federal Govern- ment of this work. An appropriation of $101,100 for the District's share is therefore recommended. Under the item for construction and maintenance of bridges an increase of $20,000 over the estimate of $125.000 is recommended. This increase will pro- vide for a survey and the preparation of plans for the construction of a bridge in line of the Benning road over the Anacostia River. On the recommenda- tion of the Engineer Commissioner an estimate of $210,000 for beginning con- struction of this bridge is omitted from the bill. An estimate of $60,000 for the Tepair and strengthening of the New ork avenue bridge over the right of way of the Washington Terminal Co. is approved by the committee. The committee eliminated an esti- mate of $125000 for the construction of a sewer in Piaey Branch Parkway. The committee visited this project, and came to the conclusion that as the flow of sewage into the stream occurs only following a heavy storm and can be removed immediately by flushing out the stream, the proposed work might be postponed until a further study can be made of the problem, with a view to working out a more satisfactory and less expensive solution. Street and Road Work. Street and road improvement and re- pair under the gasoline tax fund in- cludes the following paving, repaving and surfacing projects: Southeast—Sixteenth street, U street to W street, $9,500; W street, Fourteenth street to Sixteenth street, $12,400; Ives place, Potomac avenue to Fourteenth tion of the Brown Junior High School, |s nue, $11,300; Otis street, Twenty-fourth streec to Twenty-sixth strect, $7.800; Twenty-first streqt, Quincy street to Randolph street, $4,200; Twentieth strect, South Dakota avenue to Perry street, $2,200; Sixteenth street, La: rence strect to Monroe street, $4,200; Tenth street. Taylor street to Upshur street, $7.300; Twelfth street, Urell place to Varnum sireet, $2900; Var- num street, Twelfth street to Sargeni road, $8,500: Monroe street, Michigan avenue to Twelfth street, $34,000; La\A-L rence street, Ninth street to Tenth street, $5,200; Ninth street, Lawrence street to Monroe street, 00. Northwest—V sireet, Georgia avenue | {o Ninth street (north of Florida ave- nue), $17.800; Ninth street, Farragut street to Gallatin street, $4.700; Madi- son street, Georgia avenue to Ninth street, $8.400: Ninth street, Madison et to Concord avenue, $9.300; Sev-| luckerman street to Tewks- $2,900; Eighth street, Quack- street to Rittenhouse street, $5,700; Blagden avenue, Sixteenth street to Rock Creek Park, $71,800; Hobart street, from alley west of Mount Pleas- ant westward, approximately 200 feet, $4,000; Cathedral avenue, Woodley road to Rock Creek Park, $39,700; Thirtieth street, north of Brandywine street, $6,000; Quesada street, Nevada avenue to Broad Branch road, $11,800; Western avenue, Forty-first street to Chevy Chase Circle, $23,800; Forty-first street, Livingston street to Western avenue, $10,900; Bran ine street, Wisconsin avenue to Forty-third street, $13,100; Brandywine street, Forty-third place to Forty-fourth street, $4,200; Yuma street, Wisconsin avenue to Forty-second street, $12,300; Reno road, Thirty-fourth street to Ordway street, and Ordway street, Reno road to Thirty-fourth street, $6,000; Forty-third street, Hawthorne street to Tunlaw road, $5,800; Haw- thorne street, Forty-third street to Tunlaw road, $3,100; T street, Thirty- cighth street to Thirty-ninth street, $6,600; Thirty-eighth street, Reservoir road to T street, $16,100; Reservoir road, Thirty-fifth street to Foxhali rcad, $98,400; place to Conduit road, $11,600; Dorsett place, Galena place to Weaver place, $6,100; Cathecral avenue, Fifty-first place to Conduit road, $15.700; Virginia approaches to Highway Bridge, $45.100. For grading, including construction of necessary culverts and‘ retaining walls, the following: Nerthwest—Porter street, Connecticut avenue to Klingle road, $10,000. Southeast—Sheridan road, Stanton road to Nichols avenue, $5,000. Northwest—Klingle street, Macomb street to Weaver place, $11,000. For completing the widening to 56| feet and repaving the roadway of H street from Massachusetts avenue to Thirteenth street, including necessary replacement and relocation of sewers and water mains, $58,400; provided that in widening and repaving this roadway 40 per centum of the entire cost thereof shall be assessed against and collected from the owners of the abutting prop- erty. STREET LIGHTING TESTS TO BE MADE Maj. Davison Tells House Com- mittee Progress in Eliminating Gas Illumination. Arrangements are being made by the District Engineering Department for a comparative test between modern gas lighting and modern electric lighting with a view to determining whether any street gas lights be maintained in the future, This was brought out by Maj. Donald A. Davison, Assistant Engineer Com- missioner at hearings on the House District appropriation bill during a dis- cussion of the use of natural gas with artificial gas as anticipated, it was said by the Washington Gas Light Co. Under the present policy of elimination, Maj, Davison told the committee, most of the remaining street gas lights will be eliminated by 1933 and the work finished, probably, by the end of the 1935 fiscal year. In view of modern improvements in gas lamps, however, Maj. D plained that it was thought advisable to make a comparative test, which could be done in certain areas of the city without expense to the District Govern- ment. “We will put in one block of modern electric lighting similar to the type which should go into that vicinity, and then permit the gas company at its own expense to light the adjoining block with modern gas lamps,” he said. “That will not only serve to give us a comparison as to the quantities of light and the costs involved, but will also answer a question, the answer to which we do not know at present, as to chether or not it is objectionable to put relatively brilliant spots of electric illu- mination in the quigter residential sec- tions or to use gas. We get some very caustic letters in regard to electric lights.” Under the gas-light replacement program, Maj. Davison explained, over 2,100 gas lamps were eliminated during the last calendar year. On January 1, 1931, there were 6,165 of these lamps still in use. Gas lamps in the northeast section are now being removed and in another three months it was expected approximately 1,000° would be replaced by electric lights. e TOSCANINI’S DAUGHTER WEDS TITLED ITALIAN Private Ceremony Unites Count Castelbarco Albani and Bride at Milan. . By the Associated Press. MILAN, Italy, January 30.—Miss Wally Toscanini, daughter of the noted orchestra conductor, Arturo Toscanini, was married in a private ceremony yesterday to Count Castelbarco Albani, son of the third Prince Montignano. The wedding was attended only by the immediate families, and the central figure in the group was the bride’s fa- ther, who made a special trip from the United States for the ceremony. Galena place, Carolina | ! U.3. TRUCKS FIGURE IN' 13 ACGIDENTS Data Given Representative Collins, Who Scores Drivers at D. C. Bill Hearing. Government-owned motor trucks were involved in 135 traffic accidents in the 1929 and 1930 fiscal years, according to a specially prepared statistical table submitted to the House subcommittee on appropriations during the recent hearings on the 1923 District appropria- tions bill. ‘The table was made up by Traffic Di- rector William H. Harland at the re- quest of Representative Collins, who was particularly interested in the num- ber of Army trucks involved in acci- dents. “I follow these private calendars up here,” said Mr. Collins, “and the way the Army is killing people with trucks, they seem to be the worst offenders I know of. The mail trucks are about second best. And we are called upon to pay for lives and accidents that result in the kiling or maiming of people by Government transportation. Rights Are Limited. “A man who is enlisted in the Army cr Navy has no more right recklessly to drive a truck im violation of law than I have, and a good healthy jail sentence is what they need, and I want to insist right now that you do it and let us rt here in Washington doing it.. “Night before last an Army truck killed or maimed somebody right out here on the street, which was reported in the papers, and there are 25 to 50 cases on the private calendar every session of Congress, of the Army alone, and we ought to stop it. They think because they are driving a Government- owned car that they have a right to do anything they want to and generally they dismiss the officcr and get off by saying: ‘I am obeying orders.’ " % Revoking of Permit. . Mr. Harland explained that in every justifiable case the violator's driver’s permit is revoked. “You not cnly have the right to také away his permit,” said Mr. Collins, “but you have a right to slap him in jail. “I want you gentlemen to put some- body in jail. I just want to see you do it at once. “Now you take the ordinary mail truck or you take any sort of truck of one of these departments, and the man who is driving it thinks because he is in a Government-owned car that he has both sides of the street and the other people who are driving have no rights whatever. And I do not know of any one thing that would do that crowd more good than just arbitrarily to select one out of each crowd and just give him about 10 days in jail.” NEW YORK MAN BUYS ROOSEVELT HOTEL Submits Only Bid, $200,000, Sub- ject to $900,000 Trust Deed, Plus Accrued Interest. ‘The Roosevelt Hotel, eight - story apartment hotel at Sixteenth and V streets, was sold at auction yesterday to Harry Rankin of New York, repre- senting undisclosed interests, for a totat cnggsxdumllon of approximately $1,125,- Mr. Rankin submitted the one and only bid of $200,000, this being subject to a first deed of trust of $900,000, plus interest for the past six months, amounting to approximately $25,000. The building was placed on the block by Adam A. Weschler & Son, auction- cers, at the direction of the trustees, Daniel W. O'Donoghue and Robert B. Cummings. The property was acquired at auction in November, 1929, by the Wardman Realty & Construction Co. in a sale by defuult of trust given by the Roose- velt Hotel Operating Co., with a pur- chase price of $250,000, subject to the first trust of $900,000 and subject to a second trust amounting at that date to $693,100, according to recorded deeds. The property later passed into other bands. ATTENDANCE MARK SEEN With less than two days remaining of the Washington Automobile Show, attendance at the annual exposition of new automobiles at the Washington Auditorium seems destined to set a new mark. The show will be open today until 10:30 p.m. and will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. tomor- row, when the doors will close on the 1931 exhibit. Record crowds attended the show yesterday and officials believe the at- tendance is to reach its peak today. Music is furnished to both floors of the auditorium by means of a public address system. et Capital Men Commissioned. Commissions in the Reserve Corps of the Army have been issued by the War Department to Howard S. Behr, 5005 Conduit road, as a second lieuten- ant in the Air Corps, and to Edward O. Hamilton, 512 Twelfth street north- east, as a second lieutenant of Engi- neers Two Rooms, Kitchen and Bath Electrical Refrigeration THE ARGONNE 16th and Columbia Road Reasonable Rentals street, $8,500; Nineteenth street, B street to E street, $24,000; Eighteenth street, direct appropriation, the committee recommends the reappropriation of an unexpended balance of $80,000 for the construction of school buildings. The increase for the coming fiscal ear over the estimates is gue to the addition by the committee of funds for tae comlru;‘:‘tlion of |(wrm;m:heu§uo?1 tuildings and provision - chase of three additional building sites. considering school needs year the committee followed the B street to C street, $11,200. Northeast—Benning road, Fifteenth street to culvert, $154,400; L street, Bladensburg road to Twentieth street, $33,800; Childress street, Trinidad ave- nue eastward, $9,000; New York avenue, Florida avenue to Bladensburg road, $195,000; Thirtieth street, South Da- kota avenue to Bladensburg road, $13- ; Vista street, Central avenue South Dakota avenue, $12,400; Central avenue, Myrile avenue h-mnflu- to | -tion. BONUS PAYMENTS ASKED North Carolina Memorializes Con- gress for WAr Veterans. RALEIGH, N. C., January 30 (P).—A resolution to memorialize Congress in favor of paying World War veterans the face value of their adjusted compensa- certificates immeflh!:ly &l: l?ven | final approval yesterday by forth Carolina Gegeral Assemblys - Subscribe Today It costs only about 11; cent g:r day and 5°cents, Bu'nfl-yl g ve Washington’s best newspa- per delivered to you regularly le;"ery evening and Sunday morn- Telephone National 5000 and delivery fi start immedi- ately. The Route Agent will col- mummwmmg} $45,000,000 fund apprcpriated for seed, feed and fertilizer loans was also unan- imously approved. It is understood that if_this method of assistance is to be effective, it must be quickly enacted into law, since the time is near at hand when the farmers who might avail themselves of its terms must make their arrangements for credit. . Want Sanitation Fund. “Fifth, the item of $3,000,000 placed by the Senate in the deficiency appro- priation bill for rural sanitation, etc, was approved as a wise and indispensa- ble precaution against epidemics and diseases due to undernourishment znd other conditions which threaten dis- tressed_communities. “Sixth, the amendment to the agri- culture appropr: priate moneys collected on the feed and fertilizer appropria 1930 and to make it available for 1931 in the States named in the or- iginal appropriation was also included among the necessary measures for re- lief which it is insisted by members of the conference shall be enacted. “This statement is made in_order that it may be well understood that the provisions referred to, or acceptable substitutes therefor, represent the min- imum of emergency measures which, i the opinion of their advocates, are required by existing conditions in order to avoid the necessity for an extra session of the Congress, It is not in- tended to prevent the presentation of or insistence upon other measures.” Vote Against Amendment. The House votes today on the $25,- 000,000 Robinson amendment to the Interior Department appropriation bill, when ,an effort will be made to send that measure to conference. After con- cluding its hearings of Red Cross offi- cials and others, the House Appropria- tions Committee yesterday voted 18 to 11 to reject the Robinson amendment. The vote was along party lines. The Republican leaders of the House today are rallying their forces to defeat an expected Democratic proposal that the House conferces be insiructed to agree to the Robinson amendment. They believe they will be able to defeat the Democratic proposal. If they do, the House and the Senate will be en- gaged in another bitter struggle. The Democratic conference of the Senate also determined that the Demo- crats would not compromise or permit to be defeated the proposal to distribute 20,000,000 bushels of wheat held by the Federal Farm Board to the drought stricken and unemployed, offered by Senator Capper, Republican of Kansas, and inserted in the War Department bill by a vote of the Senate. Stand by Other Measures. The conference decided also to stand fast by a proposal to appropriate $3,- 000,000 for rural sanitation in the drought area and for a $2,500,000 re- volving fund to be used in the States of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama, the so-called George Smith amendment to the agri- culture bill. Another proposal for $5,000,000 to be loaned for the organization of relief corporations in the drought area, offer- ed by Senator Robinson of Arkansas and placed in the War Department bill yesterday also will be insisted upon by the Democrats. This last $5,000,000 is to be obtained from the $45,000,000 ap- propriation for the drought area. " All of these proposals are contained in appropriation bills and have been Edlf]vd as Senate amendments to those ills. When the House met today it was with the understanding that Represent- ative Cramton of Michigan, in charge of the Interior Department bill, would call that measure up and seek to have a special conference, Under a unanimous consent agreement there will be two hours’ debate, an hour on each side. Two Proposals Offered. Two proposals to instruet the con- ferees of the House on the Interior bill to recede and concur in the Robinson amendment appropriating $25,000,000 to buy food and other essentials and to distribute them to the people were ready for submission. One by Representative Taylor of Colorado, Democrat, merely proposes to strike from the Robinson amendment the American National Red Cross, which has announced that it cannot handle the fund, and to provide that the money shall be expended by FINAL Forward the Light Brigade! and under the direction of the Presi- dent of the United States. Representative Byrns of Tennessee, ranking Democratic member of the Appropriations Committee, will move to concur in the Senate amendment, leav- ing in the Red Cross but providing that the Red Cross may expend this money or_pick some other agency to do it. Mr. Byrns proposes also the follow- ing: “That if the American National Red Cross shall decline to distribute the money herein appropriated through its regularly organized agencies in the manner herein provided, then in such vent the President of the United States is hereby authorized and empowered to immediately designate some gov:rn- mental agency or other agency selected by him, to make distribution of all or any portion of said sum in cash or in the purchas: of said named supplies as may be necessary to afford adequate human relief in the present national emergency to persons oth-rwise unable to_procure same.” Representative Cramton moved to disagree to the Robinson $25.000,000 amendmient and send the bill to con- ference. Seeks House Sentiment. Immediately Representative Taylor made a substitute motion to concur in the Senate amendment with an amend- ment striking out the Red Cross as the distributor of the $25.000,000 fund and inserting the provision that the Presi dent should expend the money. Mr. Cramton said that the Taylor motion was subject to & point of order, but that he would not make such a point, prefering to get the sentiment of the House on this matter, Representative -Taylor, speaking in support ot his motion, told the House that it was time something was done to carry aid to the hungry people of the country. He said that he believed it was unfortunate that the Senate amendment had undertaken to bring the Red Cross into the administration of the proposed fund. He said that the Red Cross had to do with suffering all over the world and that he did not wish to do anything to diminish the high regard in which that organization is held. . “Every patriotic citizen ought to be ready to trust the President of the United States with the distribution of this fund,” said Representative Tay!lor “It would be impossible to place it in better hands.” Representative Moote of Virginia called attention to the fact that it has been customary in the past to place relief funds at the disposal of the Presi- dent of the United States. Legion Is Suggested. ‘The American Legion was_ suggested by Representative Rankin of Mississippi as the proper distributor of the pro- posed $25,000,000 fund. “The American Legion has no organ- ization for the distribution of such a fund,” answered Mr. Taylor. Mr. Abernathy of North Carolina asked Mr. Taylor if he believed that President Hoover would really adminis- ter the fund in view of the fact that he has declared himself opposed to such a Federal contribution. Mr. Taylor replied that he had no doubt that President Hoover would use the money provided for the benefit of the suffering people in this country. Representative Blanton of Texas point- ed out that President Hoover in 1919 had expended a fund of $100,000,000 appropriated by Congress for the relief of suffering people in Europe and de- clared that the President could not now decline to spend money appropriated by Congress for the wvelief of starving Americans. Recalls Hoover Testimony. Representative Byrns of Tennessee spoke in favor of his moticn to concur with an amendment declaring that it met the objections raised by Chairman Payne of the American Red Cross. He called_attention to the fact that in 1924 President Hoover had testified be- fore a congressional committee in favor of a proposed appropriation of $10,000,- 000 to feed the starving people in Ger- many, declaring that it they were not aided there was danger of the children Becoming degenerate. - He said that the House committee had favored the pro- posal. “I want to see how the members o[. that committee vote today,” said Mr. Byrns. ‘The Tennessee member admitted that President Hoover had advanced good arguments against Federal contribu- tions for the relief of suffering, “but.” said Mr. Byrns, “I refuse to apply these reasons to suffering children.” Representative Luce of Massachu- setts, a Republican, took up the cudgels for the Cramton motion to disagree to the Senate amendment. He insisted that contributions were flowing rapidly into the Red Cross since the country had been reassured by President Hoover, former President Coolidge and former Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York that the Red Cross would take care of the situation. Mr. Luce charged that the proposal to have President Hoover distribute this $25,000,000 fund was merely intended to befog the real issue. He said that members of the House who referred to appropriations made by Congress for the relief of the people in Europe did not call attention to the different situations that existed in Europe at that time and the siuations which exist in the United States today. Situations Not the Same. “The gentleman from Tennessee would not say that the same situation exists in Tennessee today as existed in Russia at the close of the World War,” WEEK ! The price quoted below, which is the lowest we have offered since 1920, will prevail just one more week. Season-end price ends Saturday, Feb. 7th. $30—$35—$40 NEW SUITS NEW TOPCOATS & OVERCOATS Buy 'em on the famous Kauf- man Budget Plan—1/, Cash— Balance in 10 weekly or 5 semi- monthly payments. HOME OF SMITH SMART SHOES |District Is Recipient Of Ram and Other U. S. Odds and Ends Hearings Before House Commiittee Fails to De- velop Usefulness, A great variety of odds and ends of Government surplus property, including such items as a male shecp of unknown {age and temperament, 24 pigcons, band instruments, plush auto robes and shi were transferred ing the past fis year without reimbursement to depart- jments of the District government. The tctal cost value of such property was given as $306.476.37, most of which was transferred from the Veterans' Bu- reau, ail of which has a present sales value of $159.422.24. Articles from the Veterans' Bureau were said to represent a sales value of $147,054.14. It appears that the ram was domi- ciled at the Veterans' Bureau Hospital at Perry Point and no objections were raised to its transfer to the District Public Welfare Department. In like fashion the Navy disposed of 24 of its carrier pigeons at Anacostia. A valua- tion of $6 was placed on the ram and $2 each on the pigecns. Nothing was said at the hearing before the House Appropriaticns Subcommittee to indi- cate what use the District government is making of them. 100 Hogs on List. There was a'so a matter of 100 Duroc hogs, valued at about $20 each, now fatiening on the hands of the Public Welfare Department The Municipal Garage fell helr to 100 wool and plush ar‘o robes, valued at 3$600. which also came from the Perry Point Hospital. A ;unching bag and boxing gloves, valued at $13, are now being put to effective use by the Police Department, having been sent here all the way from Waukesha, Wis. At least two of the Cadillac touring cars in which police officers are riding to and from raids were formerly the property, probably, of bootleggers. They were bothacquired from the prohibition forces of the Treasury. One came from Baltimore and the other from Miami, a. Aids to Cooking Classes. The cooking classes in the public schools weve the recipients of 500 steel 6-inch spatulas, and 350 new O.D. cot- ton shirts from the Veterans’ Bureau were given to the Public Welfare De- partment. Likewise that department found itself in the pos: ion of 125 canvas covers for Army escort wagons. _The largest single item on the varied list was $165,000 worth of drugs from the Perry Point Hospital, which are be- ing used at various District institutions and hospitals. Another allotment of drugs, valued at $50,000, was received from a Government hospital in Chicago. Surgical instruments, medicines, hos- pital equipment, machinery. = tools, kitchen equipment, automobile parts and the like constituted the remainder of the surplus Government property. 16 ARRESTED IN FIRE Group Blamed for $5,000,000 Ldss in Colombian City. PANAMA CITY, January 30 (#)—In- formation received by the Panama Railroad Co. says that Colombian au- thorities have arrested 16 persons in connection with the disastrous fire this week which destroyed the business sec- tion of Buenaventura, doing damage of $5,000,000. said Mr, Luce. “Nor would the gentle- man from Arkansas say that the same situation existed in his State as was {‘Dlu d 4n Belgium during the World a Mr. Luce said that he did not wish to charge any one with playing politics, but that either politics or a desire to socialize the Government of the United States was influencing members to sup- port the Senate amendments. He said that he hoped it would never come in this country when the dole system such as has prevailed in England and Germany would be introduced in this country. Representative Dickinson of Igwa, opposing the Senate amendment, de- clared that it was a challenge to the efficiency of the American Red Cross whose officials had told the Appropria- tion Committee that the Red Cross had assumed responsibility for meeting the situation in the drought stricken areas and would deal with it adequately. 7% 722200777, . 3 Now . . O’Coats $17-50 7% $65 O’Coats 332.50 % 2227 \ al | PARKING ASSAILED BY HOUSE MEMBERS “Hogging” by Taxicabs and ; Busses Charged at Hear- ingonl ™ Bill. Parking conditi congested section u the downtown W‘A!hlng(w were everely eri: members ‘of the House Subcommiti>e on Appropriations during the recent hearings on the 1932 District appropriation bill. The “hogging™ of parking spaces by taxicabs and interstate motor busses ed :d _both Public Ut 'd in emphatic do something the Commi: tics Commi ntative Simmoens of Nebraska chairman of the subcommittee, was the principal critic. He told the Commis- sioners he would like to see them “take th- bull by the horns” and stop all that stuffl. “Put the Police Department, a Iot of whom are not working very hard, to work a_little bit” he said “This will be my last time to say any- thing about it, but it is sort of like ! weath here is nothing being. done about, it.” Bus Terminal Discussed. g2stion_in the vicinity of the bus t 1 on New York avenue, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, due | to the parking of the big interstate busses was one of the chief topies of discussion. Chairman Simmons pointed out that these busses park at an angle and stick out into the street, twice the length of an ordinary automobile, and uniformed employes of th> bus company “run the traffic on the street to suit themselves,” and sometimes hold it up from 2 to 5 minutes, There are “mighty few” cities, Mr. Simmons declared, that would permit such a condition to exist.. but instead of that “the city of Washington turns the streets entirely over” to the motor busses. Commissioner Crosby admitted that the situation constituted am “abuse.” but explained that there was very little the Commissioners could do to provide a remedy because of court decisions. Traflic Director Harland disclaimed any responsibility for the condition, and told the committee the Public Utilities Commission establishes the loading points for the busses. “If the Public Utilities Commission is responsible for that,” Mr. Simmons declared, “we ought to know that. Fixing that responsibility is like trying to catch a cat running around a post: it is just like the situation in connec- tion with school buildings.” Lack of Garages Seen. Mr. Harland also brought out that parking eonditions in Washington are bad, particularly because private capi- tal has not financed the construction of garages as has been done in many other cities. This is due, he, said, to the fact that Washington is gerhnpl the only city in the country where all night parking is permitted. Representative Thatcher expressed the opinion that it is a “bad practice” to allow all night parking, but Chalir- man Simmons immediately objected to any idea of prohibiting it. “Let me suggest something that will be a lot fairer and interest capital,” he said, “and that is that you tell the taxicab people and the sightseeing busses and the interstate busses to get off the streets and operate from _business houses and let the poor fellow who leaves his car in the street because he has no garage in which to put it alone, and let him leave it there. You are picking on the wrong man.” ROYAL FAMILY ILL Queen of Bulgaria, Prince and Princess Have Grippe Attacks. VIENNA, January 30 (#).—Informa- tion from Sofia says the condition of members of the Bulgarian royal family who are suffering from grippe is caus- ing some anxiety. Queen Toanna is seriously, though not dang:rously, ill with the grippe. 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