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WASHIN GION,- D.. C., SUND he Sunday St MORNING, MAY 17, 1931. = 1933 ESTIMATES FOR PARK SYSTEM - RAIED $1.00000 Auditors’ Figures Show Needs Will Require Total of $3,427,845. WASHINGTON CHANNEL BRIDGE IS PLANNED More Police Requested for Pre- vention of Park De- struction. Construction of & new bridge over ‘Washington Channel, southeast of the existing bridge and the Southern Rail- way tracks at an ultimate expense of $275,000, is a feature of the 1933 park estimates, which call for a total of $3.- 427,495 This is an increase of $921.650 over the 1932 appropriations of $2,505,- 84! 5. Of the total $1,000,000 must be ap- propriatcd for purchase of park sites under the Cramton act. The balance goes for maintaining parks now in existence, including park roads, bridges, | lighting, recreation facilities and sup- port of the park police force. The esti- mates were made public yesterday by District Auditor Daniel T. Donovan. The new bridge, according to Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of public buildings and public parks. will help 1o eliminate one of the most congested traffic areas in the District. If it is built, it will be possible to allow all traffic coming into the District from Virginia and points south to go over the existing bridge and divert traffic in East Potomac Park over the new bridge. ‘This would prove particularly useful during the Baster rush of tourists who | want to see the cherry blossoms, and during the speed boat regattas, which are often held in the river off Hains! Point. Col. Grant asks for seven additional park policemen, which will bring his force up to 82 men and would partial- 1y acccunt for an increase in the park police estimate from $180,885 in the 1932 act to $197,405. Property Destruction Increasing. “Evidence of destruction of public property in the parks is becoming more apparent as the park area increases,” Col. Grant wrote. “With the present inadequate force it is necessary to in- crease the length of beats and to dcuble up certain ones in an effort to cover as much area as is consistently prac- ticable. It has been necessary to work the men as long as 16 hours a day on some occasions and to take men Off their regular beats.” C:l. Grant shows that in the last four years 930 acres have been added to the park system, an increase of 27 per cent. This was contrasted with an incrcase of only 20 per cent in the number of policemen. The increased necessity for patrolling also is shown by the growth in the attendance at the various athletic events in the parks from 948,002 in 1927 to 1,333,979 last year. C:l. Grant asks for $437,880 for sal- aries, as against $405900 in the 1932 act. Of this, $10,100 is for raises and the balance for the employment of two additional assistant civil engineers, three junior civil engineers, one auto- mobile mechanic, three chauffeurs and five laborers. Under the item of general expense. which includes maintenance of public g:ru, the tourist camp, outdoor sports, nd concerts an d the improvement of certain parks, Col. Grant asks for $1.149.420 in 19 3853900 in the 33, in comparison with 1932 act. Of this, $60,000 is for the improvement of sec- tions of Anacostia Park as recreation centers; $281,425 for improvement of the Rock Creek and Potomac Park con- necting parkway; $100,000 for improve- ment of Meridian Hill Park, and $37.000 for grading and improving the roadway of Rock Creek Park to the District line Per Acre Cost Is Lower. this increase, Col. Grant! Defending says that during the past 20 years the cost of maintaining the park system has decreased from $225 to $165 per acre. Meanwhile, he pointed out, the population served by the area has in- creased 60 per cent, the number of au- tomobiles using park roads has increased 250 per cent, the wage scale for day ldbor has increased from $1.50 to $3.60 per day, the area of the park system has increased 500 per cent, and the number of individual parks, 100 per cent. Boston spends $493 per acre in maintenance, Buffalo $532, Detroit $208, Milwaukee, $367 and Rochester, N. Y $240, Col. Grant says. An increase to $45000 from $38,000 18 asked for outdoor sports on account of “the insistent demand for athletic facilities in the parks.” During the current year seven base ball diamonds, five tennis courts, three foot ball fields, one soccer field and a number o smaller facilities, including quoit courts, sand boxes and the like. have heen added to the system. It is ex- pected to add more and improve the base ball diamonds and other playing fields now available A new item of $100,000 is asked for the beginning of construction of the central drive in the Mall provided for in the McMillan plan of 1901, this work to be done in conjunction with work of the Federal Governmént in improv- ing and enhrxlng the Capitol grounds. ‘Another new itém of $200,000 is asked for construction of two swimming pools provided for in the'act of February 28, 1929, which authorized six such pools. ‘Two of these pools: alrerdy have been constructed and are overcrowded. Th> water of all streams in the District are #0 polluted as to render them unsafe for swimming. Col. Grant said, and the operation of properly supervised swim- ming pools will work & saving of human life and heaith HURT ON MOTOR CYCLE Aubrey Muir Sustzins Leg Fre-- With Car. received when a ture in Crash Aubrey Muir of 2520 a fractured right leg motor cycle he was riding crashed into 2 Washington Railway Electsic Co. strest car st Twenty-ninth and P strects. Muir was taken to Georgetown Hos- | pital for treatment. Police reported that Motorman Jeseph C. Rozicer. 38, of 4400 Harrison street, was operating the street car. COAL DEALERS PLAN TRIP the end Approximately 30 members of conl division of the Merchants Manufacturers’ Association will journey it Wednesday to Primos. Pa., to inspect the | laboratories of the Anthracite Institute | there. The group will leave the Capital at_8:18. ' WASHINGTONIANS ARE SCORED | FOR FAILURE TO “BOOST CITY"| |Representative Bloom Praises | Beauties of Nation’s Capi- tal at Association Meet. | | | | | | Teachers Told They Can Ex- pect Political Meddling “Just Like at Home.” Representative Sol Bioom of New York, vice chairman of the Federal George Warhington Bicentennial Com- mission, yestcrday roundly scored Wash- ingtcnians as “sound asleep” in_ their appreciation of the Natlonal Capital and in “sclling” their city to the Na- tion at large. At the same time, in a speech before the annual meeting of the District Ed- | ucational Association, he poked humor- | ous jibes at his colleagues in Congress | when he declared that as soon as a member of Congress comes to Washing- ton he wants to run the District just like his own home town Is run. Con- tinuing, he contended that if an edu- cator has been made the target of poli- j ticians at home, the same man would be worse off if he moves to Washing- ton, where the politicians of 48 States undertake to tell him what he may and what he may not do. Mr. Bloom was invited to tell the as- sociation what the Federal Bicenten- nial Commission was doing education- ally for its 1932 program. Dr. E. C. Higble, recently instailed president of Wilson Teachers' College, who came { here from South Dakota, also a guest had commented briefly in his greetings upon the evils of politicians in the States in educators’ efforts to promote | their schcol and college He | suggested he might be “lo " here for that sort of thing. Will Have Politicians. “You aid,” Mr. Bloom began in his address as he faced Dr. Higbie, “that i you might be lonesome for politicians telling you what you can do and when But belleve me, Doctor, you won't miss | anything here, because in this town { you'll have the politicians of 48 States telling you where to get off.” Later, in his address in which he cited the various educational publica- tons beng prepared by the Bicentennial Commission, the New Ydrker urged the District Education Association to ex- ert every effort to bring the national convention of the National Education Assoclation to the Capital next year. He urged the local educators to preach “Washington and what you've got here" and digressed for a moment to give Dr. Higbie “another tip.’ “You know,” he said, “the very first thing a member of Congress from ‘way out West tries to do when he comes hete is to run the District just the way they run things in his home town.” “But you people are asleep!” he de- clared. ~ “You don't know what you have here. You don't take the trcuble to ‘sell’ your city to the country and to the world. You've got to wake up Why you'll write to some { | 1 HEATING SYSTEM PLANS ARE HALTED Scheme for Development of Northwest Area to Be Devised by U. S. { Work has been suspended on plans for { construction of a central heating plant for the so-called northwest public ing area, bounded by Seventeenth & }and Constitution avenue. pending the working out of a harmonious plan for development of that section by the Treasury Department. Licut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of { public buildings and public parks. ex- | plained yesterday why he has cailed a {halt to the program. under which a { central heating plant would be erected | this Summer. The Federal Government is considering anew the whole heating problem for the public buildings it now has in course of construction Two Plants May Be Built. Two great central heating plants. one in the triangle east of Fifteenth street and the other in the triangle west of Seventeenth street, may be the ultimate | solution, in the opinion of Col. Grant. In case one plant went out the other { could supply part of the needs for all {the Government buildings. Col. Grant imad: it clear that one central heating plant could not be depended upon to heat the whle of the arca. Great tun- nels would carry the heating pipes from | the triangle in the downtown area to { the northwest building area, linking up | | the two heating plants. | Col. Grant’s office is studying the | | problem in conjunction with the Treas- | jury Department, which is supervising | { the erection of the large public buildings | {in the downtown area. Intensive Study Suggested. | The National Capital Park and Plan- 1ning Commissien, in a special report | recently, suggested that an intensive { study should be made of the develop- {ment of the northwest building area, 5o jthat a harmonious plan might be |evolved. The Pan-American Union de- | sires the site of the Federal Trade Com- imission Building at Eighteenth street | { and Constitution avenue for its million- {dollar office building, and part of the { Government's heating system will have {to be moved when this structure is de- | molished Col. Grant believes that if a central heating plent is consiructed in the | downtown area it could serve the pres- ent N nd Munitions Buildings and jothers in that group. pending the i studying out of a proper program. As ionly the Bureau of Internal Revenue and Department of Commerce Buildings { have been erected in the triangle, the | central heating plant would have ample { surplus heat, to accommodat> the struc- i tures to the west, across the Ellipse. 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL IS HURT IN CRASH | { | i 1 us Head and Back In- juries When Thrown From Suffers Serio Car. | Evelyn Nutwell, 16 years old, 215 Twelfth street northeasi, wes seriously tnjured last night in an automobile ac- | cident at Third and B strects northeast. irl was taken to Casualty Hospi- . where she was reported to be suf- fering from concussion cf the brzi i 1 froc scalp lacerati and a back injury. She was treated by Louis Jimal Miss Nutwcll was thrown from the when the machine in which she riding. driven by Joseph Perkins 1126 Eighth street northcast, col- “The coal merchants will be the guests | lided with the car of James O. Embrey. o Wilmington en route to Primos, coal dealers at luncheon 32. of 1320 North Capitol ptreet. No arrests werg made, ! | REPRESENTATIVE SOL BLOOM. man in & far off tswn who may ha made a success of some playground something to come here and do your jobs for you, when you've got better men right here among you! When| pecple come here to visit this city you don't treat them right; you've n organization to go out and meet them! Likes Washington. As for himself, Mr. Bloom sajd that he, “even a New Yorker,” likes Wash- ington and has to stay here because “I want to see a tree once in a while!” Ameng the publications being pre- | pared by the Bicentennial Commission | Mr. Bloom cited 16 pamphlets dealing | with George Washington's life and a | set of 25 volumes of every known piece | of writing by the First President. The | pamphlets, he sald, would be given ! away, olume set would be 50 that every library | may have the writings of Washington So far, he pointed out. only 40 per cent of Washington's written observa- tions have been published, so that “if | the Rupert Hughes have read every- thing printed they know only about 40 per cent of what they ought to know.’ At the business of the meeting, Dr. J. Orin Powers of | the George Weshington University fac- ulty was re-elected president. Miss Elsie | Scrivener, principal of the Park View School, was renamed vice president and | Miss J. A. Tennyson was retained as| secretary-treasurer. Dr. Elmer S. New- | ton, principal of Western High School, | was elected to membership on the Ex- ! ecutive Committee. | Delegates to the national association’s convention at Los Angeles this Summer ! were renamed in Dr. Powers, Miss Edith | Grosvenor and Miss Tennyson. while | the official alternates were Selden Ely, | supervising principal of the fifth divi- | sion; Miss Elsie Green, administrative | principal and Miss Mary Dilger, ad-| ministrative principal. H The association adopted a resolution | urging the national body to hold its convention here next vear. This in tation will be taken by the local dele- gates to the convention this Summer FOUR MEN HELD N SHOOTING CASE Bert Smith Wounded in Leg During an Alleged Drinking Bout. | | i A mysterious shooting in an_alleged | drinking bout in the 900 block of Twelfth street last night resulted in the arrest, of four men, who were locked up | at the first precinct while police en- | deavorad to clear up the shooting The injured man, who identified him- elf as Bert Smith,-26 years old, is at Emergency Hospital with a bullct wound in his leg. received. he told Detectiy ergt. Chester Stepp of the homicide squad. when his revolver was accident- | ally discharged as he was examining it Smith’s condition is not serious. Men and Pistol Disappear. The fact that two men and the pistol | disappeared immediately after the shot- | ing, however, coupled with the fact| Smith and the four men arrested were | reported by police to be under the in- fluence of liquor, caused police to dis- count the accident theory, temporarily, at_least Those held are Joseph *Harvey, 34; Ernest J. Watson, 29; Michacl H. Birra { 45. and Philip P. Longerbean. 36 | Harvey told police Smith “nearly al- vays carried a gun” usually in a| holster and habitually fingered it while engaged in conversation 1 Harvey said he and Smith and two | other men were sitting in the kitchen of his first-floor apartment at the Twelfth street address when the shot | was fired Too Dazed to Remember Names. Although Harvey admitted he was! well acquainted with the two men who | fled, he insisted he was too dazed to re- | member their names, i After his wound had been dressed by | a hospital physician Smith was ques- tioned by Sergt. Stepp. He said thel shooting was accidental | Both Harvey and Watson declared | {SOLDIERS GIVEN AREA | improved this naval activity |ing efficiency by aviation personnel of NAVY AIR STATION LAND IS OWNED BY VAR DEPARTHENT Army Officials Warn Sailors Against Permanent Build- ings on Site. NEAR BOLLING FIELD Congestion of Either Landing Field Believed to Be Un- likely. The Army Air Service is glad to have its fiving brethren of the Navy as tem- porary guests at Bolling Field, bui there is such a thing as taking advan- tage of hospitali When a temporary guest openly makes | preparations for what looks like per- manent occupancy of the premises, it is about time to remind the guest that the property, after all, belongs to some- Oratory Field Being Chosen ITH the selection a week ago| of Jimmy Moore, Western | High School student, to| champion The Star’s relion.. the naming of five other finalists Friday night brcught the num- ber of contenders for the high school speechmaking champlonship in _the National Oratorical Contest finals here next Saturday night to six. One more contender remains to be chosen. The one else, the Army believes. Thus it has come about that the | ‘War Department has sent the Navy D!'-‘ partment a polite, but firm. Fuiem!‘n"‘ that it “would be inadvisable for the | Navy to place any permanent construc- tion” on Bolling Field, “except with the clear understanding that its tenure there s not permancnt.” Plan New Buildings. Reference is had to the Naval Air| Station at Anacostia, which occupies ' the waterfront of Bolling Ficld, and | gram is due to begin shortly. “Any such construction,” the Army | adviced the Navy. “would become the | property of the War Department when | the Navy gave up its temporary occu pancy.” has been made clear to the Nav that there never was any intention on the part of the War Department to ac | cede to any plan which would give th Navy a permanent status on any p: of Bolling Field The land occupied by naval aeronau- tical activities comprises an area which formerly was a part of the Anacostia | or Potomac Rivers, with adjacent| mps, until, by the act of June 13, 1902, it was reclaimed under the juris- diction of the Secretary of War for park ! development and ~ beautification pur- | poses. E | When war was declared in 1917, both | Army and the Navy establish~d 2 activitics on this site on o ides of the arca, and thes s have continucd to date. Permis- e this property was granted Department by a revocal cd by the Secretary of W June 5. 1920, the reclaimed land wa: expressiy set aside as a military reser vation to be used for aviation purpos Million Invested. i For the past 12 or 13 years, the| Naval Air Station at Anacostia has, with the implied aporoval of the War Department gradaully developed and | until to- day it represents an investment, of near- ly & million dollars. Under the provi- sions of the 1931 naval appropriation bill, the Navy Department is now readv to receive bids and award contracts | for urgent work consisting of a ncwI and permanent barracks, mess hall an office building, and a heating_plant at a total estimated cost of $300.000. In view of the apparent objections 1o ! the erection by the Navy of any per-| manent_construction at Anacostia, the Navy Department naturally hestitates | to proceed with any further construc- tion 1t is interesting to record In thi connection that reccntly the War De- | partment has been given congressional authorization and appropriations _for the acquisition and devolopment of an extensive tract of land for aviation pur: poses known as the Giesboro tract and which lies immediately to the south of the present Bolling Field. This tract | contains, it is understood, some 600 acres of land, its authorized cost being $666,000. An additional amount, in the neighborhood of $1.000,000 has been authorized for the War Department to develop this new area. Air Station The Anacostia N: | Important. | al Air Station is| primarily an_activity for experimental | and test work, and although not par- ticularly extensive in size, it is a most important unit in the naval aviation organization. It also affords the neces- sary facilities and terminal required for the routine governmental flying, and for the continued maintenance of fly- | | the Navy Department. A Naval Re- serve aviation unit is and has been maintained at Anacostia for some time. | It is of the utmost importance that both the Army and the Navy main- | tain adequate and efficient flying fields and stations close to the National Capital. ; Those inclined to uphold the Navy| in their contention that they should| remain &t Anacostia. point out that if | Smith had been despondent since sep- | the present Bolling Field site, including arating from his wife its essential water frontage, has proven | Police searched the house, but found | after years of use, to meet the require- no_trace of the gun | ments of the Navy, that they cannot| In their search. however, they dis-| understand why objection should be covered 10 gallons of alleged mash, a |made to their continuance after the small amount of gin extract, a quan-| field has been expanded. tity of beer and a capping device, empty beer and whisky bottles and | other equipment | The absence of operating difficulties Longerbean and Birra were arrested ' between the two scrvices in jointly oc- | in other parts of the house. Like, cupying the present ficld conclusively| Hervey and Watson, they are being| indicates that the devolpment of ! held for investigation. o | the Geisboro tract, and the wide sepa- . = | ration that will E‘MK; w htlrl\ ;‘h“’, devel- BARRIE DRAMA G'VEN | opment_is completed. will forever re- BY SEMINARY SENIORS | Congestion Unlikely. {of congestion between the aerial activ- | ities of the two services. | 1t is doubtful whether a suitable new {area could be found within the con- Presented at Im-)fines of the District of Columbia for the establishment of a_ncw naval air Under yiation, and if such a site could be Mulline, ! found, its development would involve ) 5 an enormous outlay of funds and many Sir James M. Bar- sented in the ars of work. The matter will be ad- Justed, it 15 expected, either by perma- school auditorium Friday night by the | nent agreement between the two de- senlor class of Immaculata_Seminsry, | partments or by transfer of title. under the direction of Miss Belle Marie | faeian = Mullins, All girls who took part are stu. dents of the expresion course | WILL PRESENT FARCE Anna Mae Ryan were cast § “The Smiling Cow,” & comedy farce, N ‘Throseel, x\}ft‘)"\e ';:m Il be presented by the young peoples’| d Mary Willoughby, Miss 8:15 o'clock. i had ' chatactes mare ! The following members will compose weiler, Margaret Staley.' Ann Dart, | Cecil Taylor, A. Stanley Wolfe. Miss Emelia Roma, Mary Tucker, Betty | Frances Bronson, Miss Grace Moore.} ourses given byi Steuart as dashing cams. Jepartment of the Calvary M. E.! | ihe cast; George S. Colison, Mrs, Ara Murphy, Katherine Llovd, Helen Hile, Floyd Hornbrook. Normag Cunningham Margaret, Grifig, 4 | move, in all probability, any likelihood “Quality Street” maculata Auditorium Direction “Quality Stroet, rie’s drama, was of Miss Ann Joy Chambers and Miss | Collins played the roles icenth street, Wednesday, May 20, at Misses Barbara Griesbauer, Helen Dett- | Agnes Johnston Bryan, Paul Sapp, Mrs. the Sisters of Providence. n. Miss Elolte Orocs and | church, Columbia road near 'Fif- Others in the production included |M. Daniels, Joseph W. Wells, Mrs. | Harriet Marcero@ and M and Mis Stuart Gibsor | dent; Mrs. Frederick T. F. Johnson, third seven orators will be heard in Consti- tuticnal Hall and the victor will rep- resent the United States in the inter- national contest here next Fall. | The latest finalists to be chosen | were: Upper, left to right—Jack Em- | met:, 18, New York City, representing | he New York zone: Miss Ever Louiss Conner, 16, of Chicago, Tepresenting ne Central zone, and James Pelham, 8, of Birmingham, Ala., representing | the Southern zone. | Lower, left to right—William J. Codd, | 16. of the Gonzaga High School, Spokane, Wash., representing the Pa- cific Coast zone, and William J. Dono- hue of Herkimer, N. Y., represcnting | e ssion at the close! for which a $300.000 new building pro- | the Northeastern zon NEEDS OF SCHOOLS Senator Plans Conference With Board of Education and Visits Play Area. Continuing his survey of local af- fairs. Senator William H. King of Utah, ranking Democrat on the Senate Dis trict Committee, announced yesterd: that he would reek an early conferenc~ | with the Board of Education to discuss public school problems generally, in- cluding some questions on which he | desires information relating to courses of study and teaching mcthods. The Utah Senator also made a per- sonal inspection yesterday afternoon of the area surrounding the Langley Jun- for High School and the Emery and Eckington grade schools, for which ad- ditional playground spece is being sought by a joint committee of parent- | teacher associations of that vicinity, More Play Space Sought. The Joint Committes is asking for urchase of a strip of property on T | treet, from Langley Junior High School o Lincoln road, and for more play- ground space on the south side of Emery School. The McKinley Senior High. Langley Junior High, Emery and Eckington schools form a group within a few quares of each other in the neighbor- | hood of Lincoln road. Second and T treets northeast. McKinley has a sta- | dium and athietic field adjacent to Langley Junior High, but the Joint | Committee told Senator King yesterday | that this meets the needs of only the | McKinlev pupils, and that playground | space should be added for the junior high and grade achool children, Holds Position Justified. Senator King sald there appeared to | be much justification for the request of the delegation. He said he would give the position careful consideration. E. R. Williams is chairman of the Joint School Cdmmittee which accompanied the Benator on his inspection trip. Th~ others in the delegation were Mrs. E. C. Phelps, secretary. and E. M. Scates, Mr. and Mrs. William Rea, G. T. Bow- man, Mrs. L. R. Willett, Mrs. T. H. Young, E. B. Lawless and Mrs J. L. ‘Whitmore. In discussing his intention to con- fer with the Board of Education on| school problems generally, Senator King | explained that one of the things hc | wants to find out is how much effort is being made in the schools to help backward children. He said he also wants to ascertain whether sufficient emphasis is being placed on mathematics and certain other main subjects. Sen: tor King early last week discussed the school building program with officials, and at that time advocated an allot- ment of $3,000,000 in the next bill for | buildings and grounds. HEADS STUDY CLUB | | | g I A | Mrs. Ernest Humphrey Daniel re- | cently was elected president of the| Political Study Club for the ensuing vear. Other officers selected were: Mrs. | Frank M. Shortall, first vice president; Mrs. May D. Lightfoot, second vice presi- | vice ‘president: Mrs. George O. Gill- ingham, recording secretary; Mrs. William A, Boss, corresponding sec- retary: Mrs. Charles Marvin Jones, treasurer; Mrs. Wallace Streater, Demand Exhausts Tickets for Final Oratorical Contest The supply of tickets for the National Oratorical Contest finals in Constitution Hall next Saturday night is exhausted, ac- cording to an announcement made last night by Randolph Leigh, director general of e contest. Distribution of the 4,000 tickets was begun four days ago and the last avallable ticket was given out late yesterday. So great was the demand for them this year that an auditorium seating twice as many as Constitution Hall would have been required to ac- commodate the crowd anxious to hear the Nation's best high school orators. SIX OF SEVEN FINALISTS READY FOR MEET SATURDAY. Attempts Rescue BOY'S EFORT TO SAVE HIS FRIEND FAILS. CARROLL CLARK. Efforts of Arthur Birch, 13-year-old Maryland Park High School student, to | grab a dead fish in the Eastern Branch | yesterday afternoon cost his life. Un- able to swim, the boy walked into deep water and drowned. 3 Birch and Carroll Clark, his 12-year- old playmate, had been fishing and playing for some time near Benning Bridge when the dead fish floated downstreem. Birch went after it, un- aware of the depth of the water. Clark went to his rescue and succeeded in grabbing his hand, but the drowning boy lost his grip and sank. Birch's body was recovered about an hour later by harbor police. The body was taken to the District morgue. Birch's widowed mother was over- come by the shock of the boy's death and had to be given medical attention. At the time of the drowning she was taking care of children for a family in Southeast Washington. Mrs. Birch lives in Seat Pleasant, Md. Clark also lives there. Besides his mother, Birch is survived by a sister, Virginia, 8 years old, and a ear-old brother, Edward. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. MEETING LISTS TALK BY NORMAN THOMAS 1928 Socialist Standard Bearer to Address Forum of Six Organizations Here. Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President in 1928 and director of the League for Industrial Democracy, will speak on “Disarmament” before a forum of six Washington organizations Wednesday evening at the Friends Meeting House, Twenty-first and Flor- ida_avenue. The forum has been arranged to arouse public interest in the forthcom- | ing World Disarmament Conference to be held at Geneva in 1932, in which 60 nations, including the-United States, will participate. Other speakers will be William T. Stone, Washington repre- sentative of the.Foreign Policy Asso- ciation, and Thomas Q. Harrison, asso- clate secretary of the National Council for the Prevention of War., Dr. D. N. Shoemaker will preside. The six organizations sponsoring the | forum are Washington Council on In- ternational Relations, Voteless District of Columbia League of Women Voters. ‘Women's International League, District of Columbia Branch, American Asso- ciation of University Women; Peace and Race Relations Committee, Na- tional Council of Jewish Women. WIDEN STREETS Condemnation Proceedings Begun | by District Commissioners. ‘The District Commissioners have begun condemnation proceedings for the widening of Ordway. street between Thirtieth street and Reno road. They s0 seek to condemn lots 78, 84 and in square 325, located on V street between ith d MAY CUT INTERIOR - BUDGET $17000000 Hoover Confers With Depart- ment Heads to Plan Three- Year Program. By the Associated Press. ORANGE, Va. May 16.—A plan by | whieh it 1x hoped $17.000,000 to $19,- | 000,000 may be saved in the estimated | expenditures of th= Interior Department | for this and the next two fiscal years | was worked out today by department ! | ofcials and President Hoover at the | Chief Executive's fishing lodge in the | mountains nearby. | By eliminating some of the depart- | ment's activities and deferring some work which may necessary ulti- mately but can be postponed for the present, Mr. Hoover hopes to make these sa 3 It was estimated $4,000,000 would be saved during the present fiscal year, $6,000,000 to $7,000,000 next year and $7,000,000 to $8,000,000 in the fiscal | year. 1933, $15,000,000 for Dam. ‘The yearly budget of the de ent is approximately $85,000.000 including A $15,000,000 appropriation each year, for the present, for Hoover Dam. What department activities would be curtailed or postponed were not made known, although it was indicated a detailed summary of plans would .be an- nounced within a few days. Mr. Hoover arrived at his camp shortly before lunch time after a leisurely trip from Washington. He left | the White House about an hour after | his regular scheduled time because of | & prolonged ‘medicine ball game. He | fished for nearly an hour immediately | in front of his camp and caught a number of simable trout. In the car with President Hoover on his trip to the camp were Edward H. Butler, publisher of the Buffalo Eve- ;nln' News, and Mrs. Butler and Sen- | ator §Hastings, “Republican, of Delaware. | Mrs, Hoover arrived just before lunch, | accompanied by Mrs. Bilbur. Other In- | their ‘wives at morning. intervals during the Cut Army Expenses. Last week President Hoover conferred with War Department officials and after | the conference it was announced that | “real savings” would be the result. | Later, in Washington the President announced that a number of Army posts would be abandoned and there would be a concentration of activities as the major step in the economy program. | Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, jr., ar- | rived before lunch. It was his first visit months there receiving treatment for incipient tuberculosis. ~He moved from the camp when the weather be- came cold and sent to Asheville where he recovered. He returned to the White House the first of May. Although no definite information could be ascertained it was thought probable he would remain at the camp after the remainder of the party re- turned to Washington tomorrow night or Monday morning. | i 2 | POLICE HOLDING TWO | | IN ROBBERY ATTEMPT| | Surprised .in -~ Supply Company's Office After Safe Is Opened. Charles E. Smith, 20, of 2220 Washing- ton Circle, and Francis D. Carman, 20, of 2108 K street, will be arraigned in Police Court early this week on charges of housebreaking, police sald, follow- ing an attempted safe robbery at the Automotive Supply Co., Pennsylvania avenue and Twenty-first street, last Pri- a; Y. 'he two youths were surprised in the supply company office while making away with $1,100. Police were sum- moned by ‘Mrs. Miriam Tucker of 2105 T street, who was awakened by the men chiseling the safe. Police are ond two men g#ith the al Blossom “Inn, 1315 New last Thairsday night. Ca is under arrest at precinét, while Smith is unde 8t Gallinger Hospital, whe! confined with foot injuries, been Teceived in handling g to connect the d robbery of ok avenue, pe third e is ve aafe terior Department officials arrived with | 1,000 the department’s | since Inst Fall when he spent nearly two | INGREASE N SUN SPENTFORHEALTH URCED BY FISTER Economist Predicts National Income of 40 Billion Dol- lars in 20 Years. GROUP HEARS TALK No Report to Be Made on Medical Expense Survey. Yet Predicting an increase of $40,000,000.- 000 in the national income during the next 20 years, Dr. Willlam T. Foster, prominent economist, told the Com- mittee on the Costs of Medical Care at its concluding session yesterday tha $3,000,000,000 of this increased income should be expended for health purposes. “The country can afford it,” he de- clared. ‘The committee, which is completing & five-year study of medical costs and allied problems, has estimated that the annual bill for medical service already has reached the staggering total of $3,000,000,000—as much being spent for health as spent to ride around in motor cars. “The committee finds further.” said Dr. Poster, who is director of the Pollak Foundation for Economic Re- search, “that adequate medical care for all people, even after every possible Te- duction of wastes, would cost much more than that sum. Some say $3,000,- 000,000 more.” Dr. Foster declares that the national income in 1929 was not far fram $90.- 000,000,000. Of this total, the sum ex- pentq!d for medical care was 33 per cent. Aim at $130,000,000,000. “Now, suppose that in the next 30 years, we use our productive facilities So effectively that the national income lrelches $130,000,000,0002" he said. “This gain we may not attain, but we yshould not be satisfled with less. In iany event we shall not use our growing resources to full advantage unless we plan to do so0.” The greatest satisfaction would come, he sald, if a comparatively small part of the increased productive capacity is used to supply material wants and goods and if a comparatively large pro- — is used for the preservation of ealth. 1 ing we are likely to buy with an additional $3,000,000,000 will mean as much to us as health,” he said. While the committee concluded its semi-gnnual session, it rendered no final report on the problem presented in the studies it is now completing. These reports, it was said. would be made from time to time until next De- cember, when the final session is called. At yesterday's session, however, at- tention was diverted to some specific problems of disease and results. Four out of 10 Americans, for in- | stance. suffer from ve diseases, aceording to an estimate submitted to the committee by its research staff. This group of maladies, consisting largely of indigestion, upset stomach, stomach trouble and biliousness, is & runner-up to respiratory diseases. $123,000,000 for Hired Help. Another interesting sidelight was the contention that illness brings $123,000,~ 000 worth of hired girls into American homes each year, a factor which Gov- ernment experts on unemployment probably have not taken into consid- eration, but one which the committee contends is & considerable item in the average family cost of medical service. ‘The amcunt of this cost of addi- tional hired help in American house~ holds, the committee holds, ranks fifth among the outlays in the annual bill for medical service. It Is exceeded only by the outlays of physicians, which is $1,000.000.000: medicines and supplies, $700,000,000: hospitals, includ- ing outpatient departments, $550,000, 000, and dentists, $400,000,000. Back to statistics on diseases, the re« search staff showed that the respiratory ailments of 1,000 average Americans are made up of 748 cases of colds and broi chitis, 204 cases of tonsilitis, sore throat, |quinzy and other diseases of the | pharynx and 144 cases of influenza and grippe. Pleurisy, pneumonia, laryngitis and other respiratory diseases bring the total number of cases for each 1,000 ! persons to 1,153. In the order of their occurrence the 15 other principal causes of illness among Americans are: Epidemic, en- demic and infectious diseases, 92.5 per ,000; teeth and gums, 57.5 causes, 54: childbirth, 47.2; women’ disorders, 31.9; general diseases (includ~ ing cancer, rheumatism and diabetes 21.4; heart and circulatory system, 20.2; ear and mastold process, 15; skin diseases, 14.8; kidney, 14.4; lumbago and kindred ailments, 11.2; eyes, 8.5; boils and carbuncles, 5.1: bones and Joints, 1.8; men’s disorders, 1.5. ol G ENTENCE SUSPENDED FOR LEROY BATCHELOR Former District Policeman Pleads Guilty to Assault With Weapon in Virginia Yesterday. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT HOUSE, May 16.—Pleading guilty to a charge of assault with a dangerous wea- pon, Leroy Batchelor, former Washing- ton policeman, today received a sus- pended sentence of three years' impris- onment by Judge Walter T. McCarthy) in Circuit Court. An indictment charg- ing him with bigamy was nolle prosed. Batchelor was indicted on the assault charge several months ago following & visit to the Arlington County home &f his father-in-law, Lieut. E. T. Harney, of the Washington harbor police pre- cinct. Denied permission to see his astranged wife, Batchelor is said to have fired & shot into the house, the bullst slightly injuring his 10-year-old sister- in-law, Ruth Harney. ‘The y charge followed an - vestigation of Batchelor's it life by Lieut. Harney, who claimed his son-in- law had not been divorced from his first wife. The suspended sentence was: recom- mended by Commonwealth’s Attorney Gloth. Batchelor and his wife are understood to have become reconciled. D. A. R. TO MEET Mrs. L. W. Lancaster to Be Hostess for Fort McHenry Chapter. The regular monthly meeting of the Fort McHenry Chapter, ters of the American Revolution, will be held ‘Tuesday night at the home of Mrs. Lula Wade Lancaster. A Colorado blue spruce tree was planted as a chapter tree at a meeting last week at the home of Mrs. T. Temple Hill, vice regent, 2904 P street | |