Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1931, Page 17

e Z WASHINGTON, D. C, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1931 bening Sfar PAGE B—1 TWO MOVES START | IEDUCATOR HONORED, [ Commerce Home Reveals INGREASE IN CHILD Impressive Finish T0 SOLVE PARKING DIFFICULTY HERE Bicentennial Official Will Seek Provision for Cars Expected Here in 1932. ROBERTS TO PROPOSE MUNICIPAL GARAGES Cruising Taxicabs Are Barred From Seventh Street Business Area During Daytime. g Two independent movements designed %0 aid in the solution of Washington's automobile parking problem were in-| itiated today, one by the George Wash- | ington Bicentennial Commission of the District and the other by William A. Roberts, assistant corporation counsel. Holding that the parking situation s one of major importance in connec- tion with the George Washington Bi- centennial celebration next year, Dr. George C. Havenner, executive vice chairman of the District commission, announced his plans to appoint a special assistant to study the problem. It will be the duty of this officer to confer with special committees of the Bicentennial Commission, officials of the Federal agencies having jurisdiction over public parks, and traction company executives, in an effort to work out a ¥lun 1o provide adequate parking_space or the thousands of prospective Bicen- tennial visitors. Urges Municipal Garages. At the same time Mr. Roberts an- nounced he intended to go before the Federal Bar Association, at its meeting November 25, and urge support for his'| lan for solution of the parking prob- jem—erection of a large municipally owned garage, where automobile own- ers could park for a noxinal fee of 10 or 15 cents a day. Mr. Roberts made it clear that his activities in connection with the solu- tion of the parking situaticn would be as a member of the executive council of the Bar Association, which has been interested in the parking problem for | some_time, and not as an official of the District. Detaxl.s\o! his plan are to be embodied in & special report which he plans to submit at the forth- coming. meeun%’ Briefly, Mr. berts gempoue that a municipal corporation created and that it be empowered to condemn property for public garages. Control of the garages would be placed in the Public Utilities Commis- sion or some other District agency, while actual operation would be let to ccncessionaires who put in the highest bids, with a maximum ckarge for stor- | ege fixed in their contracts. | Public garages operated under this: plen, Mr. Roberts believes, could yield a return of about 4 per cent on the in- vestment. 1f property is condemned and thereby acquired at a reasonable price. he said, it might be possible for the garages to operate on a small stor- age fee of 10 of 15 cents a day. Cabs Barred on Seventh Street. The District Commissioners today adopted & regulation prohibiting use of Seventh street, between Pennsylvania and New York avenues, by taxicabs ex- cept when they enter this stretch to take on or discharge passengers. The regulation, which applies only between 8 oclock in the morning and 6 at night, is similar to the regulation bar- Ting cabs from F and G strects in that | the burden of proof is placed upon the | cab driver to show that he had previ- | ously ascertained the need of his| wvehicle on the street. In explaining this regulation, Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer reported that approximately 30 per cent of all traffic on Seventh street consists of taxi- cabs, most of them cruising on the look- out for passengers. As a result, he said, the street has become so congested that trafiic on it is exceedingly difficult to handle. Another regulation adopted prohibits U-turns on the same section of Seventh street between the same hours. Mr, Roberts said his plan would have four distinct advantages over garages financed by private capital and oper- ated by private interests. , he pointed out, the rate of interest would be low; second, the District could lo- cate the garages where they would best serve the public interest instead of loca- tlons selected by private owners; third, property could be acquired by con- demnation at a lower price, perhaps, than a private owner would be forced to pay, and, fourth, by placing operation of the garages in the hands of the con- cessionaires public officials could not take advantage of the operators by de- manding free parking space. As the public garages would take the parked cars off the streets and enhance the esthetic beauty of Washington, Mr. Roberts feels that the Federal Govern- ment might be willing to aid in financing the projects. Outgrowth of Criticism. The two plans for solving the park- ing problem are an outgrowth of the Tecent criticism of parking conditions in Washington by the Commission of Fine Arts. Indications are that the District Commissioners are planning to give serious consideration to the sit- uation. In the meantime, Frank E. Altemus, 3232 Ellicott street, wrote to Traffic Di- rector Willilam A. Van Duzer, criticizing existing parking conditions. b “No other city that I know of,” he| £aid, “is as lax in parking restrictions, nor ae generous or Wholehearted in pro- viding free parking space 24 hours per day for its automobile owners as s shington.” wsl kn%lw of one case in particular In this city,” he added, “where an indi- vidual owning both cars and garages parks his own cars in the street and Tents his garages. This amounts to per- mitting such an individual to gain & Tevenue from the streets.” Owns Many Garages. Mr. Altemus said he owns one large garage with accommodations for 150 cars, and 82 one-car garages. For the last six months, he declared, the average number of cars housed in the large garage was from 5 to 15, whereas 40 of his 82 one-car garages are now vacant. “In my judgment, unless conditions are changed soon,” he raild, “the Gov- ernment will have available many garages, because the present owners, unable to pay the taxes on them, due to their inability to rent them, will lose them for non-payment of taxes.” Dr. James Ford to Speak. Plans for the President's Conference on -Home Buildi and Home Owner- ship will be ouf by Dr. James Ford, assistant conference secretary, at a meeting of the Women’s City Club tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock at 736 g9 vackson place, 9 f | tax. Garden Corner Stone Laid BOTANIC CONSERVATORY PROGRESSES. Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio stone for the main building of the new officiating at the laying cof the corner Botanic Garden development yesterday. In the picture, left to right, are: George Wesley Hess, director of the Botanic Garden; E. V. Pugh, David Lynn, architect ef the Capitol, and Senator Fess. HE National Botanic Garden is to become a great educational in- stitution for the dissemination of botanical learning throughout the Nation, Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio declared yesterday at the laying of the corner stone for the m~in conservatory of the Botanic Garden de- velopment. The new conservatory, said by experts {to be the “last word” in this type of architecture, end designed as an impor- tent feature of the program for prop- erly framing the Capitol Building, is | well along toward construction on the square along Meryland avenue between First and second streets, just south of. the present Botanic Garden. It is to be completed early next year. George W. Hess, who has been di- rector of the Botanic Garden for nearly two decades, was eulogized by Senator Fess. k Stone Contains History. ‘The box in the corner stone laid yes- terday contains a complete docu- mentary record of the legislation for improvement cf the garden, with a his- tory of that institution, back to George Washington himself, who engeged in much correspondence with the Commissioners of the District about this project. Hess and Lynn Congratulated. On February 27, this year, the con- tract was let for clearing the site at a cost of $1,643. The contract date for completion of the new structures is March 12, 1932. ‘The Conservato: Building is ap- proximately 185 feét by 284 feet, one- story high, of stone, concrete, steel, aluminum and glass construction, with reinforced concrete pile foundations. Senators Fess of Ohio and Howell of Nebraska represented the Joint Com- mittee on the Library at the simple ceremonies yesterday. Mr. Hess, and David Lynn, architect of the Capitol, who have worked co-operatvely for nearly 10 years on the Greater Botan'c Garden project, were congratulated on which_dates | —Star Staff Photo. | the contribution this new institution |is to be in the Capitol development | program. Will Face New Union Squai®. | face directly into the mall improvement and Union Square, where the new | into Constitution avenue and Pennsyl- | vanta avenue. 1t will have an egst court and a west | court. will be of stone and appre feet high, so that the conservatory fea- | tures, such as the glass roof, will not be | seen ‘from the front. This front will | have doors of sufficent size so that | plants which occupy the subtropical | portions of the conservatory can be brought out in the Summer on the terrace. The building will form on its outer edge a series of rooms or sections en- circling the entire area. In some of these buildings the temperature never will be less than 40 degrees, but in the | great palm house, which occuples the | central portion of tbe square and is | flanked on the east and west sides by |an open court, the temperature never | will be less than 70 degrees. | To enter the palm house visitors will pass down a flight of steps. The floor of the palm house is depressed below the adjoining floor levels, It is pro- posed that tropical birds will be placed in this palm house. There also will be small cascades and pools. i New Home for Director. | The encircling rooms or sections will | be devoted to various purposes—one section is to be named the bay tree house, another section the sub- tropical house, others the orangery, fern house, tropical fruit house, succulent | house, display Fouse, lecture room and | there will be a series of service rooms. The square to the south of this large building will be occupied by the Bo- | tanic Garden for its cutdoor propaga- tion of plants, and there will be placed the historic Bartholdi Fountain, and in the soutte:st corner the new home for | the director of the Botanic Garden. BEARD ON WY 1O FAGE TAY CASE Man Registered 13 Times by Police on Gambling Charges Goes to Baltimore. Samuel R. Beard, who, police records show, has been arrested here 13 times on gambling charges but never con- victed, indicted yesterday by a Federal grand jury in Baltimore on charges of attempting to defraud the Government by failure to pay income taxes or to file a return, was understood today to be en route to Baltimore fo make bond in_the case. Beard is charged by the indictment with failure to pay a total of $33,- 951.17 income taxes in the years 1926, 1927, 1928 and 1930, on a total income of $244,614.69 for those years. No charge was made against him for the year 1929, when he paid his income In addition to failure to pay during the years mentioned, there was also charged a misdemeanor for the year 1928, when the Government chflrgled he failed to file a return, for whic! year and $10,000. Prescribed Penalties Heavy. Under the income tax law, the at- tempt to defraud, for which Beard was indicted, is & felony and is punishable with five years' imprisonment and $10,000 fine for eacH” count. were four counts, one for each year. In addition to the taxes which Beard is chargsd with failing to pay, he could also be assessed a penalty§of 50 per cent of the tax for fraud and an ad- ditional 25_per cent for negligence, plus interest on_ all the taxes dating from the &me they were due. While this has not been accurately calculated, it is believed that the total possible would run above $100,000. Beard’s income and the tax he should have paid for the years in question were disclosed by the indictment, to be as follows: 1926, $63,830.44 income, penalties are one | with a tax of $7,785.27; 1927, $57,150.43 income and tax ‘of* $6,410.96; 1928, $102,602.87 income and tax of $18,- 832.56; 1930, $21,030.95 income and tax of $932.38. The total of Beard’s in- come thus is shown by the indictment to. have bcen $244,614.69 for these years, on which he shculd have paid a tax of $33,951.17: * Weil Known in Sports. Beard lives in a large home at 7400 Alaska avenue. He is well known in local sporting circles. [Police records show he has been arrested 13 times in the past several years, on charges of various kinds connected with gambling, such as setting up a gaming table, or permitting gaming on the premises. All of these cases, aci®rding to the rec- ords, were nolle prossed except one, on » ‘There | August 30, 1914, when he forfeited the sum of $25. In addition to his hcme on Alaska avenue, Beard is said to own a farm at Contee, Md., and other .property. He is a tall, well built, smooth shaven man, of an age somewhere around 40 or 45. He is a man of pleasant speech and manners, and has been described by some of his associates, not only as a friendly fellow, but a “big overgrown boy.” He wears horn rimmed glasses. The case against Beard was developed by the intelligence unit of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, of which Elmer L. Irey is chief. The United States agents appearing in the case are Otto R. Freed, deputy collector of Internal Reyenue at Baltimore, and Fred C. Pend of the intelligence unit. ;l 100 LAY MISSION MEETINGS SUNDAY Charles P. Taft, 2d, Will fead Gathering Here Centralizing Baptisti Celebration. The central gathering of more than & thousand simultaneous men’s meet- ings, to be held under the auspices of the Laymen’s Missionary Movement and the missionary boards of 51 com- munions, will take place in the Calvary Baptist Church here Sunday afternoon, it was announced today. The series of meetings, to be held at 4 o'clock in every section of the United States and Canada, will commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Laymen’s Missionary Movement. s Charles P. Taft, 2d, of Cincinnatl, Ohio, son of the late President Chief Justice, will be chairman and guest speaker at the meeting here. Washington was chosen for the central meeting since the movement was found- ed by two residents of this city. John B. Sleman conceived the idea and S. W. Woodward financed the work in its early stages. Both men now are dead. The programs will be solely educa- tional and inspirational. Almost all Protestant communions are said to be co-oparating. The day has been desig- nated by more than 50 denominations in the United States and Canada as “Men and Missions Sunday.” The Canadian central meeting Will be held in Toronto under the chair- manship of N. W. Rowell, K. C., first chairman of the Canadian Committee. Other 1 meetings will take place in the pr cities of both countries.! ‘The national committee of the move< ment, meeting in Chicago yesterdsy, prepared & message to the Christian men of North America which Will be read at all of the meetings. e main conservatory building Wm; | Broad ateaue from Union Station cuts | The ma.n front of the building mately 40 | AT DEDICATION OF DEAL JUNIOR HIG | Memory of Miss Alice Deal, D. C. School Pioneer, Paid Tribute. BALLOU PRAISES RECORD OF UNSELFISH SERVICE Other Speakers Point to Fine Fa- cilitzes Provided for Chevy Chase Area in New Building. Reno section of Chevy Chase. trict. Miss Deal had en March, 1928. Crowd of 800 Attends. other unit in resenting the Board of Education, Citizens’ Association: Lieut. Comdr. of the school. permit. stitutes the only bad feature of otherwise ideal school plant. Glee Club Sings. their old school. directed the singers. tional Education week. ~The Saturday night. WOMAN RECOVERING in Struggle When She Falls in Trying to Escape. by a colored man who robbed her the Senate Court Apartments, street northeast. Mrs. the door, car away.” the man shoved his way in. was something in his hand.” Shields said. gun, but it was a weaj He ordered me to “stick 'em up.” g X man pounced struggle, Mrs. Shields drew the house, and he notified the police. treated her for bruises and shock. were told today. on” climbed through the window. said the man asked if sacked the place. However, pal through which posedly from the inside. Then agal er, finally “Kidnapped” burglar story. By Suitor in Tiff of Fixing Triel. overlooks many quite hard kn arrai 32, colored, in the leg. “I don’t your honor,” sajd the young woman. want to him. red the public school system here as a teacher of mathematics in 1908 and, the superin- tencent said, she served the interests of Washington's children with distinction and unselfishness until her death in Other speakers at the dedication, which was attended by 800 persons, in- cluded Charles W. Eliot, 2d, director of the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission, who _characterized the Deal Junior High School as-an- the city-wide develop- ment of the park and structure sys- tem. Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, rep- which she is vice president; J. Francis Moore, spokesman for tke Chevy Chase L. Sandoz, U. S. N., retired, spokesman | for the Forest Hills Citizens' Associa- | tion, and Miss Bertie Backus, principal | \ Maj. H. L. Robb. U. S. A, Assistant ' Engineer Commissioner of the District. | promised last night that the bad road | approaches to the school will be com- | pleted as soon as time and money wili He sald this inadequacy con | Muslc for the program was provided | by former members of the Columbia Junior High School Glee Club, who thus { paid musical tribute to the principle of Miss Hannah Bonnell ‘The Deal Junior High School is the first of two junior high schools which | are being dedicated as part of the Dis- | j trict of Columbia’s observance of !PIZ‘a- ot | Junior High School will be dedicated | FROM BANDIT ATTACK Colored Man Robs Her at Garage Mrs. Amelia Shields, 51, was recover- ing today from the effects of an attack | about $9 last night in a garage beneath 120 C Shields was closing the door, after putting her automobile away for the night, when tte man rapped. “Open he said, “I want to put my ‘When Mrs. Shields opened the door, ““There Mrs. don't think it was a n of some kind. Instead of obeying, Mrs. Shields ran. She slipped and fell, however, and the upon her. After a brief money from her pocketbook and handed it to the man, who fled. She called her son- in-law, who also lives in the apartment BURGLAR IS IMAGINARY The bad, bold burglar who entered 11-year-old Nellle Seewald's home, 617 Twenty-first street, last night while she was reading a mystery novel, was just a product of her imegination, police lice found the window Nellie’s burglar sup- climbed very tightly locked under serious questioning by her moth- admitted that Stevenson's was responsible for the Wom;l Shot in Leg Asks to Wed I.lim Court Sends Pair td Get Marriage License Instead Further proof that love is hjind and ocks was brought to light in Police Court today when James L. Wynder, 31, colored, was ed before Judge Isaac R. Hitt for shooting his sweetheart, Pear] Bird, want to prosecute James, ‘We had a_little argument, I admit, but it's all blown over now. He only wanted to scare me.” High tribute was paid to the late Miss Alice Deal, Washington school teacher, who was a pioneer in the establishment here of the junior high school system, by Dr. Frank W. Bal- lou, superintendent of schools, at the formal dedication Jast night of the Alice Deal Junior High School in the Fort The woman for whom the latest junfor high school was named, D.. Ballou declared, was the principal of the Columbia Junior High School, the first institution of its kind in the Dis- of F. an | of | SPACE IS ASSIGNED COMMERCE UNITS Plans for Moving Into New Building, Which Will House 6,000 Workers, Drawn. A neighborhood physician took sev- eral stitches in a cut in Mrs. Shields’ arm, received when she fell, and also Nellie had previously told police she was_sitting in the parlor of her home reading when a “huge man with a mé:!k he there was any money in the house and she told him she did not know. The man, accord- ing to Nellie's first story, then ran- Commerce Department officials have made public the layout of the various units in the department’s new building at Fourteenth street and Constitution avenue. The Public Buildings Commis- sion, of which Senator Smoot of Utah is chairman, has drawn up the plans for moving the units and assigned space in the mew structure, which will house 6,000 workers. Ry Moving of soon. ug'nn the basement- floor of the new building will be various shops ‘d trucking space, the aquarium of @he Burest of Fisheries and the cafeteria. Soft coples of patents also will be there. q“gx:"tel?e first floor will be a large ference 'room, the Patent Office oc- :?lgylnz the entire north section of the floor. In addition there will be the Bureau of Navigation and Fisheries and the Steamboat Inspection Service, as the Coast and Geodetic Survey. e second floor, in the south- er;m u'cthlon, will be found the Coast and Geodetic Survey, with the ‘Boundary Commission. The center section wiil be devoted to the tive divisions uai thcg Bu::cnu Forelgn _and mmerce o e ons of the correspond- 1 and file. On the north section floor, the Trade Mark Division will be the main the various conl ence :f the Patent Office occupant. . Census Bureau on Third Floor. On the third floor in the center will be the director of the commodity and technical divisions. The Census Bureau will occu&y &a southern portion, and Bureau of Foreign am 1so, will Instead of sending u:e‘pslr to the d be lo- | th Census Bureau. The center will be oc- cupied by the Bureau of Mines and the Wood Utilization Committee, well as examiners of the Patent Office. On the fifth floor in the south sec- tion will be further statistical divisions of the Census Bureau. In the_ center will be located the Aeronautics Branch and the Airways Division of the Bureau of Light Houses. On this floor alsc will be offices of the Secretary, Assist- ant Secretaries and the solicitor, oc- cupying the central portion. In the northern area will be the examining division of the Patent Office. The statistical divisions of the Cen- sus Bureau will be located on the sixth floor. In the center will be the chief clerk’s office and files, general filc space; the division of appointments; division of publications and disbursing office, while examining divisions of the Patent Office will be in t!< northern section. More Statistical Divisions. On the seventh floor, in the southern area, will be still more stal divisiqps of the <Census Bureau. The radio division will occupy the center. The library will be located on this floor, The new Federal Employment Stabili- zation Board will be in the center. ¢ Provision has been made in the attic for future expansion of the library allowing for a third tier of shelves. A film laboratory” will be located in the central section of the seventh floor Contrary to previous announcements the PFederal Radio Commission, which now has offices in the National Prese Building, will not be housed in the new Commerce Department Building. HELD IN HEARSE CRASH Driver ' Charged With Going Through Funeral Procession. A collislon between his automobile and ‘a hearse resulted in the arrest of Roy Gordon Dickinsdn, 20 years old, of 1112 Owens place northeast, on a eharge of driving through a funeral procession yesterday afternoon. Police said Dickinson attempted to break through a procession at street and Florida avenue and struck $5 collateral for his appearance in Po- lice Court today, itistical | rests in his day. ld BEAUTIFUL INTERIORS AWAIT INFLUX OF WORKERS. PPER photograph shows the walting room of the suite of the Secretary of Commerce, finished in walnut panels and columns, with cork floors. Left center, a detail of the main lobby on the ground floor, Fourteenth street en- trance. Right center, chandelier and ceiling of the main lobby, and below, the walk along the parapet, from an which there is & view of the Mall and the Washington Monument. DEFIES PRECEDENT IN GAMBLING RAID =22 Sergt. Holmes Easily Gains Entrance Unassisted. Four Arrested. Sergt. N. O. Holmes violated all prece- dents in a gembling raid late yester- | f day—and got away with it. . Holmes is a weather-beaten veteran and has made thousands of ar- His acquaintance is so wide that he calls countless police characters by their first names. He has been enforcing gambling laws ever since . | they first were written into the statute ‘books. Consequently, Sergt. Holmes is.thor- oughly familiar with police tactics. He knows, for instance, that the approved method of gairing entrance to an es- tablishment where roulette wheels whirl and telegraph instruments click with the latest race results, iz to send ahead an obscure informer and then squeeze in behind him when the heavily-barred doors are opened. Knowing all this, Sergt. Holmes, un- ‘walked boldly up to the heavy WELFARE PROGRAM URGED AT HEARING Committee Seeking Informa- tion for Congress Gets Many Suggestions. “OPEN-WINDOW” ROOMS IN ALL SCHOOLS ASKED Only Division of Opinion Comes on Method of Caring for Under- nourished Pupils. A host of recommendations for pre- ventive and curative work among ‘Washington’s undernourished and ill cared for children was presented at an open hearing today to the committee the District Commissicners to report on the subject. ‘The Commis- sioners will transmit- the committee’s [:fopmn to Congress at the coming ses- Little difference of opinion developed. except with reference fz the probler: of fee children in schcol. Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, who said she was speak- ing for herself, urged the inclusion in every public school of an “open-window room” for adjustment of the child t6 his school environment in all respects, including the problem cof malnutrition or undernourishment. She favored continuation of feeding the children, as is now done by some parent-teacher associations, but at public expense. Present Method Upheld. Mrs. Louisa 8. Roberts, executive secretary of the Washington Council of Agencles, contended the pres- ent method of treating undernourish- ment was better. She said that after teachers report cases of undernour- ished children to the council, the latter organization sends a worker who sap- ge: nourishing food to the child’s ome seven days a week. This was preferable, she said, to lvlai the child a lunckh of crackers lng five days a week. The recommendations submitted by the various welfare agencies covered a wide range, and took in recreational, hospital, clinic and welfare facilities for adults as well as children. Mrs. Whitman Cross, president of the Instructive Visiting Nurse Society, quoted from one cf the studies made at the White House Conference on Child i Health to show Washington stood thir- tieth in a list of 36 large cities in its immunization of children against diph- theria, twenty-sixth in vaccination of children smallpox, fourth in preventive dental examin: tlons and nineteenth in general medi- cal examinations or health examina- tions. ‘The American Public Health; Association rated Washington only 67 Er cent adequate in medical inspection schools, she pointed out. Urges More Funds. Among her recommendations were doubling the nursing service of the Health Department of pre-school chil- dren, increasing appropriations to make possible the immunization ‘of pre-school children equivalent to 60 per cent of the annual births in the District, en- larging staffs of school medical and dental inspectors and nurses and ex- tension of this health service to pri- vate and parochial as well as public schools, preventive care of physically handicapped children, including the hard of hearing, cripples and children in need of sight-conservation classes. Mrs. R. Grant, president of the Tuberculosis Association, said that on October 21 there were 739 children in the city diagnosed as tubercular. Of these children, 245 were suffering from communiczble pulmonary tuberculosis and 494 from childhood tuberculosis. She pointed out construction of the Children’s Tuberculosis Sanitarium would provide accommodations for only 140 patients. i s e ey e Toner School, contin in operation ot Tuberculosis Hospital to the number comparable with pre s the annual tuberculosis Club Recommends Projects. ‘The Monday Evening Club, represent- ed by Paul Benjamin, nmm‘:nendtd the projects spoken for by the Wash- Council of Social Agencies, and ly.nflnmmlc k;r; an in‘c;reelu from 16 to 18 he requirement of a physical :l)’{:ml.nnu Milon -skv, condition lorpthyes is- of a work permit, separate social disease clinics for children, including evening clinics, and a social service de- partment at Gallinger Hospital. Dr. William A. White, superintendent of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, spcke briefly in favor of more work in social hygiene. The recommendations of the Child Welfare Committee of the Washington Oouncil of Social Agencies, presented by Miss Fay Bently, included liberaliza- tion of the policies of the Board of Public Welfare in accepting families or home care, pro' iding home instruc- tion for children not in physical con- dition to attend school and study of several important child problems. The committee will meet next Thurs- day to consider the matters submitted at the public hearing. RITES FOR MAJ. POWER WILL BE AT FORT MYER Retired Infantry Officer, Who Died in Biarritz, France, Will Be Buried in Arlington. Funeral servi Fort Myer cmeu"l!lhheldinflu at 11 o'clock iron door of an alleged gambling house | at 715 I street, mumbled a word or two to a man who gave him the once over a hole—and was admit- ted. He was followed in by T. M. Mc- Vearry and R. S. Bryant, other vice ‘The raiders found some 30 men hud- dled about a 30-foot blackboard, check- ered with up-to-the-minute returns on the ponies.. They seized a quantity of gambling paraphernalia, including rac- ing slips, scratch pads and poker chips. Charges of permitting gaming were gn(erred against Abe Hutt, 29, 900 lock of Farragut street; Lawrence Butt, 21, 600 block of Franklin street north- east; Thomas Simons, 28, 1200 block of First | N ‘street, and Joseph’/ H. Linkins, 3600 k of O street. blocl Pastor to Be Kono;ed. program will feature the observance of the second anniversary Rev. C. T. Murray as pastor of the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, 1630 Vermont avenue, tonight at 8 o'clock. the rank of major of Infantry, during the World War. In July, 1920, he was appointed major of Infantry in the Regular Army and served successively in New York, af Camp Meade, Md., in Washington an at Fort Bennirg, Ga., up to the time of his retirement for disability in No- vember, 1928. His widow, Mrs. Margaret P. Power, was with him at Biarritz when he died and accompanied his body to this city. Sergegnt Commissioned.