Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1931, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, S50 DSTRET - FUND REQUESTED Item Included in Deficiency " Appropriations Put Be- ( | fore Congress. Requests for District appropriations | Jaggregating $100.250 were included in | #the deficiency items sent to Congress ayesterday by President Hoover » The District budget was accompanied %y a draft of a provosed provision per- Saning to appropriation for the mu- anicipal architect 0 as to provide 5 ), which will be ary to eaable the municipal ar- " to complete his work on the Jectase s so was a draft of a proposed Prov.si>n pertainng to the appropria- «ion for road and street improvements Auinder the gasoline tax fund. This in- Acles no additional appropriation, but rauthoriz>s construction of a pedestrian underpass at Twenty-fourth street and Benning road at the same time the Xontract is let for Benning road. . Underpass Needed. 3 The nmeed for this underpass is oc- casioned by construction of an exten- sive school and playground area north of Benning road, which will be a‘- tended largely by children who reside $0v1t11 of Benning road. This under- ass can b= constructed when the pav- “ng work is being done within the toal ' “amount of $154,400 for paving and #vould el minate any later nececsity for femozing the partion of the pavement 0 construct an underpass. + Included also was a araft of a pro- Jposed provision pertaining to the ap- Zpropriation for "incinerators, author- ized on March 4, 1929. An appropria- ion of $550,000 was made available for #fiscal years 1930 and 1931 and it wes “Ruthorized not to exceed $25,000 for the | employment of professional services. JThe information sent Congress yester- | ay disclosed that it will cost $760,000 for the whole project. Language has been inserted to enable the Commis- sloners to reimburse the employed ex- §Jen for the additional services he per- ormed in preparing plans and speci- ffications to meet the requirements of | Jhe controller general = Two public school items were in the “eficlency estimates. One was for $250 Jor maintenance and instruction of an «dditional colored deaf mute depart- ?em during half the fiscal year 1932 n the Marviand School for the Blind at "Overlea, Md. Th= other item was for 881,000 for the furnishing and equip- =<ping of nine school buildings and ad- wditions and two stadiums which will be eady for occupancy durtng the fiscal year 1932. » Items Are Listed. * The items by schools are: Dunbar | “High School Stadium, $1,800: Western ~High School Stadim, $2800: Kev | “School, £4.000: Stoddert School, $8,000 SHearst School, $8.000; Janney School, £5.000; Orr School $4.000; Hine Junior High School, $9.000; Macfarland Junior :High School, $22.000:: Faul Junior ‘High, $10,0000 and Randall School, ~$6,300. | For the Metropolitan Police Force 212,000 is asked. The House of Deten- dion now occupies renied quarters at *n ennual cost of £3,000. it is planned t» mov> the House of Detontion into he station house formeriv used for No. and to move the polica ~t headquariers now supying N~. 2 police precinct station lou-e inio the No. 3 police precinct ed that the cost of movirg f Detention, obtaining new nt therefor and making neces- repairs and improvements to the and No. 3 polize precinct gtat on o5 will require an appropriation 00, For the courts and prisons, $1,500 was £2:ked for printing and binding. Hospital Plan Submitted. For the Public Weifzre D f ne current appropriaticn ides $10.000 for maintenance ed wards for minor contagious at Providence Hospital. Tha Tospital was nct willing to accept such became necessary for the ! to provide for their care buildings at Gallinger, was opened July 1 and has since been in active operation. The proposed change would permit transfer not to exceed $7,680 from the Providence Hos- pitel appropriation to the appropria- ton for personal services at Gallinger Hospital For the Hoepital for the Insane, $3,000 was asked. The current appro- | priation is $5.000 for the deportat:on of | non-Tesident insane persons. The ex- penditure for the first five months of the fiscal year amounted to $3.525. and so an additional appropriation of $3,000 | is asked For relief of the poor in the District, An Old Japanese Custom || CARD GAME OF “100 POETS” ANNUAL EVENT. A view of the annual Japanese card game of “100 Poets” being played in The official scorekeeper may be seen at the left top, standing. The game dates back for centuries and is much played around Christma Tokio. nd New Year. —-Underwood Photo. $2,500 was recommendsd. In the cur- rent appropriation law, $3.500 was ap- opriated for support of abandone: wives and children, of which $2.601 has been expended during the first five months. This money is used for pay- ment at a fixed rate of 50 cents a day | toward the support of children of men who have been committed to the work- bouse under the non-support law. $1,000 Water Fund. 8 proprced provison was dubmitted The purpose of this would réquire no edditional appropriation, but would au- thorize an additional expenditure of $1.000 from the 1932 appropriation for maintenance of the Water Department For the Water DPpar:mPnL{ draft of T fon system in order that two | sraphctype machines may be purchazed Thers was another draft of a pr posed provision for the Water Depait- ment involving no additional appro- on, the purpose of which is to azailable not to exceed $12,000 f 1e necessary foundation, construc- ien and for the purchase and installa- tion of the special piping necessary to connect the pumping unit at Bryant sircel pump ng station to existing mains in the pumping station. MARY GARDEN TO WRITE ON CRITICS IN BOOK Chapter in Volume to Square Ac- counts She Tells Evanston Women. By the Associated Press EVANSTON, III, December 15.— Mary Garden is going to try to square accounts with the musical critics who said she couldn't sing. She let the sscret out last night in a talk before a meeting of the Woman's Club of Evanston, held under auspices of the University Guild of Evanston. “The critics have said for 19 years that I couldn't sing.” she said. “How- |ever, I have had a fair amount of Buccess “By the way, I'm writing & book of my life. And I'm devoting one whole chapter of it to critics. They're funny people.” Miss Garden failed to mention just what she expected to say in the chapter, but che intimated it would be stim- ulating. The Half Dozen Beauiifully Boxed Witlhout Charge 10056 Penna. Ave. Ladies’ Night—WMAL—Tonite, 7:30 Hend-"zilored Neckwear Price One Year Ago, $1.50 'fl\ 2 ’&/n Money's Werth or Money Back D. J. Kaufman, Southeast Corner 14th and Eye “Tune In” 1744 Penna. Ave. 'BURROUGHS CiTIZENS | Resolution of Association Favors Present System to Imstalling Taxi Meters. A resolution indorsing the eontinu- ance of th= zone system of taxicab oper- ! ation was adopted last night by the Burroughs Citizens' Assocfation mesting | in the John Burrcughs School. Citing the fact that there are nearly 5.000 cabs operating daily on District | streets, members said that installation | of meters and the subscquent raise in | rates would cause a decrease in taxicab | p e. peal to Congress to pre the 1933 District appropriation bill for | the purchase of a site for an elementary | school to be located in the vicinity of ty-fourth and Randolph streets | ast was voiced. | An increase in the number of rk | police assigned to duty at th: Taft Rec- | § reational Center also was asked. The ! resoluticn was directed to the Office of | ¥ Public Buildings and Pub'ic Parks, The association extended a’¥ate of thanks to the Athletic Committee for their work in handling the Burroughs' Foot Ball League. Entertainment last night was furnished by the St. Btephen's Glee Club and Orchestra AIDS TERRY DRUGGAN Son of Late “Champ” Clark to Fight Racketeer's Tax Case. CHICAGO, December 15 (2 —Col. Bennett C. Clark of St. Louis, son of the late Champ Clark and associate of former Senator James A. Reed, entered his appearance vesterday s an attorney for Terry Druggan in Federal Court. ‘The income tax evasion case against Druggan and his fellow “beer baron.” Frankie Lake. was continued until today because Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson, who was to have sentenced the men yesterda:, was late in return- ing from an out-of-town week end. The twh have ple fuilty and have asked leniency on » grounds that they are attempting to pay their obliga~ | brunt of the inundation FOR ZONE CAB PLAN § ide in | & D. O, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1931. FLOODS AND SNOW SWEEP WIDE AREAS Rivers in Ohio Overflow as Snow in California Hits Los Angeles. By the Assoclated Press. Weather turned dizzy somersaults on the country’s meteorological map today. Streams overflowed their banks in Southern Ohlo, tornadic winds and heavy rain claimed six lives in South- western Arkansas and Northern Louisi- ana, snow is covering outlying North- | ern sections of Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley, and winds of gale force whistled up and down the At-| lantic Coast. | Lowlands in Southern Ohio bore the Scores of | motorists were forced to ndon their | automobiles as swirling waters swept | over highways. One death was indirectly caused by the flood conditions. The Ohio River at Martins Ferry was rising slowly to the top of its banks. On the wings of a gale of almost un- precedented force, 4 inches of snow fell in Los Angeles. A fall of 5 feet was reported from the higher ridges of the mountainous big pines section. Low temperatures prevailed in sections not visited by snow. Jackson Lake was frozen over with 10 inches of ice. Strong winds and fog hampered ship- ping of the Atlantic Coast. Ferries were not able to operate on schedule yesterday. FROST HITS LOS ANGELES. Two Are Killed and 161 Are Injured in Car Crashes. LOS ANGELES, December 15 (#).— A heavy frost spread over Bouthern California this morning in the wake of a storm which dropped snow within the cit¢ limits of Los Angeles and mede highway travel hazardous. Two men were killed in traffic accl- ents on slippery streets within a 24- hour period and 161 persons were in- jured, four dengerously. section of San Fernando Valle within the city limits, reported snow varying in depth from 2 to 9 inches. Rain fell in the downtown area. 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