Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1932, Page 15

WAS HINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY he Sunday St MORNING, JANUARY 17, 1932. * PAGE B—1 CHEST WILL BEGIN THIRD DRIVE PHASE IN SUNDAY RALLY Metropclitan and Group, Solicitation Units to . Gather. 40 Per Cent Increase in Relief Pleas Is Anticipated This Year by Officials. With the $1,000,000 quota of the ‘Governmental and the Special Gifts Unit well under the third phase of the Community Chest drive for $2,601,000 will be in- augurated at a huge rally a week from today in Continental Memorial Hall. The Chest appeal for $650,000 more this year than the $1,950,000 contrib- uted ‘last year came as an aftermath of the unprecedented demands on charitable institutions caused by un- cmployment. An increase in requests for relief of the destitute totaling at ;t;a;wl 40 per cent, is anticipated during The Metropolitan and Group Soli- eitation units, participating in next Sunday's rally, will be told of the mounting needs of organizations affil- iated with the Chest. The workers | will be instructed to seek gifts of a | third more this year than last. ! Chest Sunday in Churches. “‘Community Chest Sunday” will be observed in Washington churches next Sunday. Either the clergymen or spe- clal outside speakers will appeal for funds at the regular services. A letter from Archbishop Michael J. Curley of the Diocese of Baltimore will be read in every Catholic church. Virtually every Protestant church in the city has indorsed the plan of co- operation worked out by a committee composed of Bishop Willlam F. Mc- Dowell, chairman; J. R. Duffield, A. L. Baldwin, H. Lawrence Choate, Harry Boss, Henry P. Blair, Norton M. Little, W. P. Benson, Irving L. Koch, Arthur P. Black, Dr. B. W. Meeks, Marvin McLean, Page McK. Etchison, Arthur J. Richards, Clarence P. Dodge, Wil- liam H. Harrison, H. F. Winn, Preston King, Rev. J. H. Wells( James B. Cun- ningham, Edwin H. Davis, Linn Drake and William Barringer. “An estimate of one-third greater need than last year in Washington is moderate in view of the circumstances,” Iwood Street, Chest director, said yes- terday. “Many cities,” he added, “are figuring on meeting 100 to 200 per cent greater need this Winter than last. Even though employment improves, as we hope it may during this year, cer- tainly we must face the problems of those who are the victims of a long period of unemployment who have not yet any employment, who have no Pprospect of any employment and who must be helped by their fellow citizens who have something while they have nothing. “In addition, the usual program of service to people of all races and creeds in all kinds of need must be maintained on a minimum basis. This includes care for the orphan, the aged, the de- linquent, the wayward, the sick, the in- jured, the crippled, the blind and all those needing guidance and help of all sorts whose numbers and problems in- crease in times of unemployment. | “The Community Chest represents | the most economical method of rais- | ing funds for these purposes. The | Chest's estimated cost for 1932 will be | only 3 per cent for campaign and 3| per cent for administration because of economies which have been worked out | and the assump! of collection of Government pledges by key men in Government departments. This means that 94 per cent of every dollar sub- scribed goes directly into the service of Chest organizations. Compared with the former cost of raising money by individual campaigns, which ranged from 15 to 25 per cent, with an average cost of 20 per cent, this means the saving of over $225,000 on what would have been the cost of raising $2,601,000 under the old system.” Mr. Street pointed out the Chest goal was fixed after a long series of meetings of the Budget Committee, headed by Joshua Evans, jr. president of the District National Bank. He said the committee pared $200,000 off the amount the member organizations thought necessary and permitted no increase except meet emergency needs to 3,000 Volunteers. “The campaign,” Mr. Street ex- plained, “will be conducted by a volun- teer organization of at least 3,000 work- ers in addition to the thousand who have already served as key men in the | governmental campaign. The value of | these volunteer services is beyond com- putation. It may be said that at least 4,000 people wil\ have worked in the campaign, including the governmental group, and they will have given on an average of at least 20 hours apiece, or 120,000 hours of service, for which they Tecelye no compensation beyond the satisfaction of work well done for the community. ““Approximately 100,000 people will be helped through the Community Chest’s 65 organizations during 1932. These represent all kinds of need, including Cestitution, unemployment, widowhood, desertion, sickness, old age. blindness and other physical disabilities, delin- quency and the need for guidance in effective ways of life. This service will include people of all ages, of all races | and creeds i “The government until, under the | Jeadership of Gov. Thomas E. Camp- | bell, has set a splendid example by raising $1,000,000, an increase of $450, 000, or more than 80 per cent, over the amount raised by these departments last year. The Special Gifts Unit, under the chairmanship of Clarence A. Aspinwall, is daily reporting in- creased gifts from our larger givers. Units Well Organized. “The Metropolitan Unit, with H. L. Rust, jr., as chajrman; the Group Soli- citation Unit, with Lloyd B. Wilson as chairman, and the Schools Unit, of which Sidney F. Tariaferro is chairman, are all splendidly organized and we believe that with all these factors work- ing for the campaign Washington will arise as it always has and will meet this greatest peace-time emergency which our city has ever known by con- | tributing the amount necessary to enable the Chest to reach its ! Edward F. Colladay, general cam-| palgn chalrman, will be the principal speaker at a luncheon meeting of the| Speakers’ Unit Tuesday at 12:30 in the Raleigh Hotel. Other talkers will in- clude Joseph D. Kaufman, chairman; Gov. Campbell, Mr. Aspinwall, Mr. Rust, Mr. Wilson, Mg, Taliaferro and Mr. Street. Brig. Gen. Michael J. Lenihan, a retired Army officer, has been named as chairman of the “‘Come and See” Committee, which will take large clvic Unit already subscribed | | by a defeated litigant, |lative branch to usurp Ready for the Last Trip last car frory the Twelfth tonight. It will be operated by Crockett, who helped lay the (inset), who has been with the company for 27 years. TROLLEY LINES INTO VIRGINIA WILL BE ONLY MEMORY. HE Mount Vernon, Alexandria & Washington traction line will run its street and Pennsylvania avenue terminal the motorman shown above, Wellington tracks in 1896, and J. Willlam Mason Star Staff Photo. T ot FEDERATION FLAYS BILL ONVALUATION Measure to Qualify Assessor as Condemnation Expert Assailed by Citizens. ‘The Federation of Citizens' Associa- tions, in a bitterly worded protest last night expressed its emphatic disapproval of a bill to qualify the District assessor as an expert witness on land values in condemnation cases. The dramatic effect of the feder: tion's action was heightened by the fact that the resolution was sent through the parliamentary mill with a woman in the president's chair, the first time in the association’s history a woman has presided over one of its meetings. Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter had the honor when Vice President George Sullivan left the chair to add his voice to the denuncia- tion of the proposed law. The denunciation was drawn up by the federation’s lawyers on its Com- mittee of Law and Legislation, and was read by Thomas E. Lodge, com- mittee chairman and formerly assist- ant United States Attorney. After re- citing the fact that the bill, unani- mously passed by the Senate, was rec- ommended by the Commissioners after the Court of Appeals had ruled that the Assessor was not a competent Wwit- ness in condemnation cases, the report said in part: Judicial Decision Upheld. “In a word, this is a plain the District to overrule a solemn deci sion by one of the independent branches of our Government, the judiciary, through the medium of con- trary action by another branch of the Government, the legislative branch and in regard to a subject which under the Federal Constitution, be- longs peculiarly to the judiciary in its protection of private property righ under the fifth amendment to the Cor stitution As amendment was to compel just com- pensation for property taken and to have such just compensation fixed not according to the ideas of the legislative branch, but in‘accordance with what is fair and just as determined by the judictal branch, this attempt of the District Commissioners to flaunt the power and authority of the judicial branch _through an appeal to the legis and displa. the functions of the former, should re- Columbia, | ceive the unqualified condemnation of every well minded citizen. Hege Fails to Change Wor “Obviously Senate blll No. 9, if passed by both houses and approved by the President, would be utterly null and vold. The committee accordingly rec- ommends the disapproval of the aid bill by the federation.” Edwin S. Hege, who made a sreech in favor of the report, relented after it was adopted and sought to have the language modified, but without success. James G. Yaden, former president of the federation, led the fight against the committee report. He said that in spite of the great legal learning of the committee, there were still a few Sena- tors who had a smattering of knowledge of constitutional law, mentloning Borah, Walsh and Norris by name. He was joined by M. A. Lloyd of the Associaiion of Engineers; Joseph Sanders of Forest Hills, and Fred S. Walker of Park View. But the majority, led by Vice President Sullivan, Mr. Hege, Harry: N. Stull of Stanton’ Park, and others, ocutvot them by 51 to 15. D. C. Tax Bills Discussed. The bills passed by the House de- signed to shift the District tax burden more firmly on to the shoulders of the residents again came up for discussion, but no action on the subject was taken. A resolution from the Commercial Motor Vehicle Owners’ Association, asking the federation to call a confer- ence on the Mapes Committee bills, was referred to the Committee on Fiscal Relations. Chairman L. A. Carruthers of the committee reportec that four bills passed by the House had been re- ferred to four subcommittees for study, and that a report would be placed be- fore the federation at a later date. William McK. Clayton introduced a resolution condemning the action of the House in passing a bill repealing the organic law relating to appropriations for the District. The resolution was informed and fair | unanimously approved with no debate. The federation adopted a resolution favoring the coming Community Chest drive. Tree Protection Favored. The federation went on record as fa- voring the straightening out of the in- tersection of Fourteenth and Harvard ers to settle claims against the District not exceeding $1,000 each for cash; the prompt building of & stadium for Busi- Toups on inspection trips through vari- sma organizations affilisted with the Chest. ness High School; and protecting the trees of Washington streets from ruth- the very purpose of the fifth streets; a bill to allow the Commission-. 0., FOR SOLVING * BRIGE QUESTON |“No Man’s Land” at Virginia End Cause of Legal Uncertainty. The District Commissioners would welcome some solution of the problem as to just who has jurisdiction over | the territory around the Virginia ends of the Highway and Francis Scott Key | Bridges, as suggested by Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, to Congress Friday. Grant suggested giving control to the District Commissioners. Speaking from the police standpoint, Maj. Gen. Herberi B. Crosby, Commis- | sioner in charge of the Police Depart- ment, said today, that he did not care who got the juristiction so long as somebody,was Tesponsible for these ter- ritories. 'There is a great deal of legal | uncertainty as to where the jurisdic tion lies. Problem of Boundaries. ‘The problem of the Highway Bridge is one of boundaries. It has never been determined officially exactly where | the boundary between the District and Virginia lies, and it is understood that the Justice Department has plans under way to file a suite to acquire title of certain of these lands in District Supre Court and, if necessary, the Virginia courts. This will eventu- ally result in an official adjudication. The Key Bridge problem is more diffi- cult. There, the State of Virginia ceded jurisdiction to certain territory in the State of Virginia to the United States, and Congress _subsequently sed an act giving the District Com- missioners police powers over this ter- ritory. Corporation Counsel Willilam W. Bride has ruled that this act is in- cperative, inasmuch as it sought to ex- tend police regulation beyond the ter- ritorial boundaries of the District. No Man’s Land Strip. between the end of the bridge beginning of the portion of Virginia where the State has full juris- | diction. there is a strip of no man's land, where apparently there is legal jurisdiction _neither in the United | States. the District or the State of Vir- ginia. The practical result of this so far has been that, acting on Mr. Bride's | opinion, the District police force has | been_ forbidden to make arrests beyond | the high-water mark, and there is no other police force to make such arrests FREE CAPITOL GUIDES URGED BY COCHRAN Terms Thus, ‘and the | Missouri Representative Situation “Outrageous” cad “Petty Graft.” Representative John J. Cochran of Missouri will ask the House -Committee on Accounts to consider introducing a bill providing for the establishment of a free Capitol guide service, he an- | nounced last night. | Terming the guide situation in the Capitol “outrageous,” Cochran charged | that Congress. in making citizens pay | for the privilege of inspecting the | Capitol, “condones the worst form of | petty graft.” “Under the present system,” he point- | ed out, “an individual is charged 25 cents by the guides. Even school chil- dren, who come in large groups, are charged 15 cents each. “Such a system cannot be defended, and our citizens, while praising the guides, complain bitterly against such a practice. The petty graft must Le elim- inated before the millions of visitors come here for the Bicentennial, or Con- gress will be made ridiculous—and very properly so.” $35,000 ASKED FOR BOY The District Supreme Court was asked yesterday to award $35,000 damages to eight-year-old David Bieri, 3926 Mc- Kinley street, for injuries allegedly re- ceived when struck by an automobile while riding a bicycle near his home la%th Aum;‘st 20. rough Attorneys Albert Stern and Albert Lyman, the boy says.he was struck by a truck of the Chevy Chase Ice Service, and that it was not oper- ated with reasonable care by the dxgreer less extermination by engineers at work. It disapproved a bill zgi give the Com- missioners power to name a represent- ative to speak for the District on the floors of the House and Senate on the theory that the Commissioners and the peoplé of the District are often dis- agreed as to what the people want. in | BUSSES T0 HANDLE VIRGINIA TROLLEY TRAVEL N cITY 0ld Terminal at Twelfth and Avenue Passes Out of Service Tonight. ARLINGTON JUNCTION POINT OF TRANSFER New Station at 1013 D Street, but Motor Vehicles Are Not to Cross Avenue. Forced out of the city by the Fed- eral building program, trolley service | | from nearby Virginia will be supplanted | | tomorrow morning by & motor bus line, | bringing the same passenger traffic into | the same downtown arca on the same ! time schedule used by the street cars. | The old terminal at Twelfth street | and Pennsylvania avenue will be dis-| continued tonight after the last car; leaves at 12:40 o'clock and the facilities | in the terminal will all be moved to the | new bus terminal at 1013 D street, to | | be in readiness for business in the new | location tomorrow morsing For the present, however, the new bus line, which will bring passengers from the transfer point at Arlington Iluncllon into Washington, will not be | allowed to stop at the new terminal at 11013 D street, but will follow a route | | past the ocid terminal along Pennsyl- {vania avenue without crossing the | | Avenue. The new terminal, though | known as 1013 D street, is virtually | | that same number on Pennsylvania | avenue, about a block from the old terminal. Petition Not Acted On. The regular bus line from Alexan- dria, which has been operating for some time, will run its busses to the new terminal, as it has been doing for some time, but it was explained by R. L. May, owner of both the Mount Vernon, Alexandria & Washington Railway and the bus lines, the Public Utilities Com- mission has not yet acted upon the petition of the company to run its new shuttle line of busses from Arlington Junction into the new terminal. Mr. May said he hoped the present route through the city for the new | busses from Arlington Junction would | be temporary. There have been somc | indications from the commission. how- | ever, that this line may not be allowed Final | | to cross Pennsylvania avenue. Qecision has not been made The new bus line will come Into shington along Fourteenth street to nsylvania avenue, turn east on the Avenue to Tenth street, south on Tenth street to Constitution avenue, west to Fourteenth and return to Arlington Junction. Passengers from two different trolley lines will be affected—the Mount Ver- non, Alexandria & Washington Railway and the Arlington & Fafrfax Railway Co. These two lines will continue to operate to Arlington Junction, whers passengers will transfer to the so-called “shuttle bus.” There will be 15 of these | new busses placed into service. { Busses Through City. The regular bus line of the Alex- andria, Barcroft and Washington Rapid Transit Co. will continue to run its | busses through the city and up to the | new terminal. Its route is up Four- teenth street to Pennsylvania avenue, | east on Pennsylvania to Thirteenth, north to E street, east to Tenth street, | south to D street, west to the ter-! minal at No. 1013. Leaving the ter- | minal, these Alexandria busses will pro- | ceed westward along Pennsylvania ave- | nue, and out Fourteenth street The Jast car over the trolley line | will leave the old terminal at 12:40 | o'clock tomorrow morning, in charge of the two employes oldest in point of service, The motorman will be Well- ington Crockett, now an inspector, who is the oldest man on the road in point of service. He helped build the rail- {Toad and served as water boy when the tracks were laid in 1896. The conduc- tor will be J. Willlam Mason, who is the next in line of seniority. He has been connected with the railway for 27 years. Abandonment of the line into Wash- ington will not bring about the dis- charge of any of the motormen or conductors, according to Mr. May. Five of them will be transferred from street cars to busses. Abandonment of the line into Wash- | ington at last gives the Federal Gov- ernment a free hand to proceed with | the building program in the triangle. First of Tracks to Go. The first part of the old tracks to | be cut out will be on Thirteen-and-a- | half street, where the line crosses di- rectly over the site of the new De- partment of Labor Building. Excava- tion has been completed on either side of the street, leaving the street and tracks high in the air. Tomorrow morning, it is expected by Neal A. Melick, United States Government con- struction engineer, steam shovels will begin to bite into this piece of ground and tear out the earth and rails. The old terminal at Twelfth and Pennsylvania avenue will be torn down immediately. Tracks belonging to the Mount Ver- non road along Fourteenth street will be taken over by the Washington Rail- way Co., but the stretch of tracks from ‘Water street to north end of Highway Bridge will be taken up early next Spring as part of the street improve- | ment program there. It is expected tracks will be left on the Highway Bridge itself, as the tracks were constructed as an _integral part of the bridge, and are flush with the paving which was recently laid. Virginia Tracks Remain, Tracks in Virginia will be left where they are for the present, Mr. May said, but later on the right of way between the south end of the bridge and Ar- lington Junction may be paved to pr vide a private road for the bus traf- fic of the A. B. & W. Co. Not only will the old terminal of the railway move from Twelfth and Penn- sylvania to its new location, but e whole institution, known as the United Bus Terminal, will move also to the same new station. Bus lines, in addition to the one from Alexan-: dria, which will stop there, include the Greyhound, Short Lines, United Utili- tles, Washington. Rapid Transit Balti- more Line, Washington-Luray Line, Washington, Marlboro and Annapolis, Arnold Leesburg Line and Virginia Stage Lin Orange Game Warden Named. ORANGE, Va., January 16 (Special). —W. D. Mann of near Rhoadesville has been named game warden for Orange County, according to announcement by the Commission of Game and Inland Pisheries. Mr. Mann, who succeeds L. @ =zl (oiérdmv‘lufl!!, who recently resigned the office, will assume his n:lz duties on February 1. | W Pe ~ | senger at the time. Another Downtown Bus Terminal Established PUBLIC STREET PROVIDES EXCELLENT TIRE-CHANGING FACILITIES. PPER: One of the busses occupying a newly established curbstone terminal on Eleventh street at D and utilizing spare time and space to change tires. Lower Another bus, at the same “terminal,” parked in front of a fire plug—something that private opera- tors of automobiles would not be able to get away with. Around the corner from this latest curbstone terminal is another, which occupies all of the curbstone space on the north side of the street from Tenth to Eleventh. Busses to be substituted for the abandoned street cars of the Mount Vernon, Alexandria & Washington Railroad may also use this terminal unless the Public Utilities Commission interferes. MANISBADLY HURT INAUTO COLLISON Car With Seven Turns Over, Injuring Woman Driver and F. J. Haskin, Jr. Frederic J. Haskin, jr. whose father conducts the “Answers to Questions” column for The Evening Star, was seri- ously injured last night when the ma- chine in which he was riding with six other persons overturned in & collision with another car at Twenty-fifth street and Pennsylvania avenue. Young Haskin, who lives at the Poto- mac Park Apartments, Twenty-first and C streets, owned by his parents, is con- fined to Emergency Hospital with a pos- sible fractured pelvis and other injuries. He was a passenger in an automobile driven by Miss Betty Elfelt, 21, of Cum- berland, Md. Miss Elfelt received minor lacerations and bruises and received medical treatment. Navy Lieutenant Other Driver. Lieut. Frederick C. Weisner, 35, of 4831 Thirty-sixth street, attached to the destroyer U. S. S. Hamilton, vas the operator of the other machine involved in the crash. With him was Lieut Comdr. Clarence Gulbranson, com- manding officer of the destroyer. Neither was {njured Mrd Christine Peterson, No. 5 I street northéast, a passenger in- the Elfelt machine, was treated at Emergency | Hospital for lacerations. Her condition was not considered serious. On Way to Georgetown Party. Other passengers in the automobile driven by Miss Elfelt, all of whom were on their way to a party in Georgetown at the time of the accident, included Miss Louise Balcon of the Park Lane Apartments, Mrs. Lester Shaffer of | Chevy Chase, Md.; Miss Analie Eische of 2025 T street, and Miss Vivian Ber- | man of Randallstown, Md. The ear | wes owned by Perke V. Daly of 901 | Twentieth street, who was not a pas- | Police said the Weisner car, a small coupe, was going north on Twenty- fifth street and the other machine was | traveling west on Pennsylvania avenue when the collision took place. The sedan was turned on its side and dam- aged considerably. The _thoroughfare at the point was partially blocked by street Tepairs, the excavations for which were indicated by red lights. No arrests were made. Girl Hurt in Double Upset. Catherine Howard, 19, of 1419 Eutl Capitol street, was treated at Providence Hospital last night for injuries received when the automobile in which she was | riding overturned after a crash with a stolen car operated by a colored man who fled following the accident. The stolen machine also overturned, | but the driver apparently escaped in- | jury. The automobile in which Miss Howard was riding was driven by Frank Jeffries, 19, of the 600 block of B| street southwest, who likewise was un- | hurt. The mishap occurred at South | Capitol and E streets. J. B. Elliott, 29, of 1303 Randolph street, was cut and bruised when his car overturned in the 2800 block of Military road after striking a pile of dirt in the roadway. Four-year-old Lois Potter, 1224 | Quincy street, suffered a fractured hip yesterday when knocked down by an automobile at the intersection of Quincy street and Kansas avenue. She was treated at Garfield Hospital. The car was operated by James Dosln, 35, of 617 Gallatin street, police said. HELD ON ASSAULT IN RAID Charles Washington, 32, colored, of the 600 block of Morton street north- east, was charged with illegal posses- sicn of liquor, conducting an unlicensed restaurant and assault, after he had struck Sergt. R. C. Speith, head of the Third Inspection District vice squad, on the head during a raid last night in the 1000 block of Sixth street northeast. Three quarts of liquor were confiscated, police reported. ! When attacked by Washington, Sergt. Speith retaliated by striking him on the head, cutting a small wound. Washington was treated at Casualty Hospital and taken to No. § police sta- tion. | Hurt in Crash || | | | an affidavit filed in District Supreme FREDERIC J. HASKIN, JR. D.C.WILLASK FUND FOR SPECIAL POLICE st Trained Men for Protection| of Bicentennial Visitors “ Will Be Brought Here. ‘The Metropolitan Police Department, | it was learned yesterday, is planning to ! ask Congress for an appropriation for the employment of special policemen to protect the thousands of visitors ex- pected in Washington this year for the major events of the George Washing- ton Bicentennial celebration. In co-operation with the District George Washington Bicentennial Com- | mission, officials of the Police Depart- | ment are working out a detailed pro- gram for handling the crowds and pro- tecting visitors against “dips” confi- dence men and bandits. Instead of employing men untrained in police work as special officers, it is | the plan of police officials to seek the services of members of the Police De- partments of Baltimore, Philadelphfa | and Richmond, Va—a plan adopted | during the last presidential inaugural. | Officers recruited from these cities will | be paid, and because the Police De-| partment lacks funds to employ extra | men on a part-time basis, a special | appropriation will be necessary. | Police officials believe the ~ regular | force will be capable of protecting vis- itors, except when special events at tract an unusually large number. Th first of these will be the dedication of | the new Arlington Memorial Bridge | and the Mount Vernon Memorial High- | way February 22. | work, wl ported. MRS. VAN WINKLE | UNABLE TO APPEAR Police Surgeon’s Affidavit Given to Court in Suit. Smoot Introduces Bill. Although recovering from a_recent illness, Lieut. Mina C. Van Winkle, head of the Woman's Bureau of the police department, is not physically able to appear in court, according to Court yesterday. The affidavit, made by Dr. John A. Reed, police surgeon, also said it would materially retard Mrs. Van Winkle's recovery to take a deposition from her at_this time. The statement was filed in connec- tion with a suit for damages brought against Mrs. Van Winkle by Mrs. Ethel Clawans, who says false entries were made on an arrest card when she was taken into custody several years ago. The affidavit said Mrs. Van Winkle is suffering from spinal arthritis and that it is frequently necessary to ad- minister opiates to relieve her suffering. | Associates at the Women's Bureau | said last night that Mrs. Van Winkle has shown marked improvement lately and that she had no intention of ask- ing for retirement. Meanwhile a measure which Mrs. | Van Winkle has been urging for several | years—that defining the status and du- ties of the Woman's Bureau as a per- manent branch of the Police Depart- ment and providing that the director of the bureau be given the rank of an as- sistant superintendent of police—was introduced in the Senate yesterday by Senator Smoot, Republican, of Utah, It was referred to the District Commit- tee for report. The measure sets forth that there shall continue to be a Woman's Bureau | in the department, to perform its pres- ent duties or such others as the Com- missioners may determine. Provides for Men to Aid Bureau. ‘The bill stipulates the director would have to be a woman trained in social ho would have the rank and ray of an assistant superintendent. It also provides for five woman assistants as follows: One as assistant director, with the rank of captiin; one as case supervisor, who would be a lieutenant, and three with the rank of sergeant, one for each eight-hour period of duty. The staff of the bureau could be in- creased, as Congress may provide, and the superintendent is authorized to assign men to the bureau from the regular force as may be necessary. The bill states that officers and mem- bers of the bureau and other officers and members of the force shall, ac-; cording to period of service and classi- fication, be upon the same footing. GIRL, 11, HUA[TEiDi HERE Washington police were aiding last night in a search for Wilmuth Black- burn, 11-year-old daughter of Sergt. Joseph Blackburn of Walter Reed Hos- pital. The girl was reported missing from her home at Burtonsville, Md., since early yesterday when she left to g0 to a dentist in Washington. She is described as five feet tall and weighing 100 pounds. She wore a red coat and was bareheaded, it wes re- POLICE OFFICIALS TO OPPOSE INCREASE OF 10 DAYS IN LEAVE Report on Pending Bill Will State Longer Vacations Would Necessitate Hiring 50 More Men. Officials of the Metropolitan Police Department yesterday drew up a report for the District Commissioners, oppos- ing bills pending in Congress to increase the annual leave of members of the force from 20 to 30 days. Extension of the leave period by 10 days, it was sald, would necessitate the addition of 50 men to the force to pre- vent it from being undermanved, at an annual cost of approximately $50,000. In view of existing economic condi- tions and the desire of the Commis- do not believe it would be wise at this time to seek increased funds for the department. The officials, however, BUILGER DEFAULTS WITH NEW SCHOOL HALF COMPLETE District to Turn Benjamin Stoddart Work Over to Bonding Company. LOW PAY IS CHARGED TO BANNETT CONCERN Action Against Contractor De- manded Recently Under “Pre- vailing Wage” Law. Charles S. Bannett, Philadelphia contractor, informed the District Com- missioners yesterday he had “resigned from the job” of construction of the Benjamin Stoddart School in the Burleith-Glover Park section. The city will be compelled to turn the work over to the Massachusetts Bonding Co., which underwrote the contract. District officials have been aware for some weeks that the contractor could not complete the building on scheduled time, as the project is now only 58 per cent’ finished, whereas the contract called for completion this week. Vigorous demands for action in the Bannett Co. case were laid before the Commissioners early last week by the Washington Building Trades’ Council, representing local union building me- chanics, foilowing the filing of a series of affidavits accusing the contractor of evading provisions of the Bacon- Davis “prevailing wage” law Low Pay Charged. This law prescribes that contractors on Government building projects in the District and_elsewhere in the country must pay the “prevailing” scale of wages for the various crafts of work- men, such as obtain in the communities where the buildings are to be erected. The “prevailing scale” for Washing- ton, adopted by the Commissioners and placed in effect October 1 last, is sub- stantially the same as the scales of the Washington union_mechanics. Bannett, was charged, in aMdavits filed with the District Government and the conciliation officer of the Depart- ment of Labor, with having compelled his workmen to sign blank payroll slipe and then paying them less than wages called for under the legal schedule. The affidavits were turned over tc | Corporation Counsel William W. Bride for investigation and report, since the Commissioners also had on hand an affi- davit bearing the name of Charles S Bannett, which stated that carpenter: on the school project were paid $1.37', per hour, which is the legal rate. There were, however, affidavits from carpen- ters charging they were paid 85 cent: per hour. Default Long Indicated. According to Maj. Holland L. Robb, assistant engineer commissioner in charge of the District’s building pro- gram, it has been apparent for the past six weeks that the contract might be defaulted, and a few days ago repre- sentatives of the bonding company were called in to inspect the work. No payment was made to the con- tractor during December because the work was so far behind, it was revealed. Bannett’s bid on the contract was $106,700. Of this sum $48,724.70 has been withheld. The amount paid rep- resents about 90 per cent of the cost of | the work done through November, this being in accordance with the plan of the city government to hold back 10 per cent of the contract payment until & project is completed. For completion of the contract, it is explained, the bonding company is not entitled to charge more than the un- paid balance. In addition, the District may sue for damages, if any are found incident to the delay in getting the building ready for occupancy. Conference Tomorrow. Maj. Robb will confer tomorrow with representatives of the bonding com- pany relative to the financial details surrounding the default. A recommendation that Bannett be barred from bidding on any subsequent District contracts here for three years has been made by S. B. Walsh, assist- ant municipal architect. It was not clear yesterday that the default of the contractor would give the Commission- ers such power. District contracts must be let to the “lowest responsible bidder." In protesting against the Bannett Co. performance on the Stoddart School, the Building Trades Council, through its secretary, Charles S. Young, urged that the contract be taken away from the contractor and that he be barred from bidding on later projects here BLADENSBURG ROAD HELD IN GOOD SHAPE Whitehurst Says Recent Slides Were Expected in Section Given Temporary Paving. The new section of New York avenue northeast from Florida avenue to Bla- densburg road is not in a serious con- dition, despite several recent earth slides, it was announced yesterday by Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, chief engineer and co-ordinator of the District. The last and most destructive slide occurred last week while Capt. White- hurst was in Detroit attending the an- nual road show of the American Road Builders’ Asscciation. Upon his return he made an immediate investigation. All of the slides, Capt. Whitehurst pointed out, occurred along the two- thirds of a mile macadamized stretch where trouble was anticipated in view of the condition of the soil. For that reason, he said, this section of the road was given a temporary macadam in- stead of a concrete surface. . The upper stratum of the soil con- sists of a mixture of gravel and clay and the lower stratum a blue clay which Capt. Whitehurst declared creates a condition for a slide. STORE CLUB MEETS Geoldenberg Executives and Buyers made it plain that they are opposed to the extension of the leave period for economic reasons only. Bills also are pending in Congress to edd 10 days to the annual leave of members of the Djstrict Fire Depart- ment and the park polce force. Re- ports for these departments, however, will be prepared by Fire Chief George S. Watson, and Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of Public Buildings and Public Hear Three. Addresses. ‘The Midwinter meeting of the Execi-~ tive Club of Goldenberg’s Department Store was held last night in the May- flower Hotel. ‘Three speakers—Arthur Abbott, gen- eral manager of the store; Leo Baum, controller, and Julian Behrend, presi- dent of the club—predicted a greater volume iness this Spring and discussed plans for handling it. sionets to keep the District's tax rate | Parks, who has supervision over the ‘The club is composed of buyers and at the present $1.70 level, police officials park police force. executives of the store.