Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1932, Page 17

WASHINGTON D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 3, 1932. = CAPITAL TO MARK T07H ANNIVERSARY OF WAR WEDNESDAY Army Day Festivities to In- clude Huge Parade and Exercises. HOOVER WILL REVIEW 88 UNITS IN PROCESSION District and National Bicentennial Groups Join Military Order of World War in Plans. ‘The Capital will fittingly commemo- rate the 15th anniversary of this coun- try's entry into the World War, Wed- nesday with a mammoth parade and exercises in various parts of the city. ‘The District Bicentennial Commis- sion, which with the United States Bi- centennial Commission and the Mili- tary Order of the World War, is spon- soring the Army day exercises as part of the George Washington Bicenten- nial celebration, announced yesterday that plans are virtually complete for the ceremonies April 6. As part of the celebration there will be a city-wide display of flags. Every family and business house is urged by Dr. George C. Havenner of the District Bicentennial Commission, to put out flags. both to add color to the attire of the city and so that every one may have a part in the cele- bration. 88 Units to March. Reviewing stands will be stretched along Pennsylvania avenue from the Capitol to the White House to accom- modate the thousands of spectators ex- ted to turn out to view the 88 march- fi:; units and the 15 bands and drum and fife corps in the two and one-half hour long parade. 3 Maj. Edwin S. Bettelheim, jr., adju- tant general of the Military Order of the World War, announced yesterday that the parade will consist of four di- visions. The first of these, made up of troops from the Regular Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, will form at the junction of New Jersey avenue and B streets southeast at 1:30 pm. The second division will be made up of National Guard units, Reserve Corps units, Reserve officers unattached to any specific unit and the Reserve Officers’ Association. The Nlm‘fiulrd.’unlfl will form at New Jersey of this division o e nlllew:ernyn:anuemeen Iand K streets southeast. The third division will include the R. O. T. C. units and the High School Cadets and will form on Delaware ave- nue, facing B street. ‘The {ourth division, containing the vetersn and patriotic organizations, will form . in«Garfield Park, which is at the $unction of First and F streets south- east. In order to assist the units of the fourth division in finding their places in line, a committee consisting of Maj. Bettelheim, Col. Fred B. Ryons. Maj. Charles Demonet, Col. John Thomas Taylor, Capt. Gregory Cipriani and Lieut. Col. George E. Ijams will be pres- ent in the assembly area from 1 o'clock on. All units are asked to be in forma- tion not later than 1:30 pm. Route of Parade. ‘The route of the parade will be across the Capitol Plaza, around the north drive of the Peace Monument, on Penn- sylvania avenue; west on Pennsylvania avenue to Pifteenth street; left on Fif- teenth street to Constitution avenue, and thence to Seventeenth street. President Hoover and other distin- guished guests. including the local and national Bicentennial commissione: are expected to view the parade fro a stand to be located on Constitution avenue at Sixteenth street. Members of the President's cabinet also are ex- pected to be in this group. Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, 8 perintendent of police, has_ given surance to the Bicentennial Commis- sions that complete arrangements are being made to handle anticipated crowds., First-aid stations and ambu- lances will be located at designated points along the route of march. Sta- tion WJSV will broadcast the entire event. Tickets for seats in the stands will be obtainable through Harry Turber- ville and A. Goldberg, under contract with the Bicentennial Commission to handle this phase of the event, As a concluding feature of the Army day ceremonies, the Military Order of the World War will hold a banquet and dance in the Mayflower Hotel, to which distinguished Army, Navy and diplo- matic officials have been invited Brig. Gen. John Ross Delafield, com- mander in chief of the Military Order of the World War; Secretary of War Hurley, Senators Simeon D. Fess and David ‘A. Reed are expected to speak. ‘The United States Army Band will fur- nish music, which will be broadcast on a network of the National Broadcast- ing Co. Relief Corps to Celebrate. ‘The Grand Army of the Republic and #t5 auxiliary, tHe Woman's Relief Corps, will celebrate Army day with exercises at Stevenson's Monument, Sevenih street and Pennsylvania avenue, at noon Wednesday. This organization is marking the day as the anniversary of Maj. Benjamin Franklin Stevenson's organizing of the first post of the Grand Army of the Republic on April 6, 1866. The exer- cises will be under the direction of Mrs. E. Helen Temple, patriotic in- structor of the Department of the Po- tomac. Mrs. Louise Watson, department president, will place a wreath on the monument., while other floral tributes will be placed by the Daughters of Unijon Vet 15, Sons of Union Vet- erans and other allied organizations. JUNIOR ORDEF.K “FROLIC” TO BE HELD APRIL 15 Program of Edward J. Ross Coun- cil Will Feature Number of Artists in Revue. ‘The Spring “Junior Frolic” of the Edward J. Ross Council of the Junior Order of American Mechanics will be held at the Willard Hotel the evening of Friday, April 15. The program will climax a revue featuring a number of artists, including Kathryn Black. singer; Dode and Weir, adagio dancers; Blanche Harrison, blues singer, known as “Miss Majestic” over the radio; McIntyre and Mulroe, tap dancers, and a singing and dancing chorus, The Meyer Davis Orchestra will play for dancing from 9:30 to 1:30 o'clock, while the revue will be staged nt'guht in the big ball room of the hotel. O. Montgomery is chairman of W ‘ Churchwoman Benefactor Di- rects Diet of Hunger. Striker. | {Scholar Refuses to Say Just| What He Has Been Promised. who has ac- international f hunger strikes, with| credit, has been told among gs to eat some spinach for er, whose welfare be- | oncern of a solicitous | after he was quite posi- | ) fusal to entertain a food for 33 days. said last night that among other things he was going to eat some spinach for dinner today. The other thing which Dr. Wolter has been toid to do, he said, is to let the churchwoman do all his talking to newspaper reporters. Dr. Wolter ad- mitted guardedly he is not even at liberty to divulgeeher name, although. he said, she took charge of his hunger | strike against unemployment Friday night. Takes Grapefruit Juice. At that time, Dr. Wolter went on, he was directed to take a gulp or two of | grapefruit juice, which he did. | Yesterday he was under orders to| partake of occasional swallows of orange juice, continuing through last | night. | | " said_the doctor, glancing | guiltily at a pitcher full of orange | Jjuice on the washstand of his tiny | room at 119 Pennsylvania avenus, | where, determinedly enough, Dr. Wolter began his strike February 28. | Dr. Wolter, who set an acceptable job as his condition, if he was to refrain from starving himself to death—the sort_of job which would employ his scholarly attainments—said the church- | ?‘Oman will provide for his “immediate | uture.” “Just What I Want.” “She has offered just what I want.” the doctor broke out with some enthu- siasm, and was about to enlarge upon this statement when he remembered the prohibition en interviews. The doctor, he said, was not dis- posed to talk further, referring his qQuestioners to his spokesman. He ad- mitted, however, that she was a me: ber of the Seventn Day Adventists Church. Dr. Wolter said he was not at lib-| erty to discuss plans for the future, but he brightened perceptibly at mention of the part which spinach was to play OLTER BREAKS FAST TODAY: WILL EAT SPINACH ON ORDERS DR. FREDERIC WOLTER. A. P. Photo. in his “immediate future.” His health, he admitted, has not suffered from the long fast. but rather improved because of the rest given his digestive system. Three Previous Strikes. It was not the doctor's first strike. Back in his native Germany, Dr. Wol- ter protested an order which sent him to an army guard house, by abstaining from food. Later, in New Zealand, when placed in custody as an enemy alien, during the World War, he struck again. Several months ago he announced a third strike here, in protest of his dis- charge from the Library of Congress. Dr. Wolter has been a little vague about the outcome of this strike. “I've been told,” the doctor said last night, a little uneasily, “not to talk to reporters.” “Have you talked?” “I have not,” said the doctor. adding he had nothing further to say. The visitor, departing, ventured to hope that the doctor would enjoy his spinach. ‘The doctor nodded. CHILD LABOR ACT EXEMPTS CENTERS Opinion Says Performances Charging Admission Do Not Violate Law. ‘The District Commissioners yesterday transmitted to the Board of Education an opinion by Corporation Counsel Wil- liam W. Bride holding that activities in the Community Center Department at which admission fees are charged do not { violate the “letter or the spirit” of the child labor act, forbidding the gainful occupation of minors except under cer- , | tain conditions. | As to one branch of the activities re- garding which the board raised question, those operating as a part of the course of instruction such as dra- matic, literary, musical, dancing, basket ball or competitive drills, the same answer was given. | Mr. Bride held that an amusement nr‘ entertainment may, and frequently does, become a gainful occupation within the meaning of the statute, but that when | merely occasional or casual it does not seem to fall within the inhibition of | the statute. THREE SEEKING DAMAGES | FOR KIDNAP ALLEGATION Trio Charges Accusation That They Abducted Girl Was False. Acquitted March 21. Declaring that they were falsely charged with kidnaping and that the defendant repeated the accusation in the presence of a number of persons, | Bernard Tretick, 529 Lamont street Meyer Tretick, 7309 Georgia avenue and Viola E. Dorsey, 7309 Georgia ave- nue, vesterday filed separate suits $20.000 damages each against Jose F. Robrecht, 3338 Brothers place o east, charging malicious prosecutior and slander. In the suits filed in the Distr | Supreme Court through Attorne Robert H. McNeill and H. N. Balustein | the plaintiffs say that November 28 | last Robrecht caused their arrest at St Marys, Md., on_a charge of kidnaping Lis daughter, Eugenie Robrecht, and that they were held until released on bail. They were acquitted of the charge, they state, Marcn 21 ‘The first count in eacn suit is laid in malicious prosecution and th n had been made by Robrecht presence of a number of pers injured the good name and reputation of the three plaintiffs. WOMAN BITES OFFICER Biting policemen isn't a good way to avoid being ar: Ethel Hunter, 28, learned last night when her efforts along that line failed to prevent her being taken to the fourth precinct station. . Hunter, who lives at 1016 Fourth street southeast, is said to have bitten Policeman John E. O'Neal on tie cheek when he tried to place her under arrest after being called to her home, ‘The officer had to go to Casualty Hos- pital for treatment. ‘The woman was charged with intoxi- cation, assault and disorderly conduct. FIRE LOSS IS $200,000 ROCKY MOUNT, Va.. April 2 (@, | —Officials of the Bald Knob Furnicure | Co. roughly estimated the damage done by the fire that swept through its older plant here last night at $200,000. Definite figures or the amount of in- surance coverage was not immediately e the damage % belng survey of e made, ‘ i | ONE CRASH VICTIM STILL IN DANGER Eleven Others Injured in Bus Accident Are Recovering. All but one of the twelve persons injured Friday morning in the bus accident at Seventeenth street and Rhode Island avenue, which took two lives, were recovering last night. Attaches at Emergency Hospital said thet Clyde Culp, 50, of 6407 Florida street, Chevy Chase, Md., still was in an extremely serious condition. tained frectures of the skull, jaw and | The House had recommended that this several ribs. An operztion was per- formed late Friday to remove pressure on his brain. Harry Wolfe, 35, of 4012 Leland street, Chevy Chase, Md,, whose skull, pelvis and left leg were fractured, continued to improve and it was said at the hos- pital that he probably was out of dan- ger. The others were less seriously hurt. No date had been set last night for the public hearing ordered by the Pub- lic Utilities Commission as a result | of the accident, or of the coroner’s in- quest into the responsibility for the two deaths. The inquiry of the utilities body 15 for the purpose of ascertaining what. if any, order should be issued in connection with the bus service of the two transportation companies involved in the accident, CONSTITUTION AVENUE PLANS TOLD AT HEARING Widening and Surfacing From North Capitol to Sixth Street Proposed Next Year. Constitution avenue will be widened surfaced from North Capitol to th street during the coming fiscal year under proposed appropriations, Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director of ays, informed the House Subcom- on District Appropriations dur- g recent hearings. The transcript of the hearings has just been made avail- Capt. Whitehurst explained the pro- m for widening and improving Con- itution avenue extended over a period of four years and that a portion of the expense would be borne by the Arling- c- | ton Memorial Bridge appropriation and the rest by the District. The first link in the improvement of Constitution avenue was completed last vear, when the thoroughfare was widened and resurfaced from Four- teenth street to Virginia avenue. After the section from North Capitol to Sixth street is improved, Capt. Whitehurst s2id, the stretch from Sixth to Four- teenth street will be widened and re- surfaced as the new Government build- ings are completed. WOMAN SERIOUSLY HURT WHEN RUN DOWN BY AUTO Virginia Driver Who Hit Anna Dearing Is Held at Fifth Precinct. Mrs. Anna Dearing, 65 years old, of 2019 Monroe street northeast, was se- riously injured yesterday when she was struck by an automobile at Twenty- first strcet and Rhode Island avenue northeast. Mrs. Dearing received head and in- ternal injuries, physicians at Emer- gency Hospital reported. She was taken to the hospital in an automobile driven by William T. Leonberger, 3506 Twenty- fourth street northeast. Barron Richardson, colored, 30, of Upperville, Va., is bei held at the fifth precinct pending outcome of the woman's injuries Mrs. He sus- | — SENATE HEARINGS FIXED THIS WEEK ON2 MAPES BILLS Proposed Motor Vehicle Weight Levy Will Be Stud- ied Tuesday. GASOLINE TAX INQUIRY IS SCHEDULED FRIDAY Civic and Trade Organizations Will Be Represented at Investigations. ‘The Senate District Committee, pre- sided over by Chairman Capper, will hold public hearings this week on two more of the bills in the program of the Mapes Committee, by which the House is seeking to increase the annual tax burden of the people of Washington. ‘The first hearing scheduled for this week will be devoted to the proposed motor vehicle weight tax and will start at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The second bill considered this week will be the proposed increase from 2 to 4 cents a gallon in the gasoline tax, on which the Senate committee hearing will start at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. Trade Groups on Hand. It is expected that the Commercial Motor Vehicle Owners' Association, the American Automobile Association, the American Motorists’ Association and other trade and civic organizations of the District will be represented at the hearings this week. ‘The Bureau of Efficiency, which was designated to study all the Mapes bills for the Senate Committee, submitted a combined report on the two measures affecting motor vehicles. The bureau approved the gas tax bill and recom- mended a rewriting of the weight tax plan as proposed by the House. At the weight tax hearing on Tues- day, therefore, the Senate Committee will have before it two propositions— the schedule of rates in the House bill, and the revision of it by the bureau. In preparation for this hearing the Commercial Motor Vehicle Owners' Association has had a committee at work formulating a reply to the argu- ments advanced in the Efficiency Bureau's report. Rates in Bill Vary. ‘The rates in the House weight tax bill vary according to use, weight and tire equipment, ranging from 50 cents per 100 pounds for private passenger vehicles with pneumatic tires to $5 per 100 pounds for trucks weighing over 12,000 pounds-and equipped with metal tires. The Efficiency Bureau's revision of this bill would leave passenger cars and certain light commercial vehicles to pay a $1 registration fee, but would re- tain weight taxes on trucks. The bu- Teau submitted schedules of weight taxes for pneumatic-tired vehicles with gross weight in excess of 6,000 pounds and for solid-tire vehicles with gross weight In excess of 4,000 pounds. These ; weight tax schedules were based on a different formula from the House bi]li Another New Proposal. Another new proposition advanced by the Efficiency Bureau was that the proceeds of the 4-cent gas tax, the weight tax, operator permit fees and auto title fees be set aside in a sep- arate fund from the general revenues and applied directly to financing the street work, MRlf the cost of bridges and the expenses of motor vehicle ad- ministration. At present the only tax that is separated from general revenues and applied. directly to street work is the gas tax. The bureau also recom- mended that the present personal prop- erty tax on motor vehicles be retained be abolished with the enactment of the proposed taxes Thomas F. Murphy, assistant chief of the Efficiency Bureau, is expected to represent the bureau at the hearings, and H. C. Whitehurst will be present from the District Highway Department. BRILLIANT THRONG SEES POST CIRCUS Fort Myer Society Event to Help Jobless Draws Record Crowd for Closing Thrills. Before a brilliant audience which crowded the post riding hall to capacity, the two-day Fort Myer Society Circus for unemployment relief and other charities came to a successful close last night. ‘The circus ranks as one of the most colorful and largest attended in the his- tory of the post. One of the innova- tions staged in the big tanbark-covered arena was the game of Kov Kaz, or Russian mounted basket ball, a sport which produced plenty of thrills for riders and audience alike. Among the boxholders last night were Tytus Filipowicz, Polish Ambassador Assistant Secretary of the Navy David S. Ingalls, Maj. Gen. Guy V. Hen chief of Cavalry: Col. Harry N. Cootes, commandant at Fort Myer; Lieut. Col Harold E. Stephenson, Mrs. Alfred H. Balsley, Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, 3d; Mrs. Henry K. McHarg, Mrs. Keith Merrill, Mrs. George B. Pillsbury, Mrs. Leroy S. Whitehouse and I. S. Turover. Among the afternoon boxholders were Preidrich W. von Prittwitz und Gaffron, German Ambassador; Katsuji Debuchi, the Japanese Ambassador; Assistant Secretary of War Payne, Senator Tasker L. Oddie, Maj. Gen. George Van Horn Moseley, Brig. Gen. Francis Le J, Parker, Mrs. Ernest J. Dawley, Mrs. Frank B. Noyes and Mrs. Nathaniel Horace Luttrell. DAVIS WILL SPEAK A Welsh-American celebration of the George Washington Bicentennial will be held this evening, under the auspices of the St. David’s Society of Washing- ton and the First Congregational Church, in the church auditorium at Tenth and G streets. Beginning at 7:30 o'clock, the pro- gram will include addresses by Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania, a native of Wales; Assistant Attorney General Roy St. Lewis and Charles I. Stengle and music by Dr. Mostyn Thomas of New York, Prof. L. Powell Evans of Atlantic City and Wilfred Smith, this city. The choir will be under the direction of Dr. Griffith Evans. D. C. to Buy Two Center Lots. The District Commissioners yesterday authorized the purchase of two addi- tional lots in the municipal center area, lots 56 and 66 in reservation 10, for $57,500. The lots are to be hought from Luclen D. Winston, ¥ CREATON OF ROLP FORENCINEERINE SIRVEYS PROPLSE Special Corps Would Help Prepare Bridge and Grade Crossing Program. $600,000 FUND SOUGHT FOR ANACOSTIA BRIDGE Commissioners Also Want Old P Street Structure Over Rock Creek Replaced. Creation of a special corps of engi- neers to make surveys and engineering investigations of bridges and grade crossing structures is provided for in an item recommended for inclusion in the 1933 District appropriation bill by Dis- trict highway officials. Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director of highways, told the House Subcommittee on Appropriatons during hearings on the District budget that the proposed staff of engineers would permit the Highway Department properly to plan and study bridge and grade crossing de- signs and locations and prepare neces- sary estimates as to costs in advance of inclusion of the projects in the estimates of the District Commissioners. Budget Carries $102,500 Item. ‘The plan, Capt. Whitehurst said, will allow consultation and co-operation with other Government agencies and permit the preparation of a bridge and grade crossing program that will prove “inval- uable and economical.” The budget as recommended by the Commissioners, Capt. ‘Whitehurst pointed out, carries an item of $102,500 for the construction and operation of bridges and the preparation of plans for viaducts in the line of Michigan avenue and New Hampshire avenue over the tracks and right-of-way of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. ‘The Commissioners also recom- mended an appropriation of $600,000, Capt. Whitehurst explained, for con- struction of a new bridge over the Ana- costia River at Benning road. The Washington Railway & Electric Co., whose tracks cross the bridge, would be required to pay one-third of the cost. Plans for the new bridge were authorized in the current appropriation act. Bridge Replacement Sought. Another bridge improvement sought by the Commissioners is the replace- ment of the P Street Bridge over Rock Creek. Funds for the preparation of plans for this project also were pro- vided in the current appropriation act. It is estimated the replacement cost will amount to $250,000. Capt. Whitehurst told the committee the present P Street Bridge, aside from being old and inadequate for present traffic needs, constitutes an obstruction to completion of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway. The Commissioners also recom- mended an appropriation for working drawings and foundation investigations for the replacement of the Calvert Street Bridge. Capt it is the intention of the Commissioners to start construction of this new bridge in the 1934 fiscal year. TREE IN ARLINGTON T0 HONOR MOTHERS Each State and Territory to Be Represented in Ceremony on May 8. Through the efforts of Mrs. Eva C. E. Chase, chairman of the Bicentennial Committee of the Henry C. Spengler unit of the American Legion, a white birch “mother’s tree” will be planted in Arlington National Cemetery “to honor the mother of the Unknown Soldier” at 10:30 am., May 8. Each State and territory will be rep- resented at the ceremony by a boy and girl—the girl dressed to represent the flower symbolizing her State or terri- tory, the boy carrying a pennant bear- ing the name of his State or territory. Each State and territory also will be represented by a bit of earth to be mailed here by officials of the organi- zation elsewhere. “We want every Gold Star Mother who does not know where her son sleeps, to feel that this tree is planted for her,” said Mrs. Chase. Mrs. Chase has beeh instrumental in having similar trees planted on the White House grounds in honor of the mothers of the Presidents; on the Capitol grounds, in honor of the mothers of America, and at the grave :,! Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, a. A white birch also is scheduled to be planted at Hains Point at 2 p.m., May 7, in honor of the mother of George ‘Washington. 120-WORD STATEMENT MAY WIN “DRY” AUTO Prohibition Fair Offers Prize in Contest on Best Method of Liquor Control. The best statement, in 20 words or less, on the subject, “Why I Prefer Prohibition to any Other Form of Liquor Control,” is going to win an automobile for some visitor to the pro- hibition fair in the Washington Audi- torium the week of April 18-23. Every person attending the fair, it was announced by Willlam Rufus Scott. director, will be given a card upon which to write his statement. In addition to the automobile a home motion pic- ture projection outfit and other prizes also are to be given. The prizes will be awarded at the clse of the fair, Daily selection of the 10 best state- ments will be made and the names of the authors announced. Any one may m:ge as many as six attempts, Scott said, . BANDIT ROBS MERCHANT Takes $27.50 From Shoe Store Owner and His Wife. An armed bandit held up Dominic Delvecchio, proprietor of a shoe store at 500 Thirteenth street southeast, and ;\:‘hged him and his wife of $27.50 last t After forcing the storekeeper to hand over the contents of his cash drawer, the robber went to an apartment above the store and Necchio to give him #10 Whitehurst said | v, EAN HARLOW, the original “platin posed yesterday with the season’s gardens. were forced from budding twigs taken from the First of Cherry Blossoms BLOOMS BREAK FORTH AT PROPAGATING GARDENS. um blonde,” appearing at a local theater, first Japanese blossoms. These blooms trees to the propagating 2 —Star Staff Photo. ROOSEVELT LEAGUE MEETS WEDNESDAY Pre-Convention Campaign of District Democrats to Be Launched. The pre-convention campaign of the Democrats in the District of Columbia will get under way Wednesday night, when the local branch of the Roosevelt League of Clubs, which is headed by leaders of organized Democracy here, | will hold a meeting in the Willard Ho- tel in the interest of the presidential candidacy of Gov. Roosevelt of New ork. Senator Dill of Washington will give the principal address and Senator Hull of Tennessee also will speak in the in- terest of the candidacy of the New York Governor, it was announced last night by John F. Costello, Democratic national committeeman for the District, who is president of the Roosevelt League here. John B. Colpoys, second vice presi- dent of the league, and chairman of the Democratic Central Committee, will discuss the history of organized Democ- racy in the District, and will also an- nounce the date for the primary at which the Democrats will elect a na- tional committceman, national com- mitteswoman, six delegates and aix al- ternates to the national convention and the 22 members who will make up the Central Committee for the next four years. ‘The Central Committee, which makes arrangements for the primary, and car- ries on other party activities, now has about half a dozen vacancies due to deaths and resignations, and these are expected to be filled at a meeting of the committee tomorrow night, when tt:em primary date also is expected to set. While Costello and Colpoys are pro- posing to work for a convention dele- gation pledged to the New Yorker, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Democratic na- tional committeewoman for the Dis- trict, has declined to express her pref- erence for a nominee prior to the se- lection. She is friendly towRoosevelt, however, and has said if he is nomi- nated she will be for him “100 per cent.” 1,200 SCHOOL CHILDREN TO APPEAR IN CANTATA “Washington,” in Honor of Bicen- tennial, Will Be Given April 28 and 30 at Central High. More than 1,200 public school chil- dren will participate in the presenta- tion of the cantata, “Washington,” to be given at Central High School April 28 and 30. The cantata marks the triennial music festival of the grade school pupils. and is offered in honor of Bicentennial observance of the birth of George Washington. ‘The cast, under the direction of Dr. Edwin N. Barnes, director of music in the public schools, includes 1,000 chil- dren from the sixth grade, 125 from the first, second and third grades, with an orchestra of 60 pieces from the fourth, fifth and sixth grades. The cantata is the work of Irs wilson, composer, and Edith Sanford Tillotson, librettist, both well known for their choral compositions. The local presentation is the first public staging of the cantata. | Dr. Barnes is being assisted in| preparation for the presentation by | Mrs. Lillian Brousseau and Mrs. Mary Garrett Lewis, both of the public school music department. HEADS D. C..PEN WOMEN Jean Stephenson Is Elected by League—Other Officers Chosen. As president of the organization, Jean Btephenson will head the activities of the District of Columbia League of American Pen Women during the com- ing year, according to results of the league’s annual election. Other officers selected are: Azalia Badgley, first vice president; Helen Orr | Watson, second vice president; Anne C. Manchester, treasurer; Dr. Frances Moon Butts, recording secretary; Nellie | R. Thomas, n secretary; historian; Marguerit Louis Ludlow, | pines, explained by Don STREET DEFENDS - CHEST “OVERHEAD Expenses Pay for Them- selves Through Increased Service, He Says. Overhead expenses of organisations affillated with the Community Chest more than pay for themselves through increased and more effective service, Elwood Street, Chest director, declared | yesterday. “There is a tendency among many people, unfamiliar with social work and | its practices and responsibilities,” Street said, “to regard every dollar spent for anything except food, fuel or clothing as ‘overhead’ They fail to take into consideration, for instance, an - zation like the Instructive Visiting Nurse Soclety, which grants practically no relief in the way of food, clothing, shelter or fuel and yet does one of the most worthwhile tasks known to social work, caring for the sick and disabled, who otherwise would not receive care. Costs of Salaries. “All of the budget of this organiza- tion, with the excsption of rent for light, etc., goes to be classed under the 1 ruling in the mind of the pub- lic as overhead. So-called overhead | costs are primarily the costs of execu- tive salaries, office rent and telephone | service. “In the Instructive Visiting Nurse Society there are 66 nurses serving the sick in their own homes throughout the city. A central office where calls for service can be cleared is an absolute necessity if this work is to be com- petently handled. There must be a clearing house to which calls for serv- ice can be sent.” Street sald competent leadership in other Chest organizations also pays its Way many times over in providing eco- nomical service. He said the cost of overhead or administration averages about 7 per cent. “Overhead Pays Its Way.” “The fundamental task, of course, of all Community Chest organizations is to render service to people in all kinds of need of all races and creeds. That service should not be confused With overhead. Uninformed people are sometimes heard to say they want their money given to the Community Chest to go into feeding people in need. In orphan asylums, for example, only a small part of the money spent goes for food or clothing. The job of the or- phan asylum is not only to feed and clothe its little charges, but to give them the best kind of care through matrons, | house mothers, nurses and other neces- sary attendants. Obviously, service which the child receives is necessary | to make the food of any value. | ., “Overhead pays its way. Service pays |its way in a plan of supervised and ef- | fective service Community Chest organi- zations have worked out so that each contributor has the assurance that every dollar contributed is spent in the places of greatest need with the highest pos- gllble ef:e‘cu and with the Jowest possi- e cost.” CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR UNION PLANS SESSION Camilo Osias, Philippine Commis- sioner, to Give Principal Address at Meeting Tomorrow. A mass meting of the District of Columbia Christian Endeavor Union will be held tomorrow evening at 7:45 o'clock, at the First Congregational Church, Fall, president of the Young People’s Soclety of the church, will ex- tend greetings as also will Willlam Bond, jr., president of the union. The principal address will be given by Camilo Osias, resident commissioner from the Philippines, who will speak on “The Missionary Movement in the Philippines.” He will be introduced by Mauro Baradi, superintendent of the Missionary Department of the union. An additional feature of the meeting will be the distribution of Christian PAGE B—1 DR. KLEIN PROTESTS COMMERCE BUREAL EXPENDITURES CUT Declares Appropriations Could Have Saved Firms From Bankruptcy. SPECIAL HOUSE ECONOMY COMMITTEE SIFTS FACTS Assistant Secretary Says Depart- ment Is U. §. Sales Agency for Industry, The special Economy Committee of the House, seeking to find whether any curtailment of expenditures can be made in the United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, listened for four hours yesterday to Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce and former director of the bureau, and heard him testify that ad- ditlonal appropriations for domestic commerce work would have helped to save many small business houses from bankruptcy. Dr. Klein emphasized that any cut of 25 per cent or thereabouts would be perilous and foolhardy, that what is especially needed is to find a way to sell more goods and that this bureau is the Government's sales agency for in- dustry and commerce. Closely Questioned. He was closely questioned, especiall by Chairman McDuffie and Reprmnu}: tive Douglas of Arizona, who showed that they had been giving careful study to the work of the Bureau. Dr. Klein, Wwho has just returned from California and who has made a cross-continent survey of American business and the re- lated employment problems, warned the members of the Economy Commit- tee that any impairment of the work of that particular portion of the Govern- ment service at this time would be especially precarious and costly. He pointed out in detail its value to exist- ing business and its promotion Now of all times, he told the com- mittee. the bureau is needed to promota the sale of goods. The records show, he said. that it has done an important service in selling goods and in aiding the Treasury to meet the deficit and to help balance the budget through busi- ness income tax returns. Cuis Average 25 Per Cent. ‘The committee went all down the line in the items of expenditure for the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com- merce, asking what the result would be 1f specific cuts were made. The amount of the proposed cuts varied but struck an average of about 25 per cent. Dr. Klein expressed the opinion that the appropriations for this sales agency of the Government have been cut to the limit. He said that the service might be able to survive on the appropriations recommended by the House and Senate Appropriations Committee, but to cut them any more would be costly and would impair the work. Whatever cuts must be made in the Government service, he advised, in order to reduce the costs of Government within the revenues, must be done with discretion and foresight. The cuts that may safely be made must be carefully singled out—and there should be no such thing as a flat per centage cut. Declares Bankrupicies Curiailed. In reply to a question whether more money could be advantageously used, Dr. Klein reviewed the analyses made of retail grocery independent stores, in Florida and Kentucky, showing that as a result of this work by the Federal Bureau bankruntcies in both States have been curtailed 70 to 75 per cent. | If the bureau had bcen in a position to apply the same system all over the country, he told the committee, they would have been able to save very many small retail stores from bankruptey. ‘The money spent in that way, he in- sisted, is not an expenditure, but an investment to prevent insolvency. Chairman McDuffle of the Economy Committee repeated last night that he to be able to report several of the co-ordination measures following the meeting of the committee tomorrow afternoon. With more than 50 pro- posals for conslidations under consider- ation, many of which have been drafted into bill form by the legislative coun- cil, not a single one has yet been defi- nitely decided upon, Mr. McDuffie stated last night. VETERANS' OFFICES WILL BE SHIFTED Two Sections, Involving More Thas 100 People, Get New Quarters in Wilkins Building. Two parts of the veterans' administra- tion, involving more than 100 people will be moved into the Wilkins Building, 1512 H street tomorrow or Tuesday, it was announced by Gen. Frank T. Hines, administrator of veterans’ af- fairs. ‘The office of special counsel on in- surance claims, William Wolff Smith, including 62 people will be transeferrd from the Arlington Building, known as the Veterans' Bureau Building and the Civil Service retirement division, in- cluding 45 people, headed by John Beach, will be moved from the In- terior Department. Into their present places will be transferred other branches of the veterans administation which have been cramped for space. The nsion service recently was moved from the Interior Department to the Veterans’ Bureau Building. The Wilkins Bullding, was recently acquired by the Government for a half million dollars. Eventually it is to be torn down to make way for a structure along the East side of Lafa- yette Park, adjacent to the Treasury annex. The office of the special counsel will occupy parts of the seventh, eighth and ninth floors. The remaining portions of these floors are occupied by tenants whose leases were not disturbed when the Government acquired the proprty. COL. ANDREWS IN PANAMA ‘Washingtonian One of Pilots to Fly From Texas. An amphibian plane, piloted by Lieut. Col. F. M. Andrews of Washington, Endeavor expert certificates and the awarding of the union shield to the soclety having the highest percentage ¥ attendance. ‘The meeting will close with moving pictures showing scenes of the Philip- secre- ‘B igory, gl o B de et oer] | tary to & Harry B. Hawes Missours. ol 2nator with Lieut. D. B. Schannep as co-pilot, was one of five new planes to arrive in flight at the France Pield, Panama Canal Zone, from San Antonio, Tex. ‘The planes, which will augment the Canal Zone air force, last, iwo B eI st 539