Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1932, Page 13

The Sunday Star PRESIDENT 0 TALK T0 TWO CROWDS AT STONE-LAYING RITES Ceremony at Labor Building to Be Duplicated at Struc- ture for I. C. C. LOUD SPEAKER TO CARRY WORDS TO LATTER PLACE Masonic Grand Lodge to Officiate Thursday at Constitution Avenue Structures. President Hoover will speak simul- taneously at two corner stone laying ceremonies next Thursday, due to a;] novel synchronized arrangement where- § by the President will deliver a dedica- tory address in person at one place and by remote control apparatus in another. Guests at the laying of the corner stone of the new Department of Labor Building, at Fourteenth street and Con- stitution’ avenue, will see as well as hear the President deliver his message. At the new Interstate Commerce Com- mission building, Twelfth street and Constitution avenue, guests at a simi- lar ceremony, which is timed to coin- cide exactly with the Labor rites, will hear him through loudspeakers. Other speakers also will be heard. ‘The formal corner stone ceremonies WASHINGTON, 'RIGGS AND CUMMING HIT PLAN Oppose Moving Naval Hos- pital and Health Serv- ice Units. Admiral Holds Present Site Has Enormous Value to Nation. The Navy and the Public Health Service are immovably firm in the con- viction that their properties near the banks of the Potomac River, along Twenty-third street, at Constitution tional Capital Park and Planning Com- mission, as revealed in its recently pub- lished annual report, that both the Naval Hospital and the Public Health Service group adjacent to it to the northward be moved south of Walter Reed Hospital to create a great medical center there. To the commission’s suggestion the Navy and the Public Health Service vigorously shake their heads in dissent. Rear Admiral Charles E. Riggs, U. S. N, chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, and surgeon general of the Navy, is ada- mant in the belief that the Naval Hos- pital should stay just where it is. Equally as firm is Surg. Gen. Hugh S. Cumming of the Public Health Service, who sees no point to moving his labora- tory, particularly when Congress has recently given funds to add to his estab- lishment. Site Valuable to Patients. will be conducted by the Masonic Grand Lodge, with Reuben A. Bogley, grand master, and his officers presiding &t the Department of Labor, and other Masons deputized by him presiding at the Interstate Commerce Commission. Ceremony Duplicated. There will be decorations at both corners, and chairs arranged for of- ficlals and the public at both places. Arrangements will be made to have a staff of Masonic deputies at the I.C.C. Building go through in silence every of the Masonic ceremony which is g enacted at the Department of Labor. A system of electric buttons and green lights will be used to indi- cate that the ce;(rinmles are being pr%lerly synchronized. e entire program is to be broad- cast over coast-to-coast networks of both the Columbia Broadcasting Sys- tem and the National Broadcasting Co. The two buildings where the stones will be laid are part of one great struc- ture running from Twelfth to Four- teenth street, and are connected by & Government auditorium in the middle. ‘Besides President Hoover those par- tieipating in the double ceremony will bo Secretary of Labor Doak, William Green, president of the American Fed- eraticn of Labor; James C. Stewart, president of the James Stewart ., Inc., contractors erecting the three buildings, who is also a member of President Hcover's Employment Com- mittee; Dr. J C. Palmer, grand chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Ma- sons; Rev. Dr. John J. Burke, C. 8. J, general secretary of the National Cath- olic Welfare Conference, and Dr. Abram Stmon of the Washington Hebrew Con- gregation. YOUTH IS SENTENCED FOR ROBBERY SERIES Edward Jarvin, Arrested in Flor- ida, Given From Three to Five Years. Edward Jarvin, 19, arrested at Jack- sonville, Fla, last October in connec- tion with a series of robberies here, was sentenced to serve from three tq five years in the penitentiary by Jus- tice Daniel W. O'Donoghue in District Supreme Court today. The sentence was based upon conviction on one rob- bery charge. After he had been brought back here, Jarvin “kidded” several of his victims by saying he recognized them ‘when they failed to recognize him in the police line-up. On another case, committed before the passage of the “indeterminate sen- tence” law, & term of three years was imposed and allowed to run concur- rently. ‘The youth admitted complicity in seven or eight robberies. Among the places he said he robbed were a drug store at 1742 Pennsylvania avenue and a filling station at 1410 H street. Sentences of from three to four years in the penitentiary have been imposed by Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat where | guns were used in robberies. He sent King McKinney and James C. Shep- herd, both colored, to the penitentiary for the indeterminate sentence of three to four years on each of two indict- ments, but allowed the sentences to run concurrently. Shepherd is 21 years old and McKinney 24. They admitted they held up Calvin Scott in a parked car on New Jersey avenue in the early hours of October 4 and took his watch valued at $30 and $55 in money. FORMER WIFE HELD ON SLASHING CHARGE Woman Alleged to have Cut Ex- Mate's Face With Razor Blade. Mrs. Ruth Hendricks Leland, 30, who olice charge, slashed her former hus- nd’s face with a razor blade in a corridor of the District Building De- cember 8, was held for action of the grand jury under $1,000 bond by Police Court Judge Ralph Given yesterday. She was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. It was testified that Fred Hendricks, 385, 3600 block of Thirteenth street, the divorced husband, employed as superin- tendent of the Municipal Woodyard, is confined to Emergency Hospital, ‘where he was taken after the alleged attack. It required 42 stitches to close the wounds in his face. Mrs. Leland, asked if she desired counsel, said that it was immaterial to her and entered a plea of guilty. Judge QGiven, however, refused to allow the and ordered onz of not guilty en- She was divorced, police say, from Headricks about five years ago and went %o California, where she was subse- “It would be a shame to turn over such an important site on the banks of the Potomac River, where the Naval Hospital now stands, for office building purposes,” said Admiral Riggs. “Such & building would be occupied but eight hours a day--now but five-and-a-half days & week. With economic stress de- manding that there be a shorter work week, such a building would likely be occupied but four or five days, at most, in the near future. “The Naval Hospital occuples the site, housing the sick of the service and patients of the Veterans’ Administra- | tion, for 24 hours a day and seven days a week—and will continue to do so as long as the President of the United States and Congress permit us to stay.” Admiral Riggs called attention to the fact that plans for the new Naval Hos- pital, which Congress has authorized to be constructed on the Potomac River bank site, are completion. ‘These have been produced by the Allied Architects, Inc., undér an allowance of $100,000 for plans. These plans could not be made to fit any other site, for they have been evolved, because of the peculiar terrain, the landscaping and other planning features, to meet this specific problem, he explained. $100,000 Waste Seen. “To move the Naval Hospital else- where would, in effect, be wasting $100,- 000 of the pecple’s hard-earned money in these times of depression, when every dollar is needed,” Admiral Riggs assert- ed. “The plans are now about com- pleted and require only appropriation of funds for the building to proceed.” The chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery sald that any proposal to move the Naval Hospital to a site south of Walter Reed Hospital—or elsewhere from the present site—would mean that additional funds must be expended, from an already depleted Treasury, to say nothing of the cost of producing entirely new plans. “Why should a sorely-pressed Federal Government spend funds for an entirely we already have the land, owned by the Navy, on the shore of the Potomac River, and practically completed plans in our pocket?” Admiral Riggs asked. Men Paid Part of Cost. But, he emphasized, there is a more cogent reason why the Naval Hospital should not be moved elsewhere. A large share of the money that went to build the Naval Hospital here has come out of the Naval Hospital fund, to which each officer and enlisted man of the Navy and Marine Corps contributes 20 cents a month. This fund is built up by this 20-cent contribution from each man in the service; from fines and forfeitures realized from courts martial; from the sale of hospital property, when men while they are hospitalized. Funds for the maintenance and upkeep of the hospitals and for purchase of scientific equipment come largely from this Naval Hospital fund, he said. Admiral Riggs stressed the point, with vigor, that this money is not from the public Treasury, but is deducted from each month's pay envelopes of the personnel of the Navy {and Marine Corps. The Public Buildings Commission, which rules where public bulldings should go, has already overruled the proposal to place the Naval Hospital elsewhere, Admiral Riggs said. He re- called that both Senator Smoot, Re- { publican, of Utah, chairman of that commission, and his colleague, Senator Swanson, Democrat, of Virginia, have joined with the other members in ban- ning any moving of the Naval Hospital. | The Navy is entitled to the site oc- ! cupied by the Naval Hcspital by tra- | dition and on historical grounds, in the avenue, should remain there. This is | counter to the suggestion of the Na- | new site for the Naval Hospital when | authorized by Congress, and from pen- | sion allowances and other funds paid | FOR OUTLYING MEDICAL CENTER © REAR ADMIRAL RIGGS. HUGH S. CUMMING. topic and studied improved laboratory | methods, Admiral Riggs recalled. Admiral Firm in Stand. By tradition, by legal title and upon | beauty, the Naval Hospital must stay right where it is, in the firm opinion of the chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Not less insistent is Surg. Gen. Cum- ming that his establishment shall retain its present site, grow and prosper. Con- gress itself—and not the Public Build- ings Commission or any other body— definitely placed the new structures of the Public Health Service adjacent to the Naval Hospital, he said, in point- ing to practical difficulties in the way of any change from the present loca- tion. He was firm in saying that change is out of the question. ‘The National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission, as well as the Fine Arts Commission, approved the new buildings that are now being erected in that area—an administration and library building of the National In- stitute of Health of the Public Health Service and the addition to the labora- tory, Surg. Gen. Cummings asserted. He made it clear that plans for these two new structures were harmonized with those of the new Naval Hospital— architects for both governmental groups agreeing on the levels to be struck, so | that the whole development on the heights, up from the Lincoln Memorial, might be harmonious. Both new build- ings under construction were designed by Treasury Department architects. Central Site Needed. Two laboratories, long built, have kept the Public Health Service flag fiying now, for some 30 years on that location, the surgeon general asserted. In opposing any move that would place the Public Health Service ac- tivities adjacent to Walter Reed Hos- pital, to the south, Surg. Gen. Cum- ming said that “it is a total miscon- ception of our laboratory and its duties to try to place it off in the country.” The whole matter of the present loca- tion, he said, was gone over with former Secretary Mellon, who approved the new construction; by specialists from the Public Health Service itself, by | Treasury Department architects and | finally by Congress—to say nothing of | the Fine Arts Commission #nd the Planning Commission. Surg. Gen. Cumming said that tliere is a two-fold aspect to the Public | Health Service establishment adjacent tto the Naval Hospital. It is both a business center and & scientific mecca. To its doors come business men who deal in vaccines, medicines and other curative products to secure the stand- ards set up by the Public Health Serv- ice. To its doors come also physicians, scientists, biologists and others inter- | ested in the latest in research. There are dozens of problems crop- |ping up, demanding solution, and any interruption in this fight against dis- ease would be perilous, Surg. Gen. Cum- ming said. Built for Research. Hundreds of thousands of dollars opinion of Admiarl Riggs. Referring to| worth of scientific and research equip- the site as “Humanity Hill” the ad-| ment is stored in a small room in the miral explained that it contains not| only the Naval Hospital, but the United States Naval Medical School, the United States Naval Dental School, as well as the United States Hygienic Laboratory of the Public Health Service. The naval institutions coach nurses and Hospital Corps men, in their duties, as well as officer personnel. Cites L’Enfant Plan. “The present site of the Naval Hos- pital best fulfills L'Enfant’s plan, which contemplated the eminence as crowned with_scientific and educational build- | ings,” Admiral Riggs s3id | For nearly a century, the admiral as- | certed, the Navy has occupied the site | on which the Naval Hospital stands. It is rich in tradition, for to this day Braddock’s Rock, on which the famous British general stood, after sending his troops across the Potomac River en route to Fort Duquesne, is pointed out. In 1842 Congress authorized the erec- tion of a naval observatory on the site, There it stood, until in 1893, it was moved to the present location on Georgetown Heights. The old observa- tory structure was transferred to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in 1894 and served as a Museum of Hygiene until 1902. From that time it has been used by the United States Naval Medi- cal School. In 1901 the Navy trans- ferred five acres of the hill to the Treasury Department as a site for the Hygienic Laboratory of the United States Public Health Service. The ad- miral said that new structures are now being erected there for research by the Fublic Health Service, and these, under any reshuffling, would have to be rede- signed for other occunancy. quently married to a man by the name of Leland. Later she was divorced from him, they said. Leland arrived in Washington peveral days ago, an officer said, and went immediately to the District Build- called Hendricks into a hall- On that site, Matoew Maury, great oceanographer, did his famous work; there Asaph Hall saw first the satellites of the outer planet of Mars and pushed his scientific discoveries; there wood completed his naval iene; and there into of tropical wrote his monumental womss on this laboratories, so that it does not take a |large building to represent a great in- | vestment when one is considering sci- | ence, he asserted. I It is eminently fitting, Surg. Gen. Cumming contended, that persons ap- proaching the National Capital from the South, over the Arlington Memorial | Bridge or the Lee Highway, should see | first buildings emblematic of the wel- fare functions of the Government—the Naval Hospital, the Public Health Serv- ice, the American Pharmaceutical As- sociation, the National Academy of Sci- ences, the Pan-American Union. The Public Health Service buildings were built for research. To attempt to turn them into use for any other char- acter of work would be costly indeed, the Surgeon General maintained. | A Fitting Environment. About one-third of the space occupied |by the Public Health Service, near the | Naval Hospital, is provided for animals Rei.rring to the proposed ng | patients are not as well entitled to a | known.” | Lincolh Memorial in the Ioregmundl used in research womk, the Surgeon Naval Hospital, Surg. Gen. |mal health. The curative assistance | The beauty of the site is conceded | and keycnd the winding Potomac. General said. shift of the Cummi said: “I don’t see why Naval Hospital | beautiful setting as would clerks in nor- | given?by delightful surroundings is well |by all, the officials believe, with the | i - | Lions to Be Christmas Gift. ABERDEEN, Wash., December 10 (#). —What to do with two lions for Christ- E"l Reg:unuuve-elect_l{mk;‘ sl;n‘sm doing ‘wondering. cul ve arrived from Africa and will be pre- sented Christmas eve by Julius Gold- berg of Kelso, who vowed he'd’ make the offering in the event of Smith's election. D: LG 6000 “UNIVERSES™ DISGOVERED IN YEAR BY ASTRONOMERS Disclosure Made in Annual Report of Mt. Wilson Observatory. SURVEY AREAS OF SPACE HITHERTO UNEXPLORED Important Solar Studies Described. Exhibit Open at Carnegie In- stitution Building. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Dlsmverly of approximately 6,000 new “universes” during the year is announc- ed by the Carnegie Institution of Wash- ington in the annual report of the Mount Wilson Observatory made public today. Each of these is a compact mass of stars, comparable in size and numbers to the Milky Way galaxy, which in- cludes all visible objects in the heavens and of which the sun with its planets is an atom-like part. The newly discover- ed aggregations lie countless billions of miles distant in space, so that they appear on telescopic photographs as nebulae. Many are in the form of spirals, as the Milky Way galaxy itself would appear if viewed from far outside its own limits. They were found in a survey of faint nebulae in hitherto unexplored areas of space by Dr. Edwin P. Hubble, whose work first demonstrated conclusively that the obscure spiral nebulae actually were aggregations of stars comparable in size to the visible heavens, but whose sizes and distances staggered the im- agination. Dr. Hubble now is conducting a systematic photographic survey of the heavens. Several Clusters Found. Several clusters of universes have been found, according to the Mount ‘Wilson report. They are identified by the constellations of the Milky Way galaxy in whose general direction they are located. They are described as follows: A cluster in the direction of the con- stellation of the Gemini consisting of about 150 nebulae, distant about 800 billion billions of miles. A cluster of 70 found in the direction of the constellation Andromeda, all grouped in the form of a giant circle. A cluster of 300, some of them quite bright, located in the direction of the constellation Leo. The faintest cluster of nebulae yet found, located in a small circle, in the general direction of the constellation Coma. Meanwhile intensive work is being carried on to solve the strange paradox of these nebulae—that the more distant of them are moving ougward in space at enormous speeds which increase in proportion to their distance from the observer. This may lend substance to the weird mathematical concept of an; exploding creation, and largely responsible for bringing to Mount Wil- son Profs. Albert Einstein and Wilhelm De Sitter to ald in an explanestion, Studies of Sun Described. ‘The speed and direction of an object can be measured by the so-called “red shift” in its spectrum, the position of the red lines being altered slightly. This is an important factor in theories of an hyperdimensional creation with space and time possessing qualit.es be- yond human sensory perception and hence probably beyond the reach of hu- man imagination, except as expressed in mathematical formulae. Important studies of the sun also are described in the Mount Wilson report and are illustrated by exhibits now on view at the public exhibition open today and tomorrow at the Carnegie Institu- tion building here. Observations ex- tended over a period of years indicate that the sun’s speed of rotation now is increasing slightly. Observations for the last 80 years, both with the spectroscope and in re- spect to the movements of sunspots, have resulted in the speed of the sun’s rotation being fixed at approximately 2.02 kilometers a second, which would result in a complete rotation in 25.2 days. But as far back as 1914 Dr. Charles E. St. John found that the rotational speed at the equator—the speed varies at different latitudes on the sun’s surface—was slowing up. This continued, the measurements showed, until 1923 when a minimum was reached of 1.90 kilometers a second. Cyclic Speedings-up Indicated. ‘The measurements were continued, without any effort to interpret the re- results, until 1928, when they indicated that the sun’s speed was increasing again. This has continued since so steadily that the Carnegie astronomers believe there is no longer any doubt but that they have found a real phe- nomenon of solar activity. The speed now is nearing 2 kilometers a second. Records in the Mount Wilson files show that measurements in the period 1906- 1908 showed a velocity as high as 2.06 kilometers a second. Thus the indications are that there may be cyclic speedings-up and slow- ings-down of the sun. If so, there ap- pears to be no relationship to well known solar cycles, such as the 11-year cycle of sunspot activity, which is be- lieved to have an important bearing on the earth’s weather, or the 22-year cy- cle when the magnetic polarities of the sunspots reverse their signs in the two hemispheres. Among the important sun studies re- ported is that of the so-called “solar prominences,” visible to the eye during a total eclipse and which can be studied with the spectroheliograph used at Mount Wilson. These are enormous | eruptions of flaming gas from the sun’s | atmosphere, They were studied by Dr. Edison Pettit of the Mount Wilson staff. Dr. Pettit found that the average solar prominence can be described as & sheet of incandescent gas about 50,000 kilo- meters high, 200,000 kilometers long and 10,000 kilometers thick. The total volume is about 95 times that of the earth. The prominence consists prin- cipally of atoms of hydrogen. Atoms in Gas Counted. ‘The sun is 90,000,000 miles away. Yet, as an instance of the marvels of as- tronomy, Dr. Pettit has been able ap- proximately to count the atoms in such a sheet of white-hot gas. He finds about 20,000,000,000,000 atoms of hydrogen per cubic centimeter and a negligible num- ber of atoms of calcium. ‘The sun is approaching another sun- spot minimum in the 11-year cycle, the Mount Wilson observations show. It will come next year or the year after. The last maximum was in 1928. Since then there has been a progressive decline. While the relationship is obscure, this 11-year cycle seems to be bound up in- timately with many terrestrial phenom- ena, especially the weather. Giant Cabbages Grown. mwmumufi munnrhnmmm SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 11, 1932 * Snow Lends New Beauty to Capital Scenes PIERCE MILL DAM AND CAPITOL EMERGE IN WINTRY SETTINGS FROM SEASON'S FIRST SNOW. The camera man found plenty of atmosphere yesterday when he set out to “cover” the first snowfall of the season. Pierce Mill Dam, in Rock Creek Park (above), was framed in white. Plenty of snow also fell in the vicinity of the Cap- ital, as shown below. —Star Staff Photos. CIVIL SERVICE LT | T0 SERVE DISTRICT Wage Scale Employes Ex- cept Laborers to Be Picked From Those Eligible. The District Commissioners and the Civil Service Commission yesterday agreed t®include all Engineer Depart- ment wage scale employes, except day laborers, within the terms of the Com- missioners’ order limiting employment in the District government to those on civil service lists. The wage scale em- ployes are those up to the grade of foreman in the various mechanical branches. - Since November 18, 1930, under an executive order issued by President Hoover, the District has chosen most of its employes from civil service lists. The only District departments that come directly under civil service rules are the Police and Fire Departments. The agreement also clarified the po- sitions under the Board of Public Welfare for which employes may be drawn from elsewhere than civil serv- ice lists. These positions, as defined in the agreement, are: “The following positions not to exceed $1,320 per an- num under the Board of Public Wel- fare, orderly, attendant, matron, care- taker, janitor, servant, maid, wardmaid, laundress, cook, laborer, waiter, cham- bermaid.” JOHN W. REESE DIES AFTER OPERATION Vice President and Treasurer of Doubleday-Hill Electric Com- pany Expires. John W. Reese, 39 years old, vice pres- ident and treasurer of the Doubleday- Hill Electric Co., died yesterday after- noon at Garfield Hospital following an appendicitis operation. Mr. Reese, a native of Staunton, Va., had been associated with the electrical firm here for the past 18 years. He lived at No. 17 W street. | A member of the Electric League of ||, % \sont o Congress the next dav the District, Mr. Reese also was active | ¥ Dresent 1o Ooagiess VO SRS SO0 in the affairs of the International As- sociation of Electrical Inspectors. He belonged to the Holy Name Society and to the Knights of Columbus. Mr. Reese is survived by his widow, Mrs. Anne Reese; two sons, Tom and John Reese, and a daughter, Miss Mar- garet Reese, all of Washington; his mother, Mrs. Margaret Ellen Reese, and Miss Nellle Reese, both of Staunton. Funeral services will be held at 9 o'lock_Tuesday morning at St. Mar- tin's Church and interment will-be in Mount Olivet Cemetery.. Towa Society to Dance. The :g:l Society will hold a “:‘i Eni be furnished by Janet Coon and Ger- radio artists, and Ethel Lecture on Soviet Plan. Prof. Scott Ne , author and lec- Second Five- Hall, Photo of Stop Sign Acquits Motorist Of Traffic Charge Nathan Louft, merchant of Northeast ~ Washington, em- ployed & photograph to “beat” & charge of passing a stop sign which was placed against him in Traffic Court yesterday. Policeman H. B. Mohler ar- rested Louft, charging that the merchant failed to halt at a boulevard sign on Eleventh street at Rhode Island avenue north- east yesterday. Louft admitted he did not heed the sign, but produced a picture for the benefit of Judge John P. McMahon which showed the wording on the board to be rtly obliterated. The post was eaning and the sign could scarcely be seen from the street. Judge McMahon dismissed the case. NEW BONUS MARCH PLANS ARE PUSHED Police Are Marking Time as Group Arrive to Attend Meeting Tuesday. The Police Department was mark- ing time last night as the Veterans' Central Rgnk and File Committee pushed its plans for the new bonus ington some time Tuesday. Meanwhile, bonus marchers continued to trickle into the District individually and in small groups, reporting to the various billets established by the Rank and File Committee. Have 400 Men Here. “Altogether,” said Harold Hickerson, spokesman for the committee, an off- shoot of the Workers’ Ex-Service Men’s League, a Communist organization, “we have about 400 men here, and more are coming in every day. We'll have be- tween 1,500 and 3,000 on hand by the time our mass meeting is called to order | Tuesday night.” At the meeting plans will be made payment of the bonus and other relief measures. A vote will be taken tc decide whether to attempt to hold a demonstration at the Capitol or merely to appoint a small committee to carry the petition to the House and Senate. Depend on Police Attitude. “What we do,” Hickerson said, “will depend largely on the attitude of the police. Our aim, however, hmm; sent our petition peacefully and °.We're not promising to stay here “We' like that. But we get WOMAN BURNED BY GAS Injured in Attempt to Light Heater in Apartment. CHRISTMAS TREE PLANS ANNOUNCED President Hoover Will Lead Celebration South of Treasury Building. Plans have been submitted to Presi- | dent Hoover for his participation in exercises incident to lighting the na- tional community Christmas tree in Sherman Square as a signal for Nation- wide observance of the holiday. As tentatively planned, the President will arrive at the huge living tree just south of the Treasury Building at 5 o'clock on Christmas eve. After intro- ductory remarks by Senator Arthur Capper, national chairman for the cere- monies, he will press a button illumi- nating the treee. The United States Marine Band, un- der direction of Capt. Taylor Branson, will render a Christmas program, be- ginning at 4:30 o'clock. Carols Will Be Sung. Night,” will be sung by the Girls’ and Men'’s Glee Clubs of George Washington University. As the President turns on the lights, the Gordon Junior High School Carolers will sing a processional around the tree, garbed as troubadours of the Middle Ages. Boy and Girl Scouts will serve as a guard of honor to President and Mrs. Hoover, and also will act as ushers, guides and buglers. The National Committee, headed by iSenltor Capper, includes Representative | Mary T. Norton, Commissioner Reichel- derfer, Col. U. §. Grant, 3d; Frederic A. Delano, George D. Pratt, Maj. R. Y. | march, scheduled to converge on Wash- | Stuart, Mrs. Frederick Edey, Walter W. | Head, Dr. Joseph Lee, Mrs. Jonathan | Buckley, Mrs. Elmer J. Ottaway, Mrs. | Grace Morrison Poole, E. C. Graham, B. W. Clark, Dr. Hayden Johnson and Miss Edith L. Grosvenor. The Committee on Christmas Carol Singing for 1932 includes Mrs. Gertrude Lyons, Hans Kindler and Capt. Bran- son. Singers to Tour City. Plans are also being completed to send large groups of singers throughout the city in the early hours of Christmas eve to offer the “Christmas Gift of | Song” to the hundreds of shut-ins in hospitals, orphanages, institutions and at £ number of hotels. | Among groups already signed up for this Yuletide service are the Chaminade Glee Club, Claviarco Glee Club, Chesa- peake & Potomac Telephone Co. Glee Club, Elizabeth Somers Glee Club, Madrigal Singers, Mount Pleasant Con- gregational Church Choir, Rho Beta Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, Schubert Club, Student Nurses’ Glee Club, Young Cm}!, including “Silent Night, Holy | Biri SPORTS . NEWS PAGE B—1 SHORTAGE IN CHES? FUNDS CAUSES NEW PLAN OF BUDGETING Five Committees to Allocate Money to Aid Largest Num- ber in Distress. APPEAL MADE FOR 1932 PLEDGES TO BE PAID Arrears Would Give Clean Slate for 1933, Says E. C. Graham, in Emphasizing Need. ‘With Chest officials admitting™ that there is no possibility of meeting all the city's needs in view of the half- million-dollar shortage in the recent campaign for funds, the Community Chest Budget Committee is conducting hearings for allocation of avallable funds so as to cover the greatest amount of need. Concurrent with announcement of plans for the hearings and the inaugu- ration of even greater economies in every direction, E. C. Graham, presi- dent of the Community Chest, declared late yesterday that if every outstand- ing pledge for 1932 were paid, the Chest. would be able to start 1933 with a clean slate. Unless these pledges :::edp!.d the new year would be en- with a deficit over and above that created by the shortage of the recent drive for funds. “We are faced with the most serious welfare situation in the history of Wi " Mr. Graham asserted. Community Chest campaign for 1933 has fallen short of its goal. De= mands for relief are constantly increas- ing and promise during the next year to surpass even the high peak reached this year. ‘That means that we are facing a largely increasing need for relief with a decrcased fund. Appeals for 1932 Payments. “As the situation now stands, the Community Chest faces a deficit for 1922. This deficit is an obligation that the Chest must pay. If the contribu~ tors who pledged for 1932 would make a special effort and pay up the bale arrange to make that payment this month in order that we may start the new year with a clean slate.” Continuing, Mr. Graham said that he had been advised that Washington's { unemployed now 22,000. This means, he explained, that including dependents of the jobless the number of persons to be fed and sheltered will be approximately 50,000. While many of these have not yet asked for aid, of waning budget, Joshua Evans, Ly A A ive under a mmnmpnnd each with a specific field to consider. General Officers Named. ‘The general officers of the committee are, besides Mr. Evans, Elwood Street, secretary; William J. Flather, jr.; Mr. Graham, Arthur Hellen and H. L. Rust, jr., members at large. The group com- mittees are set up as follows: Group Committee No. 1, which will deal with the budgets of agencies do case work for dependent families an individuals, ts of John H. Hanna, ; H. L. Willett, jr., secretary Miss Mary E. Coulson, consultant, and the following members: Dwight Clark, John B. Colpoys, Mrs. Charles A. Gold- smith, Mrs. Cary ontvlum. Rev. Dr, Francis J. Haas, Lowell Mellett, Rev. Frederick W. Perkins, Frederick P. H. Siddons, George S. Wilson and Edward G. Yonker. . Group Committee No. 2, which will deal with the budgets of agencies giv- ing institutional care for dependent children and adults, consists of Maj. Ennalls Waggaman, chairman; B. M. Luchs, secretary; Mrs. W. A. Roberts and Mrs. Mary F. C. Leute, consultants, and the following members: Frank A. 1d, Wilbur J. Carr, John W. , Wayne Kendrick, Rev. A. A, McCallum, C. L. McCrea, Arthur D. Marks, Arthur Moses, Nelson B. O'Neal, Allen Pope, L. Corrin Strong and Mrs. Charles Tompkins. Group Committee No. 3, which will deal with the budgets for hospitals, consists of Henry W. Sohon, chairman; A. G. Landrus, secretary; E. J. Henry~ son, consultant, and the followi members: C. A. Aspinwall, Henry P, Blair, Dr. E. A. Bocock, Y. E. Booker, Maj. D. J. Donovan, Mrs. Joshua Evans, ; Dr. D. C. Howard, O. H. P. John= : ter Mitchell, jr.; C. H. Hope, Daniel C. Roper, MaJ. Julia_C. Stimson, Capt. Chester Wells and Dr. Charles Stanley White. Health Group Budgets. Group Committee No. 4, which will deal with the budgets for health or= ganizations, consists of Mrs. Joseph H. Himes, chairman; A. G. Landrus, sec- retary: E. J. Henryson, consultant, and the following members: Rev. Russell J, Clinchy, James A. cilor, Mrs, Whitman Cross, Julius Garfinckel, Sam- uel H. Kauffmann, Dr. James P. Leake, Lanier P. McLachlen, A. G. Neal, Mrs. Sidney F. Taliaferro, Joseph P. Tumulty, Dr. William A. White and Mrs. John R. Williams. Group Committee No. 5, which will deal with the budgets for character- building agencies, consists of Arthur May, chairman; W. O. Hiltabidle, sec- retary; Miss Miry E. Coulson, con- sultant, and the following members: Mrs. Harry S. Bernton, D. N. Burn- ham, Mrs. Wilson Compton, Geo Everette, Mrs. H. H. Flather, Col. U. Grant, 3d; Dr. John K. Hawkins, Frank R. Jelleff, Edmund F. Jewell, D. J. People’s Soclety of First Congregational Church, the Troubadours of George ‘Washington University, Estelle Went- worth Opera group and the Treble Clet Club. LODGE IS CHARTERED Colored Federal Workers Become Unit in Federation. No. 20, Kaufman, George Hewitt Myers, Hi Thrift and J. Bem;m'Wyckynfln’ - VETERAN, 85, EXPIRES ted Service and of the Confederate b at his home near Jefferson- . He retired from ment service in August, 1920. Capt. Donnella, a native of Albe- marle County, Va., ran away from home when he was 14 years old and enlisted in the 5th Virginia Cavalry, serving throughout the war. Job’s Daughters to Meet. . Job's n-mun will hold their an-