Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1933, Page 17

ADULT TUBERCULAR HOSPITAL 1S URGED BY REICHELDERFER Commissioner Points to In- adequate Facilities for Older Patients. GROUND IS AVAILABLE AT BUENA VISTA SITE Plans for New Building Will Be Pressed as Soon as Funds Are Available. Construction of a new hospital for| the care of adult tuberculosis patients | of the District is nceded and should be provided as soon as funds can be found | for the project, Dr. Luther H. Reichel- derfer, president of the Board of Com- missioners, said today. The present inadequate facilities for the care of adult tubercular patients here was brought graphically to the attention of the Senate subcommittee considering the 1934 appropriation bill vesterday by a statement by Dr. A. Barklie Coulter. Undoubtedly provision of a new adult tuberculosis hospital would have been sought by the District before now, had funds been available for the purpose. Dr. Reichelderfer said today. Plans Already Considered. The city official pointed out that the bullding of a more adequate adult hos- pital already has béen in the minds of District executives, as seen in plans for the new Children’s Tuberculosis Sani- tarium now under construction at Buena Vista, Md. There, Dr. Reichelderfer points out. the District purchased a much larger tract than was needed merely for the children’s institution, the plan being | for the later construction of an adult institution on the same tract | The children’s building. which will, have a capacity of about 200 beds, now | has been carried to an advanced stage ! of construction and the new plant is| to be ready for use about July 1. In| conjunction with the children’s build- ing the District is erecting a nurses’ home, which also is nearing completion. Adult tubercular patients now are cared for to the limit of capacity at the ‘Tuberculosis Hospital at Fourteenth and Upshur streets and at Gallinger Municipal Hospital primarily. 595 Deaths Last Year. Records in the District Health De- partment show there were 595 deaths from tuberculcsis in the District last | year. There were 1,154 new cases re- | ported to the department, making a | grand total of 5363 cases under treat- ment at the end of 1932 In 1931 there were 588 deaths from the discase. There were 1,062 new cases reported during that year and a grand total of 4,930 cases under treat- ment reported to the department. The percentage of deaths to the total number of cases, Health Department records show, amounted to 55.5 per zent in the years from 1908 to 1910, 64.7 per cent from 1911 to 1915, 56.9 per cent from 1916 to 1920, 39.6 per cent from 1921 to 1925, 50.3 per cent from 1926 ;33!}930, and 55.4 per cent for the ycar Although the white population of the District is far greater than that of | colored persons, the number of deaths | from tuberculosis among colored pa- | tlents each year is considerably greater than those among white patients, the | records show. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Play, “Old-Fashioned Mother” H street Christian Church, Sixth and H streets southwest, 7:30 p.m. Meeting. Women's Educational Demo- cratic Council, Mayflower Hotel, 7:45 pm. \ Card perty, Mothers' Club, St. James" Catholic Church, Thirty-seventh street and Rnode Island avenue northeast, p.m. Meeting and_dance, North Carolina State Soclety, Shoreham Hotel, 8:30 p.m. Meeting, United States Coast Guard, Shoreham' Hotel, 8 p.m. Dinner meeting, Georgetown Clinical Society, Hamilton Hotel, 6:30 p.m Dance and card party, Federal Chap- ter, No. 38, O. E. S., Kennedy-Warren, 9 p.m. Benefit card party, Ways and Means Committee, Washington _Centennial Chapter, 2809 Chesterfield place, 8 p.m. Meeting, Columbia Historical Society, Cosmos Club, 8:15 p.m. Card party, War Department Local No. 261, National Federation of Federal Employes, Carlton Hotel, 8 p.m, Meeting, Agricultural History Society, Cosmos Club, 8 pm. Dinner, 6:30 p.m. Meeting, Polish Club of ‘Washington, Sears, Roebuck Art Galleries, 1106 Connecticut avenue, 8:30 p.m. Eentertainment, Potomac Appalachian ‘Trail Club, Pierce Hall, All Souls’ Uni- tarian Church, Fifteenth and Harvard streets, 8 p.m. ‘TOMORROW. Luncheon, University of Missouri Alumni, University Club, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fra- ternity, University Club, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Democratic Club, Uni- versity Club, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Insurance Club, University Club, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Veterans’ Administration, University Club, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Golden Rod Club, Hamil- ton Hotel, 1 p.m. Luntnesn, oOptimist Club, Hamilton Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Women’s Organization of | National Ascociation of Retail Druggists, Hamilton Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Rotary Club, Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Soroptimist Club, Willard ‘Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Card party, Esther Chapter, O. E. 8., willard Hotel, 2 p.m. Luncheon, Lions Club, Mayflower Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Silver tea_and quilt exhibit, Calvary Methodist Episcopal Misslonary So- cieties, Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church. Columbia rosd. near Fifteenth aieet, 2 1o 5 pm. and 7:30 to 10 p.m, Willard ™ rovnea ] STEPHEN MATHER[smpe o ] ANNIE FOWLER, Drowned yesterday when she fell over- board while playirg on a launch moored in Washington Channel at the foot of Eighth street southwest. PLUNGE FROM BOAT IS FATAL TO GIRL Annie Fowler, 14, Drowns After Losing Balan(_:e While Playing. Losing her balance while romping on 4 launch mocred at the foot of Eighth street scuthwest yesterday afternoon, Annie Fowler, 14, piunged into the water and drowned before her play- mates—her younger sister and a cousin—could summon aid. As Annie splashed helplessly about, her sister Geneva, 11, ran to their home, 503 K street southwest, crying: m"Annle's drowning! Annie's drown- g! Meanwhile, the girls’ cousin, Johnnie Hall, 11, of Capitol Heights, Md, hastened to the harbor police station. A few minutes later a police boat begzn dragging the channcl in the vicinity of the launch. After a search | of mcre than half an hcur Annie's body was recovered The child’s mother, Mrs. Mamie Fowler, fainted when she learned of | the tragedy 3 A certificate of accidential death was jssued by Acting Coroner A. Magruder MacDonal GAS MERGER HEARING SLATED THIS WEEK Representative Black Prepares for Subcommittee to Consider Georgetown Case. Hearings on a bill to authorize a cor- porate merger of the Washington and | Georgetown Gas Lighit Cos. will be held the latter part of this week by the Public _ Utility House District Committee. Representative Black, Democrat, of New York, who served as chairman of the Public Utility Subcommittee in the last Congress, is arranging for the hear- ings on the assumption that he will again be named head of the subcom- mittee when the District Committee is organized. The merger bill died In the last Con- gress, but was reintroduced in the new House by Chairman Norton of the Dis- trict Committee. ‘The House passed the bill in the last Congress, but Senate action was blocked | by the late Senator Howell of Nebraska, who objected to a provision permitting “going concern” to be used as an ele- ment of value in a revaluation of the gas properties. HELMUS FUNERAL RITES TOMORROW AFTERNOON Burial for Late Clerk of House Committee Will Be in Ar- lington Cemetery. Funeral services for John Helmus, who died Sunday as the result of 2 self-infiicted pistol wound, will be held at Lee’s funeral home, Fourth street and Massachusetts avenue northeast, tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Inter- ment will be in Arlington National Cemetery. Mr. Helmus was for 15 years clerk of the Committee on Claims of the House of Representatives. He served for 12 years as secretary to Repre- sentative George W. Edmonds of Phila- delphia, 2nd in a similar capacity with Representative Charles Underhill of Massachusetts. Mr. Helmus was born in Philadelphia more than 50 years ago. At an early age he came to Washington and re- ceived his education in the local public schools. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and later studied law at Georgetown University. He was a member of the District of Columbia bar. SRR Girl, 11, Hurt in Fall. Mary Waldron, 11, of 3510 Sixteenth street, was in a serious condition today in Children’s Hospital, suffering from injuries received early last night when she fell a few feet from a scaffold on which she was playing at the new Bancroft School Building, Eighteenth and Newton streets. Subcommittee of the/ W MEMORIAL ISLAND IN POTOMAC URGED) Proposal Is Made to Honor Father of National Park Service. PLAN TO BE DISCUSSED AT MEETING THIS WEEK Col. Grant Says No Funds Are Available for Project at Present, However. | Charles W. Eliot, 2d, director of planning of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, today an- nounced that his organization is recom- mending that an island in the upper Potomac River, near Great Falls, be set aside as a memorial to the late Stephen T. Mather, director of the Na- tional Park Service of the Interior De- partment. Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, vice chair- man and executive officer of the com- mission, made it cledr there are no funds available at present to, purchase land for this memorial. Mr. Eliot ex- plained that there are several possibili- ties for appropriate memorials in the upper Potomac to Mr. Mather, who was a member of the commission. Meeting Starts Thursday. | sStarting Thursday, the commission will hold a three-day meeting, and the | Mather memorial proposal will be dis- cussed by Col. Grant and Mr. Eliot as one of the outstanding items on the program. Mr. Mather was & close per- sonal friend of both Col. Grant and Mr. Eliot. The director of planning asserted to- day that three islands are in mind for the memorial, but he declined to state the exact location, inasmuch as land purchasing is involved. It is particularly fitting, Mr. Eliot said, that the Mather Memorial should be included in the future George Washington Memorial Parkway, which will run southward from Great Falls, on both sides of the Potomac River, to Fort Washington, Md., and Mount Ver- non, Va. Mr. Eliot pointed out that | former Representative Cramton, Re- publican, of Michigan, who was the co-author with Senator Capper, Re- publican, of Kansas, in setting up legis- lation to create the George Washington Memorial Parkway, sponsored the bill for the Mather Memorial. Congress has authorized a suitable memorial to Mr. Mather and subsequently the Mather Memorial Association was formed among the late director’s friends, and they are attempting to have a suitable park area created as a lasting memorial to the man who instituted the National Park Service. Mr. Mather was a former per man. Helped Preserve Gorge. Having in mind Mr. Mather's pre- eminent work in creating National parks in the West, his friends here be- lieve that the wild islands in the gorge of the Potomac area more nearly ap- proximate the National parks in which he was interested, than any other lo- cality hereabouts. Further, Mr. Ellot asserted, Mr. Mather was cularly instrumental in preserving the gorge of the Potomac at Great Falls, when it was suggested that hydro-electric de- velopment should be permitted there. | During its meeting, the commission will turn its attention to land pur- chases, land transfers between various egencies of the Government here and the program of the Federal Employ- | ment Stabilization Board, designed o mxpk out a planning program for public works. 'FRENCH LECTURER DUE IN CAPITAL TOMORROW ) Director of Paris Office of League of Nations Will Speak on World Trade. Pierre de Lanux, director of the Paris office of the League of Natis will ar- rive in Washington tomorrow® morning to deliver several talks. He will speak on “World Economics and the World Situation” at a luncheon at the All States Hotel at 1 p.m. The luncheon will be s by Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, who will introduce M. de Lanux, and a group interested in world affairs under the chairmanship of Dr. Charles L. Carhart, executive secre- tary of the Washington Council on In- ternational Relations. Prior to the luncheon M. de Lanux will meet with groups of Howard Uni- versity students. Regarding M. de Lanux as an authority in France on the interpretation of American History to the French, the leaders of the Negro race are undertaking to give him an ap- preciation of their place in the Na- tion’s development. Tomorrow night at 8 o'clock he will discuss international politics at the Phyllis Wheatley Asso- ciation, Ninth street and Rhode Island avenue. A reception for the visitor will be held at the assoclation followjng the address. Will Lecture at Fairfax. Special Dispatch to The St FAIRFAX, April 18.—Dr. J. M. Row- land, widely known author, traveler and speaker, will deliver a lecture, “Some Nuts I Have Met,” tomorrow night at 7:45 in Fairfax M. E. Church South. IFRIGHTENED CAFE BANDIT FLEES AS WAITER SNATCHES $10 BILL Colored Man Thinks Hold-Up Is Joke Until He Sees Gun in Robber’s Hand. Charley Hill, old-fashioned _colored waiter at Schneider’s Cafe, 427 Eleventh street, thought a patron was playing o joke on him last night when a man snatched a $10 bill frem his hand as he approached the cash register to have it changad. So Charley grabbed it back. Then he almost fainted when he found out it was a hold-up man, with a gun in the other hand, ready to rob the place. But Charley's sudden action, con- scious or not, so surprised the bandit that he and a companion fled from the restaurant, without getting a cent. And old Charley was congratulated for saving the day's receipts. The two bandits, each caITying & re- lvalver, entered the cafe shortly after 8:30. While one pointed a gun at the customers and warned against an out- | cry, the other walked to the cashier’s | pen, pointed his pistol at Charles | Schneider, the proprietor, and attempt- ed to open the cash register. He was fumbling with it when Charley ap- proached to have the $10 bill changed. When the pair fled from the cafe, they jumped into a waiting automobile and disappeared before any ox realized ther had gone. The car they used, which had been stolen from a local physician, later was found at Eighth street and Market 'Space. Detective Sergts. J. J. Tolson and Elmer F. Lewis are looking for the he Fp ening Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ASHINGTON, D. C., o LIEUT. COL. CHARLES R. WILLIAMS. HOSPITAL SUICIDE PROBED BY ARMY Officials at Walter Reed Mys- tified by Act of Lieut. Col. Williams. An investigating board of three Army officers today was conducting an in- quiry into the death of Lieut. Col Charles R. Willlams, Judge Advocate General's Office, U. S. A, who plunged | from a third-fioor sun porch at Walter Reed Hospital yesterday. Acting Coroner A. Magruder Mac- Donald issued a certificate of suicide. ‘The Army board, however, is charged with determining the full circumstances surrounding the act, so Col. Williams’ military record may be closed out. Act Mystifies Officials. Officials at the hospital were mysti- fled at the officer’s act. Less than a half-hour before the fatal plunge, Col Williams had been examined for fitness to return to duty and his release from the hospital ordered. After leaving the examination room, according to hospital attaches, he strolled to the sun porch, climbed upon a 6-foot para- | pet and jumped 50 feet to a concrete areaway, dying instantly. The body was clad only in trousers and a bathrobe. His hedd and chest were crushed and his watch had stopped at 1:10, presumably the time of death. Col. Williams had been confined to the hospital less than a month for treatment of a heart ailment. He was to have appeared soon before a “dispo- sition board” for examination to de- termine whether he should continue active duty or be retired. However, officials at the hospital were not in- clined to believe the possibility of re- tirement caused him to take his life. They pointed out that, because he had had only 15 years' service, retirement for disability would have been to his advantage. Call Precedes Death. An hour before his death, Col. Williams received a telephone call from his wife, Mrs. Louise R. Williams, that she was coming to the hospital to take him for a drive in the warm Spring sunshine. When she arrived he was dead. Col. Williams, who lived here at 1661 Crescent place, was born in Columbus, Ga., July 21, 1870, and would have been 63 in three months. During the war he entered the judge advocate general's office as a major, receiving his commission July 8, 1918, ani commencing active duty about a week later. was honorably discharged, and less than a year later reappointed in the Regular Army at the same rank and in the same office. He was promoted to lieu- tenant colonel November 1, 1932. INITIATION THURSDAY BY ROYAL ARCANUM Large Class to Be Received at Official Visitation of Wash- ington Council. A large class will be initiated in‘o the Royal Arcanum in connection with the official visitation of the Washington Council Thursday night by Supreme Regent Charles H. Haring of New Jer- sey, Supreme Vice-Regent James E. Norton and other officials. Grand Council officers of the District of Columbia will welcome the visiting delegation at a banquet and reception at the Ambassador Hotel at 6:30 o'clock. The class will be initiated at Odd Fel- lows’ Temple at 8 o'clock. Kismet de- gree team will perform the ritualistic work there. ‘The following day the official visita- tion will move on to Richmond, where another class will be initiated. S ARRANGEMENTS MADE FOR VIRGINIA PILGRIMS Reservations to Be Made Through Mrs. Pearce Horne, Chairman of Group. Reservations for a pilgrimage to his- toric points in Virginia, being arranged by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, should be made through the new chairman of the com- mittee on tickets and arrangements, Mrs. Pearce Horne of 2330 Nineteenth street, it was announced today by Mrs. E. Rust Smith, president of the asso- ciation. The former chairman of the commit- tee, Miss E. Baker Chinn, is leaving soon on a trip around the world and will be unable to serve this year. The pilgrimage will leave the south side of the Treasury Building at 8 a.m. Tues- day, May 23. HELD FOR GRAND JURY Doctor Is Involved in Woman's - : Death From Illegal Operation. Dr. Clarence A. Wright, colored, 900 block Twentieth street, was held for the grand jury yesterday afternoon at an in- quest into the death last Thursday from an illegal operation on Mrs. Kathleen Hairston, colored, 33, of the 4500 block Jay street northeast. ‘The woman's husband, Richard, testi- fled his wife tried to persuade him to take her to the doctor’s office to have the operation performed and he refused. TUESDAY, On September 23, 1919, he ! APRIL 18, $1,000,000 BALANCE IN DISTRICT_FUNDS ASKED BY SCHOOLS IMoney on Hand Was Unspent in Municipal Center Development. SENATE GROUP ENDS * HEARINGS LATE TODAY Amendment Also Offered to Allow Transfer of Appropriations Within Departments. Nearly $1,000,000 which remains un- spent from prior appropriations for th= Municipal Center development would be made available for the school build- ing program in the 1934 District bill if the Senate subcommittee approves a suggestion along this line advanced by District officials before the hearings on the bill closed this afterneon. As the supply bill came from the House it did not contain a single school ccnstruction item, the bullding pro- |gram being one cf the essential sections that fell by the wayside when the orig- inal bill was pared down from more than $36,000,000 to something less than $32.000,000. Use of the municipal center balances for school buildings would not increase the total of the.bill, since this money was_appropriated in prior years, but | would merely divert it to school pur- | poses, since the municipal project is | not being gone ahead with under pres- 1ent_conditions. Two amendments affecting the teach- ing personnel in the public schools are included in the list of suggested changes submitted to the subcommittee for con- sideration by District officials. One provides that teacher vacancies may be filled by transferring special teachers to class room work and the other provides that school authorities may appoint qualified temporary teach- ers notwithstanding the existence of an fltl‘g‘lble list established by an examin- ation. Would Transfer Funds. ‘The subcommittee also had before it as the hearings closed the text of the amendment recommended by the Com- missioners for the purpose of permitting transfer of funds from one activity to another within departments in order to make the best possible use of the limited amounts allowed under the re- duced budget. The amendment sug- gested follows: “When specifically recommended by the budget officer of the District of Columbia and approved by Commission- ers of said District, transfers may be made between subheads of appropria- tions provided in this act for the free Public Library, public playgrounds, pub- lic schools (except buildings and grounds), Health Department and Pub- lic Welfare, respectively: Provided that such transfers under this section shall not be made between appropriations for the several municipal services named, and all transfers, whether approved or ccntemplated, shall be reported to Con- gress in the estimates of the District of Columbia for tHe fiscal year 1935.” Another interesting development to- day was the actiog of Chairman Thomas of the subcommittee in requesting Dis- trict Auditor Donovan to prepare a statement showing how much has been spent under the Capper-Cramton park development law, how much the Dis- trict has repaid and the present status of the refunding. Payment Suspended. In the original 1934 bill a- the last session th> Senate voted to relieve the District from making another annual re.mbursement of $1,000.000 to the Cramton law, but in the confercnce report which failed on March 4 this action was reversed. District officials pointed out today that the theory of the park development law was that $16,000,000 would be ap- propriated by the Federal Government in order to expedite purchase of park lands before desirable areas are built upon, the United States to be reim- bursed by the District at the rate of $1,000,000 & year. Up to this time, how- ever, only $5,000,000 has been appro- priated by the United States for ex- penditure within the District. The Dis- trict Government repaid $1,000.000 last June, will be required to pay a similar amount this June, and the pending bill calls for payment of 2 third installment next June. Meanwhile, there have been no new appropriations toward continuing the park development program in the cur- rent fiscal year, and no such appropria- tion was provided for in the independ- ent offices bill, which also failed on March 4 and remains to be further con- sidered. It has been argued, therefore, that the District is being required to repay the park development money more rapidly than was contemplated in view of the amount spent so far. Ask Bridge Funds. A new suggestion advanced today was that $250,000 for the new P street bridge be authorized, in addition to an carlier suggestion for $575,000 to make a start on the new Calvert Street Bridge. Neither of these projects would increase the total in the House bill, since it is proposed to finance them out of the lump sum of $1,040,000 of gas tax money approved by the House. The House bill merely states that this lJump sum cculd be spent for such projects as the Presi- dent might approve. Another amend- ment being considered would take $45.- 741 more from this gas tax lump sum to widen and repave Constitution avenue from North Capitol ;street to Second street. Still another amendment suggested by the Commissioners would make im- mediately available the House item of $1,250,000 for emergency relief, so that some of it could be utilized between the passage of the bill and July 1. The suggested amendment further provides that this fund could be expended by the Commissicners as conditions make necessary, without regard to monthly or_other apportionments. In connection with the Public Li- brary system the Commissioners sub- ;nlned a proposed amendment as fol- ows: “Provided, that during the fiscal year 1934 existing branch and subbranch libraries shall be continued in normal operation.” This proviso would be at- tached to the item of $260,000 for per- sonal services in the library system. ‘The library system is one of the agercies in which funds could bz trans- ferred from one subhead to another under the gemeral amendment for transfer of funds suggested by the Commissioners. Meet Again Friday. None of these proposed amendments has been acted on by the Senate sub- committee, They will come up for con- sideration when Chairman Thomas convenes the subcommittee at 10 o’clock Friday morning to begin marking the bill. The changes they decide upon will then before the Senate Appro- priations Committee early next week. The question of whether the proposed Federal Treasury in 1934 under the| iwho, in 1817, ! be built. 1933. Scientist Buy. s Autogiro FIRST LOCALLY OWNED “WINDMILL” PLANE. AMES TOWNSEND RUSSELL, 30- ' year-old anthropologist at the | National Museum, shown below, | has become the first owner of an | autogiro in the vicinity of the | National Capital. He keeps the craft, | shown above, at Washington-Hoover | Airport, where he is receiving flying | instructions from William Payne, the | Capital's only autogiro instructor. Rus- | sell already has had nearly five hours | of dual flying time and expects to be | ready to solo this week. He will use the machine for recreation and pleas- ure. It is a new type two-place open- | cockpit model, carrying pilot and one passenger, and is powered with a 125- horsepower motor. —Star Staff Photos. WHITE HOUSE LAWN REPAIRS ARE BEGUN Grass Badly Trampled i Easter Egg Rolling—Many Lost Articles Found. A score of gardeners and laborers were working today on the rear grounds of the White House clearing away the debris left behind by the children of | Washington during their annual egg- | rolling festival vesterday and giving first-aid treatment to the sorely tram- | pled grass. If the weather had not been so! threatening early yesterday the Easter egg-rolling attendance record of 48,300 in 1930 unquestionabiy would have been broken. Despite the threatening skies at the time the gates for the egg fete were thrown open more than 47,000 children and adults passed thrcugh the grounds during the dav and afternoon. | { Thirty thousand of this number were | | on hand between the hours of 9:30 in | the morning and 3:30 in the afternoon. | The remainder of the children swarmed the grounds when the gates were thrown open to the public to hear the concert given by the United States Marine Band. | Grass Badly Trampled. ‘The children had an opportunity to see the President and Mrs. Roosevelt end Mrs. Anna Dall, their daughter, and “Sistie, year-old granddaughter, and “Buzzie,” 21;-year-old grandson, as well as the White House pets, “Meggle,” the little Scotty, and “Major,” the police dog. When the workmen appeared on the grounds early today there-were count- |less numbers of broken eggshells, | broken boxes, pieces of paper, little | beskets, remains of tcy rabbits and | chickens and cthr evidences of the cgg frolic. Bocavse the rain soaked the grounds the grass on the lawns suffered severely. It is feared that it| will take some time to restore this smooth turf to its original condition. The fete ran true to form in casual- ties, as well as fun and frolic. There were about 56 cases treated by doctors and nurses from the Emergency Hos- pital and the Red Cross. The majority of these were children who had stuffed themselves- with hard-boiled . eggs and chocolate eggs. A number of persons were treated for faintness from the heat. One woman was treated for in- juries above her eye from a hurled Easter egg. Lost Articles Found. There <were 100 or so lost articles I turned in at the police department of |the White House, the articles being principally hats, overshoes and coats. There were 45 children temporarily lost, but all were returned to their mothers or guardians. The Girl Scouts were kept busy patrolling the milling crowds for lost children and for moth- ers of lost children. A brown fur piece and seven pocket- books were also found by police, Miss Mary Langford of Los Angeles, Calif., a guest at a local hotel, reported to po- lice at the White House that she lost a dlamond brooch valued at $10,000 in the south grounds during the egg- rolling. | _— new Calvert Street Bridge over Rock Cresk should be of masonry or of steel arch type was debated before the Sen- ate Subconamklitee m:: ir., architect akle; n, r. A e mYepmd for the Distzict a design for a masonry Cal- structure, urged the com- mittee to instruct the Commissioners to build & masonry bridge rather than 2 steel one “either from my designs or from some other designs.” The Commissioners have recently had plans and detailed structural drawings for a steel arch Calvert Street Bridge, prepared by Modjeska-Masters-Chase Corporation. Engineer Commissioner Gotwals de-' fended the action of the District in having the new plans prepared, and argued in favor of the bridge as it is now proposed to be built. He said the detailled drawings for the steel arch bridge have been made and that everything is in readiness to let a contract for the erection of the bridge as soon as' Congress makes the appropriation. Paul P. Cret was con- sulting architect in the preparation of the Modjeska plans. The subcommittee also heard testi- mony this morning of Berkeley Sim- mons, who wanted to amend the House item allowing $7,500 for a preliminary survey of plans for a bridge to carry New Hampshire avenue across the rail- road tracks to the District line. Mr. Simmons urged an amendment under which studies also could be made of proposed extensions of Kansas ave- nue and several other highways in the same vicinity, where underpasses could Several other witnesses were present favoring the New Hampshire avenue extension, including Thomas Joy and Charles A. Langley of the Chillum Heights Citizens’ Association, and Dr. Llewellyn Jordon of the Board of Trade. . Harry J. Overman was also a mem- ber of the New Hampshire avenue dele- gation, government vert street HEURICH BREWERY T0 MAKE 32 BEER Plant, Granted Permit, Rushes Preparations — 28 More Sale Licenses Approved. Granted a permit to make legal beer, the Christian Heurich Brewing Co. is rushing preparations at its huge brew- ery, at Twenty-fifth and Water streets, | to make the first brew in its 450-barrel copper kettle soon. The permit was issued yesterday afternoon by the District of Columbia Beverage Permits Baard, which also approved 28 additional licenses for sale of beer. This brings the total licenses issued here to date to 1364. The board will meet again Thursday. At the Heurich Brewery workmen are | rushing the big job of reconditioning the plant so that the manufacture of beer, which was discontinued when pro- hibition arrived, can be resumed. This brewery never made near beer after its left-over stock of real beer had been de-alcoholized and sold out, so that the plant had no supply to start dis- tribution when beer first arrived April 7. The ice plant of the brewery had been enlarged and operated during pro- hibition, and a staff of employes been kept on hand. it was explained. to | maintain the old brewery in case beer ever did return. ‘Will Turn Out Lager First. Preparations arc being pushed for- ward toward turning out lager beer as the first product, acccrding to Christian Heurich, jr. Lager was only one of the three products of the brew- ery before prohibition, the other two being “Senate,” a light beer, and “Maerzen,” a dark beer. The twc latter products also will be manufac- tured at_the brewery, he explained, but they probably will not be ready for sale for some months. The Heurich Brewery, headed by Christian Heurich, sr., now 90 years old, is one of the largest in this part of the country. By turning out threc brews a day, of eight hours each, ap- proximately 1.350 barrels of beer could be made in 24 hours. The plant has a huge system of fermenting and storage equipment. Among these are 87 fer- menting tanks from 120 to 350 barrels capacity each, and 130 vats of 200 barrels capacity each and 128 enormous oak casks in the underground cellar. each holding 150 barrels. One of the first big tasks in prepar- ing to make beer was to retube: the old boilers. This work has been com- pleted and as soon as the final inspec- tion has been made and approval given this vital part of the plant, it is pre- dicted brewing will be virtually ready to start. Materials Received. Pirst shipments of materials have ar- rived—malt, hops and rice, with the yeast scheduled to come soon, when | all is in readiness. The brewery buildings cover more than an entire city block. The princi- pal plant is located on the square be- tween Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth streets, Water street and D street north- west. POLICE FIND LOST BOY Ballston Lad Told Street Address but Failed to Name Town. William T. Grunwell, 5, of Ballston, Va., had a good time, but caused rela- tives many anxious moments when he became lost from his father at the Zoo yesterday afternoon where the youngster had been taken to roll eggs. William was picked up by park police- man, taken to No. 8 police station and his parents notified. After becoming lost, Willlam looked at the animals until dark when he wanted to go home. He told police his age, name and street address, but failed to name the town in which he lived, it was said at the Grunwell home today. Meanwhile parents hadtsought police aid in finding him and his home ad- dress was obtained through the police lookout. . GAS SNIFFING COSTLY Fire Rescue Squad Called as Man Satisfies Sense of Smell. ‘The desire of James C. Acton, 33, of the 300 block of Thirteenth street southeast, to smell gas yesterday, brought out the Fire Rescue Squad and })ouce. when he was affected by the umes after turning on a jet in the bath room. . Police said he told them he merely wanted to smell the gas. His condition was not serious, it was sald, PAGE B—1 PLANS COMPLETE FOR ANTI-RUSSIAN PROTEST MEETING King, Fish, Green, Dr. Walsh and Johnson to Be Prin- cipal Speakers. RALLY AT AUDITORIUM SPONSORED BY LEGION Cards to Be Required for Admission to Session Against Recog- nition by U. S. Final arrangements were made today i for the mass meeting in the Washing- ton Auditorium tonight of protest by representatives of more than 150 patri- otic, religious, labor, veteran, fraternal and business organizations against recognition of Soviet Russia by the United States Government. The list of speakers, as announced this morning, includes Senator King of Utah, Representative Hamilton Fish of New York, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor; Rev. Edmund Walsh, vice president of Georgetown University, ‘and Louis John- son, national commander of the Amer- ican Legion. Admission by Card. . The meeting is sponsored by the Legion and is planned as the greatest mass protest ever staged against diplo- matic recognition of Russia. Part of | the program will be broadcast over the | network of the National Broadcast- ling Co. { Admission will be by card. but there will be no charge, the tickets being obtainable through the local headquar- ters of the Legion. As an outgrowth of work preparatory to the meeting, it has been decided to make the Committee on Invitations to Churches and Ministers in Washington a permanent group, under the sponsor- ship of the National Patriotic Council. The committee will continue to col- lect records and data of the attitude of all ministers of Washington on vari- |ous phases of patriotic problems with | particular reference to recognition of | Russia. restriction of immigration and adequate national defense. Rexford L. | Holmes, secretary of the National ,Patrmuc Council, is chairman of the committee. Reception Committee. A special committee will receive the distinguished guests at tonight's meet- ing. It will be composed of the fol- lowing: Mrs. G. L. H. Brosseau, past presi- dent general, Daughiers of the Amer- ican Revolution; Princess Cantacuzene, daughter of President Grant; Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, past president general of the Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution: Mrs. Larz Anderson, Mrs. Robert Lansing. widow of the late | Secretary of State under President Wil- |son; Mrs. Josiah Van Orsdel, Mrs. Fin- |ley J. Shepherd, Mrs. David Reed, wife of the Senator from Pennsylvania; Miss Belle Gurnee, Mrs. Charles A. Wolcott, Mrs. Willlam H. Cudworth and Mrs. David J. Rumbough. The meeting will be called to order by Hugh T. Williams, chairman of the National Americanism Commission of the Legion, at 8:30 o'clock, and Mr. Williams will introduce Rev. Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo, who will give the invocation. Mrs. S. A. Blackburn, national president of the American Legion Auxiliary, will lead in a pledge to the flag, and Miss Dorothy Reddish will sing “America.” Mr. Johnson, head of the Legion, then will be Introduced as the permanent chairman of the meeting. The ad- dresses will follow and the meeting will | close with benediction by Rabbi J. T. | Loeb and singing of the “Star Spangled Banner.” ADEQUATE FUNDS URGED FOR RELIEF Monday Evening Club Asks That Welfare Needs of City Be Met. The Monday Evening Club last night adopted a resolution calling for a city budget which would adequately care for the social and welfare needs of the District in advance of the setting of any specific tax rate. While not opposed to a reduction of the tax rate, speak- ers at the meeting stressed the thought that welfare funds must be adequate. The discussion centered principally around the prospective shortage in funds for emergency relief of destituye persons, which are not expected to last beyond June 1. No additional appro- priations for this purpose are expected before July 1. W. W. Millan, chairman of the Board of Public Welfare, said that an annual appropriation o1 $1,500,000 would merely give the 10,- 000 families now being supported by this fund starvation rations, and sug- | gested an annual fund of $2,500,000. Dr. Harfy A. Fowler, president of tze District Medical Association, spoke on the continuing need for both prevent- ive and curative medicine. Mrs. Phil- ip Sydney Smith, of the Board of Ed- ucation; Dr. George F. Bowerman, li- brarian of the Public Library, and Miss Sybil Baker, director of playgrounds, all spoke of the increasing needs in their respective fields. The abolition of alley dwellings in the District was urged in another reso- lution adopted. Rev. Russell J. Clinchy presided at the meeting. Leifur Magnusson 1s president of the club. V. M. I. PLANS SMOKER Local Alumni to Commemorate I Battle of New Market May 15. ‘The Washington Chapter of the Vir- ginia Military Institute Alumni Asso- ciation will commemorate the Battle of New Market by an informal smoker and get-together meeting Monday evening, May 15, at the Army and Navy Club. Representative A. Willis Robertson of Lexington, Va., wiil be the guest of honor and principal speaker. Committee on Arrangements include Stuart B. Marshall, chairman; James F. Greene, J. Carroll Noell, Humphrey Daniel and G. Adams Howard. \ TREASURY AI.DE IS SWORN L. W. Roberts, jr., of Atlanta, Ga., geu ;wom llnhyes;‘errday as Assistant cretary of the Treasury succeeding Maj. Ferry K. Heath. ‘The ceremony took place in the office of Secretary of Treasury Woodin, and was witnessed by an interested group of officials, including Postmaster Gen- eral Farley. The oath was administered by F. A. Birgfeld, chief clerk of the department.