Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1934, Page 21

Washington News CAPITAL - PROJECTS STUDIED FOR-USE OF P. W. A. FUNDS Municipal Center and Ana- costia Stadium Listed Among Most Worthy. PLAYGROUNDS GIVEN POSITION OF MERIT Improvement of Water Front and Memorial Parkway Also Get Consideration. With prospects of a new public works program in the offing, Govern- ment officials interested in local de- velopment, including those of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, today took an inventory to determine where funds could beneficially be spent in the city and its_environs. Foremost among the projects, in the minds of District officials, is the Municipal Center, long planned for erection at Pennsylvania avenue and | John Marshall place. Nathan C. ‘Wyeth, municipal architect, said to- day he is revising plans and space occupancy for the new center. This study is expected to take two or three weeks longer and the program will be laid before the Fine Arts Commis- | sion and the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. The Dis- trict government has already acquired the land, at a cost of $6,500,000. Land and buildings for the Municipal Cen- ter, said Wyeth, would cost $25,000,000 eventually, but he made it clear this would be distributed over a 50-year program. The first building unit| would cost $5,000,000. Need Seen for Stadium. Another need here seen by the planners is that for an adequate sta- dium, which is being projected on the banks of the Anacostia River at the end of East Capitol street. This is visualized as a selt—.uquldstmg, project, on which Civilian Conserva- tion Corps men could do the funda- mental work. The United States owns all the ground—103 acres. If necessary, officials asserted, portable seats could be utilized at the outset and the program developed gradually. Development of Anacostia Park by the United States Engineer Office is also favored. The Public Works Administration has allocated $15,000 for a study for the stadium program and this is being | undertaken by the National Park Serv- ice of the Interior Department. It is proposed to incorporate in the stadium development a suitable armory for the District National Guard, now inade- quately housed. In conjunction with the stadium, authorities said, tennis | courts, swimming, ice skating and other forms of sport could be afforded. Hundreds of thousands of dollars could be spent with merit in providing suitable playground facilities in vari- ous sections of the city, on land which is totally or partially in Government ownership now, officials declared. This category includes the Phoebe Hearst Playground, the Sherwood Playground in the northeast, to replace that taken | away in the Union Station Plaza de- | velopment, and the Takoma and Ban- neker Recreation Centers, as well as smaller projects, scattered over the city. Parkway Held Meritorious. Another meritorious public works program is seen by the planners in! the George Wasiington Memorial Parkway, which will run southward | from Great Falls to Mount Verngn, | Va., and Fort Washington, Md. Land purchases are required in the upper reaches, particularly along the Mary- land and Virgina shores, and ad tional funds are needed for the con- struction of suitable highways. | The Fort drive—an ambitious pro- | gram that has received indorsement of | the Planning Commission—is another project calling for the expenditure | of funds here. The Government has! now acquired the land for most of | this, but highway development, to link | up the string of old Civil War forts encircling Washington, and proper landscaping are required. | Construction of an underpass at | Massachusetts avenue in the Rock | Creek and Potomac Parkway, to straighten out the dangerous traffic kink at that point, is also needed, say the officials. The building of a new bridge to replace the present dilapidated Chain Bridge over the Potomac River is | another pressing need, in the opinion of civil leaders. This would fit in with the Atlantic Coastal Highway, running down the seaboard from Bos- ton to Florida. In this section the highway would be known as the Marva Highway and is designed to run from Ellicott City, Md., to Rich- mond, Va. Would Clean Up Creek. Cleaning up the pollution in Rock Creek is another project on which funds could profitably be spent at this time, in the opinion of the au- thorities. While & study is now in progress, what is really needed, they declared, is construction of the neces- sary relief sewers. Improvement of the Washington Channel water front to remove the eyesores there is another worthy project that well might merit the at- tention of the Public Works Adminis- tration, .said officials. The district engineer for the War Department for the Washington area and the chief of Army engineers have long since submitted a report on this, favoring the development, together with de- tailed plans showing how it can be | accomplished. Grade crossing elimination in the ! District, such as that existing at Michigan avenue, near Catholic Uni- versity, is another problem that can well be aided by public funds at this time, said planning authorities. A by-pass highway around Alex- andria, Va. connecting with Arling- ton Memorial Bridge, across the experimental farm of the Depart- ment of Agriculture, is yet another Jproject on which the planners have expended thought and energy. This they would like to see accomplished. A terminal yard crossing, over the tailroad tracks in the vicinity of Fourteenth street northeast, extended, is likewise a subject for public works | funds, they said. This would provide | traffic access to that section of the city. A new naval hospital here is one of the most pressing of needs, in the opinion of those concerned with the | river, FEDERAL PARKWAY HELD MENAGED BY VIRGINIA'S CLAIM Justice Department Gives Commission Information in Boundary Dispute. MILLIONS IN PROPERTY IS INVOLVED IN CASE U. S. Attorneys Declare High- Water Mark Is Line and Cite Supreme Court Ruling. Plans of the Federal Government for creation of a national parkway along the Virginia shore of the Potomac River would be menaced if the Virginia-District of Columbia Boundary Commission were to accept Virginia’s contention that the D. C.- Va. boundary is the low-water mark on the Virginia side of the river, the Department of Justice informed the commission today. In a lengthy brief filed in reply to arguments made to the commis- sion by counsel for Virginia, Henry H. Glassie and G. A. Iverson, special assistants to the Attorney General, reiterated the Government's claim that the boundary is the high-water mark as it existed when the area now occupied by Washington Airport was under water. Millions Involved in Dispute. Millions of dollars in property rights are involved in the dispute under consideration by the commis- sion, members of which are Charles H. Brough, William C. Gleth and Malcolm S. McConihe. The Federal attorneys pointed out that the act providing for a George Washington memorial highway on the Virginia shore of the Potomac River recognizes the high-water mark boundary. It was upon the theory that the United States owns the land to the high-water mark that Congress dedicated the shore for park pur- poses, the commission was told. “Large sums of money have been appropriated and are being expended in development and beautification of the Virginia shore,” the Government stated, “culminating in a program whose purpose it has been to beautify and make more desirable the environs of the Capital City of the Nation. “This program started in the re- moval of miasmic flats threatening the health of the inhabitants of the city and creating in their place beautiful parks and playgrounds. Protection Held Essential. “The protection of the Virginia | shore opposite the city of Washing- ton against any use which might mar or bedaub the picture is as essential as the protection of the water front of ‘Washington. “It would be surprising to learn that the Commonwealth of Virginia fails to share in the pride which the Gen- eral Government has in preserving and promoting the beauty of the river and preventing the intrusion of unsightly and ugly structures. “Should the contentions of the Commonwealth of Virginia be carried out, the result woudl be a distinct | menace to the program. A line laid down at low water mark on that shore and extended at places through the from headland to headland,| would make the program abortive.” | The counsel for the Government asserted that the commission has authority only to “find” the actual boundary as it exists and to mark it by monuments—not to set up arbi- trarily a new boundary to meet new conditions. Court Declsion Cited. Virginia, it was declared, “cannot escape recognition of the fact that the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that the entire bed of the Potomac River, opposite the City of Washington, is held by the United States in absolute sovereign dominion and control, and that the high-water line of 1791 has been declared to be the boundary between Virginia and the District.” “The whole argument of the Vir- vinia counsel,” the Federal attorneys said, “is shot through with the notion that interstate boundaries are sub- Ject to change for the advantage or convenience of private parties. This is a singular fallacy. So is the no- tion that they are changed by the way in which private parties may choose to convey their lands.” None of the reclaimed area in Roaches Run, outside of the Rich- mond turnpike and the railroad ease- ments, has been in existence long enough to warrant the application of “the doctrine of prescription,” the Government alleged. Darnestown Fete Planned. DARNESTOWN, Md., December -17 (Special).—Annual Christmas serv- ices will be held by the Darnestown Church this year on December 27, it was announced today. A program is | de: to be presented by the children, while theljumor choir will render special music. care of the patients in the present ramshackled war-built buildings, that are considered a grave fire hazard. This should be constructed shortly, in the opinion of authorities, and fits into the program of the National Capital Park and Planning Commis- sion for the expansion of the North- west rectangle. A model testing basin, in which to conduct maritime experiments to ad- vance scientific knowledge and aid in the better construction of naval and merchant marine vessels for the American Government, is another pressing need. Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, chief of the Bureau of Con- struction and Repair, Navy Depart- ment, in his recent annual report, pointed to this as very urgent. Plans have been made to erect this on Conduit road, near Cabin John Bridge, where rock foundations are suitabie, but the Navy lacks funds with which to do it. New War and Navy Departments "and other new Government buildings are likewise required hére and could well fit into a public works program for the District, in the view of Gov- ernment authorities. New bridges, across the Anacostia River at Penn- sylvania avenue and in the line of South Capitol street, as well as over Boundary Channel, from Columbia Island to the Virginia mainland, are also considered meritorious in any extensive public works program here. - oy WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1934 TTENINT T =L ATIANR ~ CEAPTA TPy v WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION bering %im’ * Crowd Applies for First Park Savings Dividend TWO DRUG RAIDS NET 11 PRISONERS Hotel Again Invaded by Offi- cers—Camardo Gives $7,500 Bond. Thomas Camardo, 28, arrested in the first of two raids in less than 24 hours, in a hotel in the 1300 block I street, was released in $7,500 bond today when arraigned before United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage on a charge of violating the Harrison narcotics act. He will be given a preliminary hearing Friday before Turnage. Camardo and six other men were arrested Saturday night. Yesterday afternoon police raided the hotel again and seized three women and a man, who identified themselves as Leah Adams, 27, of the 900 block H street; Jean Rock, 22,-of the 1300 block I street; Edna Wolke, 28, and her husband, John Clinion Wolke, 28, a mechanic, both of whom were said to have been registered at the hotel. Booked for Investigation. The four, who were booked for in- vestigation, were taken in custody in what police described as a drive to rid the city of undesirables. Wolke, police said, admitted having served a penitentiary sentence for a violatior: of the Dyer stolen automobile act. The six others arrested with Ca- mardo were being held today by police for questioning in connection with the investigation of a series of hold-ups, dope peddling and white slavery activities here. Detroiters Held. ‘They are: Sam Galici, 24, a waiter, of the 1300 block I street; Clement Galici, 26, a mechanic, of the 1200 block K street; John Boles, 25, a truck driver, of the 1300 block I street; John Bielat, 34, an ironworker, of the 1200 block New Hampshire ave- nue; John McGrath, 54, bartender, of Detroit, and Raymond Madison, 32, a cabinetmaker, also of Detroit. Camardo, who said he lived in the 700 block Thirteenth street, is the husband of Lillian Camardo, 34, who was arrested here on December 8 in the Federal drive to wipe out the illicit drug trafic. A narcotic addict herself, she is being held in $7,500 bail for treatment. Police said they had been search- ing. for Camardo since he slipped out of the net a week ago. NATIVES TO BRING GIFTS Toys, Candy and Vegetables to Be Given to Aid Needy. Toys, candy and vegetables will be brought by members of the Society of Natives of the District of Columbia to their Christmas meeting next Fri- day night at the Washington Club to fill Christmas barrels for needy people. The meeting is for “Yuletide so- ciability,” according to announcement by :!mry Harding Burroughs, presi- ! A vote also will be taken on the proposal to restore dues to $2 per year. e PRIEST TO BE HONORED Mass Will Francis Cavanagh. Requiem mass in memory of Rev. Father Francis Cavanagh, former pas- tor of the Church of the Assumption in Congress Heights, will be offered at the church tomorrow at 7 a.m. Father Cavanagh died on December 18 of last year. Memorialize Rev. ._School Soup, Sp PHONE RATE STAND HELD VINDICATED Roberts Cites Federal Com- munications Commission on Depreciation Review. The District Public Utilities Com- mission was told in a communication received today from People's Counsel William A. Roberts that it has received “complete vindication” of its conten- tion that it is empowered to review telephone company depreciation rates. Roberts said this was the effect of the order of the Federal Communica- | tions Commission voiding the former ruling by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which set up the prima facie correctness of depreciation rates as submitted by telephone companies. He characterized the Communica- tions Commission order as of “great importance to State utilities commis- sions throughout the country and of | particular interest to telephone users here.” Robert’s memorandum was sub- mitted to the Public Utilities Commis- sion after receipt of the Communica- tion Commission’s order, which stated that “the estimates of composite rates submitted by telephione companies to the State commissions and to this commission are for the information of the several commissions, but shall not be deemed to be prima facie correct.” The move to secure a reversal of the old Interstate Commission ruling was initiated by the District Public Utili- ties Commission, through Mr. Roberts, who at that time was its counsel, and later was participated in by many State utilities commissions. POLICE CRITICISM IS DENIED BY LA ROE | Acting Parole Board Chairman Says It Is Unfair to Accept Yudelevit's Statement. Wilbur La Roe, jr., acting chair- 'man of the Parole Board, in a state- ment today denied any intention of criticizing the Police Department generally by the disclosure of alleged conferences between two unnamed police officers and Harry Yudelevit, paroled convict, regarding release of liquor trucks heli by police. The allegations against the police came out in a hearing before the Parole Board, after which Ydelevit was sent back to prison. Yudelevit had told the board the two policemen had “promised to co-operate” in his en- terprise of getting the trucks back, and La Roe had turned the informa- tion over to the Police Department, where Maj. Ernest W. Brown, super- intendent, is now conducting an in- vestigation. “There is nothing in the Yudelevit record,” said La Roe, “to justify a wholesale attack on the police. It would be manufestly unfair to accept the word of a convicted criminal gs a basis for condemning our police force.” Sy Suffers Bullet Wound. Suffering from a bullet wound in his abdomen, Carl Alexander, 43, colored, 1316 Eighth street, was in a serious condition in Emergency Hospital to- day. He received the wound about 9:45 last p.m. while visiting at 1244 Sixth-and-a-half street, the bullet having been fired from a pistol report- ed to have been accidentally dropped by Juanita Downing, 22, colored, 1335 Sixth street. Juanita was detained by the police. illed in Crash, Soaks Police Sent to Check Up Ninth precinct police found them- selves in “the soup” today when they went to investigate a traffic accident at Fourth and G streets northeast. The “soup” was being fra: on a truck to schools in the north- east section when the truck collided with a taxicab said to have been ope- rated by Clyde Dexter, 123 Bates street. Thomas Conway, colored, 26, 2058 Eighth street, a jumper on the soup truck, was treated at Casualty Hospital for lacerations to the scalp and abrasions on the face. His con- dition is not serious. Willis Taylor, 642 F street southwest, was the ope- rator of the truck. made. Immediately upon receiving news of the accident, which happened at 10 o’clock, Mrs. Katherine McFarland tions to take the place of those de- stroyed. Otherwise children in nine schools would have gone without their hot lunches today. A PARK SAVING PAYS FIRST DIVIDEND Thousands Crowd Bank for Checks—Merchants Are Elated. The insolvent Park Savings Bank, which nas been closed since March, about $600,000. Two lines of depositors formed out- side the doors before the bank opened at 9 o'clock and were lined up around the corner at Fourteenth and Kenyon streets by the time the doors opened. The first depositor to be admitted was Mrs. Adeline G. Bailey, 2523 Fourteenth street. The lobby soon was well filled with depositors of the bank, lined up at the four wind~ws, where checks, pre- viously made out, had been placed in alphabetical order. Under the plans completed by John F. Moran, receiver of the bank, de- positors presented at the window their receipts, which had been de- tached from the bottom of their proof of claim, when they turned in their pass hooks. When this receipt was passed through to the window by & depositor whose clafin had been proven, the clerk had ready a check for the depositor and handed it back immediately. There was no delay. Christmas Celebration. In the case of depositors who had failed to file their proof of claim, their payment was delayed, as it was necessary to make accurate audit of the account, and send the check to the Treasury Department for signa- ture. In the case of such people who had failed to file their proof of claim, it may be a week or 10 days before checks can be made availdble, Mr. Moran said. For thousands, however, the divi- dend today, was welcomed as & Christmas celebration, as the de- positors, who had waited so- long; ‘were repaid 20 per cent, in the midst of the Christmas shopping season. Stores along Fourteenth street, now welcoming expenditure of the divi- dend, have been gayly decorated for the Christmas season, and “Santa Claus lane” there blazes with lights every night. One of the brightest spots is a huge Christmas tree placed on the corner at the bank by the Co- lumbia Heights Business Men's Asso- ciation. lips said, ex| of your services possible through of the bank by Moran, who off obligations, including the loans from the Reconstruction 14 Upper: A section of the large crowd of depositors in the Park Savings Bank applying for a 20 per cent dividend on their deposits, the first since the bank remained closed after the bank holiday in March, 1933. A total of $600,000 was given out. Lower: Mrs. given her check by Receiver John P. yunn. 1933, today began payment of its first | dividend, of 20 per cent, amounting to | Cecelia Roetschi, a depositor, being —=Star Staff Photo. CARPENTERS QUIT | INWAGE DISPUTE Strike Is Called by Workers on Interior Depart- ment Job. Claiming their wages had-been cut | from $1.25 to $1.10 an hour, carpen- ters today walked out on strike from the Interior Department construction | of an extra floor on top of the old building. J. A. Rinis, business agent of the Carpenters’ District Council, who called the Interior Department strike, said that unless the confractor, Mc- Closkey & Co., agreed to a restoration of the $1.25 an hour, a strike also would be declared on another Mc- Clockey job here—the Woodrow Wil- son High School. About 12 men quit work on the In- terior job, but many more would be involved in a strike on the high school. Rinis explained the carpenters had been paid $1.25 an hour by McCloskey on the Interior job, until this morning, when they received notice they would be paid $1.10. The carpenters claim that under an agreement with contractors, upheld by the Board of Labor Review, the | scale here is now $1.25. Under the Public Works Adminis- tration the minimum scale according to an April 30, 1933, stipulation was $1.10." A city-wide strike here resulted last Summer in a new agreement with the Master Builders’ Association, which fixed the figure for New York at $1.25, to which certain large con- tractors on Government jobs, not members of the Master Builders’ Asso- ciation, agreed. In a dispute, the carpenters took the fight in June to the Board of Labor - Review, which held that all jobs contracted for at that time should paAy $1.10 an hour, but the board recommended to P. W. A. that thereafter all future jobs should pay carpenters $1.25 an hour. Recently carpenters struck for the higher figure on the new Internal Revenue Bureau addition, were granted the increase, and went back to work. Labor leaders and representatives of the McCloskey firm were under- mfin to be conferring on the situ- ation. Engineers to Meet. O. B. J. Fraser, superintendent of technical service for the International |of the most vital elements of Amer- Society’ and General NATION'S ARMEN MARK AVIATION'S 31ST BIRTHDAY Capital Leads in Paying Tribute to Orville and Wilbur Wright. FOUR CABINET MEMBERS GIVE RADIO ADDRESSES Broadcasts Featured by Talks From Planes Above Boston, Day- ton, Chicago, San Francisco. In the roar of airplanes above thou- sands of American cities and towns the Nation’s aviators today spoke their tribute to Orville and Wilbur Wright, the men who 31 years ago today gave them their wings. Led by the National Capital, which put more than 110 airplanes into the air in a massed flight, communities all over the country and in American territories joined in observance of National Aviation day, under the lead- ership of Federal and civil aviation officials. As several thousand airplanes took to the air at 10:30 o'clock this morn- ing, the hour at which the Wrights 31 years ago launched their little bi- plane in the face of an icy wind which swept the sand dunes at Kitty Hawk, N. C, four members of the cabinet | made brief radio addresses from Washington over a Nation-wide hook- up following a short radio dramatiza- tion of the first flight. The radio broadcast also featured talks by pilots broadcasting from their planes above | Boston, Dayton, Chicago and San Francisco. Land at Bolling Field. Pollowing their massed flight over | Washington, more than 100 airplanes | of the Army Navy, Marine Corps,| Coast Guard and Department of Com- | merce, with a scattering of privately owned and commercial airplanes from | six flelds around the city, landed at| Bolling Field. where they are on pub- | lic exhibition this afternoon from 12 noon to 4 p.m. The development of the airplane as & medium of transportation and the work of the Bureau of Air Commerce | in fostering and maintaining air com- { merce were described by Secretary of | Commerce Roper in the first of the | four cabinet radio addresses. He char- | acterized increased safety as the most vital of the results of Government ac- tivity in behalf of aviation. “In the short space of 31 years air- | craft performance has advanced tre- mendously, so that today the air force is one of the most important elements | of national defense,” Secretary Dern | said in his tribute to the Wrights. | Secretary Dzrn was followed in the | broadcast by an Army pilot flying | above Orville Wright's home in Day- ton, Ohio, who brosdcast a brief| message from his plane. Cites Governmental Aid. “It has been largely through gov- ernmental aid to aviation, adminis- tered by the Post Office Department, that this country has been enabled to take first place in world aviation,” Postmaster General Farley said in his | radio tribute. He traced the airmail service in its growth to a system covering routes totaling 28,795 miles, | serving cities in 47 States, and cover- ing 18,417 miles of foreign routes. The Postmaster General introduced Pilot Mal Freeburg, “the Nation's out- standing airmail pilot hero,” who! broadcast from his airmail plane while in flight over Chicago. Secretary of the Navy Swanson, closing the Cabinet broadcast, de- clared that “aviation today is not only an inseparable component of our fieet. but ‘we of the Navy consider il one ican sea power.” All airplanes of the Navy and Ma- rine Corps, Mr. Swans. said, were sent into the air today as “a living tribute to the inventive gemus of the Wright brothers, who placed this means of transportation in our hands.” Broadcast from Dirigible. The commemorative radio program closed with a broadcasi from the great Navy dirigible, U. S. S. Macon, flying over San Francisco, dcscribing the launching of airpianes from the airship and their return. The Nation’s “winged tribute” was arranged by Eugene L. Vidal, director | of air commerce, with the co-opera- tion of Federal aviation chiefs and | the heads of national aeronautical | organizations and commercial avia- | tion enterprises, headed by Elliott | Roosevelt, acting for the National | Aeronautic Association and the Aero- | nautical Chamber of Commerce. | Washington's tribute began at 10 am. with the take-off from Bolling | Field of the first elements of an Army Air Corps formation. The Army was followed by the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and Com- merce Department, a half-hour being required to get all the planes in the air. At 10:30 a number of privately owned aircraft from various airports around the city took off. For nearly an hour the air above ‘Washington was full of airplanes, with | formations visible in every direction. | Gradually the service planes as- sembled in a long column which passed over the heart of the city from north to south at low altitude in formal review formations. Continuing down the river to Alex- andria, Va., the column broke up and the planes returned to Bolling Field. As a part of their flight, the Army Air Corps planes passed over the route followed by Orville Wright and D. Foulois, then a lieuten- Benjamin ant in the Signal Corps, now major general and chief of the Army Afr Corps, in the world’s first cross-coun- try airplane flight, from Fort Myer to Va. Representative Jennings Randolph of West Virginia left Washington Air- port at 8:30 am. in a Department of Commerce 3 ipal airport W. Va., at 10:30 am. He then was to to Martinsburg, PAGE B—1 USE OF GAS TAX URGED FOR STREET WIDENING PLANS House Group Considers Plan to Pay Costs of Condemnation. WHITEHURST EXPLAINS 1936 HIGHWAY PROGRAM Sanitary Engineer Outlines Sewer Construction Designed to Pre- vent Flood Conditions. A proposal of the Budget Bureau that the gasoline tax fund instead of the general revenues be used to pay the cost of property condemned for street-widening purpcses was con- sidered today by the House Subcom- mittee on Appropriations, when it took up the Highway Department estimates in the 1936 District budget. The Budget Bureau, it was learned, recommended that a $200,000 item in the highway estimates for condemna- tions for street widening be supported by the gasoline tax fund, which in the coming fiscal year is estimated to amount to about $2,400,000. Here- tofore, the highway condemnation program has been supported out of the general revenues of the District. ‘Would Relieve Taxpayer. ‘The plan, it was pointed out, would relieve the taxpayer of contributing to the street-widening projects and place this burden on the motorist. The street and road improvement program for 1936 was explained in detail by Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director of highways, and one of the first witnesses called by the subcom- mittee. It is understood that the Budget Bureau made few changes in his program with the exception of the transfer of the condemnation item from the general revenues to the gasoline tax fund. John B. Gordon, sanitary engineer of the District, followed Capt. White- hurst and outlined the sewer con- struction program for 1936. Gordon's program, it is understood, contains a number of projects designed to pre- vent the flooded conditions in va- rious sections of the city during heavy rainstorms. Dr. Ballou Called. Dr. Prank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, and members of the Board of Education have been instructed to appear before the subcommittee to- morrow, when the school estimates are to be considered. These estimates, representing nearly one-third of the total of $41,000,000 budget, are among the most important and probably will take the entire day to go over. After the school estimates the sub- commitee plans to take up those of the Police and Fire Departments and the Board of Public Welfare. The welfare budget is another that is ex- pected to take considerable time to review, especially in view of Commis- sioned George E. Allens’ determina- tion to fight for an increase in emer- gency relief funds. The Commissioners sought $3,000,- 000 for emergency relief in the com- ing fiscal year, but the Budget Bureau reduced the amount to $2,000,000, the same as appropriated for the current fiscal year. Commissioner Allen be- lieves $3,000,000 will be the absolute | minimum required to meet the relief needs in 1936. CHILDREN’S ART WORK SHOWN HERE Sophistication Shown in Paint- ings of Young People From 48 Countries, A marked sophistication is shown in the international exhibition of paintings of children between the ages of 6 to 12 years, at the Art League of Washington galleries, 1503 Twenty- first street. ‘The paintings, distributed by tue College Art Association of New York, were viewed by sponsors and repre- sentatives of foreign countries 2t a pre-view Saturday evening. They are to continue on exhibit through Jan- uary 3, with the galleries open dai'y from 10 am. to 6 pm. and on Mon- day, Wednesday and Friday evenings from 8 to 10 o'clock. ‘The exhibition is being shown here under sponsorship of a number <f prominent men and women, incluaing Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Proceads will be used to start a local children’s club, where children of parents of moderate means will have access to selected books and a studio where a:t, dancing, dramatics and other creative work may be taken up under first-class supervision. The paintings include the work of children of 48 countries. Police Scout Car Stolen by Thieves, Who Keep Bombs Chain, Fire Extinguisher Also Missing When Motor Is Found. Apparently nothing is safe these days. Yesterday some nervy thief made off with a police scout car from under the very noses of the gendarm- erie assembled at No. 10 precinct sta- .| tion. One minute it was there, and the next minute somebody looked out and it was gone. The thief was in a good strategical position, because as he in his adopted car barked out: “Calling all cars—Ilook out for police scout car stolen from in front of No. 10 station.” . Taking the hint, the thief left the