Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1934, Page 19

‘Washington News CTY SEAOOL FUND REDUGED SAD000 BY BUDGETBLAEAL Increase of Two Million Over Present Year Shown Despite Cut. WINGS FOR ANACOSTIA BUILDING APPROVED Addition to John F. Cook Struc- ture Also Recommended to House Subcommittee. The Budget Bureau slashed ap- proximately $400,000 from the 1936 District public school estimates, it was learned today when the House Subcommittee on Appropriations be- gan consideration of these items in the District budget. Despite the reduction, the estimates as they came from the Budget Bu- reau represent an increase of about $2,000,000 over the school appropria- tion for the current fiscal year. The Commissioners sought a total of $12,065,962 for the schools in the coming fiscal year, of which $10,- 820,962 was earmarked for operating expenses, $1,110,000 for buildings and grounds, and $75,000 for purchase of sites for future use. In the pruning process at the Budget Bureau the total wes reduced to approximately $11,600,000. Work at Anacostia. One of the major items approved by the Budget Bureau provides $215,- 000 for beginning construction of two additional wings at the new Ana- costia Senior High School. The limit of cost of this addition is fixed at $315,000. The two new wings would be used for jumior high school activities, thus making the Anacostia building a com- bination junior and senior high school and the first of its type in Washing- ton. Among other school items approved by the Budget Bureau, it is under- stood, include a provision for an ad- dition to the John F. Cook School, on P street between North Capitol and First streets. Virtually all public school officials and several members of the Board of Education appeared before the sub- committee to defend the school esti- mates, jamming the room where the secret budget hearings are being held. These included Dr. Frank W. Bal- lou, superintendent; Dr. Stephen E. Kramer, Robert L. Haycock and Gar- mnet C. Wilkinson, assistant superin- tendents, and Jere J. Crane, business manager. City Heads Present. In addition the three Commission- ers, Hazen, Allen and Sultan, and Nathan C. Wythe, municipal archi- tect, aided school officials in justifying various items in the school estimates. Representative Cannon, Democrat of Missourl, chairman of the subcom- mittee, said every effort would be made to complete consideration of the school estimates today so the public welfare budget could be called up tomorrow. The aim of the subcommittee is to finish the budget hearings this week and mark up the appropriations bill during the Christmas holiday period. Cannon expects to have the bill ready to report to the House soon after Con- gress convenes January 3. With the school and welfare esti- mates out of the way the subcommittee will consider those of the Police, Fire and Water Departments and devote the final day of the hearings to civic and business representatives who want to be heard. Road Estimates Finished. ‘The subcommittee later yesterday completed consideration of the esti- mates of the Highway Department and those of J. B. Gordon, sanitary engi- neer, the Public Employment Bureau and the Municipal Playground Depart- ment. Incidentally, it is understood, dis- satisfaction was expressed by sub- committee members with the Dis- trict's comparatively new high-tem- perature incinerators which have been operating during the current fiscal year on a part-time basis because of a limited appropriation. The position was taken, it was said, that the in- cinerators are not functioning as ef- ficiently and economically as antici- pated. One is located in Georgetown and the other in Southeast Wash- n. Representative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas is reported to have inserted in the record of the hearing a letter he sald he received from William McK. Clayton, chairman of the Public Utilities Committee of the Federation of Citizens® Associations, relating to Wwilliam A. Roberts, people’s counsel, and the movement to have meters in- stalled on taxicabs. Clayton and Roberts engeged in a heated argument over the taxicab meter situation at a meeting of the federation Saturday. WHITE HOUSE OPENED Visitors May Inspect Basement and First Floor. Beginning Priday the public again will be pegrmit.!ed to visit the lower floors of the White House at specified hours. Since last June when work was started on the new executive office and the lower floors of the White House were turned over to the ex- ecutive staff, the mansion has been closed to tourists and other sightseers. Now that the executive office is com- pleted and the lower floors have been renovated, the customary daily sched- ulefor visitors will be followed. This means that the basemert floor and the first floor will be opened to visitors from 11 to 1 o'clock each day except Sunday. —_— DANCE IS ARRANGED Capt. R. S. Patton, director, and Capt. J. H. Hawley, assistant director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, will be honor guests tonight at the annual supper dance of the instrument divi- sion of the survey at the Madrillon. Arrangements were made by a com- mittee composed of Charles C. Dunn, chairman; Mrs. Martha Perr, Charles Vimmisch, Carl Stebr and Thomas Bresnahan, 4 PATRICK J. SULLIVAN. PATRICK SULLIVAN, FIRE VETERAN, DIES Battalion Chief 37 Years in Department—Wells Is Named Successor. Battalion Chief Patrick Joseph Sul- livan of the District Fire Departmewt, a veteran of 37 years’ service, died today at George Washington Uni- versitv Hospital. He had been {ll since last July and death was due to arteriosclerosis. Chief Sullivan, who recently passed his 60th birthday anniversary, en- tered the department in July, 1897, and was promoted through the ranks to battalion chief. Early this year he had been designated to act as deputy chief engineer in any case of emergency. He is survived hy his widow and six children, The children are Joseph, Vincent, John and Francis, all un- married and residing in Washington, and Mrs. Margaret Sullivan of Chi- cago and Mrs. Elizabeth O'Brien of Buffalo. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Lieutenant in 1904. Sullivan was prothoted to lieutenant in 1904 and to a captaincy in 1907. He was made a battalion chief engi- neer in 1931. He served as an alter- nate member of the Fire Department Trial Board in 1933. During his career he rescued Mrs. M. A. Cooke from the fire at the Hub Furniture Co. building, and was awarded a ribbon decoration for work performed at the Knickerbocker Theater collapse January 28, 1922, and ‘was commended by the Commissioners for services at the Kann's warehouse fire January 13, 1925. Wells Is Successor. Capt. C. A. Wells, commander of No. 2 truck company, New Hampshire avenue and M street, was selected this morning by the Commissioners to succeed Sullivan as battalion chief. A formal order for promotion of Capt. Wells was withheld to await approval of President Roosevelt on the filling of the vacancy. Capt. Wells has been in service in the fire department for 28 years. Capt. Wells entered the department | in July, 1906, was made a sergeant in 1915 and was promoted to be a lieutenant in 1918. He was made a captain in 1926, and a year later was designated to act as a battalion chief in case of emergency. He, too, was awarded the decoration for work at the Knickerbocker Theater disaster, and has been commended for the rescue of several persons during fires. WARNS AGAINST FAKE SALESMEN FOR V. F. W. Department Commander Says Or- ganization Has Nothing to Sell in Relief Program. Nathan D. Golden, department commander of the Veterans of For- eign Wars, today issued a warning to the public against purchasing any Christmas goods offered by salesmen who represent themselves as coming from the V. F. W, Golden said racketeers have been soliciting orders by telephone for candy, later sending around a sales- man, who explains that the profits are to be used in the V. F. W.s Christmas relief work. No such method is used, Golden said, by the veterans’ organization and purchasers of the candy prob- ably are overcharged. He explained that the V. F. W. has nothing for sale in connection with its relief program. Graduate RECEIVES DIPLOMA FROM DRAMATIC SCHOOL. MISS MARIAN WOLBERG, Local entertainer, who was among the graduates of the Clifford Brooke Dramatic School Sunday night. She recently won a screen contest, conducted by the Metro~ Goldwyn-Mayer Film Co., over 10,000 contestants, (¥ e Foening Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION | ' WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1934 FUND FOR PAROLE BOARD ADVOCATED BY MONDAY CLUB Organization Indorses “Sin- cere Efforts” ofv Members to Improve System. PROPOSAL FOR PROBE ATTACKED BY LA ROE Acting Chairman Declares He Fears “Possible Loss of Independence.” With a request that Congress ap- propriate money for the operation of the District Parole Board, the Mon- day Evening Club was on record to- day as indorsing the “sincere ef- forts” of its members to establish an adequate parole system. The club's action was taken last night after a discussion of the “Es- sentials cf an Adequate Parole Sys- tem,” at the conclusion of which Wilbur La Roe, jr., acting chairman of the Parole Board, charged that “heavy pressure” is being brought to bear on the board, “sometimes even from United States Senators.” He did not name them. “What is giving us serious concern,” he said, “is the possible loss of our independsnce.” He then made the charge of “heavy pressure” and con- cluded with the observation that if the board did lose its independence it would be practically valueless. Defends Parole Board. La Roe pointed out the Parole Board members serve without pay, that the board has no staff, that there is no educational system in operation at the District penal in- stitution at Lorton, Va., to aid it in selecting prisoners for parole and that its tasks are almost insur- mountable. Attacking the proposal to conduct a congressional investigation of the board, La Roe said he would like to tell the member of Congress who sug- | gested it: “You set up an ideal system in the District of Columbia, but you didn't give us one penny to work with and not a single parole officer to work with.” He said that through the co-opera- tion of officials at Lorton he had been loaned one parole officer, but that he had the task of supervising 200 men “walking the streets of Washington today.” Pledges Three-Point Program. However, he pledged the board to a three-point program: | 1. To keep in Lorton all dangerous criminals. 2. To rehabilitate, as far as is pos- sible without funds, all paroled pris- oners, especially younger men. 3. To give those who are paroled “careful, attentive, big-brother treat- ment” to see that they are restored to normal places in society. La Roe cited statistics to show that of the last 2,219 crimes committed in the District, only 3—all joy-riding —have been charged to individuals pa- roled by this board. He said also he is opposed to the publication of the records of prisoners who are paroled. Fred A. Moran, executive director of parole for New York State, the principal speaker, said that from a hasty observation he believes the Dis- trict has “as pernicious a system in some respects as we in New York State.” He referred to the operation of “good-time” laws and the lack of proper facilities to train and rehabili- tate prisoners for normal lives in so- clety. The outstanding needs for an adequate parole system in the opinion of Moran, recognized as an authority on the subject, are: 1. A full-time, Parole Board. 2. Removal of inequalities in the sentencing of prisoners for the same types of crime. 3. Sound educational systems in penal institutions and . adequately staffed classification boards to select prisoners for parole. 4. Definite rehabilitation projects and planned treatment for the paroled prisoners. 5. Trained personnel and a suffi- cient staff. Allen Nolan, of the District Re- habilitation Bureau, expressed the opinion one of the essentials of an adequate parole system is “the co- operation of the judiciary with the Parole Board in giving sentences so the board could have some say as to how long a prisoner should stay in the penitentiary.” Bates Differs With Nolan. He proposed the judge say: *T sentence you to prison.” Then, under his scheme, the Parole Board could investigate the man, rehabilitation could be begun in prison and when the board thought he was ready it could grant him a parole. Sanford Bates, Federal prison direc- tor, however, suggested the District’s indeterminate sentence law be re- voked and the Federal minimum- maximum sentence law be substi- tuted. He warned that confusion will arise between the two systems in cases of District prisoners who are sent to Federal institutions because of the lack of a wall around Lorton. Also, he contended, the Federal system works out much better in the matter of parole. About the administration of parole, Bates had this to say: “Unless a parole board is equipped to get the cold, hard facts about a man—not indorsements or sponsors or letters from politicians—then there mju&tuwefl not be a parole adequately paid JURY TRIAL DEMANDED Woman Pleads Not Guilty to Shoplifting Charge. Mrs. Lida Noonan, 54, of 5102 Sherrier place, pleaded not guilty to a charge of petty larceny and de- manded trial by jury when arraigned “today before Police Court Judge Ralph Given. Bond was set at $300. Mrs. Noonan was arrested Saturday squad. She was charged with having placed a dress over a pocket book belonging to Margaret Sears, 3121 Seventh street northeast, and later attempting to leave the store with it. The statement of facts was signed by Pvt. Charles A. -Berry, eleventh precinct. bt ool UL S S S, ISR e P S e e R B e bl SRRV L AR s MU DO B RS e ot o SRS o B I I o [ S S B A SR L s Sl ) S M o M 5L L B 0y IR, 1 o SO s ol SIS . s S Bk BB L58 JREERE o B B B L L New Benning Bridge Completed ‘Two views of the new Benning Bridge over the Anacostia River, which was completed today. The bridge, constructed of concrete covered steel, was started in January, 1933. It cost $450,000 and the funds were ob- tained from the gasoline tax revenues, The bridge proper was completed a month ago, but the roadways were not ready for use until today. GREAT FALLS PLAN OPPOSEDBY ICKES Report on U. S. Resources Serves as Entering Wedge on Issue. Secretary Ickes indicated today he would oppose any movement to har- ness Great Fally for the development of hydro-electric power. The report of the National Re- sources Board, of which Ickes is chair- man, included water power develop- ment among its recommendations for work projects in the Potomac River basin. Secretary Ickes said that only Presi- dent Roosevelt can declare a policy with respect to development of Great Falls. Although Congress several years ago effectively disposed of this question, the recommendations made by the National Resources Board serve as an entering wedge for its reopen- ing in the new Congress. Ickes said he could not commit him- self on it, but added: “When it comes to using a natural resource like Great Falls for water power development, then it ought to be clearly demon- strated it can be done without impair- ing the beauty of the falls.” Mr. Ickes is personally interested in the development of the George Wash- ington Memorial Parkway extension into the area of the falls. ‘The question of pollution of the Po- tomac River also brought up in the report of the National Resources Board, is one which Ickes is unable to discuss at the present time. He is fa- vorably disposed toward it, explaining that he would “like to see all our rivers cleared of pollution.” MAN REPORTED BETTER AFTER FOOD POISONING Transients’ Committee Head Be- came Ill After Eating Meal at Bureau. Lewis B. Smith, 33, 600 block of D street, is improving at Emergency Hospital, where he has been under treatment since Saturday for food poisoning, it was reported today. He became violently ill after eating a meal at the Transient Bureau. Smith is head of a self-formed Committee of Transients, who recently complained against conditions at the Transient Bureau, resulting in an in- vestigation. He was also the com- plaining witness against two other transients in an assault case. The case was dismissed in Police Court. FEDERAL SURVEY UNITS ALLOTTED P.W.A. FUNDS $2,107,800 Granted Geodetic and Geological Services Will En- able Work Extensions. Allotments of $1,489,800 to the Coast and Geodetic Survey and $618,- 000 to tre Geological Survey were made today by the Public Works Ad- ministration. Through these funds, the Coast and Geodetic Survey will bring up-to-date its surveys to modernize navigation charts and complete the development of maps and reports from information compiled in the field. ‘The allotment to the Geological Survey will enable that organization to continue its topographical surveys. This supplemental program, estimated to provide 600,000 man-hours of di- rect employment to engineers, can begin immediately in the Southern States and be extended to the North as Spring advances. COLORED MAN SOUGHT “Full-Fashion Slim” Wanted for Assault on Transient. J. D. Smith, alias “Full-Fashion Slim,” colored, 50, was sought by po- lice today on a charge of assaulting and wounding Thomas Johnson, 25, colored, in the Transient Bureau, 649 N street, last night. Both were resi- dents of the bureau. Johnson is in Freedmen's Hospital with a fractured skull, and his condi- tion is described as critical. Smith is mlccused of hitting him with a furnace Stamp Speaker FRANK A. BICKERT, Authority, on the stamps of the German colonies and offices abroad, who will be the guest and principal speaker at the meeting of the ‘Washington Philatelic Society, Hotel Carlton, Sixteenth street, to- morrow evening at 8. An execu- tive officer of the Home Owners’ Loan Corp., he has been active for many years in New York and New Jersey stamp circles and is credited with having been the first to sug- gest the Lindbergh airmail issue of 1928. —Star Staff Photo. CARPENTER STRIKE REFERREDTOU.S. Contractor Asks National Park Service About 15 Cents Added Pay. ‘The carpenters’ strike on the In- terior Building over a pay reduction of 15 cents an hour was referred back to the Government today by the con- tractor, McCloskey & Co. ‘The contractor in a formal pres- entation to the National Parks Service, which let the contract, asked the Government if it would pay the 15 cents additional asked by the car- penters. ‘The carpenters, who have been working &t the rate of $1.25 an hour, were notified that, beginning this week, their pay would be $1.10 an hour, the minimum specified by the Public Works Administration in a ruling of April, 1933. The carpenters, standing on whaé they claim is a recommendation of the Board of Labor Review last June for $1.25 an hour for future contracts, went on strike for the higher figure. The carpenters’ union also removed 13 carpenters from the Woodrow Wilson High School, being constructed by the same contractor, although these men were still receiving $1.25 an hour. The Interior Department job is being done with P. W. A. money and the high school job with District appropri- ations. The contractor, according to D. Scott, superintendent, has a provision in his contract that if the P. W. A. should authorize an increase in wages upon recommendation of the Board of Labor Review, the extra cost should be paid by the Government to the con- tractor for distribution to labor. Mc- Closkey takes the position the P. W. A, has never ordered the higher rate, and therefore the $1.10 scale still is in effect. . The carpenters contend the Board of Labor Review should be followed by the P. W. A. and that the $1.25 rate is in effect. They have an agree- ment with the Master Builders’ Asso- clation, negotiated through Commis- sioner Allen last Summer, for $1.25, which is now the prevailing scale for union carpenters in Washington. Aircraft Doper Needed. The Civil Service Commission to- day announced an examination for aircraft doper and fabric worker in the Aircraft Corps, Langley Field, Va. Four years’ experience is required and applications will be received until January 14. The pay is $1,800-$2,500, minus the statutory reduction. Full | Statistics Reveal —Star Staff Photos. OGTOBER RELEF HEE 1S 172% Capital Stands 19th in List of 32 Cities. The District had 17.2 per cent of its population on the relief list in October, giving it the rank of nine- teenth among a list of 32 cities, ac- cording to statistics compiled by Le- roy A. Halbert, research director for the Emergency Relief Division. “It will be noted that Washington appears well below the half-way mark (among the 32 cities) from which it is | apparent that the proportion of per- sons on relief here is not excessive as compared with other cities,” he stated. Furthermore, Halbert said, Wash- ington would have really had twenty- third place if the same average num- ber of persons per family had been used for the District as tor the other cities. The figure used for the Dis- trict was 3.81, whereas the Census Bureau statistics show the average figure to be 3.27. This would have made a difference of 15 in the per- Cefi;&ge figure for those on relief, he said. The 32 cities listed were those hav- ing populations ranging between 250,000 and 1,000,000. Atlanta took first place in the per- centage of population on relief, with 31 per cent. Next in order were To- ledo, Birmingham and Cincinnati, with more than 20 per cent on relief. Louisville was in lowest rank with a little less than 5 per cent on relief. e POSTER CONTEST OPEN Knights of Columbus Sponsor Event for All Students. The Knights of Columbus are sponsoring a poster contest open to students of the schools and colleges of the District. All posters must be in by January 12 at 9 pm. The contest is being held in connection with the organi- zation's “Kermess,” which is sched- uled for February 2 to 9. The posters must bear the lettering “Knights of Columbus Kermess, February 2 to 9, 1935, Knights of Columbus Home.” The student submitting the best poster will be awarded $25, the sec- ond best, $15, and the third, $10. HEADS MUSICIANS A. C. Hayden Elected President of Protective Union. A. C. Hayden was elected presiderg of the Musicians’ Protective Union for the twenty-eighth consecutive year at the annual meeting Sunday at the headquarters of the union, 1105 Six- teenth street. Other officers elected were Ralph Fox, vice president; John E. Birdsell, secretary; Harry C. Manvell, treasurer; Robert E. Clark, John D. Lockwood, George W. Scott and Lloyd S. Tyler, board members. —_— GROCER IS SUED J. B. Spund Charged With Oper- ating Auto Negligently. Charging that Jacob B. Spund, local grocer, was operating his automobile negligently last December when Mrs. Virginia Pflieger was struck by the machine and fatally injured, Marietta Myers, administratrix of Mrs. Pflieger’s estate, filed suit in District Supreme Court today for $10,000. She was represented by Attorney A. Henry Walter. The accident occurred l:mce)onnectwt avenue and Rodman street. —_— BISHOP TO OFFICIATE Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, and Rev. Ze Barney T. Phillips, rector, will officiate at the candlelight Christmas service to be given at Epiphany Epis- copal Church on Priday afternoon. A short program by Adolf Torovsky, organist, will open the sérvice, after which the Washington Choral Society will present Bach’s “Christmas Ora- torio.” Christmas carols and hymns will follow. The final rehearsal of the Choral Society is planned tonight at Central Community Center. Society and General Woman Is Given High Civil Service Post in St. Paul Miss Rena B. Smith First in History to Head District. For the first time in its history, the Civil Service Commission has named a woman to the important post of district manager, placing Miss Rena B. Smith in charge of the eighth dis- trict at St. Paul. In this position, Miss Smith, who has been assistant district manager in Boston, will have complete charge of all civil service matters in Min- nesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Jowa. Outside of mem- bership on the commission itself, it was believed she is holding the high- est administrative poston ever gven to a woman in this Government agency. Miss Smith entered the service of the commission in Boston 20 years ago as a clerk-stenographer at $840 8 year. She later transferred to ‘Washington and served as secretary to two chief examiners H. A. Fowler and H. A. Edson. She returned to Boston on January 1, 1932. At St. Paul she is succeeding C. C. Everett. In all, the Civil Service Commis- sion has 13 district managers, in addition there is a fleld office at Denver which comes under the San Francisco district, and here the as- sistant manager is a woman, Miss Pearl Hopper. DESERTED BANDIT | CAR IS LOGATED ‘Wounded Bank Runner Is Recovering After Hold-up at Union Station. ‘The automobile in which two ban- dits made their escape yesterday after | the hold-up and shooting in front of the Union Station of Frank Laporte, 52-year-old Riggs National Bank run- | ner, was located today abandoned on | Adams street between North Capitol and First streets. Laporte, from whom the bandit took | approximately $1,900 in cash and checks, is recovering from the effects | of a bullet wound in the leg. At| Casualty Hospital, where he was taken | immediately after the shooting, it was asserted today that he is much im- proved and his condition not con- sidered serious. , Police are convinfed that Laporte’s movements had been under surveil- lance by the bandits for a sufficient length of time for them to time his| appearance in front of the station to| the minute, making it easy to grab the loot and make their escape during the excitement. FEDERAL EMPLOYES TO GET PAY.IN CASH New Treasury Ruling to Apply to All in $2,500 or Lower Brackets. Within about two months all of Washington'’s Government employes with salaries below a tentatively set figure of $2,500 will receive their pay in cash instead of by check, William H. McReynolds, administrative assist- ant to the Secretary of the Treasury, said today. Those whose salaries fall within the higher brackets will continue to re- ceive their pay by check. No definite date has been set for putting the plan into effect, but Mec- 60 days. The change will not be made at the same time in all or- ganizations, but according to office convenience. Today’s announcement came in the form of a letter to the Washington Board of Trade, which long has ad- vocated some Government pay system that would do away with the con- fusion and congestion of each pay day when workers hurry to have their checks cashed and spend their money. Merchants and banks here received the announcement with satisfaction. — e SOCIAL SERVICE BUREAU URGED FOR GALLINGER Women's Auxiliary of District of Columbia Medical Society Makes Request. A social service bureau was urged for Gallinger Hospital in a statement issued today by the Women's Aux- iliary of the Mediocal Society of the District of Columbia. The statement said requests for estimates to support such a bureau have been submitted by the superin- tendent of the hospital and the Dis- trict Board of Public Welfare in the sum of $11,240, including one chief worker at $2,600, four assistants at $1,800 and one clerk at $1,440. NATHAN PLOTNICK HEADS HEBREW ASSOCIATION Elected President of Beneficial Order at Meeting at Jewish Community Center. Nathan Plotnick was elected presi- dent of the Hebrew Beneficial As- sociation at its meeting Sunday night | at the Jewish Community Center. Other officers elected are: Hyman Ratner, vice president; M. L. Drebben, financial secretary; A. L. Pavis, recording secretary; Jacob R. Selis, general treasurer; Charles Rapaport, endowment tfeasurer, and Dr. Isadore e, 3 Members of the Executive Com- mittee are A. C. Selis, Morris Rubin and Hyman Cohen. Morris Gar- finckel was elected chairman of the Free Loan Committee, Morris Fleish- man, secretary-treasurer; 8. H. Black, chairman of the disability fund; Harry Ziggels, secretary, and Abram Tash, treasurer. The officers will be installed at the ocenter on December 30. - PAGE B—1 ' AAADISTRIBUTES BIDS T0 YULE FETE IN THREE STATES Prospective Visitors Get Thousands of Invita- i tions and Maps. ROPER WILL PRESIDE AT LIGHTING OF TREE Program Will Be Carried Over Nation-Wide Networks of N.B.C.and C. B. S. Thousands of invitations are being distributed throughout Maryland, Vir- ginia and Pennsylvania by the Amer~ ican Automobile Association in an ef« fort to make Washington's community Christmas tree celebration in Lafay- ette Park on Christmas eve an inter state affair, according to an announce- ment today. Ernest N. Smith executive vice president of the association, said ap- proximately 15,000 invitations and specially prepared maps will be placed in the hands of prospective visitors, He said the association’s co-operation is in line with efforts of past years to focus attention on the national aspects of the Christmas tree, which is lighted annually by the President. Roper Will Preside. ‘The lighting of the tree will sym- bolize the beginning of Yuletide throughout the country. The national chairman and presiding officer will be Secretary of Commerce Roper, who will introduce President Roosevelt. The lights will go on at 5:10 p.m. The Executive Committee, headed by Mrs. Elizabeth K. Peeples, director of the Community Center Department, and Ovid Butler, vice chairman, today announced details of the program, which will be carried over Nation-wide networks of the National Broadcasting Co. and the Columbia Broadcasting System. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader of the Marine Band, will present a concert from 4:30 to 5 pm. and direct the singing of the Christmas carols by the audience, led by the Gordon Junior High Scheol Carolers, supervised by Miss Mary Minge Wilkins. Bartlett Heads Committee. John S. Bartlett is chairman of the coramittee in charge of trimming and lighting the tree. Albert Clyde-Bur- ton, assistant superintendent of the National Capital Parks, is attending to the details of the physical arrange- ments around the tree. Serving with Bartlett are N. H, Barnes, E. Graham, Frank T. Shull, L. T. Souder and Harold Snyder. John A. Remon is chairman of the Committee on Broadcasting and assist= ing him are Curtis Hodges, vice chaire man; Harry Butcher of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Leroy Mark of the American Broadcasting Co. and F. M. Russell of the National Broad= casting Co. The guard of honor for the Presi- dent and Mrs. Rocsevelt will comprise Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, who will also act as ushers, guides and gate~ keepers. LABOR UNITS MOVE INTO NEW BUILDING Bureaus in Department to Be Shifted by Jan- uary 1. All ‘The Labor Department will begin he new year by occupying all its quarters in the new Labor Building on Constitution avenue. This was made certain today as units of the Bureau of Labor Statis- tics ‘began moving from old quarters on G street into the new monumental building which Secretary Frances M. Perkins had renovized in many ways to improve facilities for her employes. About 80 men and women were moving today into offices on the sec- ond floor of the new Labor Building. Officials said the moving will be gradual with every propspect of all bureau$ being newly quartered by Jan- uary 1. ‘The Children’s Bureau in the Wide~ ner Building and the Women's Bu- reau on F street are the next units to move into new quarters. It was not known when Secretary Perkins would leave her present of- fices, but it will probably be within the next week. At the direction of Miss Perkins architects have made many changes in the new Labor Building. They have installed safety proof floors to replace slippery marble floors. Center lighting facilities and rest facilities for employes also have been installed. Labor officials said that these changes did not add to the cost of the build- ing as most of them were made during construction work. All the changes, it was said, were made in the interests and efficiency of workers. TOOTH WORTH $1,000 Percy L. Kise Gets Award When Wrong Molar Is Pulled. A sound tooth was valued at $1,000 today by the District Supreme Court jury, which awarded that sum to Percy L. Kise, 441 Tenth street north- east, who had complained that his dentists extracted the wrong molar when he went to them for treatment. Kise told the jury he visited the dentists, Herbert C. Smathers and Ed- win Yost, 638 I street, for extraction of a lower wisdom tooth. He said they first pulled out the wrong tooth and in other ways failed to give him proper treatment. He was represented by Attorneys Charles S. Baker and Benjamin L, Tepper. Employes to Meet Friday. Elwood Street, director of the Board of Public Welfare, and Miss Alice M. Hill, director of emergency relef, will address District Emergency Re- lief Lodge, American Federation of Government Employes, at the Har- rington Hotel, at 8:15 Friday night.