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oeenven | The Sundiy Star SCHOOL PROJECTS AMONG 22 PUSHED FORP. W.A.FUNDS Two Senior Highs Included in Works Favored by Studebaker. REPORT TO ICKES ASKS TOTAL OF $625,999,022 Sum Would Pérmit New Building in 45 States and District. $2,985,000 for Capital. Plans and specifications for two new | genior high schools, a new vocational | school and a new elementary school ' are included in the 22 projects for! which public works funds have been recommended for the District of Co- Jumbia by Dr. John W. Studebaker United States commissioner of edu- cation. Dr. Studebaker submitted a report to Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, public works administrator, asking that school needs be met in the new public works appropriations to the extent of $625999,022, to care for new construction in 45 States and the District. The item for the District listed by Dr. Studebaker was for 22 jobs total- ing $2.985000. Eighteen of the items call for additions or improvements in present school structures, and of these partial provision for four was made in the District appropriations bill as already passed by the House and as now pending before the Senate. Six Land Purchases Made. In addition, the commissioner’s re- port included six land purchases, totaling an estimated $515,500 expen- diture for still further expansion, Including sites for a junior high school, two elementary schools, two schools for crippled children and an addition to one existing school campus. . The list of projects was made public yesterday by Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, upon his return from Atlantic City, where he spent most of the week attending a convention of the Department of Superintendence of the National Edu- cation Association. Dr. Ballou explained that the list had been prepared several months ago before the use of P. W. A. money had been considered. it was hoped to have them all, the 22 building projects and the six land purchases, included in the 1936 budget. Projects Scaled Down. All four projects for which the House has voted funds were scaled down below the estimates made by the Board of Education and the Dis- trict Commissioners. The largest of these was the addition of two senior high school wings to the Anacostia Junior High School for which $370,- 000 was sought. The House author- ized an appropriation of $350,000 but made available immediately only $250,000 for the work. The others for which the House approved appropriations included an 8-room building and assembly gym- nasium as a part of the J. F. Cook School, on P street between North | Capitol and First streets, $155.000 | sought and $110.000 approved; a 10- room addition and gymnasium at the Eliot Junior High School, Eighteenth and B streets northeast, $190.000 | asked and $175,000 approved. and a 12-room addition to the Randall Junior High School, I street between Half and First streets southwest, $145.000 asked and $100,000 approved by the House. Thirty thousand dollars each was asked for plans and specifications for the two proposed new senior high schools. One of these would be a school for white students in the northern section of the city, cor- responding to Eastern, Western and Central, and probably located in or | near Manor Park. The other would be located in Northeast Washington, possibly on the tract now owned by the school system just north of Ben- ning road and Twenty-fourth street. It would be for' colored students. School Cost $115,000. The proposed new elementary school would be located on Bladensburg road near Mount Hamilton and the esti- mated cost would be $115,000. This would be in addition to the system | that has seen 25 new elementary &chools adced to the system dunngi the past 10 years. The estimated cost of a new Denni- son vocaticnal school was fixed at $280,000. This@would replace the | present inedeqlate and obsolescent structure for white girls on S street (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) 76 NEW WATERFOWL ENTER SANCTUARY | Roaches Run Retreat Becomes! Home of Ducks and Other Wad- ing Birds From South. Seventy-six new wild ducks and wading birds today were getting ac- quainted with their new home—the National Capital Waterfow] Sanctuary at Roaches Run, bordering the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway. ‘The birds came from the Avery Island, Louisiana Bird Sanctuary, and included seven pairs each of Pintail, Ring-neck, Lesser Scarup and Blue- winged Teal ducks, 10 Coots and 10 Florida Gallinule. Paul F. Hodge, caretaker at the sanctuary here, is in charge of the new birds. E. A. Mcllhenny, founder of the Avery Island Sanctuary, at the sug- gestion of F. C. Lincoln of the Bio- | logical Survey, made the presenta- tion. C. Marshall Finnan, superin- tendent of the National Capital Parks, expressed thanks for the gift. “The Florida Gallinule will provide & unique attraction for bird lovers,” said a statement yesterday. Gallinules, which are somewhat small- - er than a pigeon, have green legs, blue-back bodies and a red horn in the center of their heads. Coots have been regular visitors at Roaches Run during their period of migration.” Officials recalled that the flock of Canada and blue geese; now at Roach- es Run, is the gift of McIlhenny, A ' At that time | Grady, Assistant Secretary of Labor. As 1,000 Paid Him Tribute || SURVEY OF COURTAGTION ON 1,300 North Carolina (left), vice chairman Leaders Join Employes in Testimonial. | A. E. Giegengack, public printer, | | was paid tribute last night at Ward- man Park Hotel, where, in the pres- ence of an overflow attendance at a | testimonial dinner in two adjoining | rooms, he was praised by administra- | tion leaders, by labor leaders, and by | |a commission from Gov. Ruby La- ! foon of Kentucky, who made him a Kentucky colonel. 5 { It was one of the largest testi- | | monials ever given by a group of em- | ployes to a Government official, and | | was attended by a gathering esti- | mated at about 1,000. Music and en- { tertainment featured the program, which was concluded with dancing. A public address system was used to | carry voices of the speakers and en- tertainers to all corners of the con- tinental room, and the colonial room of the hotel, both of which were filled with diners. Giegengack Gratified. In response to several tributes, Giegengack expressed appreciation. and predicted that with Roosevelt at the helm of the New Deal, “nobody will ever again put over the old idea of great corporations and inside groupings running this country.” “We need have no fear about the changes taking place,” he declared. “The country will still hang together, but the government of affairs and the benefits, political and economic, are now more directly in the hands of the people themselves. It is what Democracy means. The New Deal seeks to give more security to 125,000 people, and not concentrate all the blessings to a small group, as has been done in the past. That is the essence of the New Deal” He de- clared the only safe course would be to maintain the leadership of the President. . The public printer referred with feeling to his mother, who was pres- ent. Turning to her, Giegengack said he wished publicly to share the hon- ors with his mother, Mary Fitzger- ald, “who was a printer before me.” He also paid tribute to his wife, who was seated near his mother. Fletcher Pays Tribute. Dr. George C. Havenner, chairman of the General Committee, introduced | the toastmaster of the evening, Rep-| resentative J. Walter Lambeth of North Carolina, vice chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing. Senator Fletcher of Florida, chair- man of the Joint Committee on Print- ing, and of the Committee on Bank- ing and Currency, paid the public printer a high tribute for his manage- ment of the Government Printing Of- fice. Other speakers included Repre- sentative Robert F. Rich, President Harry B. Mitchell of the Civil Service Commission, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor; Maj. George L. Berry, president of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ Union of North Amer- ica and division administrator of the N. R. A.; John J. Deviny, executive vice psesident of the United Typothe- tae of America, and Edward F. Mc- The commission of colonel was pre- sented by Representative W. V. Greg- ory of Kentucky. Scientists at the Natioral Museum will examine and preserve the tiny, silver-gray body of one of the strang- est bears ever born in captivity, a cross between a polar and kadiak 3ear. which died at the Zoo yester- ay. : The cub was born to a kadiak moth- jer and a polar bear father on Febru- ary 15. The mother, as is the cus- tom, refused to emerge from her den while nursing her young. From the noises coming from the den, keepers surmised there were at least two cubs. Dr. Willlam M. Mann, Zoo direc- tor, and Headkeeper William H. Black- burne were elated. Such a cross- WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY PROCEDURE. HERE PROPOSED BY KING Senator Also Will Offer Bill for New Codification of Laws. PLANS CONFERENCE WITH MRS. NORTON Study Would Seek to Define Fed- eral and District Juris- dic ion. A survey of court procedure in the District to find out whether the city's Judicial system is in need of improve- ment was proposed last night by MORNING, MARCH 3, 1935. PAYLESS WORKERS INTREASURY NEAR Vigorous Plea Made for Em- ployes by Morgenthau Be- fore Subcommittee. SEES BLOW TO MORALE IN WKELLAR'S RIDER Secretary Says croaches on Civil Service—Sen- timent Is Yet Undetermined. Congress En- ‘The fate of the 1,300 Treasury em- ployes, who have been working with- | out pay for three months as a result of the McKellar rider on current ap- propriations, prohably will be decided and toastmaster of the evening, sml.l:s broadly. CIEGENGACK PAID | HONOR AT I]INNERJ iAdministration and Labor | demand union wage scales for | lic works,” he said. breed was unheard of and the se- cluded family seemed to be doing fine. A carefully selected diet was passed in to the mother. Yesterday morning, however, there Chairman King of the Senate Dis- ‘tflcl Commuttee, who suggested the study be made by a joint Senate and | House committee. The Senator announced at the Public Printer Giegengack (right), shown at testimonial dinner last night shaking hands with Dr. George C. Havenner (center), chairman of the Testimonial Committee, as Representative J. Walter Lambeth of of the Joint Committee on Printing —Star Staff Photo. THOMAS ASSAILS SECURITY PLAN Socialist Tells Unemployed How Relief Wages Will Break Scale. By the Associated Press President Roosevelt's social security program was called an “insecurity pro- gram” yesterday by Norman Thomas, former Socialist candidate for Presi- dent, in an address here before a national convention of the unem- ployed. The group yesterday opened a three-day session at the headquarters of the Plasterers and Cement Finish- ers’ Union, No. 86, 1024 New Jersey avenue. Urging the jobless to organize and the pendings works bill, Thomas sug- gested “unemployment indemnity” for those who cannot be absorbed by public work, “The President cannot meet the needs of the unemployed solely by pub- “The appropria- tion he requests, huge as it is, will be inadequate; his plan for a wage less than the prevailing rate will break wage standards and destroy unions. His unemployment insurance plan means nothing to those now unem- ployed and is so inadequate and un- Eorkable as to jeopardize the whole ea. Outlines Program Ideas. “I urge these points: First, in- sistence on public works, especially housing, on a basis equivalent in terms of annual income at least to the pre- vailing rate of wages. Housing alone should receive an initial appropria- tion of $4,000,000,000. * * * “There must also be unemployment insurance, or indemnity, for those who cannot be absorbed by public work. The best bill before Congress is the Lundeen bill, which, however, I should i’:fl:”w see worked out in more de- Relief Methods Assailed. Assailing present relief methods, Thomas said: “Nowhere is the situation worse than in the cotton cdlintry. Neither from the Federal nor State government in Arkansas has it been possible to &et tents for evicted sharecroppers, or enough food. Leaders of the unem- ployed, Horace Bryan jr., and Claude Williams, who dared to protest at Fort Smith, Ark., are in jail., convicted on the absurd charge of barratry and the court is making difficulty about their release on bail.® . David Lasser, New York, is presid- ing over the convention. He reported delegates from 23 States. |POINTS OF I.NTEREST SHOWN BY NEW MAP A. A. A. Motor Club Completes Work for Benefit of Tourists and Capital Residents A “points-of-interest” map for the benefit of tourists as well as Washing- ton residents hls been completed by the A. A. A. District of Columbia Motor Club, it was announced yester- day. One of the features of the map is | a street index simplifying the location of main thoroughfares as well as little known streets. Copies of the map will be sent to hundreds of A. A. A. affiliated clubs throughout the country for use of tourists. Rare Kadiak-Polar Cub Dies; Museum Will Preserve Body was no sound from the den. Inves- tigation revealed that the lone cub was dead. It was the first time the cub had been seen. The body weighed 2%, pounds, and the cub apparently had developed nor- mally until falling ill. Cubs of even the biggest bears weigh only a few ounces on birth. The fur was a light silver-gray, a cross between the sndwy coat of the father and the deep brown of the kadiak. Dr. Mann had the body sent to the museum. Scientists in various parts of the country, and many Zoo fans in Washington professed great interest in the cub. Blackburne said the death was & bitter disappointment to Zoo officials, who already had received many in- quiries as to when the cubs would go on displag. . same time that he is preparing to in- troduce a bill soon to call for a new codification of the laws of the Dis- trict, which would involve going over the existing code to determine where it is in need of revision to meet changing conditions. Would Define Jurisdiction. In advocating the study of court | procedure, the Senator said one of | the questions. he has in mind is to determine where the line should be drawn as between Federal and Dis- | trict cases. He said he would have the survey cover both the District Supreme Court and Police Court. “It may be that the judicial system is all right as it now stands,” the Sen- ator said, “but I think it would be well to find out.” He said he would confer some time this week with Representative Mary T. Norton, chairman of the House District Committee, to discuss the advisability of having the judicial precedure survey made by a_joint group. 3 Last Codification in 1929, | Senator King has been considering for some time asking Congress to euthorize a new revision and codifi- cation of the laws of the District. | The last codification of District laws ! was undertaken.in 1929. The gen- eral and permanent statute law of the | included in that volume also, for the first time, the old British end Mary- | land statutes which have been held to be still in force in the District. | The Utah Senator believes the code | should be gone over thoroughly again. He said he has a tentative draft of a bill for that purpose, and indicated he would introduce it soon. 'DEBATE IS CALLED ON BUS TERMINALS Use of Important Streets as Lay- Over Points Seen Traffic Block. i Provision of off-street terminals for | local and suburban busses, now per- | mitted to use public thoroughfares as lay-over points, will be debated at a public hearing before the Public Utilities Commission tomorrow at 10 am. Interstate bus companies already have been required to establish off- street terminals in a move of the commission to lessen traffic congestion caused by the busses stopping on the | streets. The new proposal affects a half dozen companies operating either local or metropolitan area service. A dozen or more stopping points in the down- town section ars used in their opera- tion. Pictures showing how these | parked busses effectively block lanes \of traffic will be presented by the commission staff. William A. Roberts, people’s coun- sel, will present witnesses to report on- studies of the routes and destinations of regular transportation users. $20,000 ADAMS SCHOOL ESTIMATE SUBMITTED New Heating Plant Included in Repair Schedule Forwarded to Budget Bureau. A supplementary estimate yesterday was sent to Daniel J. Donovan, Dis- trict auditor, for transmission to the Budget Bureau, for $20,000 to repair the old Adams School on R street between Seventeenth street and New Hampshire avenue, which was recently badly damaged by fire, it was learned at the District Building. The old school building recently has been used as an annex to the admin- istrative offices of the school system. ‘The money will provide $7,000 for a new heating plant, $12,000 for repair of fire damage and the installation of fire doors and $1,000 for contingencies, if the appropriation is approved. The sum was asked some time ago by the Board of Education. MEMBERS OF AD CLUB TO BE STAR GUESTS Luncheon Tuesday to Be Fol- lowed by Inspection to See Newspaper Going to Press. Members of the Advertising Club of Washington will be guests Tuesday at 12:30 pm, of The Evening Star Newspaper Co., at luncheon in The Star Club room, Star Building. Afterward the advertising club members will be shown through the building, to witness the various stages of a “newspaper going to press.” Frank T. Hurley, president of The Star Club, and Henry G. Hanford of the Star, head the committee in charge of arrangements for, the luncheon and showing the guests through the plant. The advertising club, which holds luncheons weekly, is headed by Nor- man C. Kal, president, District was classified. There was| tomorrow afternoon by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, which yesterday heard Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau make a vigorous plea for authority to restore them to the pay roll. There were no definite indications last night of what conclusion the sub- committee will reach, some members having asked for submission of addi- tional information at the executive session set for 2:30 p.m. tomorrow. While there were signs of some divi- sion of opinion in the subcommittee, yesterday's executive hearing was con- fined to receiving arguments, and the stage of settling the issue was not reached. Whatever recommendation the sub- committee makes will go before the entire Appropriations Committee later {in the week, and then to the floor of |the Senate, where there is believed | {to be strong sentiment for making the pay available. The necessary amendments to pay the employes were transmitted to the Senate Tecently by President Roosevelt as a supple- mental budget estimate, Aimed at Only 720. ‘The McKellar amendment original- ly was intended to reach about 720 former agents of the Prohibition Bureau of the Department of Justice, who were called back into the service of the Treasury Department when pro- hibition repeal increased the work of supervising and taxing liquor. Sena- tor McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee had questioned the civil service status of these reinstated employes, and the amendment he had adopted last June provided that no appropriation could be used to pay their salaries after December 1, unless or until they took a new competitive civil service ex- amination. Subsequently the con- troller general’s office held the amend- ment had a broader effect and necessi- tated holding up the pay of certain other groups of employes. Defending the Treasury's action in allowing these employes to remain on the job without pay after December 1, particularly in liquor revenue enforce- ment, Secretary Morgenthau cited to the committee yesterday an opinion by the Attorney General that Congress had not abolished the positions, but merely prevented use of current funds to pay their salaries. He also told the committee enforcement of the liquor laws would have collapsed if the Government had dropped these trained employes and taken on inex- perienced men as a result of the new examination held last Fall. Sees Blow to Morale. | The Secretary also declared in a | formal statement that-the integrity | of the civil service system is at stake, adding: “I can think of nothing more likely to demoralize and discourage the rank and file of civil service employes gen- erally than for them to realize that the eligibility for employment of any group of employes may be destroyed by congressional action at any time.” Senator McKellar made known be- fore the committee met yesterday that he. is still opposed to rescinding the rider, reasserting his contention that the men failed in the new civil service examination required by his amendment. On the other side of the question, however, is the contention that these back into service by the Treasury. Accordingly, some of them declined to take the new test. It is understood that the additional information asked for by subcommittee members relates to this question of prior civil service status, and what procedure was fol- lowed when the employes were taken into the Treasury Department. Babcock Backs Pay. E. Claude Babcock, president of the American Federation of Government Employes, also urged the subcommit- tee to restore the employes to the pay roll. Babcock said the Treasury real- ized the work of the Alcohol Tax Unit would have been disrupted if these employes had been ousted and “re- (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) DODGE LAUDS ALLEN RELIEF WORK MOVE Says Co-ordination of Public and Private Agencies Is Great Advance Step. . Commissioner Allen's action in ap- pointing & special committee to co- ordinate public and private relief agencies was characterized yesterday by Clarence Phelps Dodge, president of the Community Chest as “the most outstanding forward step taken for the handling of relief in the District since the inauguration of the Chest.” Dodge, with Herbert L. Willett, jr.. Chest director, i§ 'a mgmber of the committee. “With Commissioner Allen's com- mittee co-ordinating the eff of the two branches of service,” ge said, “Washington will be able to present a united front on the relief question, standard of the United States and CLOCKS INVAULT WORLD-WIDE GUIDE Naval Observatory Superin- tendent Explains Delicate | Mechanism. | By the Associated Press | _The man who has the best time in | the world is a sailor. . He is Capt. J. F. Hellweg, superin- tendent of the Naval Observatory. He has charge of the six clocks that tick off the time standard for the United States and for much of the rest of the world besides. The all-important timepieces are kept in an underground clock vault. frostline,” the smiling captain. Temperature Guarded. explained Government secret, but in general the vault is built so that there can be no ! change in temperature. A variation, the captain said, would interfere with the operation of the mechanisms. The | largest variation that ever occurred was “less than a tenth of a degree.” ‘The temperature is maintained at 83 degrees b>cause tests have indi- cated this is the best for the delicate clocks. No one ever goes into the vault because body warmth would |effect the temperature. Entrance would be author only should a clock break down. That hasn't happened. If you want to look at the clocks to tell the time of day you peer through a periscope that was once part of a submarine. ‘The clocks are run by electricity and electrical contrivances, however, record the time outside so the peri- scope is used mostly to satisfy curiosity. Like Powder Magazine. feet long and 9 feet high, is insulated much the same as a powder magazine aboard ship. Special paint. felt and bricks were used in the walls. The Navy radios the time at intervals. captain said. “A Chinese scientist and he said they got it there. world.” _ PING-PONG TOURNEY Club Schedules Special Event for Tomorrow. ‘The Boys’ Club of Washington will hold a ping-pong tournament tomor- row in the club headquarters, it was announced yesterday by Oliver Dryzer, Boys’ director of the games room. A billiard | * | tournament is set for Wednesday. The Friendship House ping-pong team will meet the club team in a series of matches Thursday. The Glee Club and public speaking class will meet that night, while the Junior Optimists will meet Saturday. “« Precise details of the set-up are a | The compartment, 12 feet wide, 18 | “It goes around the world,” the | was here the other day from Nanking | “Yes, I have the best time in the | PAGE B—1 Capt. J. F. Hellweg, superintendent of the Naval Observatory, is shown here peering at clocks in an underground vault that fix the for much of the rest of the world. 3 —A. P. Photo. Held in Death “It's like a thermos bottle below the | FRANCIS M. TOMPKINS. —Star Staff Photo. DEATH CAR DRIVER RELEASED ONBOND Coroner’s~ Jury to Weigh Tompkins’ Account of Storey Accident. an automobile which struck and fatally injured Mrs. Ruth Storey, 30, of 63 Seaton place, about 4:30 am. yesterday while she was standing on | a street car loading platform at Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, Francis M. Tompkins, 27, son of a prominent local building con- tractor, was released under $2,100 bond last night pending action of a coroner's jury. Police said Mrs. Storey, a char- woman at the District Building, was knocked 69 feet when struck by the automobile. The car Tompkins was driving was said to belong to Mrs. Olga Bayne Sturtevant of Oxon Hill, Md., who had loaned it to him. Tompkins, who lives at 1817 H street, is a son of Charles H. Tomp- | kins. ' He will face a coroner's jury at 11:30 o'clock Tuesday. Police were told the automobile had been loaned to Tompkins after he and Mrs. Sturtevant had returned to Oxen Hill from Washington. Tomp- “(Continued on Page 4, Column Tax Strike Urged in Southeast If Imp A threat to refuse payment of taxgs, if certain public improvements are not made in the Southeast section of the city, was made in 8,000 hand- bills circulated yesterday by the Southeast Business Men's Associa- tion. In glaring red ink, an 18-point program of suggested improvements was laid before Southeast citizens by the 125 business men who are mem- bers of the association. Led by Clar- ence F. Donohoe, the association's president, the business men warned residents of Southeast Washington of the impending “tax mutiny” with this message: “Before you pay your taxes —demand these improvements.” An extensive advertising and pub- licity campaign to “place Southeast ‘Washington on a par with other sec- tions of the city in obtaining its pro- portionate share of District tax ap- propriations for public improvements” is to be launched in Wasliington newspapers, the circular stated. A spokesman of the association, reached last night at his home, said the association at its last meeting raised the subject and threatened to refuse to pay taxes unless these im- provements are made in the near future. The Southeast section has been made the “slums of Washington” by not receiving its share of District tax appropriations, it was said. secure in the knowledge that it rep- | The handbill, in asking for funds resents the whole city problem of re- | to support the drive, points out that lief and welfare.” Congress will be asked to enact legis- Dodge said there are still many |lation to permit the District Com- problems related to relief that con- | missioners to carry out their 18-point cern both private and public agencies | program. but the new line-up presents an op- | “Something drastic will surely re- portunity for the pooling of experi- | sult unless we get these improve- ence by both kinds of agencies. The | ments,” Donohoe said. work of both is so interwoven, he said, | The made in the hand- s to demand the closest co-operation. " bill are: = 4 rovements Are Refused The building of an adequate ap- proach to the Southeast from the downtown section in a boulevard across the Mall from Seventh street | and Constitution avenue to Third and B streets southwest; widening of B street from Third to Second streets southeast; the cleaning of the slum alleys; the construction of a new four-line bridge to replace Pennsyl- vania Avenue Bridge; erection of a new high school in Anacostia; one additional mail delivery and two ad- ditional mail collections; housing de- velopments to be made from appro- priated Government funds; more money for unimproved streets; the removal of the garbage transfer plant from Southeast Washington; widen- ing of Minnesota avenue from Cen- tral avenue to Pennsylvania avenue; construction of a rest room and com- fort station at Eighth street and Pennsylvania avenue, or some other important point in the southeast sec- tion; general improvements in Ana- costia and Congress Heights; no traf- fic light installations without first consulting Southeast business men; cleaning up of lower southeast, Vir- ginia avenue to river, Sixth street to South Capitol street; completion of an unfinished sewer from an out- let at Seventeenth street and Barney Circle, adjoining the Congressional Cemetery; construction of a play- ground st the Randle Highiands School, Thirteenth and Pennsylvania avenue southeast; institution of a recreation center and the construc- tion of a swimming pool in the south- east section of the city, and the de- velopment and improvement of Fort Davis and Fort Dupont Parks. Demands are also to be made for & proper share of P. W. A. purchases merchants. | from Southeast ¥ Charged with being the driver of | ADDITIONAL NURSE SERVIGE PROPOSED BY HEALTH HEAD |Dr. Ruhland Sees Need of Checking and Curing Disease Quickly. CONDITIONS IN ALLEY AREAS BEING PROBED District Pound and Smoke Con- trols Held Outside Depart- ment Sphere. Expansion of the nursing services of the District will be proposed by Dr. George C. Ruhland, the new health officer, as a means of making the city’s health program more effective. One purpose would be to place more promptly under care needy persons who have contracted communicable diseases, 50 as to prevent spread of diseases. Another would be to get such cases under treatment in earlier stages to seek lower death rates. Dr. Ruhland as yet is not com- mitted to any specific plan in this regard but is expected to send a re- port on the subject to the Commis~ sioners soon. He started study of the | subject, promptly after taking office Friday. To Study Alley Conditions. The health officer, accompanied by John Ihider, executive officer of the Alley Clearance Authority, will make an Inspection of insanitary condi- tions in low class housing in a num- Ler of Washington areas, possibly this week, to gain first hand information { about physical conditions that relate to_pubilc health. | He has scheduled also a conference with officials of the Instructive Visit- | ing Nurses Society, to discuss public nursing activities. This meeting will be held early this week. He hopes to build up a larger city nursing staff, which he would use in a “generalized” nursing service, with its members to handle all kinds of cases in assigned areas instead of having nurses travel to places throughout the city to handle special- ized types of cases. The District now has 32 nurses and Dr. Ruhland be- lieves the cost of an enlarged force would be well repaid in the discovery {and control of incipient, as well as edvanced, cases of communicable | disease. Tuberculosis Reports Studied. Dr. Ruhland has before him re- ports on the prevalence of tuberculosis in the District and the high death rate and plans to make an inspection of the District Tuberculosis Clinic. Indicating that he already has formed some rather definite ideas about the District’s health adminis- tration, Dr. Ruhland said yesterday he sees no good reason why the health officer should be in charge of the Dis- trict Pound or why he should be charged with administration of the smoke law. “If the collection of stray dogs is properly a duty of the health officer, you might just as readily say this office should be charged with' the cleaning of the streets,” he said. “The health officer is not an engi- neer and, certainly, an engineer is a | more suitable person to decide smoke | nuisance than a medical officer.” New Bills Pushed. A campaign has been started for | & new smoke-control law and Dis- trict officials agreed the enforce- ment should rest with the Engineer Department. One bill, drafted by People’s Counsel William A. Roberts, gives the Commissioners power to make necessary regulations and an- other bill is being drawn by a com- mittee headed by Assistant Engineer Commissioner Howard F. Clark. The latter places administration in the Engineer Department. Extension of the city nursing serv- ice to children in the parochial schools is being studied by Dr. Ruh- land. Since children of a neighbor- hood play together he believes this step should be taken if full benefit is to be received from nursing serv- ices among public school children. Hearing complaints about insani- tary practices in some of the city's licensed liquor places, Dr. Ruhland said he plans to insist upon en- forcement of health requirements to the fullest degree possible with the present staff of inspectors. He said he would do all possible to stop the business of using left-over olives and cherries and other ingredients in mix- ing of drinks. “The public has a duty in this connection,” he said. “Any one see- ing insanitary practices should re- port the case to this office.” PEACE PARK URGED ON MEXICAN BORDER Ickes Suggests to Roosevelt Area Similar to That Linking Canada. By the Associated Press. Establishment of an international peace park on the Mexican border in the Big Bend area of Southwestern Texas was recommended to President Roosevelt yesterday by Secretary Ickes. In a report concerning advisability of setting aside a triangular area of 5,500 square miles there for a na- tional park, Ickes said, the pedce park would be similar to the United States- Canadian peace park established in 1932, linking Canada’s Waterton Lakes Park and the Glacier National Park in Montana. If Congress authorizes the Big Bend park, he suggested the Mexican gov- ernment be invited to co-operate by establibhing & park on the Mexican side, the two to serve as a memorial to good-will, friendship and peace. Employes to Hold Party. Lodge No. 29, American Federation of Government Employes, will hold a benefit bingo and card party to- morrow at 8:30 p.m. at the Hay Loft, 1326 Massachusetts avenue. There will be music and refreshments. Pro= ceeds from the affair are to be ap- plied to the lodge’s sick relief fund.