Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1935, Page 19

o v | The Sunday Star MARCH 17, 1935. LUNP SUM BOOST T0 Bt ASKED BY BOARD OF TRADE Committee to Plead Case of District at Senate Hear- ing This Week. PLAN IS IN AGREEMENT WITH CITY HEADS’ VIEWS Appropriations Subcommittee Ex- pected to Favor Restoration of Pared Items. A committee from the Washington Board of Trade will appear before the Senate Subcommittee on District Ap- | propriations the latter part of this week to appeal for an increase in the Federal Government’s lump sum con- tribution to the District budget. The Special Committee was named | vesterday by Edward F. Colladay, chairman of the Municipal Finance Committee of the board, at a meeting | of the committee. It is composed of E. C. Graham, chairman; Robert V. Pleming, Robert J. Cottrell, Francis G Addison, William L. Beale, W. W.! Everett, Theodore W. Noyes, E. J. Murphy, Mark Lansburgh, Sidney F. | Taliaferro, D. J. Callahan, Admiral Cary T. Grayson, A. C. Case and Mr. Colladay. In asking that the Federal Govern- ment return to a more equitable shdre of the annual expenses of the National Capital, the Board of Trade will follow its traditional policy. It Is contended that the impending need for additional revenue to maintain and develop the city properly is due | to the reductions that have been made | In recent years in Uncle Sam'’s share of the cost. Commissioners Agree. | This conclusion also was reached by the District Commissioners last Fall. when they recommended to the Budget Bureau that the Federal pay- | Wins Contest MISS JEAN DISTRIGT SOPRANO WINS AREA TITLE NETTE BITTNER. Miss Jeannette Bitner Will Enter National Contest for $1,000 Prize. Miss Jeannette Bittner, 7712 Twelfth | street, soprano soloist at Metropoli= | mendation of the Budget Bureau that | PROGRAM N BILL WASHINGTON, D. C., P. W. A. Funds Sought to End These Conditions AMENDMENT ASKS 6000000 G. P. 0. BUILDING PROGRAM Replacement of Structure Is| Objective—Would Set Up Commission. COMMITTEE TO ACT ON DEFICIENCY MEASURE Subcommittee Considers $35,000 School Item—Veteran Funds Large Part of Bill. BY J. A. O'LEARY. A $6,000,000 building program for the Government Printing Office was proposed in the Senate late yesterday by Senator Hayden, Democrat, of Arizona, as an amendment to the deficiency appropriation bill, now | under consideration in the Appropria- | tions Committee. The proposal probably will be con- sidered by the committee tomorrow | morning, when it meets to act on the deficiency measure, which came from | the House Wednesday carrying a total | of $112.270,309, principally for the Veterans' Administration. The subcommittee on deficiencies met yesterday and decided on the | changes in the House bill it will rec- ommend to the full committee to- morrow. The subcommittee is pre- sided over by Senator Adams, Demo- crat, of Colorado. | School System Included. i Among amendments considered by the subcommittee was the recom- | $35,000 be added for the District pub- lic school system, which is understood to have been approved. Of this amount $20,000 is to rehabilitate the Adams Administration Building for | | use as an elementary school and $15.- 000 to equip commercial classes in junior and senior high schools. The Government Printing Office amendment was filed in the Senate later in the day, and referred to the Appropriations Committee. It would SUNDAY MORNING, Wi This unfinished big room is the second floor of a wing at the Rosec Lees Hardy School, lert program was launched two years ago. incomplete when the Government’s economy The class rooms on the first floor are overcrowded and this space is needed. The Board of Education has asked that it be partitioned and finished as regular rooms. $2,000,000 Items Include Channel Dredging and Beautification. | | D.C. WATER FRONT Cro The children wded, Obsol * Sports—Pages 7 to 11 PAGE B—1 use it now for special conferences, for their public programs. It is the The project is on the list submitted | | i to plan school activities and to train only assembly hall in thj building. for the new public works program. ~—Star Staff Photo. L] ete Buildings Head Demands for Relief Pupils Taught in Basements and Unfin- ished Rooms—Hardy and Shepard Structures Are Surveyed. This ts cles _on urgent buiding requirements the first of @ series of arti- assembly hall-gymnasium connecting PLAY SPACES CUT BY WORK ON MALL Base Ball Diamonds and Tennis Courts Perish, New Spaces Sought. RECREATION PLAN REQUIRES CHANGE OFLAW.KINGTOLD Roberts Says Pooling of Per- sonnel of Several Bu- reaus Is lllegal. 5 RECOMMENDATIONS MADE TO SENATOR People’s Counsel, as District Com- mittee Agent Studying Prob- lem, Cites Many Needs. Challenging the legality of steps being taken to set up the new Dis- trict Recreation Commission, to co- ordinate the work of Federal, muni- cipal and school agencies, People's Counsel William A. Roberts advised Chairman King of the Senate District Committee last night that it will re- quire legislation to carry out the pro- posed plan. After receiving the report, Chair- man King said he would lay the sub- ject before the District Committee when it meets, and also would con- fer with the Commissioners. Roberts indorsed the recent report of the Advisory Council on Recreation. | which had recommended to the Com- “missloners the co-ordination of recre- ational facilities under a director of recreation, but with a recreation com- mission of nine members, three to be appointed by the District Commis- sioners, three by the Board of Edu- cation and three by the National Capital Parks office. Commenting on the advisory council’s report, in his memorandum to Senator King, Roberts added: “It seems very strange to me that the Commissioners, having set up | this important body, should so far de- | part from its conclusions as to enter into a ‘District of Columbia Recrea- tion Commission’ of three members, with a secretary and chairman from the Park and Planning Commission. ment for next year be $8,317,500, in- | tan Methodist Episcopal Church, won | 1 stead of the current figure of $5,700.- |a contest at Baltimore yesterday, | 000. The Commissioners had con- cluded that the city’s needs for next the two wings. | The same thing is true at the | Shepherd School. Both are con- structed on the same plan and the need at Shepherd is just as great as at Hardy. The Shepherd School serves the territory adjacent to Takoma, Shep- While the newly-organized District Qgflf,m;f:r\ffifnfi:'m; rt%:uovr'h?gl; of Columbia Recreation Commission have been submitted. that has pro- is getting into action to give Wash- posed such a set-up.” ington added recreation facilities, a survey yesterday disclosed a number of base ball diamonds, foot ball grid- irons and tennis courts are to be abolished. A check of the facilities revealed | of District schools. The Board of Edu- | cation has submitted a list of these projects to the District Commissioners in the hope that they may be included in the mew public works program. set up a Government Printing Office building commission, consisting of the which entitles her to represent three joint Committee on Printing, the vear would amount to $44,039,000 |States and the District of Columbia | architect of the Capitol and the public and, believing that local residents are | in a national singing contest at | Printer. It would appropriate at this aying fair and reasonable taxes on | - time $2,000,000 to ®tart construction. i Bresent. assessments and. rate, | Philadelphia next month, under|gih authority for the architect of the | auspices of the National Federation Capitol to enter into contracts for not | BY WILL P. KENNEDY. The projects for development of the | Washington water front and dredging | the channels of the Potomac and An- e = i acostia Rivers at a total cost of nearly | Ovecrondiug, () the publicscnoal $2,000,000, have been written into the | System of Washington has reached rivers and harbors appropriation bill, | the point that more than a score of they asked for a Federal payment 5 i s e up to lhepa\}'erage of Music Clubs. to exceed $4.000.000 additional. | it was disclosed vesterday. The House | new construction projects have been | herd Park and Sixteenth Street b Rivers and Harbors Committee is €X= | o) ion the Public Works Adminis- | 1i€ights. including the area around Replacement Objective. pected to reach a decision tomorrow 3 | Walter Reed Hospital. The original of the various lump sum payments| Miss Bittner competed with threei that have been made during the last, gomen and one man at Baltimore | Senator Hayden' said the purpose is | as to the proportionate share of the | tration with the request that they be enrollment in 1932 was 163 pupils Last year the total reached 196. 10 years. ) 2 ‘The budget as transmitted to Con- | for the right to represent vxrglma.‘ to z:;;;{ncen:imsoox;m:: mgzl:g U;i | igf;;heast must be paid from District | placed on the new P. W. A. program | 1 orij p! g ues. as soon as Congress makes the money | Would Aid Takoma School. In the same general neighborhood Now in Existence. The new commission referred to came into existence a few days ago, with Commissioner Allen represent- ing the District; Henry 1. Quinn of the Board of Education. to represent the school community center activi- Washington will have fewer recrea- ties. and C. Marshall Finnan, repre- senting the National Capital Parks tional outlets than ever. in the face ot 18 oy 0N NS irman of the greatly-increased population | of the National Capital Park and eress, however, was cut to-$40,374,822 | West Virginia, Maryland and the Dis- North Capitol and H streets, one of the | These improvements, long advocat- | and based on continuing the present |trict in the national contest. The overnment structures in Wash- | ed, are a part of the general scheme | available. Federal share of $5.700,000. The | i citest O House further cut the bill to $39,308,- | 404 and left the Federal lump sum at the present figure. There is believed to be considerable | sentiment in the Senate Subcommit- | tee to restore items left out by the House, and to make some increase in | the size of the police force, as urged | by citizens’ groups. No decisions are being reached, however, until the | hearings of witnesses is concluded. | Hearings Resume Tuesday. | When the hearings are resumed Tuesday morning, Public Welfare offi- cials will complete their explanation of the urgent need for restoration of cuts made in hospital maintenance items. School officials then will be recalled to discuss amendments needed for the school system. Last week their testimony covered only the funds needed to continue the char- Baltimore contest was held at the Peabody Conservatory. Previously, the soprano had won the right to represent the District at| Baltimore when she was victor in the | preliminaries for this city, held at| Barker Hall. Y. W. C. A, on March’ 2. In that preliminary, she won over six competitors i A prize of $1,000 will go to the winner of the national contest, which will be held at Philadelphia during the annual convention of the National | Federation of Music Clubs, April 24 to 28. Miss Bittner sang three songs yes- terday: “Se Tu M'Ami.” by Pergolesi; | 'Heure Silencieuse,” by Staub, and ong at Capri,” by Alice Barnett. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Bittner, and graduated from Central High School in 1931. She is a music pupil of James Wil- kinson of New York City. The pre- ington. The plan also contemplates other supplies on the east side of | North Capitol street, opposite the | printing establishment. The rallroadi tracks in back of Union Station are | not far from this area, and the pend- ing amendment would authorize rail- road facilities to the proposed building It is understood the plan also con- templates a tunnel under the street to connect the proposed warehouse with the printing office. The deficiency bill is likely to be re- ported from committee tomorrow, but probably will not be called up in the Senate until the work relief measure is disposed of. Of the total allowed in the House bill, $94,650,000 is to meet pensions and veterans’ compensation from April 1 to June 30, in accordance with the action of the last Congress in lifting for improvement and development of | mended by War Department engineers | buildings it now has, but also desires in charge of riv The first project calls for a water have long since passed their days of front improvement program on the | safety and usefulness. North side of Washington Channel at Surveying the more pressing needs, a cost of $1,650,000. This not only | the board has found that some pupils would convert into a beauty spot one | are forced to attend schools in an- of the worst eyesores in the Capital, | tiquated buildings heated by old- but also would provide adequate fa- | fashioned stoves and without sani- | cilities for the needs of commerce and | tary conveniences. remove sources of actual danger, ac- Others are crowded into basement | cording to reports from Army en- |rooms, never intended for classes, or 2 gineers and testimony before the com- | into unfinished quarters left when mittee. It includes a yacht harbor. |the Government economy program | Turning Basin Included. H G | In one school, more than one grade The other project involves an ap-|js forced to occupy a single room. propriation of $325,000 and would | Some grades are wholly crowded out provide a turning basin in the Ana- | of other schools and children have costia River opposite the Navy Yard, |to travel long distances in order to | dredging the Potomac River to a|attend classes at all. The Board of Education wants not | | erecting a warehouse for paper and |the Capital and have been recom- |only to relieve the heavily congested ers and harbors work. | to replace outmoded structures that | is the Takoma School, at Piney Branch road and Dahlia street. It had 562 pupils last year. and four of its classes now are above the maxi- mum limit fixed by school authori- ties. Takoma was given considerable here. In the Mall development. under which the area is being transformed into four driveways from Union Square, just west of the Capitol, to Fourteenth street near the Washing- relief when the seventh and eighth | ton Monument, some 10 tennis courts grades wer2 transferred to Paul Junior | are being wiped out at Henry Park. High School two years ago, but the Two base ball diamonds in Seaton Park school is stil overcrowded and the | are being lost. as well as one foot ball compietion of the Shepherd School | gridiron and one volley ball court. would serve to relieve some of the un- s | Tennis Courts to Go. wanted congestion. The requested improvements would At Seventeenth street and Constitu- tion avenue. 15 tennis courts are slated add six class rooms, two industrial arts rooms—one for boys and one for | to go; 2 base ball diamonds and 1 girls—a kindergarten class room and | Soccer field, as well as 2 volley ball | courts. This is one of the most popular a teachers’ room. if the needed funds are made available. | spots in fandom here, because, officials | pointed out, this is handy to the permit office of the National Capital | Parks. The building housing the | mechanism for the night-lighting of the tennis courts is being torn down TOWN HALL TO HEAR Planning Commission, is to serve as chairman of the new recreation group, but without a vote. The plan an- nounced a few days ago is to pool, as far as possible, existing employes and facilities and operate for a year as an experiment. One of the first steps to be taken is to appoint a superintendent of recreation under the new unified system. This effort to co- ordinate the management of existing facilities is a direct outgrowth of the letter President Roosevelt addressed last month to Federal and District officials, urging that a method of ad- ministration be evolved that would provide maximum human use of these properties. Ia questioning the legality of the co-ordinating plan which the spokes- men for the various agencies have evolved, Roberts stated in his report | to Senator King “Needless to | some of the restrictions imposed by | depth of 24 feet to Georgetown and | @ - the economy act. This liberalization ] dredging the Anacostia River to the | Needs Force Action. took place after the appropriation for | foot of Fifteenth street southeast. | Needs have accumulated in recent say, it is entirely h and the fans probably will find them- | acter education experiment. ! liminary contest here was sponsored selves without any nocturnal facilities As soon as all officials have been by the District Federation of Music ANSPACHER TONIGHT without authority in law, as it has not been proposed by an executive heard, the subcommittee will receive A ClubS. the views of spokesmen for a long list | of city-wide and neighborhood organ- | izations that have asked to be heard on particular items. i Senator Thomas, Democrat, of | Oklahoma, chairman, hopes to com- plete work on the bill by the end of this week, but it probably will not be ready to be reported to the Senate until next week. | In addition to the group appointed to handle the fiscal relations question in the appropriation bill. subcommit- tees also were named yesterday by the Board of Trade to col er four meas- | ures affecting the District that have been introduced in the House. Other D. C. Measures. The measures and the committees follow: A bill to authorize the District to tax the receipts of public utility com- panies—William L. Beale, chairman; J. Harvey Cain, Harrison E. Howe, Harry F. Blake and Fred A. Smith. A bill to authorize the District to borrow Federal funds through the Public Works Administration—Fran- cis G. Addison, chairman; Marcy L. Sperry, Henry A. Willard, 2d; W. J. Tastet and William S. Culbertson. A bill regulating banking in the District—James A. Councillor, chair- man; Arthur J. May. Joshua Evans, 1 Jr; A. C. Case, David Burnet, David C. Colladay, George Vass and Wilton | H. Wallace, A bill providing for the disposition of surplus D. C. funds—Claude W. Owen, chairman; George Plitt, Fred M. Bradley, George Quirk and Ernest E. Walker. FOREST FIRE IN CITY BATTLED TWO HOURS | | | | tel, ACTION ON AUTO BILL SLATED MARCH 25 Speaker Byrns Promises Liability Measure Will be First on Next District Day Calendar. Speaker Byrns intends to permit the | auto liability bill for the District of Columbia to be the first bill called up for action in the House on the next District day. Monday, March 25, he said late yesterday. He expressed regret that he has not been able to assist Chairman Nor- ton of the District Committee in get- ting this bill considered earlier and deplored the action last Monday which prevented a vote after Mrs. Norton “had so courteously yielded to the request of the House leadership on other legislation which consumed more time than was expected.” Mrs. Norton is confined to her apartment in the Wardman Park Ho- | suffering from grippe. She is not expected to resume her duties as committee chairman this week. Other members of the committee, however, last night expressed hope the auto| liability bill would be passed on the next District day. Man Burns, Wife Away. HANFORD, Calif., March 16 (P).— Firemen, searching the ruins of a house burned early today, found the | charred pbody of Sherman H. Myers, 39, State work relief wood chopper and former clerk. His wife, Lee, had spent the night with friends. Two Vacant Houses in Northeast | Saved by Nos. 26 and 17 Engine Companies. . A miniature forest fire raged for more than two hours in Northeast ‘Washington last night before firemen brought it under control. The blaze, which was confined to 8 vacant tract near Seventeenth and Adams streets, was noticed shortly after 6 o'clock. Police said the fire presumably resulted from sparks from an engine passing on the Baltimore & Ohio tracks nearby. Nos. 26 and 17 Engine Companies laid about 2,500 feet of hose and poured water on the woods until after 8 o'clock before the flames subsided. Two unoccupied frame houses at the fringe of the woods were endan- gered for a while but were saved when firemen soaked them with water. the present year had been passed on the restricted basis. $475,000 for Archives. The bill also contains $475,000 for the operation of the National Archives establishment for the remainder of this year and during the next fiscal year. The Department of Justice is to be given $40,000 to prepare rules to gov- ern actions at law i Federal courts. Congress last year authorized the Su- preme Court to promulgate rules of pleadings and practice in civil actions in the District courts of the United States, and the Chief Justice of the United States asked the Attorney | General to undertake this preliminary work. The bill carries other deficiency jtems and supplemeatal funds for other Government agencies. In ad- dition to the $112,270,309 of direct appropriations, the bill makes avail- able $60,000,000 to carry out a law enacted last month authorizing the Farm Credit Administration to make crop-production loans. This does not figure in the total of the bill, how. ever, since it is money previously ap propriated and merely made available for this new purpose. -— D. C. MAN IS KILLED By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 16— Tony Davie, 21 years old, of 2422 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, Wash- ington, died in the Alexandria Hos- pital last night half an hour after the motor cycle he was riding struck the | curbing on the west side of Memorial Circle on the Mount Vernon Boule- vard. He was thrown against the curb, crushing his chest and skull He was taken to the hospital by a passing ‘motorist. Judge Recognizes Prisoner As Rich Friend Bridging a 50-year chasm that saw one rise to a court bench and the other fall from riches to obscurity, judge and prisoner faced each other in Police Court yesterday and each recognized the other, to the intense relief of the prisoner, It was Judge Ralph Given’s mem- ory which brought the identity of the prisoner from a half-century of separation, but the prisoner, Thomas Anderson of Baltimore, also recog- nized the judge when he was recalled to the bench after having been sen- tenced to pay a fine of $10 or serve 10 days in jail for intoxication. An- derson did not have the $10, but he is now free on his personal bond. of 50 Years Ago A uliarity in Anderson’s speech as h:e:nd somthing to & balliff who was leading him back to the dock struck Judge Given as familiar, and he ordered Anderson brought back. “Aren’t you the Anderson who once had a real estate office in the 900 block of Thirteenth street?” asked the court. “Why, yes, 1 am, but—why, you are Mr. Given, aren’t you?” the pris- oner replied. After thd recognition the prisoner asked Judge Given about his mother, who died a short time ago at the age of 97, and Judge Given asked him what had become of his money. “My luck went wrong and I lost it all,” Anderson said. » When the beautification project on | years until the Board of Education the north side of Washington Channel | believes it cannot afford to postpone for tennis playing, shortly. Two prac- tice tennis courts will have to be was being considered by the commit- | tee last year, its members had before | them the recommendation of the then | War Department engineer for this |area that the District of Columbia | should pay only $389,000, representing the cost of the wharves to be used for municipal business. They also had a recommendation from the Rivers and Harbors Board of the War | | Department that the cost of the en- | tire project should be divided equally betswveen the Federal and District governments. The chief of Army Engineers told the committee he believed Congress itself should decide that question, and the House Committee followed the Harbors Board calling for sharing the cost equally. Several weeks ago, however, rep- resentatives of the Washington Boayd of Trade and other interested organi- zations were given a hearing before the House Committee and urged that the original recommendation of the engineer for this district be followed. The committee is to reconsider this question and hopes to reach a de- cision tomorrow. Maj. Arthur’s Comment. When the water front development project was under consideration last year, Maj. D. J. Arthur, jr., then engineer for this district, said: “The desirability of an improve- ment of present conditions along the Washington Channel water front is generally recognized. Present facili- ties are totally inadequate for the needs of commerce, and the decay, dirty, and in certain instances dan- gerous structures now located there are not in keeping with the compre- hensive plan for the development of the National Capital.” In explaining the plans of his office to correct this situation Maj. Arthur emphasized that it would also pro- vide adequate, up-to-date facilities for commerce and give the Capital an opportunity to take the place it should as an outstanding yachting center. PARENTS OF 17 AIR ROW A father and mother who have 14 children living and three dead, faced each other in Police Court yesterday when the mother charged that the father had threatened her life. The defendant, Charles 1. Beck, was sent to Gallinger Hospital for mental ob- servation at the request of Mrs. Beck. ‘The couple lives in the 1500 block of Wisconsin avenue. Judge Isaac R. Hitt expressed amazement that a couple could have been married for so many years and have so many chil- dren and then appear in court to air family difficulties. He continied the case until March 28. L4 recommendation of the Rivers and | | | longer the more pressing demands. Included in the list sent to the P. W. A. is the completion of two new school buildings. Both have been added to the public school system within the last four years. They were incomplete, however, when the Gov- ernment economy program halted the work. Now they have reached the point of crowding at which additional class rooms arg imperative. Both were built with an eye to the future, being extensible type build- ings, and each has an unfinished sec- ond floor, four walls, a floor and ceiling. Both need to be divided into class rooms at once. They are the Rose Lees Hardy School, at Foxhall road and Volta place, and the Alexander R. Shepherd School, at Fourteenth and Kalmia streets. The Hardy School was first used in the Fall of 1933. herd School opened the preceding Autumn. | The Board of Education has asked | for $35,00 each to complete them. Both Included in Survey. i Both projects were also included | in a survey recently transmitted to Secretary Ickes, public works admin- istrator, by Dr. John W. Studebaker, United States commissioner of edu- cation, showing school construction needs throughout the country and urging that schools be placed first on the P. W. A. program. The Hardy School is situated in Foxhall Village, one of the fastest growing communities in the city. When it was opened in 1933 there was an enrollment of 140 pupils. This has jumped up to 172 and Rob- ert L. Haycock, assistant superintend- ent of schools, pointed out that there are now three classes in the school of more than 40 pupils each. Educators believe that the maxi- mum limit for classes should be 35 or 36. More than that gives the teacher too much to care for the in- dividual needs of the children. At the nearby Millard Fillmore School, on Thirty-fifth street, between R and 8 streets, there are four such overcrowded classes. At the Joseph R. West School, on Farragut street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, also not far distant, a similar ey condition exists. Could Share Burden. Both of these elementary schools would be enabled to share their extra heavy load with the Hardy School if the six added class rooms, and facili- ties for industrial arts and kinder- garten classes included in the new building scheme; could be realized. Completion of the second floor would also mean the completion of vhe first two-story wing of the build- ing that eventually can be made twice as large by the addition of a duplicate wing when and if it is needed. The extensible plan also provides for an | A The Shep- | Author and Lecturer Will Discuss Modern Cultural Ideal Here. Louis K. Anspacher, author and cgpital Park and Planning Commis- lecturer. will be the speaker at the fifteenth meeting of the Town Hall of Washington tonight at 8 o'clock in the Shoreham Hotel. He will discuss “The Modern Cultural Ideal” | A lecturer at the Town Hall of New York since 1906, Anspacher is | they will be ready in time for use this | pere | said to be inspiring as a philoso- | phical interpreter of cultural values | He is the author of many plays, in | cluding “The Unchastened Woman, | and “Our Children.” | Next week the Town Hall will go back to its discussions of political and economic problems when Charles | E. Merriam, author and a member of the National Resources Board, will speak on “The Fundamentals of Na- tional Planning.” The panel tonight will include Dr. | R. D. W. Connor, United States archi- | vist; Dr. John W. Studebaker, United States Commissioner of Education; | Dr. William Boyd-Carpenter, profes- | sor of philosophy at Georgetown Uni- | versity; Dr. Charles C. Tansill, pro- | | fessor of history at George Washing- | | ton University; Dr. Fred J. Kelly, | | chief of the division of higher educa- | | tion in the Bureau of Education, and W. W. Waymack, associate editor of ['the Des Moines Register and Tribune. PLAY MARKS FESTIVAL Ohev Sholom Congregation to | moved elsewhere. It is explained that the tearing down of the buildings is necessary, because they are in the line of the rojected dvke that is to be construct- ed as a flood control measure. This has been approved by the National sion. Courts May Be Delayed. C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent of the National Capital parks. has promised some relief when the tennis courts are moved elsewhere in Potomac Park, but there is no assurance that year. Already a flood of applications for permits for playing on the tennis courts at Seventeenth street and Con- | stitution avenue has been received. While some added facilities are being given slowly to the outlying sections, these are lagging far behind the normat advance in demands for order, and the pooling of personnel of several bureaus and the engagement of a director are directly contrary to the appropriation items authorizing personnel for the several agencies involved No Local Application. “You will recall that you were ad- ed by the White House early last Spring that, in the Attorney General's opinion, the statute proveiding for reorganization of governmental de- partments by executive order was not applicable to the District of Columbia and that legislation would be required if any reorganization was attempted It is my personal opinon that | the White House was correct in its onclusion and that it will require legislation to effectuate such consoli- dation of recreational activities as is now suggested. “Recreation in the District of Co- lumbia is at present badly disorgan- ! recreation and the park authorities | i2ed: overlapping and unsatisfactory are not keeping step with the growth | from a functional and financial stand- | of tennis and base ball in the city by | POint and underfinanced other than | building increased facilities, especially | 85 to the acquisition of land. | when the opportunities that have ‘The ideal control of recreation now to be wiped out in the new developments. The park authorities, on their side, say that Congress has been par- simanious in supplying funds in the past for the providing of improve- ments. While there is ample land |upon which to establish new public sport facilities, money is lacking for their proper development, it is said. 'EMPLOYMENT AGENCY RACKETEER SENTENCED Man Gets 60 Days in Jail After Celebrate Today. Ohev Sholom Congregation will | mark the Purim Festival today at | 5:30 pm., when a play entitled “A | Sick Purim” is presented by Sunday | school members in the Congregation Temple, Fifth and I streets. ‘The performance will be given under the direction of Miss Shirley D. Voronoff, principal of the Sunday school. The public is invited to at- Next Sunday at 4 pm., a Seeyom Seyfer Torah celebration will take place at the Congregation. e "TEACHES SINGING Special Dispatch to The Star. LEONARDTOWN, Md., March 16. —Miss Anne Mae Boyd of this village has been appointed by the F. E. R. A. | Committee here to teach singing, and she is now instructing the members of the rural women’s clubs. They will Pleading Guilty to Charge During Trial. Having confessed during a recent jury trial to the operation of an employment “racket,” Charles R. Johnson alias Robert Scott, colored, was yesterday sentenced by Police Court Judge Ralph Given te serve 60 days in jail. Johnson, it was charged, would in- sert advertisements in newspapers that he would find employment for people and when they called he would make a charge of $5. Applicants would then be “stalled along” until the would-be employment agent had collected a large sum of money, when he would drop out of sight. At the time of his arraignment, Johnson demanded a jury trial While this was under way he an- nounced he wished to change his plea to guilty and the jury was in- structed by the court to return such a verdict. present a program at the tri-county meet on May 8 at St. Marys City. L obtaining money under false pre- tenses. ’ The specific charge was | | served for a great many years ®re Would be in a Department of Recrea- | tion under a director appointed by the District of Columbia government with an advisory citizens' council. This plan is not practicable under the present government of the District of Columbia and would be fought bitterly by the Federal agencies. Recommendations Follow. “1. That the basis of the action of the Senate District Committee should | be the report of the Advisory Council of Playgrounds and Recreation to the | District Commissioners. “2. That the agents of the Senate District Committee be directed to draft a bill to centralize and consolidate recreation under a board of citizens and ex-officio officers. | “3. The financial consolidation of | the funds available to the three major agencies should be authorized for the | fiscal year 1936 and carried in the | appropriation bill | “4. The Commissioners of the Dis- | trict of Columbia should be directed, | for submission to the Senate commit- | tee, to submit a statement recom- mending transfers of lands and facili- ties from the Interior Department to the Commissioners so that all local recreational facilities could be con- trolled directly by the Recreation Board. “5. That upon the introduction of the proposed bill hearings be im- mediately held as a part of the re- organization work of the Senate Dis- trict Committee.” Roberts was one of the group of | officials designated by Senator King | more than a year ago as one of the | District committee’s agents to study reorganization of the District govern- ment, and he submitted his report on recreation yesterday in response to a request from the Senate chairman. | 3