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Wash MORE D. C. POLICE ASKED BY HAYDEN AT BILL HEARING Civic Groups Voice Needs for Bridges and New Library Branch. ADDED BURDEN SEEN IN MEN AT CAPITOL | Senator Declares Increase in Pro- tection Unjust if Boost Denied. A plea by Senator Hayden, Demo- crat, of Arizona, for an increase in the size of the police force here, and requests from civic organizations for bridges and additional public library needs. marked today's hearing before the Senate subcommittee on the 1936 District appropriation bill, The necessity of detailing a number of city policemen to assist the special force at the Capitol was cited by Sen- ator Hayden as one of the added burdens placed on the local depart- ment in recent years, in spite of a re- duction of 35 in the total strength of the police force under the economy law. A citizens' committee has asked the Senate to provide for 140 more men, including restoration of the 35 posi- tions left vacant by the economy law. Senator Hayden pointed out there has ington News | In spite of the construction of 25 new elementary school buildings in the last 10 years, Washington’s schools are still so crowded and children are forced to travel such long distances irom their homes that more build- ings have become an imperative demand. In asking for funds from the Public Works Administration the Board of mentary school on Bladensburg road in the score or more of pressing con- struction needs. For this building the cost has been estimated at $115,000. The board owns an excellent site on Bladensburg road across the street from Mount Olivet Cemetery, near Mount Hamilton, and plans are ready for the construction of the first unit of a model extensible school building. One Floor in Original Plan. | This will be limited to the first floor of a single wing. The building when completed will have two wings of two floors each connected by a third wing that will house an assembly hall-gymnasium. But for the time being one floor of one wing will meet immediate demand. | At least four schools in Northeast Washington will benefit from this new construction. It is the only new el mentary school asked at present, al though the board already recognizes | the need for other similar additions to the school system. The four schools to be affected | immediately would be the Samuel G. | Wheatley School, Montello avenue and Education has included a new ele-| he Zpening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, School Construction Program Behind Spread of Population \In Spite of Great Distances Board Re- quests of P. W. A. Funds Include but One Added Grade Plant. | streets northeast: the Henry T. Blow | School, Nineteenth street and Ben- | ning road northeast. and the William | | D. Webb School, Fifteenth and Rose- | dale streets northeast. | | At present these schools house at | least 11 classes of 40 or more pupils. Each of these is regarded as too large if the needs of the individual children | are to be cared for. At the same time an average of | about 100 kindergarten and 100 first grade pupils are added to the rolls of the four schools each year. A fair| proportion of these could remain closer to their homes if the Bladens- burg road site could be made into a school at once. School Greatly Crowded. The Wheatley School is ihe most crowded in the Northeast coramunity. Five classes there are larger than the “safe” limit. Since 1929 the enroll- TH ARPORT DECSION REACIEDBYHOLSE GROLP N SEERET Subcommittee to Make Re- port Known at D. C. Meeting Wednesday. |GRAVELLY POINT SITE | OR RACE TRACK SEEN Agreement Féllows Two Months and Ten Days of Inspections and Hearings. After two months and 10 days of exhaustive hearings, first-hand in- spection trips and detailed studies, a subcommittee of the House District | ment has increased from 647 Lo 748. During the same time the Pierce | School's enrollment jumped from 180 to 309. The Webb School has re- mained almost static, but it has three classes above the limit fixed by school authorities. The Blow School, on the other hand, | has increased ffom 234 to 269 and | at the same time was relieved of its two highest grades when the Eliot Junior High School, at Eighteenth and B streets northeast, was opened. There are similar needs in other | parts of the city, but nonme is so pressing as this particular locality. In the whole new emergency program | Committee today reached a final. | | secret agreement on the site for a: model airport for the District of Co- lumbia, it was announced by Repre- sentative Jennings Randolph of West Virzinia, subcommittee chairman. ‘The subcommittee will not make known its decision until its report is | submitted to the House District Com- | mittee at its regular meeting next Wednesday, Chairman Randolph said. | | The subcommittee’s recommended bill is expected to come up for considera- tion by the full committee at the ‘Wednesday meeting. Divided at Beginning. The choice of the subcommittee is | been no increase in the force to meet | Morse street northeast; the Franklin | this is the only additional elementary | pejjeved by interested observers to lie funds are asked. | between Gravelly Point and the old the growth of the city since 1928. ‘ Pierce School, Fourteenth and G/ school for whicl D.C. SCHOOL NEEDS|ALL NIGHT SCHOOLS STRESSED BY KING 0 RUN FOR T Bridge items Discussed. Among .he bridge items discussed by different witnesses were: Restora- | tion of 315,000 to draw plans for a new Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge in the southeast; $200,000 for a new bridge over the railroad tracks at Franklin s.reet northeast, and a re- quest for $15,000 to draw plans for &« new Chain Bridge. Among those who asked to be heard on bridge ‘tems were George C. Shinn of the Board of Trade, A. W. Lee, Randle Highlands Citizens' Associa- tion; Clyde Bailey, Ellis R. King of the American Legion, Thomas J. Liewelly "ederation of Citizeas’ As- sociations; Richard B. English, S.uth- cast Business Men's Association, and A. E. Scheer of the Northeast Subur- | ban Conference | The House bill carried funds for the |Favors Making Building Im- |Board Agrees on Policy to é portant Part of Public Operate Until Funds for Work Expire. Works Program. Rather than force approximately 1,000 pupils to drop out and from 30 Chairman King of the Senate Dis- trict Committee came out today in Michigan avenue viaduct and to widen the Benning road viaduct, but left out the other aridge items meutioned above. | favor of making the school building | needs of Washington an important part of any public works program to 60 teachers to lose their jobs in | the public night schools, the Board | of Education yesterday approved a | Benning race track, with Washington | Airport as a bare possibility. The subcommittee at the beginning of to- | | day's session, it is understood, was | divided, with two members favoring Gravelly Point. two favoring the Ben- ning race track and one holding for | Washington Airport. | The subcommittee, during the more | than two months since the introduc- tion of the Smith Gravelly Point bill in the House on January 11, has con- | ductec one of the most thorough local airport studies in the nine years since the local airport situation became a problem for congressional considera- | tion. In the voluminous report which it will submit to the District Committee | next week the subcommittee will re- | | view the previous testimony collected | by congressional committees as well | as the results of its own studies and inspections. Await Full Approval. Members of the subcommittee said | | tomorrow in the city's Library Fund Asked. the District government asks for un- [ plan to run all the schools as long Horace J. Phelps and Lyster H. | der the new national work-relief bili | as possible on the funds available Dewey of the Petworth Citizens' As- | NOW pending in Congress. rather than continue a few of them sociation urged including $150,000 in | “In my opinion,” Senator King de- | to the end of the reghlar school term. the bill for the building of & Petworth | cjareqd, “the need of the public school | Because of a larger entollment than branch public library. A site near the ! Roosevelt stadium is already avail- | able for this building, but it was not | modations should be given primary | budget was set up and a consequent in the House bill. ! consideration in connection with the | greater expense in teachers’ salaries, system for adequate building accom- | had been anticipated when the year's | J. B. Wyckoff of the Georgetown ¢ work-reli Public Library Association asked for | "¢ WOIKSICler progtam. .625 needed to provide heat, light supplies for the new Georgetown branch, expected to be ready for use by October. Recorder of Deeds William ‘Thompkins asked the subcommittee for additional personnel to keep up with the increased work of the office. It is expected several more days will be required to hear other civic groups who were not reached today. not only present needs, but should | have in mind the requirement that | will have to be met in the near | future due to the growth in popu- | lation.” The Utah Senator also restated his desire to see projects carried on | !that will free the Potomac River of | pollution. The proposed $4,000,000 | sewage-disposal plant would accom- S | plish a considerable part of that goal, | but there would also be need for | taking care of Rock Creek and Ana- STREET WIDENING %", | PLANS APPROVED |, = ~mivp =sie mu. b | adequate building space, likewise was mentioned by the Senator as a pressing need. His committee at an | early date will take action on a bill now pending to modify the original municipal center plan to make it less | expensive, by allowing the District to | | build several structures for the minor | courts and for the recorder of deeds | in Judiciary Square, and sell part of | the large area on the north side of | Pennsylvania avenue which the Dis- trict was required to buy several years ago for the municipal center devel- | opment. ] Twenty Thoroughfares on Pro- gram Submitted by Trade Board Committee. A tentative street widening program fnvolving 20 thoroughtares was ap- proved yesterday by the Streets and Avenues Committee of the Washing- ton Board of Trade at a luncheon meeting at the Harrington Hotel. Because the program is regarded as merely la starting point details of the = e vroposal were withheld. The plan | was presented by C. Melvin shaprpe LOGAN CIRCLE VICTIM chairman of a subcommittee. Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director of | OF AUTO SucCuMmss highways, said that a good time to | undertake the work would be when | Colored Man's Death Brings 1935 the present paving needs to be re- | i placed. The plan calls for widths of Fatalities to 27, as Driver 60 feet for some and 80 feet for iy | Is Arrested. | Extension of E street through the | Henry Souders, 52, colored, of the | Ellipse was urged and Capt. White- | 1400 block of Q street, died today in Furst told the committee that such a | Emergency Hospital of injuries re- project is now being considered by the ceived late Saturday when he was District Comm)ssloners. struck by an automobile at Logan The committee voted to ask Con- | Gircle. | gress for funds for extension of Pros- | Shortly after the death lice | pect avenue from Thirtieth street to arresbedyJoseph Tillman, 31, coxl,:l'&l Foxall road. 700 block of Gresham place, driver | ——— of the car, and detained him, pending BEST FRESHMAN ORATOR |*cjen of tne coroner ‘ would have to close April . E. J.| Lockwood, director of the white | schools, faced a similar situation but | said his available funds would carry | the schools for a short time into April. 1 To Consolidate Classes. Under the revised plan worked by | the two directors with Dr. Frank W.| Ballou, superintendent, classes will be | consolidated wherever possible to save teachers salaries and all of the schools | will continue. Dr. Ballou estimated that all of them will be able to con- | tinue through the month of April and | possibly a few days or weeks beyond that time. | Dr. Garnet C. Wilkinson, assistant superintendent, pointed out that one colored night school can be taken over | at once by other schools. Lockwood | asserted that the Central High School | | classes can be consolidated with Mc- Kinley and Roosevelt High Schools. Extend Some Classes. | Under questioning by Mrs. Ph)lip‘ Sidney Smith, a board member, Dr. Ballou said that some reduction in | enrollment is inevitable when the con- solidations take place and that the | decrease may permit a reduction in | the number of teachers. All such | savings will allow extensions for the | classes that are continued. | The revision will add sufficient time, Dr. Ballou said, to give all pupils who finish the course full credit for the year's work. Under the old plan, approximately 1,000 would have been denied full credit with only about 1,800 permitted to complete the year. CRASH PUTS.OUT LIGHTS John R. Richardson, 20, of 121 M street southeast, was driver of an automobile that struck and broke an electric light pole at Water and Eighth streets southwest shortly before last midnight. Breaking of the pole short- circpited wires and put that section in darkness for a few minutes. Harvey F. Richardson, 24, brother of the driver, was severely injured. He was treated at Emergency Hospital. The death brought the number of | AT G. W. U. IS SELECTED | District traffic fatalities up to 27 for | this year. Frank M. Whitbeck of Oklahoma Wins by Address on “Amer- ican Security.” Frank M. Whitbeck of Oklahoma City. speaking on “The Preservation of American Security,” won the an- nual freshman oratorical contest at Washingto Ve Comuc s, Unlveraly ]""sun-baked citizens of Northeast Wash- i ington can resort to but two munici- Melvin E. Lewis, 921 Fourth street| southwest, won second place, speaking | P21 swimming pools. Children of this on “Adolph Hitler.” The two winners section, where the center of the popu- . | lation area of the District is located, will receive silver cups during com: | have only two wading pools. Even in the hottest weather the | mencement week in June. | | \Northeast Has Only 2 Pools For Swimming, 2 for Wading Miss Sibyl Baker, District play- ground director, has a major pool-de- | velopment program outlined in a ten- | tative public works plan she will sub- | mit as soon as Congress appropriates | new works money. Brentwood Pool Plan. The contest was sponsored by Sigma Delta - Phi, women's speech arts fraternity. The judges were Gilbert L. Hall, Dewitt Bennett and Mrs. Frank C. Smith. Mrs. William C. Johnstone jr., wife of the dean of the junior college, presided and introduced the eight contestants. CONTRACT B.RIDGE CLASS A class for beginners on contract bridge will be opened at 8 o'clock to- night at Roosevelt High School, un- der the auspices oi the Community Center Department Regular classes in contract bridge will contiaue to be held on Wednes- day evenings and ciasses for advanced layers on Monday evenings. Mirabe] indsey of the Community Center De pPartment is director of the courses. One of the swimming tanks is the | large pool at McKinley, under super- | vision of the National Capital Parks |and Planning Commission, which | charges a nominal fee for admission. Pools at Rosedale. The District Playground Department runs both a swimming pool and a wading pool at Rosedale, Seventeenth and Kramer streets. The planning commission operates a wading pool at | Langdon. The Central Planning Committee of the City-Wide Playground Council, a group of private citizens, has launched & move to arouse a demand for in- stallation of adequate playground and swimming pool facilities. Mrs. Carroll Johnson, vice chair- man, is urging inhabitants of the Northeast to organize a strong c;% paign to remedy the swimming lack. | A large pool at Brentwood, near the | Florida Avenue Market, is the first item in the Northeast plan. “There is a great plot of ground withdrawn from homes and residences that would be ideal for a pool and playground,” Miss Baker said. “Children from a wide area could play there without annoyance to the residents of ‘the section.” Miss Baker also seeks a large pool for colored persons at Kingman Lake and a smaller playground pool at Taft Recreation Center, North Dakota ave- nue and Otis street northeast. The playground director sees a vital need for at least four more wading pools in the Northeast. Three of these she would place at Sherwood, Bur- roughs and Edgewood playgrounds. A | fourth, for colored, she propgses to operate at Logan playground? Third and G streeta o that they did not care to make pub- lic the site upon which they have | agreed until the full committee hls[ had an opportunity to approve or re- ject the choice. Immediately after the airport sub- committee had completed its executive | session on the airport bill Chairman | Randolph convened his special com- | mittee which now is studying crime in I think!C. O. Lewis, director of the colored | the District and was not available for | the Commissioners should consider, | might schools, said at least five schools | detailed questioning on the work of his airport group. He indicated, however, that so far as he is concerned, the airport mat- ter is a closed question until next ‘Wednesday. If the report is approved by the full | District Committee it still will have to be approved by the House and then must go through the Senate District Committee and be passed by the Sen- ate. The Senate District Committee now has before it a bill by Senator Gibson of Vermont providing for airport con- struction at Gravelly Point. ACHENBACH RITES T0 BE HELD TODAY Adventist Missionary Died at Home of Brother in Ta- koma Park. Special Dispatch to The Star. TAKOMA PARK, Md., March 21.— Funeral services for Rev. Clinton V.| Achenbach, 59, medical missionary of | the Seventh Day Adventist Church, who died here at the home of his brother, Rev. W. H. Branson, early Tuesday after a brief illness, will be held at 2:30 o'clock today at the Ta- koma Park Seventh Day Adventist Church. The funeral sermon will be de- livered by Rev. F. M. Wilcox. Burial will be in Washington Memorial Cem- etery here. Rev. Mr. Achenbach was born in Pennsylvania and spent 19 years as a medical missionary in Peru and the West Indies. He received his medical training at Battle Creek, Mich. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Minnie Elizabeth Branson Achenbach; a daughter, Miss Rachael Jean Achen- bach; his mother, Mrs. Bertha E. Achenbach of Stroudsburg, Pa.; three sisters, Mrs. Bessie E. Bush of Shil- lington, Pa.; Mrs. Carire M. Kiick of Wyomissing, Pa.; Mrs. Elsie V. Grounds of Kingston, Jamaica, and a step-brother, Howard Drake of Takoma Park. | BANQUET POSTPONED' Col. Howe's Illness Reason for De- lay of Writers’ Event. At the request of President Roose- velt, whose intimate friend and asso- ciate, Col. Louis McHenry Howe, is critically ill at the White House, the annual banquet of the White House Correspondents’ Association, which was to have been held at the Willard Hotel Saturday night, has been post- poned until April 27. Plans for the President’s 10-day fishing trip off the coast of Florida, while not abandoned at this time, may be rearranged. Woman Injured by Auto. Matilda Robinson, 35, colored, 1308 Corcosan street, was severely injured about 8 o'clock last night when knocked down near Sixteenth and Buchanan streets by an automobile driven by Abigail Verhoff, 18, of 604 Aspen street. She was treated at Freedmen's Hospital for anginjury to her skull and hip. Her conffition was reported undetermined, LABOR LN > URSDAY, MARCH Nine members of Jehovah's Wltnesse's, a religious organization, photographed at the Alexandria Jail, where they are serving 15-day sentences on a charge of soliciting without a license. Top, left to right: Mrs. Jennie Berman, Mrs. Laura Rick, Mrs. 8. C. Kendall, Mrs. L. Herrell and Mrs. Myrtle Glover. 1, 1935. LRy Hollis Smith, Emmett Stone, Malcolm Downie and Emanuel Sapourn. (Story on Page A-1.) PAGF B—1 WORK RELIEF BILL AMENDMENT SETS ROAD FUND RATIO D. C. and States to Get Al- locations by Means of Hayden Plan. $800,000,000 MAXIMUM ALLOWED FOR MEASURE President Can Fix Sum Up to That Amount Under Pro- posed Law. Each State and the District of Columbia would receive a definite share of whatever sum the President allocates for highway construction {and elimination of railroad grade | crossings under the pending work- | relief bill by the amendment Senator | Hayden, Democrat, of Arizona had | added to the measure in the Senate | yesterday. The bill gives the President power >lo fix the total amount to be §pent | for highways and grade crossings up to $800,000,000. The exact amount each State and the District would receive depends, therefore, on what total the President fixes. Under the Hayden amendment, however, whate ever aggregate amount is allotted for these two purposes must be appor- tioned among all jurisdictions in ac- cordance with a definite mathe- matical formula. D. C. Ratio Illustrated. Below, left to right: —Star Staff Photos. The base ball season officially opens parks. Permits for using the diamonds, which have been reconditioned, are now in the mail, officials said today. Altogether there are some 31 playing fields available for the public. There are four in the Ellipse, eight in the Washington Monument grounds, two in the Takoma Recreation Center, one, a new diamond, in the Taft Rec- reation Center; one in the Langdon Recreation Center, four in Anacostia | Park, four, two of them new, in West | Potomac Park: one in the Palisades | Playground, one in Brentwood, one in | the Turkey Thicket Recreation Cen- | ter, two in Rock Creek Park, one in White Haven Parkway and one in | Fort Mahan. “Judging from the flood of perm.is. we shall have one of the grea‘cst base ball years in Washington,” said ONROW HELD DEADLOCKED Efforts Seen Under Way to Settle Revenue Build- ing Dispute. The jurisdictional dispute between two labor unions, which virtually has stopped work on the new Internal | Revenue Bureau addition at Tenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, ap- parently wvas deadlocked today, al- though ~fforts to bring about some kind of a settlement were reported under way. The nature of these ne- gotiations was not disclosed. With the hoisting engineers out on strike, the temporary hoists used in lifting bricks, stone. wood and other materials ‘o workers on upper floors, remained idle. On account of this, about 300 workmen of several trades were idle, for 'ack of materials with which to work. Elevator constructors continued to | hoist their own materials in the pas- senger clevator “hatch,” where they are building new elevators. It is this hoisting, which is claimed by the hoisting engineers, who went on strike to get it. The only other trade at work was the plumbers, who had some materials on hand. Both the hoisting engineers and the elevator constructors claim they are entitled to the job of hoisting ma- terials for construction of elevators. Fach is backed by his own interna- tional union. The hoisting engineers are also backed by the Building Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor. of which J. W. Williams is president. The elevator constructors also are backed by the “unofficial” Building Trades Depart- ment, of which M. J. McDonough is president. A suit is pending in court here to determine the merits of the divergent claims. ¥ The strike is the first major. dis- pute on a public building here in which these two rival building trade departments have participated. Reports that the strike had been put squarely up to William Green, president of the A. F. of L., could not be confirmed, but it was said in some quarters that because of the dispute between the two building trades de- partments Green probably would keep hands off this local strike. RADIO STARS TO APPEAR Will Aid in Legion Show at St. Elizabeth’s. Talent from the National Broad- casting Co. will contribute to the show to be given for the entertain- ment of patients at St. Elizabeth's Hospital tonight by the Vincent B. Costelo Post, American Legion. Entertainers who have agreed to appear on the program include Les Williams, Joe King, Dorothy Hagen, Lillian Conn, the Caslo Orchestra, Raymond Jackson, Mariog Meitzler, William Kenney. Paul Thgmas, Perry Carter and Haughawout Davey. Base Ball Season in D. C. fiarks ‘NEW |]|STRIET ]A"_ Officially Opens Tomorrow Albert Clyde-Burton. assistant super- intendent of the National Capital parks, in charge of recreation. C. Marshall Finnan, the parks su- perintendent. conceded today that the Federal Government at this time is unable to keep pace with the great | demand for base ball diamonds and | other recreational adjuncts in the | face of hundreds of requests. He is hoping that under the new public | works program some relief may be afforded Permits for tennis playing on the | concrete courts are going like the pro- | verbial hot cakes. The clay courts | will be opened, said Mr. Clyde-Burton, | about April 15. | Seven soft ball diamonds are being | constructed south of the reflecting | pool of the Lincoln Memorial in West | Potomac Park. Mr. Finnan said to- day that these would be ready in a | ganizations, indorsed the plans for al week. CANTREL MAY AS CRAND JURY PROB Will Take Step if Resolution on Sanitary Commission Is Beaten. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, March 21.—A grand jury investigation of the Washington | Suburban Sanitary Commission will | be sought by Delegate Joseph A. Can- trel if his resolution advocating a | legislative probe of the commission and its activities is defeated by the | cause of lack of segregation facilities: | State Assembly. Cantrel made known his decision | today as the House Grand Inquest | Committee met to consider the testi- | mony presented during a hearing | 1ast week on the Montgomery County | legislator’s resolution. Won't Fight for Resolution. He declared he would make no further fight in behalf of the resolu- tion, nor would he endeavor to have }the Hcuse substitute the resolution | for the report if the committee re- turns an unfavorable finding on the measure. | State’s attorneys for Montgomery and they present the case to their grand juries.” Cantrel declared he had no per- sonal knowledge of the irregularities | he would supply the two prosecutors | with the names of witnesses who would substantiate them before the grand juries if his request for an in- vestigation by those bodies is granted. Figures furnished Senator Hayden show that if the total for highways was $100,000,000, the District’s share would be $487,000, and if the total | for grade crossings was $100,000,000. | the District would be entitled to | $201,000. It is generally believed, however, that a larger total will be | earmarked for these two classes of | work. If, for example, it is decided to use $400,000 for highways, the Dis- trict's/allotment would be four times | the estimate referred to above. The | District's share for grade crossings | also would be greater, proportion- ately, if a larger total 1s earmarked 5 ENEN SUPPOR Social Agencies’ Committee “Horrified” at Executions | | in Mess Quarters. for that purpose. As the bill came from committee 1t merely included highways and grade Construction of a new jail ‘or the 2:05?:255 ‘mfigfl :h' projects wd*;! = = | carried on, without requiring any def- District was flpprm.cd by UBBRIMOUS | jrive method of apportionment. vote of ‘he Correction Committee of the Council of Social Agencles after| Freserves Federal Aid Principles. 3 The effect of Senator Hayden's an inspection of the present jail fa- | poramoneic to Fieae the’prin- cilities vesterday. ciples of the Federal aid highway law The committse, composed of repre- | of distributing these funds in ac- sentatives of civic, public and private cordance with population, area and welfare, religious, legal and other or- | mileage of rural mail routes in each | “If the resolution is killed,” Can- | trel stated, “I will confer with the Prince Georges Counties and ask that | charged in his resolution, but said | new jail outlined by Thomas M. Rivers, | jail superintendent. Ray L. Huff of | the Justice Department is chairman ! of the committee. Chair Location “Horrifies.” Members of the committee were described #s being “‘particularly horri- | fied” at learning the executiois of condemned prisoners take place in the mess hall of the misdemeanor wing, | in which oreakfast for the occupants | of that wing 1as been served just be- | fore the execution and where soon | afterward the regular noon meal must | be served. The electric chair is set | up temporarily for each execution in | the end of the dining hall. Miss Mary Edith Coulson, secre- ‘tary of the committee, reported that members ~f the group made a thor- ough insp2ction and found that “con- | ditions at the jail are as bad as, if not worse than, outlined by Supt. Rives in a recent report on the construction | of & new jail submitted to the Com- missioners.” The committee was also concerned, | Miss Coulson said. at learning that | first offenders are often compelled to | associate with hardened criminals be- |at the crowded condition which at times compels large numbers of pris- oners to ‘sleep on the floor. and at the factethere are no facilities for any outdoor exercise or recreation for prisoners” confined in the jail. with weekly provided for trusty prisoners on work detail. | Following the meeting. it was agreed { that each member of the committee | should report back to his or her organization, urging that it indorse the plan for a new jail and use its | influence toward obtaining this build- ing. HOLD-UP REPORTED Miss Marjorie Watson was held up yesterday in her tenth-floor apart- ment in the La Salle, 1028 Connecti- cut avenue, and robbed of $4. She told police she had just finished a telephone conversation when the bandit appeared and brandisned a pistol. He then locked the apart- ment door and took the money which had been in her pocketbook. Members of the Board of Education .have begun a study of My Weekly Reader, current events publication circulated in the public schools, as a | result of protests by Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, U. 8. A, retired, who charged that an article on Russia was pro- Communist and failed to give a true picture of conditions there. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, submitted a file of the papers yesterday and asked the board members to look them over. The article in question was entitled “Shall We Be Friends With Russia?” and appeared shortly after the United States recognized the Soviet Union. “I have read some of these papers,” Henry 1. Quinn, board member, said “and I couldn’t find a thing the least objectionable.” He asked Dr. them carefully, t Baljou if he had read ich the super- Education Board Members Study Alleged Red Reader| “Did you find anything objection- o able? “Nothing whatever,” Ballou replied. the exception of two short periods | jurisdiction, and of allowing State highway officials to carry on the proj- ects after the Federal grants are made. This method has been fol- lowed by Congress since 1916, but it was not until the emergency recovery program began two years ago that the District of Columbia was per- mitted to share in these Federal aid highway funds. The highway funds in the pending bill would be grants. A separate but somewhat similar | formula is contained in the Hayden | amendment for apportioning the grade crossing funds, based on popu- lation. mileage of Federal aid high- ways in each jurisdiction and railroad mileage in each State and the Dis- trict, POLICE FLY TO D. C. TO TAKE FUGITIVE | Auto Salesman Arrested in $30,- | 000 Swindle Charged by | Gotham Officials. [ Two New York detectives, Le Roy | Husser and Thomas Bonanzo, flew here from New York early last eve- | ning, obtained the assistance of | Detective Sergts. Joseph W. Shimon and Richard J. Cox, fugitive squad, |and had them arrest Dennis Carl Anderson, 37, wanted in the metropolis |to answer a charge of first degree | grand thett. | They came in a plane belonging to | the New York Police Department and landed at Hoover Field. Anderson sald he would waive a hearing and | return to New York voluntarily, and | the detectives arranged to take him | back in the plane. | Request for the arrest of Anderson | was based upon an indictment grow- ing out of alleged swindling operations connected with the sale and financing of automobiles, It is stated that ap- | proximately $30,000 is involved. ¢ Anderson came here Saturday and obtained a position as automobile salesman in Anacostia. When the detectives reached the lot where the New Yorker was selling used cars, Shimon pretended he wanted to make a purchase. “Just step inside the office,” the salesman suggested, but instead of doing so, Shimon produced a photo- graph of the accused and asked: “Is this Mr. Anderson?” “It is,” was his prompt response, adding: “I knew you were hawks.” | NEW DIESEL TRAIN Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith, also a ‘ COMING SATURDAY member of the board, pointed out that | | Gen Fries’ protest was based as much on what the article failed to say as upon what it said. “I wish,” Quinn said, “if people make these protests they would make them specific; point out just what is objectionable.” Dr. Ballou sald that so far as he has been able to learn only two pro- tests ever have been made against My Weekly Reader, the one by Gen. Fries and another by an opponent of the World Court, who felt an article on that subject was too friendly to the court. “It appears to me,” he said, “that the only objections have been wholly matters of opinion.” The board plans to give Gen. Fries another opportu: if he desires. to support his obj to the publica- intendent answe: t he had. tion. | Streamliner of Burlington Rail- road Will Be at Union Sta- tion at 9:30 A M. ‘Washington Saturday morning will have an opportunity to see the second of the Zepher twins, streamlined, Diesel-electric trains, which are being put into service by the Burlington Railroad. The train will be at Union Station at 9:30 am. Saturday, re- maining for 30 minutes before start- ing its trip to Miami. The first of the trains was here several weeks ago prior to its epoch- making run to New York. The train is streamlined throughout and is made of stainless steel. The twin Zephers will be placed in service on the Chicago-Jjnneapolis and St. Paul run in il