Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1935, Page 17

Washington News D. C. BILL MOVES 10 CONFERENCE; SENATORS PICKED Six Ready to Meet House Members and Adjust Differences. LARGER U. S. SHARE PROVIDED IN MEASURE Funds Increased $3,000,000 in Amendments Supplied to Meet Needs. B ‘The first step toward getting the 1936 District of Columbia appro- priation bill into conference was taken this afternoon when Vice President Garner appointed the Senate con- ferees. They are Senators Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma; Glass, Demo- crat, of Virginia; Copeland, Democrat, of New York; King, Democrat, of Utah; Nye, Republican, of North Dakota, and Keyes, Republican, of New Hampshire. The House is expected to name its conferees later today or tomorrow. The bill passed the Senate late yesterday carrying $42,785,619, and with the Fed- eral share raised to $8317,500. As it came from the House the bill had con- tained only $39,308 404, with a Federa) contribution of $5,700,000. The task confronting the conferees will be to reach an agreement on the various amendments by which the Senate is seeking to provide for essential main- tenance and improvement items not carried in the House bill, together with | the more equitable Federal obligation toward this increased total Since the House bill amounted to | $39,308,404, with the Federal pay- | ment held down to the 1935 figure of $5700,000, the conferees will have | two distinct tasks before them. One | is to adjust the series of increases | by which the Senate sought to pro- vide for maintenance items and im- provements deemed essential by local{ officials and civic leaders. The other is the basic question of determining | what the Federal obligation should be toward whatever total is agreed upon for the coming year. The Senate amendments added a total of $3,477.215 to the bill, mainly | to provide better housing for District | school children, for an increase in| the size of the police force, for hos- pital maintenance and public health work, and to create work for men on the relief rolls by carrying on more street work out of the gasoline tax fund. Thomas Receives Praise. Under the leadership of Senator ‘Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma, the measure went through the Senate without difficulty yesterday afternoon, | and just before its passage Senator | Copeland, Democrat, of New York, paid tribute to the “devoted, un- selfish service rendered by the Sen- ator from Oklahoma” in seeking to have the bill meet the needs of the Capital City. Copeland, who also is an active member of the subcommittee on Dis- trict appropriations, said the people of | the District owe Chairman Thomas | a debt of gratitude for the time and | energy he devoted to the bill. As soon as the measure had passed‘ Thomas moved that the Senate m-‘ sist upon its amendments, ask a con- | ference with the House and that the chair appoint conferees. . It was expected the House will ap- | point its conferees this afternoon or | ;tomorrow, after which Senate con- ferees will be named. No Objections Met. No opposition was raised in the Benate to the Appropriations Com- mittee recommendation for a larger | Federal payment, nor was there a dissenting voice on any of the amend- ments to make better provision for the needs of the city. | Only two changes, both additions, | were made to the committee recom- ‘mendations on the floor; an increase of $20,000 for printing and a $5,000 increase obtained by Senator Copeland in the item for medical service for the poor. Senator Thomas said the increase in the printing allowance was necessary, after Senators Fletcher of Florida and Hayden of Arizona had succeeded in putting back in the bill a House pro- viso that will require the city to have “all its printing work done at the Gov- ' ‘ernment Printing Office. The Senate committee had eliminated this re- quirement upon hearing testimony that it would prevent the municipal- ‘#ty from doing some of its own print- g. Fletcher, chairman of the Joint " Committee on Printing, presented let- ters from the G. P. O. disputing the District’s claim it would cost more to have that institution do all the work. Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, inquired whether the District Committee or the Appropriations Sub- committee had made any study of the care of tubercular children here. Senator Thomas said the Senate had restored to the bill not only the budget Agures, but also additional sums the Commissioners had recommended for the Children's Tuberculosis Sana- torium. Referring to the children's institu- .. $on, Senator Borah said he had been ven information indicating that “ex- ditures along this line, in many - Tespects, have not been carried on with intelligefice.” He did not go into details. Aid Given Commissioners. Senator Thomas said he does not find it possible to investigate person- aily all District affairs. Speaking for himself, he said, he is following the general policy of trying to help the Commissioners to run the city the way they believe it should be man- aged. He pointed out that in this in- stance the committee gave the Com- missioners the amount for next year that they recommended to the Budget +Bureau, - *This statement applied also to the fncrease in the Federal obligation. The figure approved by the Senate, $8,317,500, is the amount the Com- missioners asked for in their original estimates last Fall. At that time, after they had decided what they regarded would be the minimum total the Dis- trict would need for essential projects for-next year, they also decided that District residents were paying reason- @able property taxes on the existing assessments and rate. Accordingly, y asked that the Federal Govern- g t bear a larger share than for current year. The figure they sug- | viduslly with different contractors for | had signed the agreement. [took a reduction. he Epening Stap WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1935. Col. Patton, Ordered to Hawaii, BEATING OF CHILD Acquires Schooner for Trip Cavalry Officer Studies Navigation in Prepara- tion for Voyage. Mrs. Patton Will Ship With Husband and Four Others. BY J. A. FOX. IEUT. COL. GEORGE 8. PAT- TON, JR., who is generally be- lieved to have cut.his teeth on | a horse bit, is going to find out if a soldier can sail a 52- foot schooner half-way across the Pacific. Ordered from Fort Myer to Hawail for a tour of duty on the general staff, the cavalryman who builds small boats as an avocation, has acquired the Arcturus, a sturdy New England craft, and will sail from San Pedro, Calif., for Honolulu, early in May. Shipping as crew are Mrs. Patton, no novice to the sea; Mr. and Mrs. Gor- | don Prince, Boston, boating enthu- siasts; Joe Eckland, who sailed with Charles Francis Adams on the Yankee in the international cup | trials, and one other yet to be chosen. | Studying Navigation. | Patton is going to be his own navi- | gator, and as his efforts along this | line previously have been a little | closer to the shore, he has under- taken the study of deep sea naviga- | tion under the tutelage of J. E. Law- ton, Washington lumberman, well- known as a lecturer on this science. The plan to sail the Arcturus to Honolulu was evolved more or less by accident. Patton had owned a smaller boat, the Moku II, which he had used around here, but decided it woul. not be suitable for the is- lands. S. the more seaworthy vessel was acquir.d. Then the question of transportation presented itself, and almost before Patton realized it, he was on his way to becoming a first- class mariner. While he is prepping for his new role, the Arcturus is being moved to the West Coast by a steamer. Trip to Take Month, The crossing from San Pedro to | | shellfire. Hawaii is expected to take three to | four weeks, with good luck, and Pat- | Distinguished Service Cross, Silver luck. The others | ton expects the hope he has it. Doing the bizarre is nothing new to Patton. When the Cavalry didn't get into the World War, he joined the | | Tank Corps, and as a colonel, com- | at Fort Myer for the past six years, manded a brigade of lights, which op- | erated with the 77th Division, and | LIEUT. COL. GEORGE S. PATTON, JR. —Underwood Photo. was the only Amerigad tank unit to serve with the American Army. On the advance into the Argonne, Patton, on foot, swung along at the head of a column of tanks, swishing a riding crop, cooly impervious to the ‘That couldn't last 1hough,1 and at Varennes, he was wounded. He came out of the war with a Star citation for gallantry, and Dis- tinguished Service Medal. He also holds the Congressional Medal of | Honor for life-saving. Patton has been stationed here and and has been a familiar figure at horse shows and hunts. UNION PAINTERS RETURNTOWORK. Action Follows Agrgemenf by Employers to Pay $1.371, Rate. Union painters have returned to work for nearly all contractors of the | Master Painters’ Association through- | out the city, it was announced today by John A. Locher, secretary of the Building Trades Council, as a.result of a renewal of the old agreement for the $1.37'2-an-hour scale for & seven-hour day. Painters had been ‘“Iscked out,” they claimed, by refusal of the employers | to continue paying the old scale, but when agreements were reached indi- the old scgle for another year, the men returned to work, for those who Asbestos Workers’ Local Union, No. 24, has signed a new agreement for an increase in wages on a sliding scale, Locher announced. The agree- | ment runs for two years. In order to give contractors time to complete jobs figured at the lower rate, the scale continues at $1.25 an hour for an eight-hour day from April 1 to July 1. It will increase July 1 to $1.371, cents an hour until Septem- ber 1. when it will rise to $1.50 an hour, which will continue until April 1, 1937. This brings the asbestos workers’ scale back to the level of about three years ago, when in order to help stim- ulate business, the union voluntarily gested, and which the Senate ap- proved represents an average of the various lump sum amounts Congress has used during the 10 years that the lump sum practice has been followed. ‘The $8,317,500 Federal payment also was indorsed at hearings by the Citizens' Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations Between the United States and District of Columbia. The joint committee reaffirmed its adherence to the unrepealed substantive law of 1922, which fixed the 60-40 definite proportion ratio of maintaining the Capital, as between the District and Federal Governments. It added, how- ever, that if the lump sum practice Is to be continued at this time $8,317,~ 500 would represent a'reasonable pay- ment toward the pending bill. School Projects Added. Responding to the appeals of civic organizations, the Senate added to the bill 16 projects for school build- ings or sites, amounting to $1,615,500: ‘The House had approved only four other projects amounting to $635,000, so that the bill now contains & school building program of $2,250,500. The Senate also restored the funds for continuing the character educa- tion experiment in the schools. Other important Senate increases include: For 141 more policemen and the reconditioning of the old No. 2 precinct, which was closed several years ago, approximately $300,000; for welfare needs, chiefly for maintenance of hospitals, $380,042; for highway work out of the gasoline tax fund, $340,000; for Water Department im- provements, out of the separate water fund, $238,250; for Public Library maintenance, $22,305, and a variety of smaller maintenance items. In- cluded in the gas tax amendments are: For a viaduct across railroad tracks at Franklin street northeast, between Eighth and Ninth streets, $200,000; to draw plans for a new Pennsylvanis, avenue bridge southeast, $15,000, and to buy materials so that men on the relief roll can be given work on the streets, $135,000. The fate of all these Senate changes rests with the conferees, 3 'men shoved guns in his face. l Sought ROBERT HENSON GREE SAFE LOOTED BY FIVE IN DAYLIGHT ROBBERY Several Employes and Customers Forced to Lie Flat on Floor of Furniture Company. Forcing several employes and cus- tomers to lie flat on the floor, five men rified & safe in the rear of the Cameo Furniture Co., 600 Fourth street southwest, yesterday afternoon and escaped with about $50. Harry Davis, 1230 Eleventh street southeast, attempted to thwart the robbery by grabbing dne of the rob- bers around the neck, but was forced ‘to drop to the floor when two of the 8. C. Sutton, president of the com- pany, said two of the men, all of whom appeared to be about 23 to 25 years old, rified the safe while the three others stood guard. EASTER FINERY STOLEN FROM TWO DRESS SHOPS Connecticut Avenue Stores Report Burglars Get 75 Dresses and $600 in Stockings. There'll be no burglars’ sweethearts in the Easter parade—or not, at any rate, if the police can help it. ‘The burglars got away to a good start early today, however, looting two dress shops on Connecticut avenue, at Nos. 1825 and 1207, At the first address, Miss Martha E. L. Falke reported the loss of $600 worth of silk hosiery, $25 worth of gloves, and white, blue and pink silk sweaters valued at $60. At the second number, the Sadie Rose Shop, was looted of 75 dresses, for which no value was given, and | disappear again. | exact nature of the advice sought, offi- | | cials of the board admitted the case | mother’s statement.” WITH STRAP LAID 10 STEPFATHER 3-Year-0ld Girl Seriously| Injured—Police Seek Relative. WHIPPED FOR FAILING IN SPELLING OF “PATTY” Prince Georges Rescue Squad Men Describe Prints of Buckle in Flesh. Norma Jean Green smiled through tears on her third birthday today as the skill of medical science was brought into play to ease the bruises on her back which police say were inflicted by a strap wielded by her stepfather. Her mother, Mrs. Marie Roberts Green, and kindly nurses at Casualty Hospital did their best to cheer Norma Jean while Prince Georges County #nd Washington police kept a sharp lookout for the stepfather, Robert Henson Green, unemployed brick- | iayer. ‘The family lives in a tiny house at | Ardmore, Md., where Green is re- | ported to have beaten the child. in | spite of the mother’s protests, when she faltered in spelling “patty.” Called Help Yesterday. According to neighbors, the beating occurred Sunday night and when Norma Jean kept getting worse, the mother went to a nearby house about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon to call a doctor. She decided to summon the Bladensburg Rescue Squad, instead, however. When squadmen heard what happened they immediately notified police. By the time the officers arrived | Green and his dog had disappeared. | ‘While the officers, under the direc- | tion of Sergt. Ralph Brown, together with Bladensburg firemen and neigh- | bors, were searching surrounding woods, Green slipped back into the| house for a short time, but was| warned of the posse’s return through | in the bill are $35,000 for construc- | the barking of his dog in time to| At 9 o'clock last night Washington police broadcast a look out for him. Prince Georges officers kept an all- night vigil at the house in vain. Print of Buckle in Flesh. Sergt. Hedley Gasch of the rescue squad said Mrs. Green told him the father beat the child with his belt. | Imprints of the belt buckle could be | plainly seen in the little girl's flesh, the squadmen said. Her legs were swollen, and, according to the hos- pital report, she has internal injuries and possible fracture of the left fore- arm. Police records show Green has been arrested eight times since 1926 on charges ranging from intoxication to housebreaking. He recently served a two-year term in the Lorton Reforma- tory, the records disclose. The family moved into Prince Georges County from northeast Wash- ington last Winter and has been known to the County Welfare Board since December. Officials of the board said it was a “pure service case,” one in which the social workers gave ad- vice and planning rather than finan- cial relief. Previous Beatings Cited. Although reluctant to discuss the | involved previous beatings of the child | by the father, “according to the County Welfare Board officials have discovered, how- ever, they said, that the case be- longed in the District and it has been referred back to Washington authori- tles. Norma Jean's condition was de- scribed this morning as “improved but still serious.” GENERAL MOTORS SHOW ATTENDED BY THRONGS 12,000 Estimated Visitors Three Days See Free Display * of Products. ‘The annual Spring exhibit of Gen- eral Motors being held this week at the Washington Auditorium is going over in a great way so far as at tendance is concerned. The attend- ance so far is 400 per cent greater than last year. Practically 12,000 persons have attended during the first three days, it was announced today by A. C. Tiedemann, jr., chairman of the show committee. The exhibit, which is free, is open daily from 10:30 in the morning until 10:30 at night. ‘Those attending are entertained by Vincent Lopez and his orchestra, who will continue to play both afternoon and evening throughout the week. o BUS TURN CHANGED Massachusetts Avenue Line Stop- over Is at Fessenden Street. ‘The stop-over point for the busses of the Massachusetts avenue line was changed yesterday on order by the Public Utilities Commission to Fessep- den street on the west side of Wiscon- sin avenue instead of on the east side. The turn-around will be by way of Fessenden, Wisconsin, Ellicott and Forty-third streets instead of around in two fur neckpieces worth $125. In both cases burglars obtained entry by smashing a window. Forty-first and Garrison streets as at present. The change was made be- SCHOOLS APPLAUD ‘SQUARE DEALFOR D. C. BILL'S ITEM Kramer Hopes House Will Agree to Restorations Made by Senate. ALL BUT FOUR PLANKS ARE RETURNED BY ACT Acquisition of Junior High School Site Written In for Added Funds. Favorable action by the House con- ferees on the District public séhool item in the District appropriation bill as passed yesterday by ghe Senate will give the school system “a real square deal,” Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant superintendent of schools, said todsy. “We would be able to make a fresh start,” said the school officer. “For a number of years we have had to fight against accumulated shortages. If the House agrees to all the items restored in the bill by the Senate, the public schools will be brought up to a con- dition where they need not make further large demands on Congress. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, said he considered the Senate action “very satisfactory.” Most of Items Included. As approved by the Senate, the ap- propriation bill contains all but four items asked for by school officials and only one of these was necessary to meet what was termed an acute situ- ation. This was for $150,000 to con- struct an eight-room school on Bladensburg road northeast. Both the Wheatley and the Webb elementary schools, which serve that section, are seriously munity is rapidly building up, Dr. Kramer explained. Other requested items not contained tion of a second floor at the unfin- ished Sheppard School on the Kalmia the Harvey School in Foxhall Village, and $40,000 for an assenfbly-gymna- sium in the Whittier School. 15 Items Restored. ‘The Senate restored to the appro- priation bill 15 construction items which had been stricken out by the House. In addition it wrote in an appropriation of $185,000 for acqui- sition of a new Jefferson Junior High School site in Southwest Washington. Most important among these re- stored items is the $140,000 appropria- tion for beginning construction on a new Dennison Vocational School for girls, Dr. Kramer declared. Because of the location and facilities of the present school, on S street, east of Fourteenth, many girls should at- tend or be kept by their parents in other schools, Dr. Kramer explained. The school was built in 1879 and at one time was condemned as unfit for occupancy. Extensive improvements were made in order to bring it up to minimum requirements. Want 24 Rooms. School officials hope to locate th new girls’ vocational school to th rear of the Tuberculosis Hospital at Fourteenth and Upshur streets. They plan a 24-room building, constructed especially to meet the needs of such an education. Its total cost would be $280,000.. Dr. Kramer said he thinks enroll- ment in the schools will be more than doubled by the change in location. Next in importance was listed the restoration of $190,000 for construction of an addition to the Paul Junior High School, Ninth and Quackenbos streets in the Brightwood section. The old Brightwood School, Georgia avenue and Quackenbos street, which was abandoned years ago, now is being used to accommodate the overflow from the Paul Junior High. This is one of the most seriously overcrowded schools in the District. Grimke Item Restored. ‘The colored section of southeast Washington will receive greatly en- hanced educational facilities, if the Senate action is approved by the House. The bill contains the restored item of $180,000 for reconstruction of the Grimke School, Fifth and G streets southeast, and the addition of '12 rooms to the present 8-room struc- jure. Dr. Kramer pointed out that favor- able action on the $155,000 appropri- ation on an eight-room annex to the Ketcham School in Anacostia, just off Good Hope road, would permit aban- donment of the ancient six-room Van Buren annex. This is a three-story structure and has no central heating plant. Its 150 children alternately shiver and perspire, according to their proximity to the old-fashioned stoves with which each class room is equipped. It was built in 1881. The Senate bill contains a $115,000 item for replacement of one of the District’s smallest schools, the Bunker Hill School in Brookland, near the Franciscan Monastery. School offi- cials hope to replace the present four- room structure with a modern eight- room building, Dr. Kramer said. Overcrowding Noted. Final inclusion of the $155,000 item for an eight-room addition to the Truesdell School, Ninth and Ingra- ham streets, would permit elimipation of an old four-foom building now be- ing used and relieve a serious over- cause of petition of property owners. Double-blossomed Cherry Trees, Unhurt by Cold, With three warm days, Washing- ton's double blossomed Japanese cherry trees around the Speedway in East Potomac Park will be out in bloom. ‘This was announced today by Marshall Finnan, superintendent the National Capital parks, after hot- ticultural experts had examined the trees and found that last night’s rain and snow had not damaged the buds, The blooms were not far enough ad- vanced to permit nigping. C. of » to Bloom Soon The single blossom trees around the Tidal Basin presented a ragged ap: pearance today, with practically all the blossoms on the wane. The leaves are beginning to come through, and there are petals like snow in the gutters. Pinnan announced the cherry trees now in the Mall will be moved, prob- ably in the Fall, crowding, Dr. Kramer asserted. He present modern eight-room unit at the Truesdell School was at- tached to the old four-room building, but that a large number of school children in the neighborhood prohib- ited demolition of the old structure. One of the most serious needs in ‘Washington secondary schools, said Dr. Kramer, is the erection of a senior high school to serve the thickly populated northern section of the city. ‘The Senate bill this by its appropriation of $40,000 to be used mainly for drawing plans and specifi- cations for such a structure. The new high schools which probably will cost in the neighborhood of $1,500,000, -is to be located on the site aiready owned by the District at Pifth and Van streets. congested and the com- | road; $35000 for a second floor to | L L Doolittle Flies To Give Arnold Mackay Award ORING through sow, rain and low-hanging clouds at an aver- age speed of more than 200 miles per hour, when all other flying was suspended, Maj. James H. Doolittle, vice president of the National Aeronautic Association, | came here from New York in response to a hurry call this morning to pre- sent the coveted Mackay Trophy to| Brig. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, General Headquarters Air Force. , ‘The presentation was made in a hangar at Bolling Pield in the pres- | | ence of military and civil air leaders | within a few minutes after Doolittle's | fleet plane had splashed to a landing, | exactly on the schedule he had set for | himself. Gen. Arnold today received | | the Mackay Trophy for the second time in his long and distinguished flying career. In 1912 Arnold, then a second | lieutenant of infantry, made what was for those days a magnificent | reconnaissance flight from College Park, Md., to Fort Myer, Va, and re- | turn. Flying without protection, he was 50 badly chilled he had to be| lifted from the wing of his old Wright pusher plane and carried to the fleld hospital before he was able to write the military report, which completed | the mission which won for him the | first Mackay Trophy award. 1912 Flight Hardest. He received the award today, 23 vears later, for his leadership of the Army massed reconnaissance flight from Washington to Alaska and re- turn. In accepting the trophy for the second time, Gen. Arnold said B Brig. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, General Headquarters Air Force, right, is shown receiving the Mackay Troghy from M: vice president of the National Aeronautic Association Here in Storm| . James H. Doolittle, —A. P. Photo. that he endured more actual physical | suffering during the 1912 flight of | 41 minutes than during the whole of the Alaskan expedition. Gen. Arnold was to have received the trophy from Senator William G. McAdoo, president of the National Aeronautic Association, which is| custodian of the valuable award.| Senator McAdoo notified the associa- | tion that he had been unavoidably | detained and a hurry call was sent | to New York for Doolittle. Doolittle, who held the Mackay Trophy him- self for a year by virture of his vic- tory in the Schneider Trophy race for the Army in 1825, accepted and said he would be here in time for the ceremony at 10:15 am. | Trip Takes 65 Minutes. Although all air transport traffic between New York and Washington had been suspended, Doolittle took off | from North Beach Airport, New York, under virtually “zero-zero” conditions, | and 65 minutes later roared into Bolling Field out of the low clouds. In presenting the trophy, Doolittle said that the Alaskan flight led by Gen. Arnold “showed conclusively | that aviation is not entirely a young {man's game any longer and also | | should be entrusted to the éommand of able, experienced flying officers.” The Mackay Trophy was received for the War Department by Brig. Gen. Oscar Westover, assistant chief of the | Air Corps, and will be displayed in the Air Corps trophy room during the | coming year. Gen. Arnold received a | gold medal, which he will hold per- manently. PLEAS ARE SPLIT BY QUESENBERRY Declares Not Guilty to Charge of Slaying Al- exandria Officer. Special Dispatch to The Star. LEESBURG, Va, April 9.—Thomas (“Devil Tom") Quesenberry pleaded not guilty “for the present” to an indictment charging him with the murder of Corpl. C. J. McClary of Alexandria’s police force when ar- raigned in Circuit Court this morn- ing. At the same time he entered a guilty plea to a charge of “felonously wounding” George Kirkpatrick, Fed- eral agent. Judge J. R. H. Alexander deferred sentence in the latter case and set April 23 for Quesenberry’s trial on the murder charge. Shelby Cole, indicted with Ques- enberry in the shooting of Kirkpatrick, pleaded mot guilty. Both men asked counsel be assigned to defend them. The court set May 2 as the tenta- tive date for Cole’s trial in the Kirk- patrick case. Kirkpatrick was shot in a gun fight during a still raid March 16. Corpl. McClary was killed the following day when a posse cornered Quesenberry. SERVANT PLEADS NOT GUILTY. Lipscomb’s Butler Held Under Bond | for Grand Jury. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9.—Waiv- ing a scheduled preliminary hearing on charges that he purchased 150 gallons of applejack from “Old Tom" Quesenberry, Loudoun County moun- taineer, accused of shooting two law enforcement officers, Harry Adams, butler for William H. Lipscomb, today was ordered held for the action of a Pederal grand jury by United States Commissioner John Barton Phillips. Adams was released on bond of $1,500, furnished by his employer. His case will come before a grand jury of the United States Court here on June 3. e — are badly over-crowded and that the new Woodrow Wilson High School is too far west to relieve the situation. ‘Wing for Roosevelt. The Roosevelt will get additional help, under the Senate bill by the con- struction of seven rooms onto its left wing. The building as originally planned was to have contained these rooms, but was curtailed to meet ap- propriation requirements, intended to accommodate 1,500, it has a present enrollment of 1,900. The appropria- tion of $7,500 for the Margaret Mur- ray Washington Vocational School for Colored Girls would permit the addi- tion of a special room to house classes in cleaning and dyeing. Dr. Kramer explained that possible fire hazards attending such vocational training re- quire specisl facilities, He said is s considerable demand for a clean- ing and dyeing course. D.C. HEALTH WORK LAG POINTED OUT Ruhland Urges Funds Be In- creased From 80 Cents to $2 Per Capita. Until Washington is willing to | increase its appropriation for public health work from 80 cents to $2 per capita, the Capital will l3g behind comparable American cities and can- not expect to take its place as model for the balance of the countr: according to Dr. George C. Ruhland, District health officer. Dr. Ruhland addressed the Institute on Delin- quency and Health at the United States Chamber of Commerce yes- day. F‘Dr. Ruhland gave figures on Wash- ington’s public health work and com- pared them with statistics from other cities. Only in food inspection is the city on a par with the average. Although that is true, there is no law here requiring that persons han- dling meat comply with health regu- lations. The meat itself is inspected, Dr. Ruhland said, but the meat cut- ters and packers are not. ‘The health officer said the city has only about one-third of the number of nurses it needs, including the Instruc- tive Visiting Nurse Society, which is largely supported not by public funds but from money donated through the Community Chest. The public health least three times larger. CITY HEADS PROTEST JUNKING OF W., B. & A. Glenn Dale Hospital Would Be Left Without Means of Travel, They Say. The District Commissioners today voiced protest against abandonment of the Washington, Baltimore & An- naplis Railroad until an opportunity had been given to outline the Dis- trict’s needs for transportation to the ‘Tuberculosis Hospital site at Glenn Dale, Md. There will be lack of communica- tion with the institution if the electric line is abandoned, the Commissioners stated in a petition to be forwarded to the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Baltimore court has given ap- proval of abandonment of the line, subject to approval by regulatory com- missions having jurisdiction. The Interstate Commerce Commission is one of these. The Commissioners seek a hearing before the Federal agency acts in the matter. Two to Speak Saturday. G. B. Schubauer and W. Ramberg will be principal speakers at a meet- ing of the Philosophical Society of ‘Washington in the Cosmos Club audi- torfum Saturday at 8:15 p.m. Schu- bauer will speak on “Turbulence and Its Relation to the Diffusion of Heat,” while Ramberg’s topic will be “Pro- peller Vibrations and Propeller Fail- ures.” ~ | showed that military aviation units | nursing staff, he said, should be at | PAGE B—1 COMMERCIAL MAY PAY DEPOSITORS ADDITIONAL 25% Quarterly Report of Receiver of Insolvent Bank In- dicates Payment. SUM WOULD BRING TOTAL TO 75 PER CENT Book Value of Remaining Assets Listed at $5,966,558, but Esti- mated Value Is $2,471,053. More than $1,000,000, roughly 25 per cent more, in dividends probably will be paid to depositors in the in- solvent Commercial National Bank by complete liquidation. This indication, the first of its kind available since the bank closed late in February, 1933, was disclosed today by the quarterly report of the receiver, Robert C. Baldwin. Payment of another 25 per cent, |in addition to the 50 per cent al- ready paid out to depositors, would bring the total realized by depositors of this bank up to 75 per cent. For the first time since the bank closed. the official form of reporting to the controller of the currency in- cluded estimates of remaining assets of the bank. These, together with figures showing the debt still owed to the R. P. C. and the deposit liability, gave the basic figures from which it is possible to reach the general con- clusion that the bank “may pay” an- other 25 per cent eventually. It is not possible to predict when this can be paid, or in what installments. It is only a rough estimate. Declines to Comment. Mr. Baldwin declined to comment on his quarterly report, but simply made it public, with the new figures avail- able for the first time. The book value of total remaining assets in the Commercial was listed at $5,966,558.67, but the estimated value of these same assets is placed at $2,471,053.50. In explanation of the “estimated” | value, a footnote on the official | printed report furnished by the Treas- | ury Department says: “The above figures as to estimated values represent the receiver's present estimate of the ultimate liquidation | value of these items. Accordingly, | these values are not guaranteed by either the receiver or the controller of the currency, and they should not be !accepud by the depositor as final either as a basis of prospective divi- dends or otherwise. The assets valued above include those, if any, which have been pledged for the repayment of secured liabilities and no allow- ance has been made for unpald bal- ances of such claims or for any out- standing balance of a liquidating loan granted to the receiver by the Re- construction Finance Corp.” Owed R. F. C. $3,327.400. ‘The Commercial, however, it is dis- closed by the figures, owed to the R. F. C. a total of $3,327400, of which $2,479,400 has been repaid al- ready, leaving a net principal debt of $848,000. Since this debt has run for some time it is estimated that in- terest would amount to around $100,- 000, bringing the bank’s debt to the R. F. C. around $948,000. Subtracting the R. F. C. obligation from the total estimated remaining assets leaves a fund of more than $1,500,000 available for depositors and liquidating costs. This is, roughly, about one-fourth of the total original | deposit liability of more than $5,- 822,000. The 50 per cent dividend from the Commercial has paid over to deposi- tors more than $2,789,500. The quarterly report is for the period ending March 31 this year. Depositors who have money in the bank, and who have failed to file claim or received any of their funcy are being notified by letter from the receiver to come and prove their claim, and get their funds. There is nearly a quarter of a million dollars in claims not yet proven. RECEIVING HOME BUILDING URGED Superintendent Asks 200,000 of Work-Relief Fund for Purpose. A plea for the construction of & new building to house children confined at the Receiving Home for Children was filed with the Board of Public Welfare today by Grady H. Leonard, superin- tendent of the home. He urged that $200,000 of the new work-relief funds which the District expects to get be used for this purpose. which he said was necessary to correct badly overcrowded conditions at the present building at 816 Potomac ave- nue southeast. In an outline of the matter he said the District will have to pay after July 1 $49,375 as rent for the bullding. He said this is about what the build- mg is worth. He called attention to the fact that more than $20,000 has been spent to reconstruct and improve the building since it was first rented in October, 1928, “One of the greatest inadequacies in the present housing is that there is no facilities for separating the delin quent from the dependent chil Leonard said. “The murderer, the housebreaker, the automobile thief, the purse-snatcher are placed in the same quarters with the small boy who is in the receiving home because he has no home. There are no facilities for segregation.” Describing the quarters for girls confined at the institution, Leonard said children under seven years of age are placed in the girls’ quarters where they come in contact with inmates who have been arrested on vice charges. To show the need for larger quarters Leonard said that on 104 nights dur- ing the first eight monthsof the pres- ent fiscal year some of the boys had to sleep either two in & bed or on the floor because of lxek of sufficient space.