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Washington News @hy 'lfl SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star Society and General WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, 9 APRIL 24, 1935. FHR PAGE B—1 HOUSE . C. GROUP 0.K-SNORTON AND ELLENBOGEN BILLS Permitting Firemen and Police to Live Outside City Favored. REPORT ON AIRPORT LOCATION DISCUSSED Unemployment Compensation Bill Delayed Pending Action on Security Measure. BY JAMES E. CHINN. The House District Committee to- day favorably reported the Ellen- bogen unemployment compensation and the Norton old-age pension bills. Favorable reports also were or- dered on two bills sponsored by Rep- resentative Smith, Democrat, of Vir- ginia designed to give police and fire- men the privilege of living outside the District within the so-called metro- politan area. Action was taken at a protracted executive session devoted almost en- tirely to a discussion of a subcom- mittee report relating to the location of a proposed airport. Security Bill Awaited. The committee at the insistence of | Representative Patman, Democrat, of | Texas had purposely delayed action on the unemployment compensation bill pending passage by the House of a national security measure. Chair- man Norton of the House District | Committee is reported to have insisted | on a favorable report on her long Z00’s Beasts and Birds Revel In First Freedom of Spring pending old-age pension bill because | of its close relationship with the un- employment compensation measure. | Several hours before the committee | reported out the unemployment com- pensation bill Rufus S. Lusk of the ‘Washington Taxpayers’ Protective As- sociation suggested in a written memo- randum a series of amendments to A jaguar gets his first glimpse of the Spring weather. -—Star Staff Photo. BUS DRIVER HELD FOR GRAND JURY. TRAINMEN FREED Percy Line Declared Negli- gent by Judge in Rock- ville Tragedy. SHOULD HAVE STOPPED FIRST, COURT ASSERTS Teacher and Survivors Take Stand—Special Session of Jurors Possible. BY JACK ALLEN. Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., April 24.—The grade-crossing tragedy which cost the slated today for investigation by the Montgomery County grand jury, with the driver of the school bus in which the children were riding held on a manslaughter charge. Percy Line, 34-year-old Hagerstown bus driver, was remanded to the jury late yesterday by Judge Donald A. De Lashmutt, simultaneously with the dismissal of similar charges against the engineer and fireman of the Bal- ished his bus. ! It was learned this morning that | the crash probe will be placed in the hands of the grand jury at the same time that group receives the sensa- tional Lyddane case. in which Mrs Anne Lyddane and three alleged con- federates are charged with a dual- | murder conspiracy. lives of 14 Williamsport children was | timore & Ohio express than demol- | | | i pocketbook. RETAILERS ESCAP May Recall Jury. County authorities are 1onsld9nnz‘ an early recall of the jury to hear the | two important cases, but no deflnlle} decision has been reached on this point. Should the jurors not be sum- WALLACE LIGENSE A. AL A Amendments Are | Treasury Digs Deep—-—But Yes, boys and girls, the large building at the right is the United States Treasury, but the picture does not mean that Secretary Morgenthau has resorted to the use of a steam shovel in digging up the $4.000,000.000 public ! works fund. The excavation is being done in preparation for installing air-conditioning apparatus in the Nation's ~Svar <mfl Photo. Guard Bandsmen, | Absent at Parade, Undergo Grilling Fate Hinges on Reporl Being Prepared by { 1.C. BLLS AWAT CONFEREE ACTION | Auto Liability and P. W. A CONFEREES LEAVE D.C. BILL FORTIME; PROGRESS IS MADE fCompromises Are Reached on Detailed Items of Budget. |FEDERAL SHARE STILL IS BASIS OF DISPUTE | {In General, Members of House Oppose Increases Put In by Senate. After reaching compromises on de- tailed items that would place the 1936 | District appropriation bill approxi- mately at the level of the Budget Bu- 'reau total, the conferees have ad- | journed for a few days, with the Fed- | eral share and several other impor- | tant issues still in disagreement. This would mean raising the House bill from $39.308.404 to somewhere above $40,300,000, but would be a sub- | stantial reduction below the Senate | total of $42.785,000. These figures are still tentative, however, since a num- | ber of items are undetermined, includ- ling the 587,540 for character educa- tion in the schools and more than 1$200,000 of Senate increases for Gal- | linger Hospital. lL is understood a tentative agree- has been reached for 35 addi- tlonal policemen, instead of the 141 |approved by the Senate. The House | bill did not allow any increase in the ‘poh(‘e force. With few exceptions, the general attitude of the House conferees is re- ported to have been against allowing those Senate increases which went {above the budget recommendation. School Projects May Lose. This means the Senate is likely to lose all but a few of the new school moned earlier, State’s Attorney James ! on May 20, their next regular report- | H. Pugh said they will receive the cases | Reported Gut. With Mer- Lieut. Rhodes. building projects it added to the bill, After hearing the petitions of neigh- Loan Measures Delayed 7 make it conform to various provisions ODAY was a big day for the geese, cormorants. pheasants and | ing date. | borhood organizations, the Senate pro- in the national security measure. = The unemployment compensation jungle cats, the elephants, bill provides that employers shall con- I z kangaroos and pelicans at the tribute 3 per cent of the annual pay | o roll toward the compensation fund and They emerged from their that the District's contribution should | 1008 confinement in Winter quarters equal 1 per cent of the pay roll of all | into the sunlight and fresh air of | employers. outdoor runways with various signs | Would Aid Those Over 65. | of delight. Jaguars and tigers romped or dozed Mrs. Norton's old-age pension bill in the sun: Old Babe trumpeted her would benefit pe'mnsdss u;]arsDold m; { pleasure and tossed moist warm earth | over who have resided in the District | .\ 0 hulking back of her com- | for five years or more. The Board | of Commissioners would be charged | Panion. while the pelicans beat their with administration of the old-age | wings about the pools in Rock Creek cranes had forgotten them. One pair of cormorants was build- | ing a nest of sticks on the ground, | apparently oblivious to the teeming ‘h(e about them. One sat upon the lone egg while the other collected | sticks for the yet unfinished nest. When the male gray tired of the building task he warmed the egg while | | the female searched for new material. The trees about the flight cage, oddly enough, contained scores of nests built by night berons, free to roam the | reaches of the Potomac and Chesa- | | peake Bay. but returning each vear in an effort to share the life and Gov- chants Exempt. In dismissing the charges against | James A. Shewbridge, engineer, snd William F. Bussey, fireman of the St. Louis-New York fiyer that struck the | fihwl bus, Judge lDe l-usgn;mt f& The House Agriculture Committee clared the two trainmen had taken 5 & [ every precaution to prevent an acci- | {048 decided to exempt retail mer dent at the crossing. chants from the drastic licensing { He contended, however, that Line | powers proposed for the Secretary of was ‘“clearly guilty” of negligence and | £gricult: in the controversial A. A. should be brought before the grand | o\ rcndments. 1t then voted o re- jury on the charge that was lodged e re- | against him following the tragedy. | port the amendments out, virtually | unchanged otherwise from the form in which they previously were ap- | | By the Associated Press. The wreck occurred here on the { night of April 11 as Line was return- ing from College Park with a group 1of the 121st Engineers’ Band of the | day parade April 6. { | officer, to inquire into the bandsmen’s | assistance fund. 1t also would determine the amount | of relief based on conditions in each | case. The measure, however, fails to| authorize a fixed appropriation for the relief funds, but stipulates that | Congress shall make available to the Commissioners “such a sum as may | be needed for old age assistance, to- gether with a sufficient fund to defray administrative expenses.” ‘The committee took favorable action and in the great flight cage. Only Soko. the veteran chimpanzee, ana others of the monkey family re- mained indoors to await a warmer \day Soko rattled his bars and yelled | for his old friend, Headkeeper William H. Blackburne. and the Gibbon mon- | keys led the chorus of protest. The Zoo's 28 European and Ameri- | ‘ can pelicans had been indoors in the storage warehouse since Fall. The huge birds created a great stir in the | ernment rations of the captives inside | of Williamsport High School students | flight cage when they were brought back this mornin! Blmofil as if the on the two Smith bills to permit police and firemen to live outside the Dis- the flight cage. These free birds. this year at least, | have built a dozen nests on top of the great flight cage. Captive herons | within the cage sometimes fly up to |thrust Government - bought fish | through the bars to the nestlings on the outside. Scores of busses loaded with visitors from neighboring States are passing through the Zoo daily with the ar- | rival of warm weather, augmenting a lugP auondance of locsl residents. trict on recommendation of the Police and Fire Subcommittee. At a publicl t t hearing on these measures Monday S Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown and | CEen ls s representatives of the Fire Department urged that they be enacted in view of | the housing conditions in Washington. ‘ CAPITOL COMPLETION WITNESSES HEARD Five Archltects Opposed to P]sn Testify, as Well as Those Informed of Clues To Origin of New World Man Colorado Excavations on Site of Ear’y Camps Are Termed Epochal by Carnegie Institution Head. | Favoring It. Five architects opposed to building | out the central portion of the east front of the Capitol and replacing | the sandstone facing with marble to correspond with the House and Senate wings were heard today by the House Committee on Public Buildings and | Grounds. | Chairman Lanham, Representative Burnham of California and Represen- tative Wearin of South Dakota ques- tioned the witnesses. Members of the committee indicated their desire to hear spokesmen both in opposition as well as those in favor of the project to complete the Capitol, according to the recommendations of Thomas U. ‘Walter in his report when the dome and the House and Senate wings were erected. Dr. Leicester Holland, chief of the division of fine arts of the Library of Congress, the first witness in op- position, heard by the committee yesterday, was questioned by members today. He and the other four archi- tects objected to the passage of the bill, which already has been acted upon favorably by the Senate, on sentimental, historical, archeological and architectual grounds. The other witnesses were Edward W. Donn and Alfred Grainger, both local architects; Lorimer Rich and Thomas H. Ellett, both New York architects, now working in the office of the supervising architect in the easury Department. The committee expects to conclude ts hearings at a session tomorrow tarting at 10:30 a.m. TROLLEY HITS GIRL, 2 ‘Bernice Hoffman, 2-year-old daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Hoffman, 1315 East Capitol street, was knocked down by a street car in front of her home today when she ran onto the car tracks after a ball. She was not injured, police said, but was treated for shock by & neighborhood physician. ‘The street car was moving slowly, having just turned the corner at Thirteenth and East Capitol streets, and ma to stop after knocking the child to the ground. P.-T.A. to Hold Party. GLENMONT, Md. April 24 (Spe- cial).—The Glenmont Parent-Teacher n will hold a bingo and card at the school tomorrow night at 8 olclock. Mrs, Raymond Graeves is ch an of the committee in charge of afrangements, J BY THOMAS R. HENRY. The troublesome problem of ice age man in North America was again its annual meeting here yesterday. Whether homo sapiens was a rela- tively late arrival in the New World or came here during the closing years of the glacial epoch, when ice still covered much of the continent and the long-extinct mammoth, mastodon and saber-tooth tiger were the domi- nant animals, may be approaching a definite answer, according to Dr. John C. Merriam, president of the Carnegie | Institution of Washington, and Dr. Henry Fairchild Osborne of the Amers can Museum of Natural History. In this connection Dr. Merriam | declared the Bureau of American | Ethnology excavations on a camp site early man in Northern Colorado as pochal,” and Dr. Osborne said | American archeology at last had found a “floor” upon which to work. Excavations Described. The Colorado excavations were de- scribed to the academy by Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts of the Smithsonian Institution. The discovery of this site, he said, was made originally by Maj. Roy G. Coffin of Fort Collins, Colo., who notified the Washington institution. Examination of the site left no doubt but that the arrow points and other artifacts there, in asso- ciation with bones which since have been identified as those of extinct bison, were those of the mysterious Folsom men, who appear unquestion- ably to have hunted ice age mammals through the Southwest. The great significance of the find is that it enables archeologists to con- struct a pattern of the culture of the { earliest known inhabitants of North America, which can be applied in other localities. The remaining problem is whether the ice age mammals may not have survived to a relatively late time. One of the most vigorous controveries on the subject arose from the discovery a few years ago of human bones as- sociated with bones of mastodon and sabre-tooth tiger in Florida by the late Dr. Charles E. Gidley of the National Museum. Dr. Merriam, who has devoted many years to the study of the probability of ice age habitation of the continent, told of recent preliminary studies of the terrain in which Dr. Gidley’s dis- coveries were made. It has much the same general appearance, he said, as that of the Southwestern sites, where supposed remains of glacial man have been found. The question, Dr. Mer- riam concluded, still is a long. way ¢ | brought before the National Academy | of Sciences at the closing session of | | from final settlement, but the compli- | cated maze is beginning to be solved. Dr. Osborne announced to the| academy that, after years of intensive work, he has been able to trace the great 50,000,000-yeat trek of the elephant race from its original home in South Africa over most of the known world. This great migration, Dr. Oshorne said, may have had an important influence on the present vegetation and fauna of the earth. The elephants, predominantly vegetation | eaters, must have carried many seeds with them and the paths they broke through the forests were followed by other animals. the Agassis Medal was awarded to Dr. Haakon Hasberg Gran of the University of Oslo in recognition of his contributions to knowledge of the factors controlling organic production in the sea. The award was accepted for Dr. Gran by the Norwegian Min- ister. The Henry Draper Medal was awarded to Dr. John S. Plaskett, di- rector of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory at Victoria, British Co- lumbia, in recognition of his studies of stellag radiation velocities. The award was accepted for him by Dr. Frank D. Adams, foreign associate of the academy from Canada. The Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal and honorarium of $200 was awarded to James P. Chapin of the American Museum of Natural History in recogni- tion of his studies of birds of the Belgian Congo. The Public Welfare Medal was awarded to August Vollmer. former police chief and now member of the University of California faculty, in recognition of his application of scientific methods to the work of crime detection. The academy yesterday made public a letter from President Roosevelt thanking it for the assistance it has given the administration on problems pertaining to the scientific policies of the Government. “It is a matter of thankfulness,” the President wrote, “that among the many sources of world distrust and Jjealousies, science preserves an ideal of purity, truthfulness and mutual good will towards all nations. Not only do co-operative international scientific projects flourish but the publications of scientists are received at face value in all lands, even though they be politically at variance.” Dr. W. W, Campbell, president of the academy, replied offering contin- ued co-operation with the Govern- ment on any project within the do= main of the physical and biological sciences, 3 | who had attended a chemistry demon- stration at the University of Mary- land, Should Stop at Track. “I think it is the duty of every | driver to stop at a railroad crossing and determine whether the track is clear,” the judge stated in announc- ing his decision. “The best of warn- ing devices are worthless if persons | act as Eddie Stevens did.” | proved by the committee The amendments carry provisions | | for Secretary Wallace's ever-normal | granary plan, authority to use process- |ing taxes and one-third of the Na- | tion's customs receipts to aid in hand- ling surplus agricultural products in ‘expon markets, and extends authority to license processors and distributors | of food products to make farmer marketing agreements effective. | dealing with required attendance at | ! the absence of some others of the He was referring to Edward L., Retail merchants, under the revised Stevens, assistant golf professional at amendments. could not be licensed the Manor Club, who testified during | under provisions of the bill. which | the hearing that although he heard permit the Secretary of Agriculture to \ the automatic gongs signaling the | impose licenses even over the protests trlms approach, he drove across the of a majority of processors and dis- | tracks without stopping just prior to | tributors of the commodity concerned. | the crash. | The amendments in general have Line also had admitted when called | drawn severe criticism from opponents i At the annual banquet last night | to the witness stand a few moments | before the preliminary hearing closed | | that he, too, had failed to stop at the crossmx He said he reduced his ed to a point between 10 and 15 ! mllea an hour approaching the tracks. Free Under Bond. Line was released under $1,000 bond i | | of the case. Miss Louise Funk, science teacher at | Williamsport High, who was in charge | | of the ill-fated party on the night of | ful survivors of the wreck testified | | during the morning session that neither Line nor other occupants of | the bus had any warning of the ap- proach of the train. State’s Attorney Pugh and Col. Wil- | liam Preston Lane, jr., attorney for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, asked Line | if he was familiar with a regulation | under which Washington County | school bus drivers are required to stop at all railroad crossings and open of trains. “I never heard of it.,” Line replied. Trainmen Testify. Both Shewbridge and Bussey testi- fled that they took every precaution to safeguard against an accident at the crossing and the former related how he had blown the engine’s whistle: and turned on the automatic bell. Substantiating the trainmen’s testi- mony were the stories of several Rock- ville residents who said they had heard the whistle of the train dis- tinctly. They were called to the stand by attorneys for the railway. The Board of Montgomery County Commissioners is considering a suit against the railroad for alleged vio- lation of a 23-year-old statute which provides that the railway must keep a watchman on duty at the Rockville crossing from 6 a.m. to midnight each day and also maintain safety gates. A letter was received by the county commissioners yesterday from John J. Cornwell, general counsel for the B. & 0., in which he set forth the opin- ion that the old law is unconstitu- tional. He said that while he would be glad to recommend a watchman be kept on duty at the crossing 24 hours a day, as proposed by the commission- ers, he would not advise any action on the part of the railroad manage- ment that would in any way put the company in the position of admitting the constitutionality of the statute in- volved. The commissioners deferred action on the letter until they receive an opinfon from Attorney General Her- bert R. O’Conor. _——— TEXAN IS APPOINTED President Roosevelt today appointed John N. Edy of Texas to be assistant director of the Budget Bureau. Edy was appointed to fill the va- cancy caused by the resignation some months ago of Frederick W. Lowery. This appointment does not require cenfiymation, | Senate > pending the grand jury’s consideration ' | the tragedy, and a number of youth- | their door to listen for the approach | | on the ground they would give Sec- retary Wallace too much power. o M STREET TRAFFIC SOLUTION SOUGHT | | i | i , Georgetown Business Group Meets to Weigh Means to Relieve Congestion. | | Sty | | | Aroused by an increasing amount of | | traffic congestion on northwest M | street, a special committee of the Georgetown Progressive Business Club | was to meet this afternoon to demand immediate action on some new project | to relieve the situation. ‘The committee was appointed yes- terday at a meeting of the organiza- tion after John Paul Jones, local at- torney and vice president of the group, declared “traffic movement on M street will be paralyzed” with the completion of the new street car switch now under construction at Wis- consin avenue and M street. Work- men are now engaged in constructing this switch which will reroute into M street a large number of street cars now reaching the downtown area via | P street and Connecticut avenue. Five proposals will be placed before the committee, one of which will be adopted after the committee has dis- cussed the entire problem and the best ways of relieving the situation. The proposals to be considered are: Construction of a bridge over Rock Creek Park at N street, extension of Pennsylvania avenue through to Thirty-first street, with traffic then routed on Prospect avenue; widening of M street, building of a roadway over the canal and the building of an overhead roadway on K street from about Twenty-sixth street through to Key Bridge. | The meeting was to be held in | Jones’ office in the Potomac Bank Building. B. A. Bowles is chairman of the committee. SPEAKERS NAMED Sir Stafford Cripps, secretary of the British Labor party, and Representa- tive Amlie of Wisconsin will be the chief speakers at a forum meeting to be held tomorrow at 8 p.m. at the Friends Meeting House, 2111 Florida avenue, under auspices of the Social- ist party of Washington. The British labor leader will dis- cuss “International Socialism” and Representative Amlie will talk on “The Prospects for a Third Party Movement.” He is national chairman of the Farmer-Labor Political Asso- ciation. | — =2 Jobless Will Be Helped. Clydebank, Scotland has decided to | | give full relief to unemployed men | who refused to enter- labor campss 'Ellenbogen Also on Program The musical fate of seven members District National Guard was sus- | pended on a high note today as an| officer of the Guard prepared to re- port on their absence from the Army | Lieut. Cooper B. Rhodes, ordered by | Col. J. W. Oehmann, commanding | absence, spent several hours last night at the National Guard Armory inter- viewing the delinquent musicians. This morning he started to compile his report on the inquisition, together with recommendations for disposition | of thé charges. Specifically, each member of the| group was charged with violation of the 6l1st Article of War, this section | | drill or other ordered functions. Their violation of this article, along with band who were not summoned, pre- | vented the organization from playing as it marched the length of the pa- | rade behind Leader Meyer Goldman. Pending submisison of his report to Col. Oehmann, Lieut. Rhodes declined | to discuss the case and the command- ing officer was awaiting receipt of the inquiry findings before making any announcement. A light fine is the usual punishment for delinquencies, it was learned. except in cases where an acceptable reason for absence can be established. CAPPER T0 SPEAK AT RENT MEETING for Gathering Set for Tomorrow Night. | High rentals in the District will be | the target for attack at a mass meet- ing tomorrow night in the Labor De- partment auditorium. Senator Capper, Republican, of Kansas; Representative Ellenbogen, Democrat, of Pennsylvania; Catherine Bauer, former executive secretary of the Housing Committee of Pennsyl- vania, and John Donovan of the Washington Central Labor Union, will be among the speakers. Sponsored by labor organizations of the District, the meeting will con- sider a resolution drafted by the Cen- tral Labor Union’s Rent Committee in which present rentals are termed “unfair, exorbitant and confiscatory.” The resolution calls for establishment of a rent commission for the District | on which botn labor and real estate owners would be represented, and recommends freezing of rentals at a level not higher than that prevailing | on Jaauary 1, 1934. The latter recommendation is in line with a provision of the District rent bill introduced by Representative Dirksen, Republican, of Illinois. El- lenbogan also is author of a Djstrict rent bill, his measure proposing es- tablishment of a rent commission. The meeting tomorrow night scheduled to begin at 8 o'clock. e ANNUAL REPORTS READY FOR BOARD OF TRADE Annual reports of the officers of the Washington Board of Trade will be submitted at the annual meeting to- morrow at 8 p.m. at the Mayflower Hotel. New directors also will be chosen and, in turn, will elect the offi- cers for the new year. Bishop James H. Ryan, rector of Catholic University, will deliver an address. A musical program will be presented by the George Washington University Glee Club and Miss Melba Abbott of Philadelphia, former soloist with the National Symphony Or- chestra. is J. Cottrell, executive secretary, and J. Harry Cunningham, treasures, * by Amendments. Two important District bills that have passed both House and Senate are awaiting action by conferes to ad- just amendments. One is the auto- mobile financial responsibility bill and the other is the measure to authorize the District to borrow from the Pub- lic Works Administration to put up several buildings in Judiciary Square to house the Police. Juvenile and Mu. nicipal Courts and the recorder n( | vided a new school building program ‘amoummg to $1,615500. There were ‘appmx!mawly 14 projects on the pro- gram. Adherence to the budget esti- mates will eliminate all but three of the smaller items. On the basic issue of what should | be the Federal share of the bill, the House conferees are understood to be | insisting on the House figure of $5,- 700,000, which the Senate increased {to $8317.500. The Senate group, | headed by Senator Thomas of Okla- homa. is still standing for a more | equitable sum than the House figure, land the discussion on this question will be resumed when the conferees deeds office. | provided icould be given notice by regist,ered‘“’“"d itself for several years past, On the automobile bill the stumbling block is the House amendment which | would exempt out-of-town drivers who | have accidents in Washington from being sued in the same manner that prevails in most of the States. Hospital Repairs Factor. On the P. W. A. loan bill, the ques- authority to borrow $100.000 for repairs and improvements at Children’s Hos- | pital. The motion to send the amend- ment to conference was made in the Senate late yesterday by Chairman King of the District Committee. and | the presiding officer appointed Sena- tors King of Utah, Glass of Virginia, | and Capper of Kansas, as Senate con- ferees. The House group will be named | in a day or two. District officials regard the non-res- ident feature of the automobile re- sponsibility bill as essential and are hoping it will be possible to restore it | in conference. More than 31 States { have substantially the same provision | in their laws. Suit Notice by Mail. The. section of the bill in question that non-resident drivers | mail of a suit filed here growing out | of an accident. Since most of the States have similar laws, the action of the House, it i* pointed out, would place the District at a disadvantage. The District bill went even further to protect the rights of non-residents by | Tequiring the person filing the suit to post a bond to cover costs. Despite this fact, the House struck out the non-resident provision. The vote in the House, however, was close and was taken with a small percentage of the membership present. The local responsibility bill is not a general compulsory measure, but seeks to reach careless drivers, by providing | that motorists who are convicted of certain serious traffic offenses would have their driving permits withdrawn until they demonstrate ability to re- spond for damage or injury caused | thereafter. Permits also would be suspended while unpaid accident judg- | ments were pendlng PRIVATE HOSPITALS T0 BE GIVEN STUDY Subcommittee Appointed Follow- ing Abandonment of Medical Center Plan. A thorough study of the financial needs of private hospitals of the Dis- trict, as well as the needs for im-| provements or replacements of their plants, is to be made by 10 members of the citizens’ group originally named to study proposals for a single medical center. After the medical center plan was dropped yesterday when medical, hos- | pital and civic spokesmen were found to doubt its feasibility, Karl W. Corby, general chairman, named the sub- committee for the new study. Other members are Commissioner George E. Allen, who proposed the medical center plan; Dr. A. B. Ben- nett, president of the District Medical Society; Dr. George C. Ruhland, Dis- | trict health officer; Dr. Willlam Gerry Morgan, William 8. Corby, Capt. Chester Wells, Numa P. G. Adams, Robert V. Fleming and Col. Arthur O'Brien. Iu'ron Are Heated. Bath room mirrors in the model house to be presented to King George of England will be heated to prevent Lsteaming. L meet again The 35 additional policemen merely will fill vacancies in the force result- ing from economy legislation of the past two years. Civic and business organizations made a vigorous plea |to the Senate for the larger number | the Senate approved, calling attention {to the growth of the city since the | tion is the House amendment adding A 1ast increase in the force was made. Education Fund Cut Out. The character education fund was | recommended by the Budget Bureau, |but cut out in the House. Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, | who sponsored this innovation in the appropriation act for the current year, ! feels it would be a mistake to end the experiment after one year. The New York Senator. who re- | cently made an inspection tour of Gallinger Hospital, also is urging re- | tention of Senate amendments which he regards as essential to enable that institution to render adequate service | to the community. On the fiscal relations issue of how ‘lhe expenses of the National Capital should be apportioned between the | Federal and local governments, the | conference is in the position it has | | with the House objecting to any in- | crease. The Senate, in almost every year since the lump sum practice of Federal payment began, has fought to bring the apportionment nearer to an quitable level, but in the past few years has found the House in- sisting on its own figures. JONES’ EXPOSITION OPENS ENGAGEMENT | Show Will Play Ten-Day Stand Here—Twenty-Two Features Listed on Program. | | | ‘The Johnny J. Jones Exposition opened at noon today on the show grounds at Fifteenth and H streets northeast. More shows, more rides and more fun than in former years are promised patrons of “the mighty monarch of the tented world,” which is in its twenty-eighth annual tour. The show will continue here for 10 days. According to & press statement, “there are 22 high-class feature shows, 17 of the latest rides, all of which are operated by a staff of 436 persons.” One feature will be the flying trapeze | act of Vera Spriggs, who will “fly through the air with the greatest of ease” at a height of 110 feet, each evening at 10:30 pm. This is an- nounced as the free act on the midway. E. Lawrence Phillips, operator of a number of theaters here, is sponsoring the engagement of the Jones exposi- tion here. ACCIDENT VICTIM DIES Robert Fuller, 38, of 1123 Pennsyl- vania avenue southeast, died at Emer- gency Hospital today as a result of injuries suffered early Monday at the Brightwood car barn of the Capital Transit Co., where he was night fore- man. Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald is investigating the accident. According to fellow workers at the barn, Fuller was caught between two cars while putting up a trolley pole. His right leg was crushed between the knee and hip and had to be amputated. R G Insurance Popular. One-fifth of the people of Grea$ Britain now hold either a life insur- ance policy or an industrial life policy, ’