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: Washington News SOCIAL BILL, GIVES S40000 ANNUALLY 10D.C. CHILD CARE New Legislation Pending in Senate Discussed by Health Officers. CAPITAL MUST MATCH PART OF ALLOCATION Department of Labor Will Direct Other Funds Also Avail- able. The District of Colymbia would get fmore than $46,000 a year for maternal and child health and for erippled chil- dren through the Department of La- bor Children’s Bureau, by provisions of the new social security bill now pending in the Senate. This fact was disclosed today at the | department as officials of the Children’s | Bureau conferred with State and ter- ritorial health officers on plans for administering the new bill through co- | operative arrangements with the Btates. For maternal and child health, the measure carries in one section a total of $3,800,000 to be expended each year through the States and Territories and the District of Columbia. The sum is divided in several ways, some of the funds to be “matched” by equal amounts from local appropriations and others to be extended as outright sifts. $20,000 in First Class. In the first class of these funds $20,000 is to be granted the District of | Columbia and each of the 50 States and Territories each year, if it is| matched. In the second class $1,800,000 is to be divided among the States, terri- tories and the District on a basis of *live births.” This is to be matched. In a third class a reserve fund of $980,000 has been set up to. be di- vided e@tright, without having to be matched, based on a showing of “financial need,” the number of live births and other considerations. The | Secretary of Labor will have control of this part of the fund for disburse- ment under special regulations. For crippled children the bill pro- vides $2,850,000 each year, $20,000 of which is to go to the District and | other units each year, if matched, | and the remainder to be divided ac- cording to the need. One out of every 100 children is said to be crippled. Other Funds Available. In addition to the problems re- garding disbursements of these funds, the Department of Labor has other funds placed under its jurisdiction by the bill, for certain welfare agen- cies, administration of which will be worked out later, Some cf these may come to the District of Columbia. The conference in executive session was opened this morning by Kath- arine F. Lenroot, chief of the Chil- dren’s Bureau, who greeted the as- sembled health officers. Dr. Martha Eliot, assistant chief of the bureau, who will have direct charge of admin- istering the children’s funds in the social securities bill, presided. She emphasized the experience of the Children’s Bureau in co-operative re- lationship with the States and Ter- ritories. Dr. Hugh S. Cumming, surgeon general of the Public Health Service, ‘who called the health officers into an- nual session, planned to preside again at the afternoon meeting at the Pub- lic Health Service headquarters. Many new problems concerning adminis- tration of provisions of the social se- curities bill were to be discussed. The conference at its session yester- day afternoon at headquarters of the | Public Health Service adopted recom- | mendations of a special committee headed by Dr. A. T. McCormack of Kentucky to guide the Surgeon Gen- | eral in allocation of the $8,000,000 & Yyear provided in the social security bill. Matching Provided. Among the principal features of | these recommendations was one that 84,000,000 be alloted on a basis of population, half of which is to be matched by the States, dollar for dol- lar of “old” funds already appropriated by the States, and half of which must be matched by “new” funds obtained especially for the purpose. ‘This would apply to the District of Columbia as well as the 51 other States and territorial units among which the funds are to be distributed. Concern- ing the first $2,000,000 of the $4,000,- 000, to be matched by regular health appropriations, it was recommended that the Federal grant should decrease by 5 per cent per year, “until at the end of 10 years the entire allocation shall have been matched by increases in appropriations in the State.” This would finally reach the point where the average expenditure of $1 per capita shall have been made from local health funds. Would Modify Requirements, The conference recommended that the rest of the $8,000,000 be allocated as follows: FOF special health problems, includ- ing training of personnel, $2,400,000, and for financial needs of States and territories, $1,600,000. ‘The conference adopted an amend- ment to the committee report, allow- ing the Surgeon General to modify certain requirements as to prerequisite health standards in a State, particu- larly with regard to the employment of two nurses in each local health unit. POLICEMEN SEEKING RENAMING OF GIVEN *A resolution asking reappointment of Judge Ralph Given of Police Court ‘was unanimously passed last night by he Foening Star ‘WASHINGTON, D. G ‘WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1935. eets Approval | ALLEN T0 DIVORGE|FIGHT FOR SUBWAY [ - Penguins Dine thie Spoonbills a: This model of a statue of Gen. Artemas Ward, Revolutionary War hero, to be erected in the new circle at Massachusetts and Nebraska avenues, was approved yesterday. GEN. WARD STATUE MODEL APPROVED Fine Arts Commission Als¢ Considers Postal Paint- ing Sketches. A full sized model of a statue to Gen. Artemas Ward, Revolutionary War nerc, which is to be placed in the new circle at Massachusetts and Nebraska avenues, will be fashioned by the Chicago sculptor, Leonard Crunelle, following approval of the prelimicary model by the Fine Arts Commission, meeting in New York City yesterday. H. P. Caemmerer, executive secre- tary of the Fine Arts Commission, sald today upon his return to Wash- ington that the memorial will be un- veiled in about a year. The statue will be cast in bronze. Harvard Uni- versity, from which Gen. Ward was graduated, is sponsoring the memorial. The statue will be 11 feet high and the pedestal 9. Sketches for paintings in the new Post Office Department Building, sub- mitted by the Public Works of Art Project of the Treasury Department, received commission consideration. They depict old and new methods of postal transportation. Sketches by Thomas Benton, illustrating early and modern means of transportation, are for two large panels to be placed in the entrance of the Benjamin Frank- lin Postal Station. Two sketches by Reginald Marsh, to be placed in the elevator lobby on the fourth floor of the new Post Office Department Build- ing, will show transferring mail from a fast-moving train and also this operation between an ocean liner and a tug. Commission sanction was given the work being done on Theodore Roosevelt Island, downstream of the Key Bridge in the Potomac River, by the Civilian Conservation Corps, under direction of the National Capital Parks. It con- sidered historical markers in national military parks as well as sketches for memorial tablets to be placed in the new overhead utility bridges across Independence avenue, between the main Department of Agriculture Building and the Extensible Building to the south. C. Paul Jennewein, the New York sculptor, submited prelim- inary details for proposed sculpture in the Department of Justice Building and these the commission took under advisement. —_— D. C. SUPREME COURT JUSTICES ASSIGNED Chief Justice Wheat Announces for Special Terms—July, August, September. Assignment of justices of the Dis- trict Supreme Court for the special term—July, August and September— were announced yesterday by Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat. They ate: June 29-July 14—Justices Cox and Proctor. July 15-July 30—Justice Luhring. July 31-August 14—Justice Letts. August 15-August 29—Justice Ad- kins. August 30-September 14—Chief Jus- tice Wheat and Justice Bailgy. September 15-September 30—Jus- tices Gordon and O'Donoghue. Beginning October 1 the following assignments will be in effect: Motions Court and Assignment Jus- tice—Chief Justice Wheat. District Court No, 1—Justice Bailey. Criminal 1 — Justice O’Donoghue. Criminal Court No 2—Juftice Letts. Circuit Court No. 1—Justice Proctor. Circuit Court No. 2—Justice Cox. Circuit Court No. 3—Justice Gordon. Equity Court No. .'1—Justice Luhring. Equity Court No. 3—Justice £dkins. Equity Court No. 3—Justice Bailey. RAINBOW REUNION Court No, RELIEF AND WORKS PROGRAWMS IN CITY 18,000 Will Be Provided Jobs, While 5,000 Rate as Unemployable. NEW SET-UP SUBJECT OF DAILY CONFERENCES Projects Designed for Launching July 1 if Funds Are Available. Severance of relief activities of the new works program is planned by Commissioner George E. Allen, ap- pointed Monday as works progress director for the District. This became known today as he entered into the task of mapping sut details and personnel organization for the local setzup He intends to spend the next two or three days in con- ference with William Cleary and Capt. Hqward F. Clark, his chief aides under the old District emergency relief. Allen sald he hopes to regulate re- Hef to a purely District status, while maintaining the works program as a Federal activity. 18,000 Rated Employable. Employables, estimated at some 18,- 000, will be separated from the 5,000 unemployables and put to work under various projects. Case ‘work on employables will be a comparatively simple matter, Allen said, since it will be necessary in most instances to ascertain only the finan- cial situation of the individual. Once the task of putting to work the bulk of those on relief rolls is accom- plished, the 260-odd case workers now employed will be able to devote their efforts to the more complicated prob- lem of solving the difficulties of those who, because of physical disability or other causes, are incapable of earning a living. Allen said he hopes it will be possi- ble that the case load of social work- eres will be lightened to such an extent that a thorough social study may be made of those who will remain on the relief rolls. $2,000,000 Fund Advanced. These unemployables will be cared for out of the District’s $2,000,000 ap- propriation for direct relief, accord- ing to present plans. In addition to unemployables, some measure of direct relief probably will have to be given where salaries paid under the works program are not sufficient to meet individual needs. Allen has announced he will be ready to launch the new works pro- gram by July 1, provided Federal money is forthcoming by that time, 15 INDICTED HERE ON VARIED CHARGES Accusations Against Six Others Dropped by District Grand Jury. Fifteen indicuinents were re‘urned today by the grand jury and charges in six other casss were dropped. Those indicted and the charges: Syivester C. Lowe. non-support; George Edwards, joyriding; Robert R. Ruseell, grand larceny and joyriding; Wilmer Barker, Clarence Gaylor and Willie Hubbard, grand larceny: , John F. Childs, Lynwoo Giles, John Wood, Melvin R. Baker (two cases), Albert W. Neville (two cases) and James L. Kane, housebreaking and ‘arceny; Baker and Neville, housebreaking; Robert Elliott, Llewellyn Johnson, alias John Mont and Clarence Ames, violation of liquor-taxing act; Elmer D. Burner and Herman Jackson. car- nal knowledge, and Robert Dewey Lee, removing Government check from the mails and at‘empting to cash it. In the following instances, the charges were ignored: Robert Franklin Law and John Andrew Clancy, alias Andrew J. Clancy, joyriding; James Tyler and Thomas Gorham, grand larceny and joyriding; James Shorter, robbery; Charles Reid and Jessie Blackwell, assault with dangerous weapon, and Edward Major, carnal knowledge. e S CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. . ‘TODAY. Rainbow Cafeteria Dinner, Wilson Memorial M. E. Church, Eleventh street between G and Eye streets southeast, 5 to 7 p.m. Meeting, Washington Philatelic So- ciety, Carlton Hotel, 8 p.m. Dinner, Board of Trustees, Colum- sus University, Mayflower Hotel, 6 p.m. Meeting, District Bar Association, Mayflower Hotel, 8 pm. Meeting, District Council, Loyal La- dies’ Royal Arcanum, 930 H street, 8 pm. Meeting, Electrical Contractors’ As- sociation, Pepco Building, Tenth and E streets, 7:45 p.m. Dinner, Washington Credit Men's Association, Hamilton Hotel, 5:30 p.m. TOMORROW. Luncheon, Overseas Writers, Dr. Louis Domeratzky, speaker, Na Press Club, 1 p.m. Luncheon, Junior Board of Com- merce, George W. Offutt, jr., speaker, Lee House, 12:15 p.m. Luncheon, Cosmopolitan Club, Carle ton Hotel, 12:30 pm, AND VOTE URGED BY MRS. NORTON District Chairman Lauded at Presentation of Her, Portrait. SUGGESTS P. W. A. FOR UNDERGROUND SYSTEM Leaders of Both Parties Pay Tribute to Her Successful and Constructive Work. Construction of a subway system to relieve Washington streets of some of its traffic hazards was advocated to- day by Chairman Norton of the House District Committee. She also reiter- ated her plea for national representa- tion for the District. Mrs. Norton made these two pro- posals at ceremonies in the House Dis- trict Committee room after the unveil- ing of an ofl painting of herself. Declaring the subways constitute one of Washington's greatest needs at present, Mrs. Norton said District res- idents should unite and force Congress to authorize their construction “to prevent s0 many people from being killed.” Suggests P. W. A. Funds. ‘The time is ripe, she pointed out, because of the possibility of financing the projects with P. W. A. funds. Mrs. Norten also suggested that her committee and District residents give serious study to a subway program and make suggestions as to the loca- tion of underground routes. Later Mrs. Norton explained she had in mind a series of traffic subways running from the Capitol to George- town and from the downtown con- gested district north to Chevy Chase and Petworth. These arteries, she said, could carry a large volume of Washington’s vehicular traffic without jeopardizing either drivers or pedes- trians. -~ Eventually Washington must have traffic subways, Mrs. Norton declared. She said she believed steps soon should be taken to construct the first unit, which should run from the downtown congested district northward. While the District .Committee has been credited with many achieve- ments “since she has been its chair- man, Mrs. Norton declared one of her greatest ambitions is to get Congress to enact legislation “to allow the peo- ple of the District to govern them- selves.” “It is the right of every American citizen to vote,” she said. “Suffrage will not be universal until the District is included.” The painting was presented by a civic committee. In accepting it Mrs. Norton said she appreciated the con- fidence and respect shown her by the people of the District and attributed whatever success has fallen to her chairmanship to the co-operation of the committee members. Several score congressional and civic leaders, District officials and close friends of Mrs. Norton attended the ceremony. The painting, the work of Elaine Hartley Levine, youthful Washington artist was unveiled” by Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, publisher of the Washing- ton Herald. It will remain on the wall of the District Committee room. Representative Palmisano, vice | chairman of the District Committee, accepted the painting on behalf of the committee after paying a tribute to Mrs. Norton. Others who eulogized her were Minority Leader Snell, Senator Barbour, Republican, of New Jersey; Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen, Mrs. Patterson, Public Printer A. E. Giegengack and Dr, George C. Haven- ner. Speaker Byrns was prevented from attending because the House convened an hour earlier than usual. Constructive Work Praised, Snell said Mrs. Norton’s activities as head of the District Committee had been “constructive along every line,” and he was glad to know that the people of the District for once appre- ciated the chairman. Senator Barbour declared New Jersey was proud of Mrs, Norton. TRAIN KILLS BOY AT PLAY ON TRACK Skull of Youth, 13, Crushed in Tragedy Near Viaduct. Milton Edward Day, 13, of 1320 Eleventh street southeast was instant- Iy killed last night when struck by a southbound Pennsylvania electric train from New York while playing on the tracks near the Bladensburg Viadyct. Several companions, one of whom police say was William Wolfe of the 200 block of Fourteenth street north- east, are said to have shouted warn- ings of the appreaching train to the boy, but he failed to hear them. His skull was crushed as the engine struck him and swept him along the tracks. Young Day, a pupil of the Cranch School, Twelfth and G streets south- east, had left home yesterday after- noon after announcing he was going for a street car ride on his father's pass. The father, Willlam Day, P. W. A. employe, said his son has been accus- tomed to borrowing the pass. With the several other boys, accord- ing to police, Milton had been play- ing on the tracks and had gone back momentarily after the group had de- cided to leave. Milton has three older brothers and a sister, who is 9. Portrait of Bride Presented To Bethesda Fire Department By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, Md., June 19.—Laud- ing the ‘achievements of the late William W. Bride, national legislators and local civic leaders last night paid tribute to the former District of Co- lumbia corporation counsel at memo- nal exercises held by the Bet Fire Department, A former resident of Bethesda, Mr. Eride was one of the founders and the second president of the local vol- unteer unit, and a portrait was pre- sented to the department by his widow. It will hang in the fire house. The acceptance speech was made on behalf of the department by Oliver “There was not one moment, not one second in those early and trying days that ‘Bill' Bride lost faith. He was an inspiration to all and we fought for him and the success he wished to achieve for community benefit. “I always like to think of him and our beautiful association with him, not only as a counsellor, but as a very loyal friend. I also rather like to think of him as one typifying the brand of citizen who unselfishly devotes him- self and his efforts to the common good of every one with no thought of personal reward. ‘Bill' Bride devoted his life to just such goals. “I want to say tonight,” Kuhn de- clared in conclusion, “that if each of us could go down life’s pathway to the end with the feeling that we might leave behind us a legacy of loy- alty and service to our neighbors such as that left by ‘Bill' Bride, I think the rest of that path would be worth- while.” 7 Representative Norton praised Mr. Bride for the invaluable assistance which he extended to the House. Dis- triet Committee in his capacity- as counse] and said the com- ‘William, the full-dressed penguin on the left, and his mates gave a sea food dinner at the bird house yesterday for the spoonbills, the oyster catchers and other new ar- rivals from far lands. The “ham- merhead” stork from Africa (be- low) was the only new arriyal not winvited. —Star Staff Photos. HE penguins turned themselves out in some pretty nifty black and white “tails” last night when they threw a sea food party at the Zoo for several elegant newcomers to the bird house colony. Unfortunately, the penguin above, who prefers to be called William in- stead of Willie, spilled a little caviar on his dress shirt and starcely had time to preen his feathers before the guests of honor stalked up. The harassed-looking coot in the background wasn't invited and just happened by when the photographers from the society department arrived. Please disregard him. Something New in Manners. The penguins maintained the sar- torial tone of the local bird house, but they were surprised when the vis- pitors displayed something new in the 44 CLUBS HEAR PLEA FOR PEACE Foreign Relations Growing More Important, Sir Will- | mott Lewis Says. A plea fo the young girls and boys at the Four-H Club encampment here to contribute their bit toward devising a sane, workable system of interna- tional reiations was made today by Sir Willmott Lewis, Washington cor- respondent for the London Times. He urged the farm youths, repre- sentative of 920,000 fellow club mem- bers, to aid in the conscious, intelli- gent effort of peoples to take their destiny in their own hands and to try to obliterate the “small, but extreme differences of outlook and attitude which cause most of the important problems of foreign affairs.” “No subject is more vital than the conduct of foreign affairs,” Sir Will- mott told the group in the Depart- ment of Agriculture auditorium for the last assembly of the seven-day en- campment. “And today we have reached a dis- tinet juncture in foreign affairs,” he continued. “For today the attempt of man to take his destiny in his own hands appears less important to many than the assertion of superiority over others. “Specter of Possible War.” “Today there hangs over the world the specter of possible war, not cer- tain war, not probable war, but pos- sible war.” The need for international outlook is daily broadened by the approaching time when invention will have brought the United States as close to the Eu- ropean continent as England is now, Sir Willmott said. “Today the United States can be seen as a vast continental island sep- arated by 3,000 miles from Europe and 6,000 miles from Asia—a distance which leads people to believe they are withdrawn from any fear of intrusion. “This belief has grown in the minds of many despite 1917 and 1918. But one day this separation will no longer be existent.” Historian Is Quoted. Le}t his hearers think his exhorta- tions were for bigger men and women than they, he reminded them of what Richard Green, the British historian, told Sir Willmott’s grandfather: “The world does not go forward at the giant pushes of his hero men but by the little shoves of quite ordi- nary people like you and me.” | AMBULANCE-CAR CRASH _INJURES WOMAN DRIVER way of table manners. The penguins, the cormorants and such had supposed. up to last night, that one merely dived in after the fish course. They found, however, that two dainty Amazonians in pink nibbled at the piece de resistance with the aid of X The spoonbills of South America, however, were stumped by the oyster course. It remained for the guests from Northern Africa to lead off against the Chesapeake Bay bivalves. ‘They had brought tneir own forks, bad the oyster catchers, and used them with neatness and dispatch. All of which was 00 much for the penguins, who proceeded at once to the after-dinner spe:ches—screeches you might have said. Honor Guests Weary. “Squawk, squawk, squawk,” began the toastmaster, “squawk, squawk, squawk—" “Hear, hear, hear” shrieked the coot. Things went on like that for hours. The guests of honor wearied. They remained seated, or stood on one leg; they took a liitle swim and finally tucked their heads under their wings, poor things. In addition to the spoonbills of South America and the oyster catch- ers of Africa, the newcomers were several Abyssinian hoopes. a tiny, mid- night blue hawk from the same coun- try and a pair of European lapwings. Another newcomer was a “ham- merhead” stork from Africa. The hammerhead was not invited to the dinner, however. because the enter- tainment committee feared he was no booster. F. H. A. OFFICIALS CALLED IN JOB QuiZ Sirovich Promises Sensation Dur- ing Inquiry Into Why Con- gress’ Men Are Ignored. Officials of the Federal Housing Ad- ministration are to be summoned to a hearing before the Sirovich Subcom- mittee of the House Civil Service Com- mittee Friday to explain why appli- cants for positions recommended by members of Congress are ignored, Representative Sirovich announced today. The hearing is being held in con- nection with the omnibus civil service reform bill, which Sirovich is sponsor- ing. He promised that the question- ing of the Housing Administration of- ficials will produce “sensational testi- mony.” Sirovich said James A Moffett, housing administrator, some: time ago had requested members of the House to make recommendations for jobs with this service and he claimed that, although many well-qualified persons had been recommended, few had re- ceived appointments. o MRS. MARTIN DIES Funeral for Resident of City 35 Years to Be Held Fridey. Mrs. Mollie Lee Martin, 72, of 2201 Pifteenth street, died today after a long illness. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, New Hampshire avenue and V street, followed by burial in Glenwood Cemetery. Society and General PAGE B—1 MONEY PROVIDED IN DEFICIENCY BILL 10 BEGIN BUILDING Legislation Reported Out by House Committee—Total $224,472,561. PROPOSALS OF BUDGET WERE CUT $132,193,040 $2,000,000 Provided for Each of G. P. 0., Engraving Bureau and Accounting Office. Initial appropriations of $,000,000 each to start work on three new Government buildings in the District under a $58,000,000 public building budget are provided in the deficiency appropriation bill reported to the House today. The three new build- ings are: For the Bureau of Engrav- ing and Printing, at a limit of cost of $5500,000; for the Government Printing Office, at a limit of cost of $5,885,000, .nd for the General Ac- counting Office, two new wings and modernization of the old Pension Office Building, at a limit of cost of $3,700,000. The total of the bill as reported is $224,472,561.80, which is $132,193.- 040.43 less than the budget recom- mendations; $86,000,000 of this cut is in the public works estimates now provided for in the $4,000,000,000 re- lief act. In the bil' as reported are District of Columbia items aggregat- ing $547,362.15. This is an increase of $25,000 over the budget estimates in public welfare items, of which 8§15« | 000 is for maintenance of the work- | house and reformatory and $5,000 for | the Tuberculosis Hospital In re- porting the bill, Chairman Buchanan of the Appropriations Committee em- phasized that the three building proj- | ects in the District of Columbia are ‘com:eded by every one familiar with | the situation to be the most pressing | of the space needs in the City of | Washington. Land Cost $620,000. | The new building for the Bureau of | Engraving and Printing will also | house other activities of the Treasury Department. The location selected is between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets southwest and C and D streets. The estimated cost of the and is $620,000. The building is to { house important activities of the bu- reau now located in 13 buildings, none {of which is adapted to the work be- ing conducted in them. Other Treas- jury Department offices for which | space will be provided in the new | building are the operating units of the | Public Debt Service and certain cur- | rency and security units under the Treasurer’s office. Chairman Buchanan called atten- tion to the fact that with the com- | pletion of this building, there will | bave been established centralized and | consolidated group of Treasury units | performing related work pertaining | to the currency and the public debt. The unsafe and antiquated practice of | transporting vast sums of money and | securities from one section of the city to another will be discontinued. Chairman Buchanan said that the Government Printing Office building project contemplates the tearing down | of 11 old non-fireproof buildings vary- | ing in age from 24 to 79 years with an | average age of 55 years. $4,500,000 for New Building. Of the $5,885,000 limit of cost, $4,- 500,000 is for the new building on the present site, $175,000 for alterations in the present main building, $350,000 for a railroad trestle and tunnel between a proposed warehouse and the H street building, $175,000 for land and $800,- 000 for the warehouse. There will be required later an additional sum of $200,000 so that the Capitol power plant may run the necessary steam transmission line to the new building. In eliminating entire item of $23,862,750.78 for payment to the gov- ernment of the Philippine Islands as part of its currency reserve, the ac- tion of the committee is not in accord with the provisions of the law of June 19, 1934, which authorized the appropriation of this sum to establish a credit on the books of the Treasury Department in favor of the Philippine Islands of an amount equal to the in- crease in value of the gold equiva- lent. The committee reported that after a very careful and extensive examination, no evidence was pre- sented to show that the Philippines had in any way been injured or suf- fered by reason of the action of the United States in changing the gold content of United States dollars. MOTORISTS HEEDING TRAFFIC WARNINGS No Cars Impounded Up to Noon Today in Tightening of Police Regulations. ‘Washington motorists appear to be heeding & police warning that cars will be impounded when found parked opposite street car loading platforms, too mear intersections and fire hy- drants and in areas where “no park~ ing at any time” bans are in effect. At noon today no offending cars had been towed from the streets. Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown has ordered all precinct commanders to instruct his men in the new enforce= ment order. Capt. Milton D. Smith, acting chief of the Traffic Bureau, yesterday notified members of his command to look out for this type of violator. The regulations will not affect auto- mobiles merely parked overtime, and no towing fee will be charged. All offending cars, however, will be re- moved to the police garage and re- leased only after ownership is estab- by | lished and collateral deposited. Hitch, Pocomoke City, Md. A native of Pocomoke City, Mrs. Martin was the daughter of the late William and Martha Crisp. She had been a resident of Washington for 35 o L] Food Prices Gain Slightly. A slight decrsase in retail food prices the two weeks ended June 4 was reported yesterday by the Labor Department. The same amount of food which cost $1.24 the previous two weeks cost $1.238 the two weeks ended June 4, 'y